A/N:- I do not own any transformers characters, only my OC's. Enjoy!

Chapter 8:Meltdown

Walking into the living room, I noticed that Optimus, Ratchet and Bulkhead were already on there. Optimus was just standing, Bulkhead was standing and chucking a barrel of oil up and down in one hand and Ratchet was lounging on the concrete sofa.

"Hey guys" They all turned to me and smiled. I nodded my head in return and walked over, jumped onto the concrete table, now between the sofa and the TV, and lay down on my stomach. Prowl sauntered over and sat next to the table, cross legged and facing the TV.

Optimus stood still, thinking, and then straightened out to speak.

"We still have a lot to learn about Earth customs, and the best way is to keep our optical and auditory sensors open." I glanced over to him and rolled my eyes before resting my chin on my arms.

"So let's get started!" Bulkhead exclaimed, his optics wide. He rotated the…..things sticking out on his back into a sort of chair and sat down expectantly, also crossing his legs. Well, that's what he tried to do anyway. Prowl turned the TV on.

"We've got over 5,000 channels to monitor here." The green mech said, sticking an oversized straw into the barrel and slurping the 'drink'.

An advert came on, promoting 'super-premium mega fuel'. The women on the advert stuck the pump into the side of the car and I immediately thought 'robot porn' and snickered. Bulkhead shifted uncomfortably.

"That looks like that hurts." He commented, narrowing one eye slightly. Prowl changed the channel and it showed a monster truck rally and they watched in horror as two cars crashed into each other. Prowl visibly winced.

"Not as much as that…." He lifted the remote up and changed the channel again. A boxing ring showed up, with a man standing in the middle.

"Do you have a dream of being thinner, taller, faster and even stronger? Well these people did" Two pictures of fat people appeared on the screen. "And they turned their dreams into reality!" The pictures flipped showing who incredibly fitter and younger people.

"And you can do that too with my," The camera zoomed in on the blonde, tan man wearing sunglasses and a white suit. He pointed at the camera "bio-chemical makeover!" I snorted in amusement.

"C'est Bullshit." I muttered. From the corner of my eye I noticed that Prowl lightly smirked, probably hearing my comment.

"Huh, human upgrades. What will they think of next?" Optimus stated, sitting next to Ratchet on the sofa. I silently facepalmed as I continued to watch the programme.

"Hi there, im Prometheus Black and I can transform you! You still not called in? Well, then you better watch one of my greatest bio-enhance success stories in action!"

I decided to ignore the rest of what the man said as I rolled onto my back and stared blankly at the ceiling.

"What ram-damaged, programming impaired 'bot would agree to be in such a degrading spectacle?" Ratchet ranted loudly. I smirked.

"Just you wait." I tilted my head so that I could see the screen again, just in time to see the 'bot' walk into the middle of the ring. 'Representing the machines, I give you' Flinging the sheet off, he revealed himself to be 'Bumblebee', not to my surprise. I glanced behind me just in time to see Bulkhead spit out his oil as his optics widened to the size of dinner plates.

"What?" He exclaimed. Snickering, I shook my head in amusement.

'Hey, good evening Detroit!' The yellow mech said, holding his hands up in the air. The crowd then started to 'boo' at him. Bewildered, he turned to Sari, his coach, who just shrugged.

'And representing the human race, I give you Cyrus, the Colossus, Rhodes!' An old, ugly midget with a tight black suit and green coloured skin appeared on the camera.

"That's a human?" Bulkhead asked, looking to Prowl.

"Must be a new model." Ninjabot replied. I tutted and they both looked down to me

"That ain't a human, not anymore. It's now just a retarded experiment gone wrong. Ugly bugger's never gonna get a girlfriend." I commented. Bulkhead chuckled at my statements and a ghost of a smile appeared on Prowl's face.

It was then I realized I was still wearing the horrid black dress that Sari forced me to put on for the rest of today. I decided that I would be able to handle any of her punishments and stood up. Prowl looked at me curiously. I jumped off the table and went to walk out.

"I'll be back, going to get changed." I called over just as I walked out of the room.

As I wondered down the halls towards my room I started to dwell on the future events, many of which I vow to change.

Like Megatron's awakening and Prowls death.

The last two words constantly repeated themselves in my head and I eventually froze in place from confusion.

Okay, I, maybe, kinda, sorta had atiny mental breakdown when he died. That's a total and utter lie, I mourned for days on end. I think Primus hates me.

Moving on, I pushed it all out of my mind and continued towards my room. When there, I grabbed some black jeggings and a white t-shirt which had the black details of a Zebra on, and changed in the bathroom.

Once changed, I got some water and watered my plant. As soon as I'd accomplished that task somebody knocked. Sighing, I called for the 'bot to come in. I wasn't surprised when the door slid open to reveal Prowl. He cautiously took a step in and looked at me.

"Ive come to get you, were going to stop that crazed human experiment, which has gone on a rampage." When I nodded he transformed and I, literally, jumped on. I wasn't too heavy, I hoped.

Speeding out of the base, I realized that they were taking me along. To a battle. With a 'human' bigger than Bulkhead. On steroids.

"Oh boy…" I grumbled.

"What is it?" Prowl asked. His voice sounded monotone, but I detected a slight trace of an emotion aswell. What emotion, however, was unbeknownst to me.

"Why are you guys actually bringing me with you to defeat the giant demented 'human'?" I asked.

"You could put your telekinesis powers to use," He paused "Can you only use it with your eyes closed?"

I shook my head. "No, I just do that as it helps me concentrate more and my parents always taught it to me that way. I didn't want to start randomly chucking kids do I?" I snickered at the thought and Prowl chuckled beneath me.

"I suppose not."

We soon got to the car park outside of the arena and the first thing we saw was the monster freak holding up a red car and was towering over Bumblebee, who was lying on the floor looking up. Ratchet transformed first. He ran over and used his electromagnets to stop the car from crushing 'Bee.

When I jumped off of Prowl the rest of them transformed.

"Looks like you're in over your head again, kid." Ratchet commented.

"Whats that supposed to mean?" Bumblebee retorted, looking towards the older 'bot.

"Mute it, we got bigger problems." Optimus shouted over. Bumblebee scrambled up onto his feet.

"W-w-what? Bigger than me?" Prime gave him a look.

"What are you talking about?"

The monster then came charging towards us, but Bulkhead ran over.

"Time for the big guns." He said as the tackled him to the ground, digging up concrete in the process.

"Oh just rub it in why don't you?" Bumblebee yelled, raising his arms.

"What? What'd I say?" Bulkhead replied, just before being tossed away and landing near a car, causing the alarms to go off. The dark grey blotches on the creature's body lit up a radiant green and it roared in pain, clutching either sides of its mutated face.

Taking the opportunity, Prowl got out his shurikens and tossed them at the two mechanical things on its shoulders, short circuiting them. The creature then shrunk beck to its original size and collapsed.

"Good thinking Prowl, way to cut him down to size!" Optimus complimented, smiling. Prowl nodded, jumped over to 'Bee and whacked the 'bot on the back of his head with a balled fist. Said 'bot yelped in surprise and turned towards him.

"Next time, use your head. Find your foes weakness and strike there." Prowl stated. Bulkhead came over and pointed at Bumblebee's head.

"If you can reach it."

"Oh, right. I get it. Cause I'm short." 'Bee folded his arms, clearly taking offence. Rolling my eyes, I walked over to where Captain Fanzone and Prometheus Black were standing.

"You can't give him a contract with the city's police force after that! The Autobots just saved our arses, again!" I commented. Black scowled at me and Fanzone nodded vigorously.

"I was actually thinking about still giving him the contract cause I hate machines, but after considering what you just said, Aurora, Im gonna tell the mayor to scrap the contract!" I really wished that he hadn't of just said that, because now Prometheus Black was giving me a dark look.

"I'd take those Sumdac rust buckets over this mess any day!" Fanzone stated. I nodded and smirked at Black.

"At least they actually work properly."

Prometheus Black was now seething as he took a threatening step towards me. Fanzone tried to pull him back but he just pushed his arm out of the way.

"Who put you in charge?" He sneered. I simply shrugged.

"I dunno. Who in their right minds gave you money so that you could create messed up…whatever they are?" I retorted. Suddenly the right side of my face was stinging and I prodded it gently with my hand.

The bastard had just slapped me! Before either me or Fanzone could do anything, a gold and black streak zoomed past us and pinned Prometheus Black to the nearby wall.

"Prowl, stop!" Optimus desperately shouted as he and the others ran over towards him and the human in hand. He wasn't hurting him, but he sure as hell looked like he was giving him a few choice words. I only caught the last bit, and I can tell you, Prowl was beyond pissed.

"If you ever touch her again, human or not, you will have to deal with me." Black gulped and nodded. Prowl dropped him and he gave me one last glare before running off.

"I will get you, Aurora Hansen, I promise!" He shouted over his shoulder before disappearing. My eyes widened.

"How does he know my full name?" I whispered. I jumped slightly when I felt a large hand on my shoulder and spun around to see Fanzone giving me a reassuring smile.

"Relax, as long as you stay with the alien machines, you'll be fine." I smirked and nodded. He released my shoulder and walked away, waving.

I turned back towards the autobots when I felt one of them scanning my face. It came to no surprise when it turned out to be Ratchet. Sari clambered off of Ratchet's hand and sprinted over to me.

"Are you alright? Your cheek is bright red!" She asked. I rolled my eyes at her.

"I'll live; I've had much much worse." I assured her. I glanced over to Prowl who was still seething.

"Whats up with him?" I asked, jerking my thumb in his direction.

"I just need some time alone." Prowl said through gritted teeth. Shortly after he transformed and sped off. I raised my eyebrow in confusion, and then turned to Sari.

"Ain't you gotta be with your dad when he unveils his newest model of the Sumdac Systems Police Drone thingy?" I asked. When her eyes widened I took it as a yes.

"Oh my god, I just remembered that! How am I going to get there in time?" She frantically yelled. I gave her the 'duh' look. Realization hit her like a ton of bricks as her mouth formed an 'o' shape. She gave Bulkhead a puppy dog look.

"Can you pwease take me to my daddy?" She asked. I smirked when Bulkhead transformed and rolled over to her, his passenger door open.

"Hop in." Sari did just that and he raced off. When I snickered triumphantly the remaining 'bots gave me a weird look.

"The presentation thing isn't for another hour but Sari's dad will keep her there until it's over."

They were silent for a good minute until Ratchet grinned.

"Finally, some peace and quiet!" I raised an eyebrow and pointed at Bumblebee. He looked over to where I was pointing and his face dropped.

"Oh, yeah, the small glitch-head will be there. There's my peace out the window." I smirked as 'Bee scowled.

"Im not short!" He complained. Ratchet chuckled and motioned for me to come over. Confused, I did so and stood next to Bumblebee.

"See Bumblebee, Aurora comes up to your lower abdomen!" Ratchet was now laughing. I looked up and saw that it was true. I snickered.

"Yeah, and im not the tallest person in the world." I commented. Bumblebee groaned, transformed and started driving back to base. Shrugging, the two remaining 'bots transformed and I got into Optimus.

The ride back to the warehouse was in a comfortable silence as I daydreamed and leant my head against the cool glass. After a few moments the radio made static before a familiar voice spoke through.

"Aurora, were nearly back at the warehouse." I stretched and nodded.

"Alright, thanks Optimus."

When he eventually stopped I got out and he transformed, smiled down at me and walked off. I want into the living room and, thankfully, it was empty. Well, except from me of course.

I took on the same position as earlier on the sofa le and sighed contently, day dreaming again.

I think that I was about to fall asleep when I heard footsteps getting closer and closer. For the sake of it a rolled onto my side and closed my eyes, my fringe falling across my face.

I nearly ruined my acting when a metal finger gently tucked my fringe behind my ear. The 'bot was standing in front of me for some time as about 5 minutes later I heard the 'bot move and his footsteps became softer and quieter. I opened one eye and saw that the mystery 'bot was gone.

I had a sneaking suspicion I knew who it was but decided not to dwell on it.

(Prowl's POV)

Gazing fondly down at her, I delicately tucked her fringe behind her ear. My spark skipped a beat at the sight of her resting peacefully.

I was stood in the exact same spot for several Earth minutes before I finally realized what I had been doing. Walking out of the main room, I slapped myself on the head and groaned.

What has gotten into me?

(Aurora's POV)

Quickly becoming bored, I decided to go and look for Bumblebee.

I actually wanted to speak with Prowl, but I wasn't sure why, so I headed off to annoy 'Bee instead.

I inwardly groaned when I found him in the training room, sparring with Prowl, though he was failing miserably.

I was about to leave but when Bumblebee saw me and smiled I knew that there was no way out. Waving, I walked in and the yellow 'bot winked at me. Scowling, I used my powers to pick up a random scrap of metal and beat him over the head with it. A small smirk crept its way onto Prowls face as Bumblebee pouted.

"What was that for?" He asked.

"It was for making a silent move." I retorted, but snickered when his face flushed a bright red. He rubbed the back of his sore helm sheepishly.

"Well...it's not my fault there's a pretty girl on base."

That earned him another whack, but not from me.

"Will you shut up?" Prowl all but growled. 'Bee backed away from the fierce 'bot and ended up running out, nearly flattening me in the process. I stumbled around before actually falling over. Not bothering to get up, I sneered and crossed my arms.

"Stupid 'Bee…" Prowl shook his head and walked over to me. He knelt down and looked into my eyes. I couldn't help but stare back. It was impossible to escape from those stunning aquamarine optics. I searched them, and only found kindness and another unknown one.

"What are you doing here?" Prowl asked. He was delving deeply into my eyes, as if in hope to find something. I finally shook my head gently and averted my gaze.

"I was originally looking for Bumblebee, but since he's being all flirty, how about we practice some moves?" I answered.

"Sure." Prowl answered.

(-)

We trained, talked, and generally formed a friendship bond, for about an hour and a half, but Ratchet had called us to the med bay cause Sari found a piece of metal which had acid melted through it. Prowl sat me on his shoulder as he headed towards the med bay.

Prowl walked in and we saw Sari lying on Ratchet's shoulder whilst he examined the metal Sari found.

"Definitely sabotage" He looked up to Sari "But ive never seen a corrosive like this."

He look off a tiny piece of the metal with Autobot size tweezers, made it into a liquid and dropped it onto some cybertronian armour. His eyes widened, as did everyone else's, when it burnt its way through.

"It can even melt Autobot alloy!" Ratchet then turned to face us.

"I'd like to run some more tests. It should only take a few hours." He stated. Bumblebee groaned.

"That long?"

Bulkhead looked over at me. His eyes were closed and he was smiling.

"His attention span is short, too."

"I heard that!" Bumblebee yelled. Prowl crossed his arms, careful not to knock me off.

"Apparently, so is his fuse." I snickered.

"Ooh, the ninjabot gets in a good one!" Bulkhead exclaimed, holding up a hand. Prowl then hi-fived him.

"That was a wicked comeback!" I commented, playfully knocking the side of his head.

"Who knew he had it in him?" Ratchet smiled.

"Yeah, aren't you supposed to be the strong, silent type? Emphasis on the silent." Bumblebee scowled. He was not amused.

"Knock it off you motor heads!" Sari said, jumping off of Ratchet. I followed her footsteps and stood next to her. "We've gotta warn my dad, he could be in trouble!" I started snickering loudly.

"Yeah, you just got told by an 8 year old!" They were all silent for a moment.

"Transform and roll out!" Optimus then ordered, breaking the silence. He, Bumblebee (with Sari) and Bulkhead drove off first, shortly followed by Ratchet, then Prowl, who waited for me.

The drive to Sumdac tower was relatively silent, mainly because I was at loss of words to say. It's not like he would be able to hear me anyway, since he had his sirens on, effectively making the journey a lot shorter.

Bumblebee, of course, was far in front of the rest of the 'bots, and the tower was in sight.

"Last one in's a rusted axel!" He exclaimed through the com-link. I shook my head and thought of all the possibilities of how it could possibly go wrong.

As if on cue he smashed into a force field, sending Sari flying. I gasped, but sighed in relief when Optimus caught her. I started walking over to a dazed 'Bee, who was staring in front of him in confusion.

"What the spark was that?" He exclaimed. Prime then placed Sari next to me, who started explaining.

"A force field. When the towers under attack it goes into auto-defence mode." I face palmed; only just realizing how stupid it really was.

"What a dumb idea! If your dads in trouble, how are we supposed to get inside to save him?"

I gave Ratchet a side glance and he nodded. Turning back to the force field, I concentrated and made a hole through it. Ratchet quickly used his electromagnets to secure the hole and make it bigger.

"I don't think so."

We all spun around to see the ugly green midget standing there. He used his electric thingies to make him the massive monster the 'bots defeated only hours ago.

"Him again?" I groaned. The thing grabbed a massive pole and struck Optimus with it. Prowl managed to dodge the attack and leapt behind him. Getting his shurikens out, he chucked them at the mechanical things on his back, since it was effective last time.

Unfortunately, they just bounce off and back into Prowls awaiting hand. The creature then turned to him, smirking.

"Boss reinforced that little weak spot." He said, flexing his right shoulder. Prime and Bulkhead started charging towards the failed experiment, Rhodes.

"Bulkhead, you and I will keep him busy."

"It's payback time!" Rhodes yelled, twisting the metal pole and hitting Prowl with it. This time Optimus dodged it.

"Sari, Aurora, see if you two can deactivate the auto defence. Prowl and Bumblebee will get to your father." We all nodded. Sari and Bumblebee jumped through. I was about to go in when Prowl grabbed me and moved aside. I looked over to see Bulkhead blocking the hole, one arm stuck through. Prowl placed me down and tried to get the big lug out.

"Bulkhead, move your oversized fender!" He said. It didn't work, Bulkhead hadn't moved an inch. I, however, found the situation hilarious but stuck to snickering at the pair.

"I can't!" Bulkhead retorted "Im kinda stuck here!"

"I can't open the field any wider!" Ratchet yelled over the commotion. I came over and closed my eyes, concentration, in hope of helping the grumpy 'bot. It started building up pressure in my head, but I ignored it and strained my powers to the max.

My head eventually couldn't take much more as I collapsed in pain. On my knees, I gritted my teeth together and clutched my head, eyes still closed.

"Well, that was kinda stupid." I mumbled. Prowl was instantly by my side as he helped me back up, though I was now extremely weak from straining myself too hard. I opened my eyes and gazed up only to come in contact with extremely concerned optics. I tried to walk, only to end up on the ground again. Prowl picked me up and jumped onto a building. He placed me down like I was made out of china as he gave me one last, almost saddened, look before he flipped back down to help the others.

At the moment, I was completely helpless so I decided to inwardly scold myself of attempting to push past my already restricted limits.

My vision was pretty fuzzy and when it cleared all I could see was that everything was wrecked, cars smashed, car alarms going off and lampposts everywhere. Prowl, Optimus and Ratchet were all trying to stop Rhodes, but to no avail.

My eyes widened when I saw the monster, metal pole in hand, charging towards an unaware Prowl.

Just as Rhodes went to swing, I use whatever energy I had left to hold the pole in place. Rhodes groaned in frustration, luckily not knowing what caused the bar to just freeze in mid-air. Prowl then finally turned around, his optics darting straight towards me when he noticed the faint blue light surrounding the offending object in the monsters hand.

I released my grip on the object when Prowl went to punch Rhodes and I, once again, collapsed.

I was surprised that I didn't pass out, and shocked when I felt most of my energy return. I didn't have time to question myself when I saw Prime fly through the air and hit the church bell at an almighty speed, causing it to ring throughout the street.

Rhodes mechanical thingies on his shoulders started sparking as the dark grey patches on his colossal body yet again started glowing a sickly green. Prowl noticed this and shouted something over to Prime. I wasn't sure what he said until Optimus got out his axe and started repeatedly hitting the bell. It was actually quite an amusing sight. Ratchet then used his electromagnets to move the bell right above Rhodes, who covered his 'ears' as Prime continued to whack it.

The creature eventually shrunk back down to his original size ad Ratchet dropped the bell right next to it. I then noticed that Prowl was missing, and yelped when something picked me up from behind.

Without a word, he held me against his warm chest, his spark humming and pulsing rapidly. It was a lot faster than for normal 'bots. What was wrong with Prowl? I was still in slight shock about why he was holding me close.

The tender moment soon ended when he jumped down from the building we were on and ran inside with Optimus and Ratchet.

I lightly gasped at the current sight. Bulkhead and Bumblebee were both lying on the floor with acid wounds and meltdown was about to melt Isaac Sumdac!

Meltdown had the exact same body shape as Prometheus Black, except all skin was now a flowing acid, coloured black and green in wavy stripes. He was wearing a white and grey suit and goggles and his mouth was now just the acid but going horizontal and unmoving, except from when he talked, of course.

Letting out a war cry, Optimus ran over and placed the bell he was holding over Meltdown. Prowl placed me onto the floor as I was now able to stand by myself.

"There, that should hold him."

I rolled my eyes when meltdown started melting the side of the bell.

"Guess you didn't get the memo about the acid that melts through ANYTHING!" Ratchet said, though his own optics were slightly enlarged. Meltdown then stepped out.

"Fools! Nothing can hold me!" He lifted his hands up to fire more acid, but then lowered them. I wondered why until he turned towards me.

"Ah, and if it isn't Aurora Hansen, the one who ruined my business by taking the contract out from my grasp! How nice it is to see you again!" Meltdown said, his voice sounding similar to a person drowning. My own eyes widened when he started walking towards me.

Prowl then stood in front of me in a protective manner, growling. He crouched down and got into a defence position. Meltdown started to laugh.

"Oh, how pathetic, it's almost like you harbour feelings for her! I guess I'll just have to melt my way through to her!" His voice was sinister. When he lifted up his hands again, I used my powers to push Prowl out of the way, though I surprised myself even more when I was actually able to move him, let alone make him fall onto the floor.

The acid shot out of his hand, aimed directly towards me. The last thing I was before I closed my eyes was Prowls optics, hidden by his visor, actually filled with fear as I waited for impact. When nothing happened I re opened my eyes to see Meltdown in a small force field, a couple of inches from the ground. Meltdown looked shocked as he tried to melt through the field. Ratchet smirked.

"You can't melt what you can't touch!" Sari punched her fist in the air victoriously and looked over to her father, and then at the grinning Optimus, who was standing next to Ratchet.

"I say let him stew in his own juices." The red and white 'bot said. I nodded in agreement and walked over to Prowl, who was just getting back up. When he saw me his visor narrowed slightly, but there was relief and a small bit of fear embedded deep within them.

"You shouldn't have done that." He stated. I smiled softly at him, which quickly changed into a smirk.

"I couldn't just let you melt into liquid scrap metal, now could I?"

Prowls expression grew serious.

"I'd rather be liquid scrap metal than watch you in any pain." I was taken aback by his words, yet they made me blush faintly as my heart rate crept up. To hide my embarrassment I looked down at my feet.

"Uhhhh…thanks." I whispered. I felt a metal finger gently tilt my head up. I saw that Prowl was now kneeling in front of me.

"Are you alright? Your heart rate increased and your face turned slightly red." He asked. My mouth twitched upwards as I shook my head.

"No, im fine, just a little worn out."

He nodded, a smile also gracing his lips. He picked me up and I sat in his hand. He walked over to where the others were and Bumblebee was driving round in circles, occasionally transforming and pulling off macho poses. I shook my head in amusement.

"Wow, what else can possibly happen this week?"

A/N: I really do get carried away, don't I? XD But im glad ive finally finished this chapter since the next one is going to be fun to write! :D

Also I will probably randomly switch from saying Prowl's optics to his visor since I have a bad memory and sometimes only one works well with a sentence.

Please R&R!