The group arrived at Sam's house to look for the glasses. Rimuru had considered telling them where the AllSpark was, but on second thought, he decided there was no need. Bumblebee had been captured and taken to Hoover Dam, and there was something seriously off about it. With Optimus Prime and the others' strength, rescuing Bumblebee should have been no trouble at all, yet he had still been taken. Could this have been Optimus Prime and the others' plan?
In the car, Rimuru was still sitting in the back, but why had those two crowded in with him? Hadn't they been pretty scared just now? Why were they feeling him up and down now? If their hands kept going like that, it would start to feel a little inappropriate.
When they got home, Sam made the first move. He slammed his shoulder into his dad and knocked him back into the house, successfully giving his teammates a chance to sneak in. Then he kept his dad occupied to buy them more time. Rimuru looked around with interest. It was a classic American family home. Had Japan's detached houses been modeled after these?
What happened next made Sam feel like the sky was falling. Everyone squeezed into his yard, especially Optimus Prime, whose every step left a deep footprint. Then Rimuru looked at Ironhide, whose foot had been peed on by a dog. He would later be ambushed and killed by Sentinel Prime, which was a real shame.
On the second floor, Optimus Prime stuffed Mikaela Banes through a window. Rimuru had intended to wait outside, but Banes pulled him in too. Rimuru was speechless. Wasn't it a little inappropriate to just break into someone's house like this? Did she even know where to find the glasses? Wasn't going in just getting in the way? Besides, he remembered the glasses were on the first floor, so why had she pulled him up to the second?
The ground shook, and Ratchet began his electrotherapy. Sam's parents came upstairs too. Come to think of it, had they known all along that the others had arrived? Otherwise, shouldn't they have gone outside to check under the circumstances?
Seeing what was happening, Rimuru had wanted to jump out the window and go around to the first floor to get the glasses, but Mikaela Banes grabbed him and pulled him behind a chair. Come on, girl, are you sure that chair can hide both of us?
Rimuru and Mikaela Banes hid behind the chair, listening to the saintly family discuss adult matters. Just listening was awkward enough. American families sure were open-minded. Sam's mom's bold remarks were too much for both him and his dad to listen to.
As Sam's dad looked around, the Transformers caused more tremors while trying to hide. Rimuru sensed their current poses through Universal Sense and nearly laughed out loud.
Just as Sam was still trying desperately to salvage the situation, Mikaela Banes stood up-literally. Her appearance instantly silenced the three of them. Sam's parents, having been through this themselves, understood immediately, and they couldn't suppress their smiles. But then Rimuru stood up too.
Rimuru's appearance made the smiles freeze on their faces. Their son had brought home two people, and one of them was a child. At that moment, they felt like the sky was falling. The two of them went from all smiles to not smiling at all.
"Sam! Come out here with me." Sam's dad dragged him straight out.
Sam's mom hurried over to check Rimuru for any strange marks. Fortunately, everything seemed normal. They could faintly hear Sam's dad ranting furiously outside. One wasn't enough, so he'd brought home two, and one was a little kid. He was really asking for jail time.
While Sam's family was still arguing, people from the government's Sector Seven arrived. Rimuru wondered if they had a Sector Thirteen too. A group of people in suits stormed into the house, dressed just like S.H.I.E.L.D., or the Men in Black next door. But they were far more overbearing than S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Men in Black, enough to give Hydra a run for its money.
Sam's dad panicked at the sight. These people had asked for his son by name, and his son had just brought a child home. Surely they hadn't come knocking that quickly?
Rimuru followed Sam downstairs and looked at the agents in their familiar outfits. Hmm, their leader is nowhere near Coulson's level. I kind of miss that friendly face of his.
The lead agent glanced at Rimuru, puzzled by the extra child, but he still swept a device over Sam. It beeped nonstop, and with a wave of his hand, he had them all taken away. In the confusion, Rimuru also grabbed the glasses. They weren't much use, but they had come for them, after all, and they were already here.
"All right, LadiesMan217, that call you made to the police station last night-you said your car transformed. Can you explain that?"
Sam said, "Listen to me, my car was stolen. This is all a misunderstanding..."
Rimuru sat quietly beside them, watching them talk nonsense. The thought of what was about to happen made him want to laugh.
However, Rimuru's strange expression caught the lead agent's attention.
"What are you laughing at?"
I'm not laughing.
"Do you think I'm blind? You've been laughing the whole time."
All right, I am laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
Do you like convertibles?
Rimuru's out-of-the-blue question left the lead agent completely baffled.
"Listen, little girl, I..."
Before the lead agent could finish, the car was stopped with a bang. Optimus Prime clamped one huge hand onto the roof and lifted it. The pillars snapped under the strain, and the top was ripped right off. In an instant, the car became a blessing for anyone prone to carsickness.
Optimus Prime's towering figure appeared. The agents tried to resist, but Jazz pulled the guns from their hands. Their cautious behavior now stood in stark contrast to their earlier swagger.
Though the lead agent was in a sorry state, he still talked tough while surrounded, which was fairly dutiful of him. Sitting by the road, Rimuru watched it all and handed the glasses to Optimus Prime. Once Sector Seven's reinforcements arrived, this group would become prisoners, though he didn't know which side counted as petty people intoxicated by success.
Bumblebee soaked the toughest agent of them all, while Rimuru watched intently from the side. He really wanted to know how the lead agent's suit managed to dry in a single scene transition.
The agents were tied together and sat in a row by the roadside, making for an inexplicably comical sight.
The sounds of a convoy and helicopters drew closer. Optimus Prime and the others quickly realized that reinforcements had arrived, and everyone began to retreat. Optimus Prime didn't even transform back into vehicle mode, instead picking up two people and running. Rimuru felt there was no need for that at all. They would be coming back soon anyway.
Amid the chaotic retreat, Rimuru secretly slipped back. The agents were puzzled to see him return. Had he come back to silence them? A little kid like this?
The lead agent watched Rimuru come back and sit beside them on the road as if nothing had happened, and couldn't help asking, "Listen, little girl, I'm glad you know your place, but can you tell me who you are? We've already looked into you, but we couldn't find any information on you at all. Did you come here with those robots too?"
Rimuru: ╮( •́ω•̀ )╭
Meanwhile, among the fleeing Transformers, Bumblebee was the only one who failed to escape for some reason, and somehow two helicopters had left him unable to fight back. Come on, man, that act is a little too fake.