Prologue

It was a normal day at the Autobot base. Ratchet was calmly working on an invention while everyone else went out scouting. The kids were preoccupied. Jack and Rafael were playing video games. Miko, however, was playing her guitar.

She played another loud note, causing Ratchet to knock over what he was working on.

Ratchet growled. "Miko, I needed that!"

Miko shrank a little. "Sorry."

A loud engine noise was heard as Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and Arcee came into their vehicle modes. They transformed into their bipedal modes and walked over to the kids.

"About time you got back, Bulk!" Miko said, "Want to rock out to some tunes?"

"Here we go." Arcee sighed.

A loud beeping noise was heard on Ratchet's monitor. Ratchet walked to check out what it was.

"What is it, Ratchet?" Optimus asked as he walked in the main room.

"I've detected a frequency from an energon deposit." Ratchet answered.

"Really?" Bulkhead asked in surprise, "And the 'Cons didn't find it."

"Apparently not." Ratchet answered, "It seems to be in a place called 'Zion Park.'"

"Wait, Zion?" Jack asked.

All eyes were on Jack.

"Zion is a national park in Utah," Jack explained, "It's filled with people and wildlife. Maybe you should just leave it."

"The sighting is in an isolated area, far from any life." Ratchet explained, "Besides we are running low on energon. We need to take this risk."

"Ratchet, activate the Groundbridge." Optimus instructed.

Ratchet pulled the lever and the Groundbridge came to life.

"Autobots, roll out!" Optimus said.

They all transformed into their vehicle modes and drove through the Groundbridge.

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"Is there anymore energon?" Bumblebee asked.

"Yeah," Bulkhead answered, "It's just up ahead."

The Autobots had decided to leave the Groundbridge opened so they could get the energon through quickly.

Bumblebee and Bulkhead arrived at the area where the remaining energon was. Bulkhead stretched his arms. "It's almost done."

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Arcee stretched as she finished putting the remaining energon back at base.

"Optimus, let's go help with Bulkhead and Bumblebee." Arcee suggested.

Optimus nodded his head in understanding and they went to look for Bulkhead.

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Ratchet continued to type onto the computer when something suddenly popped up. Ratchet looked at the screen to see an energy signature in the sky.

"That's odd." Ratchet muttered.

"Ratchet, what's going on?" asked Rafael.

"I don't know," Ratchet answered as he contacted Optimus. "Optimus."

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"What is it, Ratchet?" Optimus asked.

"I've detected a massive energy spike above you." Ratchet informed.

"Energy?" Arcee questioned.

The two suddenly heard a familiar noise and looked up to see a Groundbridge floating in the sky.

"Ratchet, what did you do?" Arcee demanded.

"I've done nothing. What are you talking about?" Ratchet asked through the comm. link.

"A Groundbridge just opened up in the middle of the sky." Arcee answered.

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"Bulkhead?" Bumblebee called out.

"Bee what's-what the?"

The two looked up to see a Groundbridge in the sky.

"What's Ratchet doing?" Bulkhead questioned.

Suddenly, the Groundbridge started charging up, shining a bright light.

"Optimus, do you see that?" Bulkhead asked through his comm. link.

Then five things shot out of the Groundbridge and headed straight for Bulkhead and Bumblebee.

"Bumblebee, duck!" Bulkhead yelled.

They both got to the ground as the objects crashed into the remaining energon. Bulkhead and Bumblebee got up and looked at each other for a moment.

They heard a familiar engine noise as they turned to see Optimus and Arcee in their vehicle modes. They immediately transformed and ran over to the two.

"Are you alright?" Optimus asked.

"Yeah," Bulkhead answered, "but what was that?"

Arcee walked over to the destroyed energon and activated her blasters. She aimed it at the objects, ready to fire, but immediately stopped herself. She looked at the objects with wide eyes.

"You guys need to see this," Arcee said.

They all walked over to where she was standing. Bulkhead's mouth dropped while Bumblebee's optics widened. Optimus just stared in shock.

The objects weren't things. They were humans.

One of them had short, black hair, which contrasted harshly with his very pale skin, so pale that it seemed that he barely ever went outside in the sun all his life. He was carrying a small backpack and was wearing a short black-and-grey jacket with red straps and also seemed to have a small sword on his back. The rest of his outfit consisted of a high-collared midriff shirt, black pants, sandals, and gloves with his index and thumb fingers exposed. His jacket also had a long right and short left sleeves. He also had a strange headband around his forehead with a symbol that looked like a leaf with a swirl in the middle.

The second figure looked a bit older than the first. He had short brown hair and was wearing long blue pants and shirt, with a green flak military-like jacket, and the neck of his shirt was form fitting and went up to his chin. He also had two hip pouches strapped to his lower back. In addition to that, he had a happuri-style forehead armor that framed his face.

The third figure was female with pale skin, though not as pale as the first boy's, and the strangest hair the Autobots seen because it was completely bright pink like Miko's highlights. Her attire consisted of a red top with white circular designs with a zipper, and a the same headband as the pale boy which she used to accentuate her face. She also had black gloves, black, low-heel, calf-high boots, black shorts underneath a short pink apron skirt, and pink elbow protectors.

The fourth figure also looked like an adult who had grey hair that seemed to defy all the laws of gravity (or at least the gravity on Earth), and was wearing simple dark blue pants and shirt and the same military green vest like the other man. He also wore sandals and had a small pack hanging from his belt and another smaller one tied to his leg. The most bizarre trait however was probably the dark blue face mask he had on, and he too had a headband that covered his left eye.

The final character was probably the one who stood out the most considering that a majority of his outfit was bright orange and black. His hair was spiky and a bright blonde color and he had strange whisker marks on his cheeks. Just like his companions he had sandals and a headband around his head.

"Humans?" Bulkhead questioned in shock.

"How did they even survive that?" Arcee asked.

Optimus immediately contacted Ratchet. "Ratchet, prepare sick bay and open the Groundbridge."

The Groundbridge opened in front of them as Bumblebee picked up the two young males, Arcee hefted the lone female over her shoulder, and Bulkhead cupped the two grown men in his large palms.

They all went through the Groundbridge and it closed behind them.

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AN: Hello everyone!

Look this idea has been running around in my head for awhile and I just had to get it onto a doc before I forgot about it!

For all of you who are patiently waiting for the next update to 'Bender Ninja' I'm happy to inform that the next chapter will be up soon, it's about halfway done! I haven't been able to work on it in a while because I unfortunately bombed a recent Physics exam and it pulled my grade from over 100% to almost a C! So yeah it's bad! Fortunately, I have another test in Physics coming up that's worth the same amount of points, so I just have to make sure I study for it this time. Heh, heh.

Anyways, I'd like to inform that I got the inspired to write this from melishade4ever's crossover with the Avatar Characters! Check it out, it's really good!

Anyway! signing off for now. I already have another three chapters drafted for this story so expect them up this weekend! Thanks so much!