A/N: Disclaimer: I own nothing... except the plot.

I love this tv series but I don't think I know anybody I know likes it though. It's hard to find slash either on this tv shows. So I decided to write my own. This is a Kytren x Zoom story... well later on in the story. I love this pairing hope you like.

Zoom POV

"GOD DAMNIT ZOOM! I HAD THE KEY! WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST STAY OUT OF THE WAY AND NOT CRASH INTO THE BUSTER? WE COULD'VE WON. BUT NOoooo… you just had to get in the way. AND FOR THE RECORD! I SAW THAT SARK! WE ALMOST LOST TEZZ THROUGH IT TOO!" Spinner screamed.

Spinner ran through the door, with Sherman trailing behind him staring at me accusingly.

"Sorry mate, but Spinner's right, you shouldn't have gotten in the way. THINK next time." Stanford said before leaving the hub.

"I can't BELIEVE you did that Zoom. Do you have ANY idea what a STUPID move that was? HELL with it! I don't understand why you were on the team anyways. You've been the reason why our team has been so ... bad lately," Agura huffed before she entered the elevator.

I turned my head towards AJ and saw him shake his head disappointedly before turning his back on me and muttered a "Better luck next time."

I felt someone put a hand on my shoulder and I knew it was Vert. "Don't take them too seriously Zoom. I know you were trying to help. I actually am proud of the stunt you pulled; it would be even harder to get the key back to Earth if the sark did hit the buster. The team is just worried and stressed this week, you just happened to be the scapegoat."

I also knew that his words didn't reach his eyes when I turned around, his words weren't genuine either. The team had been blaming me for everything for half a year. Seriously, I have no idea why I still stook around, I should of left. I never cried after the team beat me down with their words, I just felt numb. Six months ago, I believed that the team was just tired and would snap out of it sooner or later and apologize. Obviously, that didn't happen. It just got worse. Worse enough that I lost my energy and passion when it came to bringing down the red sentients, normally back then, I would've had adrenaline to taunt and destroy the red sentients' shell. Now… I dread those battles. Battles mean I am going to be yelled at again, and occasionally beaten up. Vert would sometimes help me afterwards but it still hurt. What hurt even more was that Sage wouldn't do anything or talk to me, she would just shake her head and look at me sadly.

"I need some space Vert, don't try to look for me." I said as I turned and walked towards the navigation system.

Before, I reached my destination; I turned around and saw Vert nod and leave. I sighed in relief; I didn't want to deal with explanations right now. I fiddled around with the navigation system until the coordinates of Earth popped up in the screen. I then downloaded the coordinates into my Chopper. I might need it if I was going to spend some alone time in the multi-verse. Alone time in the multi-verse means silence so I can clear my head and keep myself busy.

Now I have to duplicate a key. If I don't, Sage will notice the missing key and will know something is up. I want to make it so I disappear without a trace. The team wouldn't look for me since they would think that I went back to Thailand. I hid in a shaded corner and waited as my team ran out of the hub to go for pizza. I wasn't surprised when they didn't bother to ask me to join them. After Vert told Sage where they were going, Sage disappeared into the mobi. I ran to the safe and unlocked the door. I grabbed one of the battle keys and quickly started the program that duplicate battle keys. I hope it works; I am doing based off my memory from when we duplicated a battle key for Kalus after fighting with my doppelganger. After about five minutes, the process was done. I placed the original key into the safe and left. As soon as the door closed behind me I quickly ducked into the shadows and held my breath as I saw Sage walk passed me. For once, I was glad of my ninja skills. After I was sure Sage was gone, I ran to my Chopper and hopped on. I was soon on my way.

Soon, after I made sure the landscape was isolated, and that I was completely alone, I opened the portal and went in. After closing the portal behind me, I looked around myself. The battle zone was bare, and it was really hilly. I suddenly felt heavy and then reality closed in on me. I left. I left Earth and I am probably not going to go back. My… friends won't harm me anymore. Shoot. Of all times, I choose to break down. I break down now. I quickly launched my bike into the air and looked for a good hiding spot. Just because the battle zone was bare, it didn't mean there wasn't anything dangerous on it. There. On top of that cliff would have to do for now. After I reached the spot I turned off the Chopper and hopped off. I realized with a jolt that my com link was probably still on and most likely the trackers too. I quickly tore the battle suit, and everything sentient related off me. I first turned off the watch and the com link. I then took a scanner I found attached to my bike and searched the suit. I figured it had always been there but I never bothered to check it out before. I was the scout; the scanner must have been to detect signals. I scanned the suit and found that there was a tracker in the belt and boots. I turned the trackers in both the belt and boots off. Hopefully I didn't forget to scan.. oh right, there might be a tracker on my bike. I quickly found the tracker on my bike and took it off.

I felt tears coming back up again. I sat down and leaned against the elevated surface of the ground and started to cry. I guess the adage was right. You can't bottle up your emotions forever.

Kytren's POV

I wandered around my home world bored. I both loved and hated my vehicle. While it is light, small, and easy to maneuver, it provides no protection, which is probably why I am always the first one destroyed fighting those humans. I was so busy in my thoughts I nearly missed seeing a portal. Strange. There was no storm so it must mean that the humans must have entered the battle zone again. I went into the portal, seeing that by the time I called Krytus, the portal would've been closed. I might as well do some recon and see what the humans were doing.

When I entered the battle zone I started to drive around. I was surprised that I couldn't get anything on my sensor, and after a while, I only heard silence. Strange. I would have heard the humans by now. They are not exactly what you called quiet. I had a thought that it might be a trap, but I pushed the thought away. If it was a trap I would've been destroyed by now and it still wouldn't be this quiet. I wandered around for a bit and I was about the give up and go back to my home world when I saw a speck of yellow. A shade of yellow that looked familiar and out of place with the landscape. As I inched forwards, I realized that the yellow was actually a yellow motorbike. The bike that the youngest human drove. I was about to charge when I registered the sounds of crying. What happened that would drive the human out of Earth to cry in … a battle zone? I then remembered the last time that the human and I battled. Actually, scratched that, all of the times the human and I battled within the last couple of months. Before there would have been a fire in that human's eyes, but in the last couple of months that fire and brightness in his eye's slowly became dimmer and duller, almost lifeless. All of my team noticed, made a few comments but never gave the human much thought. I was glad Kyburi wasn't here; she would've been cruel towards the human. I got off my ride and converted it back into my soul. I slowly sneaked closer and closer to the human until I was right in front of him. I kneeled in front of him and asked "You alright?"

The human suddenly froze and tensed up. He looked up and whispered "Kytren…"

The human looked bad, even worse than Kyburi and Krytus on a bad day. His eyes were red and he was shaking, shaking so hard that the rocks around him were shaking too. I also sensed his fear. "Don't worry, I won't harm you. What's wrong?"

"Why do you even care?" the human snapped.

At first I felt rage at the disrespect that the human showed, but then I stopped myself. The human had a point. Suddenly, after the human and I stared each other down, I had an idea. "How about this. We play a game. You ask me a question, and I answer, then I ask you a question and you answer. Then continue."

"Reasonable questions"

"Honest answers"

We both nodded our heads and broke out into a grin. I then said "You can ask me a question first."

Zoom POV

What did I do to deserve this? I only tried to help… I started to sob harder. Then I broke when all the memories started to come back.

I snapped out of my flashbacks when I heard a deep low voice.

I instantly froze and tensed. I slowly looked up and met the face of Kytren, my red sentient counter-part. "Kytren…" I whispered.

I was shaking so badly, I have been caught vulnerable.

"Don't worry, I won't harm you. What's wrong?"

I did a double take; did Kytren really just say that? Then all the alarm bells in my brain went off. "Why do you even care?" I snapped. I wasn't just going to let my defense down, especially in front of my enemy. But then is he considered an enemy? I don't want to stay in my team…. I decided to not think about it and stay cautious. Kytren and I started staring each other down. After our mini stare-down, Kytren came up with an idea.

"How about this. We play a game. You ask me a question, and I answer, then I ask you a question and you answer. Then continue." Kytren suggested.

I was still suspicious, but his suggestion seemed fair. But I wanted to put down a condition. "Reasonable questions." I stated.

"Honest answers"

We caught eye contact and burst out grinning. "You can ask me a question first" I heard Kytren say.

"How did you get into this battle zone?" I asked

"I was wandering around my home world alone. There wasn't a storm so I knew that the humans – turns out to be you – entered a battle zone. I knew the portal was going to close soon, so I went in. Figured I could do some recon and figure out what was going on before I contacted Krytus."

Well… He wasn't kidding about the honest answers part. Makes sense though, whenever you open a portal, another portal is going to show up somewhere else.

"Oh.. that explains it then. Well, your turn." I said.

"What's wrong? What happened that made you come out here alone and break down like that?" Kytren asked.

Kytren sounded genuinely worried and I started crying again. Hard. A red sentient cares more about me than my whole team put together. Kytren pulled me into an awkward hug, but it was comfortable and warm. I relaxed enough to tell Kytren everything that had happened in the past 6 months, the sadness, the unfairness, the numbness, and the pain. I think I mentioned Vert's small attempt to help, but I still felt like he could've done more, he was the leader afterall, he could've stopped them. After, I said the last sentence I started to sob again. Kytren pulled me closer and I buried my head into his chest.

I realized that it was my turn to ask Kytren a question. "Why do you care?"

"My team and I noticed that you were acting off and unusual when my team fought you before. Not all red sentients are as cruel as u believe. We also have feelings, just a bit more fiery than blues. I fight because I am loyal to Krytus. I believe in Krytus's beliefs, just not his way of accomplishing them." Kytren replied.

That didn't really answer my question, but I figured it was a good answer as any. Plus it answered some of my unanswered questions.

"Where did they hurt you?" Kytren asked.

Oh why not? It might just be beneficial. I already revealed a lot, might as well show Kytren the proof. The last time they beat me up was two days ago. I rubbed away the cover makeup over my left eye and the makeup on my right cheek. When Kytren saw the scary looking purplish-black patch of skin, I saw his eyes twitch angrily. But I wasn't done yet. I got up and took my shirt off where I revealed blue, black, and purple bruises. I also rolled up my pants to show Kytren a large fresh scar that ran up from my ankles to the middle of my thighs from when Sherman shoved me into a large saw. I was glad I didn't land on the saw anywhere else otherwise, I would have died. The only comforting thing about that was when I woke to find Vert sleeping in a chair next to me. It was nice to know that atleast someone still cared for me. Kytren's eyes flashed dangerously when he saw all my injuries. I can bet that since Kytren wasn't human, he didn't know much of a human's anatomy but I can tell that he knew that whatever happened to me must've hurt a lot.

"What happens now? Are you going to take me to Krytus? I am not returning to Earth." I asked Kytren.

In all honesty I didn't mind if he did take me to Krytus. If I misjudged Kytren, I must have misjudged the rest of his team too.

I was shocked into silence when Kytren grabbed my arm and pulled me into a tight hug. The hug almost reminded me of Agura's hugs back when she would comfort me whenever I had nightmares. Fresh tears leaked out and I let out a whimper. We stayed liked that for a while before I blacked out.