Chapter 14 ~ Hoover

"English Speech."
"Cybertronian Speech."
"Lithuanian Speech."
"Radio Clips."
Thoughts.
*Com link*

Hey there peoples of the Interwebs! A little shorter today. You'll see why. I said last time I'm trying to make these longer, and I am. We just need to get to the ones I started writing after I started posting. Shouldn't take too long! Welp that's all from me. I hope you like!

I sighed as we were transferred into a helicopter. The handcuffs had come off about an hour ago but my nanites were still bitching about it… in a painful way. Luckily all three of us had managed to get a quick nap, or in my case, recharge. Some solders handed us headsets and helped us inside. I was surprised to see we weren't the only ones. A blond woman and a chubby black dude were being ushered up as well.

"Hi." The blond woman started. "I'm Maggie." She extended a hand to me since I was the closest.

"Star."

"Sam."

"I'm Mikaela." The other dude stepped forwards then, his own hand extended.

"Name's Glen." Eventually we were all situated and the pilot was cleared to take off. We were silent for most of the trip until Sam failed to start a sentence and Maggie asked the million dollar question.

"So..."

"What'd they get you for?" Mikaela and I looked at Sam.

"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot… Who knew?" I heard Glen sputter into the microphone.

"How about you guys?" I asked.

"Well I was on an analyst team that was trying to figure out this sound that hacked into the systems. I might have made a copy of part of it so Glen could decode it for me. That's the simple version."

"Nice."

"ETA: 5 minutes." The pilot's voice said over the headsets. When we landed we were transferred to more SUVs. We then had a short drive to the last place I thought we would end up. Hoover Dam.

"Hey Sam." I whispered.

"What?"

"We've got a big dam problem."

"Ha, ha. Very funny Star."

"What? I thought it was a good dam joke." Sam just shook his head as we leaned over the edge. I looked at Sam as he reached over and gently slapped the concrete. We had no time to sight see though. Soldiers were ushering us towards a bridge like thing. I looked over to the cliff sides and almost gasped when I recognized it… slightly… Is this is the same area I landed in?

"Team attention! Present arms!" I heard some soldiers shout on the other end of the bridge. Unfortunately, before I could see who they were saluting… the last person I wanted to see made an appearance.

"Hey, kids." Simmons started, letting his crossed arms fall. "I think we got off to a bad start, huh?" Bad start?! Is he fragging serious?! Simmons reached out and clasped Sam on the shoulder. "You must be hungry? You want a latte? HoHo? Double venti macchiato?"

"Where's my car?"

"Son," some new balding guy walked up, "I need you to listen to me very carefully. People can die here. We need to know everything you know. We need to know it now."

"Okay." I glanced at Sam, honestly questioning his sanity. "But first, I'll take my car, my parents. Maybe you should write that down." Okay, still sane. "Oh, and her juvie record. That's got to be gone. Like, forever." I gave 'Kaela a little nudge which she returned.

"Come with me. We'll talk about your car." I smirked to Simmons as we walked by.

"The man's an extortionist." That got me snickering. The four of us walked forwards, grouping up with some officials and soldiers. Simmons caught up and started leading the group with the new baldy.

"Excuse me, sir?" Baldy turned. "I never got your name."

"Banachek."

"Ah." I moved back towards Sam as our group started forwards. We all ended up going down some elevator and then working our way through tunnels.

"All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs." Simmons started as he led us into the depths of Hoover.

"NBEs?" One of the soldiers asked. His name tag read Epps.

"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms." Guess I missed the memo. Heh… so I'm an NBE… that's a dumb name.

"What you're about to see is totally classified." Banachek called as we walked out of a tunnel and into a massive hanger. The first thing I registered was cold… the second… There was an all too familiar figure standing at the back of the room.

"Sam!" He looked at me, and I could see he knew who it was as well.

"I know." Sam motioned both Mikaela and I closer. The first people out of the tunnel slowed to a halt.

"Dear God. What is this?" Is that the Secretary of Defense?

"We think when he made his approach over the North Pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry. He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934."

"We call him NBE One." Simmons finished as we reached the base of Megatron's platform.

"Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know," Sam started, "but, I mean, that's Megatron." Simmons and Banachek turned to look at him. "He's the leader of the Decepticons."

"He's been in cryostasis since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind" Banachek explained.

"Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age, the microchip, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all reverse-engineered by studying him." Simmons paced in front of us during his little speech. "NBE One. That's what we call it."

"And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?" I snickered at SecDef's description.

"Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security." Banachek brushed off the Secretary's comment.

"Well, you got one now."

"So why Earth?" A soldier with a tag reading 'Lennox' asked.

"The AllSpark." I accidentally said. I really didn't want any attention right now considering I'm literally in the clutches of people who want to dissect me.

"AllSpark? What is that?" SecDef asked. Luckily for me, Sam came to my rescue.

"Well, yeah, they came here looking for some sort of cube-looking thing." The group looked back to Sam and I let go of the vent I didn't realize I was holding. "Anyway, Mr. NBE One here, AKA Megatron, that's what they call him, who's pretty much the harbinger of death," Nice description, "wants to use the Cube to transform human technology to take over the universe. That's their plan." Banachek and Simmons exchanged a glance.

"And you're sure about that?" Simmons probed.

"Yeah." Sam and I looked at them.

"You guys know where it is, don't you?"

"Follow me." We followed Simmons down another maze of hallways. "You're about to see our crown jewel." He said as he opened a door. It let out into a glass observation deck that looked out to… the AllSpark. Primus.

"Carbon dating puts the Cube here around 10,000 BC." I landed in 10,000 BC?! I pushed away those thoughts in favor of listening to the rest of Banachek's explanation. "The first Seven didn't find it until 1902. They knew it was alien because of the matching hieroglyphics on the Cube as well as NBE One. President Hoover had the dam built around it. Four football fields thick of concrete. A perfect way to hide its energy from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside." We all kinda stared at it until Maggie spoke up.

"Wait, back up. You said the dam hides the Cube's energy… What kind exactly?"

"Good question." We were led to another room… this one with huge bunker doors. The walls were covered in deep gouges. "Please step inside. They have to lock us in." Well that's reassuring.

"Oh, wow. What's that? Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?" Epps asked pointing at one of the larger claw marks.

"Oh, no, man." Glen moved towards him. "Freddy Krueger have four blades, man. That's only three. That's Wolverine! Right? That's Wolverine!"

"That's very funny." Simmons deadpanned. "Anybody have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry? Key alarm? Cell phone?" My programs pulled at my processor and before I knew what I was doing… I rose my hand and dug my cell phone out of my pocket.

"Here." I handed Simmons my cell. He looked at me like I grew another head but accepted it. Goggles were passed around and we all positioned them over our eyes.

"What kinda phone is this?"

"Uh… A cell phone?" Simmons just grunted and dropped the subject.

"What kind is that? It looks like those iPhones that Apple announced." Sam whispered in my ear.

"Well… I kinda made it myself."

"You made that?!"

"Yeah."

"We're able to take the Cube radiation and funnel it into that box." Simmons explained, cutting off Sam and flicking switches around the room. He pressed a trigger and an arm lowered in the box. I jerked back as a wave of energy from the AllSpark flooded the chamber. My cell phone jerked and… transformed.

There you have it folks! CLIFF HANGER! :3 I did it again. Just wait to see what happens. I feel kinda evil when I do this. Quick update on my rant from last time. My parents decided that I will not be going to school tomorrow. I shall be "looking at a college". :3 Hur hur. Well I'm just going to keep this short and sweet. Please, please, please leave a review for at least this chapter if not all. Let me know what you think so far, if I made any mistakes in catching my mistakes, any ideas as to what you think will happen to Star, funny shit you want me to make her do, prank ideas… cause I need those, or just say hi! Alrighty then, I'll talk to you later Interwebs! Bye! o/