This is a really cute chapter, I think at least. Though I'm excited to start getting into the action episodes again.

Maethoriel Artemis: Me too! I've been meaning too! I have you saved on my laptop. I plan on reading it soon and I'll let you know.

JJ: I thought that was cute. I really thought that was important too. Everyone loves Anna so they don't mind. And Primus already has shown interest in her, so Optimus doesn't want to interfere. If you've noticed some small details I've shared too... Primus wants them together. ;)

Ember: I'm so glad you found it again! It will! Just not that kind of exciting for a while ;). I'm trying to have them progress at their own pace. I'm sure when things get more stressful things will change. Thank you!

Optimus looked over everyone present in the room before he began talking. "If we are to have any hope of recovering the Iacon relics before the Decepticons do, we must divide our resources."

Ratchet frowned at him, "But, Optimus, when it comes to numbers, we are already at a grave disadvantage."

Optimus looked over at him, "Under the circumstances, swiftness of action is paramount. This is one race that we absolutely cannot afford to lose."

Ratchet heard his computer beeping and walked over to investigate. A few seconds later he turned to face everyone. "Here's a twist. It would appear that the Decepticons have retreated from Manhattan."

Arcee motioned with both of her arms. "They just up and left?"

Optimus shook his head. "It is more likely that Megatron has already set course for the second set of coordinates, having dispatched a unit to this relic's underground location."

Arcee frowned, not buying it. "Without busting up a city blow to get to it?"

Anna leaned against the railing, frowning. "Well, it is Manhattan after all."

Jack nodded. "They used the subway tunnels underneath the city."

Anna looked up at Optimus. "There's a whole network under the city, some of them not even being used."

Optimus slowly nodded as he processed the information. "Since the human population no longer seems to be directly threatened, maintaining our disguise will be necessary." Arcee, Bumblebee, you are the best choices to navigate through such a densely populated area."

Jack frowned. "Optimus, New York has more than 8 million people. The odds of being spotted by at least one of them are pretty high, even if they are headed underground."

Arcee looked up at her charge, tilting her head. "Where are you going with this?"

Jack looked at them, "You're gonna need a face man."

Anna elbowed him in the ribs. "Or woman. Jeez."

Jack rubbed his side, nodding. "And a face woman."

Anna nodded, liking his idea. "We could help if their cover gets blown."

Miko looked at them, "Well, I've actually been in subway stations. I grew up in a major metropolis, unlike Mr. I've never been outside Jasper, Nevada."

Jack motioned to Anna. "She's been to Cybertron."

Anna rolled her eyes. "Oh wow. We're arguing about this, right now? How about we all three just go?"

Optimus saw Bee's expression and sighed. "Agent Fowler's field experience makes him our best candidate."

Ratchet looked over as Fowler yelled out more gibberish. "If he weren't still recovering from his encounter with the Decepticon Warship."

Miko smirked, "Which we survived without incident?"

Anna raised an eyebrow at her. "Almost."

Optimus gave in. "Very well. Miko, Jack and Anna will accompany Arcee and Bumblebee."

Miko grinned and hugged Anna. "Yes!"

Anna groaned and rubbed her face. "Oh jeez." She looked up at Bee and smiled at him. "I promise I'll be careful, okay?"

Bee sighed before gently picking her up. {I know. I'll always worry no matter what.}

Optimus turned to Ratchet. "Initiate transport, and triangulate coordinates of the other three relics."

{X}

Anna pushed Miko back in her seat, rolling her eyes. "Miko, please keep the seatbelt on or Bee will make you."

{I will?}

"Yes."

Miko stuck out her tongue at her, buckling herself in again. "Fine, mom."

Anna groaned and looked out the window at the gigantic city. "I just don't want to have any problems this time."

{So how do we get underground?}

Anna looked around until Miko pointed out the bridge. "Look over there."

Bee drove up to the edge and he could see the construction site leading into the tunnels. {This works!} He honked his horn for Arcee.

Miko leaned out the window and grinned at Jack. "Check it out! Construction, A fact of life in the big city."

{Hold on!} Bee then drove over the edge and fell to the ground. It didn't shake the humans too much but it was still a little jolt. {You okay?}

"I'm fine."

"Peachy!"

Anna got out when they were inside the tunnel, looking around. She noticed Bee going to step on the third rail and quickly pulled on his hand. "Bee!"

Bee quickly followed her, beeping curiously. {What?}

Jack frowned, keeping away from the rail. "You almost stepped on the third rail. It carries electricity to power the subway trains."

Miko nodded, "One touch and zap! You're fried!"

Bumblebee beeped as he nodded, dancing around the rails so he wouldn't touch the third one. He just ended up looking like an adorable goofball. {Got it!}

Anna laughed softly as she looked at Miko. "He's so cute."

Miko rolled her eyes. "He must have learned about that on TV or something."

Anna ended up walking in step with Bumblebee, behind the other three. Arcee was in front with the device that was tracking the coordinates. After a few minutes Jack looked up. "Are we getting any closer?"

Arcee looked over at him as she kept walking. "Triangulating the coordinates is one thing but figuring out how to reach them through this maze is another." Everyone paused as they heard a distant screeching sound. Bee kneeled down by a smaller tunnel where he could hear the drilling coming through. He motioned at the others to come over. Arcee kneeled down and frowned. "Drilling."

Miko ran down the tunnel. "It's coming from this way!"

Jack gasped, "Miko!"

Anna ran after her, "Shit! Miko! Ah, sorry, bad language!"

Jack ran after them, "Hold up, guys!"

Anna jumped down and stood next to Miko, frowning softly. "Miko.."

Jack jumped down behind her, "Miko what is your -"

"Hold it right there!" A construction worker was shining his lights on them, walking towards them. Anna, Miko and Jack in unison mumbled scrap.

The construction worker talked over a megaphone. "What are you kids doing down here?"

Miko grinned at him, "We're on a field trip with our school. But we got lost."

"Oh really?" They could hear the sarcasm.

Miko nodded. "I told him we should stay with our group, but Leonard here - insisted we search for fossils. Even Sarah tried to change his mind."

Jack shrugged, playing along. "My bad."

Anna huffed at him, "Yeah, your bad Leonard."

Miko walked closer, "We want to go home, can you help us, Mister.."

"Vogel." He stepped closer, lowering his megaphone. "But you can call me Vogel."

Vogel motioned to his ride. "So, ever ride a sweeper train?"

Anna looked back when she felt someone poke her. She saw Bee and Arcee staring at her worriedly. Anna stepped back a little so she could whisper to them. "We'll leave with him so you should be free to search. We'll be fine."

Arcee whispered quietly. "Stay together until we come get you."

Anna nodded before following the others onto the sweeper train. Miko, Jack and Anna stood around Vogel, listening to him going on about the history of the tunnels. It was fascinating.

"And this section was added in the '30s as part of a public-works project."

Miko yawned, "Fascinating."

"But these old tunnels have a dark side, too. Strange creatures have been said to lurk down here. Giant snakes, albino alligators, even mole men."

Anna tilted her head. "Well then."

Jack turned to him, "But those are just people who live down here because they have no place else to go, right?"

"That's what the media wants you to believe. But I say, they're from outer space."

Anna was silently dragged to an exit door on the sweeper train, Miko motioning Jack over.

"I'm telling you, Area 51's got nothin' on this place. The aliens are down here, building up their army, plotting to use us humans as slave labor."

Anna jumped down with Miko, steadying themselves as Jack jumped too. Anna shook her head. "I think working in these tunnels has drove him insane."

Miko laughed, "If he only knew."

Anna looked around before she began walking. "So. Now we have to either find the 'bots or the exit."

Miko and Jack stopped when they came to a fork in the tunnels. Jack turned to the other two. "Uh..?"

Miko turned and ran down one of them. "This way!"

Jack ran after her. "How do you know!?" He stopped Miko and frowned down at her. "Miko, let's think this through."

Miko slapped his hand away, huffing. "Why, 'cause you think I don't know what I'm doing?"

Anna frowned at her. "We just don't want to get more lost down here."

Miko looked at Jack, mocking him. "I'm Jack! I think I'm so smart and know better than everyone else." She then turned to Anna and narrowed her eyes. "I'm Anna! Primus has plans for me and I'm so smart and I got to go to Cybertron! My boyfriend is a talking robot!"

Jack huffed back at her. "Miko! I do not think I'm better than anyone!"

Anna crossed her arms. "If you hate me for that then why didn't you say something to me earlier?"

Miko turned away from her, crossing her arms. "I've been holding it in."

Jack motioned towards her. "Since when do you hold anything in?"

Anna gently rubbed Miko's shoulder. "Miko. You're just as important as me or any of the other members of Team Prime."

Jack nodded. "Just yesterday, you helped take down a psychotic Decepticon warship! This isn't a competition!"

Anna winced as a bright light was shone on them, Vogel glaring at them. "Lost, huh? You three are going to have to explain yourselves to the New York transit authority."

Miko looked up at Anna. "I think we should tell him the truth."

Jack looked over at Vogel. "Right... the truth is.. we lost our dog."

Vogel didn't buy it. "You're wasting your breath."

Miko shook her head. "The real truth." She walked closer to Vogel as she spoke. "We're trying to prevent aliens from digging up a powerful ancient relic so they can't use it to destroy our planet."

"I swore I heard something weird and high-pitched earlier today. Something that wasn't the crew drilling over on track 5." The four of them quickly got on the sweeper train, Vogel flying towards where he heard the strange noises. A few minutes later they began to spot something down the track. "Mole men! Metal ones!"

Anna gripped her hands tightly together, "Bee!"

Miko shook her head, "They're actually Decepticons."

Jack clenched his fists, "And they have Arcee and Bumblebee!"

Miko turned to the adult. "Vogel? This thing have another gear?"

"Abso-Freakin'-Lutely!" Vogel shifted a gear down, the train flying even faster, right at Knock Out. It hit him, causing him to be pinned against the wall as the train past, his metal armor screeching. Vogel tried to slow them down but the gears weren't working. "Not good.. Brake line must have been torched!"

Jack looked panicked, "We can't stop?!"

Miko looked around nervously. "No big deal. These tracks go 'round for miles, right, Vogel?"

"Not this one." He looked down as his tracking system began beeping wildly.

Anna held onto the wall. "And there's no way to stop this thing?"

Miko groaned. "I'm really starting to hate trains!"

Everyone jumped as something heavy landed on the roof of the train. "Whoah!"

Vogel looked at the kids, "What was that?" Everyone ran in the back to see it was only Arcee. Vogel grabbed an Axe and went to chop at Arcee. "Welcome to Earth!"

Anna quickly grabbed the Axe, tearing it away from the large man with ease. She laid it down on the ground and stepped in front of Arcee. "No!"

Miko nodded. "She's one of the good guys!"

Jack turned around, "Arcee, the brakes are shot!"

Arcee looked up at Vogel. "Is there any kind of emergency override?"

Vogel shook his head. "N-no, Ma'am! But there is a switch-track control up ahead. If you can just adjust the pole rod..." He saw Arcee look around and continued. "You'll know it when you see it. It'll re-route us to another line." Vogel watched as Arcee transformed and raced ahead of them. "Did she just turn into a motorcycle?"

Anna turned around when she heard the familiar screeching sound. "Oh scrap no."

Vogel looked at the kids. "And that would be?"

Jack looked back at him, "Trouble."

Anna nodded. "Huge trouble." She watched as Jack and Vogel went back up front. She turned to Miko and gently rubbed her arm.

"Uh oh!" Arcee had broken the gear shift but was laying in the track, using her feet to try and push in the track. At the last second she got it in, diving out of the way.

Jack grinned, pumping his fist in the air. "Yes!"

Miko grinned, "Sweet!"

Anna slumped against Vogel's seat, sighing. "We never have a normal day, huh?"

Miko smiled at them. "We're in the clear!"

Vogel looked at them, "Still need a way to stop, beside slamming into a wall."

Anna looked up and saw that Bee was just standing in the way. "BUMBLEBEE!" Anna winced and covered her eyes. She waited a few seconds waiting for a crash but nothing happened. Anna turned and saw him phasing through the train. "What in Primus.." Anna jolted as they did end up hitting Knock Out though. He fell to the ground, unintentionally stopping the train. Anna hopped off the train and ran over to her boyfriend. "Are you alright?!"

Bumblebee nodded at her and waved at Miko to show he was okay. {I'm fine!}

Miko grinned up at him, "Dude!"

Jack frowned as Arcee pulled up, transforming. "How did you not get mashed?"

{This is a phase shifter!}

Arcee translated for the others. "Phase shifter." She moved her arm through Bumblebee's chest. "Handy when you need to pass through solid objects, or vice versa."

Bumblebee gently removed the device before picking Anna up. {This is great!}

Everyone turned as Knock Out yelled out. He pushed the train towards them, scowling at the team. "You scratch my face, I scratch yours!"

Bumblebee quickly sat Anna down before aiming his blasters at Knock Out. {Try it!} He relaxed as Knock Out only sped away, his finish looking like scrap.

Jack looked over at Vogel before looking up at the two 'bots. "He knows. Do we have to take him with us?"

Vogel looked up at them, "To the mother ship?"

Anna bit her lip so she wouldn't laugh. She did grin when Bee gently nudged her, shooting her a look.

Miko smirked as she looked up, "I think I have a work-around." She got out her phone and called someone. "Agent Fowler's got this."

Vogel looked up and grinned. "Thank you, sir." He handed the phone back and smiled at them. "So you folks will be in touch?"

Miko grinned. "Abso-Freakin'-Lutely!"

Arcee looked down at them, "But until then, we need to maintain complete radio silence."

Vogel nodded and saluted them. "It's been an honor."

Jack grinned over at Miko. "Good call, face."

Anna smiled and patted her shoulder. "See. I told you that you were important."

Miko smiled. "Eh, I understand big-city people who spend way too much time below ground."

Arcee looked over at Bee. "One relic down, three to go. Let's hope the others are having similar results."

Bee nodded before transforming, opening both doors for the girls. {Let's head back!}

Anna got in the driver's seat and relaxed. "Raf is going to really enjoy this story."

{Did that guy call us mole men?}

Anna laughed and looked at Miko. "Bumblebee is confused because Vogel called them mole men."

Miko chuckled. "Well he's a little crazy."

Anna smiled and rubbed Bee's door. "I'll tell you a secret. The best people are."

Miko groaned, waving her hand in the air. "Nerd!"

Anna laughed softly and looked out the window as Bee began to drive out of the city. "It's from a book Bee, Alice in Wonderland."

{Ah. It's a good quote.}

Anna smiled and gently rubbed his door again, looking out the window. "Even here everyone's looking at you, Bee."

{Because I'm so sweet looking!}

Anna blushed and rolled her eyes a little. "Sure, Bee."

{You think so toooo!}

Anna blushed more and ignored the look Miko was giving her. "Shush, Bee."

{Admit it!}

"Bee!"

{Annnaaa!}

Anna huffed and crossed her arms. "Yes, Bumblebee, you're gorgeous as a car and as yourself."

Miko laughed loudly as she watched the two of them. "Get a room, lovebirds!"

Anna covered her face, groaning softly. "Miko.."

{I am not a bird?}

"It's an expression Bee.."