Summary: The first adventure. A young girl discovers the Decepticons and Autobots have more to do with her than she thinks… Crysta's POV

Disclaimer: The only things I own here are the OC-which-is-probably-a-Sue and some plot details.

This story is drawing to a close. I've never actually stayed committed to any fanfictions for this long, so this is a personal best!

Girlsupersonicboy, that was the funniest review I've gotten so far. I would wonder, do you not know of the wonders of Spell Check?

Oh, and has anyone seen my bin of plot devices? They seem to have gone missing.

"Speaking"

Thoughts

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Supernatural Beings speaking

"Wake up!" Cliffjumper was shouting. I opened my eyes groggily, but when I saw the monitor I immediately jolted awake and ran over to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me.

"Those readings couldn't possibly be right… that would mean there's Dark Energon pouring out of every volcano in the world! And natural disasters are happening across the globe... This could turn into an apocalypse unless someone manages to get inside the core of the Earth and stop whatever's causing this—" I trailed off. Wait, how would Dark Energon possibly get inside the core unless it was being produced constantly… I thought of how Energon was produced on Cybertron because of Primus and of the legends of Primus's opposite, Unicron, the Destroyer. My mind immediately jumped to a crazy yet plausible conclusion.

This was horrible. If Unicron was the core of Earth, these disasters would just keep worsening until no life on this planet remained. Only—Crysta! Get to the Nemesis as fast as you can! Megatron is planning to explore the Earth's core and we're not waiting much longer! I heard Laserbeak's voice in my head.

"Crysta, I just received a communication." Cliffjumper spoke. "The Autobots are going to try and stop these disasters by going to the Earth's core."

"You go with them." I told him. "I'll explain what's going on later. Just take this with you." I handed him a tracking beacon, one of the things I had found laying around in the bin labeled "plot devices". I picked up the locator, tested the connection quickly, and took off for the Nemesis. When I touched down, I saw everyone waiting. Megatron was taking everyone, which was, in hindsight, a good idea. For a second, I thought I saw Starscream lurking in a shadowy area behind our group. The next second he disappeared, so I decided it might have just been my imagination. And, with Megatron leading, we set off down a tunnel to the Earth's core.

I kept checking the locator; worried it might not work in the tunnels, but the magic of plot devices was coming through, and so it worked. Who knew there was a labyrinth under the surface of the Earth? I wondered. As we proceeded deeper the beacon got closer and closer and the tunnels began to look more like metal than rock. At one point, we stopped. It just didn't seem real. Dark Energon was being pumped right past us to the surface. Scrap clicked nervously and all optics focused on the diminutive robot.

"I can explain!" I spoke quickly before they started pointing blasters. And thus I began to explain.

"So, I rewired it and it doesn't really have an instinct to eat living metal anymore." I finished. I had told the story while we continued following the Dark Energon vein deeper into the Earth. A noise made everyone freeze. A creature was flying up from the depths below the "bridge" we were crossing. Said creature appeared to be fueled by Dark Energon and did not look friendly. It began shooting and our party ducked, but there wasn't much cover. I heard footsteps coming behind us as many more of those creatures began to hover up from below. My locator beeped, signaling the beacon was close.

We kept returning fire at the creatures, but they were too agile. One soared over me towards Knock Out and opened fire. Before the shots could hit, he was pushed to the side by a blur of red red.

"You're alive!" Knock Out exclaimed upon seeing who had saved him.

"Time for reunions later!" I shouted. "I hope you didn't just bring yourself, Cliffjumper." I transformed into my jet form and began an aerial assault on the creatures. The Autobots entered the area and began helping shoot down the "antibodies", as Prime called them.

We had almost cleared our way across the whole bridge when I heard a sound I had hoped I wouldn't hear again. More antibodies flew up and began shooting down parts of the bridge faster than we could shoot them. I dove after one, but another was waiting to shoot me, and yet another after I dodged that one. Megatron had transformed to assist, but two fliers just weren't enough. Somehow the antibodies managed to get us away from the bridge and surround us. There were just too many. I knew this might be the end, where we would fall into a bottomless pit of antibodies.

Then, I heard the sound of a familiar jet engine. Tomato came flying through the entrance and shot down a couple of antibodies, just enough to create a hole that we could fly to and land back on the bridge. Then I watched as he forgot how to brake and crashed into another one. The antibodies began to retreat and the three of us touched back down on the bridge.

"Thanks, Tomato." I told him. He grinned at the praise, but still looked a bit disappointed. I guess he accepted that I didn't like him and was way older. I gave him a sympathetic look. I knew he'd eventually find someone, even if I had to help him. Tomato wasn't really that bad, just a bit annoying at times.

We weren't very close to the Earth's core, I knew, so there would be many more challenges ahead. Perhaps Unicron will be the enemy that unites us. With that thought in mind, we descended into the depths of the Earth.

Omake- Meddling with a time machine

When Scrap was chewing on the time machine remote, it not-so-accidentally opened a portal to the past into another Omake. All it managed to do was text a brief, misspelled message about jellybeans before being warped back to the present, causing a continuity error and then, being mistaken for being hungry, was fed a package of carrots.

Crysta should've known better than to make a time machine and leave it lying around.