AN.

soory for not updating, but here's another chapter.

PS. for those of you wondering what the OC charaters look like, look on the cover piture i up loaded, yes i know it looka shity but i'll make it better at another stage. if you cant see it properly, ask me for it in a review or PM and i will send the larger, origonal pic to you. all the charater names are there as well so you know who's who.

PRIME"S SPARKLING DOES NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS, ONLY HER IDEAS AND OCs

CHAPTER 13: OPERATION JAZZ

Two months passed swiftly at the NEST base in Chicago. The ten newly found techno-organics had settled down and grown closer together as a self-appointed family. Having settled down into their routines, they had relaxed, giving the bots enough time to interpret their personalities. Max was bossy, and tended to snap at people, but for the most was quiet. Maria (who had found out via Ratchet that she was pregnant) was sweet and caring and like a mother to all the kids. Anna was spirited and a prankster who loved her sport. Charlie was shy and reminded everyone of a puppy who had been kicked too much. Lizzy was talkative and soaked up culture like a sponge. Justin was soft spoken, smart and musically talented. Jessie was the soft hearted yet tough brother; while Jackie was gruff with everyone save for Maria. And finally was Billy and Bella and not to mention Darren. Darren was everybody's sweetheart while the twins tended to shy away from everyone.

It was a hot Saturday afternoon when the first bit of excitement happened. Billy and Bella were lounging around in the bots training room, enjoying their off time while Sam looked after Darren for the day. All the bots had left for a meeting with Prime, and the room was silent for a change, until the doors slid open. Bella looked up from her book and smiled at Charlie, who jogged over to them and planked himself onto the bench beside them.

"What's up Charles," Billy asked and the 12 year old seemed to think deeply about something before he answered.'

"I h-heard Ratchet talking today."

"That's new," Billy joked, "cause usually he's always screaming, or mumbling under his breath."

Charlie scoffed and the twins smiled slightly. It was no secret that the medic and the stutter boy had grown close. Charlie had spent most of his free time in the med bay since he had arrived and everyone had grown a little envious at the father-son friendship that had formed between the two.

"No ser-seriously guys," he said, "I heard him t-talking to Ironhide."

This caused both twins to look up from their books, encouraging him on.

"T-they we-re talking about a c-comrade they had l-ost. R-Ratchet b-blames himself. I-I think their f-friend is in the back o-of the med bay."

Billy and Bella looked at each other, knowing what he wanted. Charlie and the other techno-organics knew what they were the minute they had opened their mouths, while the bots stayed blind to the fact and all the teens agreed that it should stay that way. They nodded their heads and set down their books before they stretched.

"We'll go now," Bella said tossing her bag onto her back, "Before the meeting ends."

Billy nodded and ran a hand through his hair, "But not without reinforcements. Charlie, can fetch everyone and get them to meet us at the dormitories?"

The twelve year old nodded and scampered out of the room, leaving the pair of twins to prepare for their new mission.

When they arrived at the dorms everyone was waiting for them in silence and Jacky was the first to break it, "So what now Silver?"

Billy blushed at the old nickname, but answered him none the less, "I call it operation living dead. Apparently the bots lost someone dear to them and Charlie thinks the body is still in the morgue. We want to go look for him/her and see what we can do, but it has to be done before the meeting the bots are in ends. We need some of you to watch the bots and warn us when they leave."

"But the meeting room they are using is off bounds remember?" Justin asked and Jacky grinned like a mad man as he turned towards the 14 year old.

"Then we'll just have to bend those rules then," the twin replied and pulled out a map from behind his back, "so here's what we do.."

(Med bay passage- 10 minutes later)

Billy, Bella, Jessie and Max ran quickly to the med bay, careful to avoid getting caught on the cameras. They tested the doors and sure enough, they were locked. Billy raised a hand to his ear piece and whispered into it while Jessie and Max worked on hacking the locks, "Squad one calling squad 2, we are at the location's entrance and working on gaining access, what is your status? Over"

"Received loud and clear Silver. This is squad 2 reporting. The buns are still in the oven. Wow, you have no idea how wrong that sounded. Over," what sounded like Anna called over the ear piece. Billy rolled his eyes and fought the groan when he saw that all three of his teammates were trying hard not to laugh.

"Focus! All of you, one screw up and our cover will be blown."

He was rewarded with a chorus of 'yes sir' and 'yes mother's which made him roll his eyes once more as the doors clicked unlocked. Max drew in his powers and with a stamp of his foot, the doors unwillingly slid open enough for Billy, Bella and Jacky to run in while he stayed outside. It took another 15 minutes before they could find the right room, with a few messages that received from the other two teams and Max who guarded the door. The door to the morgue was locked, but that didn't deter the twins as they turned transparent and jumped through the wall. The morgue was larger than they had expected and was barren save for the several berths which were attached to the walls and the silver, scratched, dented and offline mech which occupied one of them. Billy and Bella had seen death before, but never like this. The mech had a thick weld around his abdomen, Ratchet's doing most likely, and looked as though he had been ripped in half. His arm was halfway attached and his blank visor shattered, revealing half blind optics. The two took a breath, knowing that they had a lot of work ahead of them and proceeded to climb up the table, their hands working like suction-cups. Once they reached the top, they activated their powers and began healing him. Their pupils rolled into their heads and the white in their eyes began to glow abnormally as they healed the mech and connected to the matrix.

(Two corridors down from the meeting room)

Lizzy looked up from her seat on the floor. She'd just the other teams that everyone was still in the meeting when the sound magnifier Justin had created for her went off. It was designed to hear conversations and transmit them to whoever was listening, regardless walls and she found herself thinking about the type of blackmail she could find with it. However, as she continued to listen in on the meeting, her brows frowned and she waved off Anna's concern, until her eyes widened suddenly and she scrambled to throw all the equipment into her backpack, soon flanked by Anna, who understood and called the teams over her earpiece.

"Teams 1 and 3, this is false vision. Retreat! Retreat! The buns are out of the oven, we're heading out!" she whispered as the two girls started to run out of the passage they had taken refuge in, only to run into the warm, but metal ankle of a bot and fell into their bots with a visible 'oof'. They looked up into the unamused optics of Prowl and Ironhide, who loomed over them and cheekily waved up to them, knowing that they had been caught.

"And what is this about bun out of the oven?" Prowl asked and frowned when the two girls started laughing, "I fail to see what is so amusing."

However they simply laughed more, holding onto each other as they tried to wipe out the image of Prowl, the second in command to the Autobot army, stocky, uptight mech saying something like that, wishing that they had something to record it and play it back to the others. The two mechs in front of them however didn't find what was so funny and simply picked up the two hysterical teens and carried them inside the room where the Autobots stood waiting with a grouchy Jacky.

"So they got you too?" Anna asked and he shrugged, not meeting their gaze. The two sprang off Prowl and Ironhide's hands once they were close enough to the table and Prowl repeated his question again, causing all three to burst out laughing and they weren't the only ones. Bumblebee's shoulders were shaking from the mirth, as were the two sets of twins and even the Arcee triplets.

"I do not see the mirth in this," Prowl said, "You are already in trouble, the best course of logic would be to be silent and answer our questions"

"Don't worry about it," Jacky said, wiping the tears from his eyes as his laughter subsided. He seemed to drop it for now and changed the subject. Turns out that they had found Jacky asleep in a corridor (which earned said boy dark glares from the two boys) and their sensitive ears had picked up the conversation in his ear piece. They had then checked the security cameras (and much to their relief, the med bay hallways were not included) and had spotted Lizzy and Anna with some radar like equipment, (which were handed over to Wheeljack, much to the bot's delight) and had sent Prowl and Ironhide to fetch them. The three stayed quiet through the entire interrogation and hoped that the other two teams were having better luck than they were.

(Back inside the med bay)

Jessie paced the area in front of the door where Billy and Bella were working and unease settled into his gut. He had just gotten the call from Anna when Max had popped his head in looking slightly panicked.

"Team three just called in," he said stepping inside, "they got caught too. Let's hope they can but us some time."

Jessie nodded questioning his brother through the bond they shared and found that they were being interrogated by Prowl before grimacing, knowing that they did not have a lot of time left. He couldn't contact Billy and Bella through their com. Links and knew that they were either busy connecting or had already connected to the matrix. And as he looked back at the door, he prayed to Primus that they revived the mech before they were discovered as well…

(In the morgue)

Billy and Bella sat facing each other on the mech's chest, next to his spark chamber which laid open to them. They had fixed his body and healed the scars and now it was time for them to bring him back into the world of the living. Their eyes glowed even more brightly as they connected to the matrix and both teens felt a familiar pulling sensation as their energized spirits traveled between the two worlds wearily, knowing that it was going to be difficult.

(In the Matrix)

Silver-eagal and Cybercat on lined their optics and stretched their new forms lazily as they rose to their peds. They looked around at the city and still couldn't believe that this is what the city had looked like before the war. buildings made of metals they'd never seen before stood tall and proud, neon lights blaring as bots of all shapes and sizes were muddling about. Iacon was a beautiful place indeed. The two started their search, not quite sure what they were looking for, or rather who, and cursed themselves for not gaining more information on the mech they had to bring back when the mission started. But this didn't deter them as they walked on, or rather Cybercat walked while Silver-eagle hitched a ride on her back, and looked for anything that was out of place of that would pull their interests. They avoided the bots in the streets even though they knew that no one would be able to see them, taking back routes or roof tops instead of the streets, and decided to rest under an overhang by the Iacon peace keepers station. Silver-eagal and Cybercat had traveled for a whole cycle and both could feel the pressure was getting to them as they closed their optics for a few minutes of rest. The matrix worked differently to the living world, on day in it being merely ten minutes in the outside world, and they knew that this was why traveling between worlds was so dangerous. Many didn't understand the consequences of it and how much energy they needed to keep their real bodies alive while their spirits explored.

Hours in the matrix later, the teens awoke to a ruckus not far from them and watched as the peacekeepers dragged in mech using force, but bringing no harm to him and turned just in time to see an unvisiored mech looking out of the window right at them. They recognized him and Cybercat's tail flicked slightly in annoyance as they realized what it meant for them. They followed the officers inside, turning down the passage where the mech's room was located and Silver-eagal pecked at the door. It slid open, revealing a very neat commanders office where Prowl sat at his desk. He looked up from his work and a small surprised smile crossed his face as he put down the data pad he had been reading. He rose to his peds and picked up the two small animals before returning to his seat.

"And what would the spirits of the all spark be doing here?" he asked and Cybercat looked over Billy's eagal form, shocked at the amount of emotion that the bot had. This was different from the usually stocky mech during the war and the two knew that something had happened to the police bot and agreed to not ask about it later and their eye's widened as a thought struck them. He had recognized them without doing anything and the two realized that if they were to find their off lined mech, they would have to give up their identities. Cybercat nodded and raised onto her hind legs , letting her front paws press against Prowl's chest and slowly let her forehead touch his. The response was instant as she shared each and every one of her memoires with him. She saw his face turn to a look of sympathy before he went grim as her two months at the NEST base zoomed by, her memories stopping where she sat down with her twin on his comrade's repaired but still dead body. She pulled away from him, her cybercat optics pleading into his own and he nodded as he helped her back onto the table.

"I will help you find Jazz," Prowl answered her silent pleading and opened his office door and held it open for them before allowing it to close.

The walk was quick but tiring as Silver-eagal and Cybercat followed behind Prowl through the streets, until Cybercat suddenly collapsed. Silver-eagal shrieked and flew over to her side, making as much noise as possible to alert Prowl when she refused to get back up. The black and white bot was quick to pick her up and place Silver-eagal onto his shoulder, understanding from the memories what was going on. He sprang up and ran the rest of the way to Iacon station, getting onto the shuttle just in time before it took off. They got off two hours later in Axiom Nexus and Prowl didn't stop his fast pace as he traveled towards the more residential areas of the city, soon starting to run when Silver-eagal collapsed, falling off of his shoulder. They arrived at a large hostile and Prowl pushed the bell. The large door slid open suddenly, revealing a visiored mech that had a cheeky grin on his face. He pulled Prowl inside nearly causing the twins to slip out of his arms and closed the door again.

"Prowler what ya doin here?" he asked and pointing at the two animals in his friend's arms, "Are they fer me?"

"No Jazz," Prowl answered and he placed them onto a table before he turned towards his longtime friend, "Jazz, do you remember the story about the all spark spirits we were told as sparklings?"

"We'll ya," Jazz said confused, "Everyone in their right mind would know of dem. Why?"

"Those are two of them," he said pointing towards the two creatures laying on the table.

"Sorry Prowler," Jazz laughed, "but ah can't agree. Ya sure dat glitch o-yours ain't bugging ya?"

"Jazz your offline," Prowl said and quickly added before Jazz could start, "Just hear me out Jazz. Something happened to you and you literally off lined causing your spark to head into the matrix instead of the well of all sparks as it is not your time. Your relieving your past memories. The All spark spirits have repaired your frame."

"I'd like ta believe ya Prowler," Jazz laughed, "But wit out prof ah anit gonna believe ya."

Silver-eagal pushed him up onto his eagal like claws and wobbled weakly up Jazz's arm until he reached his head. He pushed his beak against Jazz's forehead and also shared is past. The bot's optics widened and when he turned to Prowl, the police bot put up his arms in calm down motion.

"Just go with them Jazz." Was all he said and the saboteur nodded before he grabbed Cybercat and held her too his chest plates. Cybercat and Silver-eagal sent a silent thank you to Prowl before they concentrated on leaving the matrix with Jazz. It wasn't long before they felt a familiar pulling sensation and the twins closed their optics.

(Back in the living world-morgue)

Billy opened his eyes which had closed after leaving his body, and at the same time did Bella. Although they were exhausted, their hands stung with energy that occasionally bounced off their fingers like lightning filled with life. He cupped his hands together to keep the bolts warm as Bella followed his movements. They moved in sync., stepping forward and reached for each other from either side of Jazz's spark chamber. Their hands clasped together and the lightning combined, nearly blinding the two as it formed a ball filled with life. Billy and Bella lowered their hands into the spark chamber and watched as the light caught onto the metal surrounding and took hold. They looked up at each other before clapping their hands to shake off the spark from their skin and pulling their arms out of the chamber. The two twins climber out of the cybertroinion's chest plates and allowed them to close before Jazz's newly repaired visor flicked online as he groaned, a low metallic sound coming from his throat which alerted Billy and Bella that he was awakening. Not wanting their identity's to be out in the open too soon, the teens were quick to climb to climb down the table and spring through the wall, where they were met by Jessie and Max on the other side.

Jessie released a sigh of release that he hadn't realized he was holing in and quickly lead the way out of the med bay while supporting an exhausted Bella's side. Before long the four arrived at the dorms where the rest of the group stood waiting.

"And?" Maria asked petting her slightly showing stomach.

"Mission success," Bella replied happily but the worry and exhaustion was evident in her tone.

"What's wrong?" Lizzy asked and Billy lead everyone into the dormitory to talk, watching how all four girls managed to fill up an entire bed.

"We may have an identity crisis," he admitted, "the matrix threw us into a time before the war and we ran into Prowl."

"Did he call the pound or something," Justin whispered jokingly and the teen shook his head.

"No," Bella sighed, "Generally when we go into the matrix we are pretty much just spectators."

"Meaning we can only interact with and be seen by either the person we have in mind, which in this case was Jazz," Billy ran a hand though his longish air.

"Jazz?" Charlie asked.

"The bot we bought back to life," Bella replied.

"Or someone who has a history whether it be personal or family based with the all spark, like the Prixians."

"Prowl," Maria breathed and the two nodded.

"But that's not the worst of it," Billy fell back onto his bed with his hands over his eyes.

"We had to do memory transfers to get him to help us," Bella sighed.

"You mean the ones about the war?" Max rubbed his chin in thought, "I don't see how that would give you away."

"It works differently in the matrix Max," Jessie rubbed his eyes tiredly, "If they did a memory transfer while out of their bodies like they were in the matrix, they cannot control what they show him."

"Meaning both Prowl and Jazz have complete rundowns of everything that happened in their lives," Jacky said.

"But they're not gonna remember it for at least six months," Billy said, "wouldn't surprise me if one of them crashed from the data over load."

"That could be why Prowl crashed in the middle of our interrogation," Anna said.

"Say what now," Jessie asked and the two girls gave them a quick rundown of what had happened in the meeting room. Turns out that just after the interrogation had begun, Will had walked into the room with Maria, Justin and Charlie whom had been found snooping around in the corridors when Prowl had dropped his data pads and grabbed his head, before crashing with a loud shout. The Autobots, in concern for their comrade, had kicked them out before carrying the prixian to the med bay.

"All of us have to report to Ironhide tomorrow for punishment," Lizzy said tiredly. Billy and Bella grimaced knowing that they were not going to enjoy it, but smiled proudly at how strong their little self-appointed family was.