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This chap was a suggestion from Autobot Slipstream, Thank you. I know a few of you have been wondering how the teens are holding up and so I made this special chap for you all, hope you enjoy it!

Tuesday: 1200 hours, AUTOBOT BASE

Sounds of a large metal door opening and tires rolling against cement entered into Jacks ears. At first he rolled over and groaned, but soon he jumped off his cot and rushed over to the Rec. Areas railing.

"Arcee!" He said hope raising in his voice.

"Stand down soldier, it's just me." The teen boy looked down to see Agent Fowler stepping out of the 2 ton jeep. His smile turned into a frown and he slumped his shoulders. "I'm guessing that means no word?"

"No, not even a hi." He sighed deeply and sat down on the couch, letting his messy raven black hair fall out of place.

"Look son, I miss them too, and no matter what it takes we'll find the bots and bring them back. But for now, we shouldn't lose hope in them." Jack looked up to Agent Fowler and tried to smile, but he just couldn't, he missed Arcee, she wasn't just his protector, they were partners and always looked out for each other. To tell the truth he was kind of scared without her.
By now Miko was waking up and her loud yawn made Raf sit up in his cot and reach for his glasses that were so kindly knocked off of the table.

"Are they back yet?" Miko asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Jack looked out the large hanger doors and shut his eyes.

"No."

"There out there somewhere Jack, we just need to keep searching." Raf said putting on his glasses.

"You know we could go to their last known whereabouts." Miko said shrugging and putting her hair up in her usual way.

"Out of the question, that's in the middle of the desert. Who knows whats out there." They all turned to see Jacks mom, June Darby, walking up the stairs to the Rec. Area.

"Awwww." Miko said giving sad eyes to the older woman.

"I'm sorry guys but it's much to dangerous, Tell them Will." She looked to the Agent and he stiffened up.

"I'm going to have to agree with June on this one, it is much to dangerous for you three."

"You're just agreeing with her cause you like her." Miko said crossing her arms. Fowler straightened his tie and cleared his throat.

"I have a bit of work to do, if anyone needs me I'll be in my office." He walked off and shut his office door behind himself, leaving June and the kids alone.

"I have to go as well, the hospital needs me." She set a bag of food down and hugged her son before walking off as well.
Miko waited till she was completely gone before jumping up from her cot and slipping on her knee high boots. Jack knew she was determined to get the bots back, and so was he. He got up himself and slipped on his shirt and shoes, giving a nod to Raf who typed a little on his computer and let the ground-bridge open.

"Give a call if we need to come back, we'll try to be as quick as we can."

"Come on Jack." Miko grabbed his arm and pulled him through the portal.
When they reached the other side it seemed normal enough, except for the large device that was set in the middle of it all. The duo walked over to it and saw that it was at least twice as tall ask them both, Miko had Jack push her up first and then she helped him up. It was large both by width and height. "Wow! I wonder what this does?"

"If I'm not mistaken, I think it's the terraformer device." Jack said answering her rhetorical question. They looked at their surroundings to see nothing else unusual, no robot bodies, or vehicles in sight. "Raf gave me a chip so I could download information about this thing." He inserted it into the control panel on the device.

"Uh, not to be the party pooper Jack, but won't that make the chip go." She made her hands look as if they were blowing up and he shook his head.

"No this is a chip Ratchet gave to Raf who in turn gave it to me for this kind of occasion. It can hold much more complicated data."

"Oh." She walked off from Jack and looked around the device, as she looked, something on the ground caught her eye. She got onto her hands and knees and peered down. It was a tangle of wires and chips, something that anyone would know was important in this things functionality. When the chip had downloaded all it could Jack walked over to Miko and looked to what she was peering at. "I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that was not supposed to happen."

"Me neither." They climbed down and stepped up to the large cables, it would take both of them to take at least one back to base. "Must've been ripped out." He thought for a moment before remembering something. "Didn't SmokeScreen take the phase-shifter?" He asked himself more than Miko, but she answered anyways.

"Ya, and he would seem to be the one for taking things apart." She was thinking back to when he had kicked StarScream out of the apex amor.

"We should head back now, maybe take a wire chip with us so Raf can analyze it." Jack shoved the data chip into his pocket and helped Miko take the a chip off of a wire, they then called Raf so he could open up a ground bridge for them.

Tuesday: 1500 hours, AUTOBOT BASE

Raf was working on the data chip Jack had given him, writing down information ever so often on a pad of paper. When he was finished with that he took the wire chip, Jack and Miko had grabbed from the site, and scanned it for anything else that might be useful to them. Jack was pacing around the base waiting for Raf to finish on his work, while Miko was watching TV with the saddest frown anyone had seen on her.

"Done!" Raf said happy that he was finished. Miko and Jack rushed from their spots and practically hovered over him to see what he had found. He pushed up his glasses and walked to the other side of the human sized table. "The data chip you gave me, showed me that the device was in fact the terraformer, it was programmed to form the earth into a cybertron like state, killing off any and all humans in the process." He showed them the information on the computer and the both raised a brow.

"This is cybertronian." Jack stated.

"I know, Ratchet had taught me some so I could do stuff like this." He pointed to the wire chip and they turned to look at it. "At what I found this wire chip was very important in the terraformers functionality, and by it being ripped out it must've made the device malfunction."

"Made it malfunction. So you're saying the device was on!?" Miko asked confused.

"It was on, but by what you guys said you saw and by what I gathered. The device msut of terraformed them into accommodating this earth instead of it terraforming the earth to accommodate them."

"So they should be here somewhere. We can find them, we just have to look for their human counterparts!" Jacks voice was elated and full of hope that they would find the bots.

"I'm sorry to say Jack, but in this universe they are Cybertronian, if they were turned human and placed in this universe they would die." Jack and Miko looked to each other with worry heavily written in their eyes. "My theory is that they were formed into humans and sent to a parallel universe, one that could hold them without hurting them."

"Does that mean I'll never get to see Bulk again." Tears pricked Miko's eyes and her lip quivered.

"Ya and what about Arcee?" Jack asked trying to sound brave.

"And Bee." Raf said more in a whisper, he looked to his friends and spoke up. "I really don't know, maybe we could find a specialist for this kind of stuff, see if he could help us." He tried to sound more hopeful for his friends, but failed in the process. Jack stood up straight and took in a deep breath.

"We will do anything it takes to get them back here, their not just our friends their our family, and nothing gets in the way of family." Miko smiled and hugged him tightly letting the tears stream down. They had to find them, who knows what the bots are encountering as humans, it could be worse then when they were bots. "We'll find them, we will get them back."

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