Nightbird

Author's Note: Wow, this story has 8 favs and 11 follows. Thanks for reading everyone; it makes me happy to write stories like this. Oh, the picture you see in front of the story is Emma and what she'll become once her enhancement is complete. I have other pics I drew of her on my DeviantART page. *Name in Profile*

Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro and whatever. Nightbird is my OC.

(Thoughts)

=Speaking Cybertronian=

::comlink::

"I'm sorry Ma'am, but there's no record of Emma Bowman ever existing."

"THAT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT! MY DAUGHTER IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE!"

"Mrs. Bowman calm down. I honestly don't know why she isn't in the hospital databanks or anywhere else. It's like she was wiped off the face of the Earth…"

At a Police Station in Downtown Long Beach, a woman no older than 40 was pissed off. Her daughter Emma Bowman was missing and when she called her cellphone all she received was a blank signal. Now it's been over 24 hours and the police couldn't find her. Mrs. Bowman always knew that whenever her daughter didn't get her way she'd run away, so this wouldn't be the first time she did so. The police would always find her whenever this happens, but this time there was no trace of her daughter ever existing.

"Are you sure you can't find anything on her?" she asked.

"Yes I'm sure." The cop sighed and rubbed his hair. "This doesn't make any sense… Everything about her seemed to have just…vanished." The Police Officer was stumped on what to do, he knew that Emma had a bad habit of running away and he couldn't find her. Everything about her was nonexistent. He turned around in his chair and looked at Mrs. Bowman. He could tell the woman was not only upset but scared for her daughter. "Mrs. Bowman I don't know what to do, but we'll put out an Amber Alert for her. "

The older woman sighed and rubbed her head, being angry wouldn't help anything plus her daughter's done this before. They'll find her in no time. "…Alright, I trust you all to find her. Just let me know if you come across anything."

The cop nodded and smiled at her. "Don't worry, we will."

The cop watched as Mrs. Bowman left the Station, soon as she did he breathed a sigh of relief. The cop, named Aaron, honestly hoped that Emma stayed missing. He knew how controlling and verbally abusive her mother was to her, but he honestly couldn't do anything unless the girl told him about it. He felt sorry for the poor girl and hoped wherever she ran away to the people would help her. He groaned and printed out a picture of her that Mrs. Bowman gave him. Aaron didn't want to put out an Amber Alert but he had to. He whispered a prayer for her.

"God give that poor girl strength to escape her hardships…"

Outside Mrs. Bowman was sitting in her truck fuming. This was the 4th time her daughter has done this and she was outright livid. She sighed and shook her head. "Shit, I don't know what's going through that damn girl's head… Maybe it's her Autism making her do this." She started up her truck and drove off, heading for home. "I know one thing though, once they find her she's getting a belt to her behind. Honestly if she wasn't born with that retarded disability I'd have thrown her out of my house a long time ago."

Little did she realize that a purple sports car was following her for a few blocks then turned the other direction. It was a Vehicon scout named C04Y, also known as Cory and he was ordered to watch her for any kinds of suspision. He parked in a alleyway that was behind the woman's house and tuned his sensors on it. He whispered to himself.

"Jeez... After hearing about her history I understand what Emma's going through... Kinda envy her, she gets special treatment while we drones are disposible... Hopefully Shockwave can erase her memories..."

Cory stayed parked in the alley, only leaving when the mother leaves and reporting his findings back to base.

...

On the Nemesis, Emma was in the Med Bay getting a physical from Knockout. Since she's the next canidate for the Enhancing he has to make sure the little human is healthy and fit for the procedure. Emma was a bit embarriesed though, she was inside some sort of tube-like machine that was giving her a full body exam. Reason she was embarresed is because she was naked in said machine. Knockout explained to her that it won't get the nessasery data if her clothes were in the way, so she hesitantly took them off and stepped inside of the medical device. She was covering her breasts with one arm and her private area with another arm, watching as the green light scanned all over her body. She sighed and started to tap her foot.

(Goodness... I hope this is over soon, I don't like being naked in front of a man... Well, he's a robot doctor. Robotman doctor alien person... Ugh, getting a slight headache from this...)

Knockout was on one of his computers checking the data the machine was sending him. He noticed that her brainwaves were abnormal and in certain areas were more active when they shouldn't be. Barricade told him that she had a glitch called 'Autism' that causes the brain to develop differently from a normal brain, and after researching about it he was amazed by the levels of this 'Autism'. Not only that she's has Hypermobility: aka double-jointed, meaning she can bend and twist her body in places that normal humans couldn't. If they did, they'd proabably tear a tendon or break an arm. Knockout learned that humans with Hypermobility have some sort of health problems, but it's rare and Emma doesn't seem to have none aside from her Mental Disorder. He'd be happy except for one thing, the machine was also sending him data on all kinds of scarring on her arms and legs. They looked like bite marks and they weren't from an animal either. He frowned as he looked through the data.

(Primus these are human bite marks! From the texture and shape they were caused by Emma herself... Why on Cybertron would she have reason to harm herself?)

Knockout didn't like those findings and shut off the machine, allowing for Emma to exit and put on her clothes. He looked at her as she did so and noticed a more recent bite mark on her right forearm. Emma got her underwear and bra on and just put on her pants when she felt a warm metal finger lift up her arm. Looking up she saw Knockout's expression as he examined her arm, she tried pulling away but he held her firmly.

"Emma? Did you create these injuries yourself?" the Medic asked.

Emma looked down and didn't say anything, feeling ashamed for causing such markings on her arms and legs. When he didn't get an answer he let go of her arm and leaned down to look at her in the eye. Emma stared at him and didn't want to say anything, she didn't know why but she had this underlying fear that he'd try to restrain her from biting herself.

"Emma, there's no reason for you to be doing this to yourself. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, just promise me you won't do anything to hurt yourself. Alright?"

The girl nodded and proceeded to put on her white T-Shirt and her blue jacket on. She looked up at the Medic who was typing up something on his computer and spoke quietly.

"...I made these marks on purpose..."

Knockout turned his helm to stare at her, her voice was so quiet that he almost didn't hear her speak. Walking over he folded his arms and spoke in a soft tone. "And why did you do that to yourself?"

"...Because...it was the only way I could release my anger." Emma rubbed her arm and looked away, feeling even more ashamed that she was telling him all of this. Knockout raised an optic ridge at that, she bit herself just so she can release her anger? To him it didn't make any sense.

"Okay... Why did you feel that harming yourself was the only way to release your anger?"

He saw her wipe her eyes and look up at him, small tears starting to form. "W-well... My mom would always scold me for the most stupidest things I've done or said. If I even messed up on certain directions she'd yell and scream all kinds of horrible words at me. I couldn't hit her, so I took my anger out on myself. It was... the only way I knew how to cope."

Knockout closed his optics and vented heavily, he'd heard from Soundwave about how abusive her creator was and hearing this coming from her, he wanted to gore the pathetic human with his saw-blades. No one should belittle or abuse a sparkling or a youngling, glitched or not. In fact, he remembered some years ago before their factions headed to Earth there were some rouge Neutrals that were abusing and torturing some younglings. He and an Autobot both set aside their differances and killed the Rouge Neutrals, saving the younglings in the process. The Autobot took the younglings with him after he treated their wounds. To him, it doesn't matter if you're an Autobot or a Decepticon, you abuse a Sparkling or Youngling and you will get killed. That coding is deeply set in all Cybertronians (some more so than others) and the Medic knew that even Megatron wouldn't dare harm a Sparking, for one thing he'll raise it to be the next Decepticon leader. He inwardly chuckled at that. Opening his optics he noticed that the human femme was wiping at her eyes to prevent tears from falling. He gently picked her up and let her lean on his chassis, whispering to her.

"Emma darling, you don't have to do that anymore. If you ever get angry for any reason just punch something, Pit punch Barricade if you have to. Not only that, you'll get to take all that anger you've been bottling up out on the Autobots. Now doesn't that sound better?"

Emma sniffled and looked up at him, seeing him smile down at her. She smiled back and nodded her head. "Y-yeah, I won't have to bite myself anymore..."

"That's right." Knockout raised her so that she was at optic level with him, he spoke sternly to her. "Emma? Do not under any circumstances cause pain or inflict injuries on yourself, that's not the way to do things if you get slagged off. Am I clear?"

Emma nodded and leaned in close to the Medic's face, giving him a quick peck on the cheekplate. She giggled at his shocked expression. "I understand, thank you Doctor Knockout."

He chuckled and gently poked her side, making her laugh. "Any time little spark." He sat her down on the table and went back to his computer to finish up his medical report. When he was done he printed it out on a blank data disc and turned towards Emma, who was taking the time to look around the Med Bay. "I'm finally done with your medical report, I'm going to Shockwave's lab so I can give this to him. Wanna come with?"

She nodded and climbed on his outstreched servo. Knockout gently put her on his shoulder and exited the Med Bay, heading to Shockwave's labortory. As Emma looked around the Mech was deep in thought about something that disturbed him.

(Emma bites herself just to release all the anger she's had towards her creator... No, I shouldn't call her a creator, that human is nothing but a monster that deserves to die. I'd better tell Barricade to keep an optic out on little Emma, even after Shockwave completes the Enhancement and rids her of her memories she'd still might try harming herself out of anger... Which means... There might be another glitch she has that I'm not aware of... Anyway, as her doctor I need to moniter her actions, she might be a danger to herself if she's ever pushed to the limit, and Primus knows I won't let that happen...)

"Doctor Knockout?"

Snapping out of his thoughts, he realized he was standing in front of the door to Shockwave's lab and was just standing there for around 2 minutes. He glanced at the human on his shoulder and saw a worried look on her face. "Are you alright? You zoned out and I was calling you for two minutes."

He lightly shook his helm and knocked on the door. "I'm fine, just had a lot on my CPU is all. Nothing to worry about."

"Oh... Okay then." Satified with that answer, Emma leaned back on his shoulder and watched as the huge Purple Mech answered the door. She'll admit that the Decepticon still creeped her out since he only had one eye, err.. optic. Knockout could admit the same thing, sometimes the scientist creeped him out. "Hello Shockwave, I'm finished with little Emma's Physical and here are the results." He handed him the data disc and watched as he quickly skimmed through it, then put it in his subspace.

"The results from the physical are satisfactory, Emma's Enchancement procedure will begin in two days."

Hearing that, Emma smiled and spoke up excitedly. "In two days? That's great! I wonder what I'll look like? Will I have some robotic parts like that guy on the 'Terminator' movie?"

Shockwave let out a light chuckle at the human's excitement. "I think you will be pleased with the results Emma Bowman."

The girl was bouncing with excitement, temporarily forgetting about how creepy the Scientist was. She then had a thought and remembered that she asked him to erase her memories, she felt the need to be spesific.

"Um, Shockwave? I forgot to tell you that um... When I asked you to erase my memories I only meant the bad ones, I'd like my current ones to stay."

Shockwave nodded. "I knew what you meant when you said you wanted your memories deleted. Do not worry, as I will only delete the ones that are deemed unfit to remember."

Emma bowed respectfully to him. "Thank you Shockwave! You are the best!"

The scientist's optic glowed a little, his way of smiling at her. He closed the door to his lab, leaving a shocked Knockout just standing there with a 'WTF' look on his faceplates.

"Uhh... okay... All the years I've known him I've never seen him so... so happy."

Emma tilted her head, a confused look on her face. "Really? I honestly can't tell if he was happy or not, considering he has only one eye..."

Knockout looked at her and chuckled. "Trust me, that Mech is happy. I think you've might've grown on him somewhat."

"I think so! Haha!"

The medic stretched out his limbs, being careful not to jostle Emma around too much. "Since Barricade is out on patrol and won't be back for 2 hours I'm going to relax."

"Okay... Um, is there a room where the Dececpticons go to relax? I'd like to watch some TV for a bit."

"Of course, that'd be the Rec Room. Let's head there shall we? I'm in the mood for some High-Grade Energon." He walked towards the Rec Room and Emma snickered at the Medic. Barricade told her about Energon and the different kinds of the substance so she knew that High-Grade was their version of Alcohol. "Don't drink too much!"

He had to snicker at that. "Oh please darling, I can hold my drinks unlike some bots here I know. I.E Barricade is one of them."

"He gets drunk that easily?"

Knockout smirked. "That's right. In fact, let me share with you some of the most funniest stories of him getting Overcharged! Don't tell him I told you."

She giggled and nodded. "I promise!"

And so Knockout shared the most embarrising stories of Barricade getting drunk to Emma, who was laughing all the way to the Rec Room.

Barricade meanwhile was driving in Downtown LA when he let out a sputtering noise. To the people walking around it sounded like he had engine trouble but it was the Cybertronian version of a sneeze. Frenzy was in the backseat messing with his new cellphone when he heard his friend sneeze.

=Hahahahaha! Getting a cold there Barri barri?=

The Mustang made his engine growl. =No I'm not, shut up. It's just this planet's weather affecting my sensors.=

=Oh sure it is! HAHA!=

Barricade slammed on his brakes, making the little Mini-con squeak in surprise and slam up against the windshield. He crawled in the passenger seat and rubbed his face, grumbling at him. =Prick...=

The Mech only chuckled as he continued driving, ignoring Frenzy's cursing at him.

AN: I know, a little short but I was busy and didn't have time to make this chapter until now. Read and Review!