Dustin lurched backwards and fell out of the bed.
"Jesus, Sarah, you're…." Dustin looked around the room. "incredible."
Dustin stood up and looked around the room. He saw pictures on the wall. Pictures of them together, them having a good time. Then he saw one that caught his eye. Their wedding picture.
"Where am I?"
"You're home. Come back to bed." Sarah said.
Dustin stood there. He was unsure of what was going on. He continued to look around.
"What's today's date?" Dustin asked.
"May 30th, 2010." Sarah replied.
Dustin's eyes widened.
"What's wrong?" Sarah asked.
"What was the date of our wedding?"
Sarah sounded shocked. "You don't remember?"
"Things in my mind are different the way things are now. I'm curious how much is different."
"September 29th, 2008." Sarah said.
"That seems right." Dustin thought to himself.
"I need to figure out what has happened for the past year and a half. I'm contacting Optimus Prime." Dustin said.
Sarah gave him a puzzled look.
Dustin looked on the stand next to the bed to see where his watch communicator was located.
"What are you looking for?" Sarah asked.
"My watch communicator. I need to contact Prime." Dustin replied.
"You're serious?"
"Yeah, I'm serious. Why wouldn't I be."
Sarah didn't answer.
Dustin observed her silence. He stopped looking for his communicator figuring it didn't exist. "What kind of car do I drive?"
"A Hyundai Tiburion." Sarah said in a very confused look.
"What happened to my Cavalier?"
"You wrecked it in Pittsburgh. A drunk driver hit you head on."
Dustin thought for a moment. "That's half right. Trypticon kicked my car into a building. That's how I really wrecked it. "
"What kind of job do I have?" He asked.
"You're an accomplished writer. You've written some wonderful stories." Sarah replied. "Is the fever coming back? When you had the fever it took part of your memory."
Dustin thought fast on how to figure out on what was going on.
"That must be it. I'm sorry I don't remember." Dustin said.
"It's ok." Sarah said as she rose out of bed and approached her husband. She wrapped her arms around him. He felt something between the two of them. They both were naked so there shouldn't be anything there but when he looked down he saw something familiar. It was a necklace that Sarah was wearing and the charm was a miniature version of the object that crashed onto Cybertron.
"Where did you get this?" He asked.
"Hon, it was the first gift you ever gave me." She replied.
Silverbolt carefully lowered Shortstop's head to the ground.
"I've got you, Shortstop. It's alright." Silverbolt said.
"Medical team, report to Sector-09-A. Shortstop is down. Human and Autobot medical teams report in." Optimus Prime said into his comm. link.
Moments later, Wheeljack, Ratchet and Carly arrived. Carly hopped out of Ratchet right before he and Wheeljack transformed. Wheeljack walked over to him. He manually disengaged the head, which transformed into the exosuit form and the body transformed into the Ford GT.
"It looks like his transforming mechanism is still functional." Wheeljack said.
Carly pressed the button on neck of the exosuit and the exosuit folded away revealing Dustin's true body. Dustin was still unconscious. Perceptor continued to scan the probe.
"The probe is no longer sending out the unusual particle stream. However it is sending out a narrow reciprocating band focused directly on Dustin." Perceptor reported.
"Perceptor, find out how we can cut the beam off." Prime said. "Wheeljack, start scanning the probe for identifying marks. I want to know if this thing came from the Decepticons or not."
Carly continued to scan Dustin.
"Pulse and blood pressure normal I'm getting hyperactive fibrogenic activity this is odd. There's no evidence of injury or trauma vital signs are normal, but his neurotransmitter production is off the scale. What's going on?"
"That probe is doing something to him. Any luck, Perceptor?" Éclair asked.
"Negative. The particle emission is most unusual. I am unable to block it." Perceptor said.
"Should we destroy it?" Silverbolt asked.
"I don't think that's wise. Not until we know what is going on?" Carly said.
"Agreed." Prime said as he looked from Dustin and back to the probe.
