A/N – Wang is so weird. The bathroom scene…I just couldn't type it. I'll start Sam's part after Wang is 'suicide'ed. Until then, can you figure out what Lindsey is freaking out about?
Lindsey was nervous. She didn't know what to tell Sam. She knew she couldn't hide it for long. She didn't want to hide it. But she felt like something was going to happen, soon. Maybe now wasn't the right time. Was it ever going to be the right time? And what if something happened, and she never told him? She couldn't handle it.
She knew what she was going to do. She was going to tell him. On Saturday.
With Sam.
"Come on, people. Yes, a workmate died, but looking out the window is not going to bring him back. The man was depressed. You can keep watching him, but he's not getting up. You all read 'Humpty Dumpty' okay? Witwicky?" Sam really didn't want to face Brazos after the bathroom incident, and he needed to figure out what Wang was trying to tell him.
"I'm spearheading the press. You clean up. Wang is everywhere. He is in the bistro. He's in the bamboo. He's on the balustrade. Box up his personals. Get his name off his parking space. Listen, I'm not gonna say anything about what I saw. Who you share a toilet stall with is totally your business"
Suddenly, one of the workmates was thrown into the wall, and the copier turned into a raptor-like Decepticon.
The Decepticon shot everything in its way – which was pretty much everything in the building – to get to Sam. Sam started running, trying to get away from the Decepticon. Everyone was screaming and being thrown about. Sam finally ditched the Decepticon and promptly went home.
"Sam, what's wrong?" Lindsey asked again. Sam had grabbed her and thrown them both into his car, heading straight for where he knew the Autobot base was.
"Decepticon at work. I'll explain later" Sam pulled into the gates at the base.
"We've got an emergency. You gotta get Colonel Lennox out here" Sam told the guard. "I'm reporting a Decepticon. The Decepticons are back. You gotta open that gate now"
"Easy, sir. This is Health and Human Services" the guard lied to Sam. "Right. Packing M4s? What are you protecting, colostomy bags? Bedpans? Throat lozenges?" Sam snapped. One of the guards banged on the car. "are you being a smart-ass?" Sam snapped, "Do not touch the car, it is a collector's item!"
Lindsey sighed and pulled out her phone, hitting speed dial.
"Ma'am, what are you doing?" one of the guards asked, exasperated, as if he thought she was doing something only she thought was smart.
"Calling Will. Yeah, hi, Will. Sam was attacked at work. Decepticons. He won't tell me anything else, he needs to talk to you guys. Your idiot guards won't let us in. Didn't you ever tell them about Sam and me? You do realize they can track us now, right?"
Will said something over the phone, and Lindsey smiled. She held out her phone for the guard. "He wants to talk to you" the guard hesitantly took the phone. 'Hello?" he asked warily.
Instantly, you could hear yelling. Will was pissed and worried.
The guard swallowed and nodded. He handed the phone back to Lindsey, who smiled wetly. "Thanks Will. Next time you talk to Sarah, tell her I need to talk with her. Bye!" she said before hanging up.
They started going through when one of the guards started screaming, "Energon reading!" Sam stopped the car and Lindsey sighed before dialing her phone again. As the cylinders popped us, wrecking Sam's car, Lindsey said "We brought Wheelie and Brains. Get Bee down here before these idiots, who are going to be fired, shoot him"
Sam was pulled out of the car and thrown against the ground. Another guard grabbed Lindsey and roughly pinned her to the ground, bruising her arms and legs and gashing her arm as she cried out in pain. Another couple guards pulled out Wheelie and Brains.
"How's your car now?" a guard asked cockily.
Just them Bee sped up, transforming over the barrier and pointing his canon at the guard. "That's my car"
When Lindsey tried to stand up, she cried out in pain, clutching her stomach. "Linds!" Sam and all of the present Autobots rushed to her. "I'm…I'm okay…I think" she panted, tears in her eyes. Wheelie and Brains growled at the guards. "Stay away from Mistress!" they cried.
The guards were a little shocked to hear that. They had heard several Autobots talking about the elusive 'Mistress' often, but it was difficult to believe that the tiny girl in front of them was she.
Lindsey stood up. "I think I'll be fine. Just…hold onto me, okay?" she told Sam. He nodded, wrapping his arm around her waist and pulled her arm over his shoulders to give her support. "Let's go" Bee said. Sam pulled Lindsey with him through the gate.
"Raise your hand if you had a flying psycho-ninja copier trying to kill you today!" Sam cried, walking through the hallway to the metal-detectors that were set up. They searched Sam and tried to force Lindsey to stand up and be searched, but she couldn't stand on her own. Lindsey was almost crying from pain and Sam was yelling at them when Lennox showed up.
"Hey!" they all turned to him, and Lindsey flung herself at the guy. Will hugged Lindsey close, stroking her hair and trying to calm her down. "are you okay?" he asked her. Lindsey nodded, but Sam spoke up "She had bruises along both arms and legs and a long gash along one arm from one of the guards after you had already given us clearance"
Will growled; he and Sarah thought of Lindsey as their own daughter, an older sister for Annabelle. "Tell those guards at the front gate I'd like to speak with them later" Will growled. He led Sam and Lindsey through the base.
"This Wang guy recognized me. He told me to warn you" Sam was explaining to Will. "that short Japanese guy? I thought he was looking at me weird" Lindsey interrupted. Both guys ignored her comment.
"He was talking about the dark side of the moon, then they killed him" Sam continued. "Wait a minute. He mentioned the moon?" Will asked. Sam and Lindsey didn't understand, but Lennox saw the connection between the information the NEST team had just uncovered, and what Sam had been told. "Yeah, dark side of the moon"
"But why would Decepticons want to kill specific humans? I mean, in mass for no reason I get, but some of these deaths are covered up and they're targeting specific people" Lindsey mused. She had a point. Will sat them down so someone could fix up her arm.
"Excuse me? Colonel Lennox?" they all turned to look at a fairly old, sever-looking woman. "Director Mearing, this is Sam Witwicky and Lindsey Steward…" Lennox started to introduce, but Mearing snapped, "I know their names, Colonel. I wanna know who gave them clearance"
"Who gave us clearance? How about Optimus Prime, when he touched down in suburbia looking for my house?" Sam used that name so often, he forgot that it only held power with the Cybertronians anymore. It didn't scare people like it did Sector Seven six years ago.
"This is the National Intelligence Director" Lennox reminded him, "In case you" wanna watch your words.
"I apologize, Sir" Mearing looked slightly less ruffled at not being called ma'am. "We would not have come unless it was an emergency, and no one was picking up the phone. We understand that everything here is top-secret and we no longer have clearance, but Sam was attacked by a Decepticon…again…at work earlier today" Lindsey explained.
Mearing looked surprised. "Okay, listen" she turned to Will. "One of the software engineers at Sam's office was murdered today. He was involved in NASA's lunar mapping probe"
"Here's the thing, Colonel Lennox. We cannot entrust national security to teenagers unless I missed a policy paper. Are we doing that now? No? Good" Lindsey growled softly. This woman would put everyone at risk if she didn't get over herself and listen!
Lindsey rolled her eyes at the woman as Sam and she moved to a staircase. An offline Autobot, who they learned was Sentinel Prime, was on a table while Optimus approached, taking the Matrix of Leadership out of his spark chamber. "Wow" She hadn't seen that thing in years, and didn't remember what it looked like.
"Sentinel Prime, we bid you return" with that, Optimus shoved the Matrix into Sentinel's spark. Suddenly, the bot was alive and active, and attacking Optimus. "It is I, Optimus Prime!" Sentinel stopped fighting as Sam and Lindsey stopped running closer. They had the automatic instinct to help him. "It is alright. You are safe"
"There's nothing to fear" the Autobots surrounded them, and it was a spectacular sight to see. "We are here. You are home, Sentinel"
"The war…the war!" Sentinel cried. "The war was lost. Cybertron is now but a barren wasteland" Optimus told him, grabbing the Matrix and getting up. "We have taken refuge here, on planet Earth. Its human race is our ally"
"My ship. We came under fire" Sentinel was still processing everything, Lindsey guessed. "The pillars. Where are the pillars?"
"You saved five of them, including the control pillar" Optimus told him. "Only five? We once had hundreds!" Sentinel cried, furious. Mearing, being her usual, control-freak self, had to interrupt. "Excuse me, gentlemen. May I ask, what is this technology you're looking for?"
"It is the ability to reshape the universe. Together, the pillars from a space bridge. I designed, and I alone, can control it. It defies your laws of physics to transport matter through time and space" Sentinel explained.
"You're talking about a teleportation devise, aren't you?" Mearing asked. "Yes, for resources, for refugees" Sentinel clarified. "Refugees, or troops of soldiers, weapons, maybe bombs!" Mearing accused. "A means of an instant strike! That's its military function, isn't it?" Oh my gosh, not everything is designed with destruction in mind, Lindsey thought.
"It is our technology and it must be returned" Sentinel evaded her question. "Yes. If humans say so" Mearing was over-confident and over-bearing. Humans should have no say in this. It's practically stealing. "You can't just bring weapons of mass destruction into our atmosphere" you gave them permission, "You kinda have to clear customs first!" okay that was funny, and awesome. "A little formality called paperwork, kind of separates us from the animals"
"I will overlook your condescending tone if you heed the gravity of mine. The Decepticons must never know the space bridge is here. For in their hands, it would mean the end of your world"