Jack had seen many strange things. But finding a dying mech he'd never seen before in a forest? That was new. Jack, not one to turn a blind eye on someone in need, helps the mech, even taking energon from the 'bots secret emergency stores for the mech. He figured once the mech was better, he'd leave. Instead, he's kidnapped by the mech, known as the feared bounty hunter, Lockdown.

An Academy AU. Kirk is bored and so takes on a Xenolinguistics class and falls in love with the professor. Rating for language and sexual reference.