"And while the cause of the engine explosion is currently underway and as such not being spoken of in great details, one thing that has already been mentioned by an NTSB investigator is that they're very thankful that there are no fatalities and that it also looks like most of the injuries are fairly mild compared to what they could be"

The chief makes a few minor editing corrections and then sends it off to the press knowing that it was a solid story, though he kind of wished she hadn't been the one to witness the accident during the layover because of what he knew about her and her family but it unfortunately couldn't have been avoided this time around because she insisted on flying commercial after what had happened on her way to China in Thundercracker, who had recovered quickly enough but was definitely also annoyed at what had happened, and that was the planes, the medics had been worse according to rumors

"Well, that's her big story of the day, and at least she called ahead of time letting me know that she had no means of typing things up where she was but had it all written down, now to wait until tomorrow when she sees where I put the story"

The next day he saw that Katherine was pleasantly surprised at where her story had ended up because due to the fact that she hadn't been there for two and a half months she had no way of knowing that she'd either been on the first or second page every other day almost since while she had reported regularly she hadn't given a story every day she had instead given it either every other day or once she gave it one week and then the other but that was primarily due to distance between locations where she could call her story in

"You did good Kerenai, now then I have an assignment for you that should fit very well"

The assignment took half the day, though part of that was due to the fact that she went for a swim to help save lives and she came out sounding like she was coughing up either half a lung or a full lung

"Well...I've had...better ideas...but at...at...least this...wasn't a...completely...terrible idea"

Katherine went back to the Planet a coughing mess and thus sent to the hospital from there by the chief and yelled at the doctor immediately

"You should have come in immediately instead of being told you know"

"I know, but I thought I would be fine after a few minutes"

"Well you're actually in the beginning stages of pneumonia"

"Great, just what I didn't need"

"Fortunately because we caught it early you'll recover much quicker than you otherwise might"

"Good, because I can't afford to be down for too long for personal reasons"

"We understand"

Katherine was immediately started on treatment and sent home, two weeks later (she had been forbidden from League duties by all the founding members who had found out through Clark Kent aka Superman) and she was finally given the medical clearance by both her primary doctor and the League doctor

"Now then you still need to be careful for a few days because the pneumonia has the potential to come back in full force but that's a very low possibility"

"Understood"

Once the founders found out that she was cleared they asked to meet her in private

"What's going on?"

"Due to how quickly you were needed in China I don't think we gave you the full rundown of how things work regarding the League whenever there isn't an emergency summons"

"Now that I think about it neither do I"

And so that's what they do including the rotations on the watchtower and with that almost four months after she joined Katherine was in the watchtower for her first round on watch when suddenly the monitor lit up

"Hello League, if you're watching this that means I've been successful in my hacking attempt, look at the screen behind me and see what I have in my custody"

Everyone sees part of Katherine's family in bonds obviously made to hold them and Katherine was fighting not to show any emotions because she wasn't supposed to know them real well yet and then suddenly the criminal spoke up again

"Now then as you can see I have them separated in various boxes, now then if I push the blue button..."

They see everyone shocked with electricity

"That will happen however because that one robot decided to fight me I have decided for him to also push the red button as a demonstration of what will happen to the rest of these robots if you don't meet my demand"

The red button is pushed and everyone sees the cell that Jazz was in explode and when the smoke clears there was no cell and no sign of Jazz either

"Here's my demand you have one hour to surrender to me your founding members and the rest of you heroes are to stop crime fighting permanently, if you don't the rest of the robots die and then I go after the rest of them and the ones they have allied themselves with called the EDC and completely destroy them"

The video cuts out and fortunately while Katherine couldn't show any emotions many other League members were not hindered in that regards and let loose an angry call for immediate action and retribution that was totally on the legal side of things that also showed that certain League members fully understood how much Katherine wanted to let loose but couldn't (while the League minus support personnel all now knew that the Cybertronians had raised her they still didn't understand completely what that truly meant in regards to her physical and emotional upbringing), though Superman expressed Katherine's pent up anger and his own the greatest

"WE WILL GET THEM OUT OF THERE ALIVE! and if that criminal even thinks he can also go after and destroy the EDC he has another thing coming to him, Green Arrow, Atom, Question and Shining Knight go to their primary base on Earth"

"Where is that?"

"Autobot...no sorry forgot they recently changed that to Cybertron City, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain Atom and Enshrouder Girl go to the base in Metropolis, and Enshrouder Girl we're having a talk when you get back"

"Understood Superman"

Katherine leaves for Metropolis with her team knowing what the talk was about, her hero identity name because it wasn't the greatest name possible but it was also the only name she could think of at the time and everyone was asking her to change it. Eventually the group was stood down, but not before there was indeed an attack on the EDC base in Metropolis by the same one's that had captured members of Katherine's family

"Well, now that we've taken care of that little problem it's time to go back to the watchtower because we got recalled in the middle of the fight"

"You guys going to be in trouble for ignoring them?"

"No they were monitoring the teams so they already know that we didn't answer due to being in a fight at the time of recall, they just didn't send any other backup because they knew the EDC could handle it"

"Just making sure you didn't need someone to go up there to confirm your story is all"

The group was back in the watchtower and Katherine immediately forgot about giving a report about the battle and just immersed herself into a family hug with all the captives except Jazz and she's finally allowed to let loose her emotions because while she technically didn't know them all too well in her hero identity all support personnel had been locked out of the watchtower for the rest of the day presumably for the Cybertronians sakes but really the founding members had done that for the sake of Katherine because they knew she desperately needed an emotional release by now but had no opportunity because of support personnel and news personnel on earth during the fighting and the aftermath of said fighting as well. While the breakdown didn't allow many to truly understand her connection still to the Cybertronians, there were a couple more than just primarily the founding members who finally understood just a little bit better how seriously she had been affected by her upbringing by robots

"I'm glad that most of you are still alive, I wish we could have saved Jazz though"

"Jazz deliberately made himself a target for our sake, the moment he did that he decided his own fate"

"I know...the creep said Jazz had fought him"

"And you also most likely know the reasons behind that"

"I do, I do"

Katherine suddenly goes limp but Prowl's scans revealed she had simply fallen asleep finally after dealing with her emotional pent up she'd been forced to do

"It's okay guys, she's simply asleep"

"Okay, maybe you should just stay put until she wakes up, we still need to talk to her anyways"

"I'm actually going to give her a sedative"

"What for Hook?"

"Yeah, you're not medically trained last we knew"

"I asked Ratchet for at least basic training in both Cybertronian and human medicine when Katherine turned twelve and have secretly kept it up ever since"

"Still want to know why you want to sedate her"

"It's easy, she needs the sleep more than you realize Prowl, it's not just the emotional overwhelm that finally got to her but the fact that she's been pushing herself too much even with the care she's taken to help herself recover from the pneumonia faster"

(Sighs) "figures doesn't it?"

"Oh yeah, it definitely figures"

"Fine sedate her, and then she's going into medical for safety"

"Understood, can you guys watch over her Superman?"

"Yes Supergirl and I can watch over her and the medical team has insisted we all learn a little more medicine than what we use in the field just in case"

"Good, we can safely leave her with you guys then"

"You guys need to get back already?"

"Yes we do, we have to report in after what happened live on TV"

"Makes sense now that I think about it, they probably want to know how you guys got captured in the first place, by the way did you guys ever fix what happened regarding Thundercracker?"

"Yes we did, Ratchet was a bit miffed that the initial fix wasn't quite as good as he thought it had been and made improvements"

"I'll bet, but still I'm a bit concerned about you guys leaving so soon after rescue"

"You couldn't do anything if we were seriously injured anyways and you know it"

That argument won the fight in everyone's mind because they knew that Rumble was correct about that bit

"Okay you have a point in that regards, be careful though going back"

"We will be, let either the Primes or Galvatron know when she's awake by the way because they know for a fact that she was involved in a fight"

"You guys always check on her after a fight?"

"Oh yeah"

"Ever since she joined us in her first fight, at first it was because she was so young and then later it was because she developed a habit of 'forgetting' to tell us about any of her injuries, as such we simply always check on her after a fight, and the leaders speak with her themselves once she's functioning to find out if she'd had any problems regarding her powers"

"Makes sense actually now that you mention those abilities and her habits that we're going to have to keep an eye on now that we know about them"

"Yes you will"

Three hours later and Katherine woke up from the sedation and made a call to a base she knew Optimus Prime was at knowing the rules and procedures that they thought no one suspected she had known about for a long time now

"You sure you're okay?"

"Yes, my emotional health was worse off until I was reunited with almost everyone...Optimus what are we going to do about recovering the remains of Jazz?"

"We're working with the EDC and world government's to first figure out hopefully where the group was kept, seeing as how the League is being a bit secretive about that and the others are also unwilling to talk about where they've been, and once that happens we'll work with the local government to recover Jazz's remains"

"I'll talk to the League about why they're being so reticent, you work on those rescued, they might have a good reason for being secretive temporarily, at least I hope it's temporary"

The call ends and she sees the founding members waiting for her

"Okay we need to talk about your identity"

"I know, and I need to talk to you guys about what the phone call entailed"

"You mean the secrecy?"

"Yep"

"We were waiting for a week and then reveal the location they were found at, this is for the safety of everyone that is potentially going to be involved in the recovery operation, there were...experiments for lack of a better word that was done there with your family and we think that even with bio-hazard suits it would be too dangerous for the human contingent and as for the Cybertronians it's also a bit dangerous for them as well for about a week, something about radio waves or something that could scramble their systems"

"Why not just shut down what's causing them problems?"

"We've tried that, our methods won't work and the machine is timed to shut down in a week"

"Well that's just perfect why didn't the team that was rescued say something about that?"

"We have no idea"

"Got it"

"Now then, about your name..."

"It was the best I could come up with at the time on my own, I knew it would be problematic for you guys but I wanted to see if it would work and then ask for help afterwords"

"In any case we'll help you figure out a better name, and smooth things over with your family as well"

"How?"

"We have our ways"

"Fine"

And so the League founders and Kerenai talk about the need for a new name and while they don't come up with anything at the moment they knew that they were at least getting closer to what she would be called and then Superman called the Primes and Galvatron personally to explain why the League and those rescued were being reticent without actually revealing what was going on

"We were going to wait a week and then check the levels of the chemicals again with you guys to help us this time around, and because we have to wait for human personnel we decided that you guys didn't need to know either"

"We understand, why didn't those rescued just say that it was too dangerous for our human comrades at the moment?"

"That we're not entirely sure of but probably because they decided to agree with the League's decision"

"At least we have confirmation that you guys have a valid reason for the delay"

"Indeed we did, bye"

Communication is cut and Superman faces Katherine once more

"I think we may need to talk to your family again because there hasn't been this much trouble regarding understanding one another with little communication in a while now"

"Might just, now then I have to work tomorrow so we're going to have to deal with the name issue another time"

"True enough"

"Though still, I wish you guys had mentioned the weapons against them"

"That's not for us to disclose yet, because of the fact that quite frankly because it has a shutdown time we'll know that it's safe once we do a double check, and if it hasn't shut down by then we will tell them the whole truth because they deserve to know the danger that they are in as well"

"Good, now then like I said I have work to go to tomorrow so I should get home"

"We all have places we need to be tomorrow now that I think about it so we'll give you a ride"

"Thanks"

"By the way, we need to do EDC training soon because it took way too long to rescue your family on our own"

"Why haven't you guys called them about that?"

"We've tried, it hasn't worked, we're being blocked for some reason but as your adoptive family..."

"Got it, I'll smooth things out I promise"

"Great"

Katherine is soon home and first calls Rodimus and finds out that it wasn't just the League that was having trouble communicating with the EDC but also police and military personnel, which wasn't normal and in fact quite dangerous, the only ones that weren't affected were world leaders and that was only because of the fact that they had direct communication with the three Cybertronian leaders at all times

"Okay, let the other two know and then fix it Rodimus, this is going to seriously start affecting relationships soon if it's not resolved I can feel it"

She hangs up and then goes to bed knowing that she was getting an early morning the next day due to the fact that she was going to be starting an independent investigation into something that she wasn't even sure was real or not. The next day she started her investigation before going into work for her assigned work by her boss knowing that her unofficial investigation didn't have enough information to see if she could fully investigate her suspicions with his permission