Author's Note: First time posting a story, finally got around to this. If there are any spelling or information mistakes let me know please. If there are any questions please ask and I'll try to answer.

Enjoy my first attempt at this. But remember this, any bad attitudes and nastiness will be treated with the same in return. We're all here to write and thus should be courteous to one another.

No idea where this story will go, but it will have some couples in it and the rating may change.

Fixed:minor spelling errors.

Disclaimer: I own none of the Transformers characters. I do own my OCs so if you use them you need to ask me first, please and thank you.

Chapter 1

Everything hurt, even places and things she didn't think could hurt. There was nothing but darkness surrounding her. It closed in on her like someone trying to suffocate her with a really thick blanket. Her hearing was spotty at best; fading in and out giving her just snippets of the hell she found herself in. The tests were positive. Probability of success was close to seventy percent. If she didn't live they would try again.

Such frightening things.

For a moment, through the haze of pain and drugs, she remembered what her life had been like before.

Singing loud to the American anthem with the windows rolled down and the music turned up loud Jade Ray felt all her worries fly away as the road flew under the wheels of her classic 1980 Ford F-250. After spending a few years and a lot of money she had turned the rust bucket she had found into a beauty that looked as if it had come straight out of the factory. Man she loved this truck with its classic red paint job and versatility. With a little love and luck she wouldn't need to replace this car for a while, which was great seeing as she needed to get through college.

The anthem finished and the country music came back forcing Jade's mind away from the fear of starting college in the fall. This was her summer and she was going to enjoy it even if it almost killed her! Neatly pulling off the highway and onto the exit ramp the small town Massachusetts girl grinned with excitement. She had been traveling and sightseeing her way across the country for a while now and was looking forward to seeing her cousin Sam Witwicky. They were second cousins, no wait, third…she thought. The family tree was so large on both her grandparents' sides from both of her parents that it was hard to remember how one was related to another.

Seeing a small diner Jade pulled into the parking lot and stopped the truck. It had been hours since she had last eaten a full meal or used a bathroom. She jumped out of her precious truck and locked it before walking into the diner. First she went to the bathroom for some sweet relief that she had been ignoring for the last few miles. Then she patiently waited for a seat to open before landing herself a seat at the counter where all the good smells stuck to. Mouth watering she glanced over the regular menu before looking at the specials. They had fish, sandwiches, some sort of ethnic food that she had no clue how to pronounce, and what was said to be a full turkey dinner with all the fixings. No contest, she ordered the turkey dinner with a large glass of milk earning a skeptical look from the waitress who looked only a couple of years younger than her.

Absentmindedly Jade gently swung her Wolverine boot brand covered feet, avoiding hitting the counter or her stool, and pulled out the map she had stashed in a back pocket of her worn light blue jeans. Laying the map on the counter she leaned slightly forward to get a better look, ignoring how her white tank top rode up slightly in the back since her open, light blue plaid vest covered anything skin that might show. Jade tucked her messy red hair behind her pierced ears as her bright blue eyes scanned the map. She had about fifty or sixty miles left before she would reach Sam's house. She hoped Cousin Judy and Cousin Ron didn't mind that she was coming. She hadn't actually told anyone she was visiting thinking it would be fun to surprise her favorite cousins.

Noticing her waitress coming back with her food Jade carefully folded the map and stuffed it back into her back pocket. The girl gave her the meal and huffed away. Jade blinked; alrighty then. She never noticed a pair of boys down the counter who had asked the waitress who "red-head with the pretty blue eyes" was. Without a care she tucked into her meal unknowing of the slight drama she had caused.

Feeling better after her rest Jade got back into her truck and drove off. If she was lucky she could get to Sam's place before eleven. It wasn't until she was a few back roads away from the diner that she noticed a black SUV was following her. It was keeping a good distance from her, but on the little used back roads she was traveling it was obvious that they were following her. Checking her cell phone she cursed under her breath. Cheap brand of phone meant spotty service as her cell told her she had no service. Seeing a turnoff up ahead Jade took it as if she meant to and switched off the headlights before the SUV could take the corner. She took another turn and prayed that her pursuers didn't follow.

Taking one more turn she cursed loudly at the dead-end. She glanced in her rearview mirror. She didn't want to leave her truck, it was her baby, but she really didn't want whoever was following her to get her. Decision made the frightened eighteen year old grabbed her phone, wallet, and the keys to the truck before bolting into the surrounding trees. Finding a nice big one to hide behind she crouched down and tried her phone again. Still no service. If she lived through this she was getting a better phone no matter the costs.

There were no headlights, from what she could see with her eyes now adjusted to the darkness. She had run into the woods far enough so she could just barely see her truck and then picked her way a carefully to a less obvious spot hoping that she didn't leave a noticeable trail. Then she heard the sound of gravel being crunched by slow moving wheels just barely over the noises of the night. Still no headlights so that meant they had thought the same as her. She heard a door open and waited.

"Girl's gone! Took her phone, wallet, and keys though and the engine is still hot! She can't have gotten far!" a voice shouted to the SUV.

"If so then shut up and find her!" another voice called back.

Fear jolted through her making it hard not to start running blindly. That would make too much noise. With a prayer the red-head slowly moved farther away from the road and her truck. She needed to find a house with a phone so she could call the police. Then she could ask for an escort back to her truck in the morning. Mind made up she focused on shifting through the dark woods.

Out of nowhere a cloth with a strange smell shot towards her with a hand attached to it and covered her mouth and nose. Holding her breath Jade swung out with an elbow and nailed someone in the ribs. With a grunt their already weak hold weakened further and Jade ran. She didn't care about noise now, she needed to run. A hard body tackled her from behind forcing her to the ground and knocking the air out of her. The cloth returned to cover her face right before she tried to gasp for clean air. The smell rushed into her lungs and she fell limp, her world going black.

From that moment onward Jade had been thrown from one test to another by a group of scientists. She had no concept of time and no clue where she could be. There was so much pain and drugs flowing through her veins that it was a miracle that she woke even for the short intervals that she did.

When she woke this time there was a heavy sort of excitement in the air making her grow nervous. Last time that feeling came she had been forced through a marathon of painful testing while some sort of drug kept her awake through it all. Something was restraining her to a hard surface and there were wires connected all over her body.

"Throw the switch."

Blinding pain burned into her already weakened body. This made the previous tests seem like a walk in the park. If her vocal cords weren't already torn to shreds she would have screamed bloody murder. As it was the only thing her body could do was spasm in a way that was eerily similar to an epileptic attack.

Then she fell back into sweet relieving darkness as her body and mind shut down.

When she next awoke it was to a strange feeling of not being in her body. What had those monsters done to her? Voices reached her throbbing brain forcing her to concentrate on her surroundings without opening her eyes knowing that light would only hurt her more.

"I can't believe we succeeded."

"Well believe it. I'm just surprised that we managed it with only a piece or the original energy source."

"Do you think she'll go crazy like the ones created from just machines?"

"Not likely, it was made with machine and human. It should be much tamer."

"You mean she."

"No, I mean it."

"I have to agree with Archer on this one. We used a female human; her mind is in there somewhere."

"On top of that, clearly the body is a more female body type compared to the likes of the others we've seen."

"I don't care, it's a robot and thus an 'it'."

As the voices continued to bicker about their morals Jade's thoughts swirled in chaos. What worked? What did they mean by human and machine? What did they mean by robot and her mind being in one?

What the hell happened to her?