It had been a few days since solar scanned his alt. By now Sunstreaker had stopped with the torture and let solar go.

Ratchet had been monitoring the nemesis' movements, so far the decepticons hadn't gotten their shields fixed and were making slow process with it. Which ment....

...they could put the plan into action.

Everyone was gathered in the main room so it was a bit crowded. Even Fowler was there!

Optimus walked over to Ratchet, "is it ready?"

The medic nodded and handed something that resembled a laser pointer to him, "just get the measurements and don't get killed."

Optimus nodded and walked over to the others, "Ironhide, Arcee, Ultra Magnus, bulkhead, Wheeljack, the twins, and Elita. You will come with me and provide the distraction."

"Bumblebee and tracks, you two will get the measurements." He handed tracks the device.

"Smokescreen, jazz, and Bluestreak will board the nemesis to retrieve the forge."

Everyone nodded and split up into their groups.

Solar walked over to the kids area and sat down on a crate. Miko ran over to him excitedly, "Dude! How does it feel having a strategy you came up with used against the decepticons?!"

Solar glanced at her uncertainly, "I...I just hope it works..."

Raf looked up from his laptop and smiled, "I'm sure it'll work."

Solar smiled gratefully at Raf before sighing and dragging a servo down his faceplates, "I just don't want anybot to get hurt. If they did it would be because of my plan..."

"That's not true!" Miko interrupted him, "there are so many things that you never would of been able to prepare for! Like having Megatron be in one of the room they need to go into instead of fighting Optimus. Or if they have new recruits. Or a new weapon! Or...."

Jack quickly covered her mouth and whispered to her, "that's not helping Miko!"

The Japanese girl pulled his hand off her mouth and stuck her tongue out at him before glancing at Solar. The young bot looked even more worried and was now tapping his quickly while glancing around at the assembly of bots nervously. He frowned then looked at Miko, "y-you really think that stuff could happen..?"

Miko was about to respond before Jack hurriedly covered her mouth again and answered for her, "she was just getting over excited, Solar. I'm sure everything will go fine, right Miko?"

The girl stopped trying to pull his hand off long enough to nod before continuing in her endeavor.

Raf watched with a small smile and nodded in agreement, "it's a good plan, Solar. I'm sure everything will work out."

Solar sighed and smiled slightly but still tapped his ped nervously, "thanks guys..."

Miko grinned at him, "any time!"

Jack shook his head, "goodness forbid you ever become a psychiatrist, Miko..."

"HEY!"

Smokescreen, Bluestreak, and Jazz walked over to them as the others walked through the ground bridge to accomplish phase one of the plan. Bluestreak tilted his helm slightly, "what's going on?"

Miko glanced at him, "Jack thinks I wouldn't be a good psychiatrist!"

Jazz gave her a confused look, "would ya even want ta be one?"

Miko though for a moment before shaking her head, "no, but it would be nice if jackrabbit would have a little faith in me..."

Smokescreen frowned, "why not? I would be a psychiatrist..."

Solar looked at him in surprise, "you would?"

"Yah, I could do it..."

"Smokescreen! Bluestreak! Jazz!" Ratchet interrupted their conversation, "you need to be ready to leave at any moment!"

Jazz glanced at him, "we know, ratch. We're all ready to go. right, mechs?"

Bluestreak and smokescreen nodded and ratchet grumbled something and return med his attention to his computer.

Smokescreen turned to Solar, "you should come with use, you know the nemesis' layout better then any of us, Solar."

Jazz and Bluestreak nodded in agreement, "yeah, mech. Ya should! we could really use ya help."

Solar shook his helm, "I would just get in the way, plus I don't think I'm ready to go back to the nemesis just yet..."

Bluestreak shook his helm, "you wouldn't be in the way at all!"

Jazz nodded, "he's right, but ah understand. Come talk to us if ya change your mind before we leave. Okay, little mech?"

Solar smiled slightly and nodded, "okay, jazz. Thanks guys."

They smiled at him before walking over to the ground bridge to wait. About five minutes later Ratchet received a transmission with the coordinates and opened a ground bridge.

Smokescreen checked to make sure he had his phase shifter before following jazz and Bluestreak through the portal.

Solar watched them leave and frowned nervously, "good luck, guys!"

"They'll be fine, Solar! They can handle it!"

Solar turned to look at Miko, "thanks....but I'm still worried something might go wrong..."

Raf frowned before looking around and grabbing his RC car and controller, "hey, Solar? Do you want to truly driving my RC car?"

Solar glanced at him m and smiled, "sure. Thanks, Raf."

"You'll have to use your holoform, the remote is to small for you."

"Not a problem, but first..." He turned to Miko, "hand it over."

The girl frowned at him, "what?"

"Hand over your phone."

Miko hesitated before giving it to him. Solar smiled and stepped away before activating his holoform, "now you can't take pictures of my holoform."

Miko pouted and turned away from him, "fine."

Solar walked over to Raf, "so, how does it work?"

Raf showed him the controller and set down the toy car, "you use this the steer and this controls how fast you want to to go..." He took a minute to explain it to Solar because the young cybertronion was over thinking it.

After a few tries solar was getting the hang of it and was able to get it to not crash into things. After a bit he handed it back to Raf, "thanks for letting me try, Raf, that was fun."

Raf smiled at him, "you're welcome."

The kids (and solar) turned to look behind them when they heard a ground bridge open.

Optimus, Ironhide, Ultra Magnus, the twins, Elita, Bulkhead, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Tracks walked into the base. They were a little scratched up but no one had any serious injuries.

Solar frowned, "where's Jazz, Smokey, and Blue?"

Arcee answered him, "they're still on the nemesis"

"We're they captured?!"

"No, they're still looking for the relic."

Solar sighed in relief, "oh, okay..."

Ratchet rushed the bots with the most damage to the med bay so he could get the repairs over with and the others stood In the main room awkwardly.

"Hey, Ratch, are ya there?" Almost everyone jumped as Jazz's voice sounded over the com's. Optimus answered

"This is Optimus, what is it Jazz?"

"We need a ground bridge, like, right now..."

Optimus nodded and entered their coordinates before activating the bridge.

Bluestreak and smokescreen ran through the ground bridge carrying the forge followed by Jazz who was shooting through the ground bridge, "close the bridge! There are cons coming through!"

The moment jazz was through safety optimus deactivated the ground bridge and the portal closed.

The three bots took a minute to catch their breath before smokescreen looked around, "well, we got the forge."

~end~