"Now I understand why you had to rush home," Miko surprised Jack as he getting on his bike to go home after his shift.

"Don't you have something more exciting to do, Miko?" Jack asked.

"So, this is where you hang, uh?" Miko asked rhetorically, "Back home in Tokyo I have loving parents and two purebred cats, Chi Chi and Ding Dong," she continued on, "I went to the best school to piano lessons since I was three,"

"How nice for you,"

"No, how boring,"

"It wasn't me," Miko continued, "Why do you think I jumped at the chance of transfer here?"

"To Jasper, Nevada?"," Jack said sarcastically, "The entertainment capital of the world?"

"Yeah, well, the brochure lied," Miko took and deep breathe and sat down next to Jack, "Piano lessons were starting to look pretty good in fact. But then, the last couple of days happened,"

"Do you have a point?"

"You bet," Miko looked at him straight in the eyes, "I saw what you did today, when you saved Raf, when you came to save me,"

"I've been raised to be responsible," Jack replied, "To my schoolwork, to my mom, my job,"

"Dude, hear me out!", yelled Miko, "You're no fry-cook, you're a rockstar! Stop trying to pretend you're normal, Jack! You'll never fit in! You were born to do so much more!"

"Thanks, Miko, but I think normal suits me fine," Jack stood up and pedaled away, leaving Miko in the dust.

Meanwhile...

"It can't be Optimus!" Ratchet exclaimed, "These are engineering specs for a space-time vortex generator,"

"Megatron is building a Space Bridge," Foliage said sarcastically, "How great for us!"

"If he hasn't already," Maple mumbled.

"The sooner he leaves, the better!" Bulkhead said.

"Bulkhead a Space Bridge runs in two directions," Optimus explained, "Megatron may not be using it to leave Earth, but to bring through his conquering army.

"The main event Megatron referred to," Ratchet said.

"Does the main event include good food?" Foliage joked and Maple cracked up. The girls high-fived each other, earning them a glare from Ratchet. The stuck their tongue out at him.

"But the only place Megatron could possibly recruit that many fallen warriors.." Jazz started but looked at Optimus for confirmation.

"Precisely, Cybertron," Optimus said.

"Megatron is building a fucking Space thingy to bring through his shitty army," Maple summarized.
"But the only place Megatron could get that many fucking dead warriors is Cybertron," Foliage said.

"I got what Megabitch is about to do," Maple said clearing her throat, "He's gonna get that shitty Space thingy to open and throw his purple shit over to get more fucking Cons,"

"Great!" Foliage said sarcastically, everyone stared at the girls.
We cannot allow Megatron to send Dark Energon through his Space Bridge," Optimus told everyone, "If we fail, the dead of Cybertron will rise,"
"Swarm through its vortex and invade Earth," Cliffjumper said.
"Bending humankind to Megatron's twisted rule," Jazz said darkly. The Twins grunted to show that they understood. The girls looked at each in excitement.

"I'm happy," Foliage said. Everbot and humans stared at her in shock except for Miko who just smiled very widely.

"What?"

"What she meant is that there's more people for her to," Maple pretended to think for a moment," to finish off," Foliage smiled and high-fived her sister. The Twins laughed.

"I like your style!" Sideswipe told them. The girls just shrugged and smirked. Ratchet closed and opened his mouth. He shook his head and turned back to his computer.

Optimus, I've pinpointed the location of Megatron's Space Bridge," Ratchet informed everyone, "High in Earth's orbit and out of our reach,"
Ok, so you guys don't fly but can't you just ground-bridge there?" Miko asked, stating the obviously. The girls nodded their heads.

"The Ground Bridge has limited range," Ratchet clenched his denta, "Stretch all the way into orbit its vortex could snap and scatter us to the stars,"
Since Megatron is likely already in transit, I'm afraid we must take that risk," Optimus told his friend, "Reaching the Space Bridge first is our only means of stopping him,"
"Hey, guess who's back!" Jack said nervously. The girls nodded in his direction.

"Autobots, prepare for departure,"
"Where to?" Jacka asked.

"The final frontier," Miko said dramatically.
"Space? I thought they didn't have any way to get there?"

"They don't, really," Jack turned his head towards Arcee.
"Be seen you?" Arcee nodded.

"Be careful, 'Bee," Raf waved.
"I'm so jealous!" Miko yelled.
"Don't even think about following me," Bulkhead warned her.

"Optimus, if you leave me stranded on a planet teeming with humans, I will never forgive you," Ratchet warned, waving his wrench in the air.
"Until we meet again, old friend," Optimus merely replied, "Autobots, roll out!" The girls cracked their knuckles. Jazz and Cliffjumper stood in front of them.

"That includes you," Jazz said sternly to both of them. The girls smiled at each other and they both flipped Jazz and Cliffjumper over their head and ran through the ground bridge yelling:

"Maximum overdrive!", Optimus ordered and rolled one his wheels into the groundbridge. When they reached the other side, the girls were already there and they were floating around in space.

"Autobots, transform and gravitize," Optimus said and before he could do anything, Jazz and Cliffjumper pushed themselves forward and grabbed the two girls by their arms while gravitating.

"What were you thinking!" Cliffjumper scolded.

"Simple," they replied sassily, "We weren't" the girls were still floating in space, only held back by their guardian's firm grip.

"Gravitize!" Jazz said hurriedly, reaching up and pull down his charge's other arm.

"We don't know how,"

"Think gravitize!" Cliffjumper was jumping up and down in his processor. The girls closed their eyes and thought deeply before they too were standing on the Spaecbridge. They glanced over at Bulkhead who was looking around nervously.
"Don't look down," Foliage warned.
"Or up,"
"Or left," the girls snickered at Bulkhead's bewildered expression.
"So Megatron's packing enough Dark Energon to raise Cybertron's dead?" Sideswipe asked.

"And since we don't possess ready means of disabling the Space Bridge, nothing gets in or out!" Sideswipe yelled. Bulkhead aimed and shot at the Decepticon ship, causing yellow red explosions in space.

/It appears the Decepticons have sustained serious damage to their interstellar navigation system,/ Ratchet said over comm.
"Uh, that's my handiwork," Bulkhead said proudly.
"Nice Bulky," Maple complimented him.
/Without the dish, Megatron would be unable to aim the Space Bridge at Cybertron./ Ratchet informed them.
/Don't the Decepticons know where their own planet is?/ Miko's voice was heard from the comm.

Duh!" Foliage answered. She rolled her eyes and grumbled something about common sense.
/But Cybertron is many light years away./ Ratchet answered with an annoyed tone in his voice, /To reach their target, their aim must be astronomically precise./
"Megabitch probably got another way," Maple said. The Twins snorted at Megatron's nickname.

/From what I know of Earth's technology/ Ratchet grumbled, making the girls giggle, /I doubt there exists a single radio-telescope dish on this planet powerful enough to pinpoint Cybertron./
/What about a whole bunch of linked radio-telescope dishes?/ Raf's quiet voice came through the comm, /Like the giant sized array in Texas?/

/Shh! This is not child's play,/ Ratchet said, annoyed.
"Good thinking, Raf," Optimus said, "Ratchet, have agent Fowler alert the array staff to the security hazard,"

Back At Base….
"You, soldier! You on the uniform! Put on some pants!" Agent Fowler popped up straight in bed and lied flat down again.

"That may be a challenge," Ratchet said. Raf was furiously typing on his computer.
"I can't get past the array's firewalls," he said, "They're too thick,"
"You actually think you could keep the Decepticons out?" Ratchet asked incredulously.

"Maybe, if I could get in,"
:W-wait, Raf, what if we could get you all the way in? Like 'inside-the-building' in?" Jack suggested.

"I could log into their intern network on the other side of the firewall!" Raf said excitedly.
"The risk is too great, the Decepticons would be there!" Jack said, popping the hope balloon, "Perhaps even on sight!"
"Optimus, with all due respect you said it yourself, this is bigger than the safety of three humans," Ratchet said through comm link.
"Yeah, if we let the 'Cons win, we are fried, along with everyone else on our planet!" Miko shouted.

"Like your style girl!" the girl's voice was heard from comm link.
"Raf?" Jack asked him quietly, all eyes were on him. Even the bots in space seemed to look through the comm link and straight at him.

"I wanna give it a shot," Raf said confidently.

Back in Space….

"Here comes the welcoming committee," Bulkhead said, pointing to the flying vehicons.
/Optimus, I'm registering a rapidly expanding mass in their Space Bridge vortex./ Ratchet's gruff voice rang through the comm link, /One with a peculiar energy signature./
"Dark Energon," Optimus, Foliage, and Maple said at the same time. They all looked at each other.

"Jinx!" The two girls giggled and laughed. Everybot shook their head inwardly.
"Ratchet, we must destroy the Space Bridge," Optimus continued, unfazed by what happened earlier.
"There's enough energon in this shit to blow it up." Foliage informed them.

"But we don't fucking know how," Maple cut her sister and got a smack on the back of the head. She looked at Foliage with a frown on her face while rubbing the back of her neck.
/If I knew how the Space Bridge was engineered, I might find a tactical way of accomplishing that feat,/ Ratchet said, musing over the possibilities.
/Hm would schematics help?/ Raf's hopeful voice rang out but was ignored.

/Optimus, I must say the Space Bridge is our sole hope of ever returning to Cybertron./ Ratchet's sorrowful voice rang out, /Are you certain it's destruction is the only option?/

"I am afraid so," Optimus said, his voice slightly laced with sorrow.
/Then by all means let us light our darkest hour!/ Ratchet said confidently. The girls whooped.
"Autobots, take your positions, and follow Ratchet's lead," Optimus commanded. The girls ignored his order and ran off.

"SUGAR CRUSH!" Cliffjumper and Jazz looked at Optimus before running after their charges.
"While I make my stand," Optimus said before everybto ran off.
"Your fellow Autobots are wise, Optimus," Megatron taunted, "They know when to retreat,"
"I hold no illusions about engaging your army, Megatron," Optimus replied, dodging a bow before delivering one of his own, "But I might derail its objective by removing its head,"
"Highly unlikely, Optimus, as I am infused of the very might!" Megatron proclaimed.

"One shall stand, one shall fall," Optimus merely replied.
"Ratchet, we're in position," Arcee said from under the Space Bridge.
/Arcee, pay close attention./ Ratchet instructed.

Megatron listened to an inaudible voice before smirking a looked back at Optimus.
"Ah, misdirection, Optimus? You would had made a fine Decepticon," Megatron said mockingly.
"I chose my side"

/Now follow the line from the flow regulator to the energon pump,/ Ratchet instructed, /There should be a valve,/
"I see it!/"Bulkhead exclaimed.
/Good./ Ratchet said nonchalantly, /To turn all that power against itself, all you need to do is reverse the current./ Arcee and Bulkhead pushed with all of their might but they just couldn't budge the switch. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Foliage and Maple came running up behind them and helped them push the switch.
"Current reversed."
"Yes!" Bulkhead punched the air, "Right?"

/I'll ready the Ground Bridge./ Ratchet pressed a few buttons, /Optimus, the Ground Bridge is ready and waiting./ But before they could jump a shot rang out from their right and it was headin straight for Arcee. Cliffjumoer jumped in the way only to get blocked by Foliage. Maple tried to pull her back but it was too late. The shot already hit Foliage on her abdomen.
"Autobots, jump!" Maple grabbed Foliage and pulled her through the groundbridge.

"Do you think they're?" Jack left the question unfinished.

"7 life signals," Ratchet said worriedly, "One very faint!" Maple carried Foliage through the groundbridge and set her on one of the metal berths.

"We almost one this week, by the Allspark, don't let it be two," Foliage groaned and tried to touch the energon leaking out of her wound only to get her hand slapped by Maple.

"No touching," Maple said sternly before examining the wound. Ratchet walked up to her and looked over her shoulder.

"I could fix her," Ratchet said firmly, "You get out of my medbay!" Maple stood right where she was. Foliage groaned again.

"Suck it up girl," she told Foliage encouragingly, "You've had worse injuries," Everyone looked at Maple and Foliage in surprise. Ratchet took out his medical tools and started to operate on her. Maple got beside him and practically pushed him aside.

"It hurts," Foliage groaned. Maple walked up to her.

"Name all of your injuries," Maple ordered her while she got out some numbing serum and injected it into her wound. She hissed.

"Legs got blown off," Foliage rasped, "At one point or another,"

"The reason for that were really stupid," Maple unhelpfully commented. Foliage snorted while Maple got out a welding torch and started to weld her metal together. Foliage let out a restrained scream.

"Numbing medicine went off?" Maple asked, finishing off the last part of Foliage's metal. Foliage hissed and gripped the side of the metal berth.

"You're finished," Maple told her before lifting her up, "No walking for 2 days,"

"What!"

"I mean it!" Maple said before lifting her up and carrying her bridal style. Everyone stared at the girls in shock.

"How did you learn how to repair someone like that?" Ratchet asked Maple, examining her work on Foliage.

"You'll learn eventually when you live with this girl," Maple said simply. Cliffjumper walked up to Foliage. Maple was struggling to carry her.

"Want me to carry her?" he asked. The girls looked at each other and shook their head.

"Um, thanks for blocking the shot," Cliffjumper asked, "Why did you do it anyways?" both girls kept silent.

"Because it was the right thing to do," Foliage said simply.

"Even if it's stupid as shit," Maple said, whacking her sister's head, "That's for whacking me on the head!"

"Bitch," Foliage muttered before Maple carried her to their bedroom and close the door. All bots were in awe and confused.

"Why did Maple not let Ratchet fix her friend?"