KEY
C/n - Cybertronian Name (not Y/n)
Alt – F-22 Raptor Jet + MQ-X Drone (Hybrid Jet/Drone)

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Y/n
Megatron
Starscream
Soundwave
Knockout
Breakdown
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Cliffjumper
Arcee

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I feel a servo on my shoulder, I turn around and barely see Sounders head. Fuck this Prime height, Optimus how damn tall are you? I look down and smile at Soundwave, his signature smiley face plastered on his visor. Megatron clears his throat, I turn to look at him.

"Yes Megatron?"
"Soundwave will show you to your berth room, and other necessary areas on the Nemesis"
"Ok"

I turn and follow Soundwave, he first takes me to the medbay, of course. I can hear Knockout complaining about his finish, but that other voice, no it can't be. The door to the room opens, Breakdown and Knockout arguing over the buffer.

"Hello"
"Knockout let me buff it out"
"I said hello"
"Hi doll"
"Hello"

Soundwave and I enter the room, Breakdown sits the buffer on the table behind him before holding his servo out in front of him. I move beside Sounders and shake his hand.

"Names C/n, you are?"
"Breakdown, this here is my partner Knockout"
"Nice to meet you doll"
"Got a problem with your finish?"
"Some fleshie scratched my door at the start of a race"
"Ouch, must've hurt"
"Not as much as what happened to him"
"Ramming them off a cliff is not equal pain Knocks"

Looking around the medbay, everything seems to be in its correct place. Returning my attention back to the love bugs, I notice that my presence doesn't faze them.

"So, Y/n, how is the future looking"
"What, I'm not Y/n"
"We know you are, only the three of us and the other you knows"
"Does that Y/n know that this is them though BD?"
"Don't think so. Wait, if you two know who I really am, do you Soundwave"
"Yes...this is your...original time"
"So I am supposed to be here and not where I was?"
"That Y/n is...from a future...where M.E.C.H...had won"
"Why don't they fly?"
"Can't, they're barely able to walk by themselves due to losing so many components and Energon"
"Geez, that sounds horrible"

I sit down on the berth beside me, trying to process how many different futures and pasts there can be. Shifter unwraps itself from around my waist, floating in its orb form before changing into a key.

"That's it, well one thing"
"A key?"
"Not just any key, the Omega Keys"
"Omega Keys?"
"One thing that is wrong in my future is that somethings have happened too early and others not at all"
"Go on"

I explain all the events that has happened in my future and everything that hadn't. The three of us then compared them with the current time and other Y/n's time. Everything seems to match up, we just need to find the order in which all of the events happen to prevent those that shouldn't happen until later. Soundwave had to return to his post half an hour ago on Megatron's command. I need to speak to Sounders to see if we can patch up the other me and send them back to their time to prevent any future problems.

"So, we need to arrange everything in order"
"Yes, but first we need to get rid of the other me"
"I could see about patching them up, perhaps Soundwave can help"
"I shall go and ask him then, you two find the other me"
"On it"

We split up, I head towards the main room, Megatron gone to find Starscream. Soundwave typing away at the controls, I tap his shoulder.

"Think you can help get the other me patched up and back to their time?"
":)"
"Good, the duo have gone to get them. Whenever they've been found we head to the medbay"

I turn around to explore the Nemesis as we wait for the others, I suddenly realize something.

"It wasn't the Soundwave from the future that I met, was it?"
"No"
"It was your idea for Shifter? It is a mini-con right?"
"You have...named them"
"Yes"

Upon hearing it's name, Shifter unwraps itself from my waist and floats as a blob near Soundwave.

"I believe Megatron should not know about it"
"He will...find out some...time"
"For now, Shifter can be like Lazerbeak, no one should be able to tell the difference"

Shifter takes the form of Lazerbeak again, flying around our heads before attaching to my chest. I hold in a slight ouch as I'm still not used to having something hang onto me. Soundwave goes back to typing, the silence, minus all the tapping, suggest he is ok with Shifter being Lazerbeak. I could've said it could be one of his former mini-cons, but I don't want to go bringing up the horrible past. I leave the main room just as Starscream walks in and plops himself on the throne, typical Screamer. I notice Megatron hasn't turned up anywhere, and Starscream seems too full of himself for the old bucket to be here, or online.

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Author POV

It's the next day, a sunny cloudy red sky above Cliff jumper as he is driving along a dirt road out on patrol, talking to Arcee over the comm line. They're talking about Cliff's latest fun in New York.

"So, there I am on the lookout when out of nowhere, these high beam light up my rear-view. And then it hits me, I'm illegally parked"
"Another parking ticket"
"Better, the boot"
"Big metal tire clamp, impossible to remove"
"Bingo! So, the local police do their thing, and I let them get all the way down the block. That's when I kick off my shiny new shoe, and bang!"
"New York's finest soil themselves"
"You know me, Arcee. You mess with Cliffjumper"
"And you get the horns"
"Ha ha ha"

Arcee can be seen riding on a sealed road, her hologram Sadie making it look like she's not going down the road without a human.

"Not sure that complies with Autobot rule number one, keep a low profile"
"What can I say? Patrolling for Energon out here in Dullsville gets lonesome. Almost makes me miss the Decepticons"
"Like Jasper, Nevada's a party? We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff"

Cliffjumper gets an Energon reading on his radar, it pinpoints the location of the Energon.

"I'm getting a signal"
"Need backup?"
"Do I ever need backup?"

Cliff hard turns left to go down to the energon signal, stopping as he comes to a crater full of Energon.

"I just found a whole lot of Energon"

A shadow hovers over Cliff as he sits there, transforming he looks up at the culprit of the shadow.

"Decepticons"

One of the turrets on the Nemesis aims and shoots Cliff into the Energon hole before opening some panels to let Vehicons out to fight. A group close to nine vehicons stands above a ledge looking down at Cliffjumper.

"Arcee, about that backup"

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Y/n POV

Knockout and Breakdown return to the medbay with the other me, I straighten up from leaning against one of the berths and look down at the ground, suddenly finding my pedes interesting.

"So, what do we need to do?"
"Patch up the energon leaks, and find a T-cog"
"That last one will be fun"
"Could just make it"
"How"
"Well, you made mine"
"In the future"

We come up with a plan to fix certain things, not mentioning the T-cog again. I write a small note on the large bit of paper we are using, seeing as we don't want this to be discovered anywhere, I suggested good old pen and paper, leaving me to write cause surprise surprise, they can't.

"Well, that should do it, I will go and look around the Nemesis, be nosy"
"I'll call you if we need anything"
"Righto"

I leave the medbay and head to the last place I saw Screamer, Megabucket's throne. I stop at the door, Cliffjumper being held by two Vehicons as Starscream rambles on about the usual. I notice Soundwave standing behind them, strange, I didn't notice him leave, then again, he is very quiet. I notice what Starscream is doing, shoving his sharp pointy fingers and hand into Cliff's chest, I see a small amount of Energon drip to the ground as he pulls his hand out.