Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Transformers: Prime, but if I did well I would have had Naruto know who his mother was at the very least in the series. I'm a mama's boy so him not even knowing who she was really rubs me the wrong way.

Hey guys, did you miss me? I know that I posted three chapters at once and I had some feedback, positive and a little critical, but I welcome it all and am glad that so many people favorited and followed me and my story.

Now as to why it took me so long to update this story, well I have no excuse other than life just took a big front seat all of the sudden. This past year was my senior year of High School and everything has just been hectic, plus I'm also on a robotics team and I was also busy helping my team win this years regionals (which we did!) and these last few weeks of summer I've had some summer school classes to make my graduation from this horrible public learning system official. And then afterwards I started looking for a job and found one and am "happily" working. BUT now I am done and I should hopefully be able to update more often if the inspiration gods allow it, and my job. But again to all my loyal readers I can't express how sorry I am for this massive wait and hope that one day you can forgive me.

Anyway let's get onto the story, see you at the end!

Chapter 4: New Guardian, To Nominus' Body

It had been an eventful day for Naruto especially considering he had met the legendary heroes his family had told stories about for generations. After he had been let go from Ratchets constant probing and questions about how much energon he could generate and whatnot, he told them that he had to go so his mom wouldn't kill him for being out so late without telling his mom (since the Autobot base was guarded against incoming and outgoing signals that hadn't been adapted to allow them to pass by the shielding). When he was ready to leave optimus had come up to him and told him he had to have one of the Autobots go with him to make sure that he stayed safe should the Decepticons find out about his existence. WIth that Optimus had turned around and pointed to the red bot who he had learned was named Cliffjumper and told him to go with Naruto and act as his guardian. With that Cliff' had transformed had Naruto get in and they left through the ground bridge that Ratchet had opened. It hadn't taken them long for the to arrive at Narutos house, and luckily before his mom got home. As they pulled up into the driveway of the house Naruto turned to Cliffjumper and asked him, "so what's your role on the Autobot team?"

"I'm an awesome badass warrior," Cliffjumper responded. Naruto could hear the proud smirk in his voice as he filled in the energon generating human. Naruto turned away shaking his head smiling at what his guardian had said and walked towards the house to go to sleep.

"Hey Cliff' if you see another car pull up into the driveway it's probably my mom so don't transform yet, ok?" Naruto requested of the warrior. The reason he didn't want his mom to know that he ha found the Autobots was because he didn't want to get her caught up in the war and for her to make him stop going to see Team Prime due to the danger involved. So he decided to hide it for now.

"Yeah sure Naruto whatever you want, but if that car transforms and starts blasting my paint job all bets are off," responded Cliffjumper. Nodding Naruto opened the door to his house and walked in. As soon as he entered he took off his jacket and hung it up on the rung by the front door and kicked off his shoes and started his way upstairs towards his room, the house that he lived in with his mom wasn't big by any standard but it was comfortable and had two stories which he loved when he was younger since their first house was only one story and he'd always wanted to live in a house with stairs. The top floor held his room, his mom's room, a linen closet for towels and such, and finally a medium sized bathroom with a toilet a decent sized sink a shower/bathtub combo that took up most of the space. The bathroom was next to the linen closet with the bedrooms just a few feet past that. Naruto's room was on the left whereas the bathroom and closet were on the right and his mom's room was at the very back of the hallway allowing for it to have more space to be a proper master bedroom. After walking past the bathroom he finally reached his bedroom and opened the door and walked inside to go to sleep after a long and hectic day.

Naruto had woken up at one point in the night when his mom had gotten home and came into his room and kiss on the forehead and apologized for being home so late and that she loved him. After mumbling out a, "love you too" she had gotten up from her position on the floor and left the room closing his door behind her. Naruto had only a brief thought about why she hadnt asked about the red muscle car in the driveway but before he could fully process the possible answers for that he had drifted off back to sleep.

Naruto awoke at 9am on Sunday, he awoke to the sound of a honking horn that was coming from the front of the house where he saw what looked like a red roof of a car. After getting up and opening the window he saw that the car that was honking was actually Cliffjumper and it seemed like he was waiting for him to get the hell up and get ready so they could head to the Autobot base. Naruto looked down at Cliff' and made a motion that showed he would need a few minutes to get ready. After a revving of the engine from Cliffjumper Naruto closed the window, turned around and started to gather some clean clothes for him to wear after he was done with his shower. As Naruto was walking the few needed feet to the bathroom he heard his moms cpap machine making its intake and exhaling noises. The reason his mom even used the damn thing was because her snoring was so bad that when they had first moved to Jasper after a few nights of her snoring they started to get complaints from neighbors about the strange growling noises they were hearing at night and how it was keeping them up at night. After another week of snoring the entire neighborhood had gathered and gotten a court order from the city for Kushina to get a cpap machine so that they all could get some sleep finally. And thus the cpap machine had been introduced into their lives with Kushina's begrudging usage they hadn't gotten a single complaint about her noisy snoring since.

As Naruto was standing in the shower letting the water run down his body he couldn't help but wonder why Cliffjumper had gotten him up so early so they could got to the Autobot base. He severely hoped it wasn't so Ratchet could run more tests on him, maybe they were going to do something else like go search for some Decepticons and bust their heads it is they were going to do he had better hurry up before Cliffjumper starts honking his horn again and wakes up his mom from her much deserved sleep to try and find out what was making all that noise and crush it like a ball of tin foil for disturbing her sleep. Turning off the water Naruto started to dry off his hair and and body and then pulled on his clothes for the day.

With slightly damp hair Naruto walked out of the house in a black shirt, another pair of black jeans, an orange and black tracksuit jacket with his family crest on the back in red (Shippuden jacket) unzipped, and a pair of black combat boots. As soon as he got to Cliffjumper he heard a click and got in, "what the hell took you so long kid, I've been waiting for ten minutes," Cliffjumper said with some irritation.

"Shut up, it's not like I knew at what time you wanted me to wake so you waking me up on a Saturday, I only get to sleep in on the weekends so lay off. And me taking ten minutes is actually pretty good, just be glad I'm not a human girl my age they take ages to get ready," Naruto responded with a flippant attitude not seeing the big deal. (A/N: For the comment about girls taking a long time I'm just basing this off of the amount of girls that came in late to my first hour when I was in school and from what my female friends have told me, i'm sorry if I offended anyone) With Naruto buckled in CLiffjumper reversed out of the parking lot and started to head towards the edge of town so they could ground bridge without being seen by the rest of the populous.

After about twenty-five minutes of driving they were far enough out from town where Cliffjumper could request a ground bridge, "hey Ratchet, can you hook a bot up with a ground bridge to base," Ciff' requested and with a slight grumble from his comms. There appeared a ground bridge about ten feet in front of them and they drove through. Even though it was the third time for Naruto to go through a ground bridge he still couldn't believe that the Autobot had this kind of technology at their disposal. After a few seconds of driving they came out the other end of the portal into the base. With that Naruto got out of the bot and looked around again in awe at the size of the place due to the fact it could house all of the Autobots and anything else they had with them that they might need. While he was looking around Cliffjumper transformed right behind him and started to walk towards Ratchet, "so what's the word doc?"

"Optimus wants you to go out and scan some areas for any sign of energon," replied Ratchet as he began to input the coordinates for Cliffjumper's fuel run mission.

"Why do I need to go out and search for energon, we got the kid now and he can create tons of energon," asked Cliffjumper as he threw his arms and head back in a sigh not wanting to go.

"While it is true that our new human ally has the ability to produce energon, we must always be searching for energon deposits if for no other reason so the Decepticons do not get their hands on them," said Optimus as he walked into the main area of the base just as Cliffjumper was complaining.

"Yes sir," replied Cliffjumper, "can I at least take the kid or Arcee with me to make it a little more bearable," he asked trying to be bored by himself hoping that he could rope in his partner so she could suffer with him or at least the kid that he was protecting so they could bond and get to know each other a little.

"While I would like to allow the backup you requested Arcee is on her own recon mission right now and unfortunately won't be back until later, as for our young human ally Ratchet, me , and young Naruto are going to go see what we can do about repairing the body of Nominus so that Naruto may begin to aid us as soon as possible in our endeavours," replied Optimus with a regretful tone in his voice.

"Fine," said Cliffjumper as he transformed and started to rev his engine a bit in preparation, "open her up Ratchet."

"Be careful Cliffjumper, I wouldn't want to lose my guardian so soon after getting him," said Naruto as the ground bridge opened up and Cliffjumper drove through. After Cliffjumper had left and the ground bridge had shut down Naruto turned to Optimus, "so you need me to give you the coordinates to Nominus' tomb," he asked.

"That would be helpful my young friend, just tell Ratchet the coordinates and we will ground bridge there," said Optimus as he was his hand to Ratchet is a presenting manner. Ratchet was standing next to their main computer terminal waiting for the coordinates to the tomb.

Nodding Naruto walked over and started to tell Ratchet the coordinates that would take them within spitting distance of the tomb of the fake Prime. After getting the coordinates Ratchet turned to Optimus and asked him, "who will operate the ground bridge while we are gone?"

"I will request that Bumblebee come back to base, he is only a few clicks away and should be able to operate it while we are gone," said Optimus with Ratchet nodding in acceptance finding the temporary worker of the ground bridge to be acceptable. The vocally disabled scout while young and energetic could handle the ground bridge well enough should the need arise. With that Ratchet set the timer for the space bridge to close a few seconds after they exited it, and stood in front of the space bridge generator as he and Optimus Transformed. Optimus popped open his door to invite Naruto inside so that the young energon infused human could ride with him. By the time Naruto had climbed up and gotten into the driver's seat the portal had opened and was beckoning them to go through. With that they began their trek to the body of a fake Prime and great deceiver so that he may do good after death.

After exiting the portal and having Naruto give them directions to them tomb since they were still a ways away they finally reached the great metal tomb. Naruto hopped out of Optimus as he and Ratchet transformed, the tomb was sealed so that no one other than Naruto or someone who had access to a large energon cube could enter. Naruto walked up to the tomb and placed his hand on the tomb and called upon the vast quantities of energon inside his body and focused it into the tombs door to open it up. After a second the door started to open by having the metal plates that made up the door start to retract starting from where his hand had been and moving outward so that beings much larger than him could walk through and view the deceased cybertronian. After the metal plates had settled Naruto beckoned Optimus and Ratchet come in as he started to walk inside, after a few steps Ratchet and Optimus came upon the body on the giant metal slab, the body of Nominus "Prime". The former leader of their people and one of the original cybertronians killed in the first waves of Decepticon violence. Naruto looked up at them as they took in the sight of their former leader, "um I know this is kinda a heavy moment but could you maybe lift me up onto slab so I can show you what I've been able to complete in repairs," he asked in a soft voice. After Naruto had said something the two Autobots seemed to snap out of their trance and Optimus knelt down with his hand open to allow their human companion to get a ride up to the burial slab.

"Hmm, his body seems in fairly good condition considering he was believed killed in an explosion," said Ratchet as he began scanning the body to see what systems would need to be fixed or replaced all together. After he was done scanning he saw that only a few systems needed to be fixed or replaced so that the body would be in working order for their new ally.

"Yeah, when I found him he looked pretty good except for a few broken pieces of armor that I was able to fix with some energon welding," said Naruto as he walked over to the bot and rubbed his years long project.

"Yes, that would explain some of the irregularities in the armor I found that showed they were being held together in a way that wouldn't allow them to come off again unless under EXTREME stress, interesting," said Ratchet, "it seems that we have everything we need to fix Nominus' body at the base Optimus," reported Ratchet as he turned to his leader after finishing his scan of the body.

"Good, lets load up the body and start to head home," said Optimus as he grabbed the body of Nominus and threw one arm over his shoulder and started to walk out of the tomb. Ratchet put his hand out and had Naruto hop on and they all started to make their way out of the tomb. "Bumblebee, we need a ground bridge at our current location," said Optimus as he accessed his comms. With a few beeps and whirs a ground bridge opened up not far ahead and the group started to head through as the tomb closed itself back up after they had left its confines.

After arriving at base Optimus laid Nominus' body down on an operating table by the energon tank at the back of the main area of the base. While he was doing this Ratchet had placed his hand down on the human walking area so Naruto could hop off and he himself could get back to work on his normal duties and begin devising what all to fix on the body currently lying on his operating table. Just then a 'beep-beep' sound went off. Looking up Ratchet saw that it was a warning for one of the members of their team being in danger as a sudden drop in their life signal was detected. Looking up and hoping it was just a glitch with this blasted human technology he saw that it was not a glitch and his spark sank in dread.

Seeing that Ratchet face had a look of terror Naruto ran as close as he could to the grizzled med-bot and asked, "what is it Ratchet what's wrong?"

"Optimus, you need to see this," said Ratchet ignoring the human in front of him leaning over the safety railing to try and get a look at the monitor. Optimus walked over to his old friend and looked at the monitor and his face gained a look of worry.

"Have all outgoing Autobots return to base, one of our own is in need of help," Optimus said as he walked over to the team scout and informed him to begin readying himself for battle.

"Optimus, what's wrong why do the others need to come back to base," asked Naruto since he didn't get an answer from Ratchet and he was beginning to get really worried now.

Optimus turned to him with a worried look and said, "its Cliffjumper, his life signal is dropping rapidly."

"What does that mean," asked Naruto in fear for what he knew would be the answer.

"It means that Cliffjumper is gravely injured from fighting Decepticons," said Optimus.

And there we go, new chapter done and done, again so unbelievably sorry it took so long for me to get this chapter out. I had to rewrite this entire chapter from scratch since I didn't like my original draft of it and that took so long since my family cancelled their Netflix subscription so I wasn't able to watch Transformers: Prime to get some inspiration.

Now to those of you who want Naruto characters introduced in this story I'm sorry to say that it probably isn't going to happen past the ones I've already introduced and maybe a passing mention of Minato by Kushina or Naruto. Anyone else might get an off the hand reference but never be mentioned again and will most likely never make an appearance in the series. And to anyone that's saying I need to include more action don't worry next chapter will have some action out the wazoo since I'm basing it off of the first episode and that one was full of fighting, blasting, explosions, and best of all the return of Megatron.

See you all next chapter, hopefully sooner this time that it was for this chapter and whatnot, Peace!

-Stumbo