Attention readers!
To those of you who read this story, I will be posting a review chapter after , so post those questions however you see fit.
Oh, and the review chapter will be in the form of an interview sort of thing, involving the current cast of characters, so if, for some reason, you want to ask a specific character something, go right ahead.
Note: I had posted it in the Author's Note last chapter, but no one had posted any questions, or didn't read it, either way, it annoyed me. -_-
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The first group to come back through the groundbridge was Palidan's group, with the two humans and Syntheoid coming through, with the newcomer Ardent, with most of her arms carrying crates.
Ratchet turned away from the controls after closing the groundbridge, with the first thing he see being Ardent.
"Ardent! So, it really is you"
"Nice to see you too Ratchet" Ardent replied sarcastically.
The femme in question took a look at the insides of the base she stood in, its rocky insides intrigued her slightly.
"Strange, I expected this base to be more metallic in nature."
"Well Ardent, we're supposed to be 'robots in disgusie', so we couldn't build an actual Cybertronian base on this planet, so we had to improvise, not to mention we lacked the proper materials to actually build one." Ratchet explained.
Before Ardent could reply to that, the bases communication line opened up, with Optimus' voice ringing through it.
"Ratchet, we require a groundbridge, our mission was a failure" he said somberly.
Ratchet did so, and opened up the wormhole, allowing most of Team Prime to walk through, though their somber mood changed slightly when they saw Ardent.
"I did not expect a newcomer to arrive while we were gone, to whom am I speaking to?"
Ardent's screen lit up with a shocked expression before speaking.
"Medical officer Ardent at your command sir, it's an honor to meet you" she said, while holding out one of her arms, which were tiny compared to the Prime's.
Optimus carefully shook the outstretched servo offered to him. "It's an honor to meet you Ardent, though I have to ask how you got here".
"I flew here in a stealthed transport ship, a design of which I made myself, unfortunately though, the one I have is the only one."
She than gesture to the three crates in her servos. "I brought with me a lot more supplies, cryoed Autobots, and Energon on the ship, but these three things I wanted to show you myself sir"
Optimus nodded. "Proceed".
She set the three crates down in a row and opened up the far left one, which unfolded to reveal what looked like an Energon, only except the liquid inside was black.
"Is that..." whisper Ratchet, to which Ardent nodded.
"Antimatter Energon, made with pure antimatter, if any of you know your Energon, than you should know that this stuff is incredibly rare, not to mention that, once consumed, it will harden a Cybertronian's armor to that of being completely indestructible. I was capable of creating this single batch, though it was extremely difficult to make."
"Heheh, that's gonna help out in a pinch" Bulkhead remarked.
Ardent than opened up the middle crate, which revealed a rather strange looking device, a bronze colored circular device, with several buttons on the side.
"Hand held teleporter, no explanation, really, Ironhide managed to get this off of Skywarp and gave it to me."
You've got Ironhide on your ship?!" Bulkhead asked excitedly.
"Yes, though, him and several others were put into cyro sleep for Energon conservation."
"How many others?" Optimus asked.
"Him, Slipstream, Jazz, Visual Range, Warpath, Flareup, Elita-One, Chromia, Moonracer, and Windblade"
Team Prime peaked up at that, reinforcements were always nice to have, especially veteran warriors.
That's when a frowny face appeared on Ardent's screen. "Unfortunately, most of the pods degraded on the ship I brought them here on had degraded, so most of the Autobots will be stuck in cryo until I can fix them"
That lowered their moods slightly, but nonetheless, they had reinforcements.
"Hey what about the third box?" Miko asked.
"Oh yes, it's a-" Ardent was cut off when the communicatons array went off again, this time Arcee's considerably angry voice speaking through it this time.
"Ratchet. Bridge. Now."
The medical officer did so rather hastily, the green vortex swirling to life once more, allowing an upset Arcee to walk through, with Jack trailing behind her, though the first thing the team noticed about the two were the injuries on the pair, with Jack cover in scratches and bruises, while Arcee had chipped paint, scorch marks, and small dents.
"Can someone explain why the two of us had to fight two nutjob humans with no one showing up to assist, I had to blow my cover for Primus's sake."
Ratchet was about to yell at Arcee about protocal, but Optimus interrupted him. "We were currently engaged with another problem at the time, an unknown force raided an Adamantium supply, and considering last time, we didn't take any chances" Optimus explained.
"Had I known at the time, I would've assisted, had Ardent here hadn't arrived."
At that, Arcee and Jack finally registered the newcomer in the room, who waved with two of her hands rather sheepishly, a sweatdrop image appearing on her visor.
"There is also the fact that, I had no indications of anything happening in the area where you two were Arcee, and I'm sure Agent Fowler would've yelled at me about it" Ratchet added.
At that moment, the liason in question's rather angry voice yelled through.
"Can someone explain to me why I only just found news of Arcee and Jack fighting a luchador and an Iron Man ripoff in the middle of Austin,Texas!?"
"Hey, those two called us both out, we just responded violently" Arcee replied.
"Thanks to that, the whole damned world knows about you guys, and the Pentagon is not happy about it, I'll be over shortly to get the full details, Agent Fowler out"
At that, Ardent turned to Ratchet "I suppose 'robots in disguise' is out of the question now?"
Ratchet merely glared slightly.
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