"I am so lost," muttered Blaze.

The herd had seemed a bit confused by him, but they didn't seem to mind letting him join them. So when they started moving out, Blaze didn't think twice about going with them.

Then Blaze realized that his communicator wasn't working. He was so slagged when he got back to base. If he ever got back to base. Everything looked the same to him. He'd just have to hope that he stumbled across one of the other crew members at some point.

"Oh, hey, Ponyta and Rapidash!"

Blaze looked up at the unfamiliar voice and was shocked to see a human standing several feet away from the herd. There were humans here? He thought that they were only supposed to live on Earth! What was he doing here? Blaze immediately broke away from the herd to examine him.

Ash blinked as a small Rapidash broke away from the herd and walked over to him and Pikachu. "Hey, there li'l fella." Ash held out a hand so that the Rapidash could get his scent. "You're a friendly one, aren't ya?"

Pikachu sniffed at the Rapidash and tensed. "Pika-pi!"

"Hm? What's wrong?"

"Pi pi kachu chu kachu pika!"

Ash blinked. "Huh? You sure? He seems normal to me. Maybe a little small, but that happens sometimes."

That probably would've been the end of that if a large Beedrill hadn't suddenly flown within range. "Weird, you don't usually see Beedrill this far from the forest," commented Ash.

The Beedrill noticed Ash and Pikachu. "Human!"

Ash and Pikachu's eyes widened. "It spoke!"

"Beedriller attack!" The Beedrill flew straight for them.

Blaze wasn't gonna have that. He tackled Ash. "Blaze, Maximize!" By the time they hit the ground, Blaze had transformed to his bot mode and was pointing his gun at the Beedrill. "Eat Quasar!" He started firing. The herd stampeded and ran away from the fight.

Ash and Pikachu stared. "You're a robot! No wonder Pikachu thought you were weird!"

The Beedrill avoided the attacks as best it could. "Beedriller under attack. Beedriller, Terrorize!" He transformed and pointed his gun at them.

"Pikachu, thunderbolt!"

Pikachu hopped away from Ash and Blaze. "Pika-chuuuuu!" Electricity arced from him and hit Beedriller. Beedriller jerked and twitched in midair while making some disconcerting buzzes/screeches. Then Pikachu stopped the attack and Beedriller fell twitching to the ground.

Blaze's optics widened. "Can they all do that?"

"Uh, you mean Pikachu? Yeah." Ash stared at Beedriller for another moment before deciding to stare at Blaze. "What are you guys anyway?"

"We're from Cybertron."

"Where's that?"

"Outer space."

"Oh, you're aliens. Why didn't you say so?" asked Ash. That explained everything. "Why do you look like Pokemon?"

"Well-"

"Blaze!"

Ash glanced towards the source: An upset looking Slowking, a Raichu, and a Rhydon. Hearing a Slowking talk was less weird. He'd seen a talking Slowking before. It hadn't been an alien. "Are you guys aliens too?"

They looked surprised. "A human?"

"Yep! That's me! And that's Pikachu."

"So…does this mean we're on Earth after all?" asked Blaze.

Rhinox frowned. "I dunno. I don't remember ever hearing about anything like these creatures on Earth."

"You gonna get up sometime this cycle?" asked Rattrap.

Blaze seemed to only just then notice he was still crouching on top of Ash. He quickly got off. Ash stood up as Pikachu jumped back onto his shoulder. Ash studied them some more. They looked so much like Pokemon. If it weren't for the size difference, Ash would assume them to be completely normal Pokemon. "How come-"

A screech interrupted them. Everyone looked up at an Aerodactyl flying overhead. The only ones who thought it was odd were Ash and Pikachu. "Huh. Weird. Aerodactyl are supposed to be extinct."

"Is that so?"

The Maximals tensed and redirected their attention to a smirking Tyranitar. Blaze quickly pushed Ash behind him.

"Megatron."

"Friends of yours?" asked Ash.

"Definitely not," said Blaze.

"I was afraid of that."

"Why are you doing this?" asked Optimus. "There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries."

"Mayhap, what is peace to one group is time to bide for another," said Megatron. "The Predacons have simply been waiting for the best time to make our move."

"So…Is he the bad guy?" asked Ash.

"Yes."

Rhinox shushed Blaze and Ash.

"Do you really think six Predacons will be able to overthrow the government?"

"Of course not," said Megatron. "But with all the energon on this planet, it will be child's play to convince the Predacons to rise up against and overthrow their Maximal oppressors."

And that was when Blaze shot at Megatron. Optimus whirled. "Blaze!"

"Now, that was an underhanded attack," said Megatron. He chuckled. "Oh, I like you little pony."

"I'm not a pony!" shouted Blaze

"He's a Rapidash," added Ash rather unhelpfully.

"Megatron, terrorize!"

Optimus frowned as he realized he wasn't going to be able to talk Megatron out of this. "Optimus, maximize!"

Ash watched as every single Pokemon transformed into a robot that noticeably resembled their alternate forms.

And he realized that he'd just gotten involved in something much bigger than anything he'd imagined.