A.N. Sorry it's so late. No promises on when the next one will be up as my computer is down so please work with me here. But on that note: Told you it would be up before February! I didn't lie! Anyway enjoy the story, and thank you for being patient with me.
~Chapter 3~
Warnings: Cussing, potty humor, and kidnapping? PG13 stuff; mostly just following the movie here.
From the other side of the street the Autobots watch as the humans barge into the house. Turing up their audio sensors so they can hear what is being said. "We're the government. Sector Seven," one of the humans began saying.
"Never heard of it," they hear the boy reply.
"Never will," the man says, "You're the great-grandson of Captain Archibald Wickity, are you not?"
They hear Sam's parental unit asks the agent, "What is going on?"
"Your son filed a stolen car report last night," the agent states, "We think it's involved in a national security matter." At this the Ratchet snorts and rocks on his wheels.
"National security?" the femme unit asks.
"That's right, national security." The agent replies seriously.
The femme's voice rose in panic, "My God, Ron, they're everywhere. There are guys in suits all around the house! Look at this!"
The agent orders his underlings to get samples and isotope readings before turning back to Sam and informing him that he and his family will be accompanying him back to their headquarters. Jumping in between the approaching agent and his son, Sam's father calmly declares, "You're not taking my son."
They hear the agent laughing before responding, "Really? You gonna try to get rough with us?"
"No, but I'm going to call the cops because there's something fishy going on around here."
"Yeah, there's something a little fishy," the agent agrees, "about you, your son, your little Taco Bell dog and this whole operation you got going on here."
Ironhide peeks over the bushes into the house as the conversation died down. He saw the agent pull out a gadget and scan the radiation level emitting from Sam. The little machine goes nuts and squeals loudly and the agent frowns at the reading. "Bag 'em and tag 'em!" the agent starts to walk out of the house saying to a passing underling to place the boy in a separate vehicle. Still under the assumption that this is a crazy mix-up, Sam's father orders him not to say a word until they get a lawyer.
As the convoy of agent vehicles start to make their way to wherever their headquarters are located with Sam and his family in tow, the agent in charge strikes up a conversation with the three teens in his vehicle. "So, is your eBay username, right?" He looks back at Sam and holds up an electronic device, "What do you make of this?" which proceeds to play back the message that Sam left when he first discovered his car transformed into some kind of monster robot. "Is that you?" Not knowing what to really say, Sam stays quiet. The agent takes his silence as agreement. "Last night at the station, you told the officer your car transformed. Enlighten me."
Realizing the situation he is in, Sam attempts to spin the story in a way that does not reveal his knowledge of the Autobots. "Well, here's what I said, okay? 'Cause this is a total misunderstanding, that my car had been stolen...from me, from my home, but it's fine now because it's back!"
Staring back at the teens skeptically, the agent completely ignores Sam's explanation and asks, "So what do you know about aliens, huh?"
Sam frowned, "Umm, you mean like the urban legends about aliens that make crop circles and probe people." As the agent is thinking this over, Sam is really hoping the Autobots won't be probing him if they actually do probe things.
Whipping out his badge, the agent says, "You see this? This is an I-can-do-whatever-I-want-and-get-away-with-it badge. I'm gonna lock you up forever."
Before the interrogation can continue any further, something crashes into the windshield of the vehicle causing it to spin out of control before the whole line of vehicles stomp on the breaks. Everyone in the vehicle with Sam begin screaming when large metal fingers grasp onto the top of the SUV and tear it apart. When the debris settles and they calm down enough to look up, Optimus Prime is standing looking down at the passengers.
Smirking, Sam leans up to the two agents in the front seat, "You assholes are in trouble now. Gentlemen, I want to introduce you to my friend, Optimus Prime."
The agents look back up at the large robot when he begins to speak, "Taking the boy was a bad move. Autobots, relieve them of their weapons." At the order, the rest of the Autobots leap down from the nearby bridge to subdue the group of agents that have left their vehicles. After the agent weapons have been confiscated, Optimus leans down and gets right up in the lead agents face to stare at him appraisingly. "You don't seem afraid. Are you not surprised to see us?"
"Uhh…I'm not allowed to talk to you except to tell you that…well, I'm not allowed to talk to you," the lead agent stutters. "We have protocols."
Optimus frowns and yells the agents, "Get out of the car…NOW!"
Ratchet picks the boy up and cuts the metal of the handcuffs allowing them to fall to the pavement. Sam nodded in thanks. Fascinated with the feel of the boy in his servo, he gently slides a thumb over the boy's hair. He'll have more time to figure the boy out, first thing first, they had to get out of here. As the medical 'bot put the young human down, Sam approaches the lead agent so that they can try to get some answers, "What is Sector Seven? Answer me."
Becoming annoyed that the kid had the audacity to question him; he replies with, "I'm the one who asks questions around here. Not you, young man!"
With the Autobots backing him up, Sam is un-phased by the agents shout, "How'd you know about the aliens? Where did you take my parents?"
"I am not at liberty to discuss it."
"No? Fine. Let's just take a look at your little Do-whatever-you-want-and-get-away-with-it badge, right?" Sam digs into the agents pocket and removes the badge so that he can inspect it.
Tiring of the run-around and deciding they will learn nothing else useful from trying to talk to the agents, the teen lines up the agents and cuff them before they leave. Bumblebee, being annoyed at the agent for taking his human, opens a valve and pours the gas that Sam had put in his tank when he thought he was a normal car onto the agent in a degrading manner that he had looked up on the internet while waiting for Optimus to get some of his answers out of the human.
"Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man," Optimus chastises him. 'Bee whines and closes the valve as the human sputters and Sam lets out a small giggle.
Suddenly Ironhide yells out a warning to his leader causing the Autobots to scatter out defensively, "Optimus! Incoming!" One of the humans shot at the group in an attempt to slow them down is thrown at before Optimus gives the order to retreat. All Autobots transform into their smaller vehicle versions and the group attempts to flee. The teen are grabbed up with Optimus and they duck under a bridge to evade the helicopters flying around searching for them. After a second pass by the helicopters by their hiding place, nerves get the better of Sam and he slips off of Optimus falling to the pavement below.
Optimus trys holding himself together as the strange boy falls. Just before he hits, Bumblebee comes out of nowhere and manages to catch him and roll to safety. Optimus lets out a human-like sigh.
The helicopters return and surround the duo on the ground. They shoot out cables to pin down Bumblebee who is shielding Sam. Screaming for them to stop and leave his friend alone, Sam can only watch as Bumblebee is violently subdued. Government SUVs speed to a stop surrounding the pair and jump Sam, taking him into custody along with Bumblebee.
Optimus managed to remain unnoticed nearby as the two are captured. Tempted to rush out and help the boy and young Cybertronian, he spies the glasses and vowing to get them both back he says hidden. Maybe he could complete the mission and then save them, or maybe the agents will somehow take them to the Allspark and the glasses will lead him to them.
Just before Sam is shoved into the back of one of the vehicles the lead agent from before smugly walks up to him to gloat, "Happy to see me again?" He then gives the orders to leave with their prisoners and Sam is helplessly watching them take Bumblebee; unknowing if he is in pain or not. The yellow 'bot held eye contact with him for as long as he could, whining softly in an attempt to say the human's name before he is loaded into the black SUV.
When the agents have left, the remaining Autobots slowly come out of hiding. An argument quickly ensues as to why they are merely watching as their comrade is taken away rather than trying to help out. Unwilling to take any human lives in the course of freeing Sam and Bumblebee, Optimus orders them to remain as they are. "Let them leave. We will not let them keep either, but we must find the Allspark." Optimus carefully picks up the glasses and turns to go, "Autobots, roll out!"
Barricade watched the humans take off with the strange boy and decided to follow them. The slightly dented Decepticon ignored the thump in the back of his trunk as the human femme thrash about in an attempt to escape. The muffled screaming, too low for humans to hear grated on the sensitive audio receptors of the mech and he allow a sedative to seep into the air of his trunk making the human still in sleep.
A.N. Thanks again! And I hope some of you're questions were answered. Also as a side note I might be putting a one shot up later. Don't know yet.