Jack was bored senseless. It was scortching hot outside and even the normally chilly base was hot. Miko and Rafael had taken to sitting in a small inflatable pool atop the elevated area. Bulkhead and bumblebee were on patrol while Arcee and optimus remained in base encase backup was needed. Ratchet was surveying for energon deposited via the computer, occasionally taking a note or stopping to loosen his stiff digits. The hot weather reminded jack of kaogilos, a planet his father had told him of. The planet was mainly derset and rocky outcroppings but was home to some colonies of tetramands and pyrosapiens.

"Odd, what are they doing here?" Ratchet asked to himself.

"Dude, I already told you it's the weekend." Miko groaned from the pool.

"Not you Miko, there's a tetramand fleet in orbit." Ratchet explained.

"Tetri-whats?" Miko asked blankly

Jack gave a nervous shrug as he and Rafael exchanged nervous looks which went unnoticed by the now ecstatic Miko and concerned autobots.

"Tetrimands, what are they doing here?!" Arcee asked in shock.

"I do not know Arcee, however if their intent is hostile, I feel we must react accordingly." Optimus reasoned, he did detest violence but knew he at times it was necessary.

"Uh, I'm just going to the roof for a bit." Jack called, hoping the bots were too distracted to notice.

Ratchet gave an off handed wave but continued to monitor the situation. Jack snuck off but instead of taking the elevator which he knew would made lots of noise snuck up the stairs towards the roof. He knew that plumber teleportation array was down for the month so he had two choices, one: call the tetramands for pickup and risk a galactic incident and unhappy girlfriend or two: he risks giving off a lot of energy using one of his two personal methods.

Realising he should get to the fleet's landing area before the bots or cons get there he chose the more risky option. He pulled up his left sleeve slightly, revealing a green and white device. He slid his index finger over the X on it and a square panel slid away to reveal a circular dial. He began to turn it until a humanoid raptor figure appeared and he slammed down the dial. With a flash of green light jacks skin turned red and he grew to eight feet tall, an extra set of armed sprouted from his sides and he gained extra eyes and bigger muscle mass.

"XLR8!...wait...ugh! Not forearms, stupid watch..." Jack muttered in annoyance. "I need to ask Asmuth about this."

Jack sighed and kept from the top of the plato before landing eighty yards away. He jumped again and again. He then jumped only for a rapid beeping noise to be heard. He was engulfed in a flash of red light midair, becoming human again. "Oh SCRAAAAAP!" Luckily he was caught by a muscular, red four armed woman.

"Hello beloved." She smiled as she hugged jack.

"Looma, too tight." Jack gasped in pain, it felt like he was being hugged by breakdown. The tetramand loosened her grip on the raven haired teen just as a groundbridge opened up and the autobots charged through.

"Jack!" Arcee gasped then glared at Looma. "Get away from him now!"

Before jack could explain Looma interrupted. "Ahh, you wish to challenge me? This will be fun!" She laughed as she lunged at the autobots, fighting all four of them easily, even tossing bulkhead around like a rag doll.

"Wait.." jack began only to be cut off again.

"Jack run!" Bulkhead grunted as he was flung into bumblebees.

"I won't be long beloved." Looma smiled with a wink right before she punched optimus in the face.

There was a bright green flash and suddenly a giant white and red being was standing where jack once was. "WAY BIG!"

"A T'skrusk?!" Bulkhead asked in shock. "Where'd that come from?!"

At that point the giant being picked the all up. "Looma, do not fight them, they're my friends."

"Beloved?" Looma asked in confusion. "Why do you keep the company of their kind?" She gestured to the autobots.

"They're friends." With that they were put down and jack hit the omnitrix symbol on his chest, with a flash of light he was background normal. "Besides, beats being around Rook shar."

"What the pit?!" Arcee asked in shock.

"The omnitrix." Optimus nodded in realisation.

"But that's just a myth, right?" Bulkhead asked bumblebee, the yellow scout shrugged.

Jack pulled up his left sleeve slightly and the bots went wide opticed. "It was from my dad, he...he left it for me when he sacrificed himself to stop Vilgax." Optimus nodded in understanding. He now understood June's explanation about Jack's father.

"Beloved, may I ask how you have been?" Looma asked kindly.

"Lately, bored." Jack sighed. "Why are you here anyway, it hasn't been tree years yet?"

Looma smiled at jack. "Jackson, it is tradition to arrive a full five months before."

Jack nodded, he was already used to some of these odd traditions. "Let me guess, fleet in orbit is tradition too?"

Looma shook her head. "No they are just my escort for our wedding."

"Wedding?!" Arcee asked in shock. "Jack, aren't you a little young for this?"

"Actually Arcee he is not." Spoke a new voice. There was suddenly a man in a brown trench coat with steampunk goggles standing there.

"Proffessor paradox, why are you here?" Jack asked in concern, whenever paradox showed something bad was happening.

"Simple, stopping the deceptions." Paradox shrugged.

"What did you mean he's not too young?" Optimus asked.

"Jack is an Anodite much like his aunt gwendaline or great grandmother." Paradox explained. "His actual age is mid sixties although he ages differently."

"Paradox has removed me from the time stream a few times for training." Jack clarified, the bots gave confused nods. To prove his point jack manifested a orb of pink mana and spun it atop his finger like a basket ball before he diminished it into nothing. "I'm sorry for keeping all this a secret."

Optimus nodded then turned to Looma. "Would you be accompanying us to our base?"

Looma nodded before picking jack up and putting him on her shoulder with a smile. "Are you comfortable beloved?"

"I can walk you know Looma." Jack protested.

"I know." Looma hummed as she followed the autobots through the groundbridge with professor paradox already waiting and explaining to Ratchet.
"COOL!" Miko called upon seeing Looma. "Your super muscular, how much can you lift? Can you go super fast? Do you read minds?" She asked like a talking machinegun.

"Sorry jack, I tried." Rafael explained through a sigh.

Looma put jack down and he smiled at his young friend. "Its okay Raf, you did your best."

Looma looked at Raf and gave a snort of disgust. "You're friends with an osmosian?"

Raf gulped at Looma's tone and glare while bumblebee rapidly beeped questions at Raf.

"Your an alien too? KAWAI!" Miko squeeled like a fan girl."...what's an osmosian?" She asked blankly.

"A humanoid who absorbs matter and energy." Raf explained as he touched the ground with his bare hand. Solid stone shot up his arm and coated his entire body before he stood up and shrugged lightly. "Just something I could always do." The cement then drained from him, leaving him looking normal again.

Miko smirked at that. "Showoff contest!" She shouted. With that she rushed to get her guitar.

"Primus, not again." Ratchet groaned as he covered his audios.

I'd like to thank .sunshine for their help with this chapter for their ideas, contribution, support and for just helping in general. You should also see some of their chapters, pretty neat.