"um, actually I don't have any plans"
"then maybe once you're finished with your task you can take a break and actually think of what you want to do with your future"
"good point"
and so she finally is released and heads to DC. She would not make it in one trip however due to the fact that the plane suffered engine failure thanks to a bird strike. Fortunately the pilot managed to get the plane safely back on the ground
"thank goodness, now than, how are we supposed to go to our destinations?"
"well it looks like there are too many birds out so flights are canceled. We will be informed once we can actually get on a plane again"
"canceled due to birds, this is certainly an amusing day. I can't wait to tell that story to others"
"why have geese stopped the planes?"
"simple, if those birds get into the engines you have loss of power and have to go down, hopefully in a safe landing, but that's not frequent enough I'm afraid"
"how long will we be stuck here?"
"no idea, though, now that I think of it this many birds is unusual...I think we may have a problem"
she quickly gets to a public computer and does some research. Once the basic research is done she checks weather patterns and also checks in with both the local police and military to see if they had detected any strange signals while communicating on radios
"just why do you want to know this Kerenai?"
"because I think something caused the birds to come here and then stay in the first place. Why else would there be so many birds in one area of air space that planes are at risk of bird strikes and can't take off, or they have to do emergency landings. The air space is being shut down by the FAA little by little guys, you know that eventually America will be declared a no fly zone and then what happens to our economy? I know for a fact that you simply can't bring some things in by boat"
(sighs) "you're right, it would be like 9/11 all over again with airplanes except this time it won't be because of terrorists, but birds"
well she soon found out why this was happening and made a choice. One that she knew would ultimately seal her fate if she were ever caught, thus she explained herself in a letter to Marissa Fairborne who was forced to do as she was told (even if she didn't like it)
"Marissa, it's Lauren, I know this is going to be hard for you to understand much less tell my family but I am going to become an outlaw...and yes I do mean like the legend of Robin Hood. You see I have discovered some very disturbing facts that I can't reveal to you for your safety, I want you to know that I only made this decision after thinking every option over. If we ever meet from here on out we will be enemies and I expect you to arrest me as an outlaw. Tell my family that I love them but I must do this, also tell them that they are under the same constraints as you are, though if I ever get the opportunity once I am captured I will tell them what is really going on. One final thing, I don't expect to have any followers so if I do, you will know and you are to arrest them as well, hopefully if you do you can find out if I am okay or not. Again do everything you would against a normal criminal and...I'm sorry signed Lauren Kerenai, Lauren of the (symbol of the Autobots drawn here)"
after she finished reading the letter she went to the command room and gave out a very hard order for her to give out, but one she knew she had to give
"send out an order to all EDC officers arrest Lauren Kerenai on sight, I repeat arrest Lauren Kerenai on sight"
"captain?"
"just do it"
"yes sir"
well half way across the world the Musketeers heard the order given by the EDC to arrest Kerenai on sight
*what has Kerenai done to be arrested on sight?*
*no one knows all the EDC knows is that it's an order*
*should we try and find her?*
(shakes their head) *not yet, if we find out why they have that order and only if will we do something, depending on what we find out*
they quickly find out that she was now an outlaw fighting against her own government
*this is crazy Kerenai would never do that without a reason*
*unfortunately it is what it is*
(sighs) *you're right, I guess that means we stick to our job?*
*exactly*
and so the Musketeers stay out of it. Meanwhile in America Lauren was quite annoying to the federal government because she simply knew too much
"why can't we catch her?"
"easy sir she knows our tactics"
"then maybe we should change them and hopefully catch her that ways"
and so for the next seven years it was a constant battle between Lauren and the federal government. In that time period Lauren actually managed to gather allies, not many but some and all of them were federal agents who would have been killed without her intervention...or at least Lauren thought they were all federal agents who would have been killed without her intervention. What Lauren didn't know was that the true President had survived the assassination attempt by switching places with a Secret Service agent to survive (the Secret Service agent had forced the President to do so). All weapons were modern weapons except for one specific quirk that she had thought of early on. Before she had been joined by the President and the other agents no one knew that she had almost been captured once. After she had escaped she realized she needed a different weapon to announce her presence without a doubt that wouldn't end up getting her caught. So what she did was think back to the Robin Hood legends of old and whenever she had to free a prisoner or leave a message for the government she used a bow and arrow
the day she was almost captured
"hold it right there"
Kerenai brought out a gun and was ready to use it and fight when she found out that she was outnumbered
"state your name and business"
(sighs) "my name is Lauren Kerenai and I'm here to leave a message, food and money for the people"
"you are under arrest"
"not today boys"
and so she uses a smoke bomb to escape. Soon after she was polishing her bow and arrow skills
present
"so boss, what's on the agenda today?"
"well, we have a long trip ahead of us actually"
"oh?"
"yes, a spy within the local EDC branch has told me that our "President" is holding a huge rally at the White House in three weeks. It's going to take at least two and a half to get to DC the way we travel and a few more days to get everything in order to make him look like a fool"
"what's the rally for? I know you want to go but what if it's another trap?"
"it's a secretive rally apparently, and I know this could be a trap, we've only almost been killed by them what...a hundred times in the past seven or so years?"
"valid point"
and so the group finally makes it to DC, but they were missing a very key member of the group. Lauren had yet again sacrificed herself for her group, so that they might reek havoc on the "President" as part of the plan to free America from tyranny, even if it would take longer than most thought due to not much support or knowledge of why they were outlaws. Finally it was time to disrupt the rally, in the middle of the "President's" speech he was suddenly stopped by a voice declaring that everything he said was a lie
