Chapter 1

It was just a night like every other night in futuristic Detroit. Professor Sumdac was working late and Sari Sumdac, age eight, was sleeping soundly in her bedroom. Neither expected the weird accurance that was about to unfold itself and change the girl's life forever.

Sari Sumdac lay in her pink, four poster bed, sleeping soundly when suddenly a loud noise woke her from her slumber. The girl sat upright in her bed, startled. She looked around the room, listening hard, trying to pin point the sound.

Right away she noticed a strange glowing light off to her right and turned her head. Her dark red eyes fell on her All Spark key, which lay on top of her nightstand. It was glowing brightly and letting of a loud humming noise.

The girl's eyes widened in surprise. She never remembered her key doing that before.

Suddenly a bright light shot from the key toward the far wall. Sari looked in the direction the light was shining and saw what looked like a bright orb of light suddenly flash on. Inside that light she saw nine tiny sillouettes. Then, just as it began the light faded then winked out.

A second later she heard a loud thumping sound then a scratching, scrambling noise coming from the waste basket by her school desk.

The girl let out a squeak and ducked under the blankets as if doing so would make the sounds go away. but they proceeded and she peeked out, her eyes locked on that waste basket. Now she could hear voices, or at least one voice. It sounded angry, though she could not make out anything it was saying.

Finally her curiosity got the better of her and she slid off the bed and walked cautiously over to the waste basket.

"I knew it," that angry voice was saying. "I knew you were bad luck. From the moment you got here everything has been unraveling, now look what happened!"

"How can you blame me for this?" another voice demanded.

"It was you and that blasted device of yours!" the angry voice spoke up again. "If you had just left well enough alone-"

"Enough already!" another voice shouted. "1 if you say one more thing so help me I'll stuff my spear so far up your behind it will come out of the top of your head!"

"Don't you dare use that tone with me, young lady!" the voice known as 1 shouted. "I'm the one in charge here! You will show respect!"

"I lost all respect for you years ago, you pompus windbag! Now shut up!"

"Guys, can we please not fight?" a more timid voice spoke up. "It's not making anything better and could you please move over, 8? You're squashing me!"

Huh?

By then Sari had reached the trash can. Leaning over she peeked her head into it and got the shock of her life.

Nine little creatures that looked like they were made of different kinds of material sat inside the waste bin. One of them which had a slightly lighter color was yelling at the rest as if he was the boss or something.

"This is insane!" the loud and bossy one ranted. "How in the name of heaven are we going to-" his words cut themselves off when he caught a glimpse of the girl peering down at him. He stared at her, wide eyed for a moment then screamed.

Sari in response also screamed and fell onto the floor, backing away from the trash can.

Instantly she heard a loud banging and raised voices though she couldn't understand what any of them were saying because they were talking at once. Then she heard what sounded like somebody striking someone else and they fell silent.

Sari sat on the floor for a moment, her eyes locked on the trash can, breathing heavily and trying to calm herself down. "Get a grip," she ordered herself. "They're not going to hurt you. They're not even very big. It's not like they're gremlins or anything."

But what if they are gremlins? a voice in her head asked. You didn't get a very good look at them.

She glanced around herself but couldn't see anything that would make a good weapon. Hopefully they wouldn't hurt her anyway. If anything she could step on them.

The girl took a deep breath, and crawled back over to the garbage can. This time she cautiously peeked her head over... and was blinded by two pairs of flashing lights.

Sari screamed in surprise and fell back, her hands over her eyes. As she fell her foot accidentally struck the waste basket knocking it over.

She heard a yelp of surprise then a frantic scuffling. Blinking back multi-colored spots she pushed herself into a sitting position and tried to see what was going on through the twin rainbow colored after images flashing before her eyes.

"Let's get out of here," a voice that didn't sound like the ones she heard before yelled.

The girl's vision cleared just in time to see little figures running across her floor. The girl let out a shriek then lunged for the light switch, clicking it on just as one of them turned around and ran toward her.

Sari saw it coming and reacted instinctly. She let out a yell and kicked the thing, sending it flying back the way it came. It hit the floor with a heavy thud.

The angry voice from before yelled something then ran toward the fallen thing.

Now that Sari has some light she could see what these things were. She moved cautiously toward them, climbing onto her bed and wiggling on her belly until she could peek over the side at the little creatures without them being able to go after her.

Upon close inspection she discovered the things were not gremlins after all. In fact they didn't even look close. They all had strange body shapes and seemed to be made of fabric as she'd noticed a few minutes earlier. But not just fabric but wood and metal as well.

Dolls? she thought, her eyes widening in surprise. Moving dolls? I must be dreaming. This can't be real.

She watched as two of the moving dolls, one that was brown with buttons on his front and another brown one with a zipper on his chest helped the one she'd kicked tp his feet. The one she'd kicked looked different. His body shape was more full than the other two who looked kind of scrawny.

In fact the full one reminded her a little of that villain from The Nightmare Before Christmas Oogie Boogie.

"Are you all right, 8?" the one with the zipper asked the the Oogie look alike.

The one called 8 grunted in reply and pulled something around his back. It looked like half of a scissor. "It won't happen again."

"What was that thing?" the one with the buttons questioned.

Before anyone could answer that the one with the angry voice stalked over to them, his little hand hitting the floor with a staff like object. Sari noticed this one wore a hat with a penny tied to it and a red cape held closed by a ruby brouch. "It doesn't matter what it was," the caped one grumbled. "We never would have encountered it if this one hadn't been fooling around!" he pointed his staff at the one with the zipper. "What did I tell you about-"

"It wasn't his fault," a smaller one in a leather vest spoke up. "He didn't know."

The hat one swung on the one in the vest. "This is also your fault, 2!" he shouted.

The one called 2 just stared at him, unable to comment.

"Hey, don't you dare go blaming 2 for this," the one with the female sounding voice snapped.

Sari saw a white figure march over to the group. "It wasn't anybodies fault it happened," she informed him.

"Then why did it happen?" the caped grouch shot back.

"I don't know," she replied. "But I know 9 and 2 didn't have anything to do with this!"

Why do they keep addressing each other with numbers?

The grouch in the cape didn't seem to be able to come up with a good reply. Instead he turned back to 8 who had finally gotten to his feet. "Did you see what hit you?" he asked him.

8 shook his head. 'Too dark."

"I knew it!" the caped one concluded. "It's a monster! We should try finding a place to hide!"

"Hide?" the white female demanded. "Hiding won't make the problem go away,1! We should take care of it before is does something else!"

"And what do you suggest we do, 7?" 1 snapped.

"I say we fight it!"

"And wind up like everyone else who's been foolish enough to stand up against something? No, I don't think so."

"Coward!"

What are they talking about? Sari frowned in confusion. Monster? What monster? Did the one called 1 mean her?

"Uh hem."

The sound of a throat clearing stopped any further argument between the little dolls. 1,7, and the others gathered there lifted their heads toward the sound. They spotted Sari looking down at them and their eyes widened in fear and shock and maybe even disbelief.

"Excuse me," she said. "But I'm not a monster. I'm a girl."

"A girl?" the one called 2 asked. "as in a human?"

"Well last time I checked I was a human," the girl replied. "Unless my dad's not telling me something and I'm actually a robot." she giggled. "Yeah right."

"You're a human?" another one asked, this one with buttons running down his front. "But I thought all the humans were dead."

Sari frowned. "Dead?" she asked.

"Yeah," the buttoned on went on. "I saw them all die by being attacked by machines and being poisoned by deadly gas...." his voice trailed off when he saw how 1 was staring at him. "I'm sorry!"

The human girl cocked her head. "Deadly machines? Poisoned gas? What in the world are you talking about?"

The little dolls all looked at each other for a moment. Finally the one with the buttons asked. "You mean you don't know what's been going on?"

Sari shook her head. "I'm afraid not," she replied. "Last time I checked there weren't any deadly robots roaming the planet killing people." she frowned as a thought came to her. Could the Decepticons be doing this? She doubted it. Her Autobot friends had already taken care of the Decepticon called Starscream. It wasn't likely that he'd be anywhere killing humans for fun. Another thought came to her but she didn't know how to find any proof about it unless....

The girl slid off the bed and sat down on the floor in front of them. They all looked at her nervously and the one named 7 seemed to tense. Sari folded her arms and looked at them in a non-threatening way. "How about you tell me what's been going on?"

A/N

I don't know what I'm doing yet. I had this idea me and some of the people I chat with were discussing awhile back where the stitchpunks somehow get transported to Detroit and cause mass chaos in the Sumdac tower. I have a few ideas in mind but it could take awhile to do them all.