"so these are the enemy forces that entered our area"

"yes sir though they're trying to pass themselves off as American forces"

"what makes you say that?"

"easy, their uniforms state that their American but no American forces have been allowed to leave base without other countries accompanying them due to the fact that they recently lost several soldiers in one blow and apparently one of them is a little kid"

"you have a point there, search them"

"yes sir"

and so the long hard process of checking their persons plus the constant interrogations started and none of them liked what was going on finally though Rachel got so fed up that she spoke in one of her two first languages

"kel somen netal krel lamonta thems thetla zemtra drlm kolseth melta"

"um what on earth did you just say?"

"scratch that what language is that?"

"for the first question I said that if you don't let me go now I'm gonna hurt you, as for the second one it's one of my two native languages called Cybertronian"

"Cybertronian!?"

"only one human I know can fluently speak Cybertronian"

"but she's dead"

"nope just thought dead due to missing dog tags"

"but why didn't you tell us sooner?"

"I couldn't and even if I did you wouldn't of believed me"

"she makes a valid point"

"and the other people who are dressed as American soldiers?"

"they are indeed American soldiers"

"then we've made a mistake keeping you guys here"

"it's understandable, you thought we were impostors so you put us in a place where we could do very little damage if we wanted to do any"

and so they were easily released and the families were quickly contacted to inform them that the "dead" soldiers were actually alive and pretty well all things considered

"so where are you going next Rachel?"

"hm if I'm correct then my next destination is England to start learning about foreign relations"

"um correct me if I'm wrong but don't you still have a gun on your person?"

"oh I do but I also have a very rare thing that only EDC officers usually have and since I'm technically not an officer I really shouldn't have it but, I have what's known as an international gun permit, it's extremely rare and hard to get, I also have a separate permit that allows me to have a weapon on the plane in the cabin, but I'm only allowed a certain type of round and the weapon must not leave my person at any time unless it's absolutely necessary"

"so you're basically an important person with all those permits"

"yeah I guess you could say so but if I'm forced to show my gun I have to take out my wallet and show my id and all my permits in a special unfolding wallet so that I'm not wrongly arrested for having a weapon"

"doesn't it also allow you to have um illegal drinks for your age?"

"yes but after I found that out I decided to try one and found that I really don't like those types of drinks so instead I'll have chocolate milk heavy on the chocolate if I need it, the only time I'll have an illegal drink is if I'm that stressed out and the chocolate milk doesn't work"

and so she leaves and she does indeed learn about foreign relations and she finds that she is actually very good at such things but eventually she did have to go home

"so how was England Rachel?"

"very good Optimus I learned a lot"

well the school year starts off well when suddenly there's a national emergency

"hey guys the president has declared an national emergency"

"what are you talking about Ms. Yuki?"

"here all of the teachers recorded it on the computer"

and so the teacher gets her laptop out and clicks on the recent addition labeled emergency

"hello my fellow Americans I'm sure you're wondering why I am talking to you when I normally don't, at 1000 hours this morning we received word from the country of Japan and Russia that they are not happy about the policies that we have in place regarding a terrorist organization called COBRA, when our soldiers looked into it we found out that those two countries have been taken over, as of 1200 hours today I am declaring a national emergency that is to shut down all schools even if they are private and I am also declaring America at war with the terrorist organization COBRA, thank you and have a good day"

well everyone else seems confused by Rachel is different, her eyes were wide open as if in shock and her breathing was suddenly very shallow

"Rachel is something wrong?"

she doesn't answer instead she suddenly goes into action by taking out her cell phone and typing a complicated number into said phone and then puts it to her ear and simply listens for several minutes many students protesting that she even had a phone in the first place, what they didn't know was that the cell phone was her only means of confirming what she had just seen and also to get her specialized orders and she got them alright

"ok Ms. Yuki I'm leaving class everyone else is to stay here until the district has a more concrete dismissal plan in place for everyone else"

"miss Thompson what on earth are you talking about?"

"sorry I can't talk right now"

and so she just leaves the room and goes to her locker, once she grabs a bag she quickly goes to the ladies room and changes into battle fatigues and as she leaves the room preps her hand gun and then goes to the office where a soldier was waiting for her

"you ready lt.?"

"you bet I am let's go"

once in the truck she gets a full debrief as to where she was assigned and also why

"I get you, so basically I'm on a navy ship until further notice"

"that's the basic gist of it"

"well if the ship is shorthanded and needs people, then the ship is shorthanded and needs people, after all while I was considered dead under army supervision it totally wasn't their fault that happened and it's never kept me away from the army before"

"exactly"

"so any ideas why the ship is shorthanded in the first place?"

"oh yeah they were patrolling pirate waters recently and well…"

"I get ya, on one of the stop the pirates missions the pirates somehow managed to board an American war vessel and killed several officers while the officers were subduing the enemy, and so they only recently got back to port and since there can't be any transfers for a bit the navy is scrambling to get enough people onto the ship and even though I'm only a kid I'm still a soldier so they decided to assign me to the vessel, right?"

"exactly lt."

"ok then let's do it"

and so she's taken to the nearest navy dock and quickly meets the rest of the crew and then they are off

"ok so I'm going to show you guys the rest of the ship, but the kid is only here to give us a full roster she's not to actually touch the equipment"

and so they get to the sonar and find that there's a problem

"sir no one is trained on the new sonar/radar system"

"shouldn't we have someone that's trained?"

"medically pulled sir"

"great"

"um question how new is new for the sonar/radar equipment?"

"the newest one you can get"

"less than a year old?"

"exactly"

"I can operate the sonar/radar captain I have the training for it"

"you're just a kid, you're only here so we can have a full roster"

"captain that's an order"

"you can't order me kid"

"oh yes I can"

"no you can't"

"lt. Thompson at your service captain"

"…fine you win, you can order me around but I want my men trained as well so that you don't exhaust yourself too badly"

"fine by me"

and so they get started on the training and it was intense, since she didn't trust any of the new people she trained the other two that would share her duty for three days to make sure they were competent and then she went to sleep. Several months later they were taken captive by people that COBRA had hired to work for them and she glared at all of the captures and then a few days later one glared back

"I don't see why her glare's so scary"

he leaves

"ok we're prisoners and all you can think of is glaring at our captors"

"hey do you have a better idea?"

"no but I don't see the point of glaring at everyone that comes to feed us"

"easy it let's me know who to take down first, that guy that just left is not the captain, if he's not second in command he still needs to be taken down fast"

"why for?"

"easy he can easily get the ragtag group organized if something goes wrong"

everyone stares at her for a few minutes

"and you got all of that through glaring?"

"yep, look you guys think I'm unqualified fine but I am a warrior so whatever needs to be done on the battlefield I'll do, being a kid has it's advantages because I can be severely underestimated and I use that to my advantage to beat the enemy"

well over the next few days Rachel started the planning and some of it involved running strait into the bars of the prison

"just what exactly do you think you're doing?"

"breaking us out…if I can…just…get the lock…I can…free us!"

"you can't break down the door Thompson"

"actually I…can…captain since I…trained for it…every opportunity…I got"

she suddenly stops though

"but I have to admit constantly doing that hurts so I need to take a break now"

a few hours later they got their daily food rations which they ate, what none of the guards realized was that Rachel was smart, she actually managed to get the keys to the cell without the guards noticing

"so looks like we're going to spend another night in the cold cell"

"actually captain we're not, today is the day we take back our ship"

"what makes you say that lt.?"

"easy, I got the keys to the cell without the guards realizing it"

"sweet"

and so they use the keys to open the cell and they start fighting back and fighting back hard, they quickly take out the person Rachel was concerned about and as it turned out he was actually third in command due to his ability to get the crew organized almost as fast as the second in command and so they took down everyone but the person in charge within the hour

"ok so how are we going to take down the person in charge of these guys?"

"we ambush him"

"even though we don't know where he is?"

"captain what's the most fortified place on this ship?"

"my quarters"

"exactly"

and so they ambush the commanding officer of the group and put them all in holding cells since they didn't have the authority to arrest anyone, but they did have the authority to hold any person that boarded their ship until they could get the intruders to a NATO ship or another similar ship with the same duty or power as a NATO ship

"finally we can go back to our primary mission"

"which is what exactly captain?"

"you got the full debrief right?"

"nope just that you lost a lot of people in pirate waters shortly before we went to war against COBRA I don't know the specific mission this ship has in regards to the war"

well she got a full debrief and well while they were on the ocean they were taken captive and COBRA operatives basically shot her back, cut off her right hand and left arm at the shoulder and basically left her a mess, which she would use to her advantage

"you'll kill her if she's left like that"

"oh don't worry we'll make sure she doesn't bleed to death but that doesn't mean we didn't do permanent damage, she's lost and arm, a hand, and hopefully is paralyzed from the waist down, she's useless to everyone now"

what the one operative didn't notice was how Rachel was dragging herself to him with just one good arm after having quietly taken down the people that had kept her alive and when she was close enough, she quite literally used her good arm, plus the upper part of her body and took him down long enough for some of the navy officers not quite tied up yet to take advantage of the shock of those that were to do so and free themselves and the others, plus take all their weapons

"Rachel are you going to be ok?"

"I need major medical attention but yeah I think I will be"

"how on earth did you manage to do what you did?"

"the creeps underestimated me that's how"

with that having been said due to the fact that she was severely injured she finally passed out too weak to do anything else

"let's get her to the infirmary where she can sleep and recover her strength"

"sir what about after she recovers her strength?, they probably paralyzed her and she also only has one good arm and her hand is missing off of it"

"I'm honestly not sure about what to do after she recovers, maybe we can give her special tools she can use with her mouth, plus I think we also have wheelchairs should someone get severely hurt while on the ship"

"we do but she'll need a constant companion to push her around"

"you have a point doctor"

and so for the next several months Rachel was bound to a wheelchair and also had to use various tools to help her live on the ship plus she was also spoon fed though when there weren't as many people in the galley so that she wasn't too embarrassed by having to have help eating and everyone basically adapted, she watched the radar and then told the captain or somebody close by what she observed and they would be the ones who pushed the buttons for her except on a few occasions where it was a hit the buttons now or risk a destroyed ship but finally they were taken off duty and allowed to come back to America for leave and once they got off the ship that's when the EDC and her family found out about her new disabilities since a navy officer was wheeling her out