It took several days before Taiya felt comfortable with the Decepticons. She started to go through the CD that Blackout had given her and it was quite fascinating that the cons had built such a vast and complex ship. This colossus could make the shuttle Challenger look like a flea. There was the usual specs, engine, fuel charges, vents, fuel supply tanks, hallways to every conceivable room, cockpit, galley, and some areas that would not show up on the screen. The only thing that would show is a little message [YOU HAVE ACCESSED A RESTRICTED FILE, ACCESS NOT GRANTED]. Taiya thought to herself that must be where the weapons are held. In order not to get into trouble she had been trying to learn everything about the cons in case Megatron asked her to recite key information. So far she had gotten the names down and where basic rooms were, but she would have to do a lot more to convince the others that she can be useful. She looked to the screen and pressed on a button [Archeological Records]. A lot of pages popped up on the main window of the screen, pictures of other transformers she had never seen, fraction symbols with info on them, and a rather large list of text that headed {War}. She read on, to her amusement the text went on an entire historical record of the happenings on Cybertron before the Great War. Taiya stopped as she had to read one sentence over, "Megatron the great and once powerful protector of Cybertron felt more angered with the pacifistic nature of Optimus Prime with each battle he had won in the Cyber-Games".

Taiya – "Holy hell, he PROTECTED CYBERTRON?" - - - "Then why would he destroy it so much?"

She continued on, he wanted the cube so that he could overthrow the Autobots and eventually the moons of Cybertron and the surrounding planets and their solar systems. {THE CUBE} More specs came on the screen.

THE ALLSPARK
Size – Varies with user interface
Color – Bronze, copper, silver (combination)
Shape – Cube (can fluctuate)
Power Output – 12000 Terawatts – 34000 Terawatts (actual number not known, file lost)

Taiya sat back and had to let all the info sink in. she had never seen such advancements in her life, not even science fiction could come up with such ingenious ideas. By the looks of it the Transformers had mastered hyperspace travel, unlimited energy, cold fusion {well it was Starscream's idea so lukewarm fusion}, and vast life spans. "What couldn't these beings do" she thought. A little screen to her right came on and it was blackout, he wanted her to come up to his room to speak to Shockwave. She felt her head spin a bit. From what the others had told her Shockwave as a complete son of a glitch, a real slagger. Which reminded her, she had to learn more then two words of Cybertronian slang if she was to have a decent conversation with everyone. She ran to the elevator put her key into the hole and taped in a key 69102, this let the door come open. She went inside and hit level 7 (Advanced aerial task team) This floor was a tad bit taller then the others. Of course when you are 25-35 ft tall you need a large hall. The mini-con floor was only 20 ft tall. Taiya remembered that Blackout had to bend down in order to fit in it. She got to door number four {Blackout} and inserted her key. The door let her in Blackout was already in deep conversation with Shockwave in Cybertronian. Taiya felt angry that she couldn't understand a word of it, so far #^=** was about the only thing that made any sense. #^=** meant "COME HERE YOU". Taiya stood outside the door frame to the opposite room waiting patiently to come inside.
Shockwaves voice was soo odd, it sounded like an old British computer.

Shockwave – {in un-auditable tones} "Why should I blackout?"
Blackout – {Also in un-auditable tones} "Because Megatron desires it so. I thought you and I were clear of our misunderstanding. You seemed fine with it a couple of days ago."
Shockwave – "Nothing I do for you is FINE!"
Blackout – "Would you take that malfunctioning nanobug out of your exhaust for a moment!"

Taiya could not understand what was going on but whatever it was it did not sound good.

Shockwave – "CAN YOU REPLACE MY OPTICAL CIRCUITRY?! OR HOW ABOUT MY HAND!"
Blackout – "FOR FRAGGING SAKE! You are still going on about that? LISTEN THAT HAPPENED EONS AGO AND YOU STILL HAVENT MOVED ON?"
Shockwave – "NO! AND I AM NOT HELPING YOU!"
Blackout – "Perhaps Megatron would like to know about your off the book escapades? Eh."
Shockwave – "You wouldn't dare"
Blackout – {stood back and folded his arms and gave the one eye slant}
Shockwave – "Fine!"

Suddenly from behind Taiya the one named Scorponok grabbed the girl.
Scorponok – "^*^^#!' {he proceeded to rub his rather large optic against Taiya's chest}
Taiya – "AH Scorponok! PLEASE PUT ME DOWN! I CANT BREATHE!"
Scorponok – "*_+$# !&%&(*'
Blackout – {could hear what was going on and in English spoke} "SCOPONOK PUT HER DOWN."
Scorponok – "%^$#?" {Means why should I?}
Blackout – {Thinking "Why me"} "Taiya give him a hug and he will put you down! And then you can come and talk to Shockwave."

Taiya gave Scorponok a hug and patted him on the head. The mechanical scorpion put her down and continued to fallow the girl back into the room where Blackout was talking on the video transmitter with Shockwave. Taiya went to Blackout's side and just held her head down as not to infuriate the one eyed con. Shockwave asked Blackout if he could lift the girl onto the desk top so that he could see her better. Blackout did so and Shockwave looked at the girl and back to Blackout.

Shockwave – "So this is who you replaced Dreadcycle with? - - - Pity. You have really lowered your standards."
Blackout – "for the sake of Taiya I am just going to ignore that." {Blackout said clenching his fists}
Shockwave – "Geeze, ugly face and such an ugly name. You really could have done better Blackout. She is too small, and I bet she has an IQ to match."
Blackout – {Blackout wasn't sure what to do. Anger just flowed and filled him up. He couldn't believe that after all that talking shockwave still hadn't learned his lesson}

Taiya didn't know wither to feel sad or angry. She could hear Blackout's transistors move flex. But Blackout was halted just as he was about to punch in the monitor, when the sound of the front door come open and Megatron walked in.

Megatron – "So Shockwave do you have any ideas to what we can do to make her more useful?" {Megatron looked at Blackout who was just about to punch the screen apart} "Blackout are we having a problem?"

Megatron knew what was going on. It was the same thing that happened back on Cybertron. Blackout and Shockwave never could get along. No matter what distance, it appeared that the two would never let the other forget what happened. Megatron knew to get control of the situation he had to take a firm command over the situation.

Megatron – "Blackout?"
Blackout – "No." {Blackout clearly wasn't fine, his voice was quavering}
Megatron - "Might I remind you that you are in the presence of your LEADER, failure to comply with my demands will result in punishment."
Blackout – {had to listen, he backed down and just went back to crossing his arms} "Yes."
Megatron – "Yes WHAT!"
Blackout – "YESSIR.'
Megatron – "That's better. NOW SHOCKWAVE REPORT!'
Shockwave – [if he could, he would have snarled.} "The small female requires extensively serious upgrades. My scans indicate that she will require all the standard upgrades along with some specific features that will make her more centralized."
Megatron – "What else do you have in mind?"
Shockwave – "I will require some cyber components and Brawl is working on speed enhancement. I sent him Bonecrusher's specs to his wheel system. Soundwave is working on the cyber components and I am working on the central hub and main access locations."
Megatron – "Good."
Taiya – "Megatron sir?"
Megatron – "What is it?" {Megatron said in an annoyed tone}
Taiya – 'Megatron, what exactly are you planning on doing to me?" {Taiya could barely keep her nervousness under control}
Megatron – "You are useless as a PET. We need to make you more adapted to life in the cyber spectrum."
Blackout – "What Megatron means is that, He wants to make you more like us."

A small ring echoed in the room. It was the front door of the quarters. A screen came up on the main one and it was Soundwave, frenzy, rumble, and Lazerbeak outside. Frenzy and Rumble made Taiya giggle a bit when they made funny faces through the camera.

Soundwave – "Permission to come inside."
Blackout – {pressed a button on the large keyboard and the door glided open} "Come on in Soundwave."

The Soundwave Team came in. the twins were helped to the desk top too with the help of Soundwave. Lazerbeak flew off of Sound wave's shoulder and right onto Blackouts shoulder.

Rumble – "So shockwave planning on giving her more muscles?" {Who was then hit over the head by Frenzy}
Frenzy – "NO YOU STUPID! What she really needs is some disk launchers or how about a cyberdine key module?"
Rumble – "HEY WHATS YOUR MALFUNCTION!"
Frenzy – "Oh I am sorry, were you talking to me? I thought you were talking about your thick cranial cavity."
Rumble – "Why I outta!"
Soundwave – Please cease and desist your insignificant bickering. You two are not in charge of the cyber component construction."
Frenzy – "fine." {Thinking, "like I am going to let you have all of the fun."}
Rumble – "Whatever" {thinking, "Like I am going to let you two squares have all of the fun."}
Megatron – "So do you two have everything set?"
Soundwave – "Affirmative."
Shockwave – "Confirmed sir."
Megatron – {looked down at the twins} "You two STAY OUT OF THIS, do I make my self perfectly clear?"
F&R – 'YESSIR"
Megatron – {Glanced at Shockwave and Blackout} "Taiya, if these two don't behave themselves you come straight to me, UNDERSTAND?"
Taiya – "YES SIR!" {Still confused but happy to have been given something to do}
Megatron – "Keep that up and you will do just fine." {Megatron turned away to leave but on his way out you could clearly hear him muttering} "Sad state of affairs when a mere human shows you more respect then your air commander what a lousy piece of slag that is."

Soundwave turned to Blackout and Shockwave.
Soundwave – "I have what I need; I think I need to revise old cyber connectors to get the accurate size. Perhaps even look up old schematics to Mini-Con designs."
Shockwave – "In order to get correct modifications I will need blood, tissue, and full body scans."
Blackout – "I can handle that." {Thinking "Like hell I will let you do that!"}
Taiya – "BLOOD TEST! I HATE BLOOD TESTS!"
Blackout – "If you don't like getting it done I can always take it when you are asleep."
Taiya – "Like that makes me feel any better."
Rumble – "Hey no coolant okay, trust us, we have been through everything. It is really quick and it will be over before you know it."
Soundwave – "I have to see if I can make a regeneration pod for the girl, she will need something different then the ones we have."
Blackout – "Who could modify it?"
Shockwave – Perhaps a human doctor could do the modifications for us?"
Rumble – "Are you completely mad! WHAT HUMAN DOCTOR COULD WE TRUST?"
Frenzy – "I could look up one."
Soundwave – {Patted frenzy on the back} "That is a correct idea."
Taiya – "Why do I think you guys will be the death of me?"
Shockwave – "Out" {and just like that Shockwave ended the transmission}

Soundwave and the other mini-cons also left to get to their duties. But before they left Taiya could have thought that Frenzy and Rumble said something about remaking a new mini-con team. But then came to the conclusion she was hallucinating. Taiya turned to Blackout who was still a tad bit angry.

Taiya – "You okay?" {Taiya walked over to Blackout and placed her hands on his hand, well more like figure.}
Blackout – "I absolutely loathed working with him; he is the reason why I left Cybertron to go after Megatron. I had an issue back there, but now I am here. Far away from that no good glitch."
Taiya – "What happened back there?"
Blackout – "I have pried into your personal life so, I guess you deserve to know. A long time ago, back on Cybertron. I used to date a femmecon by the name of Dreadcycle. Things were going alright for a while, however things started to go wrong. I was separated from my partner Spaceshot and was given my own parasite."
Taiya – "Scorponok?"
Blackout – {Scorponok went up to Blackout and laid by Blackouts foot} "Yeah, I enjoy his company over that conceded Spaceshot. He always complained about working with me. He had a problem with my more silent disposition. Scorponok may not be able to talk much but he does the job 100 times better then any other parasite team can. I got assigned to him and Dreadcycle wasn't so nice."

Scorponok started to make large hisses and his eyes slanted downward.

Taiya – "Dreadcycle didn't hurt him did she?"
Blackout – "She sure did, she tried everything to get rid of him. She even tried to throw Scorpy here into a smelter."
Taiya – "THAT'S AWEFUL. Why would anyone want to harm this cutie?"
Blackout – "And that's not the end of it, she would never leave me alone. Every moment was "ME THIS, AND ME THAT" it was annoying. The wire that broke the Insecticons back was when she double crossed me."
Taiya – "wait a minute? {Taiya got an I KNOW light bulb "By any chance it was with Shockwave?"
Blackout - "You hit the nail right on the head. I found the two, well it wasn't appealing. So I took the opportunity to get away from Cybertron with Starscream to find Megatron. Bumped into you and well here we are."
Taiya – "And when Brawl was talking about the hand and eye thing?"
Blackout – "I tore out one of his optical connection subs and permanently disabled his motor function in his left hand. I then ditched the glitch and packed up to go with the others."
Taiya – Oh."
Blackout – {grabbed Taiya and placed her on his shoulder} "Eons ago, I like this planet a little bit better. The company is much more pleasant."

Blackout, Scorponok, and Taiya left the room to get the tissue, blood, and body scans.

Somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic a brother can't get a hold of his sister.

Stephen – "Taiya where are you?" {He put the phone down}
Male – "Have you been able to get your sister on the phone?"
Stephen – "No, and it is getting me nervous.'
Male – "I know what you mean. First that thing with the aliens, then all of the reports on BBC, CNN, and MSNBC. I can't go anywhere because of my job but if you want I could send you to see if Taiya is alright?"
Stephen – "Really dad, by my self? You have never trusted me to go on my own."
Male – "Listen, it's not easy to see your son go off alone, but you have to be given a chance. You have a cell phone, if there is any problem, you can give me a call or your uncle. Now go pack your bags. You're going to America."
Stephen – [was happy that he could do this by himself, finally a chance} "THANKYOU DAD! YOU WONT REGRET THIS."

The boy went to pack his things, to which he added the new Star Wars comic, and Cassandra the Baroness album. He could feel deep inside that something was really wrong. He did not want to scare his father but he could feel, his sister was scared or maybe even hurt. Stephen left the next morning. But was halted at the airport when the check-in person could not find his record on file. He had the passport so why wasn't he in the records. Stephens and Taiya's dad was also deleted. This added more stress to Stephen. Why did he get the feeling that this all had to do with his sister? The manager was also confused. She had seen them several times and knew the entire family. Marie Lauderback was her name. She was the one that got the two on the plane as fast as humanly possible when she found out his ex-wife was sick. She called the head supervisor of air traffic to explain the situation and Stephen was let through with a temp Passport. In the end they let him through and blamed it on a technical glitch. Little did the flight staff realize, that a con named Blackout had deleted the trace and all evidence of Taiya's birth and all files indicating her identity. And yet another war was being waged. Sector seven was at a loss. They had the prints but no file on the book or who took it out at the library. Simmons was not only confused but bewildered. But he had to come to the dreadful conclusion. Humans and Decepticons were now intertwined further then before.

Simmons – "McAlister is not going to like this one."
Agent – "You bet he won't, if you tell him that he is going to shit a brick."
Simmons – "I KNOW THOMAS, but what can I do? It's not like I can just ignore him."
Thomas – "Where are those files?"
Simmons – "Are you talking about the ones I am analyzing or your own?"
Thomas – "Mine, the video files on Fallout L.A."
Simmons – {looked at his computer and then back to Thomas's} "They are gone!?"