Woot! Been busy typing up the story! Right now, I have over 15,000 words in Word for the full story. O.o And it's only going to keep climbing!

JML Ranch: Hey! How did y'all end up in my room with me and OP?
Ratchet: I have no fragging idea! You tell me! And how in the Pit are we the size of humans?!
JML Ranch: Well, excuse me. Grumpy much?
Ratchet: *glares at me* *unsubspaces a wrench and tosses it at me*
JML Ranch: *yells and dives for the floor* *wrench whizzes harmlessly by* Whew! That was way too close for me!
Optimus Prime: Ratchet! We do not harm humans, even if we are their size now.
JML Ranch: *gets up and brushes off* Better listen to your boss, Ratchet. *sits back down in my chair*
Optimus: *walks up behind me* What are you doing? *slides servos around my waist and rests his chin on my shoulder*
JML Ranch: Working on this story about Transformers: Prime. It's a cartoon series I recently discovered.
Optimus: I thought there was only Bayverse?
JML Ranch: *leans head back against Optimus and puts both arms on top of his servos* Nope. There's quite a few versions of y'all.
Ironhide: Huh. So the fleshies actually came up with different versions of us?
JML Ranch: Yep. Can you do me a big favor, and do the disclaimer for me? Feel free to display your cannons.
Ironhide: *transforms both arms into cannons and charges them* JML Ranch does not own a slagging thing about Transformers. Hasbro does. The only slagging thing she owns is some of the plot and her two OCs', Julia Lovett (known as Hera after this chapter) and Thunder (known as Aniketos after this chapter as well). *powers down cannons* Did I cover everything?
JML Ranch: Yes. Your cannons are awesome by the way. They look badass.
Ironhide: Thanks. *grins smugly*
JML Ranch: You're very welcome. *turns around partway in Optimus' servos and looks at him* Hey there. *reaches up and wrap arms around his neck*
Optimus: Hey there beautiful. *leans in for kiss*
Ratchet: *looks at Optimus and me kissing* Ugh. I never did understand why that mech is interested in that human femme.
Ironhide: *slaps Ratchet on back of helm* Shut up. Personally, I'm glad they're dating. Anyways, while those two are...ahem...distracted, here's Chapter 1!

:Comm link:
Sibling bond
"Primus speaking"
"Normal speech"
Thoughts

I was riding my horse, Thunder, along a lakeshore in the moonlight. The full moon gave off enough light for me to see perfectly fine. The woods seemed to be very quiet tonight. I marveled at the beauty of the landscape. It was so calm and serene. Thunder was content to walk along slowly, but on alert for anything that could cause harm to us. We had been on the run for the last three years. Something attacked my family, and I had to flee on Thunder. I do not know if my parents are still alive or not. I just prayed and hoped that they were alive. I had no idea which state we were in, or what day it was. I could tell it was summer, but nothing more than that.

"Be careful, my child, for there is a battle near you and it is headed your way," Primus spoke to me. I have been hearing him in my head since I was five, and that was 20 years ago. He has told me about what happened to his planet- Cybertron- and all about the war that has been going on for many eons, along with various other things.

"A battle? I hope it's not those Decepticreeps…" I answered out loud.

"I am sorry my child, but it is indeed the Decepticons. Soon, you will have to take part of the war. I did not want this to happen, but even I cannot control fate. All I can do is warn you of what will happen."

"I understand. I do not like war either, but if I must do my part, I am very willing to do what I can to help end this perpetual war."

"You are willing to do what you can to end the war? Even if it is at the cost of your life?"

"Yes I am. If I must give up my life, so be it. At least I know I died fighting for freedom. After all, freedom is the right of all living beings, whether they are of this world or not."

"Very well. Do you recall the story I told you about the Original 13 Primes?"

"Yes I do."

"You will be the second Female Prime. Your horse, Thunder, will be your Guardian. I will let you know when it is time for you to make the change to Cybertronian. Your name will be given to you when that time comes, and that time is approaching rapidly. You must hide now, because the battle is getting closer."

"Scrap," I muttered as I heard the sounds of metal hitting metal grow closer to me. Spinning Thunder around, I urged him to run like his life depended on it. We thundered along the shoreline, a blur of black and dark grey racing towards a cave I knew about. Finally, after what felt like eons, we arrived at the mouth of the cave. I climbed out of the saddle and started to walk into the cave.

"I see you have found a suitable location for the change," Primus spoke again. I fell asleep and woke up in another dimension, one that I was very familiar with. I saw Thunder next to me, and Primus standing before us.

"Hello Primus. I trust all is well with you?"

"Yes, all is well for me. Are you sure you want this?"

"I am sure. If this is what I must do, then I will do what is required of me."

"Thunder?"

"I go wherever she goes. She is my adopted sister."

"Very well. Julia Megan Lovett, your name is now Hera Prime, for you will be a fearless warrior and leader. What colors would you like?"

"Midnight blue with light blue flames."

"Elantric Thunder, your name is now Aniketos, which means unconquerable, for you will never be defeated by any Decepticon. What colors would you like?"

"I would like to keep my current color and pattern I have right now."

"I will show you two what your Cybertronian form will look like. Hera, you will be as tall as Optimus Prime, who is the Last of the Primes. Well, not anymore now, heh. Your build will be less bulky, but you will be stronger than him and nearly indestructible. Aniketos, your build will be similar to your current one right now, except you will be completely indestructible. Nothing will be able to harm you. Both of your current forms can be used as an alternate mode. You will be able to select 3 more alternate modes. Do you two know what modes you want? If not, you can scan one later."

"Does the alternate mode size matter?" I asked.

"Normally, it would but not in this case. I have given you the freedom to choose any size alternate mode. You also have the option of changing them to a different one."

"Well… I know I would like a F-15 Eagle fighter jet, a 2014 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, and a 1992 Dodge Dakota pickup truck with AWD. What about you, 'Ketos?" I replied.

"I would like the same jet and truck as her. For my third mode, I would like a 2014 Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle."

"Very well. Hera, you will also have the Matrix of Leadership. Normally, there is only one of those. But I have the power to create as many as I see fit. Optimus carries the Original Matrix of Leadership. The fighting is getting close to the cave. You two must help Optimus as soon as I send you back. You will both be in your Cybertronian modes. I wish you two the best of luck."

"And the same to you. Until all are one," I said, putting my hand over my heart/spark.

"Until all are one."

I felt myself fall back into the darkness, then a few minutes later I woke up with a soft groan. Slowly sitting up, I looked down and saw that I was now Cybertronian. The sounds of metal hitting metal caught my attention.

"Aniketos! We need to get moving now!" I ordered as I rose to my feet/pedes. Aniketos scrambled up to his hooves, his battle mask covering most of his head. I saw that there was a saddle already on his back, and I swung up into the saddle. My battle mask slid down across my face, leaving my eyes unobstructed. As Aniketos started to walk forward, I looked down at my left arm and thought about a gun. My arm/servo transformed into a gun.

"I need you to keep your head down, I don't want to hit you on accident," I whispered to Ketos. Suddenly, I saw a red and blue Cybertronian mech appear at the entrance, and he ran in.

"That is Optimus Prime," Primus whispered to me in my mind. "The other one is the leader of the Decepticons, and he is called Megatron."

I saw Megatron enter the cave, and boy was he ugly! I'll just call him Ugly, King of the Decepticreeps from now on, I thought sarcastically to myself. Here we go.

I let out a deep, roaring battle cry as Ketos charged forward. Both mechs froze for a second, having heard me.

"OPTIMUS! GET DOWN NOW!" I ordered, as we got closer. Optimus dove to the side, leaving Megatron standing in the way. Raising my left arm, I fired off several shots as we barreled down on him. Ketos rammed the Decepticreep leader hard with his shoulder, causing Ugly to fall to the ground and getting stepped on. I pulled on the reins lightly. Ketos stopped deep and hard, then turned around and was charging again right as Ugly got to his pedes. This time, Ugly dove to one side and tried to stab Aniketos. His blade shattered on impact, leaving him with nothing but a stub.

"What the frag?!" he bellowed as he fled the cave, clearly scared. I smirked under my battle mask at the fact that Ugly was now afraid of Aniketos and me.

"Who are you?" Optimus demanded as he aimed his guns at me.

"Whoa, easy there big guy! I do not have any intentions of harming you. As for my name, I am Hera Prime," I answered, holding my hands up in a clear sign of surrender.

"Another Prime? You had better not be trying to deceive me," he growled.

"I am not trying to deceive you. I carry the second Matrix of Leadership. I know you have the Original one."

"Show me."

I opened up my chest plates just enough for the Matrix to float out. The Matrix hovered in the air above my hands.

"By the All Spark… I never dreamed that there would actually be another Matrix of Leadership. It was mostly legend, or so I thought."

"Life is full of surprises. By the way, this is Aniketos," I replied, gesturing to Ketos as the Matrix floated back into my chest.

"Hello Optimus. Are you alright?" Ketos asked as his battle mask retracted.

"I think so. I'll have to get checked out by the medic back on base. I'll comm someone for a ground bridge," Optimus pressed the comm link. "Optimus here. I need a ground bridge now. Also, I am bringing two guests with me."

A bright green portal swirled to life in front of us. I was looking at the bridge in awe. That's so cool, I thought to myself. We all walked into the portal, and a few seconds later we were walking out the other end into a building.

"Ugh… I feel sick now," I groaned, clutching my head/helm and closing my eyes. Ketos gently nudged me, and I walked into the base. There were 4 other Cybertronians and three kids in front of me, and they were all staring at me.

"Who are you?" a green mech spoke up.

"I'm Aniketos, and this is Hera Prime," Ketos replied.

"Another Prime? You gotta be joking…" a young girl with pink and black hair sputtered.

I just looked at them and retracted my battle mask, which had been covering up most of my face. Everyone gasped in shock when they saw my face.

"By the AllSpark… I thought you were a mech. This is the craziest thing I have witnessed in my life!" the medic cried.

"Life is full of crazy things. And I have one heck of a story for y'all. What would you think of a Cybertronian who was once a human?"

"Uh… Weird?" the girl spoke.

"That's impossible. There has never been any evidence of that ever happening," the medic mused.

"Well, I was once a human believe it or not. Aniketos was once an Earth horse. We both still retain those forms as one of our alternate modes."

"Really? Now I'm curious as to what you looked like as a human," a young boy spoke.

"Raf, we do not say those kind of things to our guests!" the medic grumped.

"Ratchet, take it easy old friend. Perhaps she is speaking the truth," Optimus scolded the medic. Ratchet just grumbled and turned back to whatever he was doing before we arrived. "Please forgive him. He is under a lot of stress right now. Our numbers are few, and we recently lost a comrade to the Decepticons."

"Understandable. Allow me to show you my human form."

I took a deep breath and concentrated on transforming back to my human self. I felt parts fly off and disappear into subspace. After a few moments, I opened my eyes, saw that I had my clothes on and sighed in relief.

"Now… What are y'all names?" I asked the others.

"I'm Bulkhead," the large green mech replied.

"I'm Bumblebee," a small yellow and black mech buzzed.

"I'm Arcee. It is nice to have another femme on base now," the only other femme in the room smiled.

"I'm Rafael, but you can call me Raf," the younger boy waved.

"I'm Jack," the older boy spoke.

"I'm Miko! How old are you? Where are you from? Do you like rock and roll?" the young girl exclaimed.

I chuckled at Miko's enthusiasm, and answered her questions. "As to how old I am, I am 30. I'm all the way from Texas, and yes I do like rock and roll as well as country and pop."

"Awesome!" Miko yelled.

"Hera?" Raf asked.

"Yes?"

"What did you mean when you said you had alternate modes?"

"I have 4 alternates all together. I have a F-15 Eagle fighter jet, a 2014 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, and a 1992 Dodge Dakota pickup truck with AWD along with this mode."

"Wow. That's a lot. What about Aniketos?"

"He has the same jet and truck, but his third vehicular mode is a 2014 Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle and his fourth is a normal horse."

"Hey! Arcee's alt is a motorcycle too!" Miko chirped.

"Miko!" Arcee groaned.

"She's a handful, isn't she?" I smirked.

"You're right, Hera. She is a handful," Bulkhead grumped.

"What was your old name?" Bumblebee buzzed.

"My old name was Julia Lovett. Aniketos' was Elantric Thunder. I used to call him Thunder."

"Sorry to break up the social gathering, but there has been a energon signal detected," Ratchet interrupted.

"Aw!" Miko whined.

"Don't worry Miko. We will get to chat more later," I reassured her. She just nodded her head.

"Hera and Aniketos, I would like for you two to join us," Optimus ordered.

"Yes sir." We replied in unison.

"Autobots, transform and roll out!"

"Ugh… I may never get used to that…" I groaned as I stepped out of the ground bridge, feeling sick again.

You alright? I heard in my helm. I looked around in confusion. It's Ketos. We have a sibling bond for some reason. We can talk and send emotions to each other over this.

Well, that's kinda neat… At least we can talk without any sounds. I sent the feeling of a hug over the bond. I felt the same feeling returned, along with love and comfort. I sent the equivalence of a grin, then felt his amusement through the bond. Let's get moving.

Agreed. Hop on my back, I think you'll be able to see better. I nodded my head and swung up into the saddle that was clicking its final pieces in place. Ketos walked along, making no sound as he followed Optimus. I looked around, having set my sensors to its maximum range. I immediately picked up about 4 dozen Decepticreeps on my scanners, and opened up a comm link to Optimus.

:Optimus?:

:What is it, Hera?:

:I am picking up several dozen Decepticreeps on my scanners.:

:Are you sure? I am not detecting any on mine.:

:I am. Are your scanners at maximum range?:

:No. Hang on. Yep, you're right. There's a whole mess of 'Cons up ahead of us.:

"Hold up," Optimus called out, holding his hand up, indicating we were to stop. "Hera picked up a whole mess of Decepticons on her scanners. We must be cautious; this location is one of their bigger mining operations. Bulkhead, Aniketos, you two run inference. I want you to draw out the Cons into the open where the rest of us can fire upon them. Hera, you have a fighter jet as one of your alt modes, am I correct?"

"Yes."

"I want you up in the sky, keeping a lookout for any incoming Decepticons. Watch out for Starscream, Soundwave and Megatron. They may try to shoot you down."

"And what if they manage to land before I can chase 'em off?" I asked.

"I'll just teach them a lesson or two. I doubt Meggy will try to mess with me again after what happened earlier," Ketos said with a smirk. "After all, his saber broke when it hit me."

"True. Megatron is less likely to try to go after Aniketos, but he may anyways. Arcee, Bumblebee, we will remain up here on the cliffs and shoot down on the Decepticons." Optimus finished giving out orders.

I transformed and took off with a roar of jets. I watched as Bulkhead and Ketos made their way down, making as much racket as they could. Suddenly, I detected three lone signals heading our way. I opened a comm link to everyone.

:Heads-up, three incoming. One signal is stronger than the other two.:

:Megatron. The other two is Starscream and Soundwave. Do your best to hold them off, Hera.: Optimus replied, then cut the comm link.

"Scrap," I muttered to myself. "Here we go."

Megatron came closer and closer. I quietly moved in behind the group, and just flew along for a few minutes, making sure to cloak my signal completely. They were talking amongst themselves, unaware of what I was about to do. I got a target lock on their thrusters, and sent out three missiles. They all hit their marks, causing all three to tumble out of the sky, transforming as they fell. I came down closer to where all three had landed.

"You fragger! You took out my jets! You'll pay for that!" Ugly roared.

Taking a moment to change my voice so he would never figure out who I am, I replied. "That's what you get for chattering amongst yourselves and not paying attention to your surroundings. Never overestimate yourself…"

"Come down here and fight like a mech!" Ugly roared.

I opened a comm link to Optimus. :Hera to Optimus, do you read?:

:Optimus here. I read you loud and clear.:

:I have Ugly, Screamer, and Wavy grounded. Ugly is challenging me to fight him. Permission to give him the worst nightmare of his life?:

:Permission granted. I will send Aniketos your way, we are almost done here.:

:Thank you. Hera out: I cut off the comm link.

"I'll take you on, Ugly face," I roared as I landed and transformed. I realized that I had two energon blades in my foreservos. With a flick of my hands, they were replaced with two deep blue glowing blades. "Bring it," I challenged. Ugly roared as he charged me. I waited until the last moment to sidestep and swung my servo at him. He bellowed as my blade went through his midsection. Spinning around, he brought his blade up and struck at me, hitting me in my chest. Using both blades, I fended off his blows.

"You will not last long, Autoscum. Your first hit is the only one you will get!" Ugly snarled at me, slashing away.

"Oh really? Well, I hope you go rot in hell for all eternity," I sassed as I landed blow up on blow on Ugly.

"You are no Prime! You will fall before me!" he punched me, causing me to fly back into a cliff. I scrambled to my pedes quickly.

"Think again Meggy. I do not fall that easy. Remember the cavern?" I snarled as I changed my left hand into a gun and blasted away at Ugly.

"Oh, scrap," he muttered as his eyes widened upon realizing that I was the very same guy. "Still, you will fall!"

"One shall rise, and one shall fall. I'm not planning on being the one that falls," I retorted as I charged at him, guns blazing. I saw a dark grey blur crash into Ugly, and I instantly grinned under my battle mask.

Perfect timing, Ketos. Time for him to meet his worst nightmare, I said over the bond.

Will do. Time to teach him that if he messes with one, he gets them all, Ketos sent back, along with a feeling of anger and determination. I watched as Ketos transformed into his bipedal mode and proceeded to give Megatron a beating he would never forget. After a few minutes, he managed to escape, but barely hanging on to his life. Just then, the rest walked up behind me. I turned around, retracting my mask, and grinned at all of them.

"Now that is one Autobot I would not want to mess with," Bulkhead commented when he saw how badly Megatron was flying. "Boy, Ketos did a number on Meggy, didn't he?"

"I sure did," Ketos replied as he trotted up, having reverted to his new true form.

"That's my bro!" I remarked, proud that he had caused some heavy damage to Megatron.

"Nice going, Aniketos. Are you harmed in any way?" Optimus asked.

"I'm perfectly fine, other than being a tad bit tired."

"What about you, Hera?"

"Got a nasty gash on my chest. Otherwise, I'll be fine," I said, feeling tired. "Can we go home? I wanna go to sleep now…"

"Certainly," Optimus chuckled. He pressed the comm link and requested a ground bridge.

After Ratchet had attended to my gash, I decided to find a place to sleep for a few hours. I found a quiet room where there was a window, and walked in. The room was completely bare, but that was all right with me. I noticed that there was a large area where the sun was hitting the wall and floor. Perfect, I thought to myself. My body screamed in agony as I slowly lowered myself to the floor. I sighed in relief as I felt the warm sunlight hit my metallic skin. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

All right, y'all know what to do. Do your own little thing!

Until next time, this is JML Ranch transforming and rolling out!