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Broken boundaries

Part 25

"Vector Prime, what do you mean?" Lori asked, "As long at time exists you're supposed to be around!"

"Children, listen well for I have no time to repeat myself." Vector Prime sighed, he hated to see the children this upset but he had little time to spare. Every second he delayed the temporal disruptions would get worse and worse. Still, he felt he owed it to them to calm their fears. "Everywhere Unicron goes he distorts space and time. Since my creation I have done my best to repair the damage he leaves in his wake but a sudden resurrection like this will be like dropping a boulder in a calm pool of water. Every event in this timeline will shuffle and distort until nothing is recognizable."

"I don't quite understand..." Bud said, but Coby was silenced by a sharp 'sh' from Lori. So instead of arguing he pointed out the window of the Cobybot at the strange burning speck on the moon's surface. "Vector Prime Do you see that fire down there on the moon?"

Vector Prime turned and looked, and with his extraordinary vision he saw what Bud was pointing at. A wave of shame and disappointment came over the guardian of time, he knew well the sad fate that had befell his ancient brother. It had been so long that even Vector Prime could not recall the name Prime had bestowed to him, he could only remember that The Fallen one was meant to observe the force of entropy in the universe and how he had fallen under Unicron's banner.

"Of all the things that I am ashamed of Bud, that Transformer down on the surface of the moon represents my greatest failure." Vector Prime said, "I do not have time to explain everything, just know that the Transformer you see down there is more dangerous than even Galvatron. Warn Optimus Prime before he decides to engage him in combat."

"Vector Prime wait..." Jolt squeaked, his optics pleading with the giant clockwork robot. He had left them once, did he really have to leave them again so soon? "Where are you going?"

"I have no choice Jolt, I can only exist here and now because of the disruption in time and space caused by Unicron." Vector Prime said, he hated to have to run out on the children and the Mini-cons but he did not act soon this whole time line would destabilize. "I will once more leave the children once more in your capable hands. Steelburst, transform at once! I have need of you in my plan."

Steelburst, who had remained silent through out this encounter did as he was told. Vector Prime this would mean possibly loosing the off center Autobot but the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the one.

"I will do all that I can to make things right children, please take care of yourselves!" Grasping Steelburst roughly by the arm both transformers disappeared utterly.

Silence hung inside the Cobybot's cockpit. Vector Prime was one of their oldest friends and to just see him run off after loosing him was like opening an old wound to pour salt inside. The same was true for the Mini-cons, but Safegaurd was the hardest hit. Where as Jolt, SixSpeed, and Reverb had known Vector Prime for many years, Safeguard had been the guardian's companion for nearly an eon.

Despite the sorrow the whole group felt, it was Lori who snapped them out of their funk. "Wait, with Steelburst and Vector Prime gone that means that we're stranded out here in space with Thunderblast."

The deactivated decepticon floated nearby, but she was as lifeless as the surface of the moon far below them. For that they could at least be a little grateful.

"Well, at least I had the foresight to install an oxygen recycler in the cockpit after last time so we don't suffocate..." Coby said, "It looks like we'll be up here for a while."

How was it possible? Unicron was supposed to be destroyed. That was the thought that echoed through both Optimus primes. Though they spoke from different experiences they had both destroyed the Chaos Bringer in their own universes and now they were staring as the monster planet was slowly emerging from a hole in the universe.

For Megatron is was even worse. He had hoped that he would never have to gaze upon Unicron again, it only brought back memories of his time under the thumb of Unicron and the insanity that followed. Scourge only remembered the many, many times Galvatron blasted him and his Sweeps for almost no reason.

"Alright Scourge," Megatron snarled, once more pulling the tracker up by the throat. "Was this your plan? To bring Unicron back so he can win your battles for you?"

"Never I swear!" Scourge screamed, more terrified than ever. "I was going to rule this Cybertron, I can't do that if it's destroyed!"

Once more Megatron threw Scourge into the dirt. "Listen well Scourge, if we have to fight Unicron again, you will be leading from the front."

Redalert turned to his commanding officer, "Optimus, what's the plan?"

Optimus hadn't taken his optics away from the massive hand, it all seemed to surreal. They defeated Unicron when he attacked Cybertron, they destroyed him when he tried again years later, and then they destroyed the singularity that had remained after the Chaos Bringer's death. The native autobot commander wondered if it they would ever truly be free of Unicron.

"Optimus!"

Optimus shook his head, "I don't know Redalert... I just don't-"

"Krrtz- Optimus! On the other side of the ship!" Bud's excited voice rang through Optimus's audio receptors, spooking the commander enough to change his doubt into concern. "On the other side of the Atlantis is the guy who's doing this! Vector Prime told us!"

This didn't make any sense, but then again this was Bud talking. "Vector Prime? Slow down Bud, what are you talking about?"

On board the Cobybot Coby had taken the microphone away from his younger brother. "Optimus, you won't believe this but Vector Prime appeared. He said that the fire we see from up here is actually a Transformer called... what did he call him? Oh thanks Lori, Vector Prime called him 'The Fallen.' He also said you shouldn't fight him."

Optimus wasn't sure what to make of this, he needed more information. "Did he say anything else Coby?"

"He said that Unicron was disrupting time and that he was going to go fix things, Then he took Steelburst and just disappeared." Coby said, "Optimus, we're stranded out here. Can you send some help?"

At the mention of The Fallen Jazz froze, he remembered the name well. It was millions of years ago during the dark age of Cybertron when Optimus and Megatron were thought dead when the two factions splintered and infighting was common. The Fallen appeared out of nowhere and kidnapped several autobots then raided the prison, Level Zero where they were holding Blitzwing. It was then Jazz and several other bots fought and were defeated by the monster. It wasn't the defeat that made the normally cool autobot tense up, but rather how easily The Fallen had tossed them aside to get what he wanted. If they had to face him again Jazz did not know if they could possibly win without nothing less than complete overwhelming force.

"What are your orders Megatron?" Soundwave asked, not sure what to do at this point. "How will we be returning to our home dimension?"

Megatron gritted his teeth, he had no idea exactly when they could return home to the Cybertron they called home. Except, there was one way. Scourge's little machine could be used to send them back, with a little tweak here and there. Prime would just have to deal with a little pain that's all.

"Where is your device Scourge?" Megatron demanded, "We have a little appointment back at Polyhex. Your trial."

"T-trail?" Scourge sputtered, he knew what a joke that was. Decepticon justice was swift and harsh, he would most likely just get a list of his charges before being torn to peices or thrown into the smelting pools.

"I may be able to save you from your trial if you were to cooperate." Megatron mused, a twisted smile crossed his face. "Well Scourge?"

"Megatron, I am detecting a powerful signal being sent from the moon's surface." Soundwave said, "It's being sent in Unicron's direction."

"Where is it Soundwave?" Optimus Prime asked.

"On the other side of this ship, the position where your counterpart informed us of this entity called The Fallen." Soundwave droned as respectively as he could in his monotone voice.

Blastoff flew up into the air to peer over the ship. Sure there on the other side was the firey transformer and the massive machine. Coming back down Blastoff said; "It's there alright, and so is that weirdo."

"Then our course is clear, we go over there and take the machine away from this 'Fallen.'" Megatron scoffed, not believing for a second that this one transformer was a match for their forces. "Insecticons, order your drones to come to this location. No matter anyone's strength they cannot stand against a whole army."

"That would take too long Megatron," Optimus Prime said, "by then Unicron could be past an unknown event horizon and be impossible to stop him from coming back."

It was a possibility, yes, one Megatron did not want to chance. "Then we will have to take him out as quickly as possible."

"But Vector Prime said not to engage him," Optimus, the native Optimus said, "I do not expect you to put your trust in someone you have never met but I know he would not advise against doing something unless there was a good reason."

"You would rather have Unicron destroy your Cybertron?" Hound asked.

"Of course not, I'm merely stating there must be a way to get around him without fighting him." Optimus said.

"Maybe he's right. I fought this whacko way back during Cybertron's dark age." Jazz said, "A whole Autobot platoon was nothin compared to this guy. I don't want to fight him again unless I really have to."

Jazz's words made Optimus Prime reconsider, but what choice did they have? Looking around at the troops there was one way. "Bombshell, do you still have any Cerebro shells?"

"Of course I do!" Bombshell snorted, insulted that Prime would even think that he would never go anywhere unprepared. "What are you planning?"

To be continued.

Okay okay it was short I know but if I included the big battle in here it would be huge. Working on that right now so don't worry. That's right, the next chapter is the Fallen vs everyone on the moon!

GrimlockX4 - Thanks.

dark knight vergil - One can only hope the TFs will have more screen time. But yeah, I guess that Unicron would be larger than Primus since Unicron devours anything from stars to planet while Primus... well doesn't. In fact in the comics Unicron once said after creating Hook, Line, and Sinker that his mass was too great to teleport. Suggesting that Unicron does increase in size the more he eats.

SpartanCommander - yeah, I know the Cybertron Decepticon you mean. I didn't think he was worth brining in since we only see him a few times in the series. As for Blastoff, I tried to get him as well as I could but to be honest I didn't think I was going to have him in a scene for very long.

FTKnight - Thanks Knight, glad to see you're still reading this.

tomorrow4eva - Yeap, but really there's three problems. Unicron, The Fallen, and the collapse of time and space.

Meirelle - You got mah fix! *dives into glowy sugary cookie mound* NOM NOM NOM!