"By the way, is the FBI involved?"
"Yes, as is the EDC for some reason"
"Yeah they have their reasons"
"By the way what did you just speak?"
"Japanese, as a new instructor I know you haven't read my file yet so I will tell you I know several languages and that you should read my file soon because trust me it's needed to understand me"
"By the way, and this is for everyone we're not going to be deeply involved, at the most what we're going to be allowed to do is read whatever information the FBI gets and let them know where we think the group will strike next"
"That's the safest actually, especially for me"
"Clair, this could take a while you know"
"I know, but we have to be able to prove our ability to do our jobs, by the way you might want to talk to a few people before making any more plans regarding leaving the academy since this could get very dangerous, and also make plans to have other cadets continue where we left off if the group isn't taken down by the time we graduate"
"Understood, for now though everyone has a week off"
"Wait what?"
"You'll understand tonight after dinner, something none of the cadets find out until they get to this part of the training so don't worry it's an annual tradition"
The group eats dinner and that's when Clair finds out why the entire class had a week off
"Okay cadets, you all have a week off from the academy, this is an annual tradition where you guys get to go home and talk to your families about what you've been through since you've come here and also discuss the possibility of losing you in the line of duty, you ask them what they think about this and how they feel about losing you, thus the reason you have a week off, to decide if you want to continue on this path, or leave the academy without censure to choose another path"
"Now for some of you we've tracked down your families since you haven't given us a location for whatever reason, some of you had an argument maybe, and one of you technically doesn't have any close family still alive, but you actually do have distant relatives in that they're cousins you are unaware of on your father's side of the family, when we call up your name we'll give you tickets to where we knew where they were as of last week"
One by one they were called up and then Clair's name was called, her full legal name at that
"Clair Kerenai-Masaki"
Clair goes up to get her ticket and sees that they're in Japan which she wasn't surprised about, now if they had been some where's not in Japan or the United States, then she would have been surprised but Japan wasn't so surprising since they decided to go with her human adoptive family which really was easier to keep track of unlike her Cybertronian adoptive family, for that the EDC was involved nine times out of ten
"Wait, your name is Clair Kerenai-Masaki?"
"Why do you think the instructors use only one part of my last name at any given time with my permission? I also think you should know that technically it's actually Clair Elisa Kerenai-Masaki, but for the longest time I've mainly been known by my first and last name due to unique circumstances, and with my last name legally a hyphenated name through adoption using my first and last name is so much easier than my full name, just trust me on that"
"By the way Masaki, your family is hard to find because of the situation they are in"
"Did you make phone calls resorting to threats?"
"Not exactly, I made phone calls resorting to revealing why I wanted to find their current location, a Captain Faireborn ultimately gave me what I wanted"
"Fair enough, by the way you might want to keep everyone updated on our new mission just in case, and also, tell the FBI to try Russia, I read the report before dinner and they might strike Russia next, not entirely positive but the FBI and Russia should be prepared just in case"
"Understood Kerenai, Kerenai, are you...are you sure we will need to continue to help after your class graduates?"
"Not entirely positive, but you need to be prepared if that turns out to be the case"
"Fair enough Kerenai, fair enough, by the way you do know you're traveling the furthest of any of the cadets right?"
"And you also know full well why that is, not my fault it's their Japanese half of the year right now"
"What I want to know is why they split their time up between the two countries"
"It's a special agreement, plus they actually spent a full year in Japan because I needed that stability, you have my files so you understand what I am talking about when I say that if we had split their time in half between the two countries immediately I might not be alive, at the very least I would be in a facility permanently lost in my mind to the horrors of seven years with a terrorist group to protect my family, I needed the time to heal as much as I did before going back and forth between the two countries and ultimately I still have issues, I actually wake up five out of seven nights every two weeks or so from a nightmare or I wind up in a PTSD episode for some reason at least three times a month, even if you instructors don't catch it, as it is I am thinking that I might need to start seeing someone again just to get back to a status quo that I know I can reach, but I can't do that just yet because I don't know who I can trust besides the instructors who have the security clearance at need"
"Well for now you have a flight to catch"
Clair catches her flight and several hours later lands in Japan and takes a taxi to the Masaki household and opens the door
*Dad, Daichi...I'm home*
Clair looks around the house and doesn't see them so she decides to go to the police station and see if they were there, first seeing the dog that had replaced Aleck who had died only two years earlier
*Hey boy, good to see you too*
Clair walks to the police station and goes straight to Winspector headquarters and sees Daichi immediately
*Big sister, you're home!*
*Hey Daichi, are you officially part of the family now then?*
*Uh-huh dad gave me a piece of paper saying welcome to the family, he said he got a piece of paper that says so, said I wouldn't understand the big words yet though so he chose more simple words for me*
*Welcome to the family Daichi, I'm glad to be your big sister, is dad out?*
*Yes, said he had to int...int...talk to bad guys some where's*
*I'll go check the room where he talks to bad guys then, if he's not there I'll ask some other people about where is might be, but first, have you had lunch yet?*
*No, I was going to go get something but then I remembered dad's rule about not leaving this place without one of the other members of his team, said that will change when I get older but that for now I can't leave here without someone with me*
*Then come on, we'll get lunch and then while you wait here for dad I'll go find him*
Clair takes her brother out to eat and then gets back to Winspector headquarters and finds Masaki back in his office