Sorry guys, here you go, I won't talk much...

Chapter 4

Rachel quickly put her black NEST uniform back on and got out the door. She walked back to the NEST building, nodding at the guards who knew her too well. She walked back into the hangar and quickly found Lennox.

"Rachel, I thought I told you to-" Lennox started to say.

"Sam's coming, Lennox, he's coming here, right now," Rachel said walking up to him.

"What?"

"A Decepticon showed up at his work and attacked him and his co-workers, he's coming here, now," Rachel repeated.

"A Decepticon?"

"Yeah, a Decepticon."

At that moment the yellow and black Camaro sped out of the hangar.

"Uh-oh," Rachel said, starting to walk to the visitor's entrance.

Rachel came within view of the visitor's entrance -or to most everyone else the general entrance since no visitors really came. She stopped, Lennox catching up with her.

"Raise your hand if you had flying psycho-ninja copier trying to kill you today!" Sam said as the guards frisked him.

Rachel laughed to herself, Sam hadn't changed at all. She continued to walk toward Sam, Lennox beside her.

"That's my anklet. Do I have to take that off too?" Sam said angrily as the wand beeped. "And my toe rings?"

Rachel shook her head, letting out a laugh.

"Guys, he's okay," Rachel said.

Sam looked at Rachel, confused.

"You work here?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I tried to tell you on the phone, but-"

"You work here and I make copies for a job," Sam said. "That's unbelievable. I'm glad for you though."

"I did work with the Autobots for years before I met you, you know?" Rachel asked with a bit of sarcasm.

A tall blonde girl in jeans and heels stood next to Sam.

"You must be Carly, Sam's told me a lot about you," Rachel said smiling.

"Likewise," the girl said -in an English-accented voice- smiling.

Rachel, Sam, Lennox, and Carly walked down the hangar, Bumblebee driving in front of them. Sam had explained the chaos that had happened when he tried to get to NEST. The guards had ruffed him up a bit before Bumblebee had driven to the rescue.

"All NEST officials clear the floor, we have ten minutes until attempted contact," came over the hangar intercom.

Sam handed Lennox some papers, which Lennox was now looking at as they walked. Rachel watched as Carly looked around as they walked by Sideswipe.

"This Wang guy recognized me. He told me to warn you. He was talking about the dark side of the moon and then they killed him," Sam said to Lennox.

"Wait a minute, he mentioned the moon?" Lennox asked looking up from the papers.

"Yeah, the dark side of the moon," Sam said.

Rachel and Lennox looked at each other. As they walked by Ironhide and Ratchet Sam patted Ironhide on the hood and waved his hand in front of Ratchet. Ratchet's emergency lights flashed on, his sirens coming on quietly.

"But why would Decepticons want to kill humans? I thought their war is with the Autobots?" Carly said.

They stopped in one of the rooms, all of them looking at the papers Sam had given Lennox. As they were talking Lennox was promptly interrupted.

"Excuse me! Colonel Lennox?" the voice made Rachel want to scowl, but she held back her anger.

"Director Mearing, this is Sam Witwicky..." Lennox said.

"I know his name, Colonel. I wanna know who gave him clearance?" Mearing said.

Rachel really wanted to roll her eyes, Sam had risked his life to save the whole of the world and Mearing was being like this?

No way, this isn't going to work, Rachel thought.

"Who gave me clearance? How about Optimus Prime when he touched down in suburbia looking for my house?" Sam said sarcastically.

Rahel smiled, that seemed like something she wanted to say. Then she realized Sam had no clue who Mearing was.

Nor did he meet Galloway, it would have been such a pleasure, Rachel thought.

"This is the National Intelligence Director. In case you..." Lennox said to Sam.

"Hi," Sam said realizing what he had done.

"Disrespecting a a federal officer?" Mearing said humphing.

"Maybe that'll get you somewhere. Who's she?" Mearing said quickly changing the subject to Carly.

"She my girlfriend," Sam said.

"What is this, like, a date?" Mearing asked rhetorically.

Rachel rolled her eyes while Mearing's attention was off her, Like he's going to leave his girlfriend alone when evil alien robots are after them?

"She knows all about the Autobots, okay? She knows Bumblebee, and she comes from a military family, I can vouch for her," Lennox said.

"Hey! I have an idea, how about we get back to the important topics, like the fact that I almost had my face cut off by a Decepticon? As a taxpayer, I'd like to lodge a complaint, as a matter of fact," Sam said sarcastically.

Rachel was wondering if Mearing felt intimidated by Carly, or jealous, something that didn't have to do with the fact Sam brought her here. Rachel could tell Lennox was getting uncomfortable.

"Okay, listen, alright?" Lennox said as if he was breaking up two kids fighting.

"One of the software engineers at Sam's office was murdered today, he was involved in NASA's lunar mapping probe," Lennox continued handing the papers to Mearing.

"Here's the thing, Colonel Lennox," Mearing said handing the papers to her assistant. "We cannot entrust national security to teenagers."

Rachel raised her eyebrows, obviously Mearing was like Galloway, she had no clue that Rachel had, in fact, been apart of NEST since graduating high school.

"Unless I missed a policy paper, Are we doing that now?" Mearing asked her assistant, the assistant shook her head. "No? Good."

Obviously you did, one that existed four years ago, Rachel thought.

"I don't care who you are, if you breathe a word of what you've seen here, you will do time for treason. Do you understand me?" Mearing said to Sam.

Rachel looked at Lennox, frowning sadly. They exchanged looks, knowing what each other was thinking without saying it.

"I'll take my orders from the Autobots, I know them, I don't know you," Sam whispered to Mearing.

"You will," Mearing said.

Rachel followed Mearing and Lennox into a glass-fronted box overlooking a part of the hangar. Below the limp body of a Transformer was raised in a sitting position on lift-like contraption. Rachel had never seen him before, then she reasoned he must have been what Optimus and Ratchet had gone up to the moon for.

"What are you doing?" Mearing asked.

"Me? Following orders, Director, Lennox asked me to come here," Rachel said shooting a smile of thanks at Lennox.

"Sentinel Prime," Lennox explained. "These things run on Energon and he's out of it, he's in a sort of sleep mode."

"A Prime," Rachel muttered to herself in amazement.

Mearing gave her a confused look. Rachel knew Mearing was like many who though "Prime" was a part of a name, but it was more of a title.

Rachel watched as Optimus came to stand in front of Sentinel.

"Let us begin," Optimus said.

The parts covering his chest transformed back, a glowing metal creation floated from Optimus' chest into his outstretched hand. Rachel's mind suddenly flashed back four years ago when she, Sam, Mikaela, Sam's roommate Leo, and Simmons had found the creation. It was a key to activating a sun-destroying machine that was used by the ancient Primes to harvest Energon. Optimus had previously been "killed" -so to say- by Megatron and they had used it in stead to bring Optimus back to life. Rachel smiled, remembering the wonderful relief that she had when Optimus had started to move again, the feeling that all hadn't been lost and what they had done wasn't for nothing.

"That's the great Matrix of Leadership," Lennox said in amazement, calling the creation by its name. "He holds the only thing in the universe that can repower a Transformer's spark."

Optimus walked up to Sentinel, pushing the Matrix to Sentinel's chest. Sentinel's body jerked violently, as if he had been shocked. Sentinel jumped from where he was on Optimus, both of them falling to the ground. Sentinel drew a bladed weapon and held the tip to Optimus' head.

"Hold your fire!" Lennox yelled at the soldiers who were stationed around, just in case.

"Stop! Sentinel!" Optimus yelled. "It is I, Optimus Prime."

Optimus tried to push Sentinel off of him.

"It is alright, you are safe," Optimus said.

Sentinel released Optimus and stood back up.

"There is nothing to fear," Ratchet said walking up with the other Autobots.

"We are here," Optimus said. "You are home, Sentinel."

Sentinel looked around for a few minutes, until he seemed to suddenly remember something.

"The war..the war!" Sentinel exclaimed.

"The war was lost, Cybertron is now but a barren wasteland," Optimus said picking up the Matrix where it had fallen next to him.

"We have taken refuge here on planet Earth," Optimus continued, getting up. "Its human race is our ally."

"My ship. We came under fire. The pillars, where are the pillars?" Sentinel suddenly started to remember things.

Rachel walked from the glass box to where she had been with Lennox and Mearing, out to where Lennox and Mearing were standing on the platform to the side of the box. Rachel stood back from them, looking intently at Optimus and Sentinel.

"You saved five of them, including the control pillar," Optimus said to Sentinel.

"Only five? We once had hundreds!" Sentinel said.

"Excuse me, gentlemen," Mearing cut in. "May I ask, what is this technology you're looking for?"

"It is the ability to reshape the universe. Together the pillars form a space bridge..." Sentinel started saying.

Rachel's mind flashed back once again four years when Jetfire had said he had "opened a space bridge" that had teleported Sam, Mikaela, Simmons, Rachel and Leo from D.C to Egypt. Rachel could almost hear that energy crackling around her before everything had gone black around her for a split second. She wondered if that could be something the same or similar to what Sentinel was talking about.

"I designed, and I alone, can control it," Sentinel continued to Mearing. "It defies your laws of physics, to teleport matter through time and space."

"You're talking about a teleportation device, aren't you?" Mearing said a little on edge.

"Yes, for resources, for refugees," Optimus replied.

"Refugees, or troops of soldiers, weapons, maybe bombs!" Mearing exclaimed.

Rachel looked at Mearing in complete defeat, this woman would never learn, loosing her temper around Optimus wouldn't get her anywhere.

"A means of an instant strike! That's its military function, isn't it?" Mearing said, turning her words to Sentinel.

Rachel had feeling, like Optimus, Sentinel wouldn't put up with a edged tone or an outburst.

"It is our technology and it must be returned," Sentinel said, anger edging into his voice.

"Yes, if humans say so," Mearing said.

Rachel rolled her eyes, this woman was a complete idiot. If Sentinel really wanted the pillars back all he had to do was march over to the vault they were being stored in and take them. No human was going to be able to stop him.

"You can't just bring weapons of mass-destruction into our atmosphere! You kind of have to clear customs first! A little formality called paperwork kind of separates us from the animals," Mearing raged.

Rachel didn't even know how to react to that, and she did stand corrected, this woman wasn't like Galloway: she was worse. Lennox had even looked at Mearing with wide eyes, moving slightly away from her.

"I will overlook your condescending tone if you heed the gravity of mine," Sentinel replied.

Rachel obtained a smug smile at this, for every dumb human outburst at the Autobots, there was a calm reaction from the Autobots.

"The Decepticons must never know the space bridge is here. For in their hands, it would mean the end of your world," Sentinel said coming face-to-face with Mearing.

After that everyone had dispersed, going back to their stations. Rachel followed Sam and Carly to where Mearing had motioned them.

"I'm really sorry about Mearing," Rachel said.

"It's alright, no the worst we've faced, right?" Sam said.

Rachel smiled, he was hinting back to the first time they had dealt with government officials. It was annoying for Rachel at the time, but now to look back at it seemed funny.

Rachel stopped outside Mearing's office as Sam and Carly went in. Rachel could still see inside though, she wanted to see how this was going to end. Mearing stood behind a desk, Sam and Carly sitting in chairs in front of her.

"'Total Nightmare' file," Mearing said slapping a post-it note on a white box.

Her assistant sitting not far from Rachel nodded, working on her computer. Rachel watched as a small Autobot with crazy hair-looking stuff on the top of his head, and what resembled big glasses sat on the back of an RC truck. Rachel knew the RC truck, she had only seen one like it in her life, and she wasn't about to forget. He was also an Autobot, named Wheelie, that Mikaela had found trying to steal a shard of the AllSpark from her and had locked him in a metal box. Wheelie had helped them locate Jetfire who had translated the Cybertronian symbols in Sam's head to lead them to a tomb made of the bodies of the ancient Primes that contained the Matrix.

"So the investigation is open, we've sent agents to your office, and for the time being we're going to send you home with Autobot protection," Mearing said to Sam and Carly, sitting in a chair behind the desk.

"Who-who do I need to speak to to get you guys to understand that I can help, that I can contribute?" Sam asked Mearing.

"Hey, we can all help. Want to tell you what I know?" the small Autobot that was riding on Wheelie said jumping up on Mearing's desk. "I could tell you about the solar system, all the fun planets to hang out in."

Mearing pulled a hand gun out and sat it on the desk.

"Get off my desk, please," Mearing said.

"Whoa. You pulling out guns? I can't help you out now. She angry," the Autobot said jumping off the desk.

"Oh, my God," Mearing muttered rolling her eyes.

"What do you envision for me? I go home now? I go back to work? I make copies? I mean..." Sam said trailing off.

"This is a unit for veteran intelligence officers and Special Forces, not for boys who once owned special cars," Mearing said in a tone that made Rachel want to punch her.

Rachel couldn't believe this woman. Sam had almost died trying to keep the Sun from being blown to pieces. He had died, for a few minutes, and this woman was acting like he had just waltzed in saying "My car transforms into an alien robot, so let me join your forces." Sam had sacrificed almost as much as Rachel had trying to help the Autobots and Mearing was acting like nothing mattered but titles.

"That's a bit harsh, isn't it, ma'am?" Carly said more than asked.

"Don't call me 'ma'am' I'm not a 'ma'am'," Mearing said.

"Well, you're a woman aren't you?" Carly asked rhetorically.

Rachel smiled as Mearing stayed silent, finally someone had tackled that issue. Rachel saw Sam looking around the office, something out of Rachel's view caught his eye.

"So," Sam said in a coughing voice, "are those yours?" he said pointing to the thing that had caught his eye.

"Yeah. CIA," Mearing replied curtly.

"I only ask 'cause I also have a medal, from the President," Sam said in a happier voice, laughing as he said it.

Rachel remembered that Sam had told her that he had been given a hero medal by the President after everything in Egypt.

"Yeah. Great. So, it's not that complicated, right?" Mearing said, clearly not impressed by Sam's statement. "No one gets to work with the Autobots unless I approve it. You're breaking my chain of command."

Oh, so this is what this is about, Mearing is threatened, Rachel thought.

"Come on, let's go," Carly said standing with Sam. "You've done what you came for."

Mearing stood with them.

"With all due respect, young man, I appreciate what you did. But you're not a soldier, you're a messenger, you've always been a messenger," Mearing said.

Rachel was beyond belief at what Mearing had just said, that was definitely crossing the line.

"He's a hero," Carly said pulling Sam away.

I really don't like Mearing...and about Sentinel...if only Optimus...if only...and sorry guys gonna upload more often now bout to go another trip so I can type more *yaaay* anyway this was a middle chapter...nothing too interesting..well, not to me any way...cept for sentinel telling off mearing(well, in a Prime's way) and sam and the guard scene which i was sad i didnt end up typing... oh, and still wondering if the "space bridge" jetfire opened in RotF was in any way related to sentinel's...anyway chapt 5 comin soon...