Chapter 8

Percy looked up as a pretty blond woman and a heavy, coloured man entered and sat opposite them. They all sat in silence for half an hour while they tried to figure out what each other was doing there. Eventually Sam proved again that he did not cope well with awkward silences.

"So..." he started.

"What did they get you for?" asked the woman, she sounded Australian.

"Uh- I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot," replied Sam with a tight smile.

The big guy mouthed 'Wow.'

Sam shrugged. "Who knew?"

Percy smirked and Sam obviously saw it because he rolled his eyes at his best friend, knowing that she had known because of who and what she is.

The three friends looked around curious when the chopper landed, Percy had been to the Hoover Dam once before in her old universe and she couldn't help but feel nistalgic as being here brought back the memories of it all.

She looked around and couldn't help but speak the words that she needed at that moment. "I need a dam hotdog."

Sam and the others that had ridden the helicopter with them gave her weird looks. She shrugged. "Inside joke."

They were interrupted by a call of: "Team attention! Present arms!"

She spun around and saw a group of six soldiers on the bridge to the entrance to the dam. She watched with curiosity when a man addressed them and she realised it was the Secretary of Defense John Keller. She remembered hearing about the attack at the base in Quatar on the news, that was the only thing recently that would call for Keller to be involved, especially when Tony Stark was about to do a demonstration in a couple of days with his new missile Stark Industries had created. She observed the soldiers with more interest now, they must have been at the base, surviving a full blown Decepticon attack was impressive.

She was drawn out of her observation when one of the agents standing behind her shoved her forward which caused her to almost fall forward onto her face but luckily she was able to right herself, even though she was still handcuffed.

"Move it lady!" he growled.

She saw her friends and new friends looked over in concern and saw that they were not handcuffed still like she was. Aw why did she have to get the agent that was Simmons Jr.? She came up beside Sam and Mikaela who was being approached by the devil himself.. well not really because Percy was pretty sure her son Lucifer was still in h*ll.

"Hey, kid. I think we got off to a bad start, huh?" asked Simmons clapped Sam on the shoulder trying to be friendly. "You must be hungry? You want a latte? Ho-Ho? Double venti macchiato?"

Percy spoke up. "I want a dam hotdog and out of these dam handcuffs. Now."

Simmons sighed but nodded. One agent - Simmons Jr. - unlocked her handcuffs while another hurried off to hunt down a hotdog for Percy.

She rubbed her wrists to alleviate the soreness and to hide the fact that her healing factor was kicking in and was already getting rid of the marks on her skin from the too tight handcuffs. The agent came back with a bag filled with hotdogs which Percy grabbed before he could blink and began to walk towards the Australian woman and her friend.

"You guys want a dam hotdog?" The woman, who had introduced herself as Maggie, and her friend as Glen, declined but Glen happily accepted a hotdog. Percy turned her attention to the soldiers that were walking their way and sensed that they hadn't had enough time to eat anything but military issued food they had on themselves.

She stepped into their path, causing them to stop and look at her, some of them a little startled and reaching for weapons.

"Hello, my name's Percy. I figured that since we were all brought here and I'm the only one that demanded to be fed, I would ask if you all would like a dam hotdog." She shook hands with all of them as they introduced themselves, leaving the two in front for last.

"Nice to meet you, Percy, my name's Will Lennox and this is Robert Epps. And I would actually love a dam hotdog." Percy smiled and after taking four hotdogs out of the bag, handed the rest over to the soldiers.

"Here you go guys! Go nuts!"

She joined up with Sam and Mikaela and handed them each a hotdog before jogging forward to walk besides the Secretary of Defense. But she knew he hadn't always been Secretary of Defense and hadn't always been known to the world as John Keller.

"Hello, Sir. It's nice to see you again."

John Keller turned his head and saw a face he hadn't seen in at least twenty years, a face that hadn't aged at all. He stopped, causing the soldiers and agents and Sam and the other three to stop as well as he stared at Percy's face.

"Percy?" He asked, not daring to hope. Percy smiled kindly.

"Hello John Patrick Keller-Gates, it's been awhile since we've seen each other. Tell me, how's Ben and Abigail and their friend Riley doing?"