I hope you enjoy this chapter because I know I enjoyed writing this one, This is out today on the 30th due to it being the two year anniversary of this story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers or it's characters. However I do own my OC's and the plot.
BTW, I can't really remember Dutch too well so sorry if I got him wrong.
Mikaela's PoV
"You have to be fragging kidding me, right Sky'?" I asked in disbelief as we pulled up a driveway. "You do remember he's a complete and total asshat right? Not to mention he perved on us and your sister." I protested as we drove up.
"Ah don' really agree wit' comin' 'ere either but Sky' thinks dat it's our bes' way ta get back inta base wit'out bein' shot at." Jazz pointed out to us in Skylar's defense.
"Exactly. And even though he's been an ass in the past, he has helped us. Plus Dutch is cool with us being here. He likes me and Cass so we're good." Skylar tried to reassure us.
"Hold on, who are we going to see? Who lives here?" Amelia asked just as we pulled up at the front door and we were all getting out of Jazz.
"Ugh… Seymour Simmons." Skylar moaned out as she stretched from the long car ride. To be honest, we were all thankful we were able to stretch our limbs after hours of travelling.
"Oh right okay..." she replied, sounding quite cool with it before exploding. "Are you shitting me!? That jerk lives here? He tortured Bee!" she almost screamed. Correction, she did scream. This was going to be fan-tucking-fastic.
"Trust me Amelia, he's an alright person now. He's helped us a lot over the years. If we couldn't trust him, none of us would be here." I explained to her, trying to calm her down.
"Plus, Ah wouldn' 'ave driven up 'ere if Ah didn' trust 'im." Jazz said as he, Maggie and Skylar started walking towards the front door.
"Fine, I guess. Doesn't mean I have to like it though." Amelia finally submitted before we both headed up to the front door as well. One of them had already knocked by the time we'd gotten to the door.
Amelia's PoV
I did not feel good about this, nope, not at all. But according to Skylar, this was the only way back to NEST without being arrested or shot at on site. So what choice did we have? When the door opened, we were met with a… tall man. That's all I can really say about him, nothing else.
"Hey Dutch, how are ya?" Skylar asked smiling. Strangely enough, he didn't reply to her. He simply gave a hand gesture for us to follow him. I looked to Maggie for an explanation about this.
"I thought Sky said Dutch liked her?" I asked her in confusion.
"He does. If he didn't like us he would've shut the door on us." she replied.
"Oh." was all I could say as we all entered the mansion. It was like a huge palace inside. It was like no one even lived here it was all so spick and span!
"Master Simmons is currently in the library-" Dutch started, but me and my loud mouth cut him off.
"This place has a library!?" I exclaimed in disbelief. This place was just unbelievable. "Sorry." I apologised when I saw the very unimpressed look on Dutch's face.
"Master Simmons is currently in the library and I have requested his presence in the main room. If you would please follow me." he carried on, signalling for us to all follow him through the doors to what I am safe to assume was the main room. When I saw that the girls were starting to sit down I followed their lead. I was doing a lot of following today for some reason. Since I was still really unsure about this place, I stuck close to Maggie. She was the person who I trusted most here out of everyone. The two of us sat on the sofa, with Jazz standing behind us while Mikaela and Skylar sat on two single chairs. I'm going to guess that Jazz is standing because it would be easier to get to Maggie's aid if she was in trouble than if he was sitting down. Then, a middle aged man came in, in a wheelchair quickly, making me jump out of my skin. This guy sure knew how to make an entrance.
"Dutch! What's all this about?" he asked Dutch, without even looking at us yet.
"Miss Cloetta and her friends have come for unknown reasons." Dutch replied, causing the man to turn and look at us.
"Girls, you'd better not be wasting my time with mushy sentiments or things to sell. I get enough of that from the scouts that sell cookies. What do you want?" he asked a bit rudely.
"It's good to see you too Simmons. How are your legs?" Skylar asked him.
"Skip the pleasantries, why did you come here? After Chicago, I'd have thought that you'd have been getting ready for a screaming match with the government," he said in an amused tone.
"What are you talking about?" I asked him in confusion. That made him to look me up and down.
"Who's the new kid? She got another car that turns into one of your autobot pals?" he asked in a sort of know-it-all tone.
"Actually, she's why we came to you. She's Optimus Prime's daughter." Mikaela told him.
"Hologram thing? Those bots get younger ones every day." he mused.
"Holoform. And no. She's human. Mostly anyway." Skylar explained to him briefly.
"How on Earth did the truck get a human daughter?" he exclaimed.
"That truck is my dad. And I would appreciate if you didn't call him that. He has a name." I stated. "As for how it happened, my dad came down to Earth years age, fell in love with my mom and had to leave ecause of the war before she found out she was pregnant with me. That's the cut down version." I briefly told him.
"So those holoforms are more human than we thought." Simmons muttered to himself.
"Dey're more human dan de bots t'ought too/" Jazz added.
"So why have you come to me? Just take her to your base. One big happy family done and done." Simmons asked."
"That's the problem. Because Optimus never knew about her, we didn't have his support in it originally as we thought that humans and Cybertronians couldn't procreate. So, in order to make sure 100%, Wheeljack, our autobot scientist created something that analysed Optimus' CNA and Amy's DNA to search for comparisons or even traces of the same energon. But the next morning, the test came back negative on both accounts." Maggie started explaining.
"So she isn't his kid?" Simmons asked, eyebrows raised.
"That's what we thought at first as well, so when the results came back negative, Amelia was sent off base right away with nothing but what she had on her back and in her pockets. But Cassidy then discovered that the results had been tampered with by some of the soldiers who had it out for Amelia and also found out that they were working for Director Mearing and Galloway." she continued.
"Where is Miss R-C? Wouldn't she be here with you?" Simmons asked us.
"She got arrested under false pretences so the directors could get her out of the picture, and they thought they were getting rid of any evidence. But Cassie phoned me and sent all of us the video she recorded." Skylar told him.
"Now we are wanted fugitives of the military and Amelia has to stay away from anything bot-like or she'll be arrested. Really she should have been arrested about five hours ago when we came to her with Jazz." Mikaela added on.
"Thanks, 'Kaela." I drawled sarcastically.
"Look, do you still have that web camera that you can hack to places with? The one you and Sam made?" Skylar asked him.
"Of course, I'm not going to throw away that brilliant piece of technology. It was actually developed from studying NBE-1 AKA Megatron." he said, getting up and taking us to where the camera was.
"Ugh, don't talk about him please. He plagues my nightmares enough." I begged him, voice shaking, holding my head, trying to get rid of the image of Megatron towering over me. The many images of him hitting me across the room, and the images of him threatening me. Those I could handle but the ones I couldn't bare to face were the ones that took place inside my cell. Not just with him, but with almost every other filthy Con there as well. But it was mostly Megatron. He made himself smaller, to the size of a human and would do… things. With that, the name was unused.
"So what plan have you got Cloetta? Obviously you can't video call NEST. You're wanted in case you've forgotten that minor fact." Simmons asked in an almost snide tone.
"Nope. I haven't forgotten that very minor fact." Skylar shot back. "That's why you and Jazz are going to make that video call." she told them.
"Them? Us?" five voices, including my own exclaimed.
"Them. Jazz can use his saboteur skills to hack into NEST and get a conference call into the recreational room. In fact, Jazz, can you comm Optimus and tell him to gather everyone there, including the directors and Cassidy. They all need to here this." Skylar started instructing us all.
"Ya got it lil' lady." Jazz told her before coming Optimus. I could tell because the sunglasses that were meant to represent hi visor dimmed slightly.
"Maggie, can you download all the footage to the laptop so the guys can access it during the video call?" Skylar asked/told Maggie.
"Doing it now." Maggie replied, sitting down at the laptop and downloading all the footage from the microchip to the laptop.
"'Kaela, you'll have to be the techie. When they need the vids up, you'll need to get them on the screen." Skylar said, turning to face Mikaela.
"You got it boss." she replied, sitting down at the laptop with Magz. Jazz then came waling up to me and Sky.
"Ah commed Optimus. 'E said ev'ryone is waitin' in de rec. room but we need ta hurry. De Directors are close ta blowin' if we don' get de show on de road." Jazz told us.
"Great. We're about to start. You and Simmons get in front of the camera. Oh! Did you tell them Amelia was here?" Sky asked quickly.
"Nah girl. Ah ain' crazy." he said, getting into the centre of the room.
"Okay. I am going, to hold the camera." Sky said aloud, picking the camera up. Because you see, it wasn't just a normal web cam. It was like to TV camera, you had to hold it over your shoulder. "And Amelia… you can just… stand to the side and… look cute." Skylar said. I wasn't offended. They were doing this all for me anyway. And there weren't any jobs left.
"I'm just going to go and sit down then." I said, taking a seat next to the wall in an armchair.
"And we are live! In 5, 4, 3, 2..." Skylar called out. And with that, an image of the appeared on the screen on the laptop which I could just about see from there I was sitting. Thankfully, the camera couldn't see me on screen so I was safe to watch from where I was.
"Agent Simmons, you and your autobot pal better have a good reason for interuppting the entire scheldule here at NEST. We are having a bit of a situation here." I could hear director Mearing's voice. Rage started filling me. She was one of the people who tried to destroy my life! That bitch was going to pay.
"Charlotte Mearing. Always a pleasure. But I can assure you that we are calling on the upmost importance. Before we begin to explain why, I would like to ask all ways for this transmission to be cut off be guarded by Lennox's men and for the transmission to be secure." Simmons started. It took them a moment to get that sorted out. Lennox and Epps had moved somewhere off screen so I'm guessing they were securing the way the video call was being received.
"The line is secure. What is it that you seem so desperate to discuss with the entire NEST base?" Gallway asked impatiently.
"Ah think we should start wit' de fact dat 'Melia Evans is act'ally de daughter of de boss-bot." Jazz stated, causing an uproar from the directors and some whispering from the soldiers and 'bots. However Optimus and a few others stayed silent.
"In case it wasn't brought to your attention, the tests to prove that Miss Evans was Prime's child was negative. The test was a fail." Mearing said cockily to Simmons with a snide look on her face.
"Well, that had been 'brought to my attention'. It was also 'brought to my attention' that the test had been tampered with." Simmons continued, in his own snide tone that matched her own. "During the scans of Miss Evans' blood, the blood was switched with another which had no relations to any of the bots or cons." he added.
"Well that's impossible. It would've been caught on the security cameras." Aaron protested, gaining some other soldiers to agree with him.
"Oh, but it was caugh' on camera wasn' i'?" Jazz asked him specifically. "'Kaela, Maggie darlin', would ya play da vid please?" he asked the girls who were off screen. The video was then loaded up of the med bay, taking up the entire screen back at the base apart from a small square in the corner where they could still see Jazz and Simmons. When the video finished playing, there were some looks with a mixture of disgust, anger, surprise and some were filled with fear.
"And this lead us on to think, 'these soldiers wouldn't have thought of this themselves. At least not without someone encouraging them.' So that links us to the next video which was recorded the day of Miss Cassidy Cloetta's arrest by Miss Cloetta herself. This video was the reason she was arrested. Without further adieu." Simmons said as the next video loaded and played.
Oh how I was enjoying this. This was such sweet revenge. I'm not really one for getting back at people like this, but I'm sorry, those bastards deserve it. When the next video finished playing, I could see that Droector Mearing and Galloway's faces had gone ashen.
"Hey Amy, come and take the camera for a second would you?" Skylar called me over. Quickly, I stood up and started making my way across the room, behind the camera, not wanting to be seen on the big screen. I took the camera off Skylar and Primus was it heavy! How was she holding this with no problem!? Skylar then went to go stand next to Simmons and Jazz.
"Now, there are multiple ways that these videos and evidence could be taken in, but here's how I would take it." Skylar started with a small wave and cute grin before turning quite serious. "I'm thinking that for Aaron and his gang of croonies who helped in the heist, four federal offenses: obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence which could be proved if we test the blood sample tested with another sample of Aaron's, interference of an official investigation and faliure to render aid to Miss Evans." Skylar started. Wow, I couldn't believe they were guilty of all that. I could hear a scuffle as some soldiers I'm guessing we grabbing Aaron and his crew. "And that's just them. Next is you, Director Mearing and Director Galloway. You knew that Miss Evans was 17 when she was kidnapped by the Decepticons, meaning she had not even successfully finished high school. That meant no qualifications. This lead to her being unable to get a job. And since you forced her off base with no ID, thus no proof of identity, she would not have been able to even buy a mobile phone, get a credit card, an apartment, any medical attention or get a job at Burger King! That alone is a federal offence as it's another failure to render aid to those in need. And as she had been kidnapped, Miss Evans fell into that category. This could alo be lead on to the fact that with Miss Evans left in this state, it could be considered genocide as there are no other half-human half-Cybertronians out there. Another federal offence. Another federal offence that they have committed is Will full Endangerment. Miss Evans was under the age of 18 when kidnapped and lack of aid from you supports this sentence. The final offence I can think of off the top of my head is Duty to RESCUE. This links in with failure to render aid. This requires you to help someone who is in a life threatening situation and the position you put Miss Evans in is more than life threatening." Skylar was shouting at the camera. Primus this girl was good!
"So, I will be leaving you to arrest all of those people who were involved in those crimes unless the directors have a signed presidential order that has been backed by both the Congress AND the Senate to prove that they were not doing this of their own accord. Do you have that Directors?" Skylar asked them.
"You do not have authorisation to do this. We are the Directors of this military base!" Galloway screamed.
"I'm going to take that as a no." Simmons replied dryly.
"By doin' all dese acts Directors, ya've gone an' put out heir ta da Prime line at risk of capture an' 'arm. Dis can be consider'd an act of war against Cybertronians." Jazz added in. Many of the bots came to realise that this was true and were seriously considering squishing both the humans.
"So Directors, you have been charged with the following: High Treason, Collaboration with the enemy in a time of war, attempted genocide, crimes against humanity, failure to render aid, willful endangerment, duty to rescue, tampering with evidence and interference with an official investigation. I'm expecting Miss Cassidy to be released and free of all charges and myself along with Agent Simmons, Autobot Jazz, Miss Madsen, Miss Banes and Miss Evans shall be returning to NEST moment early to re-do the test to compare Amelia's DNA with Prime's CNA in order to reveal the truth." Skylar proclaimed. "Skylar Cloetta is out." she finalised. And with that I turned off the camera and set it down. There was silence in the room now.
"We did it..." I said breathlessly in disbelief and exhaustion, breathing quickly.
"We did it." Skylar repeated, a bit stronger.
"WE DID IT!" Mikaela and Maggie exclaimed at the same time, jumping up. Not being able to help myself, I bounced on the spot as well.
"Get in there!" Mikaela exclaimed.
"We stuck it to them!" I shouted gleefully.
"I wish I could see their faces again. They looked as white as my bed sheets!" Skylar laughed, imitating their faces. Damn those mood swings of hers. In the spur of the moment, we all hugged each other, save for Jazz and Simmons.
"We did it." I cried, tears starting to brim my eyes in happiness.
"Come on," Skylar said, pulling us all apart. "We need to get back to NEST. You too Simmons." she said and we all started heading out to Jazz's bipedal mode.
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