Back in England, two sports car were racing down the streets of London while several Vehicons along with four other Decepticons were in pursuit of the two Autobots. Two of the cars within the group were a pair of twins: Runabout and Runamuck. Both of them were leading the pack of Vehicons and they were releasing arsenals of rockets and lasers onto the two Autobots.

"Right!" Rainbow yelled.

Sideswipe steered to the right followed by Knockout, avoiding an incoming missile which blew up part of the street.

"Keep it up Runamuck! They're getting away!"

"I'm trying bro!"

The two twins steered a right and slammed into more cars on the way. Unfortunately one of them was a police car which turned on its siren. The officer in the car turned on his radio system.

"This is Alec. I'm issuing a 10-43. We need all officers on the ground at once, I'm reporting a group of sports cars chasing after two different ones. I need choppers in the air, now!"

Squad cars were now out onto the streets chasing after the Vehicons and the two twins. One by one, they all slowly converged on the road and were now starting to catch up to them.

"Great. Now we've been caught, and our one job was to NOT GET CAUGHT!" Runamuck complained.

"Hey, its not our fault we stand out like sore thumbs!"

The group of Vehicons and twins kept on driving straight down the street while squad cars continued to give chase. And there was still no sight of the vehicles they were chasing.

Once the coast was clear, the two cars slowly pulled out of an alleyway, sighing in relief that they were gone.

"Thank goodness. I don't know about you Sideswipe, but I for one cannot keep up this wild chase anymore." Rarity spoke from one of the speakers.

"Well we can't let them take us. You heard their plan, they're after us now." Sideswipe replied.

"But Rarity does strike a point. The more those Decepticons pursue us, the more fuel we burn, and they will have caught us before time runs out." Knockout said. "We must find a safer location should they continue."

"Then what are we waiting for? Lets go!" Rainbow shouted.

The two cars pulled back out onto the street and began driving carefully. But as they made a turn, the two cars stopped. Right up ahead was a yellow steamroller that was blocking the middle of the road, sitting there. And its engine was running. But worse... it was slowly moving towards them.

"Lets run, now!" Knockout said, but before they could move, their vehicle forms were just.... stuck. Their wheels weren't giving any more power. The girls looked down, and they noticed something. The part of the road they were in was nothing but cement. The cement had stuck into their wheels, and they were unable to move from their current location.

"Oh no..." Knockout whined. "This is going to ruin my paint!"

The steamroller pulled forward some more and began to change shape. The roller began to split in half and fold out, along with two gray hands emerging, the back end of the machine began to flip out and make a pair of legs while the wheels were hooked to the ankles. The figure then flipped around onto its legs, and lastly, the two pairs of lights flipped up onto the shoulders along with a gray head with red eyes. On his yellow chest, a Decepticon logo was visibly gleaming in their eyes.

"Wait a minute... who on Earth is that?"

The figure slowly stomped towards them and looked down at them both. He didn't seem to have much of a visual reaction to them. Not much of anger, hate, or evil any laughing at his success.

"Rainbow. Listen to me carefully. You can open up a Groundbridge portal. Carefully climb out of me and onto the concrete, find a building to hide in temporarily, and run."

"But--"

"Rainbow, now!" Sideswipe yelled.

"I can't leave you here!"

"I'll be fine, I promise! You have to get out of here now! GO!"

Rainbow wanted to argue, but she had no choice. That Decepticon was getting closer to her with every step. With no other choice, she carefully opened the car door and climbed on top of the hood of the car. Thankfully for her Steamer wasn't moving very fast, and so she jumped off the spoiler and onto road that was finished. Once she was off, she began to run and activate her wrist controls.

Steamer flew up into the air raced after her, but it was too late. A portal opened up and Rainbow jumped on through just as Steamer was about to snatch her. Looking behind him, he watched as Rarity was about to do the same thing. Steamer replied by firing a laser from his fist on her left and right to get her attention. Having her distracted, he grabbed her and held her in his one arm, restraining her.

"Unhand me you ruffian! Let me go! Don't you know you are in the presence of a lady!?" Rarity screamed.

Steamer didn't reply to her complaints.

"Let her go, now!" Knockout yelled as she struggled to get out of his grasp.

"I'm afraid none of you are going anywhere. My job was to rope you all up, and that's what I'm going to do."

A Groundbridge portal opened behind Steamer, and walking out of it was Galvatron himself who actually had a smile on his face for once. And right behind him were Thundercracker, Skywarp, Soundwave, and the Coneheads.

"Excellent work Steamer. You've proven yourself quite well today. More than I can say for certain others..." Galvatron spoke sneering at Soundwave.

"Jet Black Spark gave me false information. She tricked me from finding the Autobots."

"And yet you or the Shadowcon could stop their ship." Galvatron snarled. "You may be my most loyal Soundwave, but I will not hesitate. Make that mistake again... and you will find out what happens to those who fail me."

"Um, sir? What do I do with the organic, Lord Galvatron?" Steamer asked.

"Take on her on board, and keep her secure in a cell. She's going with the rest of our bargaining chips."

Steamer nodded and began to walk to the Groundbridge portal carrying the squirming Rarity in his arms.

"No! Unhand me this instant! I'm not going on that dreadful ship! Please!" Rarity cried as the two passed through the Groundbridge.

"If you harm her, I swear to Solus Prime, I will cut your head clean!" Knockout screamed.

"Shut up." Thundercracker kicked Knockout's back tailgate.

"Come on, we gotta drag them."

Galvatron stood for a moment, watching them trying to take them off of the cement, when up from the air, Jet Black Spark landed. She looked for a moment and was baffled. They were caught... but they didn't catch them.

"They... they got them." Jet gasped.

"Not so stupid now, huh, newbie?" Thundercracker snapped.

"Don't start with me, I just got here!"

"And you couldn't even catch them!" Skywarp replied back.

"Enough!" Galvatron screamed. "The point is they've been caught. We're more than halfway to the power we need. Only one more Autobot to find... and I have a good guess where he is."

"But sir, we can't locate their tracking chips. They could be anywhere on this planet!"

"Then I suggest you all find them fast, or heads are going to roll... and I don't care who's." Galvatron said before walking away into the open Groundbridge.

Jet let out a small sneer as Galvatron walked away and huffed in anger. "Just a little longer Galvatron... and then your usefulness will come to an end..."

Jet walked through the portal, and then soon the others began to follow after. The only one who didn't go in yet was Soundwave who watched as everyone kept on walking through. And he pressed a button near his face that was above his cassette door.

"Just a little longer Galvatron... and then your usefulness will come to an end..."

Soundwave cracked his hands, and then he followed the rest of the Decepticons through the portal, leaving the streets.

Elsewhere, another Groundbridge opened up, and out came a falling Rainbow Dash who slammed right through a metal plate on a rooftop, and then she fell off the side and slammed right through a barn roof.

She landed on a hard ground with her body sprawled around. She groaned in pain for a short moment, trying to pull herself up, but she fell back down, unable to get back up.

"Gotta... save him... can't... go... down..." Rainbow muttered as everything turned black around her.

Nevada

Back at the remains of Autobot HQ, Ratchet and Wheeljack were busy trying to get all of their patients repaired since their last battle, and things didn't look good. There were only four hands on duty, and the humans didn't add much. All of them were seriously hurt, and trying to speed things along to get them all back on their feet wasn't moving so fast.

As if it wasn't bad enough, their body count grew higher with the others who had died, their Groundbridge was totalled, and their base's energy reserves were slowly depleting as they tried to repair everyone.

"Ugh, I'm telling ya Ratchet. At this rate, we're going to lose all of our Energon reserves and no one's going to get repaired." Wheeljack said, scribbling on a clipboard.

"We're doing all that we can Wheeljack. And Pipes, Hoist, and Grapple are out going for more Energon, hopefully they'll bring some back."

On one of the monitors that was still functioning, a small radar screen began to bleep. On screen, a cloud with a bolt of red, yellow, and blue was blinking on screen on a far away location.

"Wait a minute... its Rainbow Dash." Ratchet said, accessing the computer.

"But where's the signal coming from?"

"Its coming from... all the way back to Canterlot." Ratchet said. "Wheeljack. I need you to stay on guard. I'm going to find her."

"You can't go out there, you're not fast enough." Wheeljack intervened.

"And what if she needs help? I can't just leave her there!"

"I'm not saying we should abandon her. I'm saying, we need someone fast to get there."

"Have you seen the state of our troops? No one will make it in that speed and Blurr's hurt."

"I'm not suggesting we ask Blurr to find her... I know someone who can help."

Wheeljack explained his plan, only to receive a disturbing look of shock from Ratchet.

"Are you serious!? You can't be serious!"

"I don't like to tamper with mad science, but we have no choice. And as much as I don't like to stoop to this, we could use some additional help."

Ratchet and Wheeljack wandered over to another part of the base and pressed a button for a door. Inside all they could see were coffins that were on display.

"This is a dangerous idea Wheeljack, we can't do this."

"I know its dangerous, but what other choice do we have?"

Wheeljack walked forward some more and held a tool in his hand.

"and I know who can help her. Ratchet... get me an Allspark fragment."

Author's Notes:

So, Steamer finally does something in this story. About time huh? Don't worry, there's a reason I put him in this story.

And Wheeljack's got a plan. Just for fun... I want you guys to make a guess for what his plan is. And who do you think is going to be involved?