A.N.: Here is the next installment of Rou's Journal, thank you again to those who reviewed. Especially Fourth Remnant, Veekalzhanez, I am sending you guys some Cyber-Mint choc-chip Ice Cream.

And a huge Triple Chocolate Ice Cream Cake to Mrs. Miranda Optimus Prime for placing me into her C2 Community.

Now onto the Chapter.

Chapter 4

Journal Entry

Well it has now been another couple of cycles since my last entry, so here are the highlights I guess you could call them.

I got caught in a pit forsaken meteor shower as I passed by a small planetoid on the edge of the Sol System - looking it up in the information package that Prime had sent as a data burst with his message to all Autobots left out in space - I found out that it was named Pluto and that there was some type of a debate about whether it was a planet or an Asteroid.

As I gently maneuvered myself out of any gravity that the small planetoid had I once again assessed my injuries. Hmm, looks like Ol' Doc Hatchet is gonna have a blast banging out the dings that I've picked up, at least nothing too serious, but I definitely don't want to go through another storm like that again.

He's gonna be slagged off about my communications system and the fact that my energy levels are just above what would be good for optimal performance, considering how far I've come and how much energon I have left in my personal sub-space pocket - probably about 4-5 cubes left, with a handful of energon candies; might try to set down on a moon again and snack on a few of those candies to tide me over before I need to have an energon cube again.

Man am I bored out of my processor, now I'm wishing that either Jazz or the Twins were here to liven this trip up somewhat. Hell even Blaster at this point mainly due to his communications system is like 50 times better than anyone else's, which would mean that we could forward a message to Prime and the others and let them know that we're on our way, but so far I haven't seen anyone else - yet!

I have been reading through the data burst and I am learning quite a bit about this planet they are on called Earth, it's main population are humanoid, with some avian, and other mammals, but Humans are the pre-dominant species.

What I was surprised to learn was that ¾ of the earths surface is water, it's atmosphere was made up of 78% Nitrogen, 20.9 % Oxygen, 0.93% Argon, 0.03% Carbon Dioxide, 1% water vapor and a small percentile (0.04%) of other gases.

Looking back at some of the other Galaxies I had traveled through to get here they were just as interesting; The Omega Centauri or NGC 5139 as the Humans call it is a globular cluster seen in the constellation of Centaurus. It orbit's the Milky Way Galaxy and is one of the few that can be seen by the naked eye on Earth, being as it is both the brightest and largest known globular cluster associated with the Milky Way.

This cluster is located about 4,850 parsecs from Earth (about 15,800 light-years) and is only about 12 billion years old, quite young for a galaxy containing several million population II stars.

Then there was the Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31 or NGC 224 by the Humans and is another spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda. It is also the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. Apparently it is one of the farthest objects visible to the naked human eye from earth, and let me tell you folks; it is totally worth seeing it up close and personnel, quite beautiful really and still expanding with newer stars (roughly one trillion stars) and life on a few of it's planets, mostly plant life though. It is at a distance of 770 Kilo-parsecs from the Milky Way Galaxy (or about 2.5 Mega-Light Years).

It was so beautiful to watch this galaxy from a distance using my Infrared spectrum of vision tuning it down to 24 micrometers and thus seeing the galaxy in hues of red, yellow and orange. Quite breathtaking really, and I would thoroughly recommend to anyone that they try to see what I mean, it is once again truly a marvel.

Well enough about that for now, I guess I had better try and see if my sensors pick up any other signals and hopefully I get to Earth soon.

A.N.: Just a thanks to all who read this and to those who do review, a huge hug goes to them - constructive or nice reviews are the spice of life and any flames will be used to keep me warm as the snow falls here.

Roulette: I hate snow, why do you live in the North of Michigan anyway?

Me: Well we moved here after Andy left the Air Force after doing his 10 Years, so just deal with it! (sheesh)

Roulette: I wanna go back to Diego Garcia, at least it was warm there! (pouts)

Me: Not my fault you wanted a change of scenery, and Bee and Sides visit more when they're Stateside anyway.

Roulette: Whatever. Bye for now all.

Me: See ya's later! (waves)