"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing." Optimus Prime

Arcee's POV

Bulkhead and I enter the base. Ratchet and Matias Baker, his human partner, are standing with Optimus. Matias works at the hospital with June. Two weeks ago they were almost kidnapped by Mech. After he witnessed Optimus and me in action, we brought both back to the base. He showed great interest in learning about our medicine, and Ratchet still wanted to learn about how the human body worked and their science too. Optimus decided that Ratchet would be his guardian. I noticed Matias' eyes widen in disbelief when he sees the unconscious girl in my arms.

"We have enough humans in here already. Why did you bring this girl here?" Ratchet snaps.

"That girl in her arms happens to be my niece- Patricia. I'm sure Arcee has a good explanation of why she brought her here." Matias says.

"I brought Patricia here because Knockout had kidnapped her," I say.

I kneel in front of Matias so he could get a better view of his niece. He walks up and fixes her hair by putting some of it behind her ears. We hear a low moan and see her eye flutter as she slowly starts to wake up.

"Uncle Matias, where am I?" She asks groggily.

"You're at the Autobot base," Matias answers.

Patricia tries to sit up. Matias places his hand on her chest and gently lays her back down. "You can explain everything after we get your right shoulder back into its socket."

"You know I have a low tolerance for pain – can't you do something so I won't feel it?" She asks.

"Sorry, Patricia if I could use a local anesthetic to put you under I would, but I don't have any way to administer it," Matias explains.

"Okay, can you just do it quick, please?" She asks.

"I can't do it too fast, but I think you should have an X-ray taken to make sure that no other bones were broken from the fall when Knock Out dropped you. Arcee, can you take her to the med bay?" Matias says.

Matias's POV

Arcee nods and walks towards med bay. Ratchet is already there and had a bed ready for us. She lays Tracy down gently before leaving to let us work in peace.

"Who is the medic robot," Patricia asks.

"I'm Ratchet; I thought you'd call me 'Doc-Bot' like the others," Ratchet says.

"It appears that you picked an ambulance as for your alternate mode. Most humans that ride in them are paramedics, not doctors," Patricia says.

I see a small smile appear on Ratchet's face. He turns on his scanner and points it towards my niece. Patricia's eyes widen in fear seeing the beam of red light coming at her and quickly try to back away. She winces in pain as her shoulder touched the pillow. We watch her blink her eyes a few times attempting to recover from the sudden dizzy spell that just hit her.

"Relax, it's just my scanner. It will allow me to take an x-ray," Ratchet explains in a calm tone.

"Okay, sorry about the juvenile outburst." Patricia apologizes.

Patricia slowly lies back down. Ratchet runs his scanner over her. When it reached her chest, it started to malfunction.

"That's odd, my scanner never did that before," Ratchet says.

"Sorry Ratchet, my medical ID necklace must be inferring with your scanner." Patricia apologizes again.

Patricia uses her left hand to takes of her medical ID necklace along with another that has a silver crystal on it. She hands necklaces to me, so I put them in my jacket pocket. Ratchet restarts his scan. We look over at the screen and see her x-ray appear. I smile when I see all her bones are intact.

"This is incredible that a human's bones can be that strong. Knockout is about the same height as me. You should have suffered more serious injuries than just a dislocated shoulder." Ratchet says.

"Ratchet, my niece's body may not tolerate pain well, but it's stronger than most people, or in this case, bots can comprehend," I say proudly.

We turn around to face her. "Your shoulder isn't broken if fact all 206 bones in your body are fine."

"So, can we pop it back into place, please?" Patricia asks.

"Of course," I say.

Ratchet helps Tracy hit up. I place my hand on either side of her shoulder. "I'm going to reset your shoulder on three,"

Patricia takes a deep breath and holds it for a few seconds. I hear her muffled scream of pain as I popped her shoulder back in. She slowly breathes out as I put her arm in a sling. Ratchet back away as she hops down off the bed.

'When did you get this new necklace?" I ask helping her put the necklaces back on her neck.

"About two weeks ago," She answers.

"My scanner also picked up and intense amount of energy emanating from that crystal," Ratchet adds.

"The crystal is called an energem," Patricia says, correcting my partner.

"What does it do?" Ratchet asks.

"It charges my dino chargers." Patricia answers.

"Do those Dino Chargers power up those metal dino bots we heard about that protect Amber Beach?" Ratchet asks.

"Those dino bots are zords," Patricia replies. "I'm a Power Ranger. Though I don't have any qualities that classify be to be a superhero. I still don't understand why the energem bonded to me," Patricia continues as she looks down at her feet.

"Excuse me Matias, but may I have a word with her," Optimus asks, walking over to us.

"Of course Optimus," I say.

Ratchet and I walk back over to Arcee and Bulkhead.

Optimus's POV

I kneel in front of the young woman to be at eye level with her. She slowly looks up at me.

"Hello Patricia, you're Uncle has told us many good things about you," I say.

"That's good, I guess. Please call me Tracy. I only let my parents, a few of my cousins and my Uncle Matias call me Patricia. Optimus, sir, I already know what you're trying to do. You're about to give a pep talk saying that somewhere deep inside me there is the spirit of a hero trying to get out or something along that line, right?" Tracy says.

"Yes, but how did you know that," I ask.

"My fellow teammates, along with my best friends, have been trying to convince me of that very same thing ever since it bonded to me a week ago." Tracy answers.

"How did it bond to you," I ask.

"A week ago the team went to Argentina to locate a new zord - the Titanosaurus before Snide. He is the evil alien who wants to conquer the earth and use the power of the energems for his evil purpose. After we found the zord, we were going to fly back home, but there was a storm. So, we had to land in Zandar instead. Where some of my family, my Uncle Nick, Aunt May, and cousin Ryan, was visiting to check out their annual festival. My Aunt and Uncle wanted to go out on a lunch date, so they asked me to babysit Ryan." Tracy answers.

"What happened after they asked to watch him?"

"We went to the park. While we were playing one of Snide's henchman Fury, he is a talking cat that wields a sword that can shoot lightning. Along with some foot soldiers Vivix. An Army of Vivix had Ryan, and I backed up against a tree. I didn't want to fight, but I wasn't going to let them hurt my cousin. Then the next thing I knew it bonded to me, and my morpher appeared." Tracy explains.

"The sounds very heroic to me,"

"I'd call what I did protecting my family," Tracy says modestly.

"You're Uncle also mentioned that you're a very modest person."

"Since Knock Out is after you, I'll need to assign a member of the team to be your guardian,"

"I know you're worried about my safety and all, but I'm an adult. I don't need a guardian," Tracy says.

Normal POV

Optimus stands back up, and they walk back over to the others.

"Arcee, can we be partners?" Tracy asks.

"Sorry, Tracy, but I'm already protecting a teenager named Jack." Arcee answers.

"What about you, big guy?" Tracy asks, looking up at Bulkhead.

"I'm protecting a teenager too her name is Miko," Bulkhead answers.

"What about the car that had the coloring as the one animal on the planet who venom I'm allergic to - a bumblebee," Tracy says.

"He is protecting a boy named Rafael." Ratchet answers.

"How come he did answer?" Tracy asks.

"Bumblebee's voice box is damaged," Ratchet says.

"So, if all of you already have a human partner. Who am I partnered with?" Tracy asks.

"I will be your partner, how about we go for a drive so we can talk more," Optimus says.

"No, offense, Optimus, but I can tell from you picked a semi-truck as your vehicle mode," Tracy says, noticing the large windows on my chest, "It won't fit in the parking lot of the apartment complex I'm living in right now," Tracy continues.

"That is a fair observation, Patricia, but you shouldn't leave the base without an Autobot to protect you," Matias says.

A few seconds later, Tracy sees a white car with a red, green, and gray details on the hood along with tinted windows drive up. It screeched it tires as it comes to a stop before transforming. The bot' has a grenade on his hip, and two sword handles poking out from behind his shoulders. It walks over and stands next to Bulkhead.

"Who the new guy?" Tracy asks.

"Tracy, I'd like you to meet my best friend Wheeljack," Bulkhead answers.

"Hi, Wheeljack, it's nice to meet you," Tracy says.

"Likewise, so Bulk is this why you called me to partner me up with a human?" Wheeljack asks.

"No, I wasn't expecting Knock Out to kidnap her," Bulkhead answers.

"Wheeljack, I know I don't look all that tough. I'm not going to force you to be partners with me, but could you take me home, please, your vehicle mode will blend in more than a semi-truck," Tracy says.

"Sure, since you are polite about it," Wheeljack says.

"Thank you, so where are Jack, Miko, and Rafael?" Tracy asks.

"In school," Bulkhead answers.

"We have to leave right now to go pick them up," Arcee adds.

The others transform into their vehicle modes and drive off. Wheeljack goes back into his vehicle mode and opens the passenger side door for Tracy. She starts to walk over to the car, but Matias puts his hand on her arm to stop her. Tracy turns around to face her uncle.

"Patricia, I don't like this idea," Matias says.

"Uncle Matias, I can't believe that you're treating like a child. I thought you trusted me enough to make my own decisions as an adult. You and dad may be brothers, but I hoped that you wouldn't act the same way he did the day I decided to move to California. I don't need two dads," Tracy says.

"Patricia, I do trust you," Matias says.

"Then, prove it by letting go of my arm so I can leave with Wheeljack," Tracy says.

Matias slowly lets go of his niece's arm. Tracy gets inside Wheeljack's alt mode, and he closes the door once she sits down. Then turn on his engine before slowly driving away.