Shojin what gave you the idea that I was going to turn her into a robot? Why would I wanna do that anyway? This isn't a Beast Machines fanfic and even if it was I still wouldn't turn her into a robot.

Chapter 7

Yume stared up at Megatron, her fear making her heart pound so loudly it was almost audable. What did this purple robot want to talk to her about? Was he going to kill her? She told herself that was stupid. Why would he want her so badly just to kill her? Did he have some other reason for wanting her? Was he going to force her to do something she didn't want to do? She noticed Megatron was studying her intently. She wrapped her arms around herself, not liking how he was looking at her. Can robots be perverts too? she wondered. "Please stop looking at me like that," she begged.

Megatron cocked his head at her. "Like what?" he asked.

She stepped back. "The way you're looking at me," she replied. "I don't like it..."

"Oh," he said. "I am terribly sorry. Is there some other way I should be looking at you?"

Is he being sarcastic? "..."

"I was just studying you," he replied. "I thought for sure the humans would look different than this at this time in history, yesss."

"Huh?" she stared at him. "What do you mean?'

He waved her question off. "It's not important," he said. "But it seems I have made a mistake or..." he rubbed his chin thoughfully. "This could be interesting...yessss..."

Yume had no idea what he was talking about and didn't ask. She just kept on having an uneasy feeling in her stomach.

"So what have the Maximals been telling you about me?" he asked, leaning toward her again.

She took a few steps back then asked. "What do you mean?"

"Oh come now," he said. "I'm sure the Maximals have been telling you how much of a threat I am. I'm sure they told you that if I got my hands on you I'd probably destroy you or something to that affect."

"Well," she said. "They didn't say much about you besides the fact that you'd probably do anything to get me and they didn't want you to because you might use me for your own gain."

"Hmmm. That's pretty accurate," he said, thoughtfully. "But tell me. How did you wind up here in the first place?"

"I don't know. It was an accident," she said. "I found this thing in the park and when I touched it it sent me here." She wondered why she was telling him all of this. For all she knew he might try to steal the item she'd used to get there and use it to transport himself to her world. Maybe she was telling him this stuff because for some reason she felt she could trust him even though she knew better. She didn't know why she felt that way but she figured it had something to do with the way he was acting and talking. He didn't seem a thing like the Megatron she'd imagined. Maybe I've been letting my imagination run away wih me too much...

"What was the thing you used?" he asked.

She shook her head. "I don't know," she replied.

"Where is it?" he inquired putting out his hand. "I might be able to tell you what it is, yess."

"I gave it to the Maximals," she replied directly.

He didn't seem happy at her reply and she couldn't say she cared. She didn't trust him. Even if he seemed polite and harmless for the moment she couldn't be too sure what his temper was like. For all she knew he was a berserker.

"Why would you do something like that?" he demanded, his voice not as calm as before.

She frowned at him and stepped further back. He was starting to sound dangerous. Maybe he was like the Megatron she'd imagined after all.

Megatron glared at her. Stupid anthripoid...Whatever he'd wanted to get from her didn't seem possible now. She seemed like a disappointment. He had half a mind to just kill her and be done with it but he didn't really want to do that. She was still interesting enough for him to use some other way. Maybe he could get something from her after all...

"It's not important now, no," he said, waving his former question off. He turned from her and rested his head in his hand. "Do you know what planet this is?"

Huh? She stared at him. Why was he asking her that? Why was he suddenly changing the subject? To be honest she wasn't sure what planet she was on. For all she knew she had landed on the planet Naboo from Star Wars. She noticed he was giving her an expectant look as if he figured she should know. She just had to be honest.

"No," she replied. "I don't know what planet I am on but by things that you have said it seems that you know."

He smiled at her in a way that seemed to say he felt sorry for her. "Now why would I know what planet we are on?" he asked. "My ship crash landed here by mistake. Yessss."

Yume said nothing. She had a feeling he was lying, but why? Why would he lie to her about the planet? What did he know that she didn't and why would he keep it from her?


Tigatron was totally unaware of any of the events happening so far. He hadn't been told about the girl so when Airazor flew to the snowy region of the planet where he was stationed the Siberian tiger was surprised but happy to see her again.

"Hello Airazor!" he called to her. "What brings you to this region?"

The falcon girl, who was in beast mode, flew to the cliff where he was standing and landed beside him. "Optimus wanted me to come get you," she replied, looking at the tiger.

Tigatron was surprised. Optimus hardly ever asked the tiger to leave his post unless something very important or urgent was happening. The tiger got the feeling this was the case now. "What happened?" he asked.

"I can't explain it," she said, looking away. "Not very well anyway."

This was a surprise. Usually she'd come right out and tell him what was wrong. Did it have something to do with them. "You don't want to do this anymore?" he asked. "Do they know?"

She looked at him. "That's not it!" she exclaimed. "But no they don't know, even if they did it wouldn't matter. The problem has nothing to do with that."

"Then what is it?"

The falcon girl shook her head. "You'll find out later." she transformed to robot mode. "Come on. Let's get going."


Tarantulas had also taken an interest in the human girl. Aside from the fact that her blood probably tasted wonderful the spider scientist could think of other uses for her. Of course he couldn't get his claws on her yet, she was still with Megatron, but when he could he'd put her to good use. For the moment he would just watch and wait. He knew his chance would come. It almost always did.


Dinobot glared at Inferno who was walking back and forth in front of the raptor's cage, holding his huge flamethrower high. The raptor was getting sick of watching the mindlessly loyal fire ant pace in front of him and wished he would just go away. If the raptor hadn't been confined he could have easily offed the ant but that wasn't likely to happen while he was a prisoner. He silently cursed Optimus Primal and the other Maximals for giving him such a stupid assignment. None of this would have happened if the human girl hadn't of been dumped on him. He could have been doing something more worth his while right now. But no! Optimus had ordered him to be baby-sitter to a being that couldn't even defend itself. He'd tried to use flattery to get the raptor to take on the responcibility. Sure it had worked to an extend but now look where that got him?

Captured by his former comrads and locked in a cell being guarded by a stupid, pyromaniac fire ant.

As for the girl... Dinobot could only guess what was happening to her right now. Part of him wished she were being blasted right now and the other part... it was worried about her and hoped she was okay.


"So, why don't you tell me your name?" Megatron asked.

Yume said nothing. She stared at his crooked smile. She didn't trust him. She wasn't about to tell him. She shook her head. "I can't do th-that," she said quietly.

Megatron frowned. "Oh, come on now," he said. "What's in a name? Would it really hurt you to tell me your name, my dear human child?"

Yes, it would. I don't want you knowing it. She shook her head again. "N-no," she said.

The Predacon leader frowned.


"I can't believe ol' Chopper-face would be so irresponcible!" Rattrap exclaimed when he heard the news. "We told him not to take her outside and what does he do? He goes and does it anyway and now where are they? Stuck somewhere with the Preds!"

"We don't know if that's what happened," Rhinox told him. "For all we know they could be going for a walk."

"A walk?" the rat exclaimed, staring at the rhino. "You saw how Dino-butt was treatin' that girl! There's no way in the Pit that she willin'ly go anywhere with him. If she did he'd have to drag her kickin' and screamin'!"

"So what are you suggesting?" Rhinox demanded. "That he took the girl somewhere and killed her?"

"Eh, I wouldn't put it past him." Rattrap said, shrugging. "Once a Pred always a Pred."

"Stop that!" Airazor shouted, getting sick of hearing that all the time. "Dinobot's not like that and you know it! His code of honor would not allow him to do something so heartless!"

"What do you know about it, bird-lady?" Rattrap shot back, ready to challenge her. "He's a Pred! Preds don't play by the rules." the rat looked at Optimus. "Right, boss-monkey?"

"I agree with Airazor," Optimus said, also getting sick of Rattrap always saying that about the raptor when he wasn't around. "Dinobot's a creature of honor. He might not of liked being ordered to protect the girl but he won't do anything to harm her."

"I still say he's responcible for her disappearence somehow." he insisted.

"Shut up Ratrap." everyone ordered.

The rat knew when he was out numbered. "Fine, fine," he said, waving his hand. "But I still say we can't trust him."

The others ignored him. "So what are we going to do about this?" Rhinox asked.

"We're going to need to look for them," Optimus replied. "I don't know where they went or what happened to them but we'll have to draw any conclusion." he looked at Airazor. "Airazor. I want you to go check out the Predacon base. Take Rattrap with you." Airazor frowned but Optimus ignored her. He looked at everyone else. "The rest of us will look in other places."

Everyone scrambled.

"I just hope you're wrong about Dinobot," Airazor said as she and Rattrap left the base.


"So Dinobot was the one given the responcibility of taking care of you?" Megatron asked, once again changing the subject. He smiled mockingly. "He didn't do a very good job, nooo."

Yume still said nothing. She didn't know Dinobot that well and was still scared to death of him. She couldn't say anything to make the Predacon think otherwise.

"Did you know Dinobot is a Predacon?" Megatron asked.

Yume stared at him in horror. She remembered what Dinobot had said when they'd entered the Predacon base earlier.

"Megatron is about to regain the two things he lost. The Predacon that betrayed him and the human that escaped his grasp..."

She wondered what he'd ment by that. Now she knew he'd been talking about himself. "He... is..!" she exclaimed.

"Yess," Megatron said, putting his hand around her shoulders and leaning close as if sharing a secret. "He was a Predacon before he went crawling to the Maximals. He's only loyal to them because they felt sorry for him."

"That's not true," she protested though she had no idea what she was talking about. "I'm sure he's loyal to them because they trust him."

"They don't trust him," Megatron corrected her. "They know that as soon as he gets his chance he'll take over."

Yume didn't reply.

"Dinobot is only with the Maximals because he figures sooner or later he can become their leader," Megatron went on. "When he is he'll force them to come after me then kill them when he has no further use for them. Dinobot is a lot smarted than he looks and the biggest traitor this side of Cybertron."

"Why do you say that?" she asked.

"He betrayed me," Megatron replied angrily, slamming his fist down hard on a computer keyboard. "That trechorus raptor cannot be trusted." he looked at the girl. "I'm surprised he hasn't used you for his own gain yet."

"What do you mean?"

"Dinobot will do anything to get what he wants," the Predacon leader replied. "He'll use anyone to get what he wants. He cannot be trusted. I would advice you to be wary around him."

Yume already was but for other reasons. If what Megatron was saying was true she'd have other reasons to be scared of the raptor. Part of her hoped the Predacon T-Rex was lying. "Why are you telling me this?" she asked, her voice slightly suspicious. "Are you trying to make me hate him?"

"Whatever would give you that idea, my dear?" he asked innocently. "I was just warning you in case he turns on you." He probed her toward a door. "Come. Let me show you around the base."

Yume let him lead her out of the control room, knowing if she tried to resist he might get angry and hurt her. Though he seemed calm and harmless she could sense that more violent side hiding just under the surface. Megatron was someone she wouldn't dare cross, not while she was vunerable and unprotected.


The Darkside really lived up to its name. The ship was big and dark and seemed to house the darker side of the transformers she'd met before. She stayed close to Megatron, though she had no idea why he was showing her around the ship or why he seemed to want to show her the rooms of the other transformers in the ship. She knew better than to try to run away. She wearly eyed his T-Rex head arm, picturing what it could do to her body if he ever decided to use it on her.

When Megs had opened Terrorsaur's room he'd discovered the flying dinoaur and Waspintor fighting on the floor. Megatron yelled at them to "stop goofing off" and shut the door quickly, looking embarressed. Yume didn't know why he looked that way but for some reason she started getting weird ideas that she shook out of her head. They're not gay! Tarantulas' room was locked so Megatron couldn't bother him and so was Blackarachnia's. Inferno wasn't in his room because he was watching Dinobot and Scorponok was in his room staring at a picture of Megatron and talking woefully to it about not getting any respect and how much he hated the suck up Inferno who seemed to be trying to get all of Megatron's attention. Megatron scolded him for making assumptions and startled to scorpion so bad he dropped the picture and it shattered when it hit the floor. Megs and Yume left him staring mournfully at the broken frame.

When they got to Megatron's room Megatron went in first and seemed to do a quick cleaning job. Something flew toward the girl and she ducked to avoid it. The thing hit the wall, then the floor and let out a squeeky sound on impact. She looked toward it and spotted a rather large sized rubber ducky on the floor.

What the? she knelt down and picked it up, staring at the thing like it was a three eyed alien. Why is Ernies rubber ducky here? she saw two purple feet near her and looked up. Megatron frowned down at her.

"Uh...," she said, looking guiltily at the rubber ducky in her hands. "Is this yours?" she held it up.

"Uh. noooo," he said quickly, yanking it out of her hands and throwing it into the room. She heard it make a squeeky sound when it hit the floor and giggled. "That belongs to um... Dinobot..."

"Dinobot?" she said. Somehow she couldn't imagine Dinobot owning or even bothering to touch a giant rubber ducky. At least it's not pink...

"Yess," Megatron said, grabbing the girl by the back of her shirt and standing her up. "He left it here when he defected and didn't bother trying to come get it back."

"..." Yume gave him a look that said she didn't believe him. He smiled at her strangely then everything went black.


Floating... Floating... Floating in a sea of stars. Yume felt nothing as she slowy drifted through the far regions of space. She heard a voice calling to her. A voice whose owner she couldn't see. She felt she needed to find the owner. Find out why it was calling to her. Find out what it wanted.

I'm coming... stay where you are... I'll come to you...

She drifted toward a light that got bigger and brighter a she got closer. Suddenly a bright sparkling ball of light drifted toward her. She put out her hands and the thing hovered just above them. Somehow it seemed familiar...

It's not my time yet... I need to come back... Bring... me...

"YOU KILLED HER!" a loud, angry voice broke into the quiet galaxy just then and Yume began becoming aware of the real world. She started to become aware of a splitting headache and the fact that she felt sick.

"You have no need to worry about your girlfriend, Dinobot," another voice said. "I didn't kill her. Yet. I just knocked her out so she wouldn't put up a fuss when I brought her down here."

"You are lying!" the voice that belonged to Dinobot shot back. "She is dead! She has not moved an inch since you put her there!"

"If I had killed her I wouldn't have put her in a cage!"

"You would so have!" Dinobot protested. "You would have brought her dead body to me to gloat!"

"I don't need to show you a corpse to gloat!"

"So you admit she is dead!"

"I never said that, you no good-"

Yume moaned and sat up. The two voices grew quiet and when the girl opened her eyes she found herself in a cage. She looked around herself and spotted Dinobot, still in beast mode, and Megatron, in robot mode, staring at her.

"You see, my accussive former friend," Megatron said looking back at Dinobot. "I didn't kill her just like I said."

Dinobot snarled something that couldn't be understood then turned away from Megatron. He glanced over at Yume and she might have been imagining it but it looked like relief was on his face.

Megatron left the room without any other word, he seemed mad though. Yume watched him go then tucked her legs up to her chest. She wasn't sure what had happened after she'd given Megatron back his ducky but whatever he'd done to her had made her black out. The headache gave her an idea but if he had knocked her out wouldn't he have killed her with a blow he would have given her head? I guess not, she thought. She glanced over at Dinobot. He had lain down but his head was still up and alert, his eyes caught her looking at him and he looked away.

"Dinobot?" she said after a moment.

"What?" he asked, his voice sounding annoyed.

"Are you really a Predacon?"

A/N

I knew it! Camp killed my inspiration! I am so angry! Now the rest of the fic is going to stink! I just know it. I HATE THIS CHAPTER! HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT! (throws chapter on floor and stomps on it) ARGH!!!! PLEASE STAY WITH ME! I'LL TRY TO MAKE THE NEXT CHAPTER BETTER! I PROMISE!

For some weird reason my sister (who hasn't even read the story) thinks that my girl and Dinobot should fall in love. Well what can I say? My sister is into romance. I for one don't want them to fall inlove because it's been done so many times and that would just be weird cuz he's like 8 feet tall.

Hey I got a question. Does the Beast Wars International website allow fanfics with chapters?

Question number 2 and 3. Do you think I should make more stories about Yume than just this one? I know this is a weird time to ask since this one isn't done yet but I got other ideas while up at camp but I'm not sure if I want to do them. Also do you guys think I should write a Beast Machines related fanfic that brings Dinobot back? I saw a lot of Tecno-Organic Dinobot art on Deviantart and I keep getting the urge to write one. Should I and if I did would you read it?