This is the little part where I do my disclaimer. I do not own ANYTHING in this story that you recognize. The plot and the original characters are mine.

Mission City

5 Months Ago

The world was shaking. Everyone was running and screaming. These things were fighting each other in the middle of the city. The sky was covered in smoke. There were so many bodies. So many. Everywhere I looked they were all you could see. Even the bodies of those monsters. Men in army uniforms were running around trying to take them down but it wasn't working. The monsters were still rampaging unchecked through Mission City. There was nothing you could do. Nothing anyone could do but run.

Some of us weren't so lucky. Some of us couldn't run fast enough, hard enough. Some of us could but couldn't avoid the stray fire. I was fast. I was strong and I was so close. SO close. But then two of the demons fell from the sky. I was hit by spraying cement and my vision went black as sharp pain ripped through my leg. I opened my eyes. My leg was twisted wrong. It was broken. My head was throbbing. I raised a hand to it. It came away bloody. My vision blurred. I looked around. People had removed the bodies of the fallen monsters. Sirens were coming for those who could be saved. I wasn't dumb. I was lost. Had no hope. My injuries were too severe.

A spark playing across a stone near me. Confusion. Curiosity. I was dragging myself closer. Closer. I reached out. Touched it. A surge of electricity shot up my arm. I started twitching, convulsing. I couldn't move my hand away from the stone. My vision started to clear. The world came into focus. My head stopped throbbing. I could feel my leg again. I stood and looked over myself. Completely healed. Stooping, I picked up the stone that had cured me. The sparks were gone. When I looked at my hand, sparks were playing across it.

'Hello' said a voice. No one was around. It was in my head. 'Do not be alarmed. I am what saved your life. In return, I ask of you a favor'

"Anything" I reply. "Anything at all" The voice in my head chuckled softly.

'Do not be so eager young one. You may not be so welcoming when you know what I require.'

"In return for saving my life, I would give you anything you desire. Tell me what you need."

'My body has been destroyed. The last remaining piece is in the care of a responsible mech, however, that piece can not sustain me. I require a body. Your body, it would seem. You would still have control, I would merely be residing inside you'

"What do you mean, you need my body? As in, I would be sharing my body with another soul?"

'Correct but not quite. I am not a soul. I am everything and nothing at the same time. I hold all the knowledge of the entire universe. I am destiny and fate. I know what was, what is, and what shall be. If you grant me access to your body, I could give you all the knowledge you will ever need"

"Yes. Yes, I will let you use my body. You may reside within me for as long as you need."

'Thank you child. I will make you strong to sustain me. I will change you in ways you could never imagine, child' I felt a presence I had not known was in my mind fade and meld. Suddenly, I felt complete, whole, as if I had found what I had been searching for.

"What are you? What am I now?"

'I was the Allspark. You were a little girl from Mission City. Now that we are joined, we are the SparkBorn and we know all'

Tranquility

Now

It was 5:30 on a Monday morning in Tranquility. The neighbor hood was quiet, peaceful even. But behind the calm exterior lay a very malevolent life. People were meeting on a street corner. One walked away with money, one with drugs, and one with a gun. Later that day a police car would pick all three up and take them in for questioning. All three would be back an hour later having posted bail.

A car drove down the street with a man behind the wheel. Later that week the car would be found empty, abandoned on the side of the interstate. The mans body would be found brutally beaten to death a mile away. His daughter would continue to live alone in the house. She would be sustained by the mans life insurance. She was on every drug known to man and was an alcoholic. She would start to prostitute herself. There would be a party there every Friday until the cops show up in about 3 months. She would be taken away and charged with the murder of her father. She would not be convicted. She was the one who did it.

The house on the street corner held a teenage girl, her alcoholic father, and her abusive mother. It was 5:30 on a Monday morning in Tranquility. There was nothing Tranquil about it.

"RAYANA D'ORSAY! YOU GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT, YOUNG LADY!" Screeched the voice of Mrs. Shawna D'Orsay.

Rayana snapped awake and called out to her mother. "I'm up! I'll be down in half an hour!"

"NO NOW!,"roared the woman. She was angry. Rayana lept out of bed and rushed down the stairs. It was 5:30 on a Monday morning and she was about to get beaten. Rayana stood quietly in front of her mother as she ranted and yelled about how Rayana was a waste of space. How she was ruining Mrs. D'Orsay's life. How she needed to pack up her shit and leave. It was the same as every other morning. Or so it seemed. Sitting stacked by the door was a pile of suitcases. Mrs. D'Orsay kept checking her watch every few seconds.

The doorbell rang. Mrs. D'Orsay was out the door with all her bags in seconds. A car pulled away from the house and that was it. Just like that, Rayana's life was turned upside down. It was 5:31 on a Monday morning in Tranquility. For once in her life, Rayana was tranquil, too.

Rayana went upstairs and took a shower. When she got out it was 6:00am. Plenty of time. She dressed herself in black baggy jeans, a tank top and a hoodie. Her short, dyed red hair was brushed back into two tiny pigtails. She took a stick of eyeliner and lightly traced around her eyes. A little lip gloss, mascara and neutral colored eyeshadow and she was ready. She smoothed her hair over her right eye before exiting her room.

She went down to the kitchen, grabbed a cereal bar for breakfast, scrawled a quick note to her father, grabbed her bag and left. The sun was coming up as she trudged the familiar path to the abandoned parking garage where she kept her most recent projects. When Rayana arrived she was greeted by a very familiar sound.

"Pit-spawned piece of slag! I swear to Primus, when I get my hands on Optimus Prime, I will frag his processor!" The voice was a deep, gravelly rumble the vibrated Rayana where she stood. Another voice reverberated chuckles as Rayana responded.

"Honestly, Bonecrusher. I'm working as hard as I can to fix your weapons systems but you know. Blackout needs a lot more work than you do, so he has top priority. Don't you give me that glare," she said without even looking over at the body of Bonecrusher. "Just because you Decepticons are selfish bastards doesn't mean shit all to me. You should be glad that I even found you. It was a pain in the ass to get you guys all in here, let alone bring you back on-line. Or did you forget that you had a hole clear through your core processor? Honestly." The one named Blackout was currently half mended with a hole through his chassis. His chassis was almost completely fixed but there was a lot of damage in a series of wiring in the side of the hole. Once the wiring was completed it would only take about an hour to close up his chassis and then she would re-ignite his spark.

The voice from earlier chuckled again. A black and white saleen mustang rolled forward from the alcove he was resting in. Making sure that the only human in the room was a good ways back, he unfolded himself to reveal the Decepticon called Barricade. Despite his almost flawless appearance, he, too, was damaged. When Rayana had first found him, the hinging on his mouth was disconnected, his arm was useless, part of his head had shifted back to reveal his core processor. Rayana knew what he was the instant she saw him. She had been in Mission City. Al had provided her with the intel she needed and she had fixed him.

Rayana was a very special girl. Five months earlier in Mission City, she had touched a rock and communicated with the being known as the Allspark. At that time, she agreed to a deal with the Allspark and became SparkBorn. Over the five months between then and now, she had changed greatly. Her right eye had changed from dark brown to spark blue. Her right arm, leg, and half of her face had undergone serious changes and she was now a hybrid. Half Cybertronian, half human. But Al wasn't mean. She could shift her skin to cover the metal on her right side.

Barricade stepped forward and lifted Rayana gently from the floor onto Blackout's chassis. Since she had saved his life, Barricade decided that he owed her a debt. He would not kill her and he occasionally protected her from harm. Along with this he also helped her with her repairs. Once her feet touched the cold metal of Blackout's chassis, she was off. Rayana instantly shimmied into the hole and started wiring. If anyone had looked at her right then, they would have noticed that both her eyes were glowing bright blue. Her body shifted into her cybertronian form. Veins of metal ran all across her body where she wasn't completely metal already. The Allspark - often called Al by Rayana - was in command now. It was 8:15 by the time she pulled herself out of the hole.

"Alright. So, I think that his wiring is complete. Al just wants me to run a few motor functions on him before I close him back up. So, um... Barricade, I'm going to need your help for these. I need to connect a jump cable from your chassis to one of the cables in Blackout. It won't do any damage it'll just help me know if I did all his wiring right as well as give me a report on how your dealing with the repairs. What do you say? I could always make Crusher do it. He can't stop me anyway. I haven't been able to fix his motor functions either." Barricades only response was a sharp nod. He passed her the jump cable that she requested before lying down next to Blackout's prone form.

Rayana quickly leaned into the hole on Blackout's chest and connected the jump cable to an interconnected set of wires that she had just repaired. Once she had done this she jumped onto Barricades chest and frowned in thought for a second. By this time her bang had fallen away from her right eye and it gave a brief flash and Rayana smiled.

"Hey Cade? Do you think you could open the latch above your spark chamber? I need to connect to your main response line." Barricade gave a small growl in the back of his vocal processor but unlatched it and gave her access to the a fore mentioned line. She quickly attached the cable to it and Barricade sent pulses of energy into Blackout. Blackout started to twitch. First his arms, then his legs, then his neck, his chassis, his head, and then at last his whole body spasm-ed.

"YES! Hahahahahaha! I did it! Alright!" Rayana cheered. Despite themselves, Barricade and Bonecrusher allowed smiles to appear on their faces. They owed her debts but that didn't mean they had to like her. They had sworn to themselves to not like her at all but she was growing on them like an infectious mold. Rayana quickly disconnected the cables from Barricade, closed his chassis and then pulled the cables from Blackout. Once she was on the ground again she checked her watch. All the joy that had been on her face vanished.

"NO! Shitshitshitshit! I'm gonna late! Damn it! I let myself spend to long with you guys! FUCK!" Rayana yelled in a panic. She started running around putting away her tools and cables before grabbing her bag and booking it out of the garage. A second later she was back.

"Barricade...,"she whimpered with puppy-dog eyes. Barricade let a groan escape his mouth when he saw them. "Can you give me a ride to school? Please? Pretty, pretty, pretty please? With motor oil and diesel and a car wash on top?" Barricade knew that she was desperate by the very fact that she promised diesel She never gave him diesel after he got drunk on it. He sighed before folding down into his cop car mode.

"Get in, Rayana. But be warned. I'm going to speed slither you like it or not," he growled in his deep voice. Sure enough, five minutes later saw Barricade speeding into the parking lot of Rayana's high school at breakneck speed. All anyone could hear was Rayana's screaming.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE! HOLY SHIT! SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!"

Students standing in the parking lot bolted out of the way as the car screeched to a halt directly next to the curb. The passenger side door was instantly flung open and Rayana launched herself at the ground.

"Earth", she cried happily. "Solid, unmoving, un- SPEEDING earth! OH thank GOD!" The car behind her snapped its door shut and speed away. when he was gone, Rayana picked herself up and headed to her class which she was now 5 minutes early for. Barricade had driven a half hour distance in 5 minutes. She didn't even want to know what speed he was going and was very grateful that his alt-mode was a cop car.

Rayana sat in her class room staring at the clock. It was 2:29 and had been that way for what seemed like an eternity. The second hand ticked slowly, slowly towards the 12 until -

'DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING' went the bell and Rayana was out of her seat and out of the classroom before the teacher even said goodbye. She tore down the hallways to her locker, grabbed her things and barely locked her locker before she was trying to leave. Once she was outside she started to walk down the familiar side road that she always took to get home. Glancing up at the sky, she realized that getting home was going to be a problem. Large, dark, ominous rainclouds hovered in the sky. As she stared up at them a drop fell and hit her square in the eye causing her to let loose an undignified squeak and flinch violently. Before she could do anything the clouds let loose their loads and a torrential downpour soaked Rayana to the bone in seconds. She rushed towards the cover of a shops awning and started to wring out her clothes.

The owner of the store saw her and invited her inside to use a towel. She dried herself off and thanked the man vigorously.

"Do you have a phone I could use? I need to call my parents to come and get me." The man nodded and showed her to the phone. She dialed her house number quickly and waited as it rang. And rang. And rang. She hung up and tried again with the same result. Sighing, she hung up and said goodbye to the man before leaving and running through the downpour. After a few minutes she found an abandoned car and decided it was better than nothing. She was about to rip the cables when Al stopped her.

'Wait. This is no regular Jeep. This is the Autobot with the designation of Hound.' Rayana reeled back in shock, landing on her ass in a puddle. In her mind she replied.

'An Autobot? Wow... this is a first. What's wrong with him? He can't seem to sense anyone around him.'

'He is currently in Stasis Lock. It appears he was able to scan an alt form so as to blend in before he slipped into Stasis. We must help him.' Rayana's eye stopped glowing and she smiled up at the Jeep in front of her. Standing, she slipped back into the Jeep before letting a bit of energy slip into the dashboard. It was enough to jump start Hounds engine and Rayana smiled in satisfaction before pulling away from the curb and traveling the familiar path to The Garage. As they drove she spoke to the quiet radio.

"Well, Autobot Hound. It looks like you and I will be getting to know each other for the next month or so. I need to warn you though. I am also working with a few Decepticons. So, I will not have fighting, name calling, or any other rude and potentially harmful things in The Garage. Is that understood, Autobot Hound?" There was no response. "Good! I hope we can all get along."

By now Rayana was pulling into The Garage which was oddly quiet. She realized instantly why. Getting out of the car, she walked into the garage first. Blackout was still lying prone where she had left him but Barricade was not in sight and neither was Bonecrusher. She broke down the barrier she had built in her mind and allowed the energy of the SparkBorn to flood into her completely. She gazed around and let her sight remain fixed on the two spots that she could see living sparks.

"Barricade," she called out in the voice of her true self. "Barricade, relax. It's just me. I have brought another mech that needs a medics attention. I want to remind you of our deal. Please come out. I won't let the Autobot harm any of you." There was a shuffling and then Barricade slipt into view. A moment later he dragged Bonecrusher behind him. Bonecrusher was - as usual - swearing about his condition.

"This useless piece of scrap metal! Why won't my damn legs - or anything else for that matter - move! Do I have to be fragging dragged around this place every time an autobot passes by?" Rayana sighed before grabbing a wrench from a nearby shelf and chucking it at Boncrusher's head. It collided with a resounding 'CLANG' and Bonecrusher went silent in shock.

"Fine, ya big lug. Fine, you win. I'll repair your motor functions before I finish with Blackout and before I get started with Hound. There. Are you happy? Will you shut up now?" Bonecrusher nodded mutely. "Good! Now let me bring Hound in from the rain and then I'll get started."

Rayana did just that and Bonecrusher and Barricade watched her move around in absolute shock. When she had hit Bonecrusher with the wrench, she had reminded them both of the Prime's CMO Ratchet when he was angry. When she treated them like that they would do anything to escape her wrath, of that they were sure.