Raptora woke up to find herself still in a cage inside the Predacon base. I remember, she thought to herself, I remembering it all now. The dream, it was clearer this time… I know what it means! She was happy she was remembering everything, I'm FireBlaze! That was just before when I signed up for the Axalon! But who's my sister? Is she even here yet? Did her pod survive? Raptora didn't want to think of what she'd do if her sister didn't survive. Why do I have this feeling that NightShadow is nearby? I hope she wasn't reprogrammed into a Predacon! She started to think of all the females she knew, Airazor? No, it's not her… the Predacon Blackarachnia, she seems familiar too, but no, not her. Manterra, I doubt it, I don't even know her anyway. I'm missing someone, but who? I said Airazor, Blackarachnia, and Manterra… Chatalia! Could it be? Is Chatalia my sister?

Raptora took out something from her subspace. It was her half of the energon piece that she split with her sister. She read the writing on it, "Sisters Forever". Suddenly she had a flash back…

* 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! *

She remembered what NighShadow looked like now! Chatalia was her sister after all!

Chatalia's my sister, she thought, I can't believe it! I found my sister!

Her celebration was cut short however, by Inferno.

"What are you smiling about Maximal? And give me that piece of Energon!" said Inferno.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"No! Wait! You tricked me Maximal! You shall burn in the fires of Inferno!" he raised his flame-thrower at her and was about to fire.

"Wait!" she said, "I don't think Megatron would want you to kill me! He still needs me alive for his little scheme to work!"

"How would you know of his intentions?" he said angrily.

"All psycho-maniacs are easy to predict" she replied.

"The Royalty is no psycho! The Royalty is brilliant!" Inferno said proudly.

Okay… this guy has big issues! He's nuts! Raptora thought.

"I'm sure he is" lied Raptora.

Airazor was flying in beast mode looking for Raptora. Where can she be? I hope the Preds didn't get to her…

"Airazor, did you find her?" asked Silverbolt as he flew up to her.

"Does it look like I found?" said Airazor a bit angry.

"I am sorry m'lady. I didn't mean to make you angry"

"I'm sorry. It's not you. I'm just worried sick for Raptora" apologized Airazor.

"Don't worry, I'm sure she'll be okay"

"I hope you're right"

"Did you guys find her on the scanners?" Optimus asked Dinobot and Rattrap.

"Nada sign of her" replied Rattrap.

"The Predacons must have found her" said Dinobot who was actually concerned.

Rattrap was going to comment, but Optimus gave him a look, so he decided against it.

"Hey! Come see over here! We're getting an open channel from the Predacon base!" shouted Rhinox from another computer console. The other Maximals went over to him.

Megatron appeared on the monitor. "Maximals! I have your female raptor!" he said.

"If you hurt her Megatron, I swear, I will hunt you down and rip your spark right out of you!" threatened Optimus.

Megatron, surprised by this, said, "If you want her back, then I want something in return"

"What?" asked Optimus.

"The other Golden Disk" said Megatron.

"Very well, but we better get Raptora back, unharmed and alive!" said Optimus.

"She'll be alive, but you just make sure I get the disk. I will meet you at sunrise at the Standing Stones to make the trade" with that, Megatron's image disappeared.

"Ya do realize it's a trap, right?" Rattrap said to Optimus.

"I know, but we have no choice" said Optimus.

"So we're gonna give him the disk?" asked Rhinox.

"I'm afraid so"

"But can't we just make a fake one? It's not like Megatron gonna know da difference" said Rattrap.

"We don't have time. Sunrise is in less than a hour," said Optimus.

"Megatron will surely want a fight. We should all go when we trade" suggested Dinobot.

"But Megatron may take that chance to attack the base. We can't take that risk" replied Optimus.

"So who's gonna go?" asked Rattrap.

"You, Dinobot, Chatalia, and I will go" replied Optimus.

"Great! Bring da Chumper-Face an' da Feline! It's not like dey's gonna try ta kill me!" complained Rattrap.

"Yes Royalty!" said Inferno. Megatron had just finished telling him the plan.

"Good. Now go get the Maximal so that we can leave for the Standing Stones," said Megatron.

Inferno saluted and went to retrieve Raptora.

"You know the Maximals aren't that stupid. They're not gonna fall for it" said Tarantulas.

"Yes, but sometimes the oldest trick in the book is the best trick" replied Megatron.

"You shouldn't be so sure of yourself. This plan will most likely fail, just like all of your plans"

Megatron sighed, Why did I ask that Blackarachnia get him repaired? He thought.

Sunset at the Standing Stones…

Megatron, Inferno, Tarantulas, Jetstorm, and Waspinator were waiting for the Maximals to show up. Megatron had Raptora who was in beast mode, in electric chains. Inferno, Jetstorm, and Waspinator were hidden behind one of the Standing Stones, while Tarantulas, Raptora, and Megatron were visible for the Maximals when they came.

Not much longer later, Optimus, Dinobot, Rattrap, and Chatalia arrived with the Golden Disk.

"Alright Megatron, we brought the disk, now you give back Raptora" said Optimus.

"Surely Optimus, you can greet me better than that" said Megatron pretending to be hurt.

"Cut the crap! I know you have other Predacons hiding here, so let's save us both the trouble and trade," said Optimus annoyed.

"Told you they'd find out, hehe!" smirked Tarantulas.

Megatron ignored Tarantulas' comment, "But Optimus, where's the fun in that? Predacons, Terrorize!" ordered Megatron.

The rest of the Predacons who were hiding come out.

"Inferno, TERRORIZE!"

"Wazzpinator, TERRORIZZZE!"

"Jetstorm, TERRORIZE!"

"Tarantulas, TERRORIZE!"

"Megatron, TERRORIZE!"

"Maximals, Maximize!" ordered Optimus.

"Rattrap, MAXIMIZE!"

"Chatalia, MAXIMIZE!"

"Dinobot, MAXIMIZE!"

"Optimus Primal, MAXIMIZE!"

With everyone transformed, the battle had begun.

Optimus went and tackled Megatron who had to let go of Raptora to fight. Raptora just found somewhere safe to hide because she couldn't transform with those chains on her. All she could do was watch.

Dinobot and Chatalia were trying to take down the flyers. For once, they were actually working together.

"Wazpinator will destroy Lizard-Bot and Cat-Bot! Wazpinator greatezt Predacon ever! Wazzpinator rulezzz!" yelled Waspinator.

Chatalia and Dinobot just shook their heads and fired at Waspinator, who got hit, as usual.

"FOR THE ROYALTY!!! YOU MAXIMALS SHALL BURN!!" Inferno fired his flame-thrower at the Maximals. He was just randomly firing everywhere when he saw Raptora helpless in the chains. He aimed his flame-thrower at her, but Dinobot saw this. He fired his eye-beams at Inferno, knocking him out of the sky before he had a chance to hurt Raptora. Dinobot then went over to Raptora with his sword, and cut the chains off her.

"Thanks!" she said, "Raptora, MAXIMIZE!" she transformed into her red and white robot form.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You were a Predacon once?" her question got Dinobot off-guard.

"Yes" he replied. How did she know? He wondered, Great! Now that she knows, whatever interest she may have in me is gone. I was a fool to believe I may have had a chance with her…

"I think we should help the others" suggest Raptora, interrupting Dinobot's thoughts.

"Right" he agreed.

Chatalia watched them from the battlefield. Hmm, now they would make a nice couple… she thought. She then turned her attention back to the fight.

Optimus and Megatron were still at it. Neither winning, neither losing. Both had quite a bit of damage on them.

"You shall die, Optimus Primal, yesss!" roared Megatron.

"Not this time Megatron!" yelled Optimus.

Megatron fired his tail-gun at Optimus, knocking the Golden Disk up in the air. Jetstorm saw this, and went and caught the disk.

"Yo Megs! I got the disk!" Jetstorm shouted.

"Good!" replied Megatron. He then turned to Optimus, "another time Primal!" he hissed. With that, he retreated with the other Predacons following behind him.

The Maximals watched them leave.

"We should follow them!" said Dinobot.

"No, we took too much damage" said Optimus.

"Why'd dey want da disk anyway? It has no use anymore, right?" asked Rattrap.

"Megatron must know something we don't. But at least Raptora's okay" said Optimus.

The Maximals headed back to base.

"That was pathetic Megatron! First you send these idiots, and you get the wrong Maximal! Then you use the oldest trick in the book! And then you retreat when we could've won!" complained Tarantulas.

"Yes, but I got what I wanted. So it doesn't matter" said Megatron.

"The Golden Disk? Ha! With the alien device destroyed, it no longer has any use!"

"Oh it has a use my dear arachnid. A use you will never know"

He is a fool! Thought Tarantulas, he's going to lead us all to destruction!

Stupid spider, thought Megatron, he has no idea what I have planned, nooo…

Back at the Axalon…

Raptora decided to tell the other Maximals about her memories. She had just finished telling them everything except for who her sister was.

"So you remembered everything from your past life?" asked Optimus.

"Yes" replied Raptora.

"Is it even possible?" Optimus was now asking Rhinox.

"Yes, it's possible for someone to remember the past after going through stasis. But it's rare" answer Rhinox.

"So, um, do ya know who your sister is? That's if she's here" asked Rattrap.

"Yes, I know who she is. And she's in this room right now" said Raptora. All the Maximals were now curious.

"Who?" asked Optimus.

"Chatalia" replied Raptora.

"What?!" gasped Chatalia.

"It's true, if you don't believe me, you can look inside your subspace. You'll find a piece of energon with the writing "Sisters Forever" on it" said Raptora. Chatalia did as told, and took out the piece of energon out of her subspace.

"Do you remember yet?" asked Raptora.

"I remember some things. My name was NightShadow, and you were FireBlaze! You really are my sister!" shouted Chatalia with joy.

"Ah, ain't dis cute? A family reunion" said Rattrap sarcastically.

"Shut-up Rattrap!" said everyone else in unison.

"What? I'm not allowed to talk?" said Rattrap.

"Did you hear something Optimus? I thought I heard a voice?" said Dinobot trying to annoy Rattrap. Optimus laughed.

"Hey! Dis ain't funny!" complained Rattrap.

Everyone just laughed.

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