A Bond That Never Severed Ch 2

By the time I collected the info at the CIA Headquarters, I immediately returned back to NEST to warn Lennox and the Autobot leader, Optimus Prime. This massacre I heard from that man was ridiculous and there is no way I won't let the CIA kill my friends, especially my partners Mirage and Sideswipe.... Though when I made it and had told the news to Lennox.......something unexpected came towards all of us. Not just the Autobots, but the whole NEST base...

~Toni Evans

Chapter 2: Scattered

It was early night now in Washington DC, and Toni finally made it to the NEST base. Soldiers were still packing and one Autobot had returned from the others. The bot’s armor was the color of blue and seemed to look more like a samurai. His chassis that says Bugatti and he had dual swords on the back of him. The mech is basically a new recruit and a former Decepticon. He watched calmly at the humans moving cargos out of the base then had glanced over at Toni walking by. Between him and Toni, the girl seemed to joke around with him since she knew he used to be a Decepticon, but overall she trust him. He approached over to the lieutenant and let out a gentle smile.

“Toni-chan.” the Autobot samurai spoke to her. “I have not seen you all day today. Where have you been?”

Toni stopped looking up at him with that worried look on her face. She was not in a mood to play around with the bot.

“Not now, Drift.” she said to him. “I need to speak with Lennox immediately.”

Drift’s smile faded away noticing her facial expression. “I believe that this conversation is about something that is troubling you. Is there something wrong?”

“I’ll tell you later.” She started walking off but turned back fast to look at the samurai. “But if you see Optimus, tell him to come and see me by Lennox’s office!”

Drift then nodded once with a serious look. “I will.”

The girl nodded back before walking in a fast pace towards the colonel’s office. As soon as she made it, the room was packed with soldiers. Toni let out a sigh shaking her head then politely went through the crowd. As she made it through, the lieutenant glanced over at Lennox as he was telling his speech though luckily the speech was done when Toni arrived.

“You’re dismissed.” he said to the soldiers as they walked off but Toni remained in the office.

The girl went up to him and was ready to tell him the terrible plan. “Lennox, you got to get the Autobots out of here, right now!”

“No can do, Lightning.” the colonel said saying the girl’s nickname. “The Autobots will remain here and the CIA will be here to pick them up.”

“What!?” Toni’s eyes widen in shock. “They can’t stay here! They’re in terrible danger! The CIA is not going to picking them up tomorrow! The government decided to-!”

“Lieutenant Evans, you wish to see me?”

Lennox and Toni looked outside of the office seeing Optimus Prime in the second floor of the base with a calm look on his face yet so sincere since this was urgent. Toni looked back at Lennox as the colonel looked back at her. She shook her head and walked towards Optimus and Lennox followed wanted to listen to this conversation. The girl stood in front of the bars looking up at the Autobot leader.

“Optimus, are the rest of the Autobots are here?” she asked with a worried tone.

“Negative. It is only myself and Drift.” Optimus replied to her. “Drift had said that you want to tell me something that is urgent.”

“It is urgent and you got to tell the Autobots to not come to this base.” Toni panicked.  “Leave this city immediately!”

Lennox glanced over at Toni in confusion placing his hand on the girl’s shoulder.

“Whoa, slow down!” he said. “What’s going on here, Toni?”

“Indeed,” said Optimus as he folded his arms staring down at the girl. “I would like an explanation to this.”

She took a deep breath shaking a little glancing at both Prime and Lennox back and forth. After taking another deep breath, Toni finally answered.

“The government made a decision on end you and the others….as in killing each and every one of you. And they’re planning to start this damn massacre tomorrow.”

Optimus and Lennox were surprised to hear Toni’s answered. The colonel shook his head and slammed his fist on the wall as Optimus looked away in disappointment.

“Why the hell the government would do that!?” said Lennox. “After all we had done together.”

“I agree,” Prime looked back at the two humans. “If your government is planning to offline us…then the Autobots and I will immediately evacuate out of Washington DC…. I do not understand why they are now going against us for what we have not done to them.”

“They blamed us…” Toni spoke low and made an angry look on her face. “Not just the Autobots, but all of us. They blame us for what we did at Chicago. This is some absolute crap, and I know it! I heard the whole plan at the CIA Headquarters and I finally found the true colors on what the whole government is going to do  next once NEST is shut down.”

“Then we better load up,” said Lennox as he walked directly to the main hangar of the base as Optimus and Toni looked over at him. “Like right now!”

As soon as he made it to the stairs, sounds of explosions were heard and the whole base shook. Toni  stumbled around before falling to the floor, Lennox held on the bars  remaining to stand, and Optimus stood his ground feeling the shake as well. Toni got up from the floor shaking her head before going down to the stairs towards Lennox.

“You alright, sir?” she asked in concerned.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Lennox nodded. “Let’s head down there and see what the hell is going on?”


In the main hangar of NEST, Few Autobots, Sideswipe, Mirage, Bumblebee, and Drift, along with the NEST soldiers came out of cover after hearing the explosion at the entrance. In the entrance were seven black Chevrolet cars as the engines revved massively. Then some of the men in their black military uniform came out of the vehicles and approached to the NEST Team having their guns out. One man approached even further having black shades on and  an earpiece in his ear and was wearing a black trench coat glancing at the other men but glared directly at the Autobots. After a couple minutes, Lennox and Toni entered with the others seeing the men in their black uniforms and guns were out. Lennox then approached to them glaring.

“What the hell is all this here?” he asked walking by his comrades as Toni remained slowly walked back recognizing the man in the very front.

Toni was grabbed by him before she retaliated and ran off even seeing him on reaching over his gun to shoot her, but that failed. These men are the members of the CIA. She moved beside one of her Autobot partners, Sideswipe as he and the other Autobots looked at the members. Optimus entered in the same room and stood behind his comrades. Lennox stared down at the CIA member that was up close to him.

“I know you heard me..!” the colonel spoke again. “What the hell is all this!?”

The member grinned  and walked a little closer to him.

“Colonel Lennox,” the member spoke. “I’m James Savoy, Commander of Cemetery Wind, this is my crew. They’re like your team…but better.”

Lennox’s eyes narrowed at Savoy. “Can you cut the bullshit and tell me why you guys are here?”

“Alright….it seems that one of your members had intruded the CIA Headquarters.” Savoy then pointed directly at Toni as the others looked at her. “She had heard too much information and we would like to take her n-.”

“We already know the real deal here.” Lennox cut off the CW Commander glaring at him. “And she had the right to be there, because this shit is going too far. My second lieutenant is not going anywhere.”

Savoy chuckled a bit darkly shaking his head then looked right up at the colonel.

“Suit yourself…” He looked back at his team. “Men, arrest the NEST soldiers! If they resist, shoot them.”

After hearing Savoy’s words, the whole NEST team was in shock and so were the Autobots. Toni remained behind Sideswipe was even more surprised than anyone else. The Cemetery Wind proceeded to do the demand heading directly at the NEST soldiers as they complained stepping back. As the CIA black ops team came close to them, half were already got caught as the rest were resisting. Even Savoy made a move and caught Lennox by surprise but then the colonel resisted. The Autobots was not sure what to do with this but Optimus stepped forward and end this conflict at once, Toni looked up seeing the Autobot leader approaching to them.

“Everyone please!” Prime shouted in slight anger. “This has gone far enough…!”

Savoy looked up seeing the Autobot leader along with the other bots and a smirk appeared across his face.

“My lucky day…” He glanced back at the men that were still in the cars. “Ready the missiles towards the Autobots!”

Toni heard the CW Commander’s demand and ran out directly at Optimus and Sideswipe looked down in shock seeing the lieutenant running.

“Toni! Get away from there!!” the silver mech shouted trying to get her.

“Optimus!! Step back!!” Toni yelled as the Autobot leader looked back. “They’re gonna kill you!!”

When Prime looked back where the Cemetery Wind’s vehicles were at, a couple of missiles came at him already hitting him on the shoulder and cause him to fly back and hit through the wall creating a massive hole. The Autobots’ optics widen seeing Optimus flew through the wall from the missiles. Toni gasped covering her mouth and back where Savoy was at, he glanced back at his men again.

“Kill those giant freaks!” He demanded as more missiles were fired towards the Autobots and all four of them dodged.

Toni started running across getting away from the blast but then was grabbed by Drift.  Mirage growled in anger and had no choice but to resist having his rifle out firing at the vehicles. The men in the cars immediately evacuated  as two cars exploded from the shots Mirage had gave them. Walking out of the wall groaning in pain, Prime held his shoulder and glanced up at the other Autobots.

“Autobots!” Prime shouted. “Evacuate now! Do not resist! Leave the base immediately and scatter!”

The four Autobots listened to Prime transforming to their vehicle mode and sped towards the exit of the NEST base. Missiles were still firing at them as they were heading to the exit. Prime glared in anger activating his ion cannon and opened fire at the remaining vehicles defending his friends. After that, the Autobots made it through the damaged blockade the Cemetery Wind created and left the NEST base splitting up. Prime was relieved of their safe escape then suddenly the whole ceiling broke through and from more missiles. He glanced up seeing  two helicopters. The humans moved out of the building and left the casualties on the ground and Prime proceeded to do the same objective along with his comrades starting his escape out of Washington DC.  The helicopters had spotted Prime getting away and so did Savoy. The CW commander was furious and contacted the men in the helicopters.

“Don’t let that son of a bitch get away..!”  He said to them in his earpiece and the helicopters went on pursuit following Prime and ready more missiles.

Prime then had entered in a freeway trying to escape.  Seeing that the men did not have a choice but to take the demand and there were still civilians on the road, they opened fire at the Autobot leader but he was doing his best on dodging the missiles and speeding up. More missiles were shot and caused minor casualties, car accidents, and other destruction on the freeway. Optimus noticed the blast behind him and was in slight anger of this cause. After another wave of missiles were fired, the truck transformed into his robot form and the ion blaster was out and loaded and he open fired at one of the helicopters’ rotors and it started to spin around heading towards the other. When the choppers collide heavily, they both crashed over to the side of the freeway entering in an empty grass field. Prime rolled forward after his move transforming into his truck mode and finally escaped out of the city.

Several minutes later, mode of the black cars approached over to the damaged helicopters and Savoy exit out of the car slamming the door before approaching to the choppers clenching his hands tightly.

“Sir,” he spoke  on his earpiece. “The NEST soldiers are capture. Half are dead, but the lieutenant of the team escaped along with the Autobots.”

In an empty road at a grass field not far from Washington DC, Drift and Bumblebee had picked up Prime’s distressed message warning the rest of the Autobots ordering them to hide and seized contact with humans. Toni was in the Bugatti listening sadly having her elbow on the door and her hand covering her face…then a sob was heard from her. Drift heard her sobbing as he was riding along. He would want to speak with her but he decided to stay quiet and let her take all the sadness out of her. She had lost her friends back at the NEST base which is no longer standing, she lost her commander who she look up to…and she was separated from Sideswipe and Mirage. She leaned back on the seat as tears came down from her eyes trying her best to stay calm and started to doze off to sleep. Her sobs finally stopped and Drift remained quiet  but then Bumblebee spoke to him by radio quietly.

“Is she alright?” the yellow mech asked.

“Negative, Bumblebee.” the samurai replied in a low. “But she is now resting…”

Toni was the survivor of the NEST team and all she had left are the Autobots. She had lost her parents, her dear friends, she will not allow losing the last of her second family.