Hey guys! I'm sorry for taking so long, you all know how busy things can get. I'll try and keep the gears in motion faster than just a post per week, I promise D. Thank you all SO MUCH for all of your reviews! It's much appreciated! Well, here's what you've been waiting for! We're gettin' close the resolve! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, but Project Seven is my own little creation!

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"Why did those strange things call you "Cat"?" Five asked.

"They renamed me... They gave me a name to make me more human," Cat replied, not taking her eyes off of Five.

Five suddenly pounced forward, Cat only watched as the other woman ran to her and kicked her in the chest, sending her back another couple hundred feet. As the girl skidded to a stop and painfully sat up she saw Five standing right in front of her.

"You take a Human name? How could you allow that?! How long could it have possibly taken you to learn in that place... That we aren't HUMAN?!" Five asked as she kicked Cat in the chest while she was still sitting, sending the girl's body into the ground hard enough to cause the ground to shake, and form a small indentation where her body lay.

Cat sat back up, with no intention of retaliating, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth. Even though her lungs were beginning to burn again, she used what little air that was allowed into them and spoke.

"We ARE Human... We were born... Human... But we were wrongfully... mistreated... We were told things... and taught things that we weren't... supposed to have to hear... Things that, "she coughed, " we were never supposed to be a part of... We were designed to be one thing... But we were born to... to be another... Not to be what we were created for but... but to be who we were...supposed to be..." Cat finished.

Five only stared down at the girl for a moment before pounding her chest with her foot several times.

"Get up and fight!" Five ordered as she pulled the girl to her feet, holding her by the front of her white tank top.

"No..." Cat replied, refusing to raise a hand as her body collapsed to the ground upon the release of Five's grip on her.

"You were designed to be a soldier! A soldier capable of mass destruction upon your enemies! And you will stand to fight your enemy!" Five yelled to the girl, angry.

"I was designed to be a soldier of war... But you are not my enemy..." Cat replied, ready for the final blow.

Five clapped her hands together and put them to the ground, the sands quickly forming into a steel blade, which rose above Cat, coiling back for the strike. Cat smiled smugly as she watched the blade plunge into her chest painfully.

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"Why the hell not?!" Sam yelled.

"I don't understand why Seven has trusted you this far, but I can't put any of this in jeopardy by telling you the location of the lab..." Lillian crossed her arms.

"Lillian, this is very important to us... It's what our planet once used as the energy to keep everything alive. We need the Allspark in the hands of our group of Autobots, where we can take it to be protected until the war between us and the Decepticons can be taken control of," Optimus explained.

Lillian gave a small smirk and said, "It's kind of funny... Even giant robots from other planets have wars that they want ended... No one is safe anymore..."

"We fight these wars in order to ensure future safety, Lillian. It's not something anyone wants to do, it's what we have to do," Optimus replied.

"Yeah... I suppose..." Lillian looked out of the passenger side window, watching traffic flow by them as they rolled down the highway.

"I've been wondering something," Ratchet spoke up after a moment of riding silently down the roads, "If you were so against all of the things that went on in this laboratory, why did you stay? Or why not just inform the public of it's existence?"

Lillian actually smiled a little and looked to the radio where she had heard the voice from.

"It was twenty years ago, and I was very young. I had been in the military since I had turned eighteen, and was a promising study in all areas. I was the most proper operative that there could have been. I excelled at everything that was thrown at me. All of this made me good at my job, but it also made me very foolish. When I was twenty, I was taken aside and given the best opportunity that anyone in my special ops field could have hoped for. A chance to be a part of top secret government projects, that even the president wasn't supposed to be aware of. So, of course, I jumped at the chance. Initially, I was only going to be a part of the project but..." Lillian looked out to see the setting sun as her eyes softened and her smile grew just a little more.

"But what?" Sam asked, looking at Mikaela, who looked to him as well with a strange look.

"But then... Seven was born. I took one look at her and, for some reason, knew that I needed to stay. After using some of my more charming ways of persuasion, I managed to get my way onto the board members council, and from there was one of the over viewers for Seven's development. I hadn't actually realized what I was getting myself into until after I did this, but I was willing to do put up with what I had to if I was going to be able to see to the projects developments," Lillian replied.

"So you stayed with that job because you saw yourself as the girl's protector?" Ironhide asked.

Lillian somewhat chuckled and replied, "I suppose you could say that. Although Seven-"

"Cat..." Mikaela interrupted.

"Right... "Cat" was stronger than most adults by the time she was eight years old. So in reality, I was only good for keeping too many experiments go overboard. I could only watch from the shadows as she grew up, being taught to be a machine..." Lillian replied.

"So if you thought that these experiments that they did to all of the projects were barbaric, why didn't you make it all public?" Sam asked.

"I was under several confidentiality agreements that if I had talked to anyone about any of it, let alone the media, I was going to be tried for treason, and probably killed before anyone knew what was going to happen. As well as the fact that even if the public made something out of the projects, they would have killed Catherine, as well as the others. There was no doubt in my mind that all of that would have happened," Lillian replied.

After about a half an hour of traveling, the darkness of the night finally took over, and the group decided to stop at a rest stop before finding a place to hide for the night. Sam, Mikaela and Lillian were using the facilities while the Autobots talked through their internal links to keep anyone near them from being suspicious.

"How in Primus have the Decepticons been able to track us down?!" Ironhide was beside himself.

"Perhaps they've been following us since we all arrived to Earth?" Ratchet concluded.

"However they've been doing it, surely they'll be leaving us alone for a few days while they repair themselves from today's battle," Optimus reminded.

"Yeah, hopefully we'll lose em' before we get to the Allspark," Jazz commented.

"...What about Cat?" Bee asked through some of the words of his radio.

"She told us to leave, BumbleBee..." Optimus reminded.

"Yeah but... Maybe we shouldn't have. You guys saw what Five did to StarScream, how was Cat supposed to fight against dat?" Jazz added.

There was a round of grumbling amongst the Autobots before Ratchet spoke up.

"I didn't want to say this to the children, or Lillian for that matter, but I kept my bio-scanners directed on the battle. Just before we were out of range, I detected no heart functions or neural activity from one of them, but I was too far away to know which one that was," he said with uncertainty.

Silence overcame the group.

"Let's not make mention of that to the three of them then... It might be for the best that they leave the battle at an unknown result for the time being. It would do them no good to their own health if they were to be upset anymore than what they are, " Optimus ordered.

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Lillian looked over a map that was located in the rest stop. She stared blankly at it while still going over Cat's battle in her mind... She hadn't meant for things to get this far... She was actually hoping that she could have saved the young girl somehow. ..

Looking up from the map, she saw Sam and Mikaela looking over some magazines and state brochures, looking as if they were having a conversation that wasn't about anything they were looking at. Lillian sighed and walked over to the two, who seemed to stop their silent arguing for the moment.

"Listen... I know I seemed to have caused a slight delay in your mission but-"

"Slight?!" Mikaela asked.

Lillian looked away.

"If you would just tell us where to find the Allspark, we could end this, our families could be returned to us and... And we might even have been able to save Cat..." Mikaela scolded.

"Nothing can save her... No one knows that better than me... And do you really think that by taking the Allspark right out from under the governments nose that they'll just return your families to you?! I'm sorry, happy endings don't happen so easily here in the real world," Lillian reminded.

There was a brief silence before Lillian continued.

"And how is it that you just automatically trust these creatures?!" she turned to point at the Autobots sitting a few yards away from the rest stop building, "They could be here to take the "Allspark" and destroy us for all you know! They could be getting on your good side now, ensuring that you trust them enough to lead them to the thing that could destroy us all if put in the wrong hands!"

"Stop!" Sam interjected, "Look at that..." he pointed to the nearest television set which was showing national news.

"- believed to be Sam Witwicky, and Mikaela Banes, broke into a home in Bullhead City, along with one other girl that has not yet been identified. The two teenagers, Sam and Mikaela, were under investigation by the national authorities when they reportedly ran. A nearby neighbor was able to catch this photo of the third woman in question, who looked so disturbed, the neighbor couldn't catch any images of the vehicles that they had driven away in, being scared that the woman would attack him. Here's the photo."

The reported showed an image of a woman who only had one arm and in torn clothing. Indeed she did look extremely disturbing of her facial expression. She had her back to the camera but her head was glanced over just enough to show a distained look, her eyes narrowed in a tight glare, her mouth at a frown, her blue eyes were the scariest part. They looked as though she really would have attacked, so it wasn't surprising that the person taking the pictures had made a cowardly dash into the house to call the police.

"Cat never said anything about a guy with a camera..." Mikaela was confused.

Lillian gave a snort of laughter and turned to the two confused children saying, "She may not have complete telepathic abilities, but she is very well-trained on how to send someone shaking in their boots with what little abilities she has. So that doesn't surprise me. She was probably able to scare him so badly that he might not have remembered what they, "she pointed to the Autobots, "looked like."

"Damn she's good!" Sam gave a small chuckle.

They watched the report just a bit further before something suddenly felt very wrong. They looked out of the windows of the building and saw several black SUV vehicles begin to cover the area, as well as several helicopters span the skies.

"Oh shit! Not now!" Sam yelled as the three of them looked to the Autobots who were sitting still, trying to stay under their cover.

"Come on! We have to get out of here fast!" Lillian shoved the two teens towards the back of the building, heading for the rear exit.

"We can't just leave them!" Sam protested.

"I doubt that these guys will know that it's them when they're in these alternate modes! As long as they stay like that they'll be okay! Now go!" She ordered again as they ran out into the back, running into the refuge of the small wooded area.

"What are we going to do?! We can't stay here!" Mikaela asked as they watched a few men look into the windows of all of the cars parked there, including those of their Autobot friends.

"...I've got an idea..." Lillian said quietly.

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Chapter Teaser!

We've got the back! There's movement in the trees! Gamma team, take the flanks!"

"On it now, sir!"

All of the helicopters migrated to the trees where they began to shine bright flood lights down upon the search.

"No one here!"

"This area cleared as well sir!"

"Clear here-... wait... I've got some movement... I'm going in to check..."