I (sadly) claim no possession on anything recognisable. Transformers belongs to Hasbro (I believe) and Harry Potter belongs to Ms J K Rowling. This is me mixing two excellent ingredients and hoping it tastes good!
Space the final frontier, or so most humans believed.
An average day on the Arc was passing by. All bots that had duties were off doing them. Hound and Trailbreaker were out on patrol (and finding the most off-road routes possible). Prowl had all but locked himself in his office in order to get his paperwork done. Red Alert had locked himself in the monitor room, leaving Inferno trying to get him out. The twins were off doing goodness knows what, but it might have involved silly string, feathers and pink glitter, but we're probably better off not knowing. There was also some muttered swearing and clanking noises coming from the med bay, but no one was stupid enough to go and see, after all curiosity killed the photovoltaic cat.
Finally there was a remarkable lack of noise coming from the labs, that's not to say they weren't occupied; it was just usually more noticeable when Wheeljack was in there. In fact Wheeljack's lab was currently occupied by three mechs, Wheeljack, Perceptor and Skyfire. They were currently gathered around a device of some magnitude, about the same height as Bumblebee. The machine was cuboid in shape with one side open holding some form of lens. Perceptor was currently up to his elbows in wiring as he reattached some of the connections.
"The concept and design is exceptional Wheeljack I will concede, but when it comes to actual manufacture I would prefer you enquire to myself or Skyfire for a final verification. These couple of wires would have resulted in a premature termination of your creation." Wheeljack crossed his arms as his vocal fins dimmed slightly.
"I can't help it if the idea goes faster than I can build it. I'm usually thinking about the next stage while I'm in the previous!" He mumbled. Skyfire smiled kindly and placed a hand on Wheeljack's shoulder.
"Never mind, that's what friends are for, aren't they Perceptor? We help each other out. I personally am looking forward to setting this in orbit."
"Yes, definitely" Perceptor agreed. "And once we have it up and functional, some pressure should be diminished from our energy consumption."
"Of course," said Wheeljack patting the energy gatherer. "Once the SEC1 (Solar Energy Collector One) is up and running it should reduce our energy use significantly, and if we can build a network of these beauties it should cover almost all our energy needs. The humans do have some interesting ideas, Spike told me about it, but of course it's still in its youngling stages for them here since they don't have our advancements."
"True, have you also heard that they've also started to use solar convection currents to generate electricity? They're quite ingenious really." Skyfire paused for a moment and looked at the engineer. "By the way Wheeljack, have you asked Optimus Prime about our launch window and who is coming to help set it up?"
"Yep, he's outlined the final crew. Skyfire, you of course will be acting as transport and orbital expert. Myself, as main designer, while Perceptor stays here to act as ground control. Since Optimus is concerned about Decepticon activity he's coming too along with Jazz and Ironhide. Little Bumblebee's coming too in case we need a bot with small hands for some finer internal adjustment, though it shouldn't be necessary. Also Ratchet insisted on coming along to in case our invention happens to have any umm… explosive properties."
"That seems prudent. Is there really such a likelihood of Decepticons interrupting us? They have been reasonably unobtrusive after the Autobot X incident."
"Well Optimus isn't taking any chances. He definitely doesn't want any kind of energy generating technology falling into their hands. Some of those Cons could probably reverse-engineer some nasty things from this."
They fell silent for a while; Perceptor continued to poke about in the satellite's innards comparing the apparent connections to the schematic Wheeljack had made up. Wheeljack himself was watching Skyfire as he made a circuit about the device, inspecting it from all angles as though measuring something. When he finished circling he stopped next to Wheeljack.
"I've been looking at the SEC1 unit Wheeljack. How wide an angle can the lens receive light from, from the last calculations you gave me it was around 110 degrees. But looking at the design now it approximates to about 150."
Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to give you that update Skyfire since you were on patrol at the time. I raised the lens slightly to catch more light. It also enables the energy subspace pocket to be larger. It increased the efficiency by 23.4%." His finials flashed an embarrassed pale pink.
"Impressive. Are you done then Perceptor?" Perceptor retracted his arm from the SEC1 and stood up smiling at the two taller scientists.
"All is operating at optimum proficiency, and I believe gentlemechs, ready for launch."
"Meteorological forecasts estimate the next perfect window for launch in six Earth days. That should give us plenty of time to prepare." said Skyfire grinning along with the other two. "I believe this calls for some small celebration. Shall we leave for the rec room?" This was met with resounding agreement from the others and they all trooped out of the lab.
What they failed to notice were a glowing pair of red eyes looking on from a ventilation duct above their heads. It had been lucky to find this data. It may not have got everything, but what it did know was important.
End of Chapter One!
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This is a new venture into crossovers. This particular plot bunny has been nibbling me for a while. All comments welcomed and if you are going to flame, well, I'm just writing this for fun and to see if it's any good. Flames will clearly answer that question!
Timeline placement
In the Transformers 'verse the story takes place somewhere after the Autobot Spike incident. For Harry Potter it's somewhere after Deathly Hallows, it deviates from it in parts to tie this story together. Happy reading!