So…. yeah the next chapter sorry for the delay but….I hit a dry spot. I wasn't sure how to go about doing this chapter but finally inspiration struck last night! I only wish it hadn't been at 2:00 in the morning…. anyway here it is enjoy! GIVE LOVE TO BETA'S!!

Cybertronian Time

Astrosecond 0.498 seconds

Breem 8.3 minutes

Cycle (G1 UK comics) 2 hours

Cycle (IDW comics) 1 hour 15 minutes (1.25 hours)
(Beta Honor: Therefore Cycle averages at 1 hr. 37.5 mins, but none of them meet mathematical logic really as far as I can see, unless the writers were using some really weird counting system, since deca-cycle should equal 10 cycles i.e between 12 ½ hours and 20 hour.)

Deca-cycle (IDW comics) 3 weeks

Klik 1.2 minutes

Megacycle (Animated) 1 day or 1 hour

Meta-cycle 13 months

Nanoclick (Animated) 1 second or 1 minute?

Orbital Cycle 1 day

Solar cycle (Animated) 1 year

Stellar cycle (Animated) 1 year

Vorn 83 years

… And so and so forth not completely sure if this is right but lets just go with it ok?

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--Chap 10 Twins, RedAlert and Prowl, oh my! --

--Outside the base--

Ratchet had kicked him out of the med bay soon after he had recovered and now he sat, with his spark mate, outside the temporary Autobot base. Jazz was currently recharging, curled up between Prowl's legs, back resting against his chest, wanting to have as much contact as he could with his sparkmate after such a long absence.

Prowl's arms tightened around Jazz momentarily. How long it had been since he had held his sparkmate, felt the comforting pulse of his spark close to his own, much too long. It had seemed so long since the time before he was ruled by the madness of the virus Megatron had infected him with.

He feared for other mechs that were infected. Megatron had made them do horrible things. Barricade had been a twisted being indeed. Prowl would forever be haunted by the memory of when Barricade had gotten his hands on a sparkling.

Barricade had ripped it apart, killing an innocent sparkling just to enjoy the pleasure of it, an act that would have made any other Cybertronian mad with protective rage. The Decepticons before they had been infected had been evil and bloodthirsty, yes, but they would have offlined themselves before hurting a sparkling.

Cybertronians were extremely protective of their young. Decepticons had been warriors once, they may have been evil and bloodthirsty, but they had all sworn to a code of honor; they had been true warriors to the core. The code had been everything to them and to break the code meant death.

He truly feared what would happen to the infected decepticons once they were freed from the virus. Prowl looked down at his recharging sparkmate and clutched him closer to his spark. He was glad that Jazz had never become infected. He would never forgive himself if Jazz had had to endure such horrors.

--In the recreation room —

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were staring at the TV in a hypnotic state. Their optics never moved an inch from the screen, a horrified look frozen on their faceplates. They hadn't moved in three hours. Not even a twitch of a servo!

Bluestreak was scared that his sparkmates were planning something. Wheeljack had lost interest and left to blow things u- experiment on something in his lab. Cliffjumper was staring at them in amusement, and Blurr and Mirage where having some energon. RedAlert had already come up with ten different irrational theories. One had even involved a duck and a crowbar, he still couldn't think of anything rational to explain the phenomena.

That was until Will and Ironhide walked into the rec room to get some energon.

"They're still in shock, huh?" wondered Will as he stared at the twins from Ironhide's shoulder. Ironhide just blew some air out through his exhaust vents. "As long as it keeps 'em quiet for a few cycles, I'll wait a while before taking them to Ratchet. Besides, Ratchet's in a real bad mood at the moment. Trying to fix up those two mechs in his med-bay and dealing with the Terrabots who keep trying to sneak in the med bay." Ironhide said, watching the twins.

"Why are they hovering around the med bay like that anyway?" Will asked Ironhide turning his head to look at him instead of the frozen twins. "Dunno, but they've stopped bugging us to leave the base, so I'm guessing one of the mechs is what they have been searching for." Ironhide explained to Will who scratched his chin in thought.

"Prowl said he knew the names of the two mechs didn't he?" asked Will looking back at the twins when one twitched. "Yeah, but Optimus doesn't want anyone to know yet before they can confirm it…whatever that's supposed to mean." Ironhide muttered at the end.

RedAlert stared at the two. "Prowl's dead. I saw the decepticons steal his chassis from the ruins of battle!" he exclaimed, looking at the two with a look of anger and shock. Ironhide looked at him "Apparently Megatron had some virus that he used to turn mech into obedient monsters. Prowl had been infected with it along with a bunch of other mechs,"

"Apparently, Barricade has been Prowler all along. Heh! You should have seen the look on Jazz's face when he saw Prowl." Ironhide snickered "His visor fell away, and he passed out on top of Dewbot in shock!"

RedAlert stared, then preceded to smoke from his logic processor.

Bluestreak starred at the two in shock. "Then can you explain what happened to the twins?" Ironhide smiled causing Bluestreak to twitch, Ironhide only smiled when something went boom. "They saw Prowl exit Ratchet's Med-bay" Ironhide smirked.

Sideswipe whimpered from where he sat, and edged closer to Sunstreaker, who looked absolutely horrified. "The horror, the horror." whispered Sunstreaker as Sideswipe whimpered. "Why did we come to earth, WHY? Now we have to suffer RedAlert and Prowl. We'll never get to have any fun" Sideswipe whimpered again and clutched at his twin.

Cliffjumper stared at the two, then walked out of the rec room to find Prowl, and say hello. Blurr and Mirage ran after him, having finished their energon. Will watched them go from where he sat on Ironhide's shoulder. "Why are the twins afraid of Prowl? He seemed ok when I met him." Will turned his attention to Ironhide as he finished speaking.

Ironhide just chuckled at his human and answered, "That's cause he was with Jazz, the mech always turns all - I believe the term is 'into mush' - whenever his sparkmate's around. Prowl always had a soft spot when it came to Jazz. It was the reason he got captured during the war. He sacrificed himself for Jazz and I don't think Jazz ever forgave himself for that." Ironhide paused, optics dim, remembering a time when the Ark had been silent and dull, and Jazz hadn't played any music.

"It took the Ark a whole Meta-cycle to get him to talk again, but he never did forgive himself. Maybe now that we have Prowler back, Jazz will finally be able to lift the burden from his spark. Anyway, the twins are afraid of Prowl 'cause he's a real stickler for rules, he always knew just how to make the twins behave. Between RedAlert and Prowl, the twins are going to have a lot harder time playing pranks on other mechs, thankfully." Ironhide finally finished off.

Author Note

Now To business I have an idea what Miles car should be a Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept curiosity of Honor. Prowl is obviously going to be a patrol car (but completely different form Barricades form) but other than that I haven't any idea what he should look like either.

Also I don't want to name Sam Spike but he needs a good cybertronian name. Miles doesn't really need a new name really since Miles is kind of cybertronian sounding already.

So Any ideas? Review and tell me and Also GIVE LOVE TO BETA'S!!