Carolyn sat out in the sniper range, belly flat against the ground, looking through her sights. 500 yards, slight wind out of the south….southeast. Aims for weak spots in the shoulder, neck and lower extremities. Breath in…..breath out. BANG! Hole through the gearbox, perfect. She reloaded, enjoying the peace and quiet of the sniper range. She was alone, finally, no men hovering around, no fear of stupid pranks. "Initiation" they'd called. They why hadn't Brady, Jeff and Danny been initiated? She'd kept it to herself, seeing as it was little things. Putting white hair dye in her shampoo bottle, bucket of water over her door in the morning, cold showers, bugs in her food, that sort of lame ass stuff. She proudly walked into the gym, her white hair pulled back in a braid and got into the ring with Epps. He'd stared at her, wide-eyed and she'd noticed the others looking as well. Her boys weren't looking too happy, but she just smiled, pulling on her gloves and asking what the problem was. Lennox had approached her later and asked what happened. She shrugged and said she was trying a new look, loud enough for the others to notice and realize it didn't bother her. When the bugs had showed up in her salad, she'd shrugged and dug right in, watching the men as they stared at her in horror. Bugs were nothing new to her. Her one science teacher had spent a month teaching them a billion and one recipes in case they got stranded some place and had nothing else to eat. He was also a conspiracy theorist.

Things had escalated from the bugs and when she had showed up to the infirmary as Will and Epps were helping Ratchet go over files with a nice long gash down her leg from a badly broken razor, Lennox refused to turn a blind eye. She didn't want special treatment cause she was a girl. He wasn't going to let a senior officer be killed by the carelessness of foot soldiers. He'd threatened the men a janitor ship to the Twins for the rest of their lives if it continued. There was only one prank after that, she caught Skids trying to rig her locker so that when it opened, confetti would fly out. It ended up just covering him. Lennox left Optimus to punish him, saying that the Twins would never stop making fun of him.

She'd spent that last two weeks proving to Lennox, Epps, Optimus and everyone else she was just as good and even more deadly as them. She was not above using low blows to get the upper hand in sparring matches, she quickly memorized all the weak points of the Cybertronians, setting a new record for surviving a full fifteen minutes when they played capture the human (she always ended up being the human that got chosen to be captured for her team). She would've lasted longer, but Ironhide had finally used his net after Will had yelled at him in the first ten minutes to use it. She out ran all of them, going about 40 miles a day whenever she had a time. She could bench more than half the men there, no one was a better shot in the sniper range and she had personally pinned Lennox the last time they had sparred. All of her men already had their assignments, she was still waiting on hers. She was out here to collect herself, get in the right frame of mind for whatever happened. She was a senior officer, only Optimus and Lennox were higher. She and Ironhide were pretty much equals. Now, that was a scary combo… at least for whoever went up against them. Ironhide had taken her along for a mission last week, wanting to see how she did out in the field. He'd told her Lennox and Optimus had okayed, but forgot to mention that he hadn't mentioned it to them. So, when they had returned from kicking Starscream's butt earlier that day to a furious Lennox and a not so amused Optimus, Ironhide had gotten a tongue-lashing….. from her, which had surprised everyone else. When she'd stopped for air, Ironhide had cut in and given his report. The others were impressed and wanted to hear it from her, but she just said she was just the back up and left it at that. She'd done her job and that was enough for her….for now. Ironhide had taken her out again, this time WITH Optimus and Lennox, who got to see firsthand her "Crazy Ninja-Killer Skills", as Epps had dubbed them after seeing the footage.

They knew she was a good fighter, they also knew she was good at handling superiors (Lennox does not count) and a pretty decent mechanic. When she had been asked about it by Burke as she was doing some welds on Brawn, she said her dad owned a shop. She didn't go into detail about how by junior year she was only going to school part time and working part time or that she'd been fixing cars since she could hold a wrench. She could see Lennox and Optimus seeing it might better to leave her here, helping Ratchet and dealing with the politicians for them. The men might see it as babying her cause she was a "girl" and probably expect her to fight back, but she had never once been accused of being stupid. This, right here, was helping her dad out with bills. She was making pretty good money, seeing as the government wanted her mouth to stay shut. She knew her friends didn't understand, if she even could call them friends anymore, and her dad was worried, but she would be alright.

"Yo, Williams!" she looked up to see Lennox making his way towards her. She checked her gun, making sure it was loaded and taking aim.

"Yes?"

"You have a call," Lennox stayed back, watching her as she lined up her next shot.

"Who is it?"

"A Teddy Williams," Lennox looked at the note in his hand. "He's waiting for you to call back."

"One last shot," she said softly, relaxing before pulling the trigger. Lennox grabbed a pair of binoculars from one of his many pockets and looked at her target.

"Nice grouping. Got something about reproduction today?"

"Just where I felt like shooting today," She stood, shouldering her weapon. "You demoted to errand boy now?"

"Nope, I was the one who answered the call. How'd he get that number?" Lennox led the way out of the range.

"He's resourceful," she shrugged. Hell if she knew.

"And he is?"

"My dad."

"And why is he calling?"

"Cause he can."

"Why not your mom?" Lennox must have seen something on her face. "Hey, I'm sorry. Ignore it."

"No, it's alright," she waved him off. "I lived with her till like sixth grade. Dad got me after some stuff happened."

"Oh, ok," Lennox stuffed his hands into the pockets of his pants and they fell into silence for a while before Lennox cleared his throat, "So, Optimus and I have talked it over and we want you to stay back here. You'll be helping out Ratchet, dealing with Galloway, that sort of stuff. You'll be in charge of the defense here and we'll try to get you some off base missions."

"Sounds good," she nodded as they entered the main hanger. She turned away from Lennox, placing her gun in a rack and turning back, frowning. Lennox stood there, looking surprised, "What?"

"Sounds good? No arguing?"

"It's a logical choice. Seeing as we are the two senior human officers and I am the more qualified to handle Galloway, it makes sense," she shrugged, heading towards where their comms station had been set up on a catwalk. It made it easier for Optimus to speak to some the higher-ups.

"Just like that?" Lennox followed her up the stairs.

"Yup," she smiled before pulling a letter out of her pocket and handing it to Lennox before sitting in front of a computer. "AND you're no longer my superior officer."