Chapter 9

John - or Patrick as Percy had known him - continued to stare into Percy's sea green eyes and could see the vast age held in her eyes that her appearance hid. But he knew that this was his son, Ben's, best friend and the one that helped them find the lost treasures years ago.

"Sir? Is there a problem here?" Agent Simmons asked pushing through the gathering of people around them to reach the two of them. John didn't take his eyes off of Percy.

"No, Agent, there isn't. However, Percy, when this whole mess is over, you and I are going to be having a talk, preferably with my son in the room with us. I honestly don't know how you always are in the middle of something like this." The two of them laughed and walked into the air conditioned building, following the agents further into the dam.

Percy smiled slightly. "And I'll answer those questions to the best of my ability my friend. And this isn't the worst thing I've ever done. That one time Ben and I kidnapped the president is up there on the list."

Everyone stopped and stared at the two as they laughed.

"Whoa wait. You kidnapped the president? When the heck was this?!" Sam sputtered.

"The president was only ever kidnapped once in the past twenty years by a Benjamin Gates and a Persephone Jackson but the charges were dropped when it came to light they were under orders from the president to do so." Banachek, another S-7 agent, said. Everyone looked between the Sec Def and Percy, noticing the smirk on Percy's face and the sheepish smile on John Keller's.

"My full name is Persephone Jackson and my best friend before Sam was a Ben Gates, whose father is Patrick Gates, whose full name is-"

"John Patrick Keller-Gates." John Keller finished. Everyone looked at them wide eyed.

"Jeez, woman! How old are you?"

Percy winked and smirked at Epps for his question. "Hasn't anyone ever told you not to ask a woman their age? Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I distinctly remember there being an alien civil war happening on our planet and that there must be a reason for this government agency that doesn't exist to be based here. So, Simmons, Simmons Jr., and Banachek, why don't you lead the way?"

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"All right, here's the situation." said Simmons. "You've all had direct contact with the NBEs."

"NBEs?" Epps asked as they walked.

"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms." the agent said. "What you're about to see is totally classified."

They walked into a large room and everyone but Percy stared wide eyed at the Cybertronian in the room. Percy felt the wrongness emanating from him, from Megatron, and knew that even though he was frozen, he was able to hear and see around him. And she knew that as soon as they stepped into the large room, his red eyes had locked onto their group and then onward to her and then stayed locked on her.

"Dear God. What is this?" Keller asked, finally finding the ability to speak.

"We think when he made his approach over the north pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry. He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934." Banachek, the only S-7 agent whom had not come off as a d*ck right off the bat, said.

Then the annoying one spoke again. "We call him NBE One."

Sam spoke. "Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you everything you think you know, but, I mean, that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons."

"He's been in cryostasis since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind." Banachek said.

"Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age, the microchip, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all reverse-engineered by studying him. NBE One. That's what we call it." he snapped, geting in Sam's face. Percy rolled her eyes at the man. She was seriously considering just punching the man in his face to get him to shut up.

John glared at the agents. "And you didn't think the United States millitary might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?"

Banachek at least had the decency to look chastised but the other agent with them just stood there, defiant. "Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security."

"Well you got one now."

Lennox looked up at the alien. It was much bigger then the one that had attacked the base in Qatar. "So why Earth?"

"It's the Allspark." Sam said.

"Allspark? What is that?" asked Keller.

"Well, yeah, they came here looking for some sort of cube-looking thing. Anyway, Mister NBE-One here, a.k.a. Megatron, that's what they call him, who's pretty much the harbinger of death, wants to use the Cube to transform human technology to take over the universe. That's their plan."

The agent that hasn't been introduced yet looked a bit nervous. "And you're sure about that?"

"Yeah." Sam said.

"They know where it is, don't you?" Percy spoke up from where she had been silent the whole time, her sea-green eyes somehow still locked onto the red alert gaze of Megatron. And she knew he knew when she spoke as well as combined with her power that only Cybertronians could pick up, that he knew who she was. And she felt the astonishment and relief before she felt possessiveness began to radiate from him. She sighed, great. Now one of her creations was going to be after her. She was brought of her thoughts when Banachek spoke up.

"Follow me." Banachek said, jerking his head.

They all followed the two agents down a side tunnel.

"You're about to see our crown jewel." They had entered a little observation room.

"Whoa," whispered Sam gazing at the gigantic cube that took up most of the room below them. Percy stood on the other side of him but what they didn't notice was that Lennox and Epps were standing behind them. "You created that Percy?"

Percy smiled and leaned her hand against the glass, knowing that the Allspark had sensed her nearby. "Yea, Sam. It's been a long time since I've seen the Allspark… I think the last time I saw it actually, was when I made Optimus a Prime."

Epps and Lennox exchanged wide eyed glances.

"Can you tell me how this is all going to turn out?" Sam asked.

Percy sighed. "Sam…"

"I know, I know, sorry I asked… But still it's hard knowing your Primus - creator of the Cybertronains - and God - creator of the universe. And I know you do the things you do for a reason but I just wish you could do something to stop this all from happening."

Lennox and Epps exchanged even wider eyed glances at that. There was no way Percy, the girl that they had come to know in this short timespan, was God… but yet they had noticed the agelessness of her eyes too and even if they couldn't sense the power that Cybertronains gave off, they could sense that there was something just… more of Percy then what they were seeing.

"What if I told you that Sector Seven doesn't really have Bumblebee but it is a construct I made when I set Bee free?"

Sam froze at whirled to face his best friend and knew that when she smiled, she was telling the truth.

Then a thought popped up. "Wait. What if the Decepticons find out if the Cube is here?"

"Don't worry, Sam. The Autobots are on their way here. And if anything, I could always shrink the Cube and transport it out of here. And Sam, don't you worry about a thing at the moment. As long as you and Mikaela, and even the soldiers, are in my eyesight there are very few things that can get passed my power if they are trying to hurt you. Is that understood, Captain? Sergeant?"

Percy had suddenly turned around and was looking Lennox and Epps square in the eyes. Caught and about to make excuses, they died when Percy smirked and shook her head.

"If I really didn't want you guys knowing, I would just erase your memories of this whole thing. But as long as the two of you promise not to tell anyone about what you've overheard, you are welcome to keep your memories."

The two soldiers agreed and then all four of them tuned back into the conversation going on.

"Carbon dating puts the Cube here around ten thousand BC. The first Seven didn't find it until 1913. They knew it was alien because of the matching hieroglyphics on the Cube as well as NBE-One." Simmons seemed very proud of what little they did know. "President Hoover had the dam built around it. Four football fields thick of concrete. A perfect way to hide its energy from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside."

Maggie started slightly. "Wait. You-you said the dam hides the Cube's energy. What kind exactly?"

Banachek led them to another room. "Good question. Please step inside. They have to lock us in," he explained as they all entered the small room.

Glen spoke for the first time as he examined the torn up walls. "Oh, wow."

The annoying agent spoke. "Anybody have any mechanical devices? Blackberry? Key alarm? Cell phone?"

"I got a phone," said Glen throwing his phone over to the agent.

The agent flipped it open smiling. "Ooh. Nokias are real nasty. You've got to respect the Japanese," he said opening the glass box in the middle of the room and putting the phone inside. "They know the way of the samurai." He snapped the box shut.

"Nokia's from Finland." Percy said, not able to keep her mouth shut any longer. Keller looked at her from beside her.

"Yes, but he's, you know… a little strange. He's a little strange." he whispered. Percy laughed softly, the sound whispering through the room like a mermaid's song.

The agent flipped some switches. "We're able to take the Cube radiation… and funnel it into that box."

Everyone, except for Percy, let out startled yelps as the Nokia shuddered and abruptly transformed into a tiny Cybertronian and abruptly began chattering and running around the box.

The agent grinned, pleased with their responses. "Mean little sucker, huh?"

Percy froze. It had been a long time since she had seen any of her first creations - Cybertronian or Angel - as younglings but these humans just created a sparkling and probably many others and probably killed them just as fast as they had been created. When she heard the agent mutter to Banachek, "Oh… He's breaking the box." she snapped. She pulled the glock out of Lennox's holster and aimed it directly at Simmons.

"If you push that button, so help me, I will shoot you and make sure you spend an eternity in h*ll. Now put it down." Simmons released the remote, allowing it to drop to the ground and backed away. "Sam, can you grab the remote and bring it over here please."

Sam did as he was asked and brought it over to Percy only for her to crush it in her fist.

With a final glare at the S-7 agents in the room, Percy politely handed Lennox his gun back and opened the box, allowing her power to breathe through the room and to allow humans to sense it for the first time in years, the last time being when she had been at Shipwreck Cove with a certain Sparrow. As her power washed over the humans, they all gasped and automatically took a step away from Percy as the sparkling squeaked at the prescence that he knew to be of the creator and crawled into her hand and up her arm to only stop at her neck and hide under hair from the watching human eyes.

"What the hell are you?!" Simmons growled, his hand itching for his gun. Percy rolled her eyes. Dam secrets to h*ll.

"I am Persephone Jackson, to you humans. I am also known as Primus, creator of the Allspark and Cyberton, as well as Cybertronians. But you all know me in a more religous way. I am also God, creator of the universe, creator of mankind. And right now, I am very p*ssed that you were going to kill a sparkling in front of my eyes."

The humans who hadn't known who she was gaped at her, not wanting to believe but also believing that every word she just spoke was true.

Any protests or comments that would have been said were interrupted when the lights flickered and a distant boom was heard and the walls shook slightly.

Keller glanced up looking deadly serious. "Gentlemen, they know the Cube is here."

Lennox spoke up. "Do you have an arms room?"

Percy shook her head. "It won't matter if we can't transport the Allspark out of here."

Simmons narrowed his eyes but spoke with more respect in his tone, now knowing who she was. "And how would you expect us to move it?"

"Take me down there. I only need a minute."

They entered the large room that was holding the Allspark and as everyone was being evacuated, the soldiers, Keller, Maggie, Glen, Sam, Mikaela, and several S-7 agents watched in awe as Percy began to light up and grow into a Cybertronian form that was as tall as Megatron was. She reached up and caressed her old creation causing it to start to shrink at a rapid rate.

Finally in just a few seconds, the Cube was the perfect size for transport and Percy bent down and placed the Cube into Sam's arms.

"Keep an eye on this for me, Sammy." Sam nodded and watched in awe as Percy began to transform into a gray Mercedes-AMG R50 (link: : / / i 1 . w p . c o m . c y / w p - / ad s / / 0 9 / - A M G - R 5 0 - 1 - 6. j p g ? = % 8).

"Ready when you are Captain!" came through the radio. Lennox immediately began to take charge.

"She's right. We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city."

John agreed with his plan. "Good! Right."

"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force."

John thought quickly and turned to Agent Simmons. "This place must have some kind of radio link! Shortwave, CB."

"Right, yes!" Agent Simmons responded.

"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get word out to them. Let's move!" Lennox commanded. They began to run to the garage, with Percy driving after them with Sam and Mikaela inside. "All right, Sam, get it in the car! Mr. Secretary! Get our birds in the air. When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?"

"Affirmative!"

"Set up a perimeter around the yellow vehicle!" Lennox shouted as he and the other soldiers hopped into vehicles with machine guns mounted on the top.

Looks like it was time for war.