ICanNotThinkOfAName

Connor stood at one of the edges of the watch tower, staring down at earth. He wanted nothing more than to find M'gann, Levi and Kara, three people he considered family, but at the same time he wanted to incinerate whoever took them, knowing fully that going beyond the line would mean no return, but he was so overcome with rage, perhaps it was the fact that not even a week after Levi woke up from his battle with TidalWave and was already taken away once more, or perhaps he's just angry because whoever took M'gann took the plan he had later that night away.

"Connor, you okay?" A female voice, presumably Batgirl's, asked, but the clone didn't respond with an answer, but rather another question.

"How did you feel when you found out Dick died?" He asked and Batgirl looked in surprise, but that surprise quickly turned to sadness, before she removed her mask.

"Devastated." Barbra explained as she stood next to her friend.

"Do you want to find his killer?" Connor asked and Barbra nodded.

"When first found out all I wanted to do was find that bastard and rip out his throat. But by doing that I'd be betraying the others, and that's not a line I'm willing to cross." She explained and he sighed.

"If you two are done talking, we're leaving." The two turned to see Damian standing a few feet behind them, and they nodded before following him up to the main area of the watchtower, where Batman and Red Robin were waiting.

"Ready?" Batman asked and got a nod from Batgirl, while Superboy just walked past him.

"Remember, at first they might not see us as allies, so be prepared." Batman instructed and the group nodded.

"Ready Sierra?" Batgirl asked as she held a hand to her comlink.

"Ready." She answered and Batgirl gave the go-ahead to Batman, who nodded before grabbing a small device, and pressing a button. A strange green vortex opened a few feet in front of them, it was big to say the least.

"Now what?" Robin asked as he crossed his arms, and without hesitation, Batman simply walked through, so the others simply shrugged it off and followed. Ratchet repeatedly typed in the same code to the Autobot base's computer, it seemed to have a highly developed virus.

"Need some help Ratchet?" Raf asked as he waddled over with his lap top.

"I can handle it." He said coldly. Ever since the TidalWave event the Autobots had been, different, but who could blame them after finding out that their leader had no recollection of them at all.

"Up for a ride, Arcee?" Jack asked as he walked over to his guardian, who was sitting against a wall with her arms crossed.

"No thanks." She responded simply and turned her head away from him.

"Bulk?" Miko said simply as she looked up to her best friend, who was leaning against a wall.

"Not right now Miko." He said simply and the girl pouted in anger. The bunker was completely silent for a moment, but it was short lived as a ground bridge opened up in the very centre, causing the Autobots to get up and prepare their weapons, while the humans hid in case of a Decepticon attack. The group stood there for a moment, weapons prepared, but the individual that emerged from the ground bridge was the one person they least expected, Batman.

"I presume you're the Autobots?" He asked and looked up at the aliens.

"So what if we are?" Arcee asked as she prepared his wrecking ball.

"We need your help." A second voice said, as Batgirl, Red Robin and Robin emerged.

"Two days ago Transformer, or as you call him, Optimus, and a squadron of heroes were sent on a mission to investigate a MECH base a few hundred miles from Jasper, but as they entered all communications were cut off. By the time we got to the base it was empty." Batman explained, as the Autobots lowered their weapons.

"Why should we help you?" WheelJack asked as he crossed his arms.

"Because if you don't I'll incinerate all of you." Another voice said, as Superboy emerged from the ground bridge, and instantly Raf recognised him, from behind the supports the humans were hiding behind, as Connor Kent.

"Try me." Arcee said as she held up her blaster once more, but Ratchet pushed it down.

"We'll assist you, but once this is over you forget we even exist." He requested and Batman squinted his eyes.

"You work with humans?" Superboy asked as he looked to Ratchet, changing the subject.

"The Earth government has assisted us in many ways, they've kept us a secret from all other humans for many years." The Autobot answered and Superboy raised an eyebrow.

"Then I suppose those three teenagers are part of the army?" He suggested and Jack, Miko and Raf froze on the spot.

"Great, now their cover's blown as well." Arcee said as she rolled her optics. Jack, Miko and Raf came out from behind the supports, and Superboy looked in surprise at the three, and in the training room Sierra stood up straight in shock, causing her chair to be pushed backwards.

"Hi Connor." Raf said nervously as he waved a hand and Superboy sighed.

"You know him?" Robin asked.

"Neighbour." He responded simply.

"Batgirl, put me in project mode." Sierra requested, so Batgirl raised a hand to her wrist and pressed a button, causing her eye holes to glow blue and a holographic screen of Sierra to pop up right in front of the three.

"Sierra?" Jack questioned.

"So this is where you've been going?" She asked, in a surprisingly calm matter.

"Well...yeah." He said while rubbing the back of his head.

"Catch up later, we need to locate Transformer effective immediately." Batman cut in as he walked up to Ratchet's computer.

"Do you have any leads so far?" The Autobot medic asked as he walked over to his computer.

"No, we were hoping you had some sort of device that could locate your own kind." Batman suggested and Ratchet thought about the idea.

"While it is true, we can do that, however Optimus is no longer a full Cybertronian, I'd need more information on the human in order to locate him." He responded and Batman held up a USB.

"This has all the information we have on Transformer, even his real name." The humans looked in surprise at the caped crusader, while Ratchet nodded and gestured to a small USB port that Raf usually used.

"Let's see if we can find your friend." He said simply and opened the files, causing the humans to look in shock once more.

"Levi's Transformer?!" Miko exclaimed as she raced to get confirmation. Batman and Ratchet worked on locating their missing team, Miko marvelled at Batgirl (her basic idol) Jack had a conversation with Sierra about everything, Robin and Red Robin were sparring as they had nothing better to do, and Raf sat down with Superboy.

"I know I don't really have the right to ask you this but, is Megan also a hero?" Raf asked and Superboy smirked and nodded.

"Her real name's M'gann M'ars, you'd know her better as Miss Martian." He explained and Raf nodded in understanding.

"She was taken too, so was Flash, Raven, Cyborg, Red Hood and Supergirl." He explained and Raf felt pity for the Kryptonian.

"I'm sorry to hear that." He expressed and got a thankyou nod from Superboy.

"That's not why I'm upset Jack." Sierra denied as she shook her head.

"Really, then why?" He asked with a confused look.

"I'm upset because I thought you were going out with some girl named Arcee!" She explained and Jack took a deep breath as she wasn't exactly wrong.

"Here's some news Sierra, I'm Arcee." Arcee explained as she walked over and bent down behind Jack, surprising Sierra greatly.

"It doesn't seem as though our missing friend is on Earth, unless he is aboard the Nemesis, but in that case even with the Decepticon's cloaking we'd be able to locate a signal that unique." Ratchet explained as he and Batman attempted to locate Levi and the others.

"I have something that might be of some use." Batman explained as he used his interface to patch into Ratchet's computer and connect to the Wayne Satellite.

"This should allow us to locate him even if he's off world." The dark knight explained and Ratchet nodded before he activated the newly acquired technological enhancement, allowing an energy signal with the characteristics to appear on the screen.

"Transformer located." Ratchet explained as he kept track of the coordinates which the signal was coming from, before he punched them into a universal map, and when the planet name came up he nearly fell backwards.

"By the allspark, not there, anywhere but there." Ratchet denied as he took a few steps backwards.

"You know this planet?" Batman asked and Ratchet gave a nod as every walked over, and the Autobots looked in slight fear at the planet's name.

"Apocalypse, your team has been taken, by Darkseid." He explained as they all examined the image of the horrid planet, and Superboy was struck with a memory from five years ago, when he encountered the new gods of New Genesis.

Desaad, Darkseid, Megatron, Vandal Savage and Zoom all stood in front of Supergirl and Transformer, who were being electrocuted once more, causing yelling to fill the room around them.

"Stop." Darkseid ordered, so Desaad flipped the lever on the device, causing the pain to stop.

"Free them." He said once more, so Vandal flipped another lever, freeing the two from their restraints, but they didn't fall to the ground, but rather landed on their feet, and as they stood up straight, their eyes opened to reveal them a glowing, blood red.

"Welcome, my heralds." Darkseid said as he walked towards his newly profound warriors.