The next day the sun shone bright on the vehicles that rolled tirelessly on. Fresh looking paint jobs glittered in the light as the tires drummed across the pavement. The large red and blue semi in the lead with a long trail of vehicles from every shape and size behind him. The colors just as varied as the personalities that owned them. Scattered strategically in between those normal seeming vehicles were the dune buggy style vehicles NEST seemed to prefer. Each driver, passenger and gunner alert to their surroundings. Not only on the lookout for potential attacks, but also to make sure they didn't collide when one of the vehicles did something spontaneous, like racing. Only thing missing was Michael Bay blowing some shit up and it would have been a perfect movie scene.

Inside the vehicles it was much less dramatic looking. Boring even. It was just Leo and I cruising along in Hide's cab this time, he was reading a book and I was leaned back in the seat, just idly watching the scenery pass by. Ty and Lavi, as well as the rest of the children, had formed bonds with some of the soldiers and wanted to ride with their new friends. Will and Epps agreed it was fine so they were now sprinkled among the NEST vehicles. When the twins rode with us, they got on my nerves. Now that it was quiet, I was bored. Go figure.

"I can sit in the backseat and drum on your seat if you want." Leo told me as he calmly turned the page.

"I'll pass thank you." I replied, not moving my eyes from the window. "I'll take the quiet time, even if it does mean I'll be bored. Some music would be nice though I guess."

Now he did look at me. "Not that crap Lavi listens to I hope. I've had about enough of those ear busters."

I chuckled. "No Leo, had something else entirely in mind. More in a epic relaxing mood really."

His eye ridge shot up. "Epic relaxing? What does that even mean?"

Before I could even answer, Hide turned the radio on and I looked in shock at the console as the songs I was thinking of listening to began to play. The familiar songs made by Audiomachine, Future World Music, Two Steps From Hell and various others began to sooth my ears. The dramatic tones of the instrumental songs fit perfectly with my mood. "Hide...did you find my Youtube playlist?"

"Indeed I have. Interesting song selections."

"I'm in an interesting mood." I closed my eyes with my head back against the head rest, my mind lost in another world, one of my own imagination. For some reason I felt the strong urge of wanting the wind on my face and I rolled down the window. Eyes closed I sat there, enjoying my music and the rushing air on my face. And getting quietly laughed at by Leo. I didn't care.

I drew further into myself, letting my imagination soar with the music and wind. Flying, yes, I was definitely flying with this music. Soaring high over low forest covered mountains, streams and rivers glittering under me in the valleys as the larger snow covered peaks passed me by. I was calm, content with everything as I drifted over the serene scene below me, lost in wonder at the beauty of Mother Nature.

Birds were flying effortlessly nearby, not in the least disturbed by my presence as I drifted on. So high up I couldn't even make out my shadow as it chased me as I flew in the bright sunlight. I was even delighted to see an eagle fly over me, it's piercing cry echoing across the skies as it joined me on my journey.

Soon I felt the familiar presence of my sister turtle wives near me. Cris, even with her fear of heights, took in everything just as wonderstruck as I was. Even cool, calm Marina was stunned into silence by the simplicity of the magnificence we saw all around us. Caitlin's eyes were full of tears as she gazed over the pristine landscape that had so far been untouched by mankind's destructive hands.

What was holding us so effortlessly in the air, I couldn't tell you. That was the one thing in my vision I couldn't make out as I lost myself deeper in this paradise I had made. This, in my eyes at least, was perfection. Not even a single cloud marked the blue sky as we glided on. Nothing could ruin this, or so I thought.

A ball of fire marred the perfect blue canvas, slowly growing larger as it left a trail of smoke behind it. Then it wasn't one, but multiple and they crashed down into the forest that had moved Caitlin to tears just a short time before, destroying acres as ball after ball hit. Destruction was now below me, and more of it came from above and too late I noticed one heading for me, growing brighter and hotter as I stared at it in fear filled shock. Everything was being ripped apart around me, and I was about to join the devastation even as I raised my arms in a futile effort to shield my face.

He comes. Prepare yourselves. Show them the way.

"Vicky!" Leo snapped as I was roughly shaken in his attempt to wake me. But it wasn't his efforts that snapped me back into the real world. A world in which I noticed that my whole body was shaking. I also vaguely noticed that the whole convoy had pulled over as I tried to make sense of what just happened.

I looked blankly from the window I had still been facing and turned my wide eyed, uncomprehending gaze to Leo who had crawled over the center console and was now hovering over me, his eyes filled with worry. It finally dawned on me that what I had seen wasn't real and that it didn't happen and when I did finally figure that out, I cried. It had felt so real to me that for a moment I honestly thought I had died, and that scared me to no end.

The first tear hadn't even formed when I felt those secure arms wrap around me, comforting me as I tried to understand what in the world just happened.

"Vicky, what's wrong?" His eyes searched my face as he tried to see, but couldn't because something was keeping him from seeing it. I could literally feel it as that wall held firm, but gentle between him and the vision I had. That scared me even more because I wanted to tell him, but found that I couldn't. I did the only thing I could do, I held onto him for some kind of support.

It had me so preoccupied that I missed Casey running over to us from Jazz until he appeared right outside my still open window. "Marina is freaking out up there." He told Leo when he came to a stop.

"Vicky isn't much better. Go check on Cait and Cris. If they are as shook up as well, we may need to call an early halt for the day."

Casey nodded and took off towards Sides who was a few bots behind us.

I sniffed and wiped my eyes as I tried to focus in on him. "W-what's wrong with them?"

Leo turned his full attention back to me. "The same thing that happened to you dear one. One moment you were all fine, the next you were shaking and screaming. I could hear them over the comm as we started getting calls from the bots they were riding in, and they could hear you."

"The noise was grating." Hide so cheerfully added. "Never before had I heard such a racket from you. Not even when you two-"

"Not the time to be bringing that memory up Hide." Leo cut him off with a glare.

"Well, then you shouldn't have been fragging when she had a connection with me."

"Will you stop it already?"

Hide huffed, then said in a gentler tone. "Are you alright?"

I nodded then laid my head on Leo's chest, my mind totally numb now. There was no possible way this could have happened, but yet it did and I instinctively knew they had had the exact same vision.

"I'm not so sure about that." Leo murmured quietly as he held me. "You're still shaking."

"Shall I turn the music of? Could it be that was what caused this?"

"I don't think so Hide." Leo answered him. "To be honest, we've had a similar experience. And there was no music playing at the time. I have a feeling it's something much bigger than that. Leave it on for her, it does sooth her normally."

"Very well."

Casey popped back in the window. "They are a bit shook up, but seem fine overall now that they are calming down. General consensus is they want to keep going."

"And you dear one?"

"Same. No point in stopping for something we can't do anything about."

"Alright. Go load back up Casey so we can get on the road again."

"Right." Casey turned and made his way back to Jazz as Hide fired up his engine again.

Leo shifted us around in the passenger seat until he had me firmly entrenched in his lap with his arms still around me. I really didn't complain too much about it, because I just stared at my hand that wouldn't stop shaking.

"Don't worry about it." He told me as his hand wrapped around mine and pulled it down out of my line of sight. "You'll just get yourself worked up over it again."

"Jolt wants to do a full scan on them when we stop for our rest period." Hide broke in over the music that was once again playing.

"I doubt he'll find anything on them Hide, but he's free to do so if they agree. All of these occurrences seem to be untraceable."

"I told the stubborn glitch that, but he insists. I believe he's been under the influence of Ratchet too long. He's starting to sound like him. I'm almost willing to bet that he has a wrench or two stored in subspace somewhere."

For some reason that made me laugh. Not much, but a little chuckle escaped my lips. I had this picture of Ratchet and Jolt stuck in my head, both in med bay with wrenches in their hands and squared off like fencers.

"You're already starting to feel better if you are thinking of crap like that." Leo chuckled.

He was right, I was already starting to shake it off. Between the music, being close to him and the steady rumble of Hide's engine, which was also strangely soothing, I was already calming down. My hands quit shaking as I leaned against my husband, taking in the calming tunes coming from the speakers.

I wasn't in that weird mood I was in earlier, but the music still did wonders. But the thing that stuck with me the most as I listened to it, was that I still had that odd sensation of flying, and I couldn't shake that to save my life. That peaceful flight I was enjoying before all hell broke loose. Peaceful, calm, serene. Out of everything that was working on settling my nerves, for some reason that feeling had the biggest effect, and I didn't know why. It was so effective that by the time an hour had passed I was calm enough to the point I was actually drowsing in Leo's arms.