Finally got over the writer's block that I had on this story. There's a couple things I want to ask/tell you but I'll save that until afterwards.


After being released from the brig the next day, Diana was answering Tony's questions. He wasn't asking any questions about topics were sensitive to Diana until, "So what's Sector Seven?"

The Avengers looked over at the two of them curious as to what this Sector Seven was that the mention of the other day had pissed Diana off. It's just an innocent question. He doesn't know, Diana thought to herself before answering Tony, "It's a disbanded nonexistent top secret government agency."

Tony stared at his sister in confusion. "Well that makes no sense."

"Captain Stark!" Diana looked over at the techie that was calling down to her. "We've got incoming projectiles from beyond our atmosphere. Inbound at 30,000 knots."

"How may?" Diana asked as she ran up to the stairs to the techie's computer bay.

"Four, Captain."

She looked at the computer over the techie's shoulder, "Estimated landing site?"

"Fifty miles southeast of here."

Diana grumbled something under her breath as she clattered back down the stairs. She saw Will, Epps, and Ironhide coming out of the room where they'd been training new recruits. "We've got four incoming unknowns."

"Where?" Will asked.

"Fifty miles southea-" Diana said before trailing off and stiffening.

"-temperamental, disrespectful, weak, a complete failure. Project RSS-" Galloway said into his phone as he walked into the hanger his voice carrying throughout the building. Will and Epps exchanged worried looks as Diana spun around glaring at Galloway. Will grabbed her around the waist trapping her arms by her sides as she started to head towards the national security advisor.

"Whoa easy Di," Will said as Ironhide radioed Sideswipe over their internal comms.

"He's the national security advisor so you can't just attack him no matter how much of an asshole he is," Epps said. "…unfortunately." Diana growled at them as Sideswipe roared into the hanger narrowly missing Galloway.

Diana slipped out of Will's hold and headed toward the liaison just as Sideswipe stopped in front of her. Will and Epps managed to get her into the driver's seat and shut the door. "We'll go for a drive," Sideswipe said through the radio before driving off to prevent Diana from getting out.

"He almost hit me," Galloway started to complain to Will. "You-" He stopped seeing the dark looks on Will, Epps, and Ironhide's faces.

"You are lucky," Ironhide told Galloway. "If Optimus didn't have his rule about not harming humans you would've been squished long ago." Galloway made a strangled noise and left the hanger as fast as his legs could carry him.

"What the hell was that?!" Tony cried walking up to the two N.E.S.T. soldiers his face pale. "I've never seen Di that angry. What's going on? What's Project RSS?"

Will shook his head. "We can't tell you. It's Di's place to tell you when she's ready. And don't push her. It's a sensitive topic."

"I don't blame her for that," Epps said. "We don't like hearing or talking about it."

"Anyway suit up if you're coming with us," Will said. "We're leaving in five." They went their separate ways to get ready.

Diana sat in Sideswipe's driver seat arms crossed as she fumed. Soon though she noticed that they had left the base and were moving fairly fast. "What's the rush Sides?" she asked.

Sideswipe chuckled, "You'll see. Oh you might want to make it look like you're driving. We're approaching a town."

Diana put her hands on the steering wheel, "Well in that case you might want to slow down a little."

"Not a chance." She looked at the radio in confusion before looking out at the town.

"Hang on this town is southeast of the base. We're headed straight for the landing site of the four unknown incoming."

"Three," Sideswipe corrected.

"What?"

"Three are unknown."

Diana thought for a second before grinning. There was only one Cybertronian that would get this reaction from Sideswipe when arriving on Earth. "So he finally made it."

"Yeo," Sideswipe replied cheerfully. When Diana grumbled slightly he asked, "What's wrong."

"I don't have my gun so you two will have all the fun taking out any Decepticons that land," Diana pouted.

Sideswipe chuckled, "Maybe next time. I'll drop you off just before we get there."

"Right," Diana said bummed that she might miss a fight but understanding that if she couldn't help out it would be best for her to stay on the sidelines when fighting Decepticons. If it were humans she wouldn't stay on the sidelines being a black belt in several martial arts since she was thirteen.

When they reached the landing site that was now a battlefield. Diana hopped out of Sideswipe's alt mode so he could floor it. He transformed smoothly and rolled right into battle joining forces with the only other Autobot there. Diana moved to the tree line and climbed a tree so she could watch without craning her neck and be less likely to get stepped on. Pus since the tree was organic it hid her own organic signature from any unfriendly optics. She watched the fight fascinated by the smoothness of the teamwork between Sideswipe and the Autobot.

So this is what Sides is like when fighting with Sunstreaker, Diana thought. Oh it's going to be fun with the two of them on base. Two of the Decepticons dropped one after the other and the twins moved towards the last 'Con. Diana heard the engine of a F22 jet. Before she could call a warning to Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, Starscream had fired two missiles. Though they hit the twins, it wasn't enough to kill them; however, it was enough to knock them out after they dispatched the freshly arrived Decepticon they'd been fighting. Diana had actually had to clap a hand over her mouth to stop herself from crying out when she saw her guardian, not that she needed one mind you, and best friend as well as his twin fall to the ground.

The ground rumbled as two Decepticons drove up. Diana didn't recognize them and figured they were survivors of the battle in Egypt. She could only watch helplessly as the two 'Cons transformed and after one performed a rough patch up job on the twins obviously wanting them alive, dragged them back the way they came. Diana gave them a couple minutes head start before dropping out of the tree to follow them.

Tony walked next to the Avengers and a group of N.E.S.T. soldiers his suit suitcase in his hand ready to go. Giant alien robots, which were strange enough aside, he found their reactions to the landing site turned battlefield odd. They hadn't seemed at all concerned about the fact that there could be another Decepticon on Earth as there were only three bodies but four smoking craters from where they had landed. They didn't seem surprised either that there was three bodies lying in the ground which surprised the Avengers and the N.E.S.T. soldiers because though Sideswipe was a formidable warrior it was hard to believe that he had taken out three enemies on his own. Their concern was finding out wherever Sideswipe had been dragged off to, which is why they were following the trail that had been left behind. Tony was more worried about his sister though because they hadn't seen her anywhere and he knew that she'd been there as Sideswipe had taken her away from the base. Will had assured him that Sideswipe would have made sure she was out of harm's way if she was unarmed but it did nothing to alleviate Tony's concern.

Tony just about jumped out of his skin when Diana dropped out of a tree right in front of them. "Took you guys long enough," she said smirking slightly.

"Yeah well we all don't have a speed demon with no concern for the rules of the road as a ride," Will replied grinning.

Diana chuckled, "Trust me nothing would've made Sides slow down or stop him from getting to that landing site."

"Maybe being locked up in the brig or the med bay would," Ratchet's holoform grumbled. He, Ironhide, and Optimus all had their holoforms out as it was too difficult for all three of them to transform in that area.

"No it wouldn't" Optimus said. "You would've let the youngster go." Ratchet just grumbled in response.

"I'm so lost," Epps said to Tony who nodded in agreement.

"What's the situation?" Will asked Diana.

"Structure about two clicks ahead out of the forest. Two friendlies, four hostiles, and some sort of unknown machinery inside. Building looks unstable so breaking through the wall wouldn't be a good idea."

"What's their condition?" Ratchet asked.

"Banged up but the 'Cons did a rough patch up. Most likely because they wanted to keep them alive for information about Autobot forces." Diana turned to Will. "Please tell me you brought my gun."

Will chuckled and grabbed her vest and gun out of Ironhide's passenger seat. "Here you go."

"Right mags, right?" Diana asked pulling on the vest. "As entertaining as that was, I'd rather have my shots do some damage."

Will and Epps chuckled while Ironhide grinned. "Don't worry. It has sabot rounds in it." Will handed Diana her gun.

"What happened?" Clint asked.

Diana grinned, "About a month ago we had a battle with a couple Decepticons suddenly. I shot one but instead of sabot rounds hitting him, hot pink paint covered his chest plate. Stunned him enough for Ironhide to offline him. Turns out I hadn't switched the paint out earlier and in the rush I'd forgotten about it."

"It was funny to see though," Epps said grinning.

"Are we ready to go?" Steve asked as Tony put his suit on. The group nodded and headed out.


Ok so first off I have the next chapter planned out but as much as I would like to I don't think I will be able to post it before I go on holiday for three weeks without internet and I would like to try to update some of my other stories before then. However I will take my notebook with me so that I can keep writing and hopefully have some more chapters ready to be typed up and posted.

Secondly I had an idea about going back and editing one of the earlier chapters slightly to make this story a Will/Diana story with no Sarah or Annabelle and I wanted your opinions on whether I should do that or have her get with either Steve, Clint or Loki. So please shoot me a PM, let me know in a review, or go to the poll that's up on my profile. I'll do my best to respond but if I don't get back to you for a while, it's because I didn't have internet.

Thank you so much for your patience while I got over my writer's block I really appreciate it.