Chapter 1

It was like any other day in the city of Detroit, for Stephanie it was calm, noisy, and full of robots, some even alien. People were laughing and having fun in the park with their friends, families, and pets it was peaceful. The sun shining, the birds singing and the clouds drifting on by lazily. Sighing out peacefully, Steph started heading over to a group of trees while listening to her music on her iPod. She wore long black pants, a black t-shirt and sleek black confers, She was a very pretty girl with her long dark brown hair, pulled into a loose low ponytail and her dark indigo eyes shining brightly in the summer sun making her small heart-shaped like face more defined and angelic. Once at the trees she climbed to the top branch of the biggest tree she could find and looked down enjoying the view of Detroit buildings and its occupants. It was a beautiful view of a normal busy city day on a warm summer afternoon, she sighed and wished for some excitement other than the few crooks, robbers and gangs that always try to mug her every day or at least a new project to work on at Sumdac's robotic division. She looked up at the sky and watched the clouds drift across the sky.

'I think I'll take a nap.' She thought to herself, closing her eyes and drifting off to sleep.

I woke up slowly to the sound of rustling leaves and silent sounds of the city at night, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and yawning I noticed that the moon was starting to rise. Stretching my arms over my head and putting my iPod away, I started to climb down the tree, when a jet suddenly flew very close to the ground and the tree I was in then veering upwards above me nearly touching the top of the tree startling me so badly I had lost my grip on the branch I was hanging on.

A scream ripped out of me as I fell down crashing through some branches and banging off the thicker ones. The wind was knocked out of me when I landed painfully on my side, hissing in pain I slowly sat up and used the tree to get up, but as soon as I stood up straight my legs ended up giving out under me and give out a strangled cry of pain forcing my butt back down to the ground, I looked at my leg and gasped in shock for my leg was hanging limply from the kneecap down, which most likely meant I either broke my knee cap or dislocated my leg in the fall.

'Great, just great!' I thought to myself. 'How I going to get home?' I wondered as I looked around hoping that a police-bot was on patrol or a couple on a night walk, but with no luck there wasn't anyone in the area to help.

"Well, At least it can't get any worse." I sighed. Prodding my leg to see if it was broken I sighed in relief when I didn't feel any of my bone out of place but going to get it check out by a doctor as soon as I get out of here. Using my arms and the tree for support I started pushing against the ground and pulling myself up against the tree. Looking up at the night sky, I sighed.

'Well, nobody is going to find me if I stay here.' Stephanie thought. Pushing her back against the tree and using her good leg, she pushed herself up so that she was somewhat standing. Looking at her disconnected knee and taking a deep breath. She placed her hands on her leg and straighten it, hissing in pain and biting her lip. She carefully put her leg on the ground and slammed all of her weight down to force her leg back in place and heard a sickening snap.

"GAAAAHHHHHHH!" she screamed in agony from the feeling of her bones moving back into place. Tasting something metallic on her tongue, she brought her hand to her mouth and saw blood, realizing that she bit her lip. Testing her leg to see if it was back in place, which it was by the huge amount pain slowly dulling to a less painful throbbing. Other than it being really sore and in pain she started limping toward the exit of the park.

After a few minutes of limping through the park, more like half dragging half walking. Her lip stopped bleeding and her leg was making her wince with every step, but she was steadily making progress. Looking ahead one of the gate entry way to the park came into view, smiling Stephanie quickened her pace only to stop in her tracks, feeling a gust of wind and hearing the powering down of an engine followed by a series of bangs and clicks.

'What was that?' she thought! Whirling around in the direction of the noise, she looked around trying to find the source of the disturbance, but there was nothing there other than the trees, bushes, and few benches. Darting her eyes around the area she started walking again, but backwards keeping her senses peeled for anything unusual. Not hearing or seeing anything for at least 20 minutes, she relaxed, sighing in relief she turned around, only to smack her face into something hard. Grabbing her face in pain she felt her hands were wet with something warm she removed her hands from her face and they covered in blood.

"Well, that's just great, what the hell was tha-" she said groaning but stopped when she noticed that the thing that she ran into was a giant metal boot, looking upwards slowly. She saw that the boot was connected to none other than the Decepticon Starscream. He was much bigger than she thought in person, but the same evil being who tried to destroy the Auto-bots that defended Detroit. She was scared just looking at him, but then Stephanie noticed that he was just standing there, looking straight ahead at nothing. "Maybe he hasn't seen me yet?" She thought, backing up slowly she started to walk quickly and quietly around him, but she had only made five steps when he snatched her up in his hand, she screamed and struggled to get out of his grasp even though it was pointless, she tried anyway.

"Let me go, you overgrown trash can!" she yelled at him, thrashing in his grip even harder. He narrowed his optics at her and brought her up to his faceplate, an evil grin slowly spread on his face with a mischievous gleam in his optic as he stared down at Stephanie.

"It seems that I caught a feisty one." He says to himself, grinning he bringing his other hand up and started to pet her head with his forefinger. She growled and tried to free her arms to swat his finger away, but couldn't. So she decided to bite his hand, her teeth clanged against the metal and sent a wave of pain through her head, but she didn't let go. Starscream chuckled in amusement at her pathetic attempted to hurt him, she growled and bit down harder, which just hurt herself more.

"I was going to use you as an exchange for an All-spark fragment, human, but since you're so amusing. I'll keep you as a pet." He said mostly to himself smirking with an odd gleam in his red optic, but nonetheless she heard him. She let go of his hand and looked up and glared him. Not happy, not one little bit to be this monsters 'pet,' nor the weird look in his optic.

"I WILL NOT BE YOUR PET, YOU FRIGGIN SLAGGER!" She screamed, glaring at him with loathing and disgust. His optics widen in surprise and shock, but was quickly replaced with a smug and hungry look.

"All the more to keep you as one." He said purred and transformed into his jet-mode. She landed in the seat of cockpit and tried to get out, but the seat belts zipped around her and flung her into the seat before securing her into place and took off. Struggling in her seat as she tried to get free, but couldn't she sighed in defeat not noticing the vents were emitting a sleeping gas. Steph leaned against the seat sorely and looked outside of Starscream' window, for some odd reason she started to feel very sleepy. The last thing she heard was Starscream' engines speeding up and someone screaming his name in the distance of her conscious before falling asleep.

Slowly waking up, Stephanie groaned in pain feeling hot and cold at the same time. She rolled onto her side, but her eyes snapped open and screamed instantly sitting up holding her arm that was covered in oddly shaped burn marks going up and down both of her arms.

'What the...What did he do to my arms?' She thought examining the burn marks that engraved into the skin and they looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics, but more alien like. Looking up from her arms she observed her surroundings, she was in a dark grey colored and metal circular cage, the walls outside the cage were stone and a dark gray. There was a giant computer on what looked to be a desk against one of the walls and next to the cage she was in. Also there was a giant bed and an enormous door with the Decepticon logo on it. She sighed in annoyance.

"Great...Now what is Starscream going to do to me?" She said to herself, angry that she was kidnapped by a psycho seeker and was helpless to escape. Just then the doors slid opened. Not wanting to see the annoying seeker, she turned away glaring at the stone wall. By the sound of his peds, she believed that's what they were called, he was walking over to her and by the sound of it he had sat on the bed or whatever they called it. She felt his optics starring at her intently, almost like he was studying her.

"What do you want Screamer?" She seethed out at him with venom dripping from her voice. She heard a low growl of annoyance and the door of the cage open, getting to her feet quickly she grabbed the bars in front of her and held on to them like her life depended on it which it did. Squeezing her eyes shut she waited for the clawed hand to rip her off the bar and start torturing her to death, but it never came, instead the smell of food and the sound that something big was placed inside the cage made her grip loosen on the bars. Looking over towards the front of the cage along with the smell of food, she saw a large bowl with a spoon on a queen sized mattress with folded covers and pillows, next to six large boxes that were used for moving. Forgetting about the Decepticon for a moment, Steph let go of the bars and timidly walked over to the bowl, peaking inside the bowl it looked it like it was some sort of soup taking the spoon next to it. She took a small spoonful and taking a cautious sip and found that it tasted amazing putting down the spoon she drank the soup until it was gone. Setting the bowl back on the mattress, she sighed feeling her hunger fade. She then noticed that the cage door was still open, getting up off the mattress she walked slowly and cautiously to the cage door to peer over the edge. When suddenly a large metal hand whipped into the cage and pulled her out, it happened so fast it left her in a slight daze and disoriented. She shook her head and got ready to yell at Starscream, but stop when she saw who it was, and it wasn't Starscream that was holding her, but Megatron the leader of the Deceptions. She shivered, fearing what the Decepticon tyrant would do to her. She flinched when he lifted his other hand and started rubbing her head with his fore finger. Megatron chuckled at her, amused by the scared and confused look in her eyes as he gently petted her head.

"Don't worry my pet, your safe now." He said in a calm and in a somewhat soothing tone.

Looking at him she felt anything but safe and bristled at being called a 'pet' again. The smile on Megatron' face was creeping her out a little bit. Glaring at him, She snapped out' "Safe?" Her lips pulled back into a snarl.

"You call being kidnapped by Starscream then by you being safe?" She asked sarcastically wriggling in his grip. "And I'm no one's PET!" she screamed in anger. Megatron's face was stoic, leaving Stephanie slightly scared but she refused to show it. Megatron was silent for a few moments before he chuckled in amusement.

"Human, do you even know why Starscream even took you?" He asked ignoring the girl's outburst while walking over to the desk and sat down in the chair, he placed her down on the desk waiting for an answer. Steph sat down knowing that she wouldn't be able to get away from the tyrant, even if she tried sighing dejectedly she answered him. Not like she had any choice.

"He was going to use me as trade for this All-spark thing, but wanted to keep me as a pet instead." She growled the last part. She felt Megatron's intense gaze on her making her shiver slightly. She jumped slightly out of her thoughts when he started to gently rubbing her back with a finger, she looked at Megatron in confusion wondering why he was doing that, but quickly looked away when he removed it.

"I'm guessing you want to know how you got from Starscream to me." Megatron said in a matter of fact tone and oddly relaxed demeanor. She did wonder how, she knew she was with Screamer when she passed out, but also curious why Megs saved her when everyone in Detroit knew that the con's despised humans, so why her? She was snapped out of her musing when Megatron spoke.

"Starscream was careless, He didn't hide his energy signature. So I decided to attack him hoping to finally off-lined the traitor. Unfortunately the cowered got away, but not without sustaining heavy damage to his form, in a feeble and miserable attempt to throw me off his trail, he released you and let you fall out of his broken cockpit right into my flight path in his miserable and pathetic attempt to escape. You're fortunate that I was gracious enough to catch you human." Megatron said smugly and a hint of something else. Steph just rolled her eyes shaking her head slightly. "I'd rather be a red stain in the ground." She mumbled to herself, unfortunately Megatron heard her. Slamming his fist down next to her, making Stephanie jump up in fear.

"Be grateful human." He growled at her before snatching her up in his hand and forcefully dropping her in the cage. "Whether you like it or not you will be here for a long time, human" Megatron glared down at her, his face so close to hers she could touch it with her nose. Stephanie stared wide eyed and gulped in fear, he pulled back and locked the cage door before stomping out of the room slamming and locking the sliding door behind him.

"O….K? What was that about?" Stephanie asked herself shaken. She was really confused to why Megatron wanted her, she wasn't special or knew any of the Autobots at a personal level either. She knew deceptions had a low tolerance for humans and pretty much viewed them like humans did with a cockroach. Deciding not to ponder the cons motive, she moved over to the mattress and boxes to see if the tyrant had left anything in the boxes that she could use to escape.