Disclaimer I do not own the Transformers Prime characters in this story, only my OCs

Chapter 1: Illness

It had been nearly four months since Cybertron was restored. The Cybertronian citizens were able to be born since the AllSpark was returned to Cybertron's core. The Decepticons and Autobots finally set aside their differences after centuries of brutal warfare. Now, every bot on the New Cybertron was living in a time of peace and tranquility.

Ratchet, Bumblebee, Arcee, and Bulkhead were in the Ex-Decepticon warship, going through old files of Decepticon's traps and history. Ratchet was going through Decepticon experimental files when he heard the communication comlink beeping. He pressed the green blinking button and said, "Yes, what is it? I am very busy with decrypting…" But he was interrupted by a very familiar voice.

"Ratchet, Ratchet, you there?" Ratchet's optics widened in shock when he recognized the voice.

"Raf? By the AllSpark, how have you been, old friend?" Raf on the other hand, didn't call Ratchet to just catch up on things.

"Sorry Ratchet, we have no time to chit chat on things. We have an emergency! We need a spacebridge open NOW!" Raf replied rapidly.

"Woah, woah, slow down, Raf. What seems to be the problem?" replied Ratchet. There were some background conversations and beeping noises coming from the other side of the comlink.

"No time to explain right this second, Ratchet! We need a portal open NOW!" shouted Raf.

"Okay, Raf. Jeez, don't get your tail pipe in a twist," replied Ratchet sarcastically. The Autobot was typing in the coordinates for the spacebridge jump from Earth to Cybertron. The portal opened in the room Ratchet was in as he patiently waited for the human friends he'd known for a very long time.

Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Arcee walked into the room and saw Ratchet opening a bridge in the Decepticon med room. "Hey Ratchet!" exclaimed Bulkhead in a friendly manner.

"Not now, Bulkhead. Our human friends have a dire emergency and are coming here," replied Ratchet sternly. Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Arcee looked at each other in confusion and concern for their human friends.

"What kind of emergency?" Arcee asked with a bit of worry in her tone.

"Yeah, and are the kids okay? Miko didn't wreck anything right?" asked Bulkhead.

Ratchet raised his hand and replied, "Yepyep! One at a time puh-leez!" Ratchet took a short breath and said, "The only thing that I know is that something terrible must have happened, and they are coming here. I don't know exactly what happened on Earth, but Raf told me to open up a spacebridge just a few minutes ago."

Before Bumblebee could ask Ratchet what Raf said to him, the spacebridge sizzled as the humans entered into the room. "Ratchet, we need a med bay!" yelled Jack in between heavy breaths, a result of running with Miko.

"What?!" cried the Autobots.

Jack was about to explain their situation when Miko cut in. "Guys, we need a med bay ready now because this cyborg girl was infected with this green energon stuff!"

"A what?" questioned Arcee.

"A cy-bor-g. You know, half human half machine!" Miko stated sarcastically.

Ratchet rolled his optics and said, "Phup! Puh-leez, that is highly impractical." He paused for a moment before asking worriedly, "Did you say green energon like in Tox-En?!" asked Ratchet with worry in his tone.

Miko nodded her head. "Yeah, that stuff somehow infected this girl. Plus she is in really, really bad shape," she replied.

Bulkhead's jaw dropped slightly at the mention of Tox-En still being on Earth. "How is it possible? I destroyed that chunk of Tox-En a long time ago!" Bulkhead stated with a bit of fear in his tone.

Then Agent Fowler, Nurse Darby, and Raf came into the room while carting a med table with a clear dome covering it so that the patient could breathe. "We need to stabilize her now!" yelled June. The Autobots' optics widened as they saw a young human girl around the age of 16 or 17 with light blue hair in the med cart. They were especially surprised that the girl had a cybertronian right arm.

"By the AllSpark!" exclaimed Ratchet in astonishment. "Bumblebee, get me Knock Out immediately!" he demanded. Bumblebee nodded his head and went out to get the Ex-Con. The medic turned towards Arcee and Bulkhead and said, "Arcee, Bulkhead, please change the atmosphere in this ship to suit our human guests."

"On it, Rachet," replied Arcee as she and Bulkhead ran towards the controls.

After a few minutes of modifying the ships' air to the humans' preference for 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, 0.03% carbon dioxide, and other types of gases, the ship's vents fizzed and sizzled as oxygen filled all of the rooms. "Okay, the air in this ship has been changed," said Bulkhead. Every one of the humans in the room started to remove their helmets and space suits. June removed the dome that was attached to the med cart off so that they could examine her more easily.

Ratchet turned towards June and Fowler and said, "Quickly, bring the patient over here!" The two rushed the girl over to where the medic was waiting for them while browsing through some Cybertronian equipment. Once he saw the patient up close, he noticed that the girl was very, very pale with baggy skin around her eye sockets. Then he saw green jagged lines all over her body, including her Cybertronian arm. Rachet scanned her body with his scanner and gasped. "Noo, it's not possible."

June looked at him worriedly and asked, "Is there a way to cure her, Ratchet?"

Ratchet shook his head and replied, "I don't know June. Her body… " The Autobot stumbled for a few seconds, "Her body has been infused with CNA and Cybertronian biology!" Ratchet exclaimed.

"Her body is infused with what again?" questioned Agent Fowler.

Ratchet turned to Fowler and said, "Her body has been mutated with Cybertronian biology. Her human body is flowing with traces of energon!" replied Ratchet in disbelief.

June's eyes widened as she took her medical bag, searched through it quickly, and pulled out a small vial. "This is a sample of her blood that I took a while ago," said the nurse. Everyones' eyes widened as they saw the color of the girl's blood was a blue violet.

"Umm… is it supposed to be that color?" asked Bulkhead.

Jack shook his head and replied, "No, our blood is a reddish color, not a blueish purple."

Then the girl's heart rate dropped to a flat line. "We're losing her!" Nurse Darby shouted. She grabbed the defibrillator, started to rub the two pads together, said "Clear!", and pressed the pads on the girl's chest.

"Oh no, not again," Miko complained as she held her head in her hand.

Bulkhead looked at her worriedly and asked, "Miko, how long has she been in June's care?"

Miko looked up at Bulkhead and sighed. "We had her for two days now. Jack, Raf, and I found her in Jasper Woods, she was walking towards us like a zombie before collapsing to the ground."

Jack continued the story."Yeah, we took her to my mom's hospital, and they couldn't even find anything in their records about her condition or about her metallic arm. Her condition was worsening, so we brought her here."

Bulkhead nodded in reply and watched June and Ratchet trying their best to stabilize her. Then the door of the medical room slid open. "Alright, alright, who's the bot that disturbed me from waxing my finish?!" shouted Knock Out as he walked in with a few Vehicon troopers behind him.

"Knock Out, now's not the time to be worrying about your finish!" retorted Ratchet.

Knock Out rolled his optics as he and the other Cons walked closer to where Ratchet was standing. He sighed and said, "Okay, who needs a doc… tor…" He stopped in mid sentence as he saw the girl on the table. His eyes widened in terror as he saw the girl that filled his dreams with nightmares. "No!" he shouted in horror. Then he brought out his electric staff while the other Decepticons changed their hands into cannons and were ready to fire.

The Autobots quickly got in between the girl, and the Cons and aimed their weapons back at them. "Drop your weapons!" Arcee demanded as she narrowed her eyes at Knock Out.

It was a stalemate, with neither side putting down their weapons. "Knock Out! Stop fooling around and help me stabilize her before she dies!" shouted Ratchet with a hint of annoyance in his tone.

Knock Out chuckled and said, "Good, let the little devil die!"

"What?!" shouted the humans and the Autobots simultaneously.

"I knew you weren't on our side, Con!" Miko shouted in hatred.

"You would just let this helpless human girl die?" questioned Bumblebee.

Knock Out and the other Decepticons simultaneously said, "Yes!"

Arcee was enraged by Knock Out and the other Decepticons' reply that she was charging her blasters to shoot them. "Give me two reasons why I shouldn't put a bullet in your spark, Knock Out!" she growled furiously at the red Ex-Con.

Knock Out just laughed at her and retorted, "I will give you many reasons why we should kill that spawn of Unicron!" He took a rest for a few seconds before saying, "SHE is the one that murdered over a hundred soldiers in mining operations, scouting, patrolling, and so many others." He looked down at the ground in shame. "It was because of me that I made her the monster that she has become."

"She fills every Decepticon on this very ship with nightmares of her thirst for vengeance!" exclaimed a Con trooper.

Bulkhead laughed at the scared Cons and said, "You're afraid of a human child like if she was a scraplet? Ha! Priceless!" He wiped his optic as if there were a tear coming down.

"DO NOT JOKE AROUND, AUTOBOT SCUM!" yelled another Decepticon. He calmed down a bit and said, "I watched one of my comrades being torn apart. Piece by piece by that monster. Her whole body was covered in his energon. She spared my life to deliver a message to Lord Megatron. For me to tell him that he was next." The Con looked down to the ground and started to shake a little. "Every night I would have nightmares about the death of my friend, over and over again… may his spark rest in peace."

"Those are the reasons why we have to kill her!" said Knock Out with fear in his optics as if he were on the verge of crying.

"No! I won't let you hurt her, Con!" shouted Miko as she kicked his foot. She recoiled in pain for kicking Knock Out's metal foot while he secretly smirked at her futile action.

"Miko is right; I am not going to let this girl die under my care!" shouted June.

Fowler nodded his head in agreement and said, "This young women is under our protection, and I will not let these stories deter us from helping her."

Knock Out hung his head to the side for a moment and said, "Sorry, but this must end, for good." He raised his head up and fired past Arcee and hit the girl's crystal on her chest. He smirked in satisfaction before he was pinned to the floor by Arcee.

"Why you, I should kill you for ending her life!" she shouted.

Then a green-blue, black, silver, light green, light blue, and dark blue light like an aura borealis started to fill the room completely. A voice was heard out of nowhere in almost a small whisper repeating these words over and over again; "Caro mea haec faciat metallum. Ut in eo aliquod corpus esse possit transmutare. May viribus ignis, aqua, terra, aer lucem ac tenebras efflorébit. Nam et ego ero vobis in Pedicon."

The girl's gem started to glow as well as her whole body as she was lifted up into the air. A blinding light filled the room completely, then faded swiftly away. The girl's body descended from the air towards the ground with a thud. Everyone's eyes widened as they saw the girl's transformation. "By the AllSpark, what have I created?" Knock Out mumbled to himself.

~To Be Continued~

Caro mea haec faciat metallum. Ut in eo aliquod corpus esse possit transmutare. May viribus ignis, aqua , terra, aer lucem ac tenebras efflorébit. Nam et ego ero vobis in Predacon.

(May my flesh become metal. May my body transform become powerful. May my powers of fire, water, earth, air, light, and darkness flourish. For I will be a Predacon.)