"Kerenai, next time you do something like that a little warning"
"Sorry Captain, didn't exactly have a complete plan"
"Basically you made it up as you went"
"Yep"
"At least you did give enough warning that things might happen, and you also obeyed the check-in rules that I established"
(Snorts) "I didn't do it for you, though you know I obey orders, I did it so that Lucas could tell my family that I was still alive due to the fact that I go incommunicado for situations like this"
"You basically decided not to fight check-in orders knowing what your family is like"
"Exactly, you do not want Captain Faireborn here in worry mode, because if she's coming here in worry mode than my actual family is in a panic and the only reason they aren't getting into the building is because of their size, the cassettes can fit but both Blaster and Soundwave are hardly ever in Dallas thus they can't come in to represent the family"
Suddenly they see Captain Faireborn
"Speak of the devil, at least she's in Captain of the EDC mode and not worry mode"
"Agreed, Captain Faireborn what can I do for you?"
"Do you have any procedures ready for testing to see what works and what doesn't after the military report?"
(Sighs) "I don't because of the fact that there are...arguments about procedures that should be tried and thus no consensus on what should be done first"
"Despite it being over a month?"
"Yep, it's mainly a fight between Texas Rangers and the various local police officers who don't see the point of training, we're working on it but it's not going the greatest"
"We'll use our own influence as the EDC if it's needed"
"Give us another week and we'll find out"
"Fine, one week by the way Kerenai why can't you guys just use the military adaptation?"
"Won't work in police matters unfortunately, my original report has the full explanation as to why military resolution won't be the same as police resolution"
"Fine, I want that report ASAP"
"Nope, not happening, primarily because of the fact that the Captain still has it as a means to try and convince the other police stations"
"True, I need those reports still, and she took a lot of time and effort to translate military phrasing into police phrasing"
"No, I mainly had to deal with translating Greek into English and then go from there"
"So it was literally all Greek to you for that section"
"Yup"
"Can I get a copy of said reports?"
"Sorry Faireborn, but that's not possible due to the fact that no one wants to copy Allison's reports at any given time unless they're for court sessions"
"And just why is that?"
"Um...you don't want to know"
"Captain..."
"No Faireborn, the Captain's right you really don't want to know who did what to make it so that no one wants to copy my reports except for court at any given time"
"You involved in any way?"
"Besides writing the reports and maybe doing yelling once when a report needed copied for the courts and it wasn't no"
"That's why the court rule was established"
"Oh didn't know that was a direct result of the yelling"
"It was"
"Can you at least give me a general idea?"
"Does deliberate messing with the reports give you an idea?"
"They...right no wonder they're only copied when ordered for the courts"
"You know what they did then?"
"Not entirely but I get the general gist of things, get me that report ASAP Captain"
"Will do"
A week later and there was still no resolution amongst the various police departments in Texas while in all the other states they had already tried modifications and while most had failed a couple had some potential solutions that looked like they were valid solutions and would work for their area and the problem that had been discovered because fortunately Allison wasn't the only police officer that had done the Reserve training that had discovered training issues and as such while Allison's report hadn't been made public beyond Texas the other officers made sure that their reports were made public and available to all departments across the country ASAP
"Okay, the EDC is needed for training resolution"
"Agreed, I'm getting civilians involved by the way"
"Tonto is no civilian, Dan Reid is but I agree that he needs the training as well considering the fact that he gets involved in emergencies through some sort of volunteer thing that's not the Red Cross"
"He didn't tell me that"
"Yeah...that's because it happened during one of your training fiasco's and since then he hasn't been called in frequently enough to think it needed mentioning"
"Understood"
Allison's phone rang and she answered in English but would switch to her second native language
"Kerenai here go ahead...*I understand Galvatron, how's Rodimus?...I see...Okay has Ratchet or First Aid given you an update since?...right...right...understood Galvatron...tell John, Dan and Tonto...I can't due to needing to yell at people...scenario training...okay Captain Faireborn...yep that's it exactly...right will do...bye *
Allison hangs up the phone and everyone could tell it was taking everything in her power not to slam the phone down
"Captain I'm going to go to some place I can do journal reading, do not try and contact me, family has made me way too angry in regards to a situation I just found out"
"You know the rules, scale of one to ten"
"Twenty, I am way beyond normal levels, not even beating training bags into dust will calm me down this time"
"EDC training?"
"Not with what I just heard"
"And how's journal reading going to help?"
"It just will, the journals have a calming effect that won't work on emotional overload techniques that I know of"
She goes to a quiet place and randomly chooses a journal and entry
Day 22
I never knew that for Thundercloud the ceremony lasted a whole day and a half, as for what he wanted me to help with he's right in that I did and will enjoy what he's asked for since he's asking me to help with not just planting season but also some sort trading agreement with a new settlement, things are a bit unstable with said agreement and thus wanting me to help with translating things because while Thundercloud understands English the new settlement doesn't understand his culture and I do and as such I am the intermediary between the two during any and all meetings
She continued random reading for two hours before she was finally calmed down enough to go home for the day and continue work the next
"You calm now?"
"Better anyways, whenever I think of the news I get annoyed again but it's not at the dangerous levels I was at for two hours"
"Good, you're going to help in an arson investigation, there's been a mysterious fire in the early hours of the morning, we need to find out if it was arson or not"
"Understood sir"
"Josh, Karen and Andrew are already on their way, primarily because of the fact that they were helping normal Dallas PD on training in something or other that they're experts in when the call came in"
"Four Rangers are better than one depending on the size of the building"
"It's big alright, a warehouse"
"Right, this could get complicated then"
She goes to the scene and starts doing something that confuses everyone but one person, she starts sniffing the wood, and the one person who wasn't confused was an outside arson investigator who had done the same thing several times themselves in the course of an investigation
"Guys, we need John Reid, I think I recognize this smell but I need confirmation"
"You're one up on me then officer, because I was here before the police and did the same and didn't recognize the smell at all"
"How long you been an arson investigator?"