(A/N) Sooooo…. I decided to rewrite this one. Had a blast through the past while reading through it but cringed very hard. I started writing this when I was still in middle school. So, very old story.

Transformers belongs to Hasbro

Maximum Ride belongs to James Patterson

Chapter 1

I was out flying, yes flying. In case you are new to the whole deal here, my name is Maximum Ride, but call me anything but Max I will personally kickl you into next week. My family and I were born and mutated at a half laboratory, half prison called the school. This gave all of us wings and some really quick regenerative powers. Thanks to the help of Jeb, a scientist at the School, we made it out and were living as a tight family, me as the leader along with Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gassy, and Angel. The six of us stayed together through thick and thin, teaching ourselves through Discovery Planet and the news. Sure, it wasn't a 'typical' education but we got by.

Anyway, I was flying late one late night, desperately in need of some space. So much was going on. Thoughts raced through my mind as I sat down on a high rock in the middle of Jasper, Nevada. I held my head in my hands and thought about all the things with Fang and the flock.

~Flashback~

Fang and I sat on the roof of the house in silence just staring at the stars. Fang sighed and spoke up

"I'm glad we get some time to ourselves Max." I smiled and nodded, agreeing with his statement.

"Yea, it feels good to just chill out and look at the stars. Are all the others asleep?"

"Yes, even Nudge." He paused, "for once."

We sat in silence a couple more minutes before Fang scoots himself closer to me. My back tenses as he puts his arm around my shoulders. He points up to the stars, to one in particular, and says, "Look at Orion's Belt."

"Yep," I sigh "Why was it named that anyways?" I studied the black sky littered with little white dots, specifically to the three dots all in a row that made up Orian's Belt.

Fang shrugged and pulled me closer to him. I tensed at first at the sudden gesture but smiled, slowly relaxed, and put my head on his shoulder. "I don't care why it a stupid cluster of stars was named Orion's Belt," Fang started.

I lifted my head up to stare into his deep, dark eyes, "All I care about is you Max. I love you." He kissed my lips and holds the kiss there as he closed his eyes. My body tensed and I didn't kiss back. My eyes, however, were as big as the moon. He pulls back and smiled, "I love you."

My brain froze and I stuttered over my words. "I-I need to be alone," and with that I snapped open my wings and flew away to god knows where

~End flashback~

While the situation ran over and over in my mind, I tuned everything else out. This had all just happened 30 minutes ago. My brain was still racing with thoughts.

I eventually stood up and unfurled my wings, getting ready to take flight. I was about to jump off the cliff when I was stopped by a deep mechanical voice yelling out, "Freeze!"

I froze, my body tensing. I was expecting Erasers to be behind me. Of course they would find me, when I was alone, with no one else to help me.

When I turned around, there weren't any Erasers, instead there were four GIANT robots. I only got a slight glance but the tallest one had to be at least 30 feet tall. The other three ranged from 15 to 20 feet tall. I tuck in my wings, backpedaling, my foot slipped and down I fell. Right, off the cliff and straight to my death. A scream was heard and it took me a moment to realize that the scream belonged to me.

As I fell, I looked back up to see the four robots run to the cliff edge and look down on me. Shock and worry were apparent in their glowing blue eyes.

The voice ran through my head, a quiet whisper. "You better start thinking before you hit the ground." I turned and looked at the brown, dirt covered ground quickly approaching me. I winced as I braced for the pain and unfurled my large brown and white wings, stopping my falling body and dirt flying around me. I groaned in pain and slowly flew back up the distance to be eye level with the tallest robot.

They all had a humanoid figure with bright blue eyes. The tallest was painted red and blue and his eyes met mine, his laced with worry.

"What do you want with me?" I asked a bit harshly, looking at the four of them. Other than the tallest, red and blue robot, there was a smaller yellow and black one with his mouth covered by a piece of metal connected to his chin. Beside him was a large green bot, a bit unproportional. A huge body on some little legs. The smallest one couldn't be more than 20 or so feet tall, her blue and pink coloring, along with her feminine figure made it apparent she was the only female before me.

The yellow robot with black stripes, started beeping at me, the tone and pitch changing as if he was speaking some alien language. When he was done, I side-eyed him cautiously, giving him the silent cue that I hadn't understood a thing of what he said.

"We all thought…" The tall red and blue male started, seeming to hesitate, "you were something else," he looked at my flapping wings. "Are you okay?"

I was still wincing, trying my best to hide my pain that shot through my wings every time I made a downward thrust to keep myself airborne. It seemed to hurt worse every time. "I'm fine-" I started right before my right wing gave out and I started to lose altitude.

I braced for impact, closing my eyes until I felt myself landing much softer than I had planned. I slowly opened my eyes, looking around, seeing that I was being held in the arms of the big blue and red bot. "Wha-" I started, expecting these things to not be so caring.

"Easy there, little one. I will not harm you." He says, his eyes soft, though I don't know how metal eyes can look soft.

"I am no little one." I glared at him as he started walking back to the center of the metal roof to the building.

"I do apologize, I did not mean to offend you." The roof opened yet again and the flooor below them acted as an elevator, slowly going down, the roof over top of me closing.

Great, no way out.

When the elevator halted, I looked around, first trying to see if there was another exit point. The first thing that I saw was a big room with four pairs of eyes glued on me.

The first one I notice looks exactly like Dr. Martinez, older, kind eyes and long dark hair. The one standing next to her looked like he could be Fang's younger twin just without the dark eyes, he looked to be about 16… so right around my age. The youngest one with both hands on the rail, that stands next to the fang twin, looked a lot like Ari before he was turned into an Eraser.

The image of the little seven year old standing next to Jeb filled my mind and made me smile just a tad. There was one more running up to the group of huge robots.

The robot lowers his hand, letting me walk off of it and land on the catwalk while watching as an Asian girl runs across the catwalk to me.

"Whoa!" She scans my lanky body, "Hey new girl, what's your name? Can you actually fly? What kind of music do you like? I bet you like rock hard death metal!" She blabbered on. The girl was skinny and had dark black hair, pulled into two pigtails by her shoulders. The ends of her hair were pink. Definitely gave off the rocker-vibe.

"Easy there Miko." The Fang look-a-like said, grabbing her shoulders, pulling her away from me. "Let her answer one question at a time. You can be a bit much to see first thing."

"Um…" I thought of all the questions that Miko said, deciding to just answer the first one. "My name is Maximum Ride." I started. "Like Sally Ride, the astronaut."

I needed to get back to my flock, and fast. I thought, searched the area for escape routes, but all I found was rock and metal. There were a few hallways but I highly doubted that they led anywhere.

"Ok Optimus, you have to tell me where you got this girl!" Miko said, her gaze on the tall blue robot.

So they do have names… I made a mental note

Optimus looked down at me and said, "She is why the proximity sensor went off." His voice ran through my head, the sound of 'Freeze' rang through my brain. He was the one to give the order.

"OH! ok." She shrugged and looked back at me and said "So you did fly up there."

I looked at her, nervous that she might go and blab to everyone. I bit my lip and looked up at Optimus, I felt an awkward science fall.

The Fang twin walks over and puts his hand on the Asian's shoulder, "Whoa there Miko, your scaring her."

I analysed the situation a bit more, reading the room. Optimus stood himself much like me. Like a leader, so I went on a hunch. I looked back at Optimus and asked, "Are you in charge?" He, in turn, nodded his head.

"Then can we go somewhere private?" I continued, glancing at everyone else briefly before returning my gase to him.

He seemed to think about it for a moment before lowering his hand to me again. "Of course." I walked onto it and he turned around and walked towards a hallway. My heart was beating out of my chest. What am I doing, trusting this… thing with my life.

"Are you okay?" He asks for the second time as we turned into a mostly empty room.

There was a metal slab in the corner, looking big enough for the 'bot to lay down comfortably so my guess was a bed. In the other corner were a bunch of other little boxes, all with a small blue glow shining out the lines.

I looked up to him with a worried but fierce face.

Am I really doing this? I asked myself.

Ya, I'm doing this.

"Can I trust you?" I started, waiting impatiently for an answer.

He quickly nodded his head, giving me the yes I was hoping for.

Why am I doing this? One nod means nothing. I told myself but it seemed that my brain was having an argument with itself as a started to tell him the whole shebang about the rest of the flock, the Erasers, or whatever else came out after us.

When I got to explaining about the School, Miko popped her head out from behind the door, staring at my wings, she stood there a moment before running back the direction she came.

I looked back at Optimus, who shrugged his shoulders a bit, and I continued about the school; how we grew up in dog crates and were experimented on, forced to do the scientists bidding.

I heard some soft noises coming from the door and looked back over. The four other bots and the humans were looking in on us. Optimus looked over at the Dr. Martinez twin and started, "I believe she needs some help."

The red and white robot looked me over as he said, "Oh pu-lease Optimus, she doesn't even look hurt."

Optimus sends a stare over to him, "Ratchet please. She may have set off the alarms, but I don't think she at all meant to." He looked back at me, seemingly looking for an answer and I shook my head in response.

"No, I was just flying around and sat down on a rock, apparently not realizing that I landed on some other sort of laboratory..." I stated. My statement made Miko burst out laughing.

"I'm sorry, did I speak wrong?" I asked.

"Laboratory, ha, not even close. This place," she pauses and looks around, lowering her voice, "is a secret base."

I looked at her with confusion on my face. She runs around the corner again, yelling from around the corner, "Follow me!"

The big green robot shouted back at her, walking after her "Slow down Miko. She's hurt. Give her a moment to relax and get some help."

She stopped and turned back, "But, come on Bulkhead I just wanted to show her around and what you guys could do."

I took in the information. This place isn't a laboratory?

I looked up at Optimus. "You guys aren't experiments?" He shook his head, giving me a no as an answer. "Then what are you?"

He inhaled, getting ready to tell me. "We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron, otherwise known as Autobots."

Miko stepped in, interrupting Optimus and continued for him, "They fight bad robots called Deceptions, who try to tear apart our world." She looks at my wings "Can you actually fly like a bird?" I looked at her.

"Well ya." I smirked and spread my wings, getting a little cocky and jumped off Optimus' hand and pushed down hard with my wings.

Not the best idea. With my injured wing, I couldn't gain altitude, I lost it and lost it fast. I saw Optimus trying to reach me before I hit the floor but he must've failed because I hit the floor hard, and all I remember was black.