In The Beginning

Alien Visitation

Staring out the window of her large manor house into the pouring rain, Ella Drake thought to herself that it had been almost a month since her team had been to visit the Autobots in their base further south. Many things had happened.

But before that, in regards to Starscream, When Freefall had contacted her directly from the court hearing, and had informed her that he had not only asked for an 'Avatar's Grace', but the judge had assigned her to be his caretaker, she was partially annoyed and also relieved. It did work to her favour, but she was not sure she was ready to have him free on her base just yet. For the last month he had behaved himself which was what had worried her. He had also adjusted well to his new body shell and programming. But he still kept to himself most of the time. There were at times some Decepticons who came through the base and he talked to him but not many others. In the mean time she had assigned him to Freefall's team who happened to be stationed on the base for now.

Ella was what the Alliance council called an Avatar - a Bioroid with great power and with a long lifespan – and though she couldn't always use her power, she did what she could to help others, especially mechanoids. She had been around for more than 30 million years, and was also a high ranking official within the Alliance, until she had left, so now they sent her all the weird ones that they didn't want to deal with, who asked for grace. She had a track record for reforming known criminals, especially Decepticons.

Freefall had also told her of another Decepticon who'd run into Starscream in lockup, someone by the name of Octane, whom she had told Freefall was one of her other charges. He had told Starscream about the 'Avatar's Grace'. Freefall and her team were taking turns guarding him today.

Not that she was complaining about having him around. Under her transformer guise on Cybertron, she had been friends with both Starscream and some others before, and during, the war there but had since lost contact with them and still felt some guilt over something she had done to him there. They had spent some time alone together in the last month discussing those events but Starscream was too proud and stubborn to want to forgive her or even listen to what had happened, so she let it be. He had however garnered the group of former Decepticons here on the base, and lucky for her none of them wanted to follow him in any mutiny.

She had sent her main team, the 'Roughnecks', off on a mission to the fringes of the Dominion.

Even though the Alliance had purged this menace from their star systems a long time ago, they still existed in their own right elsewhere in the cosmos; but they were troublesome, and quite often the Alliance of planets would need to send out soldiers to settle skirmishes that had erupted over contention of borders between the Alliance and the Dominion.

The Dominion knew they had no real power any more and so fought for the sake of it, trying to get whatever they could. They were indeed a far cry from what they used to be a long time ago, and Ella was grateful they no longer had contact with Decellion, or access to certain technology anymore, which most often kept them under control, but not always.

Nowadays the Alliance often contacted Ella about new recruits for special training or others for rehabilitation. She was not a public figure of the Alliance. To most she was a figure of myth and legend in Alliance history, just the way she preferred it. She didn't want the Alliance Media bothering her all day. The new recruits were how her team had formed. There had already been a Roughnecks team in her mother's time when she was in control of the base, but the current roster were gathered and trained by her personally in the last few million years.

Most of the team members hadn't been on any missions since and were now relaxing on the base, awaiting the visit from a team of Autobots from Autobot City. She looks off into the distance through the heavy rain and just barely sees them in the distance. She could just barely get her scanners to sense through all the rain, but she knew the Autobots were there, she could always tell when they were there. It was their sparks she could always sense.

Several miles away, Jazz and his other comrades in arms, Sideswipe, Kup, Hot Rod, Cliffjumper, Bumblebee and Sunstreaker, were driving in their vehicle modes through the pouring rain towards a rendezvous point given to them by Ella Drake at the Dragon Mountain Facility. They had all had a long discussion about the existence of this base before leaving Autobot City and wondered exactly how long it had been there right under their sensors before the femme's had shown up to help them about a month ago.

Jazz was thinking about the conversation he had had with Optimus about his initial report of the femmes who had helped them that day, when Kup pulled up alongside him and started talking.

"Remember, lad, we have to keep our wits about us, according to Mirage's report they have Autobots and Decepticons on this base, so we can't afford to let our guard down until we know what's what."

Kup paused, and Hot Rod, who was driving just ahead of Jazz, interrupted. "Lighten up Kup, we can still have some fun and make new friends, and if we're lucky we might get to fight a few Decepticons," and he sped off towards Sunstreaker and Sideswipe up ahead.

"Damn impulsive hot head," said Cliffjumper from behind. "He's gonna end up getting' someone else terminated one of these days, just like he did to Prime once."

Bumblebee, who was near him, said, "Well, Optimus is alive and breathing again, so I hope that doesn't happen again any time soon."

An issue from the past had been surrounding Hot Rod for quite some time. A reason why he had taken to being assigned to Nebulon, to avoid the backlash of conversation. A lot of the Autobots hadn't yet forgiven him for his part in Prime's passing the first time around and wouldn't let him forget it. But since the appearance of these femme's, Optimus had asked Kup and Hot Rod to stay on Earth and work with Jazz while Ultra Magnus was away do establish relations with these new mechanoids. However Jazz was still trying to keep everyone off of Hot Rod's back.

Jazz replied, "Well, Optimus did give us some orders to follow, and we'll stick to that, ok?" He was trying to avoid an argument breaking out about this particular entrenched issue.

Jazz and Kup continued to talk about how some of the other Autobots had been feeling since they found out about Hot Rod's involvement in Prime's death, and his subsequent resurrection, and about how quiet Galvatron and his Decepticons had been lately, as no one had heard anything from them in this sector of space, not even on Cybertron, and they both knew that it was too good to be true. They had been too quiet and for too long to be simply forgotten about.

On the ridge above the entrance to the military base, Laura was with her friends Ryan and Christine, camping in the forest of the weekend.

Laura had been told by some on the base that today the Autobots would be visiting. She however gave the idea to Ryan and Christine that they were moving in mech parts and possibly some new secret weapons from the military base today to Ella's workshop topside in the mountain area on her estate for her researchers to work on. She hoped it they would get a glimpse of the Autobots and forgive her for dragging them up here in the rain.

Ryan had found a dry spot where they could set up and view the workshop, but unknown to them it also had a view on the secret entrance to Ella's base that Laura knew about.

"Tell me again why we have been dragged all the way up here?" asked Christine. "It's pouring rain and I'm soaked through to the bone, and I want to go home."

"I've been entrenched is several data streams for days, and then the other day some of my Transformers spy flunkies found a data transmission that said some Autobots were heading up this way today. The only way they have to go is the main mountain road through the forest to Port Angeles. I figured they're heading to the Military base there. With the view from here you can get a clear view of the road as they come through." Ryan put down his binoculars for a moment, looked at the two girls, and then continued excitedly. Laura was happy that at least one of them knew about the Autobots being ehre today.

"That's if they are going to come through here today?" retorted Christine, obviously uncomfortable.

"I mean think, if they are gonna be here today, how great that would be; we get to be this close to seeing them in person!" Ryan turned back to looking at the entrance and surrounding road with his binoculars.

Christine shrugged and looked at Laura, and then she got out her binoculars and joined him.
"I doubt we'd be able to see anything in this rain?" Laura said, "But I'm sure we could get lucky! Who knows?"

Just outside the main entrance to the base, there was a building. It was Ella's workshop. But it was not known publicly by that name. The house on the estate to which it belonged was under Ella's son's name, Adam Drake, home of the CEO of Drake Corp International. The workshop was where many top scientists made several inventions for the company. But it harboured a secret entrance.

Outside the facility in a large hanger area was the entrance. The floor of the hanger gave way to a large local teleporting field. It was also a mobile transport platform that descended down underground, several miles into the base. There were five hangers all arranged next to each other that performed the same function as the first one, being that many trucks went into and out of the hangar dropping off supplies and items.

The first hanger was where the Autobots were asked to meet their contact. As they drove up the road that led to the hangers, they found several other humans about the place, or so they thought they were. Some humans played a game of football in the pouring rain, and were getting covered completely in mud while they were at it.

Unknown to the Autobots, they were Roughnecks team members in their Biomodes; Landslide and Freestyle against others, the twins; Gateway and Getaway. Some of Flashdance's animecha, with their holo-emitters on, were also there, in the dry shelter of the enormous entrance, standing with the team leader Sound Track, also in her Biomode, 'Sonny', with her team associate on duty at the main gate today, named Marguerite Jager. Marge' as she was known was waiting for them in the operational console room in the hanger, at the controls that operated the elevator.

As they played their game, the football was accidentally thrown onto the bonnet of an incoming vehicle to the hanger and splattering it with mud, namely Sunstreaker's bonnet, right before he went under the shelter. He transformed and threw the ball back to the humans, telling them to watch what they're doing, very grumpily.

"Gee Sunny, that certainly looks like an improvement!" joked his twin brother Sideswipe.

Sunstreaker told him to shut up then turned to the black and blue haired female human standing near him. "So, you're our welcoming committee, then?" he asked.

Without even looking at Sunstreaker, she nodded, and he noticed her cane but said nothing. "Yeah," she replied, and pointed to the elevator. "On ya'll get." she said.

Jazz had looked at her, thinking her voice and appearance was somehow familiar to him but he couldn't place it, so he let it go for now.

"All aboard ya'll!" she then called to the others just outside. They had finished their game and had just come inside when Sonny called to them. They all came over to join everyone else on the elevator. Marguerite started it up, and they descended into the base, down below.

On the way down, the Autobots got to see various parts of the base through some the walls, and stared in disbelief at the sheer size and the advanced technology of the place, along with all the different types and sizes of mechs present.

"Home Sweet Home!" said Sonny, as the elevator hit bottom. "This way," she asked the visiting Autobots to follow her, while the others that were in their Biomodes moved to another room to clean up.

She turned to Sunstreaker, sensing his disgust at the mud on him, and said, "Ya'll can clean up here." motioning to a black circle pad that had just appeared on the floor out of nowhere. "Just step on the pad and press the green button."

Sunstreaker was just about to ask what button, when a pole extended from the floor to his height. It opened up at the end and there was the button to which the human had been referring to. He pushed it, unsure what was going to happen, and then was enveloped in a green light, cleaning him both inside and out.

Once done, he smiled and said, "Now I'm back to my beautiful self again." He paused; wishing to thank the human, but didn't know her name.

"Sonny Lane." she said, as if reading his thoughts, and tipped her cap.

"Not the Sonny Lane? Wow, love your music, but I thought you were dead?" Jazz paused before continuing. "Killed in that nasty car accident years ago that finished your band, 'Sorority House'."

She smiled to herself without looking at Jazz. "Some of us ya'll are just not keen enough ta die! Ah'll explain mah story later." she added, as some of the Autobots, confused, wanted to ask her more questions. "But for now, we have this." After walking for a time, she gestured for them to go into a rather large control room that spanned several floors. Both Autobots and Decepticons worked at the controls.

Two individuals who had come downstairs with the group from upstairs were snickering to themselves as they processed files at a desk at the far end of the room. Sonny knew who they were and cautioned them. "Ya'll bettah not be downloadin' that stuff again, Gateway and Getaway."

Both of them having transformed from their biomodes back to their robotic modes after cleaning up, were hanging out in the control room for something to do as their caretaker was otherwise occupied elsewhere on the base.

"You ain't de boss of us; we'll do what we want." Yells Getaway as he prods his brother, "Ain't it right' bro'?"

The meeker of the twins was Gateway. He often followed his brother around as he had nothing else to do and no other family to speak of, and quite often got into trouble or was the voice of reason when his brother was going to do something bad. It didn't always work though. "I guess?" he mulled quietly.

"Ya'll get outtah here, now!" was Sonny's response to the obnoxious one of the twins, who grouched and left under protest, yelling foul abuse and language as he left.

"Damn kids!" muttered Sonny under her breath as they left. She took the visitors up to another level to introduce them to their intended company.

"Dey're here." said a pink and purple haired human female, and standing with her was the one Sonny was looking for.

The tall, silvery haired female human turned to the one next to her and said, "Ok, you just finish that report, and then join me over here with the others." The fact that Casey now sported a Decepticon symbol on her arm was what surprised the visitors.

The Decepticon replied, "Dere be no problems 'ere, boss," and then added with a wave to the others, "Hi!" to the Autobots, and returned to her work.

"So that's why she was actin' a bit funny at our base?" queries Jazz to the others.

Ella catches Jazz's chatter and responds to it by looking back at Casey busily typing. "Yes. She is one of them, one of the very few reliable ones here on this base." She sees the worry and concern on the faceplates of her Autobot visitors and reassures them, "Don't worry, if any of them cause any trouble while you're here, they will be dealt with. But enough of that, time for a formal introduction. Hello Autobots," she said as she wandered over to the group, as Sonny took her leave. "Welcome, I am Ella Drake." she walked up to a higher deck so she was at their level. "This is the main control room of this part of the underground facility. From here we can see and control anything on the base, although it is not the only place that can do that. This facility has operated in secrecy for a very long time even before the human species first appeared on this planet, and also before the Ark crashed here on Earth. It is of ancient alien design and is maintained by the ones who live here currently on this base. And that over there," she said, as she noticed several of them staring at the Decepticon in another corner of the room, "is Crusade." Crusade looked up at the mention of his name, looked at the group of Autobots. Scowled at their shocked expressions of him, and then returned to his work.

Ella continued to explain. "There are transformers from both sides of the fence currently here, mostly ones that have no other homes for the moment, such as individuals you will see around the base from time to time and may or may not recognize."

"You mean to tell me there are more of them than what you just have here? And you let them roam free? On your base?" Kup asked defensively as he motioned to the Decepticon.

His was not the only annoyed expression, as several of the Autobots had suddenly become more agitated at the notion of being in the company of Decepticons who were not soldiers in the employ of Megatron or their current leader Galvatron. They were soldiers having fought Decepticon soldiers for such a long time, that letting down their guard and placing their trust in someone they didn't know, would be hard for them to do.

"Yes there are, and I expect you all to keep your weapons holstered while you're here, unless they are needed. Just a reminder that you are in someone else's territory and they're my rules for today and any other time you visit. I don't want any trouble, whether you see any Decepticons you know or don't, no fights. I'm trying to maintain a peaceful balance…" Ella is interrupted by the walls shaking and a blast can be heard from far off elsewhere on the base, "…here." She sighs and gets onto one of the comms units and inquires about something, leaving the Autobots jumping for their weapons, thinking it may be a Decepticon attack. Ella finishes on the comms and asks them, "Its ok, just the lab. One of our researchers had an accident with an experiment." She smiles.

Just then Casey came over to Ella and whispered something in her ear in another language, "Alright, do that then." Casey went back to her console when she got a nod.

Kup had been listening, it was vague but he did recognise the language, having been in the Delta system before the war started. He also recognized the accent Ella used. He did not recognize her face right now but he knew her voice and smiled slightly. "It is you, isn't it Draxa?" she turned and looked at him and smiled.

"I thought of all of you, you would be the one to remember me old friend!" she said still smiling. "Nice to see your hearing still works after all this time!" She started to laugh, confusing the others.

Kup started laughing along with her.

The others looked to Kup, and Hot Rod said, "Not the Draxa, Draxa Levion, the one you've talked about in your stories before?" Hot Rod turned to look at Ella. "But she's a human, how could it be her?"

Kup replied amusedly. "Well, appearances can be deceiving, especially where our kind is concerned lad. And with some of the things I've seen her do, anything's possible! Her kind employs similar transformable technology to ours, but on a more sophisticated level, as their race is older than ours." He looked back to Ella, "Although from what I remember, the last time I saw you, you died?" What happened?"

"Sorry, I had to make everyone think I was terminated, and let you mechs get on with the war, besides you did well without little old me, anyway. It'll be a story for another time, I promise," she said to all of them, and Kup nodded. Many of the other Autobot had become curious as to what she meant and how she and Kup knew each other, but they didn't have a chance to ask any questions as Ella diverted their attention. "Right now, we have all of this to look at." She motioned to several large screens in the centre of the control room hanging from the ceiling, and it showed every room on the base.

The Autobots were all awed by how sophisticated the technology was in this place. Off in the distance somewhere, Bumblebee could hear the music from the recreation area, and asked, "What's that noise? It sounds like the type of music Jazz and Blaster listen to." Jazz smirks as he recognizes it straight away.

"Oh, that," Ella responded. "That's just coming from the rec room. Why? You want to go see?" she asked them.

"Sure, why not?" said Jazz enthusiastically.

"Just a moment," said Ella, as she turned to someone. "Casey are you done?"

She pushed back her chair, and replied, "Yep."

"Ok, can you take these guys down to the rec room and entertain them for a bit? I'll be along shortly."

Casey looked up at all of them. She had been among them in their base without causing any trouble, but it was strange for them now because they knew what she was. "You lot be havin' a problem wit' somethin'?" she asks them. When she got no response, she shrugs her shoulders and turns to escort them out of the room, and to the recreation area.

Landslide and Freestyle had come into the bar in the rec room area, and dried off not long before the visiting Autobots joined them, having taken showers in their Biomodes, rather than the quick clean like Gateway and Getaway had.

In the rec room, the Autobots were shown around until they eventually settled into some seats on one side of the room.

Upon entering, they all noticed the enormity of the place and the mixture of both humans and mechanoids, and of them, not only transformers but other types of mechanoids. Casey pointed out the areas that most groups generally stuck to, she motioned to an area that some resident Decepticons hung around in. She cautioned them to stay clear of there for now, as there seemed to be some wild ruckus going on right now. Kup and Jazz had to physically hold their twins back from going in that room next door and causing trouble. There were two levels with several annexes for all types of recreational activities. Up above was another level for human sized individuals, while most of the room was for transformer sized individuals.

In the centre of the room was a stage, and on it were three female humans that Jazz recognized, were playing rock music at full volume oblivious to their surroundings. The stage itself was sized for transformers, but was currently being used by humans.

Around the base of the elevated stage was a bar, and at that bar, one of the Roughnecks, Burnout, was sitting and relaxing, having a drink of fuel.

Sideswipe, having found Burnout near the main bar, went and over and started a conversation. The rest of his comrades found seats nearby.

Jazz took a seat near the stage to listen to the music. Kup looked around the room, before joining Sideswipe and the others near the bar.

The group on the stage finished with the song they were performing and got a riotous applause from several others in the room including Jazz. "Sorority House is still as good as ever!" he commented, "Why'd you gals stop performin' in public?"

The one who had been on the drums looked up at Jazz and smiled, "Because we're not human that's why! It was just an undercover job to hide who we really are."

"Vanguard?" queried Sunstreaker recognizing her voice.

"You got it, Goldy!" She winked at him, and he continued.

"So, just how many of you have 'pretender' shells?" he asks.

"The whole team I'm on and then some," she replied, smiling, "We're the main team, all femmes though, but we get a lot of the high end undercover work. The rest of them get tech as they need it, but Ella lets them have anything they need really, just like us." She looks to Burnout and yells, "How's about some drinks over here, eh?"

Burnout looked over at her diminutive team mate, and then said in slurred speech, "Get 'em y'self lass." She turns away from the stage and continues to talk to Sideswipe.

Over on the stage, Jazz noticed Sonny Lane. He'd never seen her like she was now. She had several cables extruding from her back. He watched her as she took them all out on by one and put them away. Without looking up at Jazz, she says to him, "To some it's impolite ta stare ya know?"

"Uh sorry!" he apologizes, "I just didn't realise you were a mech."

"Ah'm blind too ya'll but not that it matters, ah can still see with sound."

Felicia pipes up when she notices his confusion over what Desonia had said, "Whaht she means ya'll is she has no optic sensors." Some of the others are confused also, they'd never heard of such a thing. Felicia continues, "She learnt ta see without 'em."

"Why not just get new ones?" asks Bumblebee.

"Yeah." adds Cliffjumper.

Sonny smiles and comments, "Lahke mah twin said, I learnt ta see without 'em."

"You wouldn't be much good as a fighter then would you?" retorts Cliffjumper. Several of the Roughnecks team members in the vicinity started laughing.

"On the contrary," said Vanessa, still somewhat amused over Cliffjumper's comment, "She's our team leader, and can kick even mine and Burnout's tailgates if she wanted to, even though we're both much stronger than she is!"

"I'll believe that when I see it." Says Cliffjumper.

Sonny is amused, "Perhaps ya'll can be our volunteer later."

Just as Ella entered the room, a Decepticon was thrown out of the other section, and a big tank-like female said angrily, "And don't bother coming back!" Then she dusted her hands, and returning to her friends back inside. Many of the Autobot went for their guns upon sighting the transformer.

"In trouble again, eh Octane?" said Ella, somewhat amused. She had walked into the rec room followed by another familiar faced individual to the Autobots.

Jazz and the others all turned and got up at the site of both of them. And upon seeing his old enemies, Octane got up in a flash, and said, "Oh, slag!"

He reached for his gun, but Ella told him to put it away and asked the Autobot to do the same. She was annoyed they had forgotten her simple little rule for their visit, but what could she do, these guys were soldiers, hardened by millions of years of war.

They didn't all holster their weapons straight away, especially since they noticed who the other mech behind Ella was. Their old 'friend' Starscream.

Ella looked to Octane and said, "You should go find something to do, I think?" She motioned to some of the Autobots' guns still upholstered around the room.

"Yeah, I'm gonna go out," he said quietly. "See ya round, 'Screamer." He said nothing to Octane as he left the rec room with another in tow, namely a female called Switchblade. She sneered at Starscream as she went past him.

Ella commented to her, "Switchblade, try to keep him outta trouble?" The femme nodded, and continued to follow Octane.

Kup, who had been watching them, looked at Starscream then at Ella. "You let him wander around freely too I suppose?" he said to her, surprised.

She looked back at him. "Well, not exactly." She motioned to the black collar around his neck. "That collar keeps him confined to this base. There have been no problems so far. And except for his over inflated ego, he's almost normal!" Starscream was not the slightest bit amused by being the brunt of a joke and sneers down at Ella, the collar also preventing him from raising a hand to her or others in any violent way.

He knows it's no use wasting his energon on doing anything to her, he knows what she is capable of. He just sighs, and then finds a place to sit down on his own, reading script from a holo field projected on the table in front of him.

Kup said to her sternly, "Watch yourself Ella, speaking from personal experience, Starscream is one Decepticon that can't be trusted, not on any level." The other Autobots agreed.

"Yeah, wherever you found him, even if he was a goner you should have left him there, he's not worth the trouble." Adds Cliffjumper gruffly.

"I am not the type to believe anyone is beyond redemption." She replies.

"Looks like we have another idealist like Optimus." States Sunstreaker coldly rolling his optics.

"She's got a valid point, but then again so does Kup and Cliffjumper." Says Bumblebee. "It's something Prime would do given half a chance." He looks at Ella, "I don't know you Ella but if you think he's worth it then give him a go, but I'd listen to what my friends have to say too."

"Wise words comin' from a small bot, li'l' buddy!" comments Jazz placing his hand on Bumblebee's left shoulder plate from behind.

"I know. And your words are quite welcome Bumblebee, as are the concerns from the rest of you," she nods to him, "but I have been doing this much longer than you think."

Ella momentarily looks over to the table Starscream is at, but he is too engrossed in some data files on the screen. She notices that he has been downloading their science and tech information again.

"He may not be in that collar forever mind you. He's not to be underestimated as you Autobots say. Knowing him, he will find a way to get out of the subservience. He always has a way of doing things." Ella comments.

"You sound like you know him." Asks Hot Rod.

She turns and looks up to him, "I did once, but that was before the war started. It went downhill from there. Kup can tell you most of the story if you're willing to listen to it." A few of them sigh and complain about yet another war story.

"To be honest I think I've already heard it, along with all his other stories!" Kup shoots a look at his younger comrade.

"And those stories are from experience young mech, not that you'll ever get to my age. You're too content with trying to terminate yourself all the time." Comments Kup and some of the others shut up. Ella breaks the tension by laughing, and asking the visiting Autobots to follow her out of the rec room.

A lot of them couldn't hide their concern about Starscream being loose on the base. His presence was unexpected and they were well aware of who he was and what he was capable of. But at least he seemed to be contained for the time being.

Desonia calls out to Ella, "Ella wait, ya'll mahnd if ah join ya?"

"Sure." Ella waits while Desonia switches out of her Biomode and into her Autobot one. Sound Track picks up Ella and places her on her shoulder plate.

Jazz can't help but secretly admire the Autobot form of his favourite Earth songstress.

Sound Track picks up on his thoughts. "By tha way, sounds aren't the only things ah can hear!" Ella and Sound Track are somewhat amused. Jazz keeps his cool and smiles.

A large blast shakes the base and knocks most of them to the walls of the hallway.

"Are we under attack!" yells Cliffjumper as he gets his guns out.

Ella sighs and shakes her head in concern. "No need to worry Cliffjumper that's just noise from the labs, again! Jack has probably just blown himself apart again, or worse, Crash' is in there experimenting with chemical explosives again. Seeing as how I will have to now go and see what the problem is, we may as well show you the science laboratories first. Sigh. I hope I don't have to put anyone back together again like I did last week. That was a terrible mess."

"Oh ya'll mean when Ray wrecked one of your Lamborghini's, and himself in that process?" comments Sound Track.

Ella wasn't terribly amused by that situation; it had taken a week to have most of the surgery done for cybernetic prosthetics on their friend Ray. It was unfortunate as he was one of the Base's medics and was out of action resting as a patient in the medical bay right now. "Yes." Was all she said.

"Ok ya'll let's go!" Sound Track gestures to everyone to follow, and they go off to their first stop at the science labs.