All For Some Balls
All For Some Balls

Von Moltke thought back. What had those seven lights been that appeared when Piccolo was vanquished? He could not find the answers in himself so went to find Leon. Leon had got them in a somewhat safe forest place. "Leon, when Piccolo bought it, what were the seven bright flashes?" Leon smiled. He had been thinking of a last ditch effort before. Now, he could think in terms of victory. The Dragonballs. Dende's dragonballs had replaced Piccolo in this dimension, if they could get to the dragon, then they might yet get home alive. "David, you might just have saved us," said Leon. "Okay everybody, new plan, we split into small groups and each find one of the seven dragonballs. We'll have to hurry, we have no radar and we don't really know where they are." Piccolo was still looking after them, even now. It was so obvious. "They might be anywhere." Wheeljack was curious, "Can you give me any sort of description?" Leon looked at the Autobot. Neither knew that he, Wheeljack, was probably the strongest member present. Churchill spoke, "A small concentrated source of energy." Wheeljack tuned his sensors to those kind of potential spots. Sure enough the ones that weren't the dragonballs were T.K. and Patamon. "I've got all seven on the meter." Leon nodded. It was the first stroke of luck they had had for some time. "Well, then, we'll send a group for a ball, come back and go get the others. Let's group up. David, take Winston, Charmander, and Hoover and go towards the first ball. Winston can your PKE meter pick things like the dragonball?" Winston shrugged, "We can try." "All right then, Robert, take Tenchi, T.K., Patamon, and Sage. Go find number two. That'll leave me, Lita, Dumars, and Wheeljack; we'll head after three. Watch out for Unicron. If anyone should run into the rear guard, just take them along with you."

All nodded and left. Group 1 headed north. This parallel world went beyond the old Gettysburg battlefield, and the PKE meter was suggesting the ball traveled toward Carlisle. The team made their way through McPherson's Woods and continued going northward. The ball signal was getting stronger. Charmander fought around through the bushes. He had no idea what they were looking for, but they were still searching. Von Moltke was worrying. The plan had been the easy part; there was still a chance that Unicron might notice them. After all, his size made him capable of seeing just about anything. David watched as Winston followed where his meter took him. Hoover followed him. Von Moltke hoped they found it soon. They would all meet at Culp's Hill, which was back on the battlefield. Then Winston seemed to get excited. This was it, the first dragonball! Three little stars glinted up at them. David gingerly picked up the ball, and they knew it was off to find the next. Winston's meter was picking up something to the southeast. Here they went.

Lita, Leon, and Joe hopped in Wheeljack's racecar form. It was the quickest way to go. They made good time heading west in search of the next ball. Wheeljack barreled into Cashtown with no problem whatsoever. And pulled up right next to a tree. Joe jumped out and looked around for the ball. He spotted it, it's five little stars gleaming. Dumars picked up he ball and jumped back into Wheeljack. Wheeljack took off; the next ball was registering around Chambersburg. He hoped that the others weren't any farther out, because that would be tough on those guys traveling on foot. Chambersburg was coming up fast as Wheeljack did not care about speed. He pulled to stop just outside of town and Joe jumped out once again to fetch the ball, this one had seven stars. They did not know that they were nearly halfway there, but they were. Three down, four to go.