I have another one for y'all! Sorry it took so long but, yeah. Enjoy!

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Guest

Fluffy stuff at end I love the fluffyness :)

P.S sorry about all of these reviews but sometimes I forget to write Things alright by

P.P.S ur one of my top ten fav aouthors

Yes, fluff! it's alright, thanks!

Aloris

Yup, plenty of ideas, just a process of when and were to put them :)

Novashifter15

Haha, yeah. it has been a while. Well, he's been healing for a couple weeks now so i think he'd be better

Icy's last breath

Yup, her kryptonite

Cashagon

Chap 1. Haha! That's great ;)
Chap 2. Yes. Yeah, she'll start breaking out of it soon...in a way, for a bit. It's complicated. ;)
Chap 3. :D Minicons...but that might not be all...and that might not have been what was in that room... :)
For a while he'll look like he did in TFP. I've watched most of the show because, well i needed to for this, merp. No, Jazz and any character not in TFP will look like their G1 appearances. i should make a note of that, haha. They just made everyone big and bulky in RiD, it bugged me.

iceblossom98

Give you a heart attack, she gives me a heart attack. you know, i think she'd be ok giving Jazz a heart attack.


Aliena directed a Vehicon on where to place a premade wall when bot walked over, "Prime? Aliena Prime?"

She sighed and waved, walking over to him, "Yeah."

He pointed over his shoulder, "Optimus wants ya fer one thin' or another."

"Oh great…oh please let it not be new bots…" She sighed but left.

Optimus was standing in the center of several houses, none of them currently finished, with several other bots. He turned to her with a smile, "Aliena, there are some bots I want you to meet."

She raised a brow and only looked at him inquisitively.

Optimus gestured to the bots gathered, "Aliena, these the Aerialbots, returning seekers."

She blinked, shocked, looking between them and Optimus. "Ok, uh, cool…"

A white and gray Aerialbot stepped forward and offered a servo, "Name's Silverbolt. Optimus says your carrier and sire left just before the war."

She nodded.

He smiled, "Can't say I blame them, my sire packed my brothers and I up shortly after it started."

She looked at Optimus, still not fully what this had to do with her in particular—past that they were the same build, species, type? Whatever.

Optimus saw her confusion and said, "We have several shelters built, but none suitable for seekers. I want you and the Aerialbots to work on some. At the same time they can fill you in on much of our history and customs."

Aliena nodded, slightly reluctant to see him leave.

Silverbolt smiled, "So, where do we begin?"

*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*

That night Aliena sat in her berthroom with her knees to her chest, helm resting against the wall. She peeked an optic open when she heard the door swish open. Optimus walked in and sat next to her, "Everything go alright."

She nodded, "It went fine…setting the foundation took a little longer because they all wanted to be together but…I can understand wanting to keep family close…"

"I didn't mean the building, though I am glad to hear that it is going well."

She shrugged.

Optimus sighed, "I'm trying to help, the Aerialbots will be far more understanding and accepting of you than many of the others have, at least off the bat as the saying is."

Aliena smiled a bit at the joke. "I know, and I'm sorry I've been so hard on it also it's just…" She laughed a bit, "I wasn't the people person with my own kind…frankly Cybertronians terrify me just as much as humans. And then it doesn't help that I'm a seeker and they're all hesitant, which I understand."

"Just give them time and work with the other seekers." He vented a bit before adding, "I am putting them under your command."

"What? Optimus, hold on-" Aliena started.

Optimus put a servo on her shoulder, stopping her, "You are a leader now, no matter what you are people will see you that way. I'm not asking you much, but lead your own kind. While the Aerialbots left before they were forced to join the Decepticons, there will be a rift between them and others for some time. Learning with them will the best way for you to start."

She sighed and her shoulders fell and said quietly. "I never wanted this…after I realized I couldn't go home, I just wanted to give my brother something stable, and then—I just wanted to be with you. I never wanted any of this, never, not even—not even in my birth dimension. I don't mind life throwing curveballs, by this point I've learned to go with them…but why this? Optimus, why?"

He held her close, "I could hardly begin to guess."

Aliena rested her helm on his chest as she fell into recharge.

*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*

Days blurred into weeks, Iacon was being rebuilt at a constant rate—most of the housing sector done. After a few tense days the Aerialbots and Aliena began to get along more, actual conversations were held. Aliena, Silverbolt and Skydive were currently on patrol. Silverbolt asked, "So what's the planet like that you grew up on, Earth was it?"

"Pretty nice, depending on where on the planet you were."

Skydive said, with some disgust in his voice, "Oh, it wasn't one of those multiple climate planets was it?"

"Yeah, it was."

Silverbolt laughed, "Skydive here had a bad experience with a planet like that once, hasn't let it go since."

Skydive visibly shuddered, "One minute you got liquid leaking down and into you the next you're freezing your axels off."

Silverbolt cut in, "I'm getting a reading of some kind, I can't make out what it is at this distance."

Aliena checked her scanners, "Hm…I'm not picking anything up, but we'll check it out anyway."

"I was equipped with extra scanning capacities."

"And he uses it to be a nanny-bot most of the time." Aliena could almost see Skydive rolling his optics.

As they flew down and landed Silverbolt frowned, "It just had to be Tyger Pax."

"What happened at Tyger Pax? Besides the obvious." She asked.

Both Silverbolt and Skydive stopped for a moment before Skydive answered, "Tyger Pax was one of Megatron's first bombings…this is where we used to live."

She felt sorry for them but didn't quite understand what they were getting at.

Silverbolt finished, "Our carrier was offlined here."

Her optics widened slightly, "I-I'm sorry." There was a beat before she said, "Let's hurry up and find whatever it was that you saw. No need to dilly-dally."

Truth be told, Tyger Pax was starting to give her the creeps. She could almost hear ghostly children laughing and a bustling city. She shook her head slightly and followed Silverbolt down a broken and barely recognizable street.

He stopped and frowned, looking at a screen on his arm. "I don't understand, we're supposed there…are we on top of it?"

Aliena looked down, "Did Tyger Pax have subways?"

Both bots blinked at her. "Subways?" Skydive asked.

"Uh, underground transportation."

Skydive looked at Silverbolt who was looking up, "I think so, it had one or two at least."

Aliena nodded, "Let's start with those."

"This way." Silverbolt waved, "I still remember where the entrance was at."

They walked for a bit until they came to a larger structure, mostly collapsed. Silverbolt nodded, "Well, this was it. We might be able to get in once the rubble is removed from the doorway."

Aliena looked up and asked, "Can you guys fly while not in your alt mode?"

Both shook their heads.

"Alright, I'll head up and in and start clearing rubble away from the inside."

Her foot thrusters activated and she was up and over the non-existent roof in moments. The inside was no better than the outside, the whole place looked ready to fall apart and the slightest movement. She frowned before helping to clear the door. A moment later all three were inside.

They continued in, optics becoming the only source of light once they were in the descending hallways. Aliena suddenly asked, "I should've said something earlier, but is there another way out in case this place collapses?"

Silverbolt shook his helm, "If you're not counting the tunnels, then no."

"And I'm pretty sure most of those are collapsed." Skydive added.

"Wonderful." Aliena said dryly.

Silverbolt laughed slightly, "Step lightly."

Aliena nodded, "Duly done."

As they continued down and through several tunnels Silverbolt stopped, "Whatever it is, is just behind this wall."

Aliena frowned, thinking, "Can we get a com signal out?"

Skydive tried to com someone and shook his head, "The rubble above is probably messing with the signal too much."

She vented, not sure what to do.

Silverbolt put a servo on her shoulder, "If it's Starscream we're looking for, three seekers can easily overpower him."

Aliena looked at him, worry in her optics, "It's not Starscream I'm worried about…Shockwave is still lose too…"

Skydive frowned, "He, could be more of a problem."

She nodded and hummed in agreement. "Alright, we'll just be careful. Is there a doorway here or…?"

They felt along the wall for a moment when a section of the wall broke off and slid open. Silverbolt smiled, "Found the lever."

Aliena nodded, spark racing and almost in her throat—or whatever the Cybertronian equivalent was—and activated her blasters before stepping into the room.

Lights blinked from a dozen consoles and screens while tools—some of obvious Decepticon decent—laid on various tables and work benches. A few empty and neatly stacked Energon cubes sat in a corner.

"Everything's still active." Skydive said, moving over to a console.

Silverbolt started typing at another, "Whoever was here left in a hurry…I'm not picking up the same signal anymore, but something's still here."

Aliena's tank churned as she walked to a console and tapped a button. The screen instantly changed to a log of some kind she guessed. It took her a bit but she started to translate some of what was on the screen and her spark stopped. "No."

Silverbolt's helm shot up, "What is it?"

"The CNA make up."

"Cyber Nucleic Acid?" He asked.

She nodded, "Do you have anything to down load this on?"

He looked confused, "No, why?"

"Because-" She stopped as the screen suddenly went black along with all the other computers and a console exploded. "Scrap!" A door lay to their left and she grabbed Silverbolt's servo and yelled at Skydive, "The door!"

They ran through the door and she fired the console on the door, closing it behind them. The room shook and the door bowed in quite a bit but remained intact. Aliena sighed in relief as she pushed herself off the pile they had formed in the escape and dive through the door.

She instantly went to the door and tried to open it, but like she expected it remained closed. Skydive onlining his blasters made her turned, "This just got worse."

The room was dimly lit, no doubt on a backup generator, but the two tanks were clearly visible.

"Predacons." Silverbolt growled. "Shockwave's making more Predacons."

Skydive pointed, "There's another door, probably another way out."

Silverbolt grabbed for a few cubes of Energon lying near the tanks and handed it to Skydive, "Set one of these next to the console, we can blow it as we leave."

Aliena grabbed his servo and hissed, "No! Don't you dare."

He frowned, confused, "What, why not? If Shockwave's making more of these things to fight us then-"

"He doesn't have them right now."

"But they're beasts, I've read what just one did under Megatron's control."

"Did you read what they did for Cybertron?"

He paused and nodded, "But we can't just let them go, we're going to have to leave them here and Shockwave will just get them back."

Skydive called over, "Actually, they can be let out of the growth chambers at any time. They're fully grown."

Aliena stood with a hard look at the tanks. "This is my patrol, I'll take care of whatever happens, but I'm not leaving them here."

She walked over to the console and hit the release switch.

Silverbolt stared at her, "You're insane."

She shrugged, "Be that as it may, we already killed a half-dozen of them when they were the equivalent of sparklings. I'm not doing that again."

As the containers opened Skydive asked, bouncing from peed to peed in nervousness. "We're scrambling to get everything in order for new bots, not to mention repairing the entire planet—how do you propose we take care of them?"

She vented again, "Just leave that to me, I'll figure it out."

The tanks opened and the two Predacons stepped/fell out, optics wide. Almost like a child's. They growled slightly but not in a malicious way.

Silverbolt stood, very tense, and pointed to the open door, "I'll, just go scout—for a way out."

Skydive watched his brother leave, he obviously looked like he wanted to follow him but stayed put, not wanting to leave Aliena alone either…even if this was her terrible idea.

Aliena swallowed thickly and took a cautious step towards the Griffin and bird-like Predacons. Both would be easily taller than she was when at full height, but at the moment they were laying down—no doubt disoriented. She breathed to calm her spark and approached them with her servos out in an open and non-threatening manner. "Hey, uh, I think you can understand me an-and if you can, we need to go."

The Griffin one growled, optics opening and focusing on her—face unreadable.

She knelt down and spoke calmly, though she felt like her entire being was shaking in terror, "I want to help, but if we don't leave soon Shockwave will come back and, well it won't end well for any of us."

The bird-like Predacon locked optics with her and narrowed his own before squawking and the Griffin turned to it, understanding in its optics.

Skydive frowned and said quietly, "Weird, I think they share some kind of bond. Like a sibling bond."

Aliena shrugged slightly, "They might have formed one while they were in the growth tanks if they were connected in some way."

He nodded when Silverbolt came back in, eyeing the two Predacons warily, "I found a way back into the tunnels but there's also someone coming back."

"No doubt it's Shockwave." Skydive said.

Aliena nodded towards the door, "Ok, let's go."

They headed out and the scraping of claws on the floor grabbed their attention, the Predacons were standing a bit unsteadily. A moment later they started following them and Silverbolt again took the lead. They wander the halls for several minutes before they came to a dead end, rubble blocking their path. Aliena and Silverbolt inspected the pile while Skydive wandered off a bit, the Predacons following him.

Silverbolt turned to her and shook his head, "Its too thick, we couldn't move or blast our way out."

She nodded, "There gotta be an intersecting tunnel somewhere that-"

"Silverbolt, Aliena!" Skydive yelled, "Got something."

They hurried back down the tunnel and found Skydive with the Predacons moving a bit of rubble to a new tunnel. Silverbolt grinned, "There's our way out."

The tunnel carried on for several miles until they finally came across another depo. Exiting the building nothing looked familiar to her. Aliena turned to Silverbolt and Skydive, "Any of this familiar?"

They shook their helms, Skydive answering, "We never left Tyger Pax until our ship left."

She sighed, "Glorious. Hm…Silverbolt, think you can find your way back to Iacon?"

He laughed, "Easily."

She nodded, "Ok, then you and Skydive head back and find Ultra Magnus, take him to the laboratory and see if anything survived or is still there."

He frowned, "And what are you going to do?"

She nodded towards the Predacons, "I've gotta find some place for them."

"I was afraid of that."

Aliena smiled, "I'll be fine, but please don't tell Ultra Magnus the Predacons until after you get to the depo."

They nodded and she watched them until they were out of sight then looked over at the Predacons before coming the Nemesis. *Aliena? Are you alright?*

*I'm fine Arcee, can you Bridge Optimus over to my coordinates?*

There was a pause before, *Sure, is everything alright? Did you find something?*

She again looked at the Predacons, *That's one way of putting it. Silverbolt and Skydive should be returning shortly, they can tell you.*

*It'll be a minute until I can get ahold of Optimus.*

*Alright.*

The Predacons watched her with curious optics, almost like a child's. She laughed, they essentially are children. A minute later a Ground Bridge opened and Optimus walked through, looking slightly confused. "Aliena? Is something wrong?"

She shook her head and made a calming gesture, "Nooo…uh, I need you to watch someone for a bit."

His brow creased as he came closer and noticed the Predacons behind Aliena. Even more confused he looked at her and asked in a steady voice, "What happened?"

She fiddled with her digits while she explained, "We found one of Shockwave's labs and they were there, fully matured. Silverbolt said that Shockwave was coming back and, well, I couldn't just leave them there."

He frowned slightly, "What are you planning to do? We don't even know where the other three are."

She frowned momentarily, servos kept moving as she tried to explain, "Uh, yeah, thing is, is that I think I know where one of them is…"

"Predaking is still at Darkmount, isn't he?" It wasn't so much a question as it was a statement of realization.

She nodded, "I think so…though I haven't been able to check recently."

Something clicked and his optics widened slightly, "He was hurt, wasn't he? That's why you were gone for several hours for the past few weeks."

She sighed, saddened at the memory, "Yeah. He was badly wounded, probably would've died if I hadn't found him…the other two were already dead." She looked up at his optics which were asking a silent question, "I don't really know how. Predaking said they were chasing Starscream when he stepped on a trigger. Considering what Jazz activated and how terrible that room and hallway looked, I'm not sure how Starscream survived, but I couldn't find any signs of him in the room.

Could you watch them? Until I find Predaking? I know he'll take care of them, he said it himself that he just wants to be left alone by bots and he looked devastated at the other two's death."

Optimus nodded and set a servo on her shoulder, "I will watch them." A small smile on his lips, "Though I wish you had told me this sooner."

She looked down again, "I'm sorry, I just, I just didn't know how…"

He smiled again and she transformed.

*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*

It wasn't too far to Darkmount, little less than half an hour. Aliena landed in the small entrance near the desecrated room and wandered down the hallway a bit, deeper into Darkmount. "Predaking? Predaking?"

She followed the hallway in and around, seeing a deep scrape in the floor every once in a while, until she reached a large flight bay. She sighed, defeated, he must have used this to fly out of here…Aliena looked up and out across the landscape and demolished city, lips pressed together in thought.

"Looking for me?" A deep voice said from behind her.

She whirled around to see Predaking standing there, looking fully healed. "You're still here!" Was the first thing that came to her mind.

He smiled, "I saw you flying in this direction."

Aliena smiled, "I'm glad you did, I need your help."

He frowned slightly, "With what may I ask?"

She couldn't help the small smile that crept onto her face as she answered, "I was on patrol when we found one of Shockwave's labs."

Predaking growled lowly at his name, "What of him?"

Aliena shook her head, "Not him, while we were there, we found other Predacons."

His face remained blank for a moment as he processed the information, "Where are they?" He asked quickly.

"They're with Optimus for the moment." Predaking frowned and she quickly added, "I-I didn't know if you would still be here and I don't know if they can fully understand me yet…it was the only option I saw at the time. But he, their waiting for you. I came to take you to them."

Predaking nodded, "Then show me to them."

Aliena smiled and transformed, Predaking transforming also and flying after her. It was a slightly slower flight back—slightly. She could see Optimus in the distance, still in the same spot she'd left him with the two other Predacons. Predaking suddenly shot passed her in a dive and landed near the Predacons.

She landed next to Optimus and smiled, he said, "I see that you found him."

She nodded with a hum. "I'm glad I did."

Optimus smiled and pulled her into a gentle side hug, "You did well."

Aliena laughed, "Really? I thought I dang near screwed everything up."

Optimus shook his helm, "Not in the slightest."

Predaking transformed and walked over to the pair and nodded his helm. "Thank you Aliena, now I'm truly not alone anymore."

She smiled and nodded before her face darkened slightly, "Shockwave probably has more labs out there…Knockout said he had hundreds scattered throughout Cybertron. It wouldn't surprise me if he's cloning more Predacons."

Predaking laid a clawed servo on her shoulder and said calmly, "Then I trust that you will find them and bring them to me."

Aliena's optics widened slightly and looked over at Optimus who simply looked at her before she turned back to Predaking and nodded, "I promise that if I find any more I'll bring them to you."

He nodded, "Thank you."

With that, Predaking transformed and roared as he too off, the other two Predacons following him.


Haha, now i can get on to something I've been wanting to for a while, i think the story's matured enough.

Ok, and i need to say this, all characters that weren't in TFP will look like the way they did in G1 unless otherwise noted, even if they were in RiD, they will either be TFP or G1. Sorry, pet peeve, but that's the way i'll be describing them.

ALSO!!IMPORTANT!
I will be writing the first chapter of When Worlds Collide: Worlds Nexus next. So be on the look out for it! Have a great week!