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Lizzie: Well, this certainly seems more promising than the last chapter.

Frenzy: Yeah, still doesn't look like you are going to be close to death. That's a miracle for this story so far.

Both Twins: *laugh*

Authoress: *laughs* Anyways, Lizzie at least you aren't stuck with Fowler.

Lizzie: *nods* True, he was always annoying.

Rumble: *confused* What are you two talking about?

Lizzie and Authoress: Nothing!

Ch. 2: Integrating with the Cause

Lizzie's 1st P.O.V.

Crack!

I winced as I my back cracked for the third time this morning. The night was pretty long and, even though I couldn't remember them, I had nightmares throughout the night. To make matters even worse, I was sleeping on a berth and not on a regular human comfort level bed. While I wasn't going to be complaining to Soundwave, it definitely wasn't very comfortable sleeping on cold metal.

"Are humans supposed to make cracks that loud?" Frenzy asked me as he, along with Rumble and I, walked through the vents heading toward one of the empty rooms.

After a succession of some smaller cracks down my back, I shook my head. "No, but I'm not used to sleeping on a metal bed. Once I get used to it the cracking will stop." Eventually.

"What do you normally sleep on?" Rumble asked me as we stopped at an opening and he started to take of the vent cover.

Shrugging, I listed the basics. "Well, usually a mattress with a sheet covering it, a couple of pillows with pillow cases, and a blanket to keep me warm. But, like I said, I'll get used to this." And I really would. I was not going to risk getting Megatron annoyed with me because I wanted some of the comforts of home. Plus, having extra human amenities might clutter Soundwave's room even more than the twins did with their prank items and I didn't need to be adding anything of mine to the mix.

Though if I was going to avoid smelling, I should probably ask them about a wash racks that I could use…and some soap to wash myself and my clothes…and some deodorant and tooth paste and a tooth brush.

…Yeah, I had to get a few things. But, they could wait another day or two to get out of the first five episodes. Once that was through then everything should calm down and I could get some human stuff. But, until then, we had to get through all of this craziness. That was especially since the timeline was all out of whack and it was pretty much Paul's fault since I was here and not where I should be. Wonder why he hasn't tried to contact me yet? Oh well.

Now seemed like a good time to bring up something that I noticed this morning. "Hey mechs," They both looked to me before I continued, "I didn't see Soundwave and Laserbeak this morning when I woke up. Do you know where they went?"

They both looked at each other and nodded before jumping down into the room below. They then looked up to me before Frenzy said, "Get on down here Lizzie and we'll tell you." Yep, definitely wanting to have me come down there. Was it such a big deal? I couldn't even think of what episode we were supposed to be on due to all the changes. All that I did know was that we had not passed the five opening episodes of the series. But, from what I had experienced I couldn't be sure where I was. Maybe what the twins were going to tell me would help me find out where we were exactly.

So, I moved down to the ground level as quickly as I could, only slipping a couple of times, and once I was down there I moved to a corner of the room where the twins were messing with activators for some of the traps. I guess we were multitasking. "Okay, so where are they?" I asked as I grabbed a few vials of glitter and started to put them in one of the machines.

Rumble grabbed a couple bottles of glue and started to empty their contents into canisters before saying, "Lord Megatron called them to the bridge with 'Screamer about an hour before you woke up. Soundwave is working on trying to intercept any Autobot communications, 'Scream has to go over some old files on our troops to see who might be nearby, and Megatron had Soundwave send Laserbeak out on patrol."

Wait…Laserbeak was out on patrol without Soundwave? Within the first five episodes, there was only one time where Laserbeak was away from Soundwave and that was episode three. That meant that there actually wasn't much that I knew happened with the Decepticons except for when Laserbeak would, now hopefully, bring in Agent Fowler for interrogation on where the Autobot base was. Hopefully, Paul would find a way to get on this ship and tell me what to do. I doubted that Soundwave would allow me to escape and, as I spent more time on the ship, I found that I really didn't want to leave.

We then continued to work on these trap activators and the three of us made small talk while doing so. I ended up finding out that Rumble and Frenzy had met Soundwave in the Pits of Kaon. That was a surprise for me because their origin with Soundwave was something of a debate. Some thought that he had built all of his symbiots but others believed that he had met the mini-cons sometime before the war and they had agreed on the bond. While I wasn't sure what it was like in other dimensions…if they existed, I now knew that the latter option was the case in this dimension.

Of course, it was a give and take situation. I had to tell them about one of my most embarrassing moments which included a rake, a hole, and a scrap of white cloth. However, I was not going into that even in my head.

…It was a very shudder-inducing memory.

Thankfully, we didn't have time to exchange any more information as the two of them seemed to receive a message at the same time. While I couldn't hear what was being said, I could see their optics and, after a few nano-clicks, their optics widened. I waited impatiently as they finished listening to whoever was speaking.

However, once they were done, I decided to get things moving. "So, what was that about?" I asked them as they stood and I followed.

Both smirked before saying, "Soundwave just told us that Laserbeak was able to capture the human agent working with the Autobots." He then paused and looked at me. "The Autobots are our enemies." I nodded and acted like I didn't already know that. So, he continued. "Anyways, Lord Megatron is going to land the ship and have Starscream interrogate him…" To my surprise, he then paused before looking at me. "Hey Lizzie, want to go and watch?"

Well…as bad as it was going to sound, I was actually wanting to go and watch. First of all, I would be able to keep track of the episode. Secondly, it would help take pressure off of me and show that I was willing to integrate with the Decepticons and I wasn't planning an escape…which I might depending on when Paul would get in contact with me. So, this would make my escape easier. I doubted that, with Soundwave as my unofficial guardian, it would be easy to escape but hopefully gaining trust would make it easier if the time arose.

Also, I wasn't exactly a fan of Fowler's during the first bit of the series and so watching his interrogation actually sounded like a lot of fun.

So, I smiled and nodded. "Why not? Lead the way you two."

The two of them smiled widely and nodded before helping me back up to the vent, since the one in this room was a little higher up then the others, and we made our way through the ventilation system of the Nemesis toward the interrogation room. As I moved between the twins, I almost found myself shaking with anticipation of what was to come. With the changes that I had personally been witness to, I knew that there was no way to guess what would happen next. It was exhilarating!

Paul's 1st P.O.V.

"So, how are you enjoying Earth?" I asked Cliffjumper as we sped down the abandoned highway.

It had taken the Autobots a few moments to snap me out of my shock and, thankfully, I was able to blow off my shock of the dark energon being absent with my worry for Lizzie. So, Cliffjumper had taken me to the house that I had bought for this mission and, once I was settled in bed, I had gone to sleep immediately and tried to reach out to Lizzie.

However, instead of not being able to find Lizzie, which also happened, I was blocked from finding her. I felt like I could not expand my presence from further than a radius that expanded to the Autobot base. I could sense where each and every Autobot was in their base, and I had even expanded my parameters and I could tell where the kids were as well as Fowler, who was staying at the Unit E base not terribly far from the other side of Jasper.

"I'm all about Earth! I love your culture, your car races, and your people are so diverse, and they can change their look almost as easily as I can. While I might disagree with a few of your smaller rules…"

"Like speeding?" I cut off Cliffjumper with a smirk.

I could feel him laugh at that. "Yeah, like some of your speed limits. I don't understand why you can only go 55 on a slag nearly perfect straight and flat road. Plus your parking is all confusing. Why can I park on a street barely large enough for two cars without any parked on the side and yet I can't park in certain areas where there is plenty of space for four cars?"

Honestly, those were both points that confused me on human laws as well. However, since I was in disguise as a human, I had to make up an excuse. "Well, if I had to take a guess, I would have to say that it would be due to how we probably age differently than you all do. We have older people living in areas that are flat and they want to drive slow. So, they complain and get the speed limit lowered. As for the parking, well, I'll be honest and say that I really don't understand that one."

Cliffjumper then continued to speed along and we sat in a comfortable silence for a good hour before Cliffjumper suddenly spoke. "Paul…would you answer a question for me?"

I stared at Cliff's dashboard before nodding. "Sure, I can try."

Cliffjumper turned into the desert, to turn around to head back to base, before he asked his question. "If you had the chance to better your life, what would you give up?"

That was a difficult question and I thought I had an idea as to where he was coming from. He had probably done some research on me last night, to figure out just what he was getting into with guarding me, and he saw that I was a CEO of Cyber Tronics technologies. While I had introduced myself as that last night, they might not have realized what the meant.

So, I figured I would jump into the question the best I could. "Nothing. I wouldn't give up a thing." I then paused to let my words think in before I continued. "I appreciate every single part of my life and I can't see myself giving anything up to try and better my life. I've only come this far in life with the support of those around me and I have not sacrificed anything that I would ever regret and I will not sacrifice anything to further myself more. If I would sacrifice to further my career, then that would just sully my reputation and hurt my career further down the road."

And that was why I left my 'company' to bring Lizzie to this dimension and get everything straightened out here. However, it seems like my attempt has only made things even more confusing than before. Cliffjumper ended up living even though I didn't interact with anything that would have prevented it and, most importantly, dark energon hadn't been present in the mine. I knew that there had to be a reason that these changes were happening but I just couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Maybe something was preventing me from recognizing what that was? That sounded ridiculous but, at this point, I was sure that anything was possible.

It took us half an hour to return to the base and, when we did, I was surprised to see that the only ones who were in the base were Bulkhead and the kids. Once Cliffjumper stopped, I got out and let him transform before we made our way over to the group. "Hey Bulk, where did everyone run off to?"

I was curious as well. Since dark energon hadn't made an appearance yet, Optimus and Ratchet were more than likely not going to be encountering the army of the undead that Megatron presented them as a surprise. So, why were they all gone?

"Scouting. Optimus and Ratchet went to the Sahara desert to investigate an energon signal that they picked up and Arcee and Bumblebee are out driving around the other side of Jasper to keep an optic out for Decepticons." Bulkhead answered before motioning to the kids. "So, we get to watch everyone."

Cliff smiled and laughed. "Well, that just means that we get to have all of the fun."

While this was going on, I walked over to the kids where Miko was talking to the others about starting a band. "How about band practice?!" Miko suggested excitedly as she turned on her amp.

"But," Raf started while still holding his ears from the loud sounds Miko's amp was making. "we're not a band."

However, Miko seemed to be ready for that obstacle. "Why so anti-social?" She then walked over to Raf before continuing. "You play anything?"

Raf paused to think about that. "Um…" He must have thought of something because he then bent down and picked up his laptop. "Keyboard?" He asked her hesitantly.

Miko nodded in approval. "Laptops and samples. Good!" Her gaze then turned to me and I quickly surfed through the internet using my abilities, and I compared common music to what it would have been if I had grown up to be in my mid-thirties now. Thankfully, the music, while not from the generation I would have grown up with but still good, was only from a generation behind me. I knew exactly how I was going to answer her question to me. "What about you pops?"

Pops? That was not going to be allowed to stick no matter what. "First of all, it's Paul if you don't want to address me formally. Don't call me 'pops' again." I then straightened my shirt, and coincidentally using more of my power to learn how to play the instrument I was about to say, before continuing. "If you must know, I can play a wicked bass. Left it at my hose in Jasper today though but I can bring it if you insist."

She stared at me with wide eyes and, for a click, I thought I broke her. But, that changed when she shook her head and smiled. "That's sweet Paul! Score for the old guy!" She then jumped for a high-five, which I gave her, and decided to let the old guy comment slide for now. Miko then turned to Jack. "Jack?"

He jumped slightly in what seemed like surprise, though how he didn't see that coming was a surprise to me, before he put a hand behind his head and answered. "I, sometimes mess around on the harmonica."

While I understood that was probably the only instrument he played, I knew that it wouldn't do for Miko. "Do I look like I do country?" She then paused to think. "Just cover yourself in fake blood and jump around screaming." She then turned and looked up at Bulkhead and Cliffjumper. "Bulkhead! Cliffjumper! Percussion!" She then held onto her guitar. "We'll go for a big industrial sound. DIY, we're a band." Miko then paused. "You just…need to learn the songs. This one's a ballad; My Fist, Your Face!"

I felt the vibration as she strummed the first few chords of the song and, while it didn't actually sound bad, I felt like this might be a little extreme to start new learners on. Unfortunately, she was so into her song that I doubted that she would hear me and the others were busy covering their ears and audio receptors.

Thankfully for them, the green light started flashing and I could faintly hear the alarm over Miko's playing. That meant that…crap.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Bulkhead stopped Miko as he and Cliffjumper started to look panicked.

A good thing for them that Miko heard him and stopped playing. "Come on. You can't handle raw power."

Well, better get some talking in myself. "Proximity sensor's going off. We have to hide now."

The three kids went and hid behind Bulkhead's pede while I ran to Cliffjumper. I did not want to have to go through this but, by the looks of it, this was happening even throughout the changes. Seriously, the timeline decided that dark energon, one of the most important parts of the show, shouldn't make an appearance but I still have to deal with Fowler? Where in this world is that fair?

We all were hidden away just in time for the elevator to open and Fowler to come walking out. I had a feeling I knew why he was here. "Prime!" I then listened as Fowler's footsteps echoed on the platform and he gripped his hands on the support bar.

"Agent Fowler," Bulkhead started, "uh…he's not here. Nobody's here!" I facepalmed as Bulkhead said that. Of course there was someone else there. He was right next to you.

Thankfully, Cliffjumper caught that mistake quickly and tried to fix it. "Except the two of us of course."

I almost breathed a sigh of relief when Fowler seemed to miss the screw up. "Well, where did he go?" Before the bots could answer though, Fowler decided to go on a rant. "Wait, don't tell me. He's out pancaking a mini-mall?" Honestly, even though Lizzie thinks that sarcasm is a good thing, I wasn't so ready to agree in this situation.

Unfortunately, Fowler started to walk which caused Bulkhead to move to try and cover them which caused the cord to Miko's guitar, which she had and was still plugged in, to be pulled by Bulkhead's pede. "Scrap." I harsh whispered to myself. This was not going to be fun. Oh no it was not.

"Now, I don't know what language you 'Bots speak on your planet," Fowler continued. "but Prime promised he would handle the Decepticons, and blowing a crater in the middle of Nebraska is not what the word 'handle' means in English!" Yeah, Fowler was not going to become and happier by this visit. "So, you tell prime..." Fowler then paused and I knew that retribution was about to come to the kids. Maybe if I was lucky, Cliffjumper wouldn't move and expose me as well. That would be very nice. "Since when are you bots electric?"

Well, scrap this was going to go downhill really fast.

"Hey," I facepalmed when Jack led the kids out in Fowler's view. While he did that in the show I never understood it. Why wouldn't you let the giant alien robots deal with the government agent that they have been dealing with for a while. "how are you doing?"

"Contact with civilians?!" Fowler yelled in shock as he started to come down the stairs.

It was also at that moment that I realized that Cliffjumper must have exposed me for I was standing in full view of the platform with no red bot near me. Thanks, Cliffjumper. Really appreciated that.

…I take back my earlier mental comment. Sarcasm could be a very useful stress reliever. "This should be fun." I muttered to myself as Fowler began his descent.

"Team Prime, has really gone off book this time." He then paused in his speech, though not his walking down to us, before he continued. "Wait, don't tell me…you're running a daycare center!"

Daycare center! I'm sorry but did I look like I needed a daycare center!? "I'm sorry would you care running that by me again?" I yelled at Fowler as he finally made it to our level and started to walk toward the kids and me.

My outburst seemed to cause everyone to freeze before Fowler walked up in front of me. "You look familiar, what name should I put down for the record when I haul you and the rugrats out of here?"

I glared down hard at him as I spoke. "I am Paul Riley Muskogee, CEO of Cyber Tronics Technologies and if you think that you are going to force me to do anything you had better think again." I would not allow Fowler to control this argument no matter what.

A smirk ghosted on my face when Fowler actually looked surprised at my name. "Wait, you are the CEO of Cyber Tronics Technologies?" My victory, however, was short lived as he looked to grow even more angry. "This is just perfect! Not only have you bots involved regular civilians, but one of the governments largest suppliers of technologies! This is just perfect!" Of course, the perfect part was sarcastic.

Even I jumped when Cliffjumper put his pede down right by Fowler and me. "We can protect them just fine." He stated with a hard look.

Of course, Fowler didn't know when to back down. "Is that so?" He then turned to move toward the phone. "Well, maybe you can explain that to my superiors at the Pentagon?" He then went to pick up the phone.

But, Bulkhead was right on timing, thankfully, and broke the phone while saying, "Don't use that phone!" He then crushed it before standing back up straight.

"It's out of order." Cliffjumper added with a smirk on his faceplate.

Fowler looked at them both with hard looks before marching back up to the elevator. "This isn't over you two!" He then entered the elevator. "Not by a long shot." The elevator then closed behind him.

The six of us stood there in a kind of daze at what had just happened. "This…isn't going to end well." I muttered to myself as I leaned against Cliffjumper's pede. With how things were changing, I was going to have to make sure that everything went right.

The base stayed quiet for about ten more minutes and, in those ten minutes, I felt like I could actually relax. There was no one arguing and, besides Miko playing her guitar, there wasn't a sound that was really getting to me. But, I didn't think Miko's playing was bad so I could let it go.

I got so into a zone that I even jumped when the alarms started blaring in the base again. Seriously they had to have that many alarms? "My ears!" Raf complained as the alarms kept on going.

So, being the responsible adult, I walked up to Raf and helped him cover them. All these loud sounds probably weren't helping his young ears at all. "It's an SOS," Cliffjumper started before he typed some things into the computer. "from Fowler?" He finished that last part in surprise.

He then tried to track Fowler but, given that he wasn't exactly a computer genius, the signal soon disappeared and Cliffjumper could only let out a sigh of resignation.

"Did you trace it?" Raf asked as he stepped forward, now able to hear since the alarms had gone off.

Both Cliffjumper and Bulkhead shook their helms before Bulkhead spoke. "Location scan was incomplete…oh well."

Even though I knew he said it in the show, I was still surprised that Bulkhead said that. " 'Oh well'? Are you being serious right now?" I asked him.

Bulkhead turned to look at me with a surprised look. "Fowler's a jerk! You know that Paul."

He was lucky that I just let out an annoyed sigh before going into my lecture mode. "It doesn't matter Bulkhead. Whether you like Agent Fowler or not, the Decepticons may have him."

Of course, Raf jumped in at that point with the important part. "And Agent Fowler knows your location…" He then gulped as what he just said came full turn in his mind. "Our location."

Thankfully, Miko then chimed in with her part. "And did we not just witness how fast Fowler backs down from a bot? The 'Cons will totally make him squeal!"

This could have turned out very bad for the Autobots in the regular timeline and I hoped that the timeline didn't change that much in this one so Fowler wouldn't talk here as well. But, with how my luck was going, that was wishful thinking.

"But we lost the transmission." Cliffjumper started as he stared at the monitors. "Fowler could be anywhere that the 'Cons can access."

And this was the cue for the child genius in the room. "Maybe I can narrow it down." He then sat on the floor in front of his backpack and opened his laptop before typing. "About five years ago, the government started microchipping their agents. You know, like owners do with pets." We all just stared at him in silence for a moment. Even though I was a deity, I was amazed by how much this youngling human knew. Eventually, he noticed that we were all silent and so he looked up at us. "What? I saw it on T.V."

"Remind me to watch more human television." I heard Cliffjumper mutter to Bulkhead, who nodded back.

"Anyway," Raf picked up. "if I can hack into the FEDS mainframe, maybe I can pinpoint Fowler's coordinates." He then continued to type on his computer. That was one smart twelve-year-old.

"You know how to hack?" Miko asked with a very impressed tone. Of course, if I was asking, I would have probably sounded just as impressed. "But you're like…two years old."

"Twelve." Raf immediately corrected before adding, "And a quarter." I was pretty sure that the quarter only made a difference to Raf. I was just impressed that a twelve-year-old was hacking into the government. Made me wonder where he learned it.

It was long before Raf had the coordinates on his computer screen and, to save time, I decided to read them off. "Latitude thirty nine point five, longitude one hundred sixteen point nine." At least that was the same as it was in the show.

Bulkhead then activated the bridge and stood there with Cliffjumper. "Okay, wait here." Bulkhead ordered us as he started to make his way through.

Miko was not too happy about this though. "Aw, don't break up the band!"

However, that wasn't going to work. What did happen, though, was Bulkhead turning to Jack. "Uh, Jack…you're in charge."

While I was a little irked at being passed over for being in charge, I was glad that he did because I had to get to the Nemesis. That ship had high enough shielding that Lizzie might possibly be there hiding in the air shafts or in one of the probably many abandoned rooms. I just had to go to the ship and look for her in the flesh. That meant that I was going to be sneaking out right behind Miko. Unlike her, however, I had to make sure that I did not get spotted by the Autobots until I could satisfy my search with either locating Lizzie or not.

I actually almost missed Miko moving to the bridge but, thankfully, I caught the sight of one of her pigtails moving out of my vision and I followed behind her. Once we were through the bridge, she went to the left while I moved to the right and behind Bulkhead and toward the Nemesis. I had to see if Lizzie was on there. She was my responsibility and I was not going to rest until I made sure that she was alright.

…If she was alright.

Lizzie's 1st P.O.V.

"This is going to be good." I whispered as I sat between the twins, the exit vent of the ventilation shaft open in front of us to show the entertainment that was about to start below. Thankfully, once we got there, Starscream was already in there and we didn't have to wait long for the drones to escort Fowler in. It was strange that, with the acoustics of the ship, I could hear the shuffling of Fowler's feet against the metal floor distinctly from the pedesteps that were next to him.

Both of the twins nodded as Fowler fell on the floor and looked up at Starscream. "Welcome, Agent Fowler." Starscream greeted the special agent as he turned to the human. I had to admit while watching this that even chicken bot was a frag of a lot scarier than he had appeared while watching the show.

However, Fowler had to have some weird numbness to being scared of Cybertronians because he simply started to stand up and brushed off dirt from his shoulder while saying, "You treat all your guests this nice?"

It was a decent comeback but Starscream seemed to find it more amusing than anything for he chuckled, which was actually kinda scary, before saying, "Any friend of the Autobots."

Of course, Fowler just wasn't understanding what sort of danger he could be heading toward. With Megatron on this ship right now, and in command of this operation, he could come in and the interrogation could be far less pleasant than it was about to be with 'Scream. "Autobot? That one of them coin-operated wash-my-own-car places?"

In return, Starscream sent Fowler a glare before smirking. "Oh, so that's how it's going to be hmm? Apparently no one has told you I have little appreciation for human humor." Well, that changed slightly but it wasn't something that I had to stop the presses for. "Make our…guest comfortable."

Starscream then went and stood to the side as the drones strapped Fowler up to the chains. While they did that, I turned to the twins and shook my head. "If Fowler keeps acting like this, then we are going to have an awesome show." I smirked widely as I waited.

Frenzy chuckled before saying, "Yeah, unlike you Fowler doesn't know when to suck up or, at the very least, shut up. I mean, if he's trying to get Starscream to tear him to shreds then he is going in the right direction."

I nodded and continued to watch as the drones finished chaining Fowler up and Starscream started his interrogation. "Agent Fowler, I have one simple request that will save your family the pain of grieving." Starscream circled around the dangling Fowler as he said this before he put a digit under Fowler's neck, which would probably act like a knife if enough pressure was applied to it, before he continued, "Tell me the location, of the Autobot base."

"No problem. But, I need to ask you something first." I saw the twins' jaws drop at that and I just stared ahead with wide eyes. While I knew that Fowler said something smart-afty in the regular time line, this was different. Would Fowler tell 'Scream the location?

Starscream, unlike in the show, looked skeptical of Fowler's reaction. "I'm listening human." Starscream stated with an unusually hard glare.

However, it seemed like Fowler was sticking to script. "I've got an issue with the customer service around here. Can I speak to the manager?"

Instead of getting angry, like he did in the show, Starscream chuckled to himself before responding. "Oh, trust me on this case human. You don't want me to do that. If I call Lord Megatron, he is sure to rip the information out of your fleshy body painfully. You would probably not live through it. If you tell me the location however, I might be able to convince Lord Megatron of your usefulness on the ship."

"You can't get me to say anything." Fowler spat back at 'Scream.

Seriously, Starscream was starting to freak me out and, at the same time, excite me as he stayed calm under the pressure and turned to one of the drones before saying, "Bring me the prod."

Now I found myself shaking again, and I was only slightly ashamed to admit that it was from excitement. Starscream didn't seem to be the touchy flighty thing that he was in the show and this was a terrifying yet likeable side of him that the show didn't touch on. Even though Starscream was one of my least favorite Decepticons in the Prime show, tied with Airachnid, I was finding myself really liking this new version of him.

A poke, that was a little too hard, coming from both sides on my shoulders had me look to each twin before Frenzy spoke. "Hey, are you okay? You're shaking."

I looked at my hands and, sure enough, they were shaking somewhat noticeably. Thankfully, I could tell them the truth…as sad as it was. "Yeah, I'm good. Just really excited about this interrogation. I want to see how Starscream works Agent Fowler to make him talk." If he talked. Hopefully, for the bit of story line that was still left at this point, I hoped that he wouldn't.

But, I never liked Fowler in the beginning of the show anyways. He was a jerk to everyone and he had an ego that matched the stereotype of Americans and it was really annoying. Honestly, I was probably enjoying this torture session a little too much and it hadn't even started yet.

We all stayed quiet as Starscream continued to interrogate Fowler, though this time he had the prod in his servo. "I'll ask nicely one last time Agent Fowler. Where is the Autobot base?"

But, like in the show, Fowler was too stubborn to quit. "Sure thing buddy. Right after you eat my star-spangled shorts!"

Stupid Fowler. I know he wasn't supposed to tell where the base was but did you have to answer like that? I mean come on, you were almost asking to be electrocuted with the prod. Kinda annoying really but it was going to make a great show for the three of us.

When the prod came on, and the purple electricity flowed between the prongs, I felt myself mesmerized by the glow. It was one of my weaknesses. When I saw something that glowed I tended to stare at it for a long time. However, this time wasn't nearly as long as normal as I noticed Fowler's eyes get really big. I think he was realizing what sort of situation he was really in. Starscream touched the prod to Fowler and, as sad as it was, I smirked slightly when I heard Fowler's screams. He really had to learn to talk to giant robots respectfully and this was probably going to be the fastest way to do it.

Starscream was smirking as well as he spoke in a cold and chilling tone of voice. "As I imagined. Electricity and human nervous systems don't mix."

I got a shiver down my spine as Starscream's smirk stayed. Wow. I never thought I would say this, but I was actually admiring Starscream right now. Even with the changes that happened through the interrogation, I found myself in awe of him…something that I thought hell would have to freeze over twice for.

As Starscream moved the prod back toward Fowler, I smirked wider. This was not the end by far.

No…this was only the beginning.

Authoress: *smirks* Oh, this is going to be loads of fun. *chuckles*

Paul: *nods* It will be if I can find my employee on this ship. She has been missing for too long and I must find her.

Cliffjumper: Don't worry Paul, we'll find her eventually. This story needs her so, no matter where she is, you know that eventually she is going to show up.

Authoress: *smiles* Thank you Cliff. However, I did say that I was changing things and that sometimes means more than just story plot. *walks off*

Cliffjumper and Paul: *yell* What does that mean?

AN: And here is yet another chapter of this story! I am very excited to be moving through this so quickly and exploring all of the changes that are being made. Some are small changes but others are quite large. I wonder if anyone has spotted them all so far? Anyways, it seems like Paul and Fowler definitely got off on the wrong foot while Lizzie has been getting to know her knew shipmates while trying to stay alive. Plus Fowler is on the Nemesis and his tor...interrogation has, as Lizzie thinks, only just begun. (She really didn't like Fowler in the beginning episodes and that seems to be showing now).

So, next chapter is going to be having Paul trying to look around the Nemesis for Lizzie with some Lizzie scenes as well. Can't say much more on the subject so, if you all could, please leave a review, even if it is to say hello! I like hearing from you all and it makes me feel like I'm not just writing this for the thin air. I do love writing this and I won't stop for anything, but it is nice to know that others are reading this. Thank you all who have reviewed if I haven't thanked you yet! Well, that's all for me now. TTYL! *makes plans to tease readers more*