Sam sat in the huge lecture hall watching as it filled up with hundreds of students. Though large classes never appealed to her she supposed this just proved she had gotten to college. Leo had kindly saved her a seat, though she sensed he had alternate reasons for doing such then simply as a friendly gesture. Especially given the way he seemed to puff out his chest when others looked their way.

Keeping her snickers to herself she watched as the professor came in, taking in his arrogant swagger and fairly cool-studious look he portrayed to the world. She had a feeling that she might not care for him, but as long as he didn't give them crap information she'd survive. Within moments the class settled down.

"Space. Time." He took a bite out of an apple before dropping it. "Gravity."

"We are going on a journey together, you and I."

His voice started to phase out as the same symbols she saw at the Frat house started to flash before her. Blinking she tried to focus on reality but she couldn't seem to. Without her conscious decision she started flipping through her astrology book, the words and information easily flowing into her mind despite the speed at which she flipped through it. To her side Leo gave her strange looks and tried to get her attention as softly as he could but nothing could stop her.

Once done she felt an urge to speak up, but something in her knew she could not. No one would understand. The symbols wouldn't stop even though she could at least control her urges. Shaking she stood up, grabbing her bag.

"What are you doing?" Leo hissed at her, confused.

"Young lady, I have not reached the climax of my lecture." The teacher advised as he saw her moving down the room.

"I… I can't breath. Gotta… gotta go…" She just managed to state as she all but ran for the door. The whole class watched her leave in surprise. Once the door slammed behind her the professor turned back to the rest of the class.

"Anyone else care to have some sort of a breakdown?"

As Sam raced back to her room, trying hard to navigate while avoiding people and strange floating symbols. Pulling her cell phone out she dialed Mikaela.

"Hey Sammy-girl? How's college life. Met any hot guys yet?"

"Mik. Something just happened to me." Sam blurted, voice taking on a slightly panicked tone.

"What you lost your virginity?"

"No, no, no. Stop laughing! This is serious!"

"Okay? What is it?"

"Remember when I told you about my great-great-grandfather Archibald Witwicky? Remember?" Rushing down a set of stairs she stumbled, dropping various papers and books. Scrambling to pick them up she continued. "Okay, remember? When he went on the Arctic mission, and… and he saw Megatron. Then Megatron zapped him, and he started seeing these crazy symbols. Right? Well, now I'm seeing them too." She couldn't control the speed of her words as she managed to grab all of her things and continue on her way.

"Sam? Calm down. Just take a breath…"

"Calm down? I just read a 903-page astronomy book in 32.6 seconds." She squeaked over the speaker. "I nearly had a meltdown in the middle of my class! I'm seeing symbols everywhere, ever since I…" Freezing in place Sam realized the reason for her new issue.

"Since what?" Mikaela urged, hoping her friend would calm down.

"Ever since I touched the Cube splinter." Remembering just whom she gave the splinter to she continued. "Do you have it?"

"Yeah I have it?" Mikaela assured the other girl. "It's in the shop safe. It's fine."

"Mikaela, do not touch it. Just don't touch it."

"I'm not going to touch it." A heavy sigh came down the line. "Sam, it's fine. It's locked away and no one knows where it is."

Sam closed her eyes in relief. "Ok, right. It's fine. I'm over reacting…"

"Hold on…"

"Mik?" Sam paused listening to the sounds coming over the other end. She heard a yell and a scream and some bangs. "Mikaela! What's going on? Mikaela!"

"Sam."

"What the hell was that?" She practically screamed, her once slightly calmed nerves just broke again.

"I'll tell you later, just not on an open phone line ok?" Sam blinked down at her cell. That did not sound good. "I'm gonna get on a plane right now and I'll be there later this afternoon. Just be careful, Sam."

"Okay. You too." Closing the cell she realized she was in front of her dorm room door. Barging in she thanked whoever listened that her roommate was gone again. Grabbing some markers she started drawing various symbols that continued to flash before her eyes hoping to get it out of her head.