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Finding the All Spark
Sam's POV, August 3rd
Mikaela and I are sitting in a holding room at S-7 headquarters. Mikaela is sleeping, while I sit awake, thinking about Bee. Soon, Simmons walks in and gets them.
"What's going on?" Sam asks.
"You're coming with us. Communications are down, and you two know about the NBE's."
"Where's my car?" Sam asks.
"That's confidential." Simmons says.
Sam, Mikaela, Maggie, and Glen climb onto a helicopter.
"So…" Sam says.
"What'd they get you for?" Maggie asks.
"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot." Sam says.
"Wow." Glen says.
"Who knew?" Sam says.
Normal POV
The bots stand on a wall surrounding Optimus and I. I spent the night in his cabin, on the bed in the back, then got dressed while sitting on it. Now I'm sitting on Sire's shoulder, clinging to my baby blankie. He's closer to the ground, after all. "Please, let this work."
"Fire i' up, Optimus." Sire says.
"The code. The code on these glasses indicates the All Spark is 230 miles from here."
"I sense the Decepticons are getting ready to mobilize." "They must know it's here, as well." Ironhide says stoically.
"Wha' 'bou' Bumblebee? We can' just leave him to die an' become some human experiment!"
"He'll die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission." Optimus sighs. "Bumblebee is a brave soldier. This is what he would want."
Ironhide sighs. "Why are we fighting to save the humans? They're a primitive and violent race."
"Were we so different? They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. You all know there's only one way to end this war. We must destroy the Cube. If all else fails, I will unite it with the spark in my chest."
Ratchet turns to us. "That's suicide. The Cube is raw power. It could destroy you both."
"A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes. It's been an honor serving with you all." Optimus looks at the wall sadly. "Autobots, roll out!"
"We rollin'!"
Once we're on the ground, I climb into the passenger seat. I'm wearing a white long sleeved T-shirt with red polka-dots and a red bow, a white T-shirt with a red Autobot symbol, red leggings, a red tutu, white socks, red strappy flats, and a red hair bow.
Hoover Dam, Sam's POV
"Team attention! Present arms!" Lennox says.
"At ease. Captain, Sergeant. Got your intel. Excellent work."
"Thank you, sir. What about the gunships?"
"They're being retrofitted with sabot rounds now. If they hit us again, we'll be ready for them. But it won't do us much good if we can't get world communications back up."
Simmons stops Mikaela and I from joining the others. "Hey, kid. I think we got off to a bad start, huh? You must be hungry? You want a latte? HoHo? Double venti macchiato?"
I glare at him. "Where's my car?"
"Son, I need you to listen to me very carefully. People can die here."
"We need to know everything you know. We need to know it now." Simmons says.
"Okay. But first, I'll take my car, my parents. Maybe you should write that down. Oh, and her juvie record. That's got to be gone. Like, forever."
"Come with me. We'll talk about your car." The S-7 leader says.
"Thank you."
"The man's an extortionist." Simmons says.
"All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs."
"NBEs?" Is this man for real?
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms. What you're about to see is totally classified."
"Dear God. What is this?" Lennox says.
"We think when he made his approach over the North Pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry. He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934."
"We call him NBE One." Simmons says.
"Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know, but, I mean, that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons."
"He's Been in cryostasis since 1935." The S-7 leader says.
"Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind. Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age, the microchip, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all reverse-engineered by studying him. NBE One. That's what we call it."
"And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?" the secretary of defense says.
"Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security." The S-7 leader says.
"Well, you got one now. So why Earth?"
"It's the All Spark."
"All Spark? What is that?" the secretary of defense asks.
"Well, yeah, they came here looking for some sort of cube-looking thing. Anyway, Mr. NBE One here, AKA Megatron, that's what they call him, who's pretty much the harbinger of death, wants to use the Cube to transform human technology to take over the universe. That's their plan."
"And you're sure about that?" the S-7 leader says.
"Yeah. You guys know where it is, don't you?"
"Follow me. You're about to see our crown jewel. Carbon dating puts the Cube here around 10,000 BC. The first Seven didn't find it until 1913. They knew it was alien because of the matching hieroglyphics on the Cube as well as NBE One. President Hoover had the dam built around it. Four football fields thick of concrete. A perfect way to hide its energy from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside."
"Wait, back up. You said the dam hides the Cube's energy. What kind exactly?"
"Good question. Please step inside. They have to lock us in."
"Oh, wow. What's that? Freddy Krueger done Been up in here or something?" Epps asks.
"Oh, no, man. Freddy Krueger have four blades, man. That's only three. That's Wolverine! Right? That's Wolverine!"
"That's very funny. Anybody have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry? Key alarm? Cell phone?"
"I got a phone." Glen says.
"Nokias are real nasty. You've got to respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai."
"Nokia's from Finland." Maggie says.
"Yes, but he's, you know, a little strange. He's a little strange." The S-7 leader says.
The thing transforms into a monkey-like Cybertronian. "We're able to take the Cube radiation and funnel it into that box. Mean little sucker, huh?"
"That thing is freaky!" Maggie says.
"Kind of like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from hell, huh?" The thing starts breaking the box. "He's breaking the box." They zap it with the energy again, killing it.
The lights flicker in the room. "Gentlemen, they know the Cube is here." The secretary of defense says.
"Banachek. What's going on?" the S-7 leader asks.
"Well, the NBE One hangar has lost power…" Banachek says.
"What?" the S-7 leader asks.
"…and the backup generator is just not gonna cut it." Banachek says.
"Do you have an arms room?" Lennox asks.
"I'll bring security to the…" a worker says.
"Get everyone to the NBE One chamber now!" the S-7 leader says.
"The lights are out!" one of the workers says.
"Move it! Move it!" another says.
"Let's go!" A third says.
"They're popping our generators!" the S-7 leader says.
With Optimus, Normal POV
Optimus is leading the group to the Hoover Dam. Sire is behind him, followed by Ratchet and finally Ironhide with me. I like riding in Ironhide.
Hoover Dam
"16502. We're losing pressure." A metallic voice says over the intercom.
"Stand by! Set!" a worker says.
"We're losing pressure The cryogenic system is failing! We're losing NBE One!"
Sam's POV
"Forty millimeter sabot rounds on that table!" Simmons says.
"That's good. Get all the ammo you got. Everything you can carry. Bring it."
The lights flicker again, causing everyone to stop. Simmons turns the revolving drum on a gun two clicks. Everyone in the room looks at the lights nervously. I look at Mikaela, then hurry over to Simmons. Mikaela follows me, not knowing what else to do.
"You got to take me to my car. You have to take me to my car. He's gonna know what to do with the Cube."
"Your car? It's confiscated." Simmons loads the gun in his hands.
"Then unconfiscate it."
"We do not know what will happen if we let it near this thing!" Simmons shakes his head.
"You don't know."
"Maybe you know, but I don't know." Simmons says.
"You just wanna sit here and wait and see what happens?"
"I have people's lives at stake here, young man." Simmons says.
Lennox grabs two handfuls of Simmons' shirt and pushes him back onto the wall. "Take him to his car!"
An S-7 agent holds a gun at Lennox.
"Drop it." Lennox goes against the large gun with a pistol.
Soldiers start hitting the S-7 agents with the butts of their guns. Glen and Maggie hold their hands in the air.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" the S-7 leader says.
"Drop your weapon, soldier. There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"
"You know, we didn't ask to be here." Lennox says.
"I'm ordering you under S-Seven executive jurisdiction." Simmons says.
"S-Seven don't exist." Epps says.
"Right. And we don't take orders from people that don't exist." Lennox says.
"I'm gonna count to five. Okay." Simmons says.
"Well, I'm gonna count to three." Lennox cocks the pistol and holds it against Simmons' chest.
"Simmons?" the secretary of defense asks.
"Yes, sir?" Simmons asks.
"I'd do what he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys." The secretary of defense says.
Simmons looks back and forth between the secretary of defense and Captain Lennox before nodding.
"All right. Okay. Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool."
Lennox pushes him back and releases him.
They run into the room and instantly hear his screams of agony.
"No, no! Stop! You got to stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!" I run over to Bee's side.
"No, no, stop, stop, stop!" the S-7 leader says.
The soldiers get their guns ready, just in case.
"Let him go! Let him go! Are you okay?"
Bumblebee whirrs, and moves to get a better look.
"They didn't hurt you, right?"
Bumblebee looks around before activating both his battle mask and his cannons. "Yes! They! Hurt! Me!" He rolls onto his side and starts aiming at whoever he can.
"Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming." Bumblebee sits up and keeps aiming his cannon. "No, no, don't worry about them. They're okay. Right? They're not gonna hurt you." Bumblebee stands up and keeps aiming. "Just back up a little bit. He's friendly. He's fine." Bumblebee raises his battle mask. "Okay, come on. Put the guns down. They're not gonna hurt you. Here, come with me. I'm gonna take you to the All Spark."
Sam's POV
They run into the All Spark storage room. Bumblebee walks up to it, Mikaela and I sticking close by him. Bumblebee looks at it for a moment.
Bumblebee whirrs.
"Okay, here we go. He doing something. He doing something." Epps says.
He touches it, causing it to shrink down to a more manageable size.
"Oh, my God." Mikaela breathes.
"Message from Starfleet, Captain…Let's get to it."
"He's right. We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city."
"Good! Right." The secretary of defense says.
"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force." Lennox says.
"This place must have some kind of radio link! Yes. Shortwave, CB."
"Right, yes." Simmons says.
"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get word out to them. Let's move!" Lennox says.
"In the alien archive, sir!" Simmons says.
"The alien…" the secretary of defense says.
"There's an old Army radio console." Simmons says.
"Will it work?" the secretary of defense asks.
"Anything's possible! Did you see that…" Simmons motions with his hands about the shrunken cube.
"All right, Sam, get it in the car! Mr. Secretary! Get our birds in the air. When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?" Mikaela and I get into the Camaro.
"Affirmative!" the secretary of defense says.
"Warning! NBE One cryo-containment failing." The intercom says.
"Check that backup system!" one of the workers says.
"The cryo's failing! You got to bump up the cryo! The cryo's failing!" another worker says.
"Come on! Get out of here!" A frantic worker shouts.
"Heads up! Look out!" another frantic worker yells.
"Set a perimeter around the yellow vehicle!" Lennox says as he runs.
"This way, this way, this way!" Simmons yells, "Up there! Let's go!"
"I am Megatron!" Megatron says.
Sam's POV
I turn to Mikaela from the driver's seat. "The Cube's okay?"
"Yeah, it's fine." Mikaela leans back to it.
"Well, put the seat belt on."
Hoover Dam, Third POV
"Come on, Mags!" Glen says.
"Over here, sir!" Simmons runs to the console as the door latches behind them. "Give me a minute. Give me a minute. Come to me, Maxwell, come to me. Plugged in there. We're hot! We're live!"
"Where are the mikes?" Glen asks.
"Mikes?" Simmons asks.
"This doesn't work without mikes, Simmons." Glen says.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Simmons says.
"Let's find them." Glen says.
"Kid, get in the chair! Just get in the chair, all right?" Simmons says.
"Okay, I'll sit. I'll sit." Glen says.
"They steal everything out of this place. How do we get the signal out? How do we call the Air Force?" Simmons asks.
"Glen?" Maggie says.
"Huh?" Glen asks.
"Can you hotwire this computer to transmit a tone through the radio?" Maggie asks.
"What good is that?" Glen asks.
"Morse code! You can use this to transmit it through that!" Maggie says.
"Okay, I'll do it! Turn it around. Okay, let's see. Simmons, I need a screwdriver!"
