Newer World Order, Chapter 13
_ **Into the Lair** _ "Have I missed much?" Clayton entered the room, glanced around, and picked the empty seat beside Sierra. "My boss let me off work early so I could haul ass over here as fast as I could. Is June okay?" "She's fine, so far."...
Newer World Order, Chapter 4
_ **On the Move** _ "Hey," June said to the cashier, "you got a restroom?" "Uh, b-back in the corner." He pointed with a shaking hand. "Really?" McClory stared at her. "Now?" "What? I gotta take a shit and I don't know how many more...
Harbinger, Chapter 9
"We are almost at the deployment coordinates," Optimus said through the team's comms. "Five more minutes." Acree glanced around at the others seated in Optimus's trailer. Jack sat beside her, leaning against the wall, clad in his new armor and holding...
Newer World Order, Chapter 14
_ **Nowhere to Run** _ "I knew it," Camille snapped, throwing a hand up toward the bank of monitors showing the chaos that had erupted over the past few minutes. "So much for 'low-risk mission' and the kids 'watching from a distance.'" "Camille,...
Harbinger, Chapter 10
"They've reached the target area," Ratchet said with a sigh as the stat displays on each team member cut out. "Whatever Airachnid is using to jam comms and transponders, they're within its range. We can't see what's happening and won't hear from anyone...
Newer World Order, Chapter 10
_ **Diving Deeper** _ "Hey, Colonel." Jack smiled as Ashanti sat at the adjacent table, and Arcee waved and put her arm back around his shoulders. "Any news on Sokolov?" "Not yet. Your mom's doing a hell of a job shaking Silas up, though. He's...
Harbinger, Chapter 4
"No news on Airachnid yet," Arcee muttered as her remote-controlled body held the door open for Jack, his mom, Miko, and Ashanti's team. "Optimus said he's holding off on reviving the two dormant 'Bots until after we view the new records. He didn't say...
Newer World Order, Chapter 6
_ **On the Way Out** _ Here we go. Miko fought the urge to peek around the end of the lockers as the door opened. If everyone could keep quiet, maybe the guy would make a quick visual sweep and then move on. Her dad thought the search party had...
Newer World Order, Chapter 11
**_Lovebirds and Lunatics_** "Hey, Miko." Arcee walked over to her and Jack's favorite spot at the top of the mesa near the Autobot base and sat beside Miko. "Hi." Miko glanced up at her, smiled, and returned her gaze to the sunset. "I'm a...
Newer World Order, Chapter 12
**_A Horrible Place_** "I hate this place," Jack grumbled. He hunched forward, shivering despite his heavy cargo pants, boots, gloves, thick shirt, and hip-length leather coat, and leaned on Arcee's handlebars. Pouring rain splattered his helmet visor...
Newer World Order, Chapter 8
**_Hot Stuff_** "No," Natsumi whispered, covering her mouth with both hands and staring at the bank of monitors. Tears trickled from her wide eyes. "Oh, no …" "I knew it." One of Camille's hands gripped the arm of the sofa and the other clenched...
Newer World Order, Chapter 9
_ **Stepping it up a Notch** _ "It's so quiet here," Miko's father said, keeping his voice barely above a whisper, as if afraid to disturb the silence. Arcee glanced around the picnic table. Jack sat on her left, Miko and both sets of parents sat...