REMEMBER! PLZ REVIEW! I RLY LOVE ALL THE FAVS BUT SERIOUSLY! I NEED FEEDBACK! TELL MEH WHAT YA TTTTTHHHHHHIIIINNNNNNKKKKK! I HATE BEING IN DA DARK LIKE THIS!

Ironhide: You're still not gonna live it down, are ya?

Me: No

Ps- So yeah, Cliff's back HAZAH! hahahahahaha but HOW did he come back? HHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Dun worry I'll have some RCxCJ stuff later for ya guys ;p

A few moments later they were back at base. Cliffjumper looked around, feeling as if he had not been in there in a long time. He noticed that there were a few changes to the base then the last time he had been there. One was the couch and gaming system set in one corner and the other was an amplifier and guitar on the floor. Suddenly a voice below him brought him out of his thoughts.

"So, you're the infamous Cliffjumper," a girl with pink hair said as she and two other boys approached him. Cliffjumper looked at Arcee as if to say 'Infamous?' Arcee simply shrugged in response.

"Cliff, these are our human friends, Jack, Miko, and Raf. Guys, meet Cliff." Arcee said, standing besides Cliffjumper.

"I'm Miko," said the girl with pink hair.

"I'm Raf," said the shorter boy with glasses and fudgey hair.

"And I'm Jack, nice to finally meet you, Cliffjumper. I'm Arcee's partner." Jack said, walking up to them.

"Nice to meet you guys too." said Cliffjumper. "And, partner?" Cliffjumper asked curiously as he turned to look at Arcee, smirking at her slightly. "Didn't know ya already found someone to replace me, 'Cee. I'm crushed." he said, pretending to sound hurt. The smirk on his face gave him away. Arcee rolled her eyes.

"Hope ya took good care of Arcee while I was gone, Jack." said Cliffjumper.

"Well, it's more like she took care of me," Jack said, placing his hand on his neck. Cliffjumper laughed at this. He kneeled down to the three of them.

"I see," he said, glancing over at Arcee. He looked back down when he felt someone poke him. He could see Miko looking up at him, standing a few feet from his foot.

"Soo, are you a zombie or what?" asked Miko, immediately getting scolded by Jack.

"Miko!"

"What? How else would he have come back to life? So, are you?" Miko asked again.

"Hmm…Considering the fact that I do not have the sudden urge to destroy everything insight and eat your brains, so no, I don't think I'm a zombie." Cliffjumper said, smiling his trademark smile of his, causing Arcee to smile slightly. She missed that smile.

"Whew, good. I've seen enough zombies for one lifetime." Miko said, causing Cliffjumper to chuckle. Ratchet soon approached them, bringing an end to their conversation.

"Cliffjumper, come with me. I need to be certain that there is no dark energon in your system." said Ratchet.

Moments later Cliffjumper was in sick bay. While Ratchet analyzed a sample of his energon, the others spoke to Cliffjumper, all of them trying to figure out how he survived the explosion.

"So how long was I…gone?" asked Cliffjumper.

"A few months. It wasn't long after you died that we had to save Jack and Raf from the cons." explained Arcee.

"That long? It felt more like an eternity…" Cliffjumper muttered under his breath as he stared at the floor. Had he really been dead for only a few months?

"Do you recall anything before Arcee found you in the mine?" asked Optimus.

"Kinda…" Cliffjumper said uncertainly as he avoided making eye contact with his comrades, his gaze shifted to the floor. "I remember it being dark," Cliffjumper began, "I felt like I was trapped. Everything hurt beyond belief. I didn't feel whole, it felt like someone sliced me in two." Cliffjumper explained, causing the Autobots to glance at one another uneasily.

Cliffjumper could sense their discomfort. He stared down at his hands as he continued to explain the rest of his story. "I felt like I was dying, but it felt like something was keeping me alive." Cliffjumper said, looking away.

It pained Arcee to see her partner like this. She could see that his death had affected him deeply. She had a feeling that he knew a lot more then he let on, but decided not to bring it up, seeing that Cliffjumper had already been through a lot.

"It was most likely the dark energon keeping you alive." Ratchet said, not looking up at them as he worked.

"Do you remember anything else?" Raf asked, who was sitting on Bumblebee's shoulder. For a while Cliffjumper said nothing. His seemingly emotionless optics just stared past them all, almost as if he were staring out into space. Arcee noticed something different about them, they seemed darker and made him appear older. They seemed oddly familiar to her.

She suddenly the memory of looking into her leader's optics that day they had nearly died in the artic flashed in her mind. Arcee glanced over at Optimus, who waited patiently for Cliffjumper to speak, his expression seemed to be that of concern as well as an ancient sadness that always appeared in his optics.

Arcee looked back at Cliffjumper, who now seemed to share the same ancient sadness in his optics. What happened Cliff? she thought, knowing her partner must have been through a lot.

Cliffjumper blinked, as if just realizing he had been spoken to moments before. "Sorry what was that, Raf?" Cliffjumper asked.

(We're wondering of you remember anything else.) Bumblebee beeped.

"Well…" Cliffjumper began, as if trying to remember as he spoke, "Before all that…everything was just dark. During that time I didn't really know I was dead, but I had a pretty good idea that I was. I…kinda assumed that I was having trouble becoming one with the Allspark. And before all that, the last thing I remembered was being on the 'Con's ship. I was damaged from the energon exploding and the 'cons captured me. They brought me onboard. They dragged me all the way to our old pal, Scream." Cliffjumper paused for a moment, as if he were trying to remember what happened next. "I think he stabbed me with his claws. After that, everything became dark."

(Are you saying you let that slaggin' two faced wannabe kill ya, Cliff?) Bumblebee said, flailing his arms, clearly upset that his friend had been killed by Starscream, at the same time he was careful not to throw Raf off his shoulder.

"Yes, such a tragic way to die." Cliffjumper said, rather dramatically. "Holy Primus I can't believe I let Scream kill me!" Cliffjumper said in mock horror, hiding his face in shame. Arcee smiled, seeing that her partner still had his sarcastic sense of humor.

"If it makes you feel any better, Prime blew his arm off." Arcee said, remembering when Starscream had dramatically told them that he was immortal and that they could not hurt him, only to have his arm shot right off by Prime's cannon moments later.

"Which arm?" Cliffjumper said, narrowing his optics.

"Right, wh-" Arcee said, only to be cut off by a sudden cheerful outburst from Cliffjumper.

"HA!" Cliffjumper exclaimed loudly to no one in particular, causing Ratchet to jump and knock over a delicate looking tool, which promptly fell to the floor, shattering on impact.

"I NEEDED THAT!" Ratchet yelled at Cliffjumper, who seemed too overjoyed at the moment to care. If he hadn't been connected to the repair chamber, he most likely would had started dancing with joy.

"What's got him so happy?" Bulkhead asked as Cliffjumper fist pumped the air.

"Huh?" Cliffjumper said, hearing his question, "Oh, that was the hand that Scream used to kill me with. Talk about justice!" exclaimed Cliffjumper, fist pumping the air again, causing them all to laugh.

"We used it to shoot a zombie and it's currently rusting in an alternate universe." said Miko.

"Nice. So did you guys kill it?" Cliffjumper asked his three human friends.

"No, we just blew it's arm off and the arm started chasing us. Once we got out of that world it attacked Starscream." said Jack.

"Sweet, double justice." Cliffjumper said, clearly enjoying his misery. "Remind me next time we fight the 'Cons to pay a visit to Ol' Scream." Cliffjumper said to the Autobots.

"That's odd…" Ratchet said, drawing their attention.

"What is it, Ratchet?" Optimus asked the medic.

"There are no traces of dark energon in Cliffjumper's system whatsoever." Ratchet said, clearly puzzled at his findings.

"Isn't that suppose to be a good thing?" asked Jack.

"Yes, but it does not explain how Cliffjumper managed to survive the explosion. Even if the dark energon is what kept him alive, where is it now? And what could have repaired the damaged Cliffjumper received before and after the explosion?" Ratchet said, he seemed to be speaking more to himself than to the others. They all stayed silent for a few moments, all trying to figure out how Cliffjumper could have returned unscathed.

"Well," Cliffjumper said, getting everyone's attention. "I dunno about you guys, but I don't really care how I came back. I'm just glad to be alive."

The weekend past by quickly. During that time, Arcee along with the kids filled Cliffjumper in on the events that occurred while he was gone. Cliffjumper disliked it when the others would say said 'when he was dead', Cliffjumper told them he didn't want to reminded of what happened and preferred it if they said that he was just gone.

Currently Jack and Miko were explaining the time they ground bridged onto a moving train to stop MECH from getting the DNGS.

"You shoulda been there Cliff! We got onto the train and we so woulda beat MECH, but they ran before we could do anything." said Miko, seeming a bit disappointed.

"Then they blew out the train tracks and we were faced with death by meltdown or death by crashing." said Jack.

"But then, Prime comes to the rescue." Miko said, pumping her fist into the air, "You shouda seen it! He was so awesome! Prime ran up to the train and stopped it all on his own!" exclaimed Miko.

Arcee chuckled at Miko's enthusiasm as she told the story. She leaned against a wall, arms crossed over her chest as she watched as Jack and Miko told the story, occasionally adding in things they missed. Moments later Bumblebee and Raf joined them as they all began to tell Cliffjumper about the time Jack and Bumblebee raced the Decepticon, Knockout.

(I was helping Jack in a race to beat his rival, Vince, cuz Arcee refused to help out cuz she already helped him out in the first race. So we're out in the race course, I'm doing pretty well in the race, then out of no where Knockout shows up.) Bumblebee beeps, at the same time Raf is translating for Miko and Jack.

"So did ya beat him?" asked Cliffjumper, enjoying the race story.

(I fought him during the race and hid under a bridge cuz Jack was with me and I had to protect him, couldn't finish the race cuz Knockout took Vince hostage.) explained Bumblebee.

"Then Prime finished him off and saved the hostage." said Arcee. "After that we had to explain to Prime what happened, including our first race with Vince." Arcee concluded, remembering when she, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead had to explain themselves to their leader.

"Ouch," Cliffjumper said, knowing that they all got in trouble. Suddenly a mischievous smile crept over his faceplates. "Hey, you two bots up for a race?" Cliffjumper said to Arcee and Bumblebee. They looked at one another, surprised.

"I'm not sure if you missed the moral of this story, Cliff. But we can't race, it'll draw too much attention to ourselves." said Arcee.

"Then we race out in the desert." said Cliffjumper.

(Do you seriously think Prime's gonna let the three of us race?) Bumblebee asked uncertainly.

"Is he here now?" Cliffjumper said, beckoning to the empty base before them.

"No…" Arcee said, remembering that Prime had left that morning on a scouting mission and that moments ago Ratchet had gone storage to get some parts.

"So let's go!" Cliffjumper said, jumping to his feet. Arcee was about to protest when Cliffjumper spoke. "C'mon Arcee! I haven't raced you guys since…" Cliffjumper paused, as if to think, "When was the last time the three of us raced?" Cliffjumper asked.

Bumblebee beeped in agreement. (It's true, we haven't raced in a while.)

Arcee glared at them, arms crossed over her chest. She defied Prime's orders once, she won't do it again. "You heard Prime's orders."

"C'mon, Arcee." Jack said, siding with the two mechs.

"Just one race!" said Miko.

"What's the worst that could happen?" Bulkhead asked, earning a death glare from Arcee.

"C'mon, Arcee. For old time's sake." Cliffjumper said, almost pleading. His dark blue optics appearing much younger, reminding her of the good old days.

"Could you guys hurry up? Ratchet's gonna be back any second and ruin our plans." said Miko.

Arcee groaned, "Fine one race." She said emphasizing 'one'. "Bulkhead, you stay here, if Ratchet asks, we went out on patrol."

"But, I want to see you guys race!" Bulkhead protested, getting another death glare from Arcee.

"That's SO not cool! You can't force Bulkhead to stay here all alone!" Miko complained, wanting her guardian to come along.

"Well one of us have to stay here, or I guess I can just change my mind about racing." said Arcee.

"What was that about racing?" a baritone voice came from behind them, seeming to freeze their energon/blood cold.

"Oh scrap, busted…"

A/N: OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH! WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE! XD hahahahhahahahhaahahha XD immua enjoy what happens next XD wow I think this chapter's longer!

Random question: Where does Prime go in his free time? HE'S NEVA AROUND! Seriously, it'd make sense if there was an Elita in TFP, but that is not the case. SO WHERE THE HELL DOES HE GO?

Hahahhahahah ignore mah insanity XD

Ironhide: *is leaning against a wall with Arcee and Chromia* I'd stay away from her if I were you, she's a freak

Me: AM NOT! *twitch*

Ironhide: You're inspiration for this chapter was "Last to Know" by Three days Grace, which has NOTHING to do with what happens. That ain't normal.

Me: *grumbles, stalks off*

Chromia: *listens to the song* True, this song has nothing to do with the story, but she must has her own unique way of writing fanfic or something *shrugs*

Arcee: Or she's just crazy

Me: I HEARD THAT! *stalks off again*

Arcee: Amazing she hasn't brought up anything about begging for reviews

Ironhide: Wait for it…

Ps- PLZ !

Chromia: And there is it