So finally, the next chapter for the Fallen!

Sorry to keep you all waiting!

Major, major writers black has had me in it's evil clutches for months!

But hopefully, this will bring it back!

Get ready for Alice, a party, and a beat down of epic proportions!

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Chapter 11

They aren't gonna let you have a normal life.

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Sam could not believe he was being dragged against his will to a Fraturnity party by his oh so lovely room mates. Despite the little spat going on between him and his cousin, he really wished she was here right now. He could admit it...he missed her.

There was way less laughter and random moments without her around...

Leo had told him that he ran into her at the coffee shop and said she was looking a little less peppy then normal. When he asked why, Leo told him...

Her Dad hadn't told her about her Uncle...and of course, Sam knew what that meant...

She knew about Megatron...and most likely wasn't happy about the knowledge of that being hidden from her for so long. Sam was actually shocked that Optimus kept that from her but whatever. It didn't effect his life in anyway.

As they rounded the corner, the location of the party was evident with the loud music and the bright lights. He just hoped he wasn't expected to stay long, Mikeala was waiting for him via web chat.

"Okay guys, first Frat party of the year so try to stay cool and remember, we're on major babe watch." Leo explained to the other boys.

"Can't stay long, I have a web-chat date with my girlfriend." Sam said in a bored tone.

Fassbinder stared in awe at his room mate. "That is so cool!"

Leo scoffed in annoyance. "No it's not!"

Little did the four boys know, there were being watched by a certain dark haired techno organic and a black and white Shelby GT500 very closely.

"If I know that chick, she'll be there." Tai muttered, switching her optic to infer-red mode as she searched for the Pretender and she turned the volume up on her audio receptor so she could better hear what was going. And of course, she nearly deafened herself when she forgot that there would be loud music playing.

"My ear drum!" She exclaimed, flinching as the loud noise rattled her processor.

"Make sure you turn your sound filter on, or you may go deaf for about thirty minutes..."

"Shut up!" She grumbled with a smirk, giving the dashboard a smack.

The scene inside the house was hectic, with drunken college students dancing about to the rock music that was playing in the background.

Leo turned to his friends, a look of excitement on his face. "Alright boys, I'm about to get my Spitz-y freaky freak on! Wish me luck!"

Tai rolled her eyes after hearing that. "Oh brother..."

He walked off, followed shortly by Fassbinder and Sharsky.

Sam rolled his eyes as he made his way over to the giant, delicious looking cake that was on the table.

"What is going on through your head, cousin." Tai said under her breath as she continued to watch him closely. If that chick came near him...

Then something happened...something Tai wasn't expecting.

She felt herself beginning to twitch uncontrollably, almost as if she was seizing and the next thing she knew, she was seeing flashing Cybertronian symbols in her line of vision.

What the fuck was happening? She couldn't move...she felt her breath freeze in her chest, her spark pulsate quicker in it's casing...

"Tai?" Barricade asked, wondering why she had gone so quiet. When she didn't respond, he started to get worried. "Tai, can you hear me? What's the matter?"

Tai didn't hear her guardians panicked words but she did hear what sounded like a deep menacing voice that seemed frighteningly familair yet she never heard it in her life. Her spark reacted almost instantly, like a small child who hadn't seen a lost relative for a long time...It felt just like it did in her dream...

No...

"Matrix..." It said in a long dragged out tone, full of malice. "Matrix...Tatyana Witwicky...Tatyana Prime...come out where ever you are hiding..."

After a few more terrifying seconds, Tai snapped out of it, her breaths coming out in huge heaving gulps as she felt herself relaxing again. The symbols were gone, leaving her optic blinking rapidly as it readjusted itself.

"Cade, what's going on?"

"What the hell was that?" The ex-con snapped angrily through the radio. "I thought you offlining or something, you were twitching and breathing weird! You okay?"

Tai shook her head as she tried to calm herself down. She so did not need this, what with all the shit going on in her life. "I'm fine...I'm okay." She said, wanting this conversation to end. Ignoring Barricade's protests, she continued her watch on her cousin. What she saw was the last thing she wanted to see.

"Frick!" She growled out as she saw the blonde chick who attacked her saunter up to her cousin. "I turn my back for a second...Bee?" She watched as the yellow car tore around the corner and headed to the Frat house. "Cade, why's he here?"

"Whatever it is, it's probably something to do with your Dad."

Tai growled. "Get ready to make your move."

"You got it."

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Sam could not believe this was happening.

"Look, Miss, I really don't feel comfortable with this...I'm in a semi-permanent, perme...I'm in a relationship right now.."

Alice narrowed her eyes slightly in annoyance as she tried and failed, to seduce Sam. So she decided to be much more direct. 'How about just for tonight, you pretend that I'm in your girlfriend and I pretend that your my boyfriend." She then pushed Sam roughly into a chair and straddled him. "Come on, Sam...let's have some fun...only for tonight."

Before the baffled Sam could say anything else, the owner of the Frat house yelled over the loud music, anger and irritation in his voice.

"Yo, who has he freaking yellow Camaro?" Sam jumped about a mile in the air and ran out of the building, his eyes widening when he saw Bumblebee parked in the bushes, his lights blinking and his car alarm deafening anyone within hearing radius. Including himself.

Sam rushed forward, nearly tripping when he reached his guardian. "What are you doing?"

"Houston, we have a problem." Bumblebee responded through the radio.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

A loud revving reached his ears, causing him to look up. There was the familair black Shelby Mustang with the white racing stripe. "Barricade?" He asked in amazement. The black car reved his engine again, this time in greeting before the Driver window rolled down, revealing a famaliar face, her shaggy hair covering her Cybertronian half of her face...even with her holographic skin on, her optic still managed to glow through. Sam saw the flicker of blue for a split second before it vanished.

"Yo, asshole...let's have a chat, shall we?"

'Tai?'

"Yo, freshmen!"

Sam turned sharply as the two main Fraturnity brothers stepped out and glared at the yellow Camaro, who had thankfully shut off his alarm but sa

"No." Sam protested. "A friend of mine left it here, he went to go find you a tighter shirt."

"This is no tighter shirt we checked." The two boys bumped fists as Sam rose an eyebrow but quickly composed himself.

"I'll just go ahead and move it." He said in a hurried tone.

"Mind the attitude or I'll plant my foot in your ass." The shorter guy snapped.

"What size shoe do you wear?" Sam retorted, as Tai opened the door to have a look at what was going on. "Dammit, the Witwicky curse strikes again!" She snarled under her breath as she quickly made her way over to her idiotic cousin.

"Oh, that's it, I'm going to beat your ass up, freshmen!" The short guy snarled, but Tai intervened with a: "Hey! Hey! Down boy!"

'Stay out of this little girl!' The bigger guy with the tight shirt snapped. 'Let the big boys handle this!'
Tai snarled as she stepped in front of her cousin, her blue eyes narrowing.

'I said back off!' She growled, jabbing the shorter guy in the chest with her finger.. "Or is your boyfriends shirt cutting off oxygen to his brain?"

The shorter guy sneered. "I'm not opposed to taking you out as well, little girl."

'I'd like to see you try, fatass.' She cracked her knuckles as everybody watched the scene with wide eyes. Bumblebee quickly contacted Barricade through his comlink. Should we do something?

Naw, I'm not too worried. I'd move back if I were you.

What?

The guy fumed at such defiance, before snapping: "The Lord above will forgive for hitting a girl, since it's a whiny uptight flat chested bitch like yourself!" And with that, he threw a fist at the techorganic.

Whom swiftly caught the fist in her robotic hand (disguised of course) and with a twist of her body, a bending of her back and a heave of effort, she flipped the douche right over her, where he crashed into Bumblebee's hood with an audible bump and slid into the bushes, unconsious.
Told you to move back, dumbass...

All Cade got as a response was an irritated twitter, which caused the Shelby to chuckle.
Satisfied with her victory, Tai flipped off her fallen foe and turned to glare at the other guy, whom paled and quickly fled back into the crowded house.

"So." Tai stated coolly, turning to Sam, whose mouth was wide open. "Shall we go chat now?"

"I'd love to."

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Tai climbed into Barricade, who seemed rather pleased with what his charge did. Good thing Optimus wasn't here to see that. Although, by this point, he wasn't even sure if she gave a shit if her father saw it or not.
"Impressive...right in the batteries."

Tai swished her hair out of her eyes as she smirked. "Why thank you! Think Bee will be upset about that rather large dent?"

The black mustang snickered. "Naw...he's had way worse."
Tai grinned then jumped lightly when she felt a knock on the window...Barricade growled lightly, not liking it when people touched his windows with their unfamilair hands.

Rolling down the tinted window, Tai saw the excited face of Leo looking at Barricade's car mode in awe and amazement.
"You have a ride? God dude, she's a beaut!"

Tai quickly stopped the steering wheel from zooming out and knocking the guys teeth out. "Down boy." She growled as she gave it a small punch. A loud growl of anger came from the radio.

Luckily, Leo didn't notice her scolding the car. He seemed to be distracted by something over where Bumblebee was and by the look on his face, he either ate something bad or that was a look of murderous rage on his face, she couldn't really tell.

"Oh boy, that's not good." Barricade muttered.

"What?" Tai asked in alarm. "What's not good?"

Her Guardian rolled down the window and what she saw made her spark jump into her throat. The Pretender was leaning against Bumblebee, looking at Sam with a sultry gaze.

"I love Camaros." She said, her voice incredibly husky as her eyes narrowed in Tai's direction, as if daring her to try anything.

Sam let out a loud breath of irritation as he fastened his seatbelt, "Listen. I really don't have t..."

Alice scoffed. "Don't be a wimp!" She then climbed in and made herself comfortable.

"Oh god!" Sam exclaimed in annoyance.

"Shit! Shit! Oh my shit!" Tai cursed angrily as she watched Bumblebee tear away. After quickly bidding farewell to Leo, she grabbed the steering wheel and backed up, swinging 'Cade around sharply and following the yellow car.

"Just calm down and relax...no need to get so worked up!" Barricade scolded as forced his young charge to calm down by taking controlk of his own steering.

"Dude, that chick shot me point blank in the gut...if she does that to Sam, he won't just be able to get up and walk it off like moi!" Tai snapped, sulking in the seat.

"There's no way she'd do that in an openly public place with all these dumass kids around, she's trying to lure him into a false sense of security, at least I think so anyway. But Tai, we can't let her know we are following her, it was a close call when she saw you back at the Frat house...you can still keep an eye on them from over here...just change your optics settings and turn your audio receptor up to full volume."

Tai nodded, feeling herself calm down slightly and did what her guardian told her to do. Her human eye widened when she saw the infered images of her cousin and the Pretender in Bumblebee's cab...but the conversation they were having was making Tai feel a little queasy.

"You know my first car was my Dad's '92 Z-28...fuel injected..the roar of the engine...it just...tickles me..." Her hands had traveled from the dash board onto her lap, causing the flustered boy to look over for a second before he composed himself. "Uhh..I think it's best we don't stare...I mean, share..stories.."

Tai face palmed at her cousin's stu[idity. "IT's still amazes me how he got Mikeala in the first place." Barricade said, voicing Tai's thoughts as well.

"You and me both, my compadre." She groaned as she continued listening in on the conversation. What she heard next, she had to keep herself from bursting out laughing.

"Your cheatin' heart..." Bumblebee's radio crooned, causing Sam to smack the radio with irritation and embarassment.

"No, bad radio...stop!" He scolded it, causing it give out an idignant twitter before changing abruptly to Rick James' famous hit.

"She's a super freak, super freak..."

Tai couildn't hold it in any longer, she started cracking up laughing as Bee continued to direct as many insulting songs he could come up with at the Pretender, whose eyes narrowed at the yellow car.

"Your radio broken?" She growled slightly.

"No! No, it's just...it just has a lot of problems..." Sam stuttered, his face heating up with embarrassment. Alice smirked seductively as she ran her fingers through her hair.

"We're not cheating..." She giggled. "Not yet."

Sam looked away pointedly, whistling slightly. Suddenly, the passenger seat vibrated slightly and jerked up, causing Alice to look confused. "Something worng?" She asked nervously, looking back at the seat. Then without warning, the seat jerked forward and slammed her face into the dashboard.

Sam yelled out in shock. "Oh my god! You okay!" Alice had her fingers on her forehead, glaring at the boy with malice in her eyes.

'Ow." She said in an monotone voice.

Tai meanwhile, was watching the scenario intently. "Does he even notice her forehead isn't even scratched?"

"He's not the brightest bulb, eh?"

"Not even close."

She nearly jumped when she heard Sam yell in horror. Turning, she saw the Pretender was being doused with bright green liquid.

Sam was freaking out as Bumblebee skidded to a stop, along with Barricade right in front. "UGH! It's in my mouth...Oh my god! I'm so sorry! I've got wet naps! I've got wet caps for your face!"

Alice had gotten out by this point and was walking away angrily and huffily, shaking off the green liquid. Sam watched her go with a twitching eye, feeling his face heat up with embarassment for the situation and irritation at his Guardian. It just got better when he heard a honk behind him, causing him to turn and come face to face with his cousin, who simply grinned and waved.

"What're you doing?" He snapped.

Tai took a deep breath.

"Get in, my amigo..."

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The drive to the cemtery went without a hitch, thankfully, despite the whole crap of last night. The place of rest was quite a distance away from college, so the sun was rising when the black Shelby and the yellow Camaro arrived.

Tai hopped casually out of Barricade's interior, while Sam, sulking, slouched out of Bumblebee, the yellow car rumbling slightly, but was ignored. Tai rolled her eyes at her idiotic cousin, before turning to see the regal form of Optimus staring out at the sky. Her spark ached softly. She hadn't seen her father since their huge fight...

"I thought we'd been heading for peace..." Sam muttered snarkily, glaring at the grand Autobot, whom turned to face the human and sullenly replying: "I had hoped so, and it had been, at first. But problems have been rising up, boy."

"And you need my help to sort them out." Sam muttered, rubbing his head with stress as Tai glared at her selfish cousin. Optimus went on:

"The human authorities have been demanding, and the Decepticons persistent. The humans wish for our weapons, our technology, to give them an edge against Decepticons. But I fear they would merely use it against other humans. And to speak to a human, we requite a human."

Optimus turned his blue optics to Sam. "And I know no other human whom risked as much as you have, Samuel Witwicky, when you defeated Megatron."

"So, basically, you're pulling me out of MY life just to fix YOUR problems." Sam accused, teenage mind refusing to see the higher point.

Tai glared angrily at him; No way was her cousin being this SELFISH!

"Well, Sam, guess what!" Tai intervened, cutting Optimus short. "This is everybody's problem, not just my Dad's!"
Optimus could sense the strain between the two relatives. Tatyana was glaring daggers at Sam, while Sam was glaring heatedly at Tai.

"Listen, Tai, I don't have time to be some sort of alien ambassator!' And then, without thinking through it clearly, he said the worst thing he could've ever said to his cousin, his best friend since babyhood, and his family. 'And especially to a Terminator wannabee..'

The look on his cousins face after he said that stopped him short.

Barricade and Bumblebee were shocked at what he said, the black Shelby restraining his anger at the boy. Optimus felt the hurt and betrayel from his daughters spark...before those emotions were quickly replaced an emotion even more powerful...rage. Pure, raw rage.

Through her horror at what Sam had said, Tai seemed all but ready to punch Sam square in the face, preferrably ending with a broken jaw, teeth over the ground and blood on his face, and the girl snarled: "What the fuck did you just say to me, you fucking prick?..."

"You heard." Sam growled, frustrated rage clouding his judgement. Why couldn't anyone get it? He didn't want to be a part of all this shit!

"Barricade, remove her." Optimus declared swiftly, not wishing there to be violence amongst the Witwicky family. The Shelby moved quickly, transforming, darting forward and seizing Tai as she stalked towards her cousin, a shout of rage pouring from her at the sudden lift: "Hey, what are you doing? Put me down! PUT ME DOWN SO I CAN BASH HIS FACE IN!"

"Not until you get a fucking grip." Barricade snarled as he stalked away to another part of the cemetery for Tai to calm down.

Optimus turned his head towards the fuming Sam and noted: "I see you've made up your mind. But consider, Sam; She is right. The Decepticons are rising, and we need your help to convince the human government to take further precautions-"

"Do it yourself, Optimus. You're a 30-foot robot, just scare them into doing it!" Sam snapped angrily.

All through this, Bumblebee said nothing.

What could Bumblebee say?

Sam had changed and not for the better, in fact, he felt like he didn't even know who this boy was at this point. What had happened? Was it something he had done?
Tai had calmed down by this point but Barricade stood between the two, knowing Tai and her strength when she got super pissed off, she'd most likely break Sam's neck with one punch to the jaw.

"Well Sam, think about this..." She said, her voice lowered in a deadly whisper. 'If the Decepticons take over Earth, they're not gonna let you have a normal life.."

Sam said nothing in response, before softly declaring to the truck: "You're Optimus Prime. You don't need me."

With that, the boy stalked over to the Camaro, whom opened his door, and climbed in, though not before stating: "If the Decepticons did take over Earth, I'd have thought it'd been due to an inside job."

This was highlighted by a glare at Barricade, before the boy climbed into Bumblebee.

"That little fucker..." Tai snarled. "He needs to-"

"Calm down, Tatyana. Fighting amongst ourselves will serve nothing. Besides, fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our chosing. He'll understand, and soon. Until then, let him believe in wishing. War strips that aspect to those unlucky enough to hide from it..."

With that said and with a sad sigh, Optimus walked off, leaving only a fuming girl and an angered Shelby...

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