The Study of Other Species

Prologue

Knockout was walking down the long, dark hallway of the Nemesis along with Breakdown. Lord Megatron called for him and the red medic wasn't sure what was going on. Walking into the control room, Breakdown and Knockout saw Megatron and Soundwave talking about something he didn't know about. "Lord Megatron…" Knockout said, grabbing his attention.

The war lord turned to the two smaller mechs, "Ah Knockout and Breakdown, glad you could come as fast as you could."

"If you don't mind me asking Lord Megatron," Breakdown began, "but why are we here?"

Megatron walked towards his higher class medics. "Since I've fully recovered from being in stais for many cycles, I've noticed that the Autobots have gathered some fleshy pets." He walked back to a computer and began clicking away, "I think that we should gather some of our own to learn more about their species and world."

Breakdown and Knockout gave each other looks, then back to Megatron, "Sir, what are you saying?" Knockout asked.

"I am saying that I need you and Breakdown to gather some humans." He said, fed up with them not understanding what they're saying. "So go down there and get some humans."

The two mechs bowed and left the room and headed for the ground bridge controls. "Where are we gonna find some humans?" Breakdown asked, sitting on a metal box.

The medic sighed, "Don't ask me! I'm a medic not a youngling sitter."

"So that's what we are now?" the blue mech asked, "Watchers of human younglings?"

Knockout nodded, "Looks like it." He began typing away on the computer, "Should they all be from the same place or different places?"

Breakdown looked at the globe of the planet Earth. "I'm not sure, but they should speak some English."

The medic typed away and some little blips came up, "I found some places where children go." They looked at some schools, parks, arcades, movies, and homes all across the globe."

"We should get them from America." Breakdown said, "That's where the Autobots got theirs from."

Knockout nodded, "Except for their female, she's from somewhere here." He pointed over to Asia. "Speaking of female, do we know what kind of fleshy's we're getting?"

Breakdown thought for a moment, "Whatever we can get our hands on. But we at least want one male and one female."

The medic agreed and activated the bridge, transformed along with his friend and they drove right through.

Maui, Hawaii

The ocean was clear and the waves weren't good, but that didn't stop Lily Anderson from waiting out on her board. She was at her private part of the beach and was having the time of her life just being alone, well other than that she was with her younger cousin David. School drama and family stuff was sticking to her where ever she went, except for on the waves.

A strong wave started to form and Lily paddled her way out there. Getting close enough, she went for it and stood up. "Woo Hoo!" David said, sitting on the back of the board. The sea salt hit her nose and the breeze hit her brunette hair.

She looked out onto the sand and saw something very irregular. A greenish blue swirling vortex was coming out of the wild jungle part of the beach. Then two giant beings walked out of it and onto the beach. They wiped out and fell into the ocean. Bobbing back up, Lily saw them looking over at them, "What the…"

Grabbing her board, she dragged to the sand along her brother and looked at them, "What in the world?" David said, brushing the wet, brown hair from his face.

"What was that?" one of them asked Lily. She tilted her head in confusion, "What were you doing? Did you injure yourself?"

Lily shook her head, "I was just surfing, and it's a hobby."

Knockout scanned her, causing her to flinch back, "She's healthy, we'll take this one." He went over and scanned the little boy, "And this one."

Breakdown grabbed her, causing her to drop her board. "HEY PAL WATCH IT!" in his other hand he grabbed David.

They turned back and walked through the ground bridge. Once back on the ship, they picked another location.

New York City, New York

"Yeah man," Logan said into his phone, "I'll be there soon." Logan Millers, a street kid from the run down part of New York City. He was walking down one of the abandoned alley ways, taking a short cut to the rec. center.

The city kid was a foster child, being passed around all over the city many times. He didn't car though, he hung out with his old 'siblings' all the time. Being a basketball star he had many opportunities to get out of the house and stretch his legs.

Walking further down, he saw a giant, red robot standing at the end of the alley. Picking up the pace he walked up to Knockout, "Am I trippin'?"

The medic knelled down, "You're not 'trippin'', whatever that means…" he looked over the kid and a smiled creped onto his face, "Come on fleshy, let's go." Logan was picked up and they walked through the ground bridge.

Los Angeles, California

Claire Granger walked down her long drive way carrying her Coach purse along with her. Her daddy was out on business so she had the run of their mansion. She needed to go for a little walk because like her mother always says, only skinny girls get the guys and she just ate a low-fat, meatless taco.

Getting down to the end of the drive way, she saw a huge blue jeep parked across the street. "Oh, the paparazzi must be looking for daddy!" she squealed.

Running towards the car, she fixed her strawberry blond hair and mini skirt. Getting close enough, she noticed that that the car didn't have a license plate, so it must have been from Europe, or Australia or even Mars. Somewhere not in America.

"Oh Mr. Camera man!" she said, getting right to the door, "I'm ready for some pictures!"

She tapped onto the window and looked in, not seeing anyone in there. The driver door opened and out came some tentacles. Grabbing her by the waist, she was strapped into the driver seat and knocked out, Breakdown using some knockout gas.

Madison, Wisconsin

"Okay Belle," Oliver Jones said, holding his baby sister in his arms, "Auntie Kate should be home soon. Then we can eat dinner."

Belle looked up at her big brother and smiled, "Ollie down!" she said, squirming in his arms.

He laughed and put his sister down so she could totter around in the grass. Living on a farm for most of their lives, the Jones kids enjoyed being outside all the time. Oliver watched Belle pull a dandelion out of the ground and look it over. "Look!" she squealed, showing him the weed.

Oliver nodded, "Yep, weeding is one of your favorite past times."

She giggled and threw the weed at her brother. Looking towards the big red barn, Oliver saw a nice red sports car come flying their way. He scooped up his little sister and held her close. She knew what a car was when she saw one and she knew that was a nice car. Getting closer, the passenger door opened and some tentacles grabbed the two children dragging them into the car.

Oliver looked next to him a saw a brunette girl knocked out wearing nothing but a swimsuit and a dark skinned boy in the back. Another younger looking boy sat next to him in swim trunks. "What's going on! Let us out!"

"Calm down flesh bag," K.O.'s voice came from the radio, "we're just going for a little ride." Some of the knockout gas Breakdown used came through and knocked the new humans out.

Nemesis

The two mechs laid all of the unconscious humans onto a huge med berth and looked them over. They were all different in so many ways. "We picked a great bunch huh?" Breakdown said, looking at them.

"Megatron should be happy." Knockout said, running some more scans on them. "You wanna go get him?"

Breakdown shook his head, "No way, I'll stay here with them." he gazed over the children.

The medic sighed, "Well at least comm. him down here. I think he'll want to see them."

Getting onto his comm. system he took a seat on one of the empty berths, :: Megatron sir, we've returned with the humans::

::Excellent, I shall be down in a moment:: Megatrons deep voice said, cutting the line.

Breakdown sighed, "He's comin', should we wake them?"

Knockout looked up from a data pad, "I don't think so buddy. I don't want loud fleshies when Megatron comes in."

The blue mech agreed and just looked them over again. The blond girl and the brunette one looked about the same age, but much different. Then there was the blond hair boy who was still latched on to the smallest female. The dark skinned boy came next and had something covering his eyes. Then there was the last boy who must have been the youngest male. They would stir slightly, but nothing major.

Lord Megatron walked into the med bay along with Soundwave, Starscream and Airachnid. "Where are they?" he asked, going up to Knockout.

The medic pointed to the table, "They're still unconscious Lord Megatron."

"Then wake them!" Screamer said, hitting his fist on the table.

Megatron grabbed his SIC by his right wing and pulled him away from the table, "STARSCREAM, you fool! I do not want screaming flesh bags here right now."

Knockout looked at Breakdown and whispered, "Told ya so."

The war Lord threw Starscream against the wall, "We just have to wait for at least one to wake."

"We wait all the time," Airachnid said, taking a seat on top of a counter, "what's another long wait?"

And so they all sat, no one was talking, no one moving. That is until the older brunette girl sat up, "Oh God my head…David, did we wipe out harder than we thought?" she rubbed her eyes, waiting for a response. None came, "David? David answer me."

She opened her eyes and saw more than just her cousin, but four other kids and more robots. Her eyes widened and she stood up, and jumped over some kids to get to him, "DAVID JACKSON GET UP!"

David groaned, "Lily, stop yelling at me…I wanna sleep."

"GET UP DAVID!" she said, shaking him and making him sit up, "I'M NOT GONNA ASK AGAIN!"

The boy opened his eyes and looked behind his cousin, seeing two familiar robots and four unfamiliar ones. "Lily, where in the world are we now?"

She rolled her eyes, "Why else do you think I got you up!"

Logan hit Lily on her arm, "Can ya turn it down?"

"Yeah, I need beauty sleep." Claire said, looking over at the cousins, then up at the giants watching them.

Oliver stood up next to Lily, holding Belle in his arms, "Is this Disney World or land or whatever?" he said looking around.

Claire walked over to the older boy, "I've, like, been there so many times. This isn't it."

Megatron stood and walked over to the children. "You are all aboard my ship, the Nemesis."

Oliver's eyes widened and the grip on his sleeping sister tightened. "What are you?"

"Decepticons from the planet Cybertron." The Lord answered, looking down at the humans, "Scouting your planet for energon, the fuel and blood life that runs through our veins."

Lily looked up at them all, "Decepticons? Why are you called that?"

Starscream scowled, "Those accursed Autobots gave us the name early in the war. The name came with a bad reputation, but we honor it with pride."

"Amen to that." Airachnid said, waving her hand up and down in front of her, "Now, who are you humans?"

Logan went first, "I'm Logan Miller, thirteen years."

"I'm David, I'm eleven." David said from behind his cousin, "And this is Lily, she's fifteen."

Claire pulled her pony tail tighter around her head, "I'm Claire Granger, sixteen and a Pisces."

Oliver shifted Belle in his arms, "I'm Oliver, sixteen in a half and his is my sister Belle, she's two."

Breakdown's eyes widened, "Knockout, you took a two year old?"

"I didn't know!" he said, holding up his hands in defense.

Megatron stood in-between the two, "Enough, we do not want to set a bad example for the children." Lily rolled her eyes, she's not a child. "What's done is done. And now we must decide on guardians."

Okay! You guys wanna give me suggestions, feel free.

OC descriptions are in my BIO.