"Greetings, Optimus Prime. I am Megatron."

The Autobot on the other side of the screen smiled.

"The ruthless leader of the Decepticons, no doubt?"

"Indeed. I have contacted you so we may conquer both dimensions and rule them together. With our combined armies, we will be unstoppable."

"You forget one thing. We don't have a means of crossing dimensions."

"Ah, but I know that Ratchet made it happen before, he can most certainly do it again."

Optimus thought for a minute, before smiling a little.

"Yes, indeed, especially when one of their human friends is injured."

Megatron raised an optic ridge. "What do you mean?"

"Do you recall the loud human femme at all?"

Megatron shook his helm. Now that he thought about it, he had never seen the Autobots' human pets, save for Jackson Darby. Though, he had known about them through the others.

"I've heard she is annoying and tiresome."

"She'll be taken care of before long."

Megatron raised both optic ridges this time. "How so?"

"She will either die from her injuries, or she will receive the proper medical treatment needed, though I reckon it would cause suspicion if it were in this dimension."

"So Ratchet would need to create the bridge between this dimension and yours," Megatron finished, starting to understand.

"Indeed."

"But the bridge would be located at their base, which is shielded-"

He cut himself off. "Unless the bridge has to happen in the same coordinates as it did before..."

Optimus nodded once, and Megatron smiled as a plan started to form in his processor.

"I have an idea."

***
"How is she doing?" Jack asked his fa-Jason as he examined her for the fifth time in the past twenty minutes.

"If she doesn't receive-"

"Okay, the answer is still the same," Jack replied, cutting him off. "Why can't you do anything?"

"I need a team and a sterilized room to work in."

Jack sighed and walked away, sitting down on a crate next to Raf a few feet away. Raf looked over at him.

"Same condition. She's holding on," Jack mumbled, resting his cheek in his hand as he stared at nothing in particular. Raf studied him for a minute, the strands of his raven black hair against his face, his bright blue eyes, and his grey shirt over a white long-sleeved one, down to his blue jeans and blue and white converse-style looking shoes, before trying to imagine Jack as him, with a sweater vest over a large button-down T-shirt, glasses, and jeans that severely bagged at the ankles, and oversized sneakers, along with glasses. He didn't think it matched him at all. And yet in this dimension that's who he was. And he was a male version of Miko that kept most of his features. He took off his glasses for a minute in thought, looking around. The world was a blur to him. He could barely make out shapes and objects.

How can the other me see without these?

He shook his head and sighed before putting them back on.

"How weird is it?" he asked, turning back over to Jack, who looked over at him with an expression that meant "please elaborate".

"Seeing your dad?"

Jack looked away again, his expression becoming unreadable.

"It's different."

"You seem...tense with him-"

"Well maybe I am," Jack interrupted. Raf went silent. Jack's family business was none of his business.

"I'm sorry," he muttered after a minute. Jack nodded.

"I'm sorry too. I didn't mean to snap."

Raf nodded and got off the crate, walking away. Jack sighed and shook his head.

***

"I've got it!" a voice shouted in the main room, startling everyone in the base. Bulkhead ran in and collided into a railing, making the three humans in the room to topple over.

"You've fixed the bridge?"

"Technically I didn't fix-" Ratchet started, and Bulkhead realized he could go into another one of his science rambles.

"Ratchet!"

"Yes, the bridge should go to the other dimension! Now that I know what I need to do, traveling back and forth from a GroundBridge portal to a two-dimensional portal will be easier."

By now the others had come into the room to see what was going on.

"Will it become a black hole?" Arcee asked, folding her arms over her chest chassis.

"Possibly. I'm not entirely sure how the process will go now that it's a deliberate attempt to make this happen, I've never done this before."

Optimus walked up to the console and typed a bit, waiting for a minute before the screen became static for a second before a clear picture emerged. Megatron was on the other side, his blue optics staring at Optimus intently.

"How is Miko doing?"

"She's holding on," Megatron replied, his voice having a grim edge to it. Optimus nodded once.

"Ratchet is ready to try. Hopefully, we will be to take her as well as the others, and you will receive Jack, Miko, and Raf."

"Let us hope that that is all that happens," Megatron replied, sounding tired and slightly worried. GroundBridge travel in this form had never been done before, anything could happen.

Optimus nodded in agreement. "We may be delayed, however. We were in enemy territory when it happened, and making it happen again with those same coordinates is crucial."

"Understood."

Bulkhead walked up next to Optimus, and the Prime stepped back to give the wrecker some room.

"This is gonna sound really weird, especially when I'm saying it to you, no offense," he muttered, before clearing his throat.

"I just wanted to thank you and your team for taking care of Miko."

Megatron nodded, before the corner of his mouth tugged upwards into a small friendly half smile.

"Of course."

And the visual feed went to static for half a second before cutting out, leaving the screen black.

"We don't have all day," Ratchet called. The Autobots gathered and watched Optimus expectantly, who was watching Ratchet with the same expression. Ratchet sighed and vented in to speak, and everyone turned their attention to him.

"Make sure the coast is clear, and I'll send the bridge again to send the humans through, before sending the dimensional portal itself. Test it first. I want to make sure the humans won't be harmed. I'll contact the others and make sure whatever you throw through is fine. Once the exchange is complete, I'll bridge you back, and take Miko to the medical facility with Nurse Darby."

"Hopefully we don't run into any trouble," Arcee muttered.

"Autobots, transform, and roll out!"

Ratchet pulled the lever, activating the bridge. The room filled with a green hue as the colors of the GroundBridge reflected off the Autobots, who by now had transformed into their vehicle modes. Optimus drove through first, and the others followed, Bumblebee bringing up the rear. They transformed on the other side of the bridge and stopped in their tracks, frozen to the floor.

"I've been waiting for you."

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