Author's note. Well, the last chapter was certainly well received. If any of you thought Megatron's behaviour was odd towards the kids, considering he's a violent Decepticon, it was more of a gesture to piss Optimus off. Just to clear that up.

Enjoy and please review.

Sideways fumed, his plan had been completely ruined by those meddlesome human children. They had grabbed the orbs, thus preventing them reaching their true targets the Autobots. Sideways snarled, he knew what the consequence of that was going to be. Instead of demising the Autobot forces, he had just increased them.

"Damn them," he snarled.

This was not how it was supposed to have gone. His plan had been to turn the Autobots into humans in order to weaken them. Not all of them, mind you, otherwise they would have been completely vulnerable and easily defeated by the Decepticons. Once the Decepticons had sufficiently grown in strength and Minicons, the humans would have been restored to their true forms. The orbs were meant to have attached themselves to the armour of Optimus Prime, HotShot and Scavenger and burned through to their protoforms.

Once there, the orbs would have stayed there until the three Autobots came into contact with some humans, e.g. the kids. And then the second sequence would have activated, meaning the kids where scanned and the information downloaded into the Autobots mainframe, resulting in the loss of conscious. Finally the third sequence would take place where they would have been transformed into humans.

But no it was the kids who had been transformed, into transformers. Sideways again cursed his luck and that of the Autobots. What was he going to do now? How could he weaken the Autobots now, when their precious charges were now transformers?

Wait precious charges? Optimus Prime cared deeply for his adoptive children and though he also cared for the men under his command, they were soldiers who could look after themselves. The children on the other hand.

Sideways now smiled, the children would still be vulnerable especially as Megatron had sworn revenge. He'd just wait and see how events...played out.

Meanwhile on the moon base of the Decepticons, Megatron sat on his throne frowning thoughtfully. Those orbs and the human kids 'accident' had left Megatron distinctly uneasy. His soldiers milled around, also disturbed by the events that had taken place at the overgrown jungle temple. Megatron felt slightly annoyed, they had successfully taken the Minicon and Megatron had even managed to give one of those kids a well deserved smack, purely to annoy Prime. But now that victory felt deflated.

"Those spheres weren't meant for those kids," Wheeljack said quietly, voicing what everyone was thinking. He looked at his leader and said.

"They were meant for Prime and his men."

Megatron nodded slowly, what had happened to the kids had meant to have happened to Prime and two others. But what was meant to have happened, that was the question that was puzzling and annoying Megatron.

"The boy mentioned Sideways being behind that attack," Starscream spoke up from his position from one side of the throne where he was leaning. "What do you think he's up to?"

"Does it matter?" Thrust interjected in a pompous voice. "It surely doesn't concern us, only those silly human children were hurt and besides the attack was primarily aimed at the Autobots."

Starscream rolled his optics at this but Thrust's words didn't make Megatron feel any better. Yes, the attack had obviously not been aimed at them but that didn't mean it wouldn't affect them in some way.

"Maybe," Starscream hissed at Thrust, putting a lot of emphasis on the first word. "Because we, along with the Autobots, were scanned by that strange light coming from those kids. Why were we scanned?"

"It involves Sideways, it can't be good," said Demolisher slowly.

"When it involves that traitorous piece slime, it is never good Demolisher," Megatron said grimly. "Unfortunately until we next meet the Autobots, we can only guess what his motives are."

"What was his plan, Prime?" Megatron thought silently. "And how will it affect us, all of us?"

Optimus stared in complete disbelief at the sight that met his optics on the examining table. When he had brought the kids in, he had laid them side by side on examining table, meaning there were still loads of space. Now however, there was barely any room left as the three transformers took up the entire space.

Shaking, Optimus slowly got to his feet along with Red Alert and together they approached the table. Lying on it were three transformer Younglings, the equivalent of human teenagers. Both Mechs stood completely stunned for a moment then Red Alert moved forward and quickly scanned them.

"Everything checks out," he said, his voice shaking slightly. "Nothing abnormal, they should wake in a while."

"Nothing abnormal," Optimus repeated quietly. He knew what Red Alert meant, as transformers everything checked out. But it wasn't alright, less than an hour ago, these Younglings were humans.

"How did this happen?" Optimus said, still in a daze.

Suddenly, one of the Younglings nearly slipped off the table, there was no room as they were lying along the length of the table, not the width. Optimus quickly rushed forward and scooped 'Alexis?' into his arms. He stared down into his daughter's still face.

"Get Jetfire in here, let's move them to the Rec Room where they'll be more comfortable," Optimus said firmly, cradling Alexis to him. Red Alert did as asked, contacting Jetfire and picking up one of the boys, 'Carlos?'

"Hey, what's happening?" Jetfire said as he charged into the Med Bay. "Are the kids okay...Holy Primus."

He gasped skidding to a stop and staring first at the table containing 'Rad?', then at Red Alert with 'Carlos?' and finally at Optimus with 'Alexis?'

"Optimus, what's going...What, I mean, what?" Jetfire spluttered but Optimus gave him a stern look.

"Jetfire, would you please pick up...Rad and come with us to the Rec Room," Optimus said moving out of his way so that he could reach the table. Jetfire stood shocked for a moment, then moved forward, mumbling "Yeah, sure."

Picking up Rad, he turned and the three of them left the Med Bay and made their way along the corridor towards the Rec Room where the other Autobots and Billy and Fred were waiting. They walked in utter silence, not able to fully comprehend the situation. Finally they reached their destination and entered.

"Optimus sir, are they okay, the kids...What?" HotShot exclaimed as he saw what the three Mechs were carrying, his jaw dropping in shock. The others looked equally shocked and they all stared.

"Who are they?" Fred piped up, his eyes wide, standing stock still beside Billy.

"I think...That's Alexis, Rad and Carlos," Scavenger said quietly as Optimus and the others came into the room.

Very gently, they carried the Younglings to the centre of the room, and carefully laid them down and stepped back to look at them. The one they assumed to be Rad resembled Sideswipe with light blue arms and upper legs. His hands were white as were two stripes on his chest running from his shoulders to his waist. His lower legs were sliver and so was his chest. His face was light yellow, they of course couldn't tell the colour or his or Carlos and Alexis's optics. His head shape resembled Optimus's somewhat, except that he didn't have a face mask.

Carlos on the other hand did have a face mask but his head resembled Blurr's though he also had small curling horns. His paint job was red and black, a black torso, hands and feet, with black bands on his upper arms. His arms and legs were a brilliant shade of red, with a purple band around his ankles. His face was a slightly light brown colour and his helmet with its black horns was purple. Carlos wasn't quite as sturdy looking as Rad, making Optimus and the others think he wouldn't be a car.

And lastly there was Alexis, the only transformer Femme for thousands of light years. She was slim and streamlined with a pair of wings. Her face was white but with a light pink helmet. Her body was mostly a shade of pink, though a thick band around her waist was orange. Her wings while pink where lined with white and she had white hands as well. Her high heeled feet were red with an orange band around the ankles melting into the pink. Her wrists were red and her lips were tinged with red.

The Autobots and the two remaining humans stared in wonder at their friends. For a moment, nobody spoke.

"They're a mixture of us," Blurr said astounded.

"And of the Decepticons," Scavenger pointed out and they all looked at Alexis' still form. Now they knew the reason for why they had all been scanned.

"Why?" whispered HotShot.

"This wasn't meant for the kids, it was supposed to happen to us," Scavenger said grimly.

"What does that mean?" Sideswipe said, his optics filled with fear.

"If those orbs had connected with us, then we would have been turned into humans," Optimus said grimly. Everyone either looked shocked or grim. But then there was a soft groan and they saw the Younglings shift and stir.

Optimus quickly knelt down as they started to wake. The first to stir was Rad, he groaned and sat up, rubbing his head.

"Argh, what happened?" he said in a pained voice.

"It's alright Rad, everything's going to be fine," Optimus said gently.

Rad opened his optics, revealing blue ones and looked at Optimus. He seemed about to speak but suddenly stopped dead and saw Optimus right in front of him. On the same level and not in any way towering over him. In fact Optimus didn't seem quite as big as Rad remembered him.

"Rad, you and Alexis and Carlos were in an accident and you were... changed," Optimus said gently, resting a hand on Rad's shoulder.

Rad stared at him, Optimus should not be able to put his hand squarely on his shoulder like that, had Optimus shrunk? Or had Rad...grown? Very slowly Rad looked down at his body and gasped.

He was a robot...a transformer. Rad was in a state of utter shock as he stared at his body, a body he did not recognise. But before he could panic, a large groan made him turn his head to the side and he gasped again as he saw...Carlos moaning and sitting up.

"Carlos," he said in total shock at the red and black transformer with yellow optics sitting beside him.

"Rad, that you? What happened, last I remembered...Whuh?" Carlso yelped as he turned and saw Rad staring at him. With a very slacked jaw expression, Carlos stared down at himself to see that he too was a transformer.

"Woh man, this is totally weird," Carlos muttered running his hands down his body. He looked back at Rad.

"I can't believe this, how did this happen, we're...Transformer, you, me and..."

"Alexis," both Rad and Carlos yelled and they turned to gape at the third stirring figure. Their mouths fell open as they watched the winged Femme sit up, opening bright green optics in confusion.

"Guys," she whispered softly looking at them, causing her optics to widen in total shock at the sight of them. For a moment, none of them moved, they Alexis turned to Optimus, optics starting to water as she asked.

"Optimus, what happened to us?"

Optimus reached for her hand and clasped it firmly.

"We believe it was those orbs, Alexis, the ones you, Rad and Carlos prevented from touching us. They turned you into transformers and I'm afraid" he looked at them seriously.

"We don't know how to change you back."

Author's note. Hope you enjoyed that, next chapter the kids adapt to life as transformer and also get new names. Till next time.