A space bridge portal opened in front of the three cadets as they were being chased by a herd of tigers running after them since they had disturbed their afternoon nap. Out of all the tigers running after them, there was a slightly taller cheetah following in the running crowd for a need in speed.

    “It’s Vector Prime’s portal!” Jolt said halting himself.He points to the portal concealing of  time,dimension,and space all working together for a long future space craft hovering through the time hole crafted by the user itself.   

“YES!” Bud says jumping up and down happy for once.

“We are going to our home!” Jolt and Bud say in unison running around in excitement.

“Do those cheetahs appear to be frozen in time?” Elita says noticing the frozen-in-motion animals not moving a inch or two.   

“They are frozen in time.” A purple,silver,gold,and blue spacecraft drifted through the space bridge in the form of a future battle ship craft.
    “Vector! I knew you would come.” Jolt said gleefully .

“Ow..my shoulder hurts.” The navy blue and yellow femme complains putting pressure on her hurting arm that had spider punctures securely bitten in.

“Be gratefull that you didn’t download any of those animal abilities.” Optimus response to Elita. “You would of been reformatted into a total new form from Rex’s spiders in his laboratory if not for Bud and the Mini-Con Jolt.”   

“Getting bitten is better than a new form?” Elita said to him through bond. “Next time, try being the one bitten.”

The space craft transforms into a giant robot,his two wing blades slide away to the back,two side armor near the wing blades turned into shoulder blades as the tip slid away from the top future ship area,The down front became in half for transformer feet,and last his Autobot based head came out to reveal the ancient Autobot guarding space and time. “I see you came across Prime’s cadet self .”

“He hasn’t heard of my planet yet.” Bud said with a frown.
    “He will later,Bud.” The ancient tells the young organic,turns himself to the young cadet being red and blue. “It’s been quite a while since I had seen a version of Optimus looking young without his battle mask on all the time .”

“How many versions of me are there?” Optimus asks.

“Many, in different universes and dimensions.” The older mech said with a small smile. “You three met Leopride yet?”

The three cadets share a long silence, startled by his question.

“I was the bot that found her.” Sentinel said, as he steps forward.

"Ah, the snowplow." Vector Prime muses.

“How do you know the cubs name?” Sentinel asks.

“I won’t tell.” The ancient mech said picking up the two companions into his elderly Autobot servo. “You also should continue running from those cheetahs after I leave.”