Gauss

Rolling to a stop on an old road outside of Jasper, Jack sat upon the seat of Arcee with a helmet on his head, Christine beside them with a low rumble.

Testing his grip on the handers, Arcee fought down the delight she felt from the rev of her engine, Jack spoke.

"So remind me why we're doing this?"

"We're gonna make sure you're up to date on you're motorcycle skills, and Arcee volunteered" turning to Christine, Jack was forced to hold on as Arcee took off, grabbing on the three were burning rubber, a little down time for the group after investigating the Energon deposit Cliff discovered before his close call with death, what the Autobots found was one con… half dead but full of fight, Cliff had gotten an infection as Jack calls it in the form of purple gunk clinging to his right pede.

So far the bot was in decontamination on orders from Ratchet and Optimus, while the others were allowed to leave, which Jack, Arcee and Christine were doing now.

Looking to the left as Christine sped by, Jack grinned as he revved the right handle, Arcee hid a moan under the engine as she sped forward, Jack leaning back to perform a wheelie, Jack gave a cheer as he and Arcee sped passed Christine who gave a whoop as she followed, laughing merrily.

Slowing to a crawl at the end of the road having see it crumbling to dirt, Jack had the biggest grin on his face as Arcee gave a laugh as Christine slowed beside them, stopping with a sigh, the three stared at the wilderness with contempt.

"So, want a ride back on me or in Christine?" blushing as he looked to Christine, the pervious nights… activity, Jack looked away with a Blush.

"Uh, I'll leave that up to Christine" getting an aura of knowing smugness, Christine spoke.

"You can ride Arcee, who knows, she might enjoy it" feeling his mind go to the gutter, Arcee's was one of confusion as Christine turned and drove off, Arcee and jack following with Jack a blushing mess.

Arriving back to the Base with Bumblebee and Bulkhead, Miko smiled slightly to jack who smiled back, Raf, the little guy, was cheering with excitement.

Before anything could be said, Bulkhead gave an awkward sound while reaching into his stomach area, pulling out a Quitar case with Miko perking up.

"Sorry, Must've left that in the back seat" taking the Instrument from Bulkheads servo gently, Jack snorted at the sight before turning to Optimus.

"Autobots, Prepare to…" seeing the big man pause mid sentence, Christine frowned at the thoughtful look the larger bot had as Arcee spoke up with a questioning voice.

"Rollout?" seeing Optimus point a servo to Arcee, he spoke with Jack frowning.

"Remain here, Ratchet, you'll come with me, Arcee, we'll be outside of communication range for some time, so I'm putting you in charge" hearing this, Miko spoke up to Bulkhead in confusion.

"Dude, you're the biggest, you should be the boss" watching Bulkhead stare in confusion, he spoke

"He never picks me" looking to Arcee as she approached Prime, she spoke.

"Will we need to be on standby for some kind of signal?" seeing Optimus turn to her, he spoke.

"I will send a message when able, in the mean time, keep an optic out for that unknown signal we've been picking up over the globe, recently it was over Mount Rushmore before disappearing from our sensors" getting a nod from Arcee, she turned and moved to a terminal.

Watching Optimus and Ratchet leave through the portal, Jack approached Arcee in curiosity.

"So what's this about an unknown signal?" seeing her spare him a glance, Christine stretched her body with Miko staring, giving a wink with a knowing smile, the teen girl blushed while looking away, she did however follow Jack with Raf.

"It's similar to the signal we got from Christine before we met you two, only this one can fly in and out of sensor range" gesturing to a hologram of the earth, several spots picked up with dates and times, along with Energon deposits being at those locations.

Getting a series of beeps from Bumblebee as he approached, Raf spoke while fixing his glasses, seeing jack and Miko turn to him with confusion, he spoke.

"He says whatever it is has been letting them track it to Energon deposits, recently the ones it's been leading them to has been with additional dead decepticons" getting a look from jack, he looked to the globe before another ping popped up.

"Hey, there's a new one" getting a confused look from Arcee, her optics widened as a message popped up.

"Megatron has returned?. Whose this Megatron dude, I wasn't here for history class" turning to Bulkhead Jack spoke while approaching the terminal Ratchet installed for him.

"Megatron is the leader of the Decepticons, think Optimus but larger, angry and has a knack for ripping people in two" getting a pale look from Miko, Christine spoke while leaning over her, leaving the teens head between her, cybertronian cleavage.

"How long do these signals stay?" staring at the globe for a second longer, an SOS popped up along with another ping in the same location, one which made the Autobots perk up.

"I know that signal" turning to Arcee as she zeroed in on the SOS, a voice spoke up with an explosion through the SOS.

"If ANYONE IS GETTING THIS SEND SOME HELP PRONTO, I'M AT AN ENERGON DEPOSIT WTH SOME STRAY, WE GOT DECEPTON FOOTNOTES TRYING TO GRAB AT IT!" getting a grunt, the voice spoke up.

"You said you'd help me" following that was a voice unknown to the Autobots.

"You said you could keep those holograms up indefinitely!?" hearing blaster fire, Arcee zeroed in on the Comm link to speak.

"Mirage?" getting silence with blaster fire echoing, the Autobots voice spoke fondly, like a little brother hearing a sister.

"That you Arcee, been a while huh, is Cliff still kicking?" getting a broken laugh from Arcee, she spoke.

"Yes, what about you, what's happening, where are you?"

"I'm in an abandoned mine in the middle of I don't know, the teleporter I got thrown through didn't give me any warning" getting a frown from Arcee, she spoke with wide optics.

"You're near Vegas"

"Vegas, HA. Maybe I can get myself sold and run again" opening a ground Bridge, Arcee, BumbleBee and Bulkhead got ready to run through until Miko spoke excitedly as she rushed forward.

"VIVA LA VEGAS!"

"MIKO NO!" rushing after her was Jack, with Raf gawking, Arcee and the other Autobots gave chase with Christine trying not to laugh at the situation.

Rushing through, it was a warzone, Miko and Jack were held behind cover with Arcee and a silver bot speaking, the vehicons were looking around frantically, Bulkhead was giving covering fire with Bee, the two also looking around, moving to fire at a distracted Vehicon, the sound of a sonic boom made her frown before a blue smashed into the bot, shattering it to spare parts, the sight of the unknown bot was shown, sporting green optics, a cybertronian being stood calmly, a thin build with stilt like feet, the armor covering this being was gun metal grey with cybertronian hieroglyphs tattooing its body, two jet engines attached to jet wings on the upper back and car doors on the lower back, the roof of a jet sat comfortably on the chasse with a split windscreen acting as pecks, with the badge of an hourglass symbol glowing green.

Standing motionless as the Vehicons regained their wits, they aimed and fired with the unknown dodging the blaster fire with ease, his hands were replaced with bright green hard-light blades that melted through the metal, Christine noticed one Vehicon sneaking in for a cheap shot, she aimed her own firearms and fired, seeing the unknown stand up with the two fired rounds pass his head, he gave no flinch as the rounds hit there marks, the unknown spoke with an American accent as he approached.

"It seems my game of cat and mouse is over" giving a nod as Miko stared up at him, Jack and Christine stood cautiously.

"Who are you?" sparing a glance to Arcee as she gave a hard look, the cybertronian gave a chuckle.

"The names Gauss, pleasure to meet you all" giving a nod, Jack stared at the hourglass badge on his chest with intrigue.