Shadow:. .: Is currently laying on the ground drooling and twitching at random times:.

Max:. Sorry everyone the authoress has over done it again... I told her to stop before she hurt her self...

Jax:. .:Barks:. ~ I thought I smelt some thing burning...~

Max:. Yeah that was her brain short circuiting... She stayed up all night writing again.

Ratchet:. .:optics flicker:. I wasn't aware Humans could short circuit...

Max:. Yeah, well this one has a habit for proving the impossible possible..painfully

Jax:. ~snickers~

Wheeljack:. .: pokes at fried human before looking at the other to organics:. Fascinating!

Max&Jax:. .:Hides behind Ratchet:.

Ratchet:. .:Glares at Engineer:. Don't even process it...


Last time on Adaptation...

Max turned off the camera on her Autolog, and turned around to see what Jax was going nuts over.

The young woman froze in her seat her eyes widened and her face paled at the sight of the Giant metallic spider that filled up the back of her shelter.

A large hole in the concrete showed where it had gotten in.

Jax was on the ground silent and wrapped in a strange glowing goo.

" I like what you have done to the place. Could do with a little less light though."

Max jumped from her chair and rushed towards the exit.

"Ah, ah, ah,…. Not so fast."

The last thing Max saw was her hand reaching out for the emergency release for the doors, before something struck her in the back of the neck.

Her body quickly became numb and everything went dark…


Presently on Adaptation...

Elita and Chromia looked up from their observation point, as a neon yellow hummer pulled out of the city.

Several nano-clicks prior to the medic's arrival, Prowl, Sideswipe, and, Arcee had pulled up to the small field and transformed.

The hummer came to a stop in front of the Pink femme commander then, and transformed into the Autobot CMO.

Two Autobots knelt in front of the door to the shelter.

Arcee had been able to disengage the hologram, and Prowl was currently prying the doors to the shelter open.

Elita and Chromia stood guard while the two worked as Ratchet walked up to the rest of the group.

The mech scowled fiercely as the security officer ripped the doors from the ground.

His frown became even more prominent as the other Autobots activated their weapons and targeting systems, aiming them at the shelter.

"What in the name of Primus do you think your doing?! Your more likely to send the little one into spark failure!"

Elita glanced at the medic before returning her sharp gaze to the hole in the ground.

"We picked up a decepticon signal with in the dwelling a cycle ago."

Ratchet optics flickered in surprise, his scanners humming to life before quickly washing over the area.

He became worried when he picked up a negative human life sign…

Strangely enough he did pick up unusually high energon readings.

Earth didn't produce energon naturally…

" Are you sure this is where the human resides?"

Ratchets holo-emitters activated with a soft click, as a brown haired blue eyed male human materialized out of thin air.

"Positive I observed the human entering the dwelling myself."

The medic "hmmed" softy to himself as he received a recording from the femme, of a dangerously thin young blond haired human female stumbling into the hole, a large white canine following soon after...

Prowl activated a light on his arm, the harsh white beam banishing the shadows within, as the human hologram crept into the dark shelter.

The sight that greeted the medic nearly made his systems stall.

Thick glowing strands of energon coated treads littered the room, dangling from the ceiling, and draped across the sparse furniture in the small room.

Most of the threads originated and surrounded a large hole in the wall on the left side of the room.

The energon in his lines chilled as he picked up a faint 'Con energy signature coming from the hole.

His findings confirmed that the human was no where in sight, but he could tell that a human had indeed lived here.

Ratchet noted the cot against the back wall, stacked with a pillow and a wool blanket folded at on end.

Several cans of human fuel, of food, lined a small shelf at the opposite end of the cot.

Several white strips of cloth sat on a desk that rested against the right hand all of the shelter.

The cloths were spotted in crimson, that his scans confirmed to be human blood tainted with faint traces of energon…

"Not surprising the place is almost drenched in it."

The strangest thing though was a small console…((he believed the humans used to call them laptops… )) sitting on the same desk.

The medic ducked around several small plastic cylinders((A human light source created from a chemical reaction. Called a Chem-light.)) hanging from the ceiling.

The holograms fingers tapped at a few of the keys on the keyboard.

He was startled as the screen flickered blue as it came online.

Ratchet looked behind the computer and followed the power cord to a extension, that disappeared threw a small hole in the wall.

He reasoned that the line probably connected to a solar panel somewhere on the surface.

Power stations all over the world became run down and stopped functioning, when the human care takers perished.

Ratchet closed the lid and unplugged the power cord before heading towards the exit.

He paused when he noticed a small pack leaning against the desk.

Lifting the top he found it to be full of medical supplies.

He placed the computer on top and closed the Hardpak and lifted it to the holograms shoulder before heading to the exit.

The hologram froze when he heard a strange sound coming from behind him, glowing blue eyes turned and met the ice blue orbs of the white canine Ratchet saw following the young human female in the video from Elita-1.

He noted that the creatures muzzle was blistered and most of the fur on it's body was singed, as it crawled out from under the cot.

A small partially chewed black human foot covering hung from it's mouth.

***

Jax watched quietly from his hiding spot, as a strange human walked around his den.

He whined when the human picked his humans toy, and started to walk out of the shelter.

The husky grabbed the shoe and crawled out from his humans sleeping place, he dropped the shoe and licked his muzzle.

His nose and body still hurt from the glowing stuff that the strange metal creature had spit at him.

He'd had to chew his way out and the stuff had burned his nose and mouth.

This human was different then his...

He noted tilting his head to the side, this one gave off a strange sent.

Not unlike that after the bright light flashed in the sky when the burning water fell.

Jax perked his ears and wagged his tail, when he heard the human call out to him before climbing the stairs and heading to the surface.

Jax grabbed the shoe and followed, knowing that his human would need it when she came back.

***

"Did you find the human?"

"Did you find any sign of the Decepticon?"

"What did you find in there?"

"What is that creature?"

"Is it sentient?"

Ratchet ignored the questions the bots around him launched as soon as the hologram returned to the surface.

The mech placed the human pack in subspace, as the canine trotted out of the dwelling.

He remembered hearing a member of Nest's human security team calling them Man's best friend.

Very loyal creatures, able to be trained to complete various simple tasks.

As soon as the canine spotted the Autobots standing around the shelter's entrance He bared his fangs and started growling, his fur standing on end as the Cybertronian's chuckled at his attempt to appear ferocious.

The dog yelped and placed it's tail between its hind legs as a neon yellow hand scooped down and picked him up.

"Oh hush I'm not going to harm you."

Ratchet turned to the mechs and femmes that gathered around him to see the organic he had in his hand.

He stroked the shaking creature's back with a finger to clam it.

His spark flickered sorrowfully as he remembered doing just this, to calm several humans as they suffered from the Virus.

"To answer your questions. 1: No I did not find the human, but I believe she has been living there. 2: I'm not sure, I found a bunch of energon coated thread around the room and picked up a faint energy signal. It is possible that a Decepticon used the threads to snare the human. I think this one here was ensnared first, but managed to escape. 3: What I found, is a human computer. It may give us more information as to who the young femme is. 4: This creature, is called a Dog, a Siberian husky I do believe. And 5: No, it is not sentient. Humans keep them as pets and consider them to be, "Mans best friend."

Sideswipe was the first to speak up.

" Ok cause I was worried there for breem… I thought you miss took that organic as a Human."

A sharp clang was his only response when Ratchet's fist connected with the warriors helm leaving a nice sized dent.

"Ow!"

"Mute it, Fragger!"

Arcee and Chromia chuckled as Prowl and Elita shook their heads.

The femmes transformed and headed back to base as Ratchet handed Prowl the Dog and transformed.

"Ratchet, I saw this…Dog, following a Human as they fled Barricade."

The medic opened his passenger door allowing Prowl to place the canine in his cab.

"Barricade? Where you able to note weather on not the human was damaged?"

"Negative. She seemed well enough as she launched her self off the front of my alt form."

Ratchet was quite amazed as he watched the recording Prowl sent him.

That would explain the bandages he saw on the desk.

"Aside from being malnourished, I must agree with you… We can only hope that she didn't run into any 'Cons. Things will not go well for her if she did."

Prowl paused his hand went up to the side of his helm, his optic dimmed as he listened to a Com link…

"We need to head back to base. The Ark has just entered the atmosphere."

The mech cycled air in frustration as he transformed.

"It appears Wheeljack, Flareup, and Cliffjumper decided they wished to experience atmospheric reentry and will be landing in this area soon."

Jax sat in the passenger seat his head out the window and tongue flopping in the wind as the two mechs headed back into New Iacon City.

***

Maxine awoke to the feeling of pins and needles tingling threw her body.

Her head felt strangely thick and heavy, like she had been hanging upside down for to long.

When she forced her heavy eye lids open, she flinched back and cried out when she came face to face with a mummified skull.

It's eyes where sunk in and it's mouth was open in a silent scream.

She tried to cry out and to back away from the body, but found herself wrapped from nose to foot in the same stuff the skeleton below her was wrapped in.

Dangling head first from the ceiling.

What ever it was it was sticky and strong, it also stunk something fierce.

Max clenched her eyes shut so she could think without staring death in the face, while she felt for her hidden knives.

The young woman hissed slightly when one of the smaller ones in her sleeve nicked her forearm.

Pain is at times good, means the stuff isn't cutting off circulation, it also woke her up.

It took a while, but she was able to slice the sticky stuff open causing her to crash head fist into the skeletons lap and next to her sword...

The young woman's stomach turned as she looked around.

The room was filed with half decomposed bodies human and animal alike, in the middle of the room laid a blue and silver giant robot, only this one was greyish and seemed lifeless.

The Robot brought back everything that had happened in painful clarity.

Her eyes watered as her head throbbed in time with the memories as they flashed threw her mind.

The attack a the med center, the Red eyed and the blue eyed Robots fighting.

The metal spider!

Max jumped to her feet and almost hit the floor again as pain flashed up from her ankle.

The sword in her hands wavered slightly as she held out in front of her.

The young woman backed up slowly limping from pain and the lack of a shoe.

Pale green eyes looking every where expecting the giant spider to jump out at her from the shadows.

Max froze for a moment as a thought tore through her mind.

Where was Jax?!

Sorrow clenched her heart when she remembered seeing the husky wrapped in the spiders blueish white silk back at the shelter.

Her eyes snapped to the ceiling, a chill shivered threw her body as she gazed up at a the nightmarish sight over head.

She slowly resumed backing up eyes locked on the ceiling.

Several blueish white pod like things dangled from a giant looking cobweb made of the same kind of blue glowing material.

Some of them where empty from where the skeletons had fallen to the floor below.

The remaining web swayed eerily like ghosts of the dead dancing to a tune only they could hear.

A few of the pods still held bodies like the drained husks of flies stuck in a spiders forgotten web.

All of them were either to big or much to small to be Jax.

The young woman reluctantly scanned the floor looking for her four legged friend's furry white body.

There where plenty of dog remains on the ground, along with several other creatures.

None of them thankfully, was her Jax.

"He must still be at the shelter."

Max felt a slight twinge of guilt that she was glad that the bodies weren't Jax's, most of them are human…

Well, they had been at one time anyway…

Max took another step back and was yanked out of her thoughts when something grabbed her hurt ankle.

The young woman let out a scream of fright as she hit the ground, kicking blindly at what ever had a hold on her foot.

Max let out another pathetic yelp when her hand sank threw the remains of a human chest as she crab crawled backwards.

Her cheeks flared red in embarrassment when she noticed the thing around her ankle was only a thin black strap attached to a large black bag.

Max pulled her hand from the skeleton's chest and shuddered in disgust as she untangled her foot.

The bandage around her ankle as torn and filthy she winced as it throbbed in time to her heart beat as she pulled the wrap off.

She nearly jumped out of her skin when a small silver vile fell out of the bag and rolled over and bounced off her only boot.

Tears burned the back of her eyes as she remembered Playing tug-o-war with Jax for the other one.

Max scowled and banished the memories as she bent and grabbed the vile off the ground.

She blinked as she recognized the object in her hand...

It was a Co2 cartridge, the ones used in paintball guns and air pistols.

Max knelt and pulled the bag closer, the cloth practically dissolving in her hand allowing several other cartridges to tumble out rattling loudly as they rolled along the floor.

She pulled the rest of the bag open revealing an old air soft paint ball gun with a tank half full of paint balls.

She as quite sure one of the old stores she rummaged threw had a bunch of paint ball Refill kits.

She wasn't sure what good paint balls would do against Giant frickin Robots, but it as better then nothing.

She sure didn't really want to get close enough to use her sword unless she had to.

Maybe she could be like tom thumb and stab them in the foot or hand if they tried to step on or grab her…

Max snickered softly to herself at the thought as she snatched the cartridges off the floor and slung the plastic rifle over her shoulder.

It could at least be used as a good distraction for a quick get away…

"Well, Well look what we have here… My little human snack seems to have escaped from it's cocoon…"

The young woman's blood froze in her veins as her head snapped up at the sound of the feminine voice above her.

Green eyes locked onto blood red Optics as the giant black gold and red arachnid lowered it's self on glowing web.

"That is all right, Black Arachnia loves a good chase, gets the Energon flowing."

Max didn't wait for the talking spider to reach the ground as she spun around and took off limping across the floor, dodging skeletons as the spiders laughter filled the building.

"Here fleshy fleshy!"

Max raced around a pile of rubble in the middle of the floor and spotted a broken window along one of the walls.

The young woman could hear the click of Black Arachnia's legs as they ticked along the floor.

Max looked back one to see the Spider climb over the rubble pile and giggled as Max fled to the window.

An idea came to her when she spotted a fallen metal ceiling beam between her and the window.

She ducked behind the beam and unslung her weapon as her other hand pulled a Cartridge from her pocket.

"Playing hide and seek are we...you can't hide from me for long fleshling."

max popped her head over the Ibeam and sighted the giant spider as it drew closer.

Six soft pops where follow with satisfying splats of bright red and orange.

A shrill scream of rage filed the room as the paint slammed into the spiders eyes.

"Frag it!! You will regret that squishy! I will enjoy draining you as slowly as possible!"

The young woman re-slung the paintball gun and dashed to the exit.

Max threw every ouch of speed she had into crossing the last few feet, before she flung her self threw the small portal.

The spider spewed a string of webbing that flre over her head as she cleared the building.

Max cried out as she tumbled down a pile of brick outside the window.

She gasped in pain as bright stars flashed before her eyes when her head hit the ground at the bottom of the pile

"There's a couple hundred bruises to add to the several thousand others…"

Max squinted at the noon day sun as she stumbled to her feet.

The spiders laugher filled the air, as Maxine fled into one of the abandoned buildings on the outskirts of the city... On the opposite side then her shelter she noted wryly.

"Come out come out where ever you are little human.. It wound hurt.. Long... Oh wait!...Yes it will! Ah hahaha."

The young woman huddled back into the shadows as the metal arachnid stood on the roof of the building.

Max watched with a mixture of shock, awe and horror, as the spider seemed to fall apart from the inside and reform into another Giant Robot.

This one looked more femaleish then the others had.

"What is it with these robots! The planet is frickin infested with them!"

"Ah! There you are come one out little fleshling."

"Aw crap... Note to self; when being hunted by giant robots keep mouth shut...!"

Both Maxine and Black Arachnia looked up, as a loud roar filled the air.

The Robot ducked as a large meteor streaked by slammed threw the top floors of the building Max was hiding in.

"Why do bad things always have to happen to the building I just happen to be hiding it?!"

The young woman flung herself out the door as the ceiling caved in.

Max screamed a another meteor plowed into the ground to her right throwing her back into a lamp post bits of cement rained down on her as she staggered to her feet once more.

Only to get thrown forward once more as once more a meteor slammed in to the ground to her left.

The young woman's ears rang, as she placed a hand on her head.

Warm blood flowed down the side of her face, Max looked at her hand in confusion trying to figure out what she had hit her head on.

The world seemed to spin as a huge form unfolded it's self from building the meteor had crashed into.

The sword and paintball gun dug in to her back as she scrambled away from the sight.

Stumbling to her feet and fleeing as the monstrosity took a huge step out of the building towards her.

Max skidded to a stop with a cry as a large red foot crashed in front of her.

The light of the setting sun cast shadows against the side of the building, One such shadow informed her of the hand drawing down on her as a wave of dizziness swept through her.

All the strength and energy seemed to drain out of her causing her to stumble and fall back.

The young woman could hear a small voice in the back of her head whispering softly, as she felt something slipping under her, wrapping around her body, before gently lifting her off the ground.

"Why do these thing keep happening to me?"

A pair of soft blue lights here the last things she saw as her mind slipped away into the safety of darkness…

***

New Iacon city

Ratchet gazed down at the screen as it flickered to life.

Optics glancing over at the dog that lay next to the human computer, the creatures hind leg twitching in his sleep as he whined at something he chased in his dreams…

The mech refocused on the computer as he selected a folder on the main screen named "Autolog".

The folder opened, revealing a multitude of files.

Selecting one he clicked on he clicked on it, the mech stepped back as the monitor went dark.

A fe seconds later the image of two humans appeared on screen one male and the other female.

The female had pale skin with white blond hair and bright green eyes, the male next to her, had darker skin and dark blond hair with blueish grey eyes.

The human male adjusted the camera then sat back down next to his mate.

They both glanced at each other.

The female placed a hand on her abdomen, her other grasping the males and nodded to her mate.

The male glanced back at the camera and sighed…


Autolog: 001

If any one see's this, I am Dr. Marshal Lake, and this is my wife Kendra. We are making this log in hopes that if we are successful. It may be the key to saving what is left of our race… Not long after the virus as released into the atmosphere our scientists realized the virus was created to attack our molecular structure and begin breaking it down even to the most basic levels. They tried every thing they could think of. From plain old antibiotics, to tiny microscopic robots that where programmed to kill off the virus. Nothing worked, the antibiotics didn't even affect it, the robots seemed to work for a little while, until the virus started to imitate our white blood cells. By then well over three quarters of the planet's human population had perished. the scientists that where conducting the experiments succumbed to the virus and eventually passed away. Then three years ago I stumbled up on an old bunker that contained boxes and boxes of files. All from some government agency called Sector 7. Apparently they had unearthed something they called the Cube a giant artifact that seemed to produce an energy signature the brought machines to life. Inside the bunker I found a bunch of blue and pink glowing crystals attached to a medium sized lead box. Inside was filled with a bunch of metal shavings with a small metal sphere that levitated in the center of the box that caused the crystals to glow brighter the closer they got to the shavings. A year and half later, I was testing some ideas of a cure when I knocked a book off a shelf onto the box. One of the smaller crystals shattered and unknown to me at the time. A tiny shard fell into the virus culture I had been working on. That evening when I looked at the culture under a microscope I found the tiny bit of crystal, and around it was virus free. From then on I started working with the crystals breaking off tiny bits and testing the virus's reaction. Every time any part of the crystal came with in contact it killed off the virus.. Sadly anytime the crystal came in contact with human skin it cause severe radiation burns. So far I have not gotten any closer to finding away to use the crystals as a cure... But I believe we are on the right track…and just maybe.. Our child will be born in a world free of the Alien Virus…


T.B.C


Next time on Adaptation...

Wheeljack looked down at the small organic in his hand.

A strange energy signature ..not unlike that of the Allspark... Radiated off of it.

It as leaking a dark red substance from it's crainal unit.

A quick scan informed him that the organic's structure as similer to that of a Cybertronian's...Only squishier.

The mech turned to a shorter red red mech peered in to the enginers hand.

"What did ya find Jack?"

"An organic..."

"Woa... Tiny little thing isn't it?"

"It is simply fascinating the kinds of life in the universe."

Both mechs turned around and looked at the third crater as a groan issued from with in it.

A small silver hand clamped on the edge of the hole as the femme pulled her self half out.

The ground shook as Flareup flopped on to the ground blue optics flickering up at the evening sky.

"That was amazing...but I think Ratchet is going to off-line me... I think I broke something important on that landing..."


Shadow:. Tell me what you guys think! I'm a Review monger I need them to help take over the World! .:Cackles:.

Ratchet:. .:Snags human Femme by the back of her Jacket.:. It is time for you to go recharge... The Reviews can wait...

Shadow:. But but...I don't wanna! What about taking over the world?

Ratchet:. Recharge now!

Shadow:. .:Giggles:.

Sideswipe:. Primus save us all! The Femme's been into the caffeinated beverages again! Review please!!!