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❝ CHAPTER 5 ──
VOCAL BOX ❞
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      ━━━━━ STEPHANIE FOLLOWED BEHIND her brother as they were led to his car. They pushed through the door, Stephanie looking at each of the men that stood around the Autobot. Soon enough the men stopped what they were doing, she watched as her brother talked to the yellow robot. Stephanie lowered her gun to her side, as the yellow robot known as Bumble Bee showed his weapons.

"Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming." Sam informed the Autobot.

He moved himself around, the table still moving his weapon around looking around at everyone. She moved back slightly, still unsure of the robot.

"No, no, don't worry about them. They're okay. Right? They're not gonna hurt you." Sam said as Bumble Bee stood up. "Steph, come here." Sam called out to his sister.

She looked at her brother briefly then walked towards him. She watched as Bee held his weapon towards her. She lifted her hands up towards the robot letting him know that she wouldn't harm him.

"This is my sister. And the men she's with are her friends. They won't hurt you." Sam informed the car. He continued to move his hand around towards everyone. "Just back up a little bit. He's friendly. He's fine."

Stephanie watched the robot intently, something about his existence interested her and she was curious to where it would lead her.

"Okay, come on. Put the guns down. They're not gonna hurt you." Sam called out. Bumble Bee lowered his hand allowing his weapon to disappear. "Here, come with me. I'm gonna take you to the AllSpark." Sam said, lowering his hand.

Stephanie adjusted her gun following behind Sam and his car. Lennox looked towards the blonde, as she looked forward.

"What are you thinking about?" Lennox asked her, causing her to look at him.

"Just what it will be like to finally go home." Stephanie answered looking back over at her brother as they continued to lead the robot to the AllSpark.

"When this is over we'll be able to go home to our families. I know that much." Lennox told her. She sent him a small smile towards him, and he returned the smile.

Soon enough the group picked up their pace running down the hallway, Stephanie and her team moved in front of the robot to secure the area just in case. She stood her ground watching as Bee walked up to the AllSpark looking at it. He lifted his hands, placing them on both sides of the Cube.

"Okay, here we go. He doing something. He doing something." Epps called out looking at the yellow Autobot, Stephanie only smirked at her friend. A few shocks of electricity blasted towards the Cube, everyone watched as the Cube started to move downwards towards Bee.

"Wow." Stephanie breathed out.

She watched as Bee grasped onto the Cube, "message from Starfleet, Captain. Let's get to it." Bee called out.

"His vocal box must have been damaged." Stephanie called out looking towards Epps.

"How'd you know?" Epps asked her.

"Growing up I taught myself to take apart things that were broken and put them back together so they could work. I didn't really have any friends growing up." Stephanie informed him.

"He's right." Lennox called out, stepping down towards the other level. "We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city." Lennox explained as everyone looked around at each other.

"Good! Right!" Keller said, shaking his hands. Excitement seemed to run through his voice.

"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force." Stephanie said, looking at Keller.

"This place must have some kind of radio link!" Keller spoke walking towards Simmons. Stephanie looked around the room as Keller and Simmons conversed back and forth.

"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get the word out to them. Let's move!" Lennox shouted. Stephanie turned around running with her team.

"All right, Sam, get in the car! 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 ordered looking back towards Epps.

Stephanie ran down the stretch of hallway with her gun in her hand, moving side-to-side. "Set a perimeter around the yellow vehicle!"

Stephanie climbed into the car sitting in the back as Epps climbed into the passenger side. Once everyone was in they were on their way to the city. She lowered her head down slightly fearing what might happen in the next few hours, she knew that it wasn't good and she hoped that they could put a stop to it before it got worse.