Up in the air, going across the Atlantic Ocean, was Ultra Magnus's cruiser that he took on the trip to Quintessa, and the trip down to Autobot City where it inevitably crashed. The ship was cleaned up and fixed back right up to its normal self. While it wasn't fixed for long space travel, it could still be used to travel around the globe. But while they'd be flying, they needed people posted for every position on board the vessel to keep it running like a well oiled machine.

Down in one of the parts of the ship, near an open energy chamber was a small crate that had Allspark fragments sitting inside of it. And in that part of the ship, two of the Dinobots were sitting around keeping guard while the ship kept on flying. On the floor above, Sunny Flare and Outback were sitting on some chairs in the cargo hold while watching a television program on the monitor.

In the command control center of the ship, Indigo Zap and Hound sat in the main pilot controls as they flew in the air, buckled up tightly. They were taking control of flying the ship while everyone else either maintained the rest of the controls or went about their business. But for now, their jobs were to keep their eyes focused on the sky in front of them and not crash into anything.

What Indigo Zap didn't see was right behind her snickering was Sour Sweet and Smallfoot, who were trying their hardest not to snicker. In Sour's hands was a pie in a pie pan that was fresh, and she was ready to throw it. But just as she was about to make her move-

"-If you smash that pie in my face I will throw everyone around in this ship in a barrel roll."

Sour refrained and she frowned. "Party pooper."

"Lemon Zest asked you to do this, didn't she?"

"Uh... no."

"I'll take that as a yes then." Indigo said, keeping her focus on driving.

"Aw... where there goes that." Sour said, setting the pie down on a unused space. "Sorry, I'm a little bored. Sugarcoat said she was going to be done with making dinner and she hasn't yet."

"Just give her time."

Speak of the devil, the doors opened up and Sugarcoat came in with food in their hands.

"I brought dinner," Sugarcoat said, setting down a pizza box.

Indigo turned her head and grinned. "Ooh, whatcha ya get?"

Sugarcoat looked at Indigo Zap with a deadpan look on her face, holding the pizza box. "A bucket of chicken."

Indigo just gave Sugarcoat an awkward expression as she replied bluntly. She was obviously not holding a bucket of chicken, but then again, she did ask a rhetorical question.

"I hope you like it extra flat and crispy." Sugarcoat said raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, yeah, stupid question, I'm sorry."

Sugarcoat just shrugged it off and opened the box. "Can anyone call Lemon Zest and Sunny up here? Tell them the pizza's here."

"I'll call them." Sour replied. She walked over to the side of the door leaving the the main control room and tapped a button. "Girls, dinner's here. You want it?"

"We'll be up in a few minutes Sour!" Lemon called from her intercom.

"We'll be there shortly dearie." Sunny replied.

"Okay girls, if someone can hand me a cutter blade, I can slice up this pizza for you all. Smallfoot, would like a piece?"

"Absolutely, I'm starving!" Smallfoot grinned.

Sugarcoat pulled out a small knife and threw quick swipes going across the pizza, making perfect slices for all 6 of them. "That should be enough for you guys. Hopefully..."

The sudden alarm on the control consoles alerted everyone in the control room and they stopped talking. A red flash from one of the controls kept on blaring a red alert. With a quick reaction, Sugarcoat, Sour, and Smallfoot ran to their stations and stood to their control pads.

"Girls, report." Hound spoke. "What's setting off the alarm?"

Sugarcoat squinted her eyes as she stood at her controls. "We're picking up multiple Cybertronian life signals. But I can't seem to identity them. No idea if they're Autobot or Decepticon."

"Are they appearing to be hostile? Indigo. Turn the ship around. Maybe we can get a good luck at their vessel."

"Turning around!" Indigo repeated. She grabbed the wheel control, and started to turn it to the right to turn the ship around, along with pressing her feet on some of the pedals on the floor. "I'm surprised you took the time to install gas pedals into this ship."

"Thank Highbrow, he's the one who put them in." Hound replied.

The ship slowly began to turn itself around to look at their unidentified passers. Sugarcoat's eyes squinted as she stared down on the radar, watching as the cruiser near them was spinning to the front of them as they turned around. But as everyone turned their eyes to the front windshield of the ship to stare out the front, everyone's hearts sank.

Right in front of their ship was a giant black Tyrannosaurus Rex with purple claws, with thrusters raising it in the air on its back, and Decepticon insignias on its knees. Its yellow eyes flared as it focused on the orange and red spaceship with a hum. Out from the sides of its chest, a pair of lasers were unloading, ready to blast the ship.

"Trypticon. Alright, evasive action everyone!" Indigo yelled. "Fire photon torpedoes!"

"We can't." Sugarcoat replied.

"WHAT!?"

"We don't have any torpedoes!"

"Okay, then lasers!"

"We can't get them active!" Sour screamed.

"Well, ray shields!"

"Too late." Sugarcoat said with a deadpan look, staring at the giant Tyrannosaurus in front of them.

The colossal dinosaur launched two hard laser beams that created a few lines on the top of their ship, creating a few sparks and explosions on the top of the shuttle. The dinosaur could only laugh as he had hit them, and he watched as the ship began to rattle and shake from the impact.

Inside, Indigo and Hound were holding onto their seats and to the controls, trying to keep the ship stable. Everyone else was being tossed and thrown around. Smallfoot and Sour fell onto the ground as the ship shook to the left, and poor Sugarcoat had to hold onto the controls as the entire vessel threw itself to the side.

Everyone else on board the shuttle wasn't having a good time either. Sunny Flare yelled as the ship threw itself to the side, all the while Lemon just squeed in delight from the action. To her, it was just like riding a ride at an amusement park. And the Dinobots kept slamming into the walls as the ship kept rattling.

Down in the spark chamber, poor Snarl and Slag were trying to hold onto anything that could help them from banging into the walls or the controls, but alas they had no luck. Poor Snarl was tossed against the mainframe, and Slag was thrown against a wall. But as the ship flung itself to the right, Slag's hand threw out and slammed the box holding all of the Allspark fragments which fell from the table, and the little fragments all flew out of the crate landing right near the energy chamber which was left wide open. .

Slag moved himself to try and reach them but as he did, the ship threw itself to its side again, forcing the Dinobot to roll to the side, not giving him any space to try and grab them. As if it wasn't bad enough, the fragments all shushed and threw right into the open spark chamber. As soon as all of them went right in, the chamber door slammed shut, sealing the fragments in.

Slag's face just drooped. "Uh oh..."

Back on the bridge, everyone was struggling to still hang onto something as they kept getting tossed around.

"Okay girls... report!" Indigo yelled.

"Uh..." Sour moaned as she tried to latch onto a control console to read the gauges and energy meters. "Whatever weapons we have are offline... the shields are down... our bathtub just exploded... the kitchen's on fire... and-aw... we just lost the Animated Network."

"Scrap." Hound grunted.

"I know. I really wanted to see the Crystal Gems too!" Sour called back.

"Can we fight back?" Hound asked.

"Well according to the damage control and the little red light that says no... uh... No." Sugarcoat said with a deadpan look.

"Okay, uh..." Indigo stuttered. With a snap of her fingers she pressed a button. "Sunny? Is everything okay down there?"

"I'm afraid I'll have to talk later dearie! Life support is failing, decks three through seven are gone, I am currently on fire and the engines just exploded!"

"Great!" Indigo slammed her face against some of the buttons out of rage. But the cry from Sugarcoat got her attention.

"Indigo. All of our power is quickly depleting and we're going down. If we don't get out of this ship, we are going to crash into the sea and probably die upon impact.

"What do we do!?" Smallfoot yelled.

Indigo's head jolted straight up and she snarled. "Okay. As much as I didn't us to stoop down to this, we have no choice. We've got to abandon ship."

"WHAT!?"

"This thing is going down and we don't have any energy to fight back. We have to go." Indigo said sadly. "Tell the others. We need to open up a Groundbridge and get us out of here."

Hound just sighed. "Alright."

Hound pressed a button which turned on a microphone system that spoke all throughout the ship.

"Everyone listen up. We've got to abandon ship. We're about to crashland into the sea and I'm not sure we'll be able to survive the crash. Head to the main bridge and go on through the open Groundbridge. Use it as your means of escape. Over and out."

Hound turned off the system, and before he noticed, the door slammed open revealing Highbrow, Outback, Sunny Flare, Lemon Zest, and Blaster.

"That was quick." Sugarcoat replied.

"We came as soon as we heard. The Dinobots are still struggling to get through the hallways." Highbrow replied.

"Well they better get here fast. Indigo, set the Groundbridge coordinates in and open up a portal right in front of that door. We've got to jump now!"

Indigo did just that, and very quickly did a Groundbridge open up for all of them. Smallfoot held onto Sour, holding her close as she was ready to jump.

"Hang on baby!" Smallfoot yelled as she jumped through the portal successfully.

Sunny Flare and Outback were next and both readied themselves to jump.

Running back to get a good start, she then charged and jumped through screaming. Outback was next to follow, and he ran through and jumped like he was diving off a high-board.

"I'll save you Skipper!!!" Outback yelled as he jumped through.

Sugarcoat and Highbrow were next as they stood in front of the portal.

"Ready my friend?" Highbrow asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be."

The two backed up, and began a countdown.

"1... 2... 3!" The two charged forward and jumped on through, making it to the other side of the portal where the others had crossed.

Hound stared at Indigo, Lemon, and Blaster as they were just standing there holding onto whatever they could as the ship was going down.

"Aren't you guys going in?" Hound asked.

"No, we're waiting for you!" Lemon yelled.

"No, you're going through. I'm not letting anyone be left behind, we've got to get-"

Hound didn't finish his sentence as Blaster just grabbed Hound's arm and pushed him right through the Groundbridge without a second thought. Indigo just stared at Blaster with a deranged look. "What was that for!?"

"He wasn't going in," Blaster shrugged. "Now come on, your turn."

Indigo was about to speak but she looked at the cockpit glass. They were getting further and further towards the ocean ready to crash. Without saying anything else she just jumped on through the portal following after Hound.

Now that they had gone through, Blaster and Lemon were about to follow when the ship shook again, throwing them all the way at the cockpit glass with their bodies spread around the windshield. Behind them, the Groundbridge portal evaporated from its existence, leaving the two alone by themselves.

"Uh oh... hang on Lemon!"

The ship was descending its way towards to the ocean, going further and further down still with flames ablaze on the top of the ship and from the side of the turbines as it made its collision course. Soon enough, it plunged right into the sea creating a big splash of water, sending waves crashing all around it.

Trypticon slowly moved down, staring down into the sea as the ship as it slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean. His eyes gave a short glow and he stared down as his own chest as a purple hatch opened up. A Decepticon flew out of the hatch revealing the Decepticon known as Soundwave who flew out.

"Trypticon. Report back to Megatron. I will seek out any survivors."

Trypticon let out a mighty roar and he fled to the skies, leaving the Decepticon hovering over the ocean. "Rumble. Frenzy. Buzzsaw. Laserbeak. Ravage. Ratbat. Eject. Operation: Assassination."

His chest compartment opened up and several cassette tapes flew out and transformed into their individual warriors who all hovered with Soundwave. Then with a drop, they all jumped into the water one by one to go straight down to the ship's crash. If there were any survivors, they would be the ones to deal with them...

Author's Notes:

Short chapter this time around. Sorry for not having much action for this one. But I'm trying to not drag anything out or waste any more of your time with how tediously long these chapters are being.