CHAPTER 2
After what seemed like forever Yume and the robo-raptor came upon what looked like some kind of space craft. The girl looked up at the dark metal machine and started to dread what might be inside. She wanted to ask about the ship and stuff but the raptor intimidated her too much and she was afraid to ask. She didn't know how he'd answer her and didn't really want to know. I just hope it's not full of more shape shifting robots or... giant bugs... or worse... more of his kind! The very idea caused her to start making a loud, very obnoxious whining sound. The robot looked at her once, his annoyed expression from before back in full force.
He looked like he was about to order her to shut up but for some reason changed his mind and looked back toward the ship, barking an order. "Sentinel, stand down!"
Sentinel? Who's that? she looked at the ship. Is there someone over there I can't see? Is it his robot girlfriend or brother or boss or... Is this the Dinozaurs?
Then she noticed some weird phenomena. A green like substance suddenly appeared around the ship and slowly melted away. Yume didn't know what it was but to her it looked like a giant glob of snot. When the stuff was totally gone the raptor started forward. Yume didn't want to go forward and tried to hold herself back, straining against the vice-like grasp he had on her arm.
The robo-raptor felt it and looked over his shoulder at her, growling softly and showing rows of jagged white teeth. "Come on!" he ordered.
"No!" she exclaimed, trying her best to hold herself back. "I won't go! You can't make me!"
"I do not have time for your games, girl!" he growled at her. "Now you either come along willingly or I am going to drag you!"
"No!" she screamed, still holding back.
He growled at her then started moving whether she wanted him to or not. She forced herself to become dead weight and went limp, falling onto the ground. He didn't seem to notice and kept going, dragging her across the ground and over rocks. It didn't take long for her to realize going limp was hopeless, he wasn't even slowed down by her weight at all, but now that she was on the ground, she couldn't get back up. A few seconds later he let her go and she dropped to the ground. Now was her chance to get away, but when she stood up to run he grabbed her arm once again and kept her from going anywhere.
"Let me go!" she shouted, trying to wrench free. "I don't want to go in there! I won't be food for you and your army!"
"I AM NOT GOING TO EAT YOU!" he shouted at her. "Now shut up and hold still!" He pulled her back and she smacked into his chest armor plate. She grunted in pain but didn't bother trying to get away again.
She heard a metallic noise and looked up to see some kind of elevator thing come down from the ship. When it reached the ground, Roboraptor, as she began to call the robot, stepped back and drug her onto it. Before she knew what was happening the lift rose back into the ship, taking both of them with it.
Optimus Primal was ticked. He'd been trying to reach Dinobot for the past half hour but the raptor was either refusing to answer or something had happened to him. Optimus hoped it was the former but, if it was, the Predacon traitor had better have a good reason for not answering.
"Don't worry about it, Big Bot," Cheetor said, leaning back in his chair at the control panel. "I'm sure he has a good reason."
"He'd better," Optimus said, tapping away at the computer keys. "I don't need him disappearing on us. He was in a very important position."
Just then the two heard the elevator whirring and turned toward it just as it lifted into the base. They saw it was Dinobot, he was back but...
Cheetor noticed something else. "What is that?" he exclaimed, pointing at a figure standing beside him.
Optimus stared at Dinobot's captive, his mouth hanging open. It was a girl, a human girl with Asian features with black hair tied back in a pony tail and grey eyes. She wore a pair of knee high leather boots, short blue jeans and a sleeveless black T-shirt with the word "Jerk" written across the front in purple glitter. Her eyes seemed to bug out when she stared up at the other two robots and Optimus could tell she was afraid of them.
"It's okay," Primal said soothingly, kneeling down to her eye level, since she didn't seem to be much taller than Rattrap. "We're not going to hurt you."
The look she gave him told him she thought otherwise and the Maximal leader began to wonder what Dinobot did to her while bringing her there. "Where did you find her?" he asked, looking up at the raptor. "Where did she come from?"
Dinobot made that growling sound and said, not very helpfully. "From the sky."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Cheetor asked, getting out of his chair.
"I mean she fell on me," he answered, looking at the cheetah transformer. "I think she was being chased by Megatron's scouts."
"What makes you say that?" Optimus asked.
"Because after she fell on me I ran into Terrorsaur, Waspinator, and Tarantulas," the raptor replied. He looked down at the girl and she seemed to shrink under his stare. "For all I know they could have just been playing with her."
"Playing with her?" Optimus asked. He looked at the girl who looked up at him and fell backward, banging her head against Dinobot's leg in the process. "Ow!" she moaned, grabbing her head.
"Are you okay?" the boss monkey asked.
"Y-yes," she said, rubbing her head. She looked up at him and pointed a shaking finger at him. "But you-you stay away from me!" she pointed at all of them. "All of you just stay-stay back. I know karate!" She didn't actually know karate but they didn't know that.
"We're not going to hurt you," Optimus told her, very gently. "We're your friends."
"Friends that want to eat me," she said, her voice getting quieter.
The leader looked at Dinobot. "What have you been telling her?" he asked.
"Nothing!" Dinobot said, indignantly. "She has been saying words like that since I found her!"
Optimus looked back at the girl who scurried backward and right under Dinobot's legs. "Hmm... it seems she's had a traumatic experience before you found her," he observed. "I wonder what the Predacon welcome was like for her...?"
He got down on his hands and knees to see her through Dinobot's legs. The raptor didn't appreciate the position and moved out of the way, giving Optimus full view of the frightened girl. "We're not going to eat you," he said. "We won't hurt you either. There's no reason for you to be afraid of us. We can help you."
She looked up at him again, her legs tucked up to her chest. He could tell by her eyes that she still didn't believe him.
"If we wanted to kill you we would have already done so," he tried to reason with her. "Don't you think?"
She didn't move. She seemed to be thinking about it. She closed her eyes and crossed her arms, tucking her legs closer. Is that thing really telling me the truth? she wondered, Will he not hurt me? He is right about one thing. If he or Roboraptor wanted to kill me they would have done so already... Maybe... She opened her eyes and looked right at him. "Who-what are you?" she asked, her voice a little louder than before.
"I am Optimus Primal," the robot explained. "I am the leader of the Maximals."
"Maximals?" she asked, looking at the three robots in turn. "Is-is that some kind of animal robot?"
"In a way," he replied.
She nodded, not sure what she should ask next. She locked eyes with Cheetor and, when he noticed, he smiled at her and waved. "Hi!" he said in a very friendly voice. "My name's Cheetor. What's yours?"
By now she was feeling a little braver but was still intimidated by Dinobot who was also staring at her. She tried to ignore his probing and suspicious red eyes as she said quietly. "Yume Akamoya."
"Pleased to meet you," the cheetah robot said. "If you ever want to see the best places around here I'm you cat."
"Uh huh," she said, not sure what he was talking about. "Thanks anyway."
"You can get up," Optimus said gently to her. "You're among friends."
"O...kay...," she said wearily eyeing Dinobot as she stood up. Once on her feet she wiped dust off her jeans and stammering unintelligible words as she did so. Oh my god! I'm amid friendly robots with weird names and I think that yellow and blue one is hitting on me! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!
While she wiped herself off and mentally freaked out about being hit on by a robot, Optimus asked Dinobot. "Why did you bring her here?"
"I thought you might know what to do with her," he replied. "Her looks tell me she is not from here or this time period. Besides, " he looked over at the girl who saw him doing so and shied away. "I did not think you would want the Predacons to have her, would you?"
"No," Optimus admitted. "I'd hate to imagine what they would do if they brought her to Megatron. But, " he put a finger to his chin. "How did she get here in the first place?"
About that time Rattrap came in in his animal form. When the girl noticed him, she screamed and ran into the open CR chamber.
"Whoa!" Rattrap said, putting his little hands to his ears. "What the slagen' was that?!" He scurried toward the CR chamber and peaked inside. Yume screamed again and kicked him in the face. "Yeowch!" the rat exclaimed, backing away holding his nose. "Jeez! Where did you find that thing?"
"Dinobot found her in Predacon territory," Optimus replied. "He said Terrorsaur and some others were after her."
"What?!" the rat exclaimed, surprised. "Why would Terrorsaur want to go after that thing?!"
"She's not a thing," Optimus corrected, slightly irritated. "She's a human."
"A human?!" Rattrap was surprised at this information and changed into robot mode. "That's a human?" he walked back to the CR chamber. This time Yume didn't try to kick him, she just stared at him and whimpered. "Oh God. The rats on this planet can talk and transform too!"
"Hey," he exclaimed, looking back at Optimus. "It is a human but..." he scratched his head. "What's a human doin' here?"
"I was hoping she might be able to tell us," the leader replied. He walked over to the CR chamber and peeked inside. "You can come out," he said soothingly. "Rattrap won't hurt you."
"I hate rats!" she exclaimed, holding back. "Especially big, talking, smelly ones!"
"Hey!" Rattrap exclaimed. "I don't smell that bad!"
"Don't worry about it," Optimus prompted. "Rattrap might smell bad and talk too much but he won't hurt you."
"Are you sure?" she asked, her voice weary.
"I'm sure," Optimus gave the rat a look. "Right Rattrap?"
"Yeah yeah, whatever ya say, Boss Monkey." he said shrugging.
"See," he said, looking back at the girl.
"Okay..." the girl said and decided to chance it, slowly making her way out of the chamber. When she could see Rattrap he smiled nervously and waved at her. "Hey!" he said.
"Hi...," she said, keeping her distance.
Optimus went over to the control table and beckoned her over. She quickly scurried over, avoiding both Rattrap and Dinobot. When she was over by Optimus and a safe distance from the other two transformers, she loosened up a little but still acted as if she would be attacked by something any minute.
"Yume," the Maximal leader said, getting the girl's attention. "Can I ask you something?"
"Yes," she said, nervously.
"How did you get here?"
She blinked. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"How did you wind up on this world?"
She shook her head and shrugged. "I don't know," she replied. "One minute I was in the park in New York City and the next minute I was here."
"Did you run into anything strange while you were there?" Optimus asked. "Like a time warp or something?"
The girl shook her head. "No, but," she took off her backpack and reached into the pocket. "I did find this-" she held up the rubix cube.
Optimus took it from her and looked at it closely. "Hmmm..."
"What is it, Big Bot?" Cheetor asked, leaning forward.
"I'm not sure," Optimus said, setting the object on the table. "I'll have Rhinox do a scan of it later." He looked at Yume. "Until then I think we should try to make our guest feel comfortable."
"Yeah. Good idea," the cheetah agreed. "Come on," Cheetor said, getting out of his chair and putting his hand on Yume's shoulder. "I'll show you around."
By then she was feeling a little less scared and nodded. "O-okay," she said, following him out of the control room.
Optimus watched the two leave the room then he turned to Dinobot. "I'm glad you thought to bring her here," he said.
Dinobot made that sound again. "I thought it would be a wise idea," he replied. "If Megatron had found her he would have used her for more... sinister purposes."
"Then I hope he doesn't find out about her.."
"What? You found a human?" Megatron exclaimed in surprise when Terrorsaur, Waspinator, and Tarantulus reported in.
"Not just any fleshy-bot," Wapinator said. "A female fleshy-bot."
"Where?" the Predacon leader asked, leaning forward in his chair with interest. "Where did you find her?"
"Around Sector 7," Terrorsaur replied, pointing at the spot on the digital map. "She seemed to be lost and was just wandering around."
"I could have captured her if Terrorsaur here hadn't of tried to kill her," Tarantulas said, glaring at the flying dinosaur robot.
"I wasn't trying to kill her!" Terrorsaur protested, seeing the look on Megatron's face. "I just wanted to scare her!"
"Scare her my aft!" Tarantulas shouted. "You wanted to kill her, you trigger happy-"
"Enough!" Megatron interrupted. "You didn't kill the human so where is she?"
Terrorsaur and Tarantulas didn't answer but Waspinator did. "Lizard-bot protected female fleshy-bot," he answered, seeing no reason to keep that information from their leader. "Lizard-bot take female fleshy-bot to Maximal base."
"Idiot!" Terrorsaur shouted, whacking Waspinator over the head. "You weren't supposed to tell him that!"
"Why not?" Waspinator wanted to know. "Megatron would have found out anyway!"
"Yes, I would have," Megatron agreed,cutting in before another argument broke out. "So not telling me would have made no difference, no."
"So what are we going to do about the human?" Terrorsaur wanted to know.
Megatron leaned forward and steepled his fingers. "Let the Maximals have her, for now," he said. "When I decide it's time to use her then we shall take her from them, yeeeeeeeeeees."
A/N
I'm still trying my best to keep everyone in character. I hope I'm doing okay with that. Just so you know Yume is Japanese-American so that's why she has that name. Yume is Japanese for "dream" in case you might be wondering. Well she met some of the Maximals and she'll meet the others later. I tried to make her reaction to them as real as possible without the stereotypical Mary Sue response of no fear at all. I noticed most Mary Sue's are very brave and I'm trying not to make her one by making her act timid toward everyone. I hope I'm not rushing things. I'm really trying not to and I'm trying not to drag it as well.
One other thing, before I forget, there aren't going to be any Transmetals in the story or Fuzors so if you were expecting Rampage or Silverbolt well... Sorry to disappoint you.
By The Way; Thanks for all the reviews I got for chapter 1. I wasn't expecting that many so it makes me feel good to know so many people like this so far. I hope to hear from you again.