Clark nervously taps his fingers on the steering wheel as he's starting to get worried since Sabrina, Natasha, and Graham haven't come back yet. After ten minutes, he decides to check on them and heads to the staff parking lot. He walks about ten steps away from the vehicle when Elita's holoform, Ellie, grabs his wrist.
"I thought Swiftglide… Sabrina told us to stay here in front of the school." Ellie says.
"I heard her, but that was ten minutes ago. What if something went wrong? I'm going to stake out the staff lot to make sure no one tries to go out the back way." Clark says.
"Cliff, I think you're overreacting just a bit." Ellie sighs letting go of his wrist. "But if it will make you feel better, you can go. Be careful alright and contact me if you see anything out of the ordinary." Ellie continues.
Clark nods and continues around to the back of the school. As he the lot, he sees three cars parked A 2010 Ford Escape and two jeeps.
'One must belong to Principal Wallace. So, who is driving the other two?' Clark thinks.
He ducks into the hedges next to steps leading to the door and then waits for someone to come out. A minute or two later, two men walk out. Clark reaches into his pants pocket and takes out his phone to contact Elita. He doesn't want to give away his position, so he starts to record a video instead and does his best to remain silent watching one of the men place an unconscious Graham and Brandon into the back seat of one of the jeeps parked on either side of Principal Wallace's car. Then two other men tossing Sabrina and Natasha into the back of the other vehicle. Unfortunately, the video fades to black before he can get a shot of Graham's parents going over to one of the jeeps because the battery ran out of juice.
"Let's move. Silas wants the children to the lab before they wake up." Mr. Burton says.
'Scrap, I can't do anything without blowing my robots in disguise status. Why would Graham's parents kidnap their child for this Silas man? Could they be secretly working for this Silas man?' Cliffjumper thinks.
Cliffjumper has no choice but to let them get away with their horrible crime. He growls through his teeth watching the jeeps drive away.
Agent Fowler pulls into the Little Ram's preschool parking lot. He is surprised to see that Cliffjumper and Elita are still here. Isabella gets out of her car seat as soon as he parks the car and turns off the engine. The special agent gets out and chases after her. He manages to pick her up just as she reaches the steps.
"Isabella, what's the rush?" Agent Fowler asks.
"Sorry, Mr. William, I want to play with Brandon before everyone else gets here," Isabella says.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to do that," Clark says walking up to them.
"Why not?" Isabella asks.
"Some goons who are working for someone named Silas kidnapped him," Clark says.
"What about my brother?" Isabella asks.
"The goons kidnapped him too along with Sabrina and Natasha." Clark answers.
"Why would this Silas person want to kidnap the children?" Elita asks.
"I'm not sure, but we need to tell Optimus about this," Clark says.
Cliffjumper and Elita head back to the base. Agent Fowler sets Isabella down, and they walk to her classroom.
"Hello, you must be William. Principal Wallace informed me yesterday, via email, that you'd be taking care of Isabella while child protective services deal with the family situation." Isabella's teacher says.
"Yes, Ma'am." Agent Fowler says.
Isabella goes into the classroom and sits down at one of the tables. Agent Fowler turns around and goes back to his car.
Silas is standing on the observation deck at the lab. He smiles seeing his men carrying the unconscious children in and placing them on the examination tables. Turning to his right, he walks down the stairs and meets up with Mr. and Mrs. Burton.
"You aren't going to hurt the children are you?" Mrs. Burton asks.
"No, but if these children are giving off the same signal as that truck in front of your house. There must be a connection, and I'm going to figure that out today." Silas chuckles.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton look to each other before looking back to their boss.
"What will happen now?" Mr. Burton asks.
"Now?" Silas repeats as if he's thinking. "Now, your jobs are done." He adds as two of his soldiers come behind the two and take them to unconsciousness.
One of the soldiers takes Mrs. Burton as the other gets help from a third soldier in lifting Mr. Burton.
"Dispose of them. The two are of no use to me anymore now that The Burtons are becoming traitors of our cause." Silas orders before returning to looking at the unconscious children.
The three soldiers take the two out of the base as fast as they can. Mr. and Mrs. Burton begin to gain consciousness again by the time they've been dragged out. They start struggling against their former co-workers before they're overpowered and beaten unconscious.
Silas goes over to one of the exam tables. When he approaches Sabrina's table, she begins to wake up. He smirks watching her try to escape before he places his hand on her shoulder and slams her back down onto it. Sabrina screams out in pain. After she recovers, Sabrina opens her eyes and sees a tall male adult with greying, military cut hair and a cruel smile looking down at her.
"Sabrina, I'm glad to see you're finally awake," Silas says.
"How do you know my name whoever you are." Sabrina snaps.
"I'm sorry, Sabrina. My name is Silas. I'm the leader of MECH." Silas says.
"Well Silas, two questions, one what is MECH? Two, why did your goons bring us here?" Sabrina asks.
"MECH is an organization whose goal is to create a new world order with technology. We always try to have the "most radical" technology. My goons, as you call them, brought you, your boyfriend, sister, and little brother here because I believe you are hiding a secret from everyone." Silas says.
Silas motions for the doctor to come over he walks up, and Silas sees her eyes widen in fear as the doctor places the tip of the needle to her arm.
"I'm not going to tell you anything. Also, why did you kidnap my brother?" Sabrina snaps.
"Because he is giving off the same strange energy signal as you. How about you tell me before something bad happens to him. I know you want to protect him since that is what family does right?" Silas chuckles.
She screams out in pain and holds her breathe no doubt trying to keep herself from swearing since the needle is larger than the ones used in a doctor's office goes into her arm.
"Interesting, Sabrina, if you were human, there would be only blood inside the needle. But, the liquid inside the sample we just collected from you appears to have a blue hue to it. I wonder what would happen if we injected it into your little brother's bloodstream?" Silas asks slyly raising his eyebrow.