Gears and Cliffjumper had heard what Optimus had told them about. "Wait a minute, your telling me Megatron is alive!?" Gears exclaimed as Optimus nodded and said through the console "I knew I can't keep this any longer but yes Megatron is in fact alive." Cliffjumper asked with slight fury in his voice, aimed towards Megatron rather than Optimus "Why haven't you TOLD US!?" Optimus replied "I was inebriated, not only did I struggle to say words but my memories were fragmented. So you wouldn't have believed me at the time." Cliffjumper had stopped as he sighed as Gears soon glared at him "Cliff, your overreacting a bit." Cliffjumper glared at Gears "No I do not! I'm just very upset at Megatron." Optimus soon said to them both "You two stop arguing and get to work, we don't have much time with Megatron running around." Before closing the communication call.
"He mentioned he was inebriated, how did he even become inebriated in the first place?" Cliff was wondering. "My guess that the Decepticons was trying to get answers out of him which would explain his disappearance around three days ago." Gears mentioned as he didn't have any hopes for what would happen next. They began to move across the beach analysing the shallow water. "You noticed something down there?" Cliff asked and Gears shook his head "Nope. We should have asked Seaspray to come, he's extremely passionate about sea stuff like this, especially swimming." They looked at each other before Gears started to notice a signal down there. "Coordinates 89, 08, 68. Looks like it's one of those GK Signals with a IJ connection." He said as Cliff attempted to call their Autobot friend "Seaspray? Seaspray! Are you there? Seaspray!" Gears rolled his optics "He's not going to call anytime soon, Cliff."
"Gears, shut your pragmatic mouth up and let me see if I could get a answer." Cliff said rudely making Gears angry. He suddenly finally got somewhere after 3 minutes "Finally! I told you Gears, you got to be patient for once." Seaspray soon replied to him "Cliff, I heard your voice, what's up?" Cliff heard his question and answered "We got a signal underwater and we need your help to not drown." Seaspray agreed to meet them there near the beach as Cliffjumper and Gears waited with boredom. "I kind of want to start fighting Decepticons again." Gears turned to him "How many times did you said that already?" Cliff smacked him around the shoulder. Soon Seaspray's submarine mode was seen near the beach which caught the attention of some humans. "Hey, you two up for a ride?" Seaspray asked as they went towards him and showed him the coordinates. "Oh okay, get in me." As they went inside climbing down the metallic ladder and Seaspray had closed the ladder before diving into the deep water which was a deep blue colour as sand with rocks was below them. There was some common fishes swimming by, like crap and brass.
They began to move downwards as Seaspray was looking over the coordinates on his screen. "We are close now. It should be a more few kilometres underneath us." Soon a soft blaring noise came and immediately, a sort of large signal which was a sort of 4d square where it had this sort of a thick blue circle line around it, three small lines were seen to be separated from from the main circle. There was diagonal arrows connecting the 4D square to the circle. All of them look interested "What is that signal, I ain't ever seen something like it!" Cliff said glancing at both of them. "I'm not sure what that is but we sure didn't find anything normally." Gears answered looking gobsmacked for once. "Same with me, let's go grab it and get out of here as quickly as we can." Seaspray said before pulling out something heavy from the ground with some struggle. He pulled out what looks to be a 8-sided crystal that was a cyan colour, a transparent inside and it seemed to be almost forming into a 4D shape.
"What is this rare crystal?" Gears soon looked as it got inserted inside of Seaspray's vehicle mode. They wiped the water and wilted plants from the crystals. "Now this looks like something different from the usual energon and crystals." Soon Optimus called which Seaspray picked up "Hey, Optimus, look over here." Optimus looked interested seeing the crystal being shown. "Bring it here and do not let the Decepticons get it." Before exiting out of the call. Seaspray began go across the water to get to the river to the Ark. It took a long drive going across from there and immediately when he saw smoke come up, all banter had completely disappeared from Gears and he stood completely quiet remembering the smoke that came from the mall. It looked to be a simple BBQ but to him, he hated smoke with a passion as he sat down with his hands on his legs.
"Gears?" Cliff turned around noticing the frozen posture. He sat down as well as Gears looked at him, the light completely gone from his optics. "I think we need to get out of here." That's all he said turning his head away from the riverside. "I hate fires." He mumbled to himself as Cliff put his hand on his knee, he assumed that Gears was talking about the whole bombing thing that had happened but he wasn't exactly sure. "I mean, the Decepticons have been a mess for us the last two months or so and I mean a mess." Gears looked towards the small musical symbol that Jazz painted inside of Seaspray and his optics just focused on Cliff, trying to understand his anger. Cliff didn't seem as angry as before he still seemed hostile with a grudge on his mind. Gears knew how much Cliff hated the Decepticons, you had to be real naive to not know so. "Gears, are you even paying attention right now?" Gears snapped out of it and nodded "Yeah I am, don't have to call me like that."
Ratchet had woken up in some sort of long river with silver water, sitting upwards and looking around, seeing a black cloudy sky with black grasslands and wax falling off trees. Clouds were uncomfortably cluttered together and raindrops while visible did not hit on Ratchet's armour. Ratchet's blue optics looked seeing white crystal flowers that looked wilted fall from vines from dark trees with black leaves. He wiped the sweat off his face and started to stand upwards, looking towards the side, seeing blue luminous twigs fallen across the patches of red dirt. Twinkling noises of stars can be heard above despite the clouds covering the sky. It felt rather humid and warm despite the night area. The smell of copper was across the ground as Ratchet began to walk through the marbled mud. Rivers flowed along with clumps of skin, plating and small mammals. But it didn't seem tainted even with the dead bits of other things, it seemed perfect, Ratchet would call it. As the fast flowing river began to bring those to the waterfall as the objects fell downwards.
Ratchet turned to see what looks to be a plastic shaped like a butterfly wing rooted in the ground firmly as Ratchet mumbled "Where am I?" As a clean purple pond was seen nearby. He looked down at the river and he couldn't see his reflection in the pond, it was completely gone. He looked up as he noticed human footprints nearby. He began to walk and immediately static patches appeared far into the horizon. They looked to be a blurred mix of grey, white and black making it a headache to look at those patches. He soon smelt the feeling of energon and walked through the pathway into a patch. And immediately it filled his head with terrifying visions, ones with visible death, squishing bug eggs and animals remains covered in all different stuff which made Ratchet step back from the patch. He noticed that there was more odd things appearing such as small blue flag poles and more stuff such as human and mammal hair. Ratchet coughed and noticed a sew falling out of his mouth which made him instantly fall back. He had felt the metallic taste of the screw.
Soon he immediately got knocked backwards and was transferred into a more gruesome version of the same forest, rib-cages had appeared and the black grass was spattered with human blood. daker red blood was seen on the stone making a picture of those who had survived in unfortunate circumstances as human handprints were seen on the logs where trees were cut down and branches fell into the rivers and sewers were blocked and were unable to release waste. Dying meows, animal noises and quiet human screaming was heard. Not too loud neither too quiet. Ratchet thought he heard someone behind him and turned seeing a human who was bleeding. Ratchet tried to stabilise her pulse and could feel her heart beat starting to fall downwards. "No! No, no, no!" He said trying to not get her killed before he noticed some of her skin fell fell off from her body as he dropped her and she disappeared into the floor.
Ratchet turned around seeing that there was someone behind himself as Ratchet turned around seeing a large silhouette with wings, red optics and snarky smile on their face. They shot at Ratchet as he could feel the burning pain around his chest with energon leaking downward "What is this?.. Get me out of here!" He yelled but no one came to help him as the silhouette who looked like Starscream seemed younger and less taller along with a more fixed and clean appearance pushed Ratchet and made him fall down in the ground and Ratchet clipped through, landing in a large desolate area, this time with a night sky and red grass. There was red flowers across the area but Ratchet only could sense it as he couldn't see anything and his face felt like there was dry stains that had feeling of discomfort on his face and there was fruit seeds in the ground. He brushed his hand over the red flowers which soft and silky as he could feel liquid flowing out of his chassis as he heard something behind him and turned around before it ended. Ratchet soon woke up sweating and coughing as his cough cancelled out his screaming. He sat up trying to calm his breath down as he got up from his berth as he turned off his own alarm. He began to check over his room which seemed relatively clean surprisingly despite one or two papers draped over the chair and the human's plush still being there.
Ratchet wiped his face before moving out of the area. "Primus damn it, I'm not getting any sleep tonight. I should get going." Immediately Ratchet began to pull the sheets on the berth and began to move across the area as he put his book about dreams on the desk before leaving the room while walking through the hallway, it seemed oddly quiet and silent for a usually busy area and most of the furniture still had to be set up around. He could still feel the numb pain around his arms. Even though they didn't hurt anymore and the itches seemed to have gone away actually. He began to hear noises, although they were mostly faint and muffled. Soon he was about to go through the doorway as he heard someone who was quite young voice say quite loudly and happily "Hey, Doc, I just came here." As Ratchet had a small smile on his face with his arms behind his back.
"Hey how are you doing?" Ratchet asked.