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Clint and Natasha watched Jack as he worked at the KO Burger, Natasha listening and hearing everything he did. Shortly before five a motorcycle, the one Jack usually rides, pulled up to the joint with a different rider, "Why would someone else be riding his bike?"
"I don't know. The rider looks feminine, maybe it's his girl-friend or something." Clint said brushing it off.
Natasha zoomed the camera in on the rider as she took the helmet on, "Clint, it's her!" Natasha very nearly shouted.
Clint shot up right, wide eyed, "What? Who?" He looked at the screen, "Oh, her. You know, for a town so stinking small she sure can hide well. It's been what? Two weeks since we last saw her?"
"Shut up and listen." Natasha looked back at the screen.
The boy, Jack, exited the KO and walked over to Jemina, "What gives with the extra rider Arcee?"
"She and I went scouting for Energon then decided to pick you up. Unless of course you want to walk to base." Jemina said handing him his helmet.
"No I do not want to walk to base, I would die of sunstroke before I reached it. But why were you scouting for Energon with Arcee?"
"Ok I'm lost. He's talking like there's three people there and I only see two." Clint said frustrated. Natasha sent him a glare that clearly said 'shut up.'
Jemina rolled her eyes, "Well I guess it's a good thing that the sun is going down, and Optimus wanted me going because I can detect the Energon a bit better than the scanners can. And with the Energon reserves so low he wanted to make sure we didn't miss anything."
Jack put on the helmet and shook his head, both he and Jemina mounted the bike and they drove off. They came to a stop at the light and two black and purple cars were coming from the opposite direction. They instantly turned around and began speeding in the other direction, the two cars driving right through the light and pursuing the motorcycle. "What in the name of…" Clint whispered.
Natasha just watched with him shaking her head in confusement, they're just children. What could they have done to make the other drivers so mad? She didn't have time to think farther as the two cars suddenly pulled out two nasty looking guns from the sides and opened fire on the two on the motorcycle. The motorcycle swerved to avoid the shots but hit a curb sending the two riders off of it. Then it did one of the strangest things they had seen. It somehow picked itself up and drove off, leaving the two riders on the ground running down a side street. The two cars ignored the two riders and kept pursuing the motorcycle.
Natasha engaged the engine and began pursuing the cars, "Uh…Natasha? What are you doing?!" Clint all but yelled.
"Going after that motorcycle and the cars. Whatever happened I bet it is the main reason where here in the first place. And the sooner we get the answers the sooner I can get back to not babysitting children." Natasha hissed.
Jemina saw a car closing quickly and saw Natasha and Clint in the front seat, by the way they looked they had seen the incident with the Vehicons, scrap. They drove past her and Jack when they suddenly swerved and hit a wall, "Jemina! What did you do?!" Jack asked stopping to look back at the car's passengers.
"I didn't do anything! I just looked at them." Jemina said, also stopping.
"Yeah well, your eyes brightened a bit, and they only do that when you use you powers. What did you do?!" Jack asked again.
"Jack, I swear I don't know! Whatever happened it was an accident!" She saw Clint and Natasha climb out of the car. They were fine, they hadn't hit the wall very hard. "At least they're fine. Come on, we need to go."
"We need to check on them is what we need to do!" Jack argued taking a step in their direction.
Jemina grabbed his arm, "Jack, they're fine. They've survived worse than this but we need to go before either the Decepticons come looking for us or they come after us."
"What is wrong with them? Ever since the park you've been paranoid about them!"
"Look, only certain parts of the government actually know about the 'bots! The section they work for don't know about them nor should they know about them! Jack, please, listen to me! If they found out about the 'bots then…look it won't be good. Now please, they're fine, we have to go!" She began dragging him down the street and he reluctantly followed. They ran down the street looking for some place to have Ratchet open up a ground bridge without drawing attention. Unfortunately Murphy's Law decided to happen and no such alley way came. "We're never gonna be able to bridge back together, not with Clint and Natasha on our tails." Jemina said to Jack.
He looked over his shoulder at Jemina, "And what do you propose we do? Hm?"
"There's a shallow alley way there, go into it and call for a bridge."
Jack just looked at her as he ran, "Isn't that what we've been trying to do this whole time?! How is that any different?"
"Because this alley way t's off. You go there and call a ground bridge." She pushed him into the dead end then called over her shoulder, "I'll distract them long enough for you to get to base. I'll see you soon."
Jack was about to protest when the voices of Clint and Natasha could be heard. By that point it was too late for Jack to do anything except hide behind the dumpster. Clint stopped for a moment causing Natasha to stop also, "What are you stopping for? The girl just ran around that corner."
"Yeah, but what if they split up?" Clint asked looking into the ally way Jack was hiding in.
"Their teenagers Clint. They're not smart enough to do that." Natasha dead panned, well gee thanks lady. I feel your hatred of all teenage kind.
"Yeah, but what if their like super geniuses or something? They were riding a motorcycle that got up and drove away on its own."
Natasha huffed, "Look, you can question them all you want once we catch them. But right now we had a positive direction on where at least one of them went. Now stop talking and start running!" Oh Jemina, please be safe. Jack thought just before calling for a ground bridge.
Jemina had a pretty good heads start and she was keeping it that way too. She turned numerous corners and shouted to no one in particular in front of her to keep up the charade that Jack and her were still together. It worked great until she turned out of a side street and onto a straight away with no available buildings to turn around, but this didn't faze her and she kept running. Clint pulled out a small crossbow, just a little bigger than his palm, he always carried with him and loaded an arrow onto it, "Don't kill her you idiot!" Natasha shouted.
"I'm not! It's just a stun arrow!" With that he fired, though, to receive unexpected results. The arrow flew through the air and found its mark, but had zero impact other than causing her to stumble and fall. She ripped the arrow off of her sleeve and began running with renewed energy, while Clint's arrow would have stunned a normal person all it had done for Jemina was given her more energy to continue the fight. "What happened?!" Clint was beyond shocked, that arrow had never failed him, never!
"I don't know but don't use that one again on her…let me try." Natasha fired the electrical charges from her wrist bands. Jemina was able to dodge most but a few still had hit, and they had the same effect as Clint's stun arrow…none. "Ok, that didn't work either, but at least it slowed her down a little bit and allowed us to gain more ground."
"Yeah, because you know I can run like this forever!" Clint yelled as Natasha sighed. Clint loosed another arrow at Jemina's feet causing her to trip and fall, again, giving the two spies enough time to reach her. Clint grabbed one of her arms and held it firmly, "Alright kid, stand down." He said, trying to regain some of his breath.
"Please come quietly, all we want is two ask you some questions." Natasha said incredibly exasperated.
"Oh, like what?" Jemina snorted, trying to wrench her arm free.
"Like, were did that other kid go too?" Clint asked.
Jemina glared at him, "Well he's not here. Lucky."
"Look, were going to have to take you to our commander to be questioned. There's a lot of blanks that need to be filled."
"So what? I'm your personal cheat sheet now? I don't think so! You can just tell Furry that he doesn't need to have his nose in absolutely everything!" Jemina growled.
"You know about Furry?" Natasha asked dangerously.
"Oh yes Natasha Romanoff, I know Furry and many other things, but I'm not about to tell you or anyone else from SHIELD any of it!" Jemina shouted into the spy's face, she really didn't like Natasha.
Natasha crossed her arms, "Look kid, you don't have a choice in the matter…what are you looking at?" Jemina's stone hard glare had transformed into one of pure dread, and she was looking behind Natasha and Clint.
"U-uh look lady, y-you really need t-to let me go now because…oh scrap." Jemina's eyes went wide as she desperately began yanking her arm away from Clint, who, for his part, had a vise like grip. Natasha was about to ask why when she heard several vehicle motors coming towards her. Before either of the spies could act they were surrounded by half-a-dozen cars. One was a slick sports car, one was an all-terrain Humvee, and four others where like the cars she and Clint had seen pursuing the motorcycle.
"Uhhh…" Clint said nervously, "They don't look friendly."
Jemina rolled her eyes, "Nah, they just want to invite you over for a tea party."
"Really?" Clint asked, hoping for once in his life that was true.
"No you idiot, they want to kill me! I swear if I ever survive this I will take down SHIELD myself for interfering with people's lives' and causing this kind of thing to happen!" Jemina shouted at the two spies.
"And I didn't bring my bow." Clint deadpanned sadly.
"It wouldn't do much good." Jemina whispered.
Suddenly a voice came out of nowhere, to Clint and Natasha at least, "Ok human, are you going to come quietly or are we going to have to do this the hard way?"
Jemina huffed, "Look Knockout, if you're going to be so dead set in trying to kill me can you at least call me Jemina instead of human? Is that too much to ask."
Knockout laughed, and it was rather unsettling, "But it isn't just me who wants you now. You have also caught Megatron's attention."
"Oh goody two Decepticons, Mech, and now SHIELD…I could have sworn I said speak now or forever hold you peace if you want to try and kill me. You know there are only so many positions available and we are currently over crowded. Can I fire, say, four of you? That would be great." Jemina said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Natasha just shook her head, she never did understand how people like her worked in the sarcasm department while facing certain death.
"Hmmm…'fraid not, now get in before I crush your two friends here into pulp."
"Hm…uhu. You can try and crush them into pulp, truth is is that I barely know so…yeah. Also I'm just going to go so see ya." Jemina turned to leave.
"Are you crazy?!" Clint asked in a yelled whisper.
"So I've been told." She walked out of the circle of cars and looked back to see Clint and Natasha still standing there, "You can go now if you want, but I'd suggest sooner rather than later because it will only hold for so long."
Knockout roared out in rage then tried to transform, only to hit something tight above his roof which prevented him from doing so. All of the other Decepticons tried to only to receive the same results, "You better run human because when I catch you…"
"I've heard it all before Knockout, save it. Well I hope not to see you guys again any time soon, so please go back to Fury and tell him to stop snooping around and trying to figure out the missing blanks because it really get old after a while and we do have lives to live without worrying about people follow us all the time ok?" With that Jemina took off down the street and rounded a corner.
Shortly after Jemina left, Clint and Natasha heard a crackling. Bringing their minds back to the present they took off running towards the ally way Jemina had turned, only to find that it lead to a dead end and nobody there, "I don't get." Clint said looking out towards the street only to find it empty again, "This just makes more questions than answers." Natasha just nodded, whoever this girl was knew way more than they had ever given credit for, and it was incredibly unnerving. Natasha heard the sounds of a vehicle engine again and watched as the cars took off towards the desert.
"Yeah, like who is Knockout, and what is the Decepticons, Mech and Energon?" Natasha said remembering a few of the words Jemina had used, "Fury isn't going to like this."
"Like what?" Clint asked, "The fact that we've come up with more questions than answers or that a normal, nongovernment working citizen knows who he is?"
Natasha nodded her head, "Either, and I wouldn't call her normal. Do you know what was keeping those cars in place?"
"No, but I wish I did." Clint concluded.
