I thank God for all my inspiration.
There is no magic in this and the episode Spike the autoboot, and the girl who loved powerglide didn't happen. And they were not in stasis for thousands of years only for a little bit then they woke up.
It was taking all of Prowl's will power not to glitch and fall into stasis at this moment. He could not believe what had just transpired in the last couple of hours. He had been out with the other autoboots on a mission to stop the decepticons from attacking a theme park full of humans. They had no idea what they were doing there but they drove as fast as they could to the area.
So far the humans were safe as they had all hidden themselves or driven off. For some reason, the decepticons were being patient, as if waiting for a human to come out and make a mistake or they were deciding to target certain ones. They didn't know what it was, just that they wanted the humans detained there.
When the autoboots arrived, a battle ensued. For some strange reason, the deceptions used no weapons as if not wanting to hurt any of the humans nearby. They all didn't give all that much thought of it at the time. Optimus gave the same order to not used weapons, not wishing to risk any human lives either. Only their reasons were because they actually cared about the humans and had become allies with them. The decepticons, they would not know their reasons till it was too late.
The battle went on as usual, Optimus and Megatron duking it out and the others trying to protect the humans and evacuate them all while fending off the decepticons. He didn't know when but at some point Prowl noticed Starscream was flying off in the opposite direction of the battle.
Prowl called "Jazz take my place and keep evacuating the humans. Starscream's going somewhere and he's going low. I think he's after humans." "Do what you gotta do Prowler but be careful." Prowl nodded and transformed as he raced off. He would have taken back up but they couldn't risk any of their numbers breaking the line and letting one of the cons take a human for whatever their plot was.
Once Prowl had reached the spot that Starscream had landed on, he was quite shocked. Out on a small stretch of land where several booths were separated from the rides, a lone human was cornered into a stack of crates. In his hands Starscream held some sort of circular device with an antenna pointed at her. Prowls optics widened at this, he thought the decipticons where not to harm the humans?
Though Starscream was never truly one to fallow orders. He didn't have much time to think on it though as suddenly he heard "Stay still human. This won't hurt a bit." At this Prowl launched himself at Starscream making him miss his target as the blast went skyward "You fool get out of my way." "Not a chance Starscream I will not allow you to hurt that human."
The human looked shocked at first but took the chance to escape the fight. Starscream growled as he shrieked "No!" He tried to fly up to catch up to the girl but Prowl grabbed hold of the seeker as he said, "Cease and desist Starscream." And he was suddenly being pulled up into the air but his wait helped keep the seeker down so he could not fly off.
It was at this moment that everything seemed to go wrong. Starscream raised the weapon and Prowl could see the calculated look in those optics as he began to point the device "No don't!" Prowl raised his servo up to hit the circular object away, the weapon hit the ground shattering to pieces as the beam went forward and hit the human. Prowl felt his spark freeze, he was too late, what horrible fate had that human succumbed to?
When the light of the energy faded and the dust cleared, what he saw almost made him crash right there and then. Before he could though he heard many pedes running up to them, several gasps and then "Starscream you dolt I told you I only wanted mechs!" "Her hair was short. I have a hard time telling the difference between the two in humans."
Prowl knew that for sure was a bold face lie, the human femme's hair was not so short that she be mistaken for a human mech. In fact she looked quite pretty by humans standards, he shivered at the thought of Starscreem willingly doing this to find a mate so he could continue his own line. Even though he could not force a femme to be with him. At this thought, Prowl's battle computer sprung into action and he went on the offensive.
Prowl brought out his acid pellets to hit Starscreams wings, making the seeker scream in agony for being hit in such a delicate spot. Then Prowl transformed as he came to the femme and brought his weapon up at the decipticons knowing what they were thinking and knew that it was not good. Optimus seemed to of read his mind and said "Autobots bring out your weapons and attack."
The bots did as told and Ratchet raced through the battle to get to Prowl so the medic could look over the femme and said "She's stable but we better get her out of here." He transformed and said "Get her into my back, it will be a squeeze but it will work." Prowl nodded and did as he was told. Once done the two headed off, Ratchet signaling Prime of their plan, Prowl fallowed close in case an attack was to occur.
Now here he was, in the med bay, waiting for Ratchet to finish giving the human turned femme a full and thorough check up. As he did he finely had time to actually get a good look at the femme before him.
Her base coloring that was on her face, arms, and stomach where gray. Her main armor was a light yellow, with some brown stripes and spots here and there, with a black belt and necklace. She had retained some of her human features. She still had the same short brown hair and brown optics. Her lips had even stays the regular human pink.
Last but most strange about her was that it appeared she somehow had an altmode already, one of an earth creature he could not yet identify at the moment. It made it so that she had round ears and a long tail along with a face on her chest. Suddenly he was pulled out of his thoughts as Ratchet said "Well she's healthy. Besides the obvious, she's normal." Prowl then asked "What about the organic altmode she currently has."
Ratchet replied with "From what I researched it appears that her alt mode is that of a creature known as a meerkat. Hound and Beachcomber should know more about it." Prowl nodded as he then asked, "Do you think you can reverse what was done to her?" "I don't even know how this happened in the first place. I would know more if the weapon wasn't broken."
Prowl flinched at that but Ratchet answered to that with "Now don't go blaming yourself. You were trying to stop this, if anyone's to blame it's Starscream. What he was thinking I'll never know. He knows he can't force a femme to be his mate. It has to be an equal agreement." Prowl sighed as he said "My thoughts exactly, but I don't want to take a risk on that. Who know what he might try."
Ratchet nodded as he then said "Now we just have to worry about our own." Prowl frowned at this and sighed, his wings going down a bit. Femmes were rare on their planet even before the war and mechs tended to fight over them or do whatever they could to get the femmes approval. Now some of the mechs were in relationships or already mated but that was very few of them. The rest, well…
Suddenly Ratchet said "I got some info from Prime and Jazz. They found out who the femme is and are consulting her family on the situation. They're not happy about this, they are glad she's alive though. Once they calm down I should be able to get her medical records so we can see what to expect. So far from what I can tell she's healthy and a little younger then you and Jazz but older then the twins and Bluestreak."
"So she is not a teenager?" Prowl was surprised as the femme looked close in that age range. Ratchet replied with "You know humans. You can never truly expect anything to be normal for them. Anyway on to what I have assigned for you." Prowl looked up shocked as he said "Excuse me?" "Don't give me that. I want you to look after her. You know keep close to her, accompany her wherever she goes."
"You mean be a safeguard, but why me? Certainly, someone who is a bit more 'social' would be better or perhaps Jazz, he is quite friendly. Or perhaps Mirage. Usually it's towerlings who ask for such bots." Ratchet glared as he tightened his hand around his wrench and growled "Because unlike the other mechs on this ship you can actually restrain yourself from flirting and scaring the poor girl. Jazz likes to flirt and Mirage would think being a safeguard would be beneath him. You want to expose the poor girl to the crazy mechs on this ship."
Prowl was forced to think on that. True the mechs could be over the top in their flirting attempts and Jazz, well his friend had a reputation for being the king of flirts. Even if he was just being playful at most times. The girl would most likely feel uncomfortable with all the attention and maybe even scared, especially if the mechs started to fight over her.
Yes it seemed there was no other way. A safeguard would be the only way to protect the girl. Now a safeguard was not exactly a body guard but he was not an escort either, actually that wasn't correct. A safeguard was in a way both. Truly a safeguard was normally a family member. Usually non family mechs were only hired by the upper-class to be safeguards, towerlings actually.
Which is why Mirage would find it beneath him to do such a task. Basically, they accompanied femmes so that other mechs would not act violently towards others or act over flirtatious when trying to court. Prowl nodded as he replied "I see your point. If one mech is around her as a friend and protector, then the others will be a bit less volatile and we can't have in fighting amongst ourselves." Ratchet nodded at that and suddenly they then both heard stirring.
The brown optics turned on and at first they looked out of focus till the femme saw the robots and began to make a strange noise "Ah ah ah ah!" Ratchet ran up saying "It's okay Raya you're safe." Ratchet barely missed being slapped if he hadn't of bolted back as he saw her hand flying and she croaked "How, how do you know my names? Where am I?" Suddenly Prowl said "Miss Raya please calm down. My name is Prowl and I am the second in command of the autoboots and….."
"You?" Prowl was shocked as the fem looked at him in familiarization as she said, "You tried to protect me from that decepticon." Prowl nodded as he continued with "Yes I did. Sadly, I didn't do a good enough job. You were hit by some sort of machine that turned you into a cybertronain, with some sort of alt mode of a meerkat from what I was told."
At this Raya looked down in shock and finely realized the changes. At first she seemed like she would start to scream but as she started to touch the smooth mettle and feel the protoform of her face and the familiarity of her hair she said "Could I have a mirror?"
Ratchet nodded as he went to go get one and Raya asked Prowl "Is there a way to reverse this?" Prowl frown sadly as he said "I'm sorry. It's my fault. I was trying to prevent Starscrem's attack and destroyed the weapon in the process, but I was a second too late. Without it we wouldn't know where to begin." At this coolant began to fall from her eyes and she curled her knees into herself as to find a means of comfort.
Prowl didn't know what to do, he had never really been around femmes much besides his carrier. Sure, Bluestreak was his adopted brother and he had learned to comfort him when he got like this but it felt strange for him to be near a femme or to even think about touching her. He felt he should not be the one to do it for no matter what Ratchet said in a way it was his fault.
As he looked around though there was no one around and he could hear her cries increase and see her frame shake roughly. He couldn't take it anymore and he did what he never thought he ever do in his lifetime. He wrapped an arm around her and at first, she stiffened. Prowl was going to pull back in fear he had crossed a boundary, but then she latched herself onto him and cried into his chest.
Prowl was shocked at the action, didn't she blame him, hate him for what he had done to her? Apparently right now she didn't care and he guessed he couldn't either as right now she only wanted comfort and he was the only source available to give it. It was at that moment that the white medic came in with the mirror and was frozen to his spot at the sight he saw.
And in the back of his head he thought 'Maybe this will turn out into something even more than what I was expecting.' For now, he said nothing as he let the SIC comfort the fem and he just stood there taking the whole scene in while thinking 'Now how to get Jazz in on this?'
After crying for a while Raya said she was tired and wanted to go back to sleep, the two bots understood and walked out of the med bay. Once out Ratchet got a ping and answered and was suddenly wide optic.
Prowl was confused as he asked "Ratchet what's going on?" "That was just Optimus and Wheeljack calling. I got some new information on Raya. Seems I made a very good choice in putting you as her safeguard. It turns out she has a mental disability called aspergers, a type of autism that makes socializing difficult. Though hers is slight, it still means she doesn't like surprises along with some other things."
Prowl nodded, he had heard of the disorder and knew there were different levels to it. So far he would not have guessed Raya to have had it. That would explain why Ratchet said she did not have a very advanced version. He would ask her about that later, for now though they could let her rest.
I hope you all like this. Tell me if Prowl gets OOC and please review. There will be allot of made up stuff for the safeguard thing but it is a fictional story. God bless.
