ATE: Hey everyone! As you can see I have a new story called 'To Dance Among The Skies'. Originally I was going to call this story 'Sky Dancer' but saw that name was already taken when I looked through the Tranformers/Beast Wars archive. So this story is called what it's called because of this. Also the original concept of this chap was much more sloppy than what this turned out. As it there were bits here and there that weren't there but were added in at the last minute as I typed this up. So yeah, this is my attempt at writing a Transformers Armada fanfic. Enjoy!

Declaimer: I don't own Transformers or Transformers Armada (don't we all wish that we did?). I do, however own my OC Valerie.

To Dance Among The Skies

Chapter 1: Practice and…Wait! GAINT ROBOTS?

Have you ever found yourself looking up at the sky at times? I always did. Ever since I was little. Whenever I would look up at the sky, day or night, I always felt at peace. Sometimes I wished I could fly into the vast endless sky, but I knew it wasn't possible for humans to fly.

"Valerie Smith."

My head whipped up to where Mrs. Henry was. She looked at me expectantly, causing me to wonder what she had said earlier.

"The problem, please." She told me, as if reading my mind.

I realized that she had written a math problem on the board and I quickly went up to write the answer with a piece of powdery white chalk. Once I finished I placed the chalk down before looking at Mrs. Henry. She gave me a look of approval before allowing me to sit down.

I was about to sit down when the bell rang, indicating that both class and school were over for the day. I gathered my things and was ready to leave when my friend Alexis came up to me.

"Hey, Valerie. Are you glad it's Friday?" She asked me.

"Yeah! I have to go to practice today." I told her.

"We're still having the sleep-over, right?"

"You bet."

I followed Alexis out into the hallway where I found her talking to Rad and Carlos. Even though I told her that I had practice Alexis didn't know what it was I was practicing. I had been taking ballet lessons for almost a year now and I could say I was okay at it. I just needed more practice in order to get better. Why didn't I tell Alexis about me taking ballet? I wasn't really sure myself. I just…didn't want them to know. Maybe it was because I wasn't sure what they would think. But still…I kinda felt guilty for not telling her.

I left the school after placing everything in my locker. Since I had everything I needed for practice I chose to walk, taking the shortcut I always took through the park. One minute I was walking and the next I found myself on the ground. Groaning, I lifted myself up and looked behind me to see what I tripped over to find what looked like a panel with a 'M' on it. I picked it up and realized it was as big as a text book.

"What is this?" I asked myself quietly.

I looked around to see if anyone was looking. I didn't have to worry since nobody was here so I took off my back pack and decided to place the panel in it before zipping it back up. I thought of showing it to Alexis when I got out of ballet practice. Either way I still had to get there.

(1 hour later)

I was sitting in the locker room after practice and placing my ballet stuff in my bag after getting changed, zipping my back pack close before rushing for the exit. I wanted to get home as quickly as possible so I could get my stuff for the sleep-over.

"Valerie!"

I stopped before turning around to find my ballet instructor Ms. Sanders standing behind me. Ms. Sanders had a youthful appearance (looking to be about 27 to me) and had her dark hair pulled back in a bun from practice earlier. She gazed at me with her brown eyes, giving me the impression of a compassionate mother. Or maybe it was an expression that a proud teacher gave her students? I wasn't sure which.

"Yes, Ms. Sanders?" I asked.

"Over the past 6 months I've noticed that you've started to improve. However, I've also noticed that you seem…hesitant whenever you move." She said.

I sighed, lowering my gaze to the floor, some of my ash blonde hair (which was a bit past my shoulders) getting in my face.

"I know. I…feel like such a klutz whenever I dance. I want to be as graceful as you, Ms Sanders. I really do!"

"Valerie." Ms. Sanders placed a hand on my shoulder, causing me to look up at her. "You're not a klutz. You may fall down a few time, but that doesn't mean you haven't been able to get back up. With enough practice and motivation you'll someday be able to dance with a gracefulness of your own. I know you can do it." She gave me a smile. "I'll give you some advice. Try practicing you dance moves at home or wherever you feel comfortable. Listen to some music if you want to while doing so. Do you think you can do that?"

"I guess…I could do that."

"Good. Just take it one step at a time and you'll do fine."

"Thank you, Ms. Sanders."

With that I left the building and started heading home. As I walked through the park my back started to feel warm and I realized it was coming from my bag. I quickly took it off and unzipped it to find the panel glowing.

"What the…? Why is it glowing?" I asked.

Suddenly I felt the ground give a great tremor, which caused me to lose my balance and fall to the ground. I looked up, only to have my eyes widen at what I saw! Robots.

Giant.

Robots.

As in more than one. As in plural. There were 4 of them, the tallest one having what appeared to be horns on his head, another one having weird eyes (one being bigger than the other), another having what looked like helicopter propellers on his back, and the last one having the wings of jet plane. The only thing they all had in common was a purple mark on them.

My mind was screaming at me to run but my leg weren't cooperating. I held the panel close to my chest.

"Ah, so you have it." The horned robot said in a deep voice. "Hand over the Mini-Con if you want to live, human."

It was then and there that my legs decided to listen to my mind and I started running away as fast as I could while screaming my head off. From behind me I heard the robot shouting 'After her!' before I heard something to a jet and helicopter flying behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw a jet and helicopter chasing after me, the latter started shooting at me!

"Holy shit!" I yelled, narrowly missing a shot that had been close to my side.

Suddenly I ran into something hard, causing me to fall onto my back and hit my head. Oww… I opened my eyes, only to have them widen when I saw a giant yellow robot staring down at me. I screamed and quickly (to my surprise) got up to run away before running into something else, this time feeling hands on my shoulders.

"Valerie?"

I opened my eyes, gasping in surprise when I saw Alexis standing in front of me wearing a orange jumpsuit, along with Rad and Carlos coming up to us wearing the same thing.

"Alexis?" I asked, surprised and confused. "What are you doing here? What are Rad and Carlos doing here? And what's up with the jumpsuits?"

"It's kinda complicated, but we'll try to explain." Alexis told me.

"We know you're terrified so you have to listen." Rad said.

"O-okay."

"The giant robots that were chasing you are the bad guys." Alexis pointed to the horned robot as an example.

"But the yellow robot you just ran into is one of the good guys." Carlos pointed to the yellow robot that was now fighting against the robot with the weird eyes.

"Do you see the red symbol on him?" Alexis asked.

That was when I noticed the red symbol on the yellow robots left shoulder (although I couldn't tell what it looked like).

"Y-yeah." I replied.

"Any robots with a red symbol like that are the good guys." She told me.

"So the ones with the purple symbol are the bad guys?"

"Exactly! They're fighting for the Mini-Con that activated in this area." Rad stated.

"Mini…Con?" I said it slowly.

"Yeah! It's that panel you're holding onto." Carlos said.

I looked down at the panel…the Mini-Con I held in my arms. These robots where fighting all because of this? Was it that important? Was it so important that they had to fight to the death just to get it?

"Take it!" I cried, holding the Mini-Con out to Alexis. She gave me a surprised look. "I don't want anything to do with this anymore! I-I can't handle this!"

"But Valerie-!"

The ground shook with a slight tremor and I spun around to find a blue, orange, and white robot with orange wing shaped antennas on the sides of his head kneeling done close to us. I started shaking and was about to run away until I noticed the red symbol on his chest. Now that I saw it the red symbol reminded me of a robotic looking face.

"The Mini-Con." He said in a calm deep voice.

He held one of his big hands out in front of me as if waiting for me to place something in it. I looked back up to his face, then his hand before going back to his face once more. I held the panel out and placed it in his hand.

"Y-you're a good guy…" I said, barely above a whisper.

Whether he heard me or not the blue robot didn't say anything to acknowledge it. I watched in fear as the robots fought each other. That was when I noticed the other robots with the red symbols. Besides the yellow robot and the blue one I just encountered, there was also a tall red and blue robot (although he wasn't as tall as the horned robot that he was currently fighting). There was a green and purple robot helping the yellow robot as he fought against the weird eyed one, while in the sky fighting both the helicopter propeller robot (which was currently a…well, helicopter) and the jet robot was a bulky looking robot that was white and red and had wings from what I could see.

The Mini-Con I had handed to the blue robot had been replaced with a tiny robot which transformed into…I wasn't sure what it was from where I was, but after awhile of fighting the horned robot (and his lackeys) looked worn out and seemed to be losing before deciding to retreat. To my surprise they disappeared on the spot, leaving the good robots behind. The bulky robot that had been fighting in the sky came down to stand next to the red and blue robot.

"Good work, men!" The red and blue robot said. He turned to the blue and orange robot. "And good job for finding the Mini-Con, Blurr."

"I wasn't the one who found it." The blue and orange robot, Blurr, stated.

"Oh, c'mon, Blurr! No need to be so modest." The yellow robot said jokingly.

"The human femme found it."

Suddenly all the robots turned to where Alexis, Rad, Carlos and I were, but the attention was all on me. I felt uneasy from all the attention as the robots came over to where we were. I started shaking again and I tried so hard not to, but I was scared despite the fact that my friend told me they were the good guys. If you were standing in front of not just one giant robot, but 5 giant robots then you'd feel the same way. Or maybe it was just me.

"Hey, you're the one who ran into my leg." The yellow robot said, recognizing me. "Your not hurt, are you?"

I didn't answer, unsure of what to say. I tried to open my mouth to say something, but I was unable to voice my thoughts.

"Are you okay, miss?" The red and blue robot asked me, sounding genuinely concerned.

It was then and there that I did the last thing I wanted to do in front of anyone. I fainted.

ATE: This concludes chap 1 of 'To Dance Among The Skies'. I'll admit it's been awhile since I've watched Tranformers Armada (the last time being when I watched it on Toonami when I was in elementary school) so I've started rewatching it on youtube in order to get caught up again. Please remember to review and if you would like give me any ideas you would want to see in any future chaps of this story and I'll give anyone credit for their ideas.