So, yeah. Haven't seen any transformer mermaid stories so maybe I'm the first to have a shot at this. Anyways, there are going to be some ideas from the show H2o-mako island, the moon pool, full moon and stuff- but for the most part will be my own brain child. Okay, here we go!
Knockout looked around the island, hoping to find the source of the strange energy signal they'd found earlier. He'd wanted Breakdown to come with him but he was preoccupied with a mission of his own. So, he'd had to come to this island alone. The earth's government had forbidden other humans to come on shore, something about a strange flux in climate and magnetic forces that could make their insides go 'Pop!' Of course, this wasn't accurately true, but it got the message through to everyone. The tracker in his hand suddenly started beeping more rapidly than before. He was facing a waterfall that ran over a lot of large, shiny gray rocks. As he moved around the edge of the water, it beeped quicker and quicker until he reached the mouth of a small cave opening. It looked to small for him to fit through. Of course, looks can be deceiving. He stepped forward one more step and the ground collapsed, opening up large enough for him to fall through. The tracker was going wild by now, and the magnetic forces under ground suddenly clauses it to rev and the screen cracked. He felt a certain pull himself. Walking towards the pull, a large pool with deep blue water greeted him. A small hole overhead was letting little tendrils of full moon light in. The magnetic pull continued to force him towards the water. He now had no choice but to jump in, just as the full moon lined up directly overhead. The water began to bubble wildly and got hot and cold and hot and cold. He passed out after a moment, and woke up the next morning on his berth. Confused and dazed as to how he got back, Breakdown filled him in.
" late last night you summoned a ground bridge and walked through looking like death warmed over. Whatever happened at that energy signal, you brought some of it back with you"
"Huh. Fascinating" he said before getting up and walking to the common room to get his morning energon. Yeesh, the noise! It seemed louder than ever. He could hear every spark beat, every word, the vibrations of their vocal chords as they talked, even the whirr of the energon dispenser. He shook his head, but he could not shake the feeling of the headache. He got his energon and walked back to his quarters, bringing Breakdowns with him. He handed one cube to his partner/best friend/ brother. Breakdown thanked him, and then returned to the data pad he was writing on. Knockout plopped down in a chair and continuously shook his head. He looked like someone with a mental disability. Breakdown looked at him and cocked his head.
" are you alright?" He asked. Knockout tried to shake his head yes, but shook his head no. He wasn't alright.
"Try drinking your energon. It might help" Breakdown suggested. Knockout nodded slowly, then tried to drink his energon. It did help a little. That is, until Starscream started barking out orders. He groaned and let his head loll forwards and hit his knees. Then he got up and reentered the now very loud control room. Turns out Soundwave found a new energy signal a few miles west of Mako, one of the other islands that was a part of that system of islands. So, he was going to an island called Terrece Island. Okay, he could do that. When he walked through the ground bridge, the soundscape switched from loud and painstakingly annoying to loud and peaceful. As strange as it seemed, he felt at home here. Walking along the shore, he once again felt that strange pull drawing him to the water. He resisted, but as everyone knows the water is hypnotizing and you can't not go in. As soon as he touched the water, he felt a tingling sensation in his entire body, and then, by some strange phenomenon, his entire lower body changed in front of him so that he was brandishing a blood red fishtail with black edges along the fin. At first he wondered if it was really a part of him. He tried moving it up and down. Yeas, it was most definitely apart of his body. Pushing himself farther into the water, the sounds changed abruptly. It was as if someone had thrown him into an ambient underwater music fiesta. He could hear distant whale calls, and closer dolphin chirps. He swam forward, not thinking yet how strange it would have looked had any humans seen him. Half robot, half fish? That is a bit strange, isn't it? He could honestly care less about what anyone thought. This was new! It was something no one else had experienced! He could swim under water. So much life, so many species, races. It was as if it was a different planet all together. He swam by a giant turtle that made up half of his body. A passing blue whale sung to him. Multiple schools of fish darted past him. He even saw a hammerhead shark! He swam deeper into the water, into depths that normally would have killed a human and severely hampered a cybertronian's mobility. With ease and peace, he passed an underwater volcano, a few angler fish, the ones with the lights on their heads. It was beautiful, amazing. And it was all his. He grumbled when he heard Megatron's voice over the comm. asking him if he'd found anything.
" Negative, my liege, nothing but rocks and water"
"well, keep searching!"
Then he cut the signal. Knockout paused before deciding to swim farther. After twenty or so more minutes, he swam back to the shallows and pulled himself onto the beach. He lay there for a while, feeling the tide wash over his lower body while sun bathing. He was content for a moment before shooting straight up. He was half fish! How the heck does that even WORK!? He was half fish. A freaking fish person! His comm. whirred to life. This time it was Breakdown.
"Knockout? Are you all right? We haven't heard anything from you. "
"I'm fine. Haven't found the signal yet though, I'm starting to think it was a false alarm. "
"well, hurry up and find out! Do you realize how boring it is around here?"
"perfectly aware. Give me another earth hour"
" okay Knockout. See you later"
The line went dead. He pulled himself farther onto the beach and let the sun dry him completely. As soon as he was dry enough, that same weird tingling started and then be had his legs again. They felt weird after not having them. He got up and started looking around. Sure enough, it was a false alarm, just another magnetic pull. He called a ground bridge and went back to base.