Will Lennox was not a heavy sleeper.

At all.

As his green eyes stared into the darkness of his room, he wondered why he had woken up in the first place.

A scream shot through the air.

'Ah, that was why.'

The man grabbed the gun under his pillow darting from his room, shamelessly clad in his duck patterned boxes.

He made an odd sight as he ran through the halls, bare feet slapping against the cold concrete floor as he was joined by Epps, who was also in boxers (although his were patterned with hearts), and carrying a rather large gun.

Another scream sounded and the two men burst into the hanger holding Bumblebee, Mudflap and Skidz...and Leon.

Bumblebee was making 'calm down' motions while the red Autobot and his twin argued over something.

"You scared the frag outta her." Mudflap grinned.

"Naw." Skidz snickered. "It was you's ugly face!"

"Who's ugly?"

"You's is!"

"I ain't ugly! You's ugly!"

"No, I ain't! What's wrong wit chu? Your optics going haywire again?!"

"I's better looking!" Mudflap glared, tackling his brother to the floor. Leon screamed again, green eyes shifting from the brawling twins to Bee and back again.

Will lowered his gun with a sigh, and placed a hand on his nieces shoulder.

She grabbed his hand, twisted her body and threw him over her shoulder, heaving angrily and in a slight panic.

"Calm down, Leo." Epps dropped his gun to the floor, pinning her hands to her sides as she struggled.

"Why are you so calm!?" She yelled, long chocolate hair flying around her face as she struggled.

"This is normal." Epps assured.

"NORMAL! THIS IS ANYTHING BUT NORMAL! THEY'RE GIGANTIC FREAKING ROBOTS! HOW IS THAT NORMAL!?" Leon screeched.

Will picked himself up, and looked his niece in the eye.

"Leon, calm down."

"CALM DOWN? YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN! HOW THE HELL-" She was cut off when Epps slapped a hand over her mouth.

"I'll take my hand off if you stop yelling." He winced as she bit him. "I have to admit, Will, your niece is a spitfire."

Leon stopped struggling, and glared at her two uncles, one biological and the other self-proclaimed.

"What the fuck?" She snarled, wrenching herself away from Epps. "Did it somehow slip your mind to tell me I'd be fixing fucking robots!?"

"Autobots." Epps interrupted, but fell silent again at her glare.

"If it makes you feel any better, we were going to tell you tomorrow." Will gave a nervous smile.

"No. It doesn't." She crossed her arms over her loose white tanktop. "And the vehicles in the other room? Those are these so called Autobots too?"

"Yes."

Leon paled.

"Satan take me now." She cried, horror on her face. "I kissed one and practically groped another."

"Ironhide wasn't that amused." Will snickered. "I can't imagine Sunstreaker was either. Probably went and washed himself more times than necessary."

Leon roared in frustration, about to tackle her uncle to the floor except Epps grabbed her again.

Bumblebee shifted nervously, optics going to the still arguing twins to the three humans before him.

"Now that you've calmed down some," Will glared at her as he sidled away, rubbing his arm where she'd gotten a good punch in. "This is Bumblebee, Sam Witwicky's guardian."

"Who to the what now? Wiki? I thought that was a site?"

"Witwicky. College kid who got trapped in this mess cause of his great-grandfather or some shit like that." Epps explained, letting her go.

Bee crouched in front of her, tilting his head.

"Please to meet you, little lady!"

"Those two idiots over there," Epps pointed to the twins, who paused in their wrestling to look at him and untangle themselves. "Are Mudflap and Skidz. Youngest pair of twins on the base."

"What up, shorty?" The red one stared at her. "I'z Mudflap."

"Girl, you slammin'." Skidz grinned. "We gotta hang!"

"Maybe once I get over the fact you're giant robots." She gave a weak smile.

"Giant? We ain't giant." Mudflap snorted. "We'z tiny compared to Prime. He huge, girl!"

"I have to meet him, don't I?" Leon asked her uncle, who nodded.

"Oi!" The door separating the two hangers jerked open, and the lower part of a robot appeared. "We're in recharge. Shut the frag up or I'll come in there and disassemble you."

Skidz made a face at the legs and waved his hands by his 'ears'.

"That's Ratchet." Epps whispered. "He's their medic."

A face appeared as Ratchet bent down, and he lifted an optic ridge as he saw Leon.

"Who are you?" He snorted.

"Leon. I'm the new mechanic." She muttered, shaking nervously.

"Right. You were fixing those three earlier." He nodded. "Come in here so we can talk better. The others will want to meet you."

She paled as Epps and Will dragged her forward. Her green eyes took in the still cars before they began shifting and she screamed again.

A blanket in the corner shifted upwards, and a smaller robot appeared.

"Holy fu- that shit right there ain't right, folks." The little Autobot sped over to her on his wheels. "How can a goddess like that make a sound like-"

Leon screamed her went to touch her.

"-that?"

"They come in little too!" She scrambled backwards into Bee.

"They're not going to hurt you." Will snorted.

"They look menacing enough. I'm going to stay right here with Bumblebee because at least he's adorable."

Bee's wings lifted and his mask slid down in embarrassment.

A large metal hand reached in an snatched her up, making her scream and clutch it for dear life as she was lifted too high in the air for her liking.

"Stop screaming, femme!" The black Autobot thundered. "You'll bust my audio receptors."

"Guys," Will sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Put Leon down. She's scared enough as it is."

Ratchet, who was the one who had picked her up, set her down beside her uncle. Leon darted behind the two human men.

"Relax, little one." A baritone soothed, and a blue and red Autobot moved forward, crouching to look at her. "We are not going to hurt you. My name is Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots."

"Umm..." She stared at the hand he offered, reaching to touch his finger in a 'handshake' nervously. "Leon Lennox."

"Nice to meet you." He smiled kindly. "This is Ironhide, my weapons specialist." He gestured to the black one.

"You feeling lucky, punk?" Ironhide asked, grinning.

"No. I feel like I want to run away, hide under my bed, and never come out. Thank you for asking." She replied, sarcasm dripping from her words.

"My medical officer, Ratchet." Optimus pointed to the lime green 'bot. "Mirage, my covert operations master."

The red Ferrari grumbled, looking away.

"Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, the older pair of twins." The gold and silver bots looked down at her with annoyed expressions.

"Sorry...for, um, groping you..." Leon rubbed the back of her head, ducking behind her uncles as Sunstreaker's optics narrowed.

"Jolt isn't here at the moment," Ratchet spoke up, arms crossed over his chassis. "But he's my apprentice."

"Pleasure to, um, meet you. I guess." Leon backed towards the smaller hanger. "I'm going back to bed. Hopefully, I'll sleep this off and everything will be fine in the morning."

Her quick turn made her walk into a wall, and she snarled swears under her breath as she strode out.

"All I wanted was my iPod."