"Well well well, it looks like we got the freak cornered." Vince snared as he glared down at Aurora. Aurora stood there staring at the three of them blankly, while using C. L. to gain information on Vince's friends. She got that they are Zak Arias and Cade Bari, low lifes of Jasper, Nevada with quite a record of repeated offences. Zak has brown hair that spiked at the edges. While Cade has the same style, but black. Zak and Cade are cousins and look uncannily alike.

"What do you want from me? I was on my way home until you shoved me in this ally."

"Well, we are here to teach you a lesson to not mess with normal people you horned freak," Zak said as he ran up and tried to kick Aurora. However, Aurora swiftly flipped backwards avoiding it all together.

"Satan's spawn seems to know how to fight. Cade, help Zak out since he can't seem to hit the small demon."

Zak and Cade tried to punch, kick, jab, at Aurora to harm her in anyway possible. However, Aurora's training prevented them from harming her. Using some of Soundwave's battle strategy files, Aurora was able to have the two harm each other until they both could no longer stand. Aurora was planning on walking away, but forgot one thing.

Aurora was forcefully to the ground, she cushioned the blow at the price of scraping her hands and knees.

"Where do you think you're going, ya demon spawn? You haven't received your punishment yet." Vince walked up to her and kicked her in her stomach making her cough up a good amount of energon, while Vince laughed.

"It seems that you truly are a demon. Your blood is blue. How strange tha-" Vince froze as some of the energon floated off the ground and went onto Aurora. Aurora used the energon to heal her hands and knees. She stood up and stared at Vince who stood there shocked.

"I can't have you know anything about me or my blood." With that, Aurora let her sleeveless hoodie drop to the floor and stretched out her wings.

"A-a-angel wings!?" Aurora flexed them towards Vince and sent out an electrical shock to all three of her attackers. Vince fell to the floor unconscious, Aurora proceed to use her M.A.S. ability and took the film of their attack on her, and crushed them. Aurora then folded her wings back and put her hoodie back in place. Aurora turned and continued to walk to base, but she was quickly lifted off the ground. Before she could even process anything, Aurora was knocked unconscious.

With the bots

Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee were driving fast toward Aurora's location, which was far from base. They were worried if it was M.E.C.H. after her, but the kids were also thinking about what happened at school.

"Arcee, M.E.C.H. isn't the only thing that Aurora has to worry about now." Arcee growled at that.

-What do you mean, Jack?- Bulkhead commed.

-Aurora has more to worry about than M.E.C.H?- Bumblebee commed.

"And what might that be?"

"Aurora had the spotlight at school, and not the good kind. Many people believe that she is a demon, and target her for bullying. If we didn't find her when you told us to, Aurora would have been beaten at school." Arcee sped up even more.

"She was being BULLIED!?!?" There was complete silent.

-Guys, I'm picking up on Aurora's energon signal, but it's low and at the coordinates on where you have found her phone,- Ratchet commed.

-That's good right?- Bulkhead asked.

"No! She's in danger. She knows not to let her Energon signature show due to the cons. We have to-ahh!" Arcee swerved a bit.

"Arcee, are you alright?"

" I'm fine, it's Aurora I'm worried about. She just sent over pain, but know there's nothing. I can't see what happened and she's not responding. She's unconscious."

The team pulled up near the alley way Aurora was last located in. Jack, Miko, and Raf went to go check the alley to see if it's clear. As they got to the mouth of the alley, they saw Vince and his twin looking cousins getting up off the ground.

"Damn! Why the hell do I hurt all over? It feels like I fought you Cade."

"I don't know, but I swear it feels as though I fought you."

"Why are we in an alley anyway? Wow, look there is this shine blue liquid on the ground. It's so weird."

"Vince, focus. Didn't you say we were suppose to punish a demon that got our girls suspended from school?"

"Well, let's head back. We will find her later again. She will show up to school, let's go." The kids watched as the three guys left the alley. Once they were out of sight the kids motioned for the bots to come into the alley and they transformed into their biped mode. They all looked to the ground and saw a good amount of on energon the floor and was silent for what seemed like eternity.

"What happened here!? Where's Aurora?" Arcee was furious at the sight of Aurora's energon.

"From what we heard from the jerks who walked out, I'm pretty sure they planned on beating Aurora," Miko stated.

"What I heard, two of them attempted to hurt her, but failed due to the fact they said they felt like they fought each other. Vince was never the one to get his hands dirty unless necessary," Jack said.

"I'm going to assume that Aurora was well trained in combat, and when the others failed to hurt her, Vince must have got the drop on her and attacked her from behind. Which would explain the energon," Raf elaborated.

"Wait! They attacked her!? I'm going to teach them a lesson they will never forget if-"

"Arcee, that's the thing! They forgot. They forgot they ever attacked her, which means Aurora made them forget the entire thing," Jack said.

"Then that would mean ..." Bulkhead trailed off.

"The cons have her," Bumblebee said. Bulkhead, Arcee, and Raf gasped.

"They must have went to investigate the pure concentration of energon. They must have seen Aurora with energon on her lips or using M. A. S. on those three boys. Either way who ever took her saw her as a useful tool for the decepticon cause. We have to find my sister!" The bots transformed into their alt. Mode, waited for their charge to get in, and drove to base to start their search for Aurora.

With Aurora

Aurora began to regain consciousness, but didn't know when she fell asleep. Aurora tried to move her hand to her eyes to rub away sleep, but found she couldn't move them. She felt she was right side up instead of laying down. Aurora's eyes snapped open only to meet her reflection on a dark screen.

"What the- Soundwave!? What's going on? What happened? I don't-" Aurora's memories rushed back to her in an instant, "never mind I remember. You must have found me when I coughed out energon and went to investigate, am I right?"

"Affirmative." Aurora knew that was a recording of Knockout.

"Oh, Knockout's voice... right you don't speak other than in recordings and text on your visor."

"You know- about that- and us?" Knockout, Starscream, and Breakdown's voices were heard this time.

"Of course I do, although I'm pretty sure that I made you, your Lord, and Starscream forget about me. You must have found it odd you found that some files are missing from your processor, which I have to admit that I took them. Sorry."

"How'd you do that? I mean you're- only fleshy." Breakdown and Starscream's voices came.

"Easy, I have C. L. otherwise known as Conscious Link. It allows me to mentally connect with any device or technology or in a cybertronians case, their processor and can easily copy and steal any information with ease. I easily bypass firewalls due to the fact they only stop other devices from going through, not a human mind since it doesn't have coding and can't be traced."

"Interesting,- you might be very useful- to the decepticon cause- afterall." Soundwave begins to move and Aurora notices she was on the Nemesis.

"Uhh, sorry Soundwave. I know I would be useful to your cause, but I must decline such an offer, for I would betray my family. I'm sure you know what undying loyalty feels like to your lord and master, and I feel the same towards my family. So I must depart, but first," Aurora enters Soundwave's processor once more and finds the information on herself and heavily encrypts it so only Soundwave could access it, but was unable to share it with anyone, "There. Now you only know about me, but can't tell anyone. Well maybe those who you are bonded to, but then the encryptions won't let them tell anyone either. I am, afterall, a secret even to the world."

Soundwave stopped and looked over the file on the human labeled 'Aurora' and found he was unable to upload the information to the Nemesis. He tried to delete the encryption, but couldn't due to the fact it was foreign.

"I case you were wondering the label, it's my name Aurora 201 Projects. My designation though is Test subject 201 of Project Aurora. I have to go, my sister Arcee is worried sick, which means I've been gone for too long. Good-bye, Soundwave. It was nice seeing you again. I hope we meet again soon."

Aurora then started to manipulate the energon in Soundwave and made him let go of her. She quickly let her jacket drop so she could fly, and then she used her bridging ability to bridge back to base. Everyone stared at her for a minute, just staring.

"Hi, guys. I'm home." There was a quick blur and Aurora was swept up in a tight embrace by her sister.

"Aurora, where have you been!? You had me worried sick. Why didn't you come back sooner?" Arcee was squeezing Arora so tight that if she still needed to breath, Aurora wouldn't be able to.

"I was walking home-"

"Why were you walking home though? You were to meet up with us to come to base," Jack asked.

"I didn't want to cause you guys anymore trouble than you already do. You all have your own bullies. I don't need you to have more and you guys get any injuries."

"What about YOU!?" Miko shouted.

"What about me?" Aurora asked.

"You could get hurt! Wait scratch that, you did get hurt! What were you thinking?" Bulkhead asked.

"Seeing as though you all forgotten that I was an EXPERIMENT and was trained to defend myself and defeat my enemies, you think I can't take care of myself. Not to mention I have my memory alteration shock, conscious link, bridging, and energon manipulation abilities to handle either human and cybertronian adversaries. I can take much more punishment than you all care to believe, seeing that I have already-"

"Aurora! you're just a little human. Yo-"

"I'M NOT HUMAN! I'M NOT!" Aurora was trembling in Arcee's arms, as tears streaked down her face,

"Aurora-" Optimus attempted, but Aurora stopped him.

"I was a test subject to be a weapon used against cybertronians. I was trained to the point I was close to death on multiple occasions. They trained me so hard that I wish for death and as I no longer feared death, it made me even more promising. Even after escaping I still feel as though they still have control of me. Knowing they stripped me of a normal life as a human. Believe me when I say I'm thankful for some normalcy, but with the way I look I no longer have a place in society." Aurora was sobbing out once more in Arcee's arms and then fell asleep. Arcee put Aurora to bed and then came back to the others.

"Aurora will be fine in the morning. The bullying just got to her as well as our doubts."

"Arcee, you are able to look into her memories, could you tell us what happened?"

"I can. But I warn you that if I start to lash out, it's because of the overwhelming emotions from Aurora and myself." The bots and kids nod toward Arcee to continue.

"Grrrr, Aurora was right! Due to her appearance she brought the entire school into an uproar. Almost 99% of the school thinks she is a freak or demon and only a few pity her and only one, who is her teacher, is her friend." Arcee punched the wall behind her making a huge dent, in the process, scaring everyone. Arcee turned around, leaned against the wall and slide down holding her abdomen.

"You guys, Aurora were beaten by Vince while Zak and his cousin Cade attempted to. Thankfully, her training as well as Soundwave's battle strategy files helped her from getting too hurt, but Vince only hurt her by the element of surprise. She used her M. A. S. ability to rid them of their encounter. Aurora turned to leave, but was knocked out by ..." A look of horror spread across her faceplate.

"What is it Arcee!? Who found took her!?" Jack asked.

"S-Soundwave. Soundwave took her."

"Then the decepticons will be hunting little Aurora down. This situation has turned very grave."

"N-not necessarily."

"Can you elaborate for us, Arcee?"

"Soundwave is the only one who knows about Aurora. Using her C. L. Ability, Aurora encrypted the file he had on her."

"That doesn't mean anything! Soundwave is a communication officer. He could easily decipher the encryption with eas!"

"Bulkhead, you're wrong."

"I see."

"What is it Raf? You know something."

"Well Jack, remember texting Aurora at lunch, right?"

"Yeah, but what does it have to do with Aurora and encryp- whatever you call it"

"Encryption, Miko, and it has everything to do with it. While we were here and looking for Aurora, I used my laptop to look for her using my phone. I hooked up my phone and her location popped up automatically. Before Aurora returned, I looked into my phone's coding and found quite a few encryptions. I tried to get rid of them, but was unable to, because it was registered as foreign."

"Correct, Raf. Aurora's C. L. is foreign, because she is a human. So any devices she enters just allow her access since it only registers devices. Same with our processors. So her encryptions are in other words indestructible. Aurora encrypted the file so only Soundwave and who ever he was bonded to would know about her, but is unable to do let anyone else know unless Aurora changes the encryption, but I highly doubt it."

"Aurora is very impressive the more we find out about her."

"Indeed, old friend. Indeed. It is getting late. I believe it is time for the children to go home. Remain with them in covert surveillance."

"Optimus, what about Aurora?"

"Do not worry, Arcee. I will personally take Aurora to school tomorrow." There was silence for a moment until Arcee sighed.

"Alright, Optimus. Just make sure she has all her things and she covers her arms." Optimus nods.

"I will. There is no need to worry. Now go before Jack gets in trouble with his mother." Arcee and the others drive off with their charges. Optimus decided to go recharge and said goodnight to Ratchet. Before he drifted off, he wondered how difficult it would be to take care of Aurora.