Writer's Notes:

Okay, first off Mike is the guy that got smacked with Jade's wings. His little brother (Dave) was the one in the helicopter Jade saved. (the news vid in the first part.)

Also the guy mentioned here by the worker in the gas station, Drew Adams, is the alias Michael Brant is using.

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They came to an intersection, and Sideswipe and Sunstreaker started to turn right. "Oh no." Kluch said. "wea going to da hig-security section." He motioned to the two.

Sunstreaker narrowed his optics at the blue mech, but stomped up front to lead the way again.
Grapple, Hoist and Wheeljack were working on repairing the heavy main doors when they walked up.

"You're making a mistake, I hope you know that." Hoist sounded.

Grapple just silently kept working not wanting to be involved. Klutch snorted "We'll see about that. just get back to whuk." Hoist gave him a look, but swallowed the insult.

Jazz transformed and opened his front passenger side door. "You okay?" he asked, turning the music back on softly.

"Yeah." Kit nodded, "I just...don't wanna be alone..." She muttered, climbing in.

"Don't worry, I won't leave you. I promise. Jazz said serenely, and headed down the road.

Alpha swallowed. She held onto her brother's hand. "Kit..." She hissed.
Omega rubbed his sis' back.

HT felt something hit his foot. He loooked down. One of the soldiers had pulled out some sort of square object and attached it to his ankle.

He growled.

the soldier backed off.

"I said move!" the commander barked. He hit a button on the control box, and the device sent a powerfull surge of electricity throught the tank. HT snarled, and froze as the current froze him.

As soon as it was gone, he took a step towards them. "You're gonna pay for that!" he snarled.

"Hammertread, no!" Driveby went to stop him, but the soldiers allready had a bead on him.

Two of them fired at him. The first shot hit Driveby, knocking her unconcious. The rest of the foot soldiers fired at Hammertread.

"Driveby!" TY tried to get past the others, and Sunstreaker and Sideswipe managed to tackle Cable and Cap before they vcould get involved and threw them in one cell.

Klutch fired a pulse ray at Alpha, and watched the femme crumple into a heap. "wouldn't want a repeat of last time." he grabbed her arm and pulled her over towards another cell as his troups finished knocking out the rest of the group.

Jade was surrounded by panicking mechs. She turned on her afterburners and shot straightup, grabbing one of the ceiling support beams. Her intakes sped up to keep her systems cool as she perched.

Klutch saw her and dropped Alpha long enough to fire.

Alpha stood up, pissed, and wrapped her arms around Klutch. "YOU LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!!" She growled, holding him still.

Omega became visable and grabbed Driveby. He picked her up and then watched Alpha throw Klutch into a cell.

Said femme ran over to HT and then created a ton of copies. They surrounded her friends as Alpha froze. "RUN!!" She screamed, making the copies protect her friends.

"NOW!"

The four jeeps swerved to block the doors as they slammed shut and locked, and the two dozen troups hid behind and climbed on top of the trucks aiming their guns at the group. They started firing. "Wait!" Sunstreaker tried to yell over the din.

"HANG ON FOR A SECOND! STOP ALL OF YOU!" he yelled at the top of his vocaliser.

Ty ran to one side, and got hit by a stun ray.

Gunlock was next.

Beacon tried to hide behind Gunlock, but found himself without any.

He soon joined his friend.

Alpha growled and the copies grabbed her friends and started to run. The real thing was the last one out of the room once all of her friends were free. She glared at the mechs and fired a blast of energy so everyone except Sunny and Sides were hit.

Prime and Prowl heard the weaponfire ring out. They glanced at each other, then ran down the hall.

Alpha growled as she looked at Sunny and Sides. "Sorry 'bout that, boys." She said before backing out of the room.

Alpha turned around and there were Prime and Prowl. Both with their arms folded across their chests and scowls on their faces. Prowl had both shoulder-missiles aimed at them.

"Put them down, Alpha." Prime warned in that I-don't-want-to-do-this-but-will-if-I-have-to voice. His rifle was in his hand.

Jade ducked behind a copy and folded her wings behind her, trying to stay (or become) invisible. She glanced back at Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, who had also pulled out their guns and were coming up from behind them.

The copies growled. Alpha snarled, "They attacked us!" She started, but shut up as Omega gave her a look. She looked away and then closed her optics. "I'm sorry." The femme tossed a ball of energy at the twins and then motioned for Omega to turn invisable and run, which he did.
Prime fired.

Alpha growled as the shot hit. She turned to Prime, but her optics flickered.

A ball of energy appeared in her hand. She reached to throw it.

"I...can't..." the femme lowered her hand.

And fell facedown, all energy drained from her body.

Jazz turned a corner, and started to read house numbers. "Hey, kitten, you wanna help me find the house numbers?" he asked.

"Sure." Kit nodded. She looked around for a minute, then asked. "Is that it?"

"Is it white?"

"Yeah."

"hmmm. what number is it?" the car asked.

"1464." Kit smiled.

"All right!" Jazz did a spontaneous u-turn and parked in the driveway behind a dark red jeep grand cherokee. He opened the door for Kit. They didn't see the figure look out his window at them. "They've found me!" the figure thought.

Kit smiled. She got out and then looked at him. "Uncle Jazz?"

Jazz transformed."Yeah, hon?"

Jade eeped as the copy in front of her dissapeared. She glanced up at Prowl and Prime with a deer in the headlights look.

The other copies disappeared and Omega caught Cap, but the others fell. He facepalmed, dropping Cap. "whoops."

Prime sighed. "Just what did you think you were doing?"

"Uh..erm..eh.. Jade looked around for Omega.

Omega went invisable. He was detirmed to get SOMEONE out of there. Sis trusted him and he was gonna do it.

"A little help would be nice, Omega." Jade growled to the air. She suddenly watched Alpha float, and stuck out a leg.

Omega oofed and fell flat on his face. He stayed invisable, but dropped Alpha. The mech grabbed Driveby and HT and ran for it.

"Omega!" Jade protested.

Prowl aimed for the space around the two and fired.

Jade glanced behind her.

The twins were starting to wake up.

"I'm gonna kill that little Glitch! just look what she did to my paintjob!" Sunstreaker howled.

"Ow. Quit yellin, you're makin my head hurt." Sideswipe complained.

Omega yelled as he fell fowards, the shot had hit him between the wings. He became visible and then dropped his friends, arching his back with pain as he rolled over.

Alpha moaned as she started to come back online, "Don't hurt my little brother." She growled, trying to sit up.

"You hear me? Don't hurt him!"

"We won't" Prime said. Prowl walked over to the black jet.

"Would you mind explaining what just happened before Sidesipe and Sunstreaker fully wake up?" Prowl asked.

"I'll go take care of them." Prime said, and walked over to talk to the two.

"Do you know the guy who lives here?" Kit asked.

"Yah... Well...he's kind of a friend of Jade's" he lied. He picked up kit and put her on his shoulder.

"well, his jeep's here. I wonder if he's home." he walked up the porch steps, wondering if it would hold him or not. He squatted down and rang the doorbell.

Kit nodded. She looked inside and blinked, knocking on the door gently. "Hello?"

The door opened, and a sandy-haired man of 35 in jeans and a sweatshirt yanked the door opened. "Get in here! hurry!" he hissed in a thick british accent.

They got inside and he shut the door locking it. "what are you mad or something? what if somewon sees you?" he said. He went to the windows, and closed the curtains.

Omega opened his mouth and explained exactly what had happened.

She sighed and helped his sister sit up. "That's what happened"

Alpha leaned her head on her brother's shoulder.

Prowl nodded. "I see." he looked at where Prime was trying to calm the twins down. "maybe we should explain that to Sidewsipe and Sunstreaker before they hold a grudge." Jade said.

Omega nodded. "Yeah"

"That'd be best." alpha mumbled, still trying to get her energy back.

Omega placed his hands on her chest and smiled as they glowed.

"I know, but that little..." Sunstreaker looked up when Alpha walked in.

Omega started to, but Prowl caught him by the shoulder.

"You should dissapear, if you know what I mean." he glanced at the cell Klutch was in, then back at Omega a couple of times to get his point across.

Omega nodded. He went invisible and then sighed. "See ya, sis"

"See ya, bro." Alpha mumbled Prowl went over and turned the forcefield off to the cell Alpha had thrown Klutch into. He also went over to the unconcious soldiers, and carefully took the device from the commander's hand, and retrieved the one from HT's ankle.

"I'm going to have these analyzed." he said. He pulled out a hand-scanner, the same type Ratchet used if Spike got hurt somehow, and ran it over the group.

"they'll be fine. They should wake up with minor headaches, though." he said Alpha nodded.

Kit looked at the man and blinked. She bent down to his level.

"Hi"

The man's mouth dropped open at the sight of the talking tiger. "Youre...youre a transformer? I've never seen one that turns into a cat..well, anything other than a car or a boat or a plane, really." the man held out his hand. "Allo, I'm Michael Brand, but my friends call me Mike"

Jazz grinned.

Kit smiled and gave him her paw. "Kit at your service, Mr. Brand! Uncle Jazz..." She looked at him, worried, "Can we hurry? What if they've hurt my mommy?"

"who?" the man asked.

Kit poked Jazz. "He's Uncle Jazz"

"no, who's ya mum, I mean." the man asked. He looked at Jazz. "What's goin on?"

he looked at Kit again, then back up at Jazz.

"AlphaFighter." Kit said, looking at the man. "But everyone calls her Alpha."

"neva heard of uh. Who's after uh, dare I ask?"

Alpha finished explaining to the twins, and Sunstreaker demanded an apology for ruining his wax job.

Prime walked over. "Well, when you get finished talking, I need you two to take Klutch to the repairbay." he said to the Lamborginis, then glanced at said mech, then lowered his voice.

"Tell Ratchet to keep him there as long as possible, and notify me once he leaves."

Sideswipe nodded, and glanced at the unconcious blue sportscar. "You got it, Prime." he said.

Alpha shook her head. "Nope. I wasn't letting you take my friends. Though I am sorry for having to attack you"

"That's not good enough! It took me an Hour to buff my armor to this sparlyness! any you ruined it in half a nanoclick!" Sunstreaker retorted. "I want an apology!"

"Sunstreaker.." Prime started. "Fine. But I'll expect one later." Sunstreaker glared and stalked over to where Sideswipe was tryiong to pick up the blue car.

kit looked at the ground.

"Oh..." the man sat down on the couch rather abruptly.

"Please tell me it's not a blue lotus elise sport by da name a' Klutch." he looked up. "Is it?"

Jazz nodded. "Sorry, man"

"I knew I shouldn't 'ave asked." He hid his face in his hands. "I can't go back theah. They threatened to kill may." He moaned.

"Have you spoken to Dave?" Jazz asked.

"I haven't seen my little brother, or any of my family in well ova six months now. They threatened them too, yaknow." he looked up.

Jazz glanced out the window at the grey van that had just pulled up and parked across the street. He grabbed Kit and moved away from the window.

"What if we could promise you'd be safe?" Jazz asked. The man looked through the window. "They allready know." he said, a hint of fear in his voice. He stood up and walked to where Jazz was.

"If eu can get me out of 'ere alive, you've got a deal." he nodded.

Kit looked at the man. "We'll help you. Just help my mommy! I don't want him to hurt her like he did me!" She whimpered.

He glanced at the tiger cub, and gaped again. Then he shut his mouth and glanced at the window before heading to the kitchen. "come on." He went to the gun cabinet and pulled out his hunting rifle. Then headed for the back door.
Kit and Jazz followed.

Alpha sighed and growled, but stayed quiet.

"I'm sorry, but you are going to have to stay here." Prime told Alpha and Jade.

Jade nodded sullenly. "We shoudl get them to cells before Klutch's army realises what's going on." Prowl suggested.

Jade sighed and grabbed Cable, pulling him towards the cells. "They're gonna hate this. But at least we can put them in pairs."

she looked at Prime.

He nodded.

Alpha sighed as she sat down in a cell, waiting to see who was her partner.
It turned out to be Cable and Cap, Beacon and Gunlock, Ty and Driveby, and Jade walked over with Hammertread. She grinned.

"Don't get any ideas, you two." she said, and walked away, to sit alone in the last cell.

Alpha sighed and leaned her head back. She wrapped her arms around her legs.

She looked over at HT as the mech started to wake up. "Hiya."

The man opened the back door, and headed out to the attached garage, using the back door to get in. "I'll meet you at the ark laytuh." he said. If you go that way, theas a highway about a quartuh mile away. Don't let the guys out front see you." he said.

Jazz nodded. "Come on, kitten. Time ta do some offroadin"

Kit nodded and smiled at the man. "Thanks"

Jazz picket Kit up and started down the hill. The man turned around and went into his garage.

Kit looked up at Jazz.

Ratchet sighed and muttered something.

Sideswipe and Sunstreaker came in, dragging Klutch by the arms between them.

"Prime said to keep him here as long as you can." Sideswipe said.

And let him know when the blue twit here leaves." Sunstreaker added on.

Ratchet nodded. He smiled. "Do I have to help the twit?"

Jazz reached the highway, and Jazz looked both ways for cars before coming out of the treeline. He didn't want any passerby to look, gawk, and crash.

"I just hope we can catch him before Klutch's army does." Jazz said. He transformed, and opened his door for Kit to get in.

They were a few miles down the road when a brown station wagon cut him off, and put on the brakes.

"What the..." Jazz swerved, coming up on the driver's side.

There was mike in the driver's seat. He waved.

Kit smiled and rolled down the passenger side window. "Hiya!" She grinned.

The human rolled down his window. "Hi." he yelled back. "We need to pull ova when we get to the states and find a way ta get inta the ark."

"Okay." Jazz called back.

Kit smiled. "Hang on, mommy..." She smiled.

The Porsche and stationwagon zoomed down the highway, sometimes one following the other, but allways keeping up to each other, their radios blaring the same station.

Kit smirked.

"Kitty!" Alpha smiled. "She's okay..." She whispered.

"Oooohhhhh" HT rolled over. "I'm gonna pound whoever gave me this headache...

I feel like I've just been run over by Motormaster"

"You okay?" Alpha asked, crawling over to HT.

"perfect." the tank deadpanned, and rolled over on the bench so his back was to the femme.

Driveby opened her eyes. "what...happened?" she asked.

Ty was sitting on the flooring near the bench her leader was on. "The humans. they shot us with some kind of stun ray before we could escape." she replied.

"Hmph. I was just asking, meany." Alpha frowned. "At least Jazz and Kitten are gonna help"

"Meany?" the tank echoed. "If you're going to insult me, girl, do it right. rustbucket or clod kicker would be appropriate. or slopsucker or... he drifted off then glanced at her. "Ot in your case I would call you..."

"CLANG" everyone heard the sound of HT being puched.

"That's better." echoed from his cell.

Jade shook her head.

Alpha smirked. "Thank YOU!"

Cap groaned and rolled over.

right off the bench.

THUD!

"ow!"

"You're supposed to get up, not down." Cable noted from where he was leaning against the wall by the energy bars. He was gazing outside, but had a faroff look in his optics.

"What're you listening to now? the tV down the street?" Cap asked.

"no.." he held up a finger for the mini-tank to be quiet.

Then he sprang up and grinned. "The Autobot communication channel."

"Look, if you're going to punch someone, make sure you get your wrist straight with the rest of youor hand." HT took Alpha's hand and showed her. "I noticed when you were punching rocks a while back. You have your hand tilted, you could break your wrist." he said...

Alpha smiled a bit as he showed her. "Uh...yeah..." She muttered, noticing.

"I really gotta stop that..."

"so what are they sayin?"

"Hang on..." Cable adjusted one of the dials on his headset. "It's... nothing." he frowned. "false alarm. Just someone calling Prime coming in from patrol. Powerglide, I think." He sat down.