Hey guys! Thank you for the reviews! It really means a lot when I receive your supportive feedback! Here's my next installment! I know you're all sick of cliffhangers, so I make this promise unto you, my readers: The end is nigh. Bwahahahahaha! Enjoy! And thank you for your notes in hopes that my computer issues have been solved, so far this new power supply has been working beatifully, but I've had this problem before with my other laptop, so I'm not getting my hopes up teehee.

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, I own Project Seven and Project Five... Well maybe I should be politically correct and say Project Five and Project Seven because of the order... Of course... Seven first appeared in this story and is what the story's about... But who cares... Those two! I own those two!! Gah!!

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"Where are we going?" Maggie, along with Glen and the two teens stalked through the hallways.

"I don't know I just... I'm trying to find out where my friends are! They've got to be here somewhere!" Sam was still in a frantic panic. Mikaela was just as frustrated but she was being more distant and quiet as she roamed the hallways looking through doors.

"And exactly how do you expect to find anyone in this place? Is there even a bathroom up in here?!" Glenn looked around with the other two as Maggie gave him a blatant glare.

"We're just trying to find the two guys that tried to protect us," Mikaela said sadly.

"And your search ends here!" A familiar annoying male voice yelled, catching the group off of their guards as they jumped.

"Hello there. Happy to see me again?" Simmons stepped out of the shadows along with several guards, and two other men in suits.

"Where's my car?!" Sam yelled.

"Secretary Keller?" Maggie interrupted.

The second and third men in suits stepped forward.

"Hello there young lady, it seems as though your assumption was correct," Keller spoke in a cheerful tone, with a straight, expressionless face. He then turned back to Simmons and asked, "Who are the rest of these kids here?"

"These two, "Simmons pointed to Sam and Mikaela, "Have been known to associate with our little alien friends. How they got out of their cells, I haven't the foggiest," he narrowed his eyes at the teens as he stepped forward along with the group of guards who were about to detain them once again.

"That would be because of ME!" The familiar form of Cat landed in front of the group of four in a flash, causing the guards to back up, and Simmons eyes to widen.

Cat smirked as she stood up completely from her landing, putting her arms up in defense of the four behind her.

"Who's this?" Secretary Keller asked indignantly, as though he didn't have time for more introductions.

"This would be our resident trouble maker..." Simmons replied carefully as his eyes shifted down the hallway then back to Cat, "And where is the other trouble maker?" his question was as quiet as his previous answer was.

Cat scoffed, "Hello Simmons, I see they got you down from that tree!" she taunted.

Mikaela tapped Sam on the shoulder and pointed to Cat whispering, "She's shaking..."

Sam only gave a small nod to show that he understood.

"Project Seven," the third suit stepped forward, his brow furrowed with annoyance, "You have been in contact with these children and the aliens as well?"

Cat looked to the man with a frown, "Tom Banachek... I see you're still up and about these days. How's the good life?"

The guards stepped forward, weapons ready to attack, however they were stopped by Secretary Keller, "Easy Captain. Keep your men standing down for just a moment…"

"This is Project Seven?" Keller stepped forward, looking Cat straight in the eyes, the girl returning the favor, "Why she's only a mere child! This is the big threat that you have warned me about?" he turned back to Banachek and Simmons.

"Oh she's much more than what meets the eye, sir... But now that she's back, we can make sure that she doesn't cause anymore trouble ever again, eh Seven?" Simmons replied.

"Leave these two alone! They've done nothing wrong!" Cat spat.

Before there were any smart comments from the other side, Keller stepped forward again, causing Cat to push the others back in a protective manner.

"This woman means to protect these children. How much of a threat could someone like that be, exactly?" Keller asked.

Cat was a little taken back by this. The first time that she has met this new face and his first assumption is how protective she was of her friends, instead of assuming that she needed to be taken into custody or destroyed.

"Who are you?" she growled.

The older man turned to look back at her and replied, "I'm the Secretary of Defense for the United States of America... You mean to tell me that you didn't know who I was?"

"I'm not exactly up to par on my famous people list... Was never allowed to know about the outside world!" Cat growled.

"What's the meaning of this?" Keller turned back to Simmons and Banachek.

"Mr. Secretary, our projects have been completely raised and trained within our facilities for the entire span of their lifetime. This woman is twenty years of age, and until recently, was never seen outside of this facility," Banachek explained.

Secretary Keller turned back to Cat and the others, "So what are your plans for her now, exactly?" he asked sarcastically.

"The Section that had main responsibility over her has been dismantled. Once she's captured, we had planned to shut the project down," Banachek replied in a less assured tone of voice.

"You mean to say that you're planning to destroy this woman? Kill her?" Keller was furious.

"There's nothing left to do with her sir..." Banachek replied once more.

Keller stepped towards Cat, who narrowed her eyes and growled in warning. This did not stop the man from approaching her to within two feet.

"From what I hear, your life hasn't exactly been the American dream, and that's a shame. To have a government treat it's own civilians this way, not only a civilian, but an American-born civilian," he looked to her exposed right arm. "How could this have happened?... The answer to that I don't think I'll ever understand. But what I can tell you for now, is that it will never happen again..." Keller looked to the girl's face as Cat relented on her glare.

"This young girl was born on American soil... Therefore, she is an American citizen," he turned back to the other two agents, "And she'll be treated as such from this moment forward. Is that understood?"

Cat, Sam and Mikaela practically jumped out of their skins hearing this. Someone in the chain of commands was sticking up for Cat?

"Sir, if I may, I really don't think that you know exactly what you're saying about this-" Simmons tried to reason for the other side of things.

"This child, Simmons, is a human being. A human being born within the borders of our country... How this government ever got to the point of torturing it's own citizens is beyond me, but it's not going to happen any longer. I won't stand for it, and neither will the president!" Keller scolded.

Cat slowly put her arms down from her protective mode, her face in shock.

"Cat did you hear that?!" Mikaela shook the girl's right arm in excitement.

"I-uh... Wha?" Cat just didn't know how to accept what this man was saying. Was he putting on a show to gain her trust? She could read his body language which told her that this wasn't the case, but she had trouble trusting this.

Cat sighed and said, "Even if I were to trust what you're saying, it doesn't solve the problem at hand."

"And what problem is that?" Keller asked.

"Well for one, I need to find my friend. She looks like me except with yellow eyes, and she's heading towards the room where you're keeping something very important. Secondly, by now we probably have a very impatient alien waiting to get into the same room. As well as one of my other friends has probably been apprehended by now, leaving us in this state of darkness," Cat explained.

"The woman who caused this is under investigation!" Simmons pointed out.

"Yes well, she was only doing that because it was part of my plan. She shouldn't be charged with anything because of that," Cat replied.

"You mean to tell me that this whole breaking in thing was your little idea?" Keller asked, a small smile on his face.

"Please," Cat rolled her eyes, "I was trained for this sort of recon work."

Keller laughed and turned towards the agents and the armed guards, "Well, gentlemen, you trained her. I'd say that you practically asked for all of this to happen."

"In all fairness, we were barely allowed, ourselves, to be aware of these projects. They were entirely under the supervision of Section eleven which, as I have mentioned, has been disbanded," Banachek reasoned.

"Be that as it may, it seems as if you have quite a few other problems on your hands. Like these aliens, for instance," Keller started.

"Like my car! He didn't do anything to any of you!" Sam yelled.

"If I may make a suggestion," Cat started, Secretary Keller and the others looking back at her in interest.

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Five could only stand with an assortment of awe in her mind. She was standing in front of the frozen figure of the one whom the others sought to destroy. She was pretty much so ignored, since she was still garbed in an agents suit, and wearing her sunglasses to hide her bright yellow eyes. Even though she had the dark covers over her sight, her optical lenses within her mechanical eyes scanned the being in front of her. Even with the main lights out, the other guards and agents still working to break through Lillian's codes, the emergency lights and the pump systems for the cryo stasis of still worked for the being who was...

"Megatron..." Five whispered under her breath. Of course no one in this room knew of his real name. They had renamed him "NBE-1".

Five slowly walked around the figure, scanning his systems.

-Other than the fact that he's frozen, he's certainly in working order. Which means that he's been "awake" ever since he had been brought here. Most of his systems have been rendered offline in this cold spell that he's been put under though... Stupid humans... They have no idea how dangerous it would be if this creature were to be brought out of stasis...- Five thought to herself as she made her way back to the front of the towering mechanical monster.

Five stared up into his face for several moments. As she was about to look away she noticed something odd.

The eyes were staring back.

Five could see the optics of this beast flicker red. Oh yes, she smirked, he was indeed aware of himself and where he was at. He was also very aware of Five's presence and seemed to glower down at her. Although she wasn't afraid. She could never feel the fear that other humans felt. She was actually quite curious about him. She decided to see where she could take this.

Under her breath, but loud enough for a being with super-advanced hearing to hear, she barely mouthed a whisper saying, "What a joke you are. You can't even break the hold that these humans have on you. There are others coming for you, and some are here to kill you even. However your systems are frozen into stasis, making you as much as a threat as a harmless newborn kitten... Pathetic..."

Just as she said this she noticed how much brighter the red optics became. She could also see some of the ice around those red optics begin to drip wet as it barely began to melt. Five snickered. She enjoyed making this creature angry. It brought her great joy to see the mechanical being transmit how furious it was.

Five walked up some of the staircases that led to the front of the creature's face. The humans used these to examine him, so Five decided to make use of them as well. She was only a few feet away from Megatron's face. At this point she could tell that he was seething with fury. However Five wasn't one to be taken back by this. She knew, very well, that if he could have, he would have destroyed her where she stood.

"You might actually be the only one on this planet to have any sort of upper hand over me. Which I would like to test. Until then, you will obey me..." She laughed quietly, lowering her sunglasses just enough for Megatron to have his own look into her yellow orbs.

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"Enough of this! We've waited long enough!" Ironhide snarled.

"We're on orders from Optimus to stand down! So just-" Jazz started.

Ironhide began to transform out of his alternate mode. Even though the tunnel was too small to move around in, Ironhide brought up his large canons, firing them up and ready to blast through the only door that stood between them and the Allspark. Jazz backed up, knowing that his trigger-happy comrade would do everything within his power to get the prize that they had worked so hard for.

As Ironhide had fired up all of his tools of destruction, the door locks from the other side were heard being unlocked.

"Wait, Ironhide... What's that?" Jazz stopped his friend for a moment as the tumbler lock in the door shifted and geared out of place.

The large metal door finally opened slowly light from the other room hitting the floor of the tunnel, then stretched across to the parallel wall. Jazz and Ironhide stayed still until the head of Cat popped out from behind the door.

"Hey guys, sorry to keep you waiting. We've had a few problems..." the cheery look on her face couldn't hide the concern in her voice. She looked from Jazz to Ironhide, who's canons were still lit and ready for a battle.

"What's the deal?" she asked.

Ironhide grunted and put his canons away, as Cat opened the door completely. Jazz then drove through slowly, Ironhide crawling out of the hidey hole as well. They saw that all of the humans in the room had stopped what they were doing, and were staring up at them with fear.

"Wait, I thought just Ironhide was coming? What are you doing here Jazz?" Cat asked.

"The plans changed when Bee and Ratch were captured," Jazz replied with a bit of sarcasm.

"Well relax.. Sam and Mikaela were taken to retrieve them. All thanks to my new pal and his buddies over here, Captain Lennox," Cat pointed to a few armed guards standing a few feet back from her.

"They managed to -uh- interest our gracious hosts to let them go, so that's what they're doing. We, on the other hand, have come here to make sure you guys didn't blow this place up trying to get in," Cat cracked a smile.

In the midst of Jazz giving Ironhide a friendly glare, the two Autobots realized where they were. They were standing in the presence of the Allspark itself.

"It's really here!" Jazz said in awe.

"Hmm?" Cat looked back to the giant cube, as did everyone behind her.

"Wait, if you're here, and Sam and Mikaela are going to get Bumblebee and Ratchet... Where's Five?" Ironhide realized.

Cat turned back to her two friends and then looked away, afraid to say what she was thinking.

Lennox then looked to Cat and asked, "There's another here?" he and Sergeant Epps, his second, along with their group of friends, were the only ones unaware of what the Projects were all about.

"I have to go find her... We separated. She was supposed to come here to get you guys in here to the Allspark, but she never did. Therefore, I have to go find her while you guys get out of here with this... Although I'm a bit confused as to how you plan to do that but I'll leave that up to you two..." Cat grinned a bit before turning to leave.

"Wait up! We should go with you," Lennox and his group followed the girl but she turned to them with a hard glare, causing them to stop in their tracks.

"No... Make sure that these two leave safely... That's your job..." Cat replied to them before turning to run down the corridors, in search of her friend.

"What's that all about?" Jazz asked.

Right after this question, however, an alarm sounded. The scientists who were staring at Jazz and Ironhide began scattering around the room like scared little rabbits. Epps hopped to a computer and checked to see what the alarm was about.

"There's a problem in the room of something called an NBE one!... What's an NBE?" he asked turning back to Captain Lennox.

"I don't know, but something tells me that we're running out of time! Come on!" he ordered.

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Cat just kept running. Her mind was going faster than her legs as it raced with questions.

-What are you doing Five?!- she thought angrily as she approached a large hanger door in which was open, several people running in and out.

Cat raced into the door and looked around. She saw a few nearby computer monitors which read "Pump Failure" which blinked on and off of the screen. Cat looked around the room, seeing no one but scientists, who were rushing at trying to find the problem with the pumps that had been pumping liquid nitrogen all around the tall figure in front of her.

"Megatron..." Cat whispered, thinking back to just a few days ago when she had first laid eyes on the mechanical beast. Her mind suddenly slowed down, thinking ironically to the fact that a few days ago, she was completely clueless as to the life that existed outside of this planet, and now she knew the whole story that went around this creature.

Her shoulder was shoved by a nearby running scientist, breaking Cat out of thought and back to the mission at hand.

"Five?! Five!" she looked around wandering near Megatron. Staring up into the bright red Optics of the monster, Cat knew that something was very wrong. She could see some of the ice chipping off of his face and chest.

-Look up and behind you little sister.- A familiar voice made Cat turn around and look up.

Cat saw a booth overhead the large hanger doors that she had walked through. The windows into the booth gave a clear view which made Cat's eyes widen. Five was waving at her, which wouldn't have normally disturbed her. But next to her was a small metallic figure, with small blue optics, looking at her menacingly.

-What are you doing Five?- Cat transmitted to her older counterpart through their connection.

-Sometimes, Seven, I need to do things that are for your own good. And this is one of them. I don't expect you to understand or comply...- The smiling woman responded.

Cat heard loud clashes to the ground behind her and whirled around. More and more chunks and skims of ice fell from Megatron's body.

-Five! You can't do this! The Allspark is still here as well as four of the Autobots! They need time to get away from here!- Cat tried to reason in panic.

-No, Seven. Those silly Autobots are absolutely wrong... They insist that everyone should live freely, well look at us! Our own people did this to us, and it's time for the tables to turn!- Five growled.

-Five, we've been given our freedom!- Cat scolded.

-What are you talking about?- Five asked.

-The Secretary of Defense has given us our right to live! We don't have to run anymore! We've been given official citizenship!- Another chunk of ice fell from the beast.

-And you believed him?! Seven, you're going to have to stop putting so much faith into humans, they are dangerous creatures if given too much trust!- Five scowled.

-Five, please! They're telling the truth!- Cat pushed some of the scientists away from Megatron's giant form towards safety.

-FOOL! They're not giving you true freedom! They just want you to trust them long enough so you'll turn your back! Then they'll destroy you! Besides... The one known as Starscream should be arriving shortly...- Cat could feel Five's amusement in her mind.

-Starscream? But I thought that you destroyed him? You told me that you beheaded him!- Cat looked up to Five, who was staring with a glee look at Megatron.

-Yes, I did. However, I managed to track them down after you and I separated so you could save Lillian. I found them and had a pleasant chat...- Five responded in a matter-of-factly tone.

-You... Betrayed me! You betrayed my trust Five! Why would you do that?! Of the one person that I hoped I could always trust, you took advantage of that trust!- Cat just couldn't get her head around the idea of this actually happening.

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Chapter Teaser!

"You have nearly a spotless record here, except for your recent outbreak of bad behavior. However, there is one thing here that I see as your whole possible motive. Something that I doubt that you have ever told Project Seven about..." he rolled to the side of Lillian, keeping a piercing gaze upon her. She could feel it burn into the side of her face as she never even gave him a quick glance in return.

"In the few days that you have been traveling with the young girl, did you ever once tell her?" he asked cautiously.

Lillian gave a quick glance to him and looked away her eyes darting around the room wide with fear.

"You mean she knows nothing about you? Surely after twenty years she knows that she's -" he was interrupted.

"Enough!" Lillian yelled.