Sorry about that! I updated the wrong chapter for a second. Sorry it has taken so long! UGH! I feel so bad! I hope you do forgive me. School has started and now I have even less time then in the summer. But I will update as much as I can between school and my costume, that's right, I'm making a costume this year. But its only for school because I have to help my dad with his haunted house this year. Well, enough of my life, To the story!

Chapter 5

When I arrived at the base, I saw that I was a little before Miko and Raf this time, but they came in about 30 seconds after I got there.

"We cannot allow Megatron to send Dark Energon thru his space bridge. If we fail, The dead of Cybertron will rise, swarm thru its vortex, and invade earth, bending humankind to Megatron twisted rule." Optimus explained. Thinking about millions of zombie Cybertronians destroying earth sounded creepy and made me shiver.

"Optimus, I've pinpointed the location of Megatrons space bridge, high in earth orbit." Ratchet said turning to Optimus.

"Out of our reach," Optimus simply said. "Okay, so you guys don't fly, but can't you just ground bridge there?" Miko asked, standing next to Bulkhead.

"A ground bridge has limited range, stretched all the way into orbit, Its vortex could snap! And scatter us to the stars." Ratchet explained. Miko fell silent, probably thinking what that would be like.

"since Megatron is likely already in transit, I'm afraid we must take that risk." Optimus said as he turned towards the ground bridge. "Reaching the space bridge first is the only way of stopping him." Optimus added.

Just then we heard a horn coming from the tunnel entrance. Arcee came around the corner with Jack. They came to a stop, and Jack got off and took off his helmet. "Hey, guess who's back." Jack said looking at everyone with a smile. "Autobots, prepare for departure," Optimus declared. Jacks smile turned to a small frown.

"Where too?" Arcee asked. "the final frontier," Miko announced as I walked next to her. "Space?" Jack asked. "I-i-i thought they didn't have anyway of getting there." Jack asked in a whisper voice. "they don't, not really," Raf added as Bumblebee lowered Raf to the ground. "But they'll have to try ground bridging." I added as I shrugged.

Jack looked up, "Be seeing ya?" Jack asked. Arcee shrugged slightly. Ratchet activated the ground bridge. "Be careful Bee?" Raf asked. "I will" Bumblebee answered. "I'm so jealous!" Miko said as she stood beside Bulkhead. "don't even think about following me" Bulkhead warned as he walked to the green vortex.

"Optimus, if you leave me on a planet teaming with humans, I will never forgive you." Ratchet said. "until we meet again, old friend." Optimus said as he put his battle mask on. "Autobots! Roll out!" Optimus called. Optimus, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee Transformed and speed-ed towards the ground bridge.

I walked next to Raf. "Do you think they'll be alright?" he asked really worried. "I know they'll be alright." said with a small smile. 'It appears the Decepticons have sustained serious damage to their interstellar navigation system.' I heard Optimus say thru the com-link system. 'Huh, that's my handiwork. Bulkhead comm ed'.

Great job Bulkhead, without the dish, Megatron will unable to aim the space bridge at Cybertron. Optimus said.

"Don't the Decepticons know where there own planet is?" Raf asked looking at Ratchet. "Naturally, but Cybertron is many light years away, to reach there target there aim must be astronomically precise." Ratchet said

'If Megatron went thru the trouble of rendezvousingwith his space bridge, he must have an alternate targeting system, a remote one.' Optimus explained.

"from what i know of earth technology, I doubt there exist a single radio telescope dish on this planet powerful enough to pinpoint Cybertron." Ratchet said.

"what about whole bunch of linked radio telescope dishes, like the giant size array in Texas?" Raf asked as he looked on the computer.

"Ya, would that work?" I asked, Ratchet lunged forward, causing all for of us to jump backward.

"Zip-ip-ip-ip! This is not child's play." Ratchet said.

'good thinking Raf, Ratchet, have agent Fowler alert the array staff of the security hazard.' Optimus told Ratchet.

"YOU! SOLDER!" we all turned to where Fowler was to see he was sitting up. "your out of uniform, put on some pants!" Is what Fowler said before collapsing on the bed.

"does he know Fowler's...condition?" I asked. "That may be a challenge." Ratchet said.

Raf got back to the computer, and started typing a little. "I can't get passes the array's firewalls, there too thick." Raf said in disappointment.

"You, actually think you could keep the Decepticons out?" Ratchet asked with interest. "Maybe, if I could get in," Raf said. "wait, Raf, what if we could get you all the way in, like, inside the building," Jack suggested. "I could log into there internal network on the other side of the fire wall."

'the risk is too great, the decepticons will be there, perhaps even on site,' "Optimus, with all do respect, you said it yourself, this is bigger than the safety of 4 humans." Jack said.

"ya, we let the cons win, we're fragged with everyone else on our planet." Miko added.

"And if we go, we'll have a better chance of defeating the Decepticons." I said.

There was a short pause before Optimus spoke again. 'Raf?' Optimus asked. Raf looked at us for a second and thought, "I wanna give it a shot." he said looking to Ratchets computer.

We walked thru the vortex, it opened up to a building. We jumped out, I felt like I had just had myself scrambled. "That'll take some getting used to." Jack said rubbing his head. "Ugh, my brain hurts." I groaned as I look to see everyone groaning.

We shook off the feeling and looked to the building, it had lots, and I mean, lots of satellite. We ran from where we stood over to the door. We came to the room we needed to go to for Raf. "Miko and I will stand guard for a few minutes, you stay in here while Raf tries to get into the network." I told Jack. He nodded and stood by Raf.

I grabbed Miko's wrist and pulled her to the door. "wow, its empty," I said as I opened the door. "ya, it was easy to sneak in a high security place like this." Miko said. "ya, for a high security place, has very low security. Wonder why." I said.

"Hm, maybe its there lunch break." Miko suggested. "nah, there would probably be at least some guards. Come on, lets go see where Raf is at." I said.

We closed the door to the room and walked back to the computer. "the security sure is lax in this place." Miko said walking up to Jack and Raf, I followed. "ya, not a soul in sight."

"I'm in!" Raf exclaimed. Then his face changed to worried, "And so are the Decepticons."

"What?" Jack asked, "already?" I gasped, "How can you tell?" Miko asked.

"Schematics, with the same alien math's we saw on the ship. But this time, i can download it!" Raf said grabbing his thumb drive. "Great! Lets get downloading!" I said.

"It's got to be the space bridge!" Miko told Raf. "The Decepticons are syncing it to their dishes, but I can sync to them." Raf explained.

"Will they know?" Jack asked a little worried.

"Even if the decepticons see that I'm in the system, they'll have no idea I'm 'in the house'." Raf explained.

"There locked on to Cybertron, but not for long." Raf said typing at the computer. "the dishes are heading back to Cybertron, I'll just undo that again." Raf said looking at the computer.

"What happens when the cons' realized there being punked?" Jack asked. "its only Virtual contact, you know, like online gaming." Raf clarified. "or chat-rooms." i added. "Ya, Jack, what are the cons' going to do, there probably, like, 1,000 miles away." Miko said.

I thought i heard some clicking above me so I looked up. I yelped to see a tentacle looking think. It darted towards Raf, only to have Jack jump on it to miss him, and knocking Jack off. Jumped on it to buy Raf some time. The tentacle thing knocked Miko onto itself, after I had fallen off. I looked up to see Jack and Miko across the room with the tentacle thing.

"i won't let them log on again." Raf said. "I'll try to hold it off." I said forming my gun on my arm. I watched the tentacle swinging Miko and Jack around, trying to get them off so it could go to Raf.

Then, without waring, the tentacle came around to me. I tried to shoot it down, but it was too fast and a small target. It came strait towards Raf, I kicked it away a little, but when I tried to kick it again, it grabbed my leg, and threw me across the room.

I landed hard on my back and neck, but nothing bad, I have been thru worse. I looked up to see it was going for Raf. "Raf!" I yelled as it was darting towards him. But just at the last minute, he jumped up from his chair, and grabbing the thumb drive from the computer.

Raf jumped over the computer screen and landed on his feet, then running over to the wall the rest of us where at.

I looked at Jack then to Miko who had grabbed an ax. Charging, she did a battle cry and swung at the tentacle, missing and being knocked to the wall. The tentacle grabbed the ax Miko had dropped and was there in front of us. "You handed it an ax?!" Jack asked with a lot of fear. "Not good." Raf added.

I was about to form a sword from my gun, but the tentacle backed away and out of the room.

Without warning, I saw Jack get up and start running. I didn't know why, but I followed him. "Way to jinx it Miko." I said panting as I ran down the hallway. We burst thru the doors to find a giant Cybertronian, I'm guessing, was on the roof of the building.

I really don't know why it was a good time for Miko to take a picture of the Decepticon. I gave her a dirty look and she put her phone away. I looked back up to see it had taken a picture of all of us. It transformed into a jet of some type and flew off.

"why is he leaving?" Miko asked looking up, I looked down to Raf to see him walking toward two big wires cut by the ax.

"He's cut the hard lines, the dishes are locked onto Cybertron, for good." Raf said with disappointment.

"Raf, you did your best." I said putting my hand on his shoulder.

Once back at base, we found out that the only thing we missed was the fight.

"Optimus, I'm registering a rapidly expanding mass in their space bridge vortex! One with a peculiar energy signature." Ratchet said.

'Dark Energon' Optimus confirmed.

I then noticed that Fowler was awake and behind me.

'Ratchet, we must destroy the space bridge, there's enough live energon coursing thru it to achieve detonation but we lack the fire power to ignite it.' Optimus added.

"If I knew how the space bridge was engineered, I might find a technical way of accomplishing that feat." Ratchet replayed.

"um, would schematics help?" Raf asked offering his thumb drive. I looked over to Ratchet.

"Optimus, I must say, the space bridge is our soul hope of ever returning to Cybertron, are you certain its destruction is our only option?" Ratchet asked. I looked back at the screen, very impatiently.

'I am afraid so.' Optimus said. "then by all means, let us light our darkest hour." Ratchet said.

After Ratchet got the data on his computer, he instructed the Autobots to where they needed to be.

"these things are getting closer, that's bad right?" Fowler asked.

'Ratchet, we're in position.' I heard Arcee say.

''Arcee, pay close attention" Ratchet said before instructing them further.

"Now follow the line from the flow regulator to the energon pump, there should be a valve." Ratchet instructed.

'I see it' Arcee reported.

"Good. To turn all that power against itself, all you need do is reverse the current." Ratchet explained.

'Current Reversed.' Arcee reported again.

"YES! Right?" Fowler yelled as he did a fist pump.

"I'll ready the ground bridge." Ratchet said as he walked away from his computer.

"hope this works." I said looking at Miko and Raf.

Ratchet was back at his computer immediately. "Optimus, the ground bridge is ready and waiting!" Ratchet said.

It fell silent as we all waited for an answer. I leaned on the railing, grabbing it hard. Raf was the first to break the silence. "do you...think there..." Ratchet looked at his wrist gadget. "4 life signals, one very faint." Ratchet answered. His answer only helped the part of me that wanted them to be alive, now my mind was racing to which Autobot was hurt?

We all looked to the ground bridge to see Optimus come thru. Next to see Bulkhead come thru, Miko rejoiced, running to him, as Jack and Raf worried.

Next, we saw Bumblebee come thru the vortex caring Arcee. Jack and I went up to Bumblebee. I look at Jack. Miko put her hand on his shoulder.

"we lost one this week, by the allspark don't let it be two." Ratchet said.

Jack walked up to Arcee and put his hand on her's, then looked up to see her open her eyes.

"Arcee" Jack said with a lot of sadness in his voice.

"Jack, really? There are other motorcycles in the world." Arcee said wearily.

"But, your my first." Jack added.

"And Megatron?" Ratchet asked all of a sudden.

"Not even he could survive ground zero." Optimus answered.

"Prime." I heard Fowler yell. "I didn't get to thank you bots' for the save, I owe you one, we all do." Fowler said as he disappeared into the elevator.

Bumblebee helped Arcee to stand. Miko walks over to Optimus.

"So, is this the part where you say good-bye and tell us to forget we ever saw you?" Miko asked. Optimus just looked at all of us.

I drove down the road towards my apartment. I was glad we got to be with the Autobots. They have been good friends the past few days, how could we just walk away from everything we have been thru.

A/N: I'm going to have CJ have a connection with each Autobots. Not just one because I can't decide who to do. Next is Masters and students. Just a hint of what CJ's science project will be is some sort of gun. I don't own X-men Evaluation or Transformers prime