TFP fic pitch: Time travel & flirting under fire

There's a trope mashup game on Tumblr where you get sent a ship and two numbers and gotta mix it up into a pitch for a fanfic, and redthedragon gave me 97: “Time travel” and 69 (nice): “flirting under fire” for Bulkhead/Wheeljack; I promptly interpreted "flirting under fire" to mean "firefights as an excuse to show off to stoke your intended's competence kink" and then went off writing my merry yarn.

So I don’t know, and frankly don’t want know, the mechanics behind how the time travel in this story would work –- just assume it’s basically magic and does exactly what I want and if you wanna figure out for yourself why it does that, you’re free to do so. The story starts with the Wreckers trying to bring down a Decepticon WMD lab, and Wheeljack accidentally activating a machine that seemingly disintegrates him, but actually slingshots him forward way into the far future where the war is almost over, where he meets back up with his whole team, who reassure him that they have a plan to undo this mess, and put him right back in the timeline where he belongs.

( Cut for length and to maintain dramatic tension. )