Now that Sam found himself back out side his thoughts turned to the city and it's buildings once again. This time the first thing that caught Sam's attention was the Med-bay it's self, he hadn't noticed on his past visits that the building was built very differently from those that surrounded it. The Med-bay was low to the ground, only one Autobot sized story high and four times as wide as a football field. It's domed roof made entirely out of the dull gold material looked strong enough to hold off anything that could be throw at it. Sam found it hard to understand why a building that was essentially a hospital would be built like this, it looked as if there was no room should there be a sudden influx of patients for any reason. The more Sam looked the less he understood the design, "why would a med-bay need to be built so strong?" thought Sam. Bumblebee who had been watching his lover pulled Sam from his thoughts when he asked "what are you looking at sam?". "I'm trying to figure out why the med-bay has been built like this, shouldn't it be larger or something like the buildings around it" replied Sam. Bee pulled Sam away from the Med-bay and explained "from here I can show you better, the med-bay is larger you just can't see it from the surface, this whole top section is just the access point for the rest of the med-bay, normally we only use the top section but when we need more room the lower sections are accessed". As Bumblebee explained he pointed to the outer sections of what could be seen of the Med-bay "should an attack happen the upper section that you are looking at now lowers into the ground so that only the reinforce dome is left on the surface, we learned during the war that the decepticons have a habit of targeting wounded troops and med-bays regardless of whether their treating non-combatants".

That explained the strange design, this building was part hospital part bunker designed to protect injured bots from attack. "they attacked the wounded on cybertron?" asked Sam "it was megatrons order that no autobot should have the chance of being repaired and sent back into battle, he wanted any building that could be used to repair damaged autobots leveled" replied Bumblebee sadness in his voice. "so the decepticons attacked med-bays even if there weren't autobots inside them, just bots who hadn't chosen a side?" asked Sam slightly shocked by the statement. Bee nodded at Sam before he continued "the decepticons didn't have many med-bays of their own so megatron wanted to take away our advantage by destroying the ones we had, but then it moved on to destroying any med-bay that he didn't control, we built more med-bays like this one but the fighting got so violent that many didn't make it back for treatment even with field med-bots working on them the moment they left the battle field". Sam gazed at the Med-bay for a second as if he was looking right through the walls then asked "ratchet was a field med-bot at one point wasn't he?". "I don't think there's a med-bot left who wasn't at one point or another sam, we fought in so many far of places after we left cybertron" replied Bumblebee.

Sam feeling the sadness coming through their link reached out and hugged Bee trying to make the sorrow he felt from his lover fade away. As Sam pulled Bumblebee closer the scout felt the deep love that his bonded had for him, it was strong enough for him to push away the pain from the past and allowed him to return to the feelings of the present. "one day bee we'll be in a place where you don't ever have to think about those memories again" said Sam gently as he hugged Bumblebee tightly. Bee replied "when your around I can forget the past sam, your my present and my future". Ratchet watched the scene from just beyond the Med-bay doors on a security scanner "the way those two act you'd think they had the original blueprints on romance and love" said Ratchet to himself "still at least their happy even if it is a little like one of those human romance novels".

Sam had chased the sadness away from Bumblebee's spark and now the two were back to exploring Autobot city. The central tower was once more beckoning Sam like a beacon in the night and Bumblebee was following close behind curios as to why Sam wanted to see one unfinished building more than the rest. Soon they had reached the com tower, the closest finished building to the central tower. Sam came to a stop and transformed as he saw Epps walking out of the com tower holding a portable computer that looked like a thick notepad. "hi" said Sam as Epps looked up to see who was casting the shadow over him "hi sam" replied Epps "or should that be prime now, just don't expect a salute from me any time soon kid". Epps smiled at Sam before he went back to the pad he was working on. Sam smiled back realizing that for some people he would always be the same guy he had always been. "epps, what's that tower going to be when it's finished?" asked Sam as he pointed at the central tower. Epps looked up from his pad to where Sam was pointing, "that's going to be a kind of meeting centre for visiting diplomats, the autobots want to use it as a place where they can teach people about their race and as a place where they can share some of the less dangerous technology they have, you know power generation, recycling, computer security, stuff like that, galloway was down here when we started building it demanding that the autobots also share their weapons technology in exchange for all the funding and materials that have been used in the construction of the city, man it still makes me smile when I think about the look on his face after he'd been told that the agreement with the president stated that all weapons based on cybertronian technology should be kept here in autobot city unless in use during combat with decepticons and then only in the hands of specially trained units working with the autobots" Epps grinned at the last part as he once more remembered the look on Galloway's face.

"so it's going to be some kind of meeting centre?" asked Sam, "yeh" replied Epps "though for some reason ironhide insisted that because it was called a center it should be built central in the city otherwise it couldn't really be called a center". There was a strange logic to the statement, even if it was way more literal than necessary. Sam looked at the unfinished tower once more, something still didn't feel right about it, like there was something he still didn't know about the building."that's all that the tower is, nothing more?" asked Sam. Epps looked at him slightly confused and replied "that's all there is sam, I was there when the design was made so was will, optimus wanted a human perspective on the building as it was going to be used by both humans and autobots on a daily basis". Sam believed that Epps was telling the truth about the building, but there was still something that made him want to closer and check it out in detail. "am I ok to go there?" asked Sam "you tell me kid your the prime here" said Epps who was now working on his pad once more. Sam suddenly thought that he must have sounded like an idiot for asking a question that he could have answered him self. "duh I'm a prime so I can go into any area of the city I want" thought Sam "I'm never going to get used to this" said Sam as he transformed into his Veyron alt and sped off.

It took only a few minutes for both Sam and Bee to reach the central tower, there were lost of strange machines and sparkless robots working far above them building the towers upper floors. Sam transformed and headed over to one of the finished doors, there were warning signs all around the place informing both humans and Autobots about the danger they were in by being here while the building was under construction. Sam pushed on the door and it opened into a large empty section that made up what was the ground floor of the tower. The inside was if anything anticlimactic, the wall's, ceiling and floor were plain grey concrete. Cables that were meant to connect to equipment poked out of the walls and floor, while wires that would power the light's once installed hung above their heads. The whole thing looked like some kind of ruin after a disaster and Sam heard both his and Bumblebee's footsteps echo loudly on the hard unfinished surroundings as they walked further into the building. "why did you want to see this sam?" asked Bumblebee as he though that he might have to take Sam to see Ratchet for a check up. "I don't really know bee, there's just something in me saying that I need to look things over here, like there's something that I'm not seeing in all this" replied Sam as he inspected some dangling cables.

This was not good, Sam could feel that something was amiss here but he couldn't tell what it was. "bee set your scanners to max and scan what's been built so far, I'm going to do the same maybe between us we can find something" said Sam as he started the scan. Bumblebee though still confused started scanning as well, he didn't know what they were looking for but he trusted that Sam had a reason for asking him to look. The first floor looked normal, so did the second, third and so, Sam scanned as far as the building had been built but he still found nothing he could recognize as being out of place. Thinking that this had been a waste of time Sam was about to give up and see Ratchet about having his head examined when Bee said "sam I found something strange here". "what is it bee?" asked Sam slightly surprised "I'm picking up a connection to some of the wiring on the fourth floor of the building" answered Bumblebee. At first Sam didn't understand why this was so strange, then he realized that no part of the building should have anything connected to it's wiring yet as it was still unfinished. "what section?" asked Sam as he focused his scanners on the fourth floor, "north east side, communications connection in what looks like the human access sections" replied Bee. Traveling from floor to floor in a building still under construction is no easy feat even for an Autobot, both Sam and Bee were forced to climb over one section of the access stairs as the area was filed with building supplies that had been left there temporally.

Finally they reached the fourth floor, as most of the space was empty it only took them a few minutes to reach the area in question. A human sized section built under a specially designed over hang was the source of the signal, both activated their Avatars and walked into the section for a closer look. Everything looked normal at first glance, in fact it looked normal to anyone who was thoroughly checking the area with a fine tooth comb. But Sam and Bumblebee's scanners were detecting both a power source and a signal originating from a panel where a a communications unit was to be placed. Sam reached behind the panel and felt around for the source of the readings, his Avatars hand finally came into contact with a smooth metallic box hanging well out of sight and almost out of reach in a deep recess. Sam tugged at it and slowly the box came free from the bindings that held it in place. As Sam pulled the box from it's hiding place a wave of dizziness hit both his Avatar and robot form at the same time. Bumblebee moved to catch both Sam's robot form and his Avatar with his own, controlling both his Avatar and robot body Bee managed to just catch both of Sam's forms as they fell to the floor. Bee lowered Sam's Avatar to the ground gently while his robot form held Sam's main form tightly, once Bumblebee was sure that Sam was ok he turned his attention to the strange metal box. Performing a detailed scan of it Bee found that it was creating a signal feed back on the systems that connected Sam to his Avatar "sam turn of your avatar quickly" said Bee. Sam deactivated his Avatar and the dizziness started subside slightly as it was replaced be the strange feeling that had lead him here.

"what the hell was that?" asked Sam "it was like I was sea sick or something", Bee quickly replied "it was this thing, it looks like it's some kind of transmitter designed to breach our communications systems once their integrated throughout the city, by some strange chance your link to your avatar is on the same frequency, that's what drew you here in the first place". "feedback" said Sam now regaining his senses and stability a little more, Bee just nodded in answer. "well I think you'd better carry that thing when we take it to ironhide, I may just blow my fuel tank if I try to carry it" said Sam as he backed away from the strange box. Bumblebee's Avatar carried the box into the open where his main form took hold of it, Sam felt slightly dizzy again as it came closer to him so he grabbed hold of a pillar to steady him self. Bee closed his hand around the box and activated a jamming field around his fist to stop the boxes signal from affecting Sam any further, the moment the jamming field went up Sam started to feel better, not great but not ready to pass out either. "I lead such a charmed life don't I bee" said Sam as he made his way towards the cluttered stairs. Bumblebee just chuckled as he replied "well at least you know that apache isn't going to get board with you as his commanding officer".