Chapter Four
Two days later
The three of them, Lennox, Epps, and Ruby were heading towards a military plane that was going to take them to the airport so that they could go home; the rest of the crew besides Fig whom was in the hospital and Donnelly whom had unfortunately passed, were all already waiting in the plane for them.
All of a sudden, they heard someone shouting for them. "Captain Lennox! Captain Holmes! You and your team needs to come with me right now!" a man shouted. The three of them turned around to see a man running towards them from a small fleet of SUVs. The man grabbed the bag from Lennox's hand and began to drag them towards the SUVs, the other soldiers whom had been watching came off the plane to follow.
They were a team, if one was needed for something, they were all going. Especially after going through something like what they had experienced in Qatar.
Confused, the soldiers climbed into the SUVs and they were driven away.
"Where are we going?" Ruby asked from where she was sandwiched between Lennox and Epps.
"The Secretary of Defense wants you to meet him at the Hoover Dam." The man said.
"Oh, great." Ruby muttered. "So no going home after the shit show we've just went through? Okay, makes sense."
Lennox nudged her hard. "Ruby."
"Not sorry. I want to see my family, let them know I'm alive, annoy the hell out of my brothers. I've gotta list and this guy is ruining that list."
"Just a few more hours and then we're home free. I'm sure he just wants a firsthand account from us about what happened as opposed to reading the reports." Epps reasoned.
"Okay fine. But they better get us some food, I'm bloody starving."
"We'll get you food when we get there." The man said from the front before they all went silent again.
"You better." Ruby subtly threatened.
They didn't. And Ruby was ready to shoot something. The soldiers lined up on the side walk of the Hoover Dam as they waited for the SecDef to arrive.
"Attention!" Lennox barked out as they saw the secretary coming out of a SUV with two teenagers, a woman and man, and black suits following.
"Captain, good work." The old man said as he came up beside them.
"Thank you, sir." Lennox said.
"Now, you and your team follow me. Apparently these guys have something they want to show us." The soldiers followed the agents, secretary, woman, man, and two teenagers into the restricted section of Hoover Dam, going deep underground.
"What you are about to witness is top secret. It is also responsible for all advances in technology that we've had. Cellphones, GPS, you name it, we reverse engineered it from this." And they entered a large room to see a large robot, larger than the one from Qatar standing frozen in the middle of the large cavern.
"My God, what is that?" Secretary Keller whispered as the agents began to pretty much brag about the alien metal robot.
"Alright so here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs." The agent that had been a little confrontational with the teenagers, Ruby had noticed, said.
"NBEs?" Epps asked. The soldiers stood towards the back of the group staying close together in this unfamiliar environment. They had wanted to go home and forget about their experiences but it seems that their roles in whatever this was or going to be, they would have no choice.
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms."
In response to Keller's question, the other agent spoke up. "We call him NBE One."
The male teenager spoke up. "Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know, but I mean, that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons."
"He's been in cryostasis since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind." The second agent said.
"Like I said earlier, fact is you're looking at the source of the modern age, the microchip, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all reverse engineered by studying him. NBE One. That's what we call it." The first agent snapped getting into the male teenager's face.
Keller glared at the agents. "And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?"
"Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security."
"Well you got one now." Keller said.
"So why Earth?" Lennox asked.
"It's the Allspark." The teen spoke up. Ruby and others looked over at him. Looked like this kid knew a lot more than the 'experts' did.
"Allspark? What is that?" Keller asked.
"Well, yeah, they came here looking for some sort of cube-looking thing. Anyway, Mister NBE-One here a.k.a. Megatron, that's what they call him, who's pretty much the harbringer of death, wants to use the cube to transform human technology to take over the universe. That's their plan."
The soldiers all shared a glance. "And you're sure about that?"
"If he wasn't sure about it, he wouldn't have said anything." Ruby's British accented voice startled those that didn't know her, the secretary, agents, teenagers, and the other two strangers.
"Soldier, you are?" the more mouthy agent asked. Ruby glared at the agent.
"My name is Ruby. But who I am doesn't matter. You obviously know where this Allspark is so show us. I'd like to have this done and over with so I can return home. I'm sure my family is even now planning my funeral."
"Follow me." The second agent said. They followed.