(NIGHTBIRD'S P.O.V)

I saw the pain in their eyes, they were afraid to die. But the 'me' before the war would just back down. But me now, battle-scarred, cold, emotionless, now one thought goes through my head.

They deserve this.

But of course, someone has to ruin my moment of glory. Knockout,

"em, madam. The autobots, are back." The cherry red medic says.

"I'll deal with them myself." I say bitterly.

"Nightbird," My sparkmate says,

I turn around to look at him.

"Bring them alive, they need to witness their comrades deaths." He says.

"No problem, Meggy." I smirked.

(RATCHET'S P.O.V.) LAST CHAPTER

When Bulkhead and Optimus came in, their expression saddened.

"Where's Arcee?" I ask.

"The femme Bee told us about, she took her." Bulkhead said choking back tears.

I gasp in surprise,

"Who was it?" I ask quietly.

"Nightbird." Optimus said with sorrow.

My optics widened, and I looked away from Optimus. But I had to look at him in the optic, and that's when I noticed, the artifact.

"Where did you find that?" I gasp.

"In the energon mine." He simply states.

"I need to study it, it looks like something I've seen in my research." I say.

Optimus nods, and hands me the artifact, and when I scan it. Is when we had a fighting chance.

My mouth expands into a grin.

"Doc, what's so good about this old thingy?" Bulkhead asks.

"This relic, has the power to revive the dead. But only if the bot has recently died," I state

Bulkhead's frown turned into a smile. And I saw hope in Optimus's optics.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's crush some metal!" Bulkhead exclaims putting his fist into his open servo.

"Bulkhead, keep the relic with you. We will find an energon mine, and attempt to sneak aboard the Nemesis." Optimus states.

(ENERGON MINE) <CURRENT CHAPTER> OPTIMUS P.O.V.

When we got to the energon mine, there was no decepticon in sight. Until the femme, Nightbird came through a groundbridge.

"Optimus Prime. Fancy new title, it's better than being a clerk. This beats reading data-pads anyway." She smirks

"Bulkhead, engage." I said.

He transformed his servo into a blaster, and began shooting at the femme. But Nightbird flipped around, avoiding all of the shots.

"Really Autobot? This is all you've got? For a former wrecker, I thought you'd be more of a challenge." She smirks kicking Bulkhead on his chassis.

I transform my servo into a blade. And she reached out and grabbed her sword as she ran to me, preparing to attack.

Our blades clashed, but I slowly overpowered her due to my size, and strength. 

"Now I see why Elita chose you to be her sparkmate." She grins evilly.

When she said that, I remembered how she died, Elita didn't deserve that. I put more force into my attacks, then with my free servo, punched her in the stomach with all of my strength. She groans, but starts slashing at my armor.

But then she slashed at my arm, and energon slowly leaked out. She smiles, proud of her work. Bulkhead was about to smack her with his mace, if she hadn't placed a grenade not far from him.

When it exploded, Bulkhead was on the ground. Slowly getting up, and I was far away from the explosion, clutching my arm.

When Bulkhead fully got up, Nightbird placed her sword at his neck, then turned to look at me.

"Surrender Prime, or the wrecker gets it." She says calmly.

"I surrender, but please do not harm him." I say weakly.

"Weak like always, Optimus Prime." Nightbird grins behind her mask.

Then she took her other sword out, and placed it at my neck.

"Come with me NOW, both of you. Or I can end you now." Nightbird says.

As she walked into the portal, Bulkhead showed me a slight glimpse of the relic, before putting back. I just hope our plan works.

MEGATRON'S P.O.V. <NEMESIS>

I was in front of Bumblebee, and Arcee. Just sharing their last moments together.

I saw my sparkmate coming back through the portal, with two bots at her mercy. Optimus, and the wrecker.

"Put them both in cuffs, and bring them here." I say.

Nightbird nods and two vehicons bring one pair of cuffs each, and cuff the two autobots.

"Bring them up front." I order.

Nightbird walks with both of them following, and their optics went wide when they saw their scout, and femme. The scout, let's just say I don't even know how he is still alive. 

Nightbird gets them both on their knees, and just watching helplessly.

"Arcee, Bumblebee." Optimus whispers to himself.

The scout, and femme were uncuffed because they were so weak. And Nightbird, was going to kill the one called, Arcee.

I soon walked behind the Prime, and the wrecker, making sure they don't escape

"Nightbird, the time is now." I say seriously.

She smirks and walks in front of Arcee. Her blade at her throat, she saw the fear in Arcee's eyes. But, Nightbird fought with honor.

"While, I could kill you now. I fight, and kill with honor. So get up and FIGHT!" She yells.

Arcee slowly gets up, and transforms her servos into blasters, aimed them at Nightbird, and had a serious look on her face.

"Come on, I'll give you a head-start." Nightbird smirks.

Arcee ran at her blasting, but Nightbird dodged them all with ease. Arcee looked around, unsheathed her arm blades and started slashing, Nightbird takes out both of her swords and starts doing the same.

My sparkmate managed to slash at Arcee's leg, and arm. But the tiny femme just wouldn't quit.

And when Nightbird was about to stab the autobot femme in her spark, a blast was shot. The swords were knocked out of Nightbird's servos. Everyone's optics went wide as they all turned to the source of the blast. 

Bumblebee.

He was clutching the area where Nightbird had stabbed him earlier. With a blaster reached out, prepared to shoot if needed. His optics locked on to Nightbird, with a face of pure anger.

He dare to interfere, I'll end this once and for all.

"BUMBLEBEE WATCH OUT!" I heard Optimus yell. But his words never reached the scout. And I took my shot,

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"NOOOOO!!" Arcee screams, forgetting about Nightbird and ran to the mech's side.

A giant hole was visible going through him (How Dreadwing dies). Arcee was in tears, and when she turned around, anger plastered her face. And with rage she fought.

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"BUMBLEBEE!!" She yells with fury.

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She kept attacking, kept slashing, kept shooting. Nightbird kept up with her movements, but sometimes when Arcee slashed, energon would start leaking from her arm, leg, side, even at her neck, then Arcee punched her mask, and sliced it open with her arm blade.

My sparkmate's face was fully visible.

Something she hoped would never happen, she never took her mask off, until now. Energon slowly leaked from her mouth, as she wiped it off. Her optics wide.

Then with her sword, slashed at Arcee one last time.

The autobot staggered back, her servo over her wound on her stomach area. She looked at Bumblebee's dead body, and her fury returned.

"Arcee!" A deep voice says.

She turns around to find, Optimus.

"Please, keep your emotions in check." He says.

"How, Optimus. Tell me HOW? Bumblebee is gone-" The Prime cut her off.

"We will fix this, but you must free us." He says.

"Free? I don't think so." I say sinisterly.

I take out my blade, and slowly walk to the autobot femme. And prepare to kill her like I did  Cliffjumper after the dark energon. And when I raised my blade, she transformed into a motorcycle, and drives under me towards the other autobots.

And when she made it to them, she sliced their cuffs open. The autobots slowly stood up, and into a battle stance.

I heard ped steps behind me, and it was. Nightbird,

"Megatron. I'm afraid this may or may not be my last battle, so let us fight one last time. The Fallen can't be kept waiting." She rasped.

"Very well" I say.

"sweetspark." I mumble under my breath.

She looked at me surprised, and drew out her sword.

I attack Optimus with my sword, and he blocked the hits with his only blade, then tried to blast me from time to time. I punch him in the helm, and he staggered back. Then I kick him on the chest, and it bought me some time to check on Nightbird. Due to her weak state, the two autobots were slowly overpowering her.

.:Soundwave. Prepare a groundbridge for the autobots:. I comm.

Soon when Optimus got back up and we resumed our battle. And that's when Soundwave entered the room. He saw me, and Nightbird fighting back to back. And when he was about to create the ground bridge. The one called Bulkhead commed Ratchet for one of their own.

.:Ratchet, we need a ground bridge!:. He says.

And then came the Autobots groundbridge portal. Their femme transformed and drove into the groundbridge first, then the wrecker carried the dead scout into the portal, finally went Optimus blasting at me before he too ran into the groundbridge.

And that's when Nightbird passed out from the loss of energon.

"Soundwave, take Nightbird to the medbay." Was all I said before Soundwave nodded and picked up Nightbird with his tentacles and walked to the medbay.

(AUTOBOT BASE) ARCEE'S P.O.V.

When I ran into base, the kids were already here.

"Hey Arcee." Jack smiles.

"Sorry Jack, not in the mood for a conversation." I wave him off.

"Arcee, you have sustained a couple injuries, get to the medbay." Ratchet says looking over me.

"Sorry Ratchet, but unless you can bring Bumblebee back from the dead, I'm not budging." I say seriously.

"Wait, Arcee what are you talking abo-" Raf was cut off from hearing the sound of Bulkhead walking through the portal, carrying Bumblebee in his arms.

"Bumblebee." Raf whispers choking back tears.

The humans expressions saddened, while Bulkhead looked over his best friend.

"Bulkhead, get Bumblebee on a berth. Arcee you need to get on a berth too." Ratchet says sternly.

"Fine." I grumble.

I went inside the medbay for like five minutes, Ratchet quickly patched me up. But I overheard the conversation happening outside.

"Bulkhead do you have the relic?" I hear Optimus ask.

"Yup, I do." Bulkhead replies.

When Ratchet was done fixing me up, I quickly left the autobot base, transformed, turned on my holoform, and drove out of base. I just needed the peace and quiet,

(TIME SKIP) 3 HOURS ARCEE'S P.O.V.

Three hours had passed, and I was still driving. Still wanted to forget the events of the day, until Ratchet commed me.

.:Arcee, Bumblebee is Alive!:.

I wonder what's gonna happen next? >:)

Have a good day/night!