Takes place right after Sari and Optimus have their private conversation. Sari gets to rejoin Bumblebee and Bulkhead, and learn something interesting about her orb mod.

Sari and Optimus exited the Ark-32, and walked back towards the Farside Beacon One construction area. Bulkhead walked toward them. "Hey, Optimus, the parts for the new tower arrived. Should we start working on it?" he asked.

"Perfect timing, Bulkhead," said Optimus. "Sari, why don't you and Bulkhead get started on that?"

"Sounds good!" she said. So Optimus went in to check on Bumblebee, while Sari and Bulkhead started hauling the parts for the new tower over to the assembly site.

"So, Sari, how'd your furlough go? Did you have a good time?"

"It was great, Bulky! I had a wonderful visit with my Dad, and met some new friends of Adam's."

"Aw, that's nice! Me and Bumblebee were just fine while you were away. 'Course, now that you're back, we can have our 'Three Amigos' thing going again, right?"

"You betcha!" she replied. They arrived at the site where the original tower was located. Bulkhead had already cleared out the debris from the collision with the asteroid and moved everything about half a kilometer away.

"Hey! Great job clearing the area!" Sari said. "And then you moved everything way over there next to that clearing. The scrap and the rocks look like a couple of sculptures. Did you make them into pyramids?"

"Heh! Yeah! Like it? First, I used my wrecking balls to smash it all up, then to shape 'em."

"Cool! We should call them 'The Bulkymids'." They both laughed.

"OK, we told Boss-bot we could get this back up in a couple megacyles," said Bulkhead, "so I guess we'd better get started." So they began work on the new tower assembly.

They were still busy putting the new tower together when Bumblebee came by. "Hey guys, Optimus gave me a message from earth. They wanted to know if there were any parts left over from the old tower, and, whoa! What are those?" he looked over and spied "The Bulkymids".

"Oh, that's Bulky's latest artistic creation," said Sari, wiring a unit way up on top of the tower. "Whaddya think?"

"Interesting, interesting," he replied, crossing his arms and tapping a digit on his chin. "What's it supposed to represent?"

"Bumblebee," said Bulkhead impatiently, gesturing towards his latest creation, "art is supposed to be what it speaks to the individual. What does it say to you?"

Bee looked at it for a bit, turned back to Bulkhead and replied, "I'll tell you what it says to me; It says: metal triangular-shaped thingy and rock triangular-shaped thingy."

Bulkhead shook his helmet and sighed. "No appreciation for the artiste." Sari giggled.

"Hey, wait a minute," said Bumblebee doing a double-take, "is THAT what's left over from the wrecked tower? They want it back! That's what I was coming by to tell you. They said they were going to recycle the metal."

"Say what? Aw, darn it!" said Bulkhead. He put his arms down and lowered his helmet, looking disappointed.

"Oh, gee, sorry, Bulky," said Sari, "Hey, I liked it!" she came from the tower and patted his side. "At least we can keep the rock one, right?"

"No, it won't be the same," he said. "I wanted them as a set." Dejected, he walked over and planned to smash the rock pyramid with his wrecking ball.

"Hey, wait!" said Sari. "Would you mind terribly if I tried something out? I mean, as long as we're going to demolish the rock pyramid?"

"No, go ahead, Sari. What do you have in mind?" said Bulkhead.

"Something Ratchet mentioned to me, before I left for my furlough." With that, Sari held her right servo out, palm up. She concentrated, and a tiny, shiny blue light appeared, eventually taking the form of a little orb, floating just above it.

"Uh Sari," asked Bumblebee, pointing at the orb, "what's that?"

"Something Dataminer said I ought to be able to do," she replied. She made the orb grow larger until it was about 12 cm in diameter, and when she was satisfied, it stopped. Sari moved her digits, and the orb, emitting popping blue sparkles and tiny, blue cloud-like formations that streaked and circled it, began slowly spinning.

"Kinda looks like an angry little planet," said Bulkhead.

"Hey, this is kind of cool!" she said.

"Does that hurt at all?" asked Bumblebee.

"No, not at all. I can feel it floating above my servo, and I can sense it spinning. If I stop my digits..." she stopped her digits, and the orb immediately stopped spinning. "...it stops. I can also make it spin in the other direction," and her digits made it spin accordingly. "Although it floats, it's almost like holding a ball," she said, tossing it up and down like a baseball.

"What happens if you turn your servo upside down?" asked Bulkhead.

"Whoa, whoa whoa! Bulky, Sari, you sure?" Bee jumped back a step. "I mean, what happens if that thing drops and hits the ground? I don't want a Lugnut POKE!"

"Let me try a little bit," she said, and turned her servo just a little bit diagonally. "It's staying!" Indeed, the orb was matching the plane of her servo. Sari moved it a little more, until it was almost 90 degrees. Still it matched the angle of her palm. "It's not going anywhere, as long as I control it," she said.

Finally, with a responding "Eeeee!" from Bee, she turned her palm upside down. The orb stayed put! "Whew!" he said.

"I gotta admit, that IS cool!" said Bulkhead.

"OK, let me try throwing this." She cocked her right arm back like a baseball pitcher, left leg up, still holding the orb steadily in her servo, and threw it at the rock pyramid. Once it made contact, the pyramid imploded with a huge white flash!

"What the...? No explosion? It just...disappeared inside itself like a, like a black hole, err, white hole!" said Bumblebee. "That was weird!" All three looked at the now vacant spot where the pyramid had been, then looked at each other.

They walked over to the bare site. The implosion left a triangular-shaped reverse silhouette: where the pyramid had sat, the ground was flat and gray, but splattering out from the outline was a white starburst-shaped covering that spread out 1-3 meters.

"Where'd it go?" asked Bulkhead. "And what's all that white stuff?"

"I have no idea, but we'd better tell Optimus," said Bumblebee. "I sure wasn't expecting THAT to happen."

"I wasn't expecting that, either," said Sari. I'd better let Ratchet know, too, and maybe he can pass that along to Dataminer so he can do some more...data mining about this mod."

"Well, we're almost done with this tower, so let's finish her up, and then we can go look for Boss-bot." said Bulkhead. "Was he going to stay in the base, or was he headed back to the Ark-32?"

"He said he was going back to the Ark-32 to talk with Arcee," said Bumblebee. "Wanted a status report on the Decepticon ship."

Bumblebee pitched in, and in a short time the tower was finished. The Three Amigos headed over to the Ark-32. Optimus was finishing up his status with Arcee.

"How's the tower?" he asked the trio.

"All done, Boss-bot," said Bulkhead. There's something else though, we thought we oughtta talk to you about."

"OK, let's go into my conference, room," he replied. "Anyone else you think should be there?"

"I think we need Ratchet," said Sari.

"Hmm, this is beginning to sound interesting," he replied, and touched his comm. Ratchet? Can you meet me in my conference room? Sari, Bumblebee and Bulkhead have some information to discuss with us."

The Three Amigos shared their experience testing out Sari's mod with Optimus and Ratchet. "Very interesting, Sari," said Ratchet. "You say the pyramid just imploded, leaving white sediment of some kind? I'll go take a sample and do some analysis. If you don't mind, after I've had a chance to look at the white remains, I'd like you to do it one more time with me, under more controlled conditions."

"Hopefully we'll have the time for those experiments," said Optimus.

"What do you mean, Optimus?" asked Ratchet.

"I just finished a status report with Arcee, and I'm afraid I've got some bad news. She's run a scan of that Decepticon ship, and it appears it's crewed by Team Chaar."

Everyone gasped. "What the heck are THEY doing here?" asked Bumblebee.

"We don't know," he replied. "But Arcee's already alerted the Autobot High Council, and they're likely to be sending us reinforcements."

"Where are they now?" Ratchet asked.

"They're still taking their time, apparently. They've landed on Ganymede and have been there for two solar cycles."

"In the meantime, we'll continue to closely monitor their movements. I suppose, unless they make a sudden move headed this way, we can continue with our current activities. But be prepared to go on alert the moment Arcee detects any danger."

The impromptu meeting ended, Optimus went to go talk with Jazz. Sari and Ratchet went over to the place where Bulkhead's pyramid imploded. Bee and Bulkhead headed back to Farside Beacon One.

"Well would ya look at that?" said Ratchet. He bent down and scooped up some of the white residue with a test tube. He then used the magnifier on his optic to look closer at the residue on the ground. "Hmm. It doesn't appear to be a deposit. It looks to be the original lunar regolith – it just got its color changed white. I'm guessing the energy from that implosion sucked all the color out of the matter."

He got back up and turned to Sari. "Fascinating discovery there, kiddo. Let's see if we can recreate it. I'm sure we can find a big rock somewhere that wouldn't mind taking a trip to never-never land – or wherever it is that pyramid went."

"Sure thing, Ratchet," she said. And the two walked around the lunar surface near the base until they came upon a large rock, about the size of a house. "How's that one look to you?" asked Ratchet.

"Fine by me," she replied.

"OK, I'm going to keep a sharp eye out on everything you do here, so I can send it back to Dataminer. It's kind of like what humans do with video recorders. Just do everything you did with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, OK?"

"Got it!" and so Sari went and repeated everything, including how she adjusted the angle of her servo, demonstrating that the orb would stay floating on her palm, even upside down.

"OK ready to throw it!" and she went and threw it at the rock. Just like before, as soon as the orb made contact with the rock, there was a huge white flash, and the rock imploded.

"I watched that carefully," said Ratchet. "As soon as your orb made contact with the rock, a blue-white energy enveloped it, and then there was the white flash, at which point the rock began to collapse within itself, as if the molecules in the rock got sucked into a black hole, except that the event horizon existed only within the limits of the rock itself. Otherwise, of course, we all would have gotten sucked in," he chuckled.

Sari chuckled, too…nervously.

"So…where did it go?" she asked.

"I have no idea!" he said. "Some other galaxy? Another part of the universe? Swindle's personal storage dimension? Now, if THAT were the case, you should do that to lots of rocks!" He winked.

"At any rate, I'll send all this to Dataminer, and let him sort through it all. Be that as it may, it's quite a neat weapon you've got there, Sari."

Ratchet will examine the residue from the collapsed pyramid, and send the information on to Dataminer for his expert analysis. But what is Team Chaar doing on Ganymede? Thanks for reading.