"Okay Powerglide I'm taking over now, I know what we're doing and you don't, after you get used to it for a bit if you need to take over suddenly for whatever reason you can but you aren't certified while I am"
"Makes sense to me"
"Okay then, after this we'll talk to Ratchet about getting some things reactivated in case of trouble here"
"Okay, by the way I'm thinking that maybe I want to stay like this"
"Discuss this all later fight the fire now okay?"
"Okay"
The battle lasted for quite a few hours but eventually they succeeded in getting the situation contained though the fires weren't completely out yet at least more weren't popping up and so long as the wind didn't shift they had the fires basically in one area that was manageable
"Kerenai, the ground crews are requesting you and Parker for a few hours tonight but first you are to have some dinner and Kerenai you know the food rule"
"Indeed I do, Springer did you ever manage to inform the base about Powerglide before the fire?"
"Nope, I'll do that now though"
"Better hold off on that actually because quite frankly we need the fires out and everything calm again before we make the call because while an evacuation order hasn't been given yet it's still a possibility and if that happens no one will be allowed in unless they're part of the firefighting team until further notice"
"Okay you have a point we'll wait then"
Karen and Lauren have a quick meal and then support the ground crew for three hours and afterwords headed back to base for sleep. The next day they were back to fighting fires again but this time things didn't go as smoothly and Karen made a move that would surprise most people but not this crew because they knew of both Karen's and Lauren's past and they also knew about the training both had
"Powerglide we're going to finish this load and then you're going to head back to base and stay there grounded until further notice"
"What about you?"
Karen pushes the dump button and then flips a few more switches that she knew needed flipped and then stands up and puts on a parachute
"I'm going to be taking care of a small problem"
With that she jumps out of Powerglide and quickly activates the shoot. Within minutes she was on the ground and armed for a fight because she had seen the person starting the fires and they were armed with guns and knives while Karen only had knives available at the moment because she didn't think about carrying her gun but she knew the weapons that were being used and she also knew her training would get her through. She quickly attacked the arsonist and after a brief fight with both of them using their knives she got the upper hand and subdued the guy. She then chose a safe path and escorted him to the edge of the fire where there were firefighters and police officers. The reason the police were there were really in case evacuation was made necessary so that the firefighters would be free to do their jobs while the police did the traffic control when they saw Karen come out with another person who was definitely not authorized they knew she had apprehended the arsonist but they had to ask her about it anyways for formalities sake
"Is this the arsonist?"
"Indeed it is officers, maybe now we can finally put out the fires instead of just containing them with him locked up and not causing any problems"
"Okay one of us will escort him out of here and another will give you a ride back to your base...wait how did your plane get back safely?"
"That will be explained at another time officer but for now I'll stick with the ground crew, that smoke is getting thicker every time and quite honestly while smoke is relatively safe it's affecting our vision and will soon get to the point where we're at nighttime restrictions"
"Does your boss know about it?"
"We were discussing it yes, I'll radio in when I meet up with a crew and join them"
"Okay"
Karen meets up with a ground crew and radios the chief where she was and why she decided to stay on the ground
"Makes sense to me Kerenai, I've been thinking about grounding the crew since your last dump due to how much smoke is in the air, why'd you jump out of your plane anyways?"
"Had to catch the arsonist"
(Sigh of relief) "I thought we would never catch the guy, finally a break"
"I know, I'll be here until further notice chief afterwords..."
Suddenly Karen stopped and put her hand to her head for a moment and then continued speaking
"Afterwords I'll come back for sleep, and chief tell Lauren and my friends that we might have to activate the omega contingency for me to keep everyone safe, they'll explain the contingency and tell you how it works before it's needed and don't worry you'll know pretty quickly if it's needed"
Karen cuts communications and simply goes back to work meanwhile the chief passed on the information he was asked to
"Lauren, Powerglide, Springer, what do you know of Karen's omega contingency?"
"The omega contingency? Chief is the contingency for her to keep everyone safe?"
"Yes why?"
Springer is the one to speak up
"The omega contingency is a plan Karen designed at age seven, two years after her powers activated after an accident during personal training where some people were hurt, it was mainly their fault but Karen instantly realized just how dangerous her powers truly were for the first time since they had activated after hearing some information from us. She came up with a plan to stop her if she ever fell under alien control and needed to be stopped so that she didn't hurt anyone, this plan is both simple and complicated at the same time. The plan involves incapacitating Karen with a special sedative that we all carry on us at all times in needs both Cybertronian sized and human sized, and when I say needles I mean the syringes and not the actual needle part"
"That sounds pretty simple to me what's so hard about that?"
Lauren was the one to speak up this time
"The hard part is her powers, you guys told me after I mentioned Karen having abilities no other EDC kids have that she told you guys about her powers after an incident that forced her to use her shields. What you don't know is that the shields are only a portion of her abilities and they're nearly impossible to break if it's just for her. She also has offensive abilities with those powers as well and that's her main source of defense actually when it comes to her powers, the hardest part about Karen being under alien influence is that we're going to have to get close enough and past her shields in order to give her the sedative, after that we're going to have to find a place to contain her safely until we can get rid of whatever influence she might be under. But like I said getting close enough is going to be rough because her defense is automatic in regards to her powers if she thinks she's in danger"
"After that we're going to have to watch her temper because she can be destructive when angry"
"Seen that in person?"
"Oh yeah, it was shortly after we discovered her powers that we found out how destructive they can be and we set her off accidentally too"
"Why do I get the feeling she wouldn't have mentioned this plan if she didn't think it was a possibility?"
"Because she wouldn't have, mainly due to the fact that she knows how much her family hates that plan even though we see the sense of having such a plan in place"
"How fast will we know if we need to use the contingency plan?"
"Almost immediately, especially because we as her family would feel it. We can detect her bio-signature easily because of the fact that she's lived with us since she was two months old, which means if something changes we'll know instantly and we've discovered from other people that the bio-signature especially the brainwaves changes under another's influence"
Meanwhile Karen was continuing to fight the fire from the ground and finally they had a report that all the fires were out
"That's good, we'll have to keep an eye out for a little bit but at least no one will have to evacuate because of the fire and there's currently no more risk to either people or wildlife"
"Yes but like you said we're still going to have to keep an eye out for a few days in case of another flare up for any reason"
"Exactly, plus we got the arsonist so unless weather turns against us we should be fine"
Just then though Karen heard a sound she had hoped never to hear again
"Captain, tell both our chief's to get an evacuation order ready and for one of them to call the EDC, tell them that we have Kaltranians here and I need backup"
"What are you talking about, and just what are you going to do?"
"Give you guys time to clear the area, if it looks like the fight is heading towards the lodge I'll try and buy you guys enough time for an evacuation to be executed and hope like crazy that the EDC gets here in time and also tell my chief to inform certain people that the omega contingency is a big possibility now"
"And just how are you going to fight aliens Kerenai?"
"Don't worry I have my ways"
And just like that all of a sudden Karen had a sword in her hand and she was rushing towards the enemy so the Captain knew what he had to do
"Everyone out of the area, we have to contact the two chief's while we're at it too but for now evacuate"
While Karen fights the Captain makes his report to the two chiefs and after they got the report the Cybertronians were officially in charge