Chapter One

First Meeting

Amanda, a girl with blue eyes and long light brown curly hair, was standing on her front porch. The female angrily hung up her phone, and put it into her pink purse. She had had a ride to work, because they had cancelled, and nobody at work could have given her a ride. Amanda was an adult who lived with her parents, grandma, and three siblings. She would have driven herself if she had had a car. Now she had no choice but to walk. It was a two and a half hour walk to the grocery store where she worked.

Amanda sighed and adjusted her purse before beginning the gruelling walk. There were no sidewalks, and there was a lot of hills. In order to avoid being hit, she walked on the side of the ditch. About thirty minutes in the Georgia summer heat, the hill began to wear her out. The woman panted and was soaked in sweat.

Amanda stopped to catch her breath after reaching the top of a steep hill. A red custom Aston Martin pulled up. The car looked just like a character from a show she loved, Transformers Prime.

"Need a lift?" said a voice much like the character, Knockout. Amanda thought about it. She knew getting a ride from strangers was a bad idea, but she still had a long way, and was already exhausted.

"Please." she said and got in. "I'm walking to work, which is Kroger." Amanda says buckling up. She looked to the driver's seat, there wasn't a driver. She felt her heart start to race. He couldn't be a Cybertronian, they didn't exist. She looked around for the driver, maybe he got out.

"Kroger? Pssh. Whatever place that is, I wouldn't be naming it a Kroger." he snorted, locking the door as he started 'driving' down the road, speeding past others. "But it doesn't sound appealing.. Whatever a Kroger is."

"It's a grocery store...and what the heck? There's no driver! What are you?" Amanda was in panic mode. No way this could be Knockout. He wasn't real, he couldn't be.

"Grocery store.. Pssh.. Sounds unexciting.." he snorted as the radio glowed in tune with his speech. "And what am I? My my, such a little human has no intelligence.. Common for such a species.. I am Knockout.. Dearest." he purred. "I don't need a fleshie handling me.. You're lucky I even saw enough pity to give you a ride.. Hmph.." he made a noise of offence, as he cruised.

Amanda stared at the radio. Knockout was real. She gulped, Knockout was a con, and cons were evil and would kill a human like her without a second thought. 'Scrap!' she thought.

"Well, Knockout, I'm Amanda, and I'm thankful for the ride. I'm just surprised that you don't need a driver, considering I never met one like you." Amanda chose her words carefully. She didn't want to lie, nor did she wish to tell him about the show, especially since it reveals the location of the base.

"Well.. Amanda .. Be very thankful. I despise any fleshlings 'in' me..." he snorted, continuing to drive about. "Where is this Kroger.. Uhh.. Everything looks the same."

"Keeping going straight, when you reach a stoplight, make a right turn, then watch for a Kroger sign on the left. If you don't like humans, then why offer me a lift?" Amanda asked, curiously.

"It looked like you were going to collapse. Plus I was bored." He stated, flatly.

"Oh. I see." She said, Not long now, then she's at work, and the con would be out of her life. Hopefully. "You're the only...whatever you are... I met. You never answered my question. What are you?"

Knockout grumbled to himself. "I'm a Velocitronian." he said as he stopped at the red light, waiting to turn.

Amanda was confused at first but chose not to address the issue. "I would give you gas money, but I don't think you have any use for our money." Amanda said, changing the subject.

"Nor do I need gas." retorted the not so fictional medic. "And I have no use for your money. Be glad you caught me on a good day." Amanda nodded, and they drove the rest of the way in awkward silence.

When Knockout pulls up to the front of the store, Amanda unbuckles and puts her hand on the handle. "Thank you Knockout. I appreciate the ride." She says before getting out. Not used to being thanked, the alien medic was taken aback. Once he got over it, he takes off. Before Clocking in, Amanda goes to the restroom to freshen up. She groans when a certain song comes on a radio. It was one she saw on Youtube that featured the very mech she met. "Of all songs, why did this have to play?" she finishes up before starting her shift.