Days blurred together as the Predacons waited for their chance of escape. Megatron was becoming more and more impatient for the reconstruction of the Omega Lock. Firewing and Predaking had learnt to transform their arms into weapons. They had only managed this through Firewing probing into his memories of being the Autobot, Bumblebee. After that he had simply mimicked it and shown Predaking how to do it.

Soundwave had worked to restore the lost memories that were locked away by the explosion in Shockwave's lab. He managed to unlock the important ones but the others were still suppressed, there was only so much Soundwave's telepathy could do.

He had also broken through the base limitations on the Cybertronian body, by extension, Predacons too, and made it possible to use their transformation powers in the ultimate form. Subatomic transformation. The ability to restructure their body completely, even beyond the atoms that made up their bodies.

Unfortunately, Soundwave could only make this breakthrough with Firewing, Predaking's body was fully mature and it's atomic code was too strong to break. He refused to use the ability even if Soundwave had unlocked it.

The day came when the Decepticons were attacked by the Autobots who had found the warship. They stormed it and the Second Battle for Omega Lock began. Arcee and Smokescreen were one group and Optimus was engaging the turrets and flyers outside in space. The Wreckers, lead by Ultra Magnus, stormed the bridge and confronted the forces there.

Soundwave was unlocking every door and access port on the Nemesis to make the Autobot takeover easier when the trio burst into the bridge. He turned around and the groundbridge control display lit up his visor.

All the charging Vehicons, which just happened to be all of the flyers on the bridge, were intercepted by green portals that sent them to the prison level and more glowing bridges opened under the other Deception troops sending them to the flight deck, which was locked down now that the Autobot team was inside. Soundwave himself transformed and jetted down the corridors.

The Predacons bounded separately round the ship in their beast modes but Firewing had a mission to do before he joined the fight. He ran into Soundwave's quarters and extracted the blue femme sparkling, which he had named Sapphire, from his spark chamber. She had grown a little but was still manageable for now. Firewing lifted her gently in his mouth and put her in the locker that had a thermal-blanket in it which he dragged over his little Sapphire and closed the door and locked it on her. A squadron of Decepticons charged down the corridor when Firewing exited the quarters.

His furious dragon fire roared into life and torched the group, melting armour and setting fire to energon. The Vehicons screamed and pleaded but the beast was relentless. His resolve was absolute. The raging firestorm died and Firewing transformed.

"Please! Don't kill me!"

One was still alive. Firewing transformed his right arm into a weapon and aimed it at the last one alive. His arm cannon was a round cylinder that replaced his hand from mid-forearm with three razor sharp blades that extended beyond the barrel of the cannon at regular intervals around it.

"Go now to your rest."

His new voice was firm yet deeper than the average Cybertronian's and was filled with power and demanded respect like Predaking's.

A single shot not unlike his dragon fire ended the suffering of the Vehicon in an instant. Transforming again, Firewing sprinted down the corridor to the real fight. Legions of Vehicon troopers marched towards his fiery wrath but none were spared. Fire and claws were all that awaited them. Death.

Firewing bite down hard, snapping a trooper in half, as more fired lasers bolts at him. Claws raked through them like swords, teeth impaled them like knives, fire melted and scorched like the hands of hell. Firewing smashed the ones that avoided the frontal attacks with his wings and spiked tail. He was death, death to them all!

Finally, he reached the Omega Lock where the main battle was in full flow. Optimus and Megatron exchanged powerful blows and attacks of all kinds, Ratchet was out of the fight due to injury and Arcee and Smokescreen were trying to get past Shockwave with the Starsaber.

Said blade flew up in the air and fell back down, going toward the clawed hand of the Decepticon scientist. Anger fueled the blast that smashed into the purple mech's chest. Charging before the fire had left his mouth, Firewing leapt into the air and reached for the weapon of the Primes.

When his claws closed around the hilt of the Starsaber, Firewing had transformed into his bipedal mode and landed with one foot on Shockwave's face, hard, smashing his head into the ground and cracking the lense that covered his one optic. The last parts of his armour locked into place as he stepped off, onto the deck.

A gasp from behind drew his attention to the one called Arcee

"Who are you?"

"I am Firewing." He replied. "And I am here to put an end to Megatron's schemes, Arcee."

Apparently the fact he remembered her name was enough to make her back off so he ran to the edge of the platform and dropped down to the nearest ledge on the structure that supported the Lock. He hefted the sword easily as he proceeded.

"Prime!"

Firewing called and leapt in faith that he would not fail. He couldn't. Sapphire was depending on him.

Both leaders looked up at the defending figure, both recognising the weapon in his grasp.

"The Starsaber!" Megatron exclaimed. He smashed Optimus aside and fired his fusion cannon as rapidly as he could, just as Predaking arrived.

The first shot hit Firewing's chest and stung a lot but didn't do much to stop him. The second made cracks appear all over his chest armour. The third broke through his armour and the Predacon began to see his short life pass before his optics. Awakening in the cave, lost and alone. Rescuing Sapphire. Meeting Predaking. Fighting the Autobots. The fourth shot hit and decimated his chest, pain going to impossible levels.

"Soundwave: Defect."

Though the now former Decepticon's intervention was well timed, the fourth shot was enough to finish the job. To kill the /span/p

Firewing fell back, Starsaber in hand, into the cybermatter pool that was the Omega Lock, dieing fast.

He could hear faint screaming and rage filled roars but even they faded. All that was is gone now. He failed everyone. He failed Sapphire./span/p

"NOOOOO!"

Predaking and Optimus roared and both charged Megatron. The beast in bipedal mode nailed the warlord in the face with his clawed fist then the Prime shoulder rammed him into one of the pillars that held the lock to the Nemesis. Megatron crashed to the floor on the side of the cybermatter, arm over the edge. He looked up and saw something in front of his /span/p

Both seeking to avenge their comrade's death, Optimus and Predaking charged their blasters and aimed at their /span/

Megatron rose and struck them both over the other side of the Lock with a purple arc on energy from the Dark Starsaber. The warlord tiredly stomped over to see the two hanging by their servo's. He raised the purple sword above his head for another strike.

"Join your comrade in the Allspark, beast, Prime!"

The grey mech swung another purple arc their way that barely missed. It also caused them to release one hand each to swing out of the way.

"I will not miss a second time fools."

As Megatron lifted his weapon for another swing he smirked.

"MEGATRON!"

The one who was called turned and faced the source of the /span/p

Only to gasp as the Starsaber sheathed itself in his /span/p

Firewing onlined his optics and glared forcefully at the Decepticon Warlord whom he had just run through. No one but Optimus noticed the barest of blue glows coming from the ancient weapon of Prima.

"You took my voice. You took my family. You took my friends. You will never rob anyone, of anything... Ever again."

Megatron struggled to comprehend what he had just heard. He spluttered then rasped,

"Who... are you?"

"I am Firewing. But you knew me as Bumblebee, the Autobot scout whose voice box you tore out and family you murdered. Now DIE!"

The red eyed warlord dropped the Dark Starsaber and fell to one knee, clutching the blade that was smeared in dark energon from his spark. Slowly he slipped along it until he fell off and plummeted down to Earth below.

"And this time, stay dead."

Firewing placed the Starsaber on his back and leant over the edge to help up his brother and the Prime. He extended a hand to them each which the pair took. He pulled with all of his strength and hauled them both up onto the giant ring, out of Earth's gravitational force. Optimus rose to his feet after Predaking and stumbled over to the other Predacon. Firewing reached down and picked up the Dark Starsaber.

"Thank you, for saving my life."

"You are welcome Optimus."

Hearing his name snapped the Prime out of the exhaustion as he climbed up the pillar to the control platform. Was it possible that Bumblebee had returned?

The trio made it up the platform, where Soundwave helped them up. The whole group were shocked but Starscream had ran at leader's conqueror.

"I will avenge you Master!"

Starscream was caught by Shockwave and pulled into corridor towards the escape pods.

The Predacon's voice was now a mix of Bumblebee's original voice and that of the new frame.

"Bumblebee? Is that you?"

Ratchet's was filled with hope, but also sadness as he dreaded the answer to his question being no.

"You think me to be a Decepticon? I am not Firewing... I am not Bumblebee. I am... More than them. I am both, yet neither."

"Wait, how's that possible?" Smokescreen was the one to ask the million dollar question. A difficult quest that Optimus answered.

"He means he is a combination of the best aspects of each persona, which were most likely fused by the power of the Omega Lock. Am I right?"

"Are you ever? Just kidding, that's the best explanation anyone could come up with." Bumblebee/Firewing laughed.

The group laughed for a while but turned their attention to the intact Lock that Megatron had intended to destroy Earth with. The Wreckers arrived when the verdict was being made.

"Optimus, there is enough cybermatter here to cyberform a planet."

"Or rebuild one."

The conversation went on while the others talked amongst themselves.

"So, 'Bee what was it like to have to pretend be Megatron's lapdog?"

"Worse thing ever 'Cee. It was hilarious to see Screamer getting smacked around though. It happened pretty much every day. Best entertainment ever."

After Optimus had finished his discussion with Ratchet, he approached Soundwave."Thank you Soundwave. Without you, we would have suffered more in trying to save Earth."

Again, the former CO spoke only a few words telepathically.

'Optimus Prime superior: Soundwave inferior.'

"You are not below me Soundwave. The truth of leading is to be one of them but show them the way. I believe Megatron missed that."

Once again Soundwave reached out and spoke mentally.

'You truly are a great leader. You are not afraid to admit your faults and there is grace in your failures. Not many see that. Megatron could admit to some failures but was mostly to proud to. I was not always Soundwave. Shockwave made me into this. I was once a mech by the name of Blaster. He is gone but still is a part of me.'

With the spacebridge powered up and ready to go, it was time to return to Cybertron. To restore it.

"Hey Raf, if you can tear yourself away from your laptop for two seconds, how about you bridge yourself and the others up here so we can get to Cybertron already." Bumblebee/Firewing said over the comm jokingly.

"Bee?"

"Who else buddy? Now move it or lose it, we've got a planetary restoration to get going."

The humans were all bridged up to the warship, Soundwave could send them back so it wasn't a problem if they all came along, and the spacebridge was locked on to Cybertron. The portal activated and a swirling green vortex burst into life. The warship moved through it and, when it exited the other side, the dead Cybertron was visible.

A short while later and the warship was hovering above the Well of All Sparks. Ratchet was hesitant to press the hardlight button but did so and the pool began to swirl and spiral.

Bumblebee/Firewing stood on the edge of the well, after retrieving Sapphire from Soundwave, and observed alongside Predaking. How ironic that the very thing that restored him, memories and all, would restore his home. Ironic but it felt right.

The Lock reached operational state fired a beam straight into the Well, toward the heart of Primus who would soon awaken to govern the spawning of new sparks. The beam ended and was all absorbed into the core. Slowly but surely a pure blue glow emanated from the Well and spread all over the planet.

Cybertron lived again.

Predaking took flight and flew over the desolation that had laid waste to the whole world. It was truly beautiful even if the planet was a ruin.

Once more the spacebridge opened and the warship headed into it. It exited back in the Milky Way galaxy and headed back to Earth. When they were close enough, Soundwave bridged the humans back as the Cybertronians aboard the ship prepared for departure. All the Autobots were walking into the bridge that would take them to Earth when Arcee asked,

"You coming, Mr Got-my-voice-and-memories-back?"

"No, I'll fly."

"You know that's going to hurt in reentry right?"

"Like the humans say..."

Bumblebee/Firewing's wings folded out of his back and he continued.

"...Yolo!"

And he fell off the ship with his wings tucked against his back. As he entered Earth's atmosphere, the Predacon became a comet. Once inside, he aimed his body at Jasper, Nevada.

'Here I go again.'

As soon as the city was semi-visible, Bumblebee/Firewing re angled himself at the military base where Autobot's home was. Deciding to try out his subatomic transformation, he reformed parts of his outer armour, the palms of his servos and vbottom of his pedes into jet thrusters by visualising what he fired them and the flames died fairly quickly around his body. His wings extended in an instant and Bumblebee/Firewing glided the rest of the way to the base. One the way he reverted his successful subatomic transformation.

The Predacon landed outside the base and walked in before anyone saw him enter his home away from home.

When he entered, the Bumblebee part of him took over and went to comfort Raf who was upset that he was leaving. He pick up his friend in one clawed servo and held him up to his face.

"Raf. I..."

But he couldn't find the words.

"I know 'Bee. You don't have to say anything."

A thought crossed his mind so he said it.

"I never did."

Across the room Arcee was saying her goodbyes too.

"Stay safe Jack, I don't want to have to interrupt humans belief that they are the smartest race in the universe to pull your aft out of a fight. And don't make me hunt you down." She told him, making a reference to when they first met.

"Got it."
Miko just cried so Bulkhead gave her a pat on the back and some reassuring words. Optimus said goodbye to all the humans separately.

"While our world can once again support life, we have much rebuilding to do. We will miss our home away from home, and the family we have made here."

"What if the 'Cons come back? Won't Earth be on their radar?" Raf asked.

"Raf, if you need me, or any of us, we're just a spacebridge away."

"I'll stay. To keep an eye on them and be here if the Decepticons ever return. I'm sure I can make something to send and receive messages to and from Cybertron. To keep in contact."

"Thank you Ratchet. We must be going, Cybertron will not rebuild itself." Optimus shook Ratchet's hand and all of the leaving 'Bots went through Soundwave's bridge to the Nemesis.

"Such lustre." Knockout, who'd come out of hiding, stated on the way back to Cybertron. The Autobots all looked at him.

"What? I'm joining the winning team."

Bumblebee/Firewing unfolded his wings from his back and swatted the red medic into the furthest wall. He then grabbed him and fireman's lifted him all the way to the brig, ignoring Knockout's attempts to get free and complaints. He snapped a pair of cuff on the automobile's wrists, opened the door and threw him in.

"Wait! Bumblebee, think about what you're doing!"

"What I'm doing? I'm putting you with your friends. And call me Amalgam."

AN: Sorted the word mix up out, took me ages, you guys better review or I'll get even grumpier. Just kidding, but seriously, reviews are damn helpful.