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I thought this was the end.

Being in the hands of the Decepticons, worse, being in the hands of Shockwave himself.

I became his Lab rat, not sure what he was making but I know it nothing good as far as I learned about his past experiments, but I wasn't prepared when he grabs my neck like a straw compared to his massive fingers, and then squeeze it.

I remembered gasping for air, helplessly looking at the nearby Decepticons with the devilish smile, specifically Megatron, and then, everything went dark.

It the end is it? died in the hands of a robot, God, I hope my dad is okay, I wonder how the autobots right now...would they feel guilty for not being on time? would Bumblebee blame himself? would I be miss? Totally.

Suddenly, I heard a muffled voice, wait....was that Shockwave talking? what is going on? aren't I dead? before I could feel anything, I jolted by the electricity, I think lasted 10 second, it still dark in here.......what is Shockwave doing? then, for a second, I felt different....very different.....I don't know what it is but.....it feel weird.....

"Now, It will activate in few micro-Klik."  Shockwave voice slowly clear, and out of sudden, I opened my eyes.

I still in the laboratory, ugh my head.....I look around and saw Shockwave glaring at me with his stupid cyclops face! I look at the nearby con, I expected them to look smug as always but now they look unease, Starscream look shocked and Megatron still have the same face, stoic.

But why the cons look at me like I spooked them? Do I look scary? Did Shockwave seriously turned me into a freak or something?

"What happened? why everyone look at me strange? and also why are you guys are my size......." I was about to point out when I saw my hand.....it no longer organic or flesh as it used to be..... now it a damn metal hand that I can FULLY move.

I sat there, on a lab bed, petrified.

then it clicked, Don't tell he did what I think he done did he? there no way that possible.

Panic starting sinking in, I can't breath, I can't move, I don't understand at all, finally I snapped back to the reality and immediately stood up, it bit wobbly but I could handle it, I stared at everyone, I still can't freaking breath, when I look at the mirror (I supposed he uses it for lasers because Wheeljack tried it once), I am completely a robot like everyone else.

A skinny body with dark grey paint jobs, with black lining, blue eyes like the Autobots, silver curved face, a roller type since I have wheels, but there no sign of organics at all.

I stare at my shaking hands to the mirror to my hands again, I should feel numb, I should feel nauseous, I should feel my muscles tensed, but there none, just engines and energy.....and it feel so uncomfortable.

and then a scream, a loud scream from my own throat, louder than a human should be, I almost fell to the ground but I hold on to the bed, still looking at my shaking other hand,

"Fascinating, a human consciousness can fully control the body despite with no organics." He said unemotional satisfactions, I managed to tear my eyes from my metal shaking hands and stare right at Shockwave as he said that.

"Fascinating?......FASCINATING?!" I yelled as I grabbed his neck with my shaking hands, now the cons got into defense, Megatron still watching us, not doing anything at all, but either way, I stared at Shockwave yellow single eye, wanted to stab it for what he has done to me. 

"YOU KILLED AND TURNED ME INTO A ROBOT, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" I shout at him but Shockwave didn't waver at all despite that my robotic hands grasping his neck, doesn't care that he just killed a human, then few uncomfortable cons hold me back the moment I was about to squeeze his neck like he did mine, they don't want to risk losing their mad professor.

"YOU SICK CYCLOPS!!" I yelled at him once more, I do not care who heard me outside of the laboratory, I do not care who they are, I got turned into a Cybertronians like the Autobots and Decepticons.

"You should be glad you alive once again, bot, you know it better being a robot than rather a human." Shockwave said unemotionally.

Glad? GLAD?! HE SAID THAT I SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT I BECAME A ROBOT DESPITE THAT I HAVE A WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF ME WHEN I WAS A HUMAN? IS HE INSANE? I NEVER WANTED TO BE LIKE THEM LITERAL.

I said nothing to that, but my mind or processor that what Ratchet called it said otherwise, the cons who hold me back still won't lose their grips on my arms, especially when I am being hostile right now.

everything I feel is unfamiliar, metal, energy, the humming of engines, mostly something in my chest, a spark right? I have a robot soul now?? it doesn't make any sense at all, I looks at my dead human body that was left on the counter, my body look already paled, motionless, eyes still widen, my neck twist to the wrong way with the exposed bone slightly visible, even bruises around it, purplish red, hint of paled blue almost covered all of it.

Oh God, how my dad and the Autobots will react to this? especially Bumblebee, no, what if they see me look like this? no doubt they would be horrified as I am.

"Interesting work, Shockwave, no doubt the Autobots and their pitiful humans friends will find him like this." Megatron finally spoke in this horrifying situation, I look away from Shockwave to him, red eyes staring right at me, I wish I could shiver but I'm slightly glad I can't since it would satisfied him.

"Your as twisted as Ironhide said! you have no sense to see what your troops had done!" I snapped at him, how could a leader like him could not understand how disturbing everything is? The others still look uncomfortable, especially because my corpse still laying there on the counter.

Megatron seriously looks at me with smug. stupid. face. like I am some sort of a joke to him, being so casual even if his servant is a incredibly insane scientist who create rather a horrifying stuff.

"Oh, Spikebot, don't you see? We saved your life! we spared you to be a Cybertronian like us." He said as he approached me. "Think about it, how much you will live, how much you will learn through it, anything that is beyond your human little knowledge." he added when he grabs my chins to fully look at his eyes.

"A chance to understand everything like we do, isn't that sound fascinating?" that wasn't a question, it a statement Megatron pointed out, as if he think I would want to live a million of years with every humans I cared about died before me.

I look at him, still shaking about everything, but I am not giving in that easily. "No." I Told him, not even going to elaborate, why would I? this is not what I want, and I know everyone knows that, but they don't care do they?

Megatron smile faded immediately, narrowed his eyes as if I insulted him, he scoffed even like he hears something unintelligent.

"Pity, you're a fool as ever, take him away to the cell, we'll deal with him later." that all he could says before I get dragged away.

I struggled against the cons and shouts insult to Megatron and the others, but that doesn't solve anything and right now, I have to think about this whole transformation that I got turned into.

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The cons pushed me inside the cell harshly, not that I ask them to be gentle.

"Good luck staying here, organic." said the con which I think his name is Breakdown, right?

I didn't say anything, I still in turmoil about everything that just happened, I was left alone in this cell which would have been gigantic if I were still a human, the cell is empty except for a robot bed, I guess it call a recharging cycle that Ratchet told me about.

I sat on the corner of the cell, my processor reeling about today, good thing I still have my human memories or else I would have been fooled by Megatron, I looks at my metal hands, a dark grey hands with black lining resembling palms lines but there nothing to read, I mean, it just lines.

I trailed the lines, and I just got a sensor detecting the sensation, I almost jolted at that sudden detection (is this what Cybertronians have when they touch something?) okay, clam down, this whole thing just news to you, I thought to myself, try to ease and understand my new body.

Grasping my hand to see if I can feel the pain, as I squeezed, I got shoot of pains through me, oh, so they do feel pains too, like a electrical or energy pains or something, ughh now I started to understand the injuries the autobots has been dealing with in the med bay.

I thought about if I also have their blood too, if I do then where the heck Shockwave got those from? I looks at my other hands when an a thought came to my head, I wonder if I can transform my hand into a gun or swords like the autobots do, I concentrate a bit and try to transform my hand, I felt something shifting and I saw my own hand swapped with a blade.

"Whoa..." I said in astonished, it feel so weird that I literally have a blade hand, to be honest, I feel quite unease at the thought of killing someone with it, the only things I cut is the fruit, mostly apple.
I looks back at my other hand, I know it sound crazy but I can't help my curiosity, I put my blade hand to my palm, and slice it.

Thick, blue liquid like blood flowing out of my palm, little by little, I winced at that of course, that hurt. "You organics always awed about everything." a voice shook me out of my thought, I look up and saw a dirty yellow paint job, with hint of dark purple like his optics, if I remember correctly, he is one of Combaticons, Swindle right?

"You know, you all obsessed with something you never seen before, not that I Blame you." he said.

What this guy trying to point out? "Not sure I follow." I told him in annoyance and curiosity, Swindle scoffed just like Megatron but less irritated. "What I saying is, Organic, that humans are possessive of things as us Decepticons, me specifically."

I mean, he got a point there, humans have a long history of possession for wealth, beauty, lands, sort of that. "Yeah but why that your concern?" I asked him. Swindle looks at me like I am stupid or something. "Because your little species aren't that pure and kind, they all flawed like us, you know." oh right, he questioning the autobots devotion to protect the earth, despite the humans are not perfect and do bad stuff, I didn't realize percentage going down slowly until I saw it past 60%.

"Though, you organics would do anything to understand the unthinkable stuff like our biology." he said when he saw the sliced wounds on my metal palm, the blood-like fuel still flowing out slowly. "Especially harms." he added, winced at the sight. crap, I feel like I drained out, almost like feeling paled.

"Ah sorry, I didn't think I would have blood like you people as well." I told him, Swindle looks at me bit confused, oh yeah, almost forgot that they don't know much about humans biology, all they know is that the humans are squishy and fragile.

"What?" Swindle confused, I clenched my wounded hand, i'll deal with it in the bit since I have a con taunting me right now. "Blood, that red liquids the humans have when they got killed? yeah that what it is." I explained to him, Swindle did the 'oh' face, kind of funny to see the cons confused on the humans biology.

'I see, well I guess you not going to get use to this anytime soon." he said with a stupid smug face, as much as I hate the cons, he right about that one, I am not really familiar with these stuff let alone that I just transformed my hand into an actual blade.

54%, damn it, I have to do something about or else i'll die again and no doubt my soul would be transfer to robot heaven (only if) Swindle stare at me like he can read the percentage or something, that not a good time to make a joke about it though, he scoffed and call someone in Audial ear like a headphone the police do when someone call 911, interesting, I wonder if I can do that. you think the cons that stupid to not disable the communication links?  a thought stopped me, I sighs in frustrated, of course they would not let that slide.

A few minute later of me dealing with Swindle taunting, a Decepticons medic I do not know the name of, came to the cell room.

"he really injured himself?" he asked and Swindle nodded, the medic sighs like he so done with everything, Swindle unlock the laser door (yeah it not the bar the humans have in the prison, no, the door build in the shape of hexagon with the actual laser.) as much as I want to get out and run, I would be faced with thousand Deceptions after me and I do not want that, it make things even more difficult than I thought.

The medic approached me, murmurer something about humans in Cybertronians language (Preceptor taught me a bit, and Jazz taught me how to cuss too, nice guys),  he tended my wounded palm with Cybertronians medical equipment, I don't bother to ask neither do I want to say anything, it hurt a bit when the medic uses the Oxyacetylene torch, me and my dad are mechanic through our life together, I can feel the heat from the torch, guess the robots aren't immune to flame either.

"You will need Energons to fuel, you can't risk being at 20% or less." the medic explained, oh so that why there the percentage, it for notify the loss of liquid, like seeing a blood loss without a machine in the hospital, I nodded at the doctor, still not saying anything, the fact I am completely everything the Cybertronians are, dread me down to my soul, no longer feel like organic or so, that really creeps me out, how will the Autobots feels about this, especially my dad, gosh the idea of him dying before me struck a pain in me.

"Well we can't risk getting our Afts beaten by Shockwave for letting his experiment pet die." Swindle remarked to the medic, of course they would keep me alive because it was Shockwave wishes, Wheeljack told me he doesn't like seeing his target he experimented on dies, he would kill them if he had enough as far as I'm concerned. The medic patched me up and left after Swindle turn on the laser door.

Someone entered the room, revealed a blue seeker with almost innocent confused expression, Thundercracker, that guy always came around the most in the battles or the Decepticons invasion in the city, mostly cave though.

"Hey, I heard Shockwave made an experiment again, but no one says anything." he said, Swindle and I did an awkward winced face, like Yikes, you know. "Who's that?" Thundercracker asked Swindle when he saw me, oh he didn't know me yet, poor guy must have think I'm some random Cybertronian who offend the con or something.

Swindle Looks at him for moment before he rubs the back of his own neck. "Remember that human who Bumblebee always seen with?" he spoke and Thundercracker nodded, let him continue, Swindle sighs like he have no choice in this one. "That him." he pointed at me, if you thinking the silence is so loud, then your absolutely right, the poor blue seeker eyes widen so big I thought it might fall out.

"WHAT?!" Thundercracker shouted in pure horror, I think the feeling is mutual for everyone in this situation right now, specifically me who is the victim here, Swindle silently said ouch when Thundercracker shouts reach his ear (or lacks of) like being close to the trumpet. "that mech-that prisoner right there is the Autobots human ally?' his voice stuttered a bit, clearly almost speechless to the point I might think he would explode right there and then.

"Yup, that mad mech really outdid it this time." Knockout confirmed to Thundercracker who's jaw still hanging to the floor, he opened his mouth but closed it, not knowing what to say to that revelation, he looks back at me like I am some boogeyman that sitting in the corner of the cell, look like he trying to piece things together, he still looks so confused.

Swindle sighs like he tired of this. "Alright this bit weird, let go Blue bird." He grabs petrified Thundercracker by the Shoulder before he looks back at me with grim face. "Welcome to our world, Spikebot." he said that when he left, again with the name that I have to 'get used to', like that going to be simple for me.

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 I don't Know how Long I been here in this stupid cell, being watched by each guards that came to check the prisoner (me since there no one else), I feel like I going to lose my sanity right now, wondering where the heck are the Autobots, shouldn't they look for me by now? oh right, no one knows the cons hideout.

Heck, not even me, I was having a nice ride with Bumblebee when suddenly a blast hit us both into unconscious stasis and how I ended up in the lab, I wonder if Bee getting treated in the Autobots med-bay, hope he alright, imaging him woke up, being told that I am nowhere to be found when the Autobots found him could cause Bumblebee to worry sick about me is bad enough, to think about it, my corpse could be rotting by now, to see the Decepticons have to smell the horrible scent amused me, I chuckled at that thought.

I paced around the cell, thinking about how to escape or at least try to not go insane in this room, I let out a frustrated sighs and slams my hand in the wall before I sat down against the wall, hugs my leg (Just slightly) and put my head down in total helplessness, not sure what to do now in under the hands of the Decepticons nor me being in the robot body, I clenched my arms together, thought about my old life.

then, a sound of yells with footsteps and flashing alarms reached the cell room......