"Well done, Elsa Fisher." The stone transformers spoke in unison. "You have truly outdone your grandfather." It was the start and the end of the dream.

When I woke up I was back in the military camp with both Russian and US soldiers and nurses and doctors. One of the doctors told me in broken English that my rib was, indeed, broken and I was lucky it wasn't my spine and the pain in my arm was from a hairline stress fracture that I was forced into a brace for.

Sam came in when the nurses were done. "You look like shit." He said and sat next to the bed.

"I feel like it too. How long was I out of it?"

"Surprisingly you woke up a few hours later but you couldn't come out of a dream so they induced a coma and now it's a week later. You seem to do well with the pain."

"Not really," I groaned. "Don't I get any morphine?"

Sam laughed. "No. You get Aspirin." He helped me get it down. I gagged on the water.

"When can I go home?"

"You just had a life or death experience and you're worried about home?"

I nodded. Was it really all that crazy? I wanted just one thing. "I want to go back with Bee and the others."

"Well, they're already in the US. They're negotiating the defense and look outs." He helped me sit up slowly without straining my ribcage too much. We spoke of a lot of things including when I could go home. It would be months before I could go home again so I learned a little bit of Russian, mostly how to cuss and curse and everything in between. My back was kept straight the entire time, which eventually became painful. Alisha and I spoke often, especially on the nights she ran away. She told me how Bee often caught her and how he took her back to her foster home.

When I finally flew back I was greeted by Crosshairs rather than Bee, which he explained that Bee had caught Alisha sneaking off again. Eventually we caught up with the other autobots in the middle of the desert in front of a huge house with a huge garage.

"You're staying here, right?" I asked the four autobots when they gathered around to see my expression.

"We will be around for as long as you need us, Elsa." Prime answered. "But not a moment more."

"So, the house was a gift?" I walked up the steps.

"Yeah, a thanks from your government. They're really generous toward heroes." The Hound answered.

I smiled. "I love it. It's beautiful out here."

"I think so too," they all agreed.

As the months pass I prepared another case to be Alisha's legal guardian. The governor convinced me to try again. This time, as the judge read the file, I was less intimidated and less fearful.

The judge put down her reading glasses and eyed me up and down. "You know you'll put her in danger, right?"

"Yes, Ma'am. But I trust the autobots with Alisha's life more than anyone who lives. They'll protect her before me."

"And your house is all paid off," she mused aloud. "We will do a one year trial in which you will have random inspections, Elsa Fisher. I will mail you a list of things that you need to have done in that year or any improvements that I need to see. A failure of completing the tasks will result in a permanent ruling."

I smiled. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! I would get my little sister back and I could be the one to protect her.

In that same day I took her home with Bee. Everyone, even Sam, greeted us when we got there. "Are they staying with us?" Alisha asked. When I nodded she asked why.

"They're family, Alisha." We got out of Bee and walked up the steps to Sam. "The autobots are our family." I met Prime's eyes. They held a kind of proud, fatherly presence in them. I hadn't seen eyes like that since dad died.

As the months went by I still couldn't shake off that dream I had when I momentarily passed out from that explosion. I kept trying to will it back but it wouldn't come.

Alisha kept claiming that she had a guardian angel and was appalled that I called it an imaginary friend. She wouldn't tell me what it was.

One night when I fell asleep I had the dream again.

"You have done well," the womanly voice declared. "You will be used well."

"Used for what?" I asked but I got no answer to the question. They went on as if I hadn't asked.

"The time will come when you will need to call upon us for help. When that happens remember this name…"

I didn't remember the name when I woke up but I knew that I would remember when I needed to know the name.