Okay guys, breaks over, I wanna get What We Do For Family out. So I'm gonna get to work on it, but the only problem, after the sneak peak in True Courage, It's gonna be really hard to start, cause I was so focused on thinking closer to the end, that I wasn't thinking about the beginning, but oh well, gonna have to try. Please review, Hope everyone enjoys! Disclaimer, I own nothing except Blackwolf, Nitalia, and Centurion.

The huge army of Decepticons was getting even more massive by the day, marauders made the main bulk of the army, alongside with the Insecticons, but their reserve army was made up of vehicons, but Galvatron's main advantage was for the fairly large number of titans he had managed to gather.

The gladiator looked over the army, and smirked. But he soon heard as a jet approached, he looked back to face Slipstream.

"Slipstream, report." he ordered.

"We've successfully managed to capture it, lord Galvatron."

"Excellent, take me to it." they both transformed and took to the skies. She led him to a large clearing in the ruins of Kaon. But there, chained up, was a huge driller beast, struggling to break free. The driller beats were created originally to mine energon, but never got as large as this one, for Shockwave made it larger specifically to provide a great advantage.

"You've done well Slipstream...now, watch as I bend this beast's will, to my command!" he activated some energy from his fists, causing them to glow purple from dark energon. But then, a large blast exploded at the driller beast, and it now stopped struggling, and seemed to lower it's main head as if bowing.

"You serve me now…beast. And now, you shall create the pathway to the core AND to the final battlefield, in the Sea of Rust."

Galvatron returned to their H.Q, but was eventually alerted by the sound of propellers, he felt familiarity from this specific propeller rotation.

"Airachnid..." he turned to face the purple and black femme transform before him.

"Lord Mega-errr-I mean Galvatron, I apologize for my actions against you and have returned to serve you." she smirked, looking up at the gladiator.

"And what makes you think I would accept the apology of a traitor such as yourself...Airachnid?" he hissed.

"Because I have information about the Autobots that could turn the tide of battle for your army when you face the Autobots in the sea of rust." she noticed his purple optics narrow.

"What kind of information?" he mused.

"You'll just have to find out." she stated, smirking. He growled inwardly as he knew he had to accept her offer.

"Fine...welcome back to the Decepticons, Airachnid but if I can't make it any clearer-" he suddenly shoved her against the wall and stared holes into her, his menacing red optics looking at her with deathly focus.

"Betray me again...and I will tear every spider limb from your body. One. By. One. Do I make myself clear?" she nodded rapidly.

"Good." he released his grip on her and turned away.

"I'm glad we could come to an agreement." she smirked.

Later, Airachnid had given some of the information that she held on the Autobots to Galvatron, including an energon mine that they planned to soon harvest, a large one, enough to last them for almost a year.

"I can't allow them to gain such a supply, for if they DO, then they could supply the Autobot army for at least a month in human time." he growled.w

He ordered Slipstream to report and explained that she was to hack the Autobot spacebridge and teleport to Earth.

(Omega Three, Nevada)

"Bulkhead, I NEEDED THAT!" Ratchet exclaimed, standing over a broken welder he had been using to fix several leaking pipes. The kids weren't present, Arcee and Nitalia had Jack, helping him and June to work and back, due to June's car breaking down. Miko and Raf had gone to the arcade, accompanied by Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

"Errrr, sorry doc, me and Grim just got a little carried away in our game." Bulkhead smiled sheepishly, looking at the lob ball in his large servo.

Ratchet dragged a servo down his faceplate in frustration, "Look, go up top, above the base, and THEN you two can throw lob balls at each other." Ratchet returned to his work, and as he had hoped, Bulkhead and Grimlock left and took the elevator up.

"Is everything alright, old friend?" Optimus asked, having heard the medic's yelling.

"What? Oh, yes, everything's fine Optimus."

"How are the repairs to the base coming along?"

"Slow but steady, Flamewar and Drift caused some major damage, especially since it's taken me months after months to get it all fixed." Ratchet sighed as he laid the wrench he had in his grasp down and turned to face his leader.

"I just hope that w-" they were interrupted as the computer screen began flashing red as it dragged a marker over a dozen signatures.

"Decepticons," Ratchet growled, "How can they be on Earth?"

"I do not know Ratchet, but we must intercept them," he opened the comms, "Blackwolf, Grimlock, and Centurion, report to me." he ordered.

Minutes later, Blackwolf and Centurion ran into the command center, followed by Grimlock in tow. "Yeah Prime?" Blackwolf was alerted by the sudden call from Optimus.

"It seems that the Decepticons have managed to return to Earth, I don't know how, but you three and I will engage them, and stop whatever they're planning."

"But why did you need me?" Centurion asked.

"I need soldiers who are built for heavy fighting for this mission, and you three are all who are present, besides Bulkhead, but I want him to remain here as reserve, in case this is possibly an ambush, or if we need extra firepower." Centurion nodded.

"Then what we waiting for? Me ready to crush puny Decepticons." Grimlock slammed his fist into his other hand.

"Ratchet, lock on, and bridge us there." Ratchet began typing in coordinates, until he pulled the lever, and the green, swirling vortex opened.

"Autobots," Optimus paused before transforming, Blackwolf did the same, changing into his saburban, Grimlock shifted into his t-rex form, and Centurion transformed, until he, right next to Blackwolf, changed into a Chevy Duramax, Arcee found it amusing that Blackwolf and their son used vehicles of the same brand. "roll out!"

They drove through the portal, while Grimlock ran after them, as they were swallowed by the large portal. Ratchet waited fifteen seconds, then closed the bridge, and had comms open if they were needed.

The four mechs all drove, or sprinted for Grimlock's matter, across the desert, following the Decepticons' trail. It was a while before they found themselves in front of an undiscovered energon mine.

"Autobots, stay low, Grimock, remain outside, if we need assistance, I'll signal you." the titan nodded as he remained put. Blackwolf activated his battle mask, the metal plates sliding over his metal mouth, and the red visor sliding over his optics, almost completely covering his faceplate.

They all crept inside, following the older Prime as they all slowly stepped inside the cave. But as they descended, they heard the clanging, drilling, and energy beams of the mining progress.

When they could see the cons, they updated their count, from a dozen, to three dozen. Mostly vehicons, some seekers, but there was one that stood out, a mostly purple, but black in some areas, femme.

"Slipstream..." Blackwolf hissed, his fangs showing behind his mask.

"Who's that?" Centurion asked, noticing his father's hostility from even saying the name.

"She's a con who's been hunting me for a few hundred years...I'll explain later, just know that she's bad news." he whispered to his son.

"Autobots, stealth isn't an option with this large number of foes, we'll have to face them head on." he activated his own battle mask.

"Sounds like a fair fight to me." Blackwolf smirked, drawing his swords. Centurion activated his large, energon tower shield, and drew his short, energon infused sword. Their leader drew the star saber, and like a flash of lightning, he had struck a vehicon down, gaining their attention.

"Decepticons..." he looked at their high numbers, "surrender." they all aimed their blasters at him. But they were startled when Blackwolf and Centurion charged out of nowhere, and were soon followed by Optimus. The vehicons' fired volleys of blasts, but almost inflicting no damage upon the heavily armored mechs.

Blackwolf drove his right sword through one's mid section and beheaded it with his left sword, he pivoted left, and blocked a vehicon's swing, and drove his right blade through it's gut. He span around, and sent two on their backs, his reflexes too quick for them to sneak up.

Optimus was sending group after group to the ground dead. He beheaded three at once with the saber, ducked under blaster fire, and thrust the blade through two vehicons, pulled out, and spun his blade around, and reversed thrust, driving it through the chest of a vehicon trying to sneak up, and lifted the soldier over his head, and charged at the next group.

Centurion was surprisingly cutting the cons down quick, he instantly knew that the months of training had payed off completely. He blocked one vehicon's attack, and drove his blade into the closer one's helm, he removed his sword, and beheaded the vehicon that had struck his shield. But in the middle of fighting, he was sent onto his back. He regained himself, and looked around as he held a defensive stance. But just as he lowered his guard, a quick, but painful blast of energy struck his back, nearly flooring him again.

When he turned to face the attacker, he was almost face to face, with Slipstream. "Well...you must be new to the Autobots...hmph, impressive build, but just a little too slow." she smirked, he was standing in a defensive stance, but when he focused on the femme...he froze.

He admired her slim build, her sharply designed legs, and her, actually beautiful faceplate. Her red optics put him in a trance, but he actually wasn't alone, when she looked closer at him, she looked at a handsome mech, with a heavy, yet noble build, and his yellow optics made her mind go blank. But they both were snapped back to reality when- "Centurion, get your head in the fight!" came from Blackwolf.

Centurion regained his focus and blocked the femme's next attack, surprising himself and her. She swung her two swords at him repeatedly, but they couldn't break his defense. Unlike Blackwolf, Centurion was made to fight Cybertronians like this, they may have had the speed, but he had the armor. She couldn't break through his shield, and he saw an opening finally, and used the hilt of his short sword, and sent her back, nearly into a wall.

She growled and readied to attack, but she heard a mechanical roar, as Grimlock charged in, cutting down the Decepticon soldiers in front of him, she turned away, "Decepticons' fall back!" before she could transform, she heard a blaster charge from behind. She turned and saw that Centurion had activated his own blaster, and aimed at her, but he looked very unsure.

She noticed this however and if not for using this as an advantage, she would be smirking, but to use this against him, she made a scared face, as if pleading. He slightly lowered his cannon, still deciding if he should open fire.

"Centurion!" he turned and saw Blackwolf being piled on by Vehicons, but quickly sent them on their backs, "Shoot her! Don't let her escape!" he yelled before getting halted by vehicons again. Centurion looked at the femme, and seemed to try and aim, but she he looked into her optics, he sighed, and lowered his blaster.

"No! Centurion what are you doing?!" Blackwolf called to him, but he kept his optics on her. She smirked, transformed, and flew quickly out of the cave. But she was actually surprised that he actually let her go. For some reason, she wanted to know why, but knew that now was not the time.

"Centurion, why did you let her go?!" Centurion looked at the angry expression on his father's face, and didn't reply.

"We'll talk when we get back to base..." he turned back and began helping Grimlock with the mining progress.

(Disclosed Location)

Masked soldiers jogged through the halls of their base. There was a large laboratory, Cybertronian parts were everywhere, being recycled, melted down, and reused. But in the center, was a large hollow body of an old, familiar Decepticon.

"I'm so glad we managed to salvage Breakdown's body, and what was left on Nemesis Wolf's body. Hurry up with the melting progress, we need that metal for rebuilding Nemesis Wolf!" he ordered as they continued melting the body of Breakdown.

He looked at their circumstances and frowned, they used to have a military of advanced tech, but now they had to be limited, they had less than a dozen tanks left, and limited artillery. Their building was slow, but they would eventually have a military again. Due to Airachnid abandoning them, and Steeljaw abandoning them, their sources were limited.

"I'll make them pay for what they've done to MECH." he gritted his teeth.

(Omega Three)

When the four Autobots had returned, Centurion was already being chewed out by Blackwolf, who was still furious that his son had let his arch nemeses live when he had the chance to ground her.

"That was a stupid move letting her live Centurion, what were you thinking?! She's a cold killer who doesn't stop until you're dead!" he growled, but Centurion this time countered him.

"I showed mercy, like you trained me to when an enemy was defenseless, so why are you accusing me of letting a defeated con retreat, and why do you hate her so much?!" Blackwolf was enraged by the outburst.

"DON'T YOU DARE ACCUSE ME OF NOT SHOWING MERCY, SHE IS SOMEONE WHO WELL DESERVES NO MERCY! SHE HATES ME BECAUSE I KILLED HER BROTHERS! AND NOW SHE'S BACK ON EARTH TO KILL ME, SO YOU CAN GUESS WHY I'M MAD THAT YOU SPARED THAT KILLER!" Blackwolf's voice thundered, putting Centurion in his place.

"BLACKWOLF AND CENTURION, THAT'S ENOUGH!" Arcee yelled, breaking the argument.

"Now, Centurion, just get back to training, Blackwolf, a word please." it was no request for his to talk with her.

Centurion huffed and marched off to the training center, while Arcee took Blackwolf above the base.

She looked across the desert, the golden rays of the sun reflecting off of her armor. "What the frag was that back in there Blackwolf?" she asked in a frustrated tone.

He sighed. "In the mine, Centurion could have shot Slipstream down, but chose not to, and let her escape." she sighed in return.

"Blackwolf, I'm with him on this, you're weren't acting like yourself, I've never seen you lash out like that." he knew she was right.

"I...I didn't mean a word of it, but I won't let her find weakness in him and try to take him from us." she only smirked at how hard he tried to keep their family together.

"I know you didn't, come on, let's get back inside before we're spotted." he followed behind her as they both loaded onto the elevator.

So guys, it's here, it's finally here! :D :D :D :D I'm so glad I can finally start on this story, now things may seem that they're going by by fast after chapter three, but trust me this will be a much longer story. Hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter, and I'll see you guys when I get chapter 2 ready.