Phoenix's POV

Phoenix groaned softly as she regained consciousness. She felt like absolute crap and that was probably the understatement of the century. Millennia. Whole of existence. Her head was killing her, her legs and body were burning as she had probably cut it crawling around in the scrapyard place. Her left arm was in agony and she suspected it was broken, and her ribs might be too since they hurt like shit as well. She had been dropped from twenty feet up approximately. At least she had been caught by Jazz…. Speaking of Jazz, where was he? Was he okay? And where the hell was she?

Opening her eyes, she found that she was in a large white room lying on some kind of giant metal table. Oh yeah, giant robot aliens need giant tables I guess. She also found that she was restrained and hooked up to a drip and could not move. Damnit. She spotted Jazz over on another metal table. He seemed to be sleeping, the monitors on him were on so he couldn't be dead. Sighing, she called out.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" No answer. Well, there wasn't really much to do except wait she guessed. Just then, there was a loud grating sound and footsteps. A yellow and green robot loomed over her and she gasped in awe. This one was much larger than Jazz!

"I see that you are online, youngling."

"Um, yeah." Youngling? Online? She guessed that was alien speak for "I see you are awake, child."

"I am Ratchet, Chief Medical Officer of the Autobot. You have sustained heavy damage to your frame and processor."

"Good for you, and that's really great and all but can you speak English? I don't speak alien." She told him. He made a weird rumbling noise that sounded kind of annoyed.

"I am sorry, I forget that you do not know our terms. I am the Head Doctor for the Autobots and you have injured your body and head severely. How much pain are you in approximately?"

"Oh, well I ache all over, I've got a headache and my ribs and killing me. My left arm also hurts like hell." He nodded and went over to find some human painkillers for her. He couldn't give her too much as she was only a youngling after all and he did not want to hurt her. Phoenix shifted uncomfortably. "Can you take these cuffs off please?" Ratchet looked down at her. She didn't look like she was going to make a run for it.

"Okay, but you cannot move that much as you are still attached to the drip." She nodded and he undid the restraints. She sat up gently, and her ribs and arm screamed in protest. It was worth it though, as she could now see that she was in a giant doctor's surgery. Her eyes landed on Jazz.

"Will Jazz be okay?" Ratchet snorted.

"Physically he will be fine. He is currently recharging as it will help the damage to repair faster. However, he has broken protocol by communicating and endangering a human so he shall be punished."

"Oh." Said human was obviously her. She wondered what she would do now she'd met a bunch of aliens. Phoenix hoped she wouldn't be sent back to the kids home, Jazz seemed like he wanted to be her friend and Ratchet wasn't too bad either. Then, the giant doors slid open again, causing another loud scraping noise and in walked a silver robot and a golden robot.

"Sunny, look! There really is a mini squishy in the med-bay, Bumblebee was telling the truth!" The silver one said. He received a glare from the golden robot.

"Don't call me that Sides! And I don't care if it's a mini squishy or a slightly bigger squishy, they are all oily and disgusting and nasty. I don't want to touch any fleshbags whatsoever." Well, so much for all aliens being nice. This one certainly required a good tongue thrashing, but Ratchet beat her to it.

"Get out you two! I don't want you in my med-bay!"

"Aww, but Ratch I just wanted to see the mini squishy. Can I hold it?" Jeez, he made her sound like some kind of fragile pet that he was curious about.

"NO Sideswipe, I've told you before that the humans are not our pets. They are sentient beings and deserve to be treated as such. Now will you please get out?"

"I wouldn't want to touch such the grease stain anyway sides, let's go." The golden one said. Phoenix narrowed her eyes at him. That one definitely needed a really heavy object to be thrown at his head. Maybe a shoe. Yeah, a really pointy high heel might teach him a lesson. Just as they left, Ratchet seemed to have the same idea, for he threw two wrenches at each of them. They both cursed and the golden whine started whining about his paint, but left quickly as Ratchet threatened him with another wrench. Phoenix just started laughing.

"Man that was priceless! Who are they anyway?" He gave her a slight smirk.

"They are Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, twin brothers. They can be a lot of trouble so I would suggest staying away from them while you are here." Phoenix nodded and waited as he ran more scans on her. They were quite tingly and felt weird but at least they were not painful. Then Jazz woke up.

"Ah man, ah feel like slag." Ratchet promptly grabbed another wrench and whacked him around the head with it.

"Language. And don't move."

"Sure thing Hatchet." He was smacked again with another wrench. Jazz saw her and grinned again. His smile in his robot form was similar to the one in his human form.

"How are ya?" he asked her, but before she could get a word in edgeways, Ratchet whacked him yet again. Jazz glared at him.

"Wha' was that for?!"

"How do you think the youngling is you irresponsible glitchhead?! You deliberately ignored protocol, broke your cover, endangered the life of a youngling and she had broken an arm and fractured two ribs because of your stupidity! And now, her parents and family are probably worried and….."

"Don't worry about that, my parents are dead." She told the medic bluntly. She didn't want Jazz in trouble because of her. After all, he had shown her nothing but kindness since she had met him. Nobody else had ever done that for her. Ratchet stopped talking abruptly.

"I am sorry." She waved his concerns away.

"Don't be, they died when I was a baby. It's not like I can remember them or anything and you can't miss what you never had." Heck, she didn't even know what they had looked like. She'd seen a picture once, a very long time ago but it had faded from her memory. She turned away and studied the wall, knowing that they were probably looking very sympathetic like most people did when they found out she had no parents. An awkward silence filled the room.

"Optimus Prime will be here to talk to you soon youngling."

"Who?"

"Tha's our leader. Ow!" Jazz input and was hit yet again.

"Be quiet and sit still Jazz! And yes, Jazz is right. Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots." Again, the doors slid open and Phoenix turned to find herself looking at a massive red and blue robot. Her mouth dropped open.

"Holy Shit, you're huge!" He chuckled at her disbelief. Optimus had to be as tall as a skyscraper or something, not that she had ever seen one, having never lived in a big city. He knelt down to her level and offered her a finger.

"My name is Optimus Prime. It is a pleasure to meet you." She reached up and shook his finger with her right hand.

"I'm Phoenix."

"Phoenix… an interesting name. I am here to ask how you met Autobot Jazz."

"Um, well I was walking in the woods near my childrens home and I went to my favourite place and he as just sitting there. So we talked for a bit and then he found out it was my birthday and offered to take me somewhere as I haven't really had a birthday before. So we went to the shops and then to a beach and then the decepticons came along so he told me he was an alien from Cybertron and protected me from the three guys who tried to kill us." She gabbled out quickly. He reminded her of a head teacher who would put you in detention if you didn't tell the truth. Although, Jazz would probably be the one getting the detention in this case.

"I see. You have my deepest apologies for your injuries." She waved him off.

"It's all good, I've been in fights before. Just not with a robot. What will happen to me now?"

"Captain Lennox is arranging for you to go back to the children's home when Ratchet has cleared you to leave." Phoenix was disappointed at that. It felt like a dream to be here with aliens, but although her arm was broken and her ribs cracked, she didn't want to go home. This was the first time she'd really experienced a world outside of a very mundane existence. Although, she couldn't really be surprised. They were secret aliens after all, hidden by the government. Optimus Prime turned to look at Ratchet.

"Is Jazz able to leave? I wish to speak with him in my office." Ratchet smiled in a very evil way.

"Oh, he'll be fine for awhile. Just send him straight back after." Prime nodded.

"Jazz, you will follow me to my office now."

"Okay Prime." Phoenix was quite worried actually. It sounded like Jazz was in deep shit. She really hoped he wouldn't get punished too harshly because of her. After all, he hadn't really done anything that bad. He had given her the once in a lifetime experience, and to her disappointment, it sounded like it would remain that way even though he had promised to see her again. She sighed, knowing he would probably be unable to keep that promise, but some small stupid part of her hoped just the same.

A/N I hope you enjoyed this chapter, thank you for reading and please review! The next chapter will have Prime and Jazz from Jazz's POV and Phoenix will meet Captain Lennox. -AnAshBlackSword