How the flipping hell did I end up in this?! Terra asked herself while squeezing through a tight passage in the dessert. Once the Autobot team dropped her off near a canyon where they detected the Minicon, she had made like a lizard and began scurrying through the rocky place trying to locate the thing. That was over half an hour ago and she was starting to get a little cranky. Why couldn't there have been a tunnel leading to it?

As thought fate decided to be mean and laugh at her, she finally stumbled onto a large cave with a tunnel at one end. She would have yelled out in frustration, but the giant, gray shuttle in the middle of the large cave caught her attention. It was unmarked, at least from what she could see from her view point, yet she had a sense of déjà vu when she gazed upon it. She pulled out Lazerbeak and turned on the little spy-bot.

"You guys seeing this?" she asked her friends that remained behind at the base. "This thing has got to be the length of a football field at least and probably a few feet taller than Optimus."

"You would be right, Terra," said Red Alert. "That's an emergency shuttle pod; it looks like it was designed for long distance traveling, but I can't be sure what the cargo could have been until you go inside it."

"I'm going to guess that the Minicon is…" She trailed off when a door opened and a dark blue Minicon stepped out. Its white visor regarded Terra closely, as though examining her. "Uh, hi there?"

The Minicon beeped and beckoned her to follow it into the shuttle.

"Be careful, Terra," said Alexis through Lazerbeak.

"Will do." She followed the Minicon into the shuttle and made sure to record everything. The Minicon lead her to the center of the shuttle and to an orb like capsule roughly her size.

"What is it?" she heard Rad.

"That's a stasis capsule," said Red Alert. "They're for deep space traveling; they put a Cybertronian into stasis until the shuttle reaches a planet. This one was made for a Sparkling, or a Cybertronian baby in human standards."

"Hey, Terra? Are you okay?" asked Fred. "You're awfully quiet."

She didn't respond. She just stood there staring at the pod…

She whimpered while clutching the armor of a large, purple and green Cybertronian as energon blasts flew behind them. The big mech did his best to keep her calm, but the newly born Sparkling couldn't help but feel scared.

She suddenly felt a shot of pain in her Spark and she wailed.

"Souldancer!" the big mech cried out in anquish as he momentarily stopped to see the femme fall dead. Without losing a beat, he continued onto his destination with the crying Sparkling in his arms. She didn't notice when he placed her in the warm pod until he started to whisper, "Shh, little one. Everything will be alright." She calmed down somewhat to the sound of his voice and he continued, "We'll meet again, little one. Until then, stay safe, and know your Dani and Opi love you, Stardancer." He kissed her helm and closed the pod. She heard his muffled voice say something before stasis took over…

Megatron fired at the cliff wall until he found the tunnel leading to the shuttle. The Minicon had hidden it well; even the Autobots hadn't realized there was a tunnel they could have blasted open for Terra to go through. His Spark pulsed rapidly, sensing the Sparkling Spark nearby.

That may be the reason why he let his guard down.

"Stop right there, Megatron!" he heard his longtime nemesis command and he turned around to face Optimus Prime. "You're not getting this Minicon."

"Hmph, who said I was going after the Minicon?" he taunted the Prime.

"What?"

"Why, that girl looks like she would make a fine pet. She is more well behaved and level headed than your other pets. Maybe she can keep me company when we start our journey back to Cybertron." He couldn't allow the Prime to know too much about the girl too soon, so as much as he detested this he had to make it look like he was only interested in obtaining a hostage. This also served to rile up the Prime too. I think I overdid it, was his thoughts before Optimus's fist collided with his face.

Terra slept on unaware of the battle edging closer to the cave. The Minicon had placed her on a medical table and began monitoring her Spark beat while Lazerbeak kept a close watch on the two.

"Why won't she wake up?" asked Rad.

"I don't know, but this is a bad time to take a nap," commented Carlos.

The Minicon suddenly left the monitor it had been occupying before and went to another one. After a moment, diagrams of a mountain bike appear and the little Transformer hooked itself up to the computer.

"It's getting itself a vehicle mode?" said Alexis. After a moment, the Minicon's armor shifted to accommodate the changes for the vehicle mode and soon it disconnected from the computer.

"Hey, Terra's waking up finally!" said Billy and sure enough they all heard Terra moan in pain.

"Terra, can you hear us?" asked Red Alert as the newest member of the team sat up and barely opened her eyes. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I can hear you, Red," she replied weakly and tried to stand up. Tried being the key word since the Minicon had to rush over to balance her. "What the hell is wrong with me?"

"Terra, Optimus is fighting Megatron outside the tunnel connecting to the cave. I advise to stay where you are until one of the others comes to get you and the Minicon."

"Light Racer…" At everyone's confused inquiries, she elaborated, "His name is Light Racer…"

Hot Shot was speeding around trying to get Cyclonus off his tailgate. This had been going for five minutes until Blur finally shot the crazy helicopter and grounded the Decepticon.

"Thanks, Blur," he said to his comrade over the comm. link.

"No problem. Optimus and Megatron are just a short distance away from you; think you can go grab Terra and the Minicon while everyone else is busy?"

"Leave it to me. I'll get them out in no time." He sped off towards the battle between the two leaders. He didn't waste any time analyzing the situation; he sped through and into the tunnel at the fastest speed he could go. Red Alert had commed them earlier to tell them that Terra had found the Minicon, but was now in no condition to move. "Hey, Red, how's Terra doing?"

"Not good. While her condition hasn't worsened, she's unable to keep her balance and whatever happened has left her exhausted," said the team's medic. "Once you secure her and the Minicon, I'll warp you three out of there ASAP."

"Roger that. I'm almost at the cave now." The shuttle was in sight and he didn't stop until he was at the open door. He revved his engine, letting Terra know he was there. After a few moments both her and the Minicon came out while the little Transformer supported the physically weak girl. "Red wasn't kidding, you look awful, Terra."

"Gee, thanks," she deadpanned while getting into the back passenger seat while the Minicon got into the front passenger seat.

"Get us out of here, Red Alert."

Optimus Prime steadied himself after getting pushed back several feet by Megatron and prepared to retaliate when Red Alert informed all of the Autobots on the battle field that Terra and the Minicon had been secured.

"Everyone pull out!" Optimus ordered and the team warped back to base. Megatron glared at the spot where the Autobot leader stood mere moments ago before giving his own men the order to warp back to base.