My second Transformers story! I know I have two other stories that aren't completely yet, but I just had to write this!

I don't own anything Transformers related

In a clearing in a overly dense forest in the Amazon, it was another battle between the Autobots and their sworn enemy, the Decepticons. The two teams were after whatever was causing the massive energy signature that threw the energy readings off the chart. What have caused it must be something extremely vital since Megatron was there in person along with most of his army, including Soundwave who usually stays behind on the Nemesis.

The battle was intense; Blasters were fired left from right, sounds of metal clashing from close encounters, and of course the Autobots were greatly outnumbered 5 to a whole lot of 'cons. The odds were not in their favor, but that didn't discourage them from trying.

Though, they weren't the only ones there. Our favorite humans Jack and Miko were hiding in the dark evergreens as it was the perfect camouflage at this time of night, out of sight from the robots and having a good view at that.

Why the two were there was a simple explanation: as always, Miko recklessly jump into the Groundbridge vortex without heeding warnings as Jack had to be the one to try to retrieve the crazy Asian girl. Again.

Someone should really put a shock collar on her to prevent situations like this from happening again.

Raf was still at base, awaiting for Jack to call so he could bridge them back hopefully without Ratchet knowing as the medic himself was busy conducting experiments to notice Jack and Miko's absence. That was the plan anyway. Primus knows how mad that mech would be if he'd find out why Miko and Jack were missing.

"Miko, are you crazy?!" Jack said in a loud hushed voice, clearly angered. "You know Optimus specially told us NOT to follow."

"Hey, no one told you to come after me!" She snapped back, eyes forming a glare. "Besides, I'm not missing one moment of this." The peppy teen snapped a photo of Bulkhead in a match vs Breakdown with her trusty pink cellphone. Some Vehicons were in the background getting pulverized by the scout Bumblebee. It was pretty funny to see the scout throw one of them into Knock Out, hearing him swear vengeance over his beloved paint job was simply hilarious.

While Knock out was attempting to get back at Bumblebee, Starscream was trying to extinguish a different Autobot's spark, Arcee's to be precise. Smiling evilly, he took aim at distracted Arcee as she was defending herself from incoming Vehicon attacks. Just before he could fire the missile, a sudden force from behind him sent the seeking flying through some trees, thankfully not near the human kids.

"I think that's what the humans call 'a home run'," Starscream got a look at his attacker to see it was none other than a gloating Smokescreen.

"Hey, if you're done over there, you can help the few of us that's actually trying to win a battle here." Smokescreen's winning smile then turns into a frown after hearing that from the blue femme.

"I saved her from being scrapped and this is the thanks I get...?" The Elite Guard's doorwings drops in disappointment right before getting grazed in the arm from a stray blast. "Frag!" He shoot back at the drone responsible for that, assuming that was the right one.

And in the middle of the battlefield, the leaders from both teams were engaged in a one-on-one battle.

"It would be wise, Optimus, if you just give up now while you still have the chance," Megatron smirked, reflecting back the Prime with his muscular metallic arm.

The red and blue bot quickly regained his balance before charging in. "I will not give into you, Megatron. Not now, or ever."

Jack groaned, hearing another click from Miko's phone. "I hope you had fun because that is your last picture..." Jack was cut off by a loud thud, accompanied by a slight tremor in the earth. Both of them paused, turning slowly to where the sound came from. It was a 'con that was thrown just a couple of feet away from them.

"Cool," Miko awed, taking another picture. The bot twitched upon hearing the camera shutter, lifting his helm at the source of the sound and staring emotionless at the humans. Checking his memory banks, the drone looks up pictures of them filed under 'Decepticon Enemies' list.

And guess who was in the top ten.

Miko pulls back down her phone and gulps. "Not cool... that 'con is still kicking!"

The duo didn't waste any time to run deep into the forest as they were chased by the mobile drone. Navigating through the dark forest was difficult as the vines were prone to catching humans feet that slowed them down a few times.

The only thing that provided an advantage was some of the trees which were low enough to block them from being seen from the tall enemy.

"Woah!" Exclaimed Miko as she eventually tripped over something big and metal. "Ouch..." she groans painfully from ground level. She winced from the pain of her scraped knee as she opens her eyes and saw what had caused her downfall.

It was a strange cylinder device, nothing she'd seen before.

Was it the thing that responsible for the massive energy spike? It was clearly not of Earth origin that was for certain. Temporarily forgetting about the bot that was after them and ignoring the pain in her knee, her first instinct was to touch the screen that was in the center of the device as it bares resemblance to a type of keyboard, right after snapping a picture. It was glowing as it responded to Miko's touch.

Jack paused after noticing there wasn't a pair of feet running behind him. Facing behind, there was Miko looking like a puppy who had dug up something interesting and pawing at it in curiosity. Shifting his gaze up was a towering Vehicon above the unsuspecting Miko.

"Scrap... Miko! Get away from there!" When Miko didn't comply, Jack ran to shove her out the way from a blast from the Vehicon's arm gun. They both eyed the newly made crater that was in their previous position into the forest floor.

Now the faceless 'cons blaster locked on the humans, preparing them a fate similar to the crater. Just a few seconds before death, abnormal sounds of energy whirring caught the attention of the three of them. The noise was coming from the machine Miko was tampering with. The whirring steadily rapid as a bomb would do before exploding.

"What's happening?" Worried Miko, already regretting bothering the device.

"No idea," Jack was equally worried, if not terrified. "But I suggest we get down!"

Jack and Miko took cover in the small crater, hands covering their heads, leaving the Vehicon confused of his next actions. Before they knew it, the machine emitted a emerald, eye-blinding light that stretched across the whole forest as it appeared to consume everything in it's vivid glow. The light lasted for a few seconds before fading out like the machine itself did.

Feeling that the light had died down, the kids opened their eyes, trying to blink away the imprint of the flash.

"What... just happened here?" Miko squinted her eyes before having adjusted to the suddenly dark surroundings.

"No clue." As they stood up, Jack noticed the strange mechanism had completely disappeared into thin air. Brushing the dirt off his clothes, Jack's frown appeared again. "Hey, wasn't there something over here a minute ago? You know, the thing you had no business messing with?"

"And wasn't there a 'con about to obliterate us into nothing?" The girl returned the bitter remark. She started to brush off her clothes as well. "You should be grateful I did what I did."

As much as Jack wanted to argue with her line of logic, it held water for the most part. Whatever she did, it saved their lives. Though, he wouldn't willing admit that. "Not that I'm complaining- trust me I'm not, but where did the 'con go?"

Miko only replied with a shrugged grunting, "I dunno," Taking a step out of the hole, Jack and Miko decided to check up on Optimus and the gang to make sure everything was sound, or at least winning the battle before bridging out of here. Miko on the other hand still wanted to stay.

"C'mon, Slowpoke, while there's still-" gasping mid sentence, Miko had her hands covered her mouth in shock. "Uh, Jack... you may wanna look at this."

For something that can startle Miko like that, Jack didn't wait a second to see for himself. "Woah..."

Laying unconscious on the forest floor was a human, an adult judging by the size, dressed in a black and dark purple armor that was similar to what Vehicons look like, only it didn't cover all of the body as dark clothes were shown under it. Wearing a helmet that was the same color scheme, a face couldn't be seen. The kids drew only a single conclusion from this, and they didn't like it a bit.

Quickly following the trail of broken down trees and crushed shrubbery courtesy of the used-to-be-robot, the teens had only hoped that their suspensions was wrong and that everyone was safe.

Returning to the clearing in post haste, there was a change of what was before them a minute ago; instead of robots beating the scrap out of each other, there was people scattered across the ground all wearing wearing armour of some type, most of different colors. They were all unconscious as there were visible signs of breathing in most of them.

"You don't think that..." Miko spoke halfway.

Jack nodded, silently answering Miko's unfinished question. "I think it's time to report back to base..."

Jack whipped out his phone, believing that now is a good time to call Ratchet and Raf. While Jack was waiting for someone to pick up, Miko took it upon herself to rush into the battlefield to get a better look.

While avoiding stepping on bodies, it appeared she was looking for something or someone specific as she carefully examined every person, quietly at that.

"Jack?" Raf finally picked up the phone. "Do you find Miko?"

"Yeah, I did. Um, Raf? Look, I don't have much time to explain this, but we need help here, pronto. Is Ratchet there?" Jack took a quick look at Miko who was waving her arms trying to get his attention.

"Jack! I think I found Bulk!" Miko said in a voice that wasn't loud enough to wake up any of the unconscious soldiers. She kneels down in front of whom appeared to be Bulkhead, based off the person's muscular appearance and dark green and black armor. "Wake up, buddy," she gently smack the former bot's face.

She heard a groan and smiled. "Ugh... My aching processor... Miko is that you?" Bulkhead found himself staring up at Miko, completely oblivious to his change. "When did you suddenly get taller?"

"I didn't get taller; you shrunk and turned human."

The Wrecker quickly shot up to his feet, nearly losing balance. "What?" he thought Miko was yanking his chain, but taking a look at himself he found out she wasn't. "Woah! What the heck happened? The last thing I remember was giving Breakdown a beatdown and this light came outta nowhere..." He looked around to the other bodies. "I guess we all passed out..."

The ex Wrecker's attention turns back on the girl. "And this raises another important question: Why are you here?"

"Well..." Bulkhead sighed, shaking his head. He should have known that Miko must have slipped into the groundbridge behind them.

Speaking of groundbridges, one just opened up right on cue with Ratchet jumping out of it. He didn't know what to expect since Raf had told him he was needed for an emergency. At least the kid wasn't wrong about that, this definitely is an emergency.

Optics wide and mouth gaped, Ratchet found himself almost yelling the question, "What in the name of Primus..?" He only saw humans, thinking that they were injured.

Miko's voiced had drawn the stunned medic to her position. Ratchet looked down at the female human and then at the other human who actually looked like... "Bulkhead?"

Bulkhead lifted his head, seeing confused blue optics staring back at him. "Nice to see you too, Ratchet... Wow.. We really are tall." He felt weird being so... small. Not something he would get used to anytime soon.

"Would someone please explain what on Earth happened here?!"

Jack ran up to explain everything to the confused medic the best way he could. He told about how he and Miko were being chased by a Vehicon, Miko finding something in the forest that 'exploded' in a ball of light and suddenly finding everyone Cybertronian a human.

"... And that's what happened."

After hearing the explanation, it was clear that Ratchet was confused even more than when he arrived here. This time he couldn't get another word out of his throat. Even Bulkhead himself was silent.

"Guys? I think we need to get outta here with everyone.." Jack was eyeing something worryingly. "I think one of the Decepticons just flinched.. Or I believe that was one of them."

After snapping out of his daze, Ratchet used the handheld Autobot life signature detector- which still worked even if the Autobots weren't exactly bots anymore, to find the remaining team and swiftly carried their unconscious bodies into the portal before the Decepticons came to.

Once at the base, all of the Autobots, excluding Ratchet and Bulkhead, were laid onto berths on the med. bey, stripped of the armour they had on it. The kids were still shocked, including Raf who heard what happened. They couldn't keep their eyes off the bots new appearance.

Optimus was the tallest one, going about 6'4 in height. He was fairly muscular, but not as much as Bulkhead. He wore a light red jacket with a white shirt under it with the Autobot insignia on the front, pants were a dark shade of blue as for shoes he wore white and blue tennis shoes. His hair was short and dark brown.

Arcee was the shortest Autobot-human. She was 5'5, wearing a long sleeve black leathered jacket that was short enough to see her stomach is she wasn't wearing a blue T shirt under it. Her fingerless gloves and pants and shoes were black as well. Arcee's hair was neck length with black being the main color as a few strains of her hair was either blue or pink.

Bumblebee reached about 5'7, having on a yellow and black hoodie that was zipped up all the way with blue jeans under it, shoes were plain white. His hair was short as it's primary color was electric yellow with a few black streaks. Out of all of the Autobots there, he looked the youngest, seventeen years old if one had to guess.

Smokescreen appeared to be bumblebee's age if not a little older. He was another inch taller than the scout. Smokescreen wore a white sports jacket with blue and red markings with a blue shirt underneath and wearing white and blue tennis shoes. His hair was white and short with a couple of red stripes.

And as for Bulkhead, he was all muscle. Wearing a dark green camouflage army jacket only made him look more imitating, pants were a dark shade of green, and had on dark combat boots. By the way he dressed, Bulkhead could pass as a soldier. Unlike the others, Bulkhead's skin was really dark as his hair was black and short.

Ratchet was monitoring their conditions and running a few test on the computers to figure out what caused them to change. Though, Bulkhead was hook on some wires, like a sick patient at a hospital.

"I'm tellin' you, Ratchet, I feel fine..." Bulkhead tried to speak, but was shushed down by the doc.

"We don't know that for certain. That's why a full examination is in order, Bulkhead." He heard the former bot groan as he gave in.

Ratchet turn his helm towards the children, mostly at Jack and Miko. "And now would be a perfect time for questions."

"Yeah, what happened out there?" Raf wanted to know too.

"Like we said before, we were chased by this 'con into the forest and there was this thing I tripped over," Miko held up a picture of the device from her phone, "And it like exploded- boom! There was a flash of light and it disappeared."

Ratchet leaned in, examining closer to the picture in the girl's phone. "By the Allspark.." The medic had a look of troubled realization, instantly returning to the computers.

"What? What is it?" Raf questioned.

"I think I may have a theory of what may had happened, and the device behind it." The same picture appeared on the screen with words of their native language as Ratchet continued, "If memory serves, the device that Miko mentioned is a type of medical technology from our world. Supposedly, it heals the sick; let it range from something severe like fried circuits to something as common as a simple scrape."

"Hey! Maybe that would explain why my knee is all better." Until now, Miko forgot about her scratched up knee when she was trying to outrun the 'con. It must have healed without her knowing.

"That doesn't make any sense. If it's Cybertronian, then why did it heal Miko?" Raf frowned.

"It was still in testing before the war broke out, from what I heard. The device had some few defects, but it shouldn't have done something like this, unless..."

"Unless what?" After receiving the 'okay' from the doc, Bulkhead was excused from the berth.

Ratchet crosses his arm servos. "Unless it mistook what patient to heal."

"And how does it do that?" Ratchet noticed Miko was acting a little off since she got back to the base.

"It must have picked up human DNA from somewhere..." Ratchet paused as he figured out the cause behind Miko's behavior. "Miko... please tell me you didn't.."

"I panicked?" It was more of a question than a answer and a lie at that.

The human Bulkhead sighed. "But you can fix this, right?"

"Not without that device. I don't recall if this part was a glitch or not, but every time it's used, it ends up disappearing into another location." A sigh escaped Ratchet's mouth as he faced the unconscious Autobots.

Bulkhead look at that direction, sensing movement in some of them.. "Boy.. How do you think the others will react to this?"