Jasper was in ruins, casualties were high, eighty percent of the autobot populance was wiped out and hundreds of humans were killed. Of the wreckers, wheeljack was the only casualty but he was salvagable. Bumblebee had taken shrapnel to his voicebox, eliminating any means of comunication from him asides radio and audio clips. Sari had taken a hit to her back from a drone, it wasn't life threatening but she was in lots of pain due to where it hit, right between the wings. Hound had taken one of screamer's rockets to the side which was being repaired by Jolt and redlight. Optimus was in a critical condition and under constant watch by perceptor and Ratchet. Jazz had been torn in half and was barely operational. Jack, Arcee, Chrystal Widow, Ultra Magnus and Fixit got away with only minor scoring from blasters and Jack's side was dented inward which was very uncomfortable.

Jack, Arcee,Airachnid, Bumblebee, Ratchet and Ultra Magnus were gathered around the berth which held Optimus as they waited for Perceptor to give the verdict on the Prime's chances of survival. Perceptor transformed back to his primary form and sighed.

"Will he-?" Jack began but couldn't finish it.

"He will survive but will be out of action for some time." Perceptor informed them with a soft smile. "Two vorns at the earliest."

"But that's over a hundred and sixty years!" Jack protested. "Can't we do something?!"

"Well, we could in theory use the All-spark to save him the recovery time but I believe that such a set of actions would be nigh impossible without access to space-travel or the exact location of the allspark." Perceptor explained as he shook his helm.

"If there's a chance we can save Optimus, we must take it." Ultra Magnus spoke up. "We can use my ship, it's still in one piece."

"Okay but there still remains the problem of where the allspark is located."Ratchet interjected gruffly.

"The...the key, will guide you." Optimus managed.

"Seriously?" Arcee asked bluntly. "What 'key'?"

A section of Optimus' chest armor opened up and a small (by cybertronian standards) key slid up then Optimus pulled it out and handed it to Jack. "Jackson, find Vector Sigma, it will...guide...you."

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Planet quintessos

Twisted and horrid walls on the inside of a lab shot blood red and deep orange under the light of the instriments. They ranged from mutators, repair devices and disection tools. A being with five faces watched a monitor, it had ben spying on the autobots for months, with the Prime in a weakened state, now was the time to launch it's plan. A device flashed and beeped and the faces rotated to one which looked thin and maniacle.

"Hmm, Decepticons..." Chuckled a deep rasping voice. "...Perfect."

The monitor showed a purple shuttle with the con logo fly past the orbiting lab. A side door opened up and several cons were ejected, most were barely functional, one in particular caught the quintessessions optics, Megatron. This may be just the opertunity to kill two sharkticons with one blast so to speak.

"Sharkticons, collect the decepticons, alive." Ordered the fattest face of the quintessesion. Two creatures which looked like rounded fat sharks with mace tails nodded and stormed off towards the airlock. All the faces of the quintessession chuckled evily.