Andrew had been at work today. He'd been able to land a well paying job at the local saw mill, operating one of the automatic tree cutters. His half-sister, Jenny, had found a place at the local pet store. Normally, she would have gotten home first (hurrah for a six hour work day) but she was working over time today. So, Andrew had reached the house first. It was a good thing too, who knows what Jenny would have done when confronted with the news of the day.

"There were Autobots in town and we were in the open!?" Yelled Andrew, just loud enough to be heard by all within the house.

"They were Rescuebots, not Autobots. They had no real combat training, we were never in any real danger. Honestly, I thought you'd be freaking out because Rusty went and joined some feral cats in the forest." came the reply from the bored looking cyber-cat, laying on the other side of the room with Lazerbeak perched on top of her. "Um...I don't think he knew about that Ravage." whispered the bird after leaning down to his sister's audio sensor.

"HE DID WHAT!? Why did you let him!? What are we gunna tell Jenny!?"

"Calm down, he wanted to go. I mean it was kind of obvious that he wasn't too happy here and they did offer the place to him. We can tell Jenny exactly what happened when she gets back. She'll understand." assured Ravage. "I'm going to stay in constant contact with the group he's with anyway. Maybe get us some more allies."

"Okay...Okay. I-I'm gunna jump in the shower. I need to process how close we came to being found out."

Andrew walked to the bathroom, closed the door and about thirty seconds later the sound of running water could be heard. Ravage sighed, shifted to remove Lazerbeak from her back and stood. She walked to the window and stared out into the forest. Her optics caught sight of movement and a flash of white fur. Likely one of Bluestar's warriors making sure the border was secure. "Sooooo, were do you think the boss is right now?" asked Lazerbeak, coming up next to his sister.

"Which one?"

"You know I mean Soundwave. Stormchaser too, I suppose."

"Soundwave is in the Shadowzone. He could be watching us right now and we wouldn't know. The commander and his Sparkmate and Bitlet are in space, going to a 'Decepticon Fortress World' which could be any thing from the moons of Cybertron to the Heleus cluster in Andromeda."

At the same time, about 2600 light years away:

"Are we there yet?"

"I swear if you ask that again I will turn right around and go back to Earth, Cloudcover."

"As much as I believe that you'd just do that, are we able to know WHERE we are traveling to?"

"As I said, a Decepticon fortress world we called Fortune. However, I have been scanning ahead and, yes, the planet is covered with organics. I've hacked their global data transfer net and discovered what they call it."

"Which is?"

"Palaven."

Earth-Two weeks later:

It had been two weeks since Ravage had last seen or heard anything from Rusty. She was almost tempted to send Tiny and his Blood Scouts to search for him. That was until she decided that such a move would be a little too aggressive. Instead she sent Smudge, a friendly face would be much safer.

Smudge had reported back a later on. Rusty was undergoing extensive warrior training. He put great emphasis on the extensive part of that. Apparently he was already in the final stages of the training due to already being well versed in combat training. Living with a Decepticon spy/assassin has that effect on people. He only needed help with his hunting technique and was proving to be extremely good at it. Smudge had found him in the middle of a test of hunting. Rusty had also asked Smudge to pass on an invitation for a meeting with Bluestar. It would take place after the 'gathering' in three days.

Ravage was ready to build some bridges.

Thunderclan camp-Three days later:

Bluestar was in her den, awaiting the arrival of the Kittypet leader. If she was being honest, she knew that a great majority of not only her own clanmates but the rest of the clans too would be dead against these talks. But they were needed if Thunderclan was to survive. Spottedleaf's prophecy had told of them. 'Fire and Metal alone will save our clan' was very...well, it wasn't too understandable. The fire was, of course, Firepaw. The metal was likely Ravage but she was not part of Thunderclan. What could that metal be? She did not know.

"Bluestar, Ravage and her entourage have arrived." said Lionblaze.

"Good. I'll be out in a minute."

Ravage had not gotten the best chance to look around the camp last time she was here. It was larger than she remembered. "It has been a while since I was last here. It looks like they've improved since the last time." Said the oldest (beside Ravage herself) member of the group. His name was Henry.

"Since when have you ever been here, Henry?" asked Smudge, curiosity filling his tone.

"Believe it or not but I used to be an incredibly important cat around here. I doubt many remember me."

Tiny gave a small chuckle.

Bluestar exited her den and looked down upon the group that had entered her camp and froze, her eyes going wide.

"Pinestar!?"

Henry looked up at her "Hello Bluepaw. My, haven't you grown!"

Author's note:

Yes, I know that the 'Henry is Pinestar' theory is unpopular but I liked it so I put it in.

And Stormchaser is going to Palaven? What could be there that the locals don't know about?

Anyway, my internet has been completely fucked for a while so I have no idea when this will upload but knowing my luck it will be in like two weeks. I did right this on the 7th of October though, so I'm sorry if you don't see this for a while. The internet should be back to normal around November time so expect the next chapter around then.