(Song by: Rev Theory)

(2nd POV)

Nemesis waited on the tarmac with Ironhide, Hound, and Elita. They were going to be going to a different state, using a ground bridge, Nemesis was so deep in thought, still trying to figure things out. He was so engulfed in his thoughts, he didn't even see the pink femme close in on him and sit lower on her axles.

"What's been biting at you?" she asked, seemingly concerned.

"Don't worry about it femme" Nemesis wasn't bothered by anything, and if he was, he will just ignore it until it goes away.

His attention was caught by a black jeep looking almost exactly like Hound, but this one had a maroon custom bumper, warn winch, custom black wheels, bright purple HID's with a light bar, and blacked out parking lights. Hound drove up besides it with his femme in his cab, she looked very excited, the Jeeps looked exactly the same but with different colors.

"You guys ready! We will drop by the Idaho base first and make sure all is good, then we'll hit the dunes!" That was Sage, Sage was driving the Jeep. Bailey was in the passenger seat with a large smile on her face, all the bots revved their engines excitedly, save for Nemesis, he didn't understand the enthusiasm for large desert hills. But he was surprised to see Elita looking so enthused, that or she was just revving her engine because she chose one of the fastest alt modes of this planet.

A space bridge formed, and Sage put her Jeep in first gear and floored it into the space bridge, Nemesis was about to follow her, but was cut off by two Lamborghinis. One whooping as they flew through the space bridge, Elita let her engine snarl and went through after them quickly.

Nemesis being next, and finally Hound followed, he hit dirt on the other side, Sage was talking to the twins, leaning out her window. The prime caught her gaze, and his spark gave a flare, he mentally scolded it, it needed to stop doing that and it needed to stop now. Sage smiled at him as if she knew what was going on with him and then slid back into her car and got onto the road, her Jeep engine roaring.

Primus, her smile, his spark flared a little more. No! stop it! Nemesis refused to be like the rest of the Autobots, to be weak enough to succumb to his spark and become attached to weak flesh creatures. Flesh creatures who had the life span shorter than a cybercat! And were fragile enough to die by even the dumbest things.

Suddenly, Nemesis paused, wait, he was thinking 'rest of the Autobots?' He should not have gone on this mission, any of them, the spying mission or the mission to Idaho, because he was near Sage.

"Nemesis!" Elita called loudly, he suddenly realized how many times she has been trying to get his attention, and was embarrassed.

"What has gotten into you?" She seemed concerned, she rolled next to him.

"We need to get moving, Sage, the twins, and Hound are moving out, are you sure you're ok to be doing this? We can send you back, it's no big deal" she was speaking to him in a more gentle tone. The Black and red Peterbilt just huffed and started to get on the road, trying to pick up his pride in the process, he needed to talk to Sage again.

He shifted gears and went more quickly so he could catch up, Elita flanked him, probably to make sure he didn't try anything. But her concern seemed genuine. No, she was an Autobot, and she was a merciless one out on the battlefield, she was known for taking down whole Decepticon scouting patrols by herself during the war.

They closed in on a descent sized base, a check point with lots of security surrounding it, everything from guards to fences, it looked like an airbase. One by one, Sage went in first showing her and Bailey's clearance and they were allowed in, the twins followed, digging the attention from the humans. Nemesis was stopped, Elita rolled up next to him.

"He's with us" she informed the soldier gently and with respect. The soldier tapped his ear piece and spoke into it, asking for permission to allow the Ex-Decepticon on base, there was a moment, then he let Nemesis through. Though it was obvious no trust was gained from the soldier, but Nemesis would get over that real quickly. And if it wasn't for his foggy dazed processor, he would be thinking about how easy it was to get into two bases now, but no, his head was swimming.

The Autobots stopped outside of the base and Sage dropped Bailey off who scampered towards the main entrance with sparkling excited eyes. What the pit got into her? Nemesis watched the Arielbots walk up to the entrance, Silverbolt seemed to be staring at her with disbelief then quickly squatted down and scooped her up. She hugged his neck tightly and kissed his jaw, he gave her a smile with soft optics as he stared at her for a moment.

"And how did we get the pleasure of you coming to the base?" The large mech asked.

"Jazz and Lindsey caught a weird large energy spike/blip, Optimus asked us to check it out, well, these guys will be hitting the dunes while I check it out, any idea what it could have been?" Slingshot walked up to her.

"That was just Wheeljack with one of his crazy inventions, you know how he is" the mech grumbled.

"Alright, let's go check it out! What was he even making?" Silverbolt took her into the base. Sage watched them until they disappeared then turned around, with an excited look in her eyes.

"Let's hit the dunes my peeps!" She quickly hopped in her jeep and it revved to life, purple halo lights lighting up and taking off towards the gates. Nemesis, Elita, Hound, and the twins started to follow her again, they went into a single file line and pooled out of the gates. Sage made a few turns, then just like that, they hit sand, the twins took off, hightailing it through the large clearing of sand, drifting and doing doughnuts.

Sunstreaker zoomed by a hill riding parallel to it, suddenly the black jeep followed by the green jeep jumped clean over him and revved off, the twins followed them. Elita took off easily passing the twins, revving her engine and shredding sand in the process kicking it everywhere, Nemesis followed them at more of a leisurely pace. Sage let the bots take the lead and rode next to Nemesis, rock music blaring.

Happiness eminent in her eyes as the music blasted in the air and the fresh breeze flowed through her windows, whipping her hair around. She winked at him, then hit a few rocker switched zooming up a steep hill of sand, shredding it all the way up with another smile on her face.

Nemesis watched as she shredded the top of the hill keeping up with them, she jumped over Elita when she got to the drop off on the other side. She tried to climb another hill but her wheels merely spun, she tried again, only spinning, she growled with frustration.

"Hey Sage! Need a tow?" Hound seemed surprise but offered her regardless, Carrie steered Hound the other way, a knowing look in her eyes, what were they up to? The twins did a drifting U-turn and zoomed back over to Sage.

"It appears the mighty Shattered Glass Hound is stuck, it was inevitable, it is old and not as high performance as sunny and I" Sideswipe chuckled, he was enjoying making fun of her. Nemesis doesn't know why, but he suddenly had the urge to flatten the red Lamborghini, he started to go up to him but Elita cut him off.

"Watch" she whispered. Just as Sideswipe went behind her, Sage messed with some of the controls in her car, and 4-Wheel drive was activated. Sideswipe started to backtrack but it was too late, a massive wave of sand blasted the red twin and he snarled angrily. Sage laughed as she easily climbed the hill and took off to avoid the now ticked off red twin.

"One of these days Sides, you're going to not fall for that" Sunstreaker snapped at him irritably before following the two as the red Lambo angrily chased after the black Jeep, Nemesis hid the chuckle as much as he could but it slipped.

They all traveled along, going near two very large dune hills, ones that could tower Nemesis if he stood in his bipedal mode. There seemed to be a jump in between them, but if one was to fail that jump it would be the last stunt they did, the drop between them is very large, so missing was a fatality.

"They're called the canyons, the one on the left is Banshee hill, and the one on the right is buggy hill. Only sand rails can scale it successfully, and make the jump successfully, Sides has been trying to get Sage to jump the canyons for over a year" Elita explained. Nemesis revved his engine in anger, shocking the femme and tracker near him.

"She better not try the jump, that fall would be a fatality" Nemesis growled, then paused, did-did he just? No, Primus he was so done right now. Elita and Hound smirked internally, unbeknownst to Nemesis's knowledge, he trekked ahead of them, shredding sand.

(Lol! So the chapter names weren't showing up, whoops, got that all fixed up, took me a minute. This is why I need reviews, so smarticles like you guys can correct me when I am all fucking up, and speaking of reviews. Thank you so much SolusLightblast, my lord and Savior LOL! Not really y'all, I'm Roman Catholic. Anywho, thanks Solus for the follow, favorite, and all the reviews, so greatly appreciated! I'll get another one up today too!)