Revenge of the Swapped:
Well I'm glad at how much everyone seemed to like the first chapter! I will admit that this isn't that exciting of a chapter but thanks for all the reviews! Enjoy, and thanks so much! - Rin
Chapter 2
"That'll be hundred-fifty dollars and fifteen cents." the cab driver said gruffy and I sighed.
I had been able to call a cab with my cell phone and he had agreed to drive Cari and I the last hour to our college. Reluctantly I paid for the ride with my debit card but as I slid the card through the small machine it gave a whine a string of words popped up.
Card is unable to be read!
I frowned and slid the card again throught the machine but the message popped up again.
"I take cash too." the taxi driver muttered.
'Yeah sure I'll just take almost two hundred bucks outta my magic bank wallet!' I thought to myself.
I looked in my wallet and counted that I only had hundred dollars left, the rest I had used to but our food and gas before out dimention shift.
"Cari please tell me that you have fifty bucks on you." I said to my friend.
She dug in her pocket for a minute and grabbed her wallet. From within she pulled out all but two of her dollars and slowly handed it over.
"Here." I grumbled and handed over the obscene amount of money and whipped around.
"Sam are we really..."
"I have no idea Cari...and I really hope we aren't cause if we are I swear I'm gunna die!"
The cab rumbled out of the parking lot leaving Cari and I choking in a cloud of nasty exhaust. After my lungs had cleared I looked up at the tall brick buildings of the university and sighed. I had been so excited to get to college and now everything had been shattered by those damn robots...AGAIN! All I needed now was to actually replace Sam again and...
"SAM!"
The happy shriek sounded behind me and I felt my heart drop. I turned with a grimice to see Judy and Ron Witwicky come trotting across the grass with giant grins spread across their faces. My other dimention 'mother' and 'father', and I could already feel the heat rising to my cheeks in embarressment.
'Why me? Do you really hate me God?'
"Yep I'm gunna die..." I muttered to Cari as my 'mother' ran forward and embraced me.
I felt all my small, minscule hopes that it was all a dream vanish as I had the feeling of deja vu. Beside me I could hear Cari trying to hide her laughter but failing miserably.
"We hoped that we could catch you Sam, you left some of your stuff at home and we wanted to see you off." Judy said and then looked over at Cari.
"Oh hello...are you a new friend?"
Cari almost gave into her suppressed giggled but was able to give a nod and shake the woman's hand.
"Yeah...I'm (pfftthh)...I'm Cari."
Judy nodded but turned back to me, "So why don't you head on up and we'll look around."
I nodded numbly as my 'dad' gave me the box full of my supposed stuff and I turned around trying not to break down into insanity. I quickly walked out of sight and asked a nearby woman with a clip board where my dorm was located. She pointed me up to the second floor of a brick building with several kids talking near the enterance. I took a deep breath and walked past them and up to the stairs that led upward.
"The woman said one-ten.." I muttered to myself and looked at the numbers on the wooden doors.
But I was soon distracted by the sight of girls and boys going in and out of the different dorm rooms and froze momentarily.
'No this can't be right! I wasn't signed into a co-ed dorm, what is this crap?' I thought to myself and nearly jumped out of my skin as someone put a hand on my shoulder.
"Whoa calm down there Sammy it's just me." Cari smiled at my face but I just grimiced.
"Are you even registered here?" I asked my friend.
She nodded yeah, "Yep, it's weird though my name is the same. Isn't yours different?"
"Yeah...the last name."
I didn't want to get too into the subject and decidede to just continue on my way to my dorm.
"Hey you don't suppose that your roomate is Leo?"
"Who?" I raised an eyebrow at my friend.
"Leo Spitz, he's the movie Sam's roomy." she grinned.
"I really hope not. If so I'm immediatly changing rooms, or just sleeping in the hallway."
We finally came up to room one-ten and I took a breath before opening the door. I was immediatly met with the sight of the back of some guy pinning up posters of bikini clad women sitting on motorcycles and of bands that I've never heard of before.
"What...the...Hell..." I breathed as Leo turned with a clever smirk plastered on his face.
"Sup, I'm guessing that you're Sam?"
I nodded but frowned refusing the outstretched hand that he offered. But he didn't look offended an just kept up his smirk.
"I'm Leo, Leo Spitz. I started setting up here but what side do you want?"
"Um I really don't care but I think I might have the wrong room so goobye..." I said and turned to leave but was stopped by Cari who was gazing around like a kid in a candy store.
"Come on we're leaving." I said but my friend wouldn't budge.
"Dude...it's real! We're in the freaking movie!" she hissed to me.
"Movie?" Leo took a step forward as I tried to push Cari out into the hallway.
"She's a nerd she relates everything to a movie." I muttered back.
"So have you ever heard of my website?" he turned to Cari who nodded.
"Oh yeah! You sell kitten calenders along with your website that deals with aliens and goverment cover ups. I have to admit though your character could use some more work though I guess that was cause the writer's strike and that Bay tried to get more humor into the film. Which in my opinion backfired cause all of it was dirty and stupid but..."
"Aaaaallll righty then I guess we'll be leaving." I interrupted Cari's shpeel before she made herself and myself look like complete nuts.
Leo seemed taken aback by what Cari knew but before I could do anything he put his arms around both our shoulders and guided us back to the back of the dorm room. Unfortuently before I could punch him he backed off and introduced us to his two companions who had turned the back room of the dorm into nerd paradise. Computers sprouting wires and hosting screens full of alien websites that continously played burry videos of dots in the sky that looked more like weather balloons then UFOs.
"Are either of you techys? Cause this is heart of my empire, The Real Effin' Deal dot com! That's me I'm sure you've heard of it."
I shook my head and once more tried to back out of the room.
"Hey Leo a new vid just popped up on Shang Hai."
Leo immediatly turned his attention from us to one of his cronies that was watching a poorly shot video of alot of Chinese people running around with some explosions. But then my eye caught something, a giant robots rolling down the street and my jaw opened slightly.
Behind me I could almost hear Cari's brain whirring as she watched the tape and was replaying the Reveng of the Fallen movie in her head. She gave a squeel of excitment as the movie ended.
"Post it baby, go go go! FTJ FTJ!" Leo ordered and his two nerds started tapping away at their key boards.
I watched as he became frustrated cause the video was stolen from his site but was more preoccupied at trying to sneak out of the room unseen...it wasn't working.
After a while Leo came back over, that stupid smirk backon his face.
"Look...by the way I read your file. You're poor, I'm poor but we're gunna fix that. "You work for me now."
I couldn't help it...I laughed.
"Oh okay yeah I soooo am thrilled that I can work for some geeky perv that I just met and sells kitten calenders for a living. Sorry but I'm switching rooms." I wiped the moisture gathering at my eyes and turned to leave.
"Hey! Heyheyhey...chica why not?" Leo trotted over and tried to put his arm around my shoudler again but before he even touched me I turned and put my fist up to his face.
"Touch me again and I'll deck you. Sorry but your offer is denied." I grumbled and then walked out the door.
5:36pm-Diego Garcia: N.E.S.T Operations
"Excuse me!" the annoying, clear cut voice of Director Galloway interrupted as he climbed up to the platform that held the debriefing of the Autobot leader and the General.
Major Will Lennox rolled his eyes at the camera as the man made his way towards the center of platform to face Optimus Prime.
"Forgive the interruption General but after all the damage in Shang Hai the president is hard pressed to say the job is getting done. Now..." he addressed the giant robt in front of him, " under the classifyed alien Autobot Cooperation Act, you agreed to share your intel with us but not your advancements in weaponry."
Optimus looked over the man with his bright optics, "We've seen your human capascity for war. It would absolutly bring more harm than good." he replied.
"But who are you to judge what's best for us?" Galloway demanded back.
"With all due respect we've been fighting side by side in the field for two years." Major Lennox cut the Director off.
"We've shed blood, sweat, and precious metal together." Robert Epps replied back from beside Prime's pede.
Galloway frowned, "Soldier, you're paid to shoot not talk."
"Don't tempt me..." the man muttered back so that the liaison couldn't hear him.
Lennox tried not to smirk as Optimus told Epps to calm down, amused that even a thirty foot, alien, robot knew when Rob was pissed.
Galloway started talking again, ranting about how the Autobots hadn't gotten permission to invite the surviving bots in space to Earth without White House consent. And with every word the soldiers around him tried not to give into punching his lights out.
The General finally interrupted Galloway, "In my experience the judgement of both Major Lennox and his team had always been above reproach."
Galloway's frown deepened, "Well be that as it may General, it is the position of the President that when our national security is at stake...no one is above reproach."
"Now what do we know so far?" he continued and looked back up at Optimus, "We know that the enemy leader N.B.E 1, A.K.A Megatron, is resting in piece at the bottem of the LaurentianAbyss. Surrounded by sosis detenction nets and a full time submarine survalence. We also know that the only remaining piece of your alien All Spark is locked in an electro-magnetic vault here on one of the most secure naval bases in the world. And since no one can seem to tell me what the enemy is now after there's only one clear conclusion...you! The Autobots, they're here to hunt you!"
Lennox looked on angrily as Galloway continued to blast away at Prime. His voice getting more and more dangerous.
"So let me ask if we ultimatly conclude that our national security is best served by denying you further assylum on our planet. Will you leave...peacefully?"
There was a moment of silence as Optimus looked over Galloway, then in a calm tone adressed him.
"Freedom is your right. If you make that request we will honor it. But..."
Galloway hesitated on that word.
"Before your President decides please ask him this, what if we leave...and you're wrong?"
Lennox watched as Galloway was knocked speechless at the question and he took the chance to lean forward...
"That's a good question."
Director Galloway stood for another moment but then turned and walked off the platform, many of the soldier's glares following him off. The General and his associats signed off the moniter and everyone took a breath as the car that had brought Galloway left. That's when a blip came up on one of the base's main computers.
"Major Lennox our satilites are picking up some strange feed and a strange energy signiture." the man manning the computer reported and started printing out some scamatics.
"Con activity?" Will asked and peered at the screen.
"Yeah but the energy isn't from them it's some sort of...energy disturbance. In Pennsylvania, at some rest stop on the Penn turnpike." the man at the computer tapped some more keys and zoomed in on a map.
A large building came into view and replayed footage from earlier that day. Several cars screeched out of the parking lot and something shot out of the large front windows of the rest stop. A pair of people came running out of the building and almost got taken out by a violently swerving car.
"Can you tell me what kind of activity?"
Lennox watched as the video continued and the pair of people ran out to the parking lot but didn't get into any car.
"It seems that all the machines inside the building transformed and began attacking the staff and customers. Most reports say that the machines were small and came from the patron's own eletrical devices."
This surprised Will and the satilite footage stopped.
"Can you access the security camras around the building?" he asked and with a few more clicks of a mouse and taps of the buttons the screen shifted and was split into four sections. Two of the sections showed the inside of the rest stop. One by the bathrooms and the other over looking the food court. The bottem two observed the parking lot from different angles. Lennox watched the time feed from five minutes before the attack. He watched two girls go into the restrooms, some work men ordering something from McDonalds, and about a dozen other people walk around.
Finally he watched as only about a minute later the two girls came back out of the bathroom and paused at the door.
"Pause the video here." he ordered and the man at the computer paused the feed.
Lennox looked at the black and white image of the two girls and a memory was sparked as he looked at the first girl. She had long dark hair and was carrying a backpack. Nothing was odd about her appearence but she seemed oddly familar.
"Epps, come here for a second." he called out.
After a minute his friend joined him, "What's up?"
"Look here at that girl, does she seem...familar?"
The soldier inspected the picture and slowly his hard gaze sofened and his eyes went wide.
"You don't think? That was over a year ago!" Epps said.
"Soldier I can take it from here." Lennox said to the man at the computer.
He nodded and then got up, allowing Lennox to take the chair.
"Prime I think you may find this important." he called out.
There were three booming footsteps that told Will that the Autobot had come over. He enlarged the image and then leaned to the side to allow Optimus to seem the small screen.
Optimus looked over the screen and was at first unsure of what he was supposed to be looking at. But then his optics fell onto the face of the human female that took up the computer screen.
"Do you think that it's her?" Major Lennox asked.
Optimus looked away from the screen, "Yes I believe that it is indeed her."
"What do you think that it means?" Rob asked looking between his fellow soldier and the robot.
"I believe that it means that something is going to occur. What I do not know but I do think that it will happen...and happen soon."
Hey I know that this chapter isn't all that exciting but I wanted to get a time frame in mind and to kinda get the ball rolling. Hopefully it isn't too bad...writing Leo and Galloway was interesting but I will admit it probably could've gone better. I would appreciate any feedback at all and would like to thanks the reviewers so far! - Rin