Listen guys, I try to keep my own politics out of my stories but this has to be addressed. In this chapter, there is a major event relating to the enforcers and I know people will make the connection to the recent events in Baltimore. I am a major police supporter, and my grandfather was a police officer. I would like to say the events in this story do NOT reflect my opinions on police officers, National Guard, Reservists, etc. With that in mind, by all means enjoy.

Chapter 35

Moonrider punched the punching bag being held by Drift.

"COME ON HARDER! I KNOW YOUR STRONGER THAN THAT!" He yelled at her

Moonrider punched it in a loud POP and then kicked it POP and then quickly jabed it three more times POP POP POP.

"haha good job" Drift let go of the bag and slaped Moonrider's sweaty shoulder.

"Ah, frag you" she smiled and rubbed her shoulder. Drift got in front of the punching bag and Moonrider got behind it and grabbed the bag. Drift smirked and he started punching jab jab PUNCH, jab jab PUNCH

Moonrider was having difficulty holding it. Drift kept punching and then made a final kick and Moonrider was sent backward. Drift smiled and he caught the punching bag. Moonrider came up to him and punched him hard in the shoulder in a loud smack but it didn't faze him at all. Moonrider shook her servo from the pain and Drift approached her and kissed her on the cheek.

"Is that enough for one day?" Drift asked "You want to recharge over?"

"Yes and Yes" she joined him as he took off the grey workout armor and swapped it out for his own black armor. They came up from Drift's basement all sweaty and immediately headed for the showers. They cleaned themselves up and then came down to watch some holovision. They came to the theater and Drift's family was watching the opening ceremony of the embassy. "What do you think sire?" Drift said as he leaned on the couch. His sire looked to him

"Im interested, still doesn't mean I like it." he turned his attention back to the holovision.

"What do you think?" Amity asked Drift

"I don't know" Drift responded "I believe our planet should remain isolationists but it's cool we have friends."

Drift stood up straight and got down on the couch next to Amity. Moonrider sat down next to him and she gently leaned into him as he watched as the US flag was being raised over the embassy. His sire thought for a moment and then turned to his son.

"They may look a little intimidating but always know we are superior. And as a decepticon, you are superior to the superior."

Drift raised an optic ridge and looked at his mate, confusion on her face. "What do you mean sire? I always thought all cybertronians were the same?" he turned back to him

Drift's sire laughed "Drift, you know better, you're a Decepticon and you know you're different"

"I know I'm different but I would rather everyone to see us Decepticons as normal mechs and not as violent criminals."

Drift's sire looked at Starwing who narrowed her optics at her mate. He looked away back at his son "Your stronger than an autobot, and you have the processor of an autobot" he smirked "You'll know just how important that will become."

Moonrider could see deep down Drift agreed with him. He didn't want to admit it

They sat in silence for a moment and continued watching the news. Moonrider offlined her optics and began to drift off into recharge leaning her helm on his shoulder. "I love you" he whispered and offlined his optics too.

Starwing and Thermal looked at eachother and Thermal held his servo out to his mate. She took it and they both smiled

Sergeant Plugger a member of the Kaon Enforcer Department and the Special Response Team/Task Force, stood holding a baton and riot shield observing the latest protest for the release of Megatron. He seemed to provide hope to the population of Kaon, even with credits starting to flow into public institutions, the city still was unrestful.

"When will these fraggers give up" A young enforcer lifted up his ballistic mask, took off his visor, and rubbed his red optics.

"When we give them our terrorist" An older enforcer growled and observed the crowd

Plugger as well as of the other SRT members have, MRAP alt modes, navy blue armor with black streaks down their legs, as well as red visors. To protect them from the fury of angry rioters, they wore ballistic masks and other riot gear.

A young Kaonian took a mega phone: GIVE US BACK OUR GLADIATOR!: he angrily yelled at the enforcers. And then he was joined by the angry crowd.

"This is going to get really ugly" Plugger tapped the shoulder of the enforcer next to him

"Yeah, maybe it's today we teach them a lesson" The mech smirked

Plugger scowled "Just wait until they cause bodily harm to one of our mechs, if we try to disperse them we become the bad bots"

"Who says we already aren't" an older enforcer growled "Fragging flower younglings"

The crowd roared at the enforcers who stood their guard. "RETURN OUR GLADIATOR!" they continued to shout as they marched towards the enforcers.

The lieutenant pulled out a Motorola like receiver off of his armor and his voice projected from speakers behind him :Disperse immediately or we WILL use force:

"NEVER! FRAGGING SPARKLING KILLERS!" A young femme yelled at them. The crowd got crazier, some of them were throwing miscelanious items at them, such as bricks and anything they could get their servos on. They hit the enforcers shields, and one of them flew right by the leautenants helm. He cursed under his breath and nodded to an enforcer with a grenade launcher. He fired a few tear gas grenades at the demonstrators. They exploded in loud pops and gas started to fill the air. The enforcers deployed their gas masks and they pushed forward in a few long lines. Some of them whirred their sirens to intimidate the demonstarators. A Molotov cocktail was thrown and an enforcer put his riot shield up that protected him from the fire that spread all around him.

:SURRENDER THE CITY TO THE BOTS!: The mech with the megaphone commanded :WE WANT REAL CHANGE!:

"Leave our city!" some others shouted. The enforcers began to push through some of the crowd, the front rank pushing bots behind them and the rear rank servo cuffing them and escorting them to blue prisoner transport vehicles. The crowd began to go wild. Some of them flung more Molotov cocktails, bricks, and all sorts of junk at the enforcers. They plopped off of the shields and the enforcers picked up the pace and drifted apart from their protective formation and began making arrests. More tear gas was being fired and many mechs and femmes began to disperse. Plugger servocuffed a young femme who yelled insults at him. He pushed her to a rear echelon enforcer who grabbed her and escorted her to the transport vehincle. The enforcers began to push through into the open air and the crowd was getting even bigger and more angrier.

"Frag" Plugger muttered "Get into formation mechs!" He ordered and a brick was flung at his helm. It hit him right in the helm and he hit his aft onto the ground. He felt a bit dizzy, and he shook it off and got up. Just then, the crowd charged the enforcers. Plugger saw flashes, enforcers obsorbing the charging masses with their shields and then turning to their batons, enforcers being pulled down, demonstrators taking enforcer gear and wielding them. Plugger was tackled and a mech tried to grab his sidearm. Plugger growled and forced the mech off of him and was about to reach for his pistol when another mech jumped on him. Just then, a massive amount of weapons opened fire. Fully automatic, single fire, all kinds of weapons. Energon exploded from all of the demonstrators that were still standing. A bloodied mech landed right next Plugger, energon leaking from his mouth and his red optics faded right in front of Plugger. He stared at the lifeless mech, he didn't even notice all of the weapons ceasefire.

"CEASE FIRE! CEASE FIRE *BANG BANG* I SAID CAESE FIRE PRIMUS DAMN IT" A mech yelled. Sergeant Plugger took his optics off of the offlined mech and looked around at the carnage around him. There were dead bodies EVERYWHERE! A few survivors began to scream, it made his energon run cold. A few horrified enforcers got up and blanked out and looked around and couldn't grasp what happened. Some groans were heard and finally the sound of metal on metal, pedes slowly making their way to him. Plugger slowly got up, he rubbed the energon from his helm and turned around to see mechs in blue and red digital camo helping survivors from the hoard of dead bodies. Some of them pointed their rifles at the offline corpses. Plugger finally grasped what had happened; the army had gunned down the demonstrators. Plugger joined the other enforcers in helping finding survivors. There weren't many, almost all of the survivors were either enforcers who had been pinned on the ground or the random lucky few demonstrators who were on the ground with them. Some street enforcers began to block off the whole area as a crime scene and Plugger could hear the crowd's cries. He vegetated out as he searched the bodies for any signs of life there. He helped a wounded enforcer to one of the hundreds of ambulances that have arrived and he himself climbed in and shut the door.

At school the next day, Drift and Moonrider met Rodimus and Springer in the gym to do some stretching. However, some upperclassmen led by Instinct and the team captain came over.

"Hey guys, I don't think we met you yet." The green team captain said "Im Javelin and you know Instinct. This is Stingray, Jetblast, and Whiteout" he gestured towards the purple, blue, and white mechs.

"Hello, I'm Springer" he smiled and shook servos with them. The rest of the freshmen smiled and shook servos with their teammates.

"Hey, aren't you the mech that Rodimus Prime stabbed right through the chest?" Stingray asked as he shook Drift's servo

"Yeah, it's all better now" he smiled

"Can we see the scar?" Instinct asked

"What scar?" Moonrider smirked at Drift.

"If it went right through him it had to have scarred" Javelin looked at Moonrider oddly

Drift chuckled "It didn't scar"

"Your joking right?" Jetblast laughed "lift up your armor, lets this (ghost scar) or whatever" the upperclassman chuckled.

Drift sighed and servoed his sword to Rodimus before taking off his chest armor, revealing his scratchless chest.

"That's impossible" Rodimus gasped "I felt it go through your flesh!"

"Nothings impossible when you have a medicinefemme as a mate" he smiled at Moonrider

"Wait, you did this?" Instinct pointed at Drift's chest as he put his torso armor back on

"Yeah" she smiled "Nothings impossible" just then Drift's phone began to ring. He saw it was his carrier and turned the other way and put the phone to his audio

"Hello, Carrier?" he asked

:Drift I need you to come home right now!: She almost mumbled and Drift gaped and started to stroll towards the padded walls of the gym.

"Carrier, what is it? Is something wrong?" He asked

:Drift I need you to come home NOW!: she cried and Drift got the message immediately

"Ok ill be on my way, I love you" he hung up the phone and ran quickly over to the group who just stared at him "I have to go guys, tell coach im sorry but it's an emergency"

"I'm going with you" Moonrider crossed her arms "Whatever it is im sure you can use some moral support" she jokingly smiles and nods her helm.

Drift growls "Frag it, see you later" he jogs out of the gym followed quickly by Moonrider

Both of them reach Drift's house and he immediately opens up the door and runs inside. Moonrider runs after him and they both reach the dining room and Thermal has his helm in his arms and Starwing rubbing his shoulder. "Thermal, Drift's home" she rubbed his arm and he looked up, his red optics moist with tears.

"Moonrider, could you please take a bath or something" Drift whispered to her and she nodded and walked away. He turned his attention back to his sire "Hey sire" Drift smiled "Are you ok, what happened?"

His sire rubbed his optics with a towel and sniffed "I don't want to tell you, but"...sniff… "I guess I have to" he looked down and back up at his son's face. "Your cousin Hardline died"

"Wah…what? How?" Drift could feel the seeds of tears planted in his optics

Thermal's lip quivered "FRAGGING UNDERTRAINED EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD RESERVISTS THAT'S WHAT!" Thermal yelled and buried his helm into his arms again and began to cry some more.

"Carrier, whats he talking about?" Drift felt complete shock

She paused for a moment still rubbing her mate's arm "He was attending a demonstration in Kaon an..and everything got ugly and the army decided the best solution was to..fire on them" a tear rolled down her faceplate.

Drift growled and punched the doorframe. He started crying and he gritted his denta. "Why, why? FRAGGING STUPID AUTOBOTS!" he yelled "EVERY TIME THINGS START TO GET BETTER THEY HAVE TO GO AND FRAGGING" he choked on his tears "Ruin it" he rubbed his optics and he growled again and ran to the stairs and then sprinted up them. He pushed his way into his room just as Moonrider was getting ready to get undressed. He plopped himself on his berth and put his face into his pillow.

"DRIFT!" she yelled in concern and she immediately got next to him and crouched down. "What's wrong, tell me?" she gently spoke and put both of her servos on the side of the berth. He turned his helm to face her, tears flowing down his faceplates. "Awww Drift" she sadly got up and sat down on the berth. He shuddered, flipped onto his back, and sat up. He let her put her arms around him and he sniffed and tears fell down his face.

"My cousin was killed by the army" he choked on his tears

"What? Why?" Moonrider asked as she leaned into Drift's neck

"He..he participated in a protest that went wrong, AND THE..THE Army gunned them down" Moonrider helped wipe the angry tears from her mate's optics.

Moonrider felt the emotions rub onto her. A few tears came down and Drift offlined his optics and looked the other way, his optic lids trying hard to contain his tears. "Lets go bathe or something" Moonrider smiled "We can just sit and talk, I know you like that" she smiled

Drift wasn't feeling in the mood to do anything he simply onlined his optics and stared at his mate. "I don't want to"

Moonrider nodded her helm and gently nudged into Drift. "I told you you could use some moral support" she kissed his neck. He softly purred and embrased her. Moonrider quickly put her arms around him and gently rubbed his armor. Drift kissed her servo and gave a soft smile as tears continued to flow, he never met anyone like Moonrider.