AU G1/IDW-verse. Taking place during the events of All Hail Megatron. Megatron's on Earth, running rampant with his Decepticons. Prime's down and out on Cybertron with the Swarm slowly moving in. Unbeknownst to both sides, an underground group is about to make it's appearance on Cybertron for the first time in several millenia...

A/N: OCs used. All mentioned characters belong to their respective owners, Transformers is property of Hasbro, the time line belongs to IDW.

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Welcome to Tomorrow

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Chapter 1.

-There's nothing in the northern sector, I'm going to move east and continue searching.-

-Copy that Dizzy.-

-For the hundredth time, I hate it when you call me that.-

-Sorry Disaster, pushing your buttons is just to much fun. Hey Blue how's it going on your end?-

-Nothing... It's absolutely barren out here. Not blip on the radar either.-

-Continue on course Blue, Knight reported a moderate energy signature flare up just a couple clicks to the west ya.-

-Gotcha.-

-Heya Indigo, how's it looking?-

-Same. I'll move southward and continue looking.-

-Copy that. If Knight reports anything I'll let ya know. Storm out.-

Sitting back from a console, a large black and midnight blue figure sighed heavily. "At this rate we'll offline from lack of energy..." The figure said in a slightly accented female voice, bowing her head. "I'm not one to usually believe in it, but right now we could really use a miracle..."

-Storm. Come in Storm.- The consoles com-link suddenly came to life again.

Returning her visored gaze to the console Storm pressed a button to open the com-link. -I read ya loud and clear Knight, report.-

-I'm picking up a strange energy flux traveling across the SZ.-

'An energy flux?' Storm thought for a moment. -Can ya get a fix on it?-

A moment. -The signal's weak. I'm tracking it to the source. Give me a moment... There. The source seems to be coming from a small back water planet out on the outer rim. The closer I get, the stronger the signal.-

-Investigate and report back if you find anything. This may be our saving grace.-

-Aye aye, if I find anything good I'll give ya a ring.-

With that the line went dead again. Storm sat back again from the console, rubbing the top of her helmit. "Oooh boy. Things went from being simple to much more complicated."

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All hell was breaking loose in New York City and yet in some areas of the world, people were still going about with their daily lives.

A young mother and her child walked idly down a sidewalk in the Austrailian captial, Sydney. Unbeknownst to the mother her shadow seemingly 'rippled.' From amongst the darkness a quick flash blue and red appeared before vanishing again completely. The quick flash didn't go un-noticed. The womans young son watched.

"Look momma!" He pointed to the shadow that slowly rippled to a stop.

She looked down. "Yes darlin it's our shadows." She explained dismissively.

Diving back into the darkness of the SZ, Knight vented air out of her intakes. "Close call." Knight muttered to herself.

Drifting back away from the portal, Knight drifted form portal to portal looking for the source of the energy 'pings' that kept appearing in her heads up display. As she drifted from portal to portal, the light of each portal illuminated her form . Black and grey in color, the sleek aerodynamic figure had red and gold highlights. A dark green visor was flipped down over her optics, feeding to her sensor readings of the strange new alien world.

Flying from shadow portal to shadow portal she learned alot about the world covered with various organic life.

It was when she was passing through the shadows of a group of humans that she heard something that made her back track.

Pressing her audios sensors to a higher setting she listened to the news broadcast that was playing on a video monitor device in the shop of sorts.

"- As of three hours ago, the strange robotic aliens that invaded New York City have yet to make any demands. They cut off all exits from the island city. As the reports are coming in, we've just heard that a special operations team that was sent in, have all been killed. By all accounts it appears that they are sealing off the city. Killing anyone who tries to leave or get in. More as the information comes in...-"

"'Strange robotic aliens'?... That explains the energy pings." Knight drifted back from the portal, extending her intricate sensors to the fullest, the young femme sought out a more specific energy signature, that of Cybertronians. Within moments over a dozen energy signatures appeared on her heads up display.

Tracking the now more defined energy signatures, Knight soon found herself drifting through the shadows of toppled buildings. Peering through a portal, smoke still billowed from fires. Who she saw stalking past the shadow made her withdraw back from the portal. Standing tall amongst carnage was the Seeker, Skywarp.

"Where there's one, there's more." Knight gritted through her dental plates. Scanning the sector she noted several familiar energy signatures. The last one she picked up though made her entire frame shudder, but she had to verify the owner of the energy signature. Following the signal, she stopped short in the SZ, gaping through the shadow portal.

There standing in, unknown to Knight, were the remains of Times Square was the leader of the Decepticons himself.

"Megatron..."

Knight gaped when she saw what was in his hand.

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A/N: More info on the SZ in later chapters.

Can you say uhoh? More to come so stay tuned! Read and review!