It was rather amusing to watch. Megatron seemed to so desperately want these pathetic creatures, and Optimus could trade them for codes to his doppelgänger in an alternate dimension? It seemed easy. Too easy.

Arcee was kneeling down next to Jack's cylinder, tapping it lightly, fascinated, as if he were some...thing on display at a museum. Jack was just annoyed, but quite fearful at the same time of Arcee. Airachnid hummed slightly in annoyance, wanting to keep the human from her grasp.

"Don't keep me waiting," Optimus barked, and Megatron nodded.

"We want the kids first," Breakdown argued back.

"That can be arranged, I'm sure I could always..." Optimus smiled, though not at all in a friendly way, and Bulkhead picked up Miko's cylinder with both servos, bringing it up to his right shoulder plate before raising an optic ridge, waiting for Optimus, who nodded. Bulkhead smiled and without warning chucked the cylinder with Miko inside, who slammed up to the top of it, having no time to scream. Breakdown's optics widened and he ran forward and caught the cylinder, making the girl inside jerk to the floor. She was lifeless, a crimson red substance was leaking from her head and nose, and the glass of the cylinder was cracked, most likely from where her head may have hit it.

"Oh, Unicron..." Breakdown muttered, immediately feeling guilty for asking for the kids. Jack and Raf looked over at the lifeless figure inside the cylinder in horror.

"Anyone else?" Optimus asked, and Megatron's optics narrowed and he approached, datapad in hand with the codes he had acquired from the other Autobots. He placed it in Optimus' waiting servo, who smiled, and blue optics met orange ones.

"Now, the kids. Gently."

Optimus waved his servo, and Arcee walked over and dropped Jack's cylinder in Arachnid's waiting servos. Bee walked over and only dropped the cylinder on the ground next to the medic, who was looking over Miko. The Cylinder shook and Raf already banged his head against the cylinder from it being dropped to the ground without warning. He whimpered fearfully as he felt blood leak from his nose. He just wanted to be at home.

Once they had all the kids in their possession they ran through the bridge Soundwave had just opened for them, Breakdown first. He ran in and gently set Miko down, twisting the cap off and Soundwave reached in with his slender servos and gently pulled her out. Doctor Darby immediately ran forward as she was set down on a human-sized berth, going through the standard procedures to figure out what could be wrong, thanks to a scan from Knockout.

"She needs to be taken to a hospital," he announced. "There's nothing we can do in the base for her."

"Knockout, she's from a different dimension. How is that going to work when the Miko Nakadai in this dimension looks entirely different than her? The hospital will try to contact her family, and they will have no idea who this girl is!"

"Is it extensive enough that you can't work on her yourself?" Jack asked, looking at him as he sat in Airachnid's servo. He was too worried to be freaked out.

"Well...preferably not."

"Then what if Ratchet re-created the GroundBridge the way it was before to let her back in, and your humans back through?" he asked as he was set down, and he lifted his left foot off the floor as he hopped over to a place to sit.

Knockout blinked.

Why did they never think of that?

"Statement: No guarantee it will work."

"Well, we can try, can't we?"

"We can't afford to waste time!" Doctor Darby replied.

Jack looked over at Miko, where part of her face was already turning purple, and her breathing was raspy and shallow. Raf walked over to her, holding his nose. He sat down, and Doctor Darby handed him a couple tissues. Knockout sighed in exasperation, and Megatron walked over.

"Contact the Autobots."

"Whi-" Knockout knew he didn't or shouldn't need to ask that quesiton as he walked over to the monitor.

"It's not your fault, Breakdown," he muttered as he passed the said mech.

***

"The kids are a bit shaken up, but they seem to be fine," June said, sighing as she looked them over. They were okay. They had gotten them successfully. She only hoped that her kids were, too.

"It's from the...others," Ratchet announced, not knowing what else to call them. He quickly answered the transmission, and only Knockout was there to greet him.

"Have you thought of anything yet?" he asked urgently, and Ratchet knew what he was talking about and didn't want to argue why he was asking at a time like this after seeing his expression and hearing his tone in his voice.

"I have a few theories."

"What if you re-created the same GroundBridge that dragged the kids to the other dimensions?"

"That was one of my theories," Ratchet replied seriously. "The only complication is I would have to do it in the same coordinates used previously, and that was in Decepticon territory. Not to mention one slightly different calibration could cause something much different than what had happened before," Ratchet said seriously.

"Maybe you'd do it the same way you did it before, under stress?" Knockout replied. It wasn't a "do it or I'll cause that stress" remark like he might do if he were evil, it was a genuine "we need you to try, something is wrong" response.

"What's wrong," Ratchet demanded to know, he didn't ask.

"Miko's been injured," Knockout replied seriously. "She needs to be hospitalized. Usually she'd be well on her way by now but-"

"Different dimensions, different Mikos," Ratchet muttered, understanding.

"Try to keep her-"

"Miko's hurt?" Bulkhead shouted, and Ratchet was shoved aside from his own monitor as Bulkhead stood where he did. He smacked into another console.

"Bulkh-!" he cut himself short at remembering why Bulkhead had shoved him aside in the first place. He decided to let it go and only chose another computer to work on as Knockout and Bulkhead conversed. He would have to do it.

He'd have to recreate the dimensional black hole.

***

"To think that this contacts another dimension-!" Megatron smiled, and Starscream swore to himself that Megatron would eventually stroke the datapad by the way he was looking at it.

"My liege," Starscream started.

"Don't you want to actually contact them? We didn't come all this way to simply stare at the codes."

"No we did not, Starscream," Megatron replied, and handed the datapad to Soundwave, who took one look at the codes and attached himself to the computer, sending a transmission request.

It was accepted, and static appeared. Through that static, a silhouette of a familiar Autobot leader appeared, though Megatron smiled evilly when he noted the orange hue of the optics instead of the electric blue.

"Greetings, Optimus Prime. I am Megatron."

~~~

OFFICIALLY FIRST UPDATE FOR THIS BOOK IN SUMMER WOOHOO

So I created a Spotify playlist recently and it decided that when it was announced Miko should be hospitalized (which was a grim moment in my writing and I was in a grim mood) my playlist decided to play one of the happiest songs on my playlist -_-

When I mentioned that the kids were hurt and Miko and Raf had blood related injuries "Bleeding Out" by Imagine Dragons started up XD

And at "dimensional black hole" creepy music started up, making it seem 10x more creepy than it really is.

Sooooo

I've named my playlist "Sans" for the heck of it.

"SANS! STOP PLAGUING MY LIFE WITH INCIDENTAL MUSIC!"

On another note, I got tired while writing and KO decided to KNOCKOUT the fourth wall

(taken from Angelic_Demise)

XD

I need sleep for some reason ._.

Omg a FDA commercial about smoking just popped up and it started out with a guy with a deep voice saying "I don't need your password to hack your identity" and It scared me so bad I thought someone had legit hacked me

The random stuff that happens

I doubt you guys read this far into these Author Notes but they're fun to write anyway