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CHICAGO ❞
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      ━━━━━ STEPHANIE RAN BEHIND her brother with Hero and Caspian following behind the Witwicky siblings. Sam skidded to a stop in front of Simmons who looked at him and Stephanie.

"I need your help to track a phone call. There's a man on this phone. He's the head of their human operations, and he has Carly hostage." Dutch took the phone from Sam's hand and looked at it. They made it into the base, Dutch found a working area and began working on the phone call that had been made.

"The call was placed en route. I'm hacking into the phone's camera now. There, that's it. That's a live stream from the camera. Someplace... hold on. I can triangulate this." Dutch informed them. "Okay, it's a Chicago cell site. There, I've got it. Trump Tower, Chicago. Lower penthouse."

"I'm going." Sam said, Stephanie looked over at her brother.

"You sure?" Simmons asked Sam.

"She's done nothing but try to help me, and I can be there in 15 hours."

"You're not going alone." Epps said, the Witwicky siblings turned to stare at Epps. They followed Epps out of the building and headed towards his car. Luckily enough that had been where Hero had parked his car. "I still got my NEST friends out there. I'll round them up, we'll go find your girlfriend, we're gonna bring this guy in." Epps explained as cop cars drove past them.

"Why are you helping me?" Sam questioned Epps.

"Cause that asshole killed my friends, too."

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Stephanie sat in the passenger seat as they followed behind Epps. Eventually others joined them as they made it closer to Chicago. Destruction had already been under attack. People were running around screaming. Some were telling them to turn around as they continued to drive towards Chicago.

It was infested with Decepticons. "This isn't going to end well." Stephanie breathed out as she looked around. Stephanie climbed out of the car and held onto her gun, she was dressed in her suit. Her red hair pulled back into a braid. Her batons rested on her back and a few extra guns were on her suit as well.

She held her gun low to the ground looking around, people were dead, and the ones that were alive were trying to make it out alive. Jets flew towards Chicago however a Decepticon came up to them and shot them out of the air. They then flew away from the edge of the city.

"My God." Epps breathed out. "We came here to find her in the middle of all that?" Epps asked Sam.

"Are we really going out there, Epps?" One man asked.

"I'm not going in there." Another said.

"No one's going in."

Sam sighed, he looked over at his sister, Hero, and Caspian all of whom nodded their heads. "We are." Sam said. "With or without, we'll find her." The four took off leaving the others behind.

"You're gonna get yourself killed, Sam. Is that what you want?" Epps ran down and ran towards Sam. "Is that what you want? You came all the way out here to get yourself killed? Huh? Listen to what I'm saying?"

"Epps." Stephanie said, he briefly looked at her.

"She's here because of me. Do you understand?" Sam asked him in return. He then turned back around and walked away from Epps, the other three walking with him. Epps followed behind them.

"Listen, if you go in this building, that's if she's even still alive, there's no way you're gonna be able to reach her!"

"What do you suggest I do?" Sam asked, turning to face Epps.

"It's over. I'm sorry but it's over."

"No."

"Whoa! Incoming!"

Stephanie turned around watching as Decepticon flew towards them, shooting at them. She took off running but fell down when some of the ground had been shot into. Stephanie picked herself up and ran a little more, however the Decepticon came towards her, Epps and Sam. It flew over them causing the three to lower themselves to the ground.

Before it could shoot at them again, something shot back at it causing it to break down and fall to the ground. An explosion followed right after it. Stephanie lifted her head looking at the Decepticon as it tried to get out of the ship it was in. A bullet casing dropped down near Stephanie she turned around and saw Prime walk up to them.

"We will kill them all." Prime said, as Stephanie placed a smile on her face. Leadfoot leads more Autobots to them.

"Wreckers, kill him!" Leadfoot said, as he punched the Decepticon in the face.

"This is going to hurt!" Roadbuster said, moving to the top and looking down at the Decepticon. They proceeded to pull the Decepticon apart until it was no more. Stephanie stood up from the ground, looking up at Prime.

"Your leaders will now understand. Decepticons will never leave your planet alone. And we needed them to believe we had gone. For today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them!" Prime said.

Stephanie looked away from him watching Bee and Daisy lead the rest of the Autobots. The smile on Stephanie's face only got bigger. Both Bee and Daisy shifted, rolling on the train tracks and coming to a stop in front of the Witwicky siblings. They kneeled down looking at them.

"We saw your ship blow up!" Sam said, looking at Prime.

"The ship? We were never in the ship! We designed the damn thing, didn't we?"

"We were hidden in the first booster rocket to separate. Splashed down in the Atlantic just as planned. We ain't going nowhere."

"Yeah, no one's exiling us." Brains said, as he and Wheelie came out of Epps' car.

"The Autobots are staying right here. We're gonna help you win this war." Wheelie said.

"They're surrounding the city to make a fortress, so that no one can see what they're up to inside. Our only chance is the element of surprise."

"I think we know where to look!" Sam said, pointing at himself and Stephanie.

They came up to the ship that the Decepticon had been in. Bee stood by it, while Sam and Stephanie stood next to each other. Epps was on the ground with the others. Stephanie's gun rested by her side.

"So, you can fly this thing, right?" Sam asked Bumblebee. Bee shrugged his shoulders then shook his hand a little. "What is that... What is that? What is that? So-so? So you so-so can fly this. That feels terrible."

Sam and Stephanie climbed off the ship while Bee climbed into it. Epps pulled a gun out and handed it over to Sam, he looked between Sam and Stephanie.

"We're right behind you." Epps said.

Sam took the gun and shoved it behind his shirt. The Witwicky siblings walked forward with Caspian and Hero would be going with the others. Sam and Stephanie climbed into the ship. Bee got the ship up and running and picked it off from the ground.

"All right, we're going in." Bee flew the ship forward, turned it around and flew towards the city.