Hi, there! Warmachine375 here, this is a crossposting of my story titled "Indomina's ONE Adventures" here. It is a crossover between "Transformers One" movie and "How Very Logical" and its sequel "A Shift In Logic" made by Tomb Spyder in SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity respectively.

I recommend you guys to go check out Tomb Spyder's stories out and they're good read.

Synopsis: "Indomina, the daughter of SI!Shockwave, somehow finds herself in an alternate Cybertron where Energon is scarce and Cogless bots exist. Encountering Orion Pax and his three friends on their quest to find the Matrix of Leadership, she decided to go with them and help out."

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Prime and Transformers One. They belong to Hasbro and Paramount Pictures.

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Not in Space Kansas Anymore

Where am I? Why does Cybertron look so barren? What happened to everyone?

Indomina, the first of the cloned Predacons and daughter of Shockwave*, thought when she looked around the surrounding area on Cybertron. She was just taking a long nap in her beastly alt-mode after the planet had been restored back to life while her Creator was working on rebuilding their home world with the Autobots and the Decepticons under an uneasy truce. But now it appeared as if Cybertron had seemingly died out again after Indomina eventually woke up.

She tried using her senses to find the familiar scents of any bot but found none so far on the surface.

If this is an elaborate prank from Creator or my Predacon siblings, I'm going to give them a piece of my mind when I find them!, she vowed with a growl and glowing energy emanating from her alt-mode's throat. She hoped that she might be under a Cortical Psychic Patch, made by her Creator, that was somehow hooked up on her while she was in a stasis nap and they play off a simulation to imitate Cybertron being a dead world for her to be in it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Suddenly, a scream of an angry femme caught Indomina's attention when she heard it in her audio receptors and smiled. So there are bots here on Cybertron after all!, the Predacon thought as she unfurled her massive wings before taking a mighty leap to fly into the skies so that she will follow the source of the sound.

With great speed, Indomina managed to arrive at the location of the femme's scream where she found four Cybertronians who seemed to be lost and disoriented. However, she could have sworn that they appeared to be very small from her point of view. Smaller than the average bots from Autobots and Decepticons.

Are they Minicons that Creator mentioned offhand? Never mind, time to meet them., she wondered before deciding to make herself known to the quartet.

"You listen to me, Mr. zero-seconds-since-my-last-accident! I'll go on your little quest, because I don't have a-", said the angry sounding femme but she was interrupted by a powerful roar and a strong gust of wind out of nowhere.

Indomina landed on all fours in front of the four smaller bots, gazing upon them intensively whilst sniffing. The three's scents felt familiar... No way, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee!, she thought in surprise to recognize the leader of the Autobots and his scout before internally frowning at the other mech. And of course, Megatron. He looked less spiky and intimidating though...

"Uh, Elita, I think your screaming got the giant beast's attention.", the red and blue mech stated in wary tone.

"I know that, Orion!", the pink femme retorted, feeling nervous as she knew that there's no chance of fighting back without a T-Cog if the creature proved to be hostile.

"The surface really is dangerous, Pax! We shouldn't have come here!", the silver and black mech lamented but was determined to put up a fight despite being obviously outmatched.

He really is Megatron. Still, it would have been easy to flick him over..., Indomina observed but noticed something off. Wait, why are there holes on their chests? Are those their spark chambers? No, they shouldn't be online in that case.

However, the yellow mech approached Indomina without fear, which got the three being worried of him being mauled and eaten. "Hi there, big guy! Nice to meet you! I'm B-127! You can call me B. Or you can call me Badassatron! Which you can pronounce...", he said before standing up straight and made a deep voice.

"BADASSATRON!"

An awkward silence ensued between the giant flame-breathing dragon and the four bots.

I'm sticking with Bee... That name is terrible and it won't fly for Creator and my siblings., the Predacon thought in a deadpan manner as she weighed on her options. Still, I don't know if it's really a simulation I'm in... Or somehow I ended up on an alternate world like in those human Isekai stories found at the Internet. Either way, I think it's best to go with these quartet.

Indomina decided to reveal her true form to the shocked smaller bots as her body started transforming from giant dragon to giant femme, towering over them like a huge shroud. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Bee. My name is Indomina. What are your names?", she introduced herself with an attempt to try look friendly.

"Holy Primus! She's a Cogged!", the silver and black mech exclaimed in surprise to see the beast revealing to be a Transformer.

"Cogged? Don't you four have T-Cogs?", she inquired with a raised right optic.

The red and blue mech spoke up, "No, not really. We were born without them, Miss Indomina. We're Cogless miners. The name's Orion Pax and my friends here are D-16 and Elita-1."

Elita-1 looked like she was about roll her optics that they're not exactly friends but held her tongue while B-127 was very awed at Indomina's stature. D-16 looked at the female Predacon as if she's gonna attack them at any minute.

"And what were you four doing out here in the middle of nowhere?", Indomina asked, finding the idea of the leaders of Autobots and Decepticons to be bereft of T-Cogs quite bizarre.

Trusting his instincts that the Cogged femme was not like Darkwing, Orion Pax explained as he took back the device containing the distress signal from Elita-1, "We found a distress signal from Alpha Trion, Miss Indomina. We had to follow these coordinates to that location."

Indomina knelt down to take a closer look at the holographic image of Cybertron with the coordinates as her optics narrowed. Alpha Trion, the mentor of Optimus Prime and one of the Thirteen according to Creator. How interesting...

"You're going to rescue Alpha Trion?", she asked.

"And to find the Matrix of Leadership too! It was lost for 50 cycles after the war against the Quintessons and Sentinel Prime has been looking for it so that the Energon flow will be back on Cybertron! But if we found it first and give it to him, we would get a huge promotion of our lives!", D-16 explained with cautious eagerness and reverence for this Sentinel Prime.

That got Elita-1's interest of becoming a part of their quest more than ever.

Finding this version of Megatron acting differently than the Megatron she was familiar with to be surreal, Indomina nodded. "I see. Well, in that case, how about I give you four a lift? Lead me to Alpha Trion's location with your coordinates and we will get there within short notice."

"That's great! Thank you, we appreciate it, Miss Indomina.", Orion Pax nodded, finding relief that a Cogged is willing to help them out.

There were very few Cogged who actually looked after the Cogless and appreciated their hard work, such as Sentinel Prime obviously and Dr. Ratchet*. The grumpy medic may not show it but he is a good bot with a kindhearted spark when leading the repair and maintenance of the entire mining labor force to ensure their well-being and find their mistreatment by jerks like Darkwing appalling.

D-16 interrupted as he saw it as another Cogged trying to take another achievement the Cogless came close to attain, "Whoa, whoa! Don't be hasty, Pax! We just met this Cogged femme out of nowhere in the surface! How do we know she's not trying to con us and steal the credit of finding the Matrix for herself?"

He still felt sore from not only he and Orion were snatched of their supposed first Cogless victory at the Iacon 5000 event by Chromia, they got thrown down to Sublevel 50 by a spiteful Darkwing even though they told him that Sentinel Prime personally awarded them and wanted to be their sponsors of inspiring more fellow Cogless to make a difference.

At least this Megatron is skeptical of something new appearing before him and wanted to be sure..., Indomina internally noted as she remembered her Creator introduce her to the Decepticon warlord in first meeting.

"She's obviously not from Iacon, D. Otherwise, she would have been easily recognized long ago.", Orion defended his choice before adding. "Besides, she transformed into a giant winged beast, not a vehicle. It's not something that everyone can just ignore."

"Yeah, as if any bot would expect her to turn into a giant car.*", Elita-1 dryly remarked.

"Don't you mean a truck or a jet?", B-127 wondered aloud.

The Predacon stated with a hum, "Indeed, living out here in the wilderness is far more fulfilling than living a city full of cramped spaces to be honest. Regardless, the offer still stands."

The four bots looked at each other for a moment and made a decision to go with Indomina. The faster they find Alpha Trion's location along with the Matrix of Leadership, the better.

Indomina transformed back into her draconic alt-mode and growled at the four bots to climb on and sit on her back. Once Orion Pax, D-16, B-127 and Elita-1 are secured and holding on to her, she had her wings unfurled and soared into the skies. The quartet were terrified at first like their ride on the train that brought them to the surface of Cybertron previously.

But when they calm down a little and received a full view of the whole planet below them, it was mesmerizing. At least they won't be falling off this time unlike before.

It's official. I'm not in Space Kansas anymore., Indomina internally sighed.

Author's Note: Okay, Chapter 1 of "Indomina's ONE Adventures" is done and I hope you like it. Indomina meets Orion Pax and his friends who saw her as a Cogged before learning about their quest to find the Matrix of Leadership and offering them a ride to the location from the distress signal's coordinates.

*In "How Very Logical" by Tomb Spyder, Indomina is the female variant of the Predaking made by SI!Shockwave who attempted to recreate the ruler of Predacons like in the original show but got her instead. Compared to Predaking who was cordial with his creator, Indomina saw SI!Shockwave like a father to her when he raised her prior to eventually regaining contact with Megatron and Dreadwing who returned to Cybertron to retrieve Liege Maximo's arm.

*Ratchet was mentioned in "Transformers One" where he takes part of the medical staff healing the injured Cogged racers of Iacon 5000 in the aftermath.

*Yes, it is a reference to "Transformers: Age of Extinction" where Drift was expecting Grimlock to turn into a giant car, not a T-Rex.

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