It wasn't long before the duo arrived at the given coordinates, and Bullet mentally crossed his fingers as her typed in the doorcode. No alarms or anything, the door just slid open. "Well, so far so good." Bullet mused. Jade followed him. "So, which room is it again?"

"214. According to my information, it's down that hall and to the left."

The silver Megatron lookalike nodded, indicating a hallway a few corridors down that crossed the one they were on. The Starscream lookalike nodded and followed. "I just hope Shockwave doesn't get any smart ideas while we're here." she replied.

"Why, bad feeling?" Bullet asked. Scythe, their leader, had told them that the first indication anything was wrong was allways a bad feeling. And not just the apprehension kind. And that if they started getting any really bad feelings, they should wait and try to find another way to get to the personality components stored inside the building. "Here it is, the 200 section." Jade pointed. They turned right. "Nope, the numbers are getting smaller." Jade pointed out. Bullet frowned. They turned around and went the other way. "There! 214!" Jade pointed. Bullet hurried up to the door and typed in the code, looking up and down the corridor as he waited for the electronic lock to process the code.

The door clicked, and the lock beeped. "Wait, don't tell me. The code didn't work, did it?" Jade asked. Bullet groaned. P"Well what're we gonna do now?" Jade asked. Bullet eyed the lock for a long moment, thinking about how to get it open. "I have an idea." he fished around in one subspace pocket for a minute, and brought out a length of wire. "You're kidding, right?" Jade stopped when he gave her a look. She shut up and let him bend around on it for a moment. "And, if this doesn't work." he mused. "We can allways blast down the door and get the components and run." P
Jade gave him a quizzical look.

"I'm carrying a few explosives in my subspace compartments, just in case." Bullet informed her.

"Oh." Jade didn't feel like asking him how stupid she thought that was. She wasn't sure how stable homemade C4 (or C6, as Bullet referred to it, she wasn't sure of the difference) was. What if the explosives had gotten jostled or energised by the spacebridge and exploded, hmm? then what? She simply glanced up and down the corridor, hoping this would work, and wishing it wouldn't take so long.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Megatron sleepily rolled over and glared at the blinking dot next to his recharge berth. THe comm transmitter indicator blinked orange lazily. He tried to think of what could possibly be happening right now that could be so important. Had Skywarp shoved Rumble down a garbage disposal chute again? He growled/half-groaned at the memory and rubbed a black hand over his face. He didn't want to have to deal with this right now. He pressed the button to switch it on. "Megatron here."

"Hail, Megatron. Leader of the Decepticons." Megatron blinked, his tiredness fading. If Shockwave was calling, it was probably urgent. He blinked and dragged himself onto his feet, plodding over to his desk. He sat and switch on the viewscreen. "Yes, Shockwave, what is it?"

"Uh..."

"Well, speak up! don't just stand there." Megatron was trying not to let his annoyance show. But maybe it wasn't the middle of the night on Cybertron. He kept forgetting there was a time difference.

"I thought you were on Cybertron." Shockwave sounded confused.

"Wha-Shockwave, What on Cybertron are you going on about? I'm right here. And still on Earth." Megatron had a feeling something was wrong. Very wrong. And he discovered he was right, too, as Shockwave began to explain...

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"Almost got it..." Bullet wiggled the two lengths of wire in the lock. "Got it." the door slid open. The two crept stealthily into the room, which was filled from wall to ceiling on every wall but that of the door with drawers, all marked with letters and numbers. Jade whistled. "Wouldya look at that!" she breathed.

"Which one is it, again?" Bullet asked. Jade sighed. "That one." she pointed to said drawer, and Bullet went over to the appropriate drawer and pulled. "Locked!" he hissed.

"huh?" Jade went over to stand next to him. "But they didn't say anything about it being locked!" she whispered. Bullet tried again. "I know." he half-whispered back.

"So what now?" Jade whispered loudly.

"I don't know." Bullet gave the drawer another pull then glanced at Jade. "Why are we whispering?" he asked in a half-whisper.

"I don't know. It just seemed appropriate since we're sneaking around inside the Decepticons's headquarters, in their mind-prison facility." Jade whispered back.

Bullet opticrolled. "So, any ideas?" he asked, this time using a normal voice. Jade shrugged and made a motion with both hands like "Haven't got a clue." Bullet frowned.

Jade rolled her optics and aimed her armcannon. One small bolt of energy, and the lock was melted. The femmeseeker quickly pulled the drawer open and grabbed the glowing box from within. "Lets..."

The ear-splitting alarm cut off her words, and the two cursed. "Let's go! Bullet yelled, and the two ran out and down the hall.

"There they are!" Shockwave appeared behind them.

"ohcrapohcorapohCRAP!" Jade skidded around a corner, and Bullet transformed to gunmode to blast two centurion drones in front of them. "Which way!" Jade shrieked above the alarms

"Uh... That way!" Bullet yelled, his voice slightly muffled since he was still in gun mode. The femmejet skidded left, down a stairs, and out into the city.

Five more drones swept down from overhead, firing as they went. The ground beneath the two exploded, and they fell, down into the city's depths. Jade transformed to jet mode, trying to start her engines as she fell. Bullet, safe in her cockpit, directed her under an overpass-like structure, where the jet landed and transformed, taking the gun out of her cockpit.

He transformed. "Well, where to now?" she asked, trying to ignore the sound of her fuel pump pounding loudly in her audios. Bullet looked around. "I don't know... I think we're lost."

"Psst! over here!" a voice whispered.

"Huh?"

"This way!" the voice called. Curious, the two followed the sound, down into a small indention, which looked like a hole, but as they went deeper, they realised it was steps, going further down into the planet.

"Shh. They are looking for you." the voice cautioned.

Sure enough, a trio of pyramid-shaped seekers flew overhead.

"Come, follow me." the voice beckoned.

They could make out the shadowy form in the dim light, now. Bullet and Jade looked at each other, but neither knew if it was a trap or not. Razer and Dusk had said the Kintaari had allies on Cybertron. Perhaps this mech was one of them.