Miko and Ava ran through the ground bridge into their base, brushing back their hair back into place from the recent battle they had fighting along side of Bumblebee's team. Grabbing their uniform jackets the girls headed to the board meeting. Ava's long hair was now tied into a tight bun, and both girls wore a military jacket that held their rank. The two girls ran all the way to the room and stopped at the door. Taking a breathe they entered calmly.

"Lieutenant Witwicky, Sargent Nakadai. Glad you girls could join us."

"Commander." they said together and took a seat

"Our meeting was going to be about new recruits, and any sign of Autobots or Decepticon activity.

Aside from the Bots that we have working with you four." the commander said "But we need to discus something first. Witwicky! Nakadai! What was the cover story you used to tell the people about what happened at Crown City."

"Nothing Sir," Ava replied "We are still working on the cover story. So far they know we are looking into the strange occurrence. Luckily for us that Space bridge receiver was not too high in the sky, so not many people saw. Not only that but the area was evacuated before we engaged the enemy."

"Get a cover story worked up quickly!" He demanded "I am not dragging this out any longer."

"Sir, if we tell the public of Crown City the cover story this early people are going to be suspicious. Might as well wait a bit before giving the story to the public." Jack added "Make it look convincing."

"You make a good point Lieutenant Darby" he replied

"It was the girls' idea, Sir." Jack replied

"A side from the cover story in Crown City we have other matters to attend to. How is the new team adjusting to Earth?"

"Sir, all of the Autobots we work with have been on Earth at one point. Aside from our new Autobot, Cybertronian, Medic, all are used to working along side of humans." Raf stated

"Miss. Witwicky are you ever going to tell me what mission Optimus Prime assigned to you before he left for Cybertron." he demanded

"Commander with all due respect. Optimus trusted me...us" she motioned between the other three members of Team Prime "with this mission, I don't want to betray his trust." Ava replied "It doesn't feel right, after all he sacrificed for us."

He stated "Fine. I'll respect his wishes, and I'll except that answer for now Lieutenant.

Ava nodded deciding she should talk to Optimus when he visited Earth, and the Rescue team about if she should tell Commander Brice about them.

"Can you two explain why there was multiple..."

"Cybertronian life signatures?" Raf asked

"...Cybertronian life signatures in Crown City."

"As it turns out that a prison ship had crashed down near by, thankfully the part that landed close to the city was a small section of it, the other part was crashed in an uninhabited part of the forest near where the ocean and the river meet." Miko explained "The ship was clocked so if anyone passed by no-one would see the ship.

"How were they getting captured then? Surly not by a couple of humans?" he asked knowing that they were good but not that good.

All four human members of Team Prime looked at each other with worried glances. Nodding in agreement Ava stood up from her chair.

"Commander. As it turned out there was a team of Cyberyronians, stationed near Crown City that caught the escapees and put them back into cry-o-stasis, till they could be shipped back to Cybertron." She explained calmly "the team is being lead by BumbleBee, Optimus' former scout. Working with him is Strongarm an Elite force police academy

cadet. Sideswipe, a young promising bot, Grimlock a...caring Dinobot, Fixit a minicon that was a caretaker aboard the prison ship and acts as the team's medic, Drift a samurai and Jetsotrm and Slipstream Drift's two minicon students. They are considering making a peppermint base on Earth considering how much of a hot spot Earth has been for Decepticon activity. I agree with that observation."

"How many humans know about this?" he asked as if he did not want to know how many.

"Two." Miko said "A father and son. A decepticon that is called a Chompozoide named Underbite attracted the kid and Sideswipe saved him reveling the secoret to them.

Sir."

"Are they willing to keep the secoret."

"Yes, they are. They have been giving multiple cover stories, whenever their fights and civilians cross paths." Ava smiled "They are willing to put up with them and to

keep their existence hidden from the public. Like we were seven years ago."

"I do not like the fact that more people know about aliens existing."

"We will keep an eye on it." Raf stated "Sir."

"Be sure that you do. I would like to have a meeting with BumbleBee, and meet his team."

"Sir, their base is a scrapyard." Jack pointed out

"Not to mention, that we do not know if they will have time for a meeting, when decepticons attack they have to leave." Miko added "Like immediately."

"You have time for meetings." Commander Brice pointed out

"Aren't these mandatory?" Ava asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Set up a time for us to meet the team." Commander Brice demanded ignoring Ava's comment "Dismissed!"

Giving their leader a salute they all left the meeting room.

"How are we going to set this up?" Raf asked "BumbleBee and his team are not going to get along with Military codes. Well not all of them."

"Raf, Chill out." Miko whispered

"We have to figure it out." Ava and Jack said

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Drift was just getting done meditating and just sat there thinking about the past few days. Both Miko and Ava had not visited them in weeks, staying at the college. He thought about the arguments that Sideswipe and Strongarm had been having. They were not their usual banters. They were mostly all about the brunette being trusted. Not Miko and Ava. Just Ava. On one hand Strongarm had a point Ava did appear suddenly after his students were almost abducted by MECH. But Miko did as well. On the other hand as much as he hated to admit it he agreed with Sideswipe, BumbleBee trusted Ava, she was a member of Team Prime, and her family had worked with the Autodbots.

That was all of the information that BumbleBee and the brunette had given. While Ava seemed to be hidding something Drift felt that it was alright if she did not tell them everything right away. After all they had all just met not that long ago. So Drift hated to admit it, but he agreed with Sideswipe more than Strongarm for once. Not to mention Jetstorm and Slipstream seemed to get along well with both girls, but they had very few actual interactions. He was thankful to Ava for saving his students who he practically raised after he had taken them from Shadow Racker.

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Ava was resting her head against her hand trying not to fall asleep. She was currently in class learning about how war and peace contribute to each other. The class was more interesting then it sounded and they needed this class to continue helping the Autobots fight the decepticons. Unfortunately the monotone of the professor's voice was putting her to sleep; half the class was already asleep including Miko. She was surprised at how legible her notes were since she was now taking them absentmindedly.

She was just about to fall asleep and her head was about to hit the table when.

"Miss. Witwicky!" the Professor called out

Snapping her head up now wide awake thanks to the rush of adrenaline from the scare.

"Care to solve this situation." he requested

Looking at the board she quickly read the scenario with a raised eyebrow she asked "Is this a trick question?"

"No, its not."

"Cause a distraction" She stated with a dull tone

"Explain."

"Um... well to get back the ones that were captured I would have a team cause a distract them and another team to rescue the prisoners." Ava replied almost boredom.

The professor nodded accepting her answer. After finishing his lecture he dismissed the class. Ava waking up the slumbering Miko and both of them running out of the room.

"So, what are we going to do now. Visit your uncle at his base or meet the others?" Miko questioned

Ava looked at Miko and then looked over to the forest where their weapons were hidden in a cherry tree by their 'sisterhood' house. She was silent for a while, unsure what they should do. While Ava and Jack were both in charge of Team Prime. Everyone looked to Ava first, and Miko knew that was stressful for the girl. She was the daughter of the first human honorary prime, and her dad was the original lesion between the government and the Autobots. They had learned that before Sam had decided to try to have a normal life he assisted and helped out the Autobots. Sam had ran into battle and had helped win those battles. Ava had big shoes to fill. Some Autobots held Ava up to high expectations and standards. No one more than Prowl, Optimus Prime's fourth in command.

"How 'bout we visit Bee and the others. That way Skids and Mudflap won't have to see you like this and pull a prank we all know Prowl will either set off or get upset about." Miko suggested "You look like you could use a break from leading. Maybe this is why Optimus always went off alone. He could take a break and pretend that he was not in charge of an army."

Ava smirked, but nodded. "Prowl won't be happy about this."

"Waving her comment off "When is he ever happy." Miko retorted "Prowl is just upset that no one is acting like the Elite guard. Perfectly fallowing orders to the letter. Codes, regulations. I mean dude we are not Elite guard graduates or cadets. I think he does not like the prank day you allow every month."

"At least I placed the universal prank rules up and told them that every prank had to fallow every single rule, and that they were only to cheer people up or on that day." Ava countered

The girls laughed at the twins latest prank. It was meant for Knockout, but Prowl had triggered it...again...and roared at the twins for being immature and demanded that they clean it up and the med bay. While the prank did not hit the correct target, it did do what they set out to accomplish. Knockout laughed, actually it was kind of hard not to laugh at the stoic Prowl walking through the base covered in rubber cement and glitter.

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The girls both scaled the wall of the scrap yard trying to be a quiet as they could be, they wanted to surprise BumbleBee, and the others. Having to navigate the base because Denny had a lot of the stuff on the ground. Hitting a piece of metal with her foot Ava fell to the ground hard. A squeak of both pain and surprise escaped her. While she was still clumsy she was for the most part sure footed, often using her monuments of clumsiness to her advantage. While she was not that loud, they did attracted the attention of Drift. Who was currently looking for his students. Today was a day off of training and he was scheduled to go out on patrol and he never really forced them to go on patrol with him anymore. But ever since that incident with MECH, both of his students decided to stay closer to him.

Raising an optic he looked at both girls in confusion "Why are you spending time here when you should be checking in on your team." he questioned

Miko waved off his statement and replied "We have already been there a for the past few weeks. Prowl had rounded on Ava and demanded that she do something about the twins pranks. Honestly she did do something about them Prowl is being unreasonable."

"If she already did something about their pranks, then why is Prowl upset about them and demanding that Ava do something?"

Sighing Ava explained "I set up a certain day a month that they could pull random pranks and allowed Pranks to be pulled not on that day only if they are using it to cheer someone up. those can only be used four times. I also gave them the universal prank rules and said that when they pull pranks every single on has to fallow every signal rule. That did stop the pranks significantly, now they are taking the time to actually pull a good prank."

"Prowl is just made because he is always tripping the pranks." Miko added in "Just a few days ago they wanted to pull one on Knockout because he had been moping around the base for the past few weeks. They made a mixture of rubber cement and glitter along with, something I forget, that made it easy to peel off. They set it up for Knockout, unfortunately for Prowl and the twins, the wrong bot tripped the trap. Fortunately for the twins Knockout was on his way to the med-bay and saw the prank and it brightened up his day."

Drift nodded slowly "What is the problem then, with..."

"The problem is that Prowl is yelling at Ava anytime he trips one of the twins pranks and is holding her up to impossible standards just because her dad is .."

Ava punched Miko in the arm and gave her the best glare she could with her sunglasses on.

"Oh, right sorry."

"What are you two taking about?" Drift questioned narrowing his optics.

"Please, not know. I'm...I'm not ready to tell anyone yet. Bee already knows everything. I'll tell you soon." Ava said

It might of been Drift's imagination, but the samurai bot could have sworn that he heard Ava's authoritative voice drop to a meek tone, but he was somewhat happy with Ava's answer and nodded his head. He also noticed that Ava was fiddling with her sunglasses. As if all the answers were hidden underneath the blue tinted lens.

Drift had lead the girls to the command center of the scrapyard causing BumbleBee to smile when he saw them. "So, whats knew?" Bee asked eh girls

"Ava's got a boyfriend." Miko piped randomly and then had to dodge a fist coming from a pink faced Ava.

"He's NOT my Boyfriend. He's just a friend." Ava stated

"Yeah, but you like him." Miko teased

"Oh, like you and Jack?" Ava countered

Miko's face turned red whether it from embarrassment or anger no one could tell.

"We have something to tell you. Commander Brice formerly know-en as General Brice has requested that you and your team meet him." Ava said turning her attention to 'her uncle'.

"When?" Bee asked in a mix of confusion and frustration

"Do'n' know." Miko replied "Probably whenever you are free."

BumbleBee gave them a confused look. "I don't know when we will be free. How about i contact you guys next time you're at your base and we can meet him then."

"Sounds like a plan." Ava said

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Weeks past and Ava was standing by the computers in her base. She rubbed her eyes as the light from the monitor strained them, reaching over she put on a pair of blue lens glasses that helped with the blue lights that computers tend to give off. Scanning for relics was different, than what she usually did. Normally Raf would be the one on his computer finding the locations on Earth. But today it as her job. Mostly because Miko and Jack could not read Cybertronian as well and quickly as Rafael and she could.

The com. beeped and she answered it "Prowl, I told you to stay with the twins during the retrieve of the artifact. I'm not revoking my decision."

"I am not Prowl." A deep voice replied caucusing Ava to blink in surprise.

"Drift?" She asked

"BumbleBee is requesting a groundbridge, our team is on route to these coordinates." Drift replied

"Why is Bee not asking for a ground bridge?"

Drift refused to answer and the girl open the groundbridge. four cars and a crane appeared in the room. The bots transformed and Grimlock jumped out of his crane costume.

With a smile Ava welcomed the team to her base "Welcome to Autobot Out Post Omega 3." there was a hint of a smirk in her tone as if she was telling a hidden joke. "Sorry, 'bout earlier, Prowl was pretty upset that I assigned him to work with the twins."

"If they do not like each other why did you pair the three of them up." Strongarm asked

"The twins practically share a brain and Prowl could not go alone. No one else was on Earth and I was not going to request someone form Cybertron for only this mission. Any other questions?"

The cadet narrowed her eyes at the brunette, not liking how she responded to her question.

Turning to a cadet that was passing by trying not to make eye contact with the new titans "Contact Commander Brice and tell him BumbleBee and his team are here for a meeting." Ava commanded. "Then let me know when he is about to arrive." The new soldier was almost eager to get away and to the take he was assigned.

"So," She added addressing the Bots "how about a tour while we wait."

The tour of the base lasted an hour in a half when the six of them entered the main room there stood General Brice. Ava stood next to the bots on the ground level close to BumbleBee.

"Lieutenant."

Ava nodded and gave a small salute to the commander.

"Now I would like to meet the full team." HE commanded

"Fixit has requested to stay at the base to monitor for decepticon activity." Ava explained to the commander

"Any other Autobots I should meet?"

Drift Looked at his wrists where Slipstream and Jetstorm were, as if debating on letting the commander know about them. Ava had warned them about how... un-trusting he was to Cybertronians. He did not want to put Jetstrom and Slipstream through any of his cruel words. He looked at Ava who nodded her head and shrugged her shoulders as if she was encouraging him to let the two yougling minicons meet her superior; but the shrug let him know that it was not a command.

"There are two more." Drift replied and deployed Jetstorm and Slipstream who stood right in-front of him.

Gazing up to see a disapproving and cold glare of Commander Brice both younglings backed up nervously closer to Drift.

"Ah, yes the two students my Lieutenant told me about. you know we have rules about children fighting."

Jetstorm and Slipstream both hide behind Drift.

"Commander, this is a meeting for you to meet Bumblebee's team and to discus matters with him." Ava said quickly

BumbleBee nodded and left with Commander Brice to a large enough briefing room. When they left Ava's stiff stance loosened and she looked at the mini cons.

"I am so sorry, for that. Commander Brice does not really like Cybertronians." She apologized "Fowler... he should be doing this but the commander demanded it during the last meeting."

"If he does not like us, then why is he the leader of this base."

"Technically Ava is." A new voice spoke.