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The meeting was….in a few very well put words: a waste of time.

She wasn't comfortable with Prime talking for her and Ironhide had to replace Prowl.

On top of that she had the three new guests, Senator Kelly wasn't all too bad, he was a bit understanding but kept pointing out very important problems like the assurance that I wouldn't talk about the autobots.

The second was the scientist, madam Rose, a very very thin woman, all skin and bone and with an abnormally large nose that made her look like a pecking bird, she kept noting things down on a paper whenever I made even a single movement and that was unnerving me, she wouldn't take her eyes off me, not even to write the said words.

The third was agent Simmons, my initial hunch about him was right to its core, I hated the guy the moment I laid eyes on him, he made many remarks to whatever Ironhide and Prime would say from time to time, and I swear even the old weapon specialist was making a huge effort not to blast the human to dust.

Simmons out of the three seemed not to want me to go even before he met me, and kept saying things such as a child not being trustworthy and that putting me to study the allspark was a waste of time, he seemed to be quite resentful for something and by the way Optimus was staring at him I could tell this hadn't been their first meeting or argument.

All in all we got no final decision; I was to stay with the autobots for the time being. If I could prove that I could decipher the allspark I would have to stay longer to help these guys out, but if I didn't I would be sent home straight away.

As the conversation went on, mostly on formalities, I let my mind slip away into wonder. Was it really worth staying? If it was just for a few more weeks?

But then again, what did I have back at home? A mother? A father? Two people who didn't do anything to stop their daughter from the fate she had?

To go back to a life where no one spoke to her unless it was to curse her existence? Where she couldn't find a chance to have friends?

My fists tightened, I bit my bottom lip to keep back the tears threatening to fall again, I still felt horrible for what I did to Prowl but all this thinking was just making it worse.

I was suddenly jerked back to reality when a large metallic finger touched my shoulder gently, I looked up at Prime, I couldn't help but give him a sad look, I felt responsible for what I said to him, I really had no right to stay at this base.

"I believe miss Rose just asked your permission to run a few tests on you." He said gesturing to the suspicious woman. A frown came to my face, I didn't like her at all, she had a snobbish attitude and kept checking if there was even a speck of dust on the table, plus she hadn't drank from her water at all unlike the other two, almost as if she was afraid of germs. I did NOT want to go with this woman, much less let her run tests on my body.

"I'm sorry Prime could we leave that for a little later? I'm not really feeling up to it right now…" if he was disappointed, he bloody hell didn't show it, actually he had been giving worried glances between the two of us and Ironhide, almost as if questioning his old friend if he saw the same apprehension he did.

"Yes of course. We'll leave that for tomorrow morning. Your dismissed" I stared at him questioningly for a while, then glancing at the three humans, with a short nod I made my way to the end of the table where Ironhide put me down on the ground and I left. Honestly I was glad to be out of there. The twins were still outside waiting for me though. Sideswipe crouched down on one knee to offer a hand but I shook my head gently giving him a ghost of a smile.

"I think I'll be going on my own feet thanks…I'll see you guys later…" I didn't want to wait for their answers or questions; I just turned away with a slight wave of the hand as a goodbye and turned to the other hall.

I made a short stop by my "room" and exchanged clothes to a pair of beige shorts the sort of thing you wear when you go hiking or mountain climbing but kept the black t-shirt, I didn't want to dirty too much laundry.

I then headed out, I needed some air, and there was only one place on the base where I was allowed some.

I headed for the second level of the base, this one kept the human size to it but it was a complete mess, the base had once been a military hangar, but the autobots could only use the lower level which they had remodelled quite well for themselves, this level however still kept the dusty offices with broken and abandoned machinery, she came here whenever she needed a moment alone and one day when exploring found out a way to the roof of the base, they were out in the middle of no where, a large forest was the perfect cover for the abandoned place and it had a small dirt road which was their only way back to civilization. It had however the greatest view for the sunset and sunrise.

She heard the now familiar metallic sound of an autobot and turned to see a yellow hand take hold of the roof, followed by its respectful body as the bot climbed onto the roof and carefully walked over making sure it was safe with his weight.

"Hey bee" I said as he came over and sat down next to me, his larger legs dangling off the building.

"What were you doing way up here Ashley?" I shrugged.

"I felt like being here…is that a bad thing?"

"No…not at all." He turned to look at the sunset and we stayed that way, silent, at least for a while.

"What are you doing here though?" He seemed surprised by the question but didn't look my way, his optics dimmed.

" I used to do this a lot before…with a friend of myne." I took notice on the "before" word and didn't question him about it.

"You can come with me and watch it more often if you want" I said trying not to sound too hopeful. I was going away after all…but I just didn't want to pass a chance to know these bots more. They were probably the only friends I'd ever get.

Bumblebee averted his gaze to look down at me, missing the last rays of the sunset, a smile spread on his faceplates.

"I'd like that" I smiled back at his answer.

"Now, I believe we just missed our last rays of sunshine so we better get back in." He nodded holding up a hand and I grinned. "I like to do things myself thanks, besides I'll get stiff if you guys keep cradling me like a baby. C'mon!" I hurried to the edge of the building and heard him stand up startled thinking I was about to jump off, which I actually did so he had his rightful reasons to panic.

His face came over with a horrified expression as he looked down thinking he'd see my splattered form on the ground bellow, only he didn't find it, there was no one on the ground.

"Ashley?!" he called uncertain, searching avidly. I giggled not able to hold it in and he looked closer to his hands, where the rain pipes were and I was holding onto them.

"You should have seen your face!" I giggled now full blast, he let out air from his vents as a relieved sigh.

"You young lady, scared the spark right out of its chamber! Don't ever do that again!" He said a bit mad, but he wasn't really angry I could tell he didn't mean any malice by his tone.

" You gotta admit I had you there" I gently climbed down the pipe as he scaled down the way he came from, he was surprisingly good at it, no marks were left on the walls and he barely made any sound for someone so big and made of metal. I jumped off onto his shoulder once 'near' the ground. "Hey bee, can I ask you something?" He nodded walking over to the base's entrance. "Where did you learn to be a spy? Your really good at it."

"Huh? How did you know I was a spy?" He asked bewildered, the autobots still hadn't fully told her what they did in this war, well except prime and a few obvious exceptions like Ratchet and Prowl.

" Well…for starters your all sneaky like" he raised an optic ridge at that and she shrugged. "Your incredibly silent despite being made of metal, and many times you look around before entering a room. Meaning your searching for any possible threat that could give out your position."

"And your surprisingly observant, are you sure you're a regular human?" he joked, to which I giggled chuckled lightly.

"Its just that I had to learn to sneak my way around so I identify myself easily with your reactions. Though in a war that would most likely make you a spy right?"

"Or a scout" he corrected.

"Oh…right, so…you're a scout then?"

"Actually I'm officially both. Whichever needs to be done. Jazz was the one to do the more serious spy stuff though"

"Oh? Why was that?"

"Well firstly because he was even smaller than I was, although just a little bit, secondly because he was also a saboteur and head of the special Ops Squad." I whistled impressed.

"He must have been one hell of a mech…" the young bot grinned, he was heading for the rec room.

"That he was…Now. I believe this is your stop" He said putting me down gently.

"Yeah, thanks for the ride Bee. Oh and if you see the twins and they are still worried tell them I'm fine okay?" He nodded heading off to his quarters.

I waited patiently until I could no longer hear his footsteps and made a dash. Turning around each path now memorized perfectly I headed to the one room I had any busyness with.

I stood at the entrance of the memorial room, staring up at the silver body reflecting he shard's faint blue glow.

"Hey Jazz…" I hurried over to the cabinet and opened it, it had to be done quickly, I couldn't let the autobots know what I was doing. Heck I wasn't even sure what I was doing. I just knew I had to try.

I turned to the human control panel on the side that required a password, after all it had been the humans who insisted the autobots made a safe place which both species could acess.

"Hmm…lets see if I can crack your code" I sad starting to try out various combinations.

It needed four letters, so my possibilities were vast.

I stood there trying different possibilities for a while but was getting no success. The glow brightened a bit for a while and I noticed the reflection on Jazz's body had increased a bit, giving him an almost alive look, it was as if the shard wanted to give him life again.

"I know… I know…Just hold on a bit Jazz…" I said to myself turning back to the panel, then it hit me. I stared wide eyed between the empty silver shell and the control in front of me." Jazz…" in a quick rush of realization I slammed in the letters, the green light lit and the door opened with a hiss. The shard lowering down to the human level.

Hesitantly I stepped inside and looked at it, this was the closest I've been to it, I could carefully see any fissure it had, any mark and detail that could escape me before. It glew brighter as if it knew. I slowly reached up to touch it when the hiss of the door awoke me from my trance. I looked back like a deer staring at the headlights of a car. Or rather, a transformed semi truck.

"Ashley!" he shouted in a startled tone hurrying over, pulling me back out and closing the cabinet. "What do you think your doing?! That's dangerous!"

"I was only trying to see better!" I protested trying to get past his gigantic hand but he kept blocking my path, he looked down at me with a stern expression I had never had the experience to face, I felt ashamed somehow.

"You were going to touch it weren't you?" I looked away, shuffling with my feet, my silence was enough answer. He sighed rubbing the bridge of his nose plating with his free hand.

"You can't touch it. Is that clear?" I pouted, if I couldn't touch it then how was I supposed to study it? "Ashley listen, it nothing personal. The last human to touch it had to endure severe consequences; he is still threatened by the decepticons to this very day." He explained, I suddenly felt a pang of jealousy, I knew exactly who he was talking about. He relaxed visibly at this point though and put away his hand.

"What were you doing in here anyway? I thought you had gone to recharge by now." How could he speak so normally to me? I had insulted, shouted, and disrespected him, yet he behaved as if nothing had happened.

"I… I just wanted to get a better look at it…I haven't really been able to get a good look yet and it's hard to study it since its usually so high up." Well it was half true, the other part was that after Bumblebee's reference to Jazz I really wanted to bring the mech back.

"How did you even crack the code? Primus only I know of it and the secretary of defense." I pointed guiltily at Jazz.

"It was kind of obvious…" I admitted.

"Ashley I need you to give me your word that you will never do something rash like that again" I looked up at the shard; I didn't want to make this promise. "Your word Ashley" he insisted and I winced nodding ever so lightly. He relaxed visibly.

"But how am I supposed to help you guys if I can't see it properly?!" I demanded balling my fists at my sides. A faint smile reached him; I was confused at first until I was picked up from the ground and held in his hand. I glared up at him questioningly then turned to the side to see the faint blue glow right next to me, only on the other side of the glass. I leaned forward in fascination; it was the first time I saw it glow while an active autobot was inside. Maybe it knew, maybe it was anxious, maybe it knew Prime would understand. I made myself comfortable in his hand as he stared at the artefact with an encrypted expression.

"Thanks…" I muttered after a while trying to memorize the symbols and figure out what they meant and what they were for.

"I should be the one thanking you. You are doing this for us, yet you won't gain anything from it." I shrugged.

"I wouldn't say that…" I felt his questioning gaze weight on me. "I get to stay with you guys. That's a lot more than you can ever imagine." He turned back to the allspark. Eyeing it in wonder. "I'm sorry by the way....for the way I behaved."

"Its allright " he said with in a comforting voice."

"It WHAT?!" Ratchet's unamused voice all but rang in his helm.

"It reacted to Ashley's presence, it had never reacted to any of us before." Prime repeated. " I stayed with her there for most of the night, it didn't stop until we left, when I came back from the rec room it was no longer glowing."

"Are you suggesting the Allspark knows Ashley can fix it?" Prowl questioned with a sceptic look. It was highly unlikely that a mere human could do such a thing, but she did crack Ratchet's personal notes, and that was something even most cybertronians couldn't do. Medics and scientists were always a pain when it came to notes, it was always because they were afraid someone could use them to their advantage and harm others like the decepticons.

"It's a possibility, we know as much about it as the humans do."

"Which means nothing at all, we don't know what we're meddlin' with here Prime, if this turns out the wrong way…" Ironhide trailed off, his processor probably imagining all the insane possibilities.

"Ashley gave me her word that she wouldn't touch the Allspark" Prime told him in a stern tone, thing about Prime he always trusted everyone to their word, which many times had led to betrayals and stabs in the back. But it was just his nature.

"Still it couldn't harm to keep an optic on her." Wheeljack suggested. "I'd be glad to have her over by the lab whenever she needs to study cybertronian coding. I'm rather interested in how she manages to process all of it." Ratchet snorted.

"As long as you don't blow her up"

"I will suggest your offer to her Wheeljack, however no experimenting while she is in your lab. This is just like when you tried to teach the younglings." Optimus warned. " In the meantime on other occasions I think we can change guard shifts between the twins and Blurr since Bumblebee is to pick up Sam tomorrow."

"Speaking of which where is he?" Sunstreaker grumbled irritated as usual, the little yellow Camaro hadn't come to their meeting.

"He's waiting with her in my med bay, I have to supervise the scientist testing her, but I didn't trust her to stay with the kid alone so I left him on guard." Ratchet grouched.

Bumblebee watched the two humans with mild interest. The woman known as Doctor Rose was questioning young Ashley who was all but compliant to give useful answers. She either replied sarcastically or rudely. None of the two were satisfying the information hungry doctor.

"So, I have to ask, how did the cybertronians affect your ideology and morals so far? Has anything changed at all? Any new views on the world and universe?" Ashley raised an eyebrow at her.

"Who said I had any morals in the first place? No they haven't changed any of those, I'm the type of person that doesn't change if someone tries to force her to. I only change morals if I think they are right or that I adapt to them."

"And none of this changed?" the woman asked. Ashley grit her teeth out of exasperation and gave Bumblebee a pleading look, he however only smiled and kept waiting for Ratchet to come back, secretly he was wondering how much longer Ashley was going to hold back, the woman had already asked some very disturbing questions about the young female's personal hygiene and feminine subjects, to which the girl's stress levels had increased out of embarrassment.

"Lady, I told you before, NOTHING in me changed ever since I tagged along with them. They are almost as safe as humans! If not safer sometimes." She declared, giving the yellow bot a sense of pride in himself. To say something like that meant they were doing a very good job. Doctor Rose however quirked and eyebrow, a smirk forming on her lips as if she had just caught what she was looking for.

"Almost?" Ashley stared at the woman frigidly; she knew where she was getting at.

"Well you have to admit their size can be dangerous and accidents do happen, its like trying no to step on a kitten in the middle of a crowd. Things just happen."

"Has this happened to you?" she asked noting down her result with glee.

"No! Of course not, do I look like I was stepped on or something?!"

"I suppose not" the woman said not looking up at the girl. The said girl had it, she stood up and pushed down the notepad the woman was writing on to stare at her square glasses with a vicious glare. "Look lady, I don't like the way your making this sound, and if you so much as accuse them of-" just then the door hissed open and Ratchet entered, everyone froze up staring at him, he stood there his optics changing from the young spy to the two humans.

"Am I…missing something?"

"Ah, doctor Ratchet I believe? You came just on time, we're done with the interview Doctor Rose said standing up and ignoring Ashley's deadly glare.

The old medic nodded slightly. "You can go now Bumblebee, I think the twins were looking for you." The yellow bot nodded and turned to the young human.

"Cya Ashley! Don't forget we owe Mikaela a visit!" he said dashing out of the room.

Ashley groaned at that, they had both forgotten about that the day before and were going there today to make it up for the poor girl who waited for two hours.

She was still sleepy though, having stayed almost all night sitting on Prime's hand and studying the Allspark until she fell asleep.

Ratchet sat down in his rusty old chair watching the two humans as the doctor started to examine her more clinically now, mainly checking the eye colour, ears, heart rate etc… Ratchet was intrigued by the procedures never before having used any of the objects to analyse something. It was simply fascinating how humans evolved to try and fix themselves.

Doctor rose suddenly took out a syringe from her medical kit and the girl visibly flinched away, his scanners showed her distress had increased considerably.

"What are you doing with that?" the doctor stopped in her advance, much to Ashley's relief.

"I need a blood sample to analyse her. It's just a little sting I assure you." The woman said with a feign smile. Ratchet didn't like it but nodded for her to carry on much to the young one's regret.

"I don't think that's necessary" she said a bit too quick due to her fear.

"Don't be silly now, if you can survive from being stepped on you can certainly survive from a little sting." The look on the woman's face was telling Ashley something else though, Ratchet was behind her so he couldn't see it. It was the type of look that said 'say-anything-and-I-will-make-them-take-you-away'. She replaced the syringe quickly with another from the inside of her jacket. Ashley paled but didn't dare look at Ratchet lest he saw her pleading expression. It was a double needle; one side of the vial had a silvery fluid while the other was empty. The woman got closer; making sure her own body was covering the needle from the medic's view behind her.

Ashley hissed looking away, she never really liked needles, not that she was afraid of them, she just didn't like the feeling of her blood rushing to her head when she knew something was coming into her body.

The liquid the woman infused stung only lightly for a few seconds and then disappeared.

She backed and quickly put the syringe back in her jacket taking out a band aid and finishing the job. She then took out a third syringe already with blood in it, someone else's of course and turned to Ratchet. "There, that should be all, now if you don't mind I just have one more feminine matter to speak with young Ashley before I leave" He didn't move, staring at the woman impatiently. So far he hadn't seen her do anything wrong. Ashley was looking at her forearm disgusted at the spot the band aid was at.

Seeing the medic wasn't leaving the human made a fake coughing sound but he didn't get it.

"Ratchet she means she wants a few minutes alone with me." Ashley explained looking up at his old optics, he stared at her for a while, his expression one of clear distrust, but then again he was always like that. "Its okay, its probably just women stuff." She said with a small shrug.

He grouched something in cybertronian and reluctantly left his own med bay. Doctor Rose stared at his leave for a while.

"Grouchy one isn't he?" Ashley didn't answer her, she was glaring daggers at her head when the woman turned around with an eery smile. "You did very well lying like that, where did you learn? Stole your parent's money often? Snitched the teacher's wallet?" she asked walking over.

"What did you put inside me?" Ashley demanded ignoring completely the woman's remarks.

"That's for me to know and you to never find out." She said patting the girl's head, to which she growled and took hold of in a vice grip, making the woman flinch at the strength used.

"I'll make this very clear lady, I don't like you, they don't like you, and if you did anything-"

"No I'm making this very clear." The woman interrupted. " If you so much as word a thing about what I did I will report to the secretary of defence that these alien creatures are far too dangerous and you'll be taken to our headquarters for proper 'care'" the way she had worded it gave the young girl the goose bumps, she wasn't kidding.

"I don't care what happens to me, but if you dare to-"

"Hurt your friends? Oh that all depends on you Ashley" she said calmly. They exchanged a glare before Rose yanked her arm free and went to gather her medical kit. "I'll be coming back next week to check on the results. If you do anything suspicious, anything at all, we can blame your death on them. And you know what happens afterwards." She glared as the woman left. The room felt awfully cold and large, even larger than it was supposed to be.

Ratchet came back in shortly after immediately noting the human's depression.

"Is something wrong?" He asked lowering himself to her level.

"N-no…its nothing… I just remembered something." She lied getting to her feet and adjusting the wrinkles in her clothes. " Anyway I should be going now, thanks for supervising though, I felt more at ease" the young human then hurried off leaving Ratchet to wonder, his scanners on her until the doors hissed closed and she was out of sight.

The ride to Mikaela's garage was short, it was just outside of tranquillity and honestly the girl wasn't feeling up to this.

Bumblebee pulled up into the surprisingly empty garage, there were materials of all sorts inside and a young woman was standing there waiting for the camaro to stop in front of her, cleaning her greasy hands into a dirty rag. She was everything Ashley had imagined when she had first borrowed her clothes. Young, insanely beautiful, tan skin, nice hair, well…you get the picture.

She climbed out of the camaro and his form shifted as he started to transform.

The garage was big enough for him to stand and since there were no workers in there it was okay for him to reveal himself.

Mikaela smiled and patted his leg once he was done.

"Good to see you Bee. How's it going?" The scout lowered himself to sit on the ground.

"Not the same without you and Sam around to make out on my hood" he joked, and mikaela blushed intensely.

"Your never going to let that go are you?"

"Nope" he chirped. Then he turned to me pushing me forwards in encouragement. "This is Ashley, the girl I told you about, Ashley, this is Mikaela." He introduced. Both girls nodded, Mikaela offering a hand and noting how the younger one didn't mind getting her hands dirty by shaking it, she already liked her for that.

"Hi" both said to each other in an awkward moment.

"So… your going to pick up Sam tomorrow?" He nodded excited playing a music Ashley didn't know to enhance his meaning and snapping his fingers with the beat. Mikaela snorted.

"Not that song again bee…" she then turned over to Ashley "How do you put up with him?" she joked making the young bot whine in a pathetic way on purpose.

"Awww...he's not that bad, he has good taste in music."

"HA!" Bumblebee cheered raising a finger for her to high five, which she did reluctantly.

"He can however be a bit childish sometimes, nothing compared to the twins though"

"The twins? Oh yeah you mentioned them" she said turning to the camaro. "I haven't had the chance to meet them yet." She snorted.

"Trust me as soon as you become their target you'll wish you never did."

"What? Are they like Ironhide?"

"Nah…he'd be happy if they were" Bumblebee said getting a curious look from both females. "Instead he's almost as afraid of them as Ratchet"

"Ratchet is afraid of someone? Now that's news." Mikaela said with a smirk.

Ashley sat down against Bumblebee's knee trusting him not to hurt her if he had to get up.

"Their devils, masters of torture I tell you. Sideswipe especially, Sunstreaker is more on the psycho side…" The older girl raised an eyebrow at her.

"Hold on, I'm just going to clean my hands better and get some cookies, we can talk while we eat, Bumblebee if you want help yourself, there's an oil can over there " she said pointing to the said object. The yellow bot shook his helm with a smile .

"no thanks Mikaela. I'm fine like this" She tore out the door heading into the house next to the garage. Almost immediately Bumblebee started tapping his fingers on his other leg impatiently humming a Christmas song with his metallic voice, she wondered where he learned it but shook the thought away when she felt a small sting in her right arm. She looked down at it and glared at the band aid that was still sticking there, carefully she started to tear it off. What she saw made her lean again the bot's knee for support as her body trembled from an effort not to throw up, the spot where the syringe had stung was purplish and her veins were starting to show. She felt sick just looking at it and the stinging sensation was increasing.

"Ash?" she heard the young bot, but couldn't bring herself to answer as an effort to take control of all her shaking. "Are you okay?"

She felt herself start to shake more and more and was starting to slide off the metal surface supporting her when gentle fingers held her up supporting her by the stomach and chest. She heard Bumblebee faintly calling her and then shouting for Mikaela. She could see things clearly but was loosing control over her own body.

Somehow the two had managed to get her into Bee's carform and she now lying in the back seat. Reluctantly she looked down at her arm again and saw the purple mark spreading, she wasn't feeling too well.

Primus…what had that woman done to her?

Yep, it ends here, no really the chapter ends here lol, you'll have to wait for the next one.