They were greeted at base by Galloway, the government man from earlier, and a woman with short, golden blonde hair. The blonde stepped forth first, her smile dropping as she saw the solemn looks on everyone's faces. "Is this a bad time?" she asked with a bit of a Georgia peach accent tempered by time spent in the north.

"Not at all Ms." Lennox trailed off realizing he didn't know the woman's name.

"Jennifer Devaut," she said calmly. "You can call me Jenn though. I'm the new recruit who was supposed to arrived today."

"Of course," Lennox said, remembering suddenly that the world did go on after someone was killed. "Summer would you mind?"

"Of course not," the other blonde said in a watery sounding voice and she led Jenn away.

"Now maybe we can talk," Galloway said crisply, oblivious to their grief. "I've been sent here to take over NEST after the Shanghai disaster."

"Excuse me but I don't believe I heard you correctly," Lennox said, sounding shocked.

"I'm here to take over. You are, from this moment on, under my command," Galloway sneered.

"We're under the command of General Morshower," Epps protested.

"I have a presidential order," Galloway snapped. "I am now in charge."

"Excuse me but I think I heard you wrong," Briley said cruelly. Some part of her mind realized she was taking her frustration out on someone who didn't know any better than to be a jerk but she didn't care. "I wasn't aware that they assigned command to three year old whiners." Then she turned and stomped off, too angry and hurt to even try to stay and be civil. It took an hour for Lennox to placate Galloway and they all found themselves sitting in the main hanger in dull silence.

That was when Summer realized something. "We never figured out who the Fallen was."

"Why does it matter?" Jolt asked. "With Prime gone it isn't likely that we'll be able to defeat whoever it is."

"Because if we don't we'll all be killed whether we can defeat whoever it is or not," Kinsey snapped, some of her old fire returning.

"I've got it," Briley said suddenly, sadness temporarily vanishing. "I know why that sounded familiar biblically. Some people say that Satan was once an angel called Lucifer who betrayed God and became fallen."

"And how exactly does that help us?" Sideswipe asked, his tone sharp and cutting.

"Put it into perspective," Briley said flatly.

"The Fallen was once a Prime," Jazz said, a new light coming into his optics. "It all makes sense."

"It doesn't matter. It isn't like we can do anything anyway," Lennox said with a heavy sigh. It was true. Briley had never seen some much red tape in her life and it all came from Galloway. She sighed and walked out of the room, shoulders slumped. She wasn't exactly surprised when Jazz followed her.

"The jerk doesn't know it but Lennox ain't quite defeated," he drawled softly. "We need ta find out how ta stop the Fallen from whatever he's doin'."

"First we have to find out who the Fallen is," Briley pointed out in a whisper. "Out of curiosity is there anyone on Earth that is old enough to remember that?"

Jazz paused, head tilted in thought as he accessed his memory files. His expression brightened occasionally only to fall every time. With each passing moment Briley felt their hopes slip away until she was ready to scream. That was when Jazz's mouth dropped in astonishment. "Ah don't believe it," he said, his drawl thicker now that he wasn't controlling it. "There is someone and Ah know where to find 'em too."

"Let's go then," Briley said, hope flashing wild in her eyes. "We don't have any time to lose."

"Not without me," Blast chirped, climbing up her back to stand on her shoulder as Jazz's holoform phased. "You no leave me."

"Got it," Briley said and ducked into Jazz's alt mode. Instantly they were off leaving Lennox to handle a probably annoyed Galloway and a cloud of dust behind giving voice to their urgency. Up above the sun burned bright and time was running out for all of them.

Author's Note: And now the second update of the day! Thanks to MissShelz and PJ-NCIS-TF-26 who already reviewed the last chapter! Hope you enjoyed and I own nothing but my OCs