The Autobot base tremored dramatically, awaking all inside.

   Earlier that day, Smokescreen had decided to allow Jack to accompany him on a mission that nearly resulted in Jack's demise. Optimus was extremely upset and frankly, that was the closest Smokescreen had ever seen Optimus get to infuriated.

   He warned Smokescreen that disregarding anyone's safety (especially the humans) would not be tolerated. Furthermore, Optimus unspokenly clarified that whatever small miniature guardianship Smokescreen had temporarily held over Jack was more than finished.

   In all honesty, after Smokescreen came back with Jack from the first time he 'taught' him the rules of the road, (or in other words when they trashed the orange-haired human's car) Smokescreen did not necessarily plan on spending that much more time with Jack. Smokescreen, as much as he enjoyed the newly formed dude-to-dude friendship with Jack, was more than content with Torryn.

   However, after she randomly freaked out and told him not to show up at her home, Smokescreen was both upset and confused. He had intended to follow her home to give her a piece of his processor A.K.A grovel at her feet like a kicked puppy, but Optimus insisted Torryn be left alone to have time to herself.

   Therefore, Smokescreen spent the rest of the day with Jack as well as the rest of the next day. Arcee was not too happy about it, but neither male had noticed her sourness about the situation. Instead, he and Jack continued to grow their friendship. Even with this, Smokescreen along with the others in the base attempted to contact Torryn only to get no response.

   As much as Smokescreen wanted to show up at her home, he followed Optimus's advice and gave her time to herself.

   However, with Smokescreen and Jack's time spent together, it became very obvious that Optimus's plan of Jack being a good influence on Smokescreen backfired. Instead, Smokescreen was simply a bad influence on Jack, so much so that he convinced the boy to go on a mission with him.

   As Smokescreen was still new to the planet, it had not occurred to him just how fragile humans were. He learned the hard way; however, seeing as Jack nearly died. Smokescreen felt extremely guilty about it, but secretly, he was relieved that he learned his lesson with Jack instead of Torryn. He would not be able to stay online if he was the cause of his precious charge's demise.

   Despite everything that happened, the only positive thing that drew from this was the fact that Optimus got the Star Saber: a weapon forged from the ancient Primes. It gave the Autobots the edge they needed at this point in the war.

   All in all, Smokescreen had more than learned his lesson and intended to talk with Torryn the following afternoon. Even if she did not reply to his phone calls or texts, Smokescreen would just show up to her house and force her to speak with him.

   He was still extremely confused about why she freaked out, although after Miko asked him how he would like it if Torryn suddenly became all buddy-buddy with Bee then Smokescreen felt like he had a general idea of what was the matter.

   Though, the thought of Torryn even being slightly jealous of him not giving her his full attention put a smirk on his faceplates.

   Everything that had happened during the day is what caused the Autobots who normally spent the night watching over their charges to remain inside the base. With all of the previous excitement, the Autobots had been enjoying a rather long night of much-needed recharge, only for each of them to wake up at the racket.

   Smokescreen was a heavy recharger, it took a lot to wake him up, especially when he was as tired as he was. Not only that, but he was also an avid cuddler (not that he would ever admit that). That is why he nearly screamed when he was awoken by the shaking of the base and a horrible screaming.

   The sound physically hurt his spark, it was full of such despair and something about it was so... familiar. It shook Smokescreen, to say the least, it shook all of the Autobots.

   Smokescreen let out a yelp as he fell off his berth, clutching a pipe which he had been cuddling close to him. He dropped the pipe causing it to clang against the ground while scrambling up. Immediately, the young guardsman drew his blasters and raced out of his room to the main part of the base where the others had already gathered.

   "What's going on? Are we under attack? Where's the threat?" Smokescreen shot questions at the speed of light, pointing his blasters in every which direction.

   Ratchet growled as he had to duck under the youngling's heavy weaponry alas get hit. The shaking had only just stopped.

   "Cool it, destiny's child," Arcee rolled her optics, "it's just an earthquake,"

   ": Since when does Jasper have earthquakes? :" Bumblebee buzzed the questioned while scratching the back of his helm.

   "Yeah, and did no one else hear that scary screaming noise?" Bulkhead added.

   Optimus adorned a pondering expression, narrowing his optics. This was not the first time they had heard this type of screeching-screaming noise, albeit it was not often. The Prime made a mental note to question Agent Fowler about it the next time he saw the human.

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   From inside of the Esquivel home, Raf along with most of his family were awoken by the noise and the shaking of the ground. Raf sat up in his bed, his eyes full of concern. This was one of the few nights that Bumblebee was not currently sat outside his home watching over it.

   For a split second, Raf feared the 'cons found his new home address. However, he was put at ease when he looked out his bedroom window only to see the peacefulness of his new neighborhood's street. The starlight shined into his room, the young boy running his hand through his untamable mop of hair.

   He furrowed his brows at the oddity of it but shrugged it off, he could investigate more into it during the morning. While it was uncommon that Jasper had earthquakes, it was not impossible. Not only that, but the noise could have been anything.

   Laying back down, Raf chose to go back to sleep seeing as it was just past 2:30 in the morning.

   A few miles away in the home of the Hunnington couple and their host daughter, Miko Nakadai, everyone awoke to the shaking and screeching.

Miko yawned, rubbing her eyes while sitting up in bed. She briefly wondered if she had perhaps forgotten to turn her heavy metal off before climbing into bed, but surely her host parents, the Hunningtons, would have come pounding at her door asking her to turn it down.

   Miko was born and bred in Japan, so she was used to the constant tremors of earthquakes. That was why she barely batted an eyelash before laying back down and easily falling back into a deep sleep.

   Even further into Jasper, in the home of June and Jack Darby, both the mother and son were awoken by the earthquake and odd noise that brought a sense of dread. Jack who was sitting up in his bed, rubbing the back of his neck tiredly was visited by his concerned mother.

   Looking to his door as it gently opened, Jack smiled as his mom peeked her head in the doorway. June's eyes which were identical to Jack's in color looked at him with care.

   "Are you okay, honey," she questioned in a tired voice.

   It was one of the rare nights that she was not stuck working the late shift at the hospital so she had intended to get a full night's worth of sleep.

   "Yeah, mom," Jack smiled reassuringly, already laying back down.

   He was exhausted from earlier, and despite how odd the earthquake was, it was not enough to convince him to get up. June nodded, turning around closing the door before heading back to her own room with the intent of falling back to sleep.

   No one, not the Darby's, not Miko, not Raf, and certainly not the Autobots realized the dire situation that for once did not concern the Decepticons that would be waiting for them in the morning.

✭✭✭

   The next morning, the Autobots listened as the engine of Jack's mom's car drove into base. June agreed to give the child a ride to base seeing as their guardians were otherwise already there.

   "Yeah, earthquakes like that never happen in Jasper, that was weird," Jack said as he exited the car, Miko and Raf hopping out after him.

   June flicked her old sedan off, stepping out of the car after her children.

   Ratchet silently groaned at the arrival of the humans. The base had been quiet for once. He and Optimus were working on datapads. Arcee, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Smokescreen were quietly standing at the sides, bored without the company of their charges (they never realized just how much life the children brought to the base).

   Even Fowler was typing away on his laptop, filing different reports at the desk that was considered his at the base. It was located on the platform just a few feet away from where Optimus and Ratchet had their datapads.

   The guardians watched as their human charges excitedly bounded up the steps, their ideal chatter filling up the previously quiet base. Even Optimus could not help but feel slightly relieved at the new liveliness.

   "Agent," June nodded in greeting to Fowler, who smiled back as she stood next to his desk, quietly chatting with him.

   "Bossbot, I heard you got the Star Saber! Can I see it!" Miko exclaimed while nearly flinging herself over the railing if it were not for Bulkhead who hastily reached out to stabilize her.

   Optimus slowly drew his optics away from decoding the Iacon database, zeroing in on a widely grinning Miko. A part of Optimus, the non-prime and lighthearted section of him, the section which vastly resembled Orion Pax wanted to give into Miko's wishes and show-off the Star Saber.

   However, he did not do that, instead opting to walk over to Miko's form. He shook his helm gently.

   "I believe it is wise to leave the Star Saber alone unless it is required..." he rumbled causing Miko to groan.

   Jack snickered while passing by her, Raf by his side.

   "I got to see it," Jack teases Miko causing her to whip around with a glare and threatening fist raised.

   Jack laughed, flipping himself over on the couch while grabbing the television remote. Raf settled himself on the chair, turning toward Bee with a smile.

   "Hey Bee," he fixed his glasses, "anything new?"

   Bee replied in a whirring of noise, beginning to speak to Raf in his binary language. Smokescreen wasted no time in catching Miko's attention, rambling about how awesome it was to watch Optimus grab the Star Saber.

   Soon, nearly an hour had gone by of the Autobots all speaking with the humans, each interacting in a different way. As normal as this routine was a month or so ago, now it only felt as though something (or rather someone) was missing. And that person just so happened to be a spunky fox-haired girl.

   "Has anyone tried calling Torryn today?"

   Smokescreen nearly balled with relief as Raf took the lead in asking the unanswered question.

   "Twice this morning, but not in the past hour or so," Miko shrugged, no one else answering.

   "Did she answer?" Jack quirked a brow, still not understanding why Torryn had been so upset but missing her nonetheless.

   Miko gave Jack a 'really' expression. "What do you think, dude?"

   Jack held his hands up in surrender, Fowler and June's interest now sufficiently peaked.

   "What happened? Where is she?" Fowler asked in concern, Optimus quickly taking lead in answering the question.

   "A small misunderstanding two days ago, she has been taking time for herself ever since," he explained.

   Ratchet wasted no time in snorting and jumping into the conversation. "Yes, by ignoring any and all advances of communication from any of us," the medic said in a bemused tone before adding on quietly, "sometimes I wish the other children would do that as well,"

   Optimus shot the medic a disapproving look at the quieter snarky comment, but luckily no one other than himself and Fowler heard it.

   "Yes, Smokescreen has been waiting for my confirmation to visit her home and make amends with her," Optimus said, nodding toward Smokescreen in approval that the young mech could now go.

   Smokescreen all but screamed in joy, immediately transforming and booking it through the tunnel and out of the base. Arcee watched him leave at those speeds with slight concern, casting a nervous glance to Bulkhead and Bumblebee who looked the same.

   Fowler pinched the bridge of his nose, not even bothering to ask what could have possibly happened to piss Torryn off enough that she refused to even acknowledge the Autobots' existence. Fowler guessed it could have been a number of things, but he truly did not want to know exactly which one of those things it was.

   Another ten or so minutes passed before a comm came through to the base. It was a comm call from Smokescreen.

   "What in the All Spark?" Ratchet mumbled, wondering what could have happened in the short ten minutes Smokescreen had been gone to make him call.

   Optimus furrowed his own optic ridges, praying to Primus that the young mech had not got in a car accident. He knew he should have scolded Smokescreen for how fast he left the base, but Optimus had been willing to be lenient as he knew how much Smokescreen wanted to see Torryn.

   Everyone's attention had been caught as Ratchet answered the call, Smokescreen's voice floating through the base.

   "Hey, uh, I don't think Torryn is home..." Smokescreen muttered, "actually I don't think, I know there is no one home..."

   "What do you mean, Smokescreen?" Optimus questioned gently, relieved that Smokescreen had not got into any accident.

   "I mean after a few minutes of honking and getting no answer, I walked into her house and there is no one inside... like at all... also she lives in an awesome house!"

   "Hold on," Fowler pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing in frustration, "you mean to tell me, you repeatedly honked outside of her house and after receiving no answer you proceeded to break in?"

   It was silent for a moment, Smokescreen cringing when he realized how that bad sounded. "...Yes?"

   "Smokescreen, what is wrong with you!" Ratchet immediately said in a scolding tone.

   "I'm sorry, but I was worried!" Smokescreen was quick to defend himself. "Plus, I didn't think her family would be home!"

   "What do you mean you didn't think her family would be home?" Arcee got in on it with a scoff, "where'd you think they'd be?" But no one expected Smokescreen's next answer.

   "I don't know, no one except her is ever home!" Smokescreen cried causing everyone to become even more confused.

   "What?" Miko asked out loud, saying everyone's thoughts.

   "She said her family was on a business trip, but that was..." Smokescreen trailed off, once again cringing at his own answer, "...a few weeks ago..."

   Smokescreen was kicking himself for his own idiocy. How could Torryn living here by herself slip his processor? He had been becoming slightly suspicious, but as he was easily distracted, Torryn always changed the subject and pushed it to the back of his mind.

   "Smokescreen!" Everyone cried in outrage, most of them in disbelief that he would never bring this up.

  "Ahh, stop with all the hate! I forgot about it okay, Torryn is very good at distracting me when she wants too..." he trailed off, unable to stop himself from thinking of the various things Torryn had come up with in the past few weeks as a means to distracting him.

   The Autobots and humans alike all gave each other strange looks at the tone of voice the rookie had taken on.

   Optimus finally realized what he had become in the past few weeks. Primus's sake, at this point, Optimus felt like he was the father of Torryn and Smokescreen. Ratchet could relate to that feeling, the two having driven him up the wall.

   Optimus and Ratchet had both taken on a slight parental role to the team as a whole, but with Torryn and Smokescreen, it was different. It was almost as though they were the two most rebellious and hyperactive kids that needed a special watchful eye on them at all times.

   "Well, this is just great, the girl is nowhere to be found and she apparently has been living by herself," Fowler exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air, "Good going 'bots!"

   The Autobots sighed, knowing that as harsh as it was, Fowler's words did have some semblance of truth embedded within. They agreed to take on Torryn as a charge, they were supposed to be watching over and protecting her. So far it was obvious that they were doing a shitty job at that.

The humans; however, did not agree with Fowler's words at all.

   "Uhm, were you not supposed to look into her background?" Miko pointed out, Raf and Jack looking to the Agent accusingly.

    Fowler glared the kids, "I haven't got around to it yet—"

   "Hey," June finally stepped in, a certain motherly tone to her voice that no one wanted to argue with, "Torryn is probably just at a friend's house, you told me she was good friends with Sierra and a few others on the cheer time, right?" June rose a brow to her son.

   Jack nodded, "Yeah, you're probably right, mom," he sighed, pulling out his phone, "she's probably at Sierra's, I'll ring her now,"

   Optimus nodded, watching as Jack walked down the hallway toward the restrooms to talk to Sierra in a space that she would not be able to hear the background noise of the Autobots.

   "Smokescreen?" Bulkhead asked, realizing the kid had been pretty quiet from on the call for a while now.

   He got no reply which concerned the others, but it was short-lived as Smokescreen suddenly sped into the base, his engines roaring.

    "Right here!" Smokescreen cheered while transforming into his alt mode, optics gleaming in victory. "Got here in record speed, Torryn would be proud!"

    The others, particularly Optimus, Ratchet, Arcee, and Fowler were watching the younger bot with immense dry looks of disapproval.

   "Smokescreen!" Ratchet growled with a harsh glare, raising a wrench to him threateningly.

    Smokescreen shouted in panic, darting behind Bulkhead as the green mech only shook his helm. Miko snickered from her spot at the railing, flashing Smokescreen a thumbs up. Smokescreen glared at the coy look resting upon Miko's face.

   Before anymore fighting could break out, Optimus preparing to step in the way of the worked up medic and the rookie, Jack came from the back with pursed lips. Everyone noticed him, Miko whirring around with her hands placed on her hips.

   "Well?" Arcee questioned her charge as Jack sighed in distress.

   "Uhm, so she's not at Sierra's place," Jack's response caused the once lighter atmosphere to immediately fade into something much more serious.

   Smokescreen was the one to step forward, his lip plates drawn into a tight line. This was the entire reason he had been pushing Torryn to let him sit outside her house at first, he was her guardian, he was supposed to protect her.

   Now in retrospect, Smokescreen realized that he truly should not have left her by herself. Even if he had not approached her, he still should have been sitting outside her house keeping watch. Optimus was thinking along the same lines, he should not have advised Smokescreen to give her time to decompress.

   Jack sensed how the base was about ready to fall into panic mode and quickly began talking. "Sierra said that there was a party last night and Torryn was at it, she thinks that Torryn may have just gone home with someone from the cheer team or maybe even Vince, she told me she would call around," he explained.

   It alleviated some of the stress but not a lot. It was Ratchet who broke the tense silence first.

   "She was at a what?"

   The Autobots may have been aliens, but they were not stupid. They realized that teen parties never ended with anything good (especially after June ranted about it one time), the better question was why Torryn was even there in the first place.

   "A uh... she was at a party at some volleyball player's house last night, I guess, I don't know — Sierra didn't spare many details, she just said Torryn was there and she probably went home with someone since she didn't drive herself..." Jack stated just as Ratchet began mumbling incoherently.

   "Good things don't tend to happen at teen parties," June shook her head, crossing her arms.

   "Ugh, this is all my fault, if I had just gone after her..." Smokescreen was about to punch the wall, and Arcee could see this.

   She was briefly reminded of the time just a few months prior when Raf nearly died and Bee lost control of his own emotions. With no hesitation, Arcee reached forward stopping Smokescreen before he had the chance to break the wall.

   "Smokescreen, you need to keep your emotions in check, this isn't going to help us find Torryn," Arcee scowled as Optimus nodded along with her.

   "Indeed, Rafael, are you able to track down Torryn's cellphone signal?" The Prime turned to Raf, all of the Autobots and humans alike looking to the younger boy.

   Arcee released Smokescreen, the younger mech ex-venting, keeping himself calm.

   Raf fixed his glasses at the newfound attention drawn on him, the boy quickly grabbing his laptop. Immediately, he began to try and track her phone only for the signal to automatically block him. Alike to when he tried just over a month ago, a smiley face appeared as an essential "screw off".

   "There's a really powerful firewall that blocks me out, but I think..." Raf tried something else, smiling while nodding, "it'll take a few minutes, but I can get through it..." he said firmly.

   Everyone's shoulders slumped in relief, Fowler quickly digging his own phone out. "I'm looking through her government files now," Fowler explained.

   "Very well," Optimus was cut off by Jack's phone ringing.

   "Ooh, put it on speaker!" Miko said as Jack nodded while motioning for everyone to be quiet.

   Once everyone was silent, Jack answered the call — putting it on speaker.

   "Hey, Sierra," Jack breathed, his heart fluttering with anxiousness.

   He could not explain it, but he had a bad feeling that settled within.

   "Hey, Jack," Sierra said, her voice full of concern which caused Jack to falter, "are you positive Torryn was not at home?"

   "Yes, why?" Jack quickly said.

   Sierra was quite for a second before answering. "Damn it, because I just sent a text to the cheer team group chat, she's not at any of their houses. I called Vince too, she's not with him..." Jack pinched the bridge of his nose, going into full-blown panic mode.

   The others were the same, nervous glances being tossed around alike to a ball. However, there was one similar thought among them all, had the Decepticons found her?

   It sent fear racing through every single one of their sparks. Despite all the danger Raf, Miko, and Jack had been put in since they had known the Autobots, not one of them had ever fallen into the Decepticon's hands as a captive. Optimus nor anyone else on team Prime could ever allow it.

   And yet, here it seemed they were facing the very real possibility that Torryn could be the first to fall as a victim to their evil enemies.

   Smokescreen, in particular, was about ready to go offline.

   "Shoot," Jack said in response to the girl he was currently dating, running his right hand through his dark tresses.

   "Jack," Sierra sighed, pulling herself together, "there is something you need to know."

   As much as Sierra did not want to admit it to Jack, a boy who she believed was far too good for her, Sierra was too concerned for Torryn's wellbeing to not mention it. Sierra realized that Jack was definitely not one for parties or alcohol or drugs and she doubted that he realized just how far Torryn was into that life.

  Torryn did not party anymore often than twice a month, but when she did, Torryn lived up to her last name in the sense that she went absolutely wild. Sierra suspected, especially after the mall incident where Torryn was higher than a kite off of Molly, that the freckled-faced girl had a drug issue.

   Sierra did not believe it was her place to bring this up to Jack, but Sierra also felt that Jack had to know considering that Torry was currently missing.

   "What?" Jack asked, sensing the seriousness in Sierra's tone, everyone else who was listening to the call now on edge.

   Sierra took a deep breath before explaining. "If Torryn's really not at home then I'm concerned, she was wasted last night... I left the party early but Vince told me on the phone that the party got busted by the cops and everyone started rushing out, apparently Torryn was barely even able to walk..."

   "What!" Jack practically screamed, everyone else in the base gaping as well.

   Of all the things.

   "Sierra, what do you mean—"

   Sierra cut Jack off, "Jack, Torryn does this a lot. Her, me, Vince, Annie, and AJ went to the mall Thursday and Torryn and the others got freaking high off Molly while she was driving, Jack..."

   Jack was speechless when in the next few minutes Sierra went into detail to explain a part of Torryn's life that had previously been shadowed to every single person in the Autobot base. It took all of them by surprise because sure, Torryn was reckless but as Sierra spoke they all wondered if she was talking about the same girl they knew at his point.

   "...just don't judge her too harshly, Jack, she's a good person and you know that. It's just..." Sierra trailed off, "I think she's had a rough past,"

   "How do you know?" Jack found himself asking, voice hoarse as thoughts about the spunky redhead who had more problems than he ever knew weaved throughout his mind.

   "She doesn't talk about it much, but I can just tell, call it a hunch," Sierra sighed, "her and Vince are the same, I think it's why they get on so well. Not the best home life so they take it out with partying and stuff..."

   Jack suddenly felt mega-horrible about snapping at Torryn over her relationship with Vince the other day. Smokescreen felt similar waves of guilt, the young mech already beating himself over the fact that he did not notice any of this.

   How in the name of the All Spark did Smokescreen miss all of this? He knew he was easily distracted, but for him to completely turn a blind eye to this. He was supposed to be protecting Torryn, who knew that the biggest threat Smokescreen would need to save her from was herself?

   Smokescreen was not the only one upset about these revelations, the rest of the Autobots could hardly believe this either. It was hard when the only humans they had really been exposed to were Jack, Miko, and Raf who were all extremely good children. Even Miko, while she was rebellious, would never even think of doing half of the stuff they learned that Torryn did behind their backs.

   Miko was the one taking it almost as hard as Smokescreen was. For the first time since real-life fruit ninja she felt guilty. She was her best friend, how did she miss that?

   "I don't know, Jack, maybe she's just in some random guy's bed or passed out somewhere random. I'll keep asking around though," Sierra replied with just as much worry.

   Sierra was aware that anyone could have taken advantage of Torryn in that state last night. She could have been kidnapped for all they knew.

   Seconds went by before Jack was hanging up the phone, his eyes wide. The base was so silent you could hear a pin drop, nobody said anything. There was nothing to say, Torryn had issues — a lot of them by the sounds of it and they had all been in the dark until just now.

   Ratchet suddenly remembered the time that Torryn had come into the base with sunglasses on. The day she and Miko went out to Starbucks before getting chased by Decepticons. He had thought it odd but was too distracted to further investigate, he was willing to bet that she was hungover from being intoxicated. It killed Ratchet to know that if he had just looked into it a little more then all of this could have been discovered much sooner.

      Everything came back to the robotic doctor at that moment. The multiple times he had scanned Torryn only to come up with some sort of medication running through her systems. Curse him! He should have dug further into it, he was a doctor for Primus's sake and he missed this?

   June was the one to break the silence, her voice shaky.

   "We need to find her, there are too many things that could have happened. She could be lying on the side of a road somewhere, could have been kidnapped, she could be in the desert—"

   Miko cut off Jack's mom, her eyes wide and teary. "She could have fallen into the ravine and drowned..."

   It was Miko's words, the girl who was normally so upbeat and ecstatic, the pure fear and sadness in her tone that finally struck some movement into team Prime.

   "I've got her coordinates!" Raf exclaimed. Optimus ordering for the ground bridge to quickly be sent.

   Smokescreen was the one to go through accompanied by Arcee, and what met him nearly sent him to tears. It was the desert, nothing around for miles except for a familiar cellphone. Grasping the small device, Smokescreen and Arcee went back through the ground bridge to reveal the cellphone.

   Immediately, the Autobots believed her to have been kidnapped, it was the most reasonable guess, after all. But by who?

   It could have been a number of people.

   The 'cons? Surely they would have reached out for a ransom by now.

   MECH? Without Cylas MECH was practically non-existent.

   It could have been some random person looking to sell her into sex-trafficking, that was what June advised. Jasper was no more than forty-five minutes outside of Las Vegas, after all, and Vegas was not exactly the safest place for minors.

   A number of things could have taken Torryn, and none of them knew where to start.

   This did not matter to Smokescreen though, because he swore by his own spark that he was going to retrieve his charge — his Torryn. Once he got her back, the mech would never let her out of his sight again, none of the Autobots would.

   Oh and hell, the intervention that would come once Torryn was back at base. Even Smokescreen who was the most chill mech in the base, her fun-loving teddy bear guardian would have a few choice words for her.

   "Well, I will be damned!" Fowler practically jumped in the air, running a hand down his face.

   "What is it, Agent Fowler," Optimus questioned, approaching the railing closer to Fowler.

   "I knew I recognized Torryn's last name, how the hell I missed this, I have no clue. Our girl? Yeah, she don't have no big family, she has her dad — Secret Agent Scott Wilde, a government agent I've actually worked with a few times. No wonder she's always by herself, that man is in a new country for a mission every day..."

    "Wow, so now her dad is a secret agent, how much has she been keeping from us!" Miko furiously yelled.

   It seemed the lies were just piling up.

   "Yeah, that's not it," Fowler snorted humourlessly, "Agent Scott Wilde, he's a high-ranking agent along with his brother Roger Wilde. The kicker of this all, they're so high up that they know of your 'bots existence,"

   The Autobots were silent, everyone simply taking this all in.

   "Well, what are we going to do about this?" June finally clapped her hands, turning to look at William Fowler.

    "I'm reaching out to Scott," Fowler's words shocked everyone, "he's the only one with solid answers and seeing as he is her guardian, he needs to be notified of Torryn's disappearance."

   Well, things just got ten times more complicated.