Iris:

Witch-woods, huh?

"WITCH-WOODS!?" 

There was a deep sigh released from Optimus' voice box, as he continued to walk through the thick rain forest. Iris was peacefully sitting on his shoulder while looking once in a while around to make sure they weren't being followed. Her insticts started to seriosly kick in... in annoying way.

"The path Iris chose for us to go will include some dangers, but I believe we are far too big for the small creatures to harm us or you." Optimus replied, glancing once back to see his team-mates following greatly behind.

"Don't tell me that here's actual witches." Jack pleaded, brushing the huge leafs out of his face which Chromia allowed to hit him carelessly. She earned quite the glare afterwards.

"Dummy. Of course not!" Moonracer laughed, Alex jumping on her shoulder as she just remained all hyped up. "The name comes from the olden days... at least I don't believe the legend's true."

"What freaking legend!?" Praxina asked. Yeah, she had waken up right before they all left. Now it was Chris' turn, so Cyclonus had to carry his Charge all the way. He wasn't bothered anyway as he slowly kept walking behind. "We've heard quite rumors about your 'legends', like that fucking Unicron which took Earth almost into an explosion point!"

"How'd you know of it?" Perceptor shot a look, not actually being there when it happened but like they say; they'll be watching.

Praxina made sure to glare back.

"Well, listen great rusty-butt. I happened to be a daughter to a scientist as in other words; my Mother was the one investigating the global chaos." Praxina stated, proudly crossing her arms while leaning her back onto Megatron's helm. "It was life threatening to be exact."

"Oh, you mean that odd phenomenon which shocked Earth three years then?" Iris asked. "Because I remember it very clearly, it was just inches away if I and my family wouldn't be crushed by a truck." She shrugged, but couldn't ignore Optimus' shiver.

"Exactly. I was also pulled almost down to the river if it wouldn't stop just in mere seconds." Praxina replied, making eye contact with Iris.

"Ohh, I hate that time. You all were in death-cases also?" Jack asked, fixing his position so he was leaning forward. Everyone exchanged looks, their eyes widening. "You were..."

"That can't be the reason we were chosen." Alex scoffed, but the frown on his face took full control. "Can't it?" Until he turned for his Guardian.

"I hope not." Moonracer raised her fragile arms behind her helm, sighing in defense while she looked the bright blue sky above them. "If Unicron's the reason Alpha Trion chose all nine of you... we're in trouble."

"Let's push that aside just now, who are we searching, boss--?"

"Jack, I already warned!" Iris snapped, her head firmly glaring back at the other four human... now when Chris was still unconcious. But she sighed, calming her breath down. "I don't know. I wish I did since we are searching needles from a haystack."

"She said 'needles'." Moonracer giggled to Chromia, frozing to notice how everyone heard her. The young femme apologized with akward grin, notifying Iris to continue.

"Well, there are three." Andrea replied. "Shouldn't we split up or something?"

"Not yet." Optimus firmly interrupted as he pushed huge leafs out of his way, glancing over his shoulder back at rest of the team. "Even though the area shouldn't be populated by the people who live in this world, we must take precaution over the danger if Galvatron and his armada is searching for us."

"I hope they are." Praxina lept back, laughing as Megatron had spark-attack by it and was enough fast to grab her. "We would get excitment like this!"

"Enjoy the time you have now." Cyclonus growled, helding the fragile body of Chris' in his huge palm. "Once you get used for fighting; it will become your daily job."

"And we can assure you that it won't be easy." Perceptor replied with scary grin, Andrea only hitting his helm with low-lip. Scoffing afterwards. "So, where are we Optimus?"

Iris turned forward when he finally felt Optimus stop, her eyes scanning a large area. But the darker and thicker looking trees caught her attention, same as the terrible smell which came from there. The place had to be the 'Witch-Woods', an area which Optimus knows so less. There was coming fogg everywhere around the place, and the noices echoeing through there... nah-ah. Iris would've turned around already.

"Do I even dare to ask?" Jack sighed, jumping off of Chromia's servo as the femme let him down. Optimus did same for Iris, the other Bots replying as there seemed to be no danger any further. "So... here you think is our team's lost member?"

"I'm depending on it." Iris narrowed her brows.

"Great. We're proceeding with faith." Praxina murmured, taking hold of her hips while she looked around the area. "Can't you Bots just throw us over the other side? I wouldn't rather to walk and use my strenght."

"It's called; exercise." Megatron cocked, walking after Iris who carefully approached the death woods. Optimus and the others right behind.

Praxina's jaw gapped wide open.

"Do you really want me to kick your ass!?" In the end she was the one running into the thick woods. "Wait up!"

"Ugh--" Iris already got stuck between so much branches, that she was very relieved as Optimus settled his ped beside her in order to crush the annoying sticks. "Why do I doubt him or her to be in here?"

"The hardest goals ends up being all worth it." Optimus reassured, allowing Iris to walk below him and between his pedes as they proceeded that way much faster. The girl didn't complain in any way. "What you should start worrying is for the coming trip."

"I am, Big-guy." Iris groaned. She heard a squeaky scream near her, looking quickly to see Andrea being throwed up in the air playfully by Perceptor.

"Stop that, you idiot!" Andrea yelled, yelping while being settled on the mech's shoulder again.

"You humans really do possess a high-frequented voice box." Perceptor rubbed his audioreceptor with grunt. Andrea was proud of annoying the rusty-butt, proudly settling down to lay while others struggled to walk through the thick woods. "-- A femme scream."

"Are you against us femmes, Perceptor?" Chromia asked with threatened growl, glaring back at the large mech. Moonracer replying the favor also.

"It wouldn't cross my mind, dears. Go on." Perceptor reassured, showing them to continue after their Charges which were complaining about the path loudly. Chromia and Moonracer slowly did so in the end, only with hesitant looks. "-- It can be an advantage only."

"Why you--!?" Moonracer went for punch, the humans looking back in horror. But Cyclonus stopped her fist by sliding little back at this, his red optics sending a warning glance for all of them.

"Seriosly--!" Chris, was back in the living books, holding on for his head like he had a headache. "Already fighting without me!? And Cyclonus, your crazy-headed-psycho-Sire almost killed me! What does an assassin like him do in grave!?"

"Welcome back, head-shot." Jack laughed, his mind calming down as Chromia only scoffed and stumbled forward. Past him. "Wait, who's turn is it--?"

And; Jack was out.

Iris sighed by all the drama happening between all of them. But her body was soon covered with branches again... as her shield had disappeared. Optimus had disappeared from by her side.

"Whatta--?" Iris smuggled her way out onto a narrow point, turning to see almost no one around her. All she saw was fogg. "Guys!?"

"WHERE IS EVERYONE!?" That was Alex for sure. Although he wasn't far away, so Iris soon swam her way towards the voice. "Iris? You somewhere there!?"

"Right here." Iris moved last of the branches away, sighing in deep exhaustion but also in relief as Alex was there. The young man happened to do the same, helping Iris out of the sticks and onto the steady ground. "Optimus! Praxe! Where are ya!?"

"Did they just disappear when we all blinked?" Alex panicked, grabbing Iris' sleeve tightly. "Jack's unconcious somewhere, I just hope someone's with him."

"Darn it." Iris snarled, turning for the path they were going to follow anyway. The real reason they were in there was to find their missing team members. "... We can't wonder off now while we still have some sense of direction. I can't explain how did the transport happen but others must've be close." Iris looked into Alex' blue eyes, deepening her gaze. "They will try to reach the destination too."

Alex tapped Iris' shoulder.

"Easy, my friend." Alex laughed, Iris blinking of how stern she had been few seconds then. "Wow, your Crystal really does the trick." He laughed while taking the lead. Iris was shocked. She quickly followed after Alex with annoyed expression.

"It's called 'Matrix of Leadership', dummy!" Iris snapped, hitting Alex's arm while she finally catched up with him. They were now following the map Iris had scrolling in her mind. "It takes control sometimes... I sound too proud."

"More like crazy."

Iris shot again warning glance. But she realized that Alex was only joking as he bursted out laughing. The girl herself giggled little, it was admitting enough that she sounded kind of a boogie-woogie who had lost her mind.

"Alright, idiot. I'll make sure when your time comes to meet up with your Mentor that I will laugh my ass out." Iris warned, playfully nudging his side to cause him almost tremp on his feet. Alex was calm and humor guy, he understood Iris perfectly with Jack and Praxina.

"L-m-a-o, remember?" Alex chuckled, removing a huge tree from their way with his blade. "What a trend that was."

"Yeah, social media... how I miss it also." Iris jumped over a tree, nextly bending down after entering a small caving. "I wonder is here Wi-fi or something."

"Pray for God. Maybe it's possible since here's road and buildings similar to Earth." Alex shrugged, the fogg now interrupting their proceeding as it was getting thicker the more they went farther. "We shouldn't separate too much..."

Iris skipped to stop, waiting to Alex walk back by her side. Maybe he was right, since something happened to others she didn't want to be left alone.

"Let's move on then slowly. At least when we get to the other side--"

Crantch.

Iris and Alex; back against back were soon ready to take up anything which was coming on their way. They both had their blades out, Iris just in case having her shield held tightely against her chest. Their eyes were watching the area with hesitance and care. Something was there.

"-- Show yourself." Alex demanded, his blade was much more bigger than Iris'. It had more clearer metal shining upon it and the decoration; God it was beautiful. It had Iris' attention drawned just for seconds.

A laugh was heard from near them, Iris' blade transformed into a blaster as soon as she had some sense of the direction. However;

"Böö."

"You fucking--!" Iris knew exactly who it was as she swing her blade back, not surprised that Praxina jumped away with loud laughs escaping her throat. "Moron! Are you trying to cause heart attack for us!?"

"You should've seen your faces." Chris came from the shadows too, Iris' eyes softening to see him carrying Jack like piggy-back ride, as Andrea was following him with deep sigh. "It was worth to see." He continued, his laugh never stopping.

"You better watch your back from now on." Alex warned, flickering his blade away with Iris. "... Any information of the Bots?" He looked around, only thing now missing was them.

"We've tried to look, but they seem to disappear!" Andrea growled, before her eyes caught something above all of them. "Umm, guys. Is that a-- spider web or something?"

The gazes everyone made to look up weren't ment to be serious; but the web was humongous. It didn't took long as Iris had her blaster out again.

"I've seen so many big apes and butterflies that I'm even afraid to ask... how freaking big will the spiders be in this world?" Iris bit her lip, the six people forming up a protected circle. Or Jack was staying middle of them.

"It's just made by the stinkyness." Chris grimaced, almost jumping on his spot.

Can none of my team members be serious ONCE in a lifetime!?

"Which means trouble is coming." Praxina almost exclaimed, Iris nudging her shoulder to remain quiet. "Auch! Oi--!"

"We have no time to figure out what the hell it is." Iris commanded, taking note of how her team looked down. "Now let's move." Iris grabbed Jack's right arm as Andrea helped with the other side. They now walked through some branches.

"Always breaking the fun-time..." Praxina murmured. But it was obvious that she and Chris followed with heavy sighs.

"If we'd try to summon our Bots? Would that help?" Alex asked while taking the lead. Iris shrugged as an answer, carefully looking down at her transformed Crystal point. She wasn't going to try and see what happens if the rock can take control of her mind!

"I don't know... Optimus said that once they've been summoned that they'll always stay. Maybe we just have to keep going and see what happens." Iris answered.

"Pfft. Like the bucket-head would come." Praxina growled behind, her arms crossed as all of them kept walking through the thick fogg.

"Cyclonus ain't the generous type either." Chris sighed. He seemed like not being on any ones side.

"Can you stop talking? You only bring up the Bots' worse behaviours." Andrea growled, Alex desided to help her as she struggled to carry the heavy Jack. So she took the lead then. "Your Guardians are nice, as long as you stop jumping into conclusions."

"Guys like them mean trouble." Praxina cocked back, Iris bent over a branch. The ground begun to fade as the fogg was getting really thick.

"Which you like." Alex shot back, earning a glare from her. "Come on, give the poor mech a chance."

"Nah-ah. None of you aren't even concidered as my friends, so you have no power to complain." Praxina argued with brief attitude, her idiotic behaviour annoyed everyone. "Besides if I'd make peace with him where all the fun would be in that?"

"Whatever." Andrea sighed.

"Guys, please stop." Iris replied the favor, stopping for second. The team skipped to stop also, Praxina the only one who huffed while looking away. "If we keep this up there's no reason to continue. You can leave whenever you like I don't care. But after seeing the children like Mike and Anastasia back then I want to help this people-- I want to beat that Son of a bitch Galvatron." She snapped, before she turned to go on. "Make your choice--"

But what? There was no such thing as ground when Iris took her step forward. So she slided down on something, automatically pulling Jack and Alex with, which in domination Alex grabbed Andrea who in return Chris who pulled Praxina down. Everyone rolling/sliding the muddy downhill fast.

Then the ground became steady again... or should Iris say; rocky.

"Damn, where did that come from?" Alex holded on for his head while panting heavily. It was a shock for everyone to be exact.

"You idiot! Why did you grab my sleeve!?" Until Andrea kicked Alex' side hard, causing what was left of his air to fload away. "Now my clothes are muddy!"

"Woah, let's do it again." Chris grinned, as Iris rolled over while shaking her head. That was not what she expected, but it may was useful. Because when she looked to see where they had came; a beautiful view was there to greet them. The sun was shining as they were sitting on a hill's edge, near a waterfall.

They were out of the Witch-Woods.

"-- Fantastic, Iris!" Praxina yelled, angrily standing up on her feet as she fixed her top's position. "Now we got lost! The Woods are in that direction!"

"Praxina--"

"You think I don't know that?" Iris stood slowly up while interrupting Alex, her back still for her team. "It's called other side you idiot. This was where we were ment to come." She glanced over her shoulder to see how angry the girl had again became.

Praxina's blade slided out.

"I don't care if that rusty-butt Solus Prime warned me of challenging you, but you seriosly start getting on my nerves." Praxina warned, Iris almost accepting the challenge as she turned entirely to face her. "I don't know why anyone would choose you to become Leader."

"I'm dearly wondering it also." Iris snarled. "But I still have some control of my 'anger-issues', Praxina. Stand, down."

"You two, stop it." Alex stood up by the tension floading in the air, placing himself between the two powerful girls with his bare hands up. "We need to keep going. Now's not the time to test which one of you is the powerful--"

"I like the idea." Praxina's suit transformed on; her voice switching.

"If it shuts your mouth." Iris gave a reply, but only took her blade out. "You stay back, things might turn ugly." She held her hand for Andrea to stay back with Jack, before she looked at Alex between them with narrowed eyes. "It's a battle we must settle before it's too late."

"Not now." Alex only growled. "Maybe tomorrow, but not now--"

"Shut up." Praxina had sneaked up behind Alex, pushing him to the line where Andrea was hesitantly waiting. Iris became angry at this, how could she treat her own team-mates like this? "So, should we get started boss?"

"I've told you for hundreth times--" Iris launched forward, watching Praxina reply the action with laugh. "Don't call me that!"

"STOP!"

No brakes could stop the speed of theirs; but what about an electricity then? Yeah, that would, and it did as below the ground of Iris' and Praxina's hit a huge burst of shock, their frames quickly jump away from it eyes wide. When Iris landed on the ground again; her eyes turned to see where the voice had screamed from.

"ARE YA GUYS IDIOTS OR SOMETHING!?" There was a... girl sliding down the hill. A human girl. Iris froze along with rest of the team, watching how the ponytailed girl was running towards them now. Well, she had lovely long orange hair with blue eyes, although her outfit was similar to Andrea's. Very much on in fact.

"Who's she?" Praxina spit, but froze to stare somewhere above. "Uh-oh..."

Iris looked above also. Frozing on her spot to lock her eyes with familiar blue orbs. That most certainly was her Bot; Optimus.

"Guys!?" Andrea called happily, Perceptor jumped down from the cliff as he landed on his pedes right in front of the small girl. "I missed you!" She hang onto his ped, but her Guardian's optics were concentrated onto Iris and Praxina.

"If we leave you for few minutes without guarding, do you really have to get each other killed?" Perceptor groaned, kneeling down beside Andrea.

Iris just stood there, ignoring the fact that Optimus had jumped down so hard right in front of her that she jumped. She looked only down in ashame, afraid to face his optics.

"Jeez, is this the reason I've been dragged all the way out in here!?" But the new girl was interesting, same was with the femme that walked after her with heavy sigh. "Hey, Causeway, could you be anymore slower?"

"Be quiet, girl." The femme growled back, her frame was so similar to Optimus'.

"Oi! Put me down--!" Praxina tried to runaway from Megatron who had snatched her from the ground, forcing her to remain in his grasp. "You tin-can better put me down right this instant, before I slide your helm off."

"You better shut your mouth before I cut your tongue out." Megatron snarled back, non-patient now for his Charge. Praxina's eyes were in flames as she begun banging onto his digits for freedom. That wouldn't be granted in so long time.

"Optimus, I--"

"We found our newest recruits." Optimus cut Iris off, that may had grasped her heart but she didn't reply. "They were wondering off, but we managed to find them."

The orange haired girl waved there, smiling wide.

"Heyo. I know some things of this world and what's our task... but I never imagined our team to be so big." She said, Iris feeling Alex push her forward. Her turquoise eyes glared back, before with sigh she knew the Leader's duty. Her legs slowly dragged over to the girl who was waiting eagerly. "I'm Ann, nice to meet you."

'Ann' held her hand forward, Iris grasping it with small smile also.

"Iris... I am--" Iris looked hesitantly up at Optimus, ready to say her to be Leader of the gang but... Optimus looked too disappointed. "Yeah, this is our team. You will get known to everyone by night if that's okay... Welcome to the club then, Ann and Causeway."

"-- Is it day?"

"Jack's awake!"

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Grr, this story will be the end of me XD.

Heyy Katie and Savannah not your turn just yet... I'm preparing it anyway >:D

~keep reading.