Yo, that's right, I'm doing this for the KTA challenge, I hope you enjoy and I hope I can keep the chapters coming at a steady pace.
The meteor caught the trio of kids and their guardians by complete surprise. The six of them had been making their way to the Autobots' base when the large fiery sphere had landed a few miles away from the side of the road, causing a large 'THUD!' shaking the ground below them, and forcing the Autobots to slam their brakes and transform into their bipedal forms.
"Now, what, the hell, was that?!" Demanded Miko, making a move to run towards the landing site only to be stopped by Bulkhead's servo blocking her path.
"No clue, Miko, we should probably check it out but…" Bulkhead looked to Arcee and Bumblebee.
Arcee finished for him, "But it could be a Decepticon trap. Bad idea to bring you three along." She said looking down on the three children.
"Come on! If something happens you can always call for a groundbridge." Miko argued. Before any of the guardians could make a denial, Raff spoke up, sounding serious and concerned.
"Guys, what if it was a Cybertonian crash landing on Earth, what if they need our help?" That, no-one could argue with, while a Cybertonian hadn't arrived on Earth in a while, they did tend to appear to be like meteors upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. And if chances were that meteor was a Cybertonian, and Autobot even, the possibility of them being injured from the landing and needing immediate assistance was too bad to allow them to hesitate.
So the three guardians transformed into their vehicle forms and sped towards the crash sight, leaving their charges to race after them.
Upon reaching the landing sight the guardians immediately recognised that this in fact a Cybertonian landing sight, however from the wreckage alone they couldn't tell two valuable pieces of information; the faction of the Cybertonian and if they had survived.
The vessel, they could tell, was poorly damaged, likely so even before entering the Earths atmosphere. It was also very tiny, barely capable of carrying a full grown mech.
Bulkhead carefully started to tear off the entry to vessel, mindful of the possibly faint life inside as well as slightly aware of the children who had finally caught up with their guardians.
Immediately after the so called door's removable, the shape of a femme fell out of the vessel.
The femme lacked proper armour showing that she wasn't warrior class, but she was about Bee's height, taller than Arcee. She had a black frame with silver highlights, and oddly enough, the only bulky part of her frame was her servos, which were at least the size if not bigger that her own helm, and were mostly 'palm' with undersized digits which looked like they just cut off at their first joint.
A large groan came from the femme as she pushed herself up into a sitting position and put one her weirdly sized servos to her head, optics still offlined.
Miko, being Miko, wanted to get a closer look at the femme, and started to sneak up closer off to the side of the Autobots, everyone else too distracted to notice.
It was, regrettably then, that the femme onlined her optics to reveal a very familiar red glow, instantly putting the Autobots present alert. But Miko, not so much, she was still watching the events before her in excitement.
"What's that?" the Decepticon femme spoke in Cybertonian, upon setting her sights on the human girl, that none of the children, most importantly Miko, understood. Not hesitating, the femme picked up poor Miko in a surprisingly… gentle… manner.
"So tiny." The femme commented in Cybertonian before noticing her Autobot company, instinctively putting Miko to her chassis when she saw their weapons aimed at her.
The Autobots were at a standstill, unable to shoot at the Decepticon in front of them while she had a hostage, but they also had other humans to worry about.
Arcee made the call to comm. Ratchet. "Ratchet, we need a groundbridge now, we got a Decepticon holding Miko hostage and we got the other kids here too, I'm requesting backup." Arcee spoke in English, knowing, no hoping that the femme in front of her had yet to learn the language.
The Deception narrowed her eyes at Arcee, recognising her use of the alien language, but not understanding it, it was then that she noticed the 'primitive wireless network' that was the internet and began to search quickly, almost desperately, through the strange, poorly organised data base to get an understanding of the language that was being used around the 'con. Disadvantaged as she was in her current situation, she wanted to at least get a basic understanding of her enemies' communication.
The groundbridge opened up on the other side of the Decepticon, and out came Optimus Prime and Ratchet, surrounding the Decepticon and preventing all chance of her escape.
Upon seeing the femme, Optimus's eyes grew wary with recognition, however they also held relief as his battle stance ceased.
"Deepdrive, it's been a long time, old friend. Autobots, stand down, this is one Decepticon that won't be able to cause us any trouble."
If only he knew what was about to come.