hello! This is an idea I cooked up about a week ago that I decided to write about. It does have quite a bit of violence and foul language, so be prepared. Tell me what you think, who should make an appearance, and if its good! Thats about all.

Oh, and no, I am not the original owner of any of the Transformers series, or concepts. Just so we're clear on that.

"So why did you run away?"

Barricade shifted and moved the hand the human girl sat on up to his shoulder, to which she immediately changed places and settled on. He found he didn't quite know how to answer. The question wasn't unusual or unexpected, but difficult to answer all the same.

"I suppose I just felt that it was time." The words rasped out in a tongue foreign to him, that he was compelled to speak in by this odd human girl. Yet the words were true, seemed to be affirmed by speaking the language they deemed English.

"He would kill you if you returned." She stated; running a hand over the cool metal of his shoulder, unaffected by her placement.

"Yes." He found himself taken aback by the honesty of it. Why hadn't he defended his leader, why hadn't he silenced the human for saying something she knew nothing about? Because she did know something. Barricade felt the stirrings of something close to respect for her, and quickly repressed it. She wasn't anything special, not by his own or human standards. She was tall and willowy, with a thick mass of hair that fell past her waist the color of burnt gold, flashing green eyes set under brows just a bit too hooded to be pretty, and a nose that looked to have been broken. Physically, she was nothing. "You intrigue me," He found himself saying "You're odd for a human."

Her lips curved up in what they deemed a smile, though how the baring of teeth is a sign of pleasure was beyond him. She shifted on him, and draped her delicate human arm over his shoulder "I suppose I am odd aren't I?" She murmured, her voice becoming thick with the need to shut down her body and sleep. "Whats it like, to be like you?"

He tipped his head to the side and flexed a hand, he hadn't really thought about that "I don't know, exactly. But something similar to being you."

Her head drooped and he felt her body slowing, it alarmed him. He shifted again to wake her up, and felt the presence of another of his kind behind him. He tensed and picked up the human girl, set her down on the ground and turned to face what he knew to be another decepticon.

"Barricade," Blackout spoke his name in their native language "It's time to return."

The sound rang in his head, he didn't want to leave. "No." He said, and from the look on Blackout's face he realized he had said it in English. "No." He said it again in his own language.

"I don't think you understand," Blackout said, optics flashing as he tensed for a fight "That wasn't a request."

Barricade shifted slightly to shield the human should Blackout strike "I understood you just fine, I'm not going back."

Blackout saw Barricades movement and looked down only to catch a glimpse of a malnourished little human girl, and looked away quickly to hide that he had seen her. She was a part of the UCO project, and must be left alive. "Well then," Blackout said, shifting forms as he did "I guess I have no choice but to terminate you."

It had been three days since her encounter with Barricade. Three days for her to think about meeting an alien robot who had apparently not only gone A.W.O.L, but had given top secret information to some other group of alien robots called the Autobots and was now a dead man -um, robot- walking. To top that off, she was actually worried about him (Can robots be hims?) He had been dragged off by some other robot with helicopter blades and looked badly injured. She was so going crazy.

A knock on the door threw her off her thought train (Which was fortunate, she was almost completely certain it would have resulted in a crash) and she padded downstairs to the front to answer it.

"Yeah?" She said swinging open the door with a bit more force than necessary. Okay, that was rude, but she wasn't in the mood today.

"Hey Katie," The visitor grinned, putting out their cigarette on the door frame "ready for our road trip?"

"Oh shit Scorponok, I completely forgot. I'm not packed or anything." She looked at him apologetically.

He sighed and pushed his spiky black hair out of his face "Its fine. Can I come in? I'll help you pack." Before she had time to reply he had pushed by her and was already bounding up the stairs to her room.

Katie smiled. That was Scorp, pushy as ever. She had only met him about a month ago, but they had become friends quick. So what if he did things or said things that were a little off now and then? He was cool. And he pissed her mom off. Major bonus. The minute her mother had seen the 6 feet of tattoos and piercings standing on the porch clad in leather pants and matching jacket, she had forbid her ever to hang out with him. Naturally, she did anyway. Katie took the stairs two at the time to find Scorponok kicking off his spiked combat boots and taking a long drag on a new cigarette.

He sat up and blew the smoke in her face "What took you so long?"

She coughed and waved a hand to clear the smoke "Nothing I was just thinking," She coughed again "Ugh, damn it, will you put that stupid thing out?"

Scorponok smiled to reveal metal tipped teeth in sharp shark-like rows and put out the cigarette on his tongue. Katie stared at him.

"You're really freaky sometimes, you know that?" She reached into her closet for her suitcase and instead of grabbing the handle like she normally would, only got air. "Scorp, wheres my suitcase?"

He waved in the direction of her bedroom door as he pulled his boots back on "I already packed for you."

"Oh," She had long since stopped wondering how he could get things done so fast and walked over to peek inside, just to make sure. Everything seemed in order. "Guess I'm already packed then. Where are we going anyway?"

He picked up her bag for her and ran his pierced tongue over his teeth "You'll see."

"You dare defy Lord Megatron?" Starscream almost cackled with glee, ripping off another piece of Barricades armor and cutting through circuitry. Barricade staggered, but stayed upright and snarled at his former comrade

"Lord? The only thing Megatron is lord of is the scrapheap, you bulb headed freak."

Starscream bared his teeth at him and lunged forward only to be stopped cold by a voice he knew all too well.

"Stop Starscream. I need him alive, we'll be having visitors soon."

Starscream muttered a curse to himself but backed down "Yes Lord Megatron, I shall prepare immediately for our spies return," Starscream made sure to keep his voice steady so not to betray his utter loathing of him "But where shall we store the human girl accompanying him?"

"I don't care Starscream, after we take the chip from her shes dead anyway. Find someplace."

Starscream glared once more at Barricade, the noble bastard, before turning back to Megatron "Yes my lord, right away." And he was off.

Megatron turned to stare at Barricade "Blackout has informed me that you made contact with a human female three suns ago," He paused to study the look in Barricades optics "I'll be sure to put on quite a show for you, when we kill her."

Barricades head snapped up "Never."

Well...that'd be it for the first chapter. What do you think?? R&R please, it is so very much appreciated.