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Panacea and Raf chuckled as they spotted a cheering Miko sitting behind a frowning Jack speeding next to then.

'Called it,' Pan grinned.

Raf snickered, "You sure did," he paused, "How did you know?" he asked curiously.

Pan only tapped her nose with her index finger, Raf pouting in response.

Bumblebee laughed at the pair as he drove faster, keeping pace with the two-wheeler next to him as they neared one of the many mesas.

"Um, Bee?" Raf asked nervously when he and Pan noticed where they were headed.

"Yeah?" Bumblebee asked, amusement in his voice.

"Are we meant to be going towards the large mesa?" Raf asked, his worry seeping into his voice.

Bumblebee chuckled but stayed silent.

Raf gulped as he squeezed his eyes closed and held onto his seat belt.

Pan grinned easily as she just held onto her bag that sat on her lap, causing Bumblebee to tilt his side mirror to look at her curiously.

To him, it was like she had already done this before.

Pan chuckled as the hangar door opened, and Raf peeked one eye open, sighing in relief when he saw that they didn't crash.

'How was that?' Pan grinned, holding the note forward for Raf to see.

"Scary as hell," Raf admitted and both Pan and Bumblebee laughed as the latter drove them through the metal tunnel deep through the mesa.

"Whoa," Raf gasped as Bumblebee drove out of the tunnel. Pan almost mirroring him as she looked around the massive missile silo/hanger.

"Cool," Raf almost fanboys at the amazing technology that an orange and white bot was standing at, different glyphs flickered across the screens in front of him.

Pan's mouth dropped slightly in silent awe of the massive space. Although, it seemed to be a little empty/dull, surrounded by concrete and metal.

Although, Pan did let out a small chuckle at the look that the orange and white bot held on his face.

Raf and Pan shared another look as a large(no offence!) green bot walked up, his eyes watching each of the four humans.

Bumblebee eased to a stop and Raf and Pan got out as Jack and Miko climbed off Arcee the latter of the four's eyes shone with excitement as she looked up at the green bot as Bumblebee and Arcee transformed.

The orange and white bot walked up beside the green bot, "I thought there were two?"

Arcee rolled her eyes, "Haven't you heard? Humans multiply," she told him before walking(almost storming) off.

Pan raised an eyebrow at the female bot's stroppy behavior, comparing her to a child who lost their favourite toy/friend.

"I'm Raf," Raf smiled as he held out his hand. Pan chuckled as she pushed his hand back down with a shake of her head, she didn't think that Raf's small hand shaking a bot's gigantic hand would be wise.

"I'm Miko," Miko said, her voice oddly innocent and sweet as she ran towards the green bot, "Who are you?"

"Uh, Bulkhead?" Bulkhead said, unsurely as he looked at the tiny (at least to him) girl by his peds.

Pan grinned, unfortunately knowing what the girl was about to spew out next, "Are you a car? I bet you're a truck. A monster truck!" Miko spread her arms out widely as her excitement got to her, "Do you like heavy metal? How much do you weight? Ever use a wrenching ball as a punching bag?"

Pan laughed lowly, under her breath as Raf didn't even hide his giggles. Jack sighed and facepalmed at the energetic girl.

When the remaining three calmed down Raf decided to ask something, "So, if you guys are robots, who made you?"

It was a perfectly reasonable question to ask for an obvious twelve and a quarter-year-old, yet somebot got a little stroppy(almost taking out Arcee on the leaderboard), "Puh-lease," the orange and white bot scoffed and Pan rolled her eyes subtly from the offended bot.

A stomping noise brought the quartet's attention to a rather(extremely) tall red and blue bot. Miko jogged to rejoin Raf, Pan and, Jack as they looked up at the bot, "We are Autonomous Robotic organisms, from the planet Cybertron, Also known as Autobots." the red and bot said, his voice seemed battle-worn and tired to the Hammer girl as she tilted her head silently to look at him with a curious twinkle in her eyes.

Jack stepped forward, his eyes showing his confusion, "Why are you here?" he asked.

"To protect your planet from the Decepticons." the blue and red bot said tiredly. Pan blinked at the name of the faction and curiously wondered what their motto was.

"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night," Arcee said, stepping forward slightly and drawing attention to her.

"Okay. Why are they here?" Jack tried a different approach to which Pan would have patted his back for but didn't feel like it was the right moment so stayed standing, silently and awkwardly next to Raf.

"A fair question, Jack. In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable, ravaged by centuries of civil war." the blue and red bot said crouching down to talk to the quartet of humans on the floor of the base.

Pan and Raf shared a look.

"Why were you fighting a war?" Raf spoke up, his body going tense as they turned to look at him.

"Foremost, over our world's supply of energon, the fuel and lifeblood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike. The combat was fierce and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom I considered a brother. But in war, ideals can be corrupted. And it was thus...that Megatron lost his way." the red and blue bot said, a grim note to his voice.

Pan's expression fell as the bot's words played around in her head. Surely there was more to the story. Pan was confused. After all, no one just suddenly changes and there are two sides to one story.

"Is there gonna be a quiz?" Miko asked playing with her hair. Jack again sighed, rolling his eyes at the girl as Raf and Pan grinned to each other.

Jack's eyebrows furrowed in thought, "So what does Megatron... Or any of this have to do with us?" he asked, motioning to himself, Raf, Miko, and, Pan. Each of them looking up curiously, slightly fearfully, and cautiously at him.

"Megatron has not been seen nor heard from in some time. But if his return is imminent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic." The blue and red bot said, his dour voice sending shivers down each of the four humans spines.

Here's chapter ten.

And that's episode one done. Finally.
(I bet nobody can guess who Pan's guardian is going to be! (S'not like I wrote it in the description or anything).)

Hope you enjoyed!
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