Hello hello! If you are new to this fic, then welcome! If you are returning here to find out why all the other chapters are gone... its because I'm currently in the process of rewriting them. I realized that they were garbage, and left much to be desired. Since I have only gotten chapters 1 - 4 rewritten, there were a lot of inconsistencies between the new chapters and later ones... So, for the sake of keeping everything organized and on the same page, I decided to take down all of my chapters except for the ones I had already rewritten. This way, you will get to see the new and improved chapters as I finish them! Don't worry, it shouldn't take me too long to rewrite them, since I already have them outlined. But I do recommend reading them as they are updated, since A LOT is going to be changing (especially regarding Reese's backstory). Soooo... Yea... I'm sorry for any disappointment, but this just makes things easier for me.

Please note: I do not own Transformers. I do, however, have my own OC's which I have inserted into the story. My OC's include Reese Shields, and Chase Sanders. Electra belongs to my sister.

That Fateful Night

"I'm so tired," Reese thought to herself as she walked out of the computer software store where she worked. It had been a long shift and she had been the one stuck closing up the shop, again. "I hate the closing shift so much."

She vaguely noted that there was still another car in the parking lot, which was odd since everyone else had already gone home, but she was too tired to think much about it. She climbed into her Jeep and started the engine. "I don't even know if I'm going to eat dinner tonight. Ten is a little late to be eating. A shower and then bed sounds like a good plan." She pulled out of the parking lot and onto the main highway leading out of Jasper, Nevada. Unfortunately, her stomach disagreed with her good plan and argued back at her with a loud growl. "Okay, okay, I will feed you and then get ready for bed."

Reese went into autopilot mode as soon as she pulled out onto the main road, so she didn't notice the other car follow her out of the parking lot. She was too tired to think about anything other than getting home and going to bed. She drove past the 'Welcome to Jasper' sign, knowing that from there it was only another twenty minutes or so till she got home. She would have liked to live a little closer to town, but this was the house her parents had left her when they died, so this was the house she lived in. At least she wasn't in the foster care system anymore. Now that she was eighteen, she could legally live on her own.

Reese was finally distracted from autopilot by the blinding headlights of the car behind her. Whoever was in that car had just turned on their high beams, and they were shining right in her eyes thanks to the reflection of the rear-view mirror. "Are you kidding me? Dude, if you're gonna have your beams that bright, just go around." She glared into the rear-view and signaled for the person to pass her. They didn't pass. Instead, they sped up, riding right on her bumper.

Reese sped up, trying putting some distance between herself and the car that was tailing her, but he only sped up and closed the distance between them. She could feel her heart rate increasing rapidly and she gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles went white. She had heard stories of sicko's following single women home and then attacking them. She was debating pulling out her phone and calling the police when her jeep suddenly stopped as if it had slammed into something.

Reese screamed as she was flung forward. Her head hit the steering wheel, leaving a long gash from the bridge of her nose to her left ear. She vaguely felt the car following her, clip the back of her jeep as her vehicle was yanked sideways off the road by an invisible force.

The force of the sudden change of direction caused her head to slam into the driver's side window, blurring her vision and sending waves of nausea through her body. She held her head tenderly and tried to get her bearings, only to be slammed into the window again as her jeep collided with something solid—for real this time.

A weak groan escaped her lips as she looked out the shattered windshield and saw massive robots fighting in front of her.

"Starscream, what is the meaning of you calling us here?" Optimus demanded the silver Seeker. He stood defensively in front of the rest of his team.

"Oh please, isn't it obvious?" Starscream smirked. "We both have what the other wants. You have the polarity gauntlet, and we have energon. You are running dangerously low on it, are you not? I would be willing to trade you some in return for the gauntlet."

"Starscream, you know I cannot make that kind of trade. Allowing the polarity gauntlet to fall into decepticon hands is not something I am willing to allow, no matter how much energon you offer."

"Then, Optimus, you leave me no choice. Decepticons, Attack!" Knockout and Breakdown, who flanked their commander, rushed forward and attacked Arcee and Bumblebee. Bulkhead was rushed by several vehicon troopers who had followed behind Knockout and Breakdown, leaving Optimus to fight Starscream alone.

Thanks to the Autobots being in control of the polarity gauntlet, the fight was over within a matter of minutes. They stood no match against a gauntlet that could control magnetic fields. Starscream surveyed his troops, all of whom were now injured or incapaciated. The Seeker dropped to his knees, clasping his servos in front of himself.

"Optimus, please, I beg of you. Show mercy!" Starscream flinched and scooted back, trying to anticipate the Prime's actions.

"I think we are done here. I don't see any use in wasting more time 'negotiating' with Starscream," Optimus turned from the sniveling seeker and addressed his team. He lifted his servo to his helm to request for a bridge back to base, but his body shuddered and collapsed as electricity surged through him.

Knock Out, who had been slightly dazed but was fully conscious, had slowly gotten back on his pedes and snuck up behind Optimus, stunning him with an energon prod. As Optimus' frame hit the ground, his grip was loosened from the polarity gauntlet. Starscream took his opportunity and quickly yanked the gauntlet out of the Prime's servos before any of the other autobots could react.

"Hah, the gauntlet is mine! Do you have any last words, Optimus Prime?" Starscream sneered as he pointed the gauntlet at Optimus. His attempt to activate the gauntlet thwarted, however, by Arcee running head long into his flank and tackling him, causing the electro-magnetic beam to shoot off into the desert night.

Starscream scrambled back to his pedes, glaring angrily at Arcee. "You will pay for that, two-wheeler," he growled as he turned and pointed the gauntlet at the femme. Luck wasn't on his side, though, as this attempt to use the gauntlet was again thwarted. This time, the interruption was a jeep flying through the air and slamming into him, causing him to fall backwards with a pathetic shriek.

Arcee retrieved the gauntlet from the pinned Starscream and retreated back to the autobots. "Let's get back to base before anything else happens!"

The autobots turned and prepared to exit through an appropriately timed ground bridge, but a painful groan coming from the jeep, that Knockout and Breakdown had just lifted off their commander, made the team stop in their tracks.

"Oh, what have we here?" Starscream sneered as he righted himself and peered into the windshield of the jeep. He broke through the window with his servo and pulled out a shaken human girl.

Reese couldn't believe what she was seeing. Surely this had to all be a bad dream. She must have hit her head pretty hard to be seeing giant robots. She gingerly raised her hand to her head, gasping when she pulled it back. It was covered in blood.

She yelped as the metal hand that threatened to cut off her air supply thrust her in the direction of some of the other robots. Every movement the hand made worsened the nausea she already felt, and for a moment, she thought she might be sick.

"It seems as if fortune has smiled on me today,"the robot that currently held Reese in his servo grinned. He sounded like a smoker, like a six pack a day smoker. "Well, Optimus, it seems you have no choice. Hand over the gauntlet, or I squish the human into pulp."

"Starscream, let her go. This fight should not involve innocent humans!" Optimus took a threatening step forward.

"Oh, but she is far from innocent. As I see it, she attacked me with that vehicle of hers," Starscream sneered as he shook Reese around and held her at a distance from the autobots. Reese covered her mouth as she felt her stomach jump into her throat. Unfortunately, what little contents it had, came with it, and she found herself being sick all over Starscream's servo. The mess dripped down onto his stilettoed pedes. "Oh, that's disgusting," he groaned as he looked at the mess in revulsion.

Knockout took this moment to nudge his buddy, Breakdown, and whispered, "Glad it was him and not me."

"You can say that again," Breakdown whispered back.

"Could you two shut it!" Starscream balked at the other two decepticons before turning back to the autobots. "Alright, Optimus, act now or forever hold your peace! Hand over the gauntlet or the fleshling dies. It has already purged on me, so crushing it couldn't be much worse."

"Very well, you leave me no choice," Optimus responded coolly as he cautiously stepped forward, holding the polarity gauntlet out towards the seeker commander.

Starscream snatched the gauntlet from Optimus with his free servo, and once it was safely in his possession, he unceremoniously dropped Reese into Optimus' now empty servos.

Reese curled into a tiny ball in the Prime's servo's, trembling violently. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to stop the world from spinning around her. This had to be a dream. A horrible, horrible, dream. She opened her eyes a sliver, only to see the distorted face of another robot staring down at her with concern. Her eyes blurred and she felt herself drifting from consciousness. This was the strangest nightmare she had ever had.

"It was a pleasure doing business with you, Optimus Prime," Starscream taunted as he and the other decepticons retreated through their own ground bridge, taking the polarity gauntlet with them.

Optimus couldn't care less about Starscream or the gauntlet at that moment. He was too concerned for the human that lay unconscious in his servos. Her arms and face were covered in blood and it looked like she had a large contusion on the side of her head.

"Ratchet, we are returning now. Please prepare med bay, as there has been a casualty." Optimus commed their medic, who was back at the base, before stepping through the ground bridge portal. The other autobots followed behind, all of them concerned as to what would happen now that Starscream had the polarity gauntlet.

On the other side of the portal, Ratchet had just started getting the med bay set up, only to find all of the team returning in good condition. "Optimus, you all seem to be fine, who is the casualty you menti-" Ratchet stopped mid word as his optics fell to the girl, who was still curled in the fetal position in Optimus' servos. "Primus! What happened?"

"Starscream got ahold of the polarity gauntlet and accidently dragged an innocent human's vehicle into the battle. She is badly injured. We ended up having to relinquish the gauntlet in order to save her," Optimus explained with dismay. He was disappointed in losing the gauntlet, and disappointed in himself for not being able to protect humanity as he would have liked.

"I see, well my Cybertronian medical expertise is not going to be of any help to her. You would be better off just taking her to the hospital," Ratchet grunted. He didn't particularly care for the indigenous life of the planet that he and his autobot compatriots were stuck on. He found them to be more of a nuisance than anything else.

"She has seen both us and the Decepticons. I worry that they might try to come after her. Furthermore, she is going to have questions when she awakens, and it's only fair that we offer her answers." Optimus argued with his medic.

"Fine, Fine, I will contact Nurse Darby and have her come and take a look her," Ratchet huffed as he turned to the communications terminal and pulled up Nurse Darby's number. "In the meantime, Bumblebee, go and get the spare gurney out of the storage bay. It won't do to have her laying on a metal medical berth."

"Right away!" Bumblebee whirred through his artificial voice box, and he made his way towards one of the storage bays that were in the large autobot base.

Optimus, on the other hand, worriedly looked down at the still, unconscious form in his servos. He knew he would never be able to forgive himself if she died because of a battle that was never meant to affect her planet.

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