So I don't usually write in this POV, and this is my first time writing teenage Sari. I figured that her upgrades made her slightly more mature, at least that's what I picked up after watching the episodes she was in afterwords.

As for Siren, if anyone is a fan of Fullmetal Alchemist, I'm sure the inspiration for her and her namesake will be more than obvious.

I'm not sure how quickly I'll be updating this fic, as I've got some other ideas in the works for a fic or two concerning more of the general cast… I mean I know I'm kinda over doing the Sari and Bumblebee duo but it's probably my favorite duo to write for now anyway. But I PROMISE I am working on other things.

So as for a disclaimer: I don't own anything really, even if Siren is technically an OC she's so much inspired from Fullmetal that I can't really claim her either.


Siren song

Chapter 1 - Unintentional Traitors



It all started on a cold rainy January night, like all cold rainy January nights, most of the citizens of Detroit stayed out of the rain. I was honestly surprised that it wasn't snowing or sleeting but I figured it would be doing just that soon enough... but that's not really the point.

Of course for robots, the rain wasn't really an issue, same goes for teenage cyborg girls with a robot mode. In fact the rain made it easier to do some things I'd wanted to do for a while, namely race Bumblebee; finally possible with the streets clear. Sure call it an unfair advantage seeing as I had a jet pack and Bumblebee was stuck having to drive on a wet road; but hey this could be the only time I'd ever beat the speed demon so I had to live it up.

Or at least; it could have been the only time I'd ever get to beat the speed demon, but it seems like every time we're having fun trouble comes along to put a stop to it… and sometimes we didn't even make the trouble ourselves. The thing is, I may have beat Bumblebee if I hadn't caught something out of the corner of my eye, a streak of red, I stopped at that moment forgetting about the almost-complete race until a few seconds later.

"I won, told ya' I'd beat-" I heard him but I didn't reply at first, still glancing off to where I had seen the red streak. "Where'd ya go? I always knew I was fast but I can't be that fast… or can I?"

"Umm, yeah up here" So I may have burst his bubble by finally speaking up; he probably would have loved winning by a lot rather than a little. "Did you see anything a while ago?"

"No, should I have?"

"I saw something red go by, like it was traveling pretty fast."

"This isn't an excuse for losing is it?"

"No, I'm serious I really saw-" I got cut off by the sound of something crashing a few blocks away from where we were.

We rushed over to the source of the noise, expecting maybe a car crash from some person joyriding. Naturally it wasn't just a car crash, nope nothing in my life is ever that simple, really I should have realized that by then, after all my best friends were transforming robots from a planet called Cybertron and a few months back I had found out I was part Cybertroinan myself. And I expected a car crash of all things. Go ahead feel free to laugh at me, you should.

"It's a… femme!"

"Do you, think it's a Decepticon?" I peered over Bumblebee to take a look for myself, the femme had crashed into several cars and looked like it she had damage form something else.

"Can't tell, the energy signal seems okay though, besides even if it's a Decepticon it can't do much damage with how banged up it is."

"Yeah good point, we should probably call Ratchet and everyone else; someone's got to fix her up."

Bumblebee did the contacting while we slowly and cautiously made our way over to the femme, she was indeed red, and definitely what I'd seen earlier.

"Autobots?" she asked taking a curious glance at Bumblebee, he nodded to her question.

"Had me worried; seeing that little one fly."

We didn't feel the need to explain the jet-pack at the time, or at least I didn't "So, what about you, Autobot or Decepticon."

"An Autobot. But look here kid, I'm in a bit of a pinch; see someone's after me."

"Who?"

"I don't think he's any friend of yours, but unless you can either get me fixed or hidden before he gets to the area I'm not going to stand a chance."

We didn't think much of it at the time, sure she wasn't familiar but we couldn't not help her.

After getting her to a hiding place; a warehouse; Bumblebee and I stayed close; we were curious about who was following her, could they be humans, or Decepticons… we weren't expecting to see Sentinel, Jazz, and the twins.

Jazz and the twins, they were cool; but when it came to Sentinel… well he hated organics, it was a cross between a phobia and hate anyway. Technorganics were probably worse in his book; from what the others said his reaction to Blackarachnia wasn't a pretty one and they used to be really close before the accident, so obviously his reaction to me would be catastrophic. The only rule for me when it came to Sentinel being around was to just avoid being seen by him. It wasn't like I was going to be some big secret but really staying away from that organophobe was all for the best.

I watched Bumblebee speak to them from inside of his alt mode, it always seemed to make a nice hiding spot. Even though Bumblebee wasn't so good at acting casual.

"W-what brings you here?"

"We're trying to track down an escaped prisoner, you haven't seen anything out of the ordinary have you?"

"uhhh… no not really."

If I didn't care about giving myself away I might have started pounding on his interior a little more. Even if they hadn't been looking for the femme we should still tell them, besides they probably weren't, she didn't seem like a criminal.

But of course he didn't get the hint.

Sentinel seemed to notice something was up.

"There's something you're not telling me, you could at least get out of alt mode to look me in the optic."

"No I can't see; I'm stuck." Way to pull an excuse out of your tail pipe buddy.

"Really? You got stuck in alt mode, you're making Optimus look even worse you walking malfunction."

"Sir…I" Jazz was trying to tactfully butt in but of course Sentinel pretended not to hear him and continued nagging Bumblebee about his alt mode

"Sentinel lay off my subordinate."

It was a good relief to hear Optimus and the others pull up. I figured they could easily figure out where I was and why Bumblebee was staying in alt mode.

"Well you're subordinate is being very insubordinate! I'm looking for a fugitive, and he's acting very suspicious."

"You can trust Bumblebee one hundred percent."

"So you say. What are you doing over here anyway?"

"Bumblebee called us."

"Really what for?"

"Boss I am picking up no energy signature over here." The thing I really love about the twins is they have this uncanny knack for interrupting at the right time.

"Yes I have got no signature either, and we are needing to find fugitive."

"You're right; let's go."

I let out a sigh of relief when I was finally able to step outside again.

"What exactly is going on here? I thought you said there was an injured femme." Optimus was suspicious too but I get the feeling he didn't want Sentinel to know that.

I was about to mention the femme but Bumblebee started talking… out of his tailpipe yet again of course.

"Well we thought it was, but yeah she was okay."

"Think it has anything to do with that fugitive? We should call Sentinel back, why didn't you just tell him?"

Bumblebee continued talking out of his tailpipe until he somehow managed to convince the others nothing was up. When the others left us alone the first thing I asked was what we were going to do with a broken femme, sure the damage didn't seem like it would put her offline, but seriously; what was he thinking?

We walked back to the storage building where we'd hidden her; the place looked empty at first.

"You think she just left?"

"There's no way she could have."

"I owe you my thanks kid." when we turned around to look at the door there she was, looking much better, if not completely repaired. She continued talking while running a servo across Bumblebee's face plate, it was like she was trying to seduce him- did robots even have babies the way people did? I really didn't want to know. "You really saved my skid plate back there. I'll see you around." She dashed off, I was about to follow her and I thought Bumblebee would to about he just stood there… so I kicked him a few times to get his attention.

"Bumblebee! That means she's the fugitive! We have to go after her, we're so dead if anyone finds out we got tricked into helping her."

"Oh ummm right! RIGHT!"

"Well…" I didn't think I'd actually have to tell him what to do

"Well?"

"Transform already and let's go!" But, I did.

After a few seconds on the road Bumblebee seemed to come back to his senses "She tricked us, she tricked us, I can't believe this slag!"

I was annoyed needless to say "Yeah well maybe you shouldn't have spent so much time drooling over her like she was flashing her blinkers for you!"

He started to laugh a bit, kind of quietly.

I sighed "I never knew robots could be such pervs."

He laughed more "Yeah…I"

"Get serious Bumblebee! Do you have any idea what's going to happen if Sentinel finds her and she mentions us?"

"We'll say she's lying?"

"What if he decides that you really were suspicious earlier? And F.Y.I. if should that happen Optimus is going to get it from the Elite Guard because he defended you! Everyone else too they'll call you traitors."

"Yeah, you're probably right." He was finally getting it. "Not to mention if Sentinel finds out about you and has his way you'll end up being a test subject or some bot's pet." He just had to add on the last part of his statement and get me worrying.

"All the more reason to catch that femme!"

A red convertible zoomed past us, when I noticed the top was down and no one was inside I knew it had to be her. Not to mention Bumblebee said he had traced an energy signature.

We headed her off at the piers; once she seemed to notice us nearby she actually stopped and even said hi.

"We just seem to keep crossing paths."

"You didn't tell us you were running from the elite guard!" There was the Bumblebee I knew.

"tut-tut-tut, if I'd told you that you probably wouldn't have helped me out."

"How'd you manage to get fixed up so quickly?"

"Why do you think I'm on the run? AllSpark shard." She flagged the shard around as if she wasn't worried we'd take it.

"How'd you even get a hold of that?"

"I'm savvy." that's the only answer she gave me

"Well, Savvy; we've got to detain you." Bumblebee took out a pair of stasis cuffs

"Oh silly bot, my name's not savvy, it's Siren."

"Right well Siren…"

She started doing the servo thing again; I felt the last shreds of innocence I had were being ripped away from me in the form of a Robo-slut. "You really wouldn't detain me would you?" She had that fake pout going on; since when does that ever work in real life?

"Well I-I don't want to."

…Okay apparently it worked right then.

"Uhh… of course we would!" I was starting to think; maybe I should just call Prime. He and the others would probably be able to take care of the situation and make Bumblebee snap out of whatever was wrong with him.

"Yeah… we really should do something."

"Tut-tut-tut… you're not a sparkling, you're a big bot I'm sure you can make your own decisions."

"Yeah… I'm independent and stuff."

I sighed, "Bumblebee! Remember, Sentinel, calling you a traitor… getting Optimus in trouble, getting everyone else in trouble… I don't want to end up being some experiment or some bot's pet!"

"Come on, you're a big bot, you can tell that I'm doing the right thing after all right?"

"Yeah."

"How is stealing an AllSpark shard the right thing? You know what, I'm just going to call for back up."

"Yeah…"

Seriously, that was his vocabulary at that time, his word for everything was "Yeah" and by the time I got a hold of Optimus Siren had taken off again.

So I decided we'd just wait for the others, told Bumblebee that and you want to know what he said?

Really do you want to know? Because you should be able to guess!

"Yeah…"

So he was like that for about five more minutes, then the others showed up, minus Optimus; strange since he's the one I spoke with.

Yeah that bothered me but there was something that had to be attended to first.

"Ratchet, is there anything you can use to zap Bumblebee out of his current idiotic love stuck state?"

"I don't know… how long has he been like this and what triggered it?"

That's when I realized it; and really I should have figured it out earlier "Well when that robo-slut ran her servos all over him… earlier he snapped out of it… it just took a while."

"Well then he should snap out of it this time."

"Did you just say robo-slut?" And now I was wondering if Prowl was going to lecture me on using human-slang.

"Yes, yes I said robo-slut."

"So then earlier…"

I stopped him while he was ahead an explained the situation with Siren. Of course Bumblebee was finally snapping out of his… well I don't even know what to call it. I had to ask the question that had been on my mind the whole time.

"Where's Optimus anyway?"

"We don't know he just told us where to go and said he'd catch up. He was acting kind of strange too."

"My processor is driving me crazy…" Bumblebee paused for a second "Hey you don't think that maybe boss-bot could've ran across her too?"

"Well if he did he'll probably be fine; unless she touches him… from the sounds of it that's her power." Sometimes it's annoying how quickly Prowl can grasp a situation.

And so now it was time to find out what Optimus was up too, and hope Siren was no where near, I didn't feel like trying to preach logic to another processor-scrambled bot that night.


So yeah, kinda easy to guess how a femme with no weapons besides being fast and scrambling processors could escape the Elite Guard...

As for Sari... Innocence tends to go fast once one upgrades themselves and goes from being 8 to being like 16ish in a few seconds.

She's coming off a bit bitchy but I figure most girls in her position would be... all she wanted to do was have a little fun and NOT have to deal with love-sick mechs!

Anyway I read over this a few times... hopefully I didn't miss any horrible gaping errors of plot killing doom....

Okay so I'll get to work on the next chapter.