Hey guys, long time no see. Unless you've been reading my Rules of NEST, in which case you saw me a few days ago. It is now officially my longest story yet. When I decided to check this one, just for old times sake, I realized that a lot of you also want this to update. It will be different from Rules because they are no longer in the same universe. This Kathy is completely different from the one you guys know. She will not be a mother, at least not as far as I know, to anyone, she is not pining for Ultra Magnus, nor is she going to be someone focused on education. Yes, I know Rules is based on this story, but no longer! They are two different dimensions, almost. But this has a LOT of favorites for it's FIRST CHAPTER BECAUSE HOLY SHIT GUYS THANK YOU. I'm actually excited to write this again because I think I've improved a lot. WHEN YOUR DONE READING THIS, PLEASE GO CHECK OUT RULES OF NEST AND VOTE ON MY POLL! Shameless self-advertising, I know, but I don't really give a damn.

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Kathleen fanned herself and smiled, "My, it sure is hot out here! How 'bout we get introductions out of the way so we can all get out of this heat now?" A single bead of sweat fell down her face. It was a face that could be called pretty, in a way. She had a round face, making her blue eyes look small when they really weren't. Sprinkling her skin randomly were freckles that looked like golden flecks and were centered especially around her nose. She had a rather large mouth full of gleaming teeth. The woman wore no make up.

Simmons was the first to recover and held out a hand for her to shake. "Reggie Simmons is the name, babysitting robots is my game. Or was, now that you're here." Kathleen laughed and shook his hand. Simmons gestured behind him. "The fish out of water behind me are Major Will Lennox, commander of NEST and his second-in-command Sergeant Robert Epps. You'll have to excuse them, they're not the brightest crayons in this box." She laughed again as the Major closed his mouth and glared at Simmons before holding his hand out to shake as well.

"Like Simmons said, I'm Major Lennox, commander on base. Behind me are the autobots, who can introduce themselves, I think." He stepped back to let Optimus walk up.

Optimus stuck out a hand. "My name is Optimus Prime, leader of the autobots. We thank you for coming on such short notice." She shook his hand as well.

"Is no problem boss bot. I needed a job anyway. But you know, when I read I'd be in charge o' a base full of giant robots, I thought I'd see, well, giant robots. So you can see why I'm surprised your not taller." Optimus looked a little amused, while the other autobots either groaned or chuckled themselve.

Ratchet stepped up. "Ratchet, medic. We are using what we call holoforms, projections that give us physical mass when we wish to be among humans without causing alarm. Our real bodies are the vehicles behind us. We simply wished to make you more comfortable during our initial meeting. Even those that knew of us beforehand, like you, have tended to be... shocked by our appearances."

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I'd like to get to know y'all before that, I guess. I can tell y'all are gonna be huge fuckers too. Damn, 'specially you boss bot." Kathleen gestured at all of the bots, but pointed at Optimus as well.

"I am indeed the tallest of my current crew, Agent Woodward." resonded Optimus, a small smile on his face. Ratchet and Ironhide rolled their eyes in the background. "They're are members of the autobots who are much, much bigger than I am, such as Metroplex who is as big as a city."

Kathleen's eyes widened. "A whole city?! Remind me not to piss that guy off!"

"Nah, man. Metro's cool as a cucumber. He's, what do ya humans call it... oh yeah! He's a gentle giant really. As long as he watches where he steps anyway." laughed Jazz, still hanging off of Epps shoulder. He released the poor man and walked up to NEST's newest director. "Yo, I'm Jazz. First Lieutenant and dancer extraodiniare of the Autobots. Well, one of the Lieutenants. Prowler ain't here. He's the bad cop and I'm the good cop." He shook her hand.

"Ha! I like you." Kathleen laughed and shook his hand vigorously.

Simmons clapped his hands, breaking up the introductions. "OKAY! We all got work to do and I gotta show red here the ropes. Then I'm going on vacation!" Kathleen raised an eyebrow at 'red' but followed Simmons into the office building.

AND THAT IS IT. IT'S ONLY BEEN ABOUT A YEAR SINCE I POSTED THE FIRST CHAPTER, AFTER ALL! I'll try to keep this updated, but Rules is my primary focus right now, not this one. Sorry it's not any longer, I just can't bring myself to write super long chapters. I'm also leaving to go to a movie soon, so I'm in a rush. I hope you enjoyed though! *blows kisses at you all*