Alex walked around the large ship just admiring the whole place. It was morning and so he was just waking up, but he knew what he was seeing and this tour of his own helped him to wake up. He traveled everywhere around that large ship. He figured he had been looking around for about a couple of hours when he came to this one room that seemed unnoticed to most of the ship.

Alex wondered why and so he entered the room to find it a bit dark, but there was a small light just magnifying a small piece of old metal. It looked very old and so Alex's curiosity urged him onward to take a better look at it and so he did. He came to it and found it floating in a gravity defier of some sort. It just slowly turned with no one to watch it.

Alex wondered why it was so important to the transformers. He didn't really want to ask for he didn't know if he was allowed to be in that room or not so he decided to just forget the questions and stare at the strange object. It seemed to him to be worthless and nothing but a piece of scrap. But Alex's question was 'was it?'

He just sighed at trying to figure out what, as the transformers say, his small organic brain could not comprehend.

"Hey, where is Alex?" asked Makeala seeing him nowhere around.

"I don't know," said Sam looking around. "Do you suppose he ditched us?"

"I don't think so," said Makeala. "Should we tell Optimus?"

They then heard Optimus through the next room talking to everyone saying-

"I shall have to leave now autobots so care for Hot Shot and update me on his status."

"Yes sir," replied the autobots as their leader left.

"Well we can't now," said Sam. "He'll be back though . . . you know . . . Alex."

"I just hope he hasn't gotten into any trouble," said Makeala. "'Cause you heard what the autobots said yesterday . . . Barricade could be lurking around this ship."

"Well if you listened closely my dear Makeala Ironhide said that'd be stupid and I'm sure he had looked throughout the ship just incase of that."

"Well I hope you're right," sighed Makeala.

Sam then sighed and looked at his girlfriend. He then bowed his head a bit seeing how concerned she was and so asked her-

"Do you want to go find him Makeala hm? Will that make you happy?"

"Yes it would Witwicky," smiled Makeala perking her head higher.

"Then let's go," sighed Sam as they got up to look for Alex.

Alex sighed again he then decided to at least touch the thin metal object, but when he did some sort of electrical pattern came from it and traveled to his hands acting almost like a live magnet. As Alex moved his hand away from the strange phenomenon the piece moved with him and more towards his skin, but Alex soon shot his hand away and the object returned back to normal like nothing had ever happened. Alex was breath-taken as he saw this happen before his very eyes. Stranger things kept happening to him and all because of a lightning strike? What was that strange happening and will it do it again was Alex Moore's question.

Alex then looked around wondering if anyone was near or looking when he found they weren't that is when he decided to see if the same thing would happen to his other hand. And so he took his left hand to it and found that it did the same thing. He smiled as he took his right hand to it and sent the object swaying from left to right like his hands attracted the object. As he did this something strange began to happen the slim metal object began to shift and change into something else.

This began to freak Alex a bit as the object changed from looking cut off or melted off something to a small thin dagger and . . . Before Alex knew anything it had jammed itself right into his chest perhaps in his heart! Alex gasped at the sudden action and gasped again finding he could not breathe out only in. Alex's mouth was wide open as the shock crept through his body that he might die. He grasped his chest trying to breathe out, but all he could do was inhale and ever it scared him.

What had happened to him?! Alex was scared and when he was afraid his mind only went to the robots were trying to kill him. He knew he had to get out of there and so he turned and made his way out of the room. He ever grasped his chest and continued to try and let go of his breath, but he kept breathing inward instead of outward.

He could barely stand straight and walk in a straight line as he made his way down the halls trying to avoid being seen, but as his fear of dying from the robots grew he only wanted to just get out of the ship and go home. As he stumbled down the hall he had come across one of the robots he blamed for trying to kill him with the strange metal object. It was the black one named Ironhide. He gazed at the bulking robot for awhile just fearing that he was going to try and take him, but all Ironhide did was stare and it was a cold stare at him too.

Even though they had no eyes Alex could tell this one had some sort of grudge against him or humans. Alex was ever afraid of this one for knowing what he was like. He knew he was the weapons specialist and he knew he was the meanest of the bunch and also the toughest. But he still didn't know why he was the way he was.

Alex was too afraid to move, or even breathe at that matter. He could if he would, but Ironhide prevented him of doing anything he wanted to. As Ironhide gazed at the small young human he took about two small steps before he stood just towering before the, obviously, scared human. He then let out a rumbling voice to Alex saying-

"Why are you so special?"

Alex could do nothing but tremble and fear.

"Why does Optimus hold your kind above even our own?" wondered Ironhide with hard stern optics.

"I . . . I," gasped Alex trying to move.

"Hm, I can see you're scared," smiled Ironhide a bit. "That is good . . . fear can be good."

Ironhide then went to move away but was caught up in a number more of emotions as his gaze went in the direction to where Hot Shot was slowly dying all alone. He then grew harder and turned back to Alex.

"Prime even holds you high above his own son!" spat Ironhide. "What kind of leader would do that? If I could I would kill you just where you stand, but I am an autobot and we have chosen to defend the defenseless and indeed you weak pathetic humans that always get in the way are defenseless. If you would just leave us to fight then perhaps . . . I would have a better opinion of you . . . like Prime."

Ever Alex wondered why he was so mad at humanity, but he was too afraid to want to know at that moment. Ironhide began to heat up his guns and point them at Alex and said-

"You would be so easy to get rid of . . . perhaps none would miss you . . . the others would say I am on the verge to becoming a decepticon, but I will never for the only reason I stay with the autobots is to get revenge . . . and ever revenge is sweet. I wish to taste it don't you?"

He then looked at the frightened human who wished him to point his guns somewhere else. So Ironhide did this and looked at the human one last time and said-

"What would you ever know of revenge? You probably have never lost any one you loved."

Actually . . . I have, thought Alex seeing Ironhide's sadness.

Ironhide then sighed heavily and left Alex. Alex looked around and so decided to try and get out of the ship like he first attempted to do. He made it out into the mountains with no one watching and so he stumbled throughout the mountains and the plain to get to his town and try and make it to his house. He still couldn't breathe and ever it pained him to walk across the plain for hours and hours not even able to walk a straight path.

"Sam I looked everywhere and I can't find him!" said Makeala running up to Sam as he came down a hall.

"Yea, no luck here either," sighed Sam placing his hands on his hips.

"Do you think he bailed?" asked Makeala a little worried if he truly had.

"I don't know Makeala," said Sam trying to think of what to do next.

"But Sam what if the decepticons got him?!" asked Makeala raising her tone of voice a bit.

Sam was about to say something when they noticed Bumblebee running a little fast down the hall. Both were curious as to why he looked so paranoid. They watched closely as he came up to Ratchet and Ironhide and said something to them that they could only understand.

"What do you think it is?" whispered Makeala to Sam ever keeping her gaze on the bots.

"We'll find out," said Sam.

They then saw Ratchet and Ironhide jolt as if in shock. Ratchet looked more worried than Ironhide as he quickly sped past everyone into a room they had not noticed before. He was in there for a while till he came out he spoke to them again saying-

"It's gone!"

"WHAT?!" shot Ironhide.

He then growled and said-

"We have to search for it NOW!"

They then headed down the hall and past Sam and Makeala, but the two humans just followed them asking what was going on.

"The allspark is missing," said Ratchet as they turned down some halls.

Sam and Makeala both halted at hearing this shocking news and so Makeala looked at Sam and said-

"You don't think . . . ?"

"He couldn't have," said Sam.

"But why?" asked Makeala.

"Well we don't know if Alex really did so for now let's just focus on finding him," said Sam trying to stay positive.

"Right," said Makeala as they caught up with the autobots.

And so they headed outside with the autobots as Ironhide instructed them on what to do. But before he did he had informed Optimus and he gave them leave to search for it.

"Alright, I cannot join the search right now, but you must go and find it before it ends up into the wrong hands."

"Yes sir," replied Ironhide as he turned his comlink off.

He then looked at his team who waited for his command on what to do and so he said-

"Bumblebee, you take the humans to the boy's house and Ratchet you search the east side of the city while I search the west."

"Right," said Ratchet transforming and taking off.

"Come on Bumblebee let's go," said Sam as he and Makeala got in him.

And so they all sped off towards the city looking for Alex who could have possibly taken the allspark, but why they didn't know.

Barricade ever kept his gaze on the mountains where the autobot's ship lay, but something had caught him so off-guard he didn't believe it was true. He thought he had seen Alex Moore, or at least a glimpse of him. After a while he decided to not mind it only thinking it was a look-a-like who just stumbled around town. So he turned his gaze back to the mountains just waiting for orders on what to do next.

The autobots searched around the city and neighborhoods that long night hoping to find the allspark and Alex before it was too late Ironhide had ran into a familiar face. He took a turn and found Barricade just sitting there looking at the mountains. Ironhide figured he waited for commands on whether or not to return to their ship, but this time Barricade wasn't going to get away with hurting anyone else. Ironhide saw he had the advantage for Barricade has not noticed him and so he decided to let him know he was there.

As Barricade sat there in the dark letting other police cars pass by his disguise he, all the sudden, felt he was in the grip of something, or someone. He was then lifted off the ground in his car mode and he could feel the grip tightening on him just squeezing him forcing him to transform. When he transformed he found he was in the strong rough grip of Ironhide and he did not look to happy.

"What do you want Ironhide?!" Barricade hissed almost making the class around them crack from the high-pitched sound.

Ironhide then landed a punch right on the decepticon's jaw but still held his grip on him so he couldn't run away. He then pulled the twisted decepticon closer to his hard face and said with many growls-

"What have you done with the boy?!"

"Oh . . . he is gone?" smiled Barricade baring his fangs.

"Don't play with me Barricade!" growled Ironhide shaking him a bit. "Where is he?!"

"I thought you hated humans?" he smiled.

"That has nothing to do with it!" spat Ironhide as he landed another hit to Barricade's face.

"Are you sure?" grinned Barricade as a line of a dark substance ran down his mouth.

Then after Ironhide raised his hand for another hit Barricade said-

"I might have seen him yes."

"Now there's a good decepticon," smiled Ironhide. "Where?!"

"He was stumbling through town," said Barricade flicking his head in the direction he thought he saw Alex at. "Have you done something to him Ironhide?"

"What makes you think that?!" asked Ironhide shaking the decepticon in his tight grip.

"Because I know what your attitude has been like ever since the battle for the allspark," said Barricade.

"How could you know?! . . . You weren't even there!" shot Ironhide.

Barricade then played back a recording that Ironhide recognized all to well-

"If could I would kill you just where you stand, but I am an autobot and have chosen to defend the defenseless and indeed you weak pathetic humans that always get in the way are defenseless."

He then looked at Ironhide with knowing optics and said-

"I don't know about you but that sounds like decepticon talk to me. You could be one if you wanted to Ironhide."

"How DARE you say that?!!" growled Ironhide shaking the decepticon in his strong grinding grip. "I would NEVER join you evil MONSTERS!! Why don't I just prove it and kill you."

"You don't want to kill me," smiled Barricade.

"Oh yea . . . why not?" chuckled Ironhide a bit seeing this decepticon clearly did not know him that well.

"Because you want to kill Megatron, not me . . . you know . . . for what he did to Jazz," grinned Barricade seeing he was getting to Ironhide.

Barricade then played another part of his words-

"For the only reason I stay with the autobots is to get revenge . . . and ever revenge is sweet."

"You see," grinned Barricade ever so sly. "You don't want to kill me, but Megatron for killing everyone you ever loved."

Ironhide's optics unfocused as he listened to Barricade's words . . . he was right . . . was it that obvious? As Ironhide reflected on this his grip lessoned of Barricade allowing him to get free and manipulate Ironhide more. He straightened and then began to circle the greatly feared by the decepticons Ironhide. He soon began to speak his poison to him.

"You know," he started. "It was all Megatron's fault for al your sparkache isn't it? . . . Yes it is. He was the one who killed your real son . . . your wife . . . and then Jazz . . . you have no one to blame but yourself."

Ironhide still just stood there as he reflected on this. His mind would let him think of no else. Barricade then stopped behind the large autobot and took out a slim sharp object. He smiled as he readied to do the same thing to Ironhide as he did to Hot Shot.

"You know," he smiled as he flicked the sharp object a bit ready to implant it in Ironhide and be rid of him like he would Hot Shot soon. "You could have ended your misery . . . but since I see you haven't . . . why don't you let me!"

"No," thought Ironhide.

Ironhide then turned to the decepticon and grabbed him arm making him drop the sharp object.

"NO!" cried Ironhide now knowing that Barricade was just trying to trick him.

Ironhide then grabbed a tight hold around Barricade's neck and pulled him close just wanting to see him choke and squeal. Ironhide then growled letting Barricade know he was anger and so said-

"No . . . I shall find Alex and I will not harm him . . . you don't know me that well deceptscum!"

Ironhide then gave a final hard punch to the decepticon leaving a nice dent in his face. Ironhide then transformed and drove off leaving the decepticon to regain him self after his beating. Barricade soon got up and gripped his hurt jaw as he gazed at the disappearing Ironhide. He then sighed and grumbled a bit saying-

"We shall see Ironhide . . . we shall see."

Alex stumbled to his house ever gripping his chest still trying to breathe but couldn't. It was night and very dark but he didn't care . . . at least he was home and away from the alien robots whom he blamed for his condition. Alex then came into his house and into his room where he fell upon his bed just trying to breathe and stop the pain that seemed to be coming more and more.

"Alex?" asked Gary hearing his son had come in. "Alex?"

But when he came into Alex's room he only saw Alex having a heart-attack or something while he laid on his bed.

"Oh my god!" cried Gary running to his son who couldn't breathe. "Alex!!"

Gary then shot up and took out his cell phone and dialed 911.

"Hello? . . . Hello my son is having a heart-attack or something . . . I don't know what to do . . . don't tell me to calm down this is my son!! . . . Please hurry!!"

He then hung up and knelt back down to his son and placed his hands on his face and said-

"Don't worry Alex the ambulance is on its way, just hang on there son."

Alex then turned his head to look out his window and there, in his driveway, was the truck his dad drove every day . . . it was Optimus Prime! This only made things worse for Alex and so his inhaling got worse and it was like he was having some sort of a bad asthma attack. Optimus saw Alex and so told the others about it and so they all came racing to his house, but before they got there the humans came and took Alex before the autobots could get to him.

"What are we going to do?" asked Sam. "The allspark is gone!"

"I detected the allspark, but when I scanned the house I did not find it," said Optimus.

"Well then where could it be?!" asked Sam.

"I don't know, but I do believe Alex knows, but there was something wrong with him . . . he was ill of some sort," said Optimus.

"Do you suppose he caught the virus?" asked Ratchet.

"Let us hope not," sighed Optimus.

"Yes, but if so we need to take him back to the ship and shield him from other humans!" said Ratchet.

"Yes, but how are we going to do that?" asked Bumblebee.

All then starred at Sam and Makeala and both instantly knew it couldn't be good.

"Excuse me but do you know where Alex Moore's room is?" asked Sam dressed like a male nurse.

"Why?" asked one of the clerks.

"Because we have to transfer him to another hospital," said Makeala who was dressed like an ambulance person.

"I never heard of that," said the clerk.

"Well here are the papers," said Makeala handing them the papers that the autobots had made for them.

The clerk looked them over and so sighed and said-

"Okay . . . go ahead."

And so they left to go to the room Alex was in. As they pulled a stretcher through the halls Sam whispered to Makeala.

"It's a good thing he autobots knows how to forge."

"Yea," smiled Makeala.

And so they entered Alex's room where he was unconscious hooked up to a machine that helped him to breathe better. They were glad Alex's dad wasn't there. They just figure he was talking to the doctors about Alex's strange condition.

"Well," sighed Makeala. "Let's get him up on the stretcher."

And so they carefully took Alex on the stretcher and unhooked him and took him outside into a waiting Ratchet.

"Hurry humans!" said Ratchet fearing they would get caught very soon.

"Hey, we wanna know Alex is safely fastened in alright?" said Sam.

As Gary came back in his son's room with a doctor who wanted to run some tests they found he was gone!

"Where's my son?!"

They then heard a couple of alarms going off and so knew they had been caught.

"That's it," said Ratchet starting his engine. "Hold on!"

And so he sped outward and all saw the get-away ambulance who was stealing Alex.

"They have my son!" cried Gary.

"Call the police!" said the doctor running back inside.

And so soon the police came to chase Ratchet and he knew there was no way he could out-drive them and so it was time for the other diversion.

"Ironhide—NOW!" shouted Ratchet as he sped over a high hill.

Ironhide then came out and blocked the polices' path with his wide truck so to help Ratchet get away. When Ratchet was a safe distance away Ironhide took off and vanished in the night. They all made their way to the ark and when they entered it Ratchet went to work on Alex seeing what had really happened to him. He soon found he couldn't figure it out. He figured he had contracted the virus from Hot Shot and so he had no choice but to place him with Hot Shot in the medical bay.

As all gazed at them through a window Ratchet said-

"It seems he has the same symptoms as Hot Shot, but I'm not too sure . . . I wish I knew more about this deadly virus for I don't know how long it will take to kill humans."

"Have you found the allspark?" asked Ironhide.

"No," sighed Ratchet. "It is lost."

At that the autobots all bowed their heads and sighed. For now they figured there was no hope in restoring their world back to the way it once was.

"Well keep watching them Ratchet," sighed Optimus placing a hand on his shoulder then leaving.

Soon after a while all left the two in peace. All they wanted to give them was peace for it was all they could give. Hot Shot turned his head and saw Alex next to him. His spark dampened at fearing he had contracted his virus. Hot Shot felt responsible to his safety.

He was supposed to protect him and now look at him. He was just like him there lying on a death bed just waiting for death to stop toying with him and just take him already for he knew it would be easier. Hot Shot would cry if he could, but robots don't cry. He had caused so much misery for this human . . . he didn't mean to . . . if he had he would do it all over again . . . if he could. Hot Shot then sighed a sad sigh as he went to reach out to the human next to him.

Hot Shot placed a soft hand on Alex and apologized for all he has done to him. He never meant to cause him so much pain.

"I am so sorry," gasped Hot Shot knowing those would be the last words he could say.

As Ratchet went to go check up on the two, right before he came to the window to see them, there was a great light that illuminated the room. A light so bright that even a robot would have to shield himself. Even a sound that was unfamiliar to Ratchet was heard. It sounded metallic that seemed to swirl and get louder and louder making Ratchet want it to stop for fear of the safety of Hot Shot and Alex.

Ratchet made his way to the door to open it, but as soon as he unlocked it the light and loud sound stopped. Ratchet stood in fear and awe as it did this. As this happened it had caused the others to come running up to Ratchet and ask what was happening.

"Ratchet what was that?!" asked Optimus seeing the look on Ratchet's face.

Ratchet soon gained control over his sensors and so said as he opened the door-

"I—I don't know I—"

He then opened the door and all saw a strange sight indeed. Hot Shot was standing and over Alex who looked as if he was well unlike before. Alex was up against a wall just starring at Hot Shot a bit in fear. All wondered what had happened.

"Hot Shot . . ." started Optimus stepping closer to them. "What have you done?"

Hot Shot then turned his head to them like he couldn't believe what was going on. He then turned his body to them and all saw that Hot Shot was holding something in his hands.

"What . . . is that?" gagged Sam and Makeala.

"Oh my—it's the boy's heart Optimus," gasped Ratchet as he turned to Optimus.

All optics and eyes were wide as they saw this. They looked and saw Alex was still alive though. How was this possible? Alex then looked at the autobots and gasped as he placed his hand over his . . . well . . . where his heart once was.

"What is keeping him alive then?" asked Ironhide.

"That . . . is what I am going to find out," said Ratchet coming closer to Alex to try and figure out how this strange happening happened.