Author's Notes:

A little shorter than the other ones this time around. Don't worry, lengthy ones will be kicked back up a notch.

And I'm treating you guys to some more Gobot screentime before we get back to our real villainous main leads. And as a fun little game for you guys, try to figure out who the mystery Renegade is. I've got something planned for him.

This might be a thing going on with this fic. While I give a bit of time to some individual bots, the focus isn't going to stray away from the main leads, its just gonna give some individual bots time to shine so they at least do something within the fic.

While the Autobots were busy trying to recover from their losses, the Renegades were busy discussing their plans for their return to Cybertron. All throughout the shuttle, there was nothing but talk of their successes. While they did retreat from the battle, they had more success than that of the Autobots or the Guardians. They eliminated more soldiers, and they demolished half of Autobot City. They just needed to catch them offguard once again and then make the final strikes.

In a small cluster, a conversation was going on with Bad Boy, Blockhead, Snoop, Stallion, Slicks and Twin Spin. All of them were laughing at the victories that they had gained in the previous couple of hours.

"This only gets better and better," Bad Boy said.

"Tell me about it. Now that a competent leader's back, we can finally rid those Guardians and the Autobots once and for all," Blockhead replied.

"But what about Leader-1? Now he's back and now he's with those insufferable Autobots," the Renegade Stallion asked.

"Oh don't worry, we'll take him out along with Sunset Shimmer and Optimus Prime," Slicks replied.

"They do not stand a chance against us now," Twin Spin said.

"Sunset Shimmer and her cronies will be finished," Snoop chuckled.

The four Renegades in their own collective group let out a chuckle of evil, all in agreement. Talking about wanting to destroy the Guardians along with Sunset Shimmer now added on was a delight for them.

On another side of the ship, Cy-Kill was speaking with his two leading minions, Crasher and Coptor. All of them grinning deviously with the success in their mind.

"Cy-Kill its wonderful to have you back with us again," Crasher said.

"The pleasure is all mine Crasher," Cy-Kill replied.

"What do we do now Cy-Kill?" Coptor asked.

"Simple. We're going off to that same destination where Megatron was deployed, and then we'll be dropping these useless Guardian garbage off with them. Nothing is there for them now," Cy-Kill said.

"Brilliant Cy-Kill, brilliant!" Crasher laughed.

One Renegade however in all of the conversations stayed silent among the group. His red eyes gazed back and forth as he saw many different conversations go on within the Renegades. He listened to all of what they had to say, but he said nothing. He was busy thinking in his own thoughts. Looking back on what they had just done, he saw only destruction and death. He saw no victory with what they've done. All he could think about was how the Autobots and the Guardians were doing. How were they doing?

"Hey," a Renegade interrupted.

"Dah! Oh, Screwhead, sorry. I was spacing out," the yellow Renegade replied.

"Just making sure your own circuits were still functioning piston-head," Screwhead snarled as he walked off. The yellow Renegade just huffed and snarled. He was having just about enough of this.

Once I'm by myself, I'm bailing this ship...

On another side of the ship, the Renegade Fitor, Cy-Kill's second in command continued to pilot their cruiser. But where they were going wasn't Cybertron. There was a location in mind that the Renegades wanted to go to. And still lying on the ground were the four dead Guardians they mutilated on the attack.

"Cy-Kill, we're getting close to the drop-out point," Fitor said.

"Excellent Fitor. Just keep it on track until we're ready to deploy our useless cargo," Cy-Kill replied.

Three life forms on the ship however had other plans. The only three Decepticons that joined the band of Renegade forces had plans of their own. Starscream huddled Soundwave close so he could whisper to him. No need for the other Renegades to listen to their conversation. They had their own plot afoot, and they didn't need anyone listening to them.

"We have to regain control of these Renegades and the Decepticons. We'll lose Cybertron if these fools win," Starscream said.

"Cy-Kill and the Renegades have gained the upper hand and they've upgraded themselves with stronger metal from Shockwave's lab." Soundwave replied. "Two against all of them are not in our favor."

"We'll do what we can to destroy them, but we have to--" Starscream began.

"Do I hear a plot afoot?" Cy-Kill interrupted.

The two Decepticons turned around to stare at Cy-Kill and a bunch of Renegades that were gathered together, surrounding the three Cybertronians. Crasher and Coptor stood on the other sides of Cy-Kill.

"I have nothing against you, oh mighty Cy-Kill," Starscream mockingly said.

"He's a traitor Cy-Kill, he wants us all destroyed!" Crasher boomed.

"Now why would I want you Renegades destroyed? After all you did annihilate quite an amount of Autobots and Gobots, including that traitorous wreck called Punch," Starscream replied.

"Maybe because someone wants to take his own leadership back when he's not worthy of it!" Tux retorted.

"Yeah, we don't need someone incompetent trying to take over the galaxy," Fly Trap snapped.

A loud murmur broke out among the Renegades. All of them were in agreement, none of them wanted Starscream back in rule. Especially after their last plan was a complete failure. But before any of them could go to try and make another move--

"Cy-Kill! We're here at the drop-off!" Fitor called.

Cy-Kill let out a chuckle, "Perfect..." Cy-Kill turned around to look at his fellow Renegades, his voice grabbing all of their attention.

"Renegades, we're about to rid these dead Guardians of their duties now. But after seeing these Decepticons loyalty, I say we toss them out as well. Do I hear a second on that?"

"AYE!" All of the Renegades let out a big cheer while raising their arms up in the air.

"And against?" Cy-Kill asked.

The two Decepticons stood their ground with their weapons at the ready.

"I am not giving up my place as Decepticon leader. You all need me!" Starscream retorted.

"The ayes have it!" Cy-Kill called.

The shuttle door slid open, leading to outside into the cold empty vacuum of space. The Renegades all smirked deviously as they went over to grab the dead bodies to toss them outside where they would float without end.

First Bolt was tossed out, followed by Mr Moto, Royal T, then Man-O-War. All that was left was Starscream and Soundwave. The Renegades grabbed ahold of Starscream, clutching him tightly and pushing him over to the edge of the door.

"You can't do this to me! I'm too valuable to the Decepticon cause!" Starscream struggled, trying to get free from the Renegades clutches.

"Goodbye Starscream... Don't worry, we'll take of Cybertron and those Autobots for you!" Cy-Kill said.

Cy-Kill gave Starscream a kick to his back and the Renegades let go of him, letting the Decepticon flail out into space out of control and out of balance.

"CY-KILL!!!" Starscream yelled as he was thrown out into space. The only one left was Soundwave.

Cy-Kill stood and watched as Starscream continued to lose his balance as he was thrown out into space without anything to help him keep him still. But as he turned around, he saw they weren't moving Soundwave off the ship. The Renegades kept their hands on him, making sure he didn't move.

"Renegades, why are you disobeying!? Toss him overboard!" Cy-Kill snapped.

"C-Cy-Kill, this Decepticon can be of great use to us. He has control of all communications, mini-cons to spy on our enemies, and he can hack into any satellite or network controls," Crasher pleaded, "Please let us keep him for our use."

Cy-Kill scratched his chin for a moment, thinking. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to keep someone this intelligent for a while.

"I suppose we can keep him under our observation for a little bit. If he will comply...", Cy-Kill said. He stomped over and got up in Soundwave's face, staring at him right in the visor, "Are you going to do as I say, or do we sizzle your diodes?"

"No. I will not take orders from you, or any Renegade," Soundwave droned.

Cy-Kill snarled, "Very well... you won't obey, then we will execute you... Fitor! Take us back to Cybertron. We will begin a new sets of assaults on those Autobots, and then we will destroy Sunset Shimmer once and for all!!!" Cy-Kill yelled at the top of his lungs.

All of the Renegades let out a big cheer in agreement. Now they were finally going to take down the Autobots. Now with a new leader in power, Sunset Shimmer and her Autobot friends wouldn't stand a chance. Nothing was going to stop them now...

However, Starscream and the dead Guardians weren't that near where the rest of the floating dead Decepticons were. They were several miles beyond where Megatron, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and the rest of the deceased warriors and the stolen Shadowcon suits were. They were too far beyond.

But what someone didn't see what was going on was the sight of the glowing auras that were forming around 6 deceased bodies. And only one in particular could see a little bit of what was going on. A gray figure with red eyes watched as 6 of the bodies were glowing in bright pink auras. One by one, they all began changing their forms. Their looks, their physical structures, and the colors on them began to take change. And on some of them that had no heads, he watched as new head pieces took their shapes.

But with how weak his physical state was, he couldn't bring himself to see what was going on. His eyes just saw a few glimpses, and then it went lights out once again. He didn't even hear the sounds of them transforming and zooming far from the scattered warriors like a swarm of jets. They were far from his location, heading off for their own little mission...