Notes:

I apologize since now, as I'm not able to update regularly. But I promise that I'll finish this story, given enough time.
And, as usual for me, it'll be about Bee more than the others...
Hope you'll enjoy it, please feel to comment, especially to point out the errors as its not betad and I'm not mother tongue. None of the characters are mine.


Optimus woke up in a strange room.

Something was definitely off with it, but he couldn't pin point what.

"Optimus, do you receive me?" That was Ratchet through the comm link.

"Ratchet?"

"Oh, thanks Primus" the Doctor breathed out "we lost any contact with you since two weeks ago"

Two weeks? Think back, Prime, what happened?

Last thing he could recall was their instruments finding a new relic.

They went out, Optimus, Smokescreen, Bulkhead and Bumblebee, to retrieve it, he managed to remember.

But they couldn't find it.

He recalled have been walking through the ground bridge, as he have been commenting with Ratchet, through comm link, that they should had checked that instruments again.

He remembered the light in the bridge, way brighter than usual, and then nothing.

"Where am I?" He asked mainly to himself. But his internal geolocation system didn't answer.

"We believe that the ground bridge was deviated and you were transferred to an unknown location"

The doctor explained curtly.

"Ratchet, did the other come back?"

Optimus' spark sank as his old friend hesitated to answer.

And when Ratchet answered, his professional tone tainted by concern confirmed Optimus' fears.

"Smokescreen is here... But... We haven't been able to contact Bumblebee nor Bulkhead so far..."

"Oh Primus..."

But before Optimus could add anything else, the door opened, and an human stepped inside.

That was when Optimus finally figured what was wrong with the room: the furniture, the bed, the curtain, the chair, they where humans, and in human size, and yet he was able to lie on the bed, and the newcomer, he looked as tall as Optimus.

No. Optimus correct himself, I'm as tall as him. I shrank...

As he thought so, he looked down to himself. What he saw, oh Primus, he wasn't ready for what he saw.

He didn't simply shrank, oh no... He was human!

From the surprised noises through the commlink, the others were saying the same on the screen in the HQ.

"How are you feeling today" was the kind question from the man standing next to his bed.

And now Optimus realized that the man was wearing one of those white lab coat. A doctor, his mind supplied.

"I'm confused " Optimus honestly answered. He eared Ratchet mumbling something on the comm link, but the human doctor started to explain, and so Optimus tuned his old friend out.

"Someone find you just outside the city, unconscious, and with no documents on you. Now, that was two weeks ago. You were diagnosed with a severe concussion and minor bruises. Can you tell me your name, please?"

"Optimus Prime" he answered, and when the doctor lifted one eyebrow in surprise, he wondered if it could have been better if he would have lied about his name.

The doctor recovered quickly anyway "nice to meet you, Mr Prime. I'm Doc Foster, and I'm your neurologist here at the Jasper's All Saint Hospital"

"We are in Jasper, Nevada?" Optimus inquired eagerly, and through the comm link he could hear Jack commenting that there was where his mum works. Relief flowed the Prime, as Ratchet informed him that nurse June had been contacted and that she was going to find him and take him to the HQ.

"Yes indeed, Mr Prime, this is very good.." The doctor asked him more questions about the day, and the president of the United States and so forth and so on...

Optimus indulged him, his mind already projected to the end of this adventure.

But then, after the doctor left, Ratchet commed to say than June have been in the reception, and no John Doe were registered at the Jasper' All Saint.

"Prime, you have to leave that place, we don't know what's going on, but go out, find a reference point and I'll come to pick you up" Arcee added urgently.

And Optimus stood on uncertain legs, and slowly and painfully dressed with the clothes he found in the cupboard and then he made his way outside this room. His mind was spinning, maybe that was a MECH plan, or a mind trap from the decepticon or...

He arrived to the ground floor, and he started to cross the ER to the exit, when he bumped into a familiar looking woman. He was used to her to be way way smaller than him, but if even he had any doubt, the name tag confirmed her identity.

"Nurse June" he said relieved "it's me, Optimus" he whispered.

"I'm sorry" she answered politely, "do I know you?"

"Optimus, Optimus Prime..."

Her faces showed no recognition at all, and through the comm link the team informed him that Jack was speaking with his mum over the phone in that exact moment.

Mind trick, or maybe alternative universe Optimus thought, and started to apologize and tried to leave.

Too late, though, as the Doc Foster had alerted the security that was already converging discretely on the Autobot.


Took him another week to convince the doctor to dismiss him.