Hey ya folks! Here's the net chapter, I'm hoping that they'll eventually get longer.

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Cybertronian

Dreams/Thoughts

~Time, place~

After the mini training session and my flirting session with the big guy. Wonder how big...shaking my head trying to throw that thought away, as Lennox said earlier 'Damn Aussies and their weird, dirty minds.' Epps and the new guy looked at me strangely, the new guy spoke to Epps before the new guy came towards me.

"Femme!? Is there something wrong with your processor?" He had the classic American accent. I looked up and grinned, maybe I could have a bit more fun with him.

"Nah mate, minds just in the sewers." I grin as he gains a confused look on his face and Epps, well lets just say he was having to lean on a wall for support. Grinning further I yell to Epps "Hey Epps!" He looks at me still laughing. "Didn't know you went to a support group with a wall! Has it told you it's story or is it simply a one way relationship?" That did it, Epps was on the ground pissing himself. New guy looked even more confused. "Confused yet buddy?" He simply nodded his cute face. What!? Where the hell did that come from?

"Why would your mind be the sewerage? It's filthy and contaminated. Also what was with the 'support group' comment to Epps?" Nawww he was innocent to the way of an Australian mind. I giggled and jumped onto a table, as we had walked inside as the sun set.

"Yes, the sewerage is filth, just as the thoughts on my mind were. And the comment to Epps about the support group was me making fun of his situation when he was laughing and doing a play on words. Well more like meanings." I watched as his eyes got wider as things set in. He then shook his head and mumbled something about strange femmes.

"I'm Ironhide by the way." Ironhide held his hand out for me to shake. Grabbing it I firmly shake it back as per the custom.

"Aquarius Grant, but I go by Aqua. Can I ask is Ironhide your actual name or is it a code name because your in a secret government group?" I grinned, seem to be doing that a lot lately. Ironhide looked shocked and then looked me up and down.

"Yes 'Ironhide' is a code name because we're with a secret government group, everyone here on base calls me by that name. Is your name Aquarius because of your hair? Your eyes are highly strange as well is that something you've had since your birth?" He just HAD to mention my eyes and hair. I looked around and found that most of the soldiers who were passing by had stopped. Sighing I look back to him and answer loud and clearly so those who were eavesdropping heard as well.

"No, I wasn't called Aquarius because of my hair, it's the star sign I was born in and my mother, bless her soul, loved astrology. I got my hair when I was 14 and have had it ever since. I have never dyed my hair once. For how I came to get my eyes and hair, I was in a nuclear accident involving Uranium. Ever since then I've had the eyes and hair you see before you. In all honesty I wasn't that far from the epitome of the explosion, technically I should be dead and not walking around." I sighed,memories of Turner stabbing me came rushing back and I suddenly found it hard to breath. I was trapped in the cavern of my memories when I was 14. Suddenly everything went black. Then I relived everything, my dads last smile, the terror on his face, Turner snapping at my dad and then stabbing me, the befuddled Alex at the gates, driving the car, the explosion and finally blacking out then from over six minuets of exposure to the Uranium.

Bolting upright and gasping for breath I realize I'm awake. putting my hand on my heart I focus my breathing and calm myself. Suddenly I felt someone beside me. "You've got a lot of explaining to do to me missy." A strangers voice sounded to my right, it sounded like Turners. Deep and comforting but more than capable of being narky and condescending. Turning to face the person and to check it's not Turner, he should be dead. Well I should be as well and I'm not.

"What do you mean? Who are you?" I asked wanting to get to the point. He stared me down, I simply stared back, my red eyes glowing in the dim lighting. Sighing he pushed me back down.

"Don't worry I'm not here to hurt you, unless you don't wish to comply with the doctor, as for your questions. When I say you have a lot of explaining to do, I mean just that. My designation is Ratchet I'm CMO here at this base. Now explain to me why you have, what appears to be scarring on your left side at you stomach. And what were you dreaming about that distressed you so much, because if it was from sugar so help me." I looked at him and realized that I was being paranoid.

"I have the scarring there from being stabbed with a blade when I was 14. And I wasn't dreaming I was reliving my memories. Bad memories." I snapped at him and then sighed and put my head in my hands. He's not like Turner. He's someone completely different. Yet why is he so similar?

"Do not snap at me young one, I have said that I'm not here to hurt you." He snapped right back to me, sighing he continued to speak to me. "There's one other thing you need to explain to me. I took a sample of your blood and found something highly disturbing and impossible at the same time. You have a mass amount of Uranium coursing through your blood, that much should have you dead. How are you alive?" He sounded like he was about to freak out. That would sound about right, I'm a freak he should be afraid. I'm a freak who survived something no one should have. I have powers that could destroy cities possibly entire states. I could hear someone snapping their fingers in front of me. Looking up I saw Turner and hatred suddenly came over me. Getting up and tackling him down onto the ground I started to punch and kick him screaming.

"You bastard! You sick son of a fucking bitch! You had the information for two fucking weeks and did nothing. Then when my father FINALLY has time off to spend with me you have to fucking call him in and demand that he fix it! You know what Turner? You killed everyone on site and you destroyed me! I'm a fucking freak! Because of your stupid decisions I not only lost my father but you tried to kill me and to top all of that off it was my birthday. You had to leave everything to the last fucking minuet and blow us all to kingdom come. Never mind the other 200 innocent lives taken by Uranium poisoning!" I screamed until my voice couldn't make anymore sounds, tears of hatred and sorrow streamed down my face. I felt someone pull me off him and suddenly I returned to reality, Ratchet laid on the floor bloodied and bruised. Gasping that I had finally lost the emotional control that I had tried to perfect over the last 10 years. I fell to the floor mumbling so many sorry's I lost count after 30.

Someone suddenly drew me up and marched me off towards the GMC Topkick. I was pushed into the passenger seat and, I think it was Ironhide, was in the drivers seat. He started to drive and nothing was said for about 15 minuets. "What happened back there?" He suddenly asked causing me to jump and snap my eyes to his. They were full of worry and, was that humor? Shaking my head I continued my solitude of silence. "You're gonna have to talk eventually. If I can't get a reason out of you now, Prowl's going to throw you into the brig. Not a fun place to spend the night." He sounded concerned for me. That's a new one for me.

"Have you got a communication device to Major Lennox?" I asked solemnly. Ironhide simply passed me a radio. "Major Lennox, this is Aqua, can you read me?"

"Read you loud and clear Aqua, you ready to come back to base and talk?" He asked gently, almost in a fatherly sense.

"Not yet, I'd like to clarify our little deal. If I tell my secret that also means you have to spill yours." I asked bluntly, I sensed Ironhide next to me tense. Interesting, wonder why.

"Yes that is our little deal, you told me that if I told you our secret you'd tell us yours. Are you going to tell us the missing details?" He prodded firmly.

"First I'm telling it to Ironhide. You guys will find out later, you have my word. Over and out." With that I cut the radio out. Sighing I gently threw my head back.

"Why are you telling me first? Why not wait till you get back to base?" He asked me gently. He didn't seem like the kind to ask thing gently or kindly for that matter. I softly smiled a small, sad smile.

"Because by telling you I can get my emotions straight and also how to tell my story. It's certainly not all sunshine and fucking rainbows, there are parts that even I wish I could forget." I reasoned to him, he simply nodded his head. "Now where to start? I suppose the beginning, like all stories. I became what you see before you when I was 14. It was my 14th birthday, I lived in Alice Springs and my dad worked for a Uranium power plant. Anyway, my dad was taking me to Uluru our oldest and most treasured natural monument. He was called by his boss, Derik Turner, he was a complete arsehole. Anyway, we made the stop at the power plant, dad was handed the information that was the cause of it all. The plant was having strange readings in the stabilization station, Turner had the information for two weeks. Kept brushing them off as nothing. Well his nothing ended with my dad getting furious with him. My dad told me to run and then explained the details of exactly how bad it was. I understood it, the plant was going to blow sky high." Tears had started falling as I remembered everything. Again. I haven't cried this much since my dads funeral. "I turned to run and get out of there but I was grabbed by Turner. He held a knife to my stomach and threatened my dad, I saw he was about to cave and told him that I loved him and that he'd do the right thing. It was already to far to fix, nothing he would of done could have stopped it. It was on the last few, precious minuets. Turner got infuriated and stabbed me, hence the scarring. I managed to get to my dads car and started it up. I sped down the road trying so hard to see through all my tears. I knew I was never going to see my dad again. I knew I wasn't going to make it out of the explosion range, let alone the radiation zone. I heard and felt the explosion and the tears fell even harder, my dad was dead because Turner was too lazy to report anything. Suddenly the car had flipped and I was in agony, looking in the side mirror on the car I saw the massive cloud of dirt, rubble and radiation come straight at me. Closing my eyes I cursed life and was suddenly engulfed in the cloud. Six minuets of being exposed to raw Uranium radiation, this is the result." I gestured to myself and opened the door and jumped out. Having only just noticed that we stopped in a field, no one was around and no one was coming. "My appearance wasn't the only thing that was changed. I now have control over water and fire." I didn't need the fancy movements or anything but it looked a lot cooler. I watched Avatar and then studied Tai Chi, putting two and two together. I did the level 3 crane set and moved my power through me. Going into a horse stance and my hands over my center. Focusing I slowly went through the movements. I felt Ironhide's awe rather than saw it, to busy focusing, but I knew I was working fire. The heat coming from in me said it all. Finishing the set I looked and saw his look of awe and amazement.

"That is what happened to you? 10 years ago?" He asked quietly, must have shocked him more than I thought. I simply nodded. "I think we need to get back to base. Oh, and well done with what you did to Ratchet." I stilled when he said that.

"Well done? I almost killed him Ironhide. All because my mind saw him as Turner. I know that he's nothing like that bastard but-"

"No one's ever managed to take Ratchet off guard like that before ever. You're the first, yes granted he'll most likely throw four or five wrenches at you, but that's his style." Ironhide interrupted quickly.

Sighing I got back into the ute- truck- whatever. We headed back towards the base, dread started to fill me. "Relax and just tell them. Don't beat around the bush. Tell them your story exactly as you told it to me. I'm sorry by the way. Your mech creator shouldn't of been offlined like he was." Ironhide advised me as well as comforted me. He doesn't seem like the type, at all.

"Thank you." As I said that the two of us entered the base, Lennox and Epps were waiting on the tarmac for Ironhide and myself. Behind them was about 12 different cars. Two looked like toy cars. Ironhide stopped the car and I stepped out. Lennox and Epps came forward but I held my hand up stopping them. "Before you come any closer I'll tell you about my past and the pieces you're missing. However, I ask that they go no further than here. To many what if's and could be's remain unanswered for it to be safe for others to know what I'm going to tell you." They both nodded and so I started retelling them exactly what I told Ironhide. After about 30 minuets of telling my story they both kept looking at me, shocked.

"Hello? Earth to Major Lennox and Lieutenant Epps? You guys in there?" I snapped my fingers in front of them gain their attention. Lennox was the first to come back to the world of the living. "Welcome back to the world of the living Major Lennox." He gave small smirk.

"So you were actually in the middle of the explosion? But your file said that you had managed to get out of the dead zone, how are you alive? That much exposure should have killed you." Lennox was trying to work it all out. Wasn't gonna happen, I'm an anomaly. Shaking my head I look at Epps and see that he has the same questions.

"Lennox, Epps. Yes my file does say that, what it doesn't say is that I had managed to turn the car back over and drive it further until I blacked out from loss of blood and pain. Yes that much exposure SHOULD of killed me. Like I said I lived but I'm also a freak of nature now. I told you about my powers, I wasn't kidding." I lite my hand on fire so a fireball was floating in my palm. Lennox looked slightly shaken. Epps whistled.

"Damn girl, you just made Aussie women look 10 times more scarier than before we met you." I rolled my eyes at him. Lennox cleared his throat and grabbed my attention.

"You've trusted us with your secret and now I believe it's only fair that we trust you. Alright guys the floors all yours!" He called out to some people. Suddenly the cars all started to transform into giant robotic beings.

"And I thought I was small." Lennox smirked at the comment. "Nice hiding abilities, I'm Aquarius Grant but you guys can call me Aqua. One question before you all introduce yourselves." I turned to the biggest one of the group and looked up at him. He was covered in blue and red flames. "Are you as tall as they come or are there others bigger than yourself?"

Everyone suddenly cracked up and three of the giant beings bent down to my level. Two were yellow and one was red, one of the yellow ones started to speak to me. "Sweetspark we're going to get along just fine. The names Bumblebee. Bee for short." His voice was one I recognized, that's right he was the one who worked out where I'm from. Grinning I walked up and sat on his foot. Looking up he seemed to have an amused expression on his face. "I think we're going to get along VERY well mate. By the way nice work on figuring out where I'm from." This caught the other two off guard.

"Your American aren't you?" The red one asked like it was the simplest thing in the world. I laughed and shook my head grinning.

"Nope I'm Australian, from the Northern Territory to be precise." I grinned as they seemed to start researching.

"You lived in a place full of so many creatures that could of killed you in mere minuets!?" A fluro yellow/green one screeched. I put my hands to my ears.

"Um ow!" I put my pinkie in my ear to rub the white noise away, never works. "Yes I lived there for my whole life until yesterday or today whatever day it is." I said back.

"It's today, you've only been out cold for a few hours." Lennox helpfully supplied.

"Thanks Major. And besides I haven't died yet so the point is null and void." I supplied back to the fluro yellow/green one.

"I believe we still need to introduce ourselves. I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. You already know Bumblebee." Flames gently interrupted.

The black one on Otimus' left answered next. "I'm Ironhide." I nodded, made sense.

The fluro yellow/green one was straight after Ironhide. "I'm Ratchet and you, silly human are in a world of trouble!" Oh. Shit. Laughing nervously I looked at Ratchet pleadingly.

"Look Ratchet, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bash the living crap out of you. Your voice is almost an exact replica of Turners, you sent off emotionally. I know that you're not him and I tried to not do what I did, but the more you talked the more you set me off." I tried to reason with him. He stopped and thought for moment before nodding his head.

"I understand you have a server case PTSD. Do medications work with you?" He asked me going into CMO mode.

Shaking my head I replied, "Nope."

"Heya l'il lady I'm mudflaps, the better lookin' of the twins." He was a cocky pain in the arse wasn't he. I looked at my nails and pretended to not hear him. A cruel grin made its way onto my face.

"Did anyone hear anything over the sound of his ego or was that him simply trying to get it up?" I asked with a straight face. Lennox, Epps, Bee, Ironhide and the other twin I presumed all burst out laughing at his humility.

"Dude she just owned you in one shot!" The other twin called out between breaths. "I'm Skids, the smarter one of the twins...and the better lookin'." He then shook his head at his brothers face.

"So there's two who no one can hear anything they're saying because of their ego? This should be fun." Was my sarcastic reply.

"Ignore them darlin' they're idiots and we all ignore them. I'm Sideswipe and this is my twin Sunstreaker. You can call us Sides and Sunny." The red one mentioned to his twin, the other yellow car.

"Don't call me 'Sunny' Sides!" Sunstreaker growled at his brother. I then had a thought.

"If you don't like being called 'Sunny' can I call you 'Streak'?" I asked politely. He seemed to consider my request after a minuet or two he nodded his head. "Thank you." Suddenly I felt something click into place. "Yeah, code names my arse Ironhide." I growled threateningly.

"Would you have believed me?" Ironhide snarked.

"Who are you talking to Ironhide?" I asked with a confused look, faking it completely.

"You, would you have believed me?." He asked me. I simply sighed and shook my head at his stupidity.

"Ironhide you've heard my story twice! I'd be a hypocrite to say that you were lying." I almost snarled at him. My patience was at its end.

"That's enough you two, you'll be spending the night on communications for simply being a pain in my aft." One that had police colors stated calmly but with no room to debate the subject. Looking at me he introduced himself as Prowl Second In Command and head of security.

"You've taken this a lot better than most would." Epps suddenly made his presence known.

"Practice, I'm the epitome of strange on this world. Now these guys take the cherry on the cake, but I'm so used to strange that I'm not really shocked by things anymore." I easily answered. Suddenly I yawned, Lennox saw this and smiled at me.

"Come on, you can stay on base tonight. I'll show you to your room." With that Lennox made his way inside. We walked for a while until we came to a hallway filled with numerous doorways. My guess was that this was the living spaces for the humans. Stopping at a door, Lennox opened it and let me in. "Your security and uniforms should arrive tomorrow morning after breakfast. On top of that your first day of work starts. Sleep well Aqua." With that Lennox left to get some shut eye. Seeing my suitcase I jump over to it and grab some fresh clothes and go for a shower. Head hitting the pillow I was out like a light.

~0425~

I woke up felling like something was off, or at least different. I remembered the events of the previous day, nope not answering my question. Quickly looking around I saw that no one was in my room, so it wasn't being watched. Then I worked it out, I didn't have any memories pop up throughout the night. I had a full nights sleep. Jumping up I grabbed a pair of my cam pants, a black singlet, my twin bracelets and my black bandanna. Getting changed I got my fitbit on and left.

As I was nearing the entrance to the base I felt someone following me. Stopping about a meter away from the door I turn and see Ironhide mere inches from me. Knocking on his hood I grab his attention, not like it was on anything else. "What are you doing Ironhide?" I asked calmly.

"Following you, you're going off base correct?"

"Nope I'm training, it's 0432. What am I going to do off base when the city is as dead as a doorknob?" I exasperated to him.

"Training at this hour? And I can see your point however no one can be a doorknob let alone as dead as one." He smirked back at me.

"Geez Ironhide we need to work on your use of sarcasm with a healthy dose of wit." I responded back making my exit and starting my run, Ironhide following me the whole time.

~0535~

Running back into base I see that it's starting to become alive. Seeing Lennox and Epps I make my way over to them. "Hey boys, mind if I join you in training?" Both of them looked at me weirdly.

"Um sure, we're stationed with Ironhide and martial arts training. It rough housing so not sure if you'll be able to keep up." Epps replied honestly. I laughed as did Ironhide.

"I think I can keep up. Ironhide here's been following me since 0432 hrs." I stated calmly.

"She ran, and I mean RAN, 26 miles in an hour. I think she'll be able to keep up." Ironhide was sounding impressed.

"I didn't run 26 Km, that would of only taken me half an hour, 45 minuets at least!" I dignified. Ironhide laughed.

"26 miles in Kilometers is roughly 42 Km. I don't think many humans can do THAT kind of distance in half an hour. You still made beautiful timing." He complimented me.

"Yo dude is Ironhide sick?" Sideswipe asked me. I turned expecting his robot form but I saw a man, roughly 22 years old with a styled hair cut black with red highlights and bright blue eyes. He was wearing training gear to.

"What do you mean Sides? Ironhide isn't sick." I was suddenly very confused.

"Ironhide doesn't give out compliments very often, in fact he's never given one since he became my guardian." Lennox supplied as we walked over the mats. Ironhide told us all to line up. Once we were in line he slowly made his way down the line, stopping every now and again. I knew exactly what he was doing, sizing us up, testing our nerves and trying to pick a suitable demonstrator. He walked past Lennox and then stopped at Epps, his face visibly paled. Ironhide then smirked and I did and continued on twoards me, passing me he stopped at the guy beside me, walking backwards he made his way back towards Epps. Epps squeaked as Ironhide walked back towards him. Ironhide looked at me and I stared at him, I could hear those around us muttering about me having a death wish, suddenly I couldn't stop the grin forming. "Something you'd like to ask me Ironhide?" I asked smugly.

"Middle of the mat. Now." Was all he said but he was still grinning. He must be thinking about the Tai Chi I showed him yesterday. I heard everyone once again saying things like 'poor newbie, already facing Ironhide's training' I merely grinned. "Right as most of you know Grant here is one of the newbies, you all know that I test everyone on their strengths and weaknesses. Now Aqua lets see just how good you are." Suddenly he took up a kickboxing stance. I myself taking up a karate stance. Ironhide moved with eerie grace however the left hook he had aimed at my stomach was miles too slow. Grabbing his left hand and pushing it down and following through with my left foot in a high kick I quickly took him down onto the ground. Triumphantly sitting on his back. Grinning I hear the cries of shock and the round of applause. "Up." Was all Ironhide said to me.

Letting him up he turned to everyone and asked the million dollar question. "Can anyone tell me what Grant here just did to be able to take me down that easily and quickly?" No one came forward, honestly did no one watch or something. Grunting he turned to me, "Explain to them what you did and maybe half these fools will take a leaf out of your book." Rolling my eyes I turned to everyone.

"Listen up everyone, I'm only going to say this once. What I did just before was use a Karate stance to hide the fact I was planing to use a Tae-kwon-do technique. To be able to use either in the form of battle you have to be highly experienced with both or all forms of martial arts. I can tell you now straight off the bat I can go into any form of martial arts and can, in fact, switch mid battle." Ironhide again looked mildly impressed so I decided to take it up a notch. "Ironhide would you be up for a full out match?" I asked him sweetly. Gasps were heard everywhere.

"Gladly." With that we both turned and went back to the middle of the mat. Once we were both comfortable I took up a Tai Chi stance, people looked at me strangely but I ignored them focusing on my breathing and Ironhide's movements. Suddenly he ducked down and swept his leg out, attempting to knock me down. Jumping up and doing a 360 spin kick I knocked Ironhide away, running at him I the fell and skidded under him as he went to punch me. Grabbing his as I went I pulled him so he fell over. Quickly trying to move so he didn't grab my arm and failing, he pulled me down. Falling into a back-bend and hearing people wincing as they saw my back bend in a very odd way. Grinning and getting an evil idea I put my right hand on his crouch and push my legs up and over so I flipped back onto my feet while putting my weight onto his precious crown jewels.

He cried out in pain and many of the guys winced. Watching Ironhide as he grunted in pain, get back up and came at me with a right hook. Waiting until the last minuet to react and to see if he was going to do a faint, which he did in the form of trying to kick me. Throwing both my feet up around his neck and side twisting my body we both fell to the floor, suddenly I felt a heavy weight on top of me. Looking up I saw Ironhide smirking at me, he was sitting on me! "Isn't this meant to be Personal Training not Personal Tormenting!" I cried out indignantly.

Phew this is the longest chapter so far. It's taken me all day to write to, anyway hope you all enjoy. Read and review!