This story is something I got an idea of a while back after rewatching the nostalgia loaded Transformers: Armada. Fun fact: This TF series was my first.

This story will have more of a plot as the chapters go on, especially when we get to when all the minicon weapons come in. I'm stoked about this story.

Disclaimer: TF Armada doesn't belong to me, only my OCs.

It started out like a normal, typical, day. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to school, come home, procrastinate homework by playing on my laptop, take a shower…you get the picture.

Anyways, I should say my name. My name's Lynette Landers and I am a junior in high school this year. I look like a normal girl and I have a face. Seems like it does a lot of description right? Haha, not really, right? Well, you'll probably slowly find out what I look like later.

Well, this day started like others days, but the day ended in the weirdest way of my life shortly after I fell asleep, totally unaware of the bright blue light that was occurring in my window.

This moment would change my life forever.

I found myself groaning, waking up from my sleep, finding myself in some cave.

I gasped and immediately sat up. Everything looked cartoony even the stalagmites and everything around me.

What the…animated stuff doesn't exist in the real world. Why am I staring at it then?

This doesn't make any sense at all.

"This is impossible." I breathed, before smacking myself in the face. Ow, that hurt. Ok, not a dream.

"Hello?" I heard someone call out, "Is anyone here?"

That voice…

"Cheyenne, is that you?" I questioned, looking around.

"Lynette, I thought I heard you in here." Cheyenne was spotted towards the end of the cave, "What are you doing here?"

I stood up, brushing myself off, "I don't know, Chey. One minute, I'm sleeping. The next, I am where God only knows where."

"This cave is freaky." Cheyenne stated, looking around, shivering a bit.

"I know right? And in a middle of 2D animation to? God, reality has proven not to make any sense anymore!"

"Hey Carlos!" I heard a familiar voice call, "I heard someone."

Cheyenne and I hear faint footstep followed by a faint light towards the end of the cave where Cheyenne and me had just walk out on. Stepping out of the shadows was none other than two kids that look so familiar to me.

The first kid had blond spiky hair and blue eyes. The other kid was black and had dark hair and brown eyes.

Where were they from? They were from some show. I almost laughed at my own thoughts. Fictional characters from a show standing in front of me? Yeah, that'll be the day.

But then, it hit me, they were from…

Transformers Armada…what were their names though.

Carlos and Rad?

Oh my God…

No way…

They're both from a show I saw as a child.

Ok, now I have seen everything. There's no way this is real, this just can't be real! Fictional characters aren't real!

"What are girls doing in the middle of a cave?" Rad questions as I got infuriated at that. Stereotyping much?

Sighing, I decided to hide my anger at the moment and swallowed the spit, threatening to come out of my mouth, "We got lost digging through this cave." I lied, making up a good excuse.

"Wait a minute; didn't you just say you guys got lost in this cave?" Rad asked us as Cheyenne and I both nodded.

"You guys should've used a rope, like us." Rad stated. Oh, if he only knew the whole story.

"Yeah, we kind of forgot about that." Cheyenne admitted, with a small shrug.

"Don't worry; we kind of marked how we got here so you guys can find our way out with us." Carlos smiled.

Cheyenne grabbed the boy's shoulders and shook him, "Oh thank you so much. You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful."

I rolled my eyes at Cheyenne's overdramatic thank you and turned back to the two young boys, "What are you guys doing in this cave?"

"Exploring it, of course." Carlos replied, shrugging.

"Well, we were." Rad admitted. I then noticed he was holding a green plate. I was struggling to remember what it was called. Wasn't it a minicon? I think that's right, "Til the place lit up like a Christmas tree."

Cheyenne and I looked at each other, both of us giving WTF looks on our faces, clearly surprised.

"Yeah, speaking of that Rad, we might wanna hightail it out of here." Carlos pointed out.

"Yeah, let's move!" Rad shouted as we all started running out of the cave.

"Can you please explain why the heck we're running?" Cheyenne exclaimed, "It's not like this cave is going to cave in, is it?"

"Well, last time I check, caves don't light up just for the heck of it!" I retorted, running along with them.

I saw a light up ahead, showing that the cave's exit was ahead. I managed to stop so I wouldn't fall three feet down, but Cheyenne accidently collided with me, causing the both of us to hit the ground hard, Cheyenne landing rite on top of me.

"Ugh! Get of Cheyenne." I grumbled my face on the warm, rocky ground felt terribly uncomfortable.

I felt Cheyenne's weight taken off of me as she extended a hand to help me up. I smiled and gladly took it as she helped me up.

Rad and Carlos had jumped down to our level.

"You guys ok? That fall didn't look fun." Rad pointed out the obvious as I stared at the plate in his hands.

"Can I look at that?" I asked, putting my hands out, wanting to look at the plate.

Rad sighed, "Sure." He handed it to me as I looked at the green plate. It had an M in the middle of the plate. If anything, it definitely didn't look like a toy or something.

I notice some purple specks in the air.

I almost paled at the sight of it.

Cheyenne leaned against a rocky wall, noticing my sudden change in emotion, "Lynette, what's wrong?"

A purple orb in the air suddenly appeared and descended at a decent pace.

"Oh shit!" I swore, still holding onto the Minicon plate in my hands, gripping it tightly.

The light when down, revealing a giant, tank-like robot that looked really familiar to me.

Who was it?

Oh my God, no, not him!

"Ok, it's official, I am so dreaming right now." I remarked, backing away slowly.

"Listen to me, you guys." I heard a familiar voice say from behind me. I turned to see Alexis standing over by a corner, "Whatever you do, don't panic."

Don't panic? Are you…serious? I'm scared shitless right now! Who wouldn't be panicking? I am really in the Transformers world.

"You serious?! I'm not going to lie; I'm panicking like crazy right now! That guy is bad news! Like really, really bad news!" I panicked.

The robot, Megatron, narrowed his optics and was staring straight at me.

AH! I totally forgot I had the Minicon plate in my hands. Oh crap!

God, I better be dreaming; because if I am not, I am going to so die. Why did I have to be the idiot I was and ask Rad to look at the minicon?

I noticed the minicon plate glowed for half a second.

"Watch out, Lynette!" Rad yelled.

"Run for it!" Carlos screamed.

I looked up to notice that Megatron's servo was heading straight towards me.

"Holy shit!" I screamed, sprinting into the other direction at full speed. Cheyenne, Carlos, Rad, and Alexis all followed me from behind.

"AH! Anyone else wanna take the weird plate?!" I demanded, still sprinting for my life.

"If it makes that giant, freak robot come after me, no thanks!" Cheyenne yelled as if she was yelling at the top of her lungs.

Well, she makes a valid point. My luck just plain sucks.

Suddenly, a rock hit the ground by where I was standing, causing me to hit the ground hard, landing on my back.

Suddenly, the plate started to glow. Startled, I dropped it out of panic and shock as a small blue and grey robot appeared. What was his name again?

High Wire?

I think that's right.

"Holy…" I couldn't believe any of this. This was so a dream. Even though I hurt myself, this was still a dream. This stuff doesn't exist. It's just impossible.

"Child, you must listen to me."

And now I was hearing voices in my head. I am so questioning my sanity now.

"Don't be afraid."

What was this? Kingdom Hearts?

"Listen!" The voice shouted, causing me to jump.

The voice did sound like I have heard it before.

"If you wanna protect your new friends, close your eyes."

Deciding to listen to my crazy mind/conscience, I did as the creepy disembodied voice told me to.

"Now, open your eyes."

I did as the weird voice told me to do as I opened them and noticed I was tall and metal.

What the hell?

Why am I…a transformer? Just…what the hell?

I noticed my alt was probably going to be a red and black sports car. The bottom of my feet to the end of them had wheels, while my arms had the other two. The front of the car was in fact, made to look like my breasts. I did have a good curve to my robot body as well. My color scheme was basically grey, red, and black.

"I have no idea what is going on anymore." I breathed out, "This is just…impossible."

"Ok, you said it." Cheyenne agreed as she was standing next to me in a robot form to.

Cheyenne's robot form was so cool. I predicted her alt mode was going to be a jeep just from the looks of it. The front of the car came out as her body which had a mixture of colors of blue, white, and gold. Each of her shoulders had a door to each one. Her wheels were in the back of her legs and arms. Her color scheme was blue, white, and gold.

"This just escalated quickly." Cheyenne hyperventilated. I was hyperventilating to, trying to figure what the freaking hell was going on here. You couldn't blame me, really.

Megatron looked intrigued that two humans just went into robot forms and spoke, "Well, no wonder you two had odd readings. You're both Pretenders."

Cheyenne and I both gasped and looked at each other. It made perfect sense. From what I can remember, Pretenders hide their Cybertronain form and allowed them to take the form of a native life form.

The question is how did we become Pretenders in the first place?

"What? A Pretender?" Cheyenne questioned.

"It's kind of like hiding the Cybertronian side of you so you take the form of a life form." I explained in the simplest terms that I could.

"Oh?" Was all Cheyenne could say. I was guessing she was just as shocked as I was. Well, yeah no one would expect two human teens to become robots. It would be as impossible to expect.

"My, you're quite the perceptive one." Megatron said to me, "It doesn't seem like your friend knew about that. Anyways, I would deal with the both of you right now, but I want what I came for."

"What are you talking about?" Cheyenne demanded.

I face palmed, "He's talking about the blue robot, who else?"

"Smart Femme." Megatron chuckled, "Now, hand it over before I have to destroy you all."

"Hey Lynette, think we can take this guy?" Cheyenne asked as my optics went wide.

"No, absolutely not, he'd tear us apart. We don't have the training or the battle experience like he does." I declared. Well, it was true. There was no way Cheyenne and I could last three seconds against Megatron. Then again, we are Cybertronians now.

I still say it's not a good idea not to try to fight Megatron. Then again, we might have no choice but to.

I noticed that Cheyenne was back in her human form. A vein pulsed in my forehead, "What are you doing?"

"I'm sorry, Lyn, I panicked." Cheyenne admitted.

I groaned and face palmed. You choice now to do that? Ugh! I had forgotten Cheyenne hates being put under pressure.

"I gave you all your chances." Megatron declared, reaching out his hand towards us as I took a step back, fearing the worst.

"Stop right there, Megatron." I heard a familiar voice say.

Oh my God! Major fangirl mode! Optimus Prime was here! I was kind of trying to ignore my fangirl mind due to the fact that I was under a serious situation right now.

"Optimus Prime!" Megatron exclaimed, his voice sounded full of anger. Poor guy thought this was going to be easy probably.

"Optimus who?" Rad, Carlos, and Alexis asked.

My optics gleamed in delight and relief. Thank goodness I didn't have to fight Megatron myself. Phew!

I smiled a bit at Optimus, giving him a small wave. I couldn't resist! He was just so awesome!

"Huh? Who are you?" Optimus asked.

"Look, there's no time for questions, we gotta protect the kids!" I told him.

I already noticed Rad, Carlos, Alexis, Highwire, and Cheyenne (who decided to go back into her human form) running.

"I'll take care of Megatron, you make sure the Minicon and those humans are safe." Optimus ordered me.

OH MY GOD! OPTIMUS JUST ORDERED ME TO DO SOMETHING. I smacked myself in the face. Shut up, fangirl mind!

"I'm-I'm on it, sir!" I stated, running back over to the kids and Cheyenne.

"Oh boy, I should've gone into my robot form." Cheyenne whimpered as a familiar red jet transformer appeared. The second in command of the Decepticons, Starscream.

"W-What is that?" Rad stood there, clearly dumbstruck.

I suddenly saw a blast of red as Demolisher had stepped out as well.

"Two against one is so not fair!" I stated.

Demolisher tried to grab High Wire, but I reacted by punching him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

"Why you…" Demolisher began as I heard a noise of another portal.

Two familiar Autobots appeared beside me. One looked like an alt for a yellow car, while the other looked like a medical car.

I grinned; Hot Shot and Red Alert were here.

"Whoa, it's a showdown!" Carlos noted as I groaned mentally.

Don't you guys think it's best to get the hell out of here? Seriously, use your heads!

My head snapped over to the loud crash I had heard. Seeing that Hot Shot protected Alexis, I shouted to the kids, "Move!"

"Lynette's right; let's get out of here!" Alexis shouted as she, Rad, Carlos, and Cheyenne ran.

I noticed Demolisher staring at the kids before I decided to kick him in the face. Red Alert, seeing that I was assisting them and knowing that I was probably on their side, punched Demolisher in the chest, knocking him into the ground.

It looks like those lessons of self-defense paid off. I still wasn't used to this body so I was sure if Red Alert didn't assist me, I would've been in deep trouble.

"Thanks for the assist." Red Alert smiled.

I smiled back, "No problem, I'm Lynette by the way."

"Odd name." Red Alert frowned, "But my name's Red Alert."

Suddenly, Red Alert and I both noticed that Demolisher was gone and it looked like Starscream and Megatron were gone to.

"Hey, where'd they go?" Hot Shot asks as I shrugged.

Optimus turned to us, "Autobots front and center!"

Ah! My fangirl side hasn't recovered yet. I'm soooo nervous. Even though I knew Optimus was a good person, I was still nervous.

"Yes sir! Are you alright, sir?" Red Alert asked.

Optimus gave him a small nod, "Yes, but we're all in great danger, we can't let Megatron get a hold of the minicons."

"I know." Hot Shot agreed, "They're using short warp equipment. That must mean they have a base set up near here."

Red Alert stared up at the moon in the clear sky, "They're up there."

Optimus, Hot Shot, and I all looked up at the sky.

"Hey Optimus." Hot Shot began, "I was wondering, who's the femme." He pointed at me as I anime gasped in shock.

"I am curious about that myself." Optimus walked up to me, "Thank you for your assistance, soldier." I swear, I blushed in embarrassment at that as Optimus continued, "Who are you exactly?"

I hesitated, wondering if I should tell Optimus what was truly going on with me. I knew he was someone to trust.

"Oh, my name's Lynette." I bowed, feeling it was respectful to do so.

"Odd name for an Autobot." Optimus noted as my nervous smile grew.

"Um, yeah." I nodded, "By the way, did your yellow friend there just called you Optimus?"

"Yes, I am the leader of the Autobots." Optimus explained.

"And this 'yellow friend' name is Hot Shot." Hot Shot pointed to himself, shooting a small grin at me.

"Well, I'm glad I could help you guys out." I smiled, "But, the truth is…"

"You're a Pretender, aren't you?" Optimus guessed as my jaw nearly hit the floor.

How did he figure that out so fast? Wait a second…

"I am quite familiar with the unique energy signature." Optimus explained to me as I laughed nervously.

Just like what Megatron said.

"Sheesh, and here I thought you were psychic or could see into people's souls." I joked.

Everyone sweatdropped as I snickered a bit, thinking it was hilarious to mess with them a bit.

"Pretenders give off a different energy signature. It's not normal for you at all." Optimus reassured me.

I scratched the back of helm. (I think that's what it was called in Transformer language) and sighed.

"It's like you just found out you were a Pretender." Hot Shot pointed out as I got a little nervous at that.

"Well…you see…."

XXXX

"And that's what happened." I sighed, shrugging.

"So, you and your friend aren't from here." Hot Shot sighed, "And on top of that, you have no idea how you got here."

"Yeah, I can't really remember anything after falling asleep." I admitted with a shrug, "The next thing I knew, I was in that cave and so was my best friend."

"Sounds like Lynette and her friend need some place to stay until they find out how to go back home." Red Alert stated.

Optimus hesitated for a moment and looked at me, "Would you be able to fight with us to save the minicons? I won't force you if you don't want to."

I nodded, "I definitely wanna do it; I don't wanna be useless, so I'll help."

"Good." Optimus nodded, "I'm sure you wanna find your friends and we need to find the minicons, so we're going to find them. They're probably still around here."

"They probably went back in the cave." I pointed out, "So we'll probably have to wait til they come out."

"Alright then, we'll split up; Hot Shot and Red Alert, you both take the right and left. While Lynette and I observe from above." Optimus ordered as his two men saluted him.

"Yes sir!" The two Autobots declared as they walked to their respective areas to look.

I sighed as Optimus turned to me, "We need to scope this area from above in the mountains, follow me."

I smiled and saluted, "Uhh…yes sir!"

This was going to be a long day. Cheyenne, I hope you're safe because I have barely any knowledge on what's supposed to happen next. Cut me some slack I haven't seen Transformers Armada since last year when I decided to rewatch it.

Cheyenne, if you're not safe, I am going to hunt you down for being idiotic.

Sheesh, I'm so overdramatic sometimes.