"Someone we can't see!" Silverbolt stated.

They turned and aimed but upon the light they only saw a pair of laser sights pointed at them.

"What do you think it is, Big Bot?" Cheetor asked.

"Not what. Who." Prime corrected then he clarified "After the Great War, a few Decepticons were granted amnesty. Most have retired, but rumor has it that one was reprogrammed and rebuilt..."

The Renegatrons were stunned.

Megatron announced. "Skyquake, Dreadwing! I give you the order to find these retired Decepticons when we are done here!"

"Yes, Lord Megatron!" they both replied.

"as a Predacon!" Primal finished.

The mysterious Predacon fired, not to destroy the Maximals, but to shoot their weapons out of their hands without even damaging their hands.

It appeared in the light from it's cloaking, relatively smaller than Rattrap but with a tiger head, cackling deviously.

"RAVAGE!" Primal shouted.

"Ravage?!" asked by most of the audience.

Soundwave was stunned. Ravage was amongst many of his Minicons that served him well during the Decepticon uprising. Ravage served him faithfully, as his bodyguard and scout, tracking Autobot positions for weaknesses to exploit and protecting him from many Autobot assassination attempts. Soundwave never forgot how Ravage perished protecting him from Wheeljack.

"You will pardon my shooting the weapons from your hands." Ravage replied in a mockingly amicable tone "I only wished to avoid any regrettable... accidents to my person." and holstered his pistols.

Cliffjumper frowned. "Like those cowboy humans Knockout talked about. I really wanted to try that."

"Yeah? Well next time try th' front door!" Rattrap retorted.

"Rattrap, please." Primal silenced, not wanting to look bad in front of Ravage himself.

"PLEASE?!" Rattrap questioned, his hatred for Predacons overtaking him "Oh, for bootin' up cold! Th' only thing worsen' a stinkin' Pred is a stinking Decepticon!"

"Shut up before you give Ravage a reason to destroy you all!" Arcee shouted upon waking up.

"Shut UP, Rattrap!" Primal silenced a hand in Rattrap's face then replied to Ravage "Forgive us. We've been fighting Megatron a long time."

"For which the Predacon Alliance is deeply apologetic, I assure you." Ravage assured in an understandable tone. "This is why I am here. Covert Agent Ravage, at your service." he introduced.

But the Maximals were getting suspicious.

"Wait a cycle. What about the Maximals?" Rhinox asked.

"I'm afraid the transwarp wave was very weak." Ravage lied. "Only the Predacon sensors detected it."

"Bull-scrap! You blocked their transmission, you lying waste of metal!" accused Bumblebee.

"Bumblebee! Language!" hissed Ratchet and Cliffjumper.

"You understand we would prefer to handle this situation... discretely?" Ravage suggested, looking at the distrust the Maximals had towards him "I must say, some of you look... different than I expected."

"We've had some interesting times." Primal replied.

"I would not say interesting. More like traumatizing." Ultra Magnus pointed out.

Grimlock didn't bother saying anything, because Dinobot's death was still fresh in his mind.

Meanwhile, Blackarachnia was attempting to attach the device Silverbolt gave her to a miniature stasis pod. "There." she gasped upon finishing the device.

"BLACKARACHNIA!" Megatron yelled in the PA.

She sighed and replied sarcastically "Sounds like old purpleface has a bug up his duct about something."

"Quite the bold strategy talking back to your superior." Knockout quipped.

There in the command centre, Megatron ordered "Rampage, position yourself in Subsector Hooks."

Rampage complied cutting off comms with Megatron.

"I know I can count on your... best efforts."

Blackarachnia arrived. "You bellowed?"

"I did, yes." Megatron then pointed out her absence in the battle before. "We missed you at the battle today, Blackarachnia."

"Well, I was... occupied." she excused herself.

"Really?" Megatron decided to overlook her excuse and replied with an order "Well. So long as you're here, get to your battle station. I anticipate an attack at any moment."

"Ooooh yess you would, from one of your own, no less!" spat out Megatron.

"Yes, Megatron." Blackarachnia complied.

As Blackarachnia was seemingly going to her post, Megatron called "Waspinator! I have a special assignment for you.

"Oh, goodie!" Waspinator replied gleefully.

"Yess. I need you to journey to the following coordinates..."

Blackarachnia overheard him and replied "This is it!"

"Another opportunity to strike? Yeah, let's see how it goes." Arcee replied.

Meanwhile, the Maximals aboard Ravage's ship as they proceeded towards the Darksyde undetected. There they began loading their weapons.

Warpath was excited. Bouncing up and down as he was enthusastic to know where it was going.

"So this is it? We just blast our way in and finish this thing?" Rattrap asked loading his machine pistol.

"Fast and final. I don't want Megatron going anywhere." Primal replied.

"The ship is our advantage. Cloaking now." Ravage then activated the ship's cloaking field, rendering the ship itself and the crew aboard invisible to the naked eye.

"Oh man.." Rattrap whined.

"What?" Cheetor looked surprised. For he soon was taken by the cloaking field.

"A cloaking system. Apparently, Ravage doesn't have a reflector field or something that can render them invisible without affecting the ship or the crew aboard." Shockwave commented.

"Discretion, Shockwave. Discretion is key." Soundwave replied silently.

"I hope this is enough!"

"Oh, we have one other advantage as well." Ravage assured.

"Just like old times, eh guys?" Smokescreen asked.

The Autobots, except their hardened elders, agreed and chuckled the times they had attacked the Decepticons. Their successors though, were not as amicable.

The Predacons, even Tarantulas himself was on high alert. Knowing well an imminent attack, Inferno announced "Activating scanners now, Royalty!"

"Don't bother." Megatron belayed.

"GO GET THEM MAXIES!" Grimlock yelled.

"Let's do it!" Primal said.

"Just like our leader used to say!" Bulkhead commented.

Ravage pulled a lever, that sent the Maximals dropping down directly towards the Darksyde.

"GO!" Silverbolt shoved Cheetor down.

Along the way, they met resistance by the Darksyde's perimeter defenses firing upon them. All while they dived straight into the fray.

The Autobots that were in Earth looked in marvel and astonishment.

"Just like the paratroopers the humans had." Ultra Magnus stated.

"And civillians given backpacks called parachutes for freefalling!" Knockout said next.

Smokescreen nudged Cliffjumper and said "We gotta have those kinds of things in Cybertron."

"Definitely." Cliffjumper agreed.

"Oh no!" Rattrap panicked then dived to hide behind Rhinox.

"Optimus Primal, flight mode!" Primal transformed and flew.

Rhinox landed and opened fire at the perimeter defenses.

"Silverbolt, flight mode!" the Maximal Fuzor followed, flying to draw fire from the turrets.

"Jets, maximum-" too late, Cheetor crashed to the ground. And by the time his jets began propulsion, they began to skid him across the ground and crashed him into a rock. Knocking him out cold.

Most of the audience laughed.

"Too late, kitty. Too late." Knockout joked.

The turrets then turned to fire at Ravage's cruiser. Rampage even arrived and fired at the cruiser.

While damaged, Ravage taunted "All right, that was impressive. Return fire." and pressed a few buttons that had his cruiser fire back at Rampage, destroying him completely.

"NOW THAT'S A NEW LEVEL OF KA-BLAM!" Warpath shouted. "I gotta add that to my list of Thunder Tracks!"

"Warpath no!"

"YES!" Warpath argued against Ironhide.

Elsewhere, as Inferno and Rhinox exchanged gunfire against each other. Just as Inferno believed he had the advantage, he foolishly jumped over his cover, effectively exposing him in the open. Which Rhinox then exploited to rain fire upon Inferno, disabling the ant Predacon.

"Fool. Never expose yourself in the open unless you are certain you've destroyed your enemy." Onslaught spat out.

"You're mine, bug-boy!" Cheetor yelled upon seeing Waspinator flying into the fray, but he was eliminated by a Predacon turret pointed closely at him. Prompting Waspinator to taunt Cheetor by blowing raspberry at him.

"Hehehe, infantile." Megatron chuckled.

In the midst of battle, Silverbolt then encountered Blackarachnia, where they drew weapons at each other.

"Oh man, I didn't want to see how this is going." Jazz commented.

"Easy, Blackarachnia may seem as hesitant here as Maxie-Bolt is." Cliffjumper assured his best friend.

"Silverbolt! Take her down!" Primal ordered upon witnessing his subordinate encounter the enemy hesitantingly.

But to his surprise, Silverbolt couldn't bring himself to strike down his lover. Likewise, Blackarachnia couldn't do the same either.

"YOU FOOL! SHE'S USING YOU!" Silverbolt yelled.

"Silverbolt! DO IT! If she's headed where I think she's headed-" Primal was cut off when a pair of turrets retract behind him and blast him off flight.

Blackarachnia then leaves the battle abruptly.

"Weird, she could have just destroyed him here and there, and she didn't... I wonder why..." Arcee wondered.

"If you hadn't guessed, she loved him, Arcee." Jazz pointed out.

"I didn't ask you, Jazz!" she barked.

Silverbolt then witnessed Ravage's cruiser fly directly into the Darksyde with no resistance met and fled then the cruiser then fired a barrage that weakened the Darksyde's systems.

"No! Keep fighting! Backup autoguns online!

[Backup autoguns acti...]

But before long, the Darksyde systems deactivate due to heavy damages.

"Wha-!?" Megatron yelled.

[All systems offline...]

"What? No!" Megatron despaired.

"Looks like you lost the bet, my dear 'descendant'. Now you shall pay with a crippling debt." Megatron taunted.

A variety of electric restraints then lock Megatron to his throne. The Predacon Lord snarled trying to get out, but before long, Ravage and the Maximals arrived.

"Greetings, Megatron." Ravage introduced himself. "In the name of the Pax Cybertronia and the Predacon Alliance you are under arrest!"

"NO!" Megatron despaired in defeat. His gamble had failed.

But then again, the Maximals were still distrustful of the Predacon agent that helped them.

The Orb suddenly cuts off the viewing, leaving the audience in wonder.