Transformers

Trouble Through Time

Disclaimer. I don't own Transformers. They are owned by Hasbro and Takara. I am merely taking them for a quick spin around the block.

Summary: - To save the future they must change the past. But in doing so could things be changing for the better or could they be changing for the worst. Who Knows? AU elements from G1 and movies

"Speaking"

'thought'

* Private Comm. Between two Autobots *

**Group/Multiple Link Comm.**

Autobot Measures of time

Astrosecond - 0.273 seconds

Breem - 8.3 minutes

Cycle - 2 hours

Decacycle - 2 years

Joor - 1 hour

Klik - 1.2 minutes

Megacycle - 93 hours

Meta Cycle - 13 months

Millicycle - 1000 years

Nano-second - 1 second

Orbital Cycle - 1 day

Quartex - 20.75 years

Solar cycle - 1 year

Stellar Cycle - 1400 days/ 17.5 months

Trimara - 300 years

Vorn - 83 years

Mega-Vorn - 8.3 Million years

Light years - A very long length of time.

Chapter 4.

The fight was over, the Autobots had won, Hot Rod and Sideswipe watched as Sam was told by Prime how he owed him his life and how he swore to protect them and how the humans had become good comrades of the others. But where was Sunstreaker and the others they were still missing obviously still off chasing away the remaining Decepticons. It was whilst this was happening that Sideswipe and Hot Rod were not paying attention to their surroundings and so they failed to notice that Ironhide had detected two spark signature neither of which were registering as Autobot or Decepticon on his scanners moving subtly so as not to attract anyone's attention he slowly made his way towards the signatures on his scanners. The Two time travellers hadn't noticed the advancing Ironhide, too engrossed in the proceedings before them, until both of them were suddenly scooped up and held by their spoilers just at the back of their necks suspended in midair by the firm grip of the Weapons Master, the two of them hung there limply unable to believe that they could be so careless.

"What is this? Who are you punks! Are you Decepticon spies sent to spy on us speak now or I'll blast you with my cannons." Ironhide growled at the two eavesdroppers.

"No! No! no, Ironhide don't!" Sideswipe cried out in alarm.

"Yeah we're not Decepticons it's me Hot Rod" he said hurriedly hoping not to be fired upon by the weapons master.

The other Autobots had paused in their conversations upon hearing Ironhide snarl at the two miscreants he now held in his clutches. Bumblebee's audio sensors perked up at the sound of Hot Rod's voice pattern cautiously sidling over to were Ironhide stood he moved until he stood squarely in front of the unknown cybertronians. "Hot Rod?", he said unsurely, "Is that you?", after an affirmative nod he continued speaking his words rushing out of his vocal processor, "What are you doing here? How did you get here? you were heading in the opposite direction from Cybertron away from Earth on the Xanthium with the Wreckers as Second in Command?"

Whilst Bumblebee was reeling off at Hot Rod, Sideswipe turned his head to look at Ironhide and said, "Yeah we're not Decepticons, don't you recognise me Ironhide it's me Sideswipe half of one of your 'favourite' set of twins."

Before Ironhide could comment on the matter Optimus stepped in saying, "Ironhide drop them, they do not appear to be Decepticon spies, even I can recognise Sideswipe."

"But Prime". Ironhide spluttered out to his leader, "they don't have any marks/symbols and I can't feel any signals from them signifying them as either Autobot or Decepticon….and we don't even know haw they got here."

"I can explain how we arrived here on Earth, we are not from this time, we were sent back in time, after Decepticons trapped and herded us to a hidden back room and before we knew what was happening we found ourselves here in this time. But the future has been changed and hopefully for the better because the time… we came …from ….uhhh.. The time we came from…."here Hot Rod trailed off for a moment after a strong start in his explanation, unable to express how terrible they future they had come from had been before rousing himself to continue his explanation. "Anyway we were sent back one minute were in the middle of a fierce battle the next, Springer, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, myself and Jazz…."

Here Hot Rod was suddenly interrupted by Prowl stuttering out in obvious distress and confusion, "But Jazz…is…is… dead I…I was there when he was offlined how can he be here….is this some kind of Decepticon deception. Tell me now or I will offline you quicker than you can say Allspark." the Second in Command growled towards then end.

Hot Rod hurried to answer Prowl almost sounding like Blurr if he spoke any faster, "No!No!Prowl, it's not a trick we're from an Alternate future to this one, Jazz is fine he's alive, I swear on my spark…." before Hot Rod could speak further to reassure the Second in Command of the Autobots, in his defence to him, Sideswipe who had been stand passively beside him during his interrogation suddenly collapsed to his hands and knees on hand flying up to cover the space on his chassis were his Spark Chamber was located, gritting his dental plates together trying to suppress a groan of obvious pain. Before his optics widened and he began to wail in distress for Sunny, struggling to climb back to his feet he eventually regained his footing and not even pausing to give an explanation he started to make a run for it out of the alley, Ironhide onlining on of his many arsenal of cannons, taking aim and about to make a shot at the retreating Sideswipe. Before Ratchet places a hand on his arm and says to the weapons master, "No Ironhide don't that was the result of a twinned Spark bond, of one of them being gravely injured. That is on thing that can not be faked…by Primus Ironhide.. The one on the other end of that bond is dying about to enter a fatal stasis lock, if we do not get to the other twin in time we could loose them both, the other twin (in this case Sideswipe) to the shock of losing the one half of his Spark. We must hurry." with his piece said the Chief Medic bolted after Sideswipe, transforming to his altmode as he did so following Sideswipe trail as he had long disappeared into the distance. Followed not long after him by Hot Rod who could be seen Ratchet trailing quickly behind him….

Will the Autobots get to Sunstreaker in time and stabilise him before they loose both twins? or will he perish taking his brother with him? Find out next time on Transformers Trouble Through Time.