"Dinner's ready," Mrs. Denns called up.
"Be right down Mom," Kevin called back then asked, "Are you going to be alright up here Hardcore?"
"Don't worry about me I'm going to be fine," Hardcore said, "Go eat you energon."
With a nod Kevin left the room followed by his father. The Denns ate their dinner and went to bed later. Kevin got a sleeping bag and a pillow from closet since Hardcore was still using his bed. As Kevin was setting sleeping bag Hardcore was looking at him.
"Thank you," Hardcore said after few minutes.
"Huh," was all Kevin could say as he looked up at Hardcore.
"For your kindness," Hardcore explained, "I don't know how I could ever repay for the kindness and help you gave."
"Don't sweat it," Kevin said, "You were injured and in need for help so don't worry about."
Kevin tucked himself in and said goodnight to Hardcore before going to sleep. Hardcore remained awake still deep in thought about what happened and how he got here before he too fell asleep. The next morning Kevin woke to see that Hardcore was out of bed and working at his computer.
"Isn't it a little early to start working," Kevin said as he walked over to the computer desk and picked up the nearby clock.
"Sorry about that but I was hoping on getting a good start on the portal thing," Hardcore explained, "Anyways do you remember what you did yesterday."
"Well, I put a CD Rom of a new game I got into the computer and started typing the required codes to it," Kevin said as he went to get it, "Maybe it's still in there."
He opened the CD holder and picked up the CD Rom inside.
"It's still warm," He added as he handed the CD to Hardcore who looked at for a while.
"My guess is that when we put our CDs in and when the explosion happened created some kind of portal," Hardcore said, "Let's see if it still works."
He put the CD back into the holder and closed it. When it closed the computer screen started to glow and crackle. Suddenly a blinding light erupted from the screen and engulfed the two friends. When the light disappeared the two were gone leaving the room empty. Kevin open his eyes to metal room and slowly got up as he looked around.
"Where am I?" He asked himself, "This is not my room."
He heard a groan from his left and he saw Hardcore laying a few feet away. He shuck Hardcore as he tried to wake him up. Hardcore slowly got up.
"Hey we're back in my world," Hardcore said when he looked around, "Well, in my lab anyway."
"So this is your world," Kevin said.
"The portal must have been encoded with in the CD Rom itself," Hardcore said.
"Well since we are here we can look around," Kevin said.
"We must be careful the Decepticon can still be nearby," Hardcore said.
"I guess your right," Kevin said remembering what Hardcore said about the Decepticons.
"Let me just check if my computer still works and then we can go regroup we my friends," Hardcore said as he went to his computer.
When he saw that it still worked Hardcore and Kevin left the lab to find the other Autobots.