For you to find out: Your welcome, I just came up with something because I thought that Steven would be a very strange Cybertronian name.
Pachysam: Thanks. I wanted to have Sari build something that was useful in more than one way.
Mulan 2: Oh yes those two will show up in Autoboot camp. The quotes are nice and some or all may be included. I'm not sure though.
Professor Starkay: Yes I do, the second fact explains a few things, thank you.
Darth Reaper: Yep he is, I don't know haven't decided. Nice quotes.
Dr-mai/fan-lover: Maybe if they do appear in this one… I hate the headmaster. The repair bay/roller is interesting… I'll think about it. Megatron has all ready met Sari, though only in her organic form, and I have no idea what Sailor Moon is.
Professor Darwin: thanks for the wiki on the Beast Wars. The wasp facts are nice too, as are the quotes.
KnucklesRedFury207.2: It's here.
Colonel Trunk: For Astro, he'll have some awesome weaponry. For Yuketron, I could see the two-energon blades thing going on… Hmm…I like the quotes to, they are cool. I'm going to put Kup in as a bunch of reviewers seem to want me to…
Darth Sanio: I believe he might appear in this story. I already have two-one I mean in this story already and a third on the way perhaps. Your other ideas are intriguing and one will probably be the explanation of how she was able to speak with Vector Prime. The adult who was surprised that she was attracted to the place might show up as one of the place's guards.
Father Century: I do like the ancient transformers and one shows up a couple of times in this chapter.
Corporal Hercules: I like the abilities you mentioned and Sari will be using one of them in this chapter. ( As will Steven, and another I think)
Mr. Pan: I like that idea a lot, it would be actually quite useful. Yeah it would be. I like those quotes a lot, they're good.
Master Primo: The dojo idea is a good one and I hint that 16 might be a Cyber Ninja.
Happyfish: I have see.
Fleet-Marshal Thunder: Hmm… Intriguing ideas… Maybe, maybe…You're right about Omega, he wouldn't mind one bit.
Clownus Primal: Neat idea and quotes… Primus may come into this story.
Air Commander Floyt: It is a good moment, one that may come to pass if not exactly in that way (she has to meet all of the ancient transformers first) but possibly similar.
A special shout out to: Black Jack, Happyfish, Pachysam, and Deathtilupart for reviewing Artemis and Holly on Board Babylon 5, and Pachysam and Deathtilupart for reviewing transformers:Babylon 5!
I have a note for you all when after I finish this chapter.
Sari's spark leapt as she heard the mech's voice, however her two companions looked more worried. "By Primus, we are in so much trouble if he finds us." Steven murmured, utterly terrified.
Sari had to ask, "Why?"
"He's a Prime Sari, if you didn't know. We- we could be taken apart at his word." Meralon whimpered, equally terrified.
"Oh good… By Primus you idiots, where do you think that I have been staying? I am at Autobot HQ, the Metroplex I believe it's called. I know that Prime and he is going to help us get out of this with minimum of people knowing or seeing any of us." Sari replied, and then called out, "Hey Sentinel, could you help me and my friends? A fellow member of our class came up with something that forces bots into their alt forms. One is almost exactly the same as mine, the other has a cat alt mode."
"I see, well I'll get you and your friends out of here soon." Sentinel promised. After he finished his task at the school he gently reached under the table and picked the three young Autobots, covering them with his massive hands. After they managed to get to the Metroplex unseen Sentinel gently placed Sari, Meralon, and Steven on the floor.
Red Alert came over and murmured, "Jack is recharging, but Perce is in one of his mad labs doing… Something… we hear explosions periodically but as we can't get in, and we still hear movement we assume that Perce hasn't killed himself yet."
Sari groaned and sighed, "Ill go check it out in a little while, but I want to show Steven and Meralon around a bit."
"That's all we ask, thank you." Red Alert stated.
So Sari showed her two new friends around the Metroplex, as much as she had been in (except for the council chambers). They were about to wander back the way they had came when a door that they had previously thought to have been a wall segment opened before the three of them. After a brief discussion, Sari went in first followed by her curious friends.
They were in a room with silvery blue walls; a tightly looking sealed container that pulsed with a gentle bluish white took up the center of it. Sari moved towards the container with a feeling of half remembered recognition. /I wonder where I have seen that type of light before… Why does it seem so familiar? /
Steven and Meralon were more spooked by this strange room and wanted to leave. "Who is this "Perce?" Shouldn't you go check up on him?"
"Perce as in Perceptor and your right I guess. Come on you two. Why are you two looking at me like that?" Sari asked a touch defensively.
"You know one of the head Autobots scientists?" Steven spluttered in shock.
"Yeah, why?" Shrugged Sari.
"They don't, they haven't done anything to you?" Meralon squeaked.
"What? No! Of course not! He can be a little on the nutty side, but no he hasn't. That pit spawn Bravirin on the other hand…" Sari replied her expression soured as she was swept up in bitter memories. When they moved to Perceptor's main lab. Sari opened the door with her key to reveal a semi recharging, slightly injured, but ecstatic Perceptor.
"I did it!" He exclaimed happily to himself.
"What did you do?" sari asked conversationally.
Perceptor froze at the sudden noise and turned to face Sari and her two friends, "Hello Sari, who are your friends and why aren't you in school right now?"
Sari introduced her friends and explained the reason why they were not at school. "We had no idea what we were going to do when Sentinel showed up and rescued us." He finished, marveling inwardly at how much the Autobot had changed. It was decided that Sari, Steven and Meralon would switch to scout school tomorrow.
Chrome dropped in looking miserable. Sari raced over and asked, "What's wrong Chrome?"
"Astro's been missing for a couple of days. A few others have too, we don't know what is going on." Chrome informed.
"I… That's not good… Chrome do you want to crash where I stay at until we find Astro and the others?" Sari replied quietly.
"Sure, can I bring some of my friends with me? Us students are coming and going to and from school in groups so we are less likely to be taken." Chrome asked hopefully.
"That's fine with me, I'm guessing that they are waiting fir you outside, yes?" Sari replied.
"Yeah they are… I'll go get them." Chrome stated, moving towards the door.
"I've got to tell my caretakers… So see you here in a bit?" Sari finished, moving in a different direction. Steven and Meralon who had been introduced to chrome went with him. Sari found Perceptor and told him of her friend's plight.
Perceptor agreed to let her friend's friends come over to send as many night cycles as they needed in this more secure location, though part of the reason was that Chrome, and his friends were the young mechs and femmes that were sons and daughters of fighters, scouts, spies and medics on the front lines against the Decepticons. He did throw one little possibility that he knew would delight his diminutive, and young, friend. "You will soon be able to speak with your Earth bound friends tonight."
Sari left the room a skip in her step. She still was very worried about Astro, but the idea of talking to the first Autobots she had ever met was enough to lighten her mood considerably. She met with Chrome and his group, and got acquainted.
One of the more nervous bots asked, "So where is the place you stay at, Sari? We should go there before night falls."
Sari smiled and tilted her head to the side, and stated, "I've been staying here in the Metroplex ever since I got here. I'll show you to the room they've assigned me shall I? A warning though, it's near the Medical bay and I may be woken up in the middle of the night to help them there. Why is a complicated answer, one that I do not wish to answer right now. So do you want to drop off your stuff first or do you want a tour of as much of the Metroplex as I have seen."
"We have homework, so could you take us to a place that we can do it in relative peace?" Chrome answered.
"Of course, this way." Sari replied, noting that no one contradicted Chrome's request, thinking, /I think it's kind of cool that Chrome is the unofficial leader, he's a good guy and would steer this lot well. /
After the group had finished their homework, Sari came back. (Their caretakers had picked up Steven and Meralon during that time.) Chrome and the others were talking with one another and had come to a decision. "Sari, can we go to your room, or where ever we are staying to drop off our stuff please? Then we would like to have a tour of this place." Chrome asked Sari.
"Sure Chrome, I'll show you." Sari replied. She noticed a couple of pensive looks her way and asked, "What is on your minds?"
"I think it's kind of strange that the bots in this building would let someone as young as you and us in, much less live here." One of the pensive looking bots replied.
"Why I am here, and how and who I know in this place is a rather complex, and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to tell you why. Even if I am, I have no clue how to explain." Sari replied as plainly as she could. Sari showed them her room and waited for them to come back out. They had fun for a few hours, exploring the rooms and hallways of the Metroplex, and they even went near the council chambers, but for some reason, Sari wanted to avoid that place.
They eventually felt tired and worn out, so they trooped into Sari's room and fell into recharge. Sari too fell into recharge, but woke several hours later, wondering about that strange room she had found with Steven and Meralon. So, she moved silently, hovering above Chrome's friends and navigated her way to the strange room.
In the room the strange blue light was the same level as before from the container. Sari, key in hand, looked for an opening in the container, which she did. She carefully inserted her key into the lock and opened the door of the container and saw something that startled her greatly.
Ultra Magnus was in his cell, thinking hard. /A Starscream clone has my hammer, and is planning on keeping it himself despite the orders of Megatron. / He was unrestrained except for his barred door. There were four other Autobots; each was looking at him expectantly as if waiting for him to do something to break all of them out. In truth, he had, but it was an ability he rarely used and it took great amounts of energy out of him. A key factor was that he had to focus on that, and that alone. He had been trying futilely for several hours, when a memory of something that his old sensei had taught him filtered through. "A Cyber ninja can only do processor over matter when he or she knows his or her own spark. You are clever and skilled, but you must go on a quest to discover what drives you." Ultra Magnus was happy that young Sari had managed to somehow find his old sensei, though how he had not been able to find out. The young techno organic was full of life, spunk, and was unafraid to say her mind about anything or anyone to anyone. She could also be quiet and was more perceptive than she let on and she had a fiery temper that he would not want to be on her bad side. She also loved to help others and really did not like the Decepticons. Ultra Magnus wondered why she was so bitter towards them and resolved to ask her if-when he saw her again. He thought about some of her friends, the young prime, the irascible medic, the fellow ninja (though very, very few knew this), the young scout, and spacebridge technician. They were a little rough around the edges, but a good bunch nonetheless.
After he did the processor over matter to move the door he swiftly left and took back his hammer. It surprised him how easy it was. No one was in the room guarding it that he could see. There were no obvious traps on or near the Magnus Hammer, so warily he picked it up. It was then that he heard them. One of the two's voices was silken and smooth, the other was arrogant and pompous. "Are you sure that the Hammer is secure, we wouldn't want my prize to be stolen by any Autobot or Decepticon."
"How could any of the Autobots escape if they are all snug in their cells, unable to even focus properly, thanks to that new weapon that Swindle sold us." The silken toned one replied soothingly.
"Yeah, for normal bots, what about Cyber ninjas though?" the arrogant one retorted.
"There are no Cyber Ninjas on board, the only two near, Prowl and Yuketron are on that organic planet where- Oh no!" the silken one stated, then seemed to realize something.
"What?!" Demanded the second.
"The Autobot's leader is missing! What do we do?" wailed the silken one worriedly.
"I attached a sleeper to his back when Strika handed him over to me, all I need to do is push it and he will go straight into recharge." The arrogant one responded sneeringly.
"Of course! Brilliant Thunder cracker!" Ramjet replied brightly. Ultra Magnus was desperately trying to find the newly known about sleeper as well as fight off it's effects, but the sleeper won out and he slipped very unwillingly into recharge.
Optimus was starting to get frustrated and worried. Frustrated because they couldn't find the Decepticon base, and worried by the lack of activity or signatures of the Decepticons. Even Bumblebee and Bulkhead were starting to feel a little on edge. Optimus heard the communications device go off, so he went to go see whom it was.
Perceptor told Optimus about how Sari was doing and how she had helped out, and concluded, "Sari is quite unique. You'll be able to speak with her tomorrow. I thought that you might want to know that."
"Thank you Perceptor for telling me. I'll inform the others." Optimus replied.
Perceptor nodded, then was distracted completely by something. He spluttered, "But… WHAT?! How? That's, that's just strange. I'm sorry Optimus, but I have to go." And shut off his part of the connection.
Optimus wondered what got the head scientist so riled up, but mentally shrugged and found his team and in formed them, a little while later he told the Jet twins, Jazz and Yuketron. At that moment they were all ordered to recharge by a cranky and instant Ratchet.
It was a spark in the container that Sari had opened. She spark was glowing dully, but nonetheless, there was no mistaking it. It was a spark, much like Omega Supreme before she, with Ratchet's instructions and help, reactivated him. She noticed that the spark was quickly going to full brilliance, and a deep, but quiet voice asked, "Who are you? Why and how have you woken me from my slumber?"
"I am Sari, I don't know how I woke you up though. What is your name?" Sari replied, and asked in return.
"I am Metroplex. Do you know what happened to Fortress Maximus? I saw him fall in battle." Metroplex asked quietly.
"I do not know. I am but eight solar cycles old. I am also quite new to Cybertron. The Decepticons have been beaten off Cybertron though. Sari answered, "Are you injured? I will try to find out about what happened."
"I am uninjured. Thank you for waking me, though I know I cannot transform, for there are many smaller Autobots residing within me." Metroplex answered gratefully.
"Your welcome, bye!" Sari responded, smiling to herself slightly. /He reminds me of Omega Supreme. I hope he's all right. - Sigh-/
Metroplex wondered briefly who this Omega Supreme was, then realized that she hadn't spoken that last sentence. /More and more curious. She is telepathic. I wonder what her other powers are. /
Sari woke to find that Astro and his group had left. She wandered towards one of Perceptor and Wheel Jack's labs when Red Alert, who looked relieved and said, "There you are Sari, time for Scout school", intercepted her
"Okay, where is it?" Sari asked curiously.
"Ah, about that. You have to pass an entry exam with a team of kids about your age. I don't know anything more than that so come on. You'll be taken to the debriefing spot with Steven and Meralon. A couple of others will be on the team too. I wish you well." Red Alert explained.
A half hour later and still the only one who were at the spot were Steven, Sari and Meralon. It was slightly spooky to be in the completely deserted spot, which made them watchful and wary, not the least of which was the fact that all three of them knew that bots about their age (Steven and Meralon's) had been taken off Cybertron by some mysterious people. Then two separate full-grown bots came and dropped off their charges.
Their names were Sping and Colg. They were cheerful and friendly enough and, like them had no clue what they were supposed to do. Sping asked, "Why are you three so tense?" When Sari answered quietly and in as few words as possible why they were edgy, similar expressions of unease broke over their faces. Sari, Steven, Meralon, Sping and Colg had their backs to one another and were scanning every entrance and exit that they could see, even the skies, which they did not neglect. Gradually curiosity won out over caution and a pair was sent to check one building out. It was deserted, but it yielded some interesting things, and after Sari carefully scanned the things for any traps they picked up the things. This was repeated in every building and they had a good number of things. They seemed useful, even if they couldn't identify fully everything. It was just after that when three adults came charging in.
The five of them went into defensive positions and Sari challenged, "Who are you and why are you here?"
"We are your examiners. You five have already passed a couple stages of the test. Keeping alert for extended periods of time, exploring your surroundings with caution, getting useful things from a bare area, and reacting quickly to sudden changes." One of the bots responded.
The second continued, "Now for the difficult part. You must get into the Metroplex and get as near as you can to the council chambers without being seen and caught. The closer you are the better score you have. A certain point in and you pass. You will not be able to tell where that point is. If any of you have been in the Metroplex, which is highly doubtful please speak up now."
Steven, Sari, and Meralon all stepped forward. Blinking in surprise the other Autobots looked appraisingly at the three young ones. The first one spoke again, "How long have you three been in the Metroplex?"
"A couple of hours." Steven and Meralon answered without hesitation.
"Where did you go?" the second asked.
"We stayed mostly in one of the main rooms, but we did some exploring yet not much." Steven and Meralon responded again together.
"And you miss? Where have you been in the Metroplex?" The first questioned curiously.
"I have been in several of the main rooms, several of the labs, many corridors, the- I'm sorry I don't know how much more that I can say." Sari replied quietly. "And for how long, similar restraints I'm afraid."
"Why?" Asked the second curiously.
"Well, my caretakers work in the Metroplex and they sort of live there, and I live with them." Sari replied uncomfortably.
"Who are your caretakers?" The first asked.
"Well, that sort of varies, and do I have to tell you this?" Sari asked, a touch crossly.
"No, no I digress… But I would like to know… Hmm… Never mind." Both of the older bots responded. They moved and allowed the young ones to come into their alternate modes. They let the five bots out just out of seeing range of the Metroplex's guards. "Now the test will begin as soon as you cannot see us."
After about ten minutes they couldn't see their examiners they snuck one by one to a side unguarded by the guards for the moment. Sari remembered which level the council chambers were on. Fortunately she spotted a window open on that level. Smiling she pointed at the window. "That's our point of entry."
"And how are we supposed to get up there, Fly!" Colg demanded nearly silently.
"Exactly." Sari grinned as she silently ascended up to the level with the open window, peeked inside and came back down. "Okay, there is no one in the room. Steven how much weight can you carry?"
"One maybe two. Why?" Steven asked.
"We have one or two minutes before a guard comes round this way and we're spotted. Grab and carry." Sari offered to Steven.
"Got it." Steven replied.
Sari and Steven each had one of their team mates fully supported alone and were about to grab Meralon when he silently started climbing up the side of the Metroplex stating "You guys have enough to deal with, besides I'm a better climber than most."
Once they gotten into the room Sari and Steven gently placed their teammates on the floor. "Follow me, I've been in the council chambers before." The others nodded and fell into a single file line behind her. Sari cautiously peeked into the hall, noticed the cameras, but shrugged, and thought /Hey Metroplex? Could you do a favor for me? You know those cameras to the council chambers, could you feed them a loop while me and my friends sneak into there? We want to play a little prank, please? /
/All right, how long have you known you could speak to others in their minds? / Metroplex asked curiously.
/this morning when I said hello to Perceptor, it took me a moment to realize he wasn't even in the room./ Sari replied.
/I see, well I'll do as you ask./ Metroplex answered quietly. / I am feeding a loop to the cameras. You have perhaps ten minutes then you will be back on camera. /
/thank you! Bye! / Sari stated and quickly navigated to the door, her team behind her. They were nearly across when they heard two voices come in their direction. Quickly they hid themselves in shadowed corners. After the bots had left, the five scampered in one by one to the door of the council chambers. Sping was about to open it but Sari shook her head and put her ear to the door.
She heard a whisper, "How long do you think this group will take?"
"Probably about an other half hour, they have to go from the ground floor up here unseen, remember. I can't wait to see their reactions when they find out that they have to defeat us in a fight, as a test to see how they react to an ambush." A second whisperer answered.
Sari relayed this to the others telepathically and once they decided (Via Sari's telepathy) what to do, they silently crept to a side door and Steven listened at it for a moment and gently tapped his head once and motioned to Sari who entered his mind, which confirmed Sari's suspicions. Their would be ambushers were more towards the main door, thinking that no one had been in the council chambers before, or were to scared to look around. Steven slowly opened the door and let the other four pass before quietly closing it again.
They snuck up behind their opponents, marveling at how much larger the seven or eight bots were in comparison to them. /Ready?/ Sari asked. The others nodded and they attacked as one. The eight bots were slow to respond, as they were surprised to see the potential recruits so close to them, and so soon too. Sari and Steven used their thrusters to shoot above their foes, and to dodge the blows and weapons thrown at them, blasting at them directly while there three ground bound companions snuck into the center of the eight unnoticed until Sping used his energon whip and bolas to take down one of their "ambushers" Colg swept the flat of his energon blade to the temple of another, knocking the opponent unconscious, while Meralon used his claws and tail on weak points of his attacker's armor to best him. Sari used her aqua blasts to fell one, her hammer on a second (which shot a tongue of lightning at that particular opponent), Steven used his dark green Shrukiens on yet another, taking him down.
The remaining three were much quicker and were getting some blowing in on all five of them, knocking one of their teammates unconscious, but before their opponents could revel in their victor Sari swooped down and revived him with her key. Sping was holding her own quite well and managed to get the sixth on his knees briefly. Bots seven and eight were having hard enough time with Meralon and Steven. Colg and Sari rejoined the battle. Sari found that she had a couple of new weapons and used them. The dark orange and pink edged shruikens hit the bots, but not their intended targets. Sari noticed that one of her opponents was using only one weapon, and that weapon could be taken away from her. Sari entered Colg's mind and asked her to distract the one-weaponed bot while she tried something. Colg agreed, but wondered what Sari was about to do. The bot in question now had to contend with two bots, both of which much more agile than he, when a grabber came from absolutely no where, curled tightly around his lance and was viciously tugged out of his grasp. Colg leapt up and struck the unconscious making blow.
Bots six and seven were fighting back to back, which made it a good deal more difficult, the upside was that no one else was up besides the new recruits. Sari was struck with an idea, but was hesitant to use it, but after conferring with her teammates used it. She sent a keening mental note towards her enemies and while they were distracted, Meralon and Steven took them down. Air ventilators working a little into overdrive they looked around unsure what to do until there was applause. Whirling around they faced where the sound was coming from to see their examiners, and to Sari's in particular surprise, but to all of the team's as well, the Autobot high council. Alpha Trion exclaimed, "That was some of the most quick thinking from a bunch of recruits I've seen in a long time. But how did you know there were people in this room?"
"Simple." Sari replied, "I've been passed this place several times and there are always guards posted in front of the council's doors, even when the council isn't in session. I knew that there was something waiting for us in here so I decided to listen at the door to see if I could hear anything. When I did I told my fellow team members why I was concerned and we agreed to try a side door to see if they were spread out along all doors, or in one spot. Steven listened at the side door and the voices were harder to hear, so we decided to enter that door instead."
"How did you disable the cameras to the council chambers?" Wrench asked curiously.
"I asked Metroplex if he could turn them off for me, at least for little while and he did." Sari shrugged.
"How did you manage to do that?" Bravirin asked.
When Sari did not answer his question, it became apparent who the femme they had been talking to was, to the council at least. So Tranel repeated the question, and Sari cheerfully responded, "I spoke with him mentally. I found out that I could do that this morning, and the shruikens when I was fighting."
On of the examiners asked, "Why did you not answer councilor Bravirin's question Sari? You answered the other councilors?"
"That is complicated." Wrench informed the examiner, "Now I believe that they all passed, yes?"
"Yes, they did. Congratulations you've made it into scout school. All of you will be on this same team for your entire school career in scout school, though on some simulations a few of your members will either be captured or unable to participate." Both examiners stated, "So acquaint yourselves and get along, because you lot are going to be miserable otherwise."
They went out of the Metroplex and got into the older bots that drove them to scout school. The day was half over, yet several other groups were coming back. They were told to join the group that was going to the going unseen and scanning for possible traps/ ambush places class. Unsure where that was, they entered the school and found a hidden banner that told them where to go.
The teacher was a mech that looked like he was partially invisible. His name was Castor. Sari looked at him more closely and realized that he looked much like a spy bot she had seen several times, but had yet to talk to. "Umm… Professor Castor, do you have a brother named Mirage by any chance?"
Castor turned sharply to face her asked in a neutral, but a slight tremor was in his voice when he spoke, "When did you see my older brother miss?"
"A day or so ago, why?" Sari responded curiously.
"No reason, it's just I haven't seen him in a couple of solar cycles." Castor replied quietly. After that he told them all what to do, and they started doing it.
Sari found the different tasks of looking for potential trap sites, ambush places, and spots to rest in privacy a rather strenuous and stimulating task. After a couple of hours later, Castor called for the class to stop. "I want you to turn in the lists that you made along with which computer you were monitoring. After that you may go."
"Yes sir." The class replied. The class gradually did as they were told, Sari, Meralon and Steven among the first to finish the last task. Castor mentioned no homework and there was no other thing to grab in a stack to do, there was no homework, which was true.
Sari watched her friends go home with their caretakers wondering who was going to pick her up today when a calm voice asked behind her stated, "I am picking you up for today, my name is Mirage, please don't be alarmed. I thought that you might not want every youngling your age to know that you live in the Metroplex?"
After Sari's heart climbed down from her mouth she answered, "No, thanks, but how am I going to get out of here if no one can see you?"
"I have already signed you out, come on." Mirage answered back. Sari followed Mirage, though she couldn't see him, her internal sensor could sense him, and she could hear his near silent movements.
The day went remarkably quiet. Perceptor and Wheel Jack were quietly going over data and didn't blow up anything. The council was in agreement over many things. All was peaceful and quiet, which was unnerving Sari to no end. Someone found her later and told her that she could speak to her Earth bound friends. Sari nearly bowled over the poor bot in question to get to the communications area.
From what she had gathered everything was quiet, but for much longer than a few hours. They were trying to search for the Decepticon ship that they knew was either coming or had all ready arrived. It was frustrating and worrying to all of them. After another couple of hours she was shooed out of the communications area. After she had left, sleep started to pull at her and she went to sleep. When she was sound asleep all pit broke loose in the Metroplex and on Earth.
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