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AN: The character Millie, Kamila' & Kami are all the same person. Just other characters referring to her by different parts of her name. It should be noted Kami is what is known as a wiring engineer, which is just a flashy title for someone who can rewire or from ground up wire something.
A cmos chip actually comes in varying shapes and serves varying functions- but in this case I think I can safely say I am tweaking this one. I am going to say it is about an inch long with tiny little pins along both sides of it. About 14 down each side.
This is set in the same timeframe The Fallen has arrived and is about to collect Earths sun. So basically while the good guys are fighting the baddies. The fallen has been sending out these little parasites to infiltrate earth's machines or maybe all in all they are supposed to cause bigger problems.
"Optimus you have got to see this." Ratchet turned back to Brain as the small Autobot transformed back into a computer. A YouTube icon popped up on the screen followed by the beginning of the clip. The clip appeared to be about a military troop.
Someone called to one of the members as they slid out from under a convoy truck. There were crude remarks and cat calls made. 'At least she knows her place, flat on her back and under something.' Someone commented. There was an off camera scuffle, followed by a stern warning. "That's my sister you're talking trash about. Now keep your damn mouth shut about her and every other woman for that matter, you asshole."
"Reich easy dude, just poking a little fun. Know poking. " Another voice replied.
The camera temporary swept away from the form sliding out from under the truck. There was more scuffling and then the form that had slid from under the truck came into the picture.
"Hey Reich is everything alright?" The voice was clearly female.
Reich grabbed the female in question pulling her close to him and draping an arm around her shoulders. Clearly a move to indicate the human female was under his watchful protection "It's okay Millie, now what were you saying."
"Sure everything's okay Reich?" She turned her face up to look at the man who seemed to be protecting her.
"Yeah, sis. Now what were you saying."
"Well I will just have to pry another one off for you to see. I broke this one. She opened her hand to reveal what looked like a crushed Cmos chip. I found a couple so far."
Reich stopped looking at dust the girl held in her hand as another soldier approached. "Kamila my love." He grabbed her sweeping her around and causing her to lose the bits of scrap and dust she did have. He kissed her distracting her from seeing her brother grind the remnants of what she had lost into the ground.
She laughed and pushed away the one who appeared to be her mate. "Stop it Daniel you will get disbanded for messing with the contracted help or you'll earn me a boot. So help me if I get the boot, well let's just say you will looking for yourself a new girlfriend."
"Kamila you cut me to the bone."
Optimus had the clip rolled back to and then paused at the images of the girl holding the Cmos chip in her hand.
"When was this video taken?" He felt he already knew and he was almost certain where it was taken too.
But the conformation Brain gave made him feel terrible. The outcome of the small band of humans couldn't have been good.
"Are there anymore clips? When were these recorded?" Optimus ask. As more of the Autobots edged around Brains monitor form.
Ratchet and Ironhide began supplying details. "Right after Megatron's trip to Egypt."
"There is one more clip of this group, Optimus." Ironhide replied as Brain booted up the final clip.
Again it showed the same group of soldiers but provided no full detail of what they looked like. The human female following the countries customs kept her head and face covered. There were a couple of visible names Prime made a mental not to research. He was hoping there would survivors if this was what he actually thought it was.
The video cut away to where there were was some voices but nothing interesting again there were some catty cracks. But the two currently most important males were standing full guard alert as probably the female was working on something.
The camera ended up panning around looking at varying things before the female voice was distinctly heard. "Oh wow Reich you have got to see this, you just got to get Daniel."
A few minutes later the recording starts again. The female has pulled down some of the cloth covering her mouth. But she still clearly has her head and eyes covered. Her sunglasses glint back light as she looked up into the camera well pleased with her current find.
"See this is what I am talking about, this ya' is why these convoy trucks keep breaking down. I still don't understand why who ever installed these little Cmos chips on the underside of a motor."
"Millie, are these Cmos chip things attached to main power feeds or are they just on the motor?" The one called Reich stepped in closer to the female.
Millie "shrugged varying positioning. "This one looks good though. I mean well it looks like someone did a shoddy job. It still turned out nicely, when I removed it."
"Kamila, could you get to the point?" The one called Daniel ask. He suddenly seemed a bit more uptight.
"Okay let's look at it. See, I pulled this little beauty off the main motor harness know the one feeds everything, 96 pin connector goes into-" But before she could finish her little engineering spill the one called Daniel cut her short.
"Kamila, we know the basics now shut up and get on with why this is a beauty."
The other human male known as Reich seemed to give Daniel a warning glare. And the human female, Millie or Kamila seemed somewhat hurt.
"Look at this see the tendrils, I know it looks like someone couldn't solder their way out of a wet paper bag but these little tendrils of solder somehow seemed to penetrate the wiring insulation all without disturbing the integrity of the wiring structure."
"English." Reich tried not to snap.
"It works Reich just exactly like a splice, especially if the brain that done it knows what he was doing. Giving someone external control."
Reich sighed. "Hey, sis, sorry. I am just tired kid. So let's see your little beauty, huh Millie."
Optimus felt his spark slump at the site of what the human female held in the palm of her hand. Her badly soldered Cmos chip in reality was a decepticon hatchling protoform from a stasis pod. The tendrils of solder was actually its tendrils or feelers that could easily be compared to that of a parasite. They were in danger. No he reminded himself, they were probably already gone.
"Why wait so long to release this video? No a better question is who released the video." Sideswipe questioned.
"Find out the outcome of the humans." Optimus ordered. Then as an afterthought he added "See what information can be found out about the human female."
"Optimus this video is old so she is probably gone." Ratchet didn't bother adding what they were all thinking that if the Decepticons had gotten to her, there would be no human female in question to find anything else about.
Ratchet was probably right, but there was something about the brother, sister, and her mate. At least the two human males knew something. But the human female, she seemed oblivious to what she was finding. So either she really was naïve or she simply had no idea the magnitude of what she had discovered. He sighed hoping for the impossible that news would come back she was still alive and still functioning.
They really needed some extra help. Optimus Prime was selective what was shared with the humans as to Autobot repairs and weapons were never discussed. But this situation with Ironhide made Prime see how very important a human talent could be, but only if he found the right one. He just hoped he'd stumbled across the right one and they were still online.
Ironhide was still grumbling as Ratchet finished up the final stages of decontamination. "Never said it was going a breeze. Now stop complaining. I still have repairs to make. But until then I need to assess the damage."
"Why, don't you chase down some leads to the humans or better yet why don't go work on torturing someone else." Ironhide was irked.
"Optimus." Brain transformed. "The repair team from this video died approximately a day and a half after it was made. Of the 15 member team, 5 were contract engineers, 10 man military unit. Two guards for everyone one. Of the 15 members, 11 were killed. 8 guards and 3 contractors. Another guard died after arriving stateside. He committed suicide."
"What of the humans the Ford's or Seagram?" Optimus inquired.
Brain simply began running images of all the deceased.
Reich Ford, deceased. -
Daniel Seagram, deceased.
Prime sighed out in grief. He had hoped, just maybe those three had survived.
Then Brain began running survivors.
Franklin Watts, survivor, military.
Dean White, survivor contractor.
Kamila (Kami) Ford, survivor contractor, brother deceased, fiancé deceased.
The female human had survived, but at what cost. So there was a flicker hope.
"Find out everything you can about Kamila Ford, Brain."
Ratchet approached looking at the monitor. "Optimus even if she could be found, she may be damaged."
"A chance we will have to take, Ratchet."
"Yes, well while we are at it Optimus about Ironhide. This exposure to the caustic building has damaged some of Ironhide's internal systems. I believe I can repair them but it could take months possibly longer."
Optimus studied Ratchet a beat and then let his optics shift to the weapons specialist. Ironhide was taking his weapons through the paces. A sure sign he was irritated and worried. He sighed perhaps it really was time to start searching for that human to help.