Just to let you know this is not a sequel to my Vertigo fic though it does have my character from it. This is just something I'm writing to deal with a certain little plot bunny.

Chap 1

Sari ran her fingers over the keyboard on the control console for the Sumdac tower space bridge. Behind her Prowl paced, trying to remember the exact co-ordinance for the location he wanted to visit. Sari wasn't exactly sure where he wanted to go or why he wanted to go there but she did as he asked and typed them in. If he didn't want to tell her he didn't have to, but she was sure he would if she bothered him enough.

"Did you say 483 or 348?" she asked after a moment.

"Neither," he replied, looking over at her. "I said QRBHT6."

"Oh.." she stopped. "Oops."

"What oops?" he walked over to the computer and looked over her shoulder at the screen. "What kind of co-ordinance are those?"

"I don't know," she replied, looking up at him. "I just wrote what I heard."

"How is rama lama ding dong even relatively close to what I said?" he demanded, frowning at the screen.

"Oops," she pressed the back button and deleted the typos. "Sorry about that I kind of spaced out."

He folded his arms. "I'd hate to image where I might have ended up if I had gone into the bridge with those co-ordinance."

The techno organic girl shrugged. "Who knows," she typed in what Prowl had said after he repeated it, slowly this time so she wouldn't mess up. "Okay I think I got it right this time. Let's just fire this thing up and see what happens." She pressed the ENTER key.

Prowl lifted his head and watched the bright blue sphere activate between the two orange yellow prongs on the space bridge. It seemed to be working perfectly. Suddenly something shot out of the orb. Some large and black.

"What's that?" Sari asked, watching the thing, hovering above them.

She got her answer a few seconds later when the thing, which looked like a black and red jet, transformed, becoming a robot similar in design to Starscream but with a few differences. Without any kind of provocation it pulled a huge gun out of nowhere and started firing at them. Prowl moved quickly, grabbing up Sari and jumping out of the way of the blast.

They landed at the base of the bridge. "Are you all right, Sari?" Prowl asked, looking at her.

"I'm fine," she said.

"Not for long!"

Prowl looked up. The seeker robot hovered over them, grinning wickedly. "Hi, my little toy," it called to Prowl. "Didn't think you'd see me again, did you?"

The cyber ninja knew right away who it was. "Shadowstar!"

The femme vampire grinned. "So you still remember my name." she put her hand on her chest and made a sappy face. "I'm touched."

"What are you doing here?" he asked. "I thought they locked you up in the stockade."

"I got out with a little help from a friend," she told him. The femme dived. "But you won't be around long enough to find out who it was."

Prowl quickly sent Sari down and jumped at Shadowstar before she could get to him. He tackled her at the waist, knocking her out of the sky and to the roof. They landed on the control panel, breaking off some of the computer keys. Prowl ended up on top, thus gaining the advantage. He pinned her down easily. "It looks like you've lost some power since you were put in the stockade," he told her. "Or is it just because I am more powerful?"

She glared at him, bearing her fangs. "How about I take that power from you?!" Then sunk her teeth into his arm.

Lucky for him he was wearing the armor he'd stolen from Lockdown or he would have been drained. Instead the only thing that lost power was the arm guard but still the movement was enough to startle him. He jerked his arm back, releasing her. She saw her chance and punched him in the face.

He yelped and fell back a step, loosening his grip on her. She kicked him in the stomach plating, knocking him off. Before he could recover she launched herself forward, slamming into him and knocking him to the floor. He attempted to knock her off but she had a iron hold on his arms and the best he could do was struggle.

"I've been waiting stellar cycles for this," she said, baring her fangs. "The thought of making you suffer for sending me back to that pithole kept me from going offline." she leaned toward him, grinning evilly. "This time I won't make the same mistake twice."

But before she could sink in her fangs a orb of blue energy smashed into her head. Shrieking, she raised her head and looked around for the person responsible. Her optics focused on Sari. The girl's hands were glowing and it was obvious she was the one who had thrown the projectile. "You!" she exclaimed, startled. The little hairless monkey was a robot?!

"Yes me," Sari said, charging up another orb. "and if you want to keep your head attached to your neck you'll get away from Prowl!"

The femme hissed. "I've got a better idea," she said, loosening her grip on Prowl's arms. "How about I drain you instead, techno freak!" She lunged at the girl.

Sari moved quickly, using her smaller size to her advantage. The vampire femme missed her by inches, crashing into the control panel for the space bridge. The screen lit up with a set of coordinates written down when she'd smashed into the keys. She quickly got back up and chased after the girl. By then Prowl had recovered and went after Shadowstar, throwing some shurikens to get her attention.

One lodged in her shoulder and she shrieked. Forgetting Sari, she re-focused on her true target. Prowl.

"Come here, Prowl," she coaxed, dislodging the star and stalking toward him. "I have something special I want to give you."

He jumped into the air, throwing more stars at her. She dodged to avoid them but got hit by another energy blast from Sari. '"Two against one isn't playing fair," she growled, charging at Sari.

Just then Prowl swooped in and caught Sari up in his arms. At that moment Shadowstar slammed into him, knocking him backward. What none of them noticed was that they'd gotten close to the space bridge which was still active. The moment the Decepticon energy vampire crashed into Prowl and Sari the orb in the bridge expanded. The next instant all three other them were sucked into the orb.

The last thing Prowl saw before his optics went blank was a explosion then a bright blue light. After that.. complete darkness.


"Prowl, Prowl wake up!" the cyber ninja heard a voice calling him. "Please Prowl! I need you!"

Prowl's optics flickered then activated, coming to focus on Sari who was leaning over him, looking worried. "W-what happened?" he asked.

"I'm not sure," she said, nervously looking around them. "But I don't think we're in Detroit anymore."

Huh? he tried to sit up but his arm gave out and he fell back. Above him was a dark blue canopy of stars. Wherever they were it was night time.

"Here," Sari said, offering her hand. "Let me help you."

He raised his hand, wondering how Sari was ever going to help him sit up with her size, and was surprised when she wrapped her entire hand around his wrist and pulled. He sat up and found himself making eye contact with her... almost as if... Just then he realized that he wasn't as tall as he should have been. Either Sari had grown fifteen feet or he'd shrunk. It was more likely that he'd shrunk somehow.. but it still made no sense.

He gaped at himself then looked at Sari who shrugged. "I don't know," she said. "You were that big when we got here." she looked around again. "Wherever here is."

Prowl allowed himself his own study of the surrounding area. They were in a city. But not like Detroit at all. This city was much bigger and all the buildings were made of the same dark blue substance. What made it stranger was that there were people, but not in the traditional sense. Most of these were not humans, but strange humanoid things with multiple sets of eyes and different shades of skin and... fur? Yes, the tall moaning guy was covered in a dark, brown fur.

Prowl had never been to a place like this in his entire existence. That's when he realized that they were in an alley and none of the people on the street noticed them or cared. But he cared. He knew that some, if not all, of those people knew where they were. He needed to know as well. If he did he wouldn't feel so lost.

Getting up with some help from Sari, he made his way out of the alley and onto the street. Sari stayed with him, not wanting to be left alone in such a strange place. If they stayed together they wouldn't get lost, not that they weren't lost already just being there.

"Excuse me," Prowl said, grabbing the shoulder of the first person who walked by. "Could I ask you a quick question?"

"Yeah?" it said, turning to face him. It gave him a quick once over but didn't seem surprised to see a talking robot. "What do you want?"

"Can you tell us where we are?" he asked.

"Where you are?" the green skinned alien looked surprised that he didn't know. "This is the Trade World."

"Trade World?" Prowl and Sari looked at each other. "Where is that?"

"In the Galactic Alliance," the alien replied, noticing the looks on their faces. "What? You never heard of it? Where did you come from? Another dimension or something?"

"You could say that," Sari replied, looking sheepish.

The alien stared at her for a moment then turned and walked away. The two friends watched him go then looked at each other. "So what now?" Sari questioned.

Prowl rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Now that we know where we are maybe we can find somebody who knows how to get us back," he said. "We just have to find somebody who looks like they know a lot." he started walking. "Let's go."

The girl followed, staying close. "Hey, Prowl,"she said after a moment. "I was wondering. What happened to the freaky energy vampire?"

Prowl stopped, remembering the crazy fembot. "That's right," he said. "She fell through the portal with us." he looked around them. "If we wound up here."

"Then she did too!"


"Ma'am? Ma'am? Hey, wake up lady!"

Shadowstar felt somebody poking her in the face. She did not like being poked and swatted at the hand. She activated her optics and found herself staring at a strange looking robot with a boxy type body and a cylinder head. She stared at it for a moment, trying to figure out what she was seeing. The femme had never seen a robot that looked like this before. "What are you?" she asked.

"Oh good! You're online!" the little robot squealed. "I thought that fall might have broken you or something." it lifted her arm and scanned it. "Nope. Nothing broken."

"Fall?" she asked, jerking her arm away. "What fall?"

"Poor girl, doesn't even know what fall she took," the little robot said. It pointed a clawed hand into the air. "You fell from up there and crashed here. Oh man, it looked like it hurt! Fortunately nothing broke."

She groaned, getting to her feet and rubbing her head. She looked up at the sky. It was night time but that wasn't the only thing she noticed. The sky looked funny. "Where am I?" she asked.

"Oh my! you must have really hit your head after all!" the little robot exclaimed. "You're on Trade World."

"Trade World?" she asked, looking down at him, confused. She had never heard of a planet with that name.

"Yeah in the Galactic Alliance," it explained.

"I see." she lowered her head because staring upward too long hurt her neck. Just then a jolt shot through her and she fell to her knees in pain.

"Are you all right?" the little robot questioned, worriedly.

"No," she moaned, clenching her teeth together. "I'm low on power. I need energy."

"Energy?" it asked. "What kind?"

She lifted her head, her expression changing from pained to hungry. "Yours will do." she answered, smiling.

"Mine?" the robot looked confused. "Don't be silly. You couldn't possibly want my energy, it's-"

"Oh, but I do," she said hungrily. She reached out to grab it. "Now why don't you just hold still. This will only take a second."

The robot rolled away form her on wheeled feet, suddenly panicky. It had heard rumors about an energy vampire running around the city and now it seemed it had found it. "Now wait just a minute!" it exclaimed as she walked toward it, licking her lip components. "You don't want my energy! It's no good!"

"I'm not picky," she replied, grabbing it.

"No!" in desperation the robot shoved at her. She wasn't expecting it and was knocked off her feet. The little robot saw it's chance and bolted.

Growling, Shadowstar got to her feet and gave chase, not about to be denied her dinner.


With the knowledge that Shadowstar might have wound up in the same place that they had in their minds they decided it would be a real good idea to look for her. The last thing they needed was a rogue energy vampire running around this place, feeding on machines. And there were plenty of machines. Robots, robot, robots. Robots working in the casino's, robots serving sodas to passers by, and even robots there on vacation with their robot families. It was an energy vampire schmorgisborg.

"I would hate to see what would happen to all those machines if she got hungry," Sari said as they passed by a robot couple holding hands with a smiling, blue haired human girl.

"I don't want to think about it," Prowl said, looking around himself. "If she decides to feed we might be the only ones who will be able to stop her."

"But first we have to find her," Sari pointed out. "and I don't think that's going to be easy."

Prowl nodded, knowing she was right. This was a big city. Shadowstar could have landed anywhere. "Let's just hope she doesn't need to feed." he said, tightening his grip on her hand. "In fact let's hope she isn't even online."

"What are the odds of us being that lucky?" she asked him.

He paused a moment to think. Doing so caused annoyed looks to cross people's faces because he was blocking the sidewalk. "If I was completely honest," he said. "I would say about one hundred to one."

She sighed. "I knew it."


"Where are you, my little snack?" Shadowstar called, searching the alleys for the little robot. "I know you're here. Come out, come out, wherever you are!"

The little robot, who was hiding behind a dumpster, started shaking as it listened to the vampire fembot search for it, even though it tried not to. It knew she would get to where it was sooner or later but it couldn't moved. Not just from fear but because if it did she would see it. So it stayed put, hoping she would not find it.

"I know you're here," she said, still searching. "You can't hide forever. If you come put now I promise not to make this painful.." she paused a moment. She thought she heard a strange metallic dinging sound. She moved toward the sound, behind a large black dumpster. "Hmm..."


"Maybe we should ask somebody," Sari suggested after a moment.

"Like who?" Prowl asked, looking at her.

Sari pointed at some people at an ice cream stand. "How about them?" she suggested. "They might know something."

Prowl studied the people for a moment. Some big, red skinned thing in a strange outfit and blond girl in a pink dress. He doubted they might have seen her but he figured he'd humor Sari. "All right," he consented, walking toward them.

"Excuse me."

The giant red thing and the girl turned to him. Now Prowl saw that the blond girl he'd mistaken for a human wasn't a human at all. It was a little gray skinned alien. "Uh.. can I ask you something?"

"Uh sure," the big red thing said. "What do you want to ask us?"

"This might sound like a strange question but you didn't happen to see a black and red robot with wings flying around have you?" Prowl questioned.

The red thing looked thoughtful. "A black and red robot with wings?" he shook his head. "No I haven't. Sorry."

"Oh," Prowl said, not very disappointed. "Sorry for bothering you then." he turned to Sari and shrugged. She sighed and then the two started walking away.

"Sorry I couldn't be of any help!" the red thing called after them.

"So much for that," Sari said.

"It might not be a good idea to ask anymore people," Prowl said, looking back.

"Why?"

The cyber ninja shook his head. "Never mind." What he didn't say was that the red thing had turned to watch them and the look on his face was very unnerving. "Let's just keep looking."

But they didn't get much further. A voice suddenly called to them. "Hey!"

Prowl and Sari turned around just as the little girl thing in the pink dress came running up to them with the big red thing not too far behind. "Excuse me," the little girl said, looking up at them. "Maybe I ask you a question?"

"I guess," Prowl said, wondering what the girl wanted.

"Why are you looking for a robot like that?" she wanted to know.

"Well." Prowl hesitated. He wasn't sure he should tell this little girl or her comrade why. He wasn't sure how they would react. They might even think he was crazy.

"Come on, Prowl," Sari said, jerking on his arm. "They might be able to help us."

Prowl decided to chance it. "The robot we're looking for is an energy vampire."

By the looks on creatures faces Prowl knew he'd said the wrong thing.


The little robot had not heard the vampire femme make any noise in the past few minutes. He started thinking the coast was clear and started to roll out.

"Ah hah!"

The bot jumped and turned its head. The fembot vampire was looking down at him with that wicked grin on her face. "Found you, you naughty little bot." she reached out to grab him. "Now hold still, this will only hurt a little."

Her hand rested on the top of its head the same instant another one did. "Huh?" she stared at the hand for a moment then lifted her head.

She found herself staring into the triangular face of another robot. This one was about the same size as her but different in design. It seemed to hover there and from what she could see it didn't have any legs or feet. But she couldn't be sure because most of it's body was covered by a black cape. The look on its face mirrored her own. Shock and confusion. It was obvious it hadn't expected anyone else to be after the little robot but itself.

A/N

I'm writing this for fun. No other reason really. I doubt I'll get a lot of reviews for this one but I don't really care.I will figure out why Prowl and Shadowstar's sizes changed later on. It isn't that complicated.