Chapter Five

"What you are about to see is our crown jewel." They enter a vault like room with a square glass case in the middle hooked up to other things. There was a thick glass overlooking another large cavern and in it was a large square that towered over everyone.

The Allspark.

"The Dam dampens the energy field, helps it avoid detection. Carbon dating takes this thing back before the stone age."

"What type of energy?" the blonde Australian woman asked.

"Glad you asked. They have to lock us in." The agent said as they were sealed in the room.

"Does anyone have a phone? Walkman? Mp3?"

"I've gotta phone." The man that came with the Australian said and handed the phone over to the agent. They all gathered around the box as the agent put the phone into the box and shut the little door bolting it.

"You've gotta love the Japanese. They know the way of the Samurai." The agent said. Ruby rolled her eyes.

"Nokia's from Finland." She and the Australian woman said at the same time, sharing a small smile between them.

"Well he's very strange." Secretary Keller said softly, hushing them slightly.

"We're able to take the cube radiation and funnel it into that box."He presses a button and an electric blue surge appeared shooting into the phone and transforming it into a little miniature robot. It immediately started shooting at the box and Ruby honestly couldn't blame it.

It was just 'born' and as soon as it came to life it was surrounded by those it didn't know and went on the defensive.

"Mean little sucker, huh?" the agent said with a slimy smirk. "Like a little energizer bunny from hell."

"That thing is freaky." The Australian woman said.

Ruby watched as the robot continued to shoot and make little cracks in the box but suddenly it stopped as its eyes latched onto her own, its eyes flickering between red and blue.

"Ugh. It's breaking the glass." The agent said to the other and reached for a switch to presumably to destroy the little robot but Ruby wasn't going to let them do it.

She whipped her gun from the holster and aimed it steadily at the two agents. "If you even twitch towards that, you will find one more hole inside of you than you do now. Epps, cover me." The soldier did so no question and aimed his own gun at the two agents as Ruby holstered her gun and opened the little door on the glass cage and placed her hand palm up and waited for little robot to warm up to her.

The little robot studied her intently before suddenly its eyes settled on blue and it squeaked excitedly. It climbed gently onto her hand and up her arm to settle between her neck and shoulder, snuggling down under her arm jacket. The little robot radiated a strange type of warmth that radiated through Ruby's body and caused her to gently rub its head from where it was peeking out.

"The little guy is scared. How would you feel if you suddenly found yourself enclosed, surrounded by strange creatures, seconds after being born? I'm going to assume this little one is a baby to their species just like all the others that you've brought to life… and soon killed… my team and I killed people like you, those that enjoy killing babies with no remorse. Maybe my friend here will tighten his finger just right and well, it's game over for you." Ruby said softly but her eyes were piercing hard, her inner sociopath that all of her brothers had - Sherlock had an inner and outer sociopath - showing.

"Ruby." Lennox warned, having seen this type of behavior once or twice since he's known her. "Your on level 4."

They had come up with a level scheme between the three of them so that Ruby could get a warning on how threatening and menacing she was becoming.

"Just a 4? That's fine then. I didn't snap… but let me make this perfectly clear to the people that supposedly don't exist. If I hear of even a whisper about you doing something like this again, I will ruin each and every one of you financially, emotionally, physically, and mentally. Trust me, I know precisely how to do it to each one of you. Am I understood?"

The two agents nodded fearfully and Ruby then smiled brightly. "Good! Glad we could come to an agreement."

Just then the room that they were in began flashing warning lights. The more senior agent with the mustache went over to a phone on the wall. "What's going on?"

Someone responded. The agent went pale.

"NBE One is deicing." He said and ran out of the room and began barking orders to others.

"Please tell me you've gotta weapons room." Lennox asked the agent that stayed with them.

"We do, follow me." The annoying agent said. They all followed the agent, picking up others along the way. The soldiers and agents began arming up, the little robot still snuggled against Ruby's neck.

Ruby's ears perked up as the teen boy that had a whole lot of information confronted the agent.

"You've gotta take me to my car. You have to take me to my car. He's gonna know what to do with the Cube."

"Your car? It's confiscated."

"Then unconfiscate it."

"We do not know what will happen if we let it near this thing."

"You don't know."

"Maybe you know, but I don't know."

"You just wanna sit here and wait and see what happens?"

"Listen young man, I have people's lives at stake."

All of a sudden Lennox came over and slammed the agent against the side of a jeep.

"Take the kid to his car." This caused the agents to point guns at the soldiers and the soldiers to return it, Lennox keeping one firm hand on the first agent while aiming his gun at another agent. "Drop it."

"Drop your weapon, soldier." The agent said to him. "There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"

"You know, we didn't ask to be here."

"I'm ordering you on the S7 executive jurisdiction-"

He was interrupted by Ruby and Epps. "S7 don't exist."

"We don't take orders from people that don't exist."

"I'm gonna count to five." Lennox, fed up, moved his gun so that it dug into the agent's chest.

"Yeah, well, I'm gonna count to three."

Everything was tense.

"Simmons." The agent, now named Simmons, glanced over at the secretary of defense.

"Yes, sir?"

"I do what he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys."

Simmons looked back and forth between Lennox and Keller.

"Alright, okay. Okay, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kids Camaro that's cool."