(Hey everyone. How are you all doing? Has your summer vacation or Summer been great? Maybe my newest chapter could help. I can't believe how hot it got this week. Anyway I do not own Star Wars and Transformers they are the property of their respected owners. Please let me know when you Read it and review it. Now let's get this story underway!)
Obi-wan stood on the bridge of his ship and he watched as stars went by the cruiser. He sighed, realizing how complicated it was to lift the Autobot ship from the planet's surface, even with the help of the Autobot flyers. It was very fortunate that Wedge and another Autobot, a red one, with a face plate under his eyes and with an aerial designed armor, were able to find a way to do so. The Jedi master had not needed to use the force to sense how very confident and sure the Autobot was as the pilot and a flyer like the others with Silverbolt and his men.
Obi-wan was still wary about introducing the Autobots to the Chancellor; there are still so much they did not understand about the Autobots, and their technology. Since leaving the planet, Obi-wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, and the two Clone commanders, learned more about the Decepticons. Their leader, a terrible tyrant had actually poisoned their planet's very core, making the planet unable to produce more of the Energon that all Cybertronians needed to survive.
The Jedi master remembered how Anakin had been outraged at this piece of information. Ahsoka also was horrified; she couldn't understand how anyone could just poison the very core of their planet, their home, just to conquer it.
Looking towards the Ark, Obi-wan could sense the hopes and lingering emotions from the very walls as it traveled through via the tractor beams. This maneuver took the effort of the entire Jedi's entire fleet, but it got the job done. Now they had to come up with a means to enter Hyperspace with a ship the size of the Ark and everyone inside it while not tearing their own ships apart.
Anakin watched from the Captain's chair of the Ark's main bridge. He couldn't believe how advancedd the Autobots and their technology were compared to their own. Maybe they could ask the Autobots to help with the war. They could even use the Autobot's technology to assist in making weapons so that the separatists wouldn't dare to try and conquer more of their territory and ruin more lives within the republic.
The door opened and in came Warpath, his armor changed compare to how it looked when the Jedi saw him last.
Springer turned and asked, "Back already?"
"Yup, though it cost me some speeds, but gotta admit their tanks hold more surprises than anything we can think of." Warpath said. He had scanned one of the Republic's walker tanks, the AT-TE.
Slingshot turned and groaned, "Please don't tell me we're going to degrade ourselves by scanning their primitive jets too…"
"You got a better idea to show them that we are not invaders?" Air-Raid asked, walking over with the others of his teambegin looking for a suitable vehicle to scan. Slingshot grumbled incoherently to himself as he followed his commander and teammates to fly to the cruiser that Obi-wan had for the Autobots.
Anakin smiled that the Autobots were going along with proving their willingness to show themselves to the people of the Republic. It was, however, sad for him to see how they were willing to sacrifice their more advanced vehicle and weapons to do it.
When Kup had woke up, he was shocked to find that their Prime Directives had been violated so quickly while in this strange galaxy. However, after Springer had explained it to the captain, Kup had no choice but to agree to have their ship pulled along by the Republic cruisers.
Kup did silently admit he had never seen anyone let alone a small organic creature, possessing such powers, not even in his long life and military service. He wondered if these Jedi and their connection to The Force might be able to help them with their primary mission before it became too late.
Rex came in with one of their hover cycles or what the inhabitants called a "Swoop bike". Looking around he ed up at to see which of the bots weren't busy and asked, "Hey Ironhide!"
"Sup Rex?" Ironhide asked, looking down to the captain.
"We're that little clanker of yours… what's his name."
Ironhide was confused by the term "clanker." He finally realized who the clone was talking about and asked, "Ya mean Wheelie?" He's with Hot Rod on the defense controls, trying to get 'em back online."
"Ahh. That's a shame. I wanted to see if this bike's a good mode for him." Rex said as he looked at the bike, "Guess I'll wait by the observation decks."
He left the bridge. Suddenly they heard the engine of the bike starting and the humming of the engines zooming down the halls.
A series of beeps was heard and a Bridge Op. reported, "Sir, we're getting a com channel from the Republic ship. It's Admiral Yularen."
Looking over to Anakin, Kup asked, "Might be something serious?"
Anakin sighed and said, "Could be, patch it through."
The Autobot nodded before doing. Yularen's hologram appeared, "General Skywalker, we're getting another message from home. Chancellor Palpatine is anxious to hear from you again."
"As expected." Anakin said, turning to the bots who were in charge of the coms, "Can you two set this up so that the Chancellor sees only me instead of the ship as well?"
"Think so." The bot answered. He and his friend made the necessary changes before the image of the aged and somewhat elderly Palpatine appeared above the bridge's main projectors.
Palpatine let out a sigh of relief at seeing the Jedi he had been keeping his eye on since they met during the Naboo occupation when Anakin was only a young boy. Opening his eyes and facing the young Jedi, Palpatine spoke, "Ah, Anakin. Thank goodness you're all right. It's been some time since your last communications with us."
"Yes. Sorry about that, Chancellor. Our visitors do not have the same means of entering Hyperspace with their ships. We are stuck until we're able to somehow get their ship to Coruscant without tearing ours up in the process."
"I see. I wish I can help you my boy, I do. But we need you and Kenobi back if we're to keep the Republic and its citizens safe from the Separatists." Chancellor Palpatine stated before asking, "Are you certain that you cannot tell me more about your new friends?"
"I'm sorry sir. I've been sworn to secrecy." Anakin admitted, not wanting to lie to the man who had been watching over him for since that time when they met on Naboo. He then hinted, "I'm sure that you'll have a delightful surprise when you see them. Just be sure to tell the troops and guards to not to fire on the ship and anything that comes out of it."
Having said his piece, Anakin nodded for the Autobot to end the communication with the home planet of the Republic.
Palpatine, confused by Anakin's knowing smile had conveyed the orders to all of the clone troopers, senate guards, and Coruscant security members to not fire on anything involving the ship. He looked over his desk to the senior members of the Jedi Council, Master Yoda and Master Mace Windu, and asked, "What could be going on inside that boy's head?"
"Whatever it is, Skywalker and Kenobi have the support of the council." Mace Windu stated, in his usual calm demeanor.
Turning to the Jedi, Palpatine assured the two masters before him, "I don't have doubts about General Skywalker's intentions but that boy might cause me to go into an early grave if he's not too careful."
"Not soon, I hope." Yoda said as he sat in his chair. He and Mace Windu had felt a new darkness besides the Dark side of the Force. In fact, this new darkness appeared to make the Dark side even stronger. But the Force seemed to be rippling as well, as if a new energy had communed with the Force just as soon as Skywalker ad Kenobi had reached the planet.
The doors opened and in came a young woman with brown hair, tied in one of the Galaxy's hair styles. She wore robes of purple, trailing behind her, that reached to the floor. This young woman was Padme Amidala, senator from the planet Naboo, dressed in her senatorial robes. She was Chancellor Palpatine's inner circle of loyalists since she had takenthe office as Naboo's representative, after her two terms as the elected Queen of her home planet of Naboo came to an end before the Clone Wars began.
"Begging your pardon, Chancellor Palpatine, but have you heard from General Skywalker and Kenobi?" Padme asked, concerned for the two Jedi she has known very well. She was concerned for her husband. After the first battle on the desert world of Geonosis, Anakin and Padme had secretly married so that they could spend the rest of their lives together.
Smiling fatherly, Palpatine approached the senator, "As a matter of fact, my dear. We just got word that Kenobi and young Skywalker have encountered a new species and they are bringing them here for us to hear their story."
"A new species?" Padme asked, already praying that they have not get involved with the war.
Noticing that look, Palpatine approached her, "I understand your concerns, Senator, but if we do not do something, their planet and their people would become enslaved to the Separatists."
Padme remained silent before speaking her mind and her beliefs, "All the more reason why we should not think of involving them in the war. If we're in such a state then asking them to fight with us could it be just as dangerous as doing nothing."
Palpatine nodded, "I whole-heartedly agree with you, my dear. But if they could provide support of any kind I believe we should not be so dismissive of this chance. Please excuse me."
Padme, Mace Windu, and Master Yoda remained silent as they left Palpatine's office so that he could continue working. When they left, his face became more troubled as he was left alone with his thoughts.
Back on the Ark Wedge and his team were busy working on the engines, trying figure out a means for them to get to this Coruscant planet without wasting so much of their precious Energon just to fuel the ship.
Heavy load was supporting his two teammate. They were making sure that the engine core kept working with the minimum adjustments, so as to keep the engines from either shutting down or exploding until were able to get their repairs underway. Hoist and Grapple were doing the more finer and delicate repairs with more care, as their yellow armored comrade maintained the ship's engines.
Turning to his young leader, Hoist asked, "Hey, Wedge?"
"What is it, Hoist?" The young mech answered. He was still trying to think of a way for interstellar travel while perserving their Energon reserves.
"Grapple and I were wondering what'll be like on Coruscant. Like what the planet'll look like when we arrive." Hoist told his young leader as he kept working.
Wedge sighed, "How am I supposed to know? I never heard of any planet with such small life forms before: So expect anything. Who knows, since it's supposed to be the capital of the Republic, maybe it'd be advanced or something."
"What I find interesting is those engine blocks of theirs that allow them to access a special spatial dimension that allows travel almost as quickly as the Space Bridge portals."
"How do you suppose technology that we've never heard of would be of use to us. What if said technology's radiation isn't compatible with our Energon waves to even..." Wedge began, before trailing off in his sentence as if he had a sudden epiphany.
Activating his comlink, he called, "Yo, Perceptor! Hey mind taking a look at an energy reading of that Hyperspace that the Jedi talked about?"
"I believe so, Wedge. But whatever for?" Perceptor's voice asked from his own com.
The young Genius of the Build team smiled and said, "Just trust me on this one."
After a short time, Wedge could hear the head scientist officer reply, "Very well. I just wish I knew exactly what you were looking for… Hello. What's this?"
Wedge's smile widened. He ignored his team's questions, starting with Heavy Load, "What're you up to, Wedge?"
"Yea, tell us." Grapple added wanting to know as well.
"IS this involving what I asked about?" Hoist asked, blinking confused.
Wedge only smiled before explaining his idea to his teammates.
Perceptor couldn't believe his optics, not even after using his lens to make sure that Wedge's theory would be proven false. To his astonishment, the readings that he received from the Hyperspace as well as the residual Space Bridge energy that still lingered within the ship could indeed help them reach Coruscant before long.
"It would seem that the Hyperspace energy and the residual energy of the Space Bridge portal could be used to create a portal of some kind for all four of the ships to pass through." Perceptor explained.
Anakin and Obi-wan shared a glance before the older Jedi asked, "Pardon me, but what pray tell is a Space bridge?"
"The Space Bridge is one of the most ground breaking technologies known to every Cybertronian. It literally opens a portal through space and time and allows instant transport through great distances without using as much fuel and reserves on an ordinary transverse of space. It was however destroyed when a plague ravaged our home. The Decepticon's second in command found one of the ancient Space Bridges projectors and used it when our ship and the Decepticon flagship, the Nemesis, launched from Cybertron during the final days of the War for our home planet."
"It's actually the very same technology that was used when we accidentally arrived at your galaxy." Jetfire pointed out as the Jedi finally figured out the energy anomaly that occurred in space over the planet where the Republic army encountered Energon and the Autobots.
Anakin stared, shocked. Before shaking his head, "Wait. Are you telling me that there's actually portal technology that could be used to like send ships, vehicles or even weapons through that could help end the war much quicker?"
"The main purpose of the technology was never to use it for weapons, it was mostly used to bring our colony planets and the inhabitants of all Cybertronian worlds together. Besides, that's something that the Decepticons would do." Kup pointed out. His words made Anakin feel anger swelling up inside of the Jedi. It was one thing to wish end the war to be compared to a group that had made a planet unlivable was something he couldn't stand. Taking some deep breathes, Anakin was able to keep it together, for now.
Ahsoka however felt as though the Autobot had insulted her master greatly for saying that. Picking up on her anger, Kup said, "Sorry but that type of thinking's truly what the Decepticons would've used the Space Bridge for."
Obi-wan however mentally agreed with the Autobot's way of thinking. The ability to bend space and time could make anyone want to believe they were some sort of deity that have the power to decide who should perish and who should live.
Kup opened a com-channel and asked, "Wedge, what are ya thinking of, lad?"
"It's simple Kup. Have Perceptor compare it to the Space Bridge energy that are still on the ship's haul and give back the result."
The Scientist looked back at his commander waiting, but Kup quickly stated, "Do it."
Perceptor's holo-screen showed the Energy pattern of the Space Bridge before comparing the two energy signatures. And to his astonishment, they were nearly a perfectly compatible match. He even said it aloud.
"That's all well and good but what does that mean?" Ahsoka asked, confused as to what the Autobot builder was thinking.
Turning to the Toguta Padawan, Perceptor explained, "It means that we may be able to create a type of transportation not exactly like but similar to the Space Bridge."
The two Jedi looked to each other for some time before asking, "What do you need us to do?"
Perceptor gave detailed instructions for the Jedi to give the Republic cruiser's bridge operators to put into the computer for with the destination of Coruscant. They were then to wait for Perceptor's word Perceptor had his science staff begin to expand the field of the Space Bridge energy to cover not only the Ark but the other three Republic cruisers as well. Then he waited until they connected the Hyperdrive's controls to the Autobot's control functions on his holo-screen.
It took some time but they were able to do as instructed, During the preparations, Rex and Cody were concerned about this experimental jump. Cody was concerned because it superseded their protocols, while Rex was concerned that the experiment would go wrong and cause the ships to explode.
After gaining the access to the drive, Perceptor took the steps that he had learned from the Clone ops on the holograms.
It took several more hours for him to establish the procedure to activate the Hyperdrives remotely. Perceptor had officially finished the simulations on how to correctly begin the jump into Hyperspace.
The Autobot scientist took a deep breath as he stood before the Ark's flight controls to begin the simultaneous Hyperspace jump experiment. Though it should rightly have been called an attempt rather than an experiment, especially since they could only be able to undertake it once. It was a now or never situation.
"Right, here we go." Perceptor said aloud as he began the sequence to enter hyperspace. Everyone on all four ships waited with baited breath. The three cruisers began to go through the mechanical process, while the Ark itself began to vibrate softly. As the ships got closer to entering hyperspace, a bright light shone from the nose of the Autobot vessel. A smaller yet but greener light pointing to of the three star cruisers before shooting out to the Ark's stem from the group of ships, and traveling several kilometers from them before stopping on a spot. The spot then began to expand till its diameter was big enough to cover the entire convoy of ships. Everyone on the ships stared in surprise and awe as the energy pool opened. Admiral Yularen was speechless, staring at the defying physics before him. Obi-wan even felt this opening of space in the Force. Anakin stared in wide-eyed awe; never had he seen something so amazing, well, maybe except on a few occasions. The energy that made up the diameter of this gate cleared to show stars on the other side, stars not found in this system.
The pilot of the Ark, a red armored Autobot with a round cone like head structure looked to his co-pilot and said, "Hey, let's get our ships through before that portal's caput."
"Oh right. Thanks Powerglide." The Aerialbot stated as they worked together to get the ships through. The pilots of the three Jedi Cruiser began moving, pulling the Ark along after a few seconds. The four ships slowly approached the gateway. Anakin, Obi-wan, and every Clone trooper recognized. The stars that could be seen from Coruscant.
As soon as the ships touched the hole in space, all hands began to hear a buzzing noise while the ships kept moving through the portal. Alarms sounded just as the buzzing neared the bridge. Everyone who weren't using their hands to keep their particular systems stable, pressed their hands to their ears, or audio receptors, to block out the buzzing. When they passed the portal the beings inside felt their ship shaking violently. The buzzing sound thatcontinued though the shaking was a very fine line and didn't last as the ship passed through the portal.
Just as the engines of the Ark were entering the portal Perceptor's wrist began beeping, causing the scientist to become alarmed. He gasped, "Oh no!"
Turning to Kup, "The portal's readings are becoming unstable, we must get the Ark through before it collapses on us."
"Kup to the Engineering: Get this ship through the portal before it cuts you off!"
"We're doing everything we can, Kup! But the ship needs to keep an even pace so we can travel through the portal. Besides we don't know what'll happen if we suddenly increase speed while in the portal." Wedge shouted back from the comlink, over the intense buzzing.
The Bots held their breath and they prayed to Primus that the entire ship made it through. And just as the portal begun to close everyone onboard the Ark felt that the ship was being forced away from the portal.
"What the slag's going on?!" Kup asked as he felt the sudden lurch forward from his command chair.
"Heavy Load to Bridge: Did anyone feel that push backwards?" Heavy Load asked from the coms. His words however confused everyone, even the Jedi.
"What's he talking about? That forced pushed us forward." Ahsoka asked, pushed as she held onto one of the Autobot's legs. The force was becoming greater as the seconds went by.
Anakin figured it out and turned to the green Autobot commander, "Commander Kup, The Portal's going to tear the ship up! We have to use as much speed as possible to get the entire ship through before the portal closes!"
"You heard the lad, bots! Get as much as possible to get through the portal before it closes and cuts the ship apart!" Kup ordered.
Obi-wan received word of the portal closing and even though the three Republic cruisers made it through, the Autobot vessel that contained Anakin and his apprentice had not. Turning to the Admiral, "Admiral, order our cruisers to put more power into the engines! We must do everything we can in order to ensure the safety of everyone!"
"Yes Sir!" Admiral Yularen ordered as he hurried to give the orders to the Bridge Ops at the flight controls. He might not have fully trusted the Autobots but he could not fail the Chancellor and let General Skywalker and Commander Tano perish because of his inability to do anything.
Back onboard the Ark the pilots where hurrying to push more of the ship through the portal. Anakin, looking to Ahsoka nodded as both hurried to Hot Rod. After a short dialog, Hot Rod nodded when Anakin told the Autobot to take him and his Padawan to the engines.
They took the quick route to the engines. When they arrived, they could feel the force of being pushed away from the engine's main room. Glancing to each other the Jedi and Padawan began focusing, drawing as much of the Force into themselves before using it to push at the focal point of the intense intersection of the portal. The two Jedi continued to push, not thinking of anything other than them succeeding in their mission, s they attempted to push the Ark through the portal before it closed. Hating to feel helpless, Hot Rod went over to the controls and growled, holding his head with both hands, "Where's that scraping acceleration modificator?!"
Not seeing what he was hoping for, Hot Rod snapped, his optics flashing violet light briefly, "Aw to scrap with it."
He pounded on the consul until something sparked and his side of the ship felt a powerful lurching forward. He and the Build team experienced the feeling of squeezing between something tight and shaking violently. Which indicated that their part of the ship being able to enter through before the portal closed, returning it to the fabric of space that it was before opening. Anakin groaned as he fell to his knees and breathed heavily; doing something that difficult with the Force had drained him as well as his pupil.
The Build team and Hot Rod all began breathing, as they themselves collapsed to one knee or on all fours.
"That was sure a close one." Hot Rod remarked, his optics returning to normal with an expression that reminded Ahsoka so much of her master.
"You idiot!" Wedge shouted, incredulously, "Your slamming on the controls could've caused the engines to blow up! You know how difficult it was for Perceptor, Prime, and us to build them?!"
"Whoa! Easy Wedge." Heavy Load said, picking his young leader up as Wedge thrashed in his big yellow teammate's hold. Grapple was already working on repairing the damaged console. Hoist was replying to Kup's call. The captain began to worry for everone still in the engine section of the ship. He began calling to see if everyone in the Engines were unharmed and still with the rest of the ship.
Anakin, Ahsoka, and Hot Rod went to the bridge, Anakin saw that that his master, Obi-wan was asking Kup where Anakin and Ahsoka were when they arrived.
"Where have you two been?" Obi-wan asked, worry evident in his harsh tone.
"Sorry Master, we were down in the engines helping to get the rest of the ship through." Anakin explained, drawing confused looks from everyone who forgot what the Jedi were capable of.
"You're lucky that we're just coming into view of Coruscant." Obi-wan stated, hotly before turning to the main window of the bridge.
All of the Autobots on the bridge turned as they saw something that made their optics widen. Hot Rod asked, "That's Coruscant? But that looks like…"
"Cybertron." Kup finished for the younger bot, his Cy-gar falling out of his mouth, he stared wide eyed, at the metallic grey and silver floating in space as the sun illuminated its shape. The inhabitants of the galaxy were confused by this, they waited for a reply.
On the Titan, Obsidian studied the stars. The long range sensors indicated heavy clusters of gigantic meteors surrounding this far of the 'Edge of the Galaxy' as Mindwipe's little slave told them during their trek to return to their lord and Master. They had to return to begin looking for the one thing that their master needed other than another power source to make an army. Before he could approach his consort, Strika, one of the alarms went off.
"What is that sound?"
"One of long range sensors that we left in that system reactivated from a burst of Space Bridge energy." One of the Vehicons reported as Strika approached and looked at the reading.
"It's impossible." Strika stated, her face completely surprised by the report from the sensor.
Turning to her consort, Strika told the Air-general, "It's off the chart… Whoever did this had opened a portal through space and time. Who, besides us, could be capable of this?"
"The Autobots." Obsidian theorized as to the cause of the sudden burst of Space Bridge energy. Turning to the Seekers at the helm, "Turn the ship around. Take us back to that planet."
"Yes Sir." Thundercracker and Skywarp said. Immediately, their prisoner spoke up.
"Alert: Separatist intelligence report. Three Republic cruisers and a giant golden vessel just came through a hole in space near the Republic homeworld: Coruscant. All updates must be directed to General Grevious and Count Dooku."
Obsidian remembered the names of the planet Coruscant, and the beings General Grevious and Count Dooku as the prominent figures in the Separatist alliance that were fighting in this galactic civil war. Coruscant is the home world of the Galactic Republic. Perhaps the Air-General, Obsidian and his forces could use this war to their advantage.
"Belay my previous order. Make all haste to this Corscant I am certain that the report was on the Ark." Obsidian ordered, taking the most logical course of action, since the Ark was no longer on that planet anymore.
The Air-General tightened his digits to his servos and bent the piece of metal in it.
(Whoo boy… Obsidian's not one happy camper. What will he do when he does arrive to Coruscant? Will the Jedi receive answers as to why the Autobots called Coruscant, Cybertron? Find out on the next part of this exciting three part event, "Second War of Cybertron" and remember, stay cool. Literally and figuratively.)