Cade insisted he come over to try out a new hand. Each week he thought he had it right but each time it didn't work. This went on for months since the surgery I had to have surgery to connect the nerves to the machine.

Since I got my hand lopped off I sloppily wrote with my left hand and it turned out to be backwards. I wrote from right to left so it was hard to read if I needed or wanted to read it. It frustrated me so much that I tried to keep it away from me. The more I resisted the visions, however, the more often they came.

I allowed him to come over though I was reluctant. I wasn't convinced it would work. Ky and Sam hovered over me while Cade told me to do the same thing I did every time.

"Move your thumb," was the first exercise. I had to close my eyes to concentrate. I wasn't expecting to feel anything. "Now your index finger…your middle finger…" and so on like that. The last one was, "okay now make a fist." He sounded excited. Why? I opened one of my eyes a little and I saw it. I could make a fist!

"I…I did it." I breathed out the words with excitement.

"It's a start," Cade smiled. "But it'll get some getting used to. Your fingers aren't moving naturally yet. Just keep trying and I'll come back next week to see your progress."

I hugged Cade. "Thanks, Cade Yeager. You're a life saver."

Cade pat my head and I took that as a dismissal to show Bee my new hand. I moved it but Cade was right my hand didn't move naturally. It jerked forward or backward or sometimes to the side in a peculiar pattern and when I formed a fist my fingers didn't tuck in comfortably.

I shrugged. "It works, that's all that matters."

"So was cutting your hand off really worth it?" Hound spoke from behind Bee. He'd been quiet the whole time, relaxing in what little shade my house provided.

"It seemed like it at the time but…now I see it was probably stupid. I wasn't doing anyone any favors by provoking Unicron."

Unicron. The name sent a chill down my spine. I had avoided the name as if it were a curse if spoken aloud. I still felt his presence at my shoulder, forever watching me. He was a demon. No, he was the devil that every religion depicted. He was the true source of evil. His name choked me or could make my insides churn. I wasn't afraid of him as much as I was but even in death he made me watch every shadow for the day he came back and when he did he would play it smarter than he did this time. This time was a fluke, I was sure. He was out of practice. Or maybe he was setting the stage to create a demon more powerful than Galvatron had been.

Scourge still roamed the earth that much I knew, and as long as he was out in the world there would be more demons that would be created. We hadn't bothered trying to find him despite my insistence upon it.

"But you and I both know that she would do it all over again," Crosshair pointed an accusing finger at me. A smirk like a playful kitten or a smartass boy played at his mouth.

"Of course I would! If I could I would take the entire experience from the beginning." I looked down at my new hand that was made from their type of technology. No longer would this hand be warm.

"That is a good thing," Primus' voice stung a little. I still didn't like him but I don't think I hated him either. He was simply an annoying thorn that refused to come out. I think Bee sensed my feelings toward Primus and never provoked an attack but he was still tense. Crosshair stepped in between me and Bee casually.

"What are you going to do now?" This time when Primus kneeled and put his hand on the ground I stepped into it. There was something I saw in his body language and in his eyes. He seemed uneasy but he wouldn't tell that to the autobots who worked so hard to keep this world safe. Before he had time to answer my first question I added quietly, "You feel it, don't you? Unicron isn't dead, is he?"

Primus nodded slowly and reluctantly. "Yes. You see nobody really dies we just become apart of The One, Unicron and myself included."

I shook my head. "I don't know what The One is or means and I won't pretend I will but you and Unicron seem…different from the others that have died. Their presence doesn't linger. You two are more like…I don't know Zeus and Hades, I guess. Or the Christian God and Lucifer. Oh, I have it, Yin and Yang. Neither can exist without the other. I doubt you two will ever die." Or maybe I feel that way because I don't want either of them to die. My life is too much fun with these two hanging around.

"So what will you do now?" I asked again.

"Do what I was doing before. Watch everyone on earth closely because your futures could become very hectic. The balance of the cosmos wasn't made for any of you to find each other but you did." He dropped me in Crosshair's hands and then he transferred me into Bee's hands. "But I will keep it balanced for now. Continue to prove your worth and maybe I'll allow the two species to continue to live out on one planet." I thought I saw a hint of a smile but it was so small that I was almost convinced I imagined it.

"Primus before you go, I just have one request." I paused and let the words hang in the air before I continued. "Take the twelve artifacts and hide them somewhere else. Having all thirteen here on earth is too much power."

"Which twelve?" Primus actually wasn't going to argue with me! I was relieved.

"All of the other ones except the Quill and Covenant. These two are to be left forgotten with me and Alpha Trion in the Hall of Records." I caught Crosshair's surprised face. I didn't even want to see how Bee was responding. I hadn't told anyone, not even Alisha, that I planned to disappear into the Hall of Records.

"You're leaving us?" Ky's voice was angry and harsh. When had he come from the house? He was more quiet than a mouse.

"I have to, Ky." I didn't want to look at him in the eyes. "This alone is obviously too much power. I need to hide it. I need to keep it safe."

"And you weren't planning on telling me this, I'm sure."

I flinched at the tone of his voice.

"Whether you like it or not I'm coming with you."

I was a little relieved that he didn't say something worse. "Fine," I half laughed. "That's just fine."

"What about us? What are we supposed to do or go?" Crosshair sounded almost offended.

"I'm leaving my house under Alisha's name," I told Crosshair. "You all can stay or leave however and whenever you like. And Alisha agreed that she would watch you guys and…keep you out of trouble." I finally looked at Bee who gave me a sad look. "You'll be okay without me, Bee," I promised him in a half whisper.

We watched Primus leave and disappear into the atmosphere. I didn't bother packing up my things. The only things Ky and I took with us was the clothes we wore, the credit card we needed to get things started in Russia, our plane tickets, and the evil presence of Unicron.