So wanting to work on another Transformers:Animated story besides my first one, here's just a little something that I thought up that might do the trick. So here we go with T:A story number two! Note: Italics mean thought. Just wanted to be clear on that.

DISCLAIMER: Do not own Transformers Animated. Hasbro does. All I own is my oc, Lightningray and that's it. Nobot else.

Transformers Animated

A Living Nightmare

Chapter 1

There have been dark legends of Decepticons and how they hide their true nature from the rest of all other Cybertronians: of how their dark thirst for energon is more than what it seems and how hey kidnap unsuspecting Autobots to enslave and use them for their own dark needs or a source of nourishment. The gruesome tales were always silenced due to not wanting mass hysteria breaking loose. But for those bots who find these to be true at the last second were sadly never seen again...it's because they were also vampires.

Every rumor that I heard about them on this subject were just that. Rumors, and nothing more. That was until that night I was heading back to the Dojo. I knew that I shouldn't have gone down that alley, but it was the fastest way there. Just as I entered that's when they jumped me. I made a run for it and with my lithe frame I had just about gotten away but I just couldn't match the unknown lunge from behind that got me captured. What will happen to me now...I can only think of it as the beginning of a living nightmare...

Slowly coming out from from being knocked unconscious after being captured that night, Lightningray blinked her optics a few times then looked up to see where she was exactly and guessed that she was in some sort of cell that was holding a few other 'bots as well. She really couldn't recognize any of them, but she could tell that they were recently imprisoned as well as they were groggy like her. Once her vision got a bit better, the fembot looked around and found one bot she knew sitting near her. It was Ratchet, a medi-bot that she gone to seen when her stabilizing servo got tweaked when she was in a training spar about a couple of deca-cycles ago. Turning towards him she asked, "Ratchet, is that you?"

Hearing his name being spoken, the oldbot turned and saw that the ninjabot was speaking to him. Recognizing her from the fix that he did, he replied, "So, they got you as well. Never would have figured that they go for a ninjabot before, but I guess that things are always changing."

"Do you at least know where we are?," the blue and white bot inquired.

"By my guess, on one of their transport ship on its way to the Decepticon home base, wherever that is," the red and white mech figured. "How did they get you?"

"By an alleyway that was the fastest shortcut to the Dojo," the fembot replied, a bit embarrassed by it.

Catching the way Lightningray reacted to the question, Ratchet told her, "Ah, don't feel bad, kid. I was snatched right outside the bar I was at when they were closing for the night and made sure that nobot could see it happen."

With the way the mech replied, it made the blue and white bot feel a bit better. A bit of silence passed which was starting to make things a bit uncomfortable when out of the blue a mech from what sounded like across the cell from where the two Autobots were at cried out, "Hey, what is this? Where the glitch am I? What's going on?"

Recognizing the sound Ratchet observed, "That sounded like Bumblebee, a minibot I helped out one night when I was heading home. The surprises just keep on rolling out and yet I'm still not figuring out why."

Not sure as well, Lightningray pondered for a few klicks as well but then heard another voice say, "Hey little buddy calm down. You don't want anybot coming in and finding out what all the ruckus is," then a third add, "He's right. Whoever captured us might come in any second and shut that ruckus that you're making up."

However it came a little too late when servosteps were heard coming down the corridor then fade a bit then the crash and bangs of a beating were made which made the ninjabot wince a bit and after several minutes the steps were heard walking away. A few nanokliks of silences passed until the medi-bot said, "I guess that they want silence all the way to wherever the frag we're going."

"I guess so," the femmebot agreed, looking at the door and wondering how the mini-bot was fairing from his punishment.

Several megacycles had passed since the confrontation in which both bots had fallen into a stasis nap and were suddenly jarred from it as the transport ship was making its final landing procedures at its destination. Once the engines were shut off and things were cleared, the door was slammed open and the guards had appeared, the one in front reaching in to pull them out to their doom and living nightmares.

Well, hopefully you all like this. Please review to your hearts content and if I get enough people to like this I'll continue it. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!