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(Mehrunes Dagon: The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion)
Riya yawned, stretched and stood up in a plain manner, putting her camouflage baggy pants and a dark green tank top on.
"'Here' you said, 'it's all we have' you said 'it's better then what you were wearing' you said..." She moaned. "I was better off in my old clothing..." She referred to Epps giving her cleaner clothes, which turned out now to be military standard.
Riya then lazily walked out the thick doors and headed to see what the Autobot's were doing this morning.
However, all the Autobot's were held in a meeting with Epps, Lennox on the line, and various other marine, navy, and military men.
She very casually avoided the business meeting as she had done several times at home with her couldn't-care-less parents.
Once she arrived outside, she was able to see around without noises swaying her.
The bright, undisturbed slow morning revealed the shine on the planes and jets that sat coldly still, all were as frozen as ice from the previous cold night.
Various forms of the U.S Armies were making their morning patrols, their morning exercises.
All to which made Riya want to avoid these hard workers ever so much more from fear of being mistaken for part of this profession. Even though she was too young, age can be mistaken very easily since on a military air base anyone would think someone on that base has signed up.
Even in the morning twilight, just breaking from the darkness of night, Riya wished that something adventurous would happen.
Something interesting, as if alien life-forms the size of her mansion on the beach that were also made of bio-mechanic's wasn't interesting.
Yet, being a child can remove certain admiration's for nature and for mechanical marvels such as those jet's, or those hard working men and woman, and even the wonders of the Cybertronian race that continued on with their business inside the base.
Riya approached the familiar room that she had awoken in when she was brought here.
Seeing above the scans of Ratchet's attempt to discover why her Pipboy was calling to her home if her home was so 'far' away.
Being semi-athletic, Riya found a wire falling from the display table and carefully pulled herself up it, bypassing the morning dreariness from her curiosity.
Upon reaching the table, she spotted her belongings scattered across it.
Coming to her Pipboy, it was placed underneath a much larger, much more impressive machine, undoubtedly one of Ratchet's contraptions.
"Best stay away from that..." She turned to her comics, obviously Ratchet had scanned and displayed the pages that were to tiny for him to read.
Apparently, once doing so Ratchet must have spoken to the others about these spot on comics. At least, one version was.
All the others besides one series of comics were piled neatly away from her other items that were sprawled almost in an unorganized way across the table.
Carefully picking out various items, such as wrist watch, her waist cut sleeveless khaki jacket which she deemed less for it's supposed utility and more for the sake of her own style.
She also took her shoes out of the bag, with a quick pull and tie they were perfect.
Finally she turned to her 360, which was now in working order.
"You're awesome Ratch'" She held it, inspected it, then packed it into her backpack, just as the Autobot's and the other who were involved in the meeting approached the table.
She spun on her heel to face them.
"Oh... Hi?" She waved slyly as eyes wandered to her, all the men and woman in Army camo' stared at her with a skeptical expression.
She walked to the edge. "I guess I should be goin' then..." Riya bit her bottom lip.
"No, wait a moment Riya." Ratchet spoke up, Riya turned to him. "We may need you to help them believe you." He insisted, Riya's shoulders slumped.
"Fine then... I'm not good at being formal though..." She walked to Ratchet for the sake of comfort.
The relevant military were lifted onto the table by way of a raising platform.
Riya's unbelievably low shoulders already slumped further down along with her entire body acted as if going limp. "I really gotta' look before I do anything from now on..." She groaned silently to herself, reminding herself of her climb up the wire.
"So." A man spoke up. "You claim to be from, what was it again?" He asked for correction, secretly praying he heard wrong.
"World... Or dimension. We're still unsure." Ratchet repeated.
"Fine, from another dimension or world. You realize how far-fetched another dimensionsounds?" He asked Riya, who was nervous for no real reason talking to this giant of a man.
"Yup."
"So you'll understand if I stay with 'world'?"
"Knock yourself out."
"Good. Describe this world."
Riya growled to herself before beginning.
"The world were these big guys here-!" Riya pointed to all the Autobot's. "-Are fiction! No, I'm not just saying we haven't found them or they haven't found us. It's simple, I own half a dozen T-shirts, a wrist band, a few key chains, a video game, dozens upon dozens of books and comic book and to top that off, the movies and the cartoons. Oh, and don't forget the toys." Riya spoke quickly, without taking a breath so finally at the end she sucked up air as fast as she could.
"Anything else?" He asked, looking through her scattered stuff.
"Nope. Everything else is, or seems to be, exactly the same." Riya shrugged.
"Movies and comic books, show me."
Riya took the comics Ratchet had picked out to be strangely accurate to their life just so Riya could show the Autobot's and the people how terrifyingly accurate the comics are.
"Here... This is the movies prequel." Riya passed it to the man, who's name tag read "Gen. Harris"
"... We just watched the movie last night, Ratchet can click play again for you if you want to see it." Riya offered, not asking Ratchet if he would do so.
"That won't be neccessary. Ratchet, since it's you who has been working on this, what do you have to say for what she's claiming?" Harris asked, taking a step toward Ratchet.
"To be honest, those books you have in your hand are exactly what happened before we came in contact with the human military. Word for word, it's perfect. Although, I cannot account for the Decepticon's side, for us though I can."
Harris turned around, flipping through the comics quickly, then passing them off to the others.
"Alright then, explain to us these comics, your side of understanding."
"What do you mean?" Riya's head tilted.
"You see, when I was a boy I used to read comic books, much like these. And with every comic came the universe it was set in, now everything in this universe right down to the positioning of the clouds above the heads of the heroes were important. So I'm asking you to tell me all about this universe of these comics." He explained.
"Can't you just ask the big guys, they can explain it better." Riya begged, hoping she wouldn't have to sit here for hours explaining the entire series.
"We've heard their story, we want to hear your take on it. See if it's the same is what I want to find out."
Riya looked up to Ratchet, Optimus, Ironhide and Bumblebee who just so happened to arrive that morning for one reason or another... She'd have to ask about later.
"Do I have to?" She pouted in turn made smirks and grins appear on the faces of the Autobot's.
"Just get it over with." Ironhide opted and Riya gave in.
"Fine... fine!" She threw her hands up. "Can a chair? This is gonna' a take some time." She said and as if he already knew, Ratchet picked up a human sized chair and set it next to Riya, who plopped onto it.
"Well... To start it off I'll give you the run down of the characters then the planet an' all, seeing how no body but them have ever been to Cybertron..."
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The familiar black and white cop car sat silently outside a small town's gas station, above hovered another familiar figure, that of a helicopter.
"Barricade, the Autobot base is far from here, why have we stopped?" Blackout, the hovering helicopter asked over the radio.
"We must stay a safe distance from the Autobot's radars, if we're caught once we may not get another chance." Barricade replied.
Blackout was still confused. "Why not just ambush them, take the pathetic creature and leave?!" The impatient voice groaned.
"If we do that, we could easily be stopped, they outnumber us here. Starscream has flown ahead to tell us when we can approach without being seen."
Blackout's form flew farther from the small town, just outside where it would land and enact it's transformation.
Barricade was quick to follow.
"Blackout, not now. We need to wait, just for this once." He insisted. "I understand that, but how much longer? It's been too long for Starscream! He always rushes things! I tell you he's capturing the human by himself to take all the credit!" He cried out.
Soon, the full transformation of Barricade's 'mech body appeared behind Blackout.
"Tell that to him yourself, because there he is."
Next to the two black and grey metal bodies, appeared another who landed harshly on the ground, causing an explosion of dirt to blast into the faces of the two Decepticons.
"Ah! Starscream!" The two Decepticons were now covered in the loose dirt.
"You know how hard it is to get carbon-" "Oh stop your whining Blackout." Starscream growled.
"The human fleshling, where is she?" Barricade asked, shaking off the dirt.
"Knowing where the human girl is was never a problem, until now. The Autobot's seem intent on keeping as close to her as possible. As we speak they are with the human girl conversing on what she knows of them... and us." He growled.
"Of us?" Blackout turned his attention away from cleaning the dirt from his circuits.
"She knows all about us, I was listening in to them, they were so busy talking they were not watching their frequencies." Starscream smirked.
"This human girl knows all there is to know about the Decepticons, more so then we'd care to evaluate. Like what some of us do in our spare time."
"How though?" The two impatient Decepticons asked in unison.
"From what it sounds, she claims to be from another realm, one where we don't exist. Where we are, as humans say, 'entertainment for the messes.'"
Blackout laughed. "That's impossible!"
Barricade went into deep thought. "No, it is not." He said silently to himself.
"This is what Shockwave was telling us! That portal opens to another world. A world where we don't exist and neither do the Autobots."
The Decepticons remained silent, the news of this other world beyond the portal could prove useful.
Shockwave would more then likely want a report on this discovery, so Blackout turned from his fellow Decepticons and opened contact through Soundwave.
"This is Barricade. We have made a discovery." Barricade stated, the other two stood waiting behind him.
"What have you found?" The monotonous voice boomed in query.
"It seems as though our previous assumptions were correct. The human girl is claiming to be from another realm."
"You have her?" He asked.
"Not yet, the Autobot's are staying close to her."
The contact remained silent.
"Do they know we seek her?"
"No, they are watching her merely out of curiosity. We may have to create a distraction in order to capture her." Barricade explained quickly.
"Do so. Shockwave and I will create a false communication with Decepticons distractions in a city, that should be enough to at least take most of the Autobot's optics away from the girl, long enough for you to execute the plan." Soundwave quickly worked up a plan of attack.
"Barricade out." He turned to face the two. "We have a plan."
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Riya was drinking a cola once she decided that all she has said was enough for them to marvel at her expertise in the field of Cybertron.
"Was any of... that accurate?" Harris asked the Autobot's, who for first time had an expression of shock on their faces.
"All of it... was perfect." Ironhide maganged to mutter out.
"I didn't know half of that, I wasn't around during then." Bumblebee smiled. "I know, I rock." Riya gloated.
Ratchet finally got a hold of himself, as did Optimus.
"Yes, Cybertron is everything Riya had just explained it to be and more." He stated, a bit off step.
"What about the story? How Bumblebee arrived on Earth, the attacks, all of it." He read through the prequel comic again.
"As we said General, it's perfect. Riya seems to know more of us then we ourselves do."
"Alright then, it seems everything you say checks out." Harris approached Riya, giving her the comics back.
"You can stay for however long it takes for us to find out how to get you home." He sighed, grinning. "You have to be aware that may take a long time... Or not at all."
"Don't worry, it's not like I'm missing home..." Riya rolled her eyes. "Not sarcastic way, I'm seriously not missing home." She smiled.
Harris gathered his men and they headed back down the platform.
"You're allowed to go almost anywhere you want, just don't touch any equipment, including the planes." Ratchet gave out his guidelines.
"Oh Ratch', could you plug in my 360 to the screen? I want to play." She begged, putting on the puppy dog pout.
He grinned, walked to the computer that contained a smaller screen that usually humans would use, opened up the plug ins.
"You can take it from here, I have a meeting to attend." He picked Riya up and placed her at the computer just before leaving with the others.
Riya quickly plugged in the game console and for the sake of her current positioning, played her Transformers game.
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"Two Decepticons have been placed in the human city, I've opened a line of communication. All we have to do is wait for the Autobot's to catch it." Shockwave said over the radio.
"Good, we're a few miles outside the Autobot base, Starscream will arrive first, I will come in to take the girl and Blackout will cover us." Barricade reminded himself of the plan.
"Wait."
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Riya was Barricade, fighting Ironhide.
She had a blast, the giant alien robots punching each other was fun for her.
Strange to everyone else.
Turning off her game and setting it aside, bored of it.
Riya looked around the computer, seeing all the large buttons and screens, finally her eyes wandered to the platform she could use to get down.
She stretched while standing up and walked toward the platform, taking short detours along the way, exploring the different buttons, writings and notes left around.
All of course by Ratchet, this was his space, no one messes with his space, and in the case that they do he'll kill 'em.
Riya grinned when she spun on her heel, just about to the platform when the metal underneath her slid to reveal a large button beneath it.
She lost her footing needless to say and attempted to dodge the large red button yet failed, falling full force onto it.
Once this accidental action had finished, the large screen specifically made for the Autobot's switched on and for a split second, did nothing more.
Riya sighed in relief, she thought it was going to break something.
Instead, it came up with a progress bar, then began blasting extremely loud noises out.
Riya covered her ears, the sound was so loud it hurt.
Finally, Riya hit the button again, thinking it may shut off the loud noises. Instead it brought up a map, various red alert dots and the loud noises translated into Cybertronian.
"Riya!" She heard Bumblebee run up, the others close behind. Bumblebee hit another button which turned the sounds off, yet the map and dots remained.
"I thought I told you not to touch anything." Ratchet sighed in annoyance. "I was going to the platform! I slipped, the... thing over that button slipped! I feel! I'm sorry! I slipped!" She cried, trying to get herself out of trouble.
All the Autobots were silent, as were General Harris and his men.
"What?! I said I was sorry! I didn't mean to! I just slipped! It was an accident! let it go! I'm not apologizing anymore! Assholes..." She said nervously, hoping they weren't too mad.
Optimus spoke up first. "Calm down Riya, it's not that... Those are Decepticons."