Thanks so much everyone! I'm glad you like this story. Okay, in this story, you can expect...

Mentions of slash between Cybertronians.

At least one important OC.

Cursing.

General teenage themes.

A Gothic girl who is violent, can be a total bitch, and something like mutant abilities, but isn't mutant abilities.

Possible OOC-ness, but I will try to keep that to a minimum.

Is that all? I think so. If you don't like any of the things mentioned above, kindly click the back button. Consider yourself warned.

Disclaimer-I don't own Transformers Prime

Danger is My Middle Name

Chapter 3

There was nothing, and then there was something. It was a light, and it was blinding. The last moments of panic and anger hit her, and as she returned to the waking world, she snapped upright and lashed out with her powers.

Then she let out a scream, recoiling from whoever's mind she had invaded and curling in on herself. What was that? Why did it hurt so much? Memories that weren't her own swam through her head. Two robots, one crimson, the other gold, were in the majority of the memories. There was pain. There was death. There was also the despair felt after a failed surgery...What the Hell?

"Ow! Shit! My head!" Lae shouted, finally opening her eyes to look around. This...was not where she remembered being. She was in a metal and rock room, with...more giant robots. Ignoring the ache in her head, Lae struggled to her feet. She was on a cot, and when her feet hit the ground, she pushed upright, swaying slightly before grabbing the cot to stay steady.

"Where the hell am I? Why did you kidnap me? I demand answers!" Lae shouted, taking a step away from the robots in front of her. They were all so tall...they could easily step on her and squish her, and she wouldn't be able to do anything about it! Her powers weren't working, her brain was still trying to explode out of her skull, she had no idea where she was, and...she had nowhere to go. She had murdered her own brother, making her a fugitive. The government would hunt her down, sedate her, lock her up and throw away the key. It wasn't like she could expect any help or mercy, either! The government had been looking for excuses to lock her up, and her own family would be out for revenge.

She was snapped out of her thoughts, not by the robots, but by another human. "Calm down, Lae. You're safe now." Lae shifted her attention to the woman who had spoken. She had black hair pulled out of her face, wasn't very tall, and was dressed like a nurse. But what would a nurse be doing here, and how did she know her name?

"How the hell do you know my name?" Lae shrieked. She realized her voice had jumped up an octave, and she was practically hysterical, but now she didn't care about her tough girl reputation. Her head was pounding, she was surrounded by strangers, she had murdered her own brother, had been attacked by a giant robot, no sorry, two giant robots, and she was just ready to rip someone's head off. Whenever she got stressed like this, she always acted weak because she felt weak, but she also knew for a fact that it made her even more of a bitch than before.

The strange woman held up her hands in a placating manner as she took a couple of steps closer, and Lae's instincts kicked in. Before she could think about it, her powers had snapped out to control the woman. There was no splitting pain this time, but there was a slight twinge of pain, although it was easily ignored. The woman didn't even realized what had happened. Suddenly she had no choice except to walk away, and when the force controlling her pulled away, some internal instinct told her to stay away.

Stay away she did. Lae was not about to let anyone come near her. Her senses sharpened, until she became aware of the others in the room. There were two human boys, one of which she recognized as the boy she had turned into a puppet, six robots, the strange woman, and there were other minds deeper within this place, but she dared not reach out so far for fear of her brain being attacked again.

Her kidnappers started talking amongst themselves. She picked up phrases such as, "shock" "possible trauma" "wild animal" and one particular word that stood out among it all "Freak."

They were speaking of her kind!

What were their evil plans? Was taking her the first step to destroying all Freaks everywhere? Well, they certainly were wrong. Every Freak was easily replaceable, even the leader of the Freaks. Anyone could take her place, or take the leader's place in the event of a disappearance or death. No one was too important. The lost ones were mourned, of course, but never for long. It was unneeded sentiment when there was a war to be fought, and more lives in need of saving.

Finally, another stranger attempted to approach her. This one was dressed as a punk, with pink and black hair, and similar clothes with the main color scheme of dark navy blue, pink, and some black. Another Goth/punk. Did they think she would be more open to another Goth? Well, yes, she was reassured to see a friendly face, but not so relaxed that she would let her guard down.

The girl came a few steps closer, and that was when Lae felt it. The girl was one of her kind! Although, from the radioactive readings she had sensed, it was not an apparent ability, and Lae doubted anyone knew it was there, least of all the girl. Lae let the girl come within hitting distance, and then the girl wisely stopped as she saw the weary look that Lae was giving her.

The other girl held out her hand, saying, "Hi! I'm Miko." Lae warily looked at her out-stretched hand, and hesitantly shook it.

"Miko...you're one of us," Lae muttered softly, so only the two of them heard. Miko tilted her head to the side in confusion, and then a bright smile crossed her face.

"You mean I'm a Freak like you? Sweet! What's my power? Can you teach me how to control it? I bet I'll get to fight all kinds of evil guys now! Hey, do you guys have like an underground cult place where you meet and chant a bunch of weird spells, because that would be so cool!" Miko suddenly burst into wild chatter, startling Lae, who recoiled in shock, eyes wide.

Was...was she always like that? If she was, she'd be eaten alive in the world of Freaks. Either that, or it would be like putting her through a shredder and being spat back out. Whichever way it went, it wouldn't be pretty.

As much as she hated to interrupt the girl's excited chatter...oh wait, she didn't, "Miko!" That got the Asian girl's attention, because she instantly looked back at Lae, who sighed and rubbed her temples. This was not helping her headache at all.

"While I would be fine with helping you discover your gift and teaching you to control it, I kind of have no idea what is going on, and I would very much like to know. And I would appreciate it if you kept your voice down and spoke slowly because I have a horrible headache.," Lae said with yet another sigh. She had a feeling her normal bitchy approach would not work when speaking to Miko, so we should have to use the tone of voice she used on young Freaks-in-training.

Miko instantly became more serious, "You're in the Autobot base. Bumblebee arrived after you had passed out and chased Dreadwing off before bringing you back here. You've been in a kind of coma state for two days, and don't worry. The Autobots are the good guys and you're completely safe here."

Autobots? Bumblebee? What kind of crazy alternate dimension had she fallen into? Miko seemed to take her silence as acceptance, because she turned and began talking to the others in the room.

Wait a minute. Two days in a coma?

Before Lae could start ranting about the unfairness of it all in her head, one thing that the tallest robot said got her attention, "We will need to assign Lae a guardian if the Decepticons are after her power. We can not let them achieve their goal."

Well, that was not acceptable. Not at all. "Wait just a damn minute here! I'm not some dainty thing that needs protecting! I can take care of myself! If you think you're gonna get away with assigning some weird robot to stalk me for weeks on end in the name of "protecting" me, you're dead wrong!" Lae shouted, stomping forward until she could glare right up at the robot, momentarily forgetting he could simply step on her if she annoyed him too much.

"Whoa! Lae, hold on a minute. No one is saying you're weak or anything. But your powers are actually a hinderance against robots, right? So it makes sense to have someone who can beat up the Decepticons! It won't be permanent or anything. Just until we can get the Decepticons to stop coming after you," Miko hurriedly explained.

Lae paused for a minute. Would it really be so bad to have extra protection. A small, irrational part of her screamed "yes" while the more rational part said "no." Her rational side won out, and she begrudgingly agreed. The tallest robot nodded to show he respected her descion.

"Now then. The matter of a guardian...Ratchet?"

"I have better things to do, like making sure all of you stay in one piece!" the white and red robot who was apparently called Ratchet snapped back. Good. Lae probably wouldn't get along with him anyway. He was too much like her dead grandpa.

"Oh! Oh, oh, I got an idea! Why doesn't Bulkhead watch her too? It'll be awesome!" Miko suggested. The tallest robot, obviously the leader, did not seem impressed by this idea.

"Miko, along with being your guardian, Bulkhead has other duties as well, and would not be able to protect you both and perform to the best of his ability as part of the team. If we were not in a constant battle to reach the Iacon relics, that would be a different story. Although, perhaps Wheeljack would be able to...?"

"Sorry Prime, not going to happen. Jacky doesn't babysit," the robot who looked like a giant wrecking ball interrupted. Prime paused, and then nodded in agreement. "Then we only have one choice left. Smokescreen?" A young energetic silver-colored robot jumped to attention, walking forward eagerly, eyes locked on the Prime. Lae wanted to laugh at that look. He obviously idolized the Prime.

"Yeah Prime?"

"You will be Lae's guardian."

Dun dun dun! This will not end well! How will Lae react? How will Smokescreen feel being put on "babysitting duty?" I'll tell you, in the next chapter. Review please!