And here is chapter eight!
I loved writing the bit in the arms room, Faelan is badass!
Told you all she was a bit crazy though, definately get along with the Wreckers, probably too well for most people's peace of mind.
The three teens looked around curious when the chopper landed, Faelan had never been to the Hoover dam before but she remembered some facts about it from history class, like it was made of several feet thick concrete, so really it shouldn't be a surprise that this was where the Allspark was hidden because there was no way anyone would be able to detect its presence through that.
"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. Hmm… the Decepticons had attracted a fair bit of attention then, but when… oh. 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. She observed the soldier with more interest now, they must have been at the base, surviving a full blown Decepticon attack was impressive.
One of the agents behind them pushed her forward and she scowled, the asses still had her in handcuffs. Although she was very pleased that they hadn't frisked her, made things a lot easier for her. She looked up as Sam and Mikaela came to a stop and growled at the sight of Simmons standing in front of them blocking the way.
"Hey, kid. I think we got off to a bad start, huh?" asked Simmons clapped Sam on the shoulder trying to be chummy. "You must be hungry? You want a latte? Ho-Ho? Double venti macchiato?"
Sam glared at him. "Where's my car?" Sam clearly had his priorities in order.
Another suit who had been standing just behind Simmons stepped forward. "Son, I need you to listen to me very carefully. People can die here. We need to know everything you know. We need to know it now."
Sam, Mikaela and Faelan exchanged glances, they were more than aware of what was at stake, probably more than these numb skulls knew. Sam nodded.
"Okay. But first, I'll take my car, my parents. Maybe you should write that down," he said trying not to smirk. "Oh, and her juvie record. That's got to be gone. Like, forever." He held the man's stare to show he was serious.
He backed down gracefully. "Come with me. We'll talk about your car." He started walking away to follow after the soldiers gesturing them to come with him.
Mikaela gripped Sam's shoulder gratefully. "Thank you."
Simmons snorted and looked grudgingly impressed. "Man's an extortionist."
Faelan chuckled darkly bringing Simmons attention back to her, she was pleased to see he looked nervous despite her still being cuffed.
"Oh don't worry, you will pay in full for all of this." Then she bared her teeth in a mockery of a smile making him edge back.
"Simmons! What is this?!" They both turned to see Keller striding towards them looking furious followed by Maggie and two of the soldiers, Maggie winked at her, well she did promise to help her get pay back.
"Sir?" Simmons seemed genuinely confused.
"Why is she handcuffed Simmons? What possible reason could you have for cuffing a child?!"
Ok she protested being called a child but if it meant Simmons got punished she could put up with it.
"But sir! She-"
"I don't care! Uncuff her!" he hissed. She smiled, oh she liked him, righteous fury has no bounds.
She whistled absently and picked the lock on her cuffs rubbing her wrists to ease the rawness. "Thank you Mr Secretary," she said bringing her hands round to the front and enjoying the worried look on Simmons' face. "You think he'd know better than to cuff a cop's daughter."
The two soldiers started laughing and grinned at her, the sergeant giving her a thumbs up. She grinned back and smiled thankfully at Keller again.
"Thanks again though, and it's nice to know something is going to be done about the threat," she said absently watching as it dawned on their faces that if she was here then she was involved with the aliens somehow.
Keller gave her a curious look and nodded gesturing for Maggie to follow him as they made their way to the entrance of the dam. Faelan cheerfully fell into step with the two soldiers.
"We saw you when that Aussie girl told Keller there was a child in handcuffs," said the captain sounding offended for her. "She was very upset that it had been allowed."
"He hadn't seen you though so he got really riled when he saw Simmons talking to you still in cuffs," continued the sergeant. "Scum bag."
She grinned at them and peeked back at Simmons who was following at a distance behind them, before flicking her wrist up and back and clocking him in the face with her cuffs, the two soldiers choked for a moment before sniggering.
"Score!" she whispered to them making them laugh harder.
"I see why he cuffed you."
"He's just jealous of my mad skills."
They carried on towards the doors laughing for a moment before one of them sighed.
"So aliens huh?" mused the sergeant. "This is messed up."
Faelan laughed. "I wouldn't say that, I never did want a boring life." The two soldiers snorted.
"Definitely not boring, I'm Captain William Lennox," said the captain introducing himself.
"Sergeant Robert Epps," said the other.
She nodded and smiled. "Faelan White, you guys where at the Quatar base right?"
They nodded looking very sad for a moment, a lot of people had died in that attack, so many good men and women.
"Yeah, how did you get involved?" asked Lennox curious as they starting going down the stairs to the ground level.
"Funny story that," she chirped. "Best friend bought one of the friendly ones as his first car, met the rest of them because he had something they needed."
The soldiers all turned sharp eyes to her, they'd caught up to the rest of the group by this point and the other four soldiers had turned when they saw their captain.
"Friendlies?" asked Lennox sharply. She turned serious eyes to him and nodded.
"Not all of them want to hurt us." She remembered Bee's pained squeals as they froze him because he wouldn't fight back. "And we're going to need their help in this fight."
Lennox stared at her for a moment sensing how serious she was being and then he nodded. She understood his meaning, if it came down to it he would support her in getting them to cooperate with the Autobots, saving lives was more important than some ego pissing match with S7.
She smiled brightly catching them all off guard. "Just be warned that I'm going to get Simmons the first chance I get though."
They all snorted in amusement and she tried not to smirk, she wondered what they'd think of her when she finally let loose with her weapons, certainly not that she was a defenceless child.
Oh yeah, that was going to surprise everyone.
Simmons marched ahead of them. "All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs."
Epps frowned, "NBEs?"
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms," snarked Simmons, Faelan stuck her tongue out at him behind his back making the soldiers grin.
The other man who had been with Simmons, who had introduced himself as Banachek, spoke up next as they entered the main section of the dam. "What you're about to see is totally classified."
Her eyes widened when they saw the monolith that was a frozen Megatron, he was easily as big as Optimus which meant he was bigger than the rest of the Autobots. Damn… this was not going to be easy.
"Dear God. What is this?" asked Keller gaping up at the Decepticon leader.
"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," explained Banachek.
Simmons spun around to face them all looking a little smug. "We call him NBE-One."
Faelan rolled her eyes and grinned when Sam spoke up. "Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on 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," said Banachek basically ignoring him. "Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind."
Simmons then took over. "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 getting in Sam's face. Good grief, could the man be more childishly egotistical?
Keller glared at the agents. "And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?"
Banachek looked a bit chastised but still defiant. "Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security."
"Well you got one now."
Lennox looked up at Megatron curiously, recognising that the one would had attacked in Quatar was definitely on his side with their similar spikey appearances. "So why Earth?"
"It's the Allspark," said Faelan crossing her arms over her chest and peering curiously at Megatron, it sort of felt like… he was aware? Maybe subconsciously aware of his surroundings.
"Allspark? What is that?" asked Keller.
Sam sighed seeing that Faelan was distracted by whatever had caught her attention and wasn't going to answer. "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."
Simmons looked a bit nervous. "And you're sure about that?"
"Yeah..." Sam paused before it dawned on him why Simmons was nervous. "You guys know where it is, don't you?"
Banachek jerked his head. "Follow me."
The two agents walked off down a side tunnel and the rest followed after them, Faelan almost couldn't believe it, the Allspark was here? Right next to Megatron? Ok so they couldn't have known about Megatron wanting it and being the bad guy but seriously? Talk about bad luck.
"You're about to see our crown jewel," boasted Simmons as he let them all into a little observation room.
"Whew," whispered Sam gazing at the gigantic cube that took up most of the room below them.
Faelan gave a low impressed whistle, ok they definitely needed to find Bee because there was no way any human was going to be able to move that. "Beautiful," she breathed, because it truly was.
Banachek leaned forward still looking at the Allspark. "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." He 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, back up. You- you said the dam hides the Cube's energy. What kind exactly?"
Oh Faelan had a really bad feeling about this.
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.
"Oh, wow," murmured Glen staring at the torn up walls.
"What's that? Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?" asked Epps joining him in staring.
"Oh, no, man. Freddy Krueger have four blades, man. That's only three. That's Wolverine! Hrr!" growled Glen laughing. "Right? That's Wolverine!"
Simmons gave him a blank look that said how unfunny he found that. "That's very funny. Anybody have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry? Key alarm? Cell phone?"
And her bad feeling had just got worse. Perfect.
"I got a phone," said Glen to fishing it out of his pocket and throwing it over.
Simmons 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.
Maggie frowned. "Nokia's from Finland."
"Yes, but he's, you know... a little strange. He's a little strange," whispered Keller, Faelan snorted.
Simmons flipped some switches. "We're able to take the Cube radiation... and funnel it into that box."
They all let out surprised yelps as the Nokia shuddered and abruptly transformed into a tiny Cybertronian and abruptly began chattering and running around the box.
Simmons grinned pleased with their responses. "Mean little sucker, huh?"
"That thing is freaky!" cried Maggie rearing back as the little bot jumped in her direction.
"Kind of like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from hell, huh?"
The little guy seemed to get more agitated and started running around more frantically. Faelan thought her heart was going to break, the little guy was a baby. He was scared. Apparently he'd decided he'd had enough because he started shooting the box in an attempt to get out.
"Oh... He's breaking the box," muttered Simmons shaking his head, her eyes widened when she saw his hand move to a trigger. "Hnn!"
There was dead silence as Simmons froze. Faelan was glaring coldly at him from the corner of her eye and holding a wicked looking knife to his throat, the smile she gave him was terrifyingly cold.
"Don't even think about it."
They all watched nervously as she took the trigger off him and stepped forward to stand by the box door. When she opened the hatch a few of them thought about protesting but that furious look on her face stopped that idea in its tracks, plus there was the fact that apart from Sam none of them had known that she was armed.
She cooed gently to the little bot and gently placed a hand inside the box, he'd stopped moving by now and was staring at her curiously. He made a little chirping noise as if asking a question, no one noticed her eyes glowed faintly gold for a moment before a gentle smile broke out over her face and she started humming some kind of lullaby. The bot's eyes turned blue and he squeaked happily skittering on to hand and clinging on as she drew him out of the box to hold him curled up to her chest.
"Faelan?" asked Sam unsurely, he really didn't know what to make of what had just happened.
Her head snapped up and she scowled at Simmons. "I can't believe you were about to kill a baby."
They all started in surprise and Mikaela came closer and started gently petting the little guy.
"A baby?" asked Maggie peering at the Nokia bot.
Faelan raised an eyebrow. "You saw Megatron, how big he is, you really think this guy isn't a baby considering his size? He's so fragile he'd probably break if I dropped him." The bot made a startled screech turning away from Mikaela's attention to stare at her. "Don't worry little one," she cooed. "I won't let any harm come to you." He stared at her for a moment before chirping and snuggling back down into her palm.
"How did you know he wouldn't hurt you?" asked Lennox curiously, looking closer he could see that the bot was acting very much like a baby.
"Are you kidding?" she asked incredulously. "He'd just been born and was trapped in a box surrounded by giants who looked nothing like him. He was terrified! You'd start attacking to try escape wouldn't you?" She threw a sneer at Simmons. "It stands to reason he'd calm down once someone was nice to him and let him out of that prison."
Any further comments 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."
A phone on the wall rang and Banachek went to pick it up. "Banachek. What's going on?"
They all strained to hear the response. "Well, the NBE-One hangar has lost power-"
"What!"
"-and the backup generator is just not gonna cut it."
Lennox came closer and clasped the edge of the table. "Do you have an arms room?"
Next thing they knew everyone was running out of the room and towards the arms room in a hurry, they really didn't want to be unarmed when Megatron unfroze.
Banachek turned to some of the agents accompanying them. "Get everyone to the NBE-One chamber now!"
"The lights are out!"
Lennox started running faster and motioned for his men to protect the three teens. "Move it! Move it! Let's go!"
"They're popping our generators!
They all burst into the arms room at a run and the soldiers and agents immediately started pulling guns out and searching for the ammunition to go with them. The civilians stood off to the side out of the way, although Faelan looked like she dearly wanted to join in she was more concerned about trying to persuade the little bot to transform back into a phone so she could put him away safely in her pocket.
Simmons barked out orders to his agents. "Forty millimeter sabot rounds on that table!"
Lennox was busy sorting out his soldiers. "That's good. Get all the ammo you got. Everything you can carry. Bring it."
The three teens exchanged worried looks, even if they were armed they weren't going to be able to protect the Allspark, especially not it was as big as it was, they needed Bee. Sam nodded decisively.
"You got to take me to my car. You have to take me to my car," he insisted to Simmons. "He's gonna know what to do with the Cube."
Simmons looked incredulous, as if Sam had said something completely crazy. "Your car? It's confiscated."
Sam glared at him. "Then unconfiscate it."
"We do not know what will happen if we let it near this thing!"
"You don't know-"
Simmons waved a hand dismissively. "Maybe you know, but I don't know."
Sam gritted his teeth. "You just wanna sit here and wait and see what happens?"
"I have people's lives at stake here, young man," he shouted getting in Sam's face.
Lennox spun around and grabbed him pinning him against the car behind him. "Take him to his car!"
"Wha-" cried Simmons.
"Whoa!" Around them Lennox's team were disabling the S7 agents who had moved to defend Simmons.
Lennox glared at the agent who had tried to sneak up behind him and pointed his gun at the guy's head. "Drop it."
He remembered what Faelan had said about their being friendly robots who could help them, that the kid's car was one of them, he wasn't going to let Simmons deny perfectly good help just because he didn't want to admit that.
There was a sudden silence as the ringing of a blade being drawn rang out and most eyes slowly turned to see Faelan standing with one foot on the chest of one agent pointing a gun at him while she held a tanto blade at the throat of another. Her face was just as cold as before, a slightly insane smile broke across her face.
Banachek waved his hands in protest. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"
She flicked her eyes to him briefly before grinning down at the agent pinned under her rollerblade. "Poor security gentlemen," she purred watching the man's eyes widen as the Nokia bot chittered angrily on her shoulder and pointed his guns at the guy she had the blade to. "Just because I'm a minor doesn't mean you shouldn't frisk me." Her grin was positively feral as the agent gulped nervously. "Clearly didn't do your research boys, otherwise you would have known that I'm licenced to carry weapons. You wouldn't believe how happy I was that you didn't frisk me."
Sam called to her nervously, "Fae?"
"I won't hurt him Sam." Her grin became bloodthirsty. "Unless they do something stupid."
Simmons cleared his throat trying to get the situation back in control, concerned about the grip Lennox had on him which hadn't lessened despite his surprise at Faelan's actions. "Drop your weapon, soldier. There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"
Lennox glared at him trusting his team to make sure no one crept up on him. "You know, we didn't ask to be here."
Simmons tried to look stern. "I'm ordering you under S7 executive jurisdiction."
Epps snorted, "S7 don't exist."
Lennox nodded. "Right. And we don't take orders from people that don't exist."
"I'm gonna count to five."
Lennox moved the gun to Simmon's chest and cocked it. "Well, I'm gonna count to three. Mm?"
There was a tense few seconds of silence as it registered that Lennox was being completely serious.
Keller spoke up, "Simmons?"
He looked over possibly hoping for support. "Yes, sir?"
Keller smiled grimly at him. "I'd do what he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys."
Simmons looked back at Lennox who despite breathing hard was still pressing the barrel of his gun firmly into Simmon's chest and swallowed nervously. "Alright. Okay. Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool."
Faelan snorted and lowered her blade, holstering her gun before lashing out with her foot and catching the guy on the floor in the chin so his head cracked back against the floor knocking him out cold. Then she spun around swiping a foot out to knock the other agent's feet out from underneath him and hit him in the temple with the hilt of her blade.
"I'm seriously worried if these guys are supposed to be trained professionals," she said into the shocked silence slipping her blade into the hidden sheath on her back.
Epps whistled, "Damn girl! Where did you even hide those?!"
She smirked at him cracking her knuckles. "Hmm, wouldn't you like to know."
"How many are you even carrying?" asked Mikaela shocked.
"Hunting knife, four throwing knives, two glocks and two tanto blades," she listed off ignoring their shocked looks.
"Damn!" swore Epps wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "Hey Lennox can we keep her?"
So what did you all think of Faelan, I said she was badass and crazy to boot!
Hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter, please let me know what you think!
Oh, and if there are any silly situations you want to see happening tell me, I'll put them in the years between movie one and two that aren't mentioned, already got some fun ideas but let me know if you guys have any too!
Until next time.