"You're about to see our crown jewel." Banachek began, leading the group into a glass viewing area, where the cube was seen from afar. It honestly took Mikayla's breath away as she stared at it. "Carbon dating puts the Allspark here around 10,000 BC. But it wasn't found until 1913."
"They knew it was alien because of the matching hieroglyphics on the Cube as well as NBE One. President Hoover had the dam built around it."
"Four football fields thick of concrete." Simmons added. "The perfect way to hide its energy from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside."
Keller looked at the cube with a dazed expression, "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." Banachek continued, looking at the man with a blank expression.
The man rolled his eyes and walked off dramatically. "Well, you got one now."
Banachek sighed and gestured to a room off to the side, "Please step inside. They have to lock us in."
Mikayla walked in cautiously, before recognizing it to be the place where they concentrated the Allspark's radiation.
"Oh, wow." Maggie started, walking in after her. The brunette couldn't help but agree.
"What's that? Freddy Krueger done been up in here or something?" Epps questioned, looking at the wall in confusion.
"Oh, no, man." Glenn chuckled, pointing at the scratch marks in a calm hysteria that she recognized Emerson was in the time that Barricade was chasing them. "Freddy Krueger have four blades, man. That's only three. That's Wolverine!"
When no one else in the room laughed, he started to cough awkwardly, "Right? That's Wolverine!"
Simmons rolled his eyes and stared blankly at the man. "That's very funny."
Glenn pursed his lips slightly and took a step away. Out of the corner of her eye, the girl saw Emerson check her watch worriedly. She sighed, looking at her own as well. They had around seven minutes until they got to the base.
"Anybody have any mechanical devices?" Simmons began, "BlackBerry? Key alarm? Cell phone?"
"I got a phone." Glenn offered, and Mikayla cringed- knowing exactly what was about to happen next.
Simmons looked down at the phone in satisfaction. "Nokias are real nasty."
The man opened up what looked to be some sort of insulated box- one perfect for keeping harmful radiation away from the contact of humans. "You've got to respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai."
Maggie paused for a second, looking confused as she put the glasses that they had given her on. "Nokia's from Finland."
Keller nodded, "Yes, but he's, you know, a little strange. He's a little strange."
Simmons, unaware of their side conversation, continued as he pressed the button for the machine to work. "We're able to take the Cube radiation and funnel it into that box."
As soon as he pointed to it, there was a small beam of light, and then the small phone transformed.
Glenn gave out a high pitched shriek as the group watched, only to have the attention drawn to him. Once he noticed the stares on him, he paused. "That wasn't me."
Mikayla sighed, looking down at the little bot with a curious stare.
"Mean little sucker, huh?" Simmons supplied, the now-cybertronian shooting at the box in a sense of fear. She tilted her head, a semblance of curiosity filling her mind.
"That thing is freaky!" Sam mumbled to himself, looking at the box with a sense of fear and awe.
"Kind of like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from hell."
Mikayla dismissed both of them as she called out, "Everyone step as far away from the glass as you can."
There was a pause as Simmons gave her a look, "Excuse me, girl, you're not the one who should be giving orders here."
It seemed as Emerson had her back as she smiled widely, "You're gonna do the thing?"
The brunette raised a brow, "Of course. I wouldn't leave here without at least trying it."
The blonde immediately backed straight up against the wall, dragging a confused Sam along with her. The rest of the group did the same as now it was only Mikayla & Simmons, who just scoffed irritably.
"I would recommend you move out of the way, Simmons." John Keller advised, "I don't think the girl likes you very much."
Mikayla snorted slightly at the comment, and Simmons cautiously backed off as she put her face up to the glass.
The little bot suddenly stopped shooting at the glass after he realized that the girl wasn't there to hurt him. Slowly, his eyes turned green- and she smiled in success. Putting a small finger against the glass pane, the little sparkling placed his hand to the other side.
The girl smiled, fully aware of the others watching the interaction. She turned to Simmons and nodded. "Open the case."
He blinked. And then blinked more violently, "Excuse me, no. Not happening."
She narrowed her eyes slightly, "I wasn't asking."
"I would do what she says." Keller defended yet again, "I don't think the girl will take no as an answer."
Agent Simmons glared at the girl before flipping a switch on the wall behind him. "Fine, if you want to get us all killed, go right ahead. Trust the teenage girl."
She grinned eagerly as the lock clicked open, and the girl quickly went around to the opposite side to collect her new friend.
Slowly but carefully, the brunette opened up the lock.
The group waited in a calm but cautious anticipation as she began to open up the box. At first, the cybertronian had no idea what to do, until Mikayla held out her waiting hand. The bot quickly clambered out of the box and to the soft flesh of her arm- nuzzling it softly.
"This is literally so cute-" Emerson started from the sidelines, being the first one to speak, "I can't believe it actually worked thoug-"
Suddenly the building began to shake violently, the lights flashing on and off. The two girls paled.
"Frenzy." Emerson quickly started.
"I thought we killed him-" Mikayla continued, "-how the hell did he even get here?"
Banachek looked from his radio to the girls as he started, "They know the Allspark is here."
Emerson & Mikayla met eyes and started to take action.
"We need to get to the autobots, and get the Allspark out of here." Emerson began, immediately taking the lead. She turned to the blonde besides her, "Captain Lennox, do you think you can get your team loaded and ready to leave here in five to ten minutes?"
He looked hesitant at first but nodded, 'We'll need better firepower than what we have, but otherwise yeah I think so."
"Great." Mikayla nodded, "Simmons, you take them to the arms room- and for the love of god do not fight me on it, the fate of the world is at stake and we don't have time for your temper tantrum."
Rolling his eyes, the man nodded & then they were off.
Mikayla turned to the remaining people in the room, "We're going to need some backup. Communications are down- the decepticons know better than to keep that running, but is there any way you guys can get word out to the air force?"
Maggie blinked, "Yeah, maybe."
Emerson grinned, "Great, that's great.'
"We'll take the Allspark into Mission city." Mikayla started, looking at them. "That's where we'll be."
The small group nodded, and the two girls smiled. Saying a parting goodbye and some good lucks, the three were off, running back to the main hangar.
It seemed as if it was great timing, because three bots pulled into the large space, just as the military vechicles did.
Mikaela quickly rushed out from Bumblebee's interior and smiled. "You guys need some back-up?"
They grinned in relief as Epps called out from the side.
"Hey," he started warily, "I thought you said they were giant robots or something."
There was a pause as Emerson chuckled, "They're robots in disguise."
Mikayla snorted, "Okay, yeah, the inside jokes are never gonna get old."
Sam raised a brow at the two before calling out to their companions, "You guys are good to go, they already promised not to shoot you.. so I guess that's as good as it's going to get."
A few seconds later, the three had begun to slowly transform- as not to startle the humans below.
The three autobots who had gathered were Ratchet, Bumblebee, and Jazz- who Mikayla knew to be Prime's second in command.
The silver bot crushed down to say hello, and Mikayla watched amusedly as Emerson bounded over to greet him.
The small action caused the soldiers around them to ease up a little bit. Jazz introduced himself, explaining that both Ratchet and himself would be a diversion as Bumblebee took the Allspark. It was a risky plan, but it made sense to Mikayla, who was only half paying attention- instead focusing on the sparkling in her hand.
Soon after, Sam led Bumblebee to retrieve the Allspark as the soldiers & everyone else took the time to make sure they were ready for battle.
Finding Ratchet without work, she walked over to him.
He looked down at her in greeting, then surprised once he noticed what was in her hand.
"By the Allspark.." he whispered, "Is that?"
She nodded, "I was wondering if you could check them out? See if everything was okay?"
The mech nodded, looking down at the sparkling in her hand curiously. Quickly scanning it, he asked, "How did this happen?"
She frowned. "Sector Seven was using the Allspark to test on technology. This little one here used to be someone's phone."
His brows furrowed as he looked down at them, a few curses leaving his intake.
Looking at his scanners and back, he sighed. "He's fine. Not a complete cybertronian, but he's fine."
She tilted her head curiously, "What do you mean?"
He looked at her again, "Your friend there isn't a full cybertronian, he's a cyberkanine."
Mikayla blinked, "So, like Ravage?"
Ratchet recoiled in shock, before nodding. "Yes, actually. I keep forgetting you know things you probably aren't supposed to know."
"I get that a lot." she shrugged, "So he's gonna be okay?"
He chuckled softly, "Yes, he's going to be just fine."
A smile broke across her features, and she leaned up against one of the military vehicles calmly as she waited for Sam & Bumblebee to return.
Taking a second to listen to the conversations around her, she managed to catch the tail end of what seemed to be the conversation between Jazz & Emerson from a little ways away.
"-like all music, not just specifically jazz?"
"Yep, your kind's tunes are pretty fresh, compared to Cybertron's. We didn't have things like that on our planet."
"Really? What kinds of things did you have?"
Mikayla snorted, honestly it would only be Em who was conversing with an alien about music before a battle.
"Hey, Ratch?" she started again, looking at the mech who stared curiously down at her. "Where are Optimus and Ironhide?"
His optics widened, before he replied calmly, "They're outside, making sure that none of the Decepticons get inside."
She nodded, pursing her lips, "Do you think everyone will be okay?"
The medic scoffed, "Says the time traveler. You already know the outcome, don't you?"
The brunette looked down at the ground, holding the sparkling- who was now in recharge- close to her chest. She took a deep breath.
"I'm going to assume the outcome is not in our favor, then." Ratchet sighed. Crouching down to her level, he looked her in the eye. "We swore an oath to protect the human race, and that includes you, Mikayla. And your rag-tag group of friends."
That last part made her laugh a little, and she looked up to nod at him. "Thanks, Ratchet."
"Anytime."
A sudden crash brought her from her thoughts, and she saw a familiar vehicle speed to a stop in front of them.
"Let's move!" Lennox shouted, and surrounding them were the opening and closing of car doors. Mikayla quickly rushed to a stop in front of Bee, who let her in with the click of his door.
If he noticed the cyberkanine in her hands, he didn't ask, because they were soon speeding out of the base- the hot Nevada sun not bothering her in the slightest.
She surveyed the occupants of the car. Sam was in the driver's seat with the cube, and her name-double sat besides him in the passenger seat. Mikayla looked besides her, expecting to see the familiar care-free grin of her companion, only to find the seat empty.
Bee must have noticed the panic, because his radio suddenly sputtered out, "The girl went and left.. took a ride with.. the second-in-command."
The brunette let out a breath, "Thanks, Bee."
"Anytime, girly."
Mikayla looked to her left and out the window- noting the change of scenery. From the side view mirror, she could see military vehicles following closely behind. Behind them were the familiar alt modes of the autobots, and she relaxed slightly after spotting a flash of silver in the distance.
It was sort of weird being without her companion at the time, but the thought hadn't quite sunk in at the moment- for she had bigger things to worry about.
Like the sparkling that she carried on her lap. Supposedly the one who was like Ravage, a cyberkanine. The girl supposed she should at least name the little guy, but she didn't really know what to name.. well, a cyberkanine.
And the upcoming battle- they weren't too far away from Mission City as of then. She didn't really know much about what was to happen- but she definitely wasn't going to just standby.
Mikayla was going to fight alongside them, and no one was changing her mind.
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here, i'm just going to say it- none of these chapters have been reread or edited. this is all just me writing & posting every five minutes.
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okay, byeeee
- crocodile.