Hey, sorry for the delays guys!I was in a fandom stage where I could only play with new action figures finish my animation exam and miss my classmates for I shall never be with them again. this chapter started out a bit hard but I think it went better afterwards hope you like it.

The more she stood there the more she started doubting herself, it had taken about half an hour to explain their confused theory to an even more confused prime until he finally saw the logic behind their jumbled words.

"So in simple terms, you two think Ashley is able to recreate the allspark?"

"Not exactly sir, more like decode it, if we can get the core codes from the allspark there could be a possibility of replicating it." Ratchet explained, the young girl shivered in his shoulder and slapped his audio receptor.

"Don't say it like that! Its creepy to think that replicating a god is possible."

"It is possible to replicate the allspark?" Prime asked, she couldn't really tell his expression, mask over his mouth and all, but he was probably just trying to fake his surprise.

"In theory…." Ratchet said " The only problem would be transferring its core energy, that's why we need those codes, for centuries our race has tried it and we never understood it."

"And you believe this because the human managed o decode your own notes, who up until now no bot managed to because you have terrible handwriting?"

"He has terrible hand writing?" Ashley snorted, but didn't say anymore when Ratchet made a shooing motion wanting her not to speak at the moment. She sighed and looked away.

"Whether she can or not I don't know, but if there's a chance to save the allspark…"

"If the allspark can be replicated or not is beyond my concern Ratchet, right now what worries me is that the decepticons most likely think the same, therefore putting her in danger we cannot protect her from that easily…"

"Theeennn…how come they know this? And why only now that I found you lot?"

"You do not know?" She looked at Ratchet uncertain.

"Well we didn't exactly get that far yet…we were a bit too excited…sorry."

"I'll have my men try to figure out, in the mean time I believe its past your bed time" Prime said, she raised an eyebrow at him.

"Never thought I'd hear that from a gigantic leader of alien robots…Don't worry, I slept almost all afternoon when I got back…I'm a bit jumpy now…I'll just stroll around until I get tired." She patted the lime yellow shoulder as a sign she wanted to get down and was met with a hand uncaringly grabbing her by the waist and putting her down, thankfully he didn't harm her, he just wasn't as gentle as the others because he was in a mood. Not having the Prime happy about the news was probably not on top of his list. With a quick goodbye she ran out of the large room and adventured into the halls, hopefully she'd remember the way, all that talk about not being tired was pure lie, but she really wanted to go see the allspark now, she needed to make sure she could decode it, she needed a better look at it.

"Need I tell you she lied just now?"

"I think I am old enough to tell that even from my soldiers Ratchet…" Prime said sitting back down in his chair it gave an annoying squeak, a sign it could give in under his weight, he was starting to hate that sound. "She probably needs time, it is not every day that a human comes to face such consequences after all…especially from a talent they could use for good or evil depending on their choice."

"You aren't suggesting the human would use it to get the decepticons to leave her alone do you?"

"I strongly hope not Ratchet, but we all make mistakes, especially when we're scared."

"Lets hope not, still it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on her"

"True…" he seemed to ponder for a while his optics loosing a bit of their glow as he did.

"Are you going to let her try it?"

He looked up an expression of deep thought in his faceplates.

"Try what?"

"Studying the allspark, Optimus you most of all should know what it would mean if we could replicate it. Our race would no longer be doomed into extinction! Pit I bet we could even fix Jazz!"he was a bit excited about such an idea from the moment the girl told him she could decode the blasted thing.

"Jazz is dead Ratchet, I know you feel responsible for not being able to fix him, but there are just some things you can't fix."

"Then at least think about not being extinct!" His leader looked up at him surprised by the medic's outburst, usually his soldiers would be a bit more collected about their worries, but he could understand this. Ratchet was after all a medic, and as a medic he cared about everyone's well being as well as future members of our race, he had helped give life to new protoforms before. "Without the allspark no protoform will be able to survive long enough unless we have femmes, so I ask you, with that chance out of the way what hope do we have?"

"I know where your getting at Ratchet, but think about it a bit, in the end wasn't it making our war only worse?"

The medic stared at his leader, an obvious frown on his faceplates, he knew this, he knew it very well, but he just didn't want to admit it.

"Sometimes I wish Elita One was here to get those thoughts our of your dusty processor." And without even a last salute the medic left the room, not wanting to really vent his anger out on his leader.

Ashley stood at the entrance of the room staring at the cabinet where the small shard lay, walking a few steps forward she could see it was glowing again like before, a faint blue hue, lighting up its symbols as if begging her to read them.

"Hey there…you probably don't understand my language, heck you probably don't understand a single word I'm saying…" it felt weird talking to a piece of metal but hey, she spent the last days speaking to giant robots. " I was asked to somehow replicate you, to transfer your power into that replica, how do you feel about that?" the glow intensified a bit for a short second. "can you even feel?" another short glow "I guess that's a yes…I'm not sure what you think about all this but the autobots apparently really need you, and…I can't just deny them this favour, they did a lot for me already, they saved my skin twice already, don't you think they deserve some peace of mind at least?" another soft glow, she sighed leaning onto the grass. And looking at the ceiling " this is stupid…"

Suddenly the glow stopped completely, and looking at the door she could hear why, someone was coming, apparently the shard didn't want its creations to know it was still there and kicking.

A black form entered, at first she was a bit scared because she didn't recognize him, but the blue optics glaring down at her calmed her and she recognized him finally mostly by the large cannons.

"Hey Ironhide." She said waving weakly.

" What are you doing here runt?" he said not in a rude way but still with his gruff voice.

"I was…I was just checking the shard out again…it's complicated…Ratchet and Prime will probably tell you soon enough. What about you?"

"Searching for that slagger that likes calling himself Sunstreaker." He looked irritated at the thought.

"He's missing?" a nod.

"He's been brooding all over the place, avoiding everyone, this time it really got him, Sideswipe must have been in a pretty bad condition."

"I heard you guys saying something about sparkshock…is that why he's like that?" she asked walking over to him, he didn't pay any attention to the shard, he was paying more attention to Jazz's body.

"Yeh…Sparkshock is when your bonded to another and that other suffers or dies, usually its counterpart can feel it almost as bad."

"bonded? As in connected? " he nodded. "So basically he felt sideswipe's pain, his own, and on top of it he was conscious enough to know his brother was about to die?"

"In a very short way to say it yeh. Ya haven't seen'im have yeh?"

"Sorry no…not ever since I was brought to the medbay, I left him in the rec room back then. Did you try there?"

"Not yet, Ratchet usually dents anyone that tried to even get in there when he's with a patient."

"Well he's out of his medbay, so…"

"Medbay it is then" he grunted." You comin'?"

"Nah…I don't want to ruin a possible moment between those two…I'll go look for Blurr, he as supposed to get my stuff when they brought Bumblebee." The black mech nodded and headed out, his large feet pounding powerfully all the way, even after he disappeared from the hall she could still hear him.

She herself headed out of the room but stopped at the door to look inside once more, the shard was glowing again. "Cya…bye Jazz" she said looking at the dead autobot with some sympathy.

Blurr could be easily found, just not easily caught, the sound of his tires speeding away in the training room were more than a clue, trouble was getting him to stop so she could talk to him. The speedster was a phenomenon of speed, living up to his name all she could see was a light blue blur circling the arena, the counter was on meaning he was probably trying out a record. She sat down, waiting for him to finish, if there was one thing she knew about speed, it was that it got you tired very quickly so it didn't last long before the racer had to stop.

When he finally stopped she had her ears ringing from the screech of his tires. He didn't look one bit exhausted, though if it had been a cybertronian watching they would be able to tell his body was overheating.

"Hey there" she greeted raising a hand. He looked down surprised, apparently not expecting to see her.

"What are you doing here?" she raised an eyebrow, he didn't talk fast. " what?"

"Your speaking normally…" they stared for a few short seconds.

"That happens after training a lot. It'll come back to normal in a while" she groaned. "I ask again, what are you doing here? If Ironhide finds you here…"

"Ironhide is busy searching for Sunny" she said waving him off. " I came to ask if you got my stuff last night."

"Oh yes. Those plastic recipients with other items your kind uses on a daily basis. " she raised an eyebrow taking note on his need to make sentences complete.

"Yeah…plastic bags, where did you put them? I'm kind of hungry and I have food there."

"I'll take you to them, their in the shooting launch."

"You guys have a shooting launch?" she asked as she was picked up from the ground.

"It was built in case we ever need to leave or if one of our few aerials make it here."

"You can be aerial? As in a plane?" he nodded

"Its rare on autobots, but there are a few exceptions, if any survived it is most likely an aerial, since travelling in space is easier for them."

"Sweet…I hope one gets here while I'm here, I'd like to see one" she grinned.

"Its unlikely…"

"Party pooper…" she said slouching a bit in his hand.

Things had started to get better in the next days, she got her corner in the rec room a bit more comfortable for her liking and sideswipe had been discharged from the med bay, meaning he was out and into action in what was an apparent routine of pranks.

There had been a signal they picked up and it meant a new arrival was coming to earth, whether friend or foe they didn't know but this was good enough reason to delay her meeting with the officials once again. Everyone had started making bets between them, especially the twins.

They were all currently in the rec room, putting up a data pad with the said bets, Optimus even participated saying it was good for their morals, but he also had shown to be a bit anxious, this could as easily be very bad if it were a decepticon.

"There, now did everyone get their bets up? Who's missing? There's a slot for one more!" Sideswipe invited cheerfully. He looked down at the small human observing them from her table. " Ashley! You want to bet?"

"Me? What the hell went in your processor and ate it? I hardly know any of your kind, I only know from the stories I heard!Plus what would I bet?" Sides seemed to think it for a while.

"How about you give us all a wash if you loose, and if we don't then we're stuck with taking you anywhere you want in town without complaints" Sunny suggested.

Ashley pondered on his offer for a while, and then smirked.

"Fine, but you gotta keep your promise!"

"Great!" cheered the red lambo.

Bumblebee who was sitting beside her looked over curiously, the human had that expression that usually meant it either had a sadist thought or it was up to no good.

"Who're you betting on?" Sideswipe waited anxiously to put in her bet.

"Prowl" the twins seemed to jerk back at the name, to which Bumblebee just laughed whole heartedly.

"Nice bet, your jinxing it."

"Thanks, I was hoping for that."

"If she wins this bet I'll be a real sore looser" sunny said in a groan as his brother put in her bet.

She stared up at the data pad displayed for all to view, she had heard of most of the names in there but could hardly remember any of those. The bets were the following:

Prime- Elita One

Ironhide- Any possible femme

Ratchet – wheeljack

Blurr – Jetfire

Sunstreaker – cliffjumper

Sideswipe – red alert

Bumblebee – Arcee

Ashley – Prowl

The curious thing was everyone had voted mostly on who they hoped would come the most, though she was guessing Ironhide's bet was just to cover up for who he'd really wish to come. Though in Ratchet's case she was betting he was wishing for the said wheeljack NOT to come, she concluded this because of his often grimace every time he read his own bet.

They were due to arrive around ten that night and the autobots had regretfully to get ready for any possible decepticon, even Ironhide seemed slightly reluctant about tuning his cannons, and that was a rare sight.

On another sore note Ashley had been forbidden to leave the base to go with them, which meant someone was stuck with her, that someone happened to be bumblebee, not that she didn't like him, she was getting along great, but he was also in a foul mood about it.

When the time came they watched the rest leave at the far end of the desert, oh this was definitely not amusing.

"Guess you wouldn't be interested in sneaking behind them?" the yellow bot looked down at her studying her for a few seconds trying to make out if she was being serious or not.

"I thought you'd never ask" he said changing into his camaro form and opening the door. A broad smile spread across her face and she jumped in pulling up the seat belt excitedly.

"Won't you get in trouble for this bee?"

"Any punishment is worth it if this is an autobot arriving." Was his answer as he sped up after the others careful to put on a mild cloaking system up just so they wouldn't pick his signature.

"So…who do you think is going to win the bet?" she asked leaning in over his steering wheel and looking up at the stars while he drove.

"You actually, Prowl is a logic choice, he'd follow sunny and sides anywhere just to keep them in line, plus since jazz was here the chances of him coming become more likely."

"huh?"

"Jazz was Prowl's bond mate, and he took care of sunny and sides since they were found in the war field."

"Oh…must be a cool guy then"

"…well… I wouldn't exactly call him 'cool' but he's a great mech. He found the twins and brought them to the ark before I was found myself."

"You were found in the war fields too?"

"as a sparkling yes, I was incredibly lucky, sunny and sides were a little older and had each other, I was by myself, it was pure luck really."

"Oh? How old were you?" he paused a bit probably doing a conversion of time

"Well if I compare it to human standards I would have been two years old then."

"Holy-"

"Language"

"sorry. How did you survive that? What happened?" she suddenly felt immense pitty for the camaro, and hoped with two lambos hadn't been that young.

"I don't remember really, but according to the others Ironhide found me in the rumble, nearly crushed me under his feet."

"Now I see what you meant with incredibly lucky…being crushed by that guy can't be pretty…"

"Actually Ironhide can be surprisingly tender when no one else is looking, out of all the autobots he raised me the most."

"Oh? Wouldn't guess it in a million years…he looks too…"

"Rough?"

"Yeah…I guess you can say that"

"Ironhide is all thick metal but he has a soft spark deep inside. Whenever he was actually rough with me it was because I deserved it or because I really needed to learn something the hard way. Otherwise he'd never be that way with me. Now he loosens up a bit more but he's still my guardian"

"So he's kind of like a foster parent?"

"In a way…"

"Interesting…"

"What about the twins?"

"Prowl found them, I think they worked for attraction shows before, they would have been around seven by your standards I think."

"Wow…"

"Oh! I think we're arriving. They stopped up ahead." She got out of his inside to let him change and the two sat down on the dunes to stare up at the sky, a few lights were appearing in the sky. She quickly counted them and gasped.

"seven! Man now I reaaaallyy wish those aren't depecticons! Then again if they are autobots the base will get crowded…" the robot besides her didn't answer her, staring up in wonder.

Within seconds the lights were getting brighter and larger until the line of fire hit the sand between the two little spies and the other autobots.

Bumblebee was ready in case he had to pick up the small human and make a dash for it, the smoke started to clear off and silver protoforms emerged, each becoming larger.

The smallest was a slightly taller than Bumblebee and in many ways looked a like although slimmer looking. Next to it another got to his feet being about Ratchet's size, two lights followed his head movement so she supposed they were attached to it.

"No way…" muttered Bumblebee in disbelief as the five other figures rose from the ground, and for a moment Ashley felt her legs give in, it was like staring straight at a Jurassic park nightmare. Five dinosaur looking robots looked around still in a daze from their landing. "Primus in a rust bucket! The Dynobots!" Bumblebee exclaimed in surprise not taking his optics off their forms.

"I'm a bit shocked right now but you mind telling me if that's a bad thing or a good thing?" she asked slowly inching behind his arm, he had to lay low on the ground so they wouldn't be seen.

"That depends. Wheeljack and Ratchet created them, they have good sparks but not very sharp processors…"

"You mean their stupid?" she asked raising an eyebrow and watching as Optimus and the others approached the new arrivals.

Bumblebee didn't answer her, he was paying too much attention to what was going on. The smaller cybertronian stepped out of his space shell and went up to prime shaking hands in greeting, the twins were conveniently staying far away and both Ironhide and Ratchet had large smirks on their faces. Blurr seemed quite indifferent.

"Who's that?" she asked trying to get a better glimpse of the robot's face as he went to greet the others and prime greeted the flashing headed one.

"That would be your win" her eyes widened.

"That's Prowl?" a nod. " Oh I am so going to enjoy teasing the twins about it" she snickered.

"Shh. Try to make less noise, he had really good audio receptors, we'll get cought." She nodded trying to stifle her giggles. She then saw the second robot having a one armed hug with Ratchet, a strange sight especially because the medic was grimacing and sending an obvious threat at him.

The Dinobots were still looking around lifting and bowing their heads in wonder, she wasn't sure what to make out of them yet.

She heard a double yell of "OW"s and looked to where the twins were, Prowl had just smacked them both on the heads.

"What the slag are those knuckle heads doing?" Bee asked himself watching the dinobots who were getting more and more fidgety.

"Er…Bee…doesn't it look like their sniffing? You guys can sense smell right?" his optics widened.

"Oh slag, we're in the wind, they'll know we're here" he hurriedly went to grab her but a roar interrupted him, they heard a strong but childing sounding voice echo in the dunes.

"Me Grimlock smell funny scent!Me Grimlock DESTROOYYY!" She gulped, too frozen to move, the camaro grabbed her and tried to back away, just in time to avoid them both being crushed by a paw of the large mechanical T-rex.

"Eep!" she squeaked holding onto the yellow chest tightly knowing her doom was coming.

"Ahhh! Grimlock wait!" Bee shouted, his vocalizer hissing with effort" Its me! Bee!"

The large metallic beast halted inches from them, if Ashley stretched her arm out she'd be able to touch the tip of his nose. Air came out of his nostrils, the foul smell of machinery coming with it. He backed up standing to his full height he seemed to be evaluating the yellow form for short seconds until suddenly his optics brightened.

"Bumblebeeeee!" she let out a little screech when the t-rex jumped onto the small bot in what could pass by as a hug.

"Ah!Ah-hahaa…that's right grimlock, its me!" he said patting the head of the robot a bit in doubt " now mind getting off me? I sort of have a fragile friend with me here" he said pointing towards her.

As grimlock got off of him a voice interrupted them.

"Still as sneaky as ever I see" came a stern voice, the two looked behind grimlock's large form to see the still in protoform mech with wings followed by the remaining team.

"Slag…"

"We're in trouble" she finished for him.

"Hiya Prowl!" Bumblebee chirped putting the girl on his shoulder and getting to his feet, trying to shake off some of the sand.

"Bumblebee, I thought I assigned you to stay at the base and keep an optic on Ashley, not bring her out here to a potential danger." Prime said coming up to stand behind the scowling Prowl.

"Aw c'mon Optimus, don't beat him up, I suggested it…and he was too eager to see his friends again so he just couldn't resist" she lied calmly, keeping herself calm when lying was important, she'd learned how Ratchet could tell if she did and how to avoid it.

She felt the form she was sitting on twitch a little, and his fingers came up behind her rubbing her back in a silent thanks no one else could figure out.

The autobot leader sighed, the two of them were giving him the 'look', the one that made his spark soften, however he had to forgive them, this was after all a happy occasion.

"I suppose since you're here introductions should be accounted for." He said as Bumblebee walked forward so she could meet the others more formally. " This is autobot Prowl" Prime said putting a hand on the mech's shoulder " My second in command and master tactician." She nodded waving at the said mech with a faint smile. He nodded back.

"Hi, I'm Ashley, I'm only here temporarily"

"Fascinating" he said looking over the human with curiosity, and she gave him an equally curious stare until the second robot came in nearly pushing him out of the way, its lights on the head were so bright she had to blink away a few times to adjust.

"Hi! I'm wheeljack, it's an absolute pleasure to meet you! Your species looks absolutely intriguing!" he said in an overexcited voice.

"Er…thanks wheeljack" she said shaking his enthusiastic finger as if it were a hand.

Bumblebee then turned to the five dinosaur looking robots. " and these, are the dynobots, starting with Grimlock" the gigantic being started wagging its tail sniffing at her curiously, she couldn't help it any longer, any fear was lost once she saw his sparkling blue optics and cute expression, she started laughing and actually hugged his nose, the large dino started to purr like a little kitten!

"He's damn adorable! How come you guys never told me about him? I would have bet on him instead!" she exclaimed with glee patting the nose as she was taken to meet the remaining dynobots.

"Bet?" Prowl asked looking at Prime in question.

"It was just for a little fun Prowl, no harm done, Ashley actually bet on you" the SIC raised a metallic eyebrow in surprise.

"Who lost?"

"Er…that would have been anyone but Ratchet and Ashley." The said phrase seemed to give the CMO a gleeful smirk.

"Thank goodness something out of wheeljack came out perfect, now I can have some peace of mind at my medbay for a week!" more squeals of excitement came from the girl as the dynobots themselves were getting a little excited with the tiny human, their curiosity taking the better of them. Prowl looked at them apprehensively, the last thing he needed was the dynobots squishing one of this planet's inhabitants as soon as they got there.

"Don't worry Prowl, we'll give you a full report once we're back in the base."

"Until then it sounds like you'll have to wait though" Ironhide grunted as they watched the exaggerated adoration the girl was showing for the large beasts.

"Yes…its going to be a long night…" Ratchet said joining them along with wheeljack, it was good to see the dynobots so interested once in a while.

Okay bets aside this was fun : D I loved the dynobots and my only regret is they didn't make a movie about them yet ;_; that would have been awesome.

I didn't want the femmes to come, YET, I have something planned for them afterwards.

please review : )