Lifting my head I let out yet another mighty bellow before shaking my head threateningly, he returned the gesture and without another moment we lunged slamming our heads together in a fight for power. Pulling backwards he stumbled forwards before dodging sideways as I snapped my jaws towards his neck, launching at each other we yet again clashed head with a sickening thud that caused us both to stumble backwards at the impact. Shaking my head I was quick to recover myself and lunged forwards closing my jaws tightly around his neck earning a pained cry, closing my jaws further he began to whine but was quick to use his tail to stab it into my torso making me release him to inspect the damage. We both backed away to assess our injuries closely, mine wasn't too bad but would still be a problem if not treated while energon flowed from his neck creating a pool of blue liquid around his talons.

"Back down!" I snarled as I stood tall, the mech Predacon snarled as he charged. Shaking my head I charged as we clashed yet again, with a surprising force he pushed me up on my hind legs before slashing his talons across my chest and stabbing his tail into my first injury yet again. Blinded by pain and anger I launched myself into the air before crashing down onto his back and tearing a wing from his back, with this he gave a cry of defeat before limping away with the decepticons following him. Snorting I turned back to the Autobots before limping towards them, I failed to notice the amount of energon leaking from the wound on my stomach area which in turn caused me to collapse once inside the Autobot base.

"Ratchet fix her and quickly!" Optimus ordered, I gave a soft growl but didn't move as he began to seal up my wounds. I'm not sure why the Autobots gave me so much freedom and trust, in the end it would only get them hurt. With a grunt I lifted myself to my pedes and began to limp away from the medic, I hated being used as my kind was always prideful and being used made me appear weak.

"And where do you think you are going!?" Ratchet snarled, I gave a huff before I allowed myself to fall back down at the corner of the base. The stubborn medic continued to follow me however but when he got close I gave a snarl in which he crossed his servos, I was leaking energon but not as badly as before but it left me weaker none the less.

"Would you rather be fixed or leak out?" Ratchet growled, with a huff I allowed him to continue his work. The sound of footsteps made me lift my helm off the ground and snarl, Ratchet turned as well when we both noticed that it was only Bumblebee he returned to his work but I kept my alert stance.

"She's fine Bee," Ratchet grumble, the small scout simply came closer reaching his servo forward for me to sniff. Upon lowering my helm to the floor again he began to rub between my eyes and I found myself letting out a thankful purr, this had the medic chuckling.

"Such a big beast acting like a sparkling," Ratchet chuckled, I growled but he continued to work on my wounds while Bee rubbed between my eyes. After a few hours Ratchet moved off having fixed my wounds while Bee sat with me, with a yawn I allowed myself to slip into a state of recharge.

**Time Skip**

I awoke when I felt something touch my side, snapping open my optics I snarled as I raised my helm to look at who had done so. The small yellow and black scout raised his hands in surprise and I huffed before lowering my head again, I rather liked it when he rubbed between my eyes.

"Seems like you made a friend for life huh Bee?" Arcee chuckled from nearby, the small scout nodded and I could tell his voice box was fried from the beeps he made. Nudging him slightly he began to rub between my eyes once more, the Autobots weren't so bad but my debt to Megatron needed to be paid. Lifting my helm from the scouts grasp I looked around for their leader, spotting the large red and blue bot I began to make my way towards him.

"Oh hello Tempest," he greeted calmly, I nodded as I nudged him and pointed towards the ground bridge with my muzzle.

"I wish to speak with you alone Optimus," I murmured, the large bot nodded before we headed for the ground bridge.

"Ratchet put us somewhere nearby would you, after Starscream found us I don't want to be too far from base, just incase," he ordered, the medic typed down something on the control panel and we took off through the green vortex.

"You know how you found me Optimus? With the beacon and such?" I questioned, the mech nodded as we sat on a nearby ledge.

"Yes I remember, you were caged and we rescued you," he stated remembering it clearly, I gave a sigh and looked over the desert valley.

"That was a trap, Megatron was the true one who had freed me, for as long as I can remember the humans had me in their grasp using me for experiments, back when I crashed on Earth I had little care for what I did after the extinction of my race, seeing this the humans had me captured and contained for years, I had collected so much rust by the time Megatron had found me I could barely move, he freed me and sent me on a mission to infiltrate your base with the beacon by fooling you bots into thinking I was recently captured by the decepticons, but I see now that a debt to a mad mech is no debt but a death sentence," I explain, I expected to be attacked but the large red and blue mech simply thought it over.

"The fact you are telling me this when Predacons are prideful creatures shows great trust, we will tell the others of this but I won't betray the trust you have shown me over a mistake for a debt," Optimus offered as he stood, I nodded and we were about to leave when a furious challenge sounded from nearby. Turning around I spotted the mech Predacon down in the valley, his wounds showed but he looked to be at full strength again and so with that I leapt down the valley to face my challenger.