Title: Big Bad and Red
Genre: Action/Drama/Friendship
Rating: T for some strong language, some violence, mild adult content, some crude humor.
Summary: Sixteen year old, city slicking orphan child, Rex Rory lives in Alabama and he has only one arm. What else can go wrong? Oh.....yeah. He just met a huge alien robot that turns into a big, temperamental, red Mack semi truck.
~Chapter Eleven~
Smack Down!
Rex could not believe what he was even seeing or even hearing. He could not believe this for one single second that this monstrous looking creature was actually a girl robot! He couldn't believe that huge Monster truck had been a female, monstrous Decepticon!
"Nemesis Strika, you Glitch! Only you would try and attack me while I was in recharge!" Magnus snarled as he began to heat up his cannons to fire.
Glaring fiercely at the Autobot, the Decepticon female stepped over the broken trees, keeping her own weapons trained on Magnus. She looked pretty pissed about even seeing him but pleased at the same time. And she truly was too. She had been searching for this piece of slag since their fight outside of Earth's atmosphere. He had messed up her own communications system as she had done to his. Not that she cared about getting her fellow Decepticons' attention right now. She had a serious score to settle with the Autobot Commander and the other Decepticons could wait!
Snarling viciously at Magnus, Nemesis bent down a little, looking as if she was about to pounce on him. Her own cannons were starting to whirl to life as she prepared to fire. "You son of a Glitch! I'm going to rip you to pieces, you Autobot scum!" She shrieked before firing at him.
Magnus nearly dove to the side, to narrowly missing the blast she sent after him. But he briefly caught sight of Rex still standing there and knew that he would get shot, himself. His spark gave a sharp jolt throughout his entire chassis before he just stood his ground and allowed Nemesis' Energon blast to clip his shoulder and send it flying away from Rex. "Rex!" He barked, ignoring the fact that the young teenager nearly jumped out of his skin. "Get to cover, slaggit! MOVE!" He nearly roared as he spun back around to face Nemesis as she was charging at him again.
Rex didn't even care that Magnus was now yelling at him. He knew that he was getting in the way after nearly getting hit by that hot blast. He had felt the heat of it as it exploded against Magnus' shoulder.
So taking a leaf from watching movies, the teen ducked down low and ran as fast as he could for the trees, hoping that would be the best cover for now. He heard a thunderous clash of metal hitting metal but he didn't dare turn around to see what was happening until he dove behind a large tree, slipping a little on wet dirt in the process. He went down to one knee, but ignored it as he looked around it and watched as Magnus and Nemesis Strika went back to bashing at each other with their fists.
This was something out of a war movie, though Rex knew that he had entered the war when he begged Magnus to take him with him to find the Autobots. But he had not been expecting to run into a Decepticon so soon after they had left Brewton.
More or less, he had thought that Nemesis Strika was a guy! Magnus had clearly stated that his enemy that he had been fighting before he arrived had been a He, not a SHE! He had been saying that she was a HE! He knew he had heard Magnus call Nemesis Strika a guy! But seeing Nemesis Strika right here and now, he clearly saw that it was a she! She had a high pitched but metallic voice and she certainly sounded like a girl! A very pissed off girl, mind you!
Rex watched in horror as the two metal beings kept bashing at each other, ripping metal off their enemies' frames and tossing them to the side as they went at it again. Twice, Rex had to duck back behind the tree to avoid getting hit by sharp debris.
However, watching Magnus fight, Rex couldn't help but feel only a little amazed. He understood that his giant friend as a soldier and had been fighting for many years before his own time. But he didn't imagine the big guy to be so fast and powerful on his feet as he blasted Nemesis Strika with his cannon, sending her flying several feet away from him.
"YOU GLITCHING BASTARD!" She shrieked as she was on her feet again, trying to shoot Magnus in the face, only to shriek in rage when he knocked her arm upward. "You stupid Autobot scum of Cybertron! I'm going to rip you up and then ship your parts to that fragging brother of yours!"
Magnus snorted loudly as he thrashed out his elbow and hit her hard in the head, sending her staggering back away from him. He quickly spun on his feet, ripping up more of the road in doing so, as he hit her again with his other sharp elbow. "As if I hadn't heard you tell me that before, Nemesis Strika!" He roared right back at her before lashing out and trying to smash her up. She ended up ducking under his fist before trying to kick him in the middle. "Let me guess; are you still mad at me for shooting you in the aft, Nemesis Strika?" He nearly taunted before ducking under her furious fist and tackled her hard. They both went crashing into the highway, ripping up more trees along with them. "Or are you pissed because I nearly offlined Obsidian at Tyger Pax! It was his own fault for taking his optics off of me when he should have been paying attention in our fight!" He roared at her.
Again, Nemesis Strika shrieked in rage, causing Rex to have to cover his ears. She sounded more like a Banshee when extremely pissed off, which made the young teen realize what the woman on her alter form's hood had been.
"OH SHUT THE FRAG UP, ULTRA MAGNUS!" The Femme Decepticon snapped before throwing up fist towards Magnus' chest plate. There had been a loud schnik as a blade suddenly shot out of her wrist and headed straight for the Autobot's center chest plate.
"MAGNUS!" Rex found himself scream out when he saw it. He had almost missed it but seen it at the last minute.
However, Magnus had also seen it and manage to throw his arm down, knocking Nemesis Strika's arm down and earning a nice big slash in his arm. He didn't seem bothered by it as he just threw his knee up and hit her in the jaw, sending her flying backwards until she crashed and rolled into the trees again.
This time, Nemesis Strika did not get up. She just laid there, her entire metal frame hissing and smoking. She had been beaten pretty well by Magnus during their fight. She was still alive from where Rex could see but she wasn't moving. He could barely hear screeching curses escaping her as she tried to push herself up. She didn't even seem to notice that Magnus was quickly approaching her with a glowing hot cannon.
The Autobot Commander, dented and scratched horribly, raised his cannon and aimed it right at Nemesis Strika's back, getting ready to fire. He knew he better quickly end this before anything else happened. "Say hello to Obsidian for me in the Pit, Nemesis Strika." He spoke rather coldly.
"Magnus, no!" Rex suddenly shouted, quickly moving out from behind the tree.
Spinning his head around, Magnus frowned down at the boy but held his fire anyways. He couldn't believe he was actually hesitating from offlining a Decepticon. He should have just shot her right there and then but he stopped. He even caught a glimpse of her, pushing herself up to an elbow to look over her shoulder at the human boy. "Rex, I said stay back. It's still dangerous for you to come out. Wait until I've finished........." The Autobot Commander told the boy sternly.
Rex just shook his head as he stared up in horror from Magnus to Nemesis Strika and then back to his big robot friend. He was shaking pretty bad from watching that nasty fight and would have given anything to take it back from trying to stop his friend. But this was a girl robot, for god's sake! His robot friend was about to kill a robot girl!
"Ma-Magnus........don't! Don't kill her! Please, do-don't!" Rex begged, his voice trembling.
Magnus frowned, almost surprised that his young friend was actually begging him not to kill a Decepticon. He couldn't believe that Rex was actually speaking up for the behalf of Nemesis Strika. "Rex, I have to! She's a Decepticon! She's a danger to you and your planet! If I do not finish this, she will come after us and possibly win the next fight! She has to be offlined!" He said sternly.
Again, Rex shook his head, shaking from head to toe as he looked back at the now glaring female robot, who was clearly glaring at him for interfering. "B-but......! She's.....She's a girl! You can't ki-kill a girl! That's......that's........!" He stammered over his terrified words.
Sighing, Magnus kept pointing his cannons at Nemesis Strika, not letting them waver at all. He still couldn't believe that Rex was actually standing up for her. A Decepticon. She may have been a femme, but she was one of the enemies. He knew very well that if the positions were reversed, Nemesis Strika would have not hesitated in shooting him dead and then probably stomp Rex into the ground. "Rex, she is a Decepticon. If she continues to remain active, she will hunt us down. And you will continue being in danger." He stated before starting to turn back to finish what he had started.
"Ma-Magnus......please, don't!" The teen tried again, still trembling. "She's.....she's still a girl. Maybe a bad one, but she's a girl! I thought.....I thought you said that Nemesis Strika was a guy robot, not a girl robot!"
Magnus almost chuckled mirthlessly as he glared down at the equally glaring Decepticon he loomed over. "Yes, I did say that Nemesis Strika was a mech. She acts like a Mech so I call her one. She also happens to be a Decepticon General. If I do not end her right now, she will become a very serious threat to Earth. I can't allow that." He rumbled before starting to heat up his cannons to fire.
Rex shivered as he took several steps forward. He could barely hear sirens in the distance now and knew that the fight between his friend and the Decepticon had caught attention from the locals. It would be only a few minutes before they arrived. "Magnus, please don't. She's.......if you don't kill her......that means she owes you! You spare her life, she'll leave us alone!" He tried.
There was a harsh laugh from both Magnus and Nemesis, as if they both found that a dark hilarious joke. "She will not honor that, Rex!" The Autobot Commander said, darkly and still glaring at Nemesis Strika. "She's a Decepticon! She will pursue us if I leave her alive!"
"There's cops coming, Magnus! We have to get out of here before they get here! If you kill her, we won't be able to escape from them!" Rex cried out. "Just....please don't kill her! She's a girl......."
A heavy sigh escaped from Magnus before he suddenly powered down his cannons. He couldn't believe he was actually doing this. He knew that no good would come out of this at all. He knew Nemesis Strika very well and knew that leaving her alive would be a huge mistake. But he couldn't stand to hear Rex sounding so afraid for this piece of scrap metal. Either way, the human boy actually pitied her and it was a huge insult to her as a Decepticon. It was almost worth it leaving her alive. It would mean that she had been spared by the hands of a human and no doubt that the other Decepticons would glitch at her and make her life a living Pit for it.
"She's still going to come after us, Rex. This is a big mistake." Magnus remarked dryly before he began back away carefully from Nemesis and then transform into his Mack form. He threw open his passenger door, allowing Rex to quickly scamper up and inside before turning his hidden optics onto the glaring female Decepticon. "You've just been spared by a human, Nemesis Strika! Do yourself a favor and do NOT come after us again! The next time I see you, Rex will not be able to stop me from crushing your spark chamber! So stay away from us!" He snarled through his engine before speeding off and leaving black marks on the broken roads.
Nemesis Strika, however, glared after them before she began to click painfully and started her own transforming. It was very difficult in doing so but she managed it. She was just a very beat up looking Monster truck after finishing. But she did not go after Magnus again. She knew she needed to heal before doing that again. He had ripped her up pretty good for attacking him and that human pest.
Still, it pissed her off even more when she realized that a human bug had just made one of the toughest Autobots in the entire Autobot ranks leave her alive. She knew that if this ever got out, she would be doomed to the worst insults by her fellow Cons.
"I will crush you, Ultra Magnus! You and that fragging human of yours! Mark my words!" She snarled to herself before quickly speeding away to avoid the approaching human law enforcers.
The silence between the two was very unsettling to Rex. He did not like it that Magnus was not talking to him. He did not like that his friend was shaking a little, probably from anger. He didn't even like it that he was still shaking even after ten minutes to nearly fifteen minutes of that terrible silence. He was still trembling after watching that horrible battle between Magnus and the Decepticon. And he was very worried of what Magnus might say after they calmed down a little. It terrified Rex to think that Magnus might just drop his ass off at the nearest city or two and leave him stranded with no where to go but back to Brewton only to face whatever wraith his relatives might bestow upon him. And no doubt they would ship his off to jail for stealing so much money from them. He knew that he could end up in Juvie for doing something so stupid.
For a long time, the deafening silence drew on before Magnus finally sighed and his holographic human form flickered on in the driver's seat, glancing at the trembling boy with a very stern gaze.
But before the human form of Magnus could say anything, Rex cringed away from him, still staring wide eyed at him. "I'm sorry, Magnus! I'm so sorry! I kn-know that you're pissed at me but.....but......please don't drop me off at the next town and leave me!" He begged, weakly.
Magnus blinked a few times, almost surprised that those words were coming out of his young friend's mouth but he realized that he wasn't so surprised. He thought that Rex might say something like that. He could feel him trembling through his seat and knew that he was terrified of what he was going to say. It didn't take a genius to figure that out. "Rex," He sighed again. "I'm not pissed at you. I'm upset, but I'm not furious with you. But I cannot allow you to interfere like that again. You cannot try and stop me from offlining a Decepticon, even if it's a femme. Especially if it's Nemesis Strika. She is way too dangerous to be left alive. I should have killed her back there."
Rex meekly nodded as he tore his ashamed gaze away from his friend. He knew he had done wrong for standing up for Nemesis Strika. He knew he should have let Magnus do his job and killed her before she become a huge threat to Earth. "I kn-know. But.....but.....she was a girl. You almost killed a girl robot." He stammered fearfully.
Again, Magnus sighed and shook his head as he looked forward again. "Rex, even femmes are very dangerous. They can become the most dangerous in the world and you wouldn't realize it until it's too late." He told him.
"I.....I....I know, Ma-Magnus. And I'm sorry. Bu-but.....here on Earth......it's kind of wrong to hurt a girl. It's not right to hit girls. Even if they deserve it. It's.....it's just not right. It's......" Rex stammered before shuddering and looking out the window. "I.....back in New York, when my parents were still.....were still alive. We.....we had these neighbors. They were always fighting and yelling. The lady living in the apartment next door......she was always getting beaten on by her husband. I had....I had to listen to it sometimes. And then....." He shuddered at the memory. "And....then one night, he just beat her so badly that.....that it killed her. My dad had to call the cops because he was so scared that the guy would come next door and.....and try to shut us up for hearing it all. She.....she was screaming so loud next door and.....I couldn't sleep for days because of it." He said shakily.
For a long time, Magnus was silent, taking in everything that Rex just said. He understood what he was trying to say and in different circumstances, he would agree. It was wrong to hit femmes even if they deserved it. But Nemesis Strika was not just a femme. She was a very dangerous Decepticon. "Rex, just don't do that again. If we ever meet Nemesis Strika again, I have to kill her. She is a threat to you. She could have killed you when she fired at me and I nearly missed it." he told him.
"I.....I know." Rex muttered, his eyes closing to keep back the threatening tears. "I.....I just.....it scared me. Seeing that fight. Seeing her bashing on you like that and then....then you nearly......"
Magnus merely nodded as he glanced softly at the boy next to him. "This is why I didn't want to take you with me, Rex. It's too dangerous. If I was in my right mind, I should pull over and put you on a transportation back to your family. I warned you that this might happen." He told him gently.
Rex just nodded as he reached up and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand before looking weakly up at Magnus. "I....I know. I'm sorry. Are......are you.....mad at me? Do you hate me for......?" He was asking.
Immediately, Magnus turned his eyes sharply onto the boy next to him and he shook his head. "No!" He quickly said, before letting his expression soften again. He realized that he was scaring Rex a little by looking at him like that. "No, Rex. I don't hate you. I can't hate you." He softened a little more, faintly smiling at him. "You're a good human, Rex. I'm actually glad that you stopped me from killing Nemesis Strika." He grimaced at his own words. "A little anyway. It just shows me that you have a good spark inside of you, even though it was reckless to leave her alive. You humans are a little too emotional for your own good though. I shouldn't have left her alive, but if she's smart, she'll stay away this time. Because if there's a next time in running into her, I cannot allow you to interfere again. I have to kill her. Do you understand?"
Finally smiling faintly, Rex nodded as he began to calm down and stop shaking. He knew that Magnus had a point. If Nemesis Strika came after them again, she would have to die. It was for their own defense. Magnus was only trying to protect him from her and it made Rex feel grateful towards him.
"I understand." the boy stated before tilting his head. "Wh-what does she have against you anyway?"
Magnus just shook his head his eyes narrowing dryly as he stared at the road ahead of them. "Other than being an Autobot and working against the Decepticons, I nearly killed off her sparkmate." He paused for a second when he saw a confused look on Rex's face. "Her consort, her husband, I suppose you could say. His name was Obsidian. It was at Tyger Pax before the All Spark was shipped off of Cybertron." He shook his head the memory and rolled his eyes a little. "Obsidian, like Nemesis Strika, was a Decepticon General, working directly under Megatron, though he really hated that mech. He even tried to rise up and challenge Megatron once and got his aft beaten back down. Dangerous son of a Glitch too. He was once an Autobot, fighting to protect Cybertron but......something happened. No one knows what it was that made him turn Decepticon. But he became a very big threat to all of the Autobots. Out of most of the Decepticons, other than Megatron or even Starscream, he's killed the most Autobots. I had no choice but try and kill him at Tyger Pax. If I hadn't, he would have killed Elita One, who happens to be Optimus' sparkmate. Or at least, she was." He remarked, a sigh escaping him again, this time sounding very sad.
The word, was, sounded more like an echo off of cavern walls. Rex realized instantly that was the big keyword in what Magnus was saying. "Was? You mean.....she was killed?" He asked, in horror.
Slowly, Magnus nodded, looking away from him. "I admired Elita One a lot back when I knew her. She was an amazing femme. She was very kind and caring about everyone and it took her to make Optimus realize his true potential. She died in a sneak attack from the Decepticons. One of our own Autobots betrayed us to them for her own selfish reasons and the cause of it was Elita's death, along with a great number of Botlings and even a few of our greatest warriors. It crippled the Autobots pretty badly." He told Rex before shaking his head. "And if I ever see that traitorous scum again, I'm afraid that even you won't be able to stop me from ripping her apart. After what she did to my kid brother, taking away the love of his life, she deserves nothing more."
Rex shuddered to hear the way Magnus was saying that. He didn't think he ever wanted to see him this mad at him. He pitied this Autobot traitor when the time came. If it came at all. So all he did was turn his eyes towards the window and watched as they sped by.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" The Autobot IT exclaimed when the lights began flashing brightly and an alarm was going off loudly from his work station. He had been way too surprised when they began but more or less that a shrill alarm was starting to go off.
Only moments before, Hound had been trying to repair the computer mainframe, though it was still suffering pretty badly after an attack that happened several months ago. It had taken him some time to try and fix Teletraan but it was coming along. There were still quite a few problems needing to be dealt with but he was doing the best that he could. He knew if they didn't get Teletraan back online and stop malfunctioning every time they turned him on, they were going to face a lot more problems that they would have liked.
But more or less, Teletraan was acting up again and setting alarms off.
So Hound wasn't surprised when the large doors slid open and several Autobots came rushing in, followed by many of their human allies. One of those human allies happened to be his ward and partner in Intelligence Gathering. He immediately offered his hand to the plump, dark skinned man of 29 when he hurried over and brought him up onto the computer board.
"Yo, Hound man! What's going on?" Glenn Whitmann cried out as he hurried over to the large keyboard that was roughly the size of a very small car.
"Hound! What is it?" came the serious tone of the Autobot Leader when he entered the IT room along with more of their human allies, who were just curious about what was going on. They just hoped that it wasn't another glitch in Teletraan's system. They had spent a whole week in Colorado chasing after a ghost when Teletraan claimed that there had been a Decepticon squadron ripping up the town of Boulder. It hadn't been true though. Just another glitch in the system.
Hound shook his head as he quickly began clicking away at the large keyboard and staring hard at the movie theatre sized computer screen he had managed to build for his uses. He didn't like the looks of the information that Teletraan was feeding him. "Oh, man! It looks like a couple of Cybers just had a huge smack down in Louisiana! There are police reports coming about how it looked like a bomb went off over there." He said quickly before glancing over at Optimus. "I can't get a clear reading on it, but it looks like someone or someone with a plural just ripped up a small portion of the state. It's near Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. There are Cyber signatures there but I can't get a lock on who it is. It looks pretty serious though. More 'n likely, we've got two unknown Cybers on Earth. Don't even have a clue when they arrived. Teletraan didn't even pick up their Earth Bound fall."
"What's the damage by the lake?" Commanding Officer, Will Lennox asked as Ironhide lift him and Captain Ranger Robert Epps up to the computer counter. They both looked very serious and war zoned.
The Autobot IT just shook his head, grimacing a little when he checked the report. "Serious. A truck stop there was ripped to pieces. Looks like there's traces of Energon radiation still in the area. It's not gonna be harmful to the human authorities but they are getting very suspicious." He reported.
Optimus Prime frowned as he stared hard at the computer screen from over Hound's shoulder. He was worried about what had happened, more or less, who had caused such disaster. It looked like the Cybertronians responsible hadn't been caught, yet. He just hoped that Secretary of Defense John Keller could cover it up quickly and that they could find out who had been fighting who.
But after a moment of thinking, the Autobot Leader made his decision. "All right. We're checking it out." He turned swiftly and scanned the room, noting that most of his Autobots were lingering around and trying to find out what the whole commotion was. "We better keep this as low profile as we can. Therefore, Hound, Hot Rod and Ironhide, I want you to go check it out." He glanced down at Will and Epps. "Major Lennox, Captain Epps, if you will, go with them. Take a few others with you. We don't want to have this end up like last time."
Everyone grimaced at the memory. The last time something like this happened it had been in Idaho. Teletraan had glitched and sent them messages about a war zone going on and when several Autobots actually went to check out the hotspot, it was nothing. But the Autobot Base hidden within the Hoover Dam had been attacked.
Luckily for the Autobots and the human allies, it had only been a couple of stupid Decepticons who thought attacking the Autobot base on their own would turn out good. They had been sorely mistaken when the Corvette twins, Ratchet, Mirage and Blaster and several of the human soldiers had knocked them on their afts while everyone else had thought there was bunch of Decepticons tearing up Idaho. It had been a huge mess for John Keller to try and clean up so that no one else in the world found out about it.
Will just nodded as he shared a glance with Epps before quickly stepping onto Ironhide's hand with his best friend. "We'll mobilize immediately and head out within an hour. Radio contact only. We don't want Teletraan to accidentally transmit our radio systems to the public again."
Again, many an Autobot groaned at that memory. That was just only one of the worst days of their entire lives. "Thank Primus it was a Star Trek convention, otherwise we would have been slagged." Hot Rod remarked, grimacing.
"All right. Within the hour, roll out." Optimus simply stated before looking back at the screen, frowning with serious concern. He just hoped that this wasn't going to turn bad but he didn't keep his hopes up. After the mess in Oregon nearly a year ago, things had not been going too well. And with Bumblebee out of commission at the moment, due to the loss of his best friend, it was only getting worst. Optimus Prime just prayed to Primus that the young scout would snap out of it soon because he needed him as soon as possible.
This was not going to be a good day, she knew it. They had not even been there more than an hour and she was starting to get pissed off. It was too hot for her and it was not helping her already dark mood. Yes, Agent Cole was not happy at all once they arrived in Alabama and started checking out the hot spot where the radiation machines were acting up. It was due to the fact, she was wearing her usual attire of a black skin tight Special Ops suit and she was roasting in it.
The up side of the entire thing was, they were getting some hits on the radars. They had found the hot spot just out of a small town called Brewton, in the woods. There was a large clearing where some of the trees were scorched from where the creature had come down and even there were large footsteps all over the place. Something big had been here and had been walking around.
"Cole!" Agent Sean called over as he quickly walked over the green shrubs and forest grass, having to step over a fallen tree branch probably caused by the creature. He looked pretty excited. "They found more of the foot prints out by the road twenty kilometers from here. Looks like it's taken a car form just like the rest of them has."
Sighing in frustration, Cole folded her arms over her curvy chest, giving him an annoyed look. "Okay. Well, does anyone know what it's disguised as?" She asked impatiently.
Sean winced at her dark mood. He knew very well what had her knickers in a twist. It was this damn Southern heat getting to her. They both were not used to it after spending most of their time in the Northern parts of the United States. He was sweating probably as badly as she was because he was wearing black khakis and a black silk men's blouse and so he wasn't doing any better than she was. But at least, he wasn't being moody about it. The air conditioner in the silver SUV worked great.
But with a shake of his head, Sean had to answer his bad tempered partner. "No. They don't." He quickly rose his hands in surrender when she looked even angrier. "Hey, let me finish! But, there has been some word going around the town about a kid claiming that he saw a giant alien robot." He told her quickly.
For the first time in a while, even since they arrived in Alabama, Cole's eyes sparkled to life and she straightened, turning towards him. "Where?" She demanded, her tone even starting to lighten up a little.
Sean had to grin at the new approved mood coming from his partner. He liked it when she started to get a little nicer like this. "In the sleepy town of Brewton. Apparently, the locals have been having rumors going around about some small time kid there swearing he saw the alien. Looks like we might have just hit the jackpot, Cole. Want to check it out?" He asked, already knowing the answer.
And of course, Cole didn't answer as she turned sharply and started jogging back to SUV, whistling loudly at the rest of their team to move out. They immediately followed her head and headed back to the vehicles they had rented since arriving in the state. They had chose silver SUVs for a pretty good reason. Black SUVs were just too Government official and they didn't exactly work for the Government. They wanted to avoid attention, not attract it. Plus, the heat was not helping at all and Cole always figured that black cars always attracted the heat, just like how the color usually did. So she chose a light shaded color for their team to avoid getting roasted. She knew it was a very dumb idea but hey, no one dared to tell that to her face. They would rather not getting kicked in the balls or have a nice reconstructive surgery when she was done beating the shit out of them.
Yes, Agent Cole had that kind of anger issues. And it was mostly why Agent Sean liked her for it. He loved dangerous women and man, oh, man. Was Cole the very dangerous type of women that he liked.
