The clearing was deathly still now. The humans and the two bots with them looking around in stunned, awed silence at what just happened. The dragons were looking at each other confused. None of them could process everything that had just gone on, not even after everything they had already seen and done.

Ratchet was the one who broke that spell as he stomped over to the dragons, eyeing their wounds. "Get out of those bodies! I need to see how much damage you took and I can't do that with forms I have no information on!"

Raph just gave him a flat look before he snorted and rolled his eyes.

Ratchet in return glared at the red banded dragon, and pulled out a wrench. "I mean it! You're big enough now to where I can use this!"

Raph just snatched it out of his hand with his good paw, and bent it into a horseshoe before he handed it back.

Blaster looked amused at the now useless thing Ratchet was holding. "I think you need a bigger wrench..." He quickly found out it wasn't quite so useless after all when Ratchet threw it at him and it hit him upside the head.

"You asked for that one." Tony calmly told the red bot as he walked over. "Seriously guys, you need to go back to turtle. You are pretty beaten up."

Mikey took a long look at the grumpy med bot and shook his head vigorously.

Tony snorted with laughter at the irritated harrumph that came from Ratchet at that.

Leo ignored all of it as his head came down towards his family, a now concerned eye on his son who looked just as bad off as he did. A low growl came out of his throat.

Ty just shook his head with a smile. "You just went through hell...and you are worried about my condition? I'm fine Dad."

Leo snorted in firm disagreement to that statement, blowing Vicky's, Amy's and Lavi's air all over the place as he did.

Amy's face took on a disgusted look. "Leo...that was sooo gross...you snotted on me... Now I need a shower and you guys managed to destroy all of them in the span of a couple of hours."

Leo gave her a mischievous look and a large, muddy, puddle of water was lifted up over her.

"Don't you dare!" Amy glared at him as her family laughed.

Leo's brows raised in amusement and he began to guide the water back away again. He was startled however when the ground began to shake under him, lost his focus on the water as he looked at Donnie and it came crashing down on top of Amy anyway.

"God damn it Leo!" Her eyes were extremely angry as she stood there, soaked, and flinging the muddy water off her arms.

Her protest went ignored as Leo instead looked at his brother questioningly. Donnie just looked back in confusion, even as the earth rumbled again under their feet.

Dennis looked around, confused and alarmed, then he looked up and his face paled. "Um...guys..."

"What!" Thane snapped as he tried to keep his feet in the next tremor.

"Does anyone by any chance happen to remember what happens when two large bodies get near each other in space?"

Dante looked at him curiously. "Well, the moon pulls on the water, which in return causes our tides and-" It dawned on him what Dennis was getting at and he looked up himself. "Oh...shit..."

That prompted everyone else to look up, and even in the morning light Unicron was clearly visible now, which meant he was close, and he was also opening up to his bot form.

"His gravity is pulling on us..." Dante breathed. "He could do anything from knock us out of our orbit to just rip the planet apart..."

This time when the ground shook, a few trees that had been severely damaged already began to fall. Leo quickly grabbed Cindy out of the way of one moments before it slammed into the ground. A crack opened up nearby that shot hot steam up into the air. Donnie quickly smashed it back shut before anyone could get hurt from it.

"Not good...so not good..." Dennis fretted. "This is going to get worse the closer he gets." He looked back up again. "Come on guys... Hurry up. Our win down here don't mean jack shit if he pulls the place apart."

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"Hurry up!" Hide snapped.

"This is careful work!" Wheeljack almost snapped back as he kept at it with his cutting torch. The explosive inventor was about halfway done, but that didn't ease an overwhelmed Hide very much. He wanted Wheeljack to be all the way done before they were all done for. "This material is harder than anything I have ever seen, and is very thick. It takes precision to find the weak spots and-"

Drowning the rambling chatter out, Ironhide vented heavily as the battle still raged around him. At this rate they would be piles of scrap metal before Wheeljack finished. Or Unicron would finally open up and turn them all into space debris with his bare servos. Neither scenario was very appealing to him. The grumpy bot walked over to Wheeljack, reached out, grabbed his shoulder plating and began to drag him out of the way, ignoring the complaints. Then Hide dropped him, spun and opened fire with everything he could. Round after round impacted on the weakened spot as he unloaded. By the time he was done, the door was red with heat and drooping a little where Wheeljack had already cut. "Slug!" Hide then roared. "Use your head for something useful! Ram this fragging thing open!"

"Slug don't want too. It make Slug head hurt."

"So does adding two plus two." Sideswipe muttered as he cut an antibody into pieces, that just reformed into another one.

Hide glared at the triceratops. "I'm about to make it hurt if you don't!"

"Ironhide," Prime's tone was disapproving of his weapons specialist's temper "there is no need for more violence."

They were in the middle of a big, bad, kill everything bot...and he was worried about too much violence? Hide tried very hard not to do a bad habit he picked up while dealing with the turtles and their family. He was attempting to avoid a facepalm. And during that struggle he almost missed it when Slug rammed into that spot, hard. For a moment it looked like even the mighty Dinobot wasn't able to get through before the door suddenly gave away and he went tumbling inside. He at least fit. Grimlock got stuck when he tried to go in.

"Of all the fragging idiotic slagblasted useless scrapheaps! Did we have to bring them! Transform into your bot mode you dolt!" Hide gave the T-rex a good kick, hoping it would help. It didn't. "Gah!"

"You know..." Sideswipe said with a straight face to his twin. "I think I was worried about the wrong bot's medical condition. Hide is about to blow a gasket."

"All of them." Sunstreaker agreed calmly.

Hide gave them a quick glare before he backed up a few steps, then ran forward. His shoulder impacting against the still stuck Grimlock. The Dinobot didn't budge from his spot. Hide just growled a growl fierce enough to make the watching prehistoric idiots wince in fright a little before they joined in to help. That combined effort, and numerous curse words in both English and Cybertronian from Hide, finally managed to get Grimlock all the way through the hole. He broke through with tremendous force, bending the edges of the hole inward before he followed Slug's example and tumbled inside.

"Fall back into the spark chamber!" Prime's voice then rang out once the way was cleared. "The opening will be easier to hold!"

"But all the fun is out here!" Sideswipe whined.

Chromia just rolled her optics at the mechs around her. "Tell you what, you and Sunstreaker can stand right in front of the hole and play with them some more."

"You promise?"

"Will you just get in there!." Hide roared, grabbed the silver troublemaker and threw him inside. Sunstreaker glared at the black bot as his twin went tumbling held over wheeled pedes out of sight. "I don't want to hear it! You get in there too!"

Sunstreaker looked like he was about to mouth back, until a more violent tremor rumbled under their pedes.

"He's opening up!" Jazz pointed at the large crack on where the chest plates met.

"We are out of time!" Prowl was pushing Elita and Arcee in front of him now. "Everyone inside!"

Prime waited until the last of his bots were inside the relative safety of the spark chamber before he followed, taking out a few of the closer antibodies before he did.

The Autobots that weren't holding the hole in the door were looking around stunned. The chamber was huge and plain from what they could make out from the glow of the spark. Large enough to where the edges of it disappeared into the darkness and extended past the influence of light from the large, glowing orb that had been their destination.

"I've never seen anything like this..." Jolt looked around in awe struck wonder, despite that they were inside their mortal enemy. 'Why the double protection though? Usually the spark is reachable by just getting past the chestplate."

"Because he knows this is his only weakness we can get to." Prowl replied even as Prime closed in on it. "It makes sense to have it double protected."

Chromia looked at Prowl with a flat expression. "And yet he didn't take in Ironhide's temper into consideration."

Prowl just shrugged with a slight smile. "Maybe the mighty Unicron is also subject to slip ups."

"Hurry Boss bot!" Jazz called, his tone frantic as he looked between the twins out the hole, past the chest plates and towards where the big bot was heading. "He's right on top of Earth!" The sheer fear of that implication stripping him of his normal laid back attitude and wiping all traces of his accent away.

Prime's look was stern as he stood in front of that now very vulnerable core. Even Hide was a bit taken aback at the look in his leader's optics as he stared hard at the target they had fought so hard to reach. "No more." Prime's voice was quiet, but yet seemed to echo across the whole chamber. "No more will you destroy lives in your quest for chaos and disorder. The humans will be spared the same fate you unleashed upon countless others."

The spark itself began to pulse and throb. It seemed almost angry as Prime kept throwing his words at it. Then the door to the spark chamber opened again suddenly, allowing the antibodies to flood inside like a dam breaking and threatening to wash them all away in it's released tide. And beyond the door Hide could see the massive hand coming slowly towards them.

Prime noticed none of it as his own chest snapped open to reveal a just as restless matrix, already fully aglow in preparation of the task it was brought here to do. "It is time to light their darkest hour." And with those simple words, the matrix flared to life. A massive white beam shot out of it and upwards towards the spark of the bringer of chaos.

And it slammed into another beam of an unholy purple that came out to meet it. They both held firm, neither one backing down from the other as they both fought for dominance over the other. The antibodies stilled as their master gave now all attention to this intruder, trying to fight him off. Even the hand that had come close enough to worry even Ironhide, stilled.

The Autobots could only watch as the silent, but bright struggle continued between the two. Then, ever so slightly, the purple beam seemed to gain ground.

"Come on Prime..." Hide muttered. "Come on..."

Even the terror twins quietly watched. "He's not going to make it..." Sideswipe said quietly to his twin.

"He will." Sunstreaker replied. "He has too." But even he wasn't as sure as he sounded.

And for a simple reason they all seemed to understand instantly. The matrix was only a part of the essence of Primus, Unicron was completely intact. The odds here were not in their favor. That became even more apparent when the purple gained even more ground. But they held hope. They had too. There was nothing else they could do in this fight besides wait, and hope.