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❝ CHAPTER 23 ── DARK
SIDE OF THE MOON ❞
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      ━━━━━ STEPHANIE LOOKED AT the building at which her brother had seemed to find a job. Stephanie looked at her friends as they looked at her.

"Stay here, I'll be back." Stephanie said, as she exited out.

As she walked closer to the building a man fell down in front of her, paper and glass falling on and around his body. She looked back at Hero and Caspian as they looked at her. The redhead turned and ran into the building. She ran through the metal detector and of course it had gone off. She moved swiftly past the security before they had a chance to stop her. Then she ran into one of the open elevators. Once she was in she looked around.

People gave her weird looks, she didn't mind the weird looks, it was something she had grown used to over the last few years. When the elevator opened she walked out. Screams could be heard in the distance. Stephanie pulled her gun out and held it low as she ran down the hallway. She came to a stop looking to see a Decepticon flying in the air shooting at everyone.

"Sam!" She yelled out for her brother.

Sam took off running in the opposite direction, the Decepticon following behind him. Stephanie took off following them, shooting at the Decepticon. She eventually caught up to them, the redhead rolled on the floor and turned around shooting at the bird. Then she picked herself up and ran after her brother.

"Sam!" She shouted once again. He stopped in his tracks and turned to look back at his sister.

"What are you doing here?" Sam asked, walking back towards her.

"Something felt off after that mission I was on and I came here as soon as I could. By the looks of it my feeling was right. Do you know what's going on?"

"Yeah, I do. Come with me, I have to go get Carly."

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Daisy followed behind Sam, while Stephanie had caught her friends up on what Sam had told her. They came to a stop and continued to talk, not realizing that Sam was having his own difficulties with his car being lifted up. Shortly after men came up to them holding their guns up.

"This is the moment where I wish we had our badges with us." Hero mumbled as the three climbed out and held their hands up. Stephanie ran from the men as Sam fought with one rolling to the other side.

"Let him go!" Stephanie shouted.

"Bee! Is Bee in there?" Sam questioned.

"Daisy!" Stephanie shouted as they pushed her to the ground. "The fact that you don't know who we are is asinine." Daisy shifted into her normal form as Bee appeared pointing at the men.

"That's my car." Sam said. "Come here."

"Yo, let's go, all of you. Lennox wants to see you." Stephanie, Hero, and Caspian followed behind Sam and Carly. Stephanie stopped and looked at the men. "Sorry, Captain, didn't recognize you with the different hair."

"Apology accepted."

Stephanie and the other's walked into the building. "Raise your hand if you had a flying psycho-ninja copier trying to kill you today!" Sam shouted, loud enough for Lennox to hear him.

"Where the hell have you been?" Lennox spoke, looking at Stephanie, Hero, and Caspian.

"They came with me, you know you're not the only Captain. Besides, I had to check on my baby brother and make sure he was okay. To my unsettled fear he was in fact not okay and needed my help." Stephanie said, as they all took off walking towards the main area of the building.

"This Wang guy recognized me. He told me to warn you and Steph. He was talking about the dark side of the moon, then they killed him." Sam explained.

"Wait a minute. He mentioned the moon?" Lennox asked him in return.

"Yeah, the dark side of the moon."

"But why would the Decepticons want to kill humans? I thought their war was with the Autobots." Carly asked.

"Maybe there's something being hidden from us." Caspian said, looking at the others.

"Excuse me! Colonel Lennox!" Director Mearing said. "Colonel Witwicky, nice of you to join us." She added.

"Director Mearing, this is Sam Witwicky..."

"I know his name, Colonel. I wanna know who gave him clearance?"

"Who gave me clearance? How about Optimus Prime, when he touched down in suburbia looking for my house?"

"This is the National Intelligence Director. In case you..."

"Hi."

"Disrespecting a federal officer? Huh. Maybe that'll get you somewhere. Who's she?"

"She's my girlfriend."

"What is this, like, a date?"

"She knows all about the Autobot, okay? She knows Bumblebee. And she comes from a military family. I can vouch for her."

"Hey, I have an idea. How about we get back to the important topic, like the fact that I almost had my face cut off by a Decepticon? As a taxpayer, I'd like to lodge a complaint, as a matter of fact."

"Okay, listen, all right? One of the software engineers at Sam's office was murdered today. He was involved in NASA's lunar mapping probe."

She took the papers from him. "Here's the thing, Colonel Lennox. Colonel Witwicky. We cannot entrust national security to teenagers unless I missed a policy paper. Are we doing that now? No. Good. I don't care who you are. If you breathe a word of what you see in here, you will do time for treason. Do you understand me?"

"I'll take my orders from the Autobots. I know them. I don't know you."

"You will."