This is the longest chapter I have ever written, 32 pages I hope you enjoy! It will cover a huge chunk of the movie.

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:Frenzy to Autobot Bumblebee: commed Frenzy as Barricade approached the shore.

:Yes Frenzy: came the hurried answer from Bumblebee.

:Mission was a success, Barricade and Tyrell are safe. We are heading your way, we will meet you shortly:

:Affirmative: replied Bee. He was so happy that Tyrell and Barricade were safe. He immediately began to tell the group in him.

"Sam, Barricade and Tyrell are safe, there meeting us at the Air and Space Museum" he cried through the radio.

Sam who had been relaxing in the seat sat straight up. "Are you sure Bee, did Barricade comm you?"

"Frenzy commed me, he said they will meet us shortly" answered Bee as he pulled into the Air and Space Museum's parking lot.

"Did Frenzy say if they are okay?" asked Mikaela gripping Sam's hand in silent support.

Bee hesitated, "He only said that they were safe. Nothing about their physical appearance. I'm shore that there ok, and we will see them soon.

Then as if by magic, a black mustang with silver flames turned off from the highway and started towards them. Bee noticed that the mustang was dripping water as it drove towards him.

Sam began to claw at the door handle trying to get out, but Bee refused to open it, he didn't know what condition Tyrell was in and didn't want Sam rushing him. "Bee let me out!" cried Sam as he realized that Bee wasn't going to open up.

But Bee ignored him, watching as Barricade slowly parked next to him. He watched movement from behind Barricade's tinted windows and was relieved when the door opened and Tyrell stepped out. Sam was basically slamming his fists on Bee's door to be let out. Bee couldn't deny him anymore and popped his locks open and opened the door. Sam fell out the door and onto the ground at the sudden release.

Sam felt strong hands grip him and pull him up from the ground. There standing in his camo cargo pants and black t-shirt with his combat boots was his brother. "Ty" he cried hugging him. His brother looked tired mostly, with dark circles under his eyes. He had a slight limp in the leg that had been trapped under the tree and Sam suspected that it wasn't fully healed. What worried him the most was the haunted expression that Tyrell's eyes had. Like he had seen something horrible, and knowing the Decepticons he probably did. "Are you alright Ty?"

"Yeah, just a little tired. Happy to be here instead of the other place, brought you a new friend."

Sam looked at Tyrell confused, "Who, if you mean Frenzy I already know him."

Ty smiled and looked at Barricade, who opened the backseat for Ravage to climb out. Ravage trotted up to Ty and smiled at the group with a sly grin. "Hello" he purred.

Sam gapped at the metal panther, and looked turned to his brother. Tyrell just smiled at his face and hugged his brother hard, happy to see him okay. Ravage sniffed and fled back to the inside of Barricade, curling down in the seat again.

Mikaela ran from the other side of Bee to get her hug from Ty. "I was so worried about you Tyrell, it seems like every time I turn around something bad has happened to you" she cried.

"I'll try to stop that" whispered Tyrell. He heard more of Bee's car doors slam and he broke from Mikaela to look who it was when he was tackled by something blonde. "Tyrell" it cried squeezing him tight. Ty looked down to see the last person he expected.

"Miles?" he croaked.

Miles broke the hug and smiled "The one and only! I can't believe that Sam and you hid this from me for two years! I don't know if I want to punch you or hug you."

Tyrell looked at Miles in disbelief, "You're mad that we didn't involve you in all of this in the beginning?"

Miles shook his head seriously, "Yeah man, it's hard to explain why, but it just feels so right to be a part of all this."

Tyrell nodded he knew the feeling; he allowed a small smile before looking at the other two. He recognized the curly black hair boy from the warehouse, and the other one was none other than Seymour Simmons.

He turned to the boy first, holding out his hand "I don't believe we have been properly introduced. I'm Tyrell Witwicky, Sam's older brother."

The boy took it hesitantly, "Leo Spitz, I'm Sam's college roommate."

Tyrell nodded solemnly, he bet that Leo didn't expect this when he went to college. "I'm sorry that you had to be dragged into this. I'm sure you have been freaking out a bit over all of this."

Leo smiled at Tyrell; he was relieved that someone understood his situation for once. Everyone had basically ignored his feelings over the situation from the beginning. "Thanks bro, it has been strange and I admit I have freaked out more than once."

Ty nodded again and then turned to Simmons, they eyed each other for a moment before Tyrell spoke. "Surprised to see you here Simmons, especially since how our last meeting ended."

Simmons shrugged, "My country might have turned against me, but I will not abandon the world when it needs me. Now if everyone is done with all this emotional crap we need to get back on track." Simmons went back to Bumblebee and pulled out his bag, taking out a pair of binoculars. Tyrell sighed, Simmons was still the biggest jerk in the world, but he did have a point.

"Smithsonian Air and Space of dreams in there. All I ever wanted to be was an astronaut" sighed Simmons, looking through a the binoculars. Tyrell laughed.

"So naturally you went into a job that handled aliens."

Simmons ignored Tyrell's smart remark and dug into his bag and pulled out a pair of overalls, he then stripped out of his pants. "Hold those" he commanded Miles. The group looked at Simmons in horror at what he was wearing.

"What is that!" demanded Sam, looking at the hideous thong that Simmons had on. It had the S-7 symbol on the front. Simmons calmly looked down at his underwear and then around at everybody. Even the Autobots were disturbed at what they saw, and almost

"What? I wear them when I'm in a funk. So does Giambi, Jeter. It's a baseball thing" mumbled Simmons as he pulled up the overalls, hiding the hideous thong. "Okay. Watches synchronized, sharp mind and empty bladder. You get caught, demand an attorney and don't ever say my name." He reached into his pocket and drew out a bottle of pills and handed some to everyone. "Okay, take one of these pills. Slip it under your tongue. It's the high-concentrate polymer they put in Oreo cookies. Tricks the polygraph every time. Okay. Now, let's get this show on the road"

Leo began to shake his head, Tyrell guessed that a plan had already been disgust and whatever part Leo had in he didn't want to do. "No, listen, I can't do this. I'm not some alien bounty hunter, guys. I'm not gonna do this. Guards have guns. I don't want to die!"

Simmons sighed and backed Leo against Skids. "Kid, kid, kid. You compromise this mission, you are dead to me. Now look into my eyes and tighten up that sphincter."

Leo sullenly agreed, Miles just grinned and accepted two tasers from Simmons and followed Leo inside. The two were quickly becoming fast friends, especially after Miles had asked Leo for his autograph after explaining how he loved the website. Tyrell turned to the remaining three.

"What is the plan? Or are you just making it up as we go?"

"Yes we have a plan Soldierboy. Timmon and Pumba will down a guard while I take out the rest. You, Fugitive and Convict will be hiding until we regroup."

Tyrell grimaced at the nicknames but let them slide. "Good plan Agent 7, might as well get to it then."

Simmons grinned and motioned for everyone to follow him. Ty patted the hood of Barricade before following Simmons. They separated once they hit the door way. Tyrell, Sam, and Mikaela towards the many displays of aircrafts and Simmons towards the guard station. They were lucky it was closing time and the museum had little people left in it.

The museum is now closing. Came a voice from the intercom system. Tyrell looked around as there distraction became known

From the boys bathroom came Leo with his pants hanging down around his ankles. "Yo, baba!" he whistled to get everybodies attention which he got as everybody turned to look giving the three a chance to jump into a few planes to hide. "Bad news, bro! Ran out of toilet paper! You got any out here? Please tell me you do."

The guards looked disgusted at Leo "Sir! I suggest you get in there. The museum is closed!"

Leo was burning with embarrassment, he cursed himself that he had picked rock instead of scissors, stupid Miles, but he continued. "Listen, man, I understand that, but as you can see, this is important. All right? Thumper dumper. I got to go. All right."

The guard looked around unsure of what to do. "Sir, you are a grown, naked man around children. Pull your pants up and exit the building."

Leo gave the man his best stare. "I'm not going anywhere" he said forcefully.

He sighed inwardly with relief as the guard gave in; he swiftly went back to the bathroom and into a stall. "Give me a taser Miles, he's coming."

Miles chuckled from the next stall over and handed Miles a taser just as the guard came back in.

"You got that paper, right, sir?" asked Leo as Miles hurriedly pulled his feet back up so that they couldn't be seen. The guards hand appeared with a roll of toilet paper in it.

"You should be embarrassed. This is a family museum, sir" began the guard as Leo activated the taser and tased the hand that had appeared.

"Got him" cried Leo pulling up his boxers and rushed to look at his work, only to trip on the guard and tase himself in the nuts. Miles could only look down at Leo and burst into laughter, soon falling down on the ground. The door opened and Simmons came running in, and skidded to a halt looking down at the two.

"What is going on here?" he demanded.

Leo looked up at him. "How many times can you get tased in the nuts before you can't have kids?" he asked twitching. Miles finally controlled his laughter and looked up at Simmons with tears in his eyes.

"I'm good"

Simmons just rolled his eyes, he knelt down and handcuffed the guard to the water pipes and stomping on his radio, before grabbing Leo by the arm and dragged him out of the bathroom. "You are an amateur, man, a rank amateur" he muttered, and then turned to Miles. "You're no better kid, your partner needs help and you just lay on the ground laughing. Disgraceful."

Tyrell heard Simmons voice before he saw him and jumped out of his hiding place, he motioned to Sam and Mikaela to do the same as him. Simmons voice echoed in the museum as he approached.

"We just downed five guards."

"Five guards. Not too bad Agent 7" commented Tyrell.

Simmons ignored him, only grabbed the bag from Sam and knelt on the ground. "Get your stuff and get out of here" muttered Simmons as he rummaged for the necessary tools to pick up spark energy.

"Give me a second here" demanded Sam. "I got to get the tracker, all right."

Mikaela took that time to open her toolbox to let Wheelie out. She looked down at him and pointed to him threatening. "Be good" she demanded.

Wheelie crawled out of the box, and breathed deeply. "I'm claustrophobic" he yelped.

Tyrell ignored every one as watched as Sam extracted the shard from the jar with a pair of large tweezers. Being close to the shard made his skin crawl, his hands shook. It felt like he had just taken a shot of an energy drink. He was distracted from this though when Simmons cried out in glee as he found his tracker, he activated it.

"Ready."

Everyone followed Simmons and Sam as they began to search through the hundreds of planes that were on display. Anyone of them could be the mech they were looking for. When suddenly Wheelie broke from the group, driving away fast.

Mikaela grabbed Sam, and pointed to Wheelie. "Look, look. Follow him. Follow him." They broke in a run to keep up with the toy truck, he lead him deeper into the museum never slowing down. "He knows where he's going. He knows something" yelled Mikaela.

"What?" yelled back Sam, he was too busy watching Wheelie to understand what Mikaela had just said.

"He knows something"

From the other side of the plane Simmons and Tyrell came with Leo and Miles close behind them. Simmons device was going wild. "You got what I got?" he asked Sam.

"Yeah" confirmed Sam, it was hard to keep ahold of the shard, it seemed to want to fly to the jet that was in front of them. Tyrell recognized the aircraft that was sitting in front of them.

"Blackbird"

"There he is" said Wheelie in an awed voice as he pointed to the majestic jet. "This guy's a legend, like the Chairman of the Board!" He turned to Sam. "Yo, freshman, point the shard and watch the magic happen."

Sam nodded, climbing under the ropes that were meant to keep people away. He let go of the shard, it flew to the plane causing a wave of energy to roll along the frame. Sam and Mikaela rush under the plane to look for the shard when Mikaela recognized the symbol that stamped on the back of the landing gear.

"Shit" yelled Mikaela looking at a well-known symbol, feeling dread "It's a Decepticon!"

"Decepticon?" whispered Tyrell looking at horror at the plane

"Behind the MiG now!" yelled Simmons pushing Leo and Miles, as the jet began to transform. Sam and Mikaela ran from under the mech and joined the group behind the MiG. Tyrell watched at the jet rose, he could tell something was wrong as the mech transformed. It was a slow process, and the mech had to push pieces into place until he finally stood with the assistance of a cane.

"What sort of hideous mausoleum is this? Answer me, pawns and knaves! Show yourselves or suffer my infinite wrath! You little spinal-cord-based organisms! Bugger it! Behold the eternal glory of Jetfire!" shouted the mech as he shakily stood with the cane. "Prepare for remote systems override!" yelled the mech pointing at the stationary planes all around him with his cane.

Wheelie looked at the humans. "I tell you, this guy did not age well" he said shaking his head.

Mikaela studied the mech as he wondered around, he didn't look like a blood thirsty Decepticon. "I don't think he's gonna hurt us" she said quietly.

Jetfire reached the large back door of the museum and studied them, before raising his hand."I command these doors to open." When the door refused to answer his demand he activated his weapons. "Fire! I said, fire!" The rocket shot off, but in the wrong direction going backwards instead of hitting the door. "Bollocks! Damn these worthless parts" yelled Jetfire as he bashed the door outward.

Sam mind caught up with him and he went running after the mech, "Wait a second!"

"ltchy, wretched rust in my arse!" mumbled Jetfire, scratching his arse, as he walked past more aircraft.

"The museum is going to be very angry. Very angry" yelled Simmons looking back to look at the damage as the group ran after Jetfire. "We gotta catch that plane." From around the museum, Bumblebee and Barricade followed by the twins came rushing, kicking up dirt as they caught sight of the mech. They watched closely as the humans approached the mech. Deciding to watch to see what would happen, prepared to transform in any moment if the jet became threatening.

However Jetfire wasn't a problem as he continued to walk, he paused and rested on a plane thinking. "Right. I'm on a mission" he pondered. His thought were all muddled together since his awakening. He thoughts were interrupted by the spine-cord based organisms.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" they were yelling. He swung around to face them, accidently destroying the plane beside him.

"What do you want?" he demanded.

"Look, we just want to talk!" yelled Tyrell looking up at the mech.

Jetfire scoffed,"I have no time to talk. I'm on a mission. I'm a mercenary doom-bringer" he paused and leaned down to look at the creatures. "What planet am I on?"

"Earth" said Sam.

"Earth? Terrible name for a planet. Might as well call it Dirt. Planet Dirt" he said spitting kneeling down to eye level with the humans. "Tell me, is that robot civil war still going on? Who's winning?" he demanded.

"The Decepticons" said Tyrell watching the jet, he wondered what he would do since he found out his side was winning. He was shocked at what the bot said next.

"Well, I changed sides to the Autobots."

Everyone looked taken aback, "What do you mean, changed sides?" demanded Simmons.

Jetfire spit again. "It's a choice. It's an intensely personal decision. So much negativity. Who wants to live a life filled with hate?" asked Jetfire.

Wheelie looked shaken. "You mean you don't have to work for those miserable, freaking Decepticons?"

Jetfire nodded, "If Decepticons had their way, they'd destroy the whole universe."

"They have already destroyed some of it Jetfire. Cybertron is lost, the All Spark was destroyed" said Tyrell to the mech, he doubted the mech knew. In the back ground he could hear Wheelie telling Mikaela that he was changing sides.

The mech looked sad, as he took in the news. He didn't know that Cybertron was lost, but what was this about the All Spark being gone, the boy was terrible misinformed.

He shook his head to catch the other boy talking to him again."What were you saying?"

Jetfire snapped as he let out his anger over the news that his home was destroyed. "I told you my name was Jetfire, so stop judging me."

The human cowered before him, falling onto their backs with fear. He brought his cane down next to three of them.

"Somebody shit the bed this morning" muttered Wheelie

Jetfire ignored him and continued to rant. "I have issues of my own. And it started with my mother! My ancestors have been here for centuries. My father, he was a wheel, the first wheel. Do you know what he transformed into?"

"No" said Simmons.

"Nothing!" yelled Jetfire bringing his cane down again. "But he did so with honor, dignity, damn it!" Suddenly there was a gurgling in his tanks, and he had to release pressure. A gas erupted from his arse, causing a parachute to come out, as it filled with air it dragged Jetfire to the ground. "Bollocks. My boosters are fried."

The humans ran to where the mech had fallen.

Sam looked at the mech. "I think we can help each other. You know things I don't know. I know things you don't know, I do."

"I don't think he knows anything. Honestly, I don't" Leo said, he didn't think this robot knew anything. Miles whispered for him to shut up.

Tyrell ignored the babbling around him and drew his knife, and presented it to Sam.

"Start drawling the symbols that you've seen." Sam accepted the knife and began to cut the symbols into the earth and speaking as he did. "I could do this all day. It comes in waves, these vivid symbols. They're symbols, but they're in my mind. You see, all this is in my mind and Megatron wants what's in my mind. Him and someone called the Fallen."

Jetfire started, "The Fallen? I know him. He left me here to rust. The original Decepticon. He's terrible to work for. It's always apocalypse, chaos, crisis." He looked down at the symbols that Sam had drawn. "That makes no sense, you sure that you've written all the symbols that you have seen?"

Sam nodded and then looked at Tyrell and handed the knife back. He quickly cut the symbols that he had, until he came to the space that the two symbols that he had hide came. He sat back on his heels and mentally began to search his mind. It took him awhile, but he found the barrier, he barely touched it before it opened and revealed the two symbols. He smiled and cut the last two symbols onto the ground and stood up. Jetfire leaned down and petted his beard, thoughtfully.

"These transcriptions, they were part of my mission, the Fallen's search. I remember now, for the Dagger's Tip, and the key."

Sam looked up, "Slow down. The Dagger's Tip? The key? What are you talking about?"

Hold on little one I am going to open a space bridge to Egypt and I will have to draw on your strength Tyrell barely had time to comprehend that Jetfire was speaking to him somehow mentally, before he heard Jetfire call out a warning.

"No time to explain. Hold on, everybody! Stay still or you'll die!" yelled Jetfire, bringing his hand down around the humans, blue electrify swirling around his fingertips. He made sure to extend the field to include the four Autobots.

A great shock ran through his body and he felt his energy start to drain away at an alarming rate. His body felt like it was being pulled in a thousand different directions and then squeezed through a tube in a pressure tube.

Suddenly it was over, and he was bursting from the sand into a hot sun. He flew high into the air, and he saw the ground coming towards him. But he didn't have strength to try to break his fall. A pair of giant hands came from nowhere and caught him within inches of the ground.

"Gotcha" cried Barricade.

Tyrell smiled weakly up at his guardian. "Thanks Cade" he said sitting up a little before falling back, too weak to hold himself up.

Barricade immediately noticed the change in his charge. It was like they had just broken out of the Decepticon base again.

He was distracted when he heard his name being called, "Barricade" Cade lifted his optics to find Frenzy and Ravage coming towards him, none worse for wear.

"I am going to kill that jet if it's the last thing I do" mumbled Ravage as he got close enough for Barricade and Tyrell to hear.

"Get in line" mumbled Tyrell, struggling to set up and succeeding. He was going to kill that 'bot for doing this to him. "Where did everybody else pop up at?"

As if on cue Tyrell heard Mikaela yelling for Sam. "We better go join the rest of the party" mumbled Barricade beginning to walk. That got back to Jetfire in time to hear Simmons rant to him.

"That really, really hurt. You're just lucky that I didn't get hurt! People could have gotten killed, okay? And if I would have gotten hurt, you would have heard..."

Jetfire growled "Shut up. I told you I was opening a space bridge. It's the fastest way to travel to Egypt."

Sam just stared at the crazy mech. "When did you... When did you tell us? You didn't tell us anything. You didn't tell us anything. Why are we in Egypt?"

Jetfire looked at Sam like he was crazy. "Don't you get snippy with me, fleshling! You were duly informed!" he growled. He had clearly told this fleshling that he was going to go to Egypt. Jetfire gazed around at the remaining fleshling and saw Tyrell and realized he had gotten his organics mixed up. I guess I didn't tell that fleshling after all that we were going to Egypt, I just told you. Oh well, no harm done. Mused Jetfire in Tyrell's head.

Sam was growing tired of the mechs ramblings. He wondered if Cybertronians had mental illness like humans do. "Can you just stop for a second? Can you focus? Can you tell us why we're in Egypt so we can all have a little bit of semblance of peace of mind?"

Jetfire preferred this fleshling's brother, at least he was respectful to his elders but he began his tale. "This planet was visited by our race once before, by our earliest ancestors, millennia ago. They were on an exploratory mission to harvest Energon, the lifeblood of our race. Without it, we'll all perish, oxidize and rust, like my wretched self!" Jetfire was furious that he had been forgotten about and once he began to rant he ranted about everything. Bits of his armor began to fall down and smoke billowed from his frame. "Do you have any idea what it's like to slowly fall apart and die?" he demanded the beings around him.

Simmons decided to take matters in his own hands he raised a hand. "Let's not get episodic, okay, old-timer? Beginning, middle, end. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it."

Jetfire did what the organic asked and continued "Somewhere buried in this desert, our ancestors built a great machine. It harvests Energon by destroying suns…"

Miles interrupted looking afraid. "Destroy suns? You mean blow them up?"

Jetfire cursed the younglings interruption but continued. "Yes. You see, in the beginning, there were seven Primes, our original leaders. And they set out into the universe, seeking distant suns to harvest. The Primes set out with one rule, never destroy a planet with life, until one of them tried to defy this rule. And his name forevermore was the Fallen." From his hand he activated a projection of the Fallen for the humans to see. Tyrell shuddered at the image, even though it was the real things. Jetfire continued. "He despised the human race and he wanted to kill you all by turning on that machine. The only way to activate it is with a legendary key called the Matrix of Leadership. A great battle took place over possession of the Matrix. The Fallen was stronger than his brothers, so they had no choice but to steal and hide it from him. In the ultimate sacrifice, they gave their lives to seal the Matrix away in a tomb made of their very own bodies, a tomb we cannot find. Somewhere, buried in this desert, that deadly machine remains. The Fallen knows where it is and if he finds the tomb of the Primes, your world will be no more."

"Okay, so how do we stop him?" demanded Barricade looking at the oldtimer with his arms crossed. He was a bit skeptic about everything that Jetfire had just told them.

Jetfire looked out into the distance before answering. "Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen."

Sam's head popped up "Optimus Prime?"

Jetfire hurriedly crouched down next to the organic with hope in his face. "So, you've met a Prime? Why, you must have met a great descendant. Is he alive, here on this planet?"

Sam gaze lowered to the ground, as Tyrell fixed his eyes on Sam's shirt. He answered before Sam could. "He sacrificed himself to save Sam and I."

Jetfire's hopes immediately fell and he slowly straightened back up. "So, he's dead. Without a Prime, it's impossible. No one else could stop the Fallen."

Sam got a thoughtful expression on his face. "So, the same energy that's gonna be used to reactivate the machine, could that energy somehow be used to reactivate Optimus and bring him back to life?"

"It was never designed for that purpose, but it's an energy like no other" answered Jetfire he wondered how much longer they could afford to stay here. Opening a space bridge probably had alerted every mech on earth of his presence and it wouldn't take long to trace it's energy to this location.

"So, then how do you get us to the Matrix before the Decepticons get to us?" asked Sam.

Jetfire wanted to shake the boy. "Follow your mind, your map, your symbols. What you and your brother carved in the sand, it's your clue. When dawn alights the Dagger's Tip, Three Kings will reveal the doorway! Find the doorway! Go now! Go! That was my mission. It's your mission now. Go before the Decepticons find me and find you all."

Jetfire watched as all the mechs around him transformed and the humans piled into two of them. He prayed that they would make it. Especially since, the two brothers were half's of the All-Spark and neither knew it. With a sigh he began to walk away from his landing sight, his scanners already telling him that Decepticons were already on their way.

The Autobots raced away from Jetfire, through the sand. Simmons became busy and called a buddy that owed him a favor.

"Okay, here's what my CIA contact says. Ancient Sumerians used to call the Gulf of Aqaba the "Dagger's Tip."

"That's the Dagger's Tip" summarized Sam, thinking of the riddle.

Simmons nodded. "It's part of the Red Sea. It divides Egypt and Jordan like the tip of a blade. 29.5 degrees north, 35 east. Here it is." He said showing Sam a GPS picture of the location

Ty's voice came from over the radio. "First thing we've got to do is get Optimus to the Dagger's Tip, before we plan anything else." Though all the Autobots had their radios connected to that the twins, and everyone in Barricade could hear what was being said in Bumblebee.

"How are you gonna get him halfway around the world?" asked Leo from the backseat of Bee.

"I'm gonna make a call" said Sam assuringly as they speed down the road, the pyramids in the distance.

Suddenly the sounds of sirens could be heard. "We got cops!" yelled Sam.

"I can't go to prison, guys" shrieked Leo as they began to run from the police, entering a nearby village. People quickly got off the street for the speeding cars.

"Sam, we got to get off this road and lay low" remarked Simmons. Bee agreed, he pulled off into a side street and transformed, everyone followed his example. Looking at Barricade, he grabbed Skids by the ankle and jumped to cling onto one of the buildings. Barricade did the same with Mudflap. Frenzy and Ravage crouched down next to boys, as Mikaela wrapped a scarf around her head to watch as the cops came speeding past.

"Man, stupid cops!" muttered Skids.

"This is what's called blending in like a ninja" remarked Mudflap.

Skids growled. "Shut up or I'll blend my fist in your face."

"They're gone" whispered Mikaela as she crawled back to the boys, taking off the scarf.

Sam nodded, "Okay, we're running out of time. I gotta make the call to Lennox..."

Simmons looked at Sam like he was nuts. "You're on the Worldwide Wanted List. Try calling one base, they'll track you here in seconds. CIA is all over this place!" he said in a hushed voice.

"You're gonna call" commented Tyrell from where he was sitting on the ground next to Ravage. Sam looked down at his brother; he had been really quite during all of this.

Simmons looked at the two Witwickys for a second before agreeing. "Okay. That's a good idea. I mean, I just had my mind on other things, like winding up in an Egyptian prison."

New Jersey

NEST departure, 2100 hours.

Lennox watched as the Autobots were rolled past him, all of them were strapped down in black mesh. Soldiers running next to them with saber rounds to make sure they didn't do anything stupid. All the NEST soldiers looked at it sadly.

"So, we're shipping him back to base. This is such a mistake" said Lennox to Epps, Fig, and Graham as he watched the body of Optimus Prime being loaded into one of the C-17's that would be returning to base. Many soldier came to stand around Optimus to make sure no further harm came to the body. Lennox turned around as a soldier called to him.

"Major Lennox, phone call."

Simmons reluctantly dialed the numbers Tyrell had given him. Major Lennox wasn't on the top of his list of favorite people since he held a gun to his chest. But he was glad as he heard the Major's voice as he said hello. "Lennox, I'm with the kid. The kid. You know, the one with the attitude, right, along with soldierboy. The one hanging with the truck. We need the truck. The truck. We got a possible resurrection going on over here. You're not gonna believe where we are. Code Tut, as in King Tutankhamen. Back of a $1 bill. Coordinates for airdrop, 29.5 north, 34.88 east. Write it down. Write it" Simmons looked up to see a figure with a black head scarf running wright at them. "Oh, my God. I got to go. Okay. Heat comes. Phantom out."

He slammed the phone down, shocked when the phone booth fell down. "Wait, who are you?" he demanded the figure as he got close.

"Wait. It's me. Leo. Me. Leo" yelled Leo pulling back the scarf to show his face. "Leo. Leo. Cops are coming right now. We need to go!"

"Okay we need to go" yelled Simmons, heading to were the Autobots were parked. As he passed Tyrell, Ty caught his arm. The boy raised an eyebrow questioningly. "Phantom?"

Simmons looked sheepishly at Tyrell. "My terrorist name, I'm 1/36 Arabian."

Ty chuckled, "You think of such things?"

"Yeah, escepically when the government shut down Sector Seven. I would have the perfect cover to, I would sell shoes in the day, and be a terrorist by night."

"Shoes?"

"Yes, it was either be an S-7 agent or be a shoe salesman."

(Can anyone guess what movie I'm referring to?)

By then they were in hearing range of the Autobots, and Barricade was shaking with silent laughter. Simmons a shoe salesman was a hilarious vision.

Everybody piled into their respective Autobots. Which meant that everyone besides Tyrell piled into Bumblebee.

New Jersey

Lennox waited patiently for the chief navigator to tell them where the coordinates were from. He had been surprised to get a phone call from Simmons, it took him a minute to process what was being said. He was shocked when he said that he was with Sam and Tyrell. Though he was happy to know that Tyrell wasn't in the hands of Decepticons anymore. He immediately told Epps, Fig, and Graham. But the rest of the message puzzled him. Tyrell and Sam wanted him to bring Optimus to those coordinates for some reason. He withdrew from his thoughts as his chief navigator came from the open door of the C-17 towards him.

"Coordinates, 29.5 north, 34.88 east. Tip of the Red Sea. Gulf of Aqaba."

Epps looked at the man confused. "Egypt? Are you serious?"

Will nodded his thanks to the man and turned away, aware that Galloway was watching him. Epps knew this to and spoke quietly. "Even if we could figure out a way to get big man over there, how is Sam and Tyrell supposed to bring him back to life?"

Epps didn't quite believe that Tyrell was with Simmons anyway. So he was wary of the message that Simmons had sent. Surely if Tyrell had escaped the Decepticons they would have put out a notice like they did with Sam.

"Look, I don't know," sighed Lennox, "But we got to trust them."

Back in Egypt.

"Sam, I think we should go over what Jetfire told us again" said Tyrell as he settled down for a long car drive.

"Okay" said Sam. Then he began to recite. "When the dawn alights the Dagger's Tip, the Three Kings...Will reveal the doorway."

"That's what he said" confirmed Simmons. "You know what it means?"

"No, what does it mean?" asked Sam, thinking that Simmons knew the answer.

"I have no idea. Tyrell do you?" asked Simmons.

"No, not a clue, but I see trouble up ahead."

"Oh, my God. Oh, my God" began Leo going into panic mode, thankfully Miles was able to calm him down.

"Checkpoint. Checkpoint" mumbled Simmons as he looked at the checkpoint that loomed ahead.

"I don't have my passport" exclaimed Sam.

"Sam, you're a wanted fugitive, having a passport is the least of your problems" said Tyrell through the radio, but he was wondering what they were going to do to get out of this.

"Passport!" yelled the checkpoint administrator as he glared down at the cars.

"They got cameras at the top," said Sam, looking straight at the camera.

"Sam get your head down!" yelled Mikaela. How could Sam be so stupid and look straight at a camera, had he never seen an action movie. They traced people through cameras.

"All right, chill. This is espionage now. I can handle it. These are my people. I'm one-thirty-sixth Arab" said Simmons confidently. "The Phantom is on the job."

The administrator walked down from his place on top of the checkpoint and began to walk towards them and the group saw that he was very short.

Wheelie looked out the window and groaned. "Great, a fricking Munchkin. Little people are mean. Tell him he's tall" he encouraged as said Munchkin walked closer, running a finger down the side of Bumblebee's paint job. Bee bit back the urge to shudder, it felt wrong. The Administrator walked to the passenger side window. Bee rolled down the window for Simmons to talk. Simmons smiled at the administrator.

"Hello. The Dagger's Tip? Right? Egypt, Jordan." He made a point with his hands to emphasize his point. "We want to go there. Me and my family. This is my family." Sam snuggled his way through Simmons arm feeling ridiculous, though this way most of his face was hidden. Simmons was just glad that the teenagers had enough sense to act the part. "This is my son," he said motioning to Sam. "My other sons," motioning to Leo and Miles who smiled. "My daughter. The people driving the cars behind us are also my sons. We're tourists, from New York."

"New York?" said the man excited.

"Yes. Yes" affirmed Simmons smiling some more praying that it would work.

The Administrator smiled pointing west. "Fifty kilometers."

Simmons sighed in relief, he couldn't believe that he pulled it off, and nodded at the man. "You look like the guy that runs my falafel stand. Thank you very much. I know. I know you from somewhere."

"Go, Yankees!" cried the man as the gates raised and the Autobots went through. Everybody breathed a sigh of relief.

"So what do we do know Dad?" came Tyrell's voice through the radio suddenly, startling everybody. Simmons chuckled.

"Well son, we get to the Daggers Tip, and figure out the rest of the riddle and maybe if your good we'll get some ice cream."

Everybody laughed as Ravage became confused. "What's ice cream?"

Tyrell looked at Ravage's confused face and re-burst into laughter. Ravage looked at Frenzy, who just shrugged his shoulders. Barricade chuckled at their confusion. Tyrell finally was able to control himself.

"I'm sorry Ravage, it was just the look of confusion on your face. Ice cream is a human food that is made from milk. Parents usually give it to their children after they did something good."

Ravage accepted this answer and stretched out, kicking Frenzy to the front seat. He was going to go to sleep. Frenzy soon took his brothers example and fell asleep. Conversation between the four cars dropped down. Ty looked at the window at the landscape of shifting sand. He sighed and looked down at his hand. The symbol on it was fully back, it was completely filled with blood red, with gold outlining it. It filled him with unease as he looked down at him. Tyrell jumped as Barricade's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Tyrell why are you staring at your hand?"

Ty slowly turned his hand over and smiled at Barricade's dash. "Nothing Cade, just trying to figure out all the answers, you know"

Barricade clicked, "I know, don't worry Tyrell. Everything will be alright, we will stop the Fallen."

Ty nodded and relaxed, "I know we will. Can you wake me when we get to the Dagger's Tip."

"Of course" soon Tyrell's breath evened out and he fell asleep. A quick question to Bee through their private comm affirmed that everyone in his car was also falling asleep. He and Bumblebee silently talked as they drove on through the day. It was towards evening that they final reached the Pyramids, the evening prayers were being said so the group transformed and headed closer to the pyramids.

"Undercover, yo. You got to blend in with your surroundings. You know, you got to be part of the landscape" whispered Skids, he didn't notice Bee walking next to him until he turned around hand bashed himself against Bee's leg causing him to fall to the ground. Tyrell headed towards a building that looked like some sort of museum, he made quick work with the lock and ushered Sam, Mikaela, Leo, and Miles into it, Ravage and Frenzy came to stand beside him. Simmons hung back to take in the view.

Simmons looked up at the pyramids in awe. "Awesome! I think aliens built that."

"Maybe we did" said Barricade as he passed Simmons. He glanced over his shoulders to see Simmons gapping at him, making him chuckle. Bumblebee came up and bumped him on the shoulder.

"You shouldn't kid him like that, he has enough crazy ideas the way it is" scolded Bee.

"But it's just so much fun" whined Barricade.

Tyrell looked at the Autobots, "Keep an eye out, low profile. Don't make a scene, okay?" he mostly said it for the Twins sake.

"Yeah, some of us got work to do!" yelled Wheelie as he drove past Tyrell into the building before muttering, "Dumb Autobots." Ravage swatted the little mech with a paw, as he drove past with a growl. Ty laughed and gently shut the door.

Barricade chuckled and transformed down along with Bee to start patrolling the area. Night fell quickly, along with the temperature. Tyrell found the building to stuffy to sleep in, he felt like the walls were closing in around him. He stumbled outside, looking up at the stars. They shined and winked down at him.

"Going somewhere?" asked a soft voice. Ty turned to see Ravage and Frenzy looking at him.

"No, just needed some air" said Tyrell softly.

They nodded, walking closer to the human. His heart was beating slightly fast, and a film of sweat covered his forehead. Ravage butted his head against Tyrell side, Ty's hand came and started to pet Ravage's head. Ravage began to purr a bit, it felt nice to be stroked like that.

"Thinking of the base?" asked Frenzy, coming alongside Ravage and climbing on his back.

Tyrell sighed and shook his head. "Yeah, every time I close my eyes and try to fall asleep I hear Barricade's screams. Feel the Fallen's gaze on me. Soundwave digging through my head. I feel claustrophobic every time I go into a small building." Ravage growled and shook his head, he hated his master for what he did to this human. He made a quick decision, he wrapped his tail around Ty's hand and dragged him to a small space that was ¾'s enclosed with rock and had no ceiling. He shook Frenzy off of him and laid down dragging Ty with him.

"Sleep" he ordered. "I will watch over you."

Tyrell sighed, knowing it was useless to argue. He curled into Ravage like he did back in the cage, feeling safe. Frenzy laid down next to him, and the last thing he saw was the lights turning on the pyramids.

The pyramids were lit with a soft blue light, making them glow in the darkness for a romantic view.

"Being my girlfriend is hazardous to your health" murmured Sam, hugging Mikaela closer to him, as they lay on a platform together, a bowl of fire to warm them. The night was bitter cold, despite the heat earlier that day.

Mikaela turned her head to look at Sam and smiled. "Yeah, well, girls like dangerous boys"

"Do they?" asked Sam leaning down and kissing her forehead. He was the luckiest man alive to have a beautiful woman like Mikaela.

"Yeah," answered Mikaela, and then she sighed. "You might as well just say it" They both knew what she meant. Sam didn't know why he would say it aloud, so he dodge it.

"Ladies first"

"Okay, so tonight you're going to be a gentleman. You're really chivalrous" she said sarcastically recognizing his blocking technique.

"Why are you mad at me?" asked Sam.

Mikaela sat up. "You know what? Baby, I'm not... I'm not mad." She turned to face him. "Do you realize that I just flew 3,000 miles to keep you from getting killed?"

"I know" he said seriously.

Mikaela just smiled knowingly at Sam. "Who else could be your girlfriend, Sam? Look at the things I go through with you. And now we're underneath the moon and the stars and the three most beautiful pyramids on the planet and you still can't even tell me that you love me."

He held up a hand to stop her. "Pyramids" he whispered. He pulled himself up.

Mikaela grew frustrated. "What? Why do boys always change the subject?"

Sam looked up at the sky. "Pyramids and stars"

Mikaela felt something ominous coming "Sam?"

He grabbed her hand pulling her off the platform. "Come with me really quick."

"Simmons! Leo! Miles! Wake up!" called Sam as he raced up the steps, followed closely by Mikaela. Leo and Miles jolted awake from their positions on Simmons shoulders. Jumping back as they realized who they were sleeping on. They managed to straighten up as Sam came bursting into the room. Listen Leo, astronomy class, page 47. Remember the class?"

"No" grumbled Leo. "I was only in college for two days. Remember that?"

Sam shook his head. "Here. Get up. Up, up."

"What is he talking about?" asked Miles as he stood up to follow Sam. Leo just shrugged his shoulders as Simmons looked at the boys.

"Nothing happened here, understood"

The two boys nodded hurriedly agreeing that they never spoke of falling asleep on Simmons again.

Simmons lead the group outside where he woke Tyrell where he was sleeping wrapped up with Ravage and Frenzy. Everyone looked at him groggily. He turned their attention to the east where the sky was lightening up. "Okay, you see those three stars? You see how the last one touches the horizon? That's Orion's belt, but it's also called the Three Kings. And the reason for that is the three Egyptian kings who built the pyramids of Giza built them to mirror those stars, so it's like an arrow staring us straight in the face."

Simmons looked at the stars pointing to the distant mountains. "They all point due east, towards Jordan. The mountains of Petra."

They woke the Autobots and quickly explained, within moments they were racing towards the rising sun.

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On the planes heading to the coordinates sent by Simmons, Lennox's plans were set in motion.

We've had an engine malfunction. We're gonna have to divert to SOCCENT. Came the voice of the pilot over the loud speaker. Flight master, let's lighten the load and prepare for bailout

Will set up, looking around at his men, all but one knew what was going on. That one man was sitting in an expensive suit slowly putting down his magazine.

"Bailout? Bailout? Bailout? Bailout?" yelled Galloway looking at Lennox with confusion.

Lennox ignored him as he looked at the men and winked at Fig and Epps and stood up. "All right, team, grab your chutes!" The men all got up and made a show of putting on their shoots.

"Bailout like bailout?" demanded Galloway.

Lennox rolled his eyes, and thought how idiotic Galloway was, how many times was he going to say bailout. He turned to the man with a parachute in his hand. "You familiar with the standard MC-4?"

Galloway looked at Lennox with disdain. "Of course not! I've never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane before! Wait a minute, is this really happening?" asked Galloway as Will slide his arms into the chutes arm bands Epps hid the smile the came on his face by turning around.

"Yeah" answered Will as he began to buckle Galloway in, "All right, here we go."

"Wait a minute. Wait a minute" stammered Galloway, "You're behind this, aren't you?"

Lennox looked at the man, making sure to look like he was confused by Galloway's accusation. "What are you talking about? You heard the pilot. These guys don't mess around. This is just standard procedure. I'm just following orders to the letter. Isn't that what you said?" asked Will as he gleefully strapped the straps tight around Galloway's nether areas. Little payback for the way he treated the Autobots and what he planned to do to Tyrell.

Galloway yelped in a high pitch voice, and glared at Will. "You just signed a death warrant on your career, Major." The plane at the moment banked, and groaned. Galloway looked widely around as the plane shook "What was that? What was that?"

Will looked up at the plane around him, acting worried. He should win an acting award for this performance, maybe he should have become an actor instead of going into the army. "That's not good. Come on. Right this way!" He pulled Galloway past Optimus's body to were the back door of the plane was opening

Galloway balked as Will lead him towards the opening door, the man looked like he was going to pee his pants. "I can't jump out of an airplane! I have an ulcer! No, no." Galloway clung to Will's arm trying to drag him back, but Will just pulled him harder.

"Come on. It's okay" Will said assuringly.

Galloway just shook his head, and looked pleadingly at Will. "I really can't do this. What are you doing..."

Will impatiently pulled Galloway right in front of the open door. "Come here! Come here." The wind began to roar in his ears as

"Why aren't you wearing your chute?" asked Galloway looking at Will.

"Because I have to secure the VIPs first" Will said sarcastically. "Okay, I want you to listen very carefully and memorize everything that I say" yelled Will over the wind using both hands to point at his head to emphasize that Galloway needed to remember things. "Each chute has a GPS tracker so you can be found by Search and Rescue. Right next to that's a fabric webbing called a bridle, which holds the pin that keeps the main container closed."

Galloway moved his hand to clutch at his head and then lowered it. He looked like he was going to start crying at any moment.

"Okay, are you listening?" demanded Will.

"I can't hear what..." Galloway started looking around. Will slapped Galloway across the face to get his attention, hiding his glee at doing so.

"Stop that!"

"All right. All right" whimpered Galloway.

Will nodded and continued his instructions. "All right, when the pilot chute inflates into the air, it pulls the pin and opens the main. Red's your backup, blue's your primary." He pointed to each pin as he said this. "I want you to pull the blue. I need you to pull it really hard!" He began to emphasize that he needed to pull it. He must have did it to well as Galloway grabbed the blue pin and pulled as hard as he could releasing his parachute. Will looked at the man and wanted to bash his head against a wall. "Not now, we're on the plane, you dumb-ass!"

Galloway began to open his mouth, but his chute caught air and he was ripped out of the plane. Will turned around and began to walk back to his men, chuckling.

"He say good-bye?" asked Epps in a fake sad voice.

"No, he didn't even say good-bye" answered Will smiling as he turned back from the door. All the soldiers grinned at him as he stepped in front of them with his hands on his hips "Alright man, get to your stations, the pricks gone. Fig radio Graham, have the Autobots cut loose and debriefed. Lets move!"

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"It's gotta be around here somewhere" said Simmons looking down at his GPS. They had entered a maze of canyons, Sam was the first to see it as he called out. It was a huge building, probably a temple at one time. It had been carved out of the very face of the rock face. A huge doorway greeted the group.

"You see the size of this?" said Simmons in an awed voice

The others made sound of apparition as they ran towards the doorway. The humans had to jump to get through the doorway. The Autobots were able to walk through it with ease. The doorway lead to a huge room, that was empty except for a single painting of the left wall.

Sam turned around looking around, he had a feeling. "It's here somewhere, guys" Tyrell agreed, he had a tingly feeling running up his skin.

"Yeah, why? 'Cause we're trusting Grandpa Blackbird who doesn't even know what planet he's on?" demanded Leo. Simmons turned back to the doorway.

"In his defense, this is the biggest doorway I've ever seen in my entire life."

Leo ignored him instead turning to face inside. "Okay. Well, that's great. Let me do a quick search, all right?" He turned around in a circle. "Nope. Ever cross your mind, guys, that archeologists have been here before? There's nothing here."

Simmons rounded on the teenager. "Real life is heartbreak, despair, kid. Sometimes you get to the end of the rainbow and the leprechauns went and booby-trapped it!" Mikaela wished that they all would knock it off. She thought Tyrell would break it apart, but he was staring at the sky petting Ravage's head. She wondered what had the Decepticons did to him that caused him to act like a zombie.

Leo laughed, "I'm listening to you? You live with your mother!"

"It's not over" said Sam from where he took a set, in front of the painting.

"It is over. It's done" said Leo.

Mudflap seemed to agree with Leo. "Why are we still listening to you, little punk-ass? I mean, what you ever done for us except ding my rim?"

"Killed Megatron. How about that?" returned Skids.

Mudflap sneered at his brother. "Well, he didn't get the job done, you know what I mean, 'cause he's back now..."

"Are you scared?" challenged Skids.

Mudflap snorted. "Scared? Scared of your ugly face!"

"I'm ugly? Well, we're twins, you stupid genius!" yelled Skids pushing his brother.

"Bring it, then!" yelled Mudflap pushing back "Get off me!"

"I'll change your face around!"

"I'll get all up in that ass!"

"Bring it!"

The Twins began to toss each other around. Nearly squashing Sam as one hit the painting. They continued, unaware that they almost killed Sam. Until Bumblebee had enough, he picked both of them by the scruff bar.

"Come on, Bumblebee! Bumblebee, listen" they cried. Bee didn't listen, instead he bashed their heads together and threw them out through the doorway. Barricade patted his friend on the back. He turned his attention back to the humans as the investigated the dent Mudflap had made in the painting. Tyrell looked at Sam before grabbing an edge and pulled. It came out easily under his hand. He saw a shine of metal, Frenzy came up beside him and grabbed a bigger piece until they revealed several pieces of metal with the symbols that they carved into the sand.

Sam rubbed his hand over the metal. "Oh, my God. The symbols." He turned to Bee. "Bee! Shoot it."

Bee walked over, as the humans retreated. Bee took careful aim and fired a shot. A wind came rushing from the hole he created, making Tyrell's hair stand on end. He stood from his position that protected Miles and turned back to the hole. It was now clear for them to enter.

"Check this out" breathed Sam, bringing out the flashlight he had in his pocket.

"Look at it. Wow!" whispered Miles, it seemed inappropriate to speak louder than a whisper in the tomb. Sam's light revealed the faces of the long dead Primes,

"These are the bodies Jetfire was talking about" said Tyrell looking around. He felt a kinship to these Primes, they were willing to Sacrifice their lives to save the world, for the greater good.

"The tomb of the Primes" smiled Mikaeala looking around.

The silence was broken with a "Yo! Yo!" As Simmons yelled, listening to the echo coming back at him. The tomb was huge, the ceiling far above him. Sam swept his light to the middle of the tomb, where laying in a Prime's cupped hand was the curved piece of metal that Tyrell had seen in his vision, and what Jetfire had shown him.

"The Matrix"

Sam knelt down, and gently put his hands on either side of the metal, and gently began to pick it up. He brought it closer to himself when suddenly it began to crumble into dust right in front of them.

" ." he whispered shocked. Everyone looked down sadly at him.

"Thousands of years, turned to dust" stated Simmons.

"This isn't how it's supposed to end" murmured Sam cupping the dust in his hands.

Soundly the sound of a large engine could be heard echoing in the chamber. "Hear that?" cried Simmons running out of the tomb and into the sand hills. "US Air Force! C-17 s!"

"What's a C-17?" asked Leo as he turned to follow along with Miles, leaving Mikaela, Sam, and Tyrell in the tomb. Tyrell excused himself to tell Bumblebee and Barricade what happened to the Matrix.

Mikaela looked at Sam with tears in her eyes. "You can't bring him back, Sam. There's nothing left."

"Look! Look around you. We didn't just go through everything we went through for no reason at all, to just have it end like this. There is a reason that we are here. The voices and the symbols in my head led us here for a purpose." Sam took off on of his socks and began to scoop the dust into it. "Everyone's after me because of what I know, and what I know is that this is going to work."

"How do you know it's gonna work?" asked Mikaela.

Sam looked at her. "Because I believe it."

"Dropping the big boy" murmured Simmons to Leo and Miles. He turned back to the tomb "Tyrell!"

Ty came at Simmons calling and watched the soldiers and Autobots drop, along with Optimus Primes body. Sam came up alongside him, clutching the sock, Simmons looked at him.

"You think you can bring him back to life with that pixie dust?"

Sam nodded, "Absolutely. Let's go."

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The troops landed near an inhabited village. Lennox gave the order to move forward, the soldiers moved out, guns at the ready. The villagers began to run at the sight of them.

"Let's move it." Ordered Lennox, "Remember, they're friendlies. Cover Optimus! Secure the village. Get those cases down here. I need snipers and Stingers up high."

Epps looked around at the sand. "So, we just dropped off 10 tons of dead robot in the middle of nowhere. I hope Sam knows what he's doing and Tyrell."

Lennox nodded, "Yeah, me too."

Graham yelled suddenly to Lennox. "Got a visual! Yellow team! Four clicks!"

Lennox shaded his eyes to look and saw Bumblebee and Barricade racing towards them. "Pop flare!"

Simmons saw the flare first. "That's them, right there. See the flare? Right over there! See it?"

Tyrell watched the flare sink into the sky, and watched as missiles began to rain down all around them. Barricade cursed and began to swerve around them. "Slag its Starscream, that coward."

From over the radio, Tyrell heard Leo beginning to freak out. "Oh, God. Please, God! Please."

"Leo, stop freaking out. Stop freaking out" pleaded Miles, as the Bee did a sharp corner to above another missile.

"Shut this guy up, huh?" yelled Simmons.

Leo ignored everyone and continued to pray. "Please, just let me live, just let me live!"

"Shut up and let him drive!" yelled Sam. He knew that Bee needed to concentrate.

"Just stop screaming..." begged Mikaela.

"All right, that's it! I can't take that guy anymore" yelled Simmons, pulling out his taser he turned around and tased Leo until he shut up. Miles looked at the Simmons and decided to keep his mouth shut, he didn't want to get tased.

Starscream transformed and landed in front of them trying to hit them, but missed.

"Hide in the dust! Use the dust!" called out Tyrell. Bee and Cade did and managed to get away from Starscream. Tyrell jumped out of Barricade followed by Ravage, Frenzy staying in. He turned to the five that got out of Bee.

"We've got to split up. Bumblebee, Cade you're the decoys. You lead the Decepticons away, all right? I'll get Sam and Mikaela to Optimus.

Simmons nodded "I'll help draw their fire with Huey and Dewey there. You get to those soldiers. I hope that dust works, kid."

Sam smiled at Simmons. "Thank you"

Leo looked up at the sky alerting everyone's attention back to the sky. "He's turning around. He's coming back. He's coming back."

Tyrell looked and turned to Simmons and held out a hand. "See you on the other side Phantom.

"You bet Soldierboy" said Simmons clasping a hand before he turned to Skids. "It's up to me. One man, alone, betrayed by the country he loves, now its last hope in their final hour of need." He crawled behind the steering wheel. "Prepare to be driven like never before, by the maestro."

Leo and Miles watched as Bee and Cade drove away, and to the retreating forms of Tyrell, Sam, Mikaela, and Ravage, they realized that they were going to be left here if they didn't leave with Simmons. They ran over and jumped into Skids with Simmons.

"Hey, hey! Don't go nowhere! Drive" yelled Leo.

"You'll never make it, kids" barked Simmons, staring at the two.

"We're coming with you" snapped Miles.

"Bravery will only get you so far" shot back Simmons.

Leo threw up his hands, "You tased me, okay? You owe me! I'm going."

Simmons gave up. "Okay, okay. That was a test. You passed. All right?"

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Epps looked threw his binoculars at the approaching jet, dread settling in his stomach as he turned to Lennox. "That thing's got alien tattoos all over it. That ain't Air Force." The jet turned in the air, banking away, when it sent out a pulse. All the humans radio went out with a fizzle.

"What the hell was that?" asked Will. He touched his ear piece. "Anyone copy?"

Epps did the same thing and received no reply.

"Radio's down" yelled Graham.

Lennox threw down his radio in disgust. "It's dead. Comms are down"

Epps shook his head. "EMP burst. I see how this day is going in this godforsaken desert."

The villagers soon realized that it would be wiser to leave than to stay and they all began to leave, until there were none left in the village at all. The soldier began to get worried as no sighting of the Autobots in thirty minutes.

"Nothing" called Epps after five minutes searching through his scope.

Lennox tried not to let his disappointment show. "Right, go burn an SOS. Let the eye in the sky know we need some help."

"Yes, sir" said one of his men.

"Okay, boys, old school time! Pop some more flares so the kid can find us" yelled Fig.

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Tyrell pushed Sam and Mikaela as hard as he dared in the heat. They pulled up for a breather and could see the soldier from there position. "Look" said Tyrell encouragingly. "There it is. We got a couple of miles."

Sam and Mikaela nodded, resting a few more seconds they were soon off again.

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"One man, alone..." yelled Simmons as he drove Skids.

"Stop saying that!" snapped Leo

"...betrayed by the country he loves!"

"Oh, my goodness. Miles and I are in the car, okay? You're not alone."

Simmons smiled. "Just relax. You're with the maestro." He pulled to a stop and got out, Leo and Miles got out and looked to the sky.

"I don't think he's still following us" said Miles as he scanned the sky and saw no one.

"That's what you think" muttered Simmons taking a few steps away from Skids and Mudflap. The boys followed, they hadn't taken more than a few steps when they heard the sound of engines. They turned to see a large alien jet transform and land on the pyramid quickly followed by the jet that had fired on the.

Simmons heart began to race as he recognized NBE-1.

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Starscream bowed to his master, he really didn't like to be to bearer of bad news. "Master, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the soldiers brought the body of Prime."

Megatron looked down at the humans that were fleeing like the insects they were. "Those boys must have the Matrix. We cannot let them reach Optimus. "

Starscream bowed to his master and took off as Megatron turned to look up at the sky. "Decepticons, begin our assault!" he bellowed raising his hand into a fist.

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"We've got incoming!" yelled Epps

Lennox looked to see 'Cons landing just outside there perimeter. "We got a whole lot of fight coming our way." He turned to Graham " How many?"

Graham looked a little pale. "About 13 of them."

Epps swore and paced a little. "This ain't good. This ain't good. We're about to get our asses whupped."

Lennox agreed with Epps, but then looked at the Autobots who all looked determined. He knew he could count on them. He took a deep breath, "All right, those Decepticons are searching for Sam. Whatever he has, he thinks it'll bring Optimus back to life, so our mission is to find him and get him to Optimus. All right, we're gonna draw fire from the left flank. I need a scout team."

Ironhide immediately volunteered, " I'm leading."

Lennox nodded he expected this and turned to his troops. "Go up through the middle with Arcee and Ironhide! All right, when you see the precious cargo, I want you to pop green smoke and come back through those pillars. We'll have the ambush set. All right. Let's go. Move out!"

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Simmons hair on the back of his neck began to prickle as all of a sudden vehicles of every size began to appear all around them, he turned to look at the boys. "You ever see that film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral? With Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas?"

Miles looked at Simmons. "No, why?"

Simmons swallowed, "Looks like we're right in the middle of it."

"Is that good?" ventured Leo

"A lot of people died" breathed Simmons as the air began to fill with the sounds of transformation. He watched horrified as all the vehicles around him began to combine. "Hide!"

"Oh, my God!" yelled Leo as he followed Simmons.

"Hit the deck!" yelled Simmons ducking behind a van.

"Oh, my God!" whispered a horrified Miles as he saw the face of the giant transformer roar.

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Tyrell was glad that Ravage had come with them, as he spotted Starscream flying by them again and warned Tyrell.

"Sam, Mikaela" he whispered motioning to go into the building. They had reached the now abandoned village, and were not that far from where the soldiers were at. Tyrell peeked out the door before closing it. "I don't think they saw us."

Ravage suddenly hissed, "There are more coming, grounders." Tyrell looked at the wall where someone had decorated with bottles.

"Get down. Get down. Get down" he whispered. Mikaela and Sam listened and moved away from the glass. Tyrell moved about the hut, he ignored the couples whispering as he looked around for a potential weapon. He hit pay dirt when he came across an automatic in the bedroom area with five loaded clips. He returned to the living room, and looked at Sam and Mikaela.

"Okay. Listen. Once it's clear, we run for Optimus as fast as we can, okay?"

They both nodded, the sound of Decepticons got louder, Tyrell put a finger to his lips. Mikaela put both hands over her mouth, to stop the sound of her teeth chattering. Sam gently picked up a fire poker and knocked a hole to see though the wall. Decepticons were looking everywhere. Tyrell watched as Sam pulled away from his peek hole and reached in and pulled out a bug Decepticon. Ty made a motion to kill it, and watched as Sam pulled the head off. The sounds from outside quit and everyone looked around fearfully. Suddenly the roof of the house was torn off and Starscream looked down at them.

"Up, up, up!" yelled Sam, dragging Mikaela out of the building as Tyrell distracted Starscream by firing bullets at his optics before escaping. Cons were everywhere. Sam and Mikaela raced up stairs followed by Tyrell. Until they reached the roof of the building, Sam grabbed Mikaela's hand and jumped, Tyrell covered there jump before jumping himself. He rolled off the second roof to the ground below were Sam and Mikaela waited. Sam lead the way into a destroyed building where they managed to get a clear view to the soldiers. "We got a half-mile" guessed Tyrell. "I don't think the soldiers know we're here.

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"Devastator!" yelled Megatron.

"We're trapped!" groaned Leo, as the huge mech began to move towards them. "There's nowhere to go. We're gonna die."

Simmons turned and grabbed Leo by the shoulder and shook him, before doing the same thing to Miles. "If we're going out, we're going out like men, understand?"

Before they could answer Devastator opened his mouth and began to suck everything like a tornado. The car they had been hiding behind flew up into it's mouth along with a few unfortunate people. The three grabbed onto anything that was anchored into the ground. The only thing that didn't move was Skids and Mudflap and they faced down Devastator.

"Look at this mother..." began Mudflap, before a piece of debris hit him in the head.

"Mean robots suck!" yelled Skids. Devastator's jaws opened larger and the force grew stronger, until he sucked up a gas truck that exploded, causing him to pause for a second. Leo, Miles, and Simmons took this opportunity to run to the trailer that still stood and gripped onto the water pipes.

Skids and Mudflap launched themselves onto it also "Hang on! Hang on, okay?"

Simmons felt his grip weaken and he tried to regain it, but his hand slipped and he felt himself being sucked up by the monster. "Simmons!" yelled Leo and Miles, they reached out and managed to grab Simmons before he got away.

Meanwhile, Mudflap had lost his grip on the pipe and was clutching his brother. "Don't let go!" he yelled.

"Hang in there," yelled Skids. "I got you! Just hang in." He felt his brother's hands slip off his armor, shock running through there bond as Mudflap tumbled towards Devastator.

He tried desperately to climb to some rock foundation chanting. "I don't want to die!" But he wasn't strong enough to withstand Devastator as he flew towards his open maw. He caught the medal that formed part of his jaw and hung there. "Kung fu grip, boy. Kung fu grip! You ain't getting me!" Until he then to lost his grip and he hit the gears in the back of Devastator's mouth. Devastator immediately shut his mouth and the tornado like winds died instantly.

Skids pounded his fist onto the ground at a lose of what to do. "He dead. He got so ate." He laid his head down and a tear escaped his eye. "He got all ate up" he cried.

Simmons felt bad for the Autobot, but the danger wasn't over yet. "The only safe place is right under it. Run at it. Run for its feet! Move it!" They all got up and began to run for his feet.

As they ran they saw Mudflap break his way through Devastators face. "You should've never eaten me! I'm gonna bust your face up!"

The three humans ran to take cover underneath Devastator, Skids went to help his brother kick Devastators face. "Nobody messes with the twins" they yelled. Until Devastator got in a lucky shot and shot Skids in the face knocking his gold tooth out. They then all decided to stay under it, as it was the safest place for them right know.

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The abandoned village they were in was filled with bullets. Decepticons were everywhere, all looking for Sam and himself. Ty looked down at the gun in his hand, he had only one clip left and they were still ½ mile from the soldiers.

"Sam!" they heard someone cry. Ty glanced to see his worst nightmare, his parents were running straight towards them, with a Decepticon at their heels.

"Dad!" cried Sam, raising his arms. A sound of transformation caused everyone to look up as a mech came crashing down firing shots at them. Ravage quickly bounded away to get help, everyone dropped, except Sam,

"Wait, wait!" he cried the mech stopped.

Ron looked up at the mech and then at his son. "Please listen to me! I want you to run! Run!"

Sam looked at his father. "Dad, just stop! They don't want you, they want me!"

"Dad, do what Sam says" yells Tyrell as the mech slammed his chains next to his parents. Ron snapped his head to looked at Tyrell, his eyes looked at him pleadingly to grab Sam and run.

"Wait!" called Sam again walking towards the mech with his hands raised in surrender.

"Sam Witwicky" said the mech clearly.

Sam tried to dare attention away from his mom and dad. "Don't hurt them. This is what you want" he said holding up the sock. "You don't want them."

"Go! Go!" pleaded Judy again.

"Please, stop!" whispered Sam

"Stop!" yelled Ron.

"Listen to your father!" yelled Judy, "Just get out of here!"

A whistle caught Sam's and Tyrell's attention. Standing in the ally way was Bee and Cade and they nodded at Sam to continue.

Sam quickly turned around. "Just don't hurt them. I know what you want."

"Just go! Just go!" cried out Ron.

Sam continued. "And I know that you need me because I know about the Matrix."

"Don't do it, Sam..." warned Ron.

"Please, Dad" pleaded Sam, hoping that his dad would stay quiet for a few seconds.

"They're going to kill us all anyway!" yelled his dad rising a little bit.

"Dad" yelled Tyrell. "Shut up!"

Ron looked at his oldest son, and saw a glint in his eyes, and Ron became silent. He caught sight of the two Autobots as they climbed on top of a roof near the Decepticon. Sam continued to talk in a soothing voice.

"Here's what you want, right here" before yelling "Bumblebee!" the same time Tyrell yelled "Cade"

Both bot's jumped on the Decepticon. Tyrell crawled over to his parents and dragged them out of the way of the fighting. Bee and Barricade attacked the mech like a pair of angry hornets. Tag- teaming him they ripped off his arms and crushed his spark under foot. They both had the same identical smile on their faces as they walked away from the mech that had harmed their family. Tyrell lead his mother and father, Sam and Mikaela to an ally way where Ron turned to them.

" Hey! I don't know what's going on, but we've got to move!" As to emphasize his words shots erupted in the ally way blowing parts of the buildings away. They struggled to move forward, but were forced back as more shots exploded in front of them.

"There's got to be a way out of here! Judy, get back, get back, get back." Cried Ron.

"Against the wall! Against the wall! Against the wall. Against the wall" yelled Tyrell as more shots exploded.

Sam turned towards where they had ran from moments before. "Bee! Bumblebee!" he shouted.

Bee appeared immediately looking down at Sam.

"You get them somewhere safe, all right?" he turned to his dad and grabbed him by the shirt "You've got to get in the car and get to safety."

Ron looked at Sam and Tyrell and fought against Sam. "No, this isn't up for discussion! You're my son! You're my son!"

"I know" said Tyrell, "But, Dad this is my job, I'm a soldier, and I'm not leaving. You need to go with Bee."

"Dad..." whispered Sam close to tears.

Ron shook his head stubbornly. "We all go together!"

Sam tried again. "Listen..."

"We're all going together!" yelled Ron.

"Dad, stop, okay? Get in the car. He's gonna get you to safety. You know, you run. You don't stop, you don't hide, you run. You hear what I'm saying, okay? I'll find you when you're safe"

"No" said Ron stubbornly, locking eyes with his youngest son.

"You've got to let me go, Dad" whispered Sam.

"You have to let me go. You have to" pleaded Sam

"Ron. Ron. Ron, let him go" softly said Judy.

Ron looked at his boy, he had grown up into a man when he wasn't looking. "You come back! Come on" he told Judy.

"Ron! Mikaela! Mikaela!" cried Judy.

"Go with my parents" said Sam, taking Mikaela by the shoulders.

"I'm not gonna go without you" whispered Mikaela looking at Sam. Sam looked at Tyrell who shook his head.

"There no time to argue"

"Alright" he said, grabbing her hand and squeezing. He turned to Bee. "Go Bee."

Bee looked down at his charge, "Stay safe Sam" he said before breaking down in his alt-form. Judy and Ron hugged both their sons hard along with Mikaela before getting into Bumblebee.

Barricade nodded to Bumblebee as he drove off. He looked down at the three, as Sam turned to lead the way to the pyramids, Barricade picked multiple Decepticons signals coming towards them. He cursed aloud, some of the Cons that they had offlined must have sent off a message calling for re-enforcements.

"What is it!" demanded Tyrell looking at his guardians angry face.

"Decepticons, coming this way, we won't be able to out run them."

Tyrell cursed, kicking a rock with all his might. He looked at Sam and Mikaela, he saw the fear in their eyes. He made a decision.

"Sam, Mikaela, get the Matrix to Optimus, we'll hold them off."

Sam looked at Tyrell and shook his head. "No, every time I leave you, something bad happens."

Ty glared at his brother, and then at Barricade who had his eyes focused on the distance, and Ty knew that there wasn't much time to argue. He roughly grabbed Sam by the soldier.

"Sam, we all know what happened the last time you refused to listen to me, Optimus died. You're a soldier put aside your concerns over me and finish the mission" said Tyrell in a hard voice. He looked at Mikaela and saw understanding in her eyes. Unlike Sam, she had made hard decisions in her life for the ones she loved. Like when she refused to testify against her dad and got sent to juvie because of that. And she knew what was important, and Tyrell admired about her, she would make a fine soldier.

"Sam come on" she said gently pulling on his hand.

"But…" he began.

"Sam, Tyrell knows best, don't argue with his decision."

Sam nodded, and looked at Tyrell. "Take care of yourself Ty."

"I will, as I always have. Have trust in my abilities and Barricades, Frenzy's and Ravage. I'll see you after all this."

"I'll hold you to that" yelled Sam as he began to run with Mikaela in tow. Mikaela looked back as Sam dragged her forward. Tyrell stood outlined in the sky, his hand raised in farewell.

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Hoped you enjoyed, the next chapter will come soon. It has literally been typed and ready since a week after I finished Devil in the Sand the whole story has been built around this one chapter so I can't wait until I post it! Please review!