The base is back in order. After countless hours and several days of continuous work, it seems like we finally have this place back in full working order. It took awhile but we were able to get everything back into its proper place. We took several test runs of the ground bridge to make sure it was working properly and thankfully we no longer have anymore sudden shut downs or short outs of the Autobots main means of transport.

"Well, that's a load off our minds." I say once Ratchet is fully satisfied with the state of the bridge. "Glad to have that thing finally fixed."

"You and me both." Ratchet agrees before letting out a relieved sigh. "Thank you again for your help Mason. Your… small stature helped immensely in some of the more confined places that needed repairs."

"No problem. Happy to help get this place back in order."

"Now that everything's back in order, we should—" Before Ratchet can finish, the main terminal starts pinging, shifting his attention. "Optimus! We're receiving a video call. From Agent Fowler I believe."

"Fowler? What's he want?" Miko asks as she, Raf and Jack walk up to me.

"Put him on." Optimus gives the go ahead on accepting the call from the government agent. Ratchet nods and presses a button.

"Prime! Prime!" And just like that, we are assaulted by the loud voice of government agent Fowler as he appears on screen and maybe just a little angry for some reason.

"Special agent Fowler? To what do we owe—" Optimus begins to ask as he moves closer to the terminal but Fowler cuts him off.

"What else? 'Cons! I chased them off with some hard ordnance, but not before they blew me out of the sky." He explains. Now that I see where he is more closely, it looks like he's actually inside the cockpit of a plane. And being a part of the government, a jet most likely.

"Again?" Miko mocks. 'She does kind of have a point. From what I remember and what the others have told me, Fowler has had a tendency to be shot down by Decepticons.'

"They tried a smash-and-grab for the D.N.G.S."

"The D.N.G.S.? Wow." I mutter. 'That's some heavy-duty equipment.'

"The… What's it?" Arcee asks confused.

"Dynamic Nuclear Generation System, AKA, D.N.G.S." Suddenly I feel several eyes on me after I quickly explain the abbreviation. "What?! I get bored here! Excuse me for looking into stuff that'll give the Autobots an edge." I retort to everyone stares.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that a civilian knew about a highly classified military project." Fowler speaks over the comm, making my stomach drop on account he heard.

"… Wow that mic is sensitive." I mutter, much to my human friend's amusements.

"Focusing on the matter at hand," Fowler changes our monitor of him to show a large metal crate strapped down by leather blue straps. "The D.N.G.S. is a prototype energy source I'm porting to the coast for testing."

"That's absurd. Why would Starscream bother with such primitive technology?" Ratchet immediately dismisses the idea of the Decepticons being involved.

"I'm guessing to make a big fat primitive weapon of mass destruction. If this baby were to meltdown, it would irradiate this state and the four next door." Fowler gives a very good reason as to why they would want the device, and what can be done with it.

"Uhhh… Did agent Fowler say what state he was currently in?" Unsurprisingly, at least one of us is pretty worried about the idea of a meltdown, i.e. Raf.

"I'm a sitting duck here, prime. I need you to spin up your bridge and send the D.N.G.S. to its destination before the 'cons come back for it." Fowler requests we do.

"I'm afraid that sending such a volatile device through a ground bridge is out of the question. If there were to be an accident during its transmission, the radiation of which you speak could propagate through the ground bridge vortex and harm all 50 states and beyond." Optimus hauntingly warns about the consequences. A shudder goes through my body at the potential mass destruction that could cause.

"You got any better ideas?" Fowler asks. Obviously if the Decepticons are interested in anything, its never good so we have to come up with something to safely transport that thing without it taking out half or the entire United States.

"We are locked on to your coordinates, Optimus. Barring any complications, you should reach the dropoff point by sundown." Ratchet informs him, while Miko yawns, no doubt bored about just watching and listening to the plan taking place.

"Do you think this plan is going to work?" Raf asks.

"It sounds good, but we won't know for sure until the mission is finished, in success or failure." I explain. Hopefully the 'cons will take the bait and be duped when we initiate Phase 2. From what the others have told me about Starscream, he may be sadistic but can be pretty stupid at times. Hopefully this will be one of those times.

"Remain in vehicular mode unless absolutely necessary." Optimus orders the other Autobots to do should things get hectic. While the rest of us are here we are forced to watch on the map as the bots drive along the road. Everything is silent here as we don't see any new contacts appear with our team.

"A whole team of 'cons." Fowler states over the radio suddenly. For a second, like Miko, I too feel a little bored about simply watching but what Fowler says gets my attention for a big reason: We got nothing new on our radar.

"What? I'm not picking up anything." Ratchet replies to the team. I start to get worried on what this might mean.

"Pleeeease tell me Ratchet we didn't miss anything?" I almost beg to the medic. I am seriously not looking toward the idea that I or Ratchet may have accidentally missed something that screwed up the tracking system of all Cybertronian signals.

"Preposterous! We were very thorough in our repairs and as a precaution I double checked the systems once everything was in working before we started this plan." He dismisses the fault on our side pretty quickly and confidently. 'Wish I had that confidence.' "No, they must be utilizing a cloaking technology."

"Cloaking?" I mutter as I begin to think. 'Well, it's possible. I think their ship does have something like that. The only other option is they really aren't Decepticons and are something else.'

"Our assailants are not Decepticons… They are human."

"Human?!" Ratchet, Raf, Jack and I all say confused and surprised as Optimus informs us of their enemy. 'I had a feeling it was going to be… but I guess I wasn't actually expecting it to be true.'

"Oh, please. Taking on our bots? They're roadkill!" Miko boasts how good the Autobots are but I don't think it'd be a good idea to prove that now.

"Miko, we're kind of trying to keep the bots on a low-key level. And if this is some sort of secret para-military group, I feel like revealing the Autobots might bite us later on." I can't help but put down the idea of them fighting against humans right now, provided these humans don't pose too much a threat against the bots. Then I'm alright with them causing some harm.

We don't get much more over the radio from them but from some of the erratic movements some of the bots do on the map, and some sounds, hopefully their shaking off their pursuers fairly well. "Who are these guys?" Fowler can be heard over the radio so it doesn't look like the enemy is flying any distinguishing marks or logos that gives them an idea of what or who they are exactly.

"Autobots, maintain your cover and apply minimal force. Disarmament only." Optimus orders the others to do. Things definitely sound heated as we can hear the sounds of grinding tearing metal and crashing over the comms. Some minutes pass as they continue to fight off the humans but I think I faintly hear the sounds of a helicopter in the background. 'That's going to make things complicated if they can't transform and properly fight back.'

"Special agent William Fowler here. Identify yourself!" Fowler can be heard as he angrily demands over the radio on who the hell is attacking him and the others.

"I am Silas." A deep almost foreboding voice can be heard in reply over the radio too. Looking at my friends they have uneasy looks about them too. 'At least we got a name.' "But of greater consequence to you, we are MECH." 'MECH?' "Fair warning… We will be helping ourselves to your device, even if it means inflicting casualties."

"I don't like the sound of that." Jack says next to me. I can't help but agree with that.

"Is that so? Tell me, Si, what's the market price for a D.N.G.S. these days?" Fowler harshly questions Silas over the radio.

"What makes you think we intend to sell it, agent Fowler?" 'Oh, I do not like that whatsoever.' I think once Silas tells us his agenda in the form of a question. "There's a war brewing between the new world order and the newest. The victor will be the side armed with the most innovative technology."

"That… is quite the mindset to have." I mutter uneasily as my mind starts to become racked with just who this guy is exactly, who MECH is, and just what they plan to do with the D.N.G.S. 'Although since now they're human, they may in fact simply use the device as the energy it is, instead of a bomb… hopefully.'

"So, Si… You think mech has all the most radical tech?" And to go with what Fowler is saying, the blip that was Arcee's in the back of Optimus's trailer with the D.N.G.S. starts moving. From the sounds of crashing that can be heard, it sounds like she surprised them enough to do some good damage against the, "Later, Si." Fowler's comment leaves me just a bit relieved on the further problems they are causing for MECH.

"Agent Fowler, do not take your 'Silas' lightly. Megatron preached the very same ideology before plunging Cybertron into the great war that destroyed our world." And just like that, Optimus's explanation leaves me that much more uneasy with Silas.

"Oh boy." I mutter as I clench my hands on the railing.

"Optimus, prepare to initiate phase 2. Five miles ahead, to the South, you will reach the rendezvous point." Ratchet informs them as the tunnels start coming up to them, along with the train, the core of phase 2.

"Hopefully the switch works." I hope as they make their way in.

"Chill out Mason!" Miko sidles right up to me and slaps my back while trying to help shake my uneasiness. "Our bots got this in the bag." She boasts.

"Yeah, but are you okay?" Raf asks worriedly. I look at him for a second before noticing that my hands are clenching the railing a bit roughly. I let go before I wring them a little to ease the pressure.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine it's just…" I begin to say but I trail off as I begin to think on why this is getting me so nervous.

"Just what?" Jack asks.

I take a deep breath before speaking. "Before, the only thing we were facing was simply the Decepticons and the Autobots had an idea of what we were facing on that subject. Now… this MECH group basically means we now have a new enemy to deal with… one on our home turf." I explain as best I can on this mess. The Decepticons were what the Autobots were experts on basically, but now with a human group possibly added to our list of enemies, things will get a lot more complicated, especially what with Optimus's reservations about harming humans.

"Whoa. I didn't think about it like that." Jack replies, now just a bit worried like me. Not as much but I think this'll make them think more on the possibility we may have two enemies to contend with now.

"The switch has been made. The device is clear." Ratchet informs us, shifting our attention back to the others. This gives us some relief. Now we just have to hope Silas and MECH don't wise up too quick to the switch.

Suddenly, more blips start appearing on the map, blips that are not our Autobots. "Air support? Ours or theirs?" Fowler asks and I have a sinking feeling its neither, making this situation way more complicated.

"Optimus, you have company!" Ratchet calls them over the radio to inform them of the new problem their about to have.

"Great. Can this get any worse?" I immediately regret saying that as the others look at me. "I know I know. I just jinxed us." I moan through my hands covering my face.

Several minutes pass for us here in the base as we continue to only see and hear just what's going on. Thanks to the Decepticons we lost Optimus's trailer so right now MECH probably thinks their objective just blew up. Thing is, it probably won't be long before they figure out it wasn't there to begin with since their wasn't exactly a nuclear meltdown to go along with the explosion. Now the bots are forced to go into their robot forms because of the Decepticons so trying to keep MECH from seeing their true forms has gone out the window.

"Special agent Fowler, you lead a charmed life, walking among titans." As if it wasn't anymore clear, Silas's creepy voice can be heard over the radio to our government agent as he no doubt spotted the Cybertronians.

"Come on down. I'll introduce you." Fowler taunts him.

"In good time. But at the moment, I'm too busy wondering how the D.N.G.S. might have vanished into thin air without a trace." Silas says through the radio.

"Uh-oh. He's gotten wise to our ruse." I can't help but whisper. Should have known considering this guy seems like the leader of this MECH organization.

"Now if you'll excuse me I have a train to catch." With that final statement, Silas shuts off the radio and what I can only guess is him taking off to the train.

"Prime! Silas got wise to phase 2!" Fowler quickly explains to our leader on the issue we have.

"I understand." Before Optimus can say anymore, I can hear a loud crash through the comms and suddenly I see Optimus's blipsfall further away from where he just was. The sounds of groaning after leave me worried.

"Prime, do you read me? Prime?!" Fowler loudly tries to call him but there's nothing.

"Ohhh this is not good." I mutter.

"Optimus is down!" Miko says.

"MECH's gonna grab the DNGS. We need to think of something, quick." Jack says we should do.

"You mean like a phase 3?" Raf asks and at this point, anything we may think to do may be a phase 3.

"Okay. Come on, think." Jack mutters as we brainstorm and try to come up with a plan. Thankfully Jack and Miko got one almost immediately. "All right, if mech wants the DNGS, they have to get on that train."

Miko: What if we get on board first? You know, run some human-on-human interference? I'm sure you got some tricks to help deal with them." Miko is pretty gung-ho about that idea as she pats my back on the last part, but if these guys are close to military of some kind, or even mercenary's, then they would mop the floor with those two.

"Absolutely not!" Besides, Ratchet is pretty against the idea and he's the one that controls the bridge.

"Yeah, that would be suicide." Jack is not looking forward to the idea either.

"Hello, the United States of meltdown! Lives are at stake!" Miko brings up a very good point. We absolutely cannot let anyone else get that device at any costs. While the new party is human, the idea of a bomb being made is still on the table.

"Yes… Yours!" Ratchet is still not happy with sending us on the train still. "You want me to not only bridge you into a confined space, but one traveling at 90 miles per hour? I can't even count the number of ways that can go wrong. Mass-displacement trauma, twisted limbs, metal burn…" We give him weird and deadpan looks. "Well, maybe not the last one. Regardless, it is nearly impossible to fix ground bridge coordinates on something moving at that speed." He explains the other problems of bridging us.

"Would it help if we had access to the train's coordinates?" Raf comes to the rescue as he asks and before Ratchet can answer, the train now comes up on the map with its exact speed limit and traveling location. I smile. "Well…"

"Ha!" I grunt as I land on the train after going through the portal. I quickly bring my pistol up and scan the cabin to see it clear.

"We're in."

"Why do you guys continue follow me through portals?" I ask without looking back.

"Because we aren't going to let you have all the fun." Miko comments with a smirk, making me roll my eyes. However, I quickly spot someone lying on the ground on the other side of the car where we are. I holster my pistol and head over to the army soldier.

"Hey. You okay?"

"Uhhhh." All I get is a groan.

I check the guys pulse and feel that its normal. 'Looks like he was just knocked out.' I think on the downed soldier. Looking next to him, I spot his fallen M16 rifle. I grab the rifle, check to make sure it's alright and functional before grabbing a few magazines from the unconscious man. Unfortunately, I soon hear the sound of a helicopter above us.

"Give me a hand with this." I say as I go to the side door and place the rifle on the wall. Jack and I open the sliding door to see MECH's helicopter just above us. "Company."

"Raf, MECH's landing on top of the train." Jack calls Raf on the problem we got.

"In about 20 seconds, you're gonna come to a fork. Brace yourself." Raf warns us. We take his advice and brace ourselves against the wall in preparation. Just like what Raf said, the train suddenly takes the other path than intended and we almost lose our balance but stay standing. The helicopter above though I can hear almost crashing.

"Nice. Hopefully that bought us some time."

*Crash*

I get a bad feeling as something crashes on top. Not soon after a sizzling sound can be heard and to my dread a welder begins cutting through the roof of our car.

"Huh? So, what'd that buy us? 10 seconds?" Jack complains.

"Raf is losing his touch." Miko does too.

"Quite complaining. We need a new plan." I say before looking around as the welding has almost cut a square hole in the roof. The only thing that is useable for some form of cover is the D.N.G.S. itself. And while I don't like it, it's the only thing we got, and it will mess with MECH too. "Alright, I want you guys you to go behind the why the hell are guys grabbing those?" I ask loudly and begin to order my friend but soon it turns to slightly annoyed as I watch Miko grab the axe and Jack the fire extinguisher.

"Do you wanna give us YOUR guns?"

"… Go hide behind the D.N.G.S." I quickly order them to do, completely ignoring Miko's ludicrous question.

"Almost there sir." One of the three MECH soldiers on the train car radios back to his leader as the welder is almost completely cut through.

"Excellent." Silas says as he's so close to their objective.

*Thud*

And with a final cut, the piece of the roof they were cutting falls to the floor inside. The soldiers get ready to climb in.

*Bang*Bang*Bang*

"We're taking fire!" All three soldiers duck back as some rounds ping off the roof of the car and nearly hit them as they go through the hole.

"What?!" Silas exclaims in surprised anger. "That's impossible! That EMP device we attached to the train should have fried all the electronic systems and knocked out anyone onboard." Silas quickly recalls the device they shot onto the train to immobilize it and everyone inside. "Who's firing at you?"

"We don't know sir! We didn't get a good look—!"

"You're not getting in here so get out of here!" Silas gains a look of confusion as the voice he hears sounds surprisingly young, too young to be military soldiers in this operation.

"Forget it! Subdue them already!" Silas orders without hesitation.

"Roger!" One of the soldiers acknowledges the order and all three of them pull out their MECH issued advanced rifles. Very powerful armaments they developed that are much more powerful than any other firearm in the world today. One of them countdowns with his fingers from three for the signal to attack. As soon as he hits one, his fist clenches and all three move up as one and aim their weapons in the hole. "Freeze or we'll shoot!"

"Go ahead!" Silas's eyes widen at the same voice again. "You shoot and you take us all out!"

"WHAT?!" A female and another male voice can be heard as well.

"Sir, the one that's firing on us is a child." The soldier says through the radio back to the helicopter. "I can't give you his exact age but he's definitely a teen with two others. Their using the D.N.G.S. as cover and we don't have a clear shot. The one firing has only his upper body and rifle exposed at us."

"Their using the device as cover?!" The pilot exclaims in confused surprise at the news. "Don't they know how volatile that thing is?!"

"They do. That's exactly why their using it as cover against us." Silas speaks in a low tone with a grimace. "He knows we're here for it. He knows how dangerous it is… and he KNOWS we won't shoot it directly, less we want to take ourselves out as well." His frown turns into a smile as he nods slightly. "Clever." It turns back into a frown as be presses a button on their instruments. "Take them down. Avoid the D.N.G.S. at all costs."

"Roger." The soldier replies and with the order given, they aim slightly above.

"Get down!" Mason quickly ducks down as a flurry of projectiles go flying where his head just was. They all miss the D.N.G.S. completely but that's because the soldiers are only going for headshots. The soldiers continue to fire to suppress him and his friends.

"Jack! Give me a smokescreen!"

"What?! How?!"

"Just spray the extinguisher above you!" Mason clarifies. Jack quickly does what he's told and without leaving cover he starts spraying the extinguisher above his head close to the hole. The thick mist from the fire suppressant quickly forms and starts pooling out the hole and side door of the car but it does what Mason wanted as it obscures the soldiers vision from looking into the car. Mason returns fire to force them back. He misses of course but that was to only slightly suppress them through the smoke. Once they don't hear anymore shots, one of the soldiers moves close, his advanced rifle aimed over the edge of the hole and trying to get a bead on the assailant firing at them.

"I… can't see anything! Theirs too much smoke! I can't fire without risk of hitting the—!"

*Ping*

"Arh!" The peaking soldiers yells in pain as a couple of shots hit the gun he was holding, making him drop it as it falls into the car. He grips his hand in pain but quickly drops to the ground as more gunfire can be heard from in the car.

"You're not getting D.N.G.S.! Not if we have anything to say about it!" Mason yells at them.

"Yeah! So step off!" Miko adds in her own threat as well.

"What they said!" Jack… kind of threatens.

"Mmmm." Silas darkly growls as his fist clenches in slowly building anger at the nuisance they encountered.

"Sir." He looks to the pilot, who gestures to their radar. Silas looks before turning around and looking out the window. Optimus Prime, the red and blue titan he saw before is running and gaining on the train. Optimus then transforms and gains even more ground on the train as he closes in.

Seeing one of the alien beings rapidly gaining on them, there's no way MECH can grab the D.N.G.S. in time, not with the kids interrupting and the alien so close. "Retreat." With few options left, he orders his men back to the helicopter and takes off. "First rule of combat…" Silas begins as he pulls out one of their own specially designed rocket rifles. "Never leave the enemy with the spoils."

"Whoa. You're pretty fierce."

"Thanks." I reply to Miko's compliment as we stare out the side door towards the retreating helicopter but I'm not a hundred percent sure it was all me. They probably could have done some other tactics to overpower me and the others before taking their objective. 'Something must have made them leave.' I look around out the door for anything that may have scared them off and to my elation I see Optimus driving after us.

*Boom*

To our horror, an explosion further up comes from MECH blowing up a section of the train tracks farther ahead. "Oh man. That's not good." I dreadfully say.

"Ratchet, MECH blew the train tracks. You need to bridge us out of here! The soldiers, too!" Jack quickly gets back on the phone and calls Ratchet for a bridge request.

"We've lost access to the train data! I can't bridge you back without your coordinates!" Ratchet informs us of a major problem we now have on top of the destroyed tracks.

"Oh great! Just what we need!" Miko angrily states as she throws her arms in the air. She pushes me away from the door and looks outside herself. "Maybe we should jump." She proposes.

"At 90 miles an hour?" Jack asks incredulously.

"That doesn't sound good… or survivable!" I can't help but point out loudly.

"It's the impact or the meltdown. Take your pick."

"Well, when you put it like that…" I mutter.

"What were we thinking, volunteering for this?"

"Actually, it was more like 'I' volunteered and you two tagged along." I can't help but say seeing as its true. I still remember when Jack and Raf went with me before we got captured by the Decepticons.

"Really? Your doing this NOW?!"

"Well I'm sorry but I'm pretty angry about the situation we are in!" I yell back angrily as Miko's question. "Next time maybe you should let ME do this so I won't have to worry about anyone else!"

"Next time…" Jack depressingly says, which breaks Miko and I from our argument.

"We can buy ourselves another few seconds if we're in the back of the train, right?" Miko gives her best idea of what we should do but in order for that to work, we'd kind of need to go outside in order to get to the end. I look at the hole in the roof. 'That may work.'

"Miko… Mason… At least we're in this together." Jack sincerely tells us.

"Thanks man." I thank him and pat his shoulder before looking around for anything else that may help. Again, I'm still stuck with nothing here.

"Raf, this is important! Make sure Bulkhead gets my guitar." 'Nice to see her priorities in order.' Before I can complain further in my head, Optimus finally comes to our rescue as he speeds alongside us heading straight for the front of the train.

"Don't read the will just yet." Jack gains a bit more optimism as our leader makes the effort to try to save us. However at the rate we're going and the mass, it's going to be close and I don't know about you but, 'I don't like it being close.' With nothing inside that can help us anymore, I lean out the door before I spot the caboose of the train and smile as a plan quickly forms in my head.

"Hold this." I hand Jack the M16. "Don't shoot each other."

"Wait, what are you…?" Jack begins to ask but I've already grabbed the MECH rifle, slung it on my back and I'm already climbing on the D.N.G.S. before jumping onto the hole in the roof. I quickly pull myself up onto the roof and without wasting any time since we are seriously short on that, I start making my way forward to the front of the train. Optimus is ahead of me in his vehicle form but as the road gets bumpy, he switches to his robot form that drops him back just a little before he starts moving ahead again. We turn and look at each other as he runs alongside the train and I atop it. We nod as I jump over one clearing of the cars to the next with the engine right in my reach. Optimus quickly gets in front of the train and just as I jump onto the engine part, he tries to halt the train, dropping the speed significantly.

"Arh!" Making me grunt as I hit the side walkway hard on the train. I scramble to my feet before throwing open the door to controls to get at them. As expected the conductor is knocked unconscious like the soldier in the car but I focus on the brakes. Finding the lever for it, I grab it before slamming it on full stop as hard as I can… and get nothing. "What?" I moan questioningly as the only force I can feel stopping the train is Optimus. I hit it a few times to try to get it to work but nothing. 'Great. Whatever MECH did messed up the electronics of the train as well. Need a new plan.' I think quickly before going outside and looking around. The broken tracks are coming up very fast and Optimus is doing everything he can to help stop us but its really really close. "Think think think! C'mon Mason!" I berate myself and try to come up with a plan to guarantee we'll make it. "Trains trains trains… brakes… they don't have just one they gotta have- Yes!" I shout and start making my way backwards on the train. I get on top of the freight car and start heading above.

"Hey, what—?"

"Move!"

"Woah!" Miko ducks as I pass over her as she peaks her head out and quickly ducks back in.

With luck, the mechanical brakes on each freight car are still working. I just have to engage them manually. At least one will help Optimus in stopping this train. As soon as I close in on the end of the freight car, I go into a slide and go over the end, gripping the edge before I completely fall off and dropping me into the gap between both cars. I quickly grab the lever but because of the lack of use of these brakes, its a bit stuck in place. "C'mon… c'mon… c'mon!" I grunt as I force as much of my strength in engaging this stupid brake RIGHT NOW!

*CREE*

Over the sound of the traveling train and Optimus's forced efforts in stopping, the lever finally moves and the squeal of brakes followed by sparks can be heard and seen as an additional set of brakes on top of Optimus are added to stop this runaway meltdown on wheels. "Pleasepleasepleaseplease." I repeat over and over again as I brace myself on the railing in case of failure. For what feels like a long time the screeching of metal and tearing of ground can be heard but eventually, it all comes to a stop, including the train. I lean out the side and look to see we managed to stop the train several dozen feet from the broken tracks. "Phew." I breathe out a breath of relief at how close we were to crashing and quite possibly taking out half the country too. My mouth curls up into a relieved smile but that soon turns to a frown as I spot the helicopter return.

"Well played, visitor." Silas begins to say as he watches the Optimus from his spot in the helicopter. "But mech still has home-field advantage, and we will find a way to level that playing field… even if—"

*Ping*Ping*Ping*

"Taking fire! Bugging out!" The pilot informs as the sounds of bullet impacts can be heard on their helicopter, along with one shot grazing the front window, leaving a crack but not a full-on impact shot. The pilot pulls the controls to the right and starts pulling away from the person shooting at them. Silas however isn't angry at getting shot at, he's been through that plenty of times before for it to truly surprise him, he simply glances back to the train again and glances at the kid that has been a massive thorn in his side in such a short time.

"Better watch yourself walking amongst titans… you may get stepped on." Silas grimly states before looking forward again, contemplating their mission. While their enemy has the D.N.G.S., he has found out a possible new source of technology that can be a major boost to MECH operations… from space.

"Was that really necessary?"

"Relax sir. I wasn't aiming to hit them. I only wanted to scare them off. I don't know about you but I don't want this MECH being around us anymore than is necessary, which I prefer not at all."

"Hmmmm." Optimus hums at my explanation before turning back to the sky.

I lean over the freight car to my friends inside. "Thanks Jack." I thank him for having thrown the M16 up to me so I can shoot.

"No problem." He replies.

"But the world in which we live is a different one than previously imagined." I hear Optimus say but not to me. I think he's talking to Ratchet on the radio. "One which has spawned its own Decepticons… in human skin." He finishes saying.

I place the M16 down on the ground before pulling the rifle off my back and examining it further. If I didn't see a human using this just now, I would have seriously considered it to be extraterrestrial in nature, and not just Cybertronian. 'This… is some scary gear.' I think as what I have in my hand is pretty advanced for human weaponry. I stare at the intricacy of the weapon for a few seconds before looking off towards where the helicopter just retreated.

"I got some work to do."

Happy New Years everyone! Starting this year with a new chapter, I'm actually quite alright with how this turned out. In fact I'm proud of the additions I made to when Mason jumped into the train car to protect the D.N.G.S. I don't know about you all but it kind of felt a bit useless to me for the others to go in the train not have a major impact. Sure they might have simply just delayed MECH enough Optimus to catch up and force them to retreat other than that, their really wasn't much else action for them.

Hope you all like the change that was made and Mason's efforts in stopping MECH. And now because of his efforts, he has a rifle from MECH themselves to salvage and figure out what makes it tick. Let's hope it'll open up a whole new set of options for him.

Without further ado, here are the review replies. All of them for the last chapter, which are only a few but thank you all nonetheless.

serius: Thank you. I do what I can keep my OC's interesting in every story and while their were only a few changes in the episode, it's nice to see they were what your favorite part is. Happy New Year to you as well.

Blaze1992: True, it would be safer to simply take out fake right then and there instead of immediately sending him back but I think for Wheeljack and Bulkhead it was that much sweeter to send the spy back with a present. A very volatile and explosive present that also took out a bunch of the vehicons as well, and scared the crap out of Starscream.

Fluffy guy: Thank you. I try.

AADarthSidiousAA: I'm glad I was able to make your least favorite episode a bit more entertaining to read. It's always nice when your going to work on a part that someone isn't too fond of and you make it just a bit more…. Likeable. Hopefully I can continue to do the same to future episodes.

Thank you for your support. As I said last chapter, I'm going to continue working on a few chapters for this story till I feel like I've got to a good enough point where I can work on my other stories. Trust me, you all will know when I'm going to stop so till then, hopefully expect some more for the next few weeks.

Thank you all, fave, follow, review, have a great day, hope this new year will be a great one and as always, have fun reading.