Warning: Crack, slight AU, post-DOTM, hinted gay, oil spills, fighting, gore, explosions, gore, cursing, brief sexual humor, major Spoilers, ect.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Summary: This was why Sam hasn't gone back in time yet.

"If you just realize what I just realized,

Then we'd be perfect for each other

And will never find another

Just realize what I just realized

We'd never have to wonder if

We missed out on each other now." –"Realize" by Colbie Caillat

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By the time it was morning, the car came to a halt at the cemetery.

"I hate this place," Sam grumbled, "Can Optimus honestly chose a place that isn't infested with the dead? Oh wait... That'll be hard, considering that I'm surrounded by them," he grumbled darkly under his breath.

Even if this is all fake, Sam was more willing for a better kind of fake.

"Fake happiness, fake till you feel it..." another sigh as he stepped out of the vehicle and climbed up a hedge to see him, and said one word, "Really?"

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but the last fragment of the AllSpark was stolen," Optimus said, looking at the male, and then back at the ground.

As the leader continued speaking Sam sighed deeply.

"Let me guess, you need me to come over to them and tell them to trust you?"

A pause, but Optimus nodded, "Yes, I believe that's correct."

"And you think they're going to trust me?"

Another pause, "Yes."

"Then, you're expecting too much," Sam said simply, "You know my phone number, am I correct?"

The Autobot leader nodded.

"Then just call me when you need me, and just update me regularly, alright?" he said, "The only way to get it through their mind is a clear field visual, and even then, there will be guys that won't believe it," Sam said, very bored, "So we'll show it. Don't worry, I promise you that none of you will die. And if you do, you won't rest in peace."

It was probably because they couldn't trust him.

Oh well, he told them not too, so it makes sense.

Now, he found himself sitting through class, something that Leo said about being the best of the best.

And looking to see that he was surrounded by seniors, he sighed.

There was still a long way to go.

Completely ignoring everything his teacher said, since he already knew it, he brought out his notebook and began writing, a web of possibilities, the time-lines of what was to happen, and how he could possible avoid some of the-

"Sam Witwicky?"

Looking up from his disturbed concentration, the teacher raised an eyebrow at him and then pointed at the door, "You have a call awaiting for you."

Calmly standing up, he walked up towards the front of the room, where he was handed the school telephone, and the silence continued to roll as he answered it.

"Yes. This is him," he said clearly.

And then, for him, time just seemed to stop.

"Class, you are dismissed for the day," the professor suddenly snapped, and some kids slowly packed up to leave.

They were waiting for the 'genius' in the front of the room to blurt out what was going on.

"Is... that so? I'll... Oh..."

Sam coughed roughly as he stormed to his dorm-room grabbed a duffel bag and threw in some clothes , and grabbing some make-shift weapons and house-hold bombs, he stuffed those in as well and turned as the door slammed open.

Alice and Leo.

With a pizza.

"W-what's going on dude?" Leo asked, and Sam pulled black leather gloves and stared at the girl.

"You wanted to meet the aliens, right?" Sam asked, and then smirked, "Come with me. I won't grantee your safety or anything, but I can show you all and everything about the aliens you wanted to know about."

"Sam," Leo growled and looked at Alice, "Now's not a good-"

Cut off as Alice shoved him out and closed the door, safely locking it as she climbed closer to Sam.

The male wasn't intimidated at all.

"Can't I at least watch?" Leo whimpered from the other side of the door.

"Sam, I knew there was something special about you," she purred at him, ignoring the whimpers from the hallway.

"Is that so?" a smirk on his face as the girl slammed him against the wall.

"And you know... When two people really get to know each other, they're genuinely amazing in bed..."

A smirk plastered on his face, Sam shrugged, and punched her hard in the stomach.

Sadly enough, nothing really happened as she snarled, and slammed their lips together.

"I love it when a guy's rough..."

The male, desperately trying to save himself, continued to push her off, and moving his leg behind hers, he shirted his weight forward, and completely relaxed.

And just as easily as that, she fell over, and after grabbing his duffel bag, was ready to run out the room.

He really needed to work on his speed, as a metal tongue grabbed out for his neck, successfully chocking him as he was slammed and thrown around like a rag doll around the room.

Groaning slightly and cursing the fact that Leo had put some hot coffee, that got all over his clothes, he growled as the door slammed open.

"Oh my god."

When the tongue relaxed around his neck, and Sam ran out the door, grabbing his savior as they quickly ducked and ran for more cover from the explosions, the two ran.

"What the hell is going on?" Leo demanded, staring back at the room and whimpered something about his posters.

"You're running away from ALICE!" he continued to scream, "Why's Alice like that?"

"Just keep running," Sam replied, "It's an alien ro-"

An explosion from their dormitory cut him off, and he sighed, and then, he coughed, "Well then... Shall we?" he asked simply.

Leo nodded, almost blindly as they followed the freshman out.

The library would buy some coverage.

And some was better than none.

The two hid behind the ledge, catching breathes while Leo sniffled.

"I had dreams where we were going to have sex," he grumbled.

"I did not need to know that," Sam grumbled as a reply.

"Shut up! You don't know how it feels to lose someone important to you! She was going to be my sex life!"

"That's a disturbing part of you I never wanted to know," Sam gaped in utter disgust.

And the grumbling and babbling from Leo suddenly grew louder, "But what if she came onto you because you could like... bear her kids?"

A look of disbelief came from Sam as he stared at his roommate.

"What? Well, uh... if that happens, things would get very awkward, huh?" Sam muttered.

"Hurry up and spit it out!" Leo snarled, "They might be eating you from the inside out, right now!" he gasped.

"Wow. My life sucks," Sam grumbled.

"I'm the key to this," his boss whispered, "The aliens..." he growled out, "Want me because of my site..."

Another look of disbelief ran past the human All-Spark face.

"What?"

The explosion took apart some of the library as the three began running away once more.

Jumping off the second floor, and down to the ground floor, as pages of book swamped the entire area, making it hard to look around. Meanwhile, Sam ran forward, only to get pushed back down by the people in front of him.

"Monster!" the scream came.

And all Sam thought was how it was all his fault.

Again.

Gritting his teeth, he ran around the library, searching for his roommate.

Finding them quickly, as the trio was tossed in the explosion, trying their best to rush away in any way they could, the wall next to them exploding, Leo jumped at the opportunity to leave.

Sam quickly followed.

"BOMB!"

"BOMB!"

The screams were endless, like gun-fires in a war, and noticing how not a single one of them had a car, ran into the streets on foot.

If done well, and pulled off correctly they'll be able to buy leave, somewhat alive and safe.

It didn't last long, as they were shot mercilessly at from the 'Alice' that had followed them.

Almost calmly Sam grabbed a match and lit it up, reached into his duffel bag, lit it up and threw it behind him.

"BOOM!"

The blast and no more Alice.

"It's a good bargain," Sam muttered as they continued running.

"What else do you need to tell me?" Leo demanded and Sam sighed, almost irritated.

"Listen, Alice," he said, jerking his thumb back at the mess they created, "Is the tiny baby compared to the normal ones."

"What?"

"You have got to be-"

The vulgarity that would've come out of his mouth a cut short as a chopper swept down near them, and grabbing onto Leo, the two stood, open mouth in awe and some horror as a large claw reached out and grabbed at them.

Dodging the first try, but failing against the second try, they were flying away.

"This... cannot be safe..." Sam muttered as he gazed at the sight around them.

"GAH! AH! AH! AH! AH!" the screams from Leo were short and somewhat nervous. And extremely panicked.

If it had been any other situation, Sam would've laughed.

In fact, he chuckled slightly before the helicopter dropped down, violently letting go of the duo and they fell.


The ceiling didn't help break their fall, but it was better than nothing.

"Hello, fleshing..." the deep rumble as Sam rolled off of his back, groaning in pain as Leo stayed on the ground.

"Yo, Megs," the male groaned.

If this was a fake world, at least the pain was real.

But it's real to them.

Another growl was heard, "What was that?"

"It's a greeting, dude," the male said, "Relax will you?"

"DON'T TELL ME TO RELAX, FLESHLING!" the clawed hand flung out to get him, and Sam quickly dodged as the Con above him growled darkly, "Come closer, fleshling..."

A quick look of disbelief as Sam arched an eyebrow at him.

"Wait, you yell at me, and then tell me to come closer? I like my eardrums and their ability to hear."

He knew this scene all to well.

"Sam?" he turned his gaze back to the roommate he dragged here.

From the looks of it, Leo was the one gasping and still whithering, lots of bruises, but no visible broken bones or fatal bleeding.

Good.

From that moment, Sam stood closer to his death, looked it clear in the optics and smirked.

If I die, do you think that I will wake up back at home?

Another snarl escaped Megatron as he snatched at the male, flinging him down on the elevated ground, and barely cried out in pain as the breath was stolen from him, he growled as he felt his ribs creaking against the pain, he bared his teeth.

Slowly, he calmed his breathing down, and gazing up at the Leader that pinned him down easily.

He gripped his forearm, twisting it slowly, as the male held in his screams as he trembled like an earthquake.

"Oh, how I wish to give you a slow, painful death," he purred, "To rip you, limb from limb... Listening to your screams..."

"That's nice and all," Sam gasped, before coughing roughly, "But you do know," he gasped, his bones relaxing, "I can't die, right?"

A deep chuckle, "We'll see about that..."

And then, the smaller Con dropped, "What? What? What?" it began climbing up the pinned human.

"Sam..." Leo, who finally got up, was staring at his new friend, already mourning for the loss that he knew was going to come, he gulped tightly.

"Come doctor," Megatron growled, "Examine this alien specimen."

The Con was muttering and grumbling as Sam kicked his legs around, desperately trying to get the Con off of him, and almost succeeded,shifting his weight around and flailing his head around, before he was roughly cut.

Feeling a cough come up, Sam let it go, and then attempted to spit on the small doctor.

The said doctor wasn't pleased as it sliced him once more, and then finally grabbed a hold of Sam's nose.

And then, everything stopped and all could think was, "Maybe I should just die..." he mused aloud.

Another chuckle as a large, metal tentacle was dropped on him, and he just relaxing, falling limp, a dead look spreading across his face.

"You won't die," Megatron said happily, "For I am the one to kill you..."

The tentacle thing opened up to become a squid as it slither it's way into Sam's mouth.

And the male relaxed, wondering what was going to on, as he felt something claw it's way out of his nose before he tensed before forcing himself to relax, the tingles snapping and gnawing at something within his head.

It just popped out of his mouth, effectively exhausting the pinned human.

And then, he saw it, the images of Carly, and Mikaela playing on the wall next to him. The scenes of Chicago falling apart, of the other Autobots, when they were laughing and screaming together, and then the scenes of Starscream dying, the deceptacons falling, failing.

And Sentinal. And Meagtron's and Optimus' last fight.

And the single scene of him shoving Dylan into the last pillar, Sam finally realized it.

It wasn't fake.

None of this was.

"We must have the brain on the table!" the call came while the spider-like Con came back closer to Sam's face.

"Thanks... Megatron," Sam's grin was hollow, eyes losing life as he realized what kind of a jerk he must have been this entire time, "I think it makes sense now."

"What?" the look of pure confusion through the red optics was enough as Sam smiled at him.

"You wanted my brain, right?" the teen nodded, "Maybe it's better if I do die like this," he said, "Thanks Megatron. For everything. I'll pay you back one day. Maybe in the... other world..."

"SAM!" the scream came through as Leo called out to the teen, and the ceiling broke, and the side of the building exploded.

And the leader of the Deceptacon growled, very irritated at his confusion and the fact that he was interrupted from his sweet revenge, he turned to fight the intruders.

"Get out of there! SAM!" Leo called as they rushed to take cover for themselves.

The dead look that passed through the young teen didn't fade, as he stood up.

Silently, he wondered if it was better if he really did just roll over and died.

"SAM!"

The call brought him back, and Sam shook his head.

If his life could just-

"BOOM!"

Less thinking, more running, and the male rushed to where his roommate were.

He still owed it to him so that he could survive, right?

It didn't last long, as he lost them as easily as he tried to find them, and when Optimus transformed in front of him, he boarded him easily.


The truck quickly fled off into a heavily forested mountain.

Of course, the whole, 'Save Sam' didn't work so well, as the Autobot Leader quickly changed back to handle some more deceptacons.

"Hide, SAM!" the scream came, and almost echoed through when something came flying around him.

He grumbled as he adjusted his duffel-bag, pleased that he didn't lose it through-out the entire battle-war.

The human rolled on the ground, as he ran from the deceptacons that were stalking him like prey.

He ignored all and any conversation, and while running, Optimus came flying at him, he grabbed some bombs and attempted to through it at the deceptacons.

Then, he saw it.

The fall of the great leader, and violently cursed through hissed whispers as he hid next to a tree.

"Sam... Run," the whisper came through and the human blinked.

Standing at the plains, he just stared at the leader he failed to protect for the second time.

The blue optics blinked out, showing that he was gone. Offlined.

Second time. Am i really that useless?

He felt the way Leo grabbed at him as they were shoved into the yellow comaro.

"...Do you think he'll forgive me?" Sam wondered quietly, "I... let him die so... vulnerably..."

Leo looked at the back seat before shrugging at his other roommate.

"Then it's simply, isn't it?" the boss said, "Don't let him rest in peace, so that he has to come back."

The engine jerked, obviously not liking the idea and the Leo scoffed.

And Sam?

He wondered if he'll be able to go home like this.


A/N: I'm debating whether or not to go to DOTM like this, but I am certain about what's going to happen. And just a little note, there will be life balance in this story, so... Be prepared for a lot of angst.