Man or Mech

by Lyra Harp

What do you get when you cross a seventeen year old wolf (Dria), a fifteen year old cybertronian (Cai), and a eighty year old woman who thinks she's twenty (Lillian)? A hot mess. Dria's stuck with a stick-in-the-mud and a paranoid human. She would rather be as high as a kite than deal with these idiots, but she has to since they share one body. Will these three ever get along?

1. Introduction

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers anything!

First things first: For those of you returning to this story, read chapter three and four over again. Chapter three has been edited and added to-a lot. Chapter four is completely different.

As a warning, this is the last in the Preference, and Perserverence, in Life storyline with the main character Lillian Wescott. There will be spoilers and confusion all around if you haven't read the other stories yet...of course, I haven't exactly finished all of the other stories, but reading what I have in the right order should make enough sense to continue on to this story.

Of course, if you want to move on to this story anyway, you can. There are characters other than Lillian. To those of you who are coming back to this page, I have changed the format to third person with 'thought bubbles' for each character. Hopefully, this change will make the story...make more sense. Maybe.

This is the order for the stories:

(Lillian's Age)

1. Musical Interference (15)

2. Preference, and Perseverance, in Life (30)

3. Triple Vision (33)

4. Protoform Payback (35)

5. Melt a Carsicle in Lærdal (42)

6. Love is a Battlefield (80)

Cybertronian Couples:

Jazz - Prowl

Soundwave - Blaster

Ravage - Steeljaw

Base Locations:

Decepticons: Nemesis (Prime)

Autobots:

Ark (Generation 1)...in Nevada (Prime)

Diego Garcia - Transformers: Dark of the Moon - City Setting

Red Energon:

I have found a solution to the TF3: Dark of the Moon "Dreads" red energon/blood theory! (...not like anyone was looking for it, but, eh...I was curious.) Thank the creator of the Prime verse.

Speed Energon in the Prime verse is red..."The Dreads" bleed red instead of the standard pink/blue...What color is regular energon, again?

Anyway, it's not blood in my head...uh...Actually, that's a good transition.

The next part may get tricky, so please bare with me.

I have decided that Lillian is going to have a fainting problem due to...erm...a failure of her bodily systems to properly regulate the blood/energon in her body...and I say energon because Lillian has decided that, at the age of eighty, wants to become a Cybertronian...0.0...Good time as any, I guess. So Lillian goes to Heaven at the age of eighty, meets God, gets "transferred" over to the Well of Allsparks, meets Primus, and is resurrected as a robot made out of the Prime's bodies (How many Primes are there? Six? Seven? Thirteen?) in Egypt.

Primus decides, whether for his own amusement or boredom I can't tell, that Lillian is going to be one of those rare Cybertronians whose lifeblood is going to be red "speed" energon. No, it's not illegal. Just...scarce. Hence Lillian's first issue when she awakens. She has to stay in Egypt since the land apparently has a decent amount of red energon. And since this specific type of energon is not in high demand for autobots or decepticons, she doesn't have to fight to get a piece. Red energon has a different affect on her than the "Regs" (Regular energon drinkers) since her systems were made with the ability to regularly intake it. When Lillian has to switch from red energon to regular energon when she "runs out" of her stash, she starts having fainting spells because the regular energon is so weak in strength that her systems turn sluggish. Essentially, not enough energon is being processed to her processor at the pace it was built for.

Alt Mode:

Since "The Dreads" have earth based 'ground' alt modes, I have made an excuse for that as well...but since I don't know if it will appear in this story or not...because I change my mind...alot...I'm just going to narrow it down to this: Lillian doesn't like heights...so flying isn't really an option.

Bonding:

As far as Lillian knows, she can't bond with a Reg. The bond will cause the more potent energon source to take over the weaker energon source. In short, Lillian would contaminate the Reg and cause them to have the same problems that she has with her energon flow!

Human Updates:

Humans who are alive:

Annabell, Jack, Miko and Raf.

Humans who aren't:

Miles, Sam, Leo, Mikaela, Galloway, Epps, Lennox, Simmons and Sonya (Lillian's Aunt).

Every other bot stays the same since "not a lot of years left" is apparently 500 years. Dang Lil's young.

0/ / /0 "Hey!"

Next chapter, anyone? XD