I do not own Transformers. All original Transformers belong to rightful owners!

I also do not own ANY songs, name brands or media used in this story (Don't Sue me please!).

I DO own Celestial Jazmine Jackson and her cat Minty...and the plot.

cyn2100: Glad that I could finally update this story! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter! I really hope you like this new chapter!


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Third Person POV

By the time the Autobots got to Celestial's location, she was gone. They were just barely able to see Lockdown's ship enter the atmosphere as it began to engage its cloaking device.

Jazz was unhinged. He let lose a torrent of rage the likes of which no one had ever seen from him. The drones were slaughtered, what low level soldiers there were, didn't stand a chance.

Optimus Prime, Ratchet and Ironhide found Megatron and the others trying to escape with the case of vials. While Ironhide tackled Knockout, he nearly knocked Megatron over making the mech growl in rage as he swung the case out of harm's way. Ratchet moving faster than anyone could believe snatched the case from him as Optimus grabbed him by the neck cables and threw him to the ground with a roar of fury.

As the two began to wrestle around on the ground, Ratchet fended off Barricade with one of his buzzsaws, severing one of the mech's arms. Ratchet hardly cared about the screaming police bot, but Knockout escaped Ironhide long enough to grab a vial and subspace it. With a roar of anger, the chartreuse medic subspaced the remaining vials, trans-morphed his arm back into an arm, and lunged at Knockout. The two rolled around the room before Knockout pinned Ratchet and trans-morphed his arm into his own buzzsaw. The medic snarled as he did the same, blocking what would have been a fatal blow to his neck cables and kneeing Knockout in the groin.

The mechs continued to battle ignoring the screams from outside as Jazz and the human soldiers laid waste to the remaining Decepticons who had not yet fled.

The Decepticon base was destroyed in the ensuing battle. Thankfully there were no casualties for the Autobots, or the humans. But Megatron, Barricade, and Knockout broke free long enough to summon a ground bridge and escape.

Meanwhile up on the ship, Lockdown had found his Captain's chair and was peacefully piloting his ship towards the Citadel.

Celestial had sat in her cage crying. She mourned the fact that she would never return to her home planet. She soon fell asleep, exhausted from the stress of her kidnapping, and from the pressure change within the ship.

XXXXX

It was two and a half days later when she woke up. The room was dark, and unnervingly silent. A large window offered the only nearby light as it displayed distant stars. A sickly-sweet scent hung on the air making her nauseous. She looked around and grew terrified at the realization of where she was. She had not been dreaming. She was on a spaceship, and she was not even sure where in the universe she was.

What she did know, was that she was being taken to the Citadel. But she had no idea where or what that was.

Looking around the massive ship she saw the other people that she had been speaking to earlier. They were sitting in their cages looking just as depressed as she did.

"Oh, you're awake." Cerulean said softly as she looked at Celestial. Celestial stretched and groaned. Her body ached, her mouth tasted pennies and nickels, and she was starving, having not eaten since she was taken by the Decepticons.

"How long was I asleep for?"

"Two days. All of us were asleep for two days. He used a gas to knock us out for a little while." Tibernius answered her.

"It is meant to help us adjust to the gravity of the ship as we travel through space." Cerulean added making Celestial look at her skeptically.

"How do you know that?"

"Who were you trying to call?" Melagadandra asked. Celestial looked at her with narrowed eyes. She wanted answers to her question first, but she decided to clue the others in to what her plan was. That said, she did plan to ask Cerulean again later, after the others fell asleep.

"I was calling my boyfriend."

"For what?! It's not like he could have helped!"

"Tibernius!"

"It's true! What could he have done?! He's only human!" Celestial narrowed her eyes at him murderously.

"First of all, shut up! At least I tried to do something! Second, while it is none of your business, my boyfriend isn't human! He's actually one of them!" She snapped as she pointed down the long ship at Lockdown.

Tibernius snorted. "Yeah right!"

"His designation is Jazz, Head of Special Operations, Saboteur of the Autobot Army, Third in command to Optimus Prime, who is leader of the Autobots! He is about fifteen feet tall and silver with black accents! He has dark blue optics that he hides under a baby blue visor because he uses it for work and because he thinks it looks cool! He hails from the city-state of Polyhex! He loves Static Shock! He enjoys racing, hanging out and watching movies and a good car wash! He loves music! He has over 90,000 songs in his playlist from Earth alone, and over a million songs in his playlist from Cybertron where he used to be a musician! Of those million, roughly 500 are songs that he wrote and composed himself before the war! When he joined the Autobots he was stationed in Tarn for five vorns before he was transferred to Iacon to formerly begin his training in espionage. After that he was stationed in Kaon, Altihex, and Praxus before he started climbing the ranks and transferring back to Iacon where he eventually became the head of Special Ops.! He witnessed the launch of the Allspark off planet and joined Prime in searching for it! When he came to earth, he crash landed in a baseball stadium before sneaking out and transforming into a Pontiac Solstice! He died at the battle of Mission City and was resurrected two years later! He is the sweetest, funniest, most considerate mech I have ever had the honor and pleasure of knowing, so don't you DARE tell me I don't know him or that he isn't real!"

She ranted before panting angrily. Her whole body felt tingly, and she didn't know why. Everyone else stared at her in surprise. Tibernius put up his arms in surrender.

"Okay…I was clearly wrong. I'm sorry…"

"And you tried to call him?"

"YES! But I couldn't message him in time to save us! I was only able to send the messages when we were coming up to the ship in the beam. He said that and his team were on their way, but I was on the ship before I could see if they made it!" She said breaking down in tears again.

"It sounds like you really love him." Cerulean said softly.

"I love him with all my heart! I can't imagine what I'd do without him!" She sobbed angrily before continuing "And I don't even know why I'm being kidnapped! What the hell is the Citadel anyway?!"

"The Citadel is an intergalactic trading outpost near the center of the galaxy. It is where traders and bounty hunters go to trade things of immense values. Including people. Since there are so many species that go there to trade, there is no police force to prevent illegal sales from happening."

Celestial looked up at Melagadandra with an angry disbelieving look. "Okay…" She said softly as she stood up to her full height. She looked between Cerulean and Melagadandra with cold fury, thoroughly fed up with their shady knowledge.

"How the fuck do either of you know what you're talking about? How the hell do you know how he put us to sleep and why, and why the fuck do you know what and where the damn Citadel is?! You can't seriously say that this is something that you endure on a frequent basis! Unless you're telling me that you've been kidnapped by alien robots before."

The two looked at each other skeptically before looking back at her.

"For the record…he's not an alien robot. He's called a cybertro-"

"I KNOW WHAT HE'S CALLED DAMN IT! The difference is that 1. I DON'T CARE! And 2. THIS BASTARD IS KIDNAPPING ME AND PLANNING TO SELL ME INTO SLAVERY! I'M NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND BE NICE BY BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT!" She roared at Tibernius making him flinch. She then turned on the two women once more.

"NOW HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW?!" She raged balling her fists. Unbeknownst to her, a golden electrical field began to shimmer around her. It moved as she moved, and it flared with every angry outburst.

"Celestial, I need you to calm down…okay?"

"Calm down?! You want me to calm the fuck down?! WE'RE IN OUTER-FUCKING-SPACE! BEING DRIVEN TO AN OUTPOST WHERE WE'LL BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY AND YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN!? THIS IS A HELL OF A NOTE! WE MIGHT DIE UP HERE!"

"SHUT UP YOU INSUFFERABLE INSECT!" Lockdown thundered from where he still sat at the front of the ship.

"YOU FIRST YOU UGLY BASTARD!" She barked back before glaring at the two women once more, uncaring of what may happen because of her retort. She snarled with unfiltered rage as she threw her fists backwards, causing the energy around her to ripple and spike.

"Celestial, please you need-"

"NO! I'll tell you what I need! I need to get back to Earth!" She snapped as she pointed backwards to where she thought the earth was, not noticing the flareup of energy that nearly left her hand.

"Celestial-"

"And I need to find my mechfriend-"

"Celes-"

"And if you morons had half a brain, you'd not only understand but YOU'D HELP ME!" She roared, throwing her arms back. The energy building up around her rushed out, snapping and crackling as the energy zapped from one cage to another until all of the nearby cage's electrical fields were fried, and each of the doors opened slowly. Celestial who was blissfully unaware of this, balked when a few people in the cage next to hers carefully prodded at the door noticing it swing open on its own hinges. She raised both her eyebrows when a brave soul ventured out of the cage and carefully began to look around.

"Ummm. Okay. Thank you, universe, for giving me what I want? I think…" She trailed off as she carefully touched her door as well. She watched as it swung open freely. With raised eyebrows she walked out of her cage and looked at the others with a sarcastic snort.

"Okay. Alright, if the universe is going to help me get what I want, I'm not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth. Let's go."

"Go where?" Tibernius asked skeptically. Celestial glared at him.

"We're gonna get our shit together, and we're gonna take over this ship, and we're gonna go back home to Earth." She hissed in a quiet low voice at him. "And on the way back you two are gonna explain how in the hell you know what you know. Now let's go." She growled quietly between clenched teeth at the two women.

XXXXX

Celeste's POV

I am not an adventurer. Contrary to what many of you may believe, I am not that variety of person. Yes, living with a traveling circus meant that I had some adventure in my life, but nothing like this. And yes, living with the bots means that I encounter all sorts of shenanigans, and that somewhat has prepared me for moments like this. I won't lie, bouncing between dimensions was fun and it was nice to go on a little adventure like that, but I'm no Indiana Jones. I love a good adventure, but I have limits. Obviously. Most people do and living with the Autobots is juuust about where my limits for adventure are.

That said, I have learned a lot about being prepared from said shenanigans and from living with the Autobots. Why else do you think I brought my phone charger? Will it be helpful up here? Probably not. Sure, it comes in handy in the car to play tunes, but when said car is sentient and can easily connect to your tech wirelessly, it's not really necessary. But this is a spaceship. I doubt that there will be an outlet small enough for my charger, let alone the fact that if we fail, we're being sold into slavery. I doubt who'd ever buy me would have the accommodations for me to charge my phone anyway. Not to forget to mention just how far out of my coverage zone we are. Buuut it's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it. Especially if there is an emergency. This is a fucking emergency. I have no idea what I'll do with it, but this is still a fucking emergency.

"How are we going to take over this ship? He'll step on us before we even get close to the controls!" Tibernius whispered worriedly.

"This is a prison ship. And he seems like a bounty hunter. Why else would he have traded us?"

"Soooo….?" Melagadandra hissed while giving me a sarcastic shrug.

"He's a hunter. He has to have weapons, or other prisoners on here somewhere. We need a distraction so that we can turn this ship around." I whispered as I started quietly stalking down a hall. It looks like everyone is going to follow me.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Someone asked.

"Hell no. Do you? Does anyone here know how to drive a giant alien ship?!" I rasped quietly to the large group around me. Everyone looked sheepishly, and worriedly at each other. Just as I thought.

"No?! Okay then! Now that we've established that we're all clueless as to how to solve the problem, let's try and solve it!"

"That makes no sense!" Tibernius hissed.

"I'm sorry, do you wanna be sold into slavery?! I mean we can get back into the cages if that's what you prefer!"

"Noo…"

"Then shut up!" I hissed as we continued to sneak down the hall. The hall opened up to the left into an open space filled with cabinets, drawers and an obscene amount of sharp and pointy looking utensils on the counters and on the walls. If anything, it looks like a more horrific version of Ratchet's Medbay. Oh, would you look at that. Something very familiar is on the wall. A silvery, looking pen. It's at least twelve feet up.

"I need some help getting that thing off the wall!"

A handful of people stepped forward and offered me a boost up to the pen. It was lighter than I thought it would be, and I nearly fell over, but thankfully the people boosting me up kept me from falling.

"Okay…I'm ready to come down now!" I whispered to the people below me.

"What is that thing?" Someone asked. I couldn't help but grin. This is something that I've seen Ratchet use to scare the others back home. Annnd on occasion, I've seen him use it for its intended purpose.

"Laser blade! Specifically a laser- "

"Laser scalpel!" Cerulean said with a bright grin of her own. Seriously, what are they not telling me?!

"Yeah… we can use it to take over the ship."

"How?" Someone hissed worriedly in the crowd.

"DON'T THINK YOU'VE ESCAPED!"

Oh shit!

There's a corner at the end of the hallway!

"Ruuuunnnnn!" I whispered as I started sprinting up the hall before turning the corner into a dimly lit dingy silver-grey hall that smells awful. This ship is massive. The ceilings are so high, I bet Optimus Prime can't even touch them! There are a lot of cages and prison cells lining this hall and when I say a lot, I mean a ton. There are cages hanging from the ceiling containing strange reptilian, feathered creatures, there are tall cages holding humongous furry beasts, and even a few cages and cells that held cybernetic looking things…one looks like a giant metal spider. Oh God no. This place is a carnival of fucking horrors! I would know, I traveled with a circus for a huge part of my life. Our animals were never kept like this. Their cages were always cleaned regularly, and they were large enough for our animals to move around and get comfortable in and they always had good food. These cages don't look like they've been cleaned in a while, and I don't see any kind of food anywhere. This guy is a monster.

Speaking of, we can hear the slow menacing steps of Lockdown behind us. This is his ship, and we have nowhere to go. Why would he run?

"Go go go go go go go!"

"Go where?!"

"Leave this hallway! I'm going to create a distraction!" I said as I fumbled with the controls on the laser.

"I'll help!" Cerulean hissed as we shooed the crowd of people to keep running. Once everyone was gone, she helped me find the on switch and she helped my guide the white-hot laser into the bars and locks of various cages just as Lockdown rounded the corner. He growled murderously as several of the different creatures started busting out of their cages snarling at both us and at him. Looks like they might have a bone to pick with him. Cerulean snatched the laser from me as she started sprinting up the hall.

"Book it!" She barked as I began to chase after her.

The creatures did as I hoped and partially blocked Lockdown, at times tripping him as he tried to corral them and re-capture us.

As we rounded the corner, we saw the group standing in front of a closed door.

"This leads to the Captain's chair! We saw it before the door closed!"

"But the door is locked! We can't open it!"

"It doesn't sound like he'll be busy for long-"Someone said as we heard a blood curdling roar followed by a scream of alarm. We all looked at each other in fright before nearly everyone mobbed the doors in terror trying to pry them open.

"Whatever the hell that is, I don't want to face it!"

"Please! Someone's gotta be able to open these doors!"

"Gimme that!" I said to Cerulean as I snatched the laser cutter from her.

"MOVE!" I barked. Everyone parted like the red sea allowing me to come forward with my laser.

I grunted a little as I hefted the laser enough to cut a large square hole in the door as we heard a snarl behind us. "Okay, time to go let's go!" I shouted as I sprinted through my newly made door. Everyone followed me as we rushed the massive Captain's chair. Thankfully, I have some experience with climbing Cybertronian sized furniture. I tossed the laser up onto the chair before climbing onto it.

"I need a boost to the control panel! Please! We have to hurry!" I begged as the others started boosting each other up. Now we're all beginning to work together. I think the others believe that we can get back to the Earth and get off this ship!

A few people boosted me up so I could climb onto the control panel, and I helped to pull a few people up before turning to the controls.

"Ah shit! I can't read this! Duh! It's Cybertronian! Stupid stupid stupid-!"

"Shut up and start button mashing!" Tibernius snarked at me as he started stomping on different glyphs.

"Wait! Wait! Wait!" Melagadandra shouted. "WHAT?!" Tibernius and I shouted in unison as we stopped, listening to the utter mayhem occurring elsewhere in the ship. To be fair, we did just release a damn zoo of monsters back there. But it sounds like more cages may have been opened. Ooops.

"What you're stomping on-"She was cut off by something that sounded eerily like Lockdown screaming before continuing "What you're stomping on has different affects back here! Watch it!" She said before we and a few other started stomping again.

"I wish there was a way that I could plug my phone in and control this stupid thing! I can't read this stuff!"

"Wish granted! This looks like a port of some sort over here!" Someone shouted loudly over to me. I looked up and saw a tall muscley black dude with a silver-grey buzz cut. He was looking at a different part of the control panel, were a bunch of wires and other input areas were located. Most of the ports are massive. Which makes sense. Why would a robot need to plug in something as small as my phone?

"Up here! Hurry!"

"There isn't a place for me to plug in my phone up here! There isn't an AC outlet port!"

"No, but there is this tiny headphone jack port!"

"I don't have the right cord for that!"

"I do, now give me your phone!" He shouted at me as I handed him my phone. He quickly shoved the cord into the panel, and the other end into my phone. Suddenly, we all heard a very loud ping.

"You have one of the ones that locks?!"

"Oh, yeah! Give it here!" I shouted as they handed my phone back to me. I'm having a hard time unlocking my phone because my hands are shaking so much. Once I got my phone open, I immediately saw a popup on my screen. Thanks to Jazz and Wheeljack upgrading my phone, it offered me the option to translate the popup. Thank you, Jazz, and Wheeljack!

"Thank God! Yes!" I shouted as I gained access to the ship's controls.

"Lock the doors!"

"Got it!" I shouted.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

"OPEN THIS FRAGGING DOOR YOU DISGUSTING INSECTS!"

"Okay… turn this ship around, turn this ship around…"

{"Communications; Unblocked. Would you like to send a message?"}

"Hell yeah I would!" I'll text Jazz! He can tell the others! He better tell the others…

{"JAZZ! WE TOOK OVER THE SHIP! WE'RE COMING BACK! DO NOT SHOOT IT! PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT IT, WE GOT FREE AND ARE COMING BACK!"}

{"Message sent."}

"Thank God!"

{"Would you like to change your destination?"}

"YES!"

{"Please indicate where your new destination is."}

"EARTH! Take us back to the fucking Earth, now!"

{"Destination 'Fucking Earth now' does not exist."}

"Type that shit in! We don't have time for this!" The muscley dude barked at me.

{"Destination Earth; Star; Sol. Last time visited, less than 3 local solar cycles ago. Is this the destination you wish to travel to?"}

"YES!"

{"Estimated arrival time; 3 local solar cycles."}

"We don't have time for that!" I growled. Why do I hear screeching? It sounds like metal is being pushed against metal. This is bad! He's trying to get in!

"Can't this thing go any faster?!"

{"Would you like to initiate hyperdrive?"}

"GET AWAY FROM MY SHIP'S COMPUTER!"

Lockdown's prying and shoving his way through the door! He looks furious. His left optic is shattered, and his face is clawed up really badly. His finish is scraped beyond repair, and he is stained with splotches of yellow, blue, green, and red. That blue stain looks a lot like energon. That other stuff is probably various kinds of blood too.

Cerulean hopped onto the captain's chair with the laser scalpel just as Tibernius, or maybe the muscley dude with the buzz cut who helped me earlier, stomped on a button messing with the gravity.

"GAAAAAHHHHH!"

"WHAT THE HELL!"

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"MAKE IT STOOOOOP!"

I and everyone else shouted as we floated up suddenly before the same button was mashed causing us all to come crashing down. Lockdown included. Looking at each other, Tibernius and the muscley man immediately stomped on the buttons again, only this time Cerulean grabbed the laser scalpel and jumped when the gravity disappeared. With a snarl Lockdown crawled through the door, just as Tibernius and the other man stomped on the buttons again.

"DIIIIEEE!" Cerulean roared as she came crashing down on Lockdown's helm, using the laser cutter as a means to slow her fall. Unfortunately for Lockdown, the laser was engaged.

There was a pained roar followed by silence as the black mech crumpled to the floor with Cerulean dangling from the laser scalpel sticking out of his sparking helm.

We all looked at each other in shock. I don't know if this is a good thing, or not. I mean…we just killed out captor…but we also have no idea where the hell we are. Oh my God. We're in outer space. That is just so damn hard to digest. We are in outer space, with a slave trader that we just killed.

"Bbbbllluuuurrrr nnngggguhhhh!"

"Oh shit!" Cerulean said as she let go of the scalpel. She crawled backwards away from him quickly.

"He's alive…!" I said as I watched his one working optic twitch violently as his lips fidgeted and gurgled energon. That is fucking horrifying. Did she just lobotomize him?! Oh, so gross! Okay, get it together! Get it together!

{"Would you like to initiate hyperdrive?"}

"Hey! Guys!" I shouted trying to get everyone's attention. They're all staring at Lockdown's twitching body. "It's messed up. I know. But for now we need to focus on getting home. I know a Cybertronian Medic back on Earth. I'm not sure, but I think he might be able to fix him." I said gently to the crowd. They all looked at me with different expressions, some looked nauseous, some looked sad, some looked scared, some looked angry, and a few looked like they were feeling all four emotions at once.

"Let's go home. Brace yourselves! We're going into hyperdrive!" I shouted to everyone as I locked and unlocked my knees. Everything I've ever seen in movies is that hyperdrive is crazy fast!

The movies have no fucking idea how right they are.

XXXXX

Third person's POV

Once everyone was in position Celestial pressed the button turning the ship around. Most everyone stumbled into one another before the ship initiated Hyperdrive. Everyone screamed as they tried not to be thrown into the back of the ship by the initial force. Celestial stumbled heavily, unintentionally accessing her phone's music library and playing Queen's Don't Stop Me Now at the ship's full volume. She was unable to fix this as the pressure being exerted on the ship was staggering as it quickly traversed three days journey in only 6 minutes.

XXXXX

The Autobots and humans had spent the previous 48 hours investigating the ruined Decepticon base. They wanted to be certain that there were no hidden bolt holes, or captives before they left. Much to everyone's surprise the Autobots discovered a cache of raw energon crystals hidden away in the rubble. While it was a tactical win in that respect, everyone was still saddened by their loss. Celestial as well as countless other civilians had been taken, and they were unable to save them, or figure out why they were taken.

No one was more upset than Jazz. Just moments after they arrived, he witnessed his beloved disappear into the atmosphere. Currently he sat in the middle of the rubble looking through his memory files at her face as his servos kneaded half of the blanket, she made for him. After his discovery of its destruction, he kept it in his subspace so that he could keep her as close to his spark as possible.

{"JAZZ! WE TOOK OVER THE SHIP! WE'RE COMING BACK! DO NOT SHOOT IT! PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT IT, WE GOT FREE AND ARE COMING BACK!"}

Jazz looked up sharply. His systems stalled out causing Ratchet to walk over to him quickly in concern.

"She's comin' back!"

"Jazz….You sustained some damage in battle. She's not- "

"Shut the frag up and get away from me Ratchet! My processor is working fine! She's coming back, I just got her message!"

Jazz said pushing the medic away as he started looking at the sky for a large ship.

Ratchet pulled a needle and vial from his subspace with a sigh as he watched his friend continue to walk around staring at the sky with a slightly hopeful, lovesick, giddy expression.

Optimus put his servo on the medic's shoulder and shook his helm no. Even though he didn't think it was healthy for his TIC to act in such a way, he didn't have the spark to see him knocked out. Not if he wasn't a clear danger to others.

{"Let him have hope Ratchet. We'll talk to him about this shortly."}

Ratchet looked up at his leader warily before freezing as proximity alarms and systems started wailing out warnings.

"Prime! A warship is entering the atmosphere not too far from here!" Ironhide reported as the humans scrambled to mobilize.

"Told you she was coming back! Let's go! She'll need help!" Jazz shouted as he transformed down and sped off in the direction of the now looming ship that was coming into the atmosphere rather quickly.

By the time the humans and the Autobots got within attack range, the ship had slowed down enough to do a very rough three point bounce before pushing up mounds of dirt and stopping. Everyone was silent and still as the ship sizzled, cooling off from its hyperdrive jaunt and quick reentry.

Suddenly they heard a high pitched humming sound before seeing the tip of what looked like a laser carving a square hole. With a grunt of effort and rage, a chunk of the ship tumbled out, in which stood Celestial. Some would later argue that they could hear the song Pretty Girl Rock playing inside the ship as she stood there.

On reflex, the soldiers and bots raised their weapons eliciting a furious growl from her.

"I swear to GOD if one of you assholes shoots me now after all I just went through, I WILL fucking come back from the dead to haunt all of ya'll's collective assess! Now put your fucking weapons DOWN!"

"CELESTIAL!" Jazz shouted in joy as several others shouted the same thing is surprise.

Celestial huffed a short laugh before pushing the laser aside and stumbling off the ship.

"Told you I was coming back. Now can we go home please?" She said tiredly as Jazz scooped her up and cuddled her close.

"Hell fragging yeah we can go home now. I'm not letting you out of my sight. You aint going anywhere without me from now on. I love you too much for this slag to happen again."

"Cool. Love you too." She said as Jazz continued to snuggle her close.

XXXXX

It was about five hours before N.E.S.T had taken control of the area. Thankfully the area happened to be a failed town on the edge of the border in North Dakota. That said their work wasn't done. Lockdown's ship was massive, and even though they were pretty far from other cities, there were plenty of farmers and other small news outlets that wanted to know what on Earth was going on.

Hence why it took 5 hours to isolate everyone who approached and create a large enough blockade to keep anyone else from coming closer. There was also the argument of what to do with the civilians who were trapped on Lockdown's ship with Celestial. She had estimated at first that there were maybe two hundred people with her. Once everyone was off the ship however, she and the others realized that Lockdown had even more cages than she could see at first, and not all of them had miraculously opened when hers did. Slowly but surely, four thousand people stumbled off the ship, much to everyone's surprise, and Lennox's utter frustration.

It was ultimately decided that everyone would go back to base through the ground bridge to be made to sign NDA's. It was the only plan that he could think of.

Once all that was decided, and once the other creatures on the ship were recaptured, The Autobots were able to discreetly call for a ground bridge back to base.

XXXXX

Celestial's POV

Jazz carried me through the portal into the main hanger area.

"Alright. Reunite with Minty, Check up with Ratch, food, shower, bed." Jazz sighed as he cuddled me.

"Maybe not in that order."

"Gotta pee?"

"Surprisingly no. I went a while ago while you were fighting back that giant metallic wolf thing. That ship was scary." I sighed as I hugged him. I could feel him rubbing my back as Will shouted for attention.

"Alright listen up! If you have injuries, please report to the left side of the hanger where our medics will get your information and check you out. If you do not have any known injuries, please report to the right side of the hanger so we can begin the process of getting you all home. I apologize for the inconvenience, but we'll have you all on the way home as soon as we can-"

"That won't be necessary Major." Cerulean said as she put up a hand to stop him.

"Excuse me?"

"I've already checked most everyone out and have treated some of the more major injuries."

"That's preposterous!" Ratchet said as he looked down at her. She snorted as she looked up at him.

"And why is that?"

"Of all the humans coming off that ship, I was only able to scan 200 of you. While it is logical to be uncertain of us, I can assure you that I and the other medics mean you no harm. We need to check you over, so if you all could please do as the Major requested," Ratchet prompted with a wave of his servo.

"She's a doctor too Ratchet. She told me on the ship." I said. She knew how to use a laser scalpel. She knew how to turn it on. I do not fully trust her, but how else would she know what a laser scalpel is let alone how to turn one on, if she didn't have some kind of medical training. Again, the better question is how she knows what it is.

"Are you a doctor?" Will asked sounding somewhere between skeptical and curious.

"I am. Dr. Cerulean Soleil, at your service." She said bowing at the waist making Ratchet glare.

Now, I've seen Ratchet glare many times. This wasn't his, 'this is stupid' glare or even his 'I'm annoyed, and I don't have time for this!' glare. This was new. If I had to take a guess, I would say that his face is a combination of 'Wait a minute…' 'How dare you!' and disbelieving 'No, it can't be.'. He doesn't just look annoyed; he looks suspicious and confused.

"Well, Dr. Soleil, thank you for assisting, but our medics can take it from here." Will said gently as Ratchet nodded his helm. She snorted and crossed her arms before looking up at him.

"Oh, I know you can. But honestly I'm a little disappointed-"She sighed before smirking at Will and Ratchet and continuing.

"Here I thought you'd recognize me after all these years. Honestly Ratchet has it been that long?" She said in a teasing tone.

Now I am completely confused!

"I beg your pardon?!" He blurted sounding annoyed.

She chuckled a little before grabbing the necklace she was wearing. Come to think of it…they all have the same looking necklace on…and it looks kinda like…

"Her necklace looks like yours…" Jazz whispered to me as he took a step back. Something is going on here…

She inhaled and exhaled slowly still holding her necklace as her body began to glow. Everyone pointed their weapons at her as she started glow brighter and grow taller, and a little wider, and metallic.

She…she looks like…

"A femme?!" Someone shouted. It was one of the 'bots, but I don't really know who. She has teal armor, covering her from her arms to about her midriff, her knees and calves, and her butt, hips, and front. The rest of her plating, (or is that her protoform?) is silvery white. Her feet look like the feet of a suit of armor, and she's tall, just a little shorter than Ratchet.

Speaking of, he looks like he's seen a ghost. That said, all of the Autobots look like they've seen a ghost. What the hell is going on?!

"Ahhhh. It's been a while since we last spoke. You haven't seen me in this form in over two millennium. I suppose I can't be too surprised that you didn't recognize me." She said stretching. That snapped Ratchet out of his stupor. He glared at her furiously before growling and crossing his arms. She snorted a laugh and turned to Elita-1. Cerulean has a red Autobot insignia on her chest!

"My apologies for the deception, and for technically being AWOL all these years Ma'am. But I had orders from a higher ranked commander. I still have to fulfil those orders even now actually…" she said as she looked back at me smiling.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" Will shouted, with a look mixed between alarm, and confusion.

"Medic, sharpshooter, and sniper, designated Moonracer. Ready to report and explain my absence." She said with a salute.

I agree with Will. What the hell is going on?


A/N: FINALLY! I have been planning this part of the story for YEARS! It's nice to finally reach this goal! I can't wait to see what you all think of this chapter and what just happened, so pretty please do me a favor and review this chapter! I want to know your thoughts and theories thus far!

As always I hope that everyone out there is doing well. Of course, I'd love to hear from you either way! The last chapter received one review and 36 views in June. Not bad given the length of my undesired Hiatus! But summer doesn't last forever! I'm gonna try and update here at least one more time before I go back to work so wish me luck!

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