Going home

The next morning, Peaches was feeling better. She woke up, went into the bathroom, put on a green t-shirt, orange shorts, red socks and her white sneakers, then went back into the medical bay where the Ratchet she had known for quite some time was waiting with a plate of breakfast. It was healthy food; sliced apples, Cheerios, and orange juice.

"And no, the cereal does not have sugar on it." He said to the Pretender.

Peaches sighed, took the food and sat down in the rec room and ate all of it, just as the other Autobots and her sparkmate started coming out of recharge. Soon, everyone was gathered in the main room, dividing up energon and that was when TFP Optimus said "Good morning Peaches, how are you?"

"Better than last night." She replied. "I've still got one more thing to do before I leave though."

"And what is that?" Sideways asked the orange and red femme that he could not live without no matter what happened.

"You'll see, love, you'll see." She said smiling.

An hour later, Knockout was driving around when he saw Sideways and Peaches driving up to him. He was a bit surprised but if they wanted to thank them, he'd let them. He didn't seem to have much of a choice.

Peaches got out of Sideways, and then both of the mechs transformed into robot mode. She then said "Knockout, I'd just like to say thanks for what you did."

"Don't expect that again, kid." He replied.

"I know." The Pretender said. "I don't know if I'll ever end up here again or if anyone from here will end up in my home universe, but I do know that I'll be ready to fight with you again if I ever have to."

"Okay, I'll admit it; you're really something for an Autobot femme." The red Decepticon reluctantly said. "Next time we battle, I'll be ready for you as well."

"Don't worry; I'll keep her online until then." Sideways promised, and then shook Knockout's hand.

"Sideways!' Peach was a bit embarrassed as he then started saying several good things about her.

Soon enough, the couple returned to the Autobot base. Bumblebee, Arcee, and Bulkhead had brought the kids to the base to say good-bye to their visitors.

Prime Arcee got down on the floor and said "Peaches, you're really lucky to have friends and a sparkmate around to care for you. Don't take any of them for granted." She was now thinking of Cliffjumper and Tailgate and briefly told the Pretender about them.

"You're a great partner, not that I can stay here and be like that as awesome as that would be." Peaches admitted, giving the blue femme a hug. "Whenever I miss someone I love, I always listen to the song 'Someone's watching over me' and it makes me feel better since my parents always wanted me to follow my dreams and they liked that song as much as I did."

The other Arcee gave her counterpart a hug as well. "If any of the 'cons that wronged you wind up in the universe I'm from, I'll give them the pit for you."

"Thanks."

Peaches gave Prime Bumblebee a hug, gave Miko a high five, told Bulkhead that he was awesome, gave Jack and Raf hugs, and finally said to the Optimus Prime that she didn't know nearly as well as the one from her universe "It's been a great experience being here even though it was short, and I finally see why I can't take my team for granted. I won't deny you guys help if I ever wind up here again."

"Thank you very much Peaches; you are very kind and I can see why my counterpart thinks highly of you."

The Autobots who had counterparts also said goodbyes and Prime Ratchet said "Peaches, you better take care of yourself or I'll see to it that my counterpart does whatever he wishes as punishment."

Both Bumblebees hugged each other, Bulkhead promised that he would keep an optic out for a counterpart to Sideways, and everyone was getting emotional, even though not all of them showed it.

Raf gave Peaches her movies back, and the latter put them into subspace.

"So, are you ready to head for home?" Sideways asked the Pretender as he hugged her and nearly refused to let go of her.

"Yes Sideways and please save some hugs for Abby and Crystal." The orange and red femme replied, laughing and trying to get him to let go of her temporarily.

Movie Optimus said "Thank you all of you for helping us while we were here. I wish you, my counterpart, only the best in fighting the war."

"As do I, my friend. 'Till all are one." The other Optimus said.

"Till all are one!" every other Autobot repeated.

Soon enough a white light engulfed the movie Autobots, Peaches and Sideways and they were now home, thanks to Wheeljack finally getting the bugs out of the system.

Sometime later, Peaches gave Ashley and Jolt hugs and then sat down on the beach once more, wanting to be alone. She could wait until Ratchet said she was allowed to transform again.

"Out here again, Peaches?" someone asked.

Peaches turned around. It was Elita One who had asked that question.

The Pretender said "Yes, I am and you won't believe what happened to me."

"Optimus already explained everything." Elita replied, smiling.

Weeks went by and Peaches nearly forgot about the incident, until she got a mysterious email. Apparently, Raf had set up an inter-universal messaging system to keep Peaches in touch with what was going on with the Autobots in his universe. Jack had sent a message explaining that Raf was hurt but would be all right and that he was worried about Optimus.

The Pretender knew she couldn't do much about it; she could only hope that they would be all right. She started praying to Primus and sending well wishes to her new friends…

Author's note: Yes, this is short but I was in a rush to finish so that I could work on my other story whenever I am not doing homework.