The three Predacons were nearing their base. Soon they were close enough that the base's lights gave them enough light to see their hostage.

"Why Lizard-bot red? Iz Lizard-bot bleeding?" asked Waspinator.

"He can't bleed you idiot! Robots don't have blood, we have mech-fluid!" Jetstorm said angrily.

"Is it possible that we got the wrong Maximal?" wondered Inferno.

"There iz no other Lizard-bot!" said Waspinator.

"Than we shall bring him to the royalty, he will know what this is" said Inferno as he took the raptor and entered the base. Jetstorm and Waspinator just shrugged and followed him inside.

Meanwhile, back at the Axalon. Optimus, Dinobot, and Rattrap were discussing battle plans in the control room as Airazor walks in.

"Hey, have you guys seen Raptora anywhere? I haven't seen her since this morning" asked Airazor.

"I think she went outside for a walk this afternoon. Why? She hasn't returned yet?" asked Optimus.

"No. I even tried contacting her on her comlink, but there was no answer" Airazor was now very worried for her friend.

"She might be in trouble," said Dinobot.

"Ya know," said Rattrap, "it's funny how suddenly ya start tah care about your comrades now. Is it possible that you have a crush on a certain other Chumper-Face, eh?"

"I don't have a crush on Raptora! Unlike you, Vermin, I don't spend my time daydreaming about females!" spat Dinobot.

"At least I don't need tah daydream tah get females!" said Rattrap.

"Oh, that's right, I forgot one. You still have your mother!"

"'Ey! You leave my mother outta dis!" threatened Rattrap.

Dinobot was going to make a comeback, but was stopped by Optimus' yelling. "WILL YOU TWO STOP IT ALREADY!!"

Dinobot and Rattrap were shocked at Optimus' sudden out burst.

Optimus turned his attention back to Airazor, "I want you to fly around and look for her. I'll send Silverbolt and Cheetor to help you"

"Sure Optimus" said Airazor as she left the base and converted to beast mode.

"I want you two to check the scanners for Raptora's energy signature, and keep an eye out for Predacon signatures. I'm going to contact Silverbolt and Cheetor on the comlink" said Optimus.

The three went to do their tasks.

"Do you think it was wise to send those three to get Dinobot?" Tarantulas questioned Megatron.

"They may be stupid, but I'm confident that they can pull it off" said Megatron.

"You shouldn't be too confident, it could be dangerous" smirked Tarantulas.

"Since when are you concerned about my well-being?" asked Megatron.

Just then, Inferno entered the control room.

"My Queen!" shouted Inferno.

Megatron sighed, "Inferno, I thought we had this discussion before? STOP CALLING ME QUEEN!!! I can live with: King, Master, Leader, Megatron, or even Royalty! But I don't want you calling me Queen!! Is that understood?"

"Yes Royalty"

"That's better. Now, did you get the Traitor?"

"Yes, but…" started Inferno.

"But what?" said Megatron, trying to keep his temper intact.

"I think you should come see" said Inferno getting nervous. He knew what Megatron was like when he got angry, and he didn't want to be the one to experience it.

Megatron tried his best to keep his cool, but now even Inferno was making him angry.

"You know Megatron, high mech-fluid pressure is bad for your health" commented Tarantulas.

Megatron could now feel his temper boiling up inside. Silently, he counted to ten and turned to Tarantulas, "Shut-up Tarantulas" he said calmly.

"Oh yes, Mighty Megatron. Serving you is my pleasure" said Tarantulas sarcastically.

"Inferno," said Megatron who was still trying to stay calm, "shoot him"

Inferno fired his flame-thrower at Tarantulas who went into stasis-lock after he got hit.

Blackarachnia entered the control room after hearing a weapon firing. She wanted to see what all the commotion was about.

"Blackarachnia, take Tarantulas to the CR tank" ordered Megatron when he noticed Blackarachnia standing by the door.

"What? No 'Hello, nice to see you'? I'm not even here for a minuet, and you're already bossing me around," complained Blackarachnia, "you act like a mother, 'do this, do that'".

"Great! Now she thinks I'm a female! I might as well walk into battle wearing a dress, high-heels, and lipstick!" groaned Megatron.

Blackarachnia smiled at the thought as she dragged Tarantulas' body to the CR tank.

"Now Inferno, take me to the Maximal"

"Yes Royalty!"

Megatron followed Inferno to a small dark room where Raptora is in a cage still unconscious. Jetstorm and Waspinator are also there.

Megatron sees the red raptor in the cage, "Did that traitorous Dinobot change his color?" he wondered.

"Probably just to confuse us" suggested Jetstorm.

"Wazzpinator sayz that not Lizard-bot" said Waspinator.

"Of course it's him! What other raptors are there?" said Jetstorm while hitting Waspinator over the head.

"Oww!" said Waspinator who was now preparing to fight Jetstorm when Megatron interrupts.

"Ahem!"

Waspinator and Jetstorm turn their attention to Megatron.

"Hmm… you know, Waspinator may have a point. This isn't Dinobot, this raptor is too small and skinny, and plus the color difference" said Megatron.

"But there isn't any other raptors, is there?" Jetstorm was now very confused, "Also, there has been no pod landings since me and the other Maximal, whom we know is a panther"

"Yes, but maybe the Maximals got a pod that we didn't know about… they probably found a way to block the pods signals from us! Damn Maximals!" said Megatron angrily.

Raptora finally started coming to. Her blue eyes scanned the room. She found herself in a cage with a few Predacons on the outside.

"Ah! I see the Maximal has finally woken up from his nap" said Megatron.

Raptora tried to stand up, but she found herself too weak to do so.

"Look at him! He's weak! No wonder he didn't give us much of a fight" exclaimed Jetstorm.

"I am not a 'he'. Why everyone seems to think differently, I really don't know" said Raptora a bit annoyed.

"Ah! It's a 'she'!" yelled Jetstorm in surprise.

"This is an interesting piece of information, yesss" said Megatron.

"Do you want me to destroy her, royalty?" asked Inferno.

"No," said Megatron, he then turned his attention to Raptora, "What is your name?"

"Why should I tell you, Predacon!" she spat.

"Because if you don't answer my questions, I will make you suffer great pain, yes" Megatron threatened.

"It's Raptora"

"Well, that's a nice name. It's so unfortunate that these idiots found you instead of the traitor, is it not?" said Megatron.

"Huh? Traitor?" she asked confused.

"You mean you don't know? Dinobot's the traitor! He betrayed us for the Maximals!"

"Dinobot was a Predacon?" Raptora was shocked by what she just heard Megatron say.

"Yes, he was. I can't believe no one has told you this"

Raptora was silent.

"How would you like to join the Predacons, Raptora. We will not leave you out like the Maximals did" Megatron was trying to persuade her to their side, mainly because the Maximals outnumbered them at the moment.

"Sorry, but I'm no traitor!" how dare they think that she would betray her own!

"Very well then, I have another use for you anyway…" said Megatron as he left the room. Jetstorm and Waspinator followed leaving Inferno to guard Raptora.

Raptora looked through the cage's bars. Inferno was still there watching over her like a hawk. Raptora started to feel her tiredness coming over her. It had been a long day, and now, she wanted nothing more than to be in her bed asleep. Eventually, she gave into her tiredness, and drifted into sleep.

FireBlaze found herself with a crowd of other bots waiting to be put into the stasis pods. She was a bit nervous about going into stasis-lock in one of those pods. There was the risk of losing your memory and other things FireBlaze didn't want to think about.

FireBlaze looked through the crowd, seeing a few bots that she knew, but wasn't friends with, so she didn't go and say hi. Many of the bots she knew, went to the same high school she went to. But they were all graduated by now, including herself. She was looking through the crowd when she saw a bot she knew all too well... NightShadow! What is she doing here?! FireBlaze thought angrily. Well, there's my disobedient sister for you…

FireBlaze walked up to NightShadow who had her back turned on her. FireBlaze grabbed her by the shoulder and turned her around to face her.

"What in the name of the Matrix are you doing here?!" asked FireBlaze, who wasn't very happy at her younger sister for disobeying her.

"Umm… I came to say good bye… yeah! That's it! I came to say good bye!" lied NightShadow.

FireBlaze just stared at NightShadow, not believing a word she said.

"Alright, alright! Stop staring at me like that!" NightShadow gave in, "I signed up on the Axalon too because I didn't want you going off to some strange planet by yourself" she let it all out.

"You what?! How? You're not even old enough!"

"Well, I kinda got a fake ID…"

"What?!"

"I needed it so I could sign up!"

"NightShadow," said FireBlaze, "I don't want to put you in danger. This exploration mission is dangerous…"

"I know, I know!" said an irritated NightShadow, "But I couldn't let you take that risk alone"

"Fine! You can come. But the money-" started FireBlaze.

"Money! We get paid for this!" exclaimed NightShadow.

"Yes, I said that last night"

A big smile came on NightShadow's face. With enough money, she thought, I could go to Hawaii on Earth! I always wanted to see a real live volcano! "Um, how much money?" she was still smiling.

"Oh no! You are not spending the money on a shopping-spree!" FireBlaze scolded her sister; "We're using the money for more important things, like the bills! You know, you cost us a fortune in long-distance calls to your friends!"

"But-"

"No buts!"

They both stopped the conversation when they saw that bots were already being put into the stasis pods.

"I think we should go join them" suggested FireBlaze.

"Right" agreed NightShadow.

The two sisters went to join the bots to be put into a stasis pod.