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❝ CHAPTER 27 ──
HOSTILE TAKEOVER
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      ━━━━━ STEPHANIE AND SAM ran into the building the Witwicky siblings found Carly, they proceeded to walk over to her and Dylan.

"It's funny. I was just thinking on the way over here, I could really use some advice from Dylan, and there he is." Sam said, as he and Stephanie came to a stop in front of the table. "Can I speak to you, Carly?"

"Welcome. Please, sit down. Have a drink. You too, Stephanie." Dylan said, looking at Sam and then at Stephanie. The redhead rolled her eyes at the man.

"You know what, I don't need a drink. Or a car, or a job. I just need to speak to my girlfriend alone. Is that okay with you, Mr. Inappropriate?"

"Excuse me." Carly said, standing up and walking over to Sam and Stephanie. Carly placed her hand in Sam's and he pulled her with him. Stephanie walked with them as they tried to get out of the building. "What's going on?" Carly proceeded to ask them.

"I'll tell you outside."

"I really think I can help you, Sam." Stephanie looked back at Dylan watching him stand up and start to walk after them. "I remember a talk I had with my dad once about tough choices."

"Yeah, now's not the time. We'll set something up, though."

"Of course, it was way back, when my dad's firm was in charge of budget review an accounting for NASA." Both Sam and Stephanie stopped in their tracks. Stephanie went to place her hand on her gun. She turned to look back at Dylan. "You see, the thing that he taught me was, when it's not your war, you join the side that's going to win."

"Move."

Stephanie walked to Sam's car climbing in the driver's side and driving towards the exit, Sam followed behind them. She however pressed on the breaks and turned around as the car behind her shifted and threw Sam and Carly out of it.

"What the hell." Stephanie breathed out. She then watched as Carly was grabbed and placed back into the car. She climbed out of the car and pulled her gun out holding it low to the ground. Dylan walked towards Sam, as he stood up from the ground.

"You really think you're the first man ever asked to join the noble alien cause?" Dylan asked him.

"Who are you?" Sam shouted out.

"Do you know why we've not been back to the moon since 1972? Because these two, they came to my dad and they told him to do some creative accounting. Make it way too expensive to ever go back. So, he and others shut down the American and Russian space programs. And they've been our clients ever since."

One of the guards came up behind Stephanie and took her gun, he then kicked her to the ground and held her gun up to her head. Sam looked over at his sister as she looked at him. Sam then looked back at Dylan.

"You helped them kill people?" Sam asked.

"You think they'd give you a choice. Besides, it's not like I personally participated." Sam went to run towards Dylan however his men grabbed a hold of him and stopped him. "I am a liaison. I liaise." They then threw him back into the grass. "It's hostile takeover time, Sam."

"Sam!" Carly called out to him. Stephanie tried to make a run for it however the guard knocked her gun into her head causing the redhead to fall to the ground.

"Let her go!" Sam shouted, only to be caught by the guards.

"Sam!"

"I've had my eye on you and your sister for years, Sam. You're the one spy I've never been able to provide as someone close to the Autobots." Stephanie picked her head up and watched her younger brother spit on Dylan.

"Sam! Don't do what he wants!" Carly shouted. The guard picked Stephanie up and dragged her away from the car. He then pushed her down to the ground for Sam to see her. He watched as the gun was held to her head.

"Yes, he will." Dylan looked back at Sam as he looked at his girlfriend and his sister. "They all do." Dylan proceeded to raise his hand and slap Sam's cheek. He then grabbed Sam's shirt and lifted him up. "They will slaughter her and your sister, you understand me? In the time it takes you to blink, they'll do it to her, they'll do it to your sister, and they'll do it to me. So you show a little respect when someone offers you a job! Wrist."

"No, don't hurt him." Stephanie shouted trying to move forward. She was hit in the face with her gun, some blood coming out and falling to the concrete.

"You and your sister are to track down Optimus Prime, because you're the only humans he trusts, and you will ask one question. How does he intend to fight back? Strategies, tactics, everything!" Sam groaned, falling to the concrete. "Has a nasty little bite, doesn't it? It's very high-tech. It lets us see what you see, hear what you hear, and it taps your nervous system. So, if you so much as try and signal..." Sam groaned again. "I don't know what to tell you, Sam. Relationships have consequences. I am here because of my father. They're here because of you."

"Stop, stop! Stop! Stop!"

"Soundwave, would you please? Sam, do your job. She'll be safe. I give you my word." Sam stood up from the ground and looked at Dylan.

"I'll kill you. You have my word." The guard placed Stephanie's gun back in her holster and grabbed a hold of her arm pulling her forward. They were shoved into a taxi and taken back to Sam's place, only to be picked up by the FBI.