Chapter 2 The Same but different.
When Bumblebee, Ratchet and Arcee came to they found they were in the Deceptacon brig. And Knock Out was no where to be seen. They then noticed that Sky Warp and Thundercracker were standing outside the cell. But this Sky Warp was a different shade of purple and had white instead of black. And Thundercracker was a different shade of blue.
The three Autobots didn't know what to think this universe's Ratchet had tried to kill Knock Out and the other two Autobots from this universe were just as bad. If the Autobots were like that then how bad were the Deceptacons here? And what were they going to do to them?
"Hey why are we in a cell?" Asked Bumblebee. "And where's Knock Out?"
"We can't trust Autobots to walk freely around our base." Huffed Thundercracker. "And Knock Out is in the med bay he's in bad shape after the amount of Tox-En you gave him."
"That wasn't us it was this universe's version of me who did that to Knock Out." Ratchet tried to explain "We're from another universe we aren't like the Autobots here."
"A likely Story." Said Sky Warp.
"It's the truth." Arcee told them. "At least let us see Knock Out to know he's OK."
"Why so you can finish him off?" Asked Sky Warp. "Because this would be the first time I ever heard of an Autobot being concerned for a Con."
"We already lost him once and don't know how he's back but we're not letting him die again." Hissed Thundercracker before the two seekers walked out.
"It's gonna be hard to get them to believe us." Said Bumblebee. "I hope Knock Out will be OK."
"Since it was this universe's version of me that did that to him I feel responsible." Ratchet told them. "If he's not OK I'll never forgive myself."
"If he dies I'm bringing Ratchet down hard." Growled Arcee. "Well not you Ratchet but this universe's psycho version of you." "This isn't your fault and is anyone else getting really confused?"
"This whole universe is confusing." Bumblebee groaned.
"I don't trust the Autobots or Deceptacons here." Said Arcee.
Meanwhile in the med bay the Deceptacon medics Bonecrusher, Hook and Shockwave were working to save Knock Out. Breakdown was outside in the waiting room. Wondering how his best friend who had died the day before was back now. It didn't make since Steeljaw had seen him die but now he was in the med bay just barley clinging to life but alive. Just then Arachnid, Flame war and Steeljaw came in.
"Is it true that Knock Out is alive?" Asked Flame war.
"I don't understand it I saw him die." Steeljaw wondered out loud.
"But I just carried him into the med bay a few hours ago." Explained Breakdown as confused as the others.
While they were talking about the strange situation. Sky Warp and Thundercracker went to the main room of the base to tell Megatron about the Autobots in the brig and the strange story they had told about another universe.
When they arrived they found the Deceptacon leader talking to their bother and trine leader Starscream about a new threat that Soundwave had learned of through laserbeak and reported to them.
"It seem the Autobots are building some kind of ground or space bridge we don't know what they plan to do with it." Starscream explained to Megatron. "but it can't be good."
Then Starscream and Megatron noticed Starscream's trine mates had entered and Sky Warp and Thundercracker told them what the three Autobots had told them about being from another universe and about them having different color schemes.
"That does sound strange." Said Megatron. "But Autobots can be tricky so are they telling us the truth or not?"
"Maybe there's a way to find out." Starscream told them looking thoughtful. "Laserbeak was in the area you found the Autobots in so maybe he recorded something."
"Soundwave have Laserbeak playback the footage of the bridge the Autobots are making that's where we found the three Autobots earlier and it should give us some answers." Megatron ordered Soundwave.
So they played back the footage and saw a ship get pulled though the bridge and the three Autobots being welcomed on the ship with Knock Out who was unconscious at the time by themselves And then a while later the same three Autobots being chased and shot at by themselves and get in a ship and retreat with Knock Out before it crashed Ratchet had been trying to repair Knock Out and had even tried to use his body as a shield to protect him from the impact.
"Their telling the truth the Autobots from this universe would have never risked themselves to help a Deceptacon like that." Megatron exclaimed. "The Autobots must be building a Stellar Spanner." "Starscream go release them from the brig their our allies." "Sky Warp and Thundercracker tell the others what's going on." The three seekers obeyed and went out the door.
A few minutes later Starscream came to the cell and opened the door just to be punched by Arcee.
"Hey I'm here to let you guys out!" Starscream explained. "We're sorry about the misunderstanding and want to work with you to help you get back to your own universe."
"Your the last bot I'd trust." Hissed Arcee who back off anyway before she and Ratchet fallowed Soundwave who had come with Starscream to the med bay where Knock Out was.
"What did I ever do to her?" Asked Starscream as Bumblebee helped him up.
"In our universe you killed her partner." Bumblebee told the seeker.
"That's terrible." Starscream said not believing what he'd just been told. "So the Deceptacons are evil where your from?"
"Yes just like the Autobots are here." Bumblebee explained.
"Well I'm not the same bot who killed her friend." Said Starscream as he and Bumblebee fallowed the others.
Then they went to the med bay where they ran into Breakdown and Flame War. Arcee noticed they both kept giving her cold stairs. So she decided to stay on the other side of the waiting room.
Ratchet went in to the med bay and offered to help and the others accepted because Hook had to go help the other Constructacons with something and Bonecrusher had to go to help the Combatacon who had a bit of an accident when they fell as Bruticus and came apart and scattered all over the place and each of them had to be put back together.
So it was just Ratchet and Shockwave in the med bay this universe's Shockwave was a light blue instead of purple. And his personality was more like Proceptor then the Shockwave Ratchet knew.
Then Breakdown and Flame War came in. Because they were both worried. "So he's not our Knock Out?" Asked Flame War.
"No I'm sorry." Ratchet told them seeing that they had both been close to their universe's Knock Out.
"So what happened to your Knock Out?" Ratchet asked them.
"He was killed by our universe's Arcee and Ultra Magnus." Said Breakdown.
"Is that why you two were giving Arcee dirty looks in the waiting room?" Asked Ratchet.
"We know she isn't the Arcee who killed Knock Out but the same emotions came out." Said Flame War. "We're sorry it's just hard to work with your universe's Arcee when our Arcee killed Knock Out."
"I think Arcee is going though the something with your Starscream and Arachnid." Ratchet explained noticing Arcee was glaring at shattered glass Arachnid but didn't do anything else.
Breakdown and Flame War left the med bay and ran into Bumblebee and they started talking and then Arachnid joined the conversion. After talking for a while the three Deceptacons had to leave. Then Bumblebee noticed a picture of the three of them with shattered glass Knock Out who was blue instead of red. And Breakdown was red instead of blue. And all the black on Arachnid was replaced with white. And they all looked happy together.
After sitting in the waiting room awhile Arcee had to go outside to clear her head and decided to go for a drive. After driving around for awhile she saw someone else in the area it was Cliffjumper.
Without thinking Arcee went over to talk to him because other then being black instead of red he looked just like the Cliffjumper she'd known in her universe.
But this wasn't the Cliffjumper she had been friends with and he knew she was from another universe and was planning to end her and had his gun ready behind his back.
"Arcee watch out he's not your Cliffjumper!" Yelled Starscream who had fallowed her.
Then Cliffjumper fired at her but hit Starscream instead because the seeker had jumped between her and the blast.
"Run!" Yelled Starscream who was holding his shoulder where he'd been shot and gasping in pain until shattered glass Cliffjumper came over and hit him across the helm knocking him out and then dragged the unconscious seeker through a ground bridge that Arcee snuck though before it closed.
To Be Continued.
"I just love cliffhangers don't you?" "I'll try to have the next chapter up soon." "Feel free to check out some of my other stories in the meantime."
