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Sunday: 1200 hours, Autobots, Pet Shelter

I want to give credit to Autobot Slipstream for the OC of Breonna, thank you!

Bumblee and SmokeScreen roamed ahead of the others as they looked at all the animals. They were now in the CAT section of the shelter and were awing at all the cats. Optimus walked over to a black cat and watched as it turned around to look at him with it's yellow glowing eyes. It hunched up and scratched a paw out at him hissing.

"Hey boss b- Optimus, I think that one likes you." Optimus raised a brow at the Bulkhead.

"These animals have a funny way of showing a likeness towards people."

"That's mittens, our aggressive one." A woman walked up behind the two men smiling. "If your looking for a more calm cat I would suggest Nightmare." They looked over to see a white and grey cat kicking in its sleep. "I know right, you would think the names got mixed up, but no. Nightmare over there was named because of all the nightmares she had when she sleeping." They heard a meowing and then a hiss and looked over to see SmokeScreen holding his hand that had three scratches on it. "Sorry about that." The girl said picking up the arched cat. "Joy here, hates men." She pet the cat and it started purring. "Something to do with her previous owner."

"Can we look at the dogs now, I don't think these cats are agreeing with us." WheelJack said holding the door.

"It would be best." They all walked out and to the large room that was full of barking dogs. Once they were there, they all split up to roam different sections of the dog shelter. SmokeScreen and Bumblebee went down a random isle and ended up getting the small dog section. Bulkhead and WheelJack went down a different isle and ended up finding the more bulkier aggressive dogs. Ratchet, Ultra Magnus, and Optimus ended up going down their own separate isle's.

Optimus looked at the small and large dogs that roamed around their small cages, looking at him with sad eyes, hoping he could be their next owner. He frowned a little, sad that these dogs did not have a place to call home. As he walked down the isle he did not notice one dog in particular wagging his tail and ever so diligently starring at him. As he passed the dog barked loudly and he stopped making the dog bark again. Optimus backtracked and looked to the Dark Grey Great Dane that had stiff pointy ears and a short budded tail.

"Hello." He said barley crouching down to get to the dogs level. The dog barked and wagged his tail harder. "And who might you be." He looked to the paper but saw that there was no name. The dog barked again loudly and Optimus covered his ears. "You sound like Thunder when you bark.." Optimus tapped his chin and thought. "Hm, Thunder, that's a good name for you." The dog sat down and pawed the gate that was cutting him off from the outside world. A man walked up to him and cleared his throat. "May I help you sir." Optimus said facing the man and standing up.

"Do you need any help looking around for an animal?"

"I think I'm good."

"I see you found out loudest one here, poor guy is going tomorrow." The dog whimpered and scooched back.

"Go?"

"Ya, if a dog stays here for a long period of time, we have to." He slid his finger over his neck and Optimus nodded. "But they are up for adoption until the final hour. All dogs who are in line to go this week are on sale."

"I will have to talk with my family first." The guy smiled and walked off past Optimus just as the others came around the corner.

"Nothing." Ultra Magnus said.

"I hate small dogs." SmokeScreen followed.

"Bulldogs are cool, but I could probably live without all the slobber." WheelJack said wiping his hands on his pants. Optimus looked to his family and saw that they all seemed bummed that they couldn't find an animal for their house, or as what other Fraternity housed called them Mascot.

"Why don't you all go on back to the house, I have a few other things to catch up on." Optimus said calmly. They all walked off leaving their leader behind. Once he saw them walk out of the parking lot, through the window he grabbed the man who had spoken to him beforehand. "I would like to adopt him."

"Great choice. We'll just have you sign a few adoption papers, pick out his name, and pay for him. You can also buy some supplies if you need to." The man took the dog out and attached him to a leash. Optimus followed him to the front desk and wrote out all the information they needed.

"So, what's his new name?" The woman said taking his first set of papers.

"Thunder." The dog barked at Optimus as he said his new name, and the girl laughed.

"Would you like to buy some necessities for him?" She took out a bag of dog food and a lightning yellow collar and leash.

"If it is required."

"Well the food is, if you don't have any. But the leash is up to you, although I would recommend it since he's new and you don't know what he would do." He nodded and paid for all of it, he then set the collar and leash onto the dog. Once they were out Thunder started to pull against the leash whimpering. He looked to the dog funny and then to the open space around him. He walked to the other side of the road that was large grassy field and he unlatched the dog from his grip. Thunder stopped and looked to his new owner, Optimus nodded and the dog took off running, he was faster than any other creature he had seen on this planet, he raced around trees, bushes, and the park. When all of his energy wiped out from him he plopped down on the grass that was underneath a shaded tree. Optimus walked over and sat down next to him. Thunder rolled over and laid his head onto his owner's lap giving him the sorrow face.

"You're a very active one aren't you?" Thunder barked in response and rolled over again so that his chin was resting against Optimus's lap. "Alright." Optimus pet his dog and smiled as Thunder's body became less stiff and more in a relaxed state.

Sunday: 1400 hours, AUTOBOT FRATERNITY HOUSE

"Where's Optimus, he should be back by now?" Ratchet asked as he walked into the main living room. Bee shrugged paying attention to the TV and eating dried cereal. "Give me that!" Ratchet snagged the cereal box from Bee making the boy flip around and grab for it. "This." He said shaking the box in front of Bee. "Is for breakfast, not snacks. Human food isn't like energon, we have to buy it, and that takes money, and money is hard to get for us." He walked off with the box and Bee slumped into the couch pouting. BumbleBee and SmokeScreen flipped through the channels bored to death. As they watched cartoons they heard the door open and close, they looked over to see Optimus with a slight...smile... on his face. They looked down when they heard panting and saw a large dark grey dog.

"A dog! Awsome, Optimus!" SmokeScreen said jumping over the couch and running to the dog. "What's it's name?" Everyone else walked into the main living room, due to the commotion that SmokeScreen was causing.

"Everyone, I would like you to meet out new Mascot, Thunder." Optimus said with slight happiness in his voice, instead of his usual monotone way.

"A dog? With all do respect sir, but shouldn't we be paying attention to getting back home than buying animals?" Ultra Magnus asked seriously.

"Until we can figure out how we got here and how we can get back, we might as well try and live the way humans do." Ultra Magnus folded his arms and raised his head.

"If that is what you think is best, sir." Once Optimus let Thunder off of his leash he bolted towards the kitchen, everyone watched as he disappeared. Silence was heard for a few seconds until the sound of glass breaking washed over them and the angry voice of Ratchet.

"I NEEDED THAT!... Wha-! A DOG!" Optimus walked from his position and into the kitchen to the scene of the crime. A glass bowl that had water in it had been knocked to the ground, Thunder was crawling on his belly towards his new owner with large guilty eyes.

"It's alright Thunder." He said.

"A dog Optimus? Have you gone mad!?"

"I thought it would help us all to cope with the change." Ratchet sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Alright Optimus, but keep it away from me when I'm working."

"Alright." Optimus walked out with Thunder. He couldn't help but smile, even though he was Ratchet's leader, Ratchet had always treated as his son. As he walked back into the living room the doorbell rang. He opened it up to see a beach blonde hair girl with red emerald eyes, she had on a silk summer dress and high heels. Behind her stood another girl with red hair, and autumn green eyes, her outfit consisted of a yellow v-neck and sports pants, she also had pale blue headband that was hidden under her hair except for her forehead.

"Hi, I'm Brittnianne. And this is Breonna." She pointed back to the girl who wasn't there anymore. She looked back and then to the ground when she felt something bump against her leg.

"You have a dog! Oooohhh he sooooo CUTE!" She crawled under Brittnianne trying to reach the dog.

"Get Up!" She pulled Breonnas arm up and jerked her into place. "Sorry about that, someone forgets to use the part of her brain that actually works." She shooed her away and smiled at Optimus. "As I was saying, I'm having a welcoming party for all the new Fraternity and Sorority houses." She looked past him at all the others and then to Ratchet who had walked in. "Uhhh, 30 years is our age limit." She handed Optimus a piece of paper and smiled. "Bye." She walked off towards the red haired girl and grabbed her wrist pulling her away. Optimus shut the door and looked to the paper.

"We gonna go?"

"That is your choice Bulkhead, although I would deem it an unwise choice to affiliate with people who are on the same level as Megatron. "I am sorry if she offended you Ratchet."

"It's fine, but she needs an attitude check."

"I agree." Silence filled the room and everyone looked around awkwardly.

"Wow! She was hot!" They all looked to SmokeScreen who had his mouth dropped open and his eyes were larger than usual. Ratchet walked over to him and backslapped his head. "OW! What was that for."

"I don't have my wrenches for the time being, so I will be using what the humans call a Gibbs Slap." The rookie scowled at him and walked out of the room holding the back of his head. Thunder ran around Optimus's legs and barked, once he got his owners attention he ran to the back door and wagged his tail ferociously. He let him out and shut the door.

YES! A New Chap! I hope you all like the Autobots new mascot Thunder, I tried to go for the large but loving side in him. For any NCIS fans out there, I hope you caught onto my little thing I slipped into there, but hey, wrenches and human heads don't mix well so, I had to improvise.

Please Review, Constructive Criticism Welcomed, if needed. I am accepting any future chap and OC ideas you might have! *Checks time and pouts* Well I best be getting to bed if I want to wake up in the morning, until next chap!