Transformers 2007: The Legend of Flyimus Prime

by bigvic150

(Reboot) In this take of the Transformers movie, Flyimus Prime and his Autobot crew will literally be trying to help Optimus Prime and his crew preserve the Allspark so that Cybertron can be restored. But will the Autobots succeed? In this take, there is a much shorter crew for Flyimus Prime compared to the other guy. Rated T. Major character death. Jazz lives.

2. Meeting Bumblebee

Transformers 2007: The Legend of Flyimus Prime.

Chapter 2: Meeting Bumblebee.

(Author's notes: In this chapter, the Autobot team under Flyimus Prime's command will be meeting Bumblebee, specifically the crew members who transform into civilian ground vehicles and specifically Triple Changers in their ground vehicle modes.

Also, a bit of a disclaimer: I am in no way possible trying to copyright any form of the movie. Everyone who has read my stories and reviewed them so far knows that I am not trying to copyright anything my stories are based upon. I know better than that. I don't own the live action Transformers movies 2007 to the Last Knight. Those are owned by Michael Bay, DreamWorks Pictures, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Hasbro, and Paramount Pictures. Any similarities to the movie are slightly changed because I'm trying to avoid copyrighting the movie and because I don't like some of the dialogue and some of the scenes.

Enjoy chapter 2.)

(Tyran cluster 707.04 Delta, the roadways leading into the suburbs of Tranquility, California, third person POV...)

In his ground vehicle mode of a 1983 Japanese Mitsubishi Fuso F-Series FT ladder fire truck, Flyimus Prime is driving on the roadways leading to the suburbs of Tranquility, California and his Grounder troops and Triple Changer troops in their ground vehicle modes spotted Bumblebee heading their way.

Bumblebee pulls up alongside Flyimus Prime and spots one of his Autobot symbols on one of the cab doors of his vehicle mode.

Bumblebee flashes his headlights at Flyimus, and Flyimus and his Grounder and Triple Changer troops get the message as they discreetly swerve off the road into the woods, transforming to robot mode while being careful to avoid being seen.

Bumblebee's radio whirls as he asks in a Chucky the Killer Doll sound clip, "Who the hell are you?"

Flyimus replies, "I'm Flyimus Prime, and this is my crew."

Flyimus gestures to his Grounder and Triple Changer crew for added emphasis.

Bumblebee's optics widened in surprise.

Bumblebee pieces together some sound clips as he asks in confusion, "I thought – Optimum – was the only – Prime – around?"

Slightly raising an optic ridge despite understanding what Bumblebee asked, Flyimus replies, "Well, the story about that is a long and overly complicated one. But I'll tell you when the others arrive. But anyway, have you seen Sam Witwicky?"

Bumblebee answers, "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis? – Never heard of 'im."

Flyimus answers, "Well, Samuel James Witwicky is the last descendant of Captain Amundsen Archibald Witwicky. He lives in the suburbs of Tranquility. Sam happens to be in possession of his ancestor's glasses, and he's hoping to sell them on the human website known as eBay. Sam doesn't know why his ancestor was institutionalized after his encounter with Megatron because the incident was covered up by two secret organizations. The first one is called Sector Seven, and the second is called the Order of the Witwiccans. Would you like the long versions about them first, or the short versions?"

Bumblebee replies in a sound clip, "The long versions first – and we'll go from there."

Flyimus explains, "Okay. Firstly, the Order of the Witwiccans is a secret organization founded in the time of the Battle for Camelot in the year 484 in the country known as England, and their number one goal above all else is to protect the secret history of the Transformers from the entire world and to prevent the knowledge of the Transformers assisting humanity in wars from ever being abused. They do whatever it takes to protect the secret history of the Transformers race from the rest of humanity, and among their numbers over the years include many famous people. Such as freedom fighters, world leaders and scientists. They work in alliance with Sector Seven, a secret government faction formally founded in 1913 under the employment of President Hoover. They excavated the Allspark and had it hidden in Hoover Dam a ways from here, along with Megatron. The Allspark's Energon radiation signature is hidden from anyone on the outside in a secret room in the dam by an assortment of thick walls comprised of four football fields' worth of stone concrete. And Sector Seven actually reverse-engineered Megatron's robotic technology to create all sorts of modern inventions, including spacecraft, microchips, military equipment and laser weaponry. They classified him as N.B.E.-1. (N.B.E. stands for Non-Biological Extraterrestrial.) But thankfully, they kept Megatron on ice. And eventually, they found out that the Allspark can bring machines to life as long as they are reverse-engineered from Megatron's armor, so they experimented with the Allspark's power to test its limits."

Bumblebee looked stunned at the explanation of Sector Seven and the Order of the Witwiccans, but he doesn't say a thing as he pays attention.

Flyimus then says, "But, I have a feeling Sam will prove to be an invaluable ally in our quest for the Allspark. But, when you do a search for Sam's address, make sure you delete any evidence of the search because Barricade, Frenzy, Blackout, Scorponok, Brawl, Bonecrusher and Starscream are here already. And there is one thing I know Blackout will do in thirteen weeks from now in the search for the Allspark."

Bumblebee then asks, "What will – black out – do?"

Slapside answers with his voice sounding just like the Scourge he resembles, "He's going to attack the SOCCENT Forward Operations Airbase in Qatar to obtain the information on the whereabouts of Megatron and the Allspark. But thankfully, the hardlines for the data are gonna be cut. However, instead of giving up, Blackout will slaughter the majority of the troops and destroy all of their equipment while sending Scorponok after the survivors. This means that Frenzy is likely to hack into the military network aboard President Bush's personal plane, appropriately called Air Force One."

Bumblebee didn't look pleased at the fact that so many U.S. Army Rangers were gonna be murdered and there was not a single Autobot around to save them.

And Bumblebee subtly noticed that Flyimus Prime didn't look happy at the notion that Frenzy will slaughter Secret Service agents aboard Air Force One in the quest to hack into the P.O.T.U.S. mainframe just to find out the location of Megatron and the Allspark.

Highmaster then adds, "And that's not all. Regardless of whether or not Frenzy succeeds in his mission to hack the military network, he and Barricade will still find Sam's residence by doing a Witwicky search. And that's all because of the fact that you hacked Sam's eBay account to find his address, but again, you forgot to erase your hacking and cover your tracks."

Bumblebee didn't look happy at the notion that he would've forgotten to cover up his tracks and erase his hack to prevent Barricade and Frenzy from finding out where Sam lives if the mute Autobot scout didn't run into Flyimus and his troops.

Lightstick then explains, "But anyway, we happen to know where you'll need to go to find Sam. Bobby Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo. Sam and his father will be traveling there for Sam to purchase a car in order for him to win the heart of his crush, Mikaela Banes. And the reason why Sam was trying to sell his ancestor's glasses is because he's hoping to earn enough money to take Mikaela out on a date."

Bumblebee then looks like he's about to smile as best as he can without a mouthplate. But that smile immediately turned to a frown when he found out the reason why Sam was trying to sell Amundsen's glasses.

Flyimus then brings out an Energon Repair Ray, and Bumblebee asks in a sound clip, "Whazat?"

Flyimus explains, "This is an Energon Repair Ray. It uses Energon to repair any damages, including fatal damages. On the other servo, I upgraded it to repair any damages that are considered beyond conventional repairs. That especially includes your voice box, Bumblebee."

Bumblebee looked shocked before he started jabbing the air like a champion boxer in excitement.

Flyimus shoots a constant beam from his upgraded Energon Repair Ray at Bumblebee's throat armor, completely repairing the damage to his voice box that was caused by Megatron at the Battle of Tyger Pax on Cybertron.

Once Flyimus finishes, Bumblebee remarks in a slight British accent, "I don't feel any different."

Flyimus points out, "Bumblebee, it actually worked!"

Bumblebee gasps as he exclaims, "Whoa! I'm able to talk! No one's gonna be able to shut me up now."

Flyimus then hugs Bumblebee gently.

Bumblebee then inquires confusedly, "Umm, Prime, what are you doing?"

As he releases Bumblebee, Flyimus answers, "I was hugging you, Bumblebee. Oh, that's right; you don't know what a hug is. Well, basically, a hug is more or less a form of physical contact and a form of endearment in human communities. Depending on various human cultures and relationships, a hug usually signifies familiarity, affection, familial love, platonic love, romantical love, friendship, sympathy in tragic times, and brotherhood."

Bumblebee then asks, "You consider me a friend? Even though we've only just met?"

Flyimus replies, "Of course I would consider you to be a friend. Besides, even the likes of battle-hardened Autobots need friends."

Bumblebee's faceplate curves to show a smile as he embraces Flyimus in a gentle hug, and Flyimus returns the gesture as best as he can.

(Thirteen weeks later, in Qatar, third person POV...)

On a CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor helicopter, Jorge "Fig" Figueroa remarks, "Oh, goodness, five months of serving as an Army Ranger. I can't wait to get home and reunite with my mama. And I can't wait to once again taste a plate of Mama's alligators etouffe. Mmm."

Robert Epps states, "You've been talking about barbecued alligators and crickets for the last two weeks. I'm never going to your mama's house, Fig, I promise you that. I literally don't entertain the very idea of actually eating an alligator."

Fig replies, "But Bobby, Bobby, alligators are known to have the most tasty meat."

Epps replies, "I understand that."

Fig says in his native Spanish something that even Epps and the viewers from the Quadwal cluster don't seem to understand as he mimics Fig's words before saying, "Whoa, whoa. Can you repeat that in English, please? Repeat it in English."

Captain William Lennox states, "Yeah, repeat that in English. I don't – I mean, how many times have we told you? We don't speak Spanish. How many times have we told you that?"

Fig asks before lapsing back into Spanish, "Why do you gotta ruin it for me, man? That's my heritage we're talking about here. Siempre me estás molestando con la misma m***** de siempre./You're always annoying me with the same old s***."

Captain Lennox replies, "Fine. Proceed with speaking Spanish if it makes you feel better. Whatever."

Sergeant Donnelly then asks, "Hey, you guys remember the weekends? Huh? The Red Sox at Fenway Park Stadium. Served with a cold hot dog and a flat beer during the game."

Epps replies, "A superb day."

Fig then inquires, "What about you, Captain? You got a flawless day planned?"

Lennox answers, "Nah, I just can't wait to hold my baby daughter for the first time."

All the soldiers remark in unison, "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..." "Awww..."

Donnelly remarks, "That's just so endearing."

Then, Epps begins to say, "That's too –"

But Lennox interrupts in embarrassment, "Shut up."

Soon, the two Ospreys touch down at the SOCCENT Forward Operations Airbase, a military installation run by the United States military.

Various soldiers have small talk about their plans for when they arrive home according to schedule upon tomorrow.

Epps then says before calling out, "Hey, I'm ready to do this. I'm ready to shoot some hoops. Hey, if any of y'all grows a pair, come see me on the court, man."

A soldier calls out, "Hey, hey!"

Eventually, the same soldier is seen with Epps playing basketball.

Epps remarks, "Watch this crossover, dog. Like Jordan in his prime, pushing through to the front line. Like so many others like him in their prime!"

Meanwhile, back in the United States, Flyimus is showing the whole thing to Bumblebee via a hologram projector that runs on electricity and Energon.

Bumblebee asks, "Are those two soldiers playing with a ball?"

Flyimus answers, "Yes. It's called basketball. It happens to be a popular sport here in the United States. Basketball involves two different teams represented by a maximum of five players to compete against each other on a rectangular basketball court, with the primary task of throwing a basketball through the defending team's basketball hoop high above the ground attached to a backboard on two ends of the basketball court while making sure to prevent the opposing team from throwing the basketball through their own basketball hoop. And a human being playing basketball has these physical health benefits. First, playing basketball increases muscular endurance. Secondly, playing basketball builds healthy bones. Thirdly, it improves the basketball player's sense of balance and sense of coordination. Fourthly, it helps the basketball player to develop their movement skills. Fifthly, playing basketball strengthens body composition. And sixthly, even an hour of playing basketball boosts the overall health of a human heart."

Bumblebee looked intrigued.

Bumblebee then asks confusedly, "Wait a nano. What does it mean when a human being is in their prime?"

Flyimus explains again, "Well, in reference to famous humans who played sports, that means that even if the sports players are retired, they're still living an active, healthy life."

Bumblebee replies, "Ohhh."

Bumblebee and Flyimus turn their attention back to the hologram footage.

Meanwhile, back in Qatar, a burly soldier steps into the wash racks and says to the other two soldiers in the racks, "Step aside, ladies."

The first soldier states, "Oh, man."

And the second soldier asks, "What? Oh—"

Then, as Lennox was writing on a notepad, local villager Mahfouz calls out, "Lennox!"

Lennox asks, "Hey, how you doing? How have you been, Mahfouz?"

Mahfouz asks while handing him several water containers, "Water?"

Lennox takes the first one and says, "Oh, thank you. Are you gonna help me with the gear?"

Mahfouz nods.

Meanwhile, ten miles away from the airbase, the Decepticon hunter and third-in-command known as Blackout, currently in his chosen vehicle mode of a Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low transport/assault helicopter, is flying towards the military installation, the rotor of his vehicle mode whirring as the blades spin repeatedly.

Blackout mentally bemoans in Cybertronian, "This is just wonderful. This vehicle mode is slow and the so-called helicopter rotor does absolutely nothing to increase my speed. I guess this means that the so-called helicopters on this planet are not built for speed."

In the control room of the airbase, a radar officer says, "Colonel Sharp, we have an incoming unidentified infiltrator, ten miles from the base."

Colonel Sharp looks at the radar and establishes contact with Blackout, unaware of the "helicopter's" true nature.

Colonel Sharp advises, "Unidentified aircraft, you are in restricted U.S. military airspace. Squawk identity and proceed east out of the area."

But Blackout doesn't respond.

Blackout mentally sneers, "Pathetic human. Who does he think he is to give me orders?"

Colonel Sharp then says into a walkie-talkie, "Raptors one and two, fly off to heading two-five-zero to intercept. Bogie is in the weeds, ten miles out, and they're not squawking."

Two Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jets fly off to meet with Blackout.

Colonel Sharp advises to Blackout, "Unidentified aircraft, we will chaperone you to U.S. SOCCENT Forward Operations Airbase. If you do not comply, we will use deadly force."

One of the F-22 pilots spies the identification number on Blackout's tail rotor and says, "Copy the bogie. Tail 4500 X-ray."

One of the officers hands Colonel Sharp a paper report and states, "Sir, it says here that the 4500 X was shot down three months ago, in Afghanistan."

Colonel Sharp replies before ordering, "That's gotta be a mistake. Check again, then recheck."

The officer replies, "I did, sir. A friend of mine was on that chopper."

The same officer then says over the radio, "Unidentified aircraft, we will chaperone you to U.S. SOCCENT Forward Operations Airbase."

The two Raptors fly ahead of Blackout to provide an escort, and Blackout accelerates in flight after them as best as he can muster.

Blackout mentally chortles, "Heh. Stupid humans. They might think that they're smart for a bunch of military-sanctioned soldiers for their kind, but they're still birdbrains compared to my kind."

In the control tower of the airbase, Colonel Sharp asks, "Radar, where's the inbound?"

The radar officer replies, "The bogie's five miles from here, sir."

In a living quarters, Lennox enters the room and asks a leaving soldier, "Is my wife on, soldier?"

The soldier answers, "Yes, Captain."

Lennox gets on the video call and exclaims, "Ahahaha! My ladies!"

Sarah Lennox says to their baby daughter Annabelle Lennox, "Look."

Annabelle Lennox makes baby noises in response.

Back in the United States, Flyimus Prime is showing the footage to Bumblebee.

Bumblebee inquires, "That's Annabelle Lennox?"

Flyimus replies, "Yep. That's Annabelle Lennox."

Bumblebee remarks, "For a human baby, she's adorable!"

Flyimus exclaims in disgust.

Bumblebee quizzes, "What, don't like human babies?"

Flyimus answers, "Cybertronian sparklings I can handle. Human babies are a whole different ballgame. And besides, the sound of a human baby crying literally gets on my nerves."

William Lennox remarks in the footage, "Oh, my goodness. Take a gander at her. She's getting so humongous. Look at those cheeks. I just wanna chew on them. Baby, we made a good-looking kid. I know that people don't usually say it at all, but... Wow, we made one good-looking kid. Nice work."

Sarah replies in the footage, "She has your laugh."

William asks in response, "She laughed?"

Sarah answers, "Her first one, yeah."

Will asks, "You la – you sure she didn't just fart?"

Sarah replies, "No, she's a lady."

Annabelle starts crying in the footage, and Flyimus plugs his audio receptors before hearing Sarah explaining, "She doesn't know you yet, but she will."

Back in Qatar, Colonel Sharp is watching Blackout's approaching vehicle mode and says, "4500X. Something's not right. That chopper was supposed to have been shot down three months ago."

Various soldiers talk over each other as they get themselves ready for anything, completely unaware that they weren't prepared for what Blackout and the other Decepticons had in store in their quest to find Megatron and the Allspark.

An officer announces over a loudspeaker, "Bogie's on the deck."

A radar officer states, "Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The radar's jammed. It's coming from the chopper."

He goes to call in for help, but the electronics in the base flicker.

Sarah asks, "Will, what's going on?"

Will replies with the screen and audio slightly malfunctioning, "Sarah? Hey, Sarah, if you can hear me, I love you and I'll be home soon."

Will ends the video call and sighs while muttering, "D***."

Will goes outside.

At the landing strip, one of the soldiers calls out, "To the right. Go to the right." And another soldier calls out, "Check fire."

Various soldiers cock their guns and point them at Blackout.

Colonel Sharp says over the radio, "MH-53 pilot, power down now. That's an order."

Blackout complies and turns off his engine, his hologram slightly flickering on and off.

Colonel Sharp continues, "Have your crew step out of the helicopter, or else we will kill you."

Blackout mentally remarks, "All right then, Colonel Sharp. Time to get serious."

Blackout's slowing helicopter rotor stops completely before folding against each other in threes before sliding back to the tail rotor with the top points pointing towards the back.

A soldier calls out, "Hold your fire, everyone! Stand by to engage!"

With the iconic Transformers Generation 1 transformation sound resounding from Blackout, the Decepticon third-in-command quickly transforms to robot mode as various soldiers fire on him.

Colonel Sharp states in shock, "My goodness. What on Earth is that thing?"

Various soldiers continue firing on Blackout, but their bullets have no effect on his heavy armor whatsoever.

Blackout fires two missiles before firing his Scrapmaker on the soldiers and their vehicles.

Various soldiers take cover as their vehicles get riddled with bullet holes.

Then, Blackout brings out his Energon Shockwave Cannon and unleashes an Energon Shockwave, blowing various vehicles away, shattering the glass windows of the control tower and shorting out the power lines for the communications systems.

Lennox comes outside to find various soldiers running in place.

Epps comes in running and calls out at the top of his lungs, "THEY BOMBED THE ANTENNA FARMS! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!"

Blackout continues firing his Scrapmaker and his Energon Wave Cannon at various soldiers, vehicles and hangars.

The numerous soldiers under Lennox's team scramble to the scene.

Blackout eventually heads to the server room and busts open the roof.

Blackout places his right servo on the server and connects to it, the various wires sparking electricity onto his servo as he scrambles and sifts through the classified files.

And Blackout makes a Cybertronian screeching sound that, if Optimus Prime was there, would've been translated as, "Commencing download of highly classified files."

Colonel Sharp rushes into the room and calls out to the soldiers, "Go! Move! Move!"

Colonel Sharp sees what Blackout is doing and sees the computer screen featuring Blackout searching throughout Sector Seven's classified files for information on the whereabouts of Megatron and the Allspark.

Colonel Sharp calls out to another soldier in the room, "It's going after the files! Cut the hardlines!"

An officer tries to cut the hardlines, but finds out it's locked.

He calls back in response, "I need a key! It's locked!"

Colonel Sharp quickly spots a fire axe, grabs it and pushes the soldier out of the way before swinging the axe onto the hardlines, cutting off Blackout's connection.

Slightly angered, Blackout shoots an Energon Shockwave that kills Colonel Sharp and the soldier inside the room.

Meanwhile, Lennox and Fig are leading Mahfouz through an arsenal of tanks.

Lennox calls out, "Here, come here! Come here!"

Mahfouz follows Lennox through the assortment of tanks.

Several soldiers escape from Blackout as several destroyed tanks land on top of the intact ones.

Several other soldiers lead their comrades to safety, only to get squashed underfoot by Blackout.

In the United States, Bumblebee is watching the holographic footage and he doesn't look happy at all.

Bumblebee demands, "Why can't we do something?!"

Flyimus explains, "Bumblebee, even if we could do something, we can't. Besides, as we've seen, even the United States military can't differentiate between Autobots and Decepticons because the entire world is unaware of the existence of the Transformers race and the world is unaware of the ancient civil war between Autobots and Decepticons due to the fact that nobody, and I mean nobody, was ever informed of such a concept because of Sector Seven and because of the Order of the Witwiccans. And besides, while the people of the Earth are comfortable with advanced forms of technology, the idea that factions of transforming alien robots in an ancient civil war are living among the humans will cause worldwide panic. And besides, maybe you forgot to look it up, but there are all sorts of power-hungry humans – businessmen, world leaders, soldiers, police officers, serial killers, magic practitioners and so forth – who will start a war over the smallest things. Including whether or not someone will get the latest advancements in technology that comes from an ancient alien civilization. And on top of that, there's all sorts of terrorist organizations who won't hesitate to interfere in our war so they can capture any one of us, experiment on us until we die, and utilize our technology and biology to create doomsday weapons and/or super soldiers to dominate the world."

Bumblebee looked so shocked, one could say his head looked ready to explode.

Back in Qatar, Lennox leads Mahfouz to a hiding spot underneath the front of a tank.

Lennox states, "Here, hide in here!"

Fig states while readying his grenade launcher, "Oh, my gosh. Okay. Gotta get ready for a clear shot."

Epps runs towards the safe hiding spot, but he topples as he nearly gets squashed underfoot twice.

Epps brings out his imager and takes a few snapshots of Blackout as he looks down at the soldier.

As Blackout sees himself in the imager, he angrily deploys a cannon from his chestplate.

Epps exclaims, "What the?!"

Epps manages to run away long enough for Fig to get a clean shot at the cannon on Blackout's chestplate.

Blackout leans back as he gets shot, signifying that he was slightly damaged.

But Blackout manages to stabilize his footing as he fires a flare to temporarily blind the soldiers.

Lennox grabs Epps and exclaims, "Epps! Let's go! Let's get out of here!"

The remaining soldiers flee from the base and from Blackout's optic view.

Sensing that there were going to be survivors, Blackout deploys Scorponok to hunt them down and proceeds to destroy the remaining equipment, vehicles, weaponry and buildings on the base as the survivors, including Mahfouz, flee from the Energon shockwaves.

Back in the U.S., Bumblebee looks horrified at the carnage Flyimus Prime showed him.

Flyimus then assures him, "Don't worry; Lennox's squadron and Mahfouz managed to survive. But now they're on their own until they can find Mahfouz's village to phone the Pentagon."

Slapside then advises, "Autobots, we gotta get ready for when Sam purchases Bumblebee at the car dealership."

Flyimus nods grimly and the Grounder Autobots transform to vehicle mode while the Triple Changers either transformed to their ground vehicle modes or joined the Seekers and Aerialbots in the skies.

Flyimus drives towards an abandoned steel mill and uses his powers to transform it into a temporary Autobot base.

Everyone heads into their living quarters and goes into recharge.

(The next morning...)

After being given the green light by Flyimus, Bumblebee successfully hacks into Samuel James Witwicky's eBay account to find his address.

After the new Autobot team logs the address information into their respective GPS', Bumblebee successfully manages to erase his hacking of the account and he manages to successfully cover his tracks after making sure that no one making bids for Amundsen's glasses would be put up on Sam's eBay account.

At the John Marshall High School, various students are chattering as they hang out at the school entrance steps or they generally get ready for their final classes of the day.

Mr. Hosney then says to Samuel James Witwicky, "Okay, Mr. Witwicky, you're up last."

Sam replies while putting various 19th century explorer's equipment on the teacher's desk, "Sorry, I got a lot of stuff here."

Trent DeMarco, the high school bully, whispers to his soon-to-be former girlfriend Mikaela Banes, "Watch this."

Trent prepares a rubber band slingshot with his fingers as Sam starts to say, "Oh-kay. For my family genea-ah-"

But he doesn't finish as Trent launches the rubber band at Sam's chest with his fingers acting like a slingshot.

Various students start laughing briefly and Mr. Hosney then advises in a warning tone, "Who did – who did that? People! Responsibility."

Mr. Hosney wags his finger in a warning sign and sharply tilts his head to the side without hurting himself, both of those expressions being used for added emphasis.

Sam continues, "So, for my family genealogy report, I decided to do it on my great-great-grandfather, who was a famous man. He goes by the name of Captain Amundsen Archibald Witwicky. He's a very famous explorer. As a matter of fact, he was one of the first to explore the Arctic Circle, which was and still is a big deal. In 1897, he took forty-one brave sailors straight to the Arctic Shelf. But they had to chop a lot of ice off their ship's path before they could get stranded."

In a flashback, one of the forty-one sailors calls out, "Move faster, men! Move! Chop! Heave!"

Another sailor exclaims, "The ice is freezing faster than it's melting! Chop faster! Heave, men!"

One of the other sailors calls out, "We got to chop faster, or we'll be stuck!"

Amundsen then says, "Heave, men! Heave! No sacrifice, no victory! We'll get to the Arctic Circle, lads! Don't worry about it!"

As the flashback ends, Sam then says while holding up a vintage newspaper detailing his ancestor's fate, "So, that's the basic backstory, right? Um, unfortunately, my great-great-grandfather, the genius that he was, wound up becoming permanently blind through unknown means, he ended up going crazy in a psycho ward, and he spent his remaining alive days drawing these strange symbols and babbling on about some, uh, giant ice man that he thought he'd discovered. Um, and that's basically it for my family genealogy report."

Everyone except for Trent applauds Sam, surprising Flyimus from watching on the cameras, as nobody applauded Sam for his family genealogy report in the movie's original timeline. And another thing that surprised the nine million year old Triple Changer Prime was the fact that Sam didn't try to sell any of the instruments of 19th century sailors that his family line had preserved, and he continued watching as Sam revealed different instruments that 19th century sailors used.

After putting the instruments away, Sam sits in his seat, and then, half a minute later, the school bell rings.

As the students get up to leave, Mr. Hosney then announces, "Okay. There might be a pop quiz tomorrow, or there might not be one. Either way, sleep in fear tonight."

The students pack up their things, but Mr. Hosney then asks, "Sam? A word with you, please?"

Sam walks over to Mr. Hosney's desk and quizzes, "So, I actually did pretty good, right?"

Mr. Hosney then answers, "Uh... I would say a humongous A+."

Sam breaks out into a wide grin.

Flyimus was also surprised as Sam got an A-, but the new Prime wasn't gonna complain about it to Primus.

Later on, Sam rushes over to his father's car and exclaims, "Yes! Yes, yes, yes!"

Sam's father, Ron Witwicky, decides to ask, "So? How'd you do?"

Sam replies while handing him the report card, "A+."

Ron looks over the report card and says, "Wait, let me see. It's an A+. All right. You're good."

Sam inquires, "I'm good?"

Ron answers, "Yeah, you're good."

As Ron drives to Bobby Bolivia's Finest Quality Used Cars and Petting Zoo, Ron remarks, "I got a nice surprise for you, son."

Sam starts to ask, "What kind of s—"

But Ron interrupts, "Yeah, a little surprise."

Ron drives towards a Porsche dealership, causing Sam to exclaim, "No. No, no, no, no! Dad! Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!"

Ron drives away from the dealership and goes to the used car lot as he replies, "Yeah, I am kidding. You're not getting a Porsche. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."

Sam inquires, "You really think that's funny?"

Ron answers, "Yeah, I think it's funny."

Sam asks, "What's wrong with you?"

Ron inquires in response, "What, you really thought I'd actually get you a Porsche? For your first car?"

The two Witwickys fail to notice Bumblebee driving towards the car lot while managing to avoid attracting attention.

Sam states, "I don't want to talk to you for the rest of this whole thing."

Ron states, "Oh, come on, it's just a practical joke. It's just a prank. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."

Sam replies, "Well, it's not a funny joke and it's a terrible prank all at once."

At the car lot, Bobby Bolivia calls out, "Manny!"

Manny calls back, "What?!"

Manny states, "Get your cousin out of that freakish clown suit. He's having a heat stroke again. Scaring all the folks passing by."

The clown exclaims, "I'm hot. Makeup's melting. It hurts my eyes."

The clown is saying something, but it's obscured by Sam's voice as he asks, "Here? No, no, no, what is this? You said – you said half a car, not half a piece of crap, Dad."

Ron replies, "When I was your age, I'd have been happy with nothing short of just four wheels and an engine."

Sam replies back, "Okay, let me explain something to you. Okay? You ever seen the 40-year-old Virgin?"

A random guy calls out, "I'm outta here!"

Ron replies again, "Yeah."

Sam explains again while gesturing to two cars, "Okay, that's what this is. That's the 40-year-old Virgin. And this is 50-year-old Virgin."

Ron replies, "Ah, okay."

Sam quizzes, "You really want me to live that life? Hmm? You really want me to live that kind of life?"

Ron starts to say, "No sacrifice—"

Sam finishes, "Yeah, no victory. You know, I got it. The old Witwicky motto, Dad. I remember it like the back of my hand."

Bobby Bolivia comes up and introduces himself before asking, "Gentlemen. I'm Bobby Bolivia, like the country, except without the Montezuma's revenge. Hahahahaha. How can I help you today?"

Ron answers, "Well, my son here... he's looking to buy his first car."

Bobby inquires, "You came to see me for a car?"

Sam replies, "I had to."

Bobby replies back, "That practically makes us family. Uncle Bobby B, baby. Uncle Bobby B."

Sam replies, "Name's Sam."

Shaking Sam's hand, Bobby then says, "Sam, let me talk to you. Sam, your first enchilada of freedom literally waits for you underneath one of those car hoods. Let me tell you something, son. A driver doesn't pick the car. The car'll pick the driver. It's a magical relationship between a man and a machine. Son, I'm a lot of things, but a liar's not one of them. I ain't a liar. Especially not in front of my mammy. That's my mammy. Hey, Mammy!"

Bobby's mammy flips him off in response.

Bobby remarks, "Ooh, don't be like that. If I had a large boulder I could carry, I'd bust your head, b****. I tell you, man, she's deaf. She's hard of hearing. You know what I'm saying? Hahahahahahahahahaha."

Bobby gestures to a couple of cars and continues, "Well, anyway, over here, we have every piece of a car that a man could possibly want or need."

Sam walks over to Bumblebee's vehicle mode and remarks, "This one ain't bad. This one's got black racing stripes."

Bobby replies, "Yeah. It's got black racing – Yeah, what's this? What the heck is this? I don't know anything about this car. Manny!"

Rushing over, Manny replies, "What?"

Bobby asks, "What is this? This car! Check it out! What is this car?"

Sam gets into the driver's seat of the fake Camaro.

Manny replies, "I don't know, boss! I've never seen it! That's loco!"

Bobby states, "Don't go Ricky Ricardo on me, Manny! Find out!"

Manny starts speaking in another language.

Sam remarks, "The driver's seat feels good."

Sam wipes some soot and dust off the middle of the steering wheel, where he sees the Autobot symbol, even though he doesn't know about the Autobots just yet.

Ron asks Bobby, "How much for the car?"

Bobby replies, "Well, (tsk), considering the semi-classic nature of the car, with the slick wheels and the custom paint job..."

Sam interjects, "Yeah, but the paint's faded."

Bobby lowers himself to Sam in the driver's seat and replies, "Y-yeah, but it's also custom."

Sam inquires, "It's custom faded?"

Bobby answers, "Well, this is your first car, Sam. I wouldn't expect you to understand." He turns to Ron and answers the question, "Five thousand dollars."

Ron replies, "No, I'm not paying over four thousand. Ain't got the extra one thousand dollars. Sorry."

Bobby turns to Sam and says, "Kid. Come on, get out the car."

Sam replies, "No, no, no. You said cars pick their drivers."

Bobby replies, "Yeah, well, sometimes they tend to pick a driver with a cheap-a** father. Out the car."

Bobby coughs a bit as Sam reluctantly gets out the car.

Bobby gestures to a Volkswagen Beetle and explains, "Now, this one here for four thousand dollars is a real beauty."

Ron points out, "There's a Fiesta with racing stripes over there."

Sam replies, "Oh, no, I don't want a Fiesta with racing stripes."

As Bobby gets into the Volkswagen, he starts to explain, "This is a classic engine right here. I sold a car the other day–"

But he doesn't finish as Bumblebee opens his passenger door with a honk of indignation, knocking the Volkswagen into a shelf of kegs and a closed oil barrel.

Ron remarks, "Geez. Holy cow."

Bobby gets out of the Volkswagen and says, "No, no, no. No worries."

Ron asks, "You all right?"

Bobby answers, "Yeah, I'll just get a sledgehammer and knock this dent right out. Hey, hey, Manny! Get your clown cousin and get some sledgehammers and come bang this stuff right out, baby! Hahahahahahaha!"

As Bumblebee tries to find the right frequency, his radio says, "Greater than man..."

Bobby points to another car and says, "That one right there's my favorite, driven all the way from Alabama."

After finding the right frequency, Bumblebee's radio remarks, "Go..."

Bumblebee lets out a whirring Cybertronian sound from his vehicle mode that causes all the glass windshields and car windows from every car in the dealership to shatter to pieces as Ron, Sam and Bobby duck for cover to avoid the flying shards of glass.

This goes on for about thirteen seconds before there was no more glass to break.

Once Bumblebee turns off his alarm, Bobby gets up to see most of the glass on every car except for the Camaro has shattered to thousands of pieces, much to his horror.

Bobby turns to Ron, deciding to give in and declares, "Four thousand!"

Meanwhile, watching the whole thing from his temporary Autobot Headquarters via a hologram, Flyimus rubs his hands together like a mad scientist as he remarks, "Excellent work, Bumblebee. Now, just gotta keep a low profile long enough to get ready for the introductions in two nights from now."

Meanwhile, at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the assembled people talks to each other indistinctly.

Then, John Keller, the current Secretary of Defense, says to a security guard, "Steve. Good to see you."

Steve replies, "Hello, Mr. Secretary."

Secretary Keller remarks in reference to the assembled programmers, "They're so young."

An officer explains, "They're the top subject matter experts in signals analysis, sir. The NSA's recruiting these kids right out of high schools and high-paying colleges these days."

A bearded analyst points out, "(Softly) Guys... that's the new Secretary of Defense."

A male analyst remarks, "I am so underdressed. I should've gotten a suit."

Steve then announces, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome the Secretary of Defense."

Everyone rises from their seats at attention.

Secretary Keller then says, "Please be seated. (Everyone sits back down in their seats) I'm John Keller. Unmistakably, all of you are wondering why you're here, so therefore, these are the facts. At 7:00 p.m. local U.S. time yesterday, the SOCCENT Forward Operations Base in Qatar was attacked. So far as we know thanks to an anonymous source who works directly with the President, there was an assortment of survivors, including Captain William Lennox, Sergeant Robert Epps, First Sergeant Patrick Donnelly, Technical Officer Jorge Figueroa, and a local villager who was bringing water at the time of the attack, a boy named Mahfouz. The mission of the attack was to simply hack our military network. We're not sure exactly what sort of classified files they were after, but what we do know was that they were cut off during the assault and the remaining data destroyed. This would lead us to assume that they're gonna try to hack the military network again. And the same anonymous source who confirmed the number of survivors has also informed us that the attackers are gonna try to hack the military network onboard Air Force One, thereby putting the President in great danger. Now, no one has taken responsibility for the attack at the current time. And the only real lead we have so far, is this sound:"

A recording of Blackout's electronic Cybertronian screeching plays for everyone in the room to hear.

Secretary Keller continues explaining, "That's the signal that hacked our network. The NSA's working at full operating capability to study it and intercept further communications between the attacker and their superiors. However, we're all going to need your help to find out who did this. Now, you've all shown decently significant expertise in the field area of signals analysis. We're on a hair-trigger right now, people. The President has sent battle groups off to the Persian Gulf and the Yellow Sea. This is as real as it's ever going to get, ladies and gentlemen. Now, I'm gonna leave you under the command of your officer-in-charge. You'll all split up into teams and you'll start your work. Good hunting. May God be with us all."

Secretary Keller leaves the room.

Meanwhile, at the Witwicky residence, Sam goes into his bedroom and gets onto his computer.

Sam says to his Chihuahua Mojo, "All right, Mojo. I bought the car. Now I require the girl. I need money to take the girl out on a date. That's what I require."

Sam sees for himself that on his eBay account that there's no bids for his great-great-grandfather's glasses.

Sam exhales as he bemoans, "Zero bids. Great. I'm broke."

Sam gets up and asks, "Come on, Mojo. You want your pain pills?"

Mojo barks in response as he carefully scrambles off of Sam's bed without hurting his cast leg.

Sam checks himself in the mirror, worried that he's growing a pimple.

Sam states, "Uh... No. Premature."

Sam starts talking to himself as he says, "Good. What's up? Nothing. You know, just driving my car. Driving my car."

Sam checks his breath and sprays breath freshener into his mouth a couple of times.

Sam states while opening Mojo's bottle of pain pills, "It's like clockwork. All right, I know you get wasted on these things, but if you p*** in my bed again, you're sleeping outside. Understood?"

Mojo nods as he eats his pain pill.

Sam finishes saying, "That's it for today. No more. Cracker face."

Outside, Sam's mother Judy Witwicky says to her husband while checking a stone on the path, "Ron, this one is craggy."

Ron replies absent-mindedly, "Yeah. Probably."

Judy continues, "This one is wobbly as well."

Ron checks it and replies back, "Yeah. I'll take care of that real soon when I get the chance."

Judy inquires, "Oh, couldn't we have hired a professional path builder?"

Sam comes out of the house in a laughing fit.

As Sam starts walking on the grass, Ron says, "Oh, Sam... (Sam: What?) I do not like footprints on my grass."

Sam looks behind him and replies, "What footprints? There's no footprints."

Ron ignores Sam and continues, "That's why I built my path. So why don't you go from my grass onto my path, okay?"

Sam points out, "It's family grass, Dad."

Ron once again ignores Sam's logic and replies, "Well, when you own your own grass, you'll understand."

From his temporary Autobot Headquarters, Flyimus Prime is still watching via a hologram.

Flyimus sneers in reference to Ron Witwicky, "Stupid motherf*****. Ignoring your child in such a manner is completely and utterly unacceptable. No wonder this is another reason why Optimus and his Autobot crew had to do what it takes to protect their secret from Ron and Judy in the original movie, only for the Appliancebots to ruin everything. Thank you very much for blowing your cover, Bumblebee."

Bumblebee then electronically radios, "You do realize I can hear on this commlink, right?"

Flyimus promptly hangs up to prevent further embarrassment from ranting.

Sam then says to his mother, "This... I can't deal with it anymore."

Judy asks, "What?"

Sam replies, "You're putting girl jewelry on a boy dog. He's got enough self-esteem issues as a Chihuahua, Mom."

Judy replies, "That's his bling."

As Sam gets into the driver's seat of Bumblebee's vehicle mode, Judy calls out, "I want you home at 11:00 tonight!"

Sam replies, "Yeah, okay! I got it!"

Ron calls out, "11:00!"

Judy calls out again, "And please, for the love of all that is holy, drive safely."

Ron calls out again, "And seatbelt on!"

As Bumblebee takes off with Sam driving him, a sandstorm of smoke emerges from the Autobot scout's exhaust pipes.

As Bumblebee drives away, Judy remarks, "Wow. You are so cheap."

Ron replies, "Ah, it's his first car. It's supposed to be like that."

Meanwhile, in Qatar, Mahfouz guides Lennox's team further and further into the desert leading to Mahfouz's village.

At home, Sarah Lennox watches the press conference on TV as Secretary Keller announces, "At this time, we can confirm there are about forty-nine survivors. They include Captain William Lennox, Sergeant Robert Epps, First Sergeant Patrick Donnelly, Technical Officer Jorge Figueroa, and a local villager who was bringing water at the time of the attack on the base, a boy named Mahfouz. As of now, our remaining military bases are at DEFCON Delta, our highest readiness level. We're dealing with an effective and powerful weapons system that we have never come across before. But our prayers are with the families of the rest of the brave men and women who were killed in the base attack."

Back in Qatar, Epps states while handing the imager to Lennox, "I'm gonna be honest, in all my years of active service, I've never seen a weapons system like this before. The thermal imagery shows this weird aura around the robotic armored exoskeleton like it's being shielded by some kind of invisible force field."

Donnelly replies, "Epps, that's impossible. I mean, there's literally no such thing as invisible force fields except in, like, comic book fiction, right?"

Lennox asks softly while looking at the image, "What is that?"

Fig replies, "Man, I don't know. My mama, she had the gift, you know? She saw things thanks to the fact that she has the power of precognition. I got the gene as well, you know. And that thing that attacked us? I get the feeling it's not over just yet."

As Scorponok quietly moves underground, a Ranger asks, "How about you use those magic voodoo powers and get us the hell out of here, huh?"

Epps then announces, "When I took that picture, I think it saw me. It looked right at me before deploying that cannon on it's chestplate."

Lennox is silent for a moment before he says, "All right, we got to get this thing back to the Pentagon right away. They need to know what we're dealing with here."

As Scorponok listens in on the conversation underground, his systems do a search on the internet and he learns that the Pentagon is the soldiers' military headquarters back in the States.

Not wanting to have the Decepticons revealed to the world leaders yet, Scorponok decides right then and there that in order to save the Decepticons' cover, he's gonna have to kill the remaining soldiers and the delinquent to prevent him from snitching.

Epps replies, "My radio's fried. I got no communication with any U.S. aircraft."

Lennox then asks Mahfouz, "Hey, Mahfouz. How far do you live from here?"

Mahfouz replies while pointing to a nearby mountain, "Not far from here. My village is just up that mountain."

Lennox asks again, "Do they have a phone?"

Mahfouz replies, "Yes."

Lennox announces, "All right, let's move it."

Meanwhile, back in the states, Bumblebee is driving towards a lake party with Sam and his friend Miles Lancester.

Miles inquires, "Dude, are you sure we were invited to this party?"

Sam replies, "Of course I'm certain we were invited, Miles. It's a lake. You know, it's public property."

The people at the lake start randomly chatting about.

Sam states, "Oh, my goodness. Oh, my gosh, dude, Mikaela's here. Just please don't do anything stupid, all right?"

Sam and Miles exit Bumblebee and Sam asks, "I'm good, right?"

Miles replies, "Yes, you're fine."

Trent spots Sam and Miles and tosses a football to one of his friends.

Trent says to his friends, "Hey, guys, take a look-see."

Mikaela comes up to him and hugs him from behind.

Trent says to Sam, "Hey, bro. That car. It's nice."

Sam nods as Miles takes off his jacket.

Trent asks, "So, what are you guys doing here?"

Sam notices Miles climbing one of the trees and answers falsely, "We're here to climb this tree."

Miles successfully climbs the tree and Trent replies, "I-I see that. It looks—it looks like a lot of fun."

Sam states, "Yep."

Trent then asks, "You know, I thought I recognized you. You tried out for the football team last year, right?"

In a flashback, a football team knocks the younger Sam Witwicky over.

A coach grabs Sam and says, "Let's go call your mom."

Sam replies honestly, "Oh, yeah, I did. That was a total disaster waiting to happen."

Trent replies back, "Well, not to worry, I can easily teach you some basic exercises to do in preparation for the next-level ones."

Sam and Trent shake hands.

Flyimus Prime in his lair was even more dumbfounded, as in the original timeline, Sam had failed in lying to Trent about his failed football tryout and Trent was more of a bully, also in the original timeline.

Trent then calls out to his friends, "Hey guys, I know of a party. Let's get going."

Sam turns to over to Miles, who's hanging upside down from the tree, and says to him, "You got to get out of the tree right now. Get – just get out of the tree right now, please."

Miles jumps down from the tree and lands on his feet.

Sam inquires, "What exactly were you doing?"

Miles replies, "Did you see that dismount? All of the ladies were watching."

Sam replies back, "You were making me look like a buffoon. We both looked like buffoons right now."

Mikaela asks her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, "Hey, how about you let me drive?"

Trent replies unwisely, "Oh, no. No, no, no. This is not a toy, Mikaela. These twenty-twos, I don't want you grinding them. No. Why doesn't my little bunny just hop in the backseat?"

Mikaela starts laughing as she replies back, "Oh. Oh, goodness, I can't even tell you how much I'm not your little bunny."

Mikaela starts walking away.

Trent remarks to himself, "Oh-kay. You'll call me."

Flyimus replies in his lair, "No, she won't. This is Sam's moment, but even he doesn't have the confidence or the bravery not to screw up."

Miles dives gracefully into the passenger seat of Bumblebee's vehicle mode via the window.

Sam sees Mikaela walking away, thinking hard about what to do.

Bumblebee's radio adjusts itself and he asks through his radio, "#Who's gonna drive you home#—"

Miles asks, "Hey, dude, something's wrong with the radio in this thing?"

Bumblebee finishes, "—#tonight?#"

Sam then answers, "I'm gonna drive her home tonight."

Miles replies, "What?! She's an evil jock concubine, dude. Just let her take a lift. You know, let her hitchhike."

Sam replies back, "She lives about ten miles from here, okay? It's my only chance. You got to be more understanding here, okay?"

Miles suggests, "All right. We'll put her in the back, and I'll be quiet."

Sam inquires, "Did you – did you just say, '"Put her in the back?"' Is that what you just said?"

Miles answers, "Yeah. I called shotgun."

Sam states, "Miles, I'm not putting her in the back. You got to get out of my car."

As Sam goes inside, Miles protests, "That's a party foul."

Sam asks, "What rules?"

Miles answers, "I'm an immature aleck."

Sam replies again, "Miles, I'm begging you to get out of my car. Okay?"

Miles protests one more time, "You can't do this to me, man."

Sam states one more time, "You got to get out of my car right now. I'm not kidding."

Bumblebee drives off with Sam and Miles is discreetly picked up by Flyimus Prime with usage of his holoform driver to drive Miles home.

As Bumblebee's radio continues playing the Drive song, Sam pulls up to Mikaela and says to get her attention, "Mikaela! It's Sam. Sam Witwicky. I hope you weren't stranded or anything."

Mikaela stops to look at Sam, not saying a word.

Sam continues, "So, anyway, would you like me to give you a ride home?"

Mikaela nods, and Sam opens the passenger door for her.

Mikaela gets inside and shuts the door.

Bumblebee drives off with Sam at the wheel.

Sam then says to attempt starting small talk, "So... uh..."

Mikaela then states, "I can't believe that I'm actually here at the present time."

Sam replies, "Well, you can duck down if you want. Seriously, it won't hurt my feelings."

Mikaela states quickly, "Oh, no, no, no. I didn't mean it like that. I just meant to say that I can't believe I'm here in this situation."

Sam replies back, "Ah. I see."

Mikaela explains, "It's this same situation that I always find myself getting into without warning. Mainly due to the fact that, I just have a weakness for handsome guys with a pack of six abs and really big muscular arms."

Sam asks before checking his own arms, "Big arms?"

Sam checks his arms to see that they're moderately big due to him exercising, but not on the same level of a high school athlete.

Mikaela notices, but Sam doesn't notice back.

Sam changes the subject as he explains while pointing to some of the stuff inside the car, "Well, anyhoo, there's a couple new additions to the car I got right here. Like, for example, I just put in that light over there. And that disco ball back there. And so therefore, the light reflects off of the disco ball."

Mikaela then asks, "Oh. Anyway, are you... are you new to school? For this year? Is this your first year at John Marshall High School?"

Sam replies, "Oh, no. No, we've been in the same school since first grade."

Mikaela inquires, "Really?"

Sam replies, "Yeah. Yep a really long time."

Mikaela then quizzes, "Well, if we're in the same school for this year, do we have any classes together?"

Sam answers, "Yeah, yeah we do."

Mikaela then asks, "Really? Which classes?"

Sam lists off the classes, "History. Language arts. Math. Science."

Mikaela states in recognition, "Sam!"

Sam states in response, "Sam. Yep."

Mikaela guesses incorrectly, "Sam Wilkicky."

Sam corrects her patiently, "Wit-wicky."

Mikaela then states, "Gosh, you know what? I'm so sorry, it's just that I didn't recognize you at first."

Sam sighs in response.

Flyimus electronically and discreetly says to Bumblebee, "Bumblebee, don't do anything. Human beings asking their significant other out on a date takes time, effort, bravery and confidence."

Bumblebee sends back, "All right, Flyimus. I trust your judgment."

But if Flyimus knew Bumblebee really well, it's that Bumblebee tends to often do the exact opposite of what he was told to do.

Bumblebee starts stalling his engine, causing Sam to state, "No, no, no. No. Come on now. Sorry about that, I'm still working out the kinks. You know, it's a new car that I got despite it's actual age."

Bumblebee's radio plays the Sexual Healing song in an attempt to get Sam to confess.

Sam then states, "Oh, boy. This radio is, like, an old radio."

Sam starts turning the radio knob as he says, "Look, this isn't something that I, you know – D***, I can't get this radio to stop. Look, I wouldn't try this on you. I'm much better than that. Mainly because this is like a romantic thing that I'm trying not to do."

Mikaela replies, "Uh-huh."

An embarrassing attempt to cover up his feelings and being told to pop the hood later, Mikaela sees that Bumblebee has a high-rise double-pump carburetor inside that is merged with the engine.

Mikaela then remarks, "Oh. Nice headers. You've got a high-rise double-pump carburetor. That's literally magnificent, Sam."

Sam asks, "Double-pump?"

Mikaela explains, "Yeah, it squirts the fuel into the engine so you can go faster."

Sam replies, "Oh. I didn't know that."

Sam avoids looking at Mikaela's body, even though she's fully clothed.

Mikaela then states, "And it appears that your distributor cap's a tad loose."

Sam looks at Mikaela and asks, "Yeah? How'd you know that?"

Mikaela explains with a little lie Flyimus Prime was all-too familiar with if he was there to hear it again, "Uh, my dad. He was a real auto-mechanic. He taught me all about everything that most men know about cars. If I wanted, I could take it all apart, clean it piece by piece and put it back together."

Sam remarks, "That's odd. I just couldn't exactly peg you for being mechanical, so to speak."

Mikaela explains again, "Well, you know, I don't actually tell anyone about it. Most men don't like it when girls know more about cars than men do. Especially not Trent. He hates it."

Sam replies, "Unh. I see."

Mikaela finishes and asks, "Okay, you want to fire it up for me?"

Sam replies, "Yep, no problem."

Mikaela closes the hood and Sam starts the car up again, managing to do it right on the first try.

As Mikaela gets inside, Sam then asks, "You know, I was thinking. You know, if Trent's such a jerk, why do you hang out with him?"

Mikaela replies enigmatically, "I don't know. I honestly just don't know."

Later on, at 6:00 p.m., Sam points to Mikaela's house and says, "Well, there it is."

Mikaela then remarks, "I literally had fun. Uh, so, thanks for listening to my life story, Sam."

As Bumblebee's radio plays the What I've Done song, Sam replies, "It was the least I can do."

Mikaela then asks nervously, "You—do you think I'm shallow?"

Sam answers with certainty that Mikaela could see, "No, I don't think so. I think you have a heart of gold and a kindred spirit. But something to keep in mind: when it comes to people you know for a long time or people you meet, there's a lot more than meets the eye on the surface."

Mikaela smiles, smooches Sam on his cheek and replies, "All right, I'll see you at school."

Mikaela gets out the car and walks to her house, thankful that her curfew hasn't started yet.

Sam remarks softly, "Oh, goodness. Hahahahaha! Oh gosh, I love my car."

Sam drives home, managing to beat his curfew long enough to shower, brush his teeth and head to bed.

The End.

(Author's notes: In the next chapter, the next act of the movie will be featured as follows: Frenzy hacking into Air Force One, Bumblebee and Flyimus Prime signaling Optimus Prime and his crew to come down to Earth, and the fight against Barricade and Frenzy. However, some elements of the plot for the movie will be changed in the third chapter of the fanfiction story: Sam getting unintentionally and mistakenly arrested, and Maggie copying the intrusion hacking signal for Glenn to decode, only for both to be detained by the FBI.

See you all in chapter 3.)