Prime and Bee came back when the sun rose. I spoke to Alisha over the computer's web camera. I could barely hear Drift in the background. "I see…okay I'll be more careful then."

"That doesn't make me feel better. I know you, Alisha. You're like dad."

"I think you're mistaken. You are like dad running into a burning house!"

"When are you going to let that go?"

"When you stop running towards danger, idiot."

I smiled. I missed having these arguments with Alisha, if that's what you could even call them. It didn't feel like an argument more like playful banter.

"See! That's a genuine smile!" Her smile disappeared. I knew what was coming and I couldn't look at her. "I miss the old you, Elsa. When you were happy and determined. Now you're just…depressed and determined and you give up too easily at fights now. You let this Primus break you down. Why?"

I didn't have an answer for her.

"Alisha! We have to leave now if we want to make the reservations!"

"I'm coming, babe. I have to go. Promise me you'll smile more?"

I forced a smile to my face. "Talk to you soon, kid." I logged out before she could object. My temples throbbed with a headache. A little drummer boy was pounding on the inside of my skull.

"She has a point." Prime's voice startled me.

"Don't you start too, Prime. I already got the lecture from Bee and Alisha."

"Everyone has noticed it. You have changed."

"Yeah well…life changes a person."

"You have not changed for the better."

I sighed. "I don't have time for a lecture and you don't have time either. I get it. Look, I'll…I'll be happier once tweedle-dee and his brother are out of this solar system and into one on the far reaches of space." I grabbed my backpack. It was older than I thought and the bottom ripped and my clothes scattered at my feet. I groaned and grabbed a tote bag from the closet and started to stuff everything into it.

"You packed?" Prime let me walk onto his arm and rest on his shoulder.

"Yeah. We can't stay here."

Prime nodded in agreement and met everyone else in a circle. However, with all night to think, the only one who had come up with something was Alisha. Prime filled us in on what her part of the plan was. She planned to find the rest of the thirteen.

I kept thinking of what Primus said the night before. About him creating me and Alisha. I wanted to dismiss it as nothing but gibberish but I couldn't let it go. What did he mean? It churned in my stomach and bubbled in my heart and it made my soul scream.

"Did you hear that?"

I snapped out of my thoughts. "What did you say, Prime?"

"You're going to help your sister. Primus and Bee will go with you."

"Primus? Why Primus?"

"He said he knew where they all were hiding." Bee spat.

"And what are the rest of you doing?"

"We're going to wait until he comes out of hiding." Prime explained. "He'll attack sooner or later."

I looked at Primus. "Why are we gathering the Thirteen?"

"You are all in danger, like you said. You have the-"

"Covenant and Quill. Don't babysit me I already have a babysitter. I have…four, actually." I winked at Bee who seemed to be the only one to get the joke.

Everyone transformed and I rode with Bee. I watched the others until they disappeared into the distance. I had a bad feeling running through my nerves. It made me jittery and I had a sudden need to move.

There no longer was a dizziness I was simply plunged into the daydream.

In this daydream I watched a boy run in the forest. He couldn't have been more than eighteen years old. His skin had been darkened by the sun. Suddenly he tripped and fell on his face. Something was following him but whatever it was didn't have a face. The boy quickly took out a gun, hiding in the band of his pants and, only for a moment, the boy seemed to become two people. He was not only the human boy I saw but ghosting him was a darker cybertronian.

"The Fallen?" I whispered, although even I couldn't hear myself. His watch gleamed in the sunlight but the numbers stood out to me as a date. The date was a month ago.

Another cybertronian appeared. He had the look of decepticons in the past with a demon-like face but he seemed even-tempered, unlike Galvatron.

The boy shot at this decepticon and hit him but there were more. Something about them didn't seem right. I realized that they were shorter than Prime or Bee, maybe eight feet tall. Something wasn't right with this.

The scene changed suddenly, something that hadn't happened before, and I watched a woman who was old enough to be my sister, try fighting off the things herself. One by one until I counted ten these people were being attacked. They were of different ages and races and heights.

The tenth one I saw was Alisha and Drift. They fought together, side-by-side, swords and hammers fending for themselves until an even bigger version of the clones I was seeing appeared. He was Drift's height but far faster than him.

"Who are you?" Alisha demanded. "What do you want?"

"I want nothing from you," he backhanded her and sent her flying into a tree. She coughed up blood and let go of the Forge and her phone fell from her pocket. Slowly he walked to her and picked her up. Vaguely I could make out a time on her phone but the date was hard to see. The time was 11:59 and soon turned to 12.

"Who are you?" Alisha demanded again as she was being picked up like a rag doll.

The scene shifted again to a valley. Ten humans were now collected. "Well done, Scourge. There are only three remaining." Unicron applauded.

"The Alpha Trion and Prima reincarnates still hide too well. I cannot seem to find them. But do not worry, I will find them."

"And what of the last one?"

"The Quintess Prime? I have his location already. I will be heading out to fetch him very soon."

This Scourge, I sensed, was very loyal.

The scene changed one more time; this time I was standing and Drift bowed in a manner that let me know how apologetic he really was. "I am very sorry. I…I failed you, Elsa."

"It isn't your fault, Drift. I knew it and I didn't tell her."

I could feel it. The cold tears that I would feel. "I know it…and I won't tell her," I whispered. In my hands I held the Quill and the Covenant of Primus. "Something about the timing," it hit me suddenly. The timing of when Alisha would be kidnapped and the amount of people didn't make any sense. "Bee, pull over!"

Bee stopped so suddenly that I nearly flew into the windshield. I got out and ran to Primus who was behind us. "Don't get up but tell me could Alpha Trion see the past and the future?"

"Yes…"

"So it's possible I could to?"

"And the present, yes. That comes with the job."

I ran my hands through my hair and breathed through my teeth. "Damn it!" I yelled and kicked him, though this time my anger wasn't geared toward him.

"What's wrong?" Bee asked.

"We'll be too late. We'll be too late…" I leaned against Primus and covered my eyes with my hand, searching for answers in the dark. "Unicron…one by one he'll kidnap us. We need to find whoever we're closest to."

"Derek," Primus said. "He's the replacement of Prima. He's the closest."

I nodded. "Okay. Then lead us to him, Primus." I got back in Bee and bit my lip then stuck my head out the window. "Primus, me and Bee will meet up with you back here by tomorrow! I have to get something!" Primus didn't argue. He zoomed ahead.

Bee made a confused noise.

"I figured we needed some alien technology," I dialed a number I never thought I'd have to use. "Sam!" I yelled when the ringing stopped, before he could ask me what kind of trouble I was in now. "I need some guns from you. You know, alien guns."

"Why?" By the sound of Sam's voice he put me on speaker and walked away.

"I…might be in trouble."

"No duh, genius."

"Hey now, old man, don't sass me! Just bring me some damn guns!"

"Fine, fine, okay. Where?"

I gave him the location of a small town where, I figured, no technology existed except for maybe TV's. I was right. There was no wifi anywhere only landlines. As soon as Sam came into view Bee transformed and hugged him as well as he could. I was dropped on the ground and forgotten about momentarily while Bee and Sam had their reunion.

Sam laughed. His smile was so big that it brought out his wrinkles and laugh lines and he looked old enough to be maybe my uncle but certainly not my father. He was still far too young for that.

After Bee finally put him down Sam opened the trunk of his car. The guns were huge compared to guns we would normally use. "The government has no idea that I have these so keep it under wraps." He ordered.

"Got it." I took two in each hand but with the weight and size I could only take one. From the back seat of his car Sam took out a sword like what Drift might use but it was smaller and made for a human. "Here, take this too. It's sharp enough to cut through the type of metal the transformers are made out of." Sam cast a worried gaze down on me. "And…be safe okay? If you need to hide there's a house I own out in Canada where nobody will find you. The coordinates are engraved on the sword, actually. On the bottom of the hilt."

"That's stupid," I laughed.

"Yeah well I figured you'd lose a piece of paper." Sam closed the car doors. "Hey, take care of her, Bee!"

Bee made a sound like a mock offense. I couldn't help but laugh and Bee transformed again. "Thank you, Sam. Take care of yourself."

Sam gave me a two-finger salute as Bee took off back where we left Primus.