Aura, Jack, Raf, and Cole were looking around the area nervously waiting to see what the Autobots would do. Optimus had the Star Saber, Bulkhead with the immobilizer, Smokescreen with the Phase Shifter and his hand transformed into a blaster, Bumblebee with the Metal Magnet Gauntlet, and Arcee wearing the Apex Armour. Meanwhile Miko was banging her foot against the container, then leaned back and crossed her arms. "This is not how I wanted to spend my first trip to Cybertron." muttered Miko. "Starscream!" commanded Megatron has he turned his head towards him. "Ja-ck!" taunted Starscream "It's time to come out and play!" he began scratching his finger nails across Jack's container. The noise was really annoying. "Go ahead! The Autobots were prepared to sacrifice their lives for my planet! I'll do the same for theirs!" stated Jack. "Me too! Creepy!" added Miko as she glared at Knockout. "Uh huh." said Raf nervously. "Count me in." added Aura. "Perhaps we should oblize them?" suggested Megatron. "If my desicsion dooms the future of the Autobot cause on Cybertron, so be it. But I will never forsake our human allies and Autobots." said Optimus. He stood up from his battle stance, and stabed the Star Saber right into the ground. He then backed away to his team of Autobots. Arcee pressed the blue orb in the middle of the armour and it transformed back into a disk. She then threw it to the Star Saber. The rest of the Autobots did the same for the relics they had. "No..." thought Aura as she and the kids put their heads down.

"Now, if you please, the Omega Keys." ordered Megatron. The Autobots tightly gripped the Omega Keys in their hands. "One at a time." said Megatron. Knockout was up first carrying Miko's container. He walked forward a bit then pointed at Bulkhead and taunted him to come forward. "You first big boy." said Knockout. Bulkhead looked up to Optimus who gave him an ensurring nod in reply. Then Bulkhead proceeded towards Knockout and Miko. Once they were face to face, Knockout extended his hand to recieve the key. "If I don't get the girl back, I'm gonna make you eat this key." threatened Bulkhead as he slapped the key into Knockout's hand. "Your welcome." replyed Knockout as he handed Bulkhead Miko inside the container. "Get scraped!" said Miko as the two boys walked away from each other. Next up, was Bumblebee. He held the Omega Key in his hand as he walked towards Soundwave who had Raf and Cole. "Beep bop bop beep bop 'They better not be hurt or else!'" threatened Bumblebee as he handed Soundwave the key and Sounwave gave Bumblebee the two containers. As Bumblebee walked back to the Autobots, Arcee then came forward towards Starscream who had Jack. "No tricks! The key if you please." said Starscream. Arcee placed the key in his hand, then picked up Jack's container and walked back to the Autobots. "And then, there was one." said Megatron as he looked down at Aura. Aura looked at her friends nervously, then nodded knowing it was time. Aura looked at the Autobots then noticed something about Smokescreen. He still had the Phase Shifter. And she could tell that Megatron noticed it too. "If Princess Aura was important enough to be intrusted with the Matrix of Leadership, and being able to become a human allie, then she is worth an Omega Key and the Phase Shifter." said Megatron. Optimus looked over to Smokescreen and signaled him to go. Smokescren nodded then proceeded towards Megatron and Aura. On the way, he took of the Phase Shifter from his wrist and droped it in the relic pile. He stoped when he reached Megatron. He glared at Megatron who extended his hand forward. "Just take it." said Smokescreen as he threw it to him and Megatron caught it. With his other hand, Megatron grabed Aura's arm, lifted her up to her feet, and pushed her towards Smokescreen. Smokescreen caught her just as she feel and they met each other's gaze for a moment. Smokescreen gave her smile letting her know not to worry. Aura smiled back at him, but then a space bridge opened up on the left side of the Omega Lock, and a dozen Vehicons came running in with their blaster's aimed and ready. Smokescreen guided Aura back to the Autobot group just as the Vehicons surrounded the Autobots in a circle.

The Autobots were trapped inside the circle of Vehicons surrounding them. Aura was standing inbetween Optimus, Smokescreen, and Bulkhead. All the Autobots could do right now, was watch. "Now, bare witness as a new age dawns on Cybertron." said Megatron as he Knockout, Starscream, and Soundwave inserted the keys into the slots of the Omega Lock. Each of the slots began to glow, and two goldne light beams shot out of the center of the lock, revealing a holomap of the entire planet. Some blue electrice strikes were climbing up the four giant pillars of the lock all the way up to the blue water like ceiling. "Behold! The age of the Decepticons!" said Megatron as he raised his fists into the air. Megatron pressed a red button on the holomap and it showed a certain location on Cybertron. Then, a giant beam of light shoot out from lock and struck the surface a couple feet away. Everyone watched in amazement as a giant skyscrapper started building itself. Once it was complete it looked completely brand new. "Oh, my goodness." said Aura. "By the allspark." said Optimus. "Beep 'whoa'" said Bumblebee. "Whoa." said Miko, Raf, and Cole in unison. Bulkhead, Smokescreen, and Arcee were just speechless. "Instant home maker!" said Miko. "Your telling me." replyed Aura. "Shiney." said Knockout. Aura looked at the building then looked up at Optimus. "What do we do now?" whispered Aura. Optimus looked down at her, then at the humans, then steped forward looking at Megatron. "Megatron, you have what you want. This conflict is between Autobots and Decepticons. Allow me to return the humans back to Earth." requested Optimus. "Oh, I wouldn't recommend it. They will be much safer here." said Megatron with a smirk on his face. "Wait, what are you talking about?" asked Aura. Megatron smirked at her then turned to Starscream. "Is the space bridge locked on target?" asked Megatron. "Per your instructions, Lord Megatron." answered Starscream. "Excellent. Why only rule one world, when I can rule two." said Megatron. Then a space bridge opened up right in the sky right on top of the Omega Lock. "He's locking on to Earth!" yelled Cole. "You wouldn't dare?!" said Aura as she glared at Megatron. Megatron ignored her and pressed the red button again. This time, the giant beam of light shoot upwards and right through the space bridge. "No...." said Optimus in vein. "If the Omega Lock can restore Cybertron, it will do the same to Earth, right?" asked Miko. "No. It will cyberform your planet in favour of its new matrix. Destroying all life in the process." answered Optimus.

Aura watched as the beam from the Omega Lock's ceiling traveled through the space bridge, heading towards Earth. "Such raw power!" said Megatron "What shall I call my new domain? New Kaon? Or perhaps Guilded Earth?" "No!" yelled Jack as he banged his fists against the glass. "Leave our planet alone!" yelled Miko. "Stop it!" yelled Cole. The Decepticons began laughing evily at them, thinking that they have won. "We gotta stop them somehow! There has to be something we can do!" said Aura desperately. Then she heard a transforming sound and noticed that Optimus's left hand has become a sword. He sliced a Vehicon infront of him, sending it flying back and crashing into Knockout. "What?!?" yelled Megatron. Everyone watched as Optimus ran and grabbed the Star Saber, pulling it out of the ground. He swung the sword and a wave came flying out, striking three vehicons who ran after him. That made Megatron furious, because he took out the Dark Star Saber and charged at Optimus. Both of them clashed swords with each other, and the force from the clash sent Megatron's sword back, allowing Optimus to slice Megatron's arm off. Megatron's new hand holding the Dark Star Saber spung around in the air and the sword jabbed itself into the ground. "Whoa! Did he just...." said Cole. "Cut Megatron's arm off? Yes he did." finnished Aura. Then Optimus came charging at Knockout, Soundwave and Starscream towards the Omega Lock.As he charged, Knockout, Soundwave, and Knockout fired back at him, but Optimus delfected them with the StarSaber. Then Starscream launched a missle at Optimus. "Optimus look out!" yelled Aura. Optimus moved out of the way of the missle just in time, and it struck one of the four pillars. Then he jumped on top of Starscream and into the air, raising the Star Saber, and sliced the Omega Lock. Electricity was spreading all over the lock and a high pitched sound was playing, and becoming louder and louder untill a huge explosion occured. The explosion blasted Soundwave, Knockout, and all the vehicons in the area off the Omega Lock while Aura and the rest of the Autobots protected the humans and braced for impact. Once the smoke of the explosion cleared, the Omega Lock was destroyed, and everything was up in flames. "Optimus?" said a voice over the comlink. Ratchet was calling. "Ratchet, please open a space bridge." replyed Optimus. The rest of the Autobots opened their optics and looked around to see the aftermath of the explosion. "Holy cow..." whispered Aura. Then a space bridge opened up and all the Autobots rushed through it back to base, leaving the Decepticons behind.

The Autobots arrived back at base, and Ratchet had a confused look on his face when he saw Aura and the kids. "Aura? The childern? What happened?" asked Ratchet. Bulkhead, Arcee, and Bumblebee said nothing as they set the kids containers down on a platform, and let them out. "Someone say something!" said Ratchet. Bulkhead vented, then opened his mouth. "Optimus distroyed the Omega Lock." said Bulkhead. "What?! You did..." replyed Ratchet. "What was nessacary. There was no time for another prolonged battle. Not with Earth in danger." finnished Optimus. "So you destroyed the only device in any universe, capable of restoring our home? Optimus we needed that." said Ratchet. "But you weren't there Doc. And it's not your place to second-guess a battlefield descision." said Smokescreen as he released Aura from her stasis cuffs. "It most certainly is! There had to be another way!" replyed Ratchet. "It wasn't that simple Ratchet." explained Jack. "Megatron was using theOmega Lock to attack Earth." added Raf. "Destroying all human life in its path." added Cole. "Optimus saved our planet!" said Miko. "What about our planet?!" asked Ratchet with an angry and sad tone "All of our struggles and Energon spilled and countless sacrifices, for nothing?!" "Right descision or wrong, what's done is done." said Arcee "And we have another problem here on this world. The 'Cons just changed the rules when they put Aura, Cole, Jack, Miko, and Raf into play." "Some dirty trick they pulled." muttered Aura. Then the communication link went off and Agent Fowler appeared on the video screen. "Prime! The Pentagon is preparing to go Defcon 1! I need to know what we're dealing with!" said Fowler. "Huh?" asked Aura confused. "To what are you referring to, Agent Fowler?" asked Optimus. "Maybe you should step outside and see for yourselves." answered Fowler. "Ratchet, watch the childern." ordered Optimus. Optimus, Bumblebee, Arcee, Smokescreen, Bulkhead, and Aura walked towards the giant elevator pad, and it lifted them all the way up to the roof of the base. The opening opened up, and the Autobots were now on the roof of the base. They all walked to the edge of the roof when Agent Fowler landed his helicopter next to them and ran out. Straight ahead from them, they saw a giant Cybertronian tower like fortress. "Whoa..." said Aura. "Megatron as managed to accomplish the first phase of his cyber-forming of Earth. The construction of his fortress." said Optimus. "In Jaspear, Nevada? I don't get it. I've already had the town evacuated! Why here?" asked Fowler. "Beep bop bop beep bop beep! 'Guys! Look over there!'" said Bumblebee as he pointed at something. The Decepticon Warship emerged from the clouds and hovered infront of the fortress. Because the Decepticons have discovered the location of our base." answered Optimus. "That, is not good." said Aura.

"Decepticons! Transform and rise up!" yelled Megatron. The Autobots heard Megatron yell all the way from their base, and they watched as a whole hord of Vehicons, white instead of purple, came flying towards the base, with Starscream leading. "Come my armada! Attack! Attack! Attack!" yelled Starscream. Starscream and the Vehicons began firing at the roof of the base, attacking the Autobots. "Watch out!" yelled Aura as she and the rest of the Autobots dodged the blasts. Everyone transformed their hands into blasters and began firing back at the the Decepticons. Then a wave of Insecticons started coming at them. One of them even rammed into Bulkhead. But wakced him in the face with his wreaking ball, falling off the cliff, while Optimus sliced another one's head off with his sword.Arcee, and Bumblebee were shooting down the Decepticons and Vehicons in the sky, while Smokescreen and Aura were shooting down the Insecticons climbing up the cliff. The fire power from the air started showering down on them, and with a swing of the Star Saber, Optimuslaunched a light waved from the sword and blew up an entire line of vehicons and insecticons. Once the smoke cleared, more and more kept on coming. "They justkeep on coming!" said Aura."Autobots! Into the base! commanded Optimus. The two giant doors opened up and the Autobots ran back inside the base, but Bulkhead and Aura stopped when they saw Fowler running back into his helicopter. "Fowler, what are you doing?!" asked Bulkhead. "My job, two ton! Get inside! Both of you!" said Fowler as he flew the helicopter up in the air and attacked the decepticons. "Dad!" yelled Aura. "There's no stoping him now Aura! Come on!" said Bulkhead. Both of them ran back into the base as the doors were beginning to close.

Once they got back inside, the entire base started shaking alittle, with tiny pebbles from the rocky walls around them falling off. "What's happening?" asked Jack. The Autobots walked back into the command center to see Ratchet with a confused look. "What's going on out there?" asked Ratchet. "The Decepticons have invaded Jaspear." answered Optimus. "And at the moment, we're their number one targets." said Aura. "And Fowler seems to think he can hold them off." added Bulkhead. "Prime! Reinforcements has arrived!" said Fowler through the comlink. "Agent Fowler, your military cannot prevail against the..." said Optimus. "You didn't think I was gonna let Team Prime have all the fun did ya?" interrupted a voice. It was none other than Wheeljack. "Ha ha, it's Wheeljack!" said Bulkhead. "Jackie!" cheered Aura. "Wheeljack? But how did you know?" asked Ratchet. Wheeljack's face showed up on the video screen. "Picked up a strange energy surge. Hope you don't mind the company." said Wheeljack. "No, it's just after everything that happened, well..." replyed Ratchet. "We're still on the same team Doc. Always will be." stated Wheeljack as he hung up the com-link."So, what do we do now?" asked Aura.

Optimus walked away towards the ground bridge, looked at it, then spoke. "Ratchet, prepare to bridge everyone out of here." ordered Optimus."We're abandoning the base?" asked Ratchet in shock. "The base is lost. Agent Fowler and Wheeljack can only hold off the Decepticons long enough for us to escape." said Optimus "Bumblebee, you and Rafael will depart first." "Wait your spilting us up?" asked Raf. "Shouldn't we stick together?" asked Jack. "All for one and one for all?" asked Miko. "We must disperse to avoid capture. Until we can regroup and launch a counter attack." answered Optimus. "Element of surprise. Clever." said Aura. "Survival is our best and only priority now." said Optimus.

"You take care of yourselves you guys." said Aura. "We will Aura." said Raf. Bumblebee transformed into his vehicle mode and let Raf inside. Once he was in, Bumblebee took off through the ground bridge. Ratchet checked to see if they left, then changed the coordinates. Next up was Bulkhead, Arcee, Jack, and Miko. Bulkhead and Arcee were already in their vehicle modes with their human allies riding them. "We haven't much time." said Optimus. Miko and Jack exchanged goodbye glances, then Bulkhead drove through the ground bridge, followed by Arcee and Jack. Next up was Smokescreen. Ratchet changed the coordinates of the ground bridge, then gave Smokescreen a signal that it was ready. "My turn. You take care of yourself, Princess Aura." said Smokescreen. "You too Smoke'." replyed Aura. They brofisted each other followed by a quick hug. Them Smokescreen walked towards the ground bridge, saluted Optimus and Ratchet, transformed into his vehicle mode, and drove off through the bridge. Making Optimus, Ratchet, Aura, and Cole the last ones.

"What about you?" asked Ratchet as he looked up at Optimus. "I will ensure that the Decepticons don't follow." said Optimus. Ratchet was shocked, but nodded in understanding. As he walked towards the ground bridge, he stopped than looked at Aura. "I'll take Cole with me, if you wish." said Ratchet. Cole looked up at his robot sister with sad eyes. Aura knelt down beside him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "It will be much safer for you. Promise me you'll be careful?" asked Aura. Cold held back a couple tears then hugged her sister's hand. "Promise." answered Cole. Ratchet transformed into his vehicle mode, then Cole hooped into the passenger seat. "I, never knew it would end like this." said Ratchet as he drove off with Cole through the ground bridge. "Neither did I old friend." said Optimus.

Aura walked towards the ground bridge but stopped infront of it. She turned her head to get one last look of the Autobot leader. "This is really happening, is it?" asked Aura with a sad tone. "I'm afraid so, Aura." replyed Optimus. Aura nodded then started proceeding through the ground bridge, but stopped halfway. Trying her best to hold back tears, she quickly ran back and hugged Optimus. After being alittle shock at first, Optimus returned the hug. "I'm sorry Optimus. I... I.. I just can't do it! I don't want to lose you! Not again!" said Aura while crying alittle. "Aura, calm down. Look at me." said Optimus calmly. Aura looked up at him with tears in her optics. "I need you to look after the others when you find them. Can you do that for me?" asked Optimus. Aura wiped a few tears off her faceplate then looked back up at Optimus. "Y-yes." answered Aura "I will." Optimus smiled at her then kissed her on the cheek. "That's my girl." said Optimus. Aura smirked then started backing away from Optimus. They were still holding hands, but let go just as Aura headed off towards the ground bridge. "Primus please protect Optimus." prayed Aura in her head as she walked through the ground bridge.