Melissa looked out of the control room window down into the main lab. King was long gone and the staff had returned. They faced the task of hoisting Skywarp into the apparatus erected earlier in the day, without returning any of his mobility to him. His mouth moved fluidly, he was hassling the staff who were trying to move him. Melissa smiled a little, one of the staff lost his self control and was shouting back at the giant robot. Skywarp smiled too, happy that he got a response from the little human and took pleasure in tormenting him further.

"What am I thinking?" She said out loud and turned away from the window. The workmen in the control room were putting the finishing touches on two thick glass tubes, one marked for input the other for output. From what she understood, they were attempting some kind of mind transfer with the Decepticon. She didn't like the idea of the project being a success, if the military could create their own Autobots or Decepticons they would want to get their hands on as many bodies as they could, it didn't bode well for the humans' relationship with Autobot city.

Skywarp was now upright, sandwiched between two metal clamps, a complicated looking apparatus was fitted to him, restraining his head's movement. Everything was in place then, all they had to do now was wait for Doctor King to return.

Skywarp was silent, observing the busy little ants at his feet. It had been too long now, almost a whole earth day had gone by and he still couldn't move. The raven haired woman, Kimberley, was now in control of the lab floor, it seemed they were ready to proceed. From the clear glass window above, Skywarp could see Doctor King and Melissa Haven watching the final preparations being completed.

Melissa looked away from Skywarp's eyes, "Do you really intend to proceed with this Doctor? Even using yourself as the test subject seems like quite a risk."

King didn't take his eyes off Skywarp, and didn't turn to face Melissa when she spoke but he did reply. "I wouldn't entrust this experiment to anyone else."

Melissa frowned and looked back at Skywarp, she couldn't believe she was starting to feel sorry for one of those killing machines, but she was all the same. "Sentimentalism is one of the most annoying traits I have."

Doctor King reached for the Microphone on the panel before him. "Kimberley, are we ready to proceed?"

Kimberley looked up at the control room window and gave the signal with her thumb and forefinger. King smiled and wheeled himself over to the input tube, using his cane to hoist himself out of the chair he made his way inside, a lab assistant sealing the container after him.

"Proceed." He said, simply.

The apparatus in the lab lit up and hummed into life. Skywarp's entire body shook as his motor functions finally restored themselves. He could move but the physical restraints were still holding him firmly in place. He tried to struggle free as the machine broke through layers of programming that were preventing it from reaching his core, but each defence was falling too easily. It was going to reach his core and wipe it clean in a matter of seconds.

"Teleport!" His mind screamed at him. It was so obvious, why hadn't he tried it instead of struggling uselessly? His internal mechanisms sprang to life and made preparations to slip into the dimensional rift. He was about to free himself when suddenly he realised, he wasn't in his body any more, he was above it, in the strange machine attacking him. He saw his body go limp below him, just before the vision faded to black and all was quiet. He was still aware, still alive, but there was no sound, no light reached his eyes, there was only darkness.

Then just as suddenly as it had faded, his world sprang back into life. Skywarp gasped for air, his eyes burned, and his body felt soft and warm. He collapsed to his knees and stared at his hands. They were flesh, they were human hands. His entire body burned with painful sensations. "What... WHAT!? WHAT IS THIS?!" He screamed out loud as the pain intensified until it got so bad, that his body simply stopped, his eyes rolled back and he was unconscious, still not completely sure what had happened to him.

Melissa stood with her mouth wide open, her gaze transfixed on what had just happened before her. Doctor King's body, for lack of a better word, had just disintegrated right in front of her, and now in the output tube adjacent to King's was another man. This man had cropped jet black hair, and striking red eyes the man had looked at his hands, he seemed truly horrified before he screamed and lost consciousness. Freeing herself from her daze, Melissa spun around and pressed her hands and face against the glass.

Everything below was silent, the body of the Decepticon hung in the restraints and every human in the room stared at it with baited breath. The red eyes of Skywarp's body filled with life again and a wry smile spread across its face, and it began to laugh.

"Hah... Hah hah... Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA! It worked! I'm free of that crippled body! This is incredible! I feel- I feel powerful!"

Kimberley waved a hand authoritatively at the gathered staff, "Release the restraints at once!"

The restraints clanked and retracted, exposing Skywarp's body in all its glory. It raised its arms and flexed its hands as if checking everything was in working order, then it began to walk forward. Kimberley rushed forward and spread her arms wide in amazement. "Doctor! Doctor King! You look magnificent! Docto- NO-" She was cut short, as one of the behemoth feet came down on her, crushing her instantly, leaving her broken body in a pool of her own blood.

"Magnificent, yes. Truly magnificent!" King, now inhabiting Skywarp's body didn't even seem to care what he had just done. The humans all around stared in stunned silence. "All of you. All of you looked down on what I once was, but now I am above you all!" King raised one of the arm mounted cannons and aimed it at the human furthest away, and fired, vaporizing her instantly.

That was all it took, mass panic ensued as the humans fought to get out of the room. King laughed maniacally as he began executing the humans one by one. Melissa stared in horror at what was going on below. "What happened?! What's going on?!" She screamed and hammered on the thick glass window. She was overcome by utter disbelief as the Decepticon below continued executing her comrades. Tearing her eyes away from the scene below she scanned the room she was in, the only other people remaining were the man in the tube and her assistant. She knew she had to get out of here, but she couldn't just leave him.

"Help me move him." She said to her assistant, who nodded and opened the glass casing. The two of them shared the weight of the unconscious man and hurried him out of the room, just in time to avoid a gigantic matte purple fist smashing through the glass, impacting in the wall inches from the exit.

Melissa and her assistant reached the exterior of the building. The sound of collapsing concrete and the scream of humans as they ran to the outside filled her with dread. The roof of the building gave way and an F-15 Eagle emerged, moving away at incredible speeds, until it was little more than a speck on the horizon.