I'm moving what was originally the story notes into a prologue just so that the revised first chapter will actually show up as a new chapter.

This story came about from the simple amusing image of Knock Out running into a nerdy human girl who was all too willing to gush over his lustrous finish and robotic charms, and rapidly morphed into an outlet for my desires to explore various things that might happen after the conclusion of Transformers: Prime. It ended up being a Humanformers story instead of a straight-up Transformers story because I also became interested in exploring various ways that things would be different for our Cybertronian friends if they had somewhat squishier, human-sized forms. (I've actually got a whole slew of stories I'll be writing on that matter.) Eventually, this will be a romance (or several), but there's a lot of other stuff going on, so I hope no one gets too frustrated waiting for that plot to jump into action.

My concept of these "humanformers" is that they're composed of nanobots, essentially, and in "human" form, they would look and feel like a human on the outside, but they're still made of cybermatter. In 'bot mode, they are not people in mech suits so much as just... mech suits. I'll go into more niggly details at some point in the story, but just wanted to make sure no one gets confused by our preconceived notions of how Transformers work. :)

Anyway, enjoy the story, and don't forget to comment! I love to know what my readers are thinking and get constructive feedback.

Note: this fic was up before, but I took it down to post some revisions.