AN: I only own my OCs.

Authoress: *dark chuckles* Oh the fun I have planned with this. *darker chuckle and Random Blitzwing scary evil smirk*

AN: I feel it is my obligation to warn each and every being who reads this that, just because you have might read The Power of One (the story that is being changed for this story to happen...which is pretty good and you should read that as well) does not mean that you will have any sort of idea what will happen in the chapters to come. This prologue is only a prologue because it is to show you just how little you will be able to predict in the future...and it will become even harder to predict as the chapters progress. So now...without further ado...let this new tale...begin!

Prologue

A meeting forged by destiny, one human agrees to travel with one god to a new dimension to stop a war that has been going on for millennium. Traveling to this world, the two befriend the Autobots of the dimension and live with them, while, at the same time, trying to forge peace between both Autobots and Decepticons. Through many trials, tribulations, and a transformation, they were able to accomplish this. Many years were spent in peace and harmony with everyone rebuilding their lost and forsaken world.

But, let's spin the clock back and discover what would have happened, if one small detail was changed.

Lizzie's 1st P.O.V.

My head...was killing me. Everything was so dark and I felt like I would be trapped and cold. But, just as I was thinking that, I heard something. There was a metal echo sounding in my hearing. What was that? I feel like Paul would have placed me somewhere safe and, while I couldn't see yet, I had a feeling that something hadn't gone right. I don't remember any of the first episodes having a cold place in them.

Well...that's not true. There were no human-friendly places in the beginning.

An adrenaline rush of excitement and dread filled me as I realized where I probably was. Slowly opening my eyes, I felt my heart stop when I saw that my suspicion was correct.

"Frag, this isn't good." I muttered as I glanced around the Nemesis. While I was ecstatic to be on the Nemesis, and not with the boring Autobots, I knew that there were quite a few things that would not make a stay here so great. First of all, there was no Knockout yet. He was not going to be coming in until a lot later. Secondly, Megatron was not here yet to control Starscream and I knew that Starscream was not very good with his control.

"A human? Here?"

I felt my entire body tense when I heard that voice. Oh no. That voice was from one of my most hated 'Cons in the entire series and I felt like I would have liked any other Decepticon behind me.

Turning around slowly, I felt my eyes widen when I saw Starscream behind me. Well, thanks a lot Primus. Really. You brought me here to help and, now, it looked like I was going to be dying in my first three seconds. You really thought this out. "Uh..." I let out, unsure of exactly what to say.

He put his hands on his hips and tapped his pede impatiently before saying, "How did you get on this ship human?"

While I always laughed at Starscream when I watched the show...most of the shows, I felt pure fear as I stared up at him. Slag this was not good. "Um...I don't know. I just woke up here." And that was true. I wasn't sure how Paul got me up on this ship and I was not quite sure where he was. I was going to kill him for this.

The robot chicken...yeah, that sounded like him, the robot chicken glared at me for the longest time before scowling and saying, "Like we needed pests on this ship." Then, before I realized what he was doing, he reached down and picked me up before walking back the way he came. Frag, this wasn't good. I had no idea where in the show I was exactly, though since Starscream seemed to be acting in charge, I was going to assume that we were somewhere in the first or second episode. What would maybe take place later would confirm what I thought.

But, back to my current predicament.

"Where are we going?"

When he glanced at me, I saw a brief flash of extreme annoyance in his optics and I feared for my continued breathing. But, my fear subsided slightly when that annoyance looked like it was replaced by a neutral one. "To the bridge."

I nodded at that and decided to keep my mouth quiet...for now. This was probably the absolutely best worst situation I could have found myself in. While it seemed to not make any sense...well, that would fit in with about everything that doesn't make any sense today. Primus asked me to come and help this universe only to have me captured by the Decepticons right off the bat. From what I had seen and read, the Autobots were going to be the more difficult to persuade. Yet, now I was stuck here. Primus, you really thought this through this time...didn't you?

When I heard the opening of doors, I looked up and realized that we were now on the bridge and, to my surprise, Cliffjumper was already there and restrained in the center. To the left, Soundwave was observing everything, though I did notice him tilt his helm slightly when he looked toward Starscream and me. "The energon…it's worthless to me now." Starscream growled and I could hear a bite of anger in his tone. Hopefully, that anger would not change to squeezing me to a pulp. I liked being solid and in one piece thank you very much.

"'Scream," Cliffjumper started to speak to Starscream as the drones turned him to face us. "it's been awhile…" Cliffjumper's optics went wide as he finally looked fully at us. "A human?!"

Starscream, as well as everyone else, stared at me before Starscream said, "Yes a human. I assumed you Autobots knew what they looked like, seeing as you are in contact with human governments."

In return, Cliffjumper growled at Starscream. "Let the girl go you coward. She has no part in this!"

I felt myself bracing when Cliffjumper yelled that at Starscream. While I seemed to already be changing things, thanks to Paul's major screw up, I wasn't sure if my psyche would survive watching Starscream kill Cliffjumper. I just wouldn't be able to take it.

"I would watch myself Autobot," Starscream stated as he walked around the injured Cliffjumper, keeping me in view the whole time. "Before I ran into this human youngling, I had every plan on coming in here and snuffing your pathetic Autobot spark from existence." Here it came. Every fiber of my being was screaming at me to close my eyes and not watch. But, for some odd reason, I couldn't. I felt like a moth heading to a flame. "However," Wait…huh? "I do not believe that it would be right to expose one so young, even an organic, to death this first servo. So, you will be released and, next time we meet, you won't be so lucky."

Shock was overpowering me and I couldn't make a sound, my mouth hanging slightly open, as the drones holding Cliffjumper moved to the doors. He was in pretty rough shape and I knew that he had seriously dodged a bullet. Even though Starscream was acting really strange, I wasn't quite ready to say that I trusted him yet. Not by a long shot. The only Starscream that I had ever liked in any of the shows that I watched was the one from the Armada verse…and this one definitely was not that one. Of course, he was acting strange. It was so radically different from the Starscream I had watched on the Prime cartoon before. While he still had some of his original attitude, this one seemed almost caring.

I focused back on the world that was around me and saw that Cliffjumper was staring at me, shock in his optics, and I bet I looked similar to him. To help ease his worry, I sent him a quick small smile…hopefully it told him that I would be alright.

…even if I didn't believe that myself.

Once the bridge doors closed, effectively removing Cliffjumper from my sight, I glanced back up at the Decepticons surrounding me. I was so conflicted in my feelings that I was sure that I looked like a fish out of water being surrounded by them. On one hand, I had always been a fan of Soundwave and here he was. I was seeing him on my first day here in this dimension. On the other hand, the first bot I had seen was Starscream, admittedly one of my least favorite Cybertronians in the dimension, but he was acting so radically different than he did in the show that it was causing my head to go three sixty!

"What is that doing here?" Soundwave asked Starscream using clips.

The seeker glanced down at me before looking at Soundwave. "This human says she does not remember how she arrived on our ship. You are responsible for watching her and if she tries to escape or causes you trouble, inform me immediately and I shall deal with her." I was then dumped into Soundwave's waiting spindly servo before Starscream walked out of the room.

So…did that make Soundwave my unofficial official guardian? Because even though I was scared like no other at this moment, that would be seriously amazing. I found myself only able to stare up in wonder at Soundwave as he moved out of the bridge and down one of the halls. Hell, for all I knew, he was going somewhere to kill me but I didn't care right now. Soundwave was my second favorite Cybertronian in this show, third overall, and I was in his servo!

But, it felt awkward just walking around in silence so I decided to try and have a conversation with him. "So…do you know what is going to be happening with me now?"

Soundwave stayed quiet for a few minutes before he responded to me. "Responsible for watching her. You belong to me."

I wasn't sure how to respond to that so I stared ahead and stayed quiet. Since Soundwave talked with clips I wasn't sure if he actually meant to use the word 'belong' like I was his property. I mean, sure, it was from the Phantom of the Opera and the phantom treated Christine like property but, who knows? Maybe that was the best clip that he could use to answer my question? It was kind of an abrupt question and that meant that he might not have had time to reply in a better way.

…At least that was what I was hoping for.

One thing that I definitely knew for sure was that I was going to be ripping Paul a new one when I got my hands on him. Seriously, he was supposed to be Primus and he had brought me into this world to help heal the rift between the Autobots and the Decepticons and yet I was stuck with the Decepticons where I would not be able to interfere with much of what was going on. This was going oh so well.

…Heavy sarcasm is a coping mechanism I understand.

Soon, Soundwave arrived in front of a door and tapped a passcode into the key pad. Unfortunately, I couldn't read what he pushed in so I wouldn't be able to use that later. But, that was alright. I was pretty sure that I was not going to be getting off this ship anytime soon if Soundwave had anything to say about it.

When the door opened and Soundwave walked inside, I quickly studied the room. To my surprise, it almost looked like there were two bots living in this room instead of Soundwave. One side of the room, the side with most of the monitors and the berth, was very tidy and could probably pass a military inspection. The other side of the room, however, looked like a bunch of college frat boys had gotten into glue and glitter and went nuts. That side of the room did not match up with what I knew of Soundwave. Maybe this was all just one big illusion.

That thought changed drastically as Soundwave set me down on the table that housed the many monitors that I was guessing he worked from when he wasn't on the bridge. "Ow…" I muttered as I rubbed my butt slightly. He needed to learn that humans couldn't be put down that hard. But, I was going to admit that it was a lot gentler than I thought that he would set me down. It was almost like he had practice setting down things that were around my height.

It wasn't long before Soundwave sat down at the chair in front of the monitors and started to work. Even though I thought that watching Soundwave going through all the monitors would be boring work to watch, I found myself scooting closer to the monitors to observe what was going on. From this view, the Decepticons on the other side looked just like the average extended family. They were laughing with each other, playing games, and I could see some of the drones helping others learn how to fight. This was nothing like what I would expect from the Decepticons…and I was even a fan of them.

I wasn't sure how long I watched Soundwave type away at the keyboards, moving from frame to frame to record and sort through all the data that was being delivered to him and deciding which of it should be kept for further look up and which stuff was barely important to be filed away somewhere else. When the monitors in front of me suddenly turned off, I found myself jumping in shock and looking up at Soundwave, who was in turn looking down at me. "What do you think you are up to?" Soundwave asked, seemingly me.

In turn, I shrugged my shoulders and motioned toward the now darkened monitors. "I…I was curious about what you were doing and it seemed like it would be pretty interesting. Hearing everything that goes on here on this ship and seeing the day to day interactions of each one of your kind must be amazing. I'm kinda jealous actually."

Yeah, even though I was pretty positive on life and friendly with people who were friendly to me, I really only had that kind of relationship with my mom. When I was in high school, I did sports and would talk and be friendly with the people that did sports as well but, off the field, away from the court, I didn't have anyone. No friends to talk with, or listen to, or even hang out with for the most part. The one friend I had, I barely saw so I could barely call her my friend. We were more of the close acquaintances.

When it continued to stay quiet, I looked up and realized that Soundwave was seemingly staring at me. Why was he? Of course, a better question for myself would be why would I tell him that I was jealous of him? This wasn't like me at all. I tried to stay happy and make sure that everyone else was happy as well. No matter how much pain I was in, physical and mental, I usually made sure that I made everyone else happy first. But, just know I had let my own personal problems slip onto this mech who probably wouldn't care if I would fall off this desk now and break my neck.

Sure, I was a Decepticon fan in my world but I wasn't an idiot. The Decepticons were calculating and strong willed beings who had to measure the weight of what was presented before them with what was best for the Decepticons cause. Human worries like mine? Not so important.

Flinching was my first reaction as I felt something brush against my back. But, I was surprised when I saw one of Soundwave's tentacles come out from behind my back but, instead of giving me an explanation, Soundwave turned back on the monitors. I held myself back from flinching as he picked me up with the same tentacle before moving me in front of him and the monitor before setting me down so I was facing the monitors. What was he doing? I couldn't figure out exactly what was going on but I wasn't going to complain for now. Maybe later.

For a few hours, I sat and watched as Soundwave observed everything on the screens and I felt like my eyes were being opened for the first time about the Decepticons, and that was saying a lot since I was a Decepticon fan. The show in my dimension had to have something against the Decepticons because they were nothing like I had seen before. Starscream could clearly be seen interacting animatedly with the drones and they seemed to enjoy being in his company. He didn't seem like a cold, backstabbing, and calculating robot chicken like I was used to seeing. Actually he seemed almost…

Suddenly, I was flying through the air and it took my panicking mind a second to realize that it was just Soundwave moving me from the table with one of his tentacles. Now I also realized that I was going to have to probably get used to this happening. Thankfully I didn't get air sick. Then we might have a real problem on my hands.

To my surprise, Soundwave set me down on one of three human sized berths in the college frat boy looking area before his screen lit up. "Remain in bed. Orders from Starscream. While I am away, make introductions. You have been patient enough."

"Wai…what? What was that last part about?" I yelled after my temporary guardian. This was way too confusing right now. I understood that he wanted me to remain on the berth and that 'Scream must have sent him some sort of order, but I had no idea about what that last part could mean. To what was I supposed to be making these introductions to? Plus, what was I being patient for? Something really told me that part was not said to me.

But, if I was hoping to get an answer from my seemingly temporary guardian, then my hopes would have been dashed as Soundwave simply left the room and I heard a light click as the door locked. Great. As much fun as I was sure Soundwave was going to be as a guardian…if this arrangement lasted for any sort of length, I now realized that watching out for the quiet ones also could be used for what they were planning for a little human that they were guardian-ing…aka me, and I was now extremely nervous.

At first, the room stayed quiet and, as I sat on what I was assuming was going to be my berth, I wondered if maybe Soundwave was just trying to say that he would introduce me to others on the ship later.

"It's not acting like most of the female fleshbags in the movies we watch."

"Yeep!" I yelped as I turned to look in the direction that the voice seemed to be coming from. But, there wasn't anything there. Okay, now I was worried…was I going even more insane? I already knew that I was insane but this interaction was taking the cake by far. But, just to check, I figured I would ask the voices a question. I should get an answer as long as they weren't in my head. "Is there someone out there?"

For a second, it was quiet and I thought that maybe the panic of the day was finally getting to me. But, it seemed like life wasn't meant to be that way. "Of course we are here. You humans sure are idiots." A different voice answered me.

Even though the voice seemed vaguely familiar to me, I was not letting that last little bit slide. "Well I'm sorry that I don't come custom built with scanners that allow me to search for life forms in a room besides with basic vision. Maybe if you all would just come out here and let me see you, I would believe that I wasn't going completely insane. I am not an idiot and I definitely will not take to being called one." I held my glare in the general direction that both voices seemed to come from. I wasn't sure what was out there but I knew that I would rather face death then let some being get away with calling me an idiot about a situation that I couldn't control.

I was expecting the beings talking with me to come out of the shadows…maybe some sort of invisibility mod. But, I would deny to my dying day…and hopefully that would not be in the next few minutes…that I let out a very uncharacteristically girly shriek and scooted over the edge of the bed in fea…surprise, when two bots who were my sized jumped down from a support beam near the ceiling of the room.

The small blue bot with a red visor turned to the red and black one next to him. "Hey, this girlie seems like a lot of fun Rumble."

"I couldn't agree more Frenzy."

Paul's 1st P.O.V.

My fingers tapped against the city bench that I found myself sitting on. Irritation and worry were seemingly eating me alive. When I came to this dimension that I had sent Lizzie to, I had expected her to be exactly where I had sent her. However, when I did not receive a response from her on her cell phone, I grew concerned and had gone to the spill-way myself to check on her. Maybe she had been knocked unconscious by the trip. Prima had warned me that the trip might be jarring to the human body but I had felt like that sort of risk was relatively small.

Turns out, it was a small chance that did happen…but it wasn't what I was thinking. When I arrived at the spill-way, all I found was young Raf playing with his RC car…and no sign of Lizzie Val. My first thought was that there was a time delay and she might not actually appear in this dimension until the next day so I had taken the role of interacting with Rafael and being there with him and Jack as the Decepticon drones fought with Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Arcee. Afterwards, I had made my way to the house that I had intended both Lizzie and myself to stay in and had gone to bed. Maybe I could locate her in the time stream through her dreams if she was unconscious like one should be while travelling the way I sent her.

Unfortunately, I had been unable to communicate with her. That was more than worrying. Right now, I felt like I was on the edge of full blown panic. I had asked this human girl to give up everything that she knew to come to this universe to fix the mistakes that my children had made and she had done so quite willingly. But, now I could not find her and I feared that something was horribly wrong. Hopefully, I would be able to locate my lost employee before it was too late. There were already things in the show that needed to be changed and it had hurt my spark that I could not stop that event from happening.

That event? I had needed to make sure that the Autobot Cliffjumper survived from his battle with the drones over the energon and my original plan had been to send Lizzie there to cause Cliffjumper to be distracted and not get captured by the Decepticons. But, with Lizzie now missing in action that could not happen and the show had to continue on how it was deemed to be. My only hope for making sure that I didn't bring Lizzie Val here in vain was to find her so we could make the changes that needed to be made to save my children.

However, I was surprised that I had de-aged when I had arrived in this dimension. From my calculations, I would have had to wait until after a major change was made in the show before my human form showed the improvement that it now did. But, I was not going to argue. Thanks to the de-aging, I looked like I should be in my late twenties to early thirties instead of in my fifties. This would help me earn trust with the children easier since I was closer to their age. I would need their help with messing up the time stream until I could find Lizzie. Hopefully, that wouldn't take long but I did need a backup and they seemed like the most reliable next sources.

A motor sound cut through my thoughts and I looked up in surprise to see Bumblebee parked in front of me, his passenger door opened, and Raf in the back seat. Guess Bumblebee was my ride to the base. "I need you to get in."

"He says that he needs you to get in." Raf stated for me, not realizing that I needed a translator. It was probably a good idea to not let them know I could understand Bumblebee. Might raise up some unwanted questions later.

So, I nodded and sat in the passenger seat. Once I had my seatbelt buckled, Bumblebee went into drive and made his way out of Jasper and toward the base. Not long after we set off, Arcee showed up behind us with Miko and Jack on her seat. Well, looks like we were a group of four for now. Hopefully, I would be able to find Lizzie soon and this group of four could turn into the group of five that I had planned for it.

My mind focused on the present as we went through the hidden door in the rock face in front of us and entered a dark tunnel. Thankfully, we were not inside there too long. I glanced up as we entered the base and I took in the bots in the room. The first I saw was Ratchet and I couldn't tell if he was upset that we were here or if he was more annoyed that we existed…well, humans existed. I would exist anyway but that was beside the point. Right now I was in a human form so that would apply to me as well.

The sound of footsteps in front of us had me looking to see Bulkhead walking toward our group. I had to admit that I could see how he could come off as intimidating. But, I knew that he was really just a big teddy bear…that was made of metal…and was really good at fighting against other Cybertronians.

Finally, Bumblebee stopped and so I exited out of Bumblebee so the bot could transform. I ended up standing next to Raf as the four bots in the room congregated with each other. "I thought there were three?" Ratchet asked Arcee and Bumblebee as he stopped in front of us.

"Haven't you heard?" Arcee started while motioning to us. "Humans multiply." True, they very much did so. They did so a lot easier than Cybertronians that was for sure.

We all then started our introductions with Raf. "I'm Raf." He then waved at Ratchet.

Before anything could be said in response, Miko went right up to Bulkhead. "I'm Miko." And the poor bot only got a second of reprieve before her questions began. "Who are you?" She asked this to Bulkhead.

That was right! I forgot that she started them off easy. "Bulkhead." Bulkhead introduced himself. To me, he sounded a little unsure as to what exactly he was supposed to be doing.

"Are you a car? I bet you're a truck. A monster truck! Do you like heavy metal? How much do you weigh? Ever use a wrecking ball for a punching bag?" And there were those questions that I was waiting for.

Everyone just stared at Miko for a moment and it was only thanks to Raf that the ball really got turning. "So, if you guys are robots, who made you?"

I winced at what was to come. That was definitely not the best route to take for this. "Puh-lease." Ratchet started.

However, before he could finish, the ground below us vibrated as the sound of pedesteps could be heard behind us. There was only one bot that could be and, as I turned, I found myself proud at how Optimus Prime had grown. He was the right choice to give the Matrix of leadership. It felt strange having to look up at Optimus as he spoke down to us. "We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Also known as Autobots."

Of course, that got me thinking. While I knew this introduction and had heard it hundreds of times, I just now realized that, if that was how Optimus introduced the Autobots, then how would you introduce a Decepticon?

"Why are you here?" Jack interrupted my thoughts before they could dive any further into that maelstrom of thought.

Thankfully, Optimus was quick with an answer. "To protect your planet…from the Decepticons."

While I knew what he was talking about, I realized that the kids might not know…and I wasn't supposed to know. Thankfully, Arcee had us covered. "The jokers who tried to bump us off last night." And who had just killed Cliffjumper.

Again, before my thoughts could dwell on that, and move any further, Jack spoke. "Okay…why are they here?" I had to give it to Jack. As much as I knew Lizzie disliked him…since he was one of her least favorite humans in her old stories, he knew how to ask a question.

"A fair question Jack." Optimus started to respond while coming down to our level. Miko and Raf moved closer as Optimus began to tell his tale. "In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable; ravaged by centuries of civil war." More like millennia but it was best to not overwhelm the kids.

Of course, Jack wasn't the only human who knew how to ask a question. "Why were you fighting a war?" Raf asked, the question innocent in itself but very complex for on side alone to explain honestly. Optimus knew how to do a fair job at it thought.

"Foremost, over control of our world's supply of energon…the fuel and lifeblood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike." Optimus began to answer.

Since I knew what he was going to say already, I decided to instead try and reach out to Lizzie. I felt for any trace of her that I could detect without alerting the Autobots that I was hiding something from them. I had to find her if everything else that I was planning was going to come to fruition. However, I knew that, since I had yet to locate her, that this task was not going to be easy.

A sigh coming from Miko forced me to stop and pay attention to what was going on around me. "Is there going to be a quiz?" For Miko, that was a pretty reasonable question…even if it was rhetorical.

Thankfully, it didn't get answered and Jack asked a more reasonable question. "So, what is Megatron, or any of this, have to do with us?"

Optimus seemed to study Jack for a second before he answered. "Megatron has not been seen or heard from in some time. But if his return is imminent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic."

Then, the kids went off to explore the base while I stayed with the bots. I was kind of thankful that they were gone now so I could get my thoughts focused. Optimus had a way of answering questions that would bring so much clarity. Fear of destruction will make any being understand why something is being done that they can't control. It brought me back to my thoughts on my MIA employee and I knew that finding her had to be my top priority while, at the same time, keeping up my disguise as your simple ordinary human.

…Which I almost blew as the base's comm system crackled to life before a voice came through that, honestly, should not be coming through. "Hey…base? I…I could use a pick up."

That…that was Cliffjumper! But…he was supposed to be offline. I wasn't able to get to him and Lizzie was still MIA. Could Lizzie have been near the blast and distracted Cliffjumper? Was that why I still couldn't get a hold of her? Massive influxes in volatile energon…like it exploding, could interfere with signals and make it difficult to track her down. Maybe Cliffjumper even had her?

Immediately, the ground bridge opened and I was surprised that Cliffjumper walked through in terrible shape. He must have been hit almost full force by that explosion to look this rough. "Cliffjumper what happened?" Ratchet asked as he immediately set Cliffjumper on a nearby berth and began his repairs.

"Well, the 'Cons showed up at the energon deposit that I found. But, the cowards couldn't fight a fair fight and blew it to kingdom come…and almost me with it. They were able to take me prisoner and I was sure that 'Scream was going to snuff me. But, he didn't." He then looked at Optimus seriously before saying. "Optimus…they have a human. It was why 'Scream let me live." The base grew solemn and I felt sorry for the human. The Decepticons were not as forgiving as the Autobots were and being a human in their base could get very unhealthy very quickly.

Optimus looked very solemn as he seemed to think. He thought for a long while before responding. "Without ready means to track the Decepticon warship, I am afraid that there is nothing we can do for the human for now. However, once the Decepticon warship can be located, rescuing the human becomes top priority. While the human may be safe for now, I fear that, if Megatron returns like I suspect he will, then that human could be in very real danger."

The base grew quiet for a few seconds before the bots turned to me. "I do not believe that we have been introduced to you yet." Optimus spoke to me. The others soon turned and stared at me, waiting expectantly.

After quickly making my company a reality in this dimension, I answered them. "My name is Paul Riley Muskogee, CEO of Cyber Tronics Technologies."

While my name didn't ring with the bots, Raf, who had just returned with the others, had heard of it. "Wow, that's the biggest technologies company in the nation. What are you doing here in Jasper?"

And there was the hard question. I needed to answer this as truthfully as I could without giving away too much about myself. "My personal assistant came to this area to take a well-deserved six-week vacation with the promise to be available for contact should an emergency pop up and with a promise to send me a message every couple of days so I could make sure that she was alright. I worry about her and I consider her a friend. She did fine for the first few couple of check ins but about two weeks ago I stopped hearing from her. Since she is my responsibility I decided to leave my company in capable hands and come find her myself."

I really was worried about her and I was thankful that the others around me didn't question me further about my motives. Lizzie was my responsibility, and had given up so much to help me, and so I needed to find her. That was a definite. While we were lucky that the human that the Decepticons had in their possession was able to keep Cliffjumper from being killed, I knew that I would need Lizzie's help later on to make sure the right changes happened.

Starscream's 1st P.O.V.

While I prided myself in my ability to take command when necessary, I now found myself on the bridge, standing next to Soundwave, worried. Not too long ago, a request came through the Decepticon frequency to open a space bridge to deep space and I knew that there was only one Cybertronian who could have made that call; Megatron. While normally his return was something to be celebrated, because that meant that any mistakes that were made were really his mistakes and not mine, I was worried about a decision that I had recently made.

That decision? Well, that was my choice to, not only keep the human femme alive, but allow her to be kept here on the ship. Megatron normally did not take kindly to outsiders being brought onto the ship unless they were in chains and being tortured for information and, normally, that's how I liked to see them. But, this was a youngling human, a sparkling really, and it went against my seeker programming to see any harm come to it. But, I was not sure that I would be able to stop Megatron from harming her should he discover her presence before Soundwave and I could explain the situation to him and why it would be beneficial to keep her alive…let alone on the ship.

It was the second part that Soundwave and I were trying to think of as Megatron flew toward the ship. While Soundwave and I could find the strategic value in having a human aboard our ship, especially since I had no doubt that the annoying Autobot Cliffjumper had reported her presence aboard our ship to the rest of the Autobots, we both knew that convincing Lord Megatron of her usefulness would be a challenge. There used to be a point in this war against the Autobots, long before he became corrupted, that Megatron would have immediately seen the value in allowing this human on the ship. But, Lord Megatron, the one that was about to enter this ship, would have to be convinced most thoroughly that this organic had any value to the Decepticon cause.

The sound of the bridge doors opening caused Soundwave and I to turn toward them and we immediately bowed our helms in respect as Lord Megatron walked in, his mere overpowering presence demanding respect. "Lord Megatron, we are most pleased that you have returned to us." I greeted Megatron.

As per usual, he scowled toward me. "Save your groveling Starscream. Soundwave," It was very…difficult to not roll my optics at his response. He then turned to the third in command. "How far has the Decepticon cause progressed since my departure three stellar cycles ago?"

In response, Soundwave lit up his screen with the current energon intake numbers from our mines and the low activity of interaction with the Autobots. Thankfully, Soundwave edited the fight with the Autobot Cliffjumper and showed that he was able to escape from the drones before the Nemesis arrived on the scene. I was grateful to him for that because I was sure that Megatron would have been most…displeased with me for releasing an Autobot prisoner.

However, before Soundwave could ease the report to show the presence of the human on the ship, a grate from above broke and my spark stopped as Rumble, Frenzy, and the human femme fell out. While I was thankful when the twins fell first so the human femme fell on top of them, I was petrified as Megatron's red optics narrowed in on the oblivious trio now laughing on the ground. This was the worst possible situation for the three of them right now and, while Rumble and Frenzy would get out of this practically unscathed, the human femme would probably not be as lucky.

After a few nano-clicks, the tense air in the room seemed to the trio on the floor and all of them showed terror as they gazed upon the leader of the Decepticons. I had no doubt that Rumble and Frenzy had informed our human guest about our illustrious leader. I had a feeling that the decision that Lord Megatron would make in the case of the young fleshling's continued living depended on how she responded to Lord Megatron's own reaction.

Speaking of that…

"Starscream! Soundwave! Why have you allowed our ship to become infested with vermin!?"

Lizzie: *cries* I'm going to die and it is barely past the prologue! *wails*

Authoress: *sighs* Lizzie Xantara Val it isn't known if you die next chapter. Who knows? Maybe Starscream will be...able to...*realizes how highly unlikely that situation is*

Lizzie: *yells in anger* I'M KILLING PAUL! *cries and wails some more*

AN: Hehehehe I left you all on cliff~hanger. *chuckles darkly* Anyways, I hope you all are enjoying this chapter. Just to let you know, Soundwave did have a motive for patting Lizzie on the back with his tentacle that you all might not get. It will be revealed later on why he did that exactly (though when that is I am not sure) and so you will all have to wait in utter confusion as I completely warp your sense of knowledge for this story. Next chapter will be looking at some Lizzie P.O.V. (though how much remains to be seen), some Megatron, Paul, and Starscream P. (though not necessarily in that order) and it is going to twist so many things around that no one will be able to guess what is going to happen...heck even I'm not one hundred percent sure of everything that will evolve in this story.

...*whispers to darkness* ...did I just admit that? *darkness nods back*...Oops.

Anyways, I hope you have all enjoyed this so far. I just finished my last final today (German final!) And so I am planning more updates in a shorter time span. I plan on focusing a lot of attention on this story but I will be working on a few of others *eyes Reawakened Revolution as one and Odyssey of a Strange Femme as another* as well. Until next time, please leave a review even if it is to say hi. I loves to say hi to people. Well, since that is all...TTYL! *walks into dark shifting shadows laughing*