The 'Department of Health and Human Services' building in the outskirts of Washington DC may look like that of an ordinary and abandoned building to the regular human being, but to those within the United States Government, it's the brand-new and state-of-the-art N.E.S.T Headquarters.

Following the defeat of The Fallen in Egypt, N.E.S.T began deploying Energon detectors all around the globe. With a distinct lack of Decepticons to fight, they began to get involved in policing human affairs, such as disabling and shutting down illegal nuclear facilities in the Middle East.

Within the confines of the new base, Autobots and soldiers were arriving, all of them preparing for some training or to get some tuneups, new weapons and gear, along with having the chance to talk amongst one another after the mission. As they drove in, (YN) sat in Optimus' cab, but they both did not say a word.

P.A. System: "All arriving Autobots, in par, training and debriefing in fifteen minutes." He announced throughout the headquarters. "Mirage, report to bay twenty-three." Mirage pulled to a stop at one of the bays. "Sideswipe, bay thirty-seven for weapon assessment." Sideswipe rolled up to a stop in the other bay.

Jake: "Great job out there, guys." He called, who was assisting Vanessa with upgrades and modifications for some Autobots and machinery. "Okay. Let's get you checked out and see what need tuning up."

Sideswipe: "I could use some new rims." He commented. "These ones might just need a makeover."

Vanessa: "You're just fine." She laughed.

With Colonel Lennox, he pulled up on his motorcycle, and as he was getting his biker gear off, a group of what looked to be official men and women in black suits walked into the facility. The lead blonde of the group looked to be around her late 40's, wearing glasses over her eyes, and looked rather strict. This is Charlotte Mearing, the director of National Intelligence and she was not in a good mood.

Mearing: "Senator, I suggest you remember that when NSA wants funding, they call me." She said on the phone. "When the CIA is gonna take out a target, they ask first for my permission. And when the President asks which members of Congress are politically vulnerable in terms of, let's say, undiscovered criminal conduct, I'm the number he dials." With that, she shuts off her phone. "CIA is up my ass about this mystery raid in the Middle East. So, it's time to come clean. Was your unit involved?" She interrogated Lennox.

Lennox: "Ah... I'm not sure, ma'am." He replied as they walked down the length of N.E.S.T headquarters.

Meanwhile, Bishop was teaching the new recruits as to how to kill a Decepticon with Wolfang by her side. Bumblebee had his battle mask down with his plasma cannon up, making him look like a Decepticon.

Bishop: "Alright, guys. This is how you do a Decepticon head kill shot." She instructed.

Two NEST soldiers rappel down onto Bumblebee's shoulders and drop to the ground, their FN MK 13 grenade launchers trained on him. Bumblebee knelt down to the ground as the soldiers rolled off his shoulders and onto the floor. They aim the grenade launchers at his head, successfully catching Bumblebee off guard as he transformed his cannon back into his hand.

Bishop and Wolfang then turned their attention from Bumblebee to Lennox and the blonde women as they passed by.

Bishop: "I wonder who she is?" She muttered to herself.

Mearing: "As Director of National Intelligence, I'm a really big fan of intelligent answers." She stated, and Lennox grasped the back of his neck.

Lennox: "I can't really tell you definitively. These Autobots are like teenage kids." He explained. "They like to sneak out of the house every once in a while."

Mearing: "Colonel Lennox, are you in command or are you not?" She asked him sternly.

Lennox: "Yes, ma'am, I am. I-" He was about to continue his stuttering, when Mearing interrupted him.

Mearing: "Stop with the ma'am. Enough with the ma'am. Do I look like a ma'am?" She asked, tilting her head to her assistant, who shook her head 'no'.

Lennox: "No, ma'am. Ye- Yes, ma'am. Yes." He corrected himself quickly.

Wheeljack: "This gun is my perfect invention, Ironhide." He stated, handing Ironhide a big Heavy Iron rifle. Longarm standing nearby.

Ironhide: "Right." He nodded, examining it. This will go along with his dual forearm-mounted Ion Pulse Cannons.

Wheeljack's head has an Albert Einstein-like appearance with spectacles, with the front sides, wheels, and headlights folded forward on his shoulders, and stood about 16 feet tall, and he also has a shoulder bag for his items.

Wheeljack: "Oh, good. You're here. Me name's Wheeljack." He introduced himself politely to Mearing. "I do hope you have answers for him. I've never seen him so upset before."

As Mearing approached the vehicle mode of Optimus Prime, along with the (YN), she noticed that all the other Autobots were crowding around their leader. She recognised a few; Sideswipe, Ironhide, Mirage, Bumblebee, Arcee, Chromia, the Twins, Jolt, Warpath, and Elita One.

Lennox: "Optimus, (YN), you remember Charlotte Mearing?" He asked the two. "Our Director of National Intelligence?"

However, he was met with an uncomfortable silence from the two leaders of their respected teams. Ironhide gestured to Mirage to back away with his right hand. Mirage took a few steps back, uncrossing his arms as he did so.

(YN) was still sitting inside Optimus, as he's still in alt-mode. Mearing nor Lennox can't see him cause of Optimus's tinted windows.

Mirage: "They in a bad mood." He warned them with a wave of his hand. "They-a not talking to anybody today." He told them, wagging his finger at them.

Elita glared at Mirage. She did not like him, not one bit. He was very rude, his Italian accent was totally fake, he could never take a hint, plus he declared that his twin knives were stronger simply because they were larger, and that he was better than (YN). It was beyond preposterous.

Skids: "Yeah, cause the Bosses are straight up pissed." He spoke next.

Mudflap: "They gonna kung fu on yo asses." He added up, making kung fu hand motions.

Mearing: "'They'? Commander Witwicky is not an Autobot, need I remind you all." She said firmly.

Ratchet: "(YN) is as much as an Autobot as we are, Director." He defended, stepping up. "He has fought numerous battles with us."

Warpath: "So if you have a problem with addressing (YN) as one of us, then you have a problem with ALL of us." He added, clenching his fists. Mearing was slightly taken aback at his threat. She turned to Optimus as he was still silent.

Mearing: "What is this? The silent treatment?" She questioned snarkliy, leaning over the table.

Ironhide: "We've seen that, and it is not that." He denied, looking down at Mearing.

Wheeljack: "Definitely not." He added.

Elita One: "Nope." She agreed, making Mearing look to her.

Ironhide: "THIS is worse. Prime! Kid! Make something of yourselves." He then hit his right fist on the top of Optimus' roof. (YN) opened Optimus' door and shot a glare at Mearing. "They're pissed." He muttered to Bumblebee.

Optimus now began to transform. However, the way he does so, it seems rather abrupt and jarring. Once he obtained robot mode, he slammed his fists down on the floor, glaring hard at the two humans, the sound reverberating throughout the base.

Optimus: "You lied to us!" He boomed coldly. "Everything humans know of our planet we were told had been shared. So why was" He pointed down at the engine part they'd recovered from their mission on the table. "THIS found in human possession?" He demanded, pointing behind her.

(YN): "Care to explain, Director?" He added, folding his arms with Optimus hovering overhead of him.

Mearing: "We were in the dark on this also." She admitted with brutal honesty. "It was 'Director Only' clearance at Sector Seven until now." She explained.

(YN): "It's all about Sector Seven, for God's sake." He grunted in exasperation, pinching the bridge of his nose.

Mearing: "Quiet, Commander." She turned to face her assistant. "The bag." She ordered sharply.

The Assistant: "Which bag?" She whispered, fumbling with the multitude of handbags.

Mearing: "Hermes Birkin. Green ostrich." She hissed back through gritted teeth, tilting her head slightly. The assistant shuffled forward and handed her the bag. "My God." She cursed to herself. She opened the bag and pulled out a small whit box. "This is a secret few men knew, and fewer still remain alive." She stated vaguely, passing the bag back to her assistant. "Allow me to please introduce to you two of NASA's founding mission directors and astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men to step foot on the moon."

A few men walked through the doorway of the large hangar towards Mearing and the Autobots. One of those men was Buzz Aldrin. Everyone was in shocked, especially (YN). Mearing walked up to Aldrin and shook his hand.

Mearing: "Sir? Optimus Prime." She introduced, holding a hand up to Optimus.

Aldrin: "From a fellow space traveler, it's a true honor." He stated with astonishment, looking up at Optimus in front of him. Optimus knelt down as Bumblebee stood off to his left left and Ironhide stood off to his right.

Optimus: "The honor is mine." He replied with a humble nod of his head.

(YN): "Dr. Aldrin." He walked over to Aldrin and shook his hand. "A pleasure to meet you in person. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be an astronaut."

Aldrin: "The trip up was fun, Commander." He laughed slightly. "It was the re-entry that wasn't as smooth as most would think."

Mearing: "Our entire space race of the 1960s, it appears, was in response to an event." She now began to explain as she stood up on a balcony to be eye-level with the Autobots.

NASA Director: "Our astronauts investigated a crashed alien ship." He added in next. "No survivors on board."

Aldrin: "We were sworn to secrecy by our Commander in Chief." He informed Optimus.

NASA Director: "A total of thirty five people knew the real plan at NASA." He continued. "Soviets managed to land unmanned probes. Somehow they must have... picked up that fuel rod."

Meaning: "We believe the Russians deduced that the rod was a fissionable fuel assembly, believed they had it mastered and tried to harness it at Chernobyl." She added in, turning away from the computers behind her, which was playing clips of the Soviets experimenting the engine part.

(YN): "Which resulted in the meltdown in 1986." He deduced, now climbing up the ladder to the balcony and stood next to Mearring.

Mearing: "Exactly." She confirmed.

NASA Director: "We landed six missions in all." He relayed. "We took hundreds of photos and samples. We locked them away forever when the moon program was shut down."

Ironhide: "Well, did you search the crash vault?" He questioned. Aldrin, Mearing, and the NASA Directors were all silent, all shared looks with each other. They were not sure what he was implying.

Optimus: "The ship's name was the Ark." He began, a grave look on his faceplate. "I watched it escape Cybertron myself." All the Autobots looked over at him as he took a few steps forward. "It was carrying an Autobot technology which would have won us the war. And... its captain." He stopped in front of Mearing.

Mearing: "Who was its captain?" She questioned as Optimus held onto the rail she was leaning against.

Optimus: "The great Sentinel Prime. The technologies inventor." He answered. "He was commander of the Autobots, before me." He pulled his hand off the rail. "It's imperative that I find it before the Decepticons learn of its location. Our Autobot spacecraft has the ability to get there. And... you must pray it's in time."

(YN): "You'll find it, Optimus." He smiled. "As well as what Sentinel has onboard that ship." He then descended from the ladder. "As much as I'd love to go with you, I actually have to get my wife from work." He claimed, and Wolfang transformed into his rucksack mode, and he grabbed Wolfang by the handle. "Let's go, Bee!" Bumblebee whirred in response with a nod as he followed him out

Meaning: "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Who the hell gave you clearance to just randomly leave whenever you want." She demanded from (YN). (YN) stopped and turned to her.

(YN): "His orders outrank yours, Director." He stated, pointing at Optimus. "Yours may work on regular soldiers, but nobody's orders outranks Optimus'."

Bumblebee transformed into vehicle mode, (YN) climbing into his driver seat, and the three drove away and out of the base, leaving Mearing to glare at the departing vehicle.

Outside of the doors to the base, there is a statue of what looks to be Jetfire's cane. It stood tall and mighty, sitting on top of a large block on concrete, whilst a plaque is bolted onto the concrete block.

'In Memory Of'
'Jetfire'
'The Autobot who gave the ultimate sacrifice to save the Earth from imminent destruction'

To Be Continued...