The world was vibrating ever so slightly; Chloe opened her eyes and found that she was in a cab. She figured that someone had found her and was bringing her home but when she looked at the driver's seat she knew she had a problem. There was no one in the driver's seat… her eyes flicked to the road; in front of her another semi was driving slowly. The semi she was in expertly maneuvered around the other semi and moved back into the right lane. Chloe sat back in her seat, this was weird… the semi knew how to avoid traffic… something was going on. She considered the fact that she might be getting punked but that really didn't seem a possibility in her condition. That's when she remembered what happened; Chloe looked down and assessed what she could in her current position. She was curled up in a ball and very comfortable, the cab was very spacious. At the moment her butt felt tender and her legs felt as if they were on fire now that she thought about it, silently cursing herself for thinking about them, her mere thought triggered pain. Her thoughts moved to her arms and well… you get the picture.

The truck seemed to sense her movements and noticeably slowed down. Chloe looked around, why was the semi stopping? Finally it pulled to a full stop, Chloe looked around, this was getting weirder by the minute, little did she know…

Suddenly a voice filled the cab "are you alright?"

Chloe jumped "who said that?" she cried out.

"don't be afraid" said the voice "I mean you no harm" it was a low comforting voice one that made Chloe somewhat relax.

"im not afraid" she said defiantly

The voice chuckled "you took quite a fall there, are you alright?" he asked the question again.

Chloe nodded and said "where are you?"

The voice laughed softly and Chloe couldn't help but notice that the cab shook with the voice. "do you really want to know?" Chloe nodded vigorously "alright I'll show you in just a little bit" the minutes passed by like hours, she wanted to see where this voice came from.

Once they had reached a clearing in a nearby forest, the voice asked Chloe to get out and sit in the grass. Chloe obliged half dragging her body and half walking, once her weary body was sitting comfortably in the grass did she look at the semi expectantly.

The voice came once more "don't be afraid I wont hurt you a promise" with that the semi began to change. Gears grinded and metal slid over to reveal more. And soon a large metal robot stood in front of Chloe.

Her eyes widened in fear but then she remembered the bots promise- would he keep it? He seemed kind enough- how Chloe could tell she would never know.

"do you trust me?" asked the robot.

Chloe tilted her head "I don't know, I know you wont hurt me but im not sure if I can trust you" the robot half shrugged. That was good enough for him. "who are you?" asked Chloe.

"my name is Optimus Prime, im the leader of the Autobots"

Chloe straitened she had heard stuff about robots on the news, though she had never actually believed it, now here was her proof.

"thank you for saving me" Chloe didn't know what else to say.

Optimus kneeled down in front of her "will you be ok?"

Chloe shrugged "all I need is some rest"

Optimus nodded "I know where you can get that" Chloe smiled.

Above them the sky grew even darker but the sound of jet engines close to ground was unmistakable. Optimus straightened out, he then looked down at Chloe, there was and urgency in his voice which made her do as she asked. She hid in some near by bushes which gave her a clear view of the clearing.

Optimus had his hands clenched into fists at his side, his head was raised and her was staring toward the sky. Chloe didn't have a clue as to what was going on but when she looked at Optimus's ready stance she knew it wasn't good. Then out of no where a jet came, except it wasn't a jet but another robot. Chloe thought it was another of Optimus's friends but when the two started to tackle each other she knew it was a good idea to stay hidden.

"Prime, what are you doing her all alone" the jet jeered Optimus. They shot punches at each other as the jet continued to throw insults at Optimus. Chloe knew those were meant to throw him off but it wasn't working. Chloe knew karate and knew some of the moves being pulled though she guessed they were just making it up as they went.

A few more minutes of punching and then it seemed that both realized that they had legs to kick with. Optimus twisted his body so that the arm of the jet was over his shoulder, she leaned forward taking the jet with him. The jet was smashed to the ground hard. The groaning signified her was down and out… for the moment. Optimus looked into the forest hoping the girl hadn't run off. Chloe walked out and clapped

"I give you a 7 out of 10"

Optimus looked down at her, for a moment the jet was forgotten. "only a seven?"

"style was lacking" was Chloe's only reason. Optimus transformed and opened his door so that Chloe could get inside. Once in Optimus drove off.

"by the way I never got your name" Optimus said this.

Chloe looked out the window "my name is Chloe" both were silent for a while until Chloe asked "where are you taking me?"

"to the base, I want Ratchet to look at you, even though you may look fine your still hurt and need attention. I'll bring you back home in the morning." Chloe shrugged, she wasn't going to be missed so all was alright with her.

They drove for a few hours and finally reached a broken down factory, Chloe stepped outside she took a survey of the outside and turned to look at Optimus "that's it?" she asked somewhat disappointed. She had expected some huge sweet, awesome base with a high tech security system.

Optimus looked down at her and shrugged "yah this is it" he knew it wasn't much but soon it would be a large defensive system with high security system and massive guns. Oh yes it would be nice.

Little did the two know they were thinking the same thing. Once inside her expectations were dampened even more, there were spare parts everywhere, some overturned boxes and a few bits and bobs. She sighed, this place needed a make over.

They had reached the med lab, and once inside a girl greeted Chloe. She had shoulder length blond hair and sea green eyes. She had introduced herself as Nikkei. Chloe nodded, Ratchet gently pushed Nikkei aside.

"what's the matter with her Optimus" he asked. Optimus explained and soon Chloe was examined. Once declared that she was healthy and rest was the only thing that they could do for now. Chloe was ushered into a room where another girl was, she had waist length brown hair and introduced herself as Aella. She then showed her a bed and left the room. Chloe was in bed quite comfortably and soon she was asleep.