AN: I only own my OCs. One belongs to a friend.

Lizzie: *takes break from running twins* Authoress...

Authoress: *curious* Yes Lizzie?

Lizzie: When am I going to see Paul again? There is so much happening and I think it would be wise to at least get in touch with him.

Authoress: *shocked* Wow Lizzie...you actually made a good point. *twins running up and Authoress runs*

Lizzie: *flames coming out of eyes* Authoress you are dead! *chases after all Authoress while being chased by twins*

Ch. 4: Mission is Go

Paul's 1st P.O.V.

"We cannot allow Megatron to use this space bridge for whatever purpose he has spent this time on." Optimus started as everyone besides Arcee was gathered around. While Raf and Miko seemed awake, I was anything but. My night was rough and full of worry for Lizzie. Thankfully, I had eventually fallen into sleep and the Primes had taken over my constant search for Lizzie. Alchemist Prime and Onyx Prime took over for me and were scouring what they could see in hopes of finding her.

"Optimus." Ratchet said, drawing all of our attentions to him. "I've pinpointed the location of Megatron's space bridge…high in Earth's orbit." That…wasn't' good. Well it wasn't good for them. I, on the other hand, was just happy that the timeline seemed to be running even with the absence of dark energon. But that still left the question as to what was going to happen at the space bridge.

Optimus stepped forward at that. "Out of our reach."

Miko was standing by Bulkhead's pede and, understandably, didn't understand exactly what they were meaning. "Okay, so you guys don't fly…" She then motioned to the ground bridge. "But can't you just groundbridge there?"

It took a lot of restraint to shake my helm at that. But, if I did, then I would have to make up an excuse as to why I was an I was running low on ideas since I was still half asleep.

Thankfully, Ratchet stepped right in and explained. "A groundbridge has limited range. Stretched all the way into orbit it's vortex could snap." He then slightly paused. "And scatter us to the stars."

From the look on Miko's face, I felt like she knew exactly what was going on now. The Autobots took a big chance in this episode and I could only hope that their luck would continue on to keep them safe. Earth was dependent on the Autobots, even though few on the planet knew that, and we could not afford them to be lost to the stars. It would take them months to return and, by that time, Megatron could take over the planet with his Decepticons.

…And I still needed to find Lizzie frag it!

"Since Megatron is likely already in transit," Optimus started, causing us to look at him, "I'm afraid we must take that risk." He then paused and all of us looked to the space bridge before he spoke again. "Reaching the space bridge first is our only means of stopping him." Yeah…whatever it was that Megatron was planning on doing now. I felt hopeless as we stared at the bridge.

I was so worried for the future that I barely registered Arcee's horn honking and it was only when she came to a stop that I realized that she had brought Jack back. That was another good sign that things might start to fix themselves. Who knew? Maybe Megatron was just waiting to use the dark energon here at the space bridge. That might explain what was going on. With Cliffjumper unexpectedly remaining online, Megatron might be waiting for the bridge to reveal the dark energon so Optimus and the others wouldn't know what to do about it.

"Hey," Jack started after he took off his helmet. "guess who's back?"

I felt kinda bad for the kid when no one really acknowledged his return but, to be fair to the Autobots, this was kind of a big deal right now. "Autobots, prepare for departure."

Arcee and Jack both looked confused. "Where to?" Arcee asked.

It was Miko who answered them…and quite nicely at that. "The final frontier."

"Space?" Jack asked, surprised. "I…I thought they didn't have any way to get there."

Bumblebee moved Raf off of his shoulder and, as he moved Raf to the ground, the young boy answered Jack. "They don't…not really."

That answer seemed to make jack realize just what the bots were risking and so he looked up at Arcee. "Be…seeing you?" Well, that sounded more like a question but I think Arcee got the point.

Arcee, in return, smiled and shrugged before she went to walk next to the others. As she did so, Ratchet walked up to the ground bridge controls and activated the bridge. It was amazing, watching the bridge come to life. It reminded me of just how advanced my children had become. They could travel across large distances in an instant.

"Be careful 'Bee?" I heard Raf ask his guardian and that snapped me out of my thoughts. We had to say goodbye to our guardians…just in case they didn't come back.

"I'll be back Raf…don't worry." Bumblebee answered Raf.

Miko then looked up at Bulkhead with a smile on her face. "I'm so jealous!"

Bulkhead knew that look and held out a servo before shaking his helm. "Don't even think about following me." He then walked over to where Optimus was.

Pedesteps coming up behind me caused me to look up and I couldn't help but smile when I saw Cliff standing above me. "What? No teary goodbye for me or wishing me luck?" He let out with a laugh.

Shaking my head, I gave him what he wanted…somewhat. "I know better Cliff. You wouldn't let the 'Cons take you out like that. Just…make sure you come back alive…alright?" Yeah because even though I didn't know how you were alive now, I wanted to make sure that you stayed that way.

"Yes sir." Cliff laughed and gave me a mock salute before moving to the others to the bridge. Now I was worried again…but this time for Cliffjumper. I didn't know what caused him to live this time around and, if it was just a hiccup in the time stream due to my arrival as well as Lizzie's, then the time stream might try and correct itself here. That wouldn't be good at all.

"Optimus," Ratchet started toward his old friend. "if you leave me stranded on a planet teaming with humans…I will never forgive you."

…Well Ratchet, why don't you tell us how you really feel? Well, this was his way of wishing Optimus luck and I really couldn't say much. The best I could do was 'don't die'. Yeah, I was going to win a grammy for that for sure.

Sarcasm really was a beautiful thing.

"Until we meet again old friend." Optimus responded to Ratchet and, while I couldn't confirm it definitely, I thought that I saw Optimus smile when he first started talking. Well…maybe. The Prime then activated his battle mask before turning to those gathered around him. "Autobots! Roll out!" I then watched as they all transformed into the alt modes and, after a few seconds, they drove through the bridge.

Once they were through the bridge, Ratchet closed the bridge with a sigh of relief. Guess that meant that they made it through. There went the hard part. Now, they just had to figure out what Megatron was planning with the space bridge now that dark energon was not a factor…or at least wasn't one yet.

Ratchet moved to the main monitor and soon, the life signals of all five Autobots on the bridge were showing and, from the sound of Bulkhead losing his balance that we could hear, I was guessing that he opened a comm line with the five of them.

"Keep your balance Bulk. Don't want to fall off here." I heard Cliffjumper say over the comm.

"Easy for you to say." We could all hear Bulkhead grumble as, by the sounds of it, he got his footing.

All of us humans were on the scaffolding area for us and I felt nervous. What was the reason that Megatron would have the space bridge? I was just continuing to hope that Megatron would bring the dark energon to show now. That would be perfect. Then everything would get back on schedule and my life would be made easier.

"Since we don't possess ready means of disabling the space bridge..." Optimus started before we all heard the sound of weapons being primed over the comm. "Nothing gets in…or out."

Of course, what would be coming out would be interesting. If, unfortunately, Megatron did not have dark energon available here, I would assume that he would be going to Cybertron for something. Maybe a relic of some sort that I haven't thought of. That might explain it. If Megatron was not focused on dark energon then he could be focused on increasing his weapon's supply. There were plenty of weapons that were left behind on Cybertron for the Decepticon leader to take advantage of.

There was an awkward silence on the other side of the line and, at first, I was wondering if the comm was even still active. My doubt was put to ease, though, with Arcee speaking. "Well…what are they waiting for?"

Again there was a pause and I knew that Optimus was studying the ship in front of them and, soon, would discover the dish that Bulkhead helped destroy. "It appears the Decepticons have sustained serious damage to their interstellar navigation system."

We all heard a metallic high five from our side before Cliff spoke. "Yeah! That was our handiwork!"

"Great job Bulkhead. Cliffjumper. Without the dish, Megatron will be unable to aim the space bridge at Cybertron." Optimus congratulated the two before informing everyone else.

"Don't the Decepticon know where their own planet is?" Raf asked in confusion.

"Naturally." Ratchet responded in a tone that suggested that we should have known that. While I did know that, it wasn't the humans' fault that they didn't know the fine points of space bridge and ground bridge travel. "But Cybertron is many lightyears away. To reach their target their aim must be astronomically precise."

Yes, and one would think that would be impossible to accomplish with Earth technology. But, given that I ran a technologies corporation, I knew that it was possible…just not easy. "If Megatron went to the trouble of rendezvousing with his space bridge…he must have an alternate targeting system. A remote one."

Ratchet couldn't seem to believe what he was hearing because he let out a huff of disbelief. "From what I know of Earth's technology I doubt there would exist a single radio telescope dish on this planet powerful enough to pinpoint Cybertron."

"While in theory you are correct." I started, causing everyone to look at me. I had to make sure that we got to Texas to try and prevent the space bridge from activating and getting the blueprints to destroy it. "Things on Earth tend to work better as a team then alone."

Raf, thankfully, caught on to what I was saying, "Like a whole bunch of linked radio telescope dishes." He then typed away on the computer in front of him before he brought up information on the place we needed to go. "Like the giant size array in Texas."

"Zip zip!" Ratchet immediately tried to scold Raf. "This is not child's play." Right. Child's play. I had seen this kid hack the government not too long ago so we could locate Agent Fowler and Ratchet thought that the kid was playing?

Thankfully, Optimus had his helm on straight. "Good thinking Raf." Ratchet looked surprised that Optimus took Raf's side in this but didn't complain or argue. "Ratchet, have Agent Fowler alert the array staff to the security hazard."

We all looked over to where Fowler was laying on a gurney when Prime said that. And, like fate was working for once, Fowler bolted up into a sitting position. "You! Soldier! You're out of uniform! Put on some pants!" Fowler immediately fell back unconscious after he said that. Agent Fowler and electrical shocks did not mix very well at all.

Ratchet shook his helm before responding to Optimus. "That…may be a challenge."

Immediately, Raf went back to the computer and, while I couldn't read everything that was flying on the screen, I realized that the young kid was trying to hack into the array network. Unfortunately for him, my company here helped set up the security program for the array and that meant that we would have to be on sight to access their computer network.

…What? I had to have my company have some works done when I made them exist here. You just can't be the government's main technology supplier and not have any projects done. Plus…I had to make sure that we went to the array in person.

"I can't get passed the array's firewalls. They're too thick!" Raf stated with annoyance before he slammed his fists down net to the keyboard.

Ratchet was just being surprised too much today. I think his processor was going to overload. "You…actually think you could keep the Decepticons out?" Of course, the disbelief was heavy in the old medic's vocals.

Raf didn't sound nearly as confident as he should have when he answered. "Maybe…if I could get in."

"Hold on Raf." I said before anyone could say anything. They all looked at me as I walked over to him. "What if I could get you all the way in? I'm talking about in the building in."

Now, Raf sounded more confident when he answered. "I could log into their internal network on the other side of the firewall."

However, now Optimus was starting to work against us…which was good in a timeline standing. "The risk is too great. The Decepticons will be there. Perhaps even on site."

"Optimus," Jack started. I figured I would let him have some of his lines. "with all due respect, you said it yourself. This is bigger than the safety of four humans."

"Yeah!" Miko chimed in with agreement. "If we let the 'Cons win, we're fragged." Where did she alredy pick up their cursing!? This was so not helping my mental state any.

I then took over Miko's line. "Us, along with every other person on our planet."

There was a pause on the other side and I knew that Optimus was thinking deeply about this. "Raf?"

We all looked down at Raf for a few seconds before the young boy nodded confidently and answered. "I want to give it a shot."

Lizzie's 1st P.O.V.

I gulped silently to myself as I sat on Starscream's shoulder. Right now, we were on the bridge and the screens were showing that someone…Raf…was messing with the Decepticon connection to the space bridges. While I knew that was what was supposed to happen I hoped that things stayed on track and they wouldn't succeed. Since it was me and my brilliant self who suggested that we use the array in Texas, then it was my aft on the line should the plan fail.

My mind instantly made a connection to later on when Cylas would fail his mission and be tortured by Knockout. Plus, since the good doctor wasn't here, then that meant that it would probably be Megatron who would be tearing me to shreds. I just had to hope and pray with all the luck that I had stored that the show stayed on track and Soundwave cut the hard lines so the humans wouldn't interfere anymore.

…Wait…humans? What was going on with my mind right now. I am a human and so that really just sounded off.

When the console in front of us started to beep, I looked down and felt an immense wave of relief and satisfaction hit me. I knew what that meant even if I couldn't read Cybertronian. That was a very good sign for me. I would so be living another day!

"Now Starscream?" Megatron questioned the mech who I was sitting on…the mech who, in a sense, saved my life.

It felt weird when Starscream started to chuckle darkly at that before he spoke. "Now." He then pushed a button and I watched in fascination as the space bridge lit up in a brilliant blue color. Frag I liked glowing lights too much. I found myself staring at it in a sort of trance.

However, the sound of the door opening caused me to turn just in time to see Megatron walk out of the room and the door close behind him. Where was he going? There wasn't any dark energon for him to throw. For that matter…what the frag were we even doing up here at the space bridge? "Um…Starscream?"

He turned and gave me a studying look. "What is it?" He questioned me back.

Thankfully, I hoped I had a somewhat intelligent question to ask him. "If I'm not supposed to know this you don't have to tell me…but what are w…you all trying to accomplish here?" Frag it all I almost said 'we'. I was not a Decepticon. I was merely a prisoner who they had not killed yet…and had decided to stop Megatron from stabbing himself with the dark energon…and had thought of the plan to use the satellite array to aim the space bridge.

…I was turning from a neutral supporter to a Decepticon. This wasn't good at all. Primus had brought me here to help bring the sides together but that was going to be hard to do if I became a Decepticon.

But…would that be so bad? I took a quick glance around me and realized that, with all things considered, the Decepticons hadn't treated me terribly. The twins and I were practically BFFs right now. I could even see them watching from the vent nearby. Starscream hadn't killed me yet and was actually tolerating me on the verge of being…nice. Was being a Decepticon such a bad thing? Would it be so terrible if I was one?

I had to get some sleep. If I got some rest, then maybe I could focus my thoughts.

Thankfully, Starscream answered my question…and it wasn't what I was expecting in the slightest. "While you were exploring with Rumble and Frenzy, we were able to get in contact with some of our troops who are still on Cybertron. We are going to open the space bridge close to where both groups of Decepticons are and transport them through. Our numbers will need to be increased so we can be prepared to fight if the Autobots receive reinforcements."

While I was stoked that there was a chance of more Decepticons coming, that surprisingly wasn't what took up my thoughts. I had always thought that the Decepticons had the advantage of numbers while they were here on Earth. However, with what Starscream just said, I realized that wasn't quite true. The drones, while beings with personal emotions themselves, couldn't fight to save their lives and were cannon fodder out on the battlefield. So, taking them out, that left the Decepticons with only three in their fold who could fight the Autobots here on Earth on even terms.

…And there were six Autobots here total and, taking out Ratchet since he rarely went into combat, that was still five on three odds. Now the show made sense why, after Megatron 'died' during the space bridge explosion, Starscream's first order of business was to garner more troops in the form of Skyquake. While that didn't work, I was seeing the episodes in a whole new light.

The Decepticons were the underdogs!

"So where is Megatron going?" I asked as Starscream turned the camera view of the ship toward the direction that Megatron was flying off to now.

In return, Starscream motioned to the screen before saying, "He's doing what any leader should do. He is acting as the distraction so our troops can make it through the bridge."

Unfortunately, while I wanted to stay here and watch the action, a huge yawn escaped my lips and I couldn't even try and cover it up. I needed to get some more sleep and my body was telling me that now was that time. Thanks a lot body.

Even worse timing, Soundwave walked into the room when I yawned and studied me. "To sleep, perchance to dream." Really Soundwave? Shakespeare of all things to quote from?

But, I got the message and I really was tired. So, when Soundwave moved his servo next to Starscream's shoulder, I slid down onto it. As soon as my feet landed on his servo, weariness washed over me and I just realized how tired I was. I barely registered Soundwave leaving the room and walking the walk to his room. Honestly, I almost fell asleep right there in his servo. The only thing that stopped that from happening was our arrival to his room.

Once we were inside, Soundwave walked over to where my berth was and used one of his tentacles to lift me up and set me on it. I didn't even care that I was sleeping on the hard…cold…metal berth. As soon as Soundwave set me down, I curled up on the berth and felt my eyelids grow extremely heavy before they closed. I heard Soundwave leave the room before I fell into sleep.

I didn't know how long I was asleep, and I wished I could have stayed in the dark comforting oblivion that was sleep longer. But, I was suddenly jostled awake by a servo rapidly picking me up and moving toward Soundwave's door. I barely had my eyes open but, from the feel of the servo underneath me, I could tell that it was Starscream's servo. But…what was he doing getting me up so quickly?

…And why did Soundwave let him wake me up?

Suddenly, the world blurred even more around me and I felt like my insides were going to explode. What was going on? Did Starscream transform around me to fly somewhere? Oh well. I would kill him once I woke up fully and got some metal armor to protect me. Until then, I would have to wait.

However, it seemed like our flight only lasted a second…and that is in the literal sense, before we seemed to be in front of a group of bots. From the blurry screens that I could see around the room I knew that we were on the bridge.

"Do you have an offlining wish?" I heard Starscream ask someone…but it was weird. Starscream's voice sounded farther away than being right above me. But, that didn't matter. I looked around the room, which still looked blurry, and took in everyone that was there. I could make out their basic shapes and that was good enough for now.

There was Soundwave and on his shoulders I could see the outlines of Rumble and Frenzy, blue Starscream, Megatron, silver Starscream, red drone, big blue drone, dark blue and dark gold drone…Wait…that wasn't right. How could there be two Starscream's in front of me if I was being held by Starscream? Also…drones didn't come in different colors. They were all that dark purple color.

My mind remembered what Starscream had told me earlier and so I quickly rubbed my eyes before staring in front of me. What I saw caused my jaw to drop. There, standing in front of me, where four bots that were not supposed to be here yet…and three never showed up at all…and I didn't even know who one of them was. The red blurr that I had seen was Knockout, the big blue one was Breakdown, and the blue Starscream, if I had to guess, was Thundercracker. But…since I could now clearly see Starscream in front of me…then who was…

I looked up at the bot holding me and saw a purple Starscream like bot staring down at me with a wide smile. He looked like a kid that had just found his Christmas presents. Of course, while the bot had never made an appearance in the show before, I had a feeling that this bot was Skywarp. Holy frag this wasn't good. With these four bots and the bot who I had no idea who he was, then the show was now irrevocably off course. Knockout and Breakdown weren't supposed to show up until episode ten and the others were never even in the show! Frag my life this wasn't good. I was blaming Paul. He was the one that messed up and sent me to the Nemesis so he got the blame.

"Look what I found!" The mech i was sure was Skywarp commented as he jumped from side to side.

Thankfully, before the hyper mech could drop me, Soundwave moved over to me and picked me up out of his servos. I was in such an awestruck state that I wouldn't have cared if I was to be struck dead at that very moment.

However, my awestruck moment was stopped by Megatron speaking. "This human came to be on board our vessel and, while we do not know her origins, she has proved herself capable of surviving on this ship and has proven herself useful…for now." Yeah, I wasn't in the clear yet. But, with Megatron saying that I at least knew that I wasn't a total goner! Who knew? Maybe I would end up living the month that the twins proposed that I would live.

"Come on! We need a role call stat." Starscream spoke while taking a step forward. However, a growl from Megatron had Starscream hesitating. "Of course…that is if you would permit one Lord Megatron?"

Yeah…that sounded about right. Thankfully for my curiosity at the unknown mech, Megatron nodded once and they all took that as a cue for a roll call. "Knockout, medic and automobile enthusiast." The red doctor introduced himself. To my surprise, I wasn't fangirling like I knew I would have normally. Maybe it was my time spent with the Decepticons already that numbed me for this experience.

Breakdown then nodded toward us. "Breakdown, warrior and ex-Wrecker." That was right! I forgot that Breakdown's origin had him once an Autobot that came to the Decepticons! Good choice Breaky!

The blue seeker I was assuming was Thundercracker sent a glare at the triplet who had brought me in here before saying, "I am Thundercracker, aerial combat warrior and a member of Starscream's seeker trine." Ah! They had trines in this dimension! I wasn't sure, since it never came up, but now I knew it for a fact! Yes!

Then, the purple seeker…the one that had literally yanked me out of sleep and who I was sure was Skywarp, introduced himself. "Skywarp here, aerial combat warrior and a member of big brother Starscream's seeker trine!" Ha! And they were brothers! My day was getting so much better. Thank every single bit of my luck that this was happening!

I paid attention, though, as the final bot…who I just noticed had blue optics, spoke. "I'm Vox, ex-Autobot intelligence officer and now hold the same job for the Decepticon cause. Also, a very big fan of kicking the scrap out of Autobot intelligence officers."

Wow! It was a new bot! While I wanted to get to know them more…my body decided that it was time for me to go back to sleep and so I let out another yawn. Soundwave must have sent a private message to Megatron because the leader nodded and Soundwave walked me back to his room. Of course, the twins were with this time and I had a feeling that all three of us were going to be getting some sleep here.

Hopefully, I could get in contact with Paul soon. There was so much that I needed to yell at him for and talk with him about. I wasn't sure how much longer I could wait.

Paul's 1st P.O.V.

Frag my life. That as all I could possibly even think at the click. The time line was now so screwed up that there was no going back from it. How could I possibly know that? Well, that might have a little something to do with,

"Frag it Optimus what kind of scrapheap is this place?" A big bot with a somewhat large chin complained to Optimus as the two of them walked over with everyone else. Cliff had already been in the room with me.

While they were at the space bridge, things happened and a group of five Autobots were actually able to come through from Cybertron and give the Autobots better odds than they had before against the Decepticons. Who were those bots? Well, the one arguing with Optimus had been introduced as Sentinel Major. He was the creation of the last Prime and thus had a superiority complex that would have him get into arguments with Optimus quite often…at least from what I remember when I was still a part of my whole being.

"This place isn't so bad and we can have a lot of fun!" I could barely understand the blue bot that raced into the room at high speed. That, of course, was Blurr. Thankfully, he wasn't quite as fast a talker as would be seen on the television programs that Lizzie used to watch about my children but, still, he talked faster than your average Cybertronian.

Bumblebee and Bulkhead soon walked into the room followed by a black heavy duty mech that was between the size of the two previously mentioned bots. I didn't know much about him, and he had never appeared in any of the other dimensions, but this bot had introduced himself as Pitch. I made a mental note that, if I couldn't contact Lizzie tonight, I would dig through the information I could and find out more about Pitch. "I'm with Sentinel on this one. This dirt patch of a planet hardly seems like the place Megatron would want to have his grand plan come together."

Arcee then came into the room and she was followed by Ratchet and a red car mech that had a small blue and yellow mini-bot on his shoulder. That smiling bot let out a laugh at what Pitch said before making a comment of his own. "I wouldn't be too sure on that one Pitch. Earth seems to have plenty of energon and Megatron knows that we have to be cautious around the humans. So, this would make a pretty ideal spot for him to set up his main camp." And that was Blaster, with his mini-con Eject on his shoulder.

They were the reason that I knew that the timeline was fragged. They had been on Cybertron and near the space bridge when it had opened. The five of them had decided that it was worth the risk to take the bridge than remain on Cybertron. So, they had snuck through. Thankfully, from what the Autobots were able to report, no bot else came through the bridge before it was destroyed.

But…that of course had led to another problem…Megatron was still awake and fully functional. I was done trying to stop the changes from happening now. I just had to focus on finding Lizzie and making sure that we got on the same page with each other…and that she was alright. Wherever she was, I had a feeling that it wasn't comfortable and that would not be right for her to have to suffer through. At least if I could contact her, then I could send her some verbal comfort.

Actually, when the bots had come back from the mission, I had been in my room trying…and failing…to contact my MIA employee. If I couldn't find her soon, I felt like I was going to have a spark attack. Actually, looking around and seeing the tension between Optimus and Sentinel, I was going to have that spark attack one way or another. Why did I have to ask to stay at base? Now I was going to be stuck in the middle of all of this slag.

The only good thing was that I could use being 'human' to my advantage. "Hey bots," I jumped slightly when they all looked down at me. It was going to be weird to get used to this many bots in the base. Thankfully, the base was a lot bigger than it looked, and even had an underground labyrinth of rooms and passageways, so we could keep bringing in bots if we had to. Anyways, I had to get out of the room. "I think I'm going to bed for the night. I'll see you all in the morning."

"Night Paul!" Cliffjumper, who I was now thankful to for being alive and my guardian, said as I walked down the halls. Right as I left the room, I heard the sound of arguing start up again and I sighed. Lizzie was so lucky that she wasn't here right now. I knew, from keeping up on my research on her, that she would have destroyed every bot in that room before too long.

Once I was in my room, which thankfully was far enough away from the bots that I didn't have to hear their arguing, I got to my bed and laid down before closing my eyes. I would try one more time tonight to reach my employee.

I glanced around at my surroundings and was surprised to find myself in a simple void of space. This was different from the other times that I had tried to contact Lizzie. Before, I wouldn't even be able to leave my conscious mind and now…I was in space.

"PAUL!"

Jumping in surprise at the voice, I turned and felt a large wave of relief wash over me when I saw Lizzie coming toward me. She was alive and she was well. That was a very good thing. "Lizzie, I'm glad that you are," I didn't get another word out of my mouth as Lizzie threw a right hook and drilled me in the jaw. "Frag it Lizzie what's,"

"Wrong?" She finished off my sentence with a yell. "What's wrong? Oh, I could give you a long list of scrap that is wrong but the most important thing I need to get off my chest is that you fragging landed me on the Nemesis!" Oh scrap. She was on there. However, I was shocked that she had been on there since I had sent her away.

"Lizz," I tried to interrupted her.

However, I flinched when her anger came off of her in waves. "Not only that, but Starscream of all fraggers found me first and I think all of my luck has been used up in these past few days of trying to stay alive and in one piece! What the frag do you think you were thinking by putting me on the Nemesis? The Autobots are going to be a lot harder to persuade but does that matter? No! Now I am on the Decepticon warship and there is no way that I am going to be able to escape!" While I cringed as she lectured me. But, after all that I bet she has been through, she deserves a little venting at me.

Thankfully, she stopped yelling but she hyperventilated for a few more minutes before she finally calmed down and a relieved look came on her face. "Lizzie…are you alright?" I asked her softly.

Slowly, she nodded her head and looked up at me before she embraced me in a hug. "Paul, I'm so glad you're okay." That I was okay? She was the one who was with the Decepticons on the Nemesis but she was worried about me?

After a few moments, the two of us separated and sat down on…dream matter, before I started to question her. "Lizzie, do you know how Cliffjumper is still alive?"

Thankfully, she nodded. "Yeah. After Starscream found me and surprisingly didn't kill me, he took me to the bridge and Cliff was there. Starscream decided to let Cliff go because he didn't want to expose me to death so first hand. Starscream's been acting really creepy like that. He isn't the backstabber that the show had. Could our being here have caused that?"

I nodded. That was indeed a possibility and, given the current situation, a very good thing that happened. But, Lizzie's explanation also told me of something else. "You were the human that Cliffjumper saw." Lizzie nodded to that but it had been more of a statement to myself. If I had just shown Cliffjumper a picture of Lizzie, then I would have known that she was on the ship all along. Of course, with Cliffjumper being alive I should have realized it. Speaking about changed things, another important item came up in my head. "Lizzie, you wouldn't happen to know what happened to the large chunk of dark energon that Megatron had…would you?"

When she gulped I had a feeling that I knew what she was going to say. "I just reacted. It was so shocking to watch Megatron about to stab himself with the shard that I yelled at him to stop! I didn't think he would actually listen and then destroy the chunk he had!" Frag it Lizzie was the reason that there wasn't any dark energon. But, I couldn't be mad at her for it. She had been alone on the Nemesis and was just trying to stay alive.

Since that was the case, I felt like I should ask her something. "Lizzie, what do you think your odds are of escape?" If they were half decent chances then I was going to try and help the Autobots track the warship down and save Lizzie. Frag, since we now had Blaster that would be even easier to do.

Unfortunately, Lizzie shook her head at my question. "Less than zero percent. Starscream assigned my unofficial guardian as Soundwave and said mech has really embraced the role. I even have my own berth!"

Frag. If Starscream was watching Lizzie…or even a drone, then we could have launched a rescue mission no problem. But, with Soundwave being in charge of watching Lizzie then that chance, like Lizzie said, was even less than zero percent. "Paul," I looked at Lizzie as she stared at me. "are the Autobots all alright from the spacebridge mission?"

A quick look of guilt passed her eyes but I didn't comment on that as I answered her…thankfully positively. "Yes everybot is alright. The Decepticons didn't complete their objective and, what's better, five Autobots were able to sneak through the space bridge and have joined us on Earth. They are Sentinel Major, Pitch, Blurr, Blaster, and Eject."

I expected her to look excited about there being new bots in the timeline but, instead, she almost looked a little nervous. "Did you say Pitch?" Wait…he was the newest in this timeline. Why did she sound so familiar with him? Before I could ask her on it, she shook her head and smiled. "Never mind…it's not important right now. Paul, you'll,"

And that was as far as she got before her words went silent and, in an instant, she faded into nothing. That meant that someone on her side had woken her up. I just hope that whatever she wanted to tell me wasn't too important. I didn't want any unpleasant surprises. I already had enough surprises to last me two lifetimes.

I pulled myself awake and, immediately, I created a photo of Lizzie in my wallet to use. I had to let the Autobots know that the human on the ship was my employee. That would ease my worry somewhat, since I knew where she was, and the Autobots would know who they were looking for.

Thankfully, when I got back to the main room, Cliffjumper was still awake along with the others. Also thankfully it was quiet and so I was going to be able to get Cliffjumper's attention pretty quickly. "Paul? I thought you were going to bed?" Cliff asked me as he came to a stop in front of me.

Everyone else looked toward me before I spoke. "I was doing some thinking Cliffjumper…about Lizzie."

"Your missing employee right?" Cliffjumper asked me.

Nodding, I continued. "Yeah, that's the one. I had a thought come to my mind while I was laying down and I wanted to ask you about it." I then pulled the picture out of my wallet before holding it up to Cliffjumper. "Is this the human you saw on the Decepticon ship?"

All optics were on us as Cliffjumper picked me up so he could bring the picture closer to his optics. I had to act 'surprised' when his optics widened and he nodded. "Yeah that's her! That's the girl that Starscream had in his servo when he came onto the bridge!"

While the Autobots looked concerned, I just felt exhausted. Barely anything about this mission was going right and I knew that there was still a long road ahead of us. Hopefully, I would be able to make it through in one piece.

Paul: Thank Creation that you're alright Lizzie.

Lizzie: *glares* *silent treatment*

Paul: *looks at Authoress* I'm guessing she is mad about the situation.

Authoress: *nods* Yes, but she'll come around eventually. I have so many plans. *dark chuckle as she walks off*

Paul and Lizzie: *shiver at whatever it is Authoress is planning*

AN: Boom! Lookie here folks I'm giving you another chapter! Changes for everyone! I want to really screw with the timeline this time around, since Power of One didn't have too much of that, and I figured that the best ways to do that were to A) Get rid of Dark Energon as a major factor. B) Cliffjumper not being dead. C) Paul and Lizzie are separate and I plan on them staying that way for a good chunk of the story (will make for great dream-talk sequences between the two) and of course D) Bring in new bots from the beginning episodes! I have a central theme that I am basing this re-write on and this chapter gives a hint as to what that is. If you think you know it, shoot me a PM with your guess and I'll let you know if you are right or wrong.

...EEEEEE! I'm so excited to have Skywarp and Thundercracker in the series! (of course Knockout and Breakdown and Vox too but I rarely use Starscream's brothers) I think it is going to be a lot of fun! Of course, the Autobots got a boost with Blaster, Eject, Sentinel Major, Blurr, and Pitch (he is an OC of mine and if you have read the stories with him in it then you might see a small part of what is going to happen.) *evil smirk*

Next chappie takes place during Masters and Students and, of course, we will be having Lizzie's and Paul's 1st person POV as well as at least one new POV. Until next time, please leave a review! (even if it's to say hi! I love all of you who have read this. So let me know that you have so I can loves you! XD ) Until next chapter TTYL! *walks off with dark cloud overhead and evil laughter slowly reverberating from voice.*