"Why can't we just dump water on her and wake her up?" asked Carlos after he and Rad moved an unconscious Terra to the room set aside for the kids while they visited the Autobot base. "I'm not complaining that she's heavy or anything, but she's gonna sleep the day away."

"I think she deserved some R&R after what happened earlier at school," said Rad. He and Carlos went back to rejoin the group in the command center.

"Will she be okay?" asked Hotshot once the boys were back.

"She'll be fine," Alexis said casually. "She'll wake up before you know it."

She felt heavy and exhausted as she dreamt in total darkness until a piercing light momentarily blinded her. She heard a series of beeps, whirls of gears, and a variety of machine noises as she was placed into the arms of something huge and held close to something very warm. She opened her eyes to see only blurred figures looked down at her, and for some reason…she felt safe…

Terra awoke, feeling a sense of dread almost immediately after waking from her dream. The dream itself was strange, but the sense of dread after feeling so safe and secured was unexpected. She felt like she was about to cry, that something bad was fast approaching and there was nothing she could do about it. She curled up into a fetal position and took deep breaths until she calmed down.

Megatron gazed at the planet Earth from outside the Decepticon base with a worried countenance. He had felt a tug at his spark; something he had dreaded feeling since he came to Earth to hunt the Minicons.

It meant she was learning of her destiny.

It meant that the Chaos Bringer was waking up.

And getting the Minicons meant nothing now if the universe's greatest threat devoured Cybertron and the Allspark with it.

"Lord Megatron," he heard the Seeker that had come with him to Earth when the hunt for the Minicons started.

"You sensed it too." It was a statement, not a question. Starscream had come from a long line of High Priests of the Allspark. While the Seeker didn't have a strong connection to the spark of their creator like his ancestors once had, he still had the ability to receive vague messages and impressions from it the Allspark. Starscream knew what was bothering him, and why he had dreaded this day's coming while no one else knew. "I had hoped it would not have come to this."

"I had prayed to Primus for another way," said Starscream in a rare somber tone. "If we do not let her succeed, then the greatest threat will continue to torment the universe until she stops him."

"And nothing can change it?"

"Nothing. This was decreed long ago by the One, not long after the Chaos Bringer was casted out. Primus cannot interfere with this, even though our common enemy will try to change things."

Megatron continued to stare at the planet. He had to decide now to either continue with the hunt, or call it off and get back to Cybertron ASAP and ready the Decepticon armada. However, he had to make sure she returned to Cybertron as well. He had a vague suspicion on who she was on Earth if Smokescreen's and Thrust's reports were anything to go by. He knew the only way to make sure was to meet her in person.

Terra had pulled herself together and rejoined the group. Currently she was teaching Scavenger an ancient Karate technique that was no longer used in tournaments.

"This is called the Yamazuki," she explained as she demonstrated the move, using Rad as her demonstration dummy. "While most fighters are taught to protect their face on instinct, they won't be expecting another fist to be flying at the same time down lower." Rad had blocked the fist aimed for his head, but his gut was left wide open for her free had to punch him at his center of gravity. "This throws your opponent off balance if you use this correctly. It is most effective as a first hit move."

Scavenger practiced the move on Optimus, correcting his stance to fully hit Optimus's center of gravity. Optimus practiced the move a few times before they continued on to another technique.

"Ahem," Red Alert made his presence known to the group. "Excuse me, but do you mind if I borrow Terra for a few minutes? I would like to examine her."

"Alright," Terra walked over to him and hopped onto his shoulder. "Rad can help you two if you have any questions."

"Thanks for the lesson, Terra." Scavenger called out to her as Red Alert walked away with her secured on his shoulder.

"Anytime, Scavs!" she called back before they left the room. "So, what do you need to examine me for, Red Alert?"

"It is just a standard medical scan," he explained. "With your previous living conditions, I'm worried about your overall health."

"Okay, but I should tell you: if you find something on my heart, it's nothing life threatening."

"What do you mean? Is something growing on your heart?"

"Well, yes, something is attached to my heart. It's been growing with my heart my entire life and doctors have no idea what it could be. It doesn't affect my heart functions, and one time my previous foster family attempted to remove whatever it was. However, when the surgeon barely touched the thing, I woke up and screamed bloody murder."

"Weren't you under anesthesia?" The Autobot medic looked very shocked by this.

"Yes and the doctors were just as baffled as well. They stopped the surgery after realizing that it was more connected to my body than they first realized."

"Maybe this examination will reveal what this thing is."

When they got to the Medical Bay, Red Alert had her lay on an examination berth before starting the scan. A green beam of light went up and down her body and displayed the collected data onto a monitor for the medic to examine.

"What the…?" he said continuing to look over the data. When he reached the data pertaining to her heart, he froze for a long moment before contacting Optimus.

Optimus Prime called for a break with training when Red Alert commed him to come to the Medical Bay. It had been a little over thirty minutes after the medic collected their new human friend for an examination. Was something wrong with her?

The Autobot leader walked in to the Medical Bay to find Terra on an examination berth and Red Alert at the scan monitor.

"Red, you're starting to scare me," said Terra in a nervous tone. "What is going on?"

"I would like to know too," said Optimus.

"Good, you're here." Red Alert spent no time on enlarging the image of Terra's heart on the screen. Optimus hadn't seen the image of the human organ often, but he knew that a normal heart did not look like that. "All of the data gathered during examination do not add up for a normal human. In addition to this, Terra has a Cybertronian Spark growing alongside her heart."

"What?!"

"A Spark?" Terra looked and sounded confused.

"A Spark is the equivalent of a soul for us," Red Alert explained for her benefit. "The fact that a Spark resides in her body without causing complications is a near impossibility since Sparks emit a type of radiation lethal to humans if they are fully exposed to it. However, with this and the strange data gathered, I can say that Terra might not have been originally human."

"Are…are you saying that…that I'm…" the girl in question tried to ask what Red Alert was getting at, though her panic was starting to take over.

"Do you have the bracelet you were found with?" the medic asked softly. She pulled out the tiny, beaded bracelet from her pocket and showed it to them. They saw her name written in English, and the unidentified glyphs were unmistakable for the two Autobots to recognize. "I thought as much. That language is an old dialect of Cybertronian."

"Indeed," the Prime tried not to appear shocked, but he had a feeling he wouldn't be able to hide his emotions after seeing this. "This is a dialect used by High Priests of the Allspark."

"What…what does it say?" she asked.

"It has your real name, and additional symbols indicating who your parents are and a special symbol. Your real name is Stardancer, and—"

Terra's eyes widened before she gripped her head and began to scream in pain.