Haylie Burns is the eldest of the burns siblings adopted by Charlie burns five years before Kade burns is born at the age of twenty five she joins the us Marine Corps where she still serves when the rescue bots join the rescue team she doesn't learn about them until she comes home three years after they join but there's one problem Haylie Burns isn't human she's a cybertronian named Mal who just wants to leave that life behind but what does she do when her brother Orion pax aka Optimus prime visit with what he calls team prime will her entire life fall apart or can she keep the truth from the other Burns find out in Secrets in metal