AN: And now I am starting another story I really shouldn't be working on. Whoop dee doo.

Also, going forward with my stories, I am assuming you already know the important characters from each work and I won't try to introduce them anymore.

Lastly, speech in italics indicates thought-speak or Bumblebee speak.

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"Time's up. Please stop working on your exams. The results should be posted online by Sunday. I hope all of you did as well as you thought you would. Have a nice day and enjoy the weekend."

As the bell signifying the end of the day's classes rang, a chorus of cheers erupted from the students of Memorial High School. Regardless of how they had done in class or on any exams they had, now was the time to enjoy freedom from the soul crushing experience that was high school. Now was the time for parties and goofing off! At least for the people who didn't want to study all weekend long.

Of course, some people had particularly odd ideas of what fun entailed.

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"Wow. I thought that exam was going to be a lot harder, but I handled it like a pro!"

"First time I've heard that from you, Miko."

"There's always a first time for everything, Jack."

Glancing over at Raf, Jack merely nodded. "So, what're you doing this weekend?"

"Uh, watching monster trucks with Bulkhead, duh."

"Working on some coding for a project," was Rafael's answer. "Do you have to work?"

"Actually, no - I have this weekend off."

"Huh," went Miko. "Thought you'd have to pull another shift."

"I'm not going to question it."

"Hmph. You're the total opposite of my cousin there - she really seems to love working at a fast food place."

"...You have a cousin who works in fast food?"

"She only started two months ago. And it never felt right to mention that."

The boys of the trio shared a look before shrugging.

"What does she like about it?"

"Everything, somehow. Especially her supervisor - I think she has a crush on him."

Jack raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"Yeah, weird, I know. Come on - don't want to keep our friends waiting, now do we?"

Making their way outside, the trio found their rides waiting - Raf climbed into a yellow and black car, Miko scrambled into a green and grey SUV, while Jack climbed onto his blue motorcycle.

Before Jack could do anything to start up the 'cycle, though, someone decided to speak up.

"Jack, meeting at base, now. Something important from Fowler."

"Really? Alright, let's get going then."

Within moments, the trio of vehicles headed off.

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It took a fair amount of driving, but eventually, the trio reached their target - a mountain that housed a now abandoned missile silo. Driving through a hidden entrance, the teens and child hastily exited their vehicles before said machines transformed into a tree of robots - autonomous robotic organisms from planet Cybertron, to be specific.

"Ratchet, were here. What's the situation?"

"We've found a new energon deposit," spoke the Autobot medic. "It appears to be located somewhere in California."

"Really?" asked Bumblebee. "Good news for sure, but it doesn't seem urgent."

Ratchet was ready to continue, but before he could, another bot came forward - a red and blue autobot with a stoic yet reassuring presence. This was the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime.

"The urgency of this discovery is not the discovery itself, but who else has found it."

"Cons already beat us to it?" asked Bulkhead, only a hint of disappointment in his tone. "Then all we need to do is smash in, take what we can, and make sure the rest isn't useful to Megatron."

"It ain't the 'cons who are the problem here," spoke another voice, this one human. "Ratchet asked me to check, and this deposit is in an active quarry."

That was certainly a shock to the other humans in the room. "Wait, can't you just, like, use government authority or something to get them out of there? With compensation?"

"I was planning on that, Jack," was Fowler's reply, "but I don't think they'd be inclined to give up the quarry so easily."

"Why's that? Are the other materials in the quarry rare enough to make them want to draw things out for a better negotiation?" inquired Raf.

"The opposite, actually - there isn't any other minerals or ores in that quarry. Just energon."

It took the new arrivals a moment to process that statement, but once they did, more confusion followed. "Wait," asked Miko, "you mean that these people are only interested in the quarry because it has energon?"

"What else can I mean?"

"...You think its MECH?"

"We are unsure at the moment," was Optimus' reply, "however the possibility cannot be discarded. Whatever the reason, though, it is a cause for concern."

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Speaking of said quarry, if one were to look down on it right now, they would find things to be rather strange.

As it happened, there were many workers going about, some using heavy machinery to dig into the earth, while others used vehicles to move the excavated crystals to a loading area for transportation elsewhere. What made this particularly peculiar was that several of the workers (specifically the guards) weren't human - some could best be described as lizards covered in sharp scaly fins and blades, while others looked more like giant ravenous centipedes. All of them, however, seemed fixated on the energon crystals being excavated.

"Why exactly does the Visser want these crystals mined out?" asked one of the workers. "They do not seem to have any particular value."

His superior's response was curt. "The crystals provide unprecented power when used as fuel. The Visser hopes to use these to further our war effort... and perhaps to show up Visser One."

Unnoticed by the guards, a hawk flew overhead, analyzing the area with its eyes, takng in everything that could be seen. Once they had accomplished their goal, the raptor flew off, headed in the direction of civilization.

"Everyone needs to know about this. Especially Jake - he'll know what to do."

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AN: And so begins my Transformers Prime and Animorphs crossover!

Slow start, but I want to pace things out here.

Want to get this started before the creative juices are dead.

Also, thoughts?

This is Flameal15k, signing off!