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Dwelling in Dreams Chapter Six

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Megatron snarled to himself, winging his way over the human built city of Detroit Michigan in disgust.  The air was befouled by unnecessary human toxins, wafting away from their primitive factories and places of business.  The pollution was clogging his systems slowly, they would soon need a thorough washing and sanitizing.  How he hated this planet and its dirty, filthy inhabitants.  "Pathetic humans."  Megatron grumbled.  "Waisting away on disgusting mudball of a planet.  I should strip this world of all its resources then destroy it!"


He chuckled wickedly as some Canadian geese flying in a v shape honked their fear at his intrusion into their part of the sky.  His mood lifted as he watched them scatter, feathers falling in a brown whirlwind as they scrambled to get out of the helicopter's way.  He was king amongst the skies.  No one could compare to him in that domain, no mere Earth air vehicle could keep up with him or blast him out of the sky.  Up there, he was invincible.  And soon all of Earth would know it.    


He was stirred out of his light revelry, his mood slightly lifted.  A beeping noise issued from his radar screen and that could only mean one thing.  An allspark shard had been activated and from his systems readings, it happened to be a very large one.  Megatron considered calling Blitzwing and Lugnut to fly out to its location.  He was sure the Autobots would have picked up the signal too and as much as he'd like to think he could handle all of them alone, they'd proved to be more than just a glitch in his systems.  They'd grown stronger and he definitely would need back up.  

Just not Blitzwing or Lugnut.  Those two had really tried his patience lately, with their insanity and aft kissing.  And Wasp was on his own mission.  He didn't want the spy revealed to the Autobots just yet.  That only left the Constructicons Mixmaster and Scrapper.  Megatron sighed miserably to himself as he called them up over his communicator.  They were the lesser of two imbeciles right now, and its all he had.

"This is Megatron to Scrapper and Mixmaster!"  Megatron bellowed over the communicator.  He felt an updraft from an icy gust of wind carry him higher as he waited for their response.  It was best to stay hidden anyway, so that the humans wouldn't make a fuss and alert his presence to the Autobots prematurely.

He never understood why the Autobots would befriend this planets dull and very much tinier inhabitants.  They were nothing but nuisances, backwards and uncivilized, relying on robots to clean up their own filthy messes and perform the most basic menial tasks.  Perhaps he wouldn't blow up their planet, perhaps he would just enslave them all, make them see what its like to serve the machines for once.  Yes, that sounded like a delightful plan indeed.

"Hey what's up boss?"  Came the casual reply from Mixmaster.  "Your not mad anymore right?  Blitz and Lug here seem ta miss yah or somethin."  

Megatron growled and his metallic body tensed with anger.  Scrapper seemed to pick up on the signal too.  "Oh Mix!  Let me talk to him, let me say somethin!"  Megatron waited, his patience wearing thinner by the second.  "Hey boss."  Was all the crane had to say.  The helicopter groaned and was beginning to rethink his plans.

"Yer an idiot Scrap!  He can't see yah wavin!"

"ENOUGH!"  Megatron stopped both of the idiots in their idle humor.  "I need both of you to follow this signal to an Allspark fragment!  I'll need back up if those irritating Autobots show up.  I'm certain they will.  Head there now and meet me at its location.  Stop for nothing!  Megatron out!"  And with that the Osprey Military helicopter sped toward its blinking signal, determined to get there first.                                                                               

Starscream smirked triumphantly as he strode down his corridor of clones.  He was inside his space ship on Earth's moon and was about to finish an experiment he'd been working on for ages.  He trailed his metal digits almost lovingly against the side of their glass tubes, marveling at his own brilliance.  The wires connecting them were intricate, well crafted and placed, supporting their frame and giving their systems a boost of electricity.  Now all they needed, was a little help from his Allspark shard.

Starscream, despite what idea he gave off to others about his intelligence, was in all reality, quite a brilliant bot.  Back on Cybertron, eons ago, before the great war had started, he'd been a scientist.  One of Cybertron's leading scientists actually, he and another jet named Skyfire had been Cybertron's most promising scientific minds of their age.

Until that fateful day…Starscream and Skyfire had been best friends as well as scientific partners.  They had decided to explore other planets, to search for life forms, resources and in general just to quench their scientific thirsts for knowledge.  On their own power and with extra energon reserves, they'd both set out from Cybertron to fly to a planet that was within Cybertron's reach.  Since Cybertron had no orbit and just drifted casually around space, this planet would probably never be as close again for thousands of years.  They wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to explore it before Cybertron drifted away again.

Starscream grimaced at the memory, for it was this very same planet that he'd lost his best friend.  Starscream had warned him, had told Skyfire that Earth's gravitational pull was too strong.  But Skyfire just chuckled warmly at his old friend, told him not to worry and insisted they take a closer look.  Skyfire was much bigger than Starscream and fully trusted in his abilities.  Perhaps that's what did it to him in the end.  They were over Earth's north pole, millions of years earlier, when the planet was uninhabited.  They were flying over the Arctic, Skyfire in the lead.  

It turned out Starscream had been correct.  As soon as the enormous white cargo jet had tried to set down on the ice covered surface, the immensely strong Arctic winds combined with the gravity pulling at his massive form, caused him to plunge downwards, spiraling toward the snow covered ground.  Starscream had been blown off course as he tried to help his old friend but bore witness to the avalanche of snow that had covered his friend in the crash impact.  Starscream tried calling up Skyfire on the comm link they shared to no avail.  The signal was scrambled due to the Earth's polarity interference.  He'd circled half the globe trying to find Skyfire before his energon supply ran dangerously low.  He'd have to accept the inevitable and return to Cybertron.  Alone.

Those days back on Cybertron had taken its toll on Starscream.  He'd missed his best friend and partner terribly, often working alone and fell into a darkness no one had hope to bring him back from.

Then Megatron came.  Megatron, with his growing army of Decepticons caught Starscream and asked him, none to nicely to join their forces or face an untimely death.  He didn't need the threat, their cause, complete and utter conquest of Cybertron, filled the void in his spark that Skyfire had left behind.  He had changed.  Not entirely, for he'd always been a bot of ambition and high promise.  Now though, he didn't lust for scientific knowledge or credit for discovering some new way to help his fellow Cybertronians and the glory that came with it.  He'd tasted power.

Starscream had quickly moved up in ranks in the Decepticon army.  He'd turned his tenacity into ruthlessness and Megatron had rewarded him.  And despised him.  Their mutual contempt for each other was fueled constantly by Starscream's ever growing lust for power.  He wanted to be leader of the Decepticons.  Slag it, he would be someday!  There was never a time, never a place he could challenge Megatron alone.  The leader was always surrounded by his ever faithful dimwitted cronies.  There was never any hope of Starscream taking on them all.

Then the war ended.  The Autobots had harnessed the power of the Allspark to drive the Decepticons off of Cybertron and then hidden the thing away somewhere no one would ever find it.  Until now.  Starscream had bided his time, thinking, plotting, planning on the day he could destroy Megatron himself and become the all powerful ruler of the Universe.  He'd almost done it.  He'd never forgotten his scientific roots and so had constructed an explosive device.  It had done its job and Megatron was out of the picture for a while.  Until the human scientist Professor Isaac Sumdac had interfered.

Well, now science was on his side.  Starscream shook his head out of the memory he'd been lost in and once again turned his attention back to his beloved clones.  

"Soon my lovelies, we'll go to Earth and claim all the Allspark shards!"  He typed in a few codes onto his computer console and suddenly, the two glass encasings surrounding the clone's he'd been looking at lifted.

They were his identical twins in all but colorings.  One had more of a bluish tint with blue and black armor while the other was more purple with black armor as well.  Starscream stood back and admired his work.  "And now for a little help from the Allspark."  Starscream smirked, self satisfied.  He delicately broke off two piece of his rather large Allspark fragment embedded in his forehead and placed it within the spark chambers of the dormant lifeless clones.

They weren't lifeless for very long.  As soon as the tinier Allspark fragments were in place inside their spark chambers, both clones began to stir.   The first clone, the one that had more blue on him, narrowed his glowing red optics and scowled.  "What the slag are you staring at?"  He pointed a metallic finger at his more purple colored brother.    

The purple clone blinked confusedly and then opened his optics wide.  He began to shake and quail under the furious look Blue was giving him.  "Nnnnnnothing! I'm not looking at anything!"

Blue jabbed at Purples chest armor so hard it almost left a dent.  "Yes you did!  Your staring at me!  Knock it off right now!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"  Purple screamed in a high pitched almost feminine voice, making Starscream and Blue clap their hands over their audio receptors.  Purple jumped onto Starscream, climbing on top of his back and wrapping his arms around the originals wings and chest armor.  "Don't let him hurt me!  He's dangerous and crazy!"  Purple pointed wildly at blue, his arm shaking with fear as Blue crossed his arms over his chest, narrowing his optics.

"Get off me you pathetic coward!"  Starscream snarled, yanking purple by the leg and throwing him to the ground.  "He's your brother!  Your comrade in arms!  Show some bolts!"

Purple sniffled a bit and pointed a shaking finger first at Starscream then at Blue.  "Please don't hurt me!  I'm too young to go offline!"

"Shut up!  I can't stand that sniveling and whining!"  Blue thundered, taking Purple by the shoulders and pulling him upwards.  He shook his clone brother and slapped him across the face again and again.  "STOP!(SLAP)BEING(SLAP)SUCH(SLAP)A(SLAP)COWARD!"

A double shot of red energy seared over the two bickering clones and made them both stop in their tracks.  "Listen to me both of you!  I'm your leader!  Your master!  You will cease and desist this ridiculous fighting at once!  I am Starscream the mighty!  And you will obey me!"

Both clones looked at each other and blinked in surprise.  They both turned to look at Starscream and stood at attention.  They had been threatened with violence and were ready to obey rather than get slagged.

"That's better."  Starscream sneered and crossed his arm across the jets nose cone that made up his chest.  "I've detected an Allspark energy signature on Earth and WE are going to retrieve it."  Starscream continued in his best authoritative voice.  "We'll be the team that seeks out the prize and claims it for myse…ourselves."  Starscream smoothed over the mistake flawlessly.  "We'll be known as The seekers."

"What should we call ourselves leader Starscream?"  Purple asked timidly and watched as Starscream transformed into his jet mode.  Blue transformed beside him and Purple did as well.

"I'll figure out names later."  Starscream scoffed and fired up his engines.  "Now follow me to Earth, to victory to the Allspark shard!"  With that, Starscream soared into space, leaving his ship on the moon behind him.

"A bit dramatic don't you think?"  Purple asked Blue.    

"Just shut up and fly idiot."  Blue answered, firing up his own engines and following after their leader.

"Yes!  Right away!"  Purple answered nervously and followed suite.  He didn't want to get slapped again, or shot at, or anything for that matter.  He secretly hoped picking up this Allspark shard would be easy and they could come back to the safety of the moon and the ship.

Wasp grumbled inaudibly to himself as he trudged down the streets of Detroit.  "Wasssssssp not want get rid of shiny new paint job!"  The spy whined to no one in particular.  He looked down at his arms, the shiny happy face and unicorn seemed to beam with happiness back up at him.  "Massster has no taste!"  

It was true, with his new paint job Wasp was commanding quite a lot of attention.  Everyone, from humans to robots stopped to stare and gape in wonder at his luminous new look.  One man even had to put on protective black eye wear known as sunglasses to protect from the pink glare.  That's right humans.  Cower in fear of the power of pink!

The spy held his hot pink head up high, the ice cream cone painted on the side of it, glinting merrily in the sunshine.  "Wasp look fabulous!"  the spy proclaimed to the world.

He stopped in his tracks as his audio receptors perked up.  Two horns were blaring their approval of his new attire and soon two familiar looking tan, yellow and gray construction vehicles.  "Heya baby!"  Honked the crane as it pulled over to the side, right behind it the cement mixer.  They both knew that Megatron had ordered them to head to the Allspark signal without stopping but this was just too tempting to resist.

"How bout stoppin and showin us what kinda femme you really are huh?"  Mixmaster hooted, transforming beside Scrapper and waving at the pink broad.

"Man Mix!  Look at dos legs! They just keep goin and goin!"   Scrapper transformed beside his buddy.  "Hey come on baby don't be like that!  Come over here and get all cozy like!"

Wasp furrowed his brow and spat oil to the side.  "Pervvvbots not know what they are doing!"  He hissed angrily, turned and began marching in the other direction.  "Wassssp is no femme!"

"Yeah, your not a femme, you're a ladybot right?"  Scrapper called after the retreating pink spy.

"You gotta treat those all respectful like."  Mix agreed with his friend, putting a burly metal arm around his head and giving his friend a robot noogie.  "So don't be all stupid!  Act like a gentleman!"  He twisted his fist against Scrapper's helm, sending sparks along the street.

"Slag off!"  Wasp called back to them.  "Leave Wasssssp alone!"

"Whoa!  She's got some fight in her Mix!"  Scrapper hooted, whistling at Wasp yet again.  "But we aint got no time for this.  The boss wants us to help him get that Allspark shard."

Mixmaster shrugged sadly and waved at the retreating Wasp.  "Call me later baby!"  The cement mixer called out.  "I'll show yah a real good time!"

"Wasp show stupid constructiconssssss good time!"  Wasp raged, ducking into a nearby carwash.  "At the scrapheap, with Wassssp at the steel grinder!"

"Did you really give her your number Mix?"  Scrapper asked as they both transformed and began rolling toward their master's signal.

"Nah, but she'll find out."  Mix scoffed.  "She'll be crawlin back ta us in no time."  with obnoxious laughter, the two constructicons disappeared from sight.

Wasp sighed with relief as he watched them go from behind the curtain.  "Now Wasp wash off pretty paint job."  He hissed to himself.  "So no one mistake for femme again!"  He marched into the main part of the carwash, determination glinting in his now reddened optics.  "Human vehicle wash, get pink paint off!"

"And these control the cameras stationed at key points throughout Detroit."  Optimus Prime explained to the two newcomer twins.  He was showing them the control room where they would soon be assigned a rotation in monitor duty.  They had been given the grand tour of the base as well as the basic situation at hand.  Megatron and his own group of Decepticon cronies were hiding somewhere in the vicinity but for some strange reason, their energy signatures remained aloof and undetectable.  The Allspark was split into pieces that would show up randomly, Sari Sumdac was their ally and  keeper of the Allspark powered key that could control machines, heal Cybertronians, and detect Allspark shards.  She was currently in their care because her father Isaac Sumdac had gone missing. 

While he'd been explaining, Optimus had caught Sunstreaker and Sideswipe fooling around and not paying attention at least three times.  He'd chided them with patience at first but it grew old quickly.  He had no wonder why Sentinel Prime had sent them here instead of dealing with their antics back on Cybertron.  It had been at least ten minutes however and they'd been still and quiet so Optimus continued his explanation of the controls.

After a while, his audio receptors would pick up a sort of quiet snickering sound.  He ignored it for the most part, blaming it on the twins constant immaturity and continued.  Optimus narrowed his optics in irritation as the snickering grew louder and his patience had reached its limits.  He whirled around in his chair and faced Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.  They immediately gasped at having been caught and snapped to attention.  They saluted the leader and stood there, trying to keep a straight face.  One look at each other and it sent the twins into a fit of laughter.

"Is there a problem you two?"  Optimus Prime asked, feeling his optic ridge twitch with impatience.  "Did I miss something funny?"

"Oh nothing sir…"Sideswipe snickered, his hand flying to his mouth in order to cover his bemused expression.

"Absolutely nothing."  Sunstreaker agreed, with his brother.  He leaned against Sideswipe's shoulder and grinned slyly.  "You have our complete and undivided attention."

Optimus looked confused for a second then straightened up, gathering his train of thought.  "Alright then."  He said and turned back to the console.  "In this area here we have the financial district of Detroit."  The leader continued on with his explanation.  "That is a key area for criminals to rob the human financial advisors of their currencies."

Again he heard the snickering.  This time a third voiced joined the twins in their unseen hilarity.  Bumblebee was leaning against the doorway, griping it for dear life it seemed.  He was shaking with mirth and laughter.  "Nice one guys!"  He practically shrieked, pointing over at Optimus.  "That's the boss bot alright!"

"What the slag is going on in here?"  Grumbled Ratchet.  The medic had a wrench in hand and his optics were narrowed irately.  "Out of the way kid!"  Ratchet shouted, shoving Bumblebee bodily out of the way of the doorway.  "You having a party in here Prime?"
The medic glanced over at the twins.  They were now gripping each other, both doubled over and laughing hysterically.  Ratchet scowled and followed the train of their gaze to Optimus himself.  "Why you insubordinate disrespectful slagheaps!"  Ratchets grip tightened around his work wrench and he marched purposefully over to where the leader sat.  "You didn't know that they were sticking rude things to your aft Prime?"  Ratchet demanded.

"What are you talking about Ratchet?"  Optimus exclaimed, peering over his shoulder.  

"This is what I 'm talking about Prime!"  Ratchet held up several sheets of Bulkhead's blank giant art paper.  Scribbled with an almost illegible script were the words "Fatso, slag for brains, stupid moron and kick me" Also there was a small sign underneath that added "As much as you can!"

Optimus growled, staring at the twins incredulously.  He now felt a sticky substance dripping slowly down his back.  "What…did you use to make those stick?"  Optimus fumed, clenching his fist and shaking with anger.  How in the world they'd been able to sneak up on him and do this was beyond his reasoning processor.  As far as he knew, only Prowl had that much stealth.  They must have been well practiced…in pranking.

"Some of Sari's crazy glue!"  Bumblebee choked out from fits of laughter.  "Classic!"  He stopped as he noticed the twins glaring dangerously at him.

"Nice going squirt."  Sideswipe muttered softly.

"Way to rat us out stupid!"  Sunstreaker hissed, echoing his brother.

Bumblebee immediately put up his hands and shook them back and forth in front of his face innocently.  "I..I didn't mean to!  It was an accident!"  Bumblebee stumbled.  "I mean, it was brilliant how you glued those!"  Bumlbebee trailed off when the alarm began to go off, red lights flashing in warning.

"We'll talk about your discipline later."  Optimus glowered, pointing at both lambo twins.  "For now, Transform and Roll out!"  The leader ordered.  "We've got an active Allspark shard.  We have to get there before the Decepticons do!"

The leader rushed out of the door with Ratchet at his heels.  He didn't seethe twins as they cornered Bumblebee.

They each pinned him to the wall with one arm, lifting the smaller bot up off the floor.

"Hey come on guys, no hard feelings right?"  Bumblebee chuckled nervously.

Sideswipe narrowed his optics angrily.  "not as long as you learn to keep your vocal processor off."  

"Our pranks are of the utmost secrecy and importance!"  Sunstreaker added.  "And the most important thing about them is!"

"WE DON'T GET CAUGHT!"  Both yelled at him at the exact same time.  They dropped the smaller yellow bot to the floor and transformed into their Lamborghini modes.  

"So if you want to become as legendary as we are someday."  Sunstreaker started.  "Particularly me."

"Then watch as we work and take a lesson."  Sideswipe finished.  "Don't get caught and keep your mouth piece shut!"

Bumblebee nodded, shakily.  "Got it.  Optics open, mouth shut.  Hey wait for me!"  He transformed into his black striped yellow sports car vehicle mode, revved his engines and took off after the quick wheeled twins.

Optimus had just given out orders when the minibot pulled up into the garage.  Ratchet was to stay behind and guard Sari and the remaining Allspark shards while the rest were going to go after the signal.  Optimus figured this was a good way to have Sunstreaker and Sideswipe find out first hand what they were up against.  The leader had sent out the coordinates and was ready to leave when Bulkhead wheeled over to him.

"Hey Prime, what about Jade, Lala and Rose?"  The green mech asked softly.  "I told them I'd be there to pick them up soon."

"They can wait for a little while Bulkhead."  Optimus assured him.  "We'd only be putting them in danger if we picked them up first."

"We could pick them up really quickly and then go meet up with you."  Sunstreaker offered, eager to see his feisty little charge again.

"I want you both in my optical range at all times until I think up a suitable disciplinary action for the lack of respect you showed earlier."  Optimus answered dryly.  "The Allspark must be kept out of Decepticon hands at all costs.  That is our top priority."  The leader opened the garage door, letting the sunlight filter in and glint off of his darkened window.  "We take care of that first and foremost and that's an order!  Transform and Roll out!"
  
Lala tapped her foot impatiently, glancing at her wristwatch.  She pulled her newly purchased leather jacket tightly around her curvy frame and looked at her friend with the kerchief.  "Didn't you tell Bulky to pick us up at three?"  She asked, shivering a bit in the December wind.  "My watch says 4:15."

"Yeah I told him."  Jade answered, looking down at her own dolphin watch and frowning.  "He wouldn't be late unless something was wrong."  She grimaced and bit her lip.  She started worrying about her big green guardian.  Where could he be?  
    
"Wish they had given us like…communicators or something."  Rose sighed, staring at the pile of packages and bags that had made up their purchases.

"We could always rent a U-Haul truck and transport all the stuff to the base and look for them?"  Jade suggested.  "In fact, that's a pretty good idea."  She pulled out her new cell phone and called up a U-Haul company.  Jade talked for a little while and then smiled.  "They'll actually pick up our stuff in like five minutes and give us a ride back."  She explained.  "Then we can see what's up."  Jade sighed and sat on the sidewalk, knees to her chest.  "I hope nothings wrong."

Megatron was first to arrive at the scene.  The Osprey military helicopter snickered quietly to himself as he landed in the crowded Detroit street.  "Annoying little insects."  The Decepticon leader sneered as he transformed right in the center of the road.  He kicked aside a stationary Volkswagen bug.  "Once I become overlord of this planet, I'll have you all enslaved and squashed to oblivion."  The humans reacted as expected, by scattering, screaming and running in terror.

A pink glowing light distracted the enormous gray bot from his violent musings.  The Allspark shard he had sensed was embedded inside one of the humans traffic lights.  The one that glowed red, like his optics.  It was animating the light itself, making it change quickly and without warning.  So that's why the street was crowded.  No matter.

Ignoring the human screams and the blaring of their vehicles horns, Megatron stomped over to the high hanging traffic light.  He smiled triumphantly, reaching out to snatch the light from where it was balancing on the electrical wire.

Suddenly, and quite ungracefully, the Decepticon leader was knocked forward from behind by an enormous blow!  The leader snarled in disgust as he was sent forward onto his face.  Sparks flew and pavement crushed underneath his massive weight.  

"I'll be taking MY Allspark shard now if you don't mind!"  Came an all too familiar irritating voice from behind him.  Starscream had slammed into him from the air and drove him forward!

"Starscream, I might have known."  Megatron sneered as he observed the seeker fly overhead.  "Your foul stench and high pitched femme voice gave you away."  Megatron picked himself up off of the destroyed pavement and dusted the bits of debri away from his armor.  "What a pity to see you alive and functioning."  He drew his shoulder mounted cannons and took aim at the aerial in front of him.  "I am in a rather foul mood.  Target practice would be most entertaining."

"Not if I make you the target first!"  Starscream yelled out angrily.  He drew is arm mounted laser shooters and began blasting at Megatron wildly!

Megatron dodged effortlessly to the left and right, having had eons of experience fighting against the Autobots.  Any shots Starscream did manage to land on his former master glanced off his sides harmlessly.  "That was always your problem Starscream."  Megatron said dryly, walking forward toward the seeker.  He grabbed the jet by the nose cone part of his chest and squeezed tightly.  The glass cockpit windows shattered violently and Starscream gasped in pain as Megatron held him up high into the air.  "You never had the patience to come up with a decent plan.  Your recklessly impulsive and you'll never be leader of the Decepticons!"  He threw the harrier jet roughly to the side and watched him roll into the street, smashing into several cars trying hastily to get away from the fight.  "You'll never defeat me alone."  Megatron sneered and once again began moving toward the traffic light.

Starscream growled, spitting out the black colored street pieces that had become wedged into his mouth.  "Who says I'm alone."  He countered.  A sly grin spread across his wicked face as he looked toward the sky.  "Skywarp!  Thundercracker!"  He called out to his clones in wait.  He thought briefly on their names and how they had come to earn them.

On the way to Earth, Starscream had come up with names for the blue and purple clone.  The blue one he'd named Thundercracker, because the minute they had entered Earth's atmosphere, the seeker had shown his true speed.  He was so fast that he'd made this earth shattering thunder crack noise and so had earned his name and his special ability.

Skywarp had shown his true powers a bit differently.  Thundercracker had discovered his new ability and had taken it upon himself to continuously scare Skywarp.  One time too many and the purple clone vanished into the air, frightened out of his processor.  He reappeared in front of Thundercracker, in robot mode, and clung to the jet's front in terror.  "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!  What's going on!"  He had cried out.
    
"You warped."  Starscream explained, siding up to the two with interest.  "That should come in handy clone...very much in handy.  I shall call you...Skywarp."

"I...I'll be useful?"  The newly named Skywarp asked, smiling a little bit at the thought.

"Yes, now GET OFF ME!"  Thundercracker roared, going into a barrel roll to dislodge his irritating brother.  With a yelp, Skywarp did just that, transforming back into jet mode and taking his place back with his wingmates.

Time to see if they would live up to his expectations.  

Skywarp and Thundercracker flew down from the sky and landed, transforming and flanking Starscream.  All three of them aimed their arm mounted blasters at the Decepticon leader.  "This is the end Megatron!  Where are all your loyal Decepticons now?"  Starscream cackled, null ray firing up.  This was too rich for him, finally...he had Megatron right where he wanted him.  Outnumbered, outclassed and alone.  He advanced as the leader stood his ground.

"You intend to conquer me and take your place as leader of the Decepticons with cheap knock off's Starscream?"  Megatron chuckled darkly.  "Your most ridiculous plan to date!  Go play with your toys elsewhere!"

As they argued a grappling hook shot out and wrapped around the traffic light, ripping it down from the wirings and pulling it back to rest in the grip of Optimus Prime!

The rest of the Autobot team pulled up and transformed behind their leader.  "I'll take that if you don't mind."  Optimus said, holding onto the traffic light firmly.  He tried pulling the Allspark shard out of the traffic light but it was firmly embedded.  

"Oh I beg to differ about that."  Megatron said and pointed his cannon at Optimus.  Starscream and his clones took to the sky as the two leaders faced each other down.

"There doesn't need to be a fight Megatron, you can still walk away and end this easily."  Optimus  tried reasoning as the Autobots prepared for battle.

"That is why you Autobots will never be stronger than Decepticons."  Megatron shook his head and pulled out his Cybertronian sword.  "All talk and no action."  He smirked and gestured for the Autobots to come forward.  "Give it all you've got."

"I'll show you action!"  Bulkhead rushed forward, wrecking ball swinging expertly over his head.  He launched it straight at Megatron!  The Decepticon dropped his sword to catch the enormous green wrecking ball, staggering back a few feet before yanking the line backward and pitching Bulkhead forward, knocking him off balance and into the pavement.  Concrete flew into the air as the big guy went down hard.

Starscream dove out of the sky.  This was just the distraction he needed!  The seeker scooped up the traffic light in one hand, holding it to his side.  He powered into the air with Optimus still hanging on with his grappling hook!  The leader struggled to yank the light out of the Decepticon's grip but failed.  Starscream only sneered, chuckling sarcastically at him.  "Hope you enjoy the ride Autoscum!"

"Sunstreaker!  Sideswipe!  I could use some help over here quickly!"  Optimus called out.  He began slowly withdrawing himself forward, reeling in the grappling coil.  He hoped Starscream wouldn't notice as he grew closer and closer to the shard.

"On it boss bot!"  Sideswipe grinned and looked to his brother.  "Shall we then Sunstreaker?"  The red and black mech asked, rubbing his metallic hands together eagerly.  He was ecstatic at their first real Decepticon battle.

"Your on Sideswipe!"  Sunstreaker high fived his brother.  He too was eager to show off his skills in battle.  To prove to everyone what he already knew himself.  That he, Sunstreaker, was the best.

"Ready?"

"Set?"

"Jump!"

Both Lamborghini twins had been waiting on top of a building.  They jumped out onto Starscream when he flew beside the rooftop, unknowing of their whereabouts.  Each twin jumped on either side of Starscream, clinging to the wings that protruded from his back.  
The seeker made an oooof of surprise and slowed down with the added weight.  "Get off me!"  He narrowed his optics and swiveled his head to meet the mischievous glowing baby blue optics of the twins.

They both grinned like chesire cats and waved to him with one hand very quickly before clamping it back down on his wing.  They laughed when he growled at them. "Awe come on Screamer, don't be like that."  Sideswipe crooned, patting Starscream's helmed head.

"Yeah come on Starscream, stop playing so hard to get and give us a ride."  Sunstreaker grinned and stroked under Starscream's chin with a single finger.

Optimus looked up at them incredulously.  "That's not helping!"  He shouted upwards at them, optics wide with disbelief.  "Get the Allspark shard!"

The twins grinned at each other and winked.  Totally ignoring Optimus, they both reached over and with one hand, covered both of Starscream's optics.  "Guess who!"  They both cried out and then instantly burst out in obnoxious laughter.  

Optimus swore under his breath.  "Slag..."

"Gaaaaaah!"  Starscream cried out, swerving wildly to the right now that he was flying blind.  "GET OFF ME AUTOBOT PESTS!"

"GO GO GO!"  They both shouted at the seeker.  

"Turn left!"

"No right!"

"Primus you fly like an old crankcase."

"Faster!"

Optimus had just about pulled himself upward and was trying to pry the Allspark fragment out of its placed embedded in the traffic light.  With an enormous heave, the shard came out, grasped tightly in the leaders fingers.  He retracted his grappling hook, falling to the city below.  Optimus shot out his grappling hook once again and it attached to the side of a building, swinging him forward like spiderman on a web.

The noise and destruction of the city caught the attention of the three girls waiting for the Autobots to pick them up.  They gave each other a knowing look and told the delivery drivers to just deliver their things to the address, rushing off themselves to the fray.  

Rose blinked in surprise when she witnessed the twins riding on either side of Starscream, clinging onto his wings for dear life.  "Idiots."  She shook her head.  She looked to Jade and motioned at them.  "Try to get them down love."  She said, glancing toward the girls Allspark ring.  "I can't let Starscream slam into a building.  It would be funny but I've caused him enough grief for one day."

Jade nodded.  "You got it Rose.  Do your thing."  She concentrated, lifting up the twins off of Starscream as her taller sister disappeared.  She struggled with their weight, feeling the strength drain out of her.  She wasn't lifting them.  That would be too much at this point.  She was only slowing their fall.  

With the twins no longer blocking his optical sensors, Starscream opened them and well screamed.  "Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"  He careened right toward a building and would have crashed right into it had not a plucky British red head landed on him.  Rose clung to his shoulder and waved a bit.  "Sorry love not your stop!"  Rose smirked, teleporting herself and Starscream out of the way of the building and up into the sky.  "Toodles."  She blew him a kiss before teleporting again.  This time, she landed on the ground just as the twins made it safely down.

"What the pit..."  Starscream hovered for a moment in the sky, blinking in confusion.  "Did that... tea obsessed red headed welp just...help me?"  He was struck dumbfounded.

"I'll be taking that Autoscum!"  Megatron lunged for the All spark shard Optimus had in his possession.  

"Optimus!  Hang on!"  Lala cried out.  She ran toward Megatron with the bravery of a superhero.  Her allspark necklace glowed as she leapt right through his foot and came out the other side, turning and grabbing it midstep.  She concentrated and grunted this wasn't going to be easy!  When Megatron put his foot down he stumbled forward, falling to the ground as it was phased deep into it.  

"What trickery is this!" he roared attempting to get up only to have Lala phase up out of the ground and phase his other leg deep into it.  "Cursed creature!"  Megatron began bashing at the ground to try to free himself.  Lala took this opportunity to rise up out of the ground again and phase first one arm and then the other to the ground, fixing him on his hands and knees...like a bitch.

Thundercracker and Skywarp were in hot pursuit of Optimus, even as their leader was otherwise engaged.  "Give up right now Autobot!"  Screamed Thundercracker as the leader transformed and began leading them away from the others.  

"Autobots I need back up!"  He cried out as Starscream joined the trio.  Skywarp lingered behind a bit, afraid and cautious to attack.  The coward soon found himself knocked out of the sky by a well aimed wrecking ball, tumbling downwards to crash deep into the cement.

"Awesome!"  Jade cried out, running over to catch up with Bulkhead.  "Great shot!"  She leaned against his foot, a bit tired from overexerting herself earlier in helping the twins.

"You alright?"  Bulkhead asked, kneeling down carefully to examine his little charge.  "Didn't get hurt didja?"  He extended a hand down to her and Jade greatfully climbed onto it.  

"I'm fine, let's take down the other one."  she said, pointing up as Thundercracker soared overhead.  "Together."

"You guys are gonna need some help."  Bumblebee pulled up next to Bulkhead and smirked, showing off his signature stingers.  "Distraction, stinging, pounding.  In that order.  Sound good?"

"How about a bit of stealth added to that plan."  Prowl pulled up as well, smiling as the Autobots put their hands together and Jade laid hers on top of Bumblebee's.

The green giant nodded, closing his fist gently but firmly around the kerchief girl and held her to his chest.  He began running after the remaining two seekers.  "Hey stupid!"  Jade cried out through her perch inside his hand.  "Slaggin flyboy take that!"  she used her allspark ring to lift up a manhole cover and send it spinning through the air like a Frisbee, hitting Thundercracker in the tailpipe!

"What?!  Who dares do that to the mighty Thundercracker!"  The jet stopped, transformed in midair and landed on the ground.  Bulkhead charged forward, swinging his wrecking ball.  The purple jet smirked and leaned down, picking up a car and approached the Autobot with it as his shield.

Bumblebee flanked Bulkhead, sending blasts of electricity at the seeker.  Jade aimed fallen street signs at the seekers legs trying to trip him up.

Thundercracker only laughed and blocked each attack with the car shield.  "Is that all you've got blasted autoscum!"  he shouted, a bit of Starscream's arrogance flowing through his tubes.

"Not quite!"  Prowl smirked from behind the seeker.  He threw two ninja star at the seekers knee joints and brought him down.  Just in time for Bulkhead to run up and slam his wrecking ball into Thundercracker, knocking him high into the sky like a rocket.

Starscream glanced to his left and right and realized that his chance to get the Allspark shard was gone.  Optimus had the allspark shard, both his clones had been defeated and sent flying away, leaving him outnumbered.  Ah well, at least the one good thing about this was that it left Megatron delightfully vulnerable.  He doubled back, landing before the leader still trying to remove his arms and legs from the ground where Lala had left him.  "Smile."  he grinned, taking a picture with his optical sensors.  "And the mighty Megatron bows to me finally..."

"Shove it up your tailpipe Starscream."  Megatron growled as he heard the guffawing laughter of the constructicons, arriving at the scene finally.  "When I'm through with you, there won't be anything left to kneel for."

"Another day perhaps."  Starscream grumbled as Scrapper and Mixmaster pulled up, transforming and moving to attack him.  "Till we meet again then lord Megawimp!"  He took to the air in search of his comrades.  They were in definite need of repair and a good deal of yelling at.

"Don't just stand there staring!  Get me out of this predicament!"  Megatron bellowed as the two looked at him in his kneeling stuck position, looked at each other, smiled and started hooting with laughter.  Scrapper and Mixmaster fell to the ground, holding their sides and pounding the ground with amusement.

"I am indeed, surrounded by idiots."  Megatron hung his head almost to the ground, wishing for once he hadn't sent Blitzwing and Lugnut away.

The autobots and their human companions made their way back to the base.  Ratchet was less irritable than usual on account of he had really no repairs to make from this battle.  Thanks to the addition of more Autobots and their allies they'd made a pretty clean getaway.  

"We were lucky Blitzwing and Lugnut were unable to accompany Megatron for some reason."  Optimus said as Ratchet was performing his scans.  "Everyone rest up for the night and we'll check in in the morning and go over the battle details.  He glared at the twins as if to remind them of their lack of discipline in the battle.  

"Stand still slag it!"  Ratchet grunted to the leader.

"What's the big deal for grumpybot?"  Sari pouted, crossing her arms over her chest.  "My key can always heal up the bots way faster!"  She was mad at the simple fact that she'd been left behind while the other new girls had gotten to the adventure.  Even though they hadn't meant to in the first place.  "You don't need to run those boring scans all day."

Ratchet knelt down and glared at the tiny organic.  "Listen you tiny little sac of meat.  I've been doing this for eons longer than you can ever imagine, without the help of some allspark powered key thank you very much.  So if you don't mind keeping your noise hole quiet for just another nanoclick I'm almost finished!"

Sari stuck out her tongue but did quiet down after that.

"She's so annoying that girl."  Rose said after everything had been settled and they were unpacking all the things they'd bought at the mall, setting up beds with Prowl and Bumblebee's help.  None of the other bots could really fit through the doorway into their giant shared room.  

"She's not usually like that, going through a tough time right now.  Sari's dad professor Sumdac is missing."  Bumblebee explained, sticking up for his best friend.

Jade bit her lip as she spread the comforters over the beds she was making.  She knew exactly where the good professor was being held.  With the Decepticons as their prisoner.  Lala gave her a knowing look and she held her tongue.  What would the Autobots say if she told them she knew where he was?  Would they believe her?  Would it alter the course of events in a bad way?  She just didn't know what would happen.
      
It bothered Jade for the rest of the night and she tossed and turned amongst the folds of her down comforter.  Her headphones lay tangled amidst her dark brown locks, playing softly in the background, connected to her ipod.  She sat up, rubbed her eyes, shook her head, and took in the dim world around her.  Rose and Lala had been asleep for over an hour now, talking into the night until sleep had claimed them peacefully.  Jade glanced at her sisters, envious of their ability to sleep in a strange place so quickly.  It made her a bit homesick, longing for the peaceful cricket singing nights she'd spent away from the city back in her own world.
    
"Ah well."  Jade sighed, hugging her knees to her chest and snuggling the blankets closer to her body for warmth.  "No bed more comfortable than my bed."  her thoughts turned to her home in the real world.  "I wonder if anyone misses us.  Or even knows we're gone?"
    
She shrugged and shook her head of those thoughts.  There was nothing she could do about it at the moment.  Nothing she really wanted to do anyway.  They weren't done with their adventure yet, not by a long shot.  
    
Jade pushed aside her soft billowy blankets and winced as her tender feet hit the icy floor.  She brushed aside her long dark brown hair and set in place her trademark kerchief in her hair, letting the long blonde streaks fall in front of her cheeks.  It was the look she had come to associate herself with and she felt unsatisfied walking around without her beloved kerchief.
    
She shivered in the cold night air promising to either find the thermostat later or bug Ratchet till he changed the room temperature to better suit humans.  Humans that were supposed to be in bed.  Jade smirked a bit at the thought of sneaking around while everyone else was asleep and hoped she wouldn't get caught by Ratchet.  He'd yell at her and remind her that breaking her sleeping cycle was hazardous to her health and so on.  Good old Ratchet, he did care, that she knew.  He was just gruff on the outside.  

Despite the threat of the looming medic, the brunette continued her quiet trek toward the door to their room and opened it slowly.  She peeked out into the hall and heard not a sound.  They all must be recharging and Sari must be asleep.  Jade thought to herself and chanced a glance down at her watch.  12:00 am.  She winced.  Midnight?  No wonder why everyone was asleep, so why couldn't she get to sleep as well?
  
 Jade began walking down the empty hallways, cursing herself quietly for not remembering to get slippers at the store.  The icy cold floor stung her feet until a redness lingered along the bottom, but still she pressed on.  Spying a window, high above the ground in the main center of the warehouse, Jade looked down at her Allspark ring and concentrated.  She felt her feet rising off the ground and looked upward to see the window becoming closer and closer.  The brunette clenched her fist in concentration, seating herself upon the window and breathing heavily.  She definitely needed to practice more with her power so that she could lift things longer.
  
 The girl with the kerchief sighed sadly as she heard the sounds of the city.  Sirens, yelling, loud music blaring, cursing, and horns honking.  She was used to the calm quiet night of the country where the air smelled clean and she could actually see the stars shining brightly in the sky.
    
"Having some trouble with your recharge cycle?"
    

"Jeez!"  She gasped and turned to her newly appointed guardian who'd somehow snuck up behind her while she was lost in thought.  She realized that her obliviousness had reached a new level if Bulkhead were able to sneak up on her.  Prowl she could understand, he was a ninja, all cool and stealth like.  She shook her head as Bulkhead steadied her with his finger.  "You scared the tar outta me Bulkhead!"  She put a hand to her heart and breathed a bit heavier.  "And…yeah I guess I couldn't sleep.  What about you?"
  
 Bulkhead was very sorry that he'd scared his charge but was more concerned for her than anything.  "Well, I heard somethin and saw yah get up and outta bed."  He explained, holding out his hand for her.  Jade nodded and carefully climbed onto it as he set her down on the ground.  "Is there something wrong?"  He asked her.  "Bad dream?  Sari has those sometimes and leaks on the bed."  Bulkhead looked shocked for a moment.  Jade saw panic in his glowing azure eyes.  "But…don't tell her I told you that.  I forgot I wasn't supposed to tell anyone.  She'll be really mad at me."
    
Jade scoffed and waved his concern away with her hand.  "You know you can trust me with anything Bulkhead.  I wouldn't tell.  I probably won't even remember it."
    
"I know, that's probably why I told you."  He agreed with her.  She smiled, leaning against his hand  and stroking along his thumb.  She knew that it was something special, the way they had formed a trust very quickly with each other.  "Won't you tell me what's bothering you?"  He asked, concern again flooding his glowing optics as he blinked and knelt down to examine the much smaller creature.  
    
Jade looked at the ground and sighed, shrugging and shaking her head.  "I'm not used to all the noise in the city I guess."  She murmured, not daring to explain half the real reason.  "Where I come from, all you hear at night are crickets, coyotes and frogs in the summer.  The air was cleaner too and you could see the stars when you looked up at the sky.  Guess that makes me a bit homesick."  she shrugged.  "I'll get over it no prob."
     
"Awe is that all?"  Bulkhead smiled and placed her back down on the ground.  He transformed back into his green van form and shined his bright yellow lights enthusiastically.  "Hop in, I'll take you someplace nice and quiet."

Jade smiled and eagerly climbed on in, hooking herself into the drivers seat.  "Your the best Bulky."  she patted the dashboard affectionately.  "There never was a guardian any sweeter."

"Dawe don't worry about it."  He chuckled, flattered and embarrassed at her words.  If he could blush in vehicle mode he would have.  "Just...don't tell Prime we are going out this late.  He's been so stressed with the twins and all, he snaps at everything these days."

"No prob."  she said, leaning against the window and watching the city drive by as Bulkhead drove out into it.  It was late at night.  Not too many people were on the road so they were able to leave the limits fairly easily.  "We're not going to some place like Dinobot island are we?"  she asked with a bit of a giggle.  "Doubt we'd get much peace and quiet there."

"Yeah Grimlock snores really loud.  Don't know how the others can sleep with that racket."  Bulkhead agreed, pulling up into the woods where Sari, Bumblebee and Prowl had gone camping once.  "Prowl  always said this place was peaceful."  he said, letting her out and transforming back to robot mode.  "Nothin out here so can't say I disagree."  he smiled and watched as she walked around a bit, breathing in the fresh air and touching the trees.  The wind blew along her nightgown and twirled her hair nicely, framing her pretty face.  

"It's perfect, we're not too far from the city but I can hear myself think."  she smiled stumbling a bit as Bulkhead sat down with a thud.  

"Whoops sorry!  My bad!"  Bulkhead reached out a hand to steady her as she wobbled.  "Tough bein so big and clumsy all the time."  he rubbed the back of his neck embarrassed.  He'd hoped she wouldn't get sick of him or annoyed by his falling all the time.
  
"I think your just the right size actually."  Jade said as she climbed onto Bulkhead's hand.  He placed her gently on his shoulder and gave her a crooked grin.  "A big guy with a big spark is perfect  to me."  she grinned right back with a wink.

"Never met a human that nice to me."  he commented as they sat together in the night.  "They act all afraid of me."  Bulkhead looked sadly down at the ground and twiddled his thumbs.

"That's just humans.  Afraid of what they don't understand.  If they took the time to get to know you, they'd see how gentle and kind you are Bulky.  Don't ever doubt yourself.  Your fine the way you are."  Jade told him softly.  She knew that Prowl had tried to change his fighting habits in the past with less than perfect results.  The kerchief girl also remembered how cruel some of the humans and even Bumblebee could be to Bulkhead at times.  It broke her heart to see him sad and she vowed to herself she'd stand up for him whenever she could.  "Bulkhead?"  she said after a bit.

Bulkhead, who'd been glowing secretly at her praise snapped out of it a bit and looked at her, huddled against his head a bit.  He gently scooped her up in one hand and held her against his spark to warm her.  She laid both hands on his chest armor and he felt his spark hum happily a bit, contented as he answered her.  "Yeah Jade?"  

"Thank you again for saving me today.  And for taking me out here.  I know you must be tired, but your kind to think of me."  She said, grateful for what he'd done for her.  Jade finally was feeling tired and she yawned, snuggling against his chest further as he shielded her from the wind with his gigantic hand.

"Dawe its nuthin." he said and rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand.  "I mean, what's a guardian for anyway."  He looked down and saw that she was practically asleep and smiled, his hinged jaw tilting upward a bit.  "Night Jadie."
Long awaited chapter of Dwelling in Dreams also updated on fanfiction.net
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this is wonderful! I noticed it's been a while since you uploaded this though, do you have plans on continuing this? I love the idea,:w00t: I'd love to be in TFA too! (asking Screamer to try and find tea was hilarious!) and I'm glad you have the Lambo twins in it! I wish they'd been in TFA! (if they are I wish they'd been given more screen tome :XD:)