Chapter IV

"The All Spark's been activated!" Lugnut shouted. Everyone turned to look at him, thinking he was playing a joke. But, knowing Lugnut, he could never lie about something like this.

"But organics are stupid!" Starscream yelled. "How can they possibly activate Cybertronian technology?!"

"Silence, Starscream," Megatron ordered. "It doesn't matter how intelligent they are. All that matters is that they've learned how to activate it. All ahead full! We need to get the All Spark before it's too late!"

*

"WHAT THE FRICK HAPPENED TO US?!" Brittany screamed. She looked at herself; she was a mechanical, human-like tiger! As for everyone else, they were metal and human-like as well. And it seemed as though everyone got their wish, too. William was a blue and grey shark, Andre a gold and white eagle, Cody a blue wolf, Cari a red and black panther, Logan a brown and white monkey, and Brianna was a sky blue frost dragon.

"It was that freaky ball!" Andre squawked. "It had to be!"

"But how did it do that?" Cody growled.

"I'm a monkey!" Logan said playfully. She climbed up into a tree and started swinging around from branch to branch. "Look at me!"

"Logan, get down from there!" Cari screamed. Without thinking, she climbed into the tree too, like the panther she became. "Okay, this is weird." She held on to the branch tightly.

"How are we supposed to come home if we look like this?" William said, pointing to himself. "On the other hand, I could go for a quick swim first."

"No swimming!" Brianna snapped. "Let me just think about this for a second and--Logan, quit it!" The little brown and white robot monkey was throwing sticks at her. "Ugh…Okay, let's see. You know how sometimes in those superhero movies, the character usually just has to think about it?"

"Yeah…"Cody said in monotone.

"How's that gonna help us?" Andre shrugged.

"Just think about your human self. It might work." Brianna tried it first. She closed her eyes (if she could call them that) and concentrated. She opened her eyes again, returning the gazes she received. "Did it work?"

"Nope," all six of them said. Brianna sighed. She really didn't feel like going through this today.

"So…we're not human anymore?" William sighed.

"Sorry, bro," Andre replied. "We're stuck."

William's head went down. Before everyone went into depression with him, Cody perked up.

"How about we can be a super team!" he said. Every eye turned to him.

"What?" Cari snarled. "Are you insane?! We can't fight!"

"Come on, sis!" Cody smiled. "We don't really need to fight! We got teeth and claws for God's sake!"

"He's right," Brianna agreed. "All we need is individual names and a group name. Cody, since you thought of it, you can be the one to name yourself first."

"All right! I'm Nightfang!" he whooped.

"I'm going to be Goldwing," Andre said with pride.

"I call Darkjaw!" William said, raising his hand in the air.

"Biba!" Logan squealed.

"And my name's Tigress. Rrrowr!" Brittany added her own kitty growl into it.

"I'm not good with names," Cari said, still in the tree. Brianna studied her cousin's body for a bit and the name hit her.

"Panthora!" she exclaimed. "What do you think?"

Cari shrugged. "Eh, it's fine."

"And what about you…leader?" Andre said. Brianna didn't know what to say. She never really think that any of her cousins would choose her to be leader. She looked over at Brittany who, amazingly, agreed to nominate her. Brianna had never been a leader before. But she had to do it. Besides, who else had to keep these kids in shape? Just lay a few rules and discipline them enough to follow those rules.

"Icefire," she said in her best tone of voice.

*

Since they couldn't find a way to revert back to their old forms, or even go back to the camp site--the parents would definitely go nuts--they decided to stay on the restricted part of the lake. At least Darkjaw got to go swim. But when he came back up with some fish, they didn't taste the same.

"Maybe they're bad fish," said Tigress.

"Yeah, bad now that they've been in some else's mouth!" Panthora snapped, her head pointed to Darkjaw.

"Hey, I need these flippers on my hands to swim!" he debated. "How else to you expect me to get back here?"

"I don't."

"That's enough!" Icefire growled. "We came here camping in the first place to have some fun, not fight like a bunch of horny preps!" She took a bite out of the fish and spit it back out. "But this fish does taste pretty nasty."

"I told you it was him!" Panthora shrieked.

"You wanna go, kitty-cat?!" Darkjaw shouted. Panthora crouched to the ground to get ready to pounce on him.

"Bring it on, kelp sucker!" She lunged at the shark and they tackled each other. They rolled around on the ground and Goldwing kept shouting "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Nightfang had enough of this and lunged in between the two, breaking them up.

"Listen to Icefire, 'kay?" he said to both of them. "She's the oldest one here and we gotta follow her rules! I know I make this sound like she's Mom, but Mom always knows what's better, right? So what's it gonna be? Fight each other, or fight together?"

Panthora was surprised at how her older brother could be. Taking his advice she held out a paw to Darkjaw. "Truce?" she said.

Darkjaw stared at the paw for a second and held out his own hand.

"Truce."

"Good," Nightfang mumbled and walked to Icefire.

"I'm impressed," she said. "For that, you're second-in-command."

"Of what?" he said, reminding her that they still needed a team name. Icefire shrugged and told him to give her some time to think about it. Biba swung over from a tree behind her and landed on her shoulder. She was so small now that she was a little monkey! It was too cute!

"Hi, Bi-na-na!" she said. That was how she used to call her, trying to say "Brianna". Icefire put a finger (or claw) over the monkey's mouth.

"It's Icefire," she corrected.

"Ith-fire," Biba mumbled. She turned back around and swung by the tail on a tree branch. The leader of the small band of mechanical animals smiled as she saw them all playing. Tigress and Panthora, being cats, didn't jump into the lake. Nightfang was dog-paddling in the middle of the lake. Darkjaw was just hunting for fun (he let the fish survive, though). And Goldwing was perched up in a tree. He was sitting on a branch, like an eagle. He spread his wings and cawed proudly. Icefire suddenly thought of the name.

"We are the Maximals."

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Author's Note: Well, it's not as good as I thought it would be. And since I'm still making this, I thought it would be cool if you guys could send me a reveiw saying what you would like to happen in the story! I might approve, and I might not. Depends...No slash though, I can't write that stuff.