"Wait. Perytons?" Arcee froze in her tracks, confused. Bulkhead was still wiggling his ears around, this time it was a little more rythmic.

"Yeah... We're real," Amberhoof stated, turning her head around to look at the femme as if she were crazy. The large male snorted impatiently. "Sorry dad. Come on, we gotta get back to camp."

"Thats your dad?" Bulkhead asked as they walked.

"Yep, his name is Birchpelt and he leads our camp. He's also kind of like... king of the south western part of the forest," the young peryton replied.

The herd of them continued walking through the forest until they reached a pit in the ground, it was bustling with perytons of all ages, sizes, and colors. They wandered into the camp and every one of them bowed their heads, or moved out of the way. At this point Optimus was on the brink of passing out.

"Take him to Mosswing, she can help," Birchpelt stated, moving his head towards a burrow under the shelter of a fallen log. A frazzled looking doe with dark brown fur and beige splotches stuck her head out of the burrow. Her mossy green eyes landed on them.

"Sire! I heard you say name! I'm here!" she announced, stumling out. She was covered in cobwebs, berry juice, and her wings and tail were tipped a lighter, unsaturated brown. She tripped on some vine wrapped around her black hooves, landing on her back. "I'm here!"

"Yes Mosswing, we know. This buck is in need of your help." Birchpelt gestured over to Optimus. Amberhoof licked his face to wake him up. The med looked over at him.

"I can fix that." she got up as quickly as she fell, trotting over to him, examining his wound. She grab a mouthful of cobwebs stuck to her pelt and placed it on. She kept adding more on until it stopped bleeding. "Well that parts over with, drag him on in and I'll finish up!" she trotted back into her burrow.

"I like her, she's fun," Bulkhead stated still wiggling his ears.

"You can stop with the ears now Bulk," Arcee grumbled. He lowered them sadly. Amberhoof was clearly trying not to laugh at the two of them, while Birchpelt wandered to a different burrow under boulders. A fairly large, black deer hoof print was stamped above it in what looked like paint. Bulkhead glanced around at the other burrows and noticed the hoof prints were on all of them, different sizes, different hieghts, and different colors.

"Amberhoof! Show them the rest of the camp," Birchpelt called from inside the den.

"Yes dad!" she called back. She lead the two around, saying which burrow was for what rank. "There's the fawns, there's the bucks, there's the does, there's Mosswing, there's the elderly perytons, and there's the den for the training perytons!"

-Back in the cave with 'Cons :'D-

"This is the relic?" Megatron asked, looking at his new found treasure. Soundwave nodded once pulling up any information he could on the relic. It resembled a dragons claw, about the same size as an energon shard, pure white and tipped with gold.

"Apparently it can affect ground bridges to turn them into... interdimensional doorways," Knockout read. Megatron looked down at the relic with a slight bit of fear.

"How does it work?" he growled. Soundwave switched to another screen with instructions. He read, and then demanded. "Summon a ground bridge, I must test this relic for myself."

Starscream and Breakdown walked in and stood behind Soundwave. The faceless Decepticon walked in front of Megatron before reaching his hand out, a ground bridge appearing before all of them. He walked back silently behind the others while Megatron pionted the relic at it. He thought of Optimus, how he wounded him, and how much he wanted to personally tear his spark out. The tip of the relic began to glow gold, before a digital pattern spread from the tip to his servo.

The tip opened and a small beast like wisp escaped, floated up to the ground bridge, and burped an image of Optimus into it. The ground bridge turned the exact same color of sky blue as earlier and began to drag in pebbles, boulders, and anything not nailed down. The wisp returned to the relic, deactivating it. The Decepticons were starting to get dragged in, Knockout was already grabbing onto Breakdowns arm and Breakdown was grabbing onto Knockouts arm. "Soundwave! Shut it down!" he yelled.

Before he could a large boulder crashed into his back, and the ground bridge pulled him through. One by one they were dragged through. After Breakdown it closed, dropping them into a snowy forest.