Jazz groaned, and he opened his eyes. He frowned in confusion and looked down to see his holo-form hands,

"What?"

He looked up and gasped when he saw the one person he missed the most, 

"MAZIKEEN!"

He ran over to her and put his hands on her shoulder, 

"Hey, open your eyes, Lil M! It's me!"

He frowned as he felt a tug at his spark pull at him away from her, 

"Lil M?"

Mazikeen stepped away from him and slowly opened her eyes. Jazz gasped and took a step back as he saw the blue and purple eyes.

Mazikeen smiled at him, and Jazz shook his head, 

"W-What happened? Why are your eyes different?"

She opened her mouth, and Jazz felt his spark drop at her voice, 

"Something changed when I left,"

Jazz growled, 

"Who are you? What did you do to Lil M?!"

Mazikeen's voice was deeper, darker and sent chills through Jazz's alloys. 

"Whatever do you mean? I am Mazikeen Witwicky,"

"No, you aren't! Last time I checked, Maze was a human femme with a femme voice,"

Mazikeen laughed and crossed her arms with a smirk appearing on her face,

"Oh, darn. I thought I could trick you. I guess you do love her,"

Jazz felt his hands close into fists, 

"What are you?"

"I am Mazikeen-"

"LIAR!"

Mazikeen laughed, 

"You are fun to tease. I see why Mazikeen likes you so much,"

"WHO. ARE. YOU?!"

"Well, if you would let me finish. I am Mazikeen, just a different version of her. I am who she would be if she weren't such a coward,"

Jazz glared at her, 

"Mazikeen is everything but a coward,"

Mazikeen rolled her eyes, 

"She is. She should have sided with the winning team,"

Jazz frowned, 

"The winning team?"

Mazikeen chuckled, 

"It's hilarious that you are so clueless about the one that you love,"

Jazz growled and stepped closer to the look-a-like, 

"Who are you?"

Mazikeen smirked, 

"I am the one that will destroy the Herald of Primus. So I can gain the power that Primus has taken from me. I am the chaos bringer,"

Jazz's eyes widened, 

"Unicron,"

Unicron laughed and winked at him, 

"We got a winner! Although I do find it disgusting to see a Cybertronian hiding amongst humanity, it is peculiar that Primus has chosen a weak, squishy species to be his champion. It will be fun to squish Mazikeen Witwicky,"

Jazz glared at him, 

"Mazikeen is not weak. She will defeat you,"

Unicron chuckled, 

"Tell me, Mech. How do you think it is that I am speaking to you right now? She was too weak to throw me out,"

Jazz felt his spark tug at him, 

"No,"

"Oh, yes."

Jazz!

Jazz shot up in his bed and felt his head hit something and groaned, 

"What the frag?"

"Ow!"

He opened his optics and was shocked to see Barricade holding his own head in pain, 

"Barricade?"

Barricade narrowed his optics at Jazz, 

"Yeah, what was that for?"

Jazz sighed, 

"I...I don't want to talk about it. What are you doing in my room?"

Barricade sighed, 

"Fulfilling a promise,"

Jazz frowned and tilted his head, 

"A promise?"

Barricade nodded and held out his servo. Jazz looked down at it and felt his spark stop at seeing the human currency in his servo, 

"A-A penny?"

Barricade nodded,

"Everyone is worried about you, Jazz. Every time I was awake, I heard Doc Bot mumbling about it, and even if Prowl and I aren't bonded as closely anymore, I know he was worried as well. Obviously, it's not about me, so I know it's about you,"

"Barricade, Prowl is worried about you too,"

Barricade shrugged, 

"So be it. Now, will you listen to me?"

Jazz slowly nodded, 

"Alright,"

"I know I have been in stasis on and off ever since Maze disappeared. I know she is in a different Universe, and I told Wings this already-"

"How?"

Barricade narrowed his optics, and Jazz raised his servos in defense. Barricade nodded, 

"I felt pain in my spark not long ago. Then, in stasis, I saw her. I saw Maze, and she saw me. We were finally able to communicate again, but there was an invisible wall separating us. She made me promise to help you and tell you that she does not want us to blame ourselves. She told me that she was going to do everything she could to get home to us. I have faith that she will come home soon,"

Jazz sighed, 

"I had a dream right now...more like a nightmare,"

Barricade frowned, 

"What was it?"

"I...I saw Lil M...but it wasn't Lil M, it looked like her, but her eyes...they were purple and blue instead of their normal blue...it was Unicron...how was Unicron able to speak to me through her?"

Barricade's optics widened in shock, 

"UNICRON?!"

Jazz nodded, 

"Y-Yeah,"

Barricade shook his head, 

"She...she told me she was hit by an Energon blast, that's why I felt so much pain a few hours ago...but...what if it wasn't Energon?"

"What do you mean?"

Barricade sighed, 

"A long time ago, Megatron mentioned something, a different Energon. Dark Energon, the blood of Unicron."

"But that's never been seen,"

"In our Universe,"

Jazz's optics widened, 

"Maze is in danger,"

Barricade sighed and nodded, 

"And we can't warn her,"

Jazz stood up, 

"Can't you speak to her?"

Barricade shook his head, 

"I haven't been able to...it's still blocked...I don't even understand how I was able to in that dream."

"What did you tell her?"

"What do you mean?"

Jazz sighed, 

"There must be something important that the AllSpark or whatever wanted you to tell her,"

Barricade's optics widened, 

"The Herald of Primus mark,"

Jazz's optics went to the mark on Barricade's chassis,

"But...what does the mark mean?"

Barricade frowned, 

"I'm not sure, but what I do know is that something big is happening,"

Jazz sighed, 

"And Lil M is in the middle of it again,"