KiWi: I cannot believe that the stupid computer already screwed up my story!!!!!!! It wouldn't let me re-open the file!!!!!! (kicks computer) Now I have to start all over (sobs, then turns to the computer) This is all your fault!!!! (starts beating the computer)
Torio: (sweat drops) uh, I guess this means I'm answering the reviews this time… Lets start with the criticism. (pulls out letters) Ah, yes, KiWi's narration has always been a bit loose. It's improving though, and I'm sure she'll try to fix it. Look, we also got something on the scene changes. (turns to KiWi)
KiWi: (ignores him and continues beating on the computer)
Torio: Whatever… Anyway, we knew this one was going to happen. The scene changes were originally marked. They got lost somewhere along the way. It's been known to happen with the way KiWi writes Minicon speech in one of her other stories. She'll mark thing like that simpler now.
Orange: (comes in) The violence must stop! (starts arguing with KiWi about the computer)
Torio: (getting a headache) I can end this. (looks indecisively at a review) I'm going to regret this one. (holds up review) Look, someone thinks that Skywarp and Thundercracker are adorable.
KiWi: (does a fangirl screech) Really!!!!
Torio: as much as I hate to admit it…
KiWi: (Grabs review and runs off)
Torio: (notices Orange trying to get away) Get over here! You're the new temp muse.
Orange: What the hell? Whatever. (reads review) An interesting suggestion, this changing back into their bodies at will, but she's determined to make these guys suffer.
Torio: If you are at all disappointed, she'll be working on a G1/Energon/Cybertron crossover as soon as she figures out if Energon Mirage used pronouns or not. I, being a figment of KiWi's imagination, am entitled to mystical knowledge such as this
Orange: Does that mean I am a figment, too?
Torio: (Flat stare) You are a figment based on a real person. Now pass out the imaginary cookies.
Orange: (passes out cookies) KiWi does not own Transformers. If she did, then I would fear for all.
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They had drawn straws to see who would live with who. Fate decided to hate Alexis that day, so she drew the short one, leaving her to house the one person who was quickly becoming the bane of her life.
"Get up." She hissed at Skyler. He just rolled over and muttered something, but all she could catch was a disgruntled "Dammit." So she decided to settle this the old fashioned way: with a bucket of cold water.
Fifteen minutes and a towel later, the duo was eating your breakfast.
"I hate you." Skyler growled. "I really, truly hate you."
"If it makes you feel any better," she replied, "I'm not fond of you either. None of this would have happened if you had gotten up the first time I told you."
"I was still tired."
"Well if you would have went to bed earlier…" That was the last that Skyler could take.
"I went to bed five minutes after you did, okay! I just could not sleep!" He pushed the bowl of cereal away, got up and grabbed his stuff and headed for the door. "Let's just go to school."
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Thundercracker looked from Skywarp to Alexis and back again. Something was troubling Skywarp, but he did not know what it was. At first he thought it was because Skywarp had said something to make Alexis mad, and it had rubbed off on him, but annoying people usually put Skywarp in a good mood. As soon as the humans spread out a bit, he went up and asked him what was wrong.
"Huh, oh, it's nothing, TC. Don't worry 'bout it." Skywarp answered, but the tone was not very convincing.
Thundercracker watched his fellow Seeker for a while, and then said, "You have them too, don't you?" Skywarp looked at him with a half quizzical, half afraid look. "The humans call them 'nightmares'. It's the subconscious human mind trying to make connections."
"I don't care what they're called." Skywarp snapped. He looked at Thundercracker with that guilty look he got when he knew he screwed up bad. In a softer tone he said, "If every night I hallucinate or whatever about having my wings torn off or Autobots chasing me, then I am not going to last very long." He looked away, then whispered, "I'm scared, TC. What are we going to do? We won't last a week like this."
Thundercracker put his hand on his friend's shoulder. "We will last. We'll make it because we have to."
"Right." Skywarp muttered.
"What's a matter," Rumble taunted while coming up behind the pair, "being a human too much for ya."
"Shut up, you little tin can," Skywarp hissed. "You're not faring any better than me."
"Ha! I'll last longer than you, you flying piece of scrap metal." Rumble gave Skywarp a cocky smile. Skywarp glared at the cassette, then looked at Thundercracker.
With a smirk, he asked, "Wanna bet on that?"
"Five energon cubes say that your gonna slip up and say something to the 'bots."
"And my five say that I will do no such thing." Skywarp responded. He stuck out his hand. "Deal?"
"Deal." Rumble affirmed, shaking his hand. Then the two began walking in the direction of their classes.
Thundercracker sighed as the bell that officially marked the start of their day rung. It was far too easy to think of all the ways that this could go to the Pit.
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Soundwave was grateful for all of the free time he managed to accumulate in his computer class, simply because the human computers were so easy to use. Instead of typing up the report the class was doing, he was doing valuable research on how do get out of this mess. The fact that he had already typed up the report made things much cleaner.
So far, his search for strange temporal occurrences had come up with nothing. He had found nothing with the searches for 'Autobot' or 'Decepticon', but that wasn't surprising. Typing in 'giant alien robot' had led him to a bunch of anime sites, and one news one that had something about a carnival where one of the Autobots was stupid enough to be seen.
All of this made Soundwave to wonder: how could four beings drop out of a rift in the space-time continuum and no one notice? Surely the human's technology can't be that bad.
No, somebody had to notice. He was just looking in the wrong places. One of the Earthen governments perhaps, or the military.
The Autobots must have noticed, but getting the information off of their computer would be difficult. What he needed was a terminal of his own.
Soundwave closed down the window for the Internet when the bell rang. His next class was history, which he had with Skywarp. It was doubtful, but maybe he could be of assistance.
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"Did you try MySpace?" Skywarp asked. "A lot of people go on that site." Skywarp paused for a second with a thoughtful stare. "On second thought, don't try that one. It'll take too long to search and you'll probably won't find anything but useless babble."
"The information has to be somewhere…" Soundwave thought out loud.
"Face it, Soundwave," Skywarp said, chuckling a bit, "Anything short of hacking into the Pentagon or Teletraan-1 and you won't get anything."
Soundwave gave him a flat stare. "I won't be able to save the information from the Autobot's computer without one of my own. Even then, it's doubtful I'll even be able to get the information."
"I'll ask Carlos if he has a spare laptop or something. He's a tech junkie, so he's bound to have something."
Soundwave stared at him, trying to figure out what trick he was trying to pull, or what he wanted. Skywarp did not help him for free. Actually, when Soundwave thought about it, Skywarp had never helped him.
Finally, he asked, "Why are you helping me?"
Skywarp laughed. "Being able to fly beats annoying you any day."
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Alexis watched as Soren walked into their math class. He sat down and took his glasses off. Alexis looked away and shuddered. She liked the guy, but there was something really weird about him. She wanted to know what it was, but doubted he would tell her. That meant she had to do a bit of research.
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Soundwave looked at the cafeteria food, not really sure if it qualified as what the humans called 'food'. He glanced at Thundercracker, who looked back at him and mouthed the words 'I don't know what the slag it is, either.' Soundwave sighed and took a tray. Both he and Thundercracker went to the lunch meeting spot.
As they were walking to the spot, Skywarp came up behind them and asked. "What the slag is that?"
"Slag." Both Thundercracker and Soundwave replied in unison.
"Glad I'm not eating." Skywarp stated. "Anyway, Soundwave, I asked Carlos about the computer thing. He says he has a spare, but it's not exactly cutting edge." Skywarp smiled. "I'm sure a genius like you can fix that."
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When they got to the base, Carlos ran home to pick up the computer for Soundwave. It was obvious that the computer would have to be modified in order to store information from the Autobots computer.
"Rumble." Soundwave whispered, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. "I need some parts, and a tool. Preferably from the medic's Minicon."
"Right away, boss."
Now all that Soundwave needed was for the Autobots to leave so he could hack into their computer.
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Skywarp was busy watching Soundwave fix up his computer, which was about as enthralling as Space-Bridge duty, when the Minicon alarm went off.
As soon as the Autobots took off, Skywarp went up and shouted, "Yo, Soundwave, here's your chance."
"Just let me finish up." The communications officer responded.
"Take to long and they'll come back!"
Soundwave finished up a few more connections, and then ran to the Autobot's computer. "Rumble, help me make the connections." He ordered. "Skywarp, go watch the warp gate."
"Why do I always get stuck on guard duty?" The Seeker complained.
"Just go!"
"Fine, fine…" the Seeker grumbled. "See if I ever help you again."
"Rumble, are those wires plugged in yet?" Soundwave asked.
"Yeah."
Soundwave's fingers flew across the keyboard as he downloaded the information, hoping the computer could handle it.
"The warp gate is opening!" Skywarp yelled.
"Damn." Soundwave muttered. "Hurry up."
Skywarp ran back to the computer seconds before the warp gate activated. Soundwave looked back at the computer, and resisted the urge to shout at the top of his lungs. The download had actually worked!
Everyone scattered as the Autobots walked in the room, two of the robots carrying something in their hands. Those two continued walking, while the others stopped in the room.
In order to fit in, Rumble asked, "Where's the Minicon?"
Optimus shook his head. "There was no Minicon," He stated, "instead, we have found some more humans. Are you sure that you do not remember anything else besides your names?"
Skywarp and Thundercracker exchanged worried looks. Not remember anything? Thundercracker thought.
"I am sorry." Soundwave replied. "Our memories have not returned to us yet."
A cover story. Now it made sense on how Soundwave had been able to assimilate the group here. It would have helped if he had told us the blue Seeker thought grimly.
"I see." Optimus said thoughtfully, and wandered off in order to puzzle out these new events.
Soundwave was finally aware that Carlos was standing behind him. Luckily, he was not looking at the information he had gotten.
"I hope you didn't bum that off of me just so you could play solitaire." Carlos joked.
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"This is bad. Oh man, what are we going to do?" Bumblebee muttered.
"We'll be fine, right Wheeljack?" Skyfire asked
Wheeljack wore the classic 'why are you all looking to me for leadership' expression. "I don't know." The engineer admitted. "I don't even know how we got into this mess, let alone how we're going to get out of it." He turned to the grumpy medic, who was leaning against the wall. "What do you think, Ratchet?"
Ratchet was cut off by the sound of the doors hissing open. In stepped in two young humans, one in blue and white, and the other in black and purple. They were completely identifiable as two of the Decepticon's Seekers, Thundercracker and Skywarp.
"Autobots," Skywarp hissed, "you're not going to tell them anything, right?"
Bumblebee gave them a defiant stare. "We'll tell them whatever they need to know."
Thundercracker shook his head. "We can't let you do that. We have a decent cover story, and are, for the moment, safe. There's no way a bunch of Autobots are going to botch that up for us." Thundercracker gave a small smirk. "It's not like they'll actually believe you, anyway."
"He's right." Skyfire stated. Everyone turned to face him, and even the Decepticons were a bit shocked by what he had admitted. "There is no way that the Autobots here would believe us. Even if they did believe us, we cannot tell them. There is no telling what our presence here could do to their timeline."
"Do we have your word that you're not going to tell?" Skywarp asked. The now-human Autobots all looked at each other, trying to decide.
Finally, Ratchet spoke up. "You have our word, but if we absolutely have to, we will."
"Define 'absolutely have to'." Thundercracker ordered.
"If someone's life is on the line, or if telling them will prevent the timeline from being messed up." Ratchet replied with a glare.
The Decepticons smiled. "Good," Thundercracker said, "Now, you are required to go under aliases, like us. My name is TC, and this is Skyler. The others will introduce themselves later." And with that they left.
As soon as the Seekers left, Ratchet kicked the wall. "Are we actually going to do this? Are we going to listen to them?"
"We have to." Bumblebee said solemnly. "We gave our word."
"They might just leave us here!" Wheeljack argued. "Or worse, shoot us in the back when we aren't looking!"
"They won't." Skyfire said calmly. "They, or at least Soundwave, understands the mess we're in. They won't risk anything that might mess this up." Skyfire paused. "We should still watch our backs, though."
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Megatron rolled over, vaguely aware that something was wrong. He could hear jungle sounds, which proved he was still on Earth, even if he was not where he remembered. He winced as he felt something bite into his arm.
Megatron rolled over again in order to make himself get up, but the attempt failed. This time, whatever bit his arm tugged on it, but that too failed.
He finally got up when Starscream kicked him in the side and started yelling. For once it wasn't brave boasts about how he should be the Leader of the Decepticons, but something about Skywarp being an idiot.
Megatron was surprised when he heard Starscream's voice come out of the human, but he was even more surprised when he realized that he was a human too. He could not show any weakness, especially in front of his treacherous Air Commander, about the situation.
That did not mean he couldn't get some answers, though. "What happened?" Megatron asked.
Starscream just continued with his rant. "I told that idiot not to touch it, but does he listen to me? No, of course not. He never listens to me. It's like his sole purpose for existing is to make my life harder!"
Megatron ignored the Seeker, and turned to the panther sitting next to him.
"Ravage?" He asked.
The panther nodded.
"Do you know where the others are?"
Ravage shook his head no.
So they were completely cut off from the rest of the army, stuck in the middle of the jungle, and in bodies they had no idea how to function with.
"Starscream." The Seeker turned to his commander with an indignant glare. "Do you have any idea what happened? Or what that crystal did to us?"
"If I had any idea what the crystal would do, Leader, then I wouldn't have had to tell Skywarp not to touch it!" If only Megatron had his fusion cannon. "Some of the energy signals were similar to the Space-Bridge, so it is safe to assume we are either on another planet or in another dimension?"
"So which is it?"
"If I knew, then we wouldn't have two possibilities, now would we." Megatron glared at Starscream. "The safest bet would be to act like we're in another dimension. Which means we have to interfere with as little as possible."
"And the Autobots?"
"If they are here, then we have to take them back with us. We cannot leave any traces of our presence."
Megatron glared at the ground. This was by far the worst situation they had been in.
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KiWi: Done! Don't know when this'll be up though. Stupid slow 'net.
Torio: We should probably thank Orange.
KiWi: How about a plug. Orange is on Fanfiction as Illusion Gaia. Look him up and read his story.
Torio: And review both this one and his.
KiWi: But mine first!!
