Mi-chan: Thank GOD I can reformat chapters now. I wasn't able to correct my past mistakes with the old . Now that has made an option where I can replace past chapters with a newer document, I can now correct past mistakes~! It makes me so uber happy~!

Enjoy the shiny updated version of this chapter~! Don't worry, nothing has changed in the story, I'm just making things a bit neater :)

dIsClAiMeR: I do not own any of the Transformers and humans that have shown up in the Transformers Armada series, Hasbro does. I does own, however, Ember, Ember's sister, and others that have not shown up in the Transformers Armada series.

Chapter 1:

Bad Dreams and New Friends

"Hello...Luna." said Sideways coming up out of the darkness.

"What do you want? And by the way, my name isn't Luna." said the girl, huddled in a corner, hugging her knees.

"You still refuse to remember, don't you?" Sideways chuckled darkly.

"I don't even know what your gawking about, but-"

"You may think you don't know what I'm talking about, but deep down, you know exactly what I'm talking about, and you know exactly how to get your memories back." said Sideways starting to raise his voice.

"So what if my memories don't come back!" she shouted "I think...no...I know I'll be a lot better off without them!"

"Now how do you know that Luna?" he asked in an evilly amused voice "You don't even remember your own past, who knows, maybe it would be better if you went back to your old life."

"NO! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Suddenly, everything started shaking around the girl, and Sideways was caught in the middle of it.

"Rrrg! Stop this Luna!" Sideways was getting irritated "You think it's better with the life you have now? ! Just you wait, you'll come running back!" Sideways then disappeared into thin air.

The shaking stopped, and the girl was calm again. She suddenly felt a bright light hitting her eyelids. And she awoke.

The girl awoke to her sister pulling the curtains as far apart from each other as possible so that the sunlight could seep through the girl's window, and onto the girl's face.

"Mmmph!" said the girl pulling her pillow over her face.

"Oh c'mon sleeping beauty! It's the last day of school, just get it over with!" her sister said irritated, yet enthusiastic.

"Why can't I sleep now?" The girl said in a whiney, and muffled voice under the pillow.

The girl's older sister quickly yanked her little sister's pillow from her grip, and the girl slowly sat up.

"You can sleep all you want after school, and during the summer." the girl's sister said putting her hands on her hips.

"Okay, I'm up." the girl said rubbing her eyes.

"Good, cuz', your cinnamon rolls are getting cold." the girl's sister said smiling, walking out of the bedroom, and then walking down the stairs.

This caught caught more of the girl's attention, causing her to quickly gett up, get dressed, bolt down the stairs, past her sister, and into the kitchen.

The air smelled of cinnamon and icing with the smell of freshly baked bread mixed into it. It was oh so inviting! She couldn't help but smile as she went to the stove to serve herself a cinnamon roll. She went to the table, sat in a chair, and started eating happily. Her sister walked into the kitchen and sat down on chair next to hers.

"I haven't seen you smile like that in a while. I'm glad you like my cooking." said the girl's sister smiling.

The girl suddenly remembered her dream and set her fork gently on the table. Her smile faded and she went into a depressive state. Her sister's smile faded when hers did.

"What's wrong?" the girl's sister asked, she was a bit concerned.

The girl was hesitant "I..."

"Well, go on. You know you can tell me anything." the girl's sister stated matter-of-factly, and a little more concerned.

"I...I had a bad dream again." the girl's voice was a little shaky.

"Another one?" her sister was a little surprised. This was the sixth bad dream this week, her sister sighed. "What was it about?"

The girl turned her attention away from her sister, she was getting worried. The girl kept having dreams ever since the beginning of the week about a giant robot named Sideways and he kept trying to convince her to remember her past. It confused her greatly. What was so important about her past that she needed to remember? She didn't get Sideways' motive at all. And it was just a dream after all, but, it always seemed so real to her, it was almost amazing... But not quite. The girl thought it was odd that she had the same person in her dream every single day of the week this week, and what could've motivated her mind to create such a fantasy? While she was asking these questions and others in her head, her sister snapped her out of her deep thinking.

"Ember? What was the dream about?"

The girl, Ember, didn't know whether to lie to her sister or tell the truth about the dream. She didn't decide until the last second.

"I...I dreamt about...that you died." Ember lied.

Ember's sister was silent.

"I...I can't imagine you not being apart of my life." Ember said adding to the lie. Although, it actually was hard to imagine life without her adoptive sister.

Her sister gave her a warm smile then pulled her into a hug. Her sister gently kissed her on the forehead.

"It's alright, I can assure you. I'm not going to die anytime soon." Ember's sister said before pulling her out of the hug and then walking out into the living room.

Ember then went back to eating her cinnamon roll. Ember hated lying to her sister! Ember wished she could tell her sister everything about her dreams and how real they seemed each time she dreamt this week. But, it was for the best she supposed. Why? Because (she thought) her sister would either one, laugh and think she was crazy. Two, know she was dead serious and take her to counseling, thinking Ember was becoming psychotic. Or three, both of those alltogether... And that, was not something she thought was a very pretty image in her mind. But sooner or later she would have to tell someone, she didn't like keeping things bottled up inside for too long. Then again, she did tend to bottle up her feelings at school, all the time. People would always make fun of Ember and her looks. Everyone, even Ember, seemed to notice that her looks were uncommon and very unusual. Ember had a natural orange streak in her jet-black hair toward her bags on her right side, and had an eye color that was blood red. She was also unusually muscular than an average teen her age, although not too muscular to where it would make her look unattractive and she didn't even have a very high metabolism, and she knew she didn't work out much. Overall, her self-esteem was okay and she thought she looked pretty attractive, but a lot of the kids at her school thought otherwise. But that was okay, she didn't really care what they thought anymore.

Ember was different, different than everyone else, and somehow she knew it wasn't quite normal.

When Ember finished her cinnamon roll, she went to the sink, rinsed off her plate and fork, and then set her plate and fork on the left side of the sink. After that, she ran upstairs and into her bathroom to freshen up a bit. When she was done getting ready, she ran downstairs to get her already prepared backpack. When Ember put her backpack on and was about walk out the door, her sister turned the corner and caught her attention before she left.

"Hey Ember, wouldn't you rather I drive you to school this morning?" asked her sister from the living room.

"Nah, it's okay. I'll walk, thanks anyway." Ember said as she grabbed the door handle, but her attention still at her sister.

"No problem. And hey, I'll be in my office all day long, so, expect me to be here after school, okay?" Her sister told her.

"Alright, see ya!" Ember turned her attention away from her sister, walked out of her house, and closed the door behind her.

Ember's sister smiled warmly at the place where her little sister had been "See ya later kid."

Ember's sister then went toward her office thinking of what order to do her work in "Taxes, or bills first?"

Ember was a bit blinded by the suns rays when she stepped outside, and didn't like it too well. She groaned in annoyance. She started on her way and couldn't see the school quite yet since she lived about twenty blocks away. Her sister woke her up a little late today so she wouldn't get to school on time, but that didn't bother her today. It was the last day of school and in her opinion, it didn't matter if she was late or not. Her sister always had to wake her up in the mornings because for some reason her alarm clock would never seem to wake her up, which could be really annoying at times considering all the things her sister did in the past to wake her up. For Example, the bucket of ice-water trick, putting Ember's hand in warm bowl of water so that when she wet the bed, she'd wake up, and so-on. But, she didn't know if this morning counted as one of her sister's usual tricks, but she knew for sure that she did not like the sunlight one bit in the mornings. Ember seemed to like the darkness more often than not, but thought she didn't mind the light either, that is, if it wasn't related to sunlight...what was up with her? Usually kids her age would love to play outside in the clear view of the Sun's rays, but she'd rather be in the shade reading a good book. She always wondered why she liked the darkness better than the light, and thought it was a bit of a strange.

Ember sighed "I have been thinking a lot lately...ever since those dreams, it really hasn't been the same with me lately... Aahhggh! Quit thinking so much Ember! You're just giving yourself a headache!" Ember tried to keep her mind at ease and started singing a calming tune in her mind.

While walking on the sidewalk towards her school, Ember noticed two boys walking down the sidewalk on the other side of the street. She noticed they were whispering about something, but couldn't make out what they were saying. The boy who seemed to be whispering the most, had dark brown hair and lightish-brown skin. The boy next to him, had spiky blonde hair with a peachish-white complexion. She remembered seeing these two once before at her school in the hallways several times before, but never bothered to talk to them.

Ember sighed "I shouldn't bother with talking to them, I haven't in the past, so why strike up a conversation with them now?"

So, Ember continued on her way...although, she didn't seem to notice the piece of the concrete up ahead that was jutting out on the sidewalk. The next thing Ember knew, she tripped and landed face-first onto the ground.

Ember held her forehead in pain "DAMN IT!"

The two boys looked up from their conversation and noticed she had fallen pretty hard onto the ground. They immediately ran across the street to help her out.

"Hey!" the spiky blonde-haired boy shouted urgently "Are you okay? !"

The dark brown-haired boy helped Ember sit up properly "Whoa, total wipeout..." he said devastated.

"I...I'm okay." Ember said, a little unsure of the results of her fall. Besides her forehead being in pain that is...

She winced slightly when she tried to get up, and held her left shoulder in pain.

"Hey, you're bleeding." said the spiky blonde-haired boy pointing at the middle of her head.

Ember instinctively felt the spot where she was bleeding, looking at her two fingers, and seeing there was blood on them.

"Eh, it's not that bad dude." said the dark brown-haired boy said, sounding confident.

The dark brown-haired boy noticed she was favoring her shoulder a little bit "Maybe we should be more concerned about her shoulder."

Ember took her backpack off from over her shoulders and tried to stand up. As she was getting up she stumbled and both boys caught her from falling.

Ember sighed "Thanks."

"Sure thing." said the spiky blonde-haired boy smiling.

"No problem." said the dark brown-haired boy smiling as well.

Ember steadied herself and exhaled.

"Do you want us to escort you to the school nurse?" asked the spiky-blonde haired boy asked seeming concerned.

"Sure..." said Ember, rubbing her left shoulder every now and then.

The spiky blonde-haired boy picked up Ember's backpack, and the three teens started on their way.

The school started to come into view, and the teens were really quiet, until Ember spoke up.

"So, I uh, never got your names..." said Ember.

The two boys looked at each other and smiled.

"Heh...sorry about that. My name is Rad, and this is Carlos." said the spiky blonde-haired boy gesturing towards himself and then towards the dark brown-haired boy.

"Hi, I'm Ember." said Ember "I guess the backpack gave away that I went to your school, huh?"

"Yeah, pretty much." said Rad with a little bit of laughter.

"What? Did you think we were stalkers?" laughed Carlos.

"No." chuckled Ember "Never crossed my mind."

"Rad and Carlos aren't so bad after all." Ember thought happily.

When Rad, Carlos, and Ember got to the nurse's office, the nurse shooed the two boys away and told them to go to class. Soon after, the nurse tended to Ember's wounds, and afterwards, Ember felt one hundred percent better. Although, the nurse still seemed to be concerned.

"Would you like to call home hon'?" asked the nurse while picking up the phone at her desk.

"No no, that's okay. I'm fine, really." Ember said, trying to put her mind at ease.

The nurse sighed "Alright, you may go to class now. But I want you to be more careful from now on, ya' here?"

"I will, and thanks." Ember said with a nod.

Ember looked around for her backpack, but it was no where to be found. Then she remembered...

"Stupid..! I saw Rad leave with my backpack and I didn't even say a thing! I don't even know what class he's in!" Ember was doing that little 'coulda-hada-V8' move to herself for a split second while she was mentally yelling at herself.

The nurse saw this and questioned her "What's wrong?" she asked, a confused look on her face.

Ember put her hand on the back of her head and a classic anime droplet formed "I, uh...heh-heh, it's nothing." Ember didn't want to make a big deal out of nothing, she started backing out of the room "Well, uh, better get goin, BYE!" She suddenly bolted out of the room to go find her 'misplaced' backpack.

"Stupid stupid stupid!" Ember kept mentally beating herself up "Then again, Rad could've said something about it before walking off..."

Ember was running down the hall, and it was inbetween a class period! Not something she wouldn't recommend to anyone without a hall pass. Halfway through the long hallway, she came to a corner, and the bell rang for second period. When she turned the corner, she found Rad and Carlos coming out of one of the classrooms.

"There they are." Ember thought when she went running toward them.

Unfortunately, she saw a girl in her path that was coming out of one of the classrooms next to Rad and Carlos' classroom, and she couldn't stop in time. She crashed into the girl and fell flat on her butt, along with the girl that she had crashed into.

The girl Ember had crashed into was not happy, but not really paying attention either "You know, you should be a lot more-" When the girl looked up, she was a bit shocked "Careful."

When Ember looked up, she saw a bright red-haired girl with dark brown eyes looking back at her. She suddenly recognized her rival "Sora..." Ember tried not to sneer.

The long, bright red-haired girl's dark brown eyes glinted with an amused look to them.

She smiled evilly as she got up off the floor "Well well, look who it is. It's my old friend Ember." She smirked, putting her hands on her hips.

The two boys, Rad and Carlos, saw what happened, and ran to Ember's aid, helping her up off the floor. Ember was now holding Sora in a death glare. Two girls, identical to each other walked over to Sora, one on each side of her.

"Aww, don't be like that Emster, why haven't you spoken to me lately?" Sora's evil grin had more emphasis now that her two 'lackeys' were with her.

Ember's hands were balled up into fists "You know EXACTLY why you rich, SPOILED BRAT!" Ember spat.

Rad and Carlos were astonished that Ember was acting this way, especially to the most popular, beautiful, and richest girl in the school. Then again, Rad and Carlos only met her about three times.

Sora was now laughing "Wow, I don't get that a lot!" her face suddenly turned into an innocent looking expression. "Aw, I see, is Ember still mad at me from all those months ago? Poor wittle Emmy wemmy." she said in a baby voice.

Ember was now smiling and standing up strait and tall, she started to snicker.

Sora noticed this, and with an irritated face asked "What's so funny?"

Ember smiled an evil smile "Oh, I wasn't upset..."

Sora looked at her questionably.

"I was glad. I didn't have to look at that ass face of yours anymore."

"WHAT! ?" Sora was infuriated, and now she was going to punch Ember's lights out. Unfortunately for Sora, her 'lackeys' were holding her back.

"You heard what I said ASSWIPE!" Now Rad and Carlos were holding Ember back from punching Sora's lights out.

"C'mon girls, cool it!" Rad shouted over the insults the girls were shouting at each other.

A teacher suddenly approached them "ENOUGH!"

The girls went silent, and Sora shrugged off her lackeys. Ember gave a gesture to Rad and Carlos to let go of her arms, and they obliged.

The teacher spoke again "Now if you are quite done, MOVE...ALONG."

The two groups walked in separate directions.

The teacher walked toward her classroom "Kids." She muttered.

Rad, Carlos, and Ember arrived at Rad and Carlos' lockers. Ember was silent and felt a little embarrassed at the little 'skirmish' between her and Sora. "They're probably mad at me for blowing up at Sora earlier." She was now looking at her feet, with a shadow casting over face.

Rad and Carlos noticed that Ember was looking at her feet, and Rad, having a good idea of what she was thinking, spoke up "Hey, don't worry about it." he said with a comforting smile.

Ember looked up, a bit surprised.

Carlos chimed in "Yeah, it's cool. No need to worry."

Ember looked away "I...really don't know what to say."

Rad put his hand on her shoulder to get Ember's attention, and it worked.

"Nothing, you have history with Sora, so what?" said Rad in a comforting manner.

"Yeah and maybe some cat fight history too." said Carlos matter-of-factly.

Rad turned around and gave Carlos the 'you're-not-helping' look, but to Rad's surprise, he heard Ember chuckle, and turned around to see her smiling.

"Almost." said Ember laughing slightly.

Rad smiled. "Leave it to Carlos to make Ember laugh." Then Rad suddenly remembered something...

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Rad opened his locker and gave Ember her backpack "Sorry, I kinda forgot to hand this over to you before we left the nurse's office."

"Nah, it's okay. I saw you with it before you left and it didn't even click in my mind to remind you to hand it over." Ember said smiling a warm smile of reassurance.

"Ember?"

A female voice called out Ember's name from behind her. And Ember recognized it. She turned around to see a worried brown-haired girl with green eyes looking at her.

"Uh, hi Alexis." said Ember a bit nervous.

Rad and Carlos were surprised that Ember knew Alexis.

"You two know each other?" asked Carlos in confusion.

"We've been, acquainted, more than once at recess and during passing period." Ember said with nervousness still lingering in her voice.

"Ember, I overheard some kids talking, was Sora pushing your buttons again?" asked Alexis with a voice of concern.

"Yeah. Kind of. I guess." Ember looked at Alexis with sadness. "Is she mad at me..?"

To Ember's surprise, Alexis smirked and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I'd thought you had figured it out by now." Alexis sighed "Sora is jealous of you, that's why she's always picking on you."

This news hit Ember just as hard as a baseball would, hard and fast. "R-really?" said Ember, dumbfounded by the news.

Alexis smiled with a slight chuckle "It'll all become clear in do time." She turned to Rad and Carlos "So, I see you've been acquainted with Ember too?"

"Yeah, we just met today on the way to school." said Rad, still a little bit of surprise left inside him from knowing that Alexis had been acquainted with Ember way before he and Carlos had been.

The bell rang suddenly, startling the four teens slightly.

"Well, I guess I'll see you three next passing period?" asked Ember questioningly.

"Sure. We'll give you our contacts if you'd like." said Carlos with enthusiasm.

"Really? ! Okay! See you later!" Ember ran down the hall and turned the corner.

When most of the kids went to class or were out of earshot of the trio, the three friends began to whisper amoungst themselves.

"So, are we going to have to walk or what?" asked Carlos with concern.

Alexis laughed a little "Nah. Sureshock, Grindor, and Highwire will meet us in the garage after school."

"How did you contact them?" asked Rad in disbelief "I thought the Autobots needed their help today."

"Through my cellphone silly! Sureshock gave me his comlink frequency, and I hacked my cellphone so that it could pick up Sureshock's frequency. To make a long story short, he said that they would be done early so they could ride with us back to base." Alexis told them.

The three friends whispered a bit more before they went on to class.

The rest of the day wasn't that bad for Ember. She got Rad, Carlos, and Alexis's contacts at third passing period and got to talk to them the rest of the passing periods, and during recess! School went by quickly and Ember found herself at her locker at the end of school in no time. She quickly got out her things and went to the back of the school. She opened a door leading down concrete stairs and into a concrete garage, and went down into the garage. When she finally walked out of the garage full of student bikes and other BMX type things, she spotted Rad, Carlos, and Alexis in the distance each riding a vehicle of some sort.

Ember sighed "Aw, and I wanted to hang out with them today..."

Ember looked around to see if some kind of miracle would happen, and one did. She spotted a bike leaning against a trash can that looked in good condition, she checked the tire pressure and the bike chain, both also in decent condition. The bike was covered in some type of dirt, but it's not like it was unuseable or anything...

She looked at one of the handlebars and noticed a note attached to it, it read:

"You want it, you can have it!"

Ember quickly tore the piece of paper off the handle bar, got on the bike, and rode off towards the three friends.

"They never said I couldn't hangout with them today, and they're too far away to hear me...I guess I'll just tail them until I catch up with them." Ember thought, and suddenly shivered "Great...I'm turning into a stalker."

Little did Ember know what was in store for her when she began tailing Rad, Carlos, and Alexis. Little did she know the meeting of her life was about to unfold. Destiny was pulling her towards the mechanical beings known as...

The Transformers.

Mi-chan: Gosh dang there were alot of spelling and grammar mistakes...I really should have corrected those before I posted this chapter way back when... Anywho, Thanks for reading this new and improved Chapter 1! Please Review! It would mean alot :)