Disclaimer: Hey everyone! DragonScouter and Shadow Katakura here with the next chapter. I will admit that it is my fault that this update is so late (DragonScouter). College caught up with me as did my other stories (and work) but now I am back and ready for some action. Shadow and I hope you will enjoy this. Also, we do not own Transformers: Prime. Wish we did but...well...we don't.

Both of us: Once again, it is time to roll out and eat popcorn!

"Come and meet your fate."

My optics snapped online as the voice echoed in my helm. Flashes from my dream traveled across my processor and I felt confusion travel through my systems. From my past as a human, I knew that the rubble of buildings that I remembered from my dream could have only come from one place; Cybertron. But, why was I dreaming of the metal planet? It seemed more than coincidental given all that was happening to Optimus and what Jack and Arcee would have to do to restore the Prime's memories. Hopefully, Shadow and I would be able to make sure that everything went according to plan. If it didn't, well, I had a funny feeling that the entire fabric of reality would unravel and…

Okay, maybe nothing that serious but it would be interesting to see what would happen. Just imagining if Opt…Orion didn't decide to go against Megatron had me itching to write something down. But, at the moment, I knew that I needed to get up and see if I could help out in finding out a way to get to Vector Sigma.

Once I was ready, I walked outside of my room and immediately ran into someone. "Sorry, didn't see you." I muttered in apology when I saw that it was Shadow that I ran into.

She let out a laugh and said, "You're fine 'Mala…" She then stared at me more deeply and I felt like she was looking for my inner-most thoughts. "Or are you 'Mala? You look like you didn't get a wink of restful recharge."

It was only as we walked and she asked that question that I noticed how worried and tired she looked. "That's because I don't think I did. Dreamed all night. And they were very...confusing. Of course, you don't look that much better Shadow. How did you sleep last night?"

A sigh came from Shadow as we entered the main room but, before she could answer me, we entered the main room and I saw that Raf was walking away from Ratchet, and he had a very dejected look on his face. Ratchet must have just asked what our current situation had to do with climbing a rope in gym class. Guess the bot wasn't used to how humans cheered each other up...and on.

Glancing up at Shadow, she motioned the other direction before saying, "I'm going to see if I can't find Cliff and help him patrol." She then transformed before heading toward the exit. I could read between the lines though and smirked. She wanted to spend some more time with her mech. I got it. Though I was so going to be teasing her when the two of them got back. If they thought that what I had been doing recently was bad, then they hadn't seen anything yet.

But, back to my current project, I walked up to Raf and, before the boy could see me, I scooped him up and put him on my shoulder. "Whoa, a little warning next time Pandimala." He had a semi forced smile on his face when he said that and, as soon as my name left his mouth, he went back to his sulking mode.

So, me being the good friend that I am, decided to cheer him up. "Hey, you have to remember that Ratchet and the others are from Cybertron. They might not know that you were trying to cheer them up, especially Ratchet. He is outside even less than the others and, short of us all coming here, I would say that he couldn't of cared less if we were blown to bits as long as they beat the Decepticons. But," I then paused, letting a smile come to my faceplate, "I have noticed that Ratchet has softened up quite a bit since we all came here. And I think that he has grown a very close friendship with you as well Raf. He's just worried about Optimus, that's all. Imagine if your closest friend since pre-school lost their memories and thought that you were a bully."

Raf's looked like he was thinking as I walked away from the main room and I could tell that he was thinking. That was good. I didn't want him to rush his answer but to actually think it through. But, after that moment, Raf glanced at me and smiled before saying, "I guess your right Pandimala. Thanks for helping me understand that. If you ever need a favor, just ask."

Smirking, I said, "Be careful with those favors Raf, because I just might need one coming up here and I will definitely take you up on it." I then set him on the ground and said, "You best go see where Miko ran off to. Primus knows she is getting herself into some sort of trouble that she will be needing your help with."

Once he got off my servo, he glanced up at me with a confused look. "What about you? What are you doing now?"

I slightly glanced back toward the main room before looking down at Raf and saying, "I have something I need to take care of. Then, I'll see if the bots need my help in any of this." Smiling, I said, "Don't worry. We'll have some fun later." I then stood up to my full height and walked back toward the main room.

Once I arrived, I located Ratchet and frowned before letting off a soft growl and approaching the medic. He didn't realize that I was walking up to him before I stopped behind him and growled, "Ratchet, you are an idiot."

He jumped before turning around. "Pandimala, I am working on sensitive calibrations. I cannot have you interrupting," My slamming of my clenched servo against the wall by his helm shut him up quickly.

"I want you to listen to me, and listen to me well." I growled, narrowing my optics into a glare as I leaned in so our faceplates were probably a foot apart, which was pretty close for being a bot. "That young boy was just trying to inspire you. What this has to do with gym class and Raf climbing that rope was because, before he accomplished it, he felt like it was hopeless, like it was not going to be able to be overcome no matter how hard he tried or what he did to accomplish it. But, if I had to place any bets, I would say that Raf has taken his experience with you bots and the respect that he has of your courage to fight when the numbers and technology are against you and has applied that to his own life. Just know, he probably just wanted to return some of that encouragement to you that you have given to him."

Slowly moving my clenched servo away from the wall, I stepped back and allowed what I said to sink into the doc bot's helm. I knew that he would have eventually figured it out but I was not going to take the chance that, since Shadow and I are here, we may have interfered with that part. So, I now just had to wait for the results and take it how it was dished.

But, if I was hoping to see some change, I was disappointed when the communicator beeped. "Hey Ratchet, can you open up the bridge?" Bulkhead asked over the comm.

Ratchet shook his helm, probably putting my thought provoking words to the back of his helm, before he said, "Coming up Bulkhead." He then locked onto Bulkhead's coordinates before he activated the bridge.

In a flash of lights, the ground bridge activated and, not long after, Bulkhead came driving through. Once he was through, the bridge powered down and Bulkhead transformed before saying, "No sign of energon spikes." He then walked closer to us before he stopped and said, "'Cliff, Shadow, Arcee, or 'Bee find the space bridge?"

Guess Shadow made it to Cliff since Bulkhead asked about her. "They haven't yet reported back." Was Ratchet's slow answer before he grew a thoughtful look and went silent.

After a moment, the silence was starting to bug me and I was about to ask Ratchet what was wrong when Bulkhead beat me to it. "Ratchet, you alright?"

Ratchet stared ahead for another second before he looked up. "Hmm?" He looked like he had zoned out. It was weird for doc bot to do that and I wondered if it had anything to do with, "Yes," He then stared at me. Yep, it had to do with what I said to him. But, before either Bulk or myself could comment, Ratchet continued, "yes, let's just get you to the next quadrant."

...Oh no. I just remembered why I really didn't like this episode. "Oh scrap." I muttered to myself.

A beeping sound filled the room for a few seconds before Ratchet walked over to a panel. "What is it?" Bulkhead asked.

I had to hold back a shudder as Ratchet responded. "A high frequency signal...with an imbedded message." He then paused as he continued to read before he said in a surprised voice. "for me!"

I really really hated this part. Oh, and did I forget to mention that I hated this?

"Optimus?" Bulkhead asked hopefully.

Oh Bulky, if it were only so nice. Instead, it was the most slimy bot in all existence. It was, "Starscream." Ratchet answered Bulkhead's question.

Letting out a 'surprised' huff, I asked, "What does he want?" Though I was pretty sure I knew the answer to that, I wanted to double check just in case the episode changed.

That was when Ratchet read the message. "'I have obtained information regarding your leader. Bring medical kit. Come alone.'"

It was silent between the three of us for a few seconds before Bulkhead said, "Well, I'm not letting you go alone."

And then my fragging bleeding spark conscious came to light and I realized that, very soon, Bulkhead was going to be fighting Megatron at the space bridge. Since he was doing that, my stinking conscious realized that this episode might have changed and I could not let Bulkhead get into a fight, even if it was with Starscream, before he had to fight the big gun. So, even though I absolutely hated Starscream like no other...and he was not exactly my biggest fan, I stepped forward and said, "Stay here at base Bulk. You just got back. I'll go. Plus, I need to get some wind under my wings again. It's been awhile since I've been out."

The two of them stared at me with a 'are you insane' kind of look before Bulkhead said, "Pandimala, the last time you and 'Scream were together, he ended up almost offlining you."

Shaking my helm at his arguing, I said, "Almost being the key word Bulkhead. Plus, I doubt he would try anything. He is requesting a med kit and that means that he is injured. Now," I then clapped my servos together. "no arguing you two. I'm going and that is that." I then crossed my arms, giving them a glare that dared them to challenge me.

Thankfully, Ratchet decided to not argue and said, "She makes a good case Bulkhead. Keep an audio open for any communication from the others." He then walked up to the ground bridge controls and typed in Starscream's coordinates. Once the portal was open, I followed Ratchet through, broadswords out and ready to use against Starscream in case something had changed.

"I told you to come alone!" Starscream screeched. He was injured, like in the show, and I did feel sorry for him as the energon leaked from his leg.

But, that didn't mean that I trusted him. "And since when do we listen to you?" I asked him with a growl, putting my sword at the ready.

"Where is Optimus?" Ratchet demanded of the seeker.

Starscream was quick to retort, even if it wasn't to his advantage. "Patch me up and perhaps I'll tell you." Ratchet and I gave each other looks like we were wasting our time and I knew that Starscream caught on to them. "Have sympathy, I'm leaking here."

"Then I suggest you speak quickly." Ratchet suggested to the double-crossing flier. "Has Optimus been harmed, in any way?"

Starscream looked like he was going over his choice for a nano-click before he said, "He's fine. Fine. Can't you see that I'm the one whose been harmed?"

I was really getting tired of Starscream trying to focus our attention our attention on him so I snarled at him and said, "Stop diverting it back to you Starscream! Where is he?"

Starscream jumped at my yelling at him before saying, "Where do you think? He is on Megatron's warship!"

"Which is located where?" Ratchet demanded. I shivered. Ratchet could be pretty scary when he wanted to be.

Starscream let out a few sarcastic chuckles before saying, "Now, who knows. It's a ship. It moves. It took me months to track, only to get fired upon."

Ratchet's optics narrowed before he said, "You wouldn't go through the trouble of calling me here unless you had something to trade. Real information."

Starscream looked like he had been defeated and sighed before saying, "Very well. Your beloved leader may have lost his senses. He goes by the name Orion Pax now, and it seems Megatron has led him to believe he's a Decepticon." Starscream look so victorious at his admission.

But, my laugh of disbelief made that look disappear. "Tell us something we don't know Starscream."

"WHAT?" Starscream yelled in shock. "How could you possibly know that?"

"We're wasting our time." Ratchet stated to me while motioning toward the open ground bridge.

As we started to walk away, Starscream tried to plead his case. "Wait! That's all I have. Really, you just can leave me like this!"

Growling, I turned and said, "Sorry 'Scream, but unless you know the location of the Decepticon space bridge, you can stay here and rust to the Pit."

Scrap! Now I had just given Starscream something he could use as leverage. Said sneaky flier let out a gasp before saying, "Space...bridge? Do you mean to tell me that they actually finished building it without my supervision?" Ratchet glanced at me with a look that said that was what we needed to hear. Starscream caught onto this before he let out a weak chuckle and said, "It hurts most right here," He then motioned to his injured leg before saying, "doctor."

I growled but didn't do anything as Ratchet got the coordinates of the space bridge from Starscream and fixed up the bot. Once the chicken was gone, we went back to base and the first thing that I noticed was that the others were back from their looks.

"Where were you two?" Cliffjumper asked as Ratchet typed in the coordinates Starscream gave us.

Shadow was giving me a knowing look and I knew that she knew that, not only did Starscream give us the coordinates, but that I had gone with Ratchet to get them. That ninja knew everything. Of course, that ninja just so happened to be my best fried which meant that she was entitled to know everything.

Smiling to them, I said, "We were following a lead to the location of the space bridge."

"And did you find it?" Bumblebee asked.

Nodding, Ratchet pointed to the coordinates on screen and said, "The Decepticon space bridge is located right here, deep within an energon mine."

Arcee glanced at Shadow and said, "Adjacent to a raw fuel supply. Clever." She then glanced at Ratchet, Bulkhead, and I before she asked the question. "What's our intel?"

Immediately, the three of us cast an uneasy glance at each other before Ratchet said, "A...reliable source."

And that received the suspicion look from all of them. What? Starscream wasn't exactly the most reliable source out there but he was in a situation that not even he would lie to us...hopefully.

"So, do we have an agreement?" Shadow asked June as she turned to the human nurse.

June looked like she was looking for an argument before she asked, "Do we know if people can even breathe your atmosphere?"

And cue Fowler. "I'll hook Jack up." The agent started. "Completely state of the art. I still have connections at NASA."

"It's too dangerous." June said, finally coming out with her worry.

"Mom," Jack started. "I know that this is hard. But Optimus risked his life to save our planet, and he's not even human. We owe it to him."

Walking up to the platform, I said, "Jack may be the only one who can do this June." I was trying to make a connection with her and maybe secure a place for Shadow and I on the trip to Cybertron.

But, Arcee coming in destroyed that chance. "But I don't want you to think for one moment that I'll allow him to travel unchaperoned."

Shadow then stepped up next to me and said, "Not everyone is destined for a normal life. Optimus was once Orion Pax, I was once Shayla Knight, and Pandimala was once Daniella Val after all."

After Shadow said that, June put her head down in thought for a moment before turning to Jack and saying, "When you were little, you always wanted to be an astronaut."

I huffed in my helm at that. Stupid gushy moments. Why couldn't we just fast forward all of this stuff and get to the whole fight for the space bridge and the proceeding fight with the big gladiator himself, Megatron. Of course, thoughts of the leader had me thinking back to our interactions during the Unicron crisis. Why had he been so...caring? It didn't make sense.

"So, what's the plan?" Cliff asked, who was now standing on the other side of Shadow. If they kissed while standing next to me, I was going to knock them into next week, no matter how much we needed them.

Ratchet cleared his vocals before saying, "We will ground bridge directly into the energon mine and make our way to the space bridge chamber, neutralize any Decepticon forces we encounter. Once we secure the space bridge, we'll send for Jack."

"Stealth will be our biggest priority." Arcee started. "We'll definitely be outnumbered and if any of the 'Cons get an alert out,"

"The odds go to four hundred to one." Cliffjumper added. "And while I like odds that are against us, I don't like that bad of odds."

Ratchet nodded and continued. "Scrambling communications upon entry will certainly provide an edge in this regard."

We all nodded before Arcee stepped forward. "Taking the bridge is the easy part. You four need to hold it long enough for Jack, and me, to get to Cybertron and back."

"Um," I started.

But, Ratchet cut me off. Guess I wasn't loud enough. "Rafael climbed the rope in gym class, we can do this." He then glanced at me and I would swear until my offlining day that he gave me a small nod.

"What does gym class have to do with anything?" Miko asked as she walked up. Uh-oh. Here it comes. "And if Ratchet gets to go on a commando raid, I'm going too."

Thankfully, Ratchet had this covered. "Miko," He started. "you will help Rafael operate our ground bridge and manage the communications hub."

Miko, in return, grumbled at that and walked away while saying, "Can't go to Cybertron, can't storm the Decepticon space bridge."

I just shook my helm at that. Oh Miko, you will get your chance to pound on the Decepticons...and my least favorite one at that.

"Nurse Darby will stand by in case of an emergency." Ratchet continued. "And Shadow and Pandimala will stay at base as our backup in case something happens."

What? "Um, why do we have to stay? Don't you need another heavy hitter and Shadow is all ninja with her stealth now." I complained.

The two of us glanced at Ratchet as he said, "This mission requires skills that neither of you have picked up yet. So, to make sure that this mission is a success, you two will remain here unless it looks like we have no other chance besides to bring you two in."

Okay, now it was my turn to do a Miko. "Don't get to go to Cybertron, don't get to help raid the bridge." I then marched away towards my room.

"Where are you two going?" I heard Ratchet asked.

I turned around and saw that Shadow was following me. At least I wasn't complaining alone. "Well," I started, "if we are only going to be needed as a last resort, then I want to take a nap to make sure that I am ready for our 'big moment'." That last bit was, of course, sarcastic. Since we weren't going to be participating, the two of us were going to be taking a nap. They obviously didn't need us.

Once we turned the corner, I let out a sigh as I arrived at the door to my room. "Hey 'Mala, do you really plan to sleep this entire episode?" Shadow asked as she stopped in front of her door.

Shaking my helm, I said, "Nah because they will need us when Megatron comes by and, while they might not have time to call us, we can show up then. But, I don't want to fight Megatron without some rest. Maybe I can even get a restful recharge before all of this slag starts."

"That'll be the day." Shadow smirked before she walked into her room.

Sighing, I walked into mine and quickly laid down on the berth. I didn't have that much time to nap and so I had to make this count. Shutting down my systems, I soon found myself in a deep recharge.

I groaned as I onlined my optics. Where was I? My room wasn't this dark and I knew that I hadn't been in a fight recently. Actually, this eerily reminded me of when Shadow and I,

"Scrap this slag is happening again."

I turned to my left when I heard Shadowstalker's voice and I saw that she was in a sitting position much like my own, legs stretched out and hands to her side keeping her balanced.

Letting out a chuckle as the two of us started to stand up, I said, "So, you noticed too? Either we are having some creepy bi-conscious dream or,"

"Yes, I have need to speak with you yet again." Alpha Trion's voice echoed around us before said bot appeared before us.

"So what do you need with us?" Shadow asked, taking the initiative and getting to the point.

The ancient mech paced in front of us for a click before saying, "I need to speak with you, but not here. This connection that I have with the two of you now is weak at best and I do not want to take the chance that one of you might talk in your recharge and risk the others hearing what I need you to do."

Great, I loved riddles. They weren't exactly at the top of my specialty list. "So what are you saying now?" I asked him while placing my servos on my hip.

Alpha Trion sighed before saying, "I need you two to come to the Hall of Records as swiftly and covertly as you can so I can give you your new missions. I will provide the way for you as long as you know what to do to get here." He then flickered for a brief nano-click before saying, "I must go now. Once you arrive at the Hall of Records, I will converse with you in more detail about your missions."

"Wait!" Shadow and I both yelled

"You can't leave us in the dark again!" Shadow yelled as the bot vanished.

I on the other servo, growled and said, "Fragging riddle-filled ancient Autobot."

I then woke up.

Once my systems were online, I bolted off of my berth and opened my door. Seemingly, Shadow opened her door at the same time because I soon found myself staring at her in her doorway from my doorway.

"So either you and I have scary in-sync timing," Shadow started. "Or that was a vision from Alpha Trion and we have to figure out some way to get to Cybertron without the bots knowing. Do you have any idea how we are even going to get to the mine on time?"

I was about to answer that I had no clue when a thought entered my processor and I realized that I did have an idea. "I think that I do." I answered her with a half-hopeful smile.

Turning down the hall, the two of us made our way back to the main room while she asked, "Really? What?"

Smiling, I answered, "I'm going to call in a favor."

Five minutes later

"You want me to what?" Raf asked me in shock as he sat on my servo away from the others.

When Shadow and I had entered the room, I was surprised to see that the others were nowhere to be seen. The bots were probably securing the bridge and the other humans were probably with Jack. Guess Alpha Trion had changed things enough for us to talk with Raf alone and convince him to accept our request.

Letting off the most pleading look I could, I repeated myself. "We need you to open a ground bridge for us in the mine where the space bridge is and we need to keep this between the three of us alone. You can't whisper a word about it to any of the others, even 'Bee." I stated.

He shook his head, probably in shock, before saying, "Why do you two need to go to the mine anyways? Ratchet said that they would call when he needed you unless..." He then let his words drift off. Guess his mind was realizing why we needed to go without the Autobots knowing. "You two are going to Cybertron, aren't you?" The two of us nodded. "But what happens if the space bridge closes and you two are still on Cybertron?" Raf asked with a raised voice.

Shadow shook her helm and said in a calming voice. "We will make it back in time Raf, I promise." She then seemed to think before saying, "How about this, if we aren't back by the time that Jack and the rest of the bots get back, you can tell the others that we went to Cybertron. Deal?"

Raf seemed to hesitate at her words and said, "I don't know..."

"Raf, come on. I'm asking this as a return on that favor." I stated before putting on a pleading look. "Please?"

Raf looked so conflicted at the moment and I felt bad that we had to put him in this position but we were going to need him in on this part the plan if we were going to get to Cybertron and see Alpha Trion. "Well..." Raf started, a defeated look on his face. "fine but if you two aren't back before Jack and the bots, I'm telling them everything."

"Deal." Shadow and I agreed at the same time.

We then walked back to the platform and I let Raf down and he started to type away at his computer. Right before he opened the bridge though, he looked at us and asked, "What is going to be the story as to why you are asking for a bridge back to base?" Raf asked.

That...was a good question. I hadn't actually thought about why we would need a bridge back to base in case the others were by Raf when we called it in. "We were just out for a quick drive because Pandimala's claustrophobia started to get bad." Shadow stated as an answer. Dang she was good at the excuses.

Raf seemed satisfied at that. "Alright." He then opened the bridge before saying, "Good luck and come back."

Smiling, I said, "We will."

Shadow clapped her servo against my shoulder before saying, "Yeah, I'll make sure that 'Mala here doesn't get us into trouble."

The two of us then went through the bridge.

On the other side, I saw that we were in a small out tunnel that only had one opening. That was either some extreme fate of Alpha Trion had made sure that the bridge would get us close to the space bridge.

"How did you get Raf to owe you a favor?" Shadow asked in a whisper as we moved down the tunnel of the opening.

My wings twitched slightly at the closeness of the walls before saying, "I kinda cheered him up after Ratchet asked what climbing a rope in gym class had to do with our situation here."

"And let me guess," Shadow started, "you yelled at Ratchet afterwords."

Smirking as we neared the opening, I rhetorically asked, "How did you know that?" I smirked at the end of that.

If Shadow wanted to respond at the end of that, she was refused that by us exiting the side tunnel and I saw that we were right next to the space bridge. Gee Alpha Trion, couldn't get us any closer? That was, of course, sarcastic.

Shadow and I waited until the bots had their backs to us and listened until we heard Bulkhead say, "This could be a while."

Now was our chance. Everyone would be too preoccupied with dealing with Breakdown and Arcee and Jack would be far enough away from the space bridge so Shadow and I could sneak through without them noticing.

"Let's go." Shadow whispered to me, saying what I was thinking. Nodding, I followed her to the bridge and, making sure the bots weren't looking, the two of us walked though.

The scene was breathtakingly gloom. The planet looked like it was a giant graveyard that had a light misting of fog and stretched on forever, the darkness and silence telling tales about the innumerable fights that were waged on this planet, the many battles fought by this very spot were Cybertronians from both side lost their sparks fighting for a cause which each felt was right, but both ended up destroying their home.

A spark of light in the distance, opposite the way that Arcee and Jack went, broke the monotony of the planet around us.

"Guess that's Alpha Trion's way of giving us directions." Shadow stated before transforming into her alt mode and driving toward the source.

Jumping in the air and transforming into my jet mode, I flew above her and said, "I hope so because, if it isn't, then the two of us are in very, very deep scrap."

In my mind, I was remembering what one of the bots had said about troops being left behind on Cybertron. They didn't say what kind of troops or from which side they came but, I did know one thing;

This mission was going to be dangerous.

And, after much waiting, that is the end of the next chapter of Revelations of a Different Future. Next chapter should really get the action moving since Shadowstalker and Pandimala are on Cybertron when they aren't supposed to *tsk tsk*. Anyways, We hope you all liked this and next chapter will be written and posted by Shadow.

Dragon: Oh, and sorry for the late update. This is my fault but I have been caught up with work lately.

Shadow: Well, just don't let it happen again and we will be even.

Dragon:...I'll try.

Shadow: What does that mean Dragon?

Dragon: *running away*

Both: Until we meet again, please drop us a review! *Shadow continues to chase Dragon*