A.N.: This is the continuation in the Story of Roulette and what happens to her here on Earth with the group at NEST.

It is co-written by Fourth Remnant (the best….EVER!!) and a huge thanks to all who were with me when they read Roulette's first story.

A.N.: I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when checking my stats page (12/10/09) and saw that "Roulette's Journey" had had 500 Hits and 11 Reviews *cries* Thanks all of you! Also this second story about Roulette and the group at NEST has had 81 Hits, 1 Review, 1 Fav. Alert and Thank you soooo much Mrs. Miranda Jetfire Prime for placing both my stories into her C2 Community.

Now we shall continue the story.

Chapter 3

Previously with Roulette:

'Good, I'll go ahead and let Prowl and Prime know that you'll be traveling with myself and Lennox.' Came 'Hide's gruff voice as we all headed back to ready for the trip back State-side.

And now:

It was 7 hours later that we managed to grab a ride on a C-17 Globemaster Transport plane from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to a US Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake test centre in California, upon landing I was not surprised to see yet more sand surrounding the flight line of this base.

Now you're all wondering why we're even in California when we're supposed to be heading on over to the East Coast of this country. The response I shall now give you is the one I was given by both 'Hide and Lennox: Heading back to see Sarah and little Annabelle first find out what we can from them and then head on out across country - a 3 day drive mind you if we stick to the speed limits and rest breaks for Lennox.

After checking back with base via web conferencing and making sure that there was nothing that was going to impede on us or our journey, we headed off the base and towards the Lennox Farmstead, which I learned was roughly 2 hours and 45 minutes away from a small town called Tranquility (now where have I heard that name before?).

We made it to the farm at about suppertime for the humans so it was decided that Lennox and his family would spend tonight as a family and that tomorrow we would head on out on our mission. After making a quick yet detailed sensor sweep of the area Ironhide and myself settled down for a light recharge cycle, we didn't need to be in a deep one at the moment since we could both go for up to a week before our systems demanded a full deep cycle to rest our systems(a setting that was left over from training and upgrades during the war on Cybertron).

The Next Day:

We had been up for several hours and Lennox was rather antsy about something when he climbed into 'Hides cab and we pulled out of the driveway with a few honks of the horns and turned towards the freeway.

'So where are we headed, people?' came Lennox's voice through my comm. link as we took I-5 North towards Downtown Stockton.

I decided that since I was the only one without a human rider (Holoform's don't count - even if they're really good) I was in charge of driving directions, and since he asked I was going to give them to him.

'Hope you got a pen and paper ready 'cause here come the directions, Major.' I smirked as I heard 'hide grumble about Femmes and giving directions, so I sent him a nudge on the bumper of his vehicle form in retaliation.

'Go ahead now Roulette, I'm ready for the directions.' came the reply.

'Alright then: we want to take the exit onto CA-99 N towards Sacramento, and from there onto the Sacramento Freeway. Then it is onwards to the Elvas Freeway, continuing onwards to the Capitol City Freeway/ I-80 BUS E, at which we take a right onto the I-80 E.' I paused here to let him write it down before asking if he had it all so far, I got an affirmative and continued.

'We will be passing through Reno - Nevada; Salt Lake City - Utah; Wyoming; Grand Island, Lincoln and Omaha - Nebraska and entering into Iowa. From there we will continue straight onto I-235 E at Des Moines, where we will take the exit posted for the I-80 E. From there we will take exit 137A to merge onto I-80 E towards Davenport. Have you got this down, Major?' I asked once more, there was no way I was going to be blamed for the guys getting themselves lost across country - they never ask for help if it is required, idiots!

Once again Lennox confirmed that he had all that down and so I gave him the next batch of information.

'Take exit 290 on the left to merge onto I-280 E towards US-6 E/Rock Island/Moline. You will be entering into Illinois by this point. Continue onto I-80 E, this is a partial Toll Road as it enters into Indiana. We then continue onto I-94 E and enter into Michigan.'

'We will need to watch out for the sign saying I-196/US-31/Halland/Gd Rapids and take that slight right at US-31. We then continue onto I-196 N and take exit 77A on the left to merge onto I-296 N/US-131 N towards the city of Cadillac. From there we keep onto US-131 N and take exit 180 for MI-55 E towards a small town called Lake City.' I paused long enough for Lennox to tell Ironhide where to turn at this point since throughout this conversation we had traveled through Nevada and were heading into Utah and Salt Lake City.

Finally once he was done with 'Hide Lennox asked me to continue with the directions.

'Take a right a E. Division St/MI-55 E and continue following MI-55 E. Then take a left at MI-55 E/MI-66 N/ S. Morey Rd and continue to follow MI-55 E/MI-66 N, from there turn right at W. Houghton Lake Rd/ MI-55 E and continue to follow MI-55 E. After a little bit you'll want to take a left to merge onto US-127 N and from there to merge onto I-75 N. We then take exit 251 for 4 Mile Rd and turn left at W. 4 Mile Rd. From there we head on down to take a right at Oak Rd, and continue down till we need to take a left, a right and another right to reach Camp Grayling.' I said with finality in my voice, I swear to Primus I heard ol' 'Hide chuckle at that and even louder when he asked me exactly how long this trip was going to take us, not expecting me to reply - which I did.

'This trip will take approximately 1 day and 16 hours, covering a total of 2,532 miles one way, which means a total of 80 hours or just a little over 3 days of driving from California to Michigan and back again.' I pointed out a accurately as I could. By this time we had now crossed through Salt Lake City - Utah and were on our way through the plains of Wyoming and onto Nebraska. What the guys back at base had forgotten to mention was the fact that it was the time of year that snow falls across the plains and especially the Central and Northern States, such as Illinois and Michigan. Unfortunately we found out as soon as we hit the turning that would take us up I-94 E and into southern Michigan.

It was official I HATE SNOW!!!

Ironhide had four-wheel drive in his vehicle mode, I unfortunately did not being a sports car. So we stopped and brought some snow chains for my tires in Grand Rapids since we had noticed that the further North we drove the deeper the snow was falling - I found out later this was called 'Lake Effect Snow' and a really big pain in the aft for all road users.

We had been traveling for just over 32 hours by this point and Lennox was asleep after wishing young Annabelle a good night via cell phone and had decided to catch some rest before we got to the base and our contact.

8 hours later, a groggy and cranky (due to not having any caffeine yet) Lennox awoke to 'Hide stopping at a rest area, we were less than 25 minutes away from the base and 'Hide had decided to let Lennox freshen up before the meeting - a good idea it seemed to me and Lennox too as he nodded and grabbed his backpack and headed to the restrooms to wash and change into clean clothes.

Once he was back, looking and smelling better with a disposable cup of coffee in hand we made the last part of our journey to Camp Grayling. Checking my internal clock I noted that it was now 05:30 in the morning which meant on a base like this that there were some people already up and about doing their routines. As we approached the gate we got in line behind a couple of transports that had arrived when we did and I had a couple of trucks and cars sat behind me in the queue, I admit I smiled as I heard and acknowledged the wolf whistles from the males in the other vehicles, apparently my Alt. Mode was considered a rather nice bit of engineering by their standards.

All 'Hide did was groan over the comm. link about immature males and my response to that was to tell 'Hide with Lennox listening (and laughing rather hard) that he could go blow it out his aft since he was too old to understand them and us younger 'bots. We finally made it on base and headed towards the barracks where our contact was supposed to meet us. It was decided that I would stay in my Holoform whilst we talked with the newest member to the NEST team and it was decided that they could be trusted with both mine and 'Hide's secrets - the one about us not really being vehicles from Earth and that we were in fact Autonomous robotic organisms from another planet. All I could think of was: will they freak out and run screaming or pass out from shock or just accept everything they were told without a problem. For all our sakes I hoped it was the latter.

A.N.: Thanks to all who read this story, and both Fourth Remnant and Myself hope to have another chapter up and running shortly. It will take time since there is at least an 8 hour time difference between where we live: I live on the Eastern side of the US and she lives in Australia.

Pleasse keep reviewing and sorry if the pace is slow right now, but it will speed up somewhat in a few chapters or so. We hope to bring in the Major Twins and another old face or two for the 'bots. (Possibly Blaster and Prowl - grins evily at Prowl) Oh the pranks and fritzing that will come from the Twins and Nest Personnel and anything not Logical - now where did I place that plan?....