So hello there peeps. Tis I, Allison Shorecoat, returned once more with the third instalment of my series. Once again my OC's Ally and Abbie shall wreak havoc upon the known world and occasionally fight bad guys.

So before we start, may I just thank you all for sticking with me for this long! And warn you of that in the very first chapter I shall introduce my first major plot twist.

While "I'm the All Spark?" and "Meet the Matrix" both roughly followed the same plot as the movies, the third is very much going to deviate from the path of the third movie. You have been warned!

Now, please, sit back, enjoy the show, and try not to hunt me down and kill me after you have finished!

Chapter 1: Occurrences most strange

There are times in life when you're not sure if you're awake or if you're dreaming. For me, this was one of those times. The situation that I had now somehow managed to find myself in made absolutely no sense to me no matter how hard I tried to get my head around it. It felt like I should have been dreaming, but despite my attempts to wake myself up, including stubbing toe, pinching myself and just generally being odd, the situation didn't change.

I was standing just outside the entrance to the base, staring at the ground around me. Well, more accurately I was staring at what was on the ground around me. My friends, the Autobots, the several tonne, giant, metallic robots, or what was left of them now anyway. I had no idea what had happened, one moment we had been walking along, joking at each other's expense, and then they had all stopped out of nowhere, as if they were all in pain. Then they had just started shrinking, their armour had burned and melted away and slowly they had morphed down to this much small size. And now none of them were moving, they were only around the same size as me and I had no clue what was happening.

Slowly, and very cautiously I crouched beside one of the curled figures. It was completely shrouded in a deep purplish material which I could almost describe as looking like the nervous system of a human. Running up and down and twisting all over it were raised lines of circuitry which were constantly emitting pulses of white light that ran up the wire pretty much identical to a firing neuron. It was almost mesmerising to watch them.

Gingerly I reached out and very lightly touched the shrouded figure, only for a brief second, before it moved, lashing out with its arm, its hand snagging mine. I screamed and tried to pull away, but the grip that it had was just too strong. Then, all at once it released me and I thudded back onto the floor on my butt as it slowly sat up. As I watched on in terrified curiosity, the shrouded hands fumbled up slowly to its head where they felt along the material for a good minute, before gripping the crown of the suit and pulling. I winced as there was a sticky tearing sound and grimaced as the purple material lifted and tore away from whatever was underneath. My confusion was only heightened when it was revealed that what was underneath was more purple, only this time, it was lighter and almost looked like hair. The creature continued to pull away the material, slowly revealing a face. A human face.

As I sat there, looking like a confused guppy the young woman slowly pulled away the last of the material from her face. Much to my surprise, she was probably only around my age, with short lilac hair which was cropped close to her head, damp and sticky and clinging to her glistening pale skin. Her aqua eyes flitted over to me, confusion glittering in their depths as she studied me for a long moment. Neither of us spoke, I was too busy staring at this strange woman in shock and evidently that was what she was doing as well. There was no sound, save for the cold rustle of wind and the occasional awkward bird.

Finally, she spoke, 'Ally? Did you grow?'

The silence just deepened as I continued to stare at her, mind going blank for a long moment as my brain obviously reached its maximum for trying to come to terms with what I was seeing. Finally, I blinked, and I managed to croak out, 'No.'

'You sure?' she asked, 'why the hell are you looking at me like that? You look as if one of those feathered things you refer to as birds has come along and shat on your head.'

More silence as I tried to form a response, 'ah…' oh, I could be so eloquent at times.

The woman arched her eyebrows, 'what's the matter? Come on, spit it out.'

'Who are you?' I stammered slowly and this time she frowned at me.

'You're kidding. What have you done to yourself-oh slag!' suddenly she broke off, as she had lifted one of her hands to her face to brush away a strand of hair.

Her aqua eyes widened as she studied the hand trembling in front of her face and she swore again softly. I don't know what about her reaction clued me in, but suddenly as I looked at her, I saw something very familiar about her. I pushed myself up onto my knees and stared at her for a long moment then realisation dawned.

'Holy-Chromia?'

'What's happened to me?' she demanded, ignoring my question, 'Ally, what did you do?'

I blinked, before remarking indignantly, 'I didn't do anything. Are you Chromia?'

'Yes, I'm Chromia you stupid human!' she snapped and I glared at her.

'Cool it, I was just asking,' I scowled as she glowered at me, 'I don't know what's happening to you for the record. You all just collapsed a few minutes ago, and now you all look like this.'

'What do you mean all? The others-'

'You're not special Chromia,' someone else spoke up then, and I looked over Chromia's shoulder as she whipped around to face the speaker.

It didn't take me as long to recognise her, what with her bright pink hair glued to her face and neck as she struggled to get to her knees, 'Arcee?'

'Yes. Ally, do you know what's happened to us?' she asked, much more pleasantly than her sister.

I shook my head, 'no…' my voice sounded so high pitched it wasn't funny.

Her eyes, the same colour as Chromia's locked on mine for a long moment, before she nodded, 'damn it. Where's Moonracer?'

'I'm here,' the final Triplet suddenly spoke up from just behind me and when I turned I saw Moonracer, or who I assumed to be her, slowly picking away the last of the face covering of her own suit.

Carefully she reached around to tug her long sky blue hair out from the knot which it was gathered in at the base of her neck, allowing the wet locks to fall to her waist and stared over at her sisters, 'what's happened to us? Why are we so small?' she asked, eyeing her now tiny human hands.

'How should we know?' Chromia demanded, 'our guess is as good as yours.'

A slight rustle of cloth on asphalt made me look round to see Arcee slowly shuffling across to us on her knees, 'what about the others?' she asked as she moved over to us, 'are they-'

'Small? Yup,' I pointed over at one of the other huddled figures who, from what I could gather, was just stirring.

Leaving the Triplets I hurried over to this next Autobot, vowing that I would stay calm when I saw who it was. Just as I crouched beside them they pulled off the head covering and shook their hair loose. Almost at once I recognised Ratchet's holoform, the platinum hair and pale features. When his eyes opened I was confronted with glowing forest green instead of blue. He blinked, and frowned at me for a long moment.

'You've grown?' was the first thing he said.

'No, you've shrunk,' I corrected, 'quite a lot.'

Again he frowned at me, 'what?'

'Look at your hands Ratchet,' I sighed deeply.

He did just that and once again came the reaction of apoplectic horror and mystification. My own bewilderment, whilst still strong, had been pushed to the side as I watched their own reactions, as I decided that for now, I needed to hold myself at least partially together so as not to spook them anymore.

Ratchet looked up at me in shock, 'Ally…how did…?'

'I don't know. And it wasn't me,' I decided to point that out early as I could see that that was his next question.

'Then who was it?' he demanded, 'oh dear Primus, what happened to us?'

I shrugged, just as from behind us came a flurry of loud curses, 'Oh slag, what the…sweet Primus, what the frag is this? Is this a joke? Ratchet you little glitch, is this one of your little science projects? Because if it is-'

'Ironhide,' I whipped around to face him, 'could you do the world a favour and calm down?'

Ironhide glared at me from where he was sitting on the floor a few feet away, his icy blue eyes narrowed into slits, 'Tell me what's going on and then I'll calm down.'

I sighed, 'For the fifth time, I don't know what's happening.'

Ironhide growled and raked a hand through his damp black hair and flopped back on the tarmac. I looked back at Ratchet who was squinting over at Ironhide, biting his lip as if deep in thought. None of the Autobots who had woken up had tried to move from where they had fallen, apart from Arcee, but she hadn't walked, instead she had just sort of crab walked. I stood and looked around the remaining, unmoving figures, wondering who was who.

I jumped as I heard a loud, shrill buzz behind me, and whipped around in shock, only to see Bumblebee tottering around on his toes, arms swinging in comic circles his turquoise eyes wide, his blonde hair flopping into his face. Acting on instinct I darted forward and caught him just before he face planted onto the ground.

'Take it easy Bee,' I grunted as I helped him to sit, 'I'm no expert but I'm going to take a guess and say sudden humanisation isn't too good for your system.'

Bumblebee let out a small buzz and looked up at me with huge, puppy dog eyes, the same question that everyone else had asked swirling in their glowing depths. I shook my head as I crouched in front of him, 'I don't know Bee, I really don't. No one does. But I'm sure once everyone wakes up we can figure it out.'

Bee nodded meekly as Moonracer spoke up softly, 'who's still…'

I looked around at the remaining fully covered figures, 'um…Starscream, Sideswipe, the Twins, Jazz and Optimus…I think…'

'You can take me off that list,' I jumped as one of them spoke, sounding a little muffled as they sat up and slowly picked at the face covering.

Deep black hair flopped around his face in shaggy locks as Starscream slowly opened his wide blood red eyes and shook his head, as if to clear it. As a lump of hair fell into his eyes, he jumped and scooted back across the ground in shock as he reached up and practically went cross eyed as he stared at the hair in front of his face. I waited patiently for his reaction, expecting it to the same as the others.

'Holy slag! I'm squishy!' he suddenly yelped.

'We're all squishy Starscream,' Chromia snapped, 'we don't know how, but it looks like Ally isn't the only human instalment of the Autobot team anymore.'

Bumblebee beeped plaintively and rested his head in his hands sadly, fixing all of us with the same look of abject confusion. I sighed as I sat down on the tarmac next to Bee and followed his example as I watched them attempt to come to terms with what they were seeing. Ironhide had decided he was bored with sitting around and was already attempting to get to his feet, with much the same success as Bumblebee, wobbling around for a long minute, before collapsing back onto the ground with a growl each time.

'Give it up Ironhide,' Ratchet snapped, 'obviously the balance is different. You won't get it straight away.'

'And I won't get it at all sitting around,' Ironhide responded just as grouchily, forcing himself up.

I looked over at him as he wobbled unsteadily, 'stop leaning back so much, put more weight on the front of your feet.'

He did and the unsteady totters stopped momentarily, 'see Doc, I can do it.'

I rolled my eyes and glanced around at the others. To my surprise Jazz was sitting up, looking dazed as he blinked around at his surroundings. I carefully picked myself up and wandered over to him, 'you alright?'

He shook his head, and ran a hand over his stubbly black hair. His blue eyes stared up at me in confusion, seeming even brighter against his deep brown skin, 'Na-ah.'

Wrapping my arms around myself I tried to form a smile, but for once in my life it actually didn't work at all. Usually I could at least form a grimace, but I could only imagine that the expression I was pulling now looked more like a sociopath's plotting face than a genuine, "it will all be okay" smile.

'You're human,' I decided to point out to Jazz, who was just sitting stock still, staring into space, 'hello? Are you in?'

When he didn't reply, I lightly reached out and patted his cheek, 'wakey wakey.'

'Please tell me this a dream,' he breathed at last, and I shook my head.

'Sorry, unfortunately not. I could lie to you though if it made you feel any better?'

Jazz said nothing, and he went back to his absent, shell-shocked staring. Leaving him be, I decided to head over to Starscream or Ironhide, both of whom were on their feet and were now attempting to walk, when I was stopped by a loud exclamation.

'Dude!'

I screwed my eyes shut at once and heaved the deepest sigh I physically could as I recognised the voice. It was probably too much to hope for that the second of them wouldn't wake up for a while, but as always, the greater powers in the universe had it in for me as the first voice was closely followed by a second.

'Holy slag! What happened to your face Mudflap?'

'My face, you should see yours!'

I whipped around to face the twins, who were both staring at each other in horror, already arguing. Face palming I cursed under my breath. Obviously it was too much to ask that the two of them would actually behave for once, and I didn't want to risk my sanity any more than I had to and go over to them to try and explain what was going on here. Mainly because I didn't know what the hell was happening and I really doubted that that fact would go down well.

It took a while, but my prayers for someone sensible to wake up were finally answered as someone who could only be Optimus pulled away the face covering of their suit. For a long moment I hung back, unsure about how he would react to this sudden transformation, not wanting to launch straight into a questionnaire when it was still highly plausible that he may freak just as much as the others.

Optimus raked back his damp, dark hair and froze, before lowering his hand to his face to stare at the now human digits. However, unlike the others he didn't swear or cry out in horror or shock. Instead he rapidly looked up at the others as if checking to see if he was the only one or if this had happened to all of them. When he had obviously gauged that everyone was in the same boat he forced himself to his knees and locked eyes with me.

'Ally-' he cut off before he got any further, a hand flying to his throat.

Not for the first time I was shocked into silence, before suddenly I burst out laughing. Over the years I had become accustomed to Optimus's deep voice, but it seemed that this transformation to human had done something to his voice box. Instead of being the usual deep baritone it was several octaves higher and it sounded decidedly strange. As I continued to laugh quietly, Optimus frowned at me, while the others turned around to look at me in confusion.

'Is everything alright?'

'I think she's gone round the bend.'

'Only now? I thought she went round the bend ages ago.'

I shook my head and sucked in a deep breath to compose myself just as Chromia finished her sentence, 'sorry, it's just- Oh my God, Optimus your voice!'

The others all turned to look at Optimus, who just glared at me, one hand still at his throat, 'I don't really think that this is important at the moment Ally.'

Most of the Autobots snickered as he spoke, especially Ironhide who looked extremely amused by Optimus's obvious discomfort about this change. In fact, Optimus appeared more uncomfortable with his vocal change than with the actual physical change from robot to human. Ironhide, who had managed to mostly get his head around walking, carefully took Optimus's arm and pulled him to his feet, supporting him as he wobbled unsteadily.

'Does anybody know what's happening?' Optimus asked when he was finally balanced.

Everyone shook their heads, 'no we don't,' Ratchet spoke, 'and neither does Ally.'

I shrugged, 'you all just collapsed and then ba-boom, you became human.'

Optimus seemed to think for a long moment, biting the bottom corner of his lip, brow furrowing, before he glanced up at me, 'you look as if you're clinging to sanity by a thread,' he commented suddenly.

'Oh I am,' I beamed in false cheer, 'but I figured that it would be better for all of you if I saved my freak out for later because all of you are freaking out now and I don't think me joining in would be very helpful.'

While most of the Autobots looked amused by this, Optimus, Ironhide, Starscream and Bumblebee all seemed to appear grateful. By now, most of them were on their feet, some balancing better than others and most using each other as supports. Optimus, who had been the last to wake, was flanked by Bumblebee and Ironhide, both making sure that they're leader didn't face plant into the dirt. I sighed deeply as I looked around at them all, still clueless about what to do or say.

The silence which had fallen upon our group was interrupted by the arrival of Lennox and Epps. I felt a little bad for the huge surge of relief which flooded my system when I realised that I could now share this huge surprise with someone else. Lennox was the first to reach us, looking perplexed. Before he could speak I cut across him.

'These are the Autobots. They're now human. No, I don't know what's happening, no I didn't do it and no, they don't understand either. Now, if you'll please excuse me,' I started to walk away, before turning back suddenly to face the still shocked looking Lennox, 'make sure they don't go anywhere!'

'Where are you going?' Ironhide asked.

'Either to scream into a pillow or find a desert island and freak out there. Haven't decided which yet.'