"Curse those Merbots! Thanks to them, I'm injured, losing too much blood, separated from the Mercon pod, and I have no idea if Lord Megatron will punish me again for failing him yet again. Heck! I don't even know if Megatron made it out that energon mine alive...." As Starscream thought this, he grinned from fin to fin. Just imagining the warlord dead and that inevitably putting him in charge had him just giddy. And if it wasn't for him being severely injured and bleeding, he would've done what was equivalent to us humans as, The Happy Dance. But he was in so much pain, he couldn't even begin to think of doing that. It was already enough that he was just swimming at a normal rate but to do a backflip..... yeah----- not happening.

"Ugh, I can't take...anymore... of this...pain." As he said this, he blacked out and landed on the ocean floor. All seemed lost for the poor Mercon. But Primus had other plans for him and the rest of Merformers.

Gently but swiftly, the tide picked up Starscream and carried him to shore. And unbeknownst to Starscream, he just landed in a certain woman's backyard.

*Sigh*

"Another work day, another day to beat the books. It's a really good thing my graduation is coming up pretty soon, or I might just lose it!" Stella dropped her bags at the front door, took her jacket off, and proceeded her way to her kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. She took a long nice sip of her steaming cup of joe and sighed. She looked down at her cup and said, "You know, you're gonna be the death of me someday. Along with my schoolwork if I don't graduate first."

She chuckled to herself and moved slowly to her kitchen window where it was facing the sea. You see, before she cut ties with her family, she gathered as much of her money and assets as she could and moved out to a secluded beach house in California to be closer to her cousin. Now here she is in her three story beach house, sipping on hot soothing coffee, while staring at the full moon and bright shining stars from her kitchen window.

She couldn't help the smirk that came over her features. She thought, "Probably around this time Sharona is just now getting back onto the boat and already on her way back from the mission. Shame I couldn't come along to help. It's been so long since I've been scuba diving." As she thought this she couldn't help but admire the bright stars above. She finally gave up and decided to go and admire the stars a little more on her porch.

As she continued to stare at the stars, her eyes lingered down towards the beach. She took a long sip of her coffee, but she did a spit take as her eyes landed on a creature laying helplessly on the beach shores.

"Dear Neptune, what is that?!"

She left her cup of coffee on the porch as she made her way down to the beach. And as she cautiously made her way closer to the creature, she noticed how badly he was scratched up and how bad he was bleeding. She looked closer at his face and noticed his features.

He was slender built, was tricolored in scarlet, grey, and white, and noticed that he had sharp claws. She was a bit taken aback by this, but she shook off her fear, gently picked him up bridal style, and made her way to her basement.

She thanked God for all those times she worked out at the Center's gym whenever she had the chance. Because now it was paying off. Even though he was slender built, he wasn't exactly light weight.

Lucky for her is that she had a LARGE basement that also led outside. She managed to grab the sliding door and opened it. She carefully laid the creature down on an old mattress that she was planning to get rid of, and ran back upstairs to grab her emergency medical kit.

As she ran back downstairs she couldn't help all her nerves that were SWIMMING in her chest.

'Ah geez, what am I gonna do after I fix him up?! Keep him in my basement?!'

As she thought this, an idea occurred. 'What if I put him in my pool till he's all fixed up! Then I'll have plenty of time to ask him questions, if he's or its capable of speech. But first, I got to heal him before he loses too much blood!'

As she sat down next to him she got to work. Giving him anesthesia for the pain, disinfecting his injuries and sewing them up with waterproof thread and wraps. She noticed how he was starting to get dry.

'Good thing I'm almost done. It's also a good thing that he didn't fracture anything. Or else I would have to get my waterproof casting set from upstairs as well.'

After she was done patching him up, she gently picked him up again and walked over to her pool area. It was pretty nice. It was big and wide enough for him to swim in. Not to mention it has a jacuzzi at the end as well when she just wants to relax.

Looks like she's going to be sharing it for a while.

(Not that she minds. I mean she thought he was kinda cute. 😏)

She gently put him down on the shallow end of the pool, just in case he turned for the worse she can reach him in time.

As he touched the water she heard a soft moan come from him and she softly smiled.

"Don't worry. I'm gonna make sure you make it....cutie~." She gently caressed her hand on the side of his cheek. And low and behold he smiled a little. She knew he was unconscious and just reacting on instinct. But just that small gesture sent butterflies in her stomach.

As she sat in one of her pool chairs, a thought occurred in her mind.

'I wonder if this is that same Mako Shark merguy that my cousin described in her dreams. The one that was described as a SIC of those "Mercons".'

She thought about it then looked back at her unconscious patient. He was laying there just so innocent like. 'Waiting to be ravaged~'

In that particular moment her aura turned a dark shade of lust. And in that moment she thought that he saw him shudder and blush?

'Nah, must be imagining it.'

(Oh, how wrong she was😏😂)

She continued to stare at him till she fell asleep. But little did she know that her patient was more aware of her than she thought.

Starscream's POV

'Finally! I thought she would never stop staring at me.'

You see, Starscream WAS unconscious. But only until he was shortly placed on the old mattress. It was only until Stella came back down with the med kit that he pretended to still be unconscious. He was a little wary when she had injected him with anesthesia, but as she continued to work on him, he could tell that she was only trying to help. But why? Humans were supposedly these greedy fish hunting two leggers who didn't give a flying darn about who they killed. So why was she different? And why did he smile when she touched his cheek? 'And what was up with that brief moment that I felt that I was actually on the receiving end of a predator's stare? It actually made me shiver, but in a good way. And I really hope that I wasn't blushing. And if I was, then I hope she didn't notice. Heck, she even called me "cutie". Anyone would blush at that. Or at least I think that's the case.' Starscream slightly blushed at the thought, then shook it off.

Then another thought occurred in his mind. 'Don't know what'll happen if she figures out that I was awake almost the entire time. I might get some form of weird punishment.'

"........"

He shook his head violently and yelled at himself in his head. 'NO! I DO NOT HAVE THAT SORT OF KINK! ESPECIALLY WITH A HUMAN OF ALL CREATURES!'

But Starscream couldn't help but stare at the sleeping woman.

'Well, for a human femme, she's actually kind of attractive.'

(A/N: Whut~?! Starscream is actually a tsundere?!

Starscream: SHUT UP! I AM NOT!!!

Me: NEVER!!! YOU SO ARE!!!

Starscream: Whatever! Get back to the story!

Me: O~kay~😏😁

The woman briefly stirred in her sleep. Which caused Starscream to slightly jump and hold his breath in anticipation. She briefly rolled over in the pool chair and continued to sleep peacefully. Starscream breathed out a sigh of relief. But it was then that realization hit him in the face. She would have to eventually wake up. And he can't always be pretending to be unconscious.

'Oh well. When she starts to wake up I'll fall "unconscious" again until she leaves. Until then, I can just study this strange human.'

And that's exactly what he did. As soon as she woke up, it was around 1 in the morning and he fell "unconscious" again before she noticed he was awake.

Stella's POV

Stella woke up with a start. "Crud!!! I forgot that I have essays to take care of for...." She looked at her watch. "Double crud! TODAY!!! I gotta get going!" She looked back at her patient to see if he was awake. But all that was there was the unconscious form of the Mako Shark Mercon still resting. "Okay. I'll finish all of my essays then get ready for the day. Then I'll come back to see if he's doing any better before I leave for school." 'I'll have to remember to set something for him to eat. I don't really know what they eat so I'll just put out some fruit and flavored crackers for him to nibble on.'

As soon as she took care of her essays, which were fairly easy for her, she got started on her morning routine and then got herself another cup of coffee to go.

........