"Shit." Will cursed.
Just then the doorbell rang. Making their way to the front room, Em and Hales glared at the man standing in the doorway.
"Thomas Hawthorne?" the man asked.
"Do I know you?" Tommy questioned.
"We're with the government. Sector Seven." The man replied.
"Never heard of it." Tommy stated.
"Never will." The strange man looked back at Will and Amelia's father.
"May I enter the premises, sir?"
Tommy didn't get the chance to answer as the men wearing suits pushed past.
"Tommy, there are guys all around the house!" Sarah claimed as she walked into the living room, holding a bat.
"I completely forgot about mom holding a baseball bat." said Will.
"What is going on here?" Tommy demanded.
"Your son was at the police station last night, after filing a stolen car report, correct? We think it may be involved with a matter of national security." He slowly made his way over to Will.
"National security?" Tommy questioned the man.
"They're ripping up my rose bushes!" Sarah gasped. "Tommy, they're everywhere!"
"That's right. National security." He smiled at us once again.
Tommy looked out the window and frowned.
"Do you have an authority to set your foot in our household?" Hailey questioned.
"Hey, could you stay off the grass?" Tommy complained to the men storming the yard without any given reason.
"Get me a sample and some isotope readings." The man ordered the other agents.
"They're pulling bushes out of the ground! Good Lord! They better get their hands off my bush!" Sarah made her way to the door.
"I guess aunt Sarah does care about our garden for once." said Hailey.
"Drop the bat, ma'am. I'm carrying a loaded weapon." The man warned.
"You're gonna shoot our mother over a few bushes?" Amelia questioned.
"You better get those guys out of my garden, or I'm going to beat the crap out of them." Sarah warned.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Mom." said Will.
"How are you doing, son?" He smiled a creepy smile at Will and company.
"I'm going to need you and the others to come with us."
"Hey, you don't get to tell us what to do." Amelia snapped.
"Whoa, way out of line." Tommy tried to intervene.
"Sir, I am asking politely. Back off." The agent said calmly.
"You're not taking my son and my daughter, and my niece." said Tommy.
"Oh, are you trying to get rough with us?" The man challenged Tommy.
"Back off! My dad is giving you the only warning!" Will shouted.
"No, but I'm calling the cops, because there is something fishy going on here!" said Tommy.
"Yeah, there is. There's something fishy about you, your kids, your little Taco Bell dog and this entire operation!"
Will got ready to raise his fist, and he couldn't care less because the agents have no authority to storm in the Hawthorne household.
"What operation?" asked Tommy.
"That is what we are going to find out!" Another agent whispered something into his ear, and they both turned their attention back to Will, Amelia, Hailey, and Maddie.
"Kids?" The man questioned.
"Yes?" asked Amelia..
"Step forward, please." The agent brought a small machine close to four teenagers.
All of a sudden, the small machine went off when it was brought over to Hailey.
"We got an Inhuman here! Over fourteen rads! Bingo. Tag em and bag em!"
Will and Em glanced at their cousin. Hailey is an Inhuman?
"Hey! What the hell!" Will shouted as a pair of handcuffs were slapped on him.
"Put em in the car." Simmons ordered the men.
The agents dragged the four teenagers out of the household to the black SUVs parked at the side of the street. Em could hear her mother protesting.
"If you hurt my dog, I'll kick your ass!" Sarah cried.
Before Will or anyone could say anything, Em and Hales were shoved into the back of an SUV, followed by Will and Maddie. This night had just became so much worse.
"You okay, Em?" Will questioned.
Before Amelia can answer her brother, Simmons started to question Will.
"So, uh, LadiesMan217. That is your eBay username, right?" Simmons looked back at the four teenagers and waved Will's phone in the air.
"Yeah, but it was a typo and I ran with it." Will tried to explain himself.
"Just what exactly were you trying to spell then?" asked Hailey, as she raised her eyebrow.
"Well, what do you make of this?" Simmons pressed the play button on Will's phone and Amelia and Hailey quickly recognized the audio that was playing.
"My name is William Hawthorne, okay? And my car-" the audio began.
"Why didn't you delete that, Will?" Amelia questioned.
"Is that you?" Simmons asked, already knowing the answer.
"Yeah, that sounds like LadiesMan." said Maddie.
"Last night at the station, you told the officer that your car transformed. Enlighten me." Simmons glared at Will.
"Well, what I said was, because this is a total misunderstanding. I said that my car had been stolen." When Simmons just gave him a blank stare, Will continued.
"From me, from my home, but it's fine now! Because the car came back!" Will claimed.
"Not on their own." said Amelia, as she tried to give Simmons a convincing look.
"Because cars can't do that because that would be crazy!" said Maddie.
"So what do you kids know about aliens?" Simmons questioned.
"Oh, you mean like a Martian? Or E.T.? No." said Will as he scoffed.
"Urban legend." Maddie replied.
"You see this? This is my do whatever I want and get away with it badge." Simmons flashed his badge at the four teenagers.
"That's your excuse? That doesn't go with detaining us without any given reason." Amelia snapped.
"Keep it up Missy, and you'll find out just how far this badge can get me! I can lock you up for the rest of your life." Simmons barked.
"Oh, God. Don't listen to him, Em. He's just pissy because he has to get back to guarding the mall." said Maddie.
"Did your cousin tell you about her secret?" Simmons questioned, referring to Hailey.
Will and Amelia looked at Hailey, who could only hang her head in shame.
"You're an Inhuman, Hales?" asked Maddie.
"How was I supposed to know? I'm just a normal human being." said Hailey.
"Your aunt and your uncle used to work for us. And your cousin just happened to touch the Cube and it changed her. Until they decide to stop working for S7." said Simmons as he glared at Hailey.
"I'm sorry, you guys. I should've been honest with you when I moved on." said Hailey.
"Our cousin is seventeen! You don't have any rights to study her so she can become your test subject and experiment!" Amelia retorted.
Simmons raised his hand and backhanded Amelia, making her cry in pain. With her blue eyes glancing with the others, Will was very pissed. No one has the right to hurt his sister.
"Don't you dare touch my baby sister!" Will roared.
"I have had enough of you!" Simmons yelled at Amelia.
Before anyone could say anything else, the car came to a crashing stop. The car begun to spin in circles, with glass flying everywhere from the now broken windshield.
"Big! It's big!" Simmons screamed.
Long metal fingers pierced through the top of the SUV, lifting the car in the air.
"Shift your weight to the front!" Sam stared to shout. The bottom of the SUV finally gave into its own weight, and broke off of the top.
The car slammed back down onto the road, and Optimus through the roof of the SUV aside, glaring down at Simmons and the other agent.
"You guys are in trouble now. Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to my friend. Optimus Prime." Will snarled.
"Taking the children was a bad move." Optimus growled at the cowering men. "Autobots, relieve them of their weapons."
Suddenly the rest of the Autobots now surrounded the S7 agents, who all shakily pointed their guns at Optimus.
"Freeze!" Ironhide glared down at the men. The four teenagers glanced around at the bots, none of them looked too happy.
Amelia's blue eyes met with Sideswipe's blue optics, narrowing at her face. She touched her cheek and cried a little at the pain.
"Give me those!" Jazz's hand shifted into an odd shape, and the agents' guns were ripped from their hands, and into Jazz's palm.
"That's something you don't see every day." Maddie muttered.
"Woah, woah!" Simmons stood up and tried to gain control of the situation. Optimus leaned down so he could be eye to eye with the man.
"You don't seem afraid. Are you not surprised to see us?" Optimus asked.
"Look, there are S7 protocols. I can't communicate with you, except to tell you that I can't communicate with you." Simmons rushed his words, obviously uncomfortably. Optimus glared down at him.
"Get out of the car." Optimus ordered.
"Me? You want me to get-" Simmons questioned.
"Now!" Optimus barked at the man.
"Alright! Alright! I'm getting out, see? That was really nifty. How you set us down without really… killing us." Simmons fumbled to get out of the car.
"You're good with handcuffs now too, huh?" Amelia questioned Maddie.
Will, Maddie, Amelia, and Hailey were out of their handcuffs. Hailey turned away, wanting to avoid the gaze from Will, Amelia, and Maddie.
"Why didn't you tell us about your secret, Hales? The three of us were always honest with each other." said Will.
"If I was being honest, my parents would still be around right now." said Hailey.
The older Hawthorne walked up to his cousin as he placed his hands on her shoulders and turned her around so they would make eye contact.
"Hales, even though you're an Inhuman, you're still part of the family. But I'm not letting you become a test subject to the government, including the S7." he said.
Will and Hailey walked back to Amelia and Maddie, as Maddie took a look at Amelia's swollen cheek. There was no way that Will would forgive Simmons for touching his little sister.
"Are you okay, Em?" Will questioned.
"Fine. Just dandy." Amelia replied as her blue eyes met with her brother's brown eyes.
"No, you're not. I can't believe he hit you." Will muttered.
"Big guys. Big guys with big guns." Simmons whimpered.
Will walked right up to Simmons, and he was right at the agent's face. Will wasn't about to let Simmons get away for hitting Amelia.
"What is Sector Seven?" Will demanded, glaring at the man.
"I am the one who asks questions around here. Not you young man!" Simmons still wasn't giving up, despite the terrified look on his face.
"How did you know about the aliens?" Maddie demanded, standing beside Will.
"Where did you take our parents?" Will yelled at the man.
"And our dog!" Amelia cried.
As Amelia said this, she looked up at Sideswipe, who just smirked at her comment, making her blush.
"I am not at liberty to discuss this." Simmons glared down at the four teenagers.
"I don't think you are at liberty to slap a teenage girl, but that didn't stop you." Amelia snapped.
When she said this, the Autobots weren't too happy to hear that comment. Sideswipe's smirk had turned into an angry expression.
"He hit you, femme?" asked Sideswipe, as he glared down at the man.
"Nobody dares to hit a fleshie." Sunstreaker growled.
"No mech has the right to hit a femme, a youngling at that." Optimus glared down at the man, making Simmons stare at his feet.
Will pulled out the agent's badge out of his pocket, despite Simmons' protest.
"If you touch me that is a federal offence." SImmons commented.
"Do-whatever-you-want-and-get-away-with-it-badge, right?" Will mocked.
"Yeah, brave now with your big robot friends standing over there." Simmons pointed out.
"Where is Sector Seven?" Will asked.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Simmons smirked.
"Yes, that is why we asked." Amelia retorted.
Before he could respond, he was suddenly being doused with liquid. That liquid just happened to be coming from Bumblebee's crotch area.
"Thank you for that, Bee." said Maddie.
"Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man." Optimus couldn't even hide the amusement in his voice. Bee just shrugged his shoulders innocently.
"It's not like the little slagger didn't deserve it, Optimus." Sideswipe laughed.
"Get that thing to stop, huh?" Simmons rubbed his hands through his hair and his eyes.
"Yes, please rub it in." Amelia mocked.
"Alright tough guy, take it off." said Maddie as she stood in front of Simmons.
"What are you talking about?" asked Simmons.
"Your clothes. All of it. Off." Maddie repeated.
"For what?" Simmons questioned.
"For threatening to turn Hailey into a test subject." said Maddie.
Glancing over at Amelia's swollen cheek, Maddie added, "And for putting your hands on Em."
"Little lady, this is the beginning of the end of your life." Simmons growled as he was stripped down to his boxers.
"Those are nice. Now back behind the pole." Maddie smiled at him.
"This is such a felony, what you're doing." Another agent glared at us.
"I will hunt you down." Simmons declared.
"He'll hunt you down." the agent repeated.
"Without any remorse." Simmons continued.
"No remorse!" the agent finished.
"I think I already got a little bit of that, and I think I can take whatever you got to throw at me." Amelia snapped at the man. My fist clenched, but the sound of helicopters and car engines caught the group's attention.
"Optimus! Incoming!" Ironhide alerted the Autobot leader. He slammed his massive cannons into the ground, and within seconds the SUVs tires came to a squealing stop.
"Roll out!" The Autobots all quickly transformed, as Optimus held his hand down to the four teenagers for them to climb on.
The four teenagers were clinging onto Optimus' shoulder as they held on with their dear life while the leader of the Autobots was running in his full form on the street.
It was happening all so fast, Will and his female companions ended up falling from Optimus' shoulder to Sunstreaker's open hand. Bumblebee came racing from around the corner, as he transformed to make sure the four teenagers were all right.
All of a sudden, the helicopters reappeared, Will cried out and started yelling, as a harpoon shot at Bumblebee, wrapping around the scout's wrist. The agents reappeared and started cuffing the four teenagers, and Will could only watch as Bumblebee is pinned down to the ground.
"No! Get away from him!" Will cried.
Optimus and the Autobots could only watch as the four teenagers and Bumblebee being taken away by the S7 agents. Sideswipe slammed his fist on the pavement, blaming himself for not being able to protect Em. Optimus picked the glasses, and he sighed in relief.
"Damn those humans! They took the femme with her brother and the others!" Sideswipe roared.
"There's nothing we could do, Sideswipe. The glasses is in our possession now." said Optimus, as he watched Hailey being hauled away.
Man, what a chapter. Was anyone else surprised about Hailey's secret? Anyway, I'm sorry for not updating because of school, getting prepared for tests and working on assignments. I've been so occupied with this past week. Anywho, hope you guys liked the chapter. Chapter seven is coming up and we will get to meet Megatron very soon.
