"Midnight, this is Annabelle, my daughter. And this is my wonderful wife, Sarah. Anna and Sarah, this is Midnight," William introduced me to his family. With the activity dropping immensely over the past few days, he wanted to bring them here for the time being.

A young girl about the age of five stood in front of me at the height of my hips. Her head was covered with thick, sunshine, shoulder length brown hair and a small, sky blue bow clipped in her hair. Her skin was tanned from being in the sun almost twenty-four seven. Her body is cover by a thick jacket to prevent the winter weather to get to her with the coloring being a gorgeous sunshine yellow (Sunstreaker would be jealous of the color). A pair of black snow pants covers her legs.

The five year old glance up at me with a big smile on her face and she looked like she wanted something from me. Her mother on the on other hand showed the usual hint of fear from me but it wasn't as noticeable in her eyes or body language like normal.

Sarah looked to be in her mid-thirties and about an inch shorter than me. Her hair went past her shoulders with it being pulled in Dutch braid into a ponytail (she and her hairstyle are beautiful) and her hair color a beach blonde. Her skin looked like it was lightly kissed by the sun itself (William is sure a lucky man to have her and his daughter by his side) and was adorn by a dark pair of jeans and a white blouse covered by a dark green winter jacket.

Williams' wife held out her hand for me to shake as in a greeting. Carefully with a small amount of fear (if she or Annabelle got hurt by me, it would be the end of me) I outstretch my hand to hers and shook it with caution. "It's nice to meet you Midnight, William has told us about you," Sarah greeted. My eyes snap over to look at William with a 'why' expression on my face.

Retracting my hand from hers, I stand back and silently waited for the terrified scream of fear from them. It never came and she continues to smile with her pearly white teeth until she noticed the fear in my eyes. Her calm, joyful expression changed to worry and she stepped forward and took my cheeks in her hands.

"What's wrong?" she questioned with her voice was light as the air around us. Her eyed filled with concern, concern for my wellbeing. She just met me and wanted to make sure mu wellbeing was alright. You gotta wish the world was filled with people like her.

Finding my voice after a couple seconds, I speak up with my voice trembling. "Um I-I'm fine. I thought y-you were going t-to do th-the normal 'ahhh, it's a scary monster' th-thing, ya k-know?" I explained my reasoning for being scared.

Out of nowhere something hugged my legs tightly and squealed. "You no monster! You pretty!" the small child yelled and squeezed my legs even tighter; to the point my balance was thrown off and fell forward. I was able to catch myself before my body could land on Annabelle or hit the ground. Glancing down at her and giving her a weird look, I shook her love of my leg and stood back up.

"Annabelle! You don't do something like that!" her mouth scolded Annabelle. Her daughter, she was still on the ground, gazes down at the floor with her eyes welling up. She sniffed her snot back in her nose and used the back of her hand to wipe her tears away.

Sighing deeply and changing my emotions to be more cheerful for the child, I kneel down in front of her and sit on my haunches. I stretch out and wiped the tears running down her face. "It's alright small child. You were only doing what you thought was the best." I decided to change my tactic and placed a toothy smile on my face. "Hey at least I didn't squish you. If it's alright with your parents, I'll take you for a ride as any animal you want." She glanced up at me with confusion written on her face.

"What do you mean?" she questioned as she stood back up on her feet and dusted the back of her dress off. William must have not told, good for him, it my secret not his.

"Well small child, I'm able to change my body into different shapes. It's called shapeshifting," I explained. Her entire behavior changed to be filled with excitement, she wowed and squealed once more (damn, cute child needed to tone it down with her high pitch noise or my poor ears won't be able to hear anymore).

She, more careful as to not push us over, hugged me around the neck. I wrapped my arms around her small frame and picked her up, the fear of hurting her or Sarah long gone by now. Facing her two parents with a small smile gracing my lips, I give them the knowing look to ask them if it was okay. Sarah right off the bat agreed to it while William hesitantly agreed to the terms.

Without another thought, I ran off with the child still clinging to me. "The child is now mine. Good luck getting her back!" I playfully yelled while dashing away from the two. My ears caught the sound of laughter from Sarah and that helped the smile grow on my face.

We made it to Auto rec. room (I don't like to go in the humans with the amount of stench that comes from there) and I set her down on the ground in front of the open hanger door. "What animal would you like to see or ride first?"

Not even a second later, she shouted out an answer. "T. rex!" Chuckling quietly to myself, I nodded my head and motioned with my hands for her to stay there. I didn't want my clothes to be ripped so that's reason for me going behind a wall (luckily there wasn't anyone in the Auto Rec. room at this time) and stripped myself down to nothing covering my body.

Letting my body slowly increase in size and form the shape of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, I carefully step out from behind the wall. The small child squealed in excitement and ran up to my large three toed feet. She wrapped her arms tightly on my left leg (she couldn't get her small arms around the muscle of my leg). "Wow! You so cool. Can other animals? Can I ride you?" she questioned.

Holding in a laugh at the non-purposely sexual joke, my head goes up and down to answer her first question the shakes to left to right to answer her. A ten to twelve foot drop would seriously do some damage to her petite frame but the shifting into other animals could be done.

"Can you do a tiger?" She's absolutely adorable; a pack was made at that moment, my life would be laid down for hers to see another day. Once again nodding my head as talking in these forms is difficult; I focus for my body to shift into a Bengal tiger feel is down size to a tiger.

Once done with the slightly painful process, I shake my body and stretch out my sore muscles. Annabelle shrieked out loud from excitement and ran up to me while wrapping her arms around my fluffy scruff. "You so cool!" She cheered while hopping on my back without permission and gripped my scruff. "Ride like the wind Bull's-eye!"

Licking my chomps and glancing around the area best for travel, I start off in the direction of the Autobot barracks. Usually at this time of the day, most of the bots are out on patrol or training with the humans or sparring with each other. This leaves me a hopefully empty place to stroll around with the small child on my back.

The stroll over to Autobots barracks take as long as suspected and after reaching there, Annabelle jumped off my back (thankfully, she may be small and light but tigers back aren't meant to be ridden). "So you can do any animal?" I dip my large tiger head to answer her question. "Could you do a unicorn?" The classic child's dream of meeting or owning a unicorn.

Again with the shapeshifting for her entertainment, my body shifts into a unicorn with a pure white coat and rainbow mane and tail. A golden horn about a foot long stood on my forehead and seemed to be sparkling (this one was painful as I have never shapeshifted into this animal before. My cells and atoms were getting use to the shape of this animal).

A high pitch screech, higher than any of the other ones she did, escaped her mouth and she ran up to me with the biggest smile on her face. She wrapped her arms around my front legs while jumping up and down like a madman.

Her screech caught the attention of a pair of twins, more important the ones that I hang around with. They must have thought she was in trouble and come barreling out with their twin blades out for show. But after seeing she wasn't in trouble, left to go back to whatever they were doing.

With my legs being almost twice her height, I kneel down for to climb on top of my back. She gets the gesture and happily climbs on my back. She grabs onto my rainbow colored mane and kicked my sides to get me going. "Run!" Following through with her command (I'm at the mercy of the child at the moment), I slowly take off quickly to make sure she has a tight grip on my mane.

Gladly the small child doesn't fall off and onto the hard concrete ground. Picking up speed and removing the snow in my way as my legs carry me further from the Autobots barracks, I neigh and throw my head back. It was always fun to do things like this with my powers and actually have a good time while doing it.

My breath was starting to get heavy as we reached the end of the runway for the planes. I slow down to a halt and lower my head from the quick burst energy used all the way down here, it was about a mile long to allow the large planes to land and take off.

Annabelle gently ran her hand on my sweaty neck. "You okay?" she questioned with her sweet voice holding concern.

"Yeah," I answered with my voice, it sounded different of course with me being a horse and all. She laid down on her front and hugged me around my neck, which is still sweaty from my running. Ugh, I hate being a mammal. My body doesn't have pores to sweat and smell like a disgusting pig.

After catching my breath, I take off once more down the long runway. My long, elegant legs took me closer to where we entered and my hooves (they are fucking gold too) clicked against the concrete. My mane and tail flowed exquisitely in the air as we quickly made our way back to the main part of the base.

We made it to the main part of the compound and more humans are making their way around. All the humans that are strolling around noticed the fucking unicorn and the small child on her back; these humans have the worst ability to notice something out of the normal.

Shawn, he was part of the group of humans, carefully made his way over to me. "Annabelle I need you to carefully get off the unicorn," he ordered the small child on my back. She tilted her head in confusion.

"Why? Midnight's not going to hurt me," Annabelle explained. Everyone's eyes widen to the point they looked like they were going to fall out and some had their mouths dropped in shock.

"That's Midnight?" Shawn questioned and stopped a few feet in front of me.

Finally deciding to speak up and scare the shit out of everyone here, I spoke to Shawn in front of me. "Yes this is Midnight. Hello Shawn, how's your day going? And to answer everyone's question: I can shapeshift into everything my mind can think up." Everyone did their own thing to acknowledge my words: some acted like it was normal (most likely seen me do it before or have been told by someone in the higher ups), others freaked out a little bit, and the last group (much smaller) squealed in happiness.

My new acquaintance cleared his throat and erased the shocked expression off his face. "Hey Night. Yeah, I'm alright and wow, you're different than any human I know." Giving him the best 'yeah I didn't notice this' look (still a unicorn here), I snorted while pawing the ground then taking off towards the Main Hanger where her parents are most likely still there.

We arrived at the Main Hanger and many gasps came from the humans inside. My ears caught the sound a couple of guns cocking and ever so being pointed at me.

Out of reaction of a gun being point at me as there is a young child on my back, I shift back (also shifting my scales to make it look like there are clothes adorning my body) into my normal form. My wings wrap around the small child with my arms tightly gripping her small frame. A hiss and a growl were released from my mouth and I glare at everyone holding a gun pointed at me.

"Are you serious!? You are pointing a gun at me with a young child next to me. If I was allowed, I would kill all you idiots for endangering a child. You could have shot her if your finger is twitchy," I grounded out for all of them to be able to hear me. Most of them lowered their gun from the fear and truth of me killing them. The others were ordered by William to lower their guns and reported to Prowl for a punishment.

William and Sarah rapidly made their way down the steps and over to me. Unwrapping my wings and arms from around Annabelle, I let her go and watch her two parents hug their child. Sarah glanced up from her kneeing down position and placed a happy smile on her face.

"Thank you, I hope they'll learn their lesson," Sarah spoke up. Her husband nodded his head and reassured her that Prowl will make sure they'll learn it.

After the whole situation, I left to head to the Auto rec. room as my chest was pulling me that way. Hanging with the twins has helped with the discomfort and pain coming from whatever is going on with my soul or heart. There was no reason for me to see Ratchet about it because he knows almost nothing about me.

Entering the Auto rec. room and spotting the twins playing their normal Mario Kart game, I fly over to them (after grabbing my clothes and dressing myself once more) and land on the arm rest closest to the hanger door. I was still in fear that someone will close those doors and lock me in here, forever.

Sunstreaker glances down at me as the arm rest that was picked is closest to him and nodded his helm to acknowledge my presences. Doing the same to him, I lay down fully and unfurled my wings on the arm rest. My left wing gently rests against Sunshine's leg; with my exhaustion taking over after shapeshifting so many times today, I didn't give a shit if my wing touched him.

A laugh came from Sideswipe who is sitting next to his twin. "You look exhausted, Night. What were you doing?" Sideswipe commented. Turning my head to the left, I gaze up to him with an annoyed expression on my face.

"Children, children are so much work to deal with," I groaned and closed my eyes to listen to their digits move the joysticks and push the buttons of the controller. This time both gave a small chuckle before going back to focusing on their game.

Later on sleep took me underneath its wing but lead me to a terrible nightmare.

My breath couldn't be controlled as my failed attempts to calm down were futile. The animal's claws could be heard clicking against concrete as they were catching up to me, quickly might I add. Rue had sent this animal to hunt me down for the fun of it.

The snapping of its jaw forced me to pump my sore and already tired legs to go fast, in hopes it doesn't get me. It didn't work as the animals jaw caught the back of my shirt, catching my skin a little bit, and pulled me down to the group.

My brown eyes stared in fright as bright, fiery, orange eyes glared down at me. In a flash of speed, the wolf lunged at me. A scream tore through my throat and it echoed in the forest that surrounds us.

Gasping and shooting off wherever my body was laying on, I head straight to where my eyes caught sight of an opening. But with my eyes filled with tears from the fright, they only saw sight of a black, blurry figure in front of me. Reacting out of fear, I spat a small load of venom at the figure to distract it before taking off high in the air.

My wings helped me reach their fastest speed and take me far from the base. My mind needed time to think over of all upcoming memories. It either something finally snapping in my head after all the stress or an omen telling me something bad is about to happen, both are bad for me and both are not needed.