After being caught by Sector Seven, Braedey and Jasmine were escorted off to a set of Black Hawk helicopters, and they were now flying about over the desert down along the Colorado River. As they flew high above the desert, Braedey and Jasmine were sitting across from a blonde woman and a dark-skinned man in glasses who were around their late twenties.
"So what'd they get you for?" The woman asks.
"Well, I bought my first car, and it turned out to be an alien robot in disguise." Braedey shrugged back. The man with glasses mouth 'Wow' in awe. "Who knew, right?"
Soon enough, the helicopters were now making their way towards one of the most iconic dams in the world: the Hoover Dam, a 726.4ft (221.4m) tall 1,244ft (379m) long concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.
After landing at a helipad a little ways away, all the passengers onboard the Black Hawk copters were then driven to the Hoover Dam in GMC SUV. When they arrive, Braedey and Jasmine look at the sheer size of the dam. Soon, they were called in to meet with others.
Unbeknown to anyone, the minibot that has been impersonating Jasmine's phone soon crawled out of her bag, but then fell to bottom of the dam. It got up, albeit dazed from the long fall down, and it crawled off down a tunnel.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the United States, the Autobots have all gathered at an observatory of sorts, all of them in robot mode, with no sign of any humans about, which is fortunate for them. Arcee walked over to Optimus, handing him the necklace.
Optimus held up the necklace and closed his optics. "Please, let this work." He begged softly.
"Fire it up, Optimus." Jazz called.
Optimus held up the necklace as a blue light shone from his eyes that projected off the gem and necklace, now forming a hologram of Earth. "The code. The code on this necklace indicates the AllSpark is 230 miles from here." Optimus stated to his fellow Autobots.
"From what I've heard on what the humans call the Internet, that's at the Hoover Dam." Hotrod informed.
Ratchet looked up at the sky. "I sense the Decepticons are getting ready to mobilise."
Ironhide nodded in agreement. "They must know it's here, as well."
"We'd better get moving and fast." Arcee insisted.
"What about Bumblebee?" Jazz now protested to the others. "We can't just leave him to die and become some human expirement!"
"Jazz is right." Bulkhead agreed. "What about Bee?"
"He'll die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission." Optimus argued back to his team. "Bumblebee is a brave soldier. This is what he would want."
"Why are we fighting to save the humans?" Ironhide now asked. "They're a primitive and violent race."
"Were we so different, Ironhide? They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Braedey, for instance, I can sense the goodness within him, and could see it in his eyes. Freedom is the right for all sentient beings." Optimus now turned to them. "You all know there's only one way to end this war, once and for all. We must destroy the AllSpark. If all else fails, I will unite it with the spark in my chest."
"But that's suicide!" Arcee argued back.
"Arcee is right." Ratchet nodded. "The Cube is raw cosmic power. It could destroy you both."
"A necessary sacrifice, to bring peace to this planet." Optimus looked to his teammates. "We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes. It's been an honor serving with you all."
Optimus now looked out at the horizon. "Autobots! Roll out!" He announced.
"Yeah! We rollin'!" Jazz laughed as they head off, next transform into vehicle mode, and they race away.
Over at Hoover Dam, Jasmine, Braedey, Maggie, Glen, and the Secretary of Defence Keller were being lead to one of the towers of the dam. Braedey then saw Simmons in military uniform.
Simmons nodded at him. "Hey, kid. Think we kinda got off on the wrong start yesterday." He puts his hand on Braedey's shoulder. "You must be hungry. Want a drink? A latte? HoHo? Double venti macchiato?"
Braedey roughly shrugged his hand off. "Where is Bumblebee, my dog, and my aunt and uncle?"
"Son, I need you to listen to me very carefully." Tom Banacheck spoke up as he walked up to him. "People can die here. We need to know everything you know. We need to known it now."
Braedey shrugged firmly. "Okay. I'll cooperate with you. But only on three conditions. One: I want my aunt and uncle back, as well as my dog. Two: my car. And Three: Jasmine's juvie record? Gone. Forever!" Jasmine looked at him in shock.
Banacheck nodded. "Come with me. We'll talk about your car and your terms."
Braedey followed as Jasmine hugged his arm. "Thank you."
The brunette teen kissed her forehead. "Anything for you."
Simmons sighed. "The man's an extortionist."
Banacheck soon lead the group and several soldiers alongside, the soldiers being those who have confronted two Decepticons in Qatar, the scorpion robot and another that looks like an MH-53 helicopter. Two of those soldiers are Lennox and Epps, as well as Ken.
"All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs." Simmons said to the group.
"NBEs?" Epps questioned.
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials." Simmons stated as they walked along. "Try and keep up with the acronyms."
"Piece of scrap, he is." Braedey muttered, then saw Ken. "Hey, Ken. Good to see you."
"You too." Ken nodded, shaking hands. "Who's the redhead?" He gestured to Jasmine.
"She's my girlfriend. Jasmine." Braedey introduced.
"Pleasure, ma'am." Ken nodded firmly, Jasmine giving a two-finger salute.
"What you're about to see... is totally classified." Banacheck now stated.
The group now walk through a tunnel into a large bay, and they could see a giant robot that looks taller than Optimus, it's form preserved in ice. This robot looks to stand 40ft tall, with a metallic grey colour scheme, spikes on the shoulders and arms, shark-like teeth, long claws, and talon-like feet, but it's mere presence was enough to be freaky. Several men were spraying ice smoke on it, keeping it preserved.
'It's him...' Braedey thought to himself, he and Jasmine both holding hands as they look at the Cybertronian. It was clear to them who this robot was. Braedey also felt a chill go through his body, a sense he didn't know he felt...
"Dear God. What is that?" The Secretary of Defence, John Keller, asked to Simmons and Tom.
"We think when he made his approach over the South Pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry systems." Tom explained as they walked over towards the frozen robot. "He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1984."
"We call him NBE One." Simmons announced.
"I'm not to correct you on what you know, sirs, but THAT... that is Megatron." Braedey pointed out. "He's the leader of a race of transforming aliens called the Decepticons."
"He's been in cryostasis since 1985." Banacheck explained, then looked to Braedey. "Had your grandfather found him years ago, he would've made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind."
"Good thing he didn't." Braedey remarked.
"Fact is, what you're looking at would've been the very source of the modern age. As of now, we've scratched the surface and only worked on tapping into new fuels and energies, reverse-engineered by studying him. NBE One." Simmons then got close to Braedey's face. "That's what we call it."
'Too close, mate.' Braedey thought.
"And you didn't think the United States military need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?" Keller questioned to Banacheck.
"Until these events, we had no credible threat to national security." Banacheck retorted to the Secretary of Defence.
"Well you got one now!" Keller sighed.
Lennox looked up at Megatron. "So why is he here on Earth?"
"He's here because of the AllSpark." Braedey answered, everyone looking over to him.
"AllSpark? What is that?" Keller asked in confusion.
"It is a cube of infinite energy, with the power to create. It is how his race was born." Braedey answered to him. "The AllSpark is the reason why they're here. Mr. NBE One here, AKA Megatron..." He sneered at Simmons. "That's what they call him, is one of the most feared on all of Cybertron. He was responsible for the death of their planet, leaving the Decepticons and the Autobots no choice but to abandon their home. Now, if Megatron ever gets his claws on the AllSpark, he will abuse its power to transform our own machines into his army of Decepticons, so he can cause chaos and destruction, wipe out the human race in the process, take over our planet to make it his new world to conquer, then continue forth to take over the universe."
"And you're sure about that?" Simmons asked with some uncertainty.
"Yes. I heard it from the Autobot leader himself." Braedey looked over at him, then he realised why Simmons asked. "Wait... You guys know where the AllSpark is, don't you?"
Banacheck and Simmons both glanced at each other, knowing they have to tell the truth. "Follow me." Banacheck then lead them down a different tunnel out of Megatron's hangar.
"You're about see, our crown jewel." Simmons said to the group, leading them into a large room.
Braedey, Jasmine, and Maggie now approach the window before them, and could see a huge cube-like structure outside, being held up by various cranes. The markings seem to match that as those found on Megatron's body. The glyphs carved deeply into each side of the cube were beautiful, in their own unique way. It was shiny, a metallic dark grey and stunningly beautiful.
"No way..." Braedey muttered in awe.
"That's the AllSpark? It's really big." Ken commented.
"Carbon dating puts the Cube here about 10,000 BC." Banacheck explained to them. "The first Seven didn't find it until 1913. They knew it was alien because of the hieroglyphics matching the ones found on NBE One. President Hoover had the dam built around it. Four football fields thick of concrete. A perfect way to hide its energy from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside."
Inside the chamber, the mini-bot's head crawls up to the AllSpark, looking up in awe at it. Frenzy, which is the robot's name, now felt a surge of energy shoot down to him from the AllSpark, now giving him a full grown body. He chittered gleefully to himself, all the while now sending a message to other Decepticons.
{AllSpark located}
In the desert at a military base, a pilot materialised in the cockpit of an F-22, the holographic form flickering every now and then, while it's engines fire up.
{This is Starscream. All Decepticons mobilise.}
In the city, the police Mustang drives along at full speed, sirens and lights flashing in the process as it weaves in and out of traffic.
{Barricade en-route.}
Unbeknown to the police car, a Ford Interceptor police car was watching it go by, then he drove off after it.
At the outskirts of a military base, a large M1A2 Abrams MB tank with a second turret on top of the first, two secondary guns, rocket launchers, angular reflective armour, mine plows and the primary M256A1 120mm smoothbore gun rolled out of the museum it was housed, flattening the fence down in the process.
{Brawl reporting...}
At an Air Force base, a Buffalo H Minesweeper truck with a huge claw drives out, it's engine rumbling along as it leaves the base, heading out to the highway.
{Bonecrusher rolling...}
An MH-53 helicopter meanwhile zooms through the desert, now heading forth towards the Hoover Dam.
{Blackout incoming... ALL HAIL MEGATRON!}
Back at the facility, Maggie thought of something. "Wait. Back up, you said the dam hides the Cube's energy. What kind exactly?" She asked.
"Yeah, what kind?" Ken questioned.
"Good question." Simmons now lead them all into a room with a large crate in the centre.
"Please step inside. They have to lock us in." Banacheck stated as they shut the door behind the the group.
Epps and Glen now turn around and see large claw marks on the wall behind them. "What's that? Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?" Epps asked.
"Nah, man. Freddy Krueger has four blades." Glen states. "That's only three. That's Wolverine!" Glen now started laughing excitedly. "Right? That's Wolverine!"
"That's very funny." Simmons scowled, and Glen stops laughing immediately. "Anybody have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry? Key alarm? Cellphone?" Simmons asked.
"I got a phone." Glen now tosses his phone over to Simmons who opened a latch on the crate in the centre of the room and puts the phone inside.
"Nokias are real nasty." Simmons hissed to himself. "You've got to respect the Japanese. They know the way of the Samurai." He added as he closed the box.
"Nokia's from Finland." Maggie whispered to Keller.
"Yes, but he's, you know, a little strange. He's a little strange." Keller muttered softly.
Inside the crate, a laser-like instrument pointed down at the phone as everyone puts on a set of goggles.
"We're able to take the Cube radiation and funnel it into the box." Simmons explains.
Simmons threw down a lever and outside the Cube lights up with electricity. The laser zaps Glen's phone with the same electricity and the phone comes to life, becoming some kind of insectoid creature with red optics and has a four-leg stance. It charged at the box but fails to break out of it.
"Whoa..." Jasmine muttered.
"Mean little sucker, huh?" Simmons commented.
"That thing is freaky!" Maggie breathes and the little robot smashed into the glass again.
"Hate to have that as a pet." Braedey murmured.
"No kidding. What mad science..." Ken added.
"Kinda like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from hell, huh?" Simmons chuckled.
The little phone Decepticon chirps in Cybertronian before a large bazooka appears on its shoulder and a turret appears in its abdomen. It fired a number of bullets at the box but still fails to break it. It fires his bazooka, not even causing much damage, and the missile whirls around hitting the glass behind him.
"He's breaking the box." Simmons groaned to Tom.
Banacheck pulls a trigger to a holster that connected to the box. A surge of electricity sudenly erupted inside the box, killing the miniature Decepticon. Everyone now all watch as smoke emanated from the dead bot as they took off their goggles.
Meanwhile, out on the roads, Barricade, Brawl, and Bonecrusher were rolling out to rendezvous with their master.
Meanwhile, Starscream jets on through the sky heading toward the Hoover Dam. As he does so, he shifted and transformed into his 20ft tall hulking robot mode, armed with missiles and machine guns. Starscream growled and fires three missiles from his left arm, destroying the facility's power generators.
Inside the room, the lights in the room began to flicker ominously and everyone looked around surprised but also a little worried, especially as they all now felt the ground shake.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, they know the Cube is here." Keller stated ominously.
Banacheck slammed his hand down on a button to an intercom. "Banacheck. What's going on?" He demanded.
"The NBE One hanger has lost power, and the backup generator is just not gonna cut it." A man reported back, Banacheck not looking happy.
"What?" Banacheck demanded.
"They're here for Megatron." Braedey deduced.
Lennox now walked forward. "Do you have an arms room?"
Inside the control room, Frenzy had taken out the men inside as he began to work on the computer. He began to hack into the main systems of the back, and starts to cause the cryogenic system to fail, cutting off the pumps to the NBE One chamber.
Frenzy chittered with glee. "Megatron! Megatron! Megatron!"
Frenzy, after doing that, he made his way over to another computer, and he began to frantically work on the keyboard, implementing more commands and codes. He looked up to see a scan of Megatron's body, and the Decepticon leader's core temperature was now starting to rise, the freezing effects starting to melt away in the process.
"Megatron melting!" Frenzy chirped.
In the chamber containing Megatron, the scientists were taking note some of their cryogenic systems were not working at full strength, and they were reading off and abnormal readings from their instruments. But then, the pressure systems were going down as well, and it set off alarm bells to the scientists.
"16502. We're losing pressure." One scientist said over the P.A system. "We're losing pressure! The cryogenic system is failing! We're losing NBE One!"
Banacheck now motioned for the group to follow him. They all rushed after him and out of the room.
"Get everyone to the NBE One chamber now!" Banacheck ordered aloud as they all ran along the hallway and down a tunnel. "They're popping our generators." Banacheck said to them.
They all run into the arms room. Every man in the room were all grabbing any weapon they laid their eyes on, loading them with ammo, even getting their weapons armed up. But as they do so, everyone froze when the lights blinked again, the ground shaking again, Everyone all sharing an uneasy look.
Braedey now approached Simmons with a firm glare. "You have to take me to Bumblebee. Now. He'll know what to do with the AllSpark."
"Your car? It's confiscated." Simmons responded, completely ignoring Braedey's order.
"Then unconfiscate it!" Braedey ordered bluntly.
"We do not know what'll happen if we let it near this thing! Maybe you know, but I don't know!" Simmons stated back in irritation, loading his own gun.
"You just want to sit down here in the dam and see how the world dies?!" Braedey yelled back at him.
"I have people's lives at stake here young man!" Simmons yelled.
Lennox suddenly charged up, grabbing Simmons by the arm and swung him around, slamming him into the parked Humvee. "Take the kid to his car!"
Clicks sounded all over the room, the first being to the right of Lennox, a Sector Seven man aiming his SIG SG-552. Ken suddenly stepped in with his own M1911A1 pistol and points it back at the man.
"Drop it." Ken ordered.
Another man on Simmons' side aimed his Heckler & Koch G36C at Lennox, just as another guy on Lennox's squad dropped down and pushed his Heckler & Koch G36C in the man's line of sight. Another one of Lennox's men on his team slams the butt of his MP5A3 with an M68 Aimpoint scope into another soldier from S-7, now holding them at gun point.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Banacheck called in shock.
"...Damn." Was all Braedey and Jasmine could say.
"Drop your weapon, soldier." Simmons ordered at Lennox. "There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"
"We didn't ask to be here in the first place." Ken retorts back.
"I'm ordering you under S-Seven executive jurisdiction." Simmons ordered.
"S-Seven don't exist." Epps interjected.
"Right. And we don't take orders from people that don't exist." Lennox added.
"I'm gonna count to five. Okay." Simmons began.
"Well, I'm gonna count to three." Lennox then jabbed his pistol against Simmons' chest, threatening to pull the trigger and take him down.
"Simmons?" Keller called.
"Yes sir?" Simmons acknowledged to Keller.
"I'd do what he says." Keller advised to Simmons. "Losing's not really an option for these guys."
Simmons now looked back at Lennox. "All right, fine. Okay. Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool." He shrugged, Lennox stepping back.
The group now bursts through the door, Simmons flew through the door first, Banachek hot on his trail. As the others made their way in, they could see Bumblebee still being frozen, his cries being heard.
"Stop! You gotta stop! Stop!" Braedey yelled out.
"Let him go." Banacheck says to the soldiers. "Shut it down."
"Shut it down now!" Ken ordered, the soldiers now shutting off their freezer devices, Bumblebee letting out one more cry out.
Braedey now walked up to Bumblebee as he sat up. "Bumblebee? You okay?" He asked. The yellow Autobot looked back and nodded to him. "You're not hurt, are you?" Braedey asked next.
Bumblebee growls and brought down his face mask, now looking left and right at the other humans. He then arms his right plasma cannon and aimed it at the soldiers as he now got to his feet.
"Bumblebee, please listen to me." Braedey spoke up to the Autobot. "The AllSpark is here in the dam, but the Decepticons are on their way, if not already here." He began, but he could tell Bumblebee was hesitant since the scientists and soldiers were around. "Bee, listen. They won't hurt you, okay? I'll make sure of it." He looked to Ken and gave him a nod.
"Lower your weapons. Now." Ken advised to Lennox and the others, who now lower their weapons to show they won't hurt Bumblebee.
"Okay, Bumblebee. It's alright." Braedey reassured, the Autobot now lowering his cannon and putting up his mask. "Let's go. We've got an AllSpark to contend with."
Soon enough, the group of soldiers and teens, as well as the Autobot, arrived back where the AllSpark is held. They all look at the gigantic cube before them, Braedey stepping back to see what Bumblebee will do. Bumblebee gave a low hum to himself, all the while looking up at the AllSpark, then he placed his hands up against it.
"Okay, here we go. He doing something. He doing something." Epps said.
On cue, the AllSpark sparks with electricity and glows blue, everyone whiter watching on or shielding their eyes from the flashes. As they watch on, the sound of mechanical gear shifting could be heard, and they all watch on as the AllSpark now began to become smaller and smaller with each clank and shift.
"Whoa." Jasmine gasped in awe.
"That's extraordinary." Ken wondered
The Cube soon stopped shifting once it had become small enough to fit in Bumblebee's hands. He eyed the AllSpark, then he looked over at Braedey. "Message from Starfleet, Captain... let's get to it!" He said over the radio.
"Bee's right!" Ken agreed with the Autobot, the others looking to him. "We stay here in the dam, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. You heard Martin: if Megatron gets the AllSpark, it's game over."
"Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here, and hide it somewhere in the city." Lennox now said.
"Good! Right." Keller exclaimed.
"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force." Lennox continued, giving the secretary a pointed look.
Secretary Keller nodded, turning to Simmons. "This place must have some sort of radio link! Short wave! CB!" Keller listed and Simmons nodded numbly, he seemed to be in a state of shock over what happens, but was slowly getting back to normal.
"Sir, you gotta figure out a way to get word out to them! Everyone else, let's move!" Lennox ordered loudly, making a hand gesture for everyone to move.
"Mount up!" Ken added.
"In the Alien Archive, sir! There's an old Army radio console!" Simmons stated.
"Will it work?" Keller asked.
"Anything's possible!" Simmons gestured to where the AllSpark was and moved his hands in. "You see that..."
"All right. Braedey, go with Bumblebee!" Ken called. Bumblebee transformed into vehicle mode, and both Braedey and Jasmine get in.
"Mr. Secretary! Get our birds in the air! When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?" Lennox said to Keller.
"Affirmative!" Keller called back as Bumblebee drove off.
A few moments later, a convoy of military vehicles with Bumblebee leading ahead exit the dam and head on forth towards the highway. Inside the muscle car, Braedey and Jasmine both get the AllSpark secure with the seatbelts to make sure it doesn't move about, now snug in place.
"AllSpark secure?" Braedey asked.
"Hope so." Jasmine sighed. She looked to Braedey, who looks to be concerned. "What is it?"
"Megatron..." Was all Braedey could answer her.
"Warning! NBE One cryo-containment failing!"
Inside the chamber that housed Megatron, the ice started to break off around the Decepticon leader's body. The Sector Seven soldiers and scientists all try to maintain the ice and keep the Decepticon from thawing out, alarms going off all the while, but all their efforts were in vain as Megatron's core body temperature continued to rise higher and higher.
Eventually, Megatron's eyes light up a bright vicious red and he roared out in exertion, breaking through the ice and chains that were all around him.
"I AM...MEGATRON!"
Megatron now swung out his ball-and-chain, breaking free and destroying everything in sight around him. The soldiers soon began to fire their freeze weapons at the Decepticon leader, but to no avail. Megatron's body shifted and transforms into his Cybertronian jet mode, and he shot out of the tunnel with a sonic boom. He flew out and flies up the height of the dam, shifting into robot mode midair and lands on the ground with a thud as Starscream flew in to reunite with his long-forgotten master.
"I live to serve you, Lord Megatron." Starscream announced as he bowed his helm.
"WHERE is the Cube?!" Megatron demanded from his second-in-command.
"The humans have taken it!" Starscream informed.
Megatron growled lowly, his claws clenched. "You fail me yet again, Starscream. GET THEM!" He announced.
