There is nothing more sacred as life, Human, Autobot, and even the misguided lives of the decepticons, I hold dear. Jazz is gone, as much as I don't like facing it, he's gone, taken to the depths with Megatron and the others. I did not want him there, but I don't want a pile of decepticons in the middle of the ocean alone. Who knows what could happen. So I agreed, and I let them take Jazz, may he rest well in his tomb beneath the water. May his spark find peace.

We are all passing the time as best we can. The united states government offered us the Hoover Dam as our base, However since the decepticons know of it's existence, and some of them are not accounted for we decided that was not in the best interests of our small group. Bumblebee remains with Sam, Ratchet with Mikaela, Iron Hide stayed as close to military personnel as possible, the pentagon didn't mind, neither do I. I keep in contact with him as much as I can.

I am staying near Sam and Bumblebee until we can find a better base of operations. There's much more to this planet then I know of, much more undiscovered in her depths. There are others here, both good, and bad.

"Optimus." I was pulled from my thoughts.

"Ratchet." I nodded to him.

"The boy wishes a word with you." Ratchet backed up and flipped his headlights a little bit. I nodded again, a habit I had formed.

"Very well, lead me to him." I transformed back into my cab form and followed Ratchet down route 36 to Sam's location. Ratchet lead me to the middle of the dessert, a small mountain lay, surrounded by rolling hills. Sam and Mikaela were waiting, sitting next to Bumblebee.

"Prime thank God you're here."

"who?" I wondered who this God was.

"Oh, um, never mind, come see what we found." Sam turned, I transformed and followed. Ratchet transformed and with Bumblebee came up behind us. "You're new base of operations." Sam motioned into a cave. I had to duck into the cave and i proceeded to follow him into the dark. Ratchet tossed up his lights and it made it easier to see.

"Sam are you sure.." I stopped speaking and watched as the cave opened up, it was massive. "Sam my boy." I lifted him up onto my shoulder. "I think you've done us a favor."

"What is this place?" Bumblebee came up from behind.

"These are the old Murdock Mines." Mikaela smiled "They twist and turn and go on for miles beneath the surface.

"You know you can toss a big disco ball up there and have a blast in here." I blinked again.

"Disco ball?" I asked not sure if I wanted to know the answer.

"The little sparkly thing that hangs from my mirror." Bumblebee piped up. "That really itchy little thing."

"You can take it off!" Sam poked Bumblebee in the leg.

"Sam, you've outdone yourself." Ratchet smiled

"I agree" I nodded "Autobots, let's get this place ready." I took one more look around. "We need to get something down here to help support this place, we don't want a cave in on our hands." I turned around and activated my radio. "Optimus to Ironhide, it's time to come home for a visit, We've got something to show you."

"On my way Opitums, I'll be there soon." I smiled.

"This is perfect." Things were starting to look up.