Chapter II

Greetings and salutations to all! I sincerely hope that everyone, or at least most of you, enjoyed the first chapter. Also I dearly apologize for the exorbitant wait for this chapter. Hopefully it is enjoyable to you all. Or most of you. Even just some of you would be nice. Leave a review if you do like it. Or if you do not. Or if you are perplexed by anything. That aside, I would like to thank my coauthor Bakuto Masaki for his help with this story, it would not exist without him. Well, nothing else to say here, so might as well move on to the main event seeing as the first chapter lacks reviews.

Kazuma made his way into the garage where he saw Bumblebee quietly waiting for him. "You needed something?" Kazuma asked.

"Yeah," Bumblebee began, "I received a message from Optimus a few Millicycles ago."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow curiously. "I thought your messenger thing was broken."

"Communicator. I can't send messages, I can still receive them."

"Oh. Well, what did Optimum say?"

Bumblebee sighed but continued regardless. "He said he'll arrive here in about three Solar Cycles."

Kazuma folded his arms in thought. "I'm going to assume that Solar Cycle is the equivalent to a day?"

"Uhm…yes. It is."

"What was the pause for?"

"I had to connect to your human communication network and do some comparisons but yeah, our Solar Cycle is roughly equivalent to your Earth Day."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow. "Wait, you can connect to the internet?"

"Erm…yes. Is that unexpected?"

Kazuma grinned. "I think I'd like to test that out a little bit."

Kazuma was suddenly hit on the back of the head by a paper fan. He turned and saw Chifuyu standing behind him with an annoyed expression. "I already know what you were planning on doing. I don't allow you to look at that stuff at home and I won't allow you to use your alien car to do it either."

Kazuma frowned in disappointment.

"Uhm…what exactly are you two talking about?" Bumblebee asked curiously.

"None of your business," Chifuyu snarled.

"Y-yes ma'am."

Chifuyu sighed as she scratched her head. She then turned to Kazuma. "I've got some work to take care of today, so I'd like you to drive Isa to kendo practice."

Kazuma blinked curiously. "But I thought you didn't want me driving Bumblebee."

"I don't, but I don't want you driving my car and I'm going to be busy. Just know that you'll suffer if I hear about anything bad."

Kazuma nodded emphatically. "Right!"

As Chifuyu left the room, Kazuma was about to leave as well when Bumblebee said, "Hey, Kazuma, hold on a Nanocycle."

Kazuma looked at him curiously. "What?"

"I need to show you something before we get going."

Kazuma walked over to the driver's seat and asked, "What is it?"

The screen on the console lit up as a red symbol with rounded, blocky features popped up. "This symbol, it's the symbol for my faction, the Autobots." A different symbol, a purple symbol with sharp, pointed features, appeared. "This is the symbol for the Decepticons. In case we get separated, if you see this symbol anywhere, run."

Kazuma nodded apprehensively with a gulp. "G-got it. Are these Decepticons that powerful?"

"Yeah, they are. They managed to push our planet to the brink of termination."

"That sounds really nasty…"

"It is. So…mind if I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"What's kendo?"

Kazuma just sighed.

As Kazuma, Isa, and Bumblebee, though Isa was largely unaware of their third party member, arrived at the small dojo where Isa would practice and pulled into a parking spot, Kazuma looked around curiously.

"Is something wrong big brother?" Isa asked.

"Uh…huh…?" Kazuma mumbled as he turned to her. He put on a strained smile and gave a thumbs up. "Nope, just fine!"

Isa nodded happily as she and Kazuma jumped out of the vehicle.

Isa ran on ahead and Kazuma walked up behind her. Bumblebee lightly got his attention as he walked away.

"What is it?" Kazuma asked quietly.

"You don't need to worry so much. If there are any Decepticons within a thousand…oh, what's the human equivalent…? Meters I think it is. Yes, if there's a Decepticon within a thousand meters I'll know. So you don't need to be quite the vigilant."

Kazuma nodded in understanding.

"Big brother, what are you doing?!" Isa shouted from afar.

Kazuma turned back to her and shouted, "Coming!" as he walked over to her.

As Kazuma walked inside the dojo, a figure watched mischievously.

Kazuma watched passively as Isa practiced with the other students for the duration of the class, eventually leaving with her as the class ended.

As the two walked out of the building, Kazuma asked with a smile, "Did you enjoy that?"

Isa nodded with a big smile. "Yep!"

Kazuma suddenly stiffened as a pair of hands covered his eyes and a wonderful sensation pressed against his back, causing his cheeks to redden.

"Guess who…" a voice teased into his ear.

Kazuma shivered in response. "E-Excellen…?" he asked timidly.

"Yep," the blonde responded plainly, keeping her position.

"Th-they're touching me…" he muttered weakly.

"Oh?" Excellen remarked and then pressed herself tighter against. "Want a better look?"

Kazuma twitched lightly. "N-no, I'm good."

Excellen smirked with a shrug as she walked around in front of him. "Don't say I didn't offer."

Kazuma sighed heavily. "So what are you doing here Excellen?"

"Oh, just passing through."

Isa scrunched her brow in thought. "Don't you live on the other side of the-?"

Excellen lightly knocked her on the head. "Like I said, just passing through."

Kazuma sweat-dropped in response. "R-right…"

"So, do you have any plans?"

"Well, no. But I was pla-"

Excellen interrupted him and grabbed his hand and pulled him and Isa away. "Great! Let's go!"

"W-wait, hold on!" Kazuma protested ineffectively.

Excellen twitched an eyebrow lightly as she looked at Kazuma.

Kazuma scratched his cheek as he chuckled weakly.

Isa sat next to the two, blithely looking around the area.

Excellen sighed and looked at Isa.

"Is something wrong Excellen?" Kazuma asked.

Excellen sighed and then smiled. "Nah, it's nothing. But…why is Isa here?"

Isa looked Excellen annoyed.

Kazuma answered, "Today's her kendo practice, remember? When you showed up out of the blue I was about to take her home."

"O-oh…" Excellen responded weakly, a bead of embarrassed sweat running down her cheek. "Well, that aside, ready to have some lunch?"

"Yes ma'am!" Isa answered ecstatically despite Excellen's question being aimed at Kazuma.

Excellen smiled weakly and nodded. "Right…"

The three ordered food and ate peacefully at the small outdoor table they were seated at next to the main restaurant.

Kazuma, however, was unable to truly relax since Bumblebee was not nearby. Eventually, his worries proved apt as he noticed a sleek, burgundy car with a yellow stripe down one side. What caught his attention however, was the small emblem on the front of the car's grill: the Decepticon insignia.

Kazuma gulped as he noticed the car sitting silently across the street. He looked and noticed that while he had finished his meal, both Isa and Excellen still had a portion of theirs left. He lightly bit his lip in consternation. 'Dammit…what the hell am I supposed to do now?'

Excellen stopped eating momentarily and noticed Kazuma's paled complexion and the sweat falling down his forehead. "Kazuma, are you feeling alright?"

Kazuma shook his head. "Not really, I feel kinda lightheaded."

Excellen raised an eyebrow as she noticed him periodically glancing to the side. She narrowed her eyes and then turned to Isa. "Hey, Isa, how about we get some ice cream?"

"Aww," Isa moaned. "But I'm still eating my pork rolls."

Excellen smiled in slight annoyance and insisted, "I'll get you more later."

Isa frowned and nodded. "Alright."

Excellen then turned to Kazuma. "If you're feeling so badly we should get you to the hospital."

Kazuma nodded as he reached into his pocket and laid cash on the table to pay for the meal.

To his horror, as the three left the restaurant, the car left its spot next to the road and began driving nearly the same direction they were walking.

As they walked slowly Kazuma said to Excellen quietly, "We have to run."

Excellen looked at him curious and annoyed. "What's gotten into you all of a sudden?"

Kazuma narrowed his eyes. "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me. Look, we just need to run."

Excellen sighed and then nodded.

Kazuma turned to Isa and said with a smile, "How 'bout a race to the ice cream shop?"

Isa nodded with a big smile as the three suddenly started running.

At almost the same time, the car, which had been moving at a comfortably slow pace, suddenly sped up to match.

The trio ducked around a corner and made for a parking garage nearby, hoping to lose the pursuant car inside.

Unfortunately that failed as another car, a sleek, black car with a maroon hood, cut them off, the burgundy car cutting them off from behind.

Kazuma grit his teeth as the two cars blocked their escape.

"Big Brother…what's happening…?" Isa asked, fearfully clutching his shirt.

Excellen frowned as well. "Kazuma what is this?"

Kazuma glared as the black car rolled forward slightly.

"Hand it over, fleshling," the black car demanded.

"They can talk?!" Excellen shouted in surprise.

Suddenly the black car transformed into a humanoid form as did the maroon car.

Kazuma narrowed his eyes and retorted, "Let me guess, you're Decepticons, right?"

The black robot smirked in amusement. "You're right, maggot. I'm Wildrider."

The maroon robot added, "I'll let you know that I'm Dead End, before I terminate you."

Wildrider cracked his knuckles before his right arm transformed into a shotgun.

Kazuma looked to both robots and clenched his fist around his pendant. He glanced to the side before retorting, "I'm not giving this to you guys. I don't know what it is you plan on doing with it but it's not happening."

"Tch, stupid human!" Dead End shouted as he rushed forward, only for Bumblebee, in vehicle mode, to rush up from behind and spin to a stop, knocking Dead End to the ground.

Wildrider raised his arm and shouted, "Stupid Autobot!"

Bumblebee charged forward as Kazuma, Isa, and Excellen dashed to the side, sending Wildrider crashing to the ground.

Bumblebee's doors opened up as Kazuma dragged the two girls with him.

"What's happening?!" Excellen shouted.

"I don't have time to explain, just get in!" Kazuma retorted as he, Isa, and Excellen got inside Bumblebee before the yellow car drove off.

Dead End and Wildrider growled before transforming back to vehicle mode and giving chase.

"Scrap," Bumblebee cursed, "I didn't realize they'd send two Decepticons."

Excellen's eyes widened. "Your car can talk too?!"

Kazuma put a hand over hers and looked at her sternly. "Don't worry, Bumblebee is on our side."

Excellen looked at him surprised and nodded lightly. "R-right."

"Bumblebee, who were those two?"

Bumblebee answered, "Dead End and Wildrider, they're part of the Decepticon's special team of Combiners, the Stunticons. On my own I could take either of them. But together things might get rusty."

"Ah…well let's just focus on getting away from the deathbots for now. And Isa, please don't tell your sister what happened. I like breathing."

Isa tilted her head curiously.

Excellen looked forward and widened her eyes. "Wh-what's that!?"

Dead End jumped down from a nearby rooftop and landed on the ground in front of Bumblebee.

"Bee!" Kazuma shouted frantically, "Reverse! Reverse!"

Wildrider drove up behind the group and shifted to robot form swiftly.

"Oh, come on! That's so not fair! Oy, Deathbots! Bug us another day! My little sister's with me!"

"Hang on!" Bumblebee order. "We're taking a road trip." He suddenly turned to the side swiftly and smashed through a wall into a large building.

Kazuma paled. "Sis is going to kill me if she finds out we're doing this with Isa in the car…"

"Let's worry about the Decepticons first and your sister later."

Wildrider and Dead End then turned to each other and nodded before shifting to vehicle mode and driving after Bumblebee.

"Gah!" Excellen shouted in frustration. "Can't you lose these maniacs!?"

"I'm trying," Bumblebee argued, "but they're faster than I am." After a moment he continued, "Hold on, there's a power plant nearby. I'll try to shake them in there."

"Don't talk, just do!"

Bumblebee turned swiftly again and smashed through another wall, leaving the building.

"I'm so dead when Sis hears of this…" Kazuma muttered.

Excellen turned and rebutted, "Let's focus on staying alive long enough for her to kill us."

Isa, unaware of the present danger, raised her arms excitedly. "Yippee, yippee! Fun!"

"At least one of us is having fun…" Bumblebee muttered.

Shortly later, as the sun had started descending, Bumblebee drove into a large power plant and drove into a small pathway, turning off his lights.

Kazuma sighed heavily. "Okay…that should do for now…" He then paled. "…I didn't just jinx us I hope…"

At that moment, Wildrider and Dead End slowly drove past the small pathway, searching for Bumblebee.

Excellen gulped. "Please go away…please go away…"

The two drove past the alleyway somewhat but then stopped.

Kazuma then noticed a large tower near the two. "Hey Bee, can you fire anything in car mode?"

Bumblebee answered, "I've got a Plasma Cannon and a Neutron Assault Rifle."

"Think you can knock that tower down on the 'Cons?"

Bumblebee remained silent in thought for a moment then answered, "My aim's not as good as Mirage's but I'll try." A Plasma Cannon then emerged from the hood of Bumblebee's vehicle mode. "Oh, and you two should cover your audio receptors."

"Our what?" Excellen asked.

"Your ears," Kazuma answered.

Excellen nodded and she, Kazuma, and Isa covered their ears as Bumblebee fired a blast of energy.

Wildrider and Dead End almost instantly reverted to their robot modes.

"There they are!" Wildrider exclaimed.

"Let's-!" Dead End began before the large tower fell and landed on them both.

"Haha!" Kazuma exclaimed. "Take that Decepticreeps!"

"Enough gloating!" Excellen interjected, "Let's get out of here!"

"Right! Let's get going, Bee!"

Bumblebee began to drive off but Wildrider and Dead End suddenly burst out from underneath the rubble of the tower.

"You've gotta be kidding me…I thought that'd at least slow them down a little!" Kazuma snarled.

"Slag," Bumblebee cursed before he prepared to drive off. "Hang o-!"

However, his escape was interrupted by Wildrider, who fired a shot from his Magma Frag Launcher, which sent Bumblebee flying into robot mode and sent Kazuma, Isa, and Excellen flying as well.

"Excellen! Isa!" Kazuma shouted as the three landed.

Wildrider then began to walk towards Kazuma but Bumblebee charged in from the side and tackled Wildrider.

Kazuma then rushed towards Excellen and Isa. "Excellen! Isa!"

Excellen was lying on her back holding Isa tightly. She turned to Kazuma and smirked weakly as Isa pulled her head from between Excellen's bust. "Don't worry, she's fine. My padding softened the blow."

"But you aren't!" Kazuma shouted.

Excellen sat up hissed slightly, her back bruised. "It's just a few scrapes, I'll be fine."

Bumblebee kicked Wildrider in the face, causing him to stumble into a wall.

Dead End then grabbed Bumblebee by the back of the head and slammed his face into the side of a building.

Bumblebee fell to the ground but swiftly turned and sucker punched Dead End.

"Dammit!" Kazuma cursed in frustration. "There's got to be a way to…help…"

Bumblebee wiped a small trickle of blue liquid from his chin and turned to Kazuma. "Just get out of here! I can hold back these marionettes for a bit."

Wildrider, standing behind Bumblebee, smirked as a short, double-edged sword appeared in his grasp.

"Bee! Duck!" Kazuma shouted.

Bumblebee turned swiftly and ducked just as Wildrider swung his sword before punching him in the abdomen, then grabbed Wildrider by the shoulders, and threw him towards Dead End, knocking both to the ground. He turned to Kazuma with a smirk. "Thanks!"

Kazuma pointed and exclaimed, "Don't look at me! Dumb and Dumber are getting back up! So help me get them caught up in industrial cables!"

Bumblebee nodded in agreement as he turned to Wildrider and Dead End. "I'll keep them busy, you do whatever it is you're gonna do."

As Bumblebee continued fighting the two Decepticons, Kazuma ran over to a nearby winch. "This should work." He furrowed his brow in thought and then shouted, "Bee!"

Bumblebee ducked under a punching from Dead End and turned to see Kazuma pointing nearby. Bumblebee nodded, rolled under a shot from Wildrider, and then ran away from the two.

"You're not getting away, Scout!" Dead End shouted before he and Wildrider gave chase.

Kazuma waited a moment and then pulled the winch hard.

"What the-!?" Dead End shouted as a large coil of cables dropped from above.

Bumblebee stopped, turned, and ran back at the two, leapt up, grabbed a bundle of the cable and looped it over Dead End before pulling on the cable and slamming him into Wildrider.

"S-slag it! I can't get through this scrap!" Wildrider snarled.

"I'd be surprised if you could!" Kazuma shouted.

"Huh?" Dead End grunted in confusion.

"This cabling is industrial strength. Meaning, in theory, it's strong enough to restrain a Mobile Suit." Kazuma then thought for a moment and turned to Bumblebee. "Hey, Bee, how well do 'Cons work with electricity?"

Bumblebee tilted his head in thought. "About the same as humans I think."

Kazuma then grinned darkly. "Oh goody. Meaning we won't waste much." He then dragged a length of cable towards a generator and tossed it at the generator before jumping to the side as electricity sparked in all directions.

Wildrider and Dead End trembled for several moments before going limp.

Kazuma grinned victoriously. "There. Shouldn't have tried to hurt Isa and Excellen, you stupid wind-up toys."

Bumblebee sighed. "I can't decide who's more frightening. You, or your sister."

At that moment, multiple vehicles approached the group.

Kazuma gulped. "Uh, is that our side or theirs?"

"Ours. They're Autobots."

"Good. I don't want to have to come up with another escape plan."

The vehicle that seemed to be in the center of the group, a large red and blue semi-truck, drove up to the others and stopped before parts of its form began to shift and move as it transformed into a large, nine meter humanoid, twice as tall as Bumblebee.

Kazuma folded his arms. "Reinforcements always arrive late."

"My apologies," the large red and blue Autobot responded, "we received Bumblebee's signal only thirty-seven microcycles ago."

Kazuma shrugged with a smirk. "It's alright. We managed to deal with them somehow. So, uh…who are you anyway…?"

"I am Optimus Prime, interim leader of the Autobots."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow. "Interim? Meaning you're in charge 'til you pick one or the old one's found?"

Optimus nodded. "Yes. Our true leader is Ultra Magnus but we have not been able to find him."

"I see…man, that name sounds like it'd make a great Mobile Suit. Or Knightmare."

"I see."

"So, uh, who are these other guys?"

Ironhide transformed into robot mode and stood next to Optimus.

"This is Ironhide," Optimus began, "My weapons specialist."

Ironhide then equipped a Magma Frag Launcher and smirked. "So, feelin' lucky?"

"Somewhat," Kazuma answered plainly.

Ironhide frowned in disappointment.

"I did help Bee take out Twiddle-Dee and Twiddle-Dumb over there."

Ironhide turned around and looked at the jumble of cables but saw nothing, as Wildrider and Dead End had vanished, and then turned back to Kazuma. "There's no one there."

"What?" Kazuma leaned over and looked at the empty pile of cables. "Ah, come on! Those two psychos escaped? I thought I fried their circuits!"

A white and red vehicle next to Optimus then shifted to robot form, standing at six meters tall and looking almost identical to Ironhide, and explained, "Electricity is not lethal to Cybertronians. While it can temporarily disrupt our systems or momentarily overload them, the voltage needed to terminate one of us is far greater than what this generator is capable of. What you did to them is equivalent to a human getting struck by what you refer to as a 'stun gun'."

"Tch. Just great. Next time I catch those two in a trap I'm upping the voltage and taking an optic!"

Optimus sighed and then motioned to the white and red Autobot. "This is my chief technical officer, Ratchet."

Kazuma sighed slightly to calm himself then looked back up at Optimus. "So that means he's a medic to you guys."

Optimus nodded.

A small white car with blue stripes then assumed a humanoid form, standing at just over four meters, and flopped onto an abandoned car.

"This is my personal second-in-command, Jazz Minor."

"Hey," Kazuma said plainly.

Jazz waved replied, "Yo, how's it hangin' turkey?"

"Not well when my sister finds out what's happened today."

Optimus raised a metallic eyebrow in thought. "Is yours that fearsome?"

"You have no idea what she is capable of…" His eyes then glazed over with a haunted look. "No idea…"

Optimus looked at him puzzled and then turned to Bumblebee. "Bumblebee, have you yet discerned what the Decepticons are after?"

Kazuma raised his pendant and answered, "That crazy wind-up toy said he wanted this. He didn't say why though."

Ratchet knelt down and extended one of his hands and asked, "May I see it?"

Kazuma frowned apprehensively. "Don't break it." He then placed it on Ratchet's hand.

Ratchet held up the pendant and looked at curiously for a moment. "There are inscriptions on it."

Kazuma nodded. "Yeah. I don't know what they are though."

"Hmm…these inscriptions are rather difficult to read on this rounded surface. Perhaps you have a flattened image of them?"

Kazuma raised an eyebrow. "No, but I have a copier at home. I can do it there."

"Then that is where we shall go," Optimus ordered.

In response, the Autobots all transformed to their respective vehicle forms.

"Hop in, let's go," Bumblebee suggested as he opened his doors.

Kazuma nodded. "Yeah. Come on Excellen, Isa. Time to face the reaper…"

Excellen nodded as she sat down, but flinched slightly as the seat touched her back, which was still scraped from before.

"Excellen?! You okay?!" Kazuma asked worriedly.

Excellen turned to him and nodded. "Y-yeah, my back's just a little sensitive after that tumble. I'll be okay."

"Let me see," Kazuma said sternly.

Excellen put up her hands with a weak smile. "No, no, it's okay, really."

"I do not mean to interrupt," Optimus interjected, "but we have little time. Every nanocycle we waste is another one closer the Decepticons get to the Allspark."

Kazuma frowned in frustration. "F-fine…"

Later, Optimus, Ratchet, Ironhide, Jazz, and Bumblebee, the latter of whom had Kazuma, Excellen, and Isa inside, drove up to Kazuma's house.

Kazuma looked around and sighed. "Okay. We may be in luck. I don't see Sis."

The front door suddenly flew open.

Kazuma flattened his brow. "Fuck me…"

Chifuyu walked towards the group, unphased, and sighed. "You must be joking. You brought more of these things?"

Kazuma sweat heavily. "Uhh…yeah. That's it and the only thing eventful that happened today was that! Nothing else! Right Excellen? Isa?"

Excellen nodded emphatically.

Isa grinned happily. "We had fun with other robots! Boom! Pow! Zap!"

Kazuma twitched an eyebrow. "…And I even got you ice cream to keep you quiet you little traitor…"

Isa tilted her head curiously. "You did?"

Chifuyu then cracked her knuckles angrily. "Ka-zu-ma…"

Optimus then interjected, "I am certain your concerns are valid, but we have more pressi-"

"Can it, tonka toy," Chifuyu snarled.

"Whoa…" Jazz muttered in shock.

"Kazuma. Excellen. Inside. Now."

"Yes ma'am!" both answered in fear.

"…What an unusual female," Optimus muttered as they walked inside.

"She terrifies me…" Bumblebee stated.

Inside, Kazuma gulped and asked, "H-how dead am I, Sis?"

To Kazuma's surprise, Chifuyu merely wrapped her arms around him and Isa with an exasperated sigh.

"H-huh…?"

"I'm just glad you're all okay…" she explained.

"Excellen isn't okay," Kazuma responded.

Excellen flinched. "I-I told you it's fine!"

"Liar," Kazuma argued.

"Show me," Chifuyu demanded.

"I'm fine, Chi-ch-"

"Show. Me," Chifuyu demanded sternly.

Excellen sighed and turned around, lifting the back of her blouse, showing a large number of scrapes and bruises.

"You're not fine!" Kazuma snarled.

"I told you, it's-!" Excellen began to argue before Chifuyu slapped her back lightly. "Gah!" Excellen hissed in pain.

Chifuyu sighed as she carefully lowered Excellen's shirt. "They aren't very deep but they could get infected. I need to clean them." She then turned to Kazuma. "Kazuma, you take care of whatever nonsense it is those tinker toys need."

Kazuma nodded. "Right." He then made his way over to the printer and rolled the pendant over the scanner.

Outside, Optimus noticed lights nearing the house. "Autobots, hide yourselves. There are humans coming."

Moments later, several black SUVs drove up with a large emblem on their doors.

Inside the house, Kazuma looked out the window in confusion. "Uuhh…Sis…?"

"I'm busy with Excellen!"

Kazuma continued, "I just want to ask if Men in Black IS just a movie."

Chifuyu stopped brushing Excellen's back in confusion. "What are you babbling about?"

"There's a bunch of black vans outside."

Chifuyu narrowed her eyes and rinsed off Excellen's back before handing the blonde a blouse, and then walked out into the lounge. "What on Earth are you-?"

Chifuyu's question was interrupted as a knock resounded at the door.

"I got it!" Isa said happily as she ran over to the door.

Isa blinked cutely as she saw a man with short, receding brown hair and dark blue eyes wearing a black three-piece suit. "My name is Agent Phil Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division."

Isa titled her head in confusion. "What is the what? Are you a door-to-door salesman? Big Sister doesn't like them."

Coulson smiled condescendingly and answered, "No. Now, tell me, are your parents home?"

Chifuyu walked up to Coulson and answered, annoyed, "Our parents abandoned us like trash. Now, what do you want? If it's nothing important then get off my property. Or I'll make you."

Coulson's condescending smirk widened as he rebutted, "That's not a very good idea." He then glanced behind Chifuyu and noticed Kazuma. "Ah, you must be Kazuma, am I right?"

Kazuma narrowed his eyes. "Yeah…and you are…?"

"Agent Phil Coulson of the-" he began to answer.

"I'll call you Douche," Kazuma interjected.

Coulson twitched an eyebrow, his expression unflinching. "That's rather…crass…"

"What do you want?" Chifuyu demanded, irritated.

An Agent then walked past Coulson, holding a scanner, and tried to get past Chifuyu.

Chifuyu narrowed her eyes and grabbed the man by the shoulders. "Where do you think you're going?"

Coulson sighed. "Please don't touch my Agents, that won't end well."

A second Agent then walked past the three, holding another scanner, before walking up to Kazuma and holding up the scanner.

Kazuma stepped back slightly, apprehensive. "What the hell is that?"

After a moment the Agent turned to Coulson. Sir, I believe there was direct contact."

Coulson nodded and raised a hand before snapping his fingers. "Then they're coming with us."

"What the hell does that mean?" Kazuma demanded.

The first Agent then started to put handcuffs on Chifuyu whilst the second did the same to Kazuma.

Kazuma and Chifuyu looked at each other before turning swiftly and shaking the Agents off, causing them to slam into each other.

"Don't touch me!" Excellen shouted as a third Agent tried to cuff her.

The Agent snarled as she kicked his shin and slammed her against the wall, back first, in an attempt to stop her.

Excellen's breath caught in her throat from pain as the man put cuffs on her.

Kazuma widened his eyes before rushing at the man. "Get the fuck off her!" He immediately kicked the man's legs out from under him and then punched him in the face, sending him at the wall.

Coulson sighed in frustration. "Why must they always do this?" He then grabbed a metal rod from his coat that extended. The Agents in the room immediately hit the floor before Coulson slammed the rod against the floor, causing a small disc to launch into the air that fired a blast of energy in all directions.

Kazuma, Chifuyu, Excellen, and Isa were hit by the blast, knocking them to the floor.

Coulson stood up and sighed. "Alright. Bag'em and tag'em. The kid and the blonde in my car."

"Sir!" the Agents answered in unison.

Kazuma snarled angrily, immobilized from the blast, as he watched the Agents roughly handcuff and pick up Excellen, Chifuyu and Isa. "You bastards won't get away with this…!"

Coulson then pulled out his badge and showed it to Kazuma. "On the contrary, there's nothing you can do about it."

Kazuma grit his teeth. "And what's that supposed to mean…?"

As Excellen and Kazuma were placed in one of the SUVs, Coulson answered, "In simple terms, it's a 'Do what I want and get away with it' badge."

Kazuma scowled angrily. "…Douche…" He then glanced over and noticed Excellen sitting still next to him.

"You needn't worry. She's still alive."

"No thanks to you, Douche!"

"This wouldn't have happened if you'd come along quietly."

Kazuma snarled. "Oh sure. Come along quietly with some unknown organization with handcuffs and Electro-Destabilizer Field nightsticks that doesn't want to tell us what's going on. That sounds like a brilliant idea!"

Coulson raised an eyebrow in thought. "Well you sure figured that out fast. You must be quite the technology buff."

"Oh I am. Been fascinated with tech thanks to Tabane. Hell, even got some weapon ideas."

Coulson narrowed his eyes. "Tabane hm…? Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while."

Kazuma sighed. "Figures you've heard of her."

"I think you and I have a lot to discuss." He then cleared his throat. "I think we might have gotten off on the wrong foot."

Kazuma twitched an eyebrow. "You shouldn't be all threatening to everyone you meet then. Because what you did pissed me off. And worse, it pissed off my Big Sis."

"Well, you know how it is. Regulations and such. Going in nice wasn't exactly in the handbook."

"Shouldn't have to be. One catches more flies with honey after all."

"That aside, you know some things that we need to know."

"Tch, not likely."

"Here's the thing though. We want that information. And we get what we want." He then glanced at Excellen before returning his gaze to Kazuma. "And we'll do whatever is necessary to obtain it."

Kazuma narrowed his eyes. "…What do you want you bastard…?"

Coulson nodded. "Through…various means, we are aware that you have come into contact with NBEs."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow. "NBEs? Ah, Non-Biological Entity."

"Very good," Coulson said patronizingly. "And we also know they're here looking for something, and we have reason to believe you know what it is. So, you tell us what that is and everyone can get on with their lives. If you don't…well I can't guarantee what comes next."

Kazuma snarled angrily. 'I hate this…but…' "They're…they're after something they call the Allspark…and they are trying to find it before another, violent, group gets it."

"Now, if you'll just tell us how to find it, you and your girlfriend can go back to your normal lives."

"That I don't know. But I do know one thing. They need something that's in my pocket."

"Then if you'd be so kind as to-"

Coulson was interrupted as something jumped in front of the caravan, causing the SUV to slam into it.

Kazuma leaned over and shielded Excellen from incoming glass.

The roof of the vehicle was then ripped off, allowing those inside to see Optimus standing above them.

"Get out of the car gentlemen," Optimus said, displeased.

Coulson gulped. "H-hey there, big guy…regulations state that I-"

"NOW!" Optimus urged.

"He's not big on regs," Kazuma explained.

"You've made a big mistake." As the group exited the vehicle, Optimus through the roof aside and turned to Kazuma. "Are you injured?"

"Not a bit 'cept my pride. How 'bout you, Excellen?"

Excellen grinned playfully as their handcuffs were removed and answered, "Just fine. A little sore though."

Kazuma nodded and then looked around. "Hang on…where's the car that has Chifuyu and Isa!?"

"They took a different route," Coulson explained.

Kazuma narrowed his eyes. "Where are my sisters you bastard!? Talk!" He then pulled out a glove with wires on its surface and small plates on the tips. "Or I make you talk!"

Coulson began to sweat. "Y-you can't do that…"

Optimus looked down and noticed Coulson reaching for a pistol. "Jazz. Confiscate their weapons."

"On it," Jazz answered as magnets activated on his hands, drawing all of the Agents' weapons away.

"Now talk," Kazuma demanded, "or I use you to test this prototype that I've been using to make popcorn in ten seconds!"

"W-well I…" Coulson answered weakly.

"We're right here," Chifuyu said as she and Isa, the latter of whom was happily eating a candy bar, walked up to the group.

"H-huh!?" Coulson exclaimed in shock.

Chifuyu turned to him and remarked, "You really need to stop hiring mall cops as agents."

"Are you and Isa okay?" Kazuma asked.

"Perfectly fine," she answered.

"And you, Isa?"

Isa nodded silently as she continued nibbling.

Kazuma nodded. "Well then let's get going. But first," he said before taking the rod Coulson used, "I'm taking this. But these," he grabbed Coulson's belt, "and these," he took the badge and ID card, "go to the river." He tossed the badge but hid the ID card in his sleeve. "See ya 'round, Douche."

"Let's go, Autobots," Optimus ordered.

As the group left, Coulson turned to one of the Agents. "Tell. Everyone."

The Agent held up a phone and said, "They already know."

Inside Bumblebee as the group escaped, Kazuma looked at the ID card. "Now," he said before pulling out a small device with a screen on the front and a slot on the side. "To see if this thing works…" He then slid the card into the device.

"What are you doing?" Excellen asked.

"Hacking and rewriting some data on this card to make it where it works for me. Tabane gave it to me in case I ever needed it." However, as he held it, the screen began to distort before the image of a bald man with dark skin and an eyepatch over one eye appeared. "Wh-what the…?"

"Didn't your mama ever tell you it's not nice to take things that don't belong to you?" the man asked.

"Gah! One-eyed pirate!"

The man twitched an eyebrow. "I ain't no pirate you little brat. Although your little caravan's about to be boarded. So I'll be seein' you soon."

"Then you arr a pirate."

Several helicopters then began to encircle the group.

"That's just not fair…uh, since I don't know your name and you look eternally pissed, I dub thee Mr. Fury of the group of assholes that seem hell bent on making my day worse!"

The man smirked before his visage vanished.

"Uuhh…what are those…?" Bumblebee asked as two Gespenst Mk-IIs hit the ground in front of the group, towering over the Autobots.

"What the hell!?" Kazuma exclaimed. "They have Gespenst Mk-IIs too?!"

Ironhide transformed into robot mode and charged at the two Gespensts. "Outta the way!"

One of the Gespensts lazily slapped him in the head, sending him tumbling away.

"That thing just bitch-slapped Ironhide!" Jazz exclaimed in surprise.

"Do not engage!" Kazuma shouted. "Separate and don't get caught! Those things are Gespenst Mk-II Mobile Suits!"

Optimus transformed as well and equipped his Ion Blaster. "Go! I'll hold them back!"

"What part of DO NOT ENGAGE do you not understand!? They have humans piloting them and since this group knows what you are they're probably customized!"

The first Gespenst fired a tether at Optimus that wrapped around the Autobot. It then lit up brightly and began sparking as massive amounts of electricity surged through it.

"Guagh!" Optimus howled in pain as he crumpled to the ground. "Th-this is…!"

"Optimus!" Kazuma shouted.

"Go!"

Bumblebee turned and began to drive off.

The second Gespenst pulled out a pistol and fired several electrified rounds at Bumblebee.

"Not good!" Excellen exclaimed.

"Are they trying to kill us?!" Kazuma shouted.

The first Gespenst severed the tether around Optimus and jumped up and flew before slamming onto the ground directly in front of Bumblebee and picked up the relatively smaller Autobot.

"I hope not…" Excellen muttered in concern.

The pilot then demanded, "Surrender or I will crush the vehicle.

Kazuma grit his teeth. "Bee…I think we have to do what he says…"

"I feel like that'd be a good idea…" Bumblebee concurred.

Optimus ripped off the cables, wrapped them around the second Gespenst's leg and yank, snapping it off before standing and turning to Kazuma and the others.

"Don't move, Transformer," the pilot of the first Gespenst demanded, holding Bumblebee, "Or I will crush your ally."

Optimus clenched his fingers.

"Good."

Coulson then walked up next to the machine and shouted up to Kazuma, "Guess you'll comply now, hm?"

"I hate that dick…" Kazuma snarled.

Elsewhere, Cecile walked through the streets of one of Britannia's larger cities frantically. "I have to get this to her fast…"

After a short walk she found a small apartment building and nodded to herself. "Found it."

Inside, she walked up to a specific door and knocked on it.

After a moment, a voice responded, with mild annoyance, "Who's there?"

"It's me!" Cecile answered.

After a short pause, the door opened to reveal a teenage girl with hip-length blonde hair and red eyes wearing a long black dress with white frills over her minimal bust, a long white vest-coat that reached her ankles, a short jacket that reached just below her chest with black trim, black fur on the inside edge, folded black cuffs, white high-heeled shoes, and a black ribbon tied in her hair with one bow on each side. "Ah. Cecily."

Cecile sighed slightly. "N-no…it's Cecile, Linda."

"Whatever. Come on in Celery."

"Cecile…"

"You coming in or not?" Linda asked in annoyance.

"R-right," Cecile answered shakily and entered before swiftly closing and locking the door. She turned around to see Linda's rather modest lounge with medium grey walls, a short table to the left of the doorway with a small plant on it, a short wall to the left with a space to see into the kitchen, a large doorway leading into the open kitchen, a short space of wall leading to the back wall with two windows that had drawn white curtains with smaller green curtains on the sides, a tall entertainment center with several video game consoles and a large television in between the windows, a door to the right on the middle of the rightmost wall with a wide dresser to the left of the door and a tall wardrobe to the right of the door, and a glass table in the center of the room, perpendicular to the entertainment center, with two green couches on either side of it.

Linda walked over and flopped onto one of the couches and pulled a candy stick from a box and slowly chewed on it before turning to Cecile. "So why'd you come all the way out here? I thought you had some big gig in Pendragon."

Cecile sat on the couch opposite Linda and explained, "Something came up. Something big."

Linda smirked mischievously. "Oh? Sounds interesting. What kind of big?"

"I could go to jail for the rest of my life just for telling you kind of big."

Linda's eyes lit up with mischievous stars. "I am so in Cece!"

"I-it's Cecile…"

"Whatever. If you've got something I can look at, we can get started immediately."

Cecile nodded and handed Linda a small flash drive.

"Great! Now to get this whole thing started." She then grabbed Cecile by the wrist and dragged her down the hallway, past her kitchen, and to a door at the back.

Cecile gaped as she saw Linda's massive computer room, which appeared to have been made from the next door apartment, and was filled with many, many computers and multiple large monitors.

Linda snickered deviously. "With this I'll finally get one up on Madame M and Queen D! No more Third Place Linda! Linda will finally be first!"

Cecile gaped in confusion. "M-Madame M…? Queen D…?"

Linda growled in frustration. "Those two are always on the top hacker rankings. No one even knows who they are or where they live!"

"I-I see…how about we focus on the flash drive?"

Linda nodded. "Okay Cilly."

"I-it's…oh nevermind…"

"Now, let's see what we've got. Hmm…well it's a signal of some kind, I know that much. But it's not one I've ever seen before in my life. The wave pattern is one that most tech can't even replicate. Wait…this isn't just noise. There's actually data packets mixed into it."

"Really?" Cecile asked.

Linda nodded. "Yes. But the data is actually woven into the sound frequency, it's almost like the sound is itself data. It's amazing. Where'd you say you got this?"

"I got it fr-"

The door suddenly burst open as multiple soldiers poured into the apartment.

Two of the soldiers held their weapons at Cecile and Linda.

"Freeze!" one shouted.

Linda sighed. "Great…"

Cornelia walked into the room with arms folded and an annoyed frown on her face. "You're certainly a sly one. That's for certain."

Cecile turned to the purple-haired beauty tense and bowed emphatically. "P-Princess Cornelia!"

Cornelia huffed. "Don't try currying favor with me now. You're under arrest. Both of you."

"But I'm just a kid," Linda pleaded.

Cornelia narrowed her eyes. "A kid who just so happens to be Linda McNeil. One of the most wanted cyberterrorists in all of Britannia. We're still cleaning up the mess from that attack you launched on our computers in Annapolis five months ago."

"…You're still mad about that, huh?"

"You delayed the production of the Gespenst Mk-II by three months and destroyed some of our most advanced communications software. If anyone had died as a result of that you'd be liable for manslaughter."

"Hey! It's not my fault it was easy to hack! Blame whoever designed your firewall."

Cornelia sighed. "That aside, under normal circumstances you'd both be immediately detained and sent to prison for sentencing."

"I don't like the sound of that…"

"However," Cornelia added, "we are currently in a desperate situation, so I'll grant you the chance for an alternative."

"And that is…?"

"Simple." She pointed at the screen. "You unscramble that signal, hand over every scrap of data to us, and come with us until further notice, and I will see to it that your crimes are conveniently missing from our database."

Linda widened her eyes in surprise and then smirked. "My, my, you really are desperate. And you have a deal."

"You must also wipe the data from your system when you're finished."

"I can do th…" Linda stopped as she came to a realization. "NNNOOO!"

"Wh-what the…?" Cornelia muttered in surprise and confusion at the sudden outburst.

"How will I rub it in those floozies faces if I can't prove it!? I'll NEVER be able to get the number one spot! DAMN YOU MADAME M! QUEEN D!"

Cornelia sighed and turned to Cecile. "Will she be alright?"

"She'd have to right to begin with to be alright…" Cecile answered.

"Fair enough."

Linda sighed and then turned to Cornelia. "Done."

"What the hell!?" the princess shouted in a surprising outburst. "Already!?"

"I did tell you," Cecile remarked.

"B-but, I didn't think she was that skilled…ahem. S-so…what's in it?"

"Well it's got a massive amount of data. More than ten thousand times the size of a terabyte."

"Wh-what!?" Cecile shouted in disbelief.

"Yeah. So whoever made this has managed data compression on an unimaginable scale, seeing as the condensed ten thousand terabytes could fit on a five gig flash drive. It's just amazing!"

"Quit gawking at it and tell me what's on it," Cornelia demanded.

Linda hissed in annoyance. "Well, most of it is simply junk data. So if I get rid of that, the data that serves some kind of purpose shrinks down to four thousand terabytes. But even in that, most of it is words in a language I've never seen before. All these strange symbols."

"Save them. I'll have cryptologists look at them. Now get it down to the content we can understand."

"Okay, okay. Well a lot of it is locational data, different points all over the planet, and a few in the Colonies. But these are the most interesting. Project Iceman. Hydra. And one other file mentions something known as the 'Dragon King'."

Cornelia paled.

Linda raised an eyebrow. "Based on your reaction I assume you know what this stuff means?"

"It means we have to get moving. Now."

The room was suddenly shaken by an explosion.

"Wh-what the…?!" Cecile shouted.

Almost immediately, one of the soldiers was bisected by a large, mechanical panther.

"What is that?!" Linda exclaimed.

"Our reason to move! Go!" Cornelia demanded.

Shortly later, the three managed to escape the building and made it into a car waiting nearby.

Cecile took several heavy breaths and then turned to Cornelia. "D-did we…get away…?"

Linda, also breathing heavily, added, "W-we…better have…" She sighed heavily. "Well…that thing probably came after my computer, so…" She then pulled a switch and began to cry. "Momma's sorry baby!"

As she pressed the switch, a huge explosion went off in the apartment building.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Cecile and Cornelia hollered in mutual shock.

"In case I ever got caught," Linda began, "I rigged all of my electronics to explode. It was extremely difficult to do since explosives intermixed with electronics have a bad habit of going off unexpectedly. But I managed it." Waterfall tears then began falling down her face. "But now it's all gone! I even lost my stash of BCP's best work!"

Cecile laughed uncomfortably before she saw the mechanical panther come flying out of the apartment and slam onto the pavement on its back. After a moment's pause it suddenly got up and started running around, set on fire.

"I think that's our cue to leave," Cornelia remarked.

Later, the group were in their impromptu escape vehicle driving down the highway when Linda turned to Cornelia and asked, "So, where are we going?"

"We'll be taking you both to Pendragon," Cornelia answered.

Cecile blinked curiously and looked out the window. "Erm…did you call for Mobile Suit guards?"

"No, why?"

Cecile pointed out the window.

Cornelia looked out the window and saw several black Gespensts flying near their vehicle. "What!? Wait…" she looked at the Mobile Suits and saw a familiar symbol on their shoulders. "Driver, pull over."

"Yes, ma'am," he answered.

After the car pulled over, the Gespensts landed and Cornelia exited the vehicle and walked over to them.

"What is the meaning of this?" she demanded. "What is that fool Fury up to this time?"

Cecile and Linda looked at each other curiously and asked in unison, "Who's Fury?"

"A thorn in my side," Cornelia answered in annoyance.

The pilot of one of the Gespensts then answered, "Ma'am, we've been sent to escort you to Base 7 of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Fine. These two are with me."

"Acknowledged."

Elsewhere, Kazuma, Excellen, Chifuyu, and Isa sat in a helicopter as Bumblebee was carried by several others nearby when Kazuma felt the helicopter turn.

Kazuma looked around curiously. "Hey, why are we turning?"

Chifuyu sighed in frustration. "I'm wondering what made me think it was a good idea to ever buy you a car…"

"Well at least it can't get any wor-"

Isa then began crying loudly. "I wanna go home…!"

Kazuma twitched an eyebrow and sighed. "And I stand corrected."

Excellen patted her back lightly. "Come on Isa, everything will be okay."

Kazuma looked out one of the helicopter's windows and raised an eyebrow. "Hey, aren't those more of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Mobile Suits coming?"

"Looks like it," Chifuyu remarked.

"Wait, what's happening now?"

At that moment, the helicopter landed at the same time as the black Gespensts did.

"Is that good or bad?" Excellen asked.

The door to the helicopter then opened, Cornelia standing in the doorway.

Kazuma turned to her and gulped as his face reddened. 'H-holy crap…one major hotty!'

Linda then leaned out from behind Cornelia and looked around inside the helicopter. "Is this really the thing we'll be riding in?"

Kazuma turned to her and blinked. "A Pettanko?"

"Hm?" Linda hummed as she looked at him. She narrowed her eyes as she looked him over.

Cecile then sighed as she walked up from behind Cornelia. "That was far too rough."

Kazuma gaped slightly. 'T-two…!?' He then turned to Excellen. "Excellen, I think my worst day ever's starting to turn good…"

Excellen blinked in thought and then looked at Cornelia and Cecile before shooting Kazuma a sideways glance.

"What?"

Excellen sighed. "Nothing."

Later, the group had all piled into the helicopter.

Kazuma gulped with an incredibly flushed face, trying to keep his composure whilst sandwiched between Cornelia and Excellen. He gulped slightly and glanced at Cornelia. "S-so…my name's Kazuma. What's yours…Miss?"

Cornelia glanced at him and raised an eyebrow. "Cornelia Li Britannia. Second crown princess of Britannia."

Kazuma raised both eyebrows in thought. "Cornelia, huh? Beautiful name."

Cornelia looked at him curiously and then frowned slightly. "Your flattery is unneeded."

Kazuma blinked curiously. "Flattery?"

Chifuyu twitched an eyebrow and kicked him in the shin. "Quit flirting you idiot. She's one of the princesses of Britannia."

Kazuma flinched in pain. "So? Doesn't mean she's not a woman! And stop kicking me, Sis!"

Cornelia raised both eyebrows in thought.

Chifuyu twitched an eyebrow and prepared to kick him again.

Cornelia raised a hand towards her. "That won't be necessary. His actions are harmless."

"Thanks, Cor."

"Her name is Cornelia you dumbass!" Chifuyu argued.

Cornelia chuckled lightly. "You needn't mind him."

"But your majesty…"

"It's actually refreshing."

Linda snickered lightly. "Well aren't you feeling big in your britches, eh, Kazuma?"

Kazuma shrugged. "I'm just high from the adrenaline that's been pumping through me all day. Getting hit by an Electro-Destabilization Field didn't help any. At all."

"A who-do-what-now?"

"Electro-Destabilization Field. Little ball that shoots out an EMP wave that screws with the body's nervous system and makes them drop like a sack of bricks. I want one."

"Yeesh. And I thought wiring plastic explosive to my computers was high-tech."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow. "Why wire when you can set it to overload?"

Linda huffed in derision. "Yeah right. No processor has the power to overclock that much."

Kazuma chuckled. "Oh ye of little mind. You have not hooked up a laptop to a repurposed Mobile Suit reactor, have you?"

"Where the hell would you even get that!?" Linda shouted in disbelief.

Cornelia blinked in thought. 'This boy is something else. Only my most skilled mechanics would even understand what he's talking about.'

Kazuma snickered. "You'd be surprise what one finds in dumps, junkyards, and other places. Though, I was trying to see if I could give that laptop self-awareness if given enough power. It just ended up making the thing become a ballistic missile. Good thing that office building was condemned."

Linda gaped in complete bewilderment. "H-huh…?"

Cornelia frowned in disbelief. 'He's also completely insane…'

Kazuma nodded. "Yeah. Now I have that reactor powering the house. After learning the safe amount of power to have it pump out." He snickered. "Don't want Chifuyu coming home to a crater in the ground!"

Chifuyu sighed in frustration. "And if it weren't for that thing reducing my power bill to zero I'd kick your ass for doing something so stupid."

"You do that anyway Sis…besides, I didn't hear you complain when I upgraded your engine."

Chifuyu twitched an eyebrow before grunting as the helicopter hit turbulence. She groaned and looked ahead before gaping.

Kazuma sat sandwiched between both Excellen and Cornelia's sizable mounds. 'Best. Day. Ever.'

Cornelia swiftly backed away from him with slightly reddened cheeks. "M-my apologies."

Kazuma, his face slightly reddened as well, responded, "It's okay. I needed that. Bad. Most of my day has been one disaster after another."

Cornelia blinked curiously. "How did that help…?"

Kazuma looked at her in disbelief. "Seriously?"

Excellen puffed her cheeks and grabbed him before pulling him close. "Stop worrying about hers you dummy."

Kazuma flinched as his head was once again buried.

Chifuyu twitched an eyebrow in annoyance before sighing and asking in annoyance, "Are we there yet?"

"I hope not," Kazuma answered. "I'm finally feeling super relaxed…"

Linda silently looked around the helicopter at Excellen, Cornelia, Chifuyu, and Cecile before looking down at herself and pouting.

Chifuyu looked at her in confusion.

The pilot then remarked, over the speaker, "Everyone buckle up, we're approaching the dam."

"Dam?" Cecile asked in confusion.

"Probably where their secret base is," Kazuma surmised. "And if my guess is right, we're still in Britannia."

Cornelia narrowed her eyes in thought and remarked, "Then that would most likely mean the Hoover Dam."

"Wow, I'm really far from home."

"This chopper picked us up in Nevada, so you've been away from home for a while," Linda mentioned.

"Ah. Well, we'd better pick up a souvenir then if we get lucky." He then pulled out a credit card. "On the douche's card."

"You stole it!?" Chifuyu howled.

"He was a dickhead. And I swiped it when I took his badge and ID."

Cornelia turned to him puzzled. "You do realize you're admitting to that right in front of me, right?"

"So? The guy's a major douche that made my day worse. Me spending his money is a little thing called Karma."

Cornelia sighed.

As the helicopter touched the ground, the pilot said, "Okay, we're here. Get out."

Isa stood up excitedly and opened the door.

"Be careful!" Chifuyu demanded in concern.

"I will," Isa offhandedly as she opened the door and saw the massive dam before her, causing her eyes to widen in childish wonder. "It's so big!"

Kazuma smiled slightly at the young girl's excitement. "It's good to see her smile again."

Isa then turned and shouted, "It's the pirate!"

"Oh goody…the man I dubbed Fury."

"Which is appropriate," the man said as he walked up to the group, "As that's my name."

"S-seriously?" Kazuma asked in disbelief.

"Nicholas J. Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D."

Kazuma folded his arms. "Then I redub thee Nicky."

Fury twitched an eyebrow. "Hmph. Sorry to bring you here on such short notice, Princess Cornelia, but as I'm sure you're aware we're in a rather tense state of affairs. What with our planet getting dragged into a giant alien civil war."

"Alien. Robot."

"You knew already?" Cornelia asked.

"We're S.H.I.E.L.D.," Fury rebutted, "we know everything. From the location of every nuclear weapon on the planet to the bunch of creepy-ass tentacle shit the kid's got on his hard drive."

Kazuma twitched an eyebrow.

Linda and Excellen both looked to the side whistling innocently.

"Oh we know about your kinks too ladies," Fury remarked.

"Damn…" they both muttered.

Kazuma tilted his head curiously. "Wait a minute…the only tentacle stuff I've ever saw was the BCP stuff Excellen brings for movie night…"

"Wh-what!?" Chifuyu shouted.

"Uuhh…" Excellen mumbled.

"If you don't mind," Fury interjected, "we've got more pressing matters."

"Yeah, Eyeball," Kazuma grumbled. "Like sending Douche and his goonies to kidnap me, my sisters, and my potential girlfriend!"

"Sorry 'bout that, Coulson's never had the best manners."

"Then train them into him."

"I'll think about it. So Coulson tells me you know what these windup toys are after."

"Some Allspark cube thing."

Fury narrowed his eye in thought.

"…You know where it is, don't you…?"

"Follow me," Fury ordered.

Elsewhere, Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, and Ironhide stood on a rocky slope overlooking a vast desert.

"It's been over an entire solarcycle and we still haven't gone to search for Bee!" Jazz stated in frustration.

Optimus held the piece of paper Kazuma had made previously and handed it to Ratchet before turning to Jazz and Ironhide. "The Allspark is our greatest concern at the moment. If we do not find it before the Decepticons then Bumblebee's sacrifice will have been in vain."

"And what of the humans?" Ratchet asked.

"They brought this on themselves," Ironhide argued. "They're an ignorant, savage race."

Optimus sighed as he turned to Ironhide. "Were we so different? Our own savagery, our own ignorance, has brought death to a world that ought not have any part in it. And beyond that, I believe that humans have a possibility for compassion beyond our own. However, we cannot afford to mount a rescue, as it would doom their entire race."

Ratchet then turned to Optimus. "I've pinpointed the Allspark's location."

Optimus nodded. "Autobots, transform and rollout."

In another location, Sanger, Elzam, Tempest, Gilliam, and Kai waited on a transport.

"These people certainly don't like telling us anything," Elzam remarked.

"Yeah," Kai agreed. "Who do you think they are?"

"I have no way of knowing for certain," Gilliam added, "But they seem on our side to a degree."

Coulson then walked up to the group. "Hello gentlemen. Sorry for the secrecy but I would like to welcome you to the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division."

"The what?" Sanger asked in confusion.

"We're working on the name. Now, if you would, come with me."

"Yeah, yeah," Kai said dismissively.

"Well look what the cat dragged in," Fury taunted lightly as his group met up with Coulson's.

"Fury? Fury!"

Fury smirked lightly and rebutted, "So they haven't shoved you off the bow yet?"

Kai laughed jovially. "Nope! I'm just too stubborn to let it happen!"

Sanger then noticed Cornelia amongst Fury's group and saluted. "Your majesty."

"Zonvolt," Cornelia responded with a salute.

Kazuma raised an eyebrow and turned to Cornelia. "Who are these guys?"

Elzam narrowed his eyes. "Watch yourself, civie. It's rude to speak so frankly to royalty."

"Who the hell are you, pretty boy?"

"Elzam V. Branstein of the Aggressors."

"Ah…still don't know you. But I've heard of the Aggressors. You guys get to pilot all those neat prototypes."

Kai chuckled good-naturedly. "Yes, but it comes with the unwanted addition of miles of red tape."

Kazuma shrugged. "Do what I do when it comes to paperwork. Pass it off to the next guy."

"Unfortunately it's not that easy."

"We can save the introductions for later," Fury interjected. "I think there's something you all need to see."

"What?" Sanger asked.

"The reason for this war."

"You can't be serious, sir," Coulson objected.

"I am."

"Hopefully there'll be drinks."

"Doubt it. If there was I'd be passed out forgetting this baaad day. Except the part where Excellen and Cornelia's boobs smashed my face."

"Uwah!" Kai exclaimed. "Seriously?!"

Kazuma nodded. "Oh yeah…it was the only good thing that happened all day besides Chifuyu hugging me instead of bashing my head in."

"You mean like this!?" Chifuyu snarled as she slammed his head into the ground.

"E-exactly…black…lace…"

Chifuyu blushed and then repeatedly stomped on his head.

Isa turned to Excellen and asked, "Why is Big Sister Chifuyu doing that to Big Brother Kazuma?"

Excellen chuckled weakly. "She's a little mad."

Chifuyu huffed in exhaustion.

Linda poked his head repeatedly.

Kazuma stood up with a groan.

Kai then turned to Chifuyu. "I haven't seen you in a while young lady."

Chifuyu raised an eyebrow and then widened her eyes. "K-Kai!?"

"Uncle Kai!" Isa said happily.

Kai smiled warmly. "Yes. I still remember the last time I saw you, Isa, you were barely old enough to walk."

Isa tilted her head curiously. "I was…?"

Kai then turned to Chifuyu and asked, "What are you two doing here?"

Chifuyu pointed to Kazuma.

Kazuma pointed at Coulson.

Coulson pointed at Fury.

"If you're all done with the introductions," Fury interjected with annoyance, "I'd like to get this over with before any other evil aliens come knocking on my door."

"That'd only happen if the Decepticons found this place," Kazuma rebutted.

"You'll understand once we're inside."

"There'd better be drinks…" Kai muttered.

As the group made their way inside, Kazuma looked around curiously. "This is one hell of a hallway. A Knight could easily travel through the – is that the new Gloucester model!?" Kazuma shouted as he saw a four and a half meter tall, red and gold humanoid machine with a large gray pack on its back and a long grey cape hanging from its shoulders. "I didn't think they were ready for deployment!"

"They aren't," Cornelia explained. "These are merely prototypes." She furrowed her brow in disgust. "Though I must question why the prototypes always come in such garish colors."

"It's a factory default probably," Kazuma rebutted. "You'd probably have to get them custom made certain colors or paint them yourself."

"Well if I do utilize any of them, those colors must go."

Kazuma raised an eyebrow and shrugged. "I actually think it's a nice color. Though what weapons are they getting outfitted with?"

"Mostly the standard fare," Kai explained. "But what's special is a unique lance it's getting. Supposedly it can even pierce a dragon's hide."

"Awesome. So awesome."

"We're getting close," Fury mentioned as they neared a massive open room. "And just as a reminder, what you're about to see is beyond top secret."

"That's kinda cool."

Seconds later, the group walked into the massive room and saw an immense, glowing, blue cube in the center, supported with many large struts and cables.

Kazuma gaped. "Whoa. That. Looks. Awesome."

Fury smirked. "That's not even the good bit."

"There's more?" Gilliam asked.

"This." Fury motioned to a nine meter tall, dark grey humanoid machine covered and frozen in ice, with many jets of liquid nitrogen constantly spewing on it.

"We call it NBE-1," Coulson explained.

Kazuma sighed in frustration. "And just like that my day has gotten even worse…"

"What do you mean?" Sanger asked.

"The Autobots call this guy Megatron. Think of him as the bringer of darkness."

"Lovely," Kai mumbled.

"And these bozos left him right next to what he wants. That's like giving an Orc easy access to Hellhound."

"…Huh…?" Cornelia muttered.

Chifuyu merely shrugged.

Kazuma turned to them in mild confusion. "What? Excellen lets me read her BCP Guide to the World of Youkai."

"I would suggest not taking such a thing as fact," Cornelia recommended.

"Why?"

Fury yet again interjected, "There's one more thing you all need to see."

"Great…"

Onslaught growled as he turned to Starscream angrily. "How long are we going to stand around here?!"

"We need to be patient, Onslaught," Starscream rebutted.

"Commander Starscream," Soundwave reported, "I am receiving a transmission from Rumble."

"Has he found the location of our quarry?"

"Affirmative. He is at the location after boarding a human vehicle after separating from Ravage."

Starscream smirked deviously. "Good…Shockwave. Man the Land Bridge. The rest of us are going for a trip."

Back with Kazuma and the others, Fury led them all to a small room with a window to the Allspark and a large, thick metal door.

"Well this is creepy little room," Excellen muttered uncomfortably.

"Yeah…" Cecile said in agreement.

"So what's with this box of a room?" Kazuma asked in annoyance.

Fury nodded and motioned to the Allspark. "To test the effects of the Cube's energy."

"E-effects?!" Linda asked frantically. "Like radiation!?"

Ignoring Linda's outburst, Fury asked, "Does anyone have a cellphone?"

"Yeah," Cecile answered and held out her cellphone. "Here."

Fury tossed it into a small glass box in the center of the room and sealed the box before turning to Coulson.

Coulson nodded and pressed a button on the wall, causing the cellphone to be struck with a bolt of blue energy.

The others watched curiously.

The cellphone suddenly shifted and twisted, turning into a tiny, humanoid robot.

Kazuma paled slightly and asked, "Uuhh…what make is your cellphone…?"

"It's not supposed to do that!" Cecile replied in confusion.

"The energy from the Cube did it," Fury explained. "It has the unique effect of turning any mechanical device, from cellphones and pagers to battleships and space shuttles into transforming death machines."

"Wow," Kazuma whistled, impressed. "Ever thought of doing that to a machine with an AI?"

"Yes, actually. It became about as smart as a Slime."

"Wow. What variety?"

Fury blinked in thought. "Uh…the slimy kind?"

Kazuma flattened his brow incredulously. "…You need to read more about Youkai."

Cecile suddenly shrieked as the little machine started dashing around and shooting at the box's panels.

"Well it is a mindless, weaponized, transforming cellphone. What'd you think it'd do? The Robot?"

Coulson sighed as the little creature continued dancing about. "It's breaking the box…" He flipped a switch on the wall, causing the box to be filled with massive amounts of electricity, filling the room with light. As the light died down, the small robot could be seen lying in a pile, charred and dead.

"Aaww. The little deathbot blew up."

"You'll live," Fury rebutted sardonically.

"He won't. Why not use an EMP to knock them out and install a brain?"

"That would knock out our systems as well," Coulson explained.

An Agent then walked up to Fury and whispered.

"I see…" Fury replied irritated.

"Something wrong?" Cornelia asked.

"Our hypothermic friend has visitors coming."

"Grand…" Kazuma muttered.

"Well if they're coming," Kai began, "then we can't sit around on our asses anymore."

Elzam nodded in agreement. "Yes. We must get the Cube away from Megatron."

"And our best option is to give it to the Autobots," Kazuma suggested.

"Hold on," Coulson interjected, "you want to give it to those things?"

"The Autobots, no the Decepticons."

"They're all NBEs. So until further proof is given, that makes them all enemies."

"If that were true, they would have blown us all up and taken my pendant. And blew open the Gespenst cockpits instead of trying to disable them."

Fury put up a hand to silence Coulson. "Let's say you're right. How will they transport that giant box?"

"They come from a planet where everything transforms. I bet that the Allspark can do the same. And Bumblebee can probably figure it out."

"The NBE we captured when we picked you up? Preposterous," Coulson argued.

"I'd like to know if you have a better idea," Sanger interjected.

Coulson turned to Fury.

Fury nodded.

Coulson sighed. "Fine. You want to put the fate of the world in the hands of the kid's Camaro?"

"Transforming badass Camaro," Kazuma corrected.

And there you have it, the second chapter concluded. Hopefully you all enjoyed the chapter. Post a review if you did. Or post one if anything has confused you or you have any questions, I will do my best to assuage the problems. Even post a review if you did not like the chapter, just try to be civil about it. Well, nothing else to add here, so buh-bye!