A/N: Everyone will be in their G1 forms except for Ironhide and Bumblebee. Both their movie forms were way cooler, way cooler than Ironhide as a red van and Bee as a volkswagen beetle, so yeah. And please review!

Savior

"---Once on the ship we will disguise ourselves as cargo and wait till Soundwave exits. Then Mirage will go in and acquire the girl while we distract Soundwave and the casseticons." Optimus motioned to the screen above the control panel, which showed an image of Soundwave's base in the Pacific. Jazz crossed his arms.

"What about Laserbeak Prime? He's bound to see us coming a mile away."

"He's right Prime. There's no surprises with Laserbeak." Ironhide looked over to Ratchet and Jazz, who were near the far side of the control panel, both of them near Hound, who was holding the girl, Charlie. She was pale and still. While they arranged for a military ship to take them on the Pacific, Ratchet had told her of the Battle of Mission City, and their human comrades Sam and Mikaela. They had went through a lot, but had come out alive and were now seniors in high school. They visited the autobots when they could, and promised Charlie that she would meet them. They all hoped the presence of human peers would help calm her down.

"Any word yet from Bee?"

"No, Bumblebee has not yet answered the communications. He and Sam will not get here before we leave." Jazz crossed over to Charlie and took her from Hound. It had been pass the human around for the last couple hours. She sat on his shoulder.

"Sam and Bumblebee can't come? I wanted to meet them."

"It's cool, they'll be here in a month or so if they can't come now. Then we be partying!" Jazz danced around with Charlie, who was giggling. Optimus looked at the two, it was good to see the girl smile again. It had been a few hours since she had learned of her friend's abduction, and she had barely said a word after her initial shock and anger at the whole ordeal.

"Taking out Laserbeak is going to fall on you Jazz. You will lure him away from the rest of us and distract him, while Mirage sneaks into the base. Blinding Soundwave will be impossible but taking out Laserbeak will give us a large advantage."

"Right Prime." Jazz saluted. Suddenly Charlie spoke up.

"I want to come." All the autobots stared at her. They told her what happened at Mission City, and she still wanted to go. Optimus spoke up.

"I'm afraid that won't be possible. I will not allow another human to be put in a dangerous situation. No one would be able to protect you if the plan went wrong and we engaged the decepticons."

"Alex is probably freaked, and the last thing she would need are a bunch more giant robots grabbing her. She doesn't know you guys don't intend to harm her. You'll probably just scare her, If I was there then it would be easier to get her to calm down and listen. Besides she's my friend."

"That may be so, but I still won't allow it."

"But—"

"I'm sorry, but no."

"That's not fair! I'm not an autobot you can't order me around!" Optimus frowned at her.

"You are a young civilian femme, not a warrior, and not in your military. I can not guarantee your safety, and you can not defend yourself. These foes will kill you if they get the chance. I'm not going to give it to them." Charlie glared.

"I can too defend myself! I'm from a family of hunters, I'm great with a gun!"

"No." She would have continued arguing, but the look on Optimus' face made her quiet. She didn't know it was possible for robots to look stern and angry, but Optimus was doing a good job of proving her wrong. His mad look could've rivaled an angry nun.

"Fine."

"Good. You will not be here alone, Wheeljack and Ratchet will be staying at base with you."

"Why can't I go home?"

"Because it was not Soundwave's signal we detected around your dwelling. We have not been able to identify this decepticon, and so we must assume he is still at large. You will stay here until we can guarantee your safety." Charlie slumped.

"Fine. Just get my friend back safely and you've got a deal." Optimus smiled.

"Alright. We must get to the coast of Oregon to meet our ship. Autobots, transform and roll out!" Charlie just stared at the space the autobots had just been.

"You guys turn into cars?" Charlie's voice was barely above a whisper.

"Our alt forms vary but we are all transformers." Ratchet answered her.

"And you don't need drivers when you're cars?"

"Of course not." Charlie paled.

She was cold. That was the first thing Alex thought when she woke up. The second, was that her whole body hurt, and she didn't' remember why. She opened her eyes and was met with the sight of blood on a large metal wall. Oh that's right she remembered now. She'd been kidnapped by robots. And when she got a hold of Charlie and they found her she was almost killed. She scrubbed at her dirty face and pulled her hair out of her face, it was matted with blood. She felt her head., and found a small gash. Head wounds bled a lot, so she wasn't worried. She sat up and sneezed, then groaned. She was starving and her mouth was dry. They hadn't given her anything to eat or drink the entire time she had been there. How long had she been there?

"One day, two….How long have I been out?" She winced at her hoarse voice, and tried to stand, but a sharp pain in her leg brought her back to a sitting position. She could really go for a bubble bath about now. 'I haven't had a shower in days, geez that's almost worse than not eating! Ugh.'.

"Well, luckily I wear layers." She took off her t-shirt and her long white sleeved shirt, before putting her t-shirt back on. "Well it's kind of clean, at least it wasn't touching my skin." She wrapped her white shirt around her waist and took off her shoes. Her toes felt bruised. She rubbed her feet through her socks and rubbed her eyes. She'd had her contacts in for who knows how long now, she was going to get an eye infection for sure. If she lived much longer. That was a big if. She leaned against the wall and let out a sigh. She didn't know where she was. And that meant Charlie didn't know where she was. She didn't know how anyone would be able to find her, or if they did how she would be able to get out. She could barely move. Suddenly the door opened.

"Human consort of Blackfire still functions." Alex looked up at the tapedeck who caused this entire mess.

"Why am I here?"

"Confirmation of Blackfire's location needed."

"You want me to tell you where this Blackfire guy is?"

"Affirmative."

"Why the hell should I?"

"Disobedience is not an option. Insubordination will be dealt with deadly force." Alex gulped. "Location of Blackfire required."

"I don't know where he is."

"Answer undesirable. Where is Blackfire."

"I don't know!" Alex was near hysterics. "Where was the last place you saw him?" Soundwave's large hand reached into the cell and pulled her out. He held her at eye level. His red optics burned into her eyes, and he held her uncomfortably tight.

"Blackfire's last known location south of area designation: Black Hills." Alex trembled.

"Yeah yeah, he's still there, the Black Hills are big you know…..he could be anywhere, better keep looking….." She gulped and stared at his expressionless face.

"Answer satisfactory. Organic allowed to continue functioning." Soundwave tossed Alex back in her cell. Suddenly the entire room started to shake.

"Soundwave to Scavenger. Explanation required for raising tower."

"Scavenger here. An autobot was spotted. Laserbeak went to investigate."

"Acceptable. Soundwave out." He turned and left the room, leaving Alex alone again.

She didn't know how long she had been asleep when she woke to the sound of voices. Or, to be specific, a voice.

"Do not scream. I am here to help you. This room is under video surveillance, you must act as if I was not here." Alex's eyes widened and she kept very still from shock. She slowly looked around the brig. There was nothing there. She swallowed and her hands trembled. She'd gone crazy, a disembodied voice was talking to her.

"Oh crap. I'm crazy."

"You are not crazy. I am an autobot assigned to rescue you."

"Good luck." Alex stated, eyes unfocused. She heard once that when prisoners started hearing voices and their minds started unraveling that they were supposed to ignore them. But really, maybe her imagination would come up with something interesting. She heard a thump to her left and looked outside her cell. That must be where the voice was. What was an autobot she wondered? Well whatever it was said mysterious being was going to rescue her. "You aren't really here you know. I'm going crazy and you are how I am trying to stay sane." Mirage paused in his analysis of her cell. The girl was delusional. This was going to be more difficult than he thought.

"You must remain quiet, I am going to disable the surveillance system and break you out of here." Alex blinked, her green eyes red from crying and having her contacts in too long. She looked unknowingly right at him, and he stared, startled. Could she see him? But instead she looked down at her knees and smiled slightly.

"Okay mysterious voice, whatever you say. If a disembodied voice that I imagined saved me, I would be very impressed. Then again, I have always had an overactive imagination." She sniffled and sneezed.

Rumble was monitoring all the video screens for signs of autobot activity. He pushed a button and all the rooms of the base popped up. He lazily scanned through them, watching Ravage and the constructicons in their separate quarters and the refueling station. He pressed another button and an image of the brig popped up. He stared at the fleshling in her cell, and frowned. Her mouthpiece was moving, what was she doing? Did squishies talk to themselves? Wait, the screen just went fuzzy for a moment. Nothing ever went wrong with Soundwave's equipment.

"Rumble to Ravage, meet me in the brig. Something's going on in there."

"So, you have more voices as friends? Will they come too?" Alex had long since gave up trying to ignore the voice, she might as well talk back, she had nothing else to do.

"Um, yes, other autobots are coming, they are waiting for us outside. Your friend would be here too, but Optimus rightfully confined her to the base." Alex frowned. Her friend?

"What friend? I don't know any other disembodied voices." Mirage paused by the cameras.

"Not a voice, your friend, the other femme, the short loud one." Alex blinked, there was only one person who fit that description.

"Charlie? You know Charlie? How do you know her, wait, are you like, an invisible man or something? Like an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter? I could see that, but since Charlie didn't tell me she broke the code. I'll have to beat her up."

"I am not an invisible man. I am simply invisible at the moment."

"I wish I had a cupcake. I'm so hungry my stomach went numb." Mirage sighed, she was out of her mind with thirst and hunger, and would be of no help to him.

"Just keep quiet. You will be out of here momentarily."

"If you say so." Alex started twiddling her thumbs to pass time until her invisible friend saved her, when the door to the brig opened, and in walked Rumble, and a cat? Robots had cats?

"What the---squishy!" Rumble jumped forward and grabbed Alex by the neck, slamming her into the ground. She bit back a scream, looking up; she saw what looked like a giant robot panther growling above her. She stared at him in fear. "What's going on squishy? What happened to the surveillance camera? What did you do?"

"What do you mean? I'm locked in here I can't do anything!" Rumble pushed the now unlocked door, causing it to swing back and forth.

"Naughty, naughty squishy, trying to escape are we? Ravage, why don't you teach our squishy what happens when the big boss's prisoners try to escape, but you can't kill her, big boss needs her alive." Ravage growled and stalked toward her. She squealed and crawled backward, hitting the wall. Ravage advanced on her, then sprung, she screamed and leapt to the side, Ravage hitting the wall next to her. He growled and clawed at her, catching the hem of her pants. She clawed at the ground while he drug her backwards. He snarled and grabbed her head with his right paw, his claws scratching her forehead as he pulled her backwards.

"Stop it!" She choked as he cut off her air supply. He dove towards her neck with his jaw stretched wide.

"Ravage no! I said big boss needs her alive!" Rumble shot Ravage's ear, and he pulled back, howling. The bullet bounced in mid-air. They all stared in shock as something flickered once, twice then revealed a blue and white robot with what looked like a rocket launcher on his shoulder. Everyone froze, then chaos erupted.

"AUTOBOT!" Rumble and Ravage launched an attack on the white robot, who dodged their attack, and broke Alex out of her cell. He grabbed her and made a run for the door.

"Mirage to Optimus: My cover's been blown. I've got the organic and I'm on my way out."

"Affirmative, head for the ship we'll cover you. Optimus out." Mirage started running through the halls, holding Alex close to his chest. He turned a corner and skidded to a stop right in front of a green and purple robot with a red visor.

"I wouldn't go that way if I were you." Mirage skidded to a stop and readied his rocket launcher, taking a defensive position and holding Alex tightly to his chest. She was unmoving and silent in fear.

"Hook."

"Mirage." Hook shot forward suddenly, his larger form barreling toward them like a battering ram. Mirage fired, but Hook leapt to the side and kept coming. Mirage turned to the side and braced for impact. He was tackled to the ground, and Alex was thrown from his hand. She looked up from the ground to see Mirage untangle himself from Hook and attack him, knocking Hook offline, before she was thrown into the wall.

She blinked blearily as her vision swam and she struggled to stay conscious. The sound of fighting met her ears as a dull roar. Something was poking her side, it was uncomfortable, so she shifted. Something was moving under her, trying to..pick her up. It finally succeeded. It felt like……a hand……