Three hours later both of them were safe at home and Juliet was getting her final preparations for the new school year finished

*So tomorrow's the big day huh?*

*Yes Shockwave tomorrow's the big day as you call it but all it really is is a new school year*

*Actually we need to talk to you about that*

Juliet suddenly turns around and sees some of her alien family inside her room. Everything in the room was human sized so that she herself could use it, but due to the fact that she had been raised by the Cybertronians since she was a month old her actual room was very big just in case they needed to do anything to care for her or she wanted to talk to any of them in the privacy of her room. The Cybertronians could remember very well how they felt when her family asked them to raise her in their stead, it was actually easy for her immediate family to accept the Cybertronians raising her due to the fact that the eldest son and the two parents were EDC officers themselves. Mark, the eldest son had been killed only months before Juliet was born, John the middle child had been adopted when he was twelve and had died only days after Juliet was born due to a rare poison with which there was no antidote, no one knew who had poisoned him and so far no one had confessed to his murder. Juliet had been born to EDC parents on one of their space stations that helped keep an eye out for any enemies of Earth and Cybertron, the day they died had been an act of a traitor to the EDC only doing it for money. Her parents had managed to find out about the sabotage in time for them to activate the evacuation code and make sure everyone made it to an escape pod, but in making sure everyone including their only living child left they themselves were killed in the explosion. For the first several weeks she was with a foster family while everything got settled down in regards to what happened and while everyone was trying to find out what was in her parents most updated will. In the will it stated that Juliet was to be left in the charge of the Cybertronians as they trusted them explicitly with their lives, at first everyone protested such a ruling including the Cybertronians themselves but ultimately they couldn't overrule her parents wishes. When that fact had been made clear the Cybertronians accepted their new charge only after some ground rules were applied, first of all they were to have human help at all times for at least the first three years of her life and then toned down to whenever the help was needed. Second of all captain Fairborne was to have the authority to sign any permission slips from any school she may attend. Finally any and all EDC officers were to have medical power of attorney should they be unable to be contacted which was a possibility due to how often they had to fight enemies and make peace treaties, it also helped in the fact that the EDC officer could sign medical forms that they themselves might not be able to without delicate care. Once those ground rules were explained and accepted things went smoothly and the Cybertronians adapted to taking care of a human child, there were some problems and quite frankly some situations came up that no one knew what to do about until they came together to discuss the problem but everything worked out in the end. They never hid the fact that she was adopted from her and they always talked about her real family telling stories about them from what they could remember and that actually helped her sometimes when she wanted to ask about her real family but didn't know how to whenever she saw news stories about other soldiers. When she was five and displayed having powers no one had ever seen it caused a shift in how she lived and her interaction with her family. She was trained on how to control her powers which she called the Arranyan powers and by the time she was six she had training in all branches of the military and had the rank of Lt. per the President's order, though she could outrank any soldier in the military if the situation called for it. Once she was six she went into normal school and continued her military training every summer this time in the special operations section. At this point in time she was twelve and had missed a summer of training to test the military prisons which was a good thing because of potential security leaks. Kerenai only answered to the President so that meant even if the orders came through someone else she always had an identification method to let her know that it was ultimately the President who gave these orders. Another interesting fact about her is since she has lived with the Cybertronians all her life she had two native languages, English and Cybertronian, she could speak both fluently and ever since she was five had been learning the languages of the rest of the world and seemed to have a gift for the languages as she could now speak twenty of them fluently and a little over a hundred more efficiently, at least well enough to get around. (With her family being aliens and her "cousins" being soldiers she heard languages all over the world frequently enough to learn them and be interested in learning the languages of the world. Which helped at age ten when she went with her family to the annual United Nations meeting as an education trip). Over the years she had learned how to discern how serious a conversation was by how many of her family wanted to talk to her and just who all was at the meeting, and from what she could tell it was very serious because all of the strategists and those who used to be second and third in command when they were at civil war plus the two Primes and Galvatron were all there

*What's going on? *

*You're not going to school Juliet, you can't *

*Why not? *

*A threat has been made, one that we're taking very seriously *

*What am I to do then? *

*You're going to be with the Marines for the next nine and a half months *

*What's the nature of the threat? *

*That's the problem the threat isn't very specific only that the one who is raised by aliens will be killed in a place of education it also mentioned several schools you have gone to in the past including this one *

*Okay you've sold me, am I leaving tomorrow when I would normally be leaving for school? *

*Yes a Marine here on furlough will pick you up at seven and take you to the nearest Marine base you'll be obeying the President's orders from there as usual*

*Understood *

The next day she woke up an hour before she had to as usual and did her daily warm up routine, once that was finished she was showered, dressed in her fatigues and had breakfast by the time seven came around. A few minutes earlier captain Fairborne had come to see her off as well

"Don't worry about the rest of the EDC kids we'll make sure they keep up their practices and we'll tell them about the threat and that you had to go away to a safe location for a bit"

The EDC kids as they were known were basically the children of EDC officers. They had the same hand to hand training Juliet had but they started at age seven instead of age five and they weren't as advanced as she was, they also weren't allowed to do any military training until they were eighteen and wanted to join the service, seventeen with their parents permission. Since EDC kids had been doing this since even before Juliet was born no one thought it strange, it was just that Juliet had to start earlier than the rest of them because of her powers and the fact that they made her an excellent kidnapping target by her families enemies

"See you in nine and a half months as long as things don't go and force me into action"

"Agreed see you then and don't forget"

They said the same thing at the same time since it had been a common phrase from the beginning

"Write to us when you can"

Juliet and Fairborne laughed

"I know Fairborne I know"

"Marissa, Juliet, you've earned the right to call me by my first name"

"See you when I get back...Marissa"

And so with those parting words Juliet hoped into the Marine's car and off they went. Once a distance away the Marine asked a very common question due to her unique circumstances

"And just why am I taking a kid to a Marine base?"

"Besides the fact that those are your orders, I can't tell you the reason is classified"

"Just how classified could it be?"

"Very classified Lt. Colonel and unless you need to know you have to have the right security clearance"

"Wait it's so highly classified that it's pretty much on a need to know basis?"

"Pretty much yeah, all base commanders know the full truth about me and the doctors have medical clearance for some aspects but other than that it's most definitely..."

When Juliet suddenly stops the Lt. Colonel looks to her and sees her holding her head