Mikaela Banes

Mikaela Banes was the head of the Global Earth Defense Association (more commonly known as G.E.D.A.) and was uncertain of the Autobots' apparent dedication to protecting Humanity due to her sister being one of the few human casualties when the Decepticons attacked Manhattan. It was Mikaela who assigned Skylar Lewis to monitor the Autobots' activities. It was unknown how she reacted when Skylar quit working for G.E.D.A. to officially help the Autobots in their mission.

When it was revealed that several members of G.E.D.A. were working for the Decepticons, mostly reporting to Soundwave, Mikaela was originally believed to be in on it. However, Mikaela soon realized that many of the human casualties caused in the Decepticon attacks was the result of Decepticon-aligned humans within the Global Earth Defense Association, she announced that G.E.D.A. was disbanded. This left her out of employ for a while, until she founded the Global Extraterrestrial Species Treaty ("G.E.S.T." as she named it) to aid the Autobots in defeating the Decepticon menace and to prove she had no idea of the crimes the Global Earth Defense Association had committed in assisting the Decepticons. She too soon begun to view the Autobots differently, learning to trust them genuinely and once more working with Skylar in the field.