Alpha 'verse. Iacon. Start of the story.

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Ratchet had just gotten back from the bar in that nexus between realities, but even a rousing good poker game with his alternates hadn't helped him to feel better. The murder of his friends Bladewing and Skystriker was just too recent, and the uncertainty over the fate of their newly sparked Seeklet worried him so much that his energy wasn't sitting properly in his tank.

He sighed as he turned into an alley that was a shortcut back to his clinic, and then froze and scanned his surroundings as he thought he heard something. "Hello? Is someone there?"

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[alpha_prime]

Wheeljack shook his helm and said "no I am not leaving Astra"

//Skyfire?// Alpha Prime asked since he had gone silent.

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Ratchet growled in one of his rare shows of temper and tried to slap Wheeljack upside the head. "She's going to Earth, you boltbrain."

//Ratchet said no,// reported Skyfire distractedly. //But now he and Wheejack are discussing bringing Astra to Earth.//

[alpha_prime]

//why would she be taken to earth?// Alpha Prime asked.

Wheeljack ducked and chuckled and unknowingly asked the same question Alpha Prime did "why?"

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"Because," said Ratchet. "I know and trust all the 'Bots on Earth. So Astra'll be safer there."

Skyfire lifted his brow ridges and relayed this to the Prime.