#me and my way of explaining how the hell raf can understand bumblebee

[witchofthesouls]

Deliciously fucked up way for Team Prime to find out about the supernatural: Have a fae show up in one of the kid's homes. False Artifact preying on Raf's baby/toddler siblings, a Pooka replacing the pet dog at Miko's, or a Kobold decides Jack's place is nice enough to stay. The kids have a feeling something is up but the bots think it's just nothing.

Until they find an old school packet with info that eeriely matches the signs in their respective home. Miko's Pooka Hunting goes a bit awry so Bulkhead ends up seeing her get chased outside the house by something that definitely isn't a dog. Raf barely got one sibling away from being eaten by a False Artifact. Arcee might've damaged the house to grab Jack as he accidentally spook a Kobold.

Cue concerned bot noises upon seeing the packets. I don't think they like the idea of children eating fae in their charges' homes.

Ahhh, this went in a different direction.

Warning: off-screen character death (age-related and car accident), dubcon/noncon body modifications, and underage drinking

Now the Darby household does have a Kobold. It's been following them (and the lineage) for a very long time. Generation after generation, parent to child as the unspoken agreement is held with family traditions, superstitions, and practices that have been ingrained into family lore.

If there's one thing June absolutely misses about her ex-husband, it's his family. While June hadn't cut ties with her own blood, her own kin (even her own parents) never spent time in one place for too long. They welcomed into their home. Treated her well with food and warmth and taught her their traditions as she married a son of theirs.

It's an unfortunate fact of life that time comes for all. Oma survived years of hardship by war and reconstruction, without her beloved husband, and the deaths of her own dwindling family, she died peacefully in her sleep during a visit to see a toddling Jack. His parents, though...

When the call came that his parents were killed in a massive pile-up on the freeway, their lives came crashing down.

Grief manifests in so many ways. June cherishes what was left behind. She uses the quilts and recipes and leaves out a portion of dinner for the 'spirit of the hearth.' Her husband, however, drowned himself inside the hospital; unable to come home and look at the reminders, refusing to do anything with it.

Their divorce comes and it's... amicable. The man who was once her husband stares back with a frozen heart, shrouded by his own grief, and he offers to leave them the house as well. June declines and searches for warmer shadows.

The house is sold. June and Jack move on, and the Kobold follows them.

June is a Darby child, and her son follows her as well. Memories are cherished by them. (Faithfully. Hungrily.) And June dutifully attends to her once-husband's family's traditions: leaving dusty corners, a few dirty plates in the sink, grease on the stove, and many, little things that keep the home running. He may try to escape them, but she won't deny their son the same happiness and joy in it.

Jack was too young to remember his family's faces outside of photos and portraits, but there is a lullaby that follows his dreams, crooning over his head and chasing away his nightmares.

For the longest time, he thought the extra dinner plate was for Oma because it's the same dishes and sweets she once ate, even to this day. Jack was quick to hunt for tidbits about them, and always attributed missing left shoes, misplaced kitchen pens, tipping empty glasses during holidays, and creaking floorboards at night as her mischief. I'm still here, it said. I won't leave.

Jack grew up with the same quilts that consumed him, produce that never spoils (the milk might, but it's easy to make cheese from sour milk), and all the little things that made a house a cozy home.

Much like her own family, June and Jack moved frequently as well. Pests were never a problem for them, nor were mold or leaks. They were strangely lucky in that regard.

The Esquivel home does have Others in their vicinity. It's due to the unknown actions of their youngest member. One day when Raf was far younger and playing hide-and-seek with his siblings and neighborhood kids, Raf came across a pitiful, little creature in a drying puddle.

It flopped and croaked, squirming and clawing at the edges of the barely wet concrete of the patio. Scales flaking in dull, resplendent hues, and its side bleeding a sluggish black ooze. It wasn't a fish. Fish had no arms or torsos, nor had his older brother's books on marine life had anything about fish with two tails. Or fish that scream hard enough to make his nose bleed and cry oily marbles that plink on the ground.

To this day, Raf doesn't know what compelled him to step closer but he did. He saw the strange eyes, blinded and pulsing with veins. Later he'll find out about nictitating membranes, but at the moment it was strange to see how a little, blind not-fish stared back at him, mewling something that skittered across his senses and he tasted blood at the back of his throat.

Mama Esquivel was livid over his son's wet jacket and then concerned when he showed the deep bite on his hand and how his nose continued to bleed.

The birdbath in their backyard does get visitors. Raf rises with the sun to watch strange fish-like creatures splash around the small fountain, singing beautifully to coax birds to eat them whole. His sisters think there's a hawk or an owl nearby that hunting down the smaller birds. Raf knows better. He leaves them lizards and newts, dead rats and mice from traps, and leftover meat and nopales that he can carefully sneak away. Much like corvids, they leave him those oily-slick marbles (pearls), carved sea glass that store whalesong, and beautifully intact shells that contain the noise of a howling tempest and the sea at its most furious.

He knows because they explained it to him. Safety, they said as Raf learns to invoke a flashflood and charm to remain inconspicuous and he understands.

"I wish I knew what you're saying to me," a boy told a small fae that was dropped by a red-tailed hawk, far away from any source of water to return home. Its laughter was the sounds of a babbling brook, the river rushing into the ocean's arms. It asked its savior what was the boon he wished for, and the child unknowingly answered. < Wish granted, little Mudman. > And it savagely bit his hand to share their blood for water touched everything and anything, and who else but the fae could bestow the gift of language of any tongue?

Just because Miko is far from Japan, that doesn't mean she doesn't have something attached to her. And of course, it's a cat.

At first, she thought a feral cat lost a match with a cactus or a porcupine and had recently escaped a trap based on all the pins and dragging tail, but not at all. Much to her amazement, it's fast on its paws. Far more agile and durable, she has seen the creature slash massive cacti and easily jump from the ground to rooftops.

The host family she stays at isn't as boring and straight-laced as she once thought. They do enjoy making homemade brews and other fermented goods. They allow the kids to sample it, but only on the weekends and after a good meal.

She gets a little information from her host family. It's a Catcus Cat - a mythical beast; something that isn't real.

Miko leaves a shallow bowl of her own efforts at making mead and other alcoholic beverages, and the Catcus Cat seems to take a liking to the fruitier and sweet drinks.

The Catcus Cat follows her to the Autobot base. Even when she was riding with Jack and Arcee, she was able to spy the beast racing alongside them in the sand, easily keeping pace.

It allows her to pet it occasionally. Purring as it keeps its spines flat and soft, still prickly but leaving no damage. But it prefers chasing games, so Miko cobbled a fishing rod with pieces of raw meat to play 'Fetch' and got a laser to watch it scramble up solid walls and scale cliffsides.

Unlike the Darby's Kobold and Raf's aquatic visitors, the Catcus Cat had interactions with the Autobots. Particularly Arcee and Bumblebee. They enjoy racing in the high-noon sun and dark empty roads at night. It comes along because very few can truly challenge them. And the Autobots think it's a baseline Earth animal. A charming one, even if its yowls are thundering.

Out of all the Autobots, it's Arcee that figured out something is off. Unlike Miko's inability to hide a new car and the Esquivel's already full garage, Arcee can fit comfortably in the Darby's garage. June even partitioned out an area for the Autobot to transform and scavenged large bean bags and thick body pillows as a makeshift bed.

June often works and Jack is either at Knockout Burger or the base after school, so Arcee has no idea how there are fresh meals, hot and ready on the stove as well as how the Pits her pillow nest is fluffed and straightened when there's no one at home!

Arcee thinks there's some sort of weird intruder in their house that likes being domestic, and it drives her nuts that June and Jack are completely nonchalant over the fact.

She's definitely not happy hearing it's been happening for over a decade, and no she doesn't believe it's the ghost of a dearly departed relative!

[bots-and-cons]

As I found the other anons “pear shaped” adventure of human and autobot ask amusing could I ask for a continuation of Ratchets one plz? Betting an entire emerging ration someone gets punched as honestly while the bots are pretty good at calming relatively calm or excited people I doubt Fowler and the bots would be v good at someone who DID NOT WANT NO THANK YOU. About the entire circumstances lol

I feel like this is just gonna turn into “how Ratchet became a guardian” and I love that. and if I feel like it I can write another part to this. The first part can be found here.

Ratchet didn’t really think when he locked you in the back. He was supposed to pick up the kids for Primus’s sake. How would he explain some raving human in his back space?

“Hi Ratchet” a boy said and climbed on to the front seat.

Let! Me! OUT!“ you screeched and seemingly startled the kid.

“Wow, Ratchet kidnapped a human!” a girl yelled, sounding rather excited.

“Not so loud Miko, and no I did not” the car answered.

“You kids, you need to help me, I want out of here” you pleaded

“Are we taking them back to the base with us?” another boy, seemingly a bit older than the previous one, asked.

“We have to” the car answered.

The car started up and all three of the kids were squished on the front seat, you pouted on the back and planned your escape. They would have go let you out at some point, right?

Eventually the car stopped. The kids hopped out and the older boy came to open the back door for you.

“Here we are” he said.

You basically sprinted out, but you were quickly stopped by another five or so robots standing before you.

You just stared at them in awe. This was cool, you had to admit, but you also definitely wanted nothing to do with this. You would rather sit at the back of the ambulance than deal with this, but when you turned around the ambulance was gone and standing there was the bot you had seen before.

“Ratchet, what is the meaning of this?” the biggest bot asked calmly.

“I had to transform in front of them and came to the conclusion I had to bring them here”

“Could someone tell me what the hell is going on?!” you growled and kicked the biggest bot’s foot.

It only hurt you however, you grabbed your foot and jumped around on the other one. The big bot didn’t even really acknowledge you had kicked him. He just looked down on you with a bit of a worried expression.

“I am Optimus Prime. We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron, also known as autobots and we are here to protect your planet from the Decepticons” the biggest bot said, sounding oddly official.

“Ahhah” you nodded, being able to process about two percent of what he just said. “So aliens?”

“Yeah, but like cool battle aliens” the girl chimed in.

You decided it would be best to keep calm, and try to talk yourself out of this. You could handle this, just keep calm.

“Miko, we are not battle aliens” a big green one said.

“I know Bulk, but it sounds so cool”

“You said you’re here to defend us humans from Decepticons, so are you the good guys or something?”

“Yeah, pretty much” the smallest bot said.

“Okay, so if you’re the good guys, you’re gonna let me go right? I’ll keep my mouth shut and I’ll never talk about you to anyone, I swear. I just wanna go home”

“The robots looked at each other. You could see they didn’t really know what to tell you. 

“Please, I just want to go home” you pleaded.

“Do not misunderstand, you are not a prisoner here” Optimus said.

You sighed in relief.

“But since you have seen us we will look after you from now on. You knowing about us puts you in danger, since the decepticons would now consider you our ally”

“What do you mean look after?” you questioned skeptically.

“It means you get to hang here at the base if you want to, and you have to check in on us so we know you’re okay and didn’t get kidnapped by Megatron” the kid called Miko explained.

“Mega-what?”

“Megatron is the leader of the decepticons” the younger boy said.

“Okay just a sec could I get an introduction tour or something cause I’m kinda tired of being so confused”

“Uu, let me”  Miko exclaimed.

“Go ahead” Ratchet rolled his eyes.

“I’m Miko and the big green bot there is my guardian Bulkhead, or Bulk”

The big green bot waved at you awkwardly.

“And like the big guy said, he is Optimus Prime and you already met Ratchet” she said, nodding towards the grumpy ambulance. “This is Jack and his guardian is Arcee. And then we have Raf and Bumblebee”

“Nice to meet you all… I guess” you added under your breath. “I’m (Name)”

You listened as the bots explained the situation to you. They told you about what the decepticons were doing on earth. You listened, but really you just wanted to get home and never come back here again. As luck would have it, Ratchet was appointed as your guardian, and he seemed just about as happy about it as you.

At least on the ride home you got to sit on the front seat.

“So Ratchet, right? I know you’re not very thrilled about being my guardian or whatever, and I’d rather have nothing to do with this but, I hope we can still get along”

“We’ll it’s good we have a mutual understanding of the situation”

You could basically see him rolling his optics, as Miko had told you the bot’s eyes were called.

“Hey I didn’t choose this, you forced me into this” you huffed.

“I’m aware”

The rest of the way went in silence. Ratchet dropped you off at your house and you calmly walked inside. You could deal with this.

[harveybwabbit92]

Transfomers Pokemon Au Pt1?

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"I'm sorry could you run that by us again?" Arcee asked as she and the autobots looked down at their charges; eyeing the odd yellow fuzzy spider in Raf's arms. that looked like a cross between Bumblebee and a scraplet. "I said she's a pokemon. they're creatures who live alongside us on earth." Jack said as he patted the little creature on it's head making it purr.

"this Raf's Joltlik her name is Jolty, she likes sneaking out of her pokeball" The bots still not understanding "pokieball?" Ratchet asked as Raf calmly pulled a small ball from his bag and tapped against Jolty's head in a flash of light yellow creature was gone Before being called back out again.

"their special devices we use to capture pokemon and train with them." Optimus put his hand under his chin curiously as he observed the children.

"Training for what?"

"The pokemon league."

"Explain."

"It's league where you, journey from towns to cities battling Gyms and collecting badges, if you defeat all eight leaders then your eligible for the league. and go on to battle the elite 4 then the champion defeat them and your the new champion."

The bots just stared at the children shocked, "you use creatures to fight your battles? Barbaric!" Ratchet chided as the kids rolled their eyes, The medic was surprised when Jolty growled at him, "it's not barbaric it's a learning experience." Catherine's intervened "much different from what you're thinking of Ratchet." the medic went to say something then a thought occurred to him.

"You a trainer." The rusty haired woman shook her head as Miko butted "Nope! Doc here is the gym leader of Withazel! The city of nerds!" Both Catherine, Jack and Raf stared at her " actually it called the city of science and discovery. but, that's besides the point." she turned back to the bots.

"There's nothing barbaric about Pokemon journeys. These three, They're gonna go far but, only if they never stop learning and have faith in their pokemon. it'll be a difficult journey full of opportunity and friends old and new, different places to see. but, if they keep moving foward." Her green caught Ratchet's optics his fans silently clicked on as Catherine looked back at the kids "Speaking of foward, I believe you kids have somewhere to be?" she said as the kids looked down the Xphones "Holy Crud We're gonna be late for the train!" the kids immediately went to the groundbridge "can you open this!? please!"

Raf asked frantically as the bots looked confused "What's the hurry?" Bulkhead asked as the kids kept looking at the time! "We're leaving Jasper dude!we were just visiting" Optimus looked concerned.

"Where are you going? why are you going by yourselves?"

"Ozwell town, our next gym is there! and Raf has to pick up his pokedex and starter!"

"But, I thought Joltlik was his partner?"

"She is he caught her. but we're allowed carry only six pokemon on our team, since raf was in trainer-school for most of the year. he now has to go Ozwell and meet with Prof. Quirk to get his license and starter pokemon."

The autobot leader didn't seem to keen on letting them go by themselves "Do, your parents know about this?" He asked the kids nodded "yep they encouraged it, since they went through the same thing when they were our age." Jack said as Ratchet reluctantly opened the briged as Catherine smiled at him.

"well, I'll be on my way back to Withazel, I look forward to seeing you three there." with that Catherine took the elevator to the roof, as the kids step through the portal and sighed in relief to see Ratchet had bridge them to the train station "Let's go guys!!"

Miko cheered as Raf and Jack nodded as they ran to the magna-rail. within two hours the were in Ozwell as Jack finished calling his mom to tell her they got there safe, not noticing the yellow Urbana and blue motorcycle and green SUV watching them from afar.

Later at the Ozwell lab.

"Well, look who it is! wittle Darby and his baby squad!"

"Ugh! what are you doing here Vince?"

"Nothing, just looking for some wimp to battle looks I found 3 for 1."

"Look Vince we're not here start anything just let us through or-"

The redheaded bully burst out laughing "or what? Vince points at Raff "Four-eyes and his little bug gonna squash me? oh I'm soo scared!~" he mock cried before Miko stepped forward only for Jack to hold her back,

Vince just snorted before Raff looked down at Jolty who looked determined to battle as the 12 year old nodded, "Y'know what? I will!" Both his friends and bully looked surprised, "Come again shortie I don't think I heard you?"

Raff stood up straighter "I said I'll do it Jolty and I will battle you right now!" the tween said confidently as Jack and Miko looked concerned. " Alright you're on shortie!" Vince sneered as he walked out to the small playground across the road. as Miko spoke up.

"Raf are you sure about this?"

"Yep, I'm sure you don't have to worry guys."

"But,You and Jolty have never-."

"Miko trust me on this we'll be fine."

Raff assured her as Jolty squealed in agreement as the three followed after Vince, who was standing confidently across from Raf and Jolty as Jack announced the rules 1 round 1 on 1 battle last Pokemon standing wins, "Go, get'em Jolty!" Raff ordered as his little partner jumped in to the ring, Vince snorted as he took out a pokeball "Go Golisopod!" he yelled as a large humanoid bug appeared from the ball, both Jack and Miko cringed,

"what's with the faces?" a female asked as Miko awkwardly explained "He's a water type against electric type," she didn't both to see who was asking "But, that's good right?" a male voiced said Jack did a so-so gesture

"Yes and no, their both bugs so any bug type move would be almost ineffective, to Golisopod who is on a high level then Jolty." the three spectators hummed curiously as they watched the battle, So far it looked like Vincent was going to win.

Raf kept ordering Jolty to use Stringshot and dodge whatever Golisopod threw at her which was mostly (Watergun and Brine), it wasn't till she took a direct hit from a Beat-up did it look like it was all over.

When suddenly Golisopod froze "Golisopod what's wrong? beat her up!?" Vince ordered but, his pokemon didn't move "Looks like Jolty's special ability just activated!" Raff said with a smile as his bully looked confused before look down at his pokedex. "that's right static! Golisopod is paralyzed!" the tween watched as Jolty jumped to her feet as her looked around the field;

there was a reason he had her keep covering the field in silk and water whick Golisopod was currently covered in "Jolty use thunderbolt!" Jolty screeched in compliment and zapped Vince's Golisopod causing a huge flash and smoke cloud when the smoke cleared Golisopod as passed out.

as Jack stood up "Golisopod is unable to battle, Jolty and Raf win!" as Miko jumped up and cheered along with their audience, as the tween went up to his partner "You did great Jolty! I'm proud of yo-" Raf froze when his pokemon started glowing ask the group watched, the same lady spoke up.  

"What's happening to her?!"

"Nothing, Jolty's evolving..."

"Evolving?"

"It's what happens when a Pokemon's power reaches a certain level, no one really knows how it happens."

The glowing stopped as Jolty appeared different she was bigger, stronger looking as she happily looked up at her trainer {Galvantula!} Raf looked ready to cry before Vince broke up the moment he was pissed "How the hell could I have lost!" My pokemon was bigger and stronger then yours!!"

He stopped short when Miko sent out her Pangoro and Jack sent out his Feraligator the two glowered at the redheaded bully who backed away "Yeah...but, not Ours bully." Miko said with a try me b-tch look on her face when someone started clapping.

"okay! good show!" the teens looked over to the swings and saw a brown haired woman, wearing a maintenance uniform and lab coat walking towards them, "Who the heck are you old hag?" the redhead sneered as the woman shot him a look that could melt paint off a car. "Oh, forgive me I'm Prof. Quirk."

Vince blanched and stuttered an apology and ran away with his bruised ego between his legs. Prof. Quirk then turned to kids "And you must be Jack,Miko and Raff?" she said the kids blinked surprised that she knew their names.

"Gates said you'd be coming. though she didn't mention your friends."

"Friends? Vince is a jerk and no friend of ours!"

"I meant the three behind you."

"Huh? woah who the?...wait."

The kids got a good look at the three strangers behind then "Bee, Bulk, Arcee? is that you?" the three awkwardly nodded as the kids pulled them into a huddle "What are you guys doing here...and how are you human?"

Jack hissed as the femme spoke "1. we were worried, and 2 Holo-avatars." Miko rolled her eyes "and you're just tell us now!?" she said trying to whisper as Bulkhead nervously scratched the back of his head. "That, and Optimus wanted to see how you battle." the teens gawked and looked around curiously for the semi-truck, but couldn't locate him " He's not here, he asked us to record the battle" Arcee said as Bee used his cell phone to type-out

{He'll probably have mix-feeling about it, but, I thought you were awesome!} The scout smiled happily as Raff smiled back appreciably "Thanks Bee that means alot!"

someone cleared their throat and the six of them un-huddled to see Prof.Quirk staring at them "So, Are you ready to come to my lab or-" the three trainers jumped when they remembered what they came for "Oh, Right Raff let's go!" Miko grabbed his hand as her Pangoro and Jolty followed after them, while Jack stayed behind.

"Tell Optimus if he's free to stop by the gym tomorrow. if he really wants to see a battle." Arcee nodded as the three bots deactivated their holoforms and returned to base while Jack looked at his Feraligator smirked "let's go big guy." his pokemon gave him a toothy grin and followed him.

(Don't know if I'll make a part 2 of this pokeformers thing. maybe!)