Chapter 4

It had taken the Roosevelt another two days to reach Diego Garcia. In that time most everyone on board the carrier had had to go through a multiple of debriefings on the events that had occurred in the past week. Ron and Judy Witwicky had had to describe their experience in Paris from the moment the Decepticon had made land fall to their capture and up to the events in Egypt that they had experienced.

Leo and Simmons were being forced to describe anything and everything that they had on the beings from Cybertron and anything else. Leo had been informed that his site was going to be replaced with something that citizens would be able to think was nothing but a giant hoax. And Simmons who had recently been instated as a member of NEST had had to explain where exactly all of the information that he had taken from Sector 7 was, and where exactly they could find it to bring it back to NEST's central command in the Pentagon.

Lennox and Epps team was being lightly reprimanded for their treatment of the Presidents Advisor. They were also going into depth on the battle that had taken place from the moment they made the drop to the moment they boarded the carrier. As it was this had been the most boring part of the debriefing that Sam had had to sit through. It wasn't that he didn't care what had happened, no that wasn't it at all. It was just that he had already heard it from the three people that had the most rank at the battle.

Then finally it came time for Sam, Mikaela, Leo, Simmons and the Autobots to speak. They had all gone into great detail of everything that they had gone through. They had all felt ashamed when they had gotten to the part about attacking the security guards at the Smithsonian, well everyone that is except for Simmons. They described how they had gotten to Egypt and of their finding the Matrix. When they finally got to the part of the battle they broke off into two groups. One being Leo and Simmons who were describing their encounter with Devastator, and then Sam and Mikaela who were describing their breakneck run from the Decepticons and to the troops and the body of Optimus.

All in all that had seemed to have taken almost an entire day, and by the time they had left the meeting they were all way to tired to want to do anything else. Not that there was much they could do on the carrier to occupy themselves, they had learned that a couple of hours after embarking on the vessel. So they spent the majority of the time on the carrier using the ships recreation room to keep up to date with what had been going on in the world, not to mention the captain of the vessel had allowed them access to use one of the ships military laptops to use. Leo had used it the most, as he had all but been ordered to make major changes to his website.

It was during this time only a few hours before they would be docking at Diego Garcia that Sam and Mikaela had used to hang out by themselves, or that is try and be as alone as they could get on a ship that was almost crowded to unbelievable levels. As the two leaned against the furthest wall away from everyone, Mikaela leaning contently against Sam everything felt-right. Felt as it should.

Leaning her head back as far as it would go Mikaela gazed up at Sam trying to guess at what he was thinking as he stared across the room towards his parents. When she finally couldn't figure it out, she asked. "What's going through that mind of yours?"

Drawing his attention away from his parents and towards her he smiled. "I don't know. I guess I just thought that they would, you know…" he trailed off not sure himself what it was he thought.

"Be taking this worse than they are?" Mikaela asked, picking up where he had trailed off.

"Yes… no… I guess. I mean when they found out about Bee, and everything else that had happened in Mission City, they freaked. I mean really freaked. And after what happened out there, I just thought that they'd be freaking out more than they did that day." Sam said sighing. It was honestly bothering him that his parents had only spent a few minutes freaking out after the battle had ended, it just wasn't like them. He had expected them to want to stay as close to him for as long as they could.

Nodding Mikaela looked forward again staring at the two Witwicky's standing not that far off eating the mush that they had grabbed from the cafeteria. "Maybe they're finally looking at you as an adult. Giving you space."

Sam laughed lightly "Yeah, maybe." He sobered quickly though, the real reason he had been quiet coming back to mind. He sighed, trying to release all of the tension that had been building up in him since Epps had made that comment about Mikaela's father. "Mik."

Something in his voice made her look back up at him. "Yeah?"

Taking a breath to steady his nerves Sam went on voicing his question hoping that she would have an answer for him that would quench his fears. "You don't think your dad's gonna like, try and I don't know… strangle me when we tell him about us do you?"

She turned around quickly so that he wouldn't be able to see the smile on her face, but she wasn't able to stop the snort of laughter that escaped her. "I doubt it."

"Why?"

She turned around in his embrace so that she could look him in the face. "Sam he's not going to hate you, heck you're like the only guy that I've gone out with that he doesn't hate. That's a really big thing, trust me. But the real reason is that I love you, he knows that. He's not going to try and scare you off. He'd be too worried that I'd hate him for it if he did."

Sam nodded, her simple words had quenched many of his fears, and he knew that he'd have to try and get the Master Sergeant back for placing them in his mind, one way or the other. But right now he was to content with the girl in his embrace.

"Now is there anything else that you're freaking out about that I could do to set your mind at ease?" She said, joking lightly as she smirked up at him.

Sam laughed and shook his head. "No, but if you wanted I could probably think of something real quick."

She laughed and poked him lightly in the ribs. "I'm sure you could."

He was leaning in towards her beautiful smiling face, planning on claiming her lips as his. His lips were only a few inches from hers when suddenly he felt something smack into his head. He jerked back quickly. "The hell?" he said angrily looking around for the offending item that had hit him in the side of the head. He looked down and found a roll of toilet paper rolling away from him.

"Who threw that?!" Mikaela shouted as she stood up glaring at everyone in the room, her eyes landing accusingly on Simmons and Leo who were sitting together at the table with the laptop in between them, then at Lennox and Epps who were on the other side of the room laughing about something.

It was Sam who found the culprit, hiding under a far table next to the exit of the room. Sam elbowed Mikaela and pointed towards the direction of the table and the small, blue RC truck that sat under it, another roll of toilet paper resting in its truck bed. She glared in its direction, and before Sam could even stand she was already bending under the table and grabbing the ex-Decepticon.

"Wheelie, what the hell was that for!?" she yelled gaining the attention of the men on the ship that were in the hallway at her outburst. By now Sam had finally made his way over to them and was standing next to her and joined her in glaring down at the now Transformed Wheelie. "Are you going to answer me!"

Looking back and forth between the two humans, his gaze finally settled on his Warrior Goddess, and at the moment she was showing why he had called her that. "Wheelie protecting his Warrior Goddess. Wheelie doing his job. Witwicky not right for Warrior Goddess."

Mikaela and Sam looked up at each other in surprise. He thought that, he of all the people and bots she knew could proclaim who was right for her. He thought that she needed protecting from Sam. Sam of all people!

"Are you serious? Are you seriously telling me that's why you threw that at Sam?" Mikaela said pointing at the roll of toilet paper, anger seeping into her every word.

Wheelie followed her finger towards the roll then his optics came back to focus back on her. "Warrior Goddess is my only concern."

Sam looked back up at Mikaela and rolled his eyes. "I told you he was weird."

Mikaela glared at him for a moment before turning that glare back on the small bot. "Wheelie do you want me to torch that eye that I had to talk Ratchet into fixing again. Because I promise you I will, and I won't have him fix it this time either."

Wheelie's optics widened at the implications of his actions. He had only meant to keep the human away from his Warrior Goddess, and now said Warrior Goddess was threatening to destroy his recently fixed optic, once again. "No, no, no, no. Wheelie won't do it again. Wheelie make promise to Primus that he won't do it again."

Mikaela's eyes narrowed a little more as she glared down at the mini bot, then she nodded, released him, grabbed Sam's hand, and made their dragging him back to where they had been sitting a moment before. Everyone else in the room looked between the bot and Mikaela couple more times, laughing nervously before going back to what they had been doing.

Once the two humans had left him Wheelie was able to slow down the rate at which his spark was sparking and calm himself. He wouldn't do that again, at least not until his goddess had calmed down, and perhaps when the Witwicky boy was alone, he might mess with him again. Though then again his goddess would find out and he would have to rather pull his optic out himself then have her burn it off again. No, he definitely wouldn't do it again.

Across the room, their heads close together Lennox and Epps were laughing as they watched the two teens stomp back to where they had been resting. Or more accurately, Mikaela stomping, and Sam being dragged behind her. "Ha, told ya that the girl was worse than Dingleton. Crazy as hell too." Epps said laughing.

The next thing the Master Sergeant knew was that something soft hit him in the back of the head. Bending over he questioningly grabbed the toilet paper that hit him and looked around, finding a angry Mikaela glaring at him.

"I. Heard. That." She angrily growled.

Chuckling uneasily Epps nodded. "Sorry."