AN: So I updated like the first three chapters. The first three were full of fail. After that it improves enough to the point where I'm not like GJFDGIFGN CHANGENOW. You don't have to go back and read them since nothing actually changes, but it is a bit different, so you can if you want.

NEXT CH?: I might be doing something surprising with Miles family, mainly by adding to it. This would take up about one chapter, probably, and at the end would get rid of Elizabeth and Bob being on base. And also might get Barricade to talk about his past a bit to Miles through blahblahblah (descriptive, I know, but I don't want to give too many spoilers). It's just like, idk... I'm kind of just taking a liberty with this because I know for a fact Miles' family is never mentioned in the actual movie, or Barricade's past for that matter. What do you guys think? Deepen this slag a bit more, or leave it the pit alone? (Yes, I know this is fan-FICTION, but I just feel like asking. I have a bunch of ideas that I sometimes go through and sometimes don't)

REVIEWS: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! (Noella50881, OrianPrime92, Fk306 animelover)

SIDENOTE: I've been sick, so that's why I'm back to updating daily. Not that I think you guys mind it, just fyi. So I might not be updating again for... idk, depends on how much schoolwork I have to catch up on with stuff on top of that! Got a fun Halloween thing on Wednesday!

Chapter 38
Super Powers Ahoy!

It was an unspoken agreement between the four humans containing Allspark energy: Try to find out more about what they could do, without getting caught. After the last time the Cybertronians were less than thrilled, and even Optimus Prime had said not to do it again unless they thought it was an emergency, and if possible, could discuss it with one of the Senior Staff, minus their Guardians if it happened to be Ironhide.

There was another unspoken agreement, though this was mainly between Epps and Miles. Try to think of a cool name to refer to them as. So far the both of them had been failing miserably, not for lack of trying.

Miles:

They were in the Autobot rec-room, for once. Bumblebee and Jazz were having a dance off, and it was actually surprising just how flexible someone made of metal could be.

Miles sat on Barricade's shoulder, half leaning against the ex-con's helm. Ironhide had Will, Sam, and Epps. Sideswipe had Fig, even with Sunstreaker sitting directly beside them. Prowl sat beside Barricade, drinking some Energon. Ratbat, Ravage, and Soundwave were there as well.

Ravage was sitting near to Barricade, so he and Miles could talk without having the comm link strained. After some experimenting they found that the farther away the two were from each other, the harder Miles would have to concentrate. But practice did make perfect, and the more they did it, the better the teen got at it.

:If you can communicate with me in this way, I'd really be surprised if you couldn't do it with others as well.: Ravage told him, not even bothering to look at Miles. He was too busy keeping an eye on Ratbat as his younger brother flew around excitedly.

Miles hadn't thought of that. :Really? That'd be awesome!:

:Try it.: The cat mech encouraged, and Miles decided to do so.

He thought, and then thought some more. He first focused on how he felt while talking to Ravage, and how the link was still there even when they weren't talking. It wasn't intrusive, just something extra that wasn't there before. Like if someone had just gotten glasses or contacts, you only needed to get used to it before it became a part of you.

He could feel Ravage, or at least recognize that the one and only link at the time was towards the cat mech. And then he tried to feel more, and slowly he became able to.

:Score, Rav! But I can't tell who anyone is besides you. So I dunno about actually talking to somemech yet.:

:Just try one. What's the worse that can happen?: Ravage sounded amused, and when Miles looked at the cat mech he looked amused too.

Miles rolled his eyes, and then chose one. He paused a moment, before jumping right in.

:Hey, who is this?:

:DECEPTICON!: Red Alert's voice came through, and it was amazingly loud.

Miles flinched, hands flying up to cover his ears even though that wouldn't do anything. He slipped off Barricade's shoulder, the ex-con barely catching him, though Miles was more concerned with shutting the comm link off. Holy frag, Red Alert could get loud.

Miles did manage to shut the link off, but not before realizing the SD was going to go into another fritz. He tried to comm Ratchet. Barricade, meanwhile, was just staring at him and being ignored. The ex-con raised an optic ridge.

:Ratchet?:

Nope, Ironhide jerked, looking at him with wide optics. Not Ratchet. Miles groaned just as the Red Alert could be heard running and screaming down the hall.

"Oh, frag. Prowl, comm Ratch and tell him I didn't mean too!" Miles got out just before there was a loud crash, then the sound of Red Alert hitting the floor.

Prowl looked surprised, and then annoyed. "What did you do, now?"

"I can talk to more than just Rav, apparently. And I ended up getting Red Alert by accident." The teen explained.

"Ravage: Also to blame." Soundwave cut in. "Miles: No warning comes up the first few times he comm's you. This means that you don't get the option to decline it, or even investigate who it is. It just goes straight through. Ravage: Says that after awhile this changes, your processor recognizing who it is after so long."

There was silence for a moment, before a disgruntled Ironhide spoke up.

"You thought I was Ratchet?" Miles couldn't tell if he sounded offended or not.

"I can't tell who it is I'm talking to. The only one I can is Rav!"

For the next two weeks Miles was made to spend time talking to every single Cybertronian through the comm links until he could tell who was who, and everyone could recognize him, and decide if they wanted to talk to him or not that way. He also learned how to hold comm conversations with more than one mech.

At one point he had even gotten a data burst from Jazz, but that hadn't ended too well. In the process Jazz also ended up having to send more energy than was usually required, and did so without thinking of the consequences. Miles had spent the rest of his day unable to stop moving. Ironhide had used him as target practice for a bit, and then he had been given to the Dinobots.

Grimlock, Swoop, and Snarl had enjoyed that, though. They had got to play chase the teen for a couple of hours, before they had gotten bored. When someone had bothered to look, this being Barricade and Sam, they eventually found out he had crashed, and Swoop had taken him to his nest. The teen had to be rescued, and it was agreed that no one would try that again unless they knew better.

Not so surprisingly the rate of pranks that Miles joined in went up by about 75%.

Sam:

"Ratchet is going to go insane." Epps commented, smirking at the two teens in front of him. The three of them and Will were meeting up for lunch in Will's office.

Why not the cafeteria? There had been an outbreak of the flu on base. Graham had it, and so did Maggie, Bob, Sarah, and Ron. Just the other day Fig had sneezed, only sneezed, and Sideswipe had nearly taken out Bob getting Fig out of the same room as him. The poor, spanish-speaking man hadn't been seen since.

Will came in ten minutes late, and slumped into his chair with a cup of coffee. Epps, Miles, and Sam looked at him. The two teens wisely kept their mouths shut. Epps, however, did not.

"Jesus, you look like hell warmed over." And Will glared at his Sergeant.

The Captain took a long drink of his coffee, "Remember how Sarah has the flu? Annabelle came down with it, too."

Well that sucked.

"And Ironhide?"

"Either about to marry Ratchet and move in with him permanently, while stealing Ann and raising her as their own," A pause as Will let his forehead fall forward on to his desk, "Or about to commit some creepy kind of Cybertronian suicide because Sarah's the one who normally cares for Ann and she gets fussy otherwise. She doesn't like Ironhide touching her right now."

"That's rough, my man." Epps winced sympathetically, "I feel bad for Ratch, too. He can't just cure us cuz we're not that awesome. Has to be driving the good doc bonkers."

Will just gave him the evil eye, before sighing. "You guys get to go to med-bay with me. Fight to get my daughter back."

"Let's eat first. If we're going to take down 'Hide and the Hatchet, we'll need it." Miles said seriously, grinning despite his serious tone.

So they ate, and then hightailed it to the med-bay. Will really wanted his little girl back, and if nothing else Miles could comm Optimus or Prowl and have them ordered to relinquish her.

Will stood up on one of the berths with Epps beside him, the Captain had his arms crossed over his chest and an extremely displeased look on his face. No one bothered to mention that he looked like he had stolen the position from Sarah, for fear of angering the soldier further.

Will was fighting with both Ironhide and Ratchet, Epps just there as support. Miles and Sam snuck over to where Annabelle was being kept, and Sam picked her up, rocking her gently.

Annabelle sniffled, looking up at the teen with wide, tear filled eyes.

"Aww," Sam cooed, brushing some of her hair out of her face. "Poor little Annie, being sick isn't any fun is it?"

Annabelle giggled, and Sam blinked. His hand tingled from where he had touched Will's daughter, and that was unusual. He turned around to look at Will, already starting to get nervous. Something had happened, but what?

"Samual!" Ratchet barked, causing Sam to jump.

"I didn't mean to do it!"

Ratchet rolled his optics, and moved closer. He scanned Annabelle.

"Well, looks like Miles isn't the only one with a fun new power." Ratchet sounded happy, which was rare. Sam wasn't sure if he should be scared or not, and Ratchet laughed. "You made her better."

"Oh, that's gre-" Sam sneezed, Ratchet immediately scanning the teen.

"And yourself worse, apparently." The medic commented dryly.

Sam groaned. His time, after getting better, of course, would be spent learning how to make people better without it affecting himself.

Epps:

Epps found out his power not too long after Sam did. He was in Prowl's office with Jazz, the saboteur actively trying to annoy the SIC until he took a break.

Which meant he was being ignored for the most part, and was bored. He stared at Prowler the II, who was situated on the SIC's desk. He imagined the giant stuffed bear was dancing.

And then it was, and their was silence in the room. Epps blinked, and almost thought he had a really good imagination, or ate the wrong brownies earlier, until he looked at the two mechs in the room. Both were staring with wide optics.

Prowler the II got through Thriller before the real Prowl crashed, and Jazz began to cackle evilly. He grabbed up Epps.

"We ah gonna have so much fun with this!" And Epps smirked.

Will:

Will actually found out his because of Epps, Fig, Graham, Sideswipe, Red Alert, and Wheeljack. A prank was aimed at him, Miles, and Sam.

Red Alert was more than happy to turn the other optic, Miles having managed to make his paranoia glitch come out completely, two times. Sam and Will, on the other hand, just happened to be in the same line of fire. It didn't matter, no one was going to get hurt.

Wheeljack somehow owed Sideswipe, but neither Epps or Fig would be able to find out how. Which meant it was probably extremely juicy, but they gave it up when Wheeljack threatened to not do it anymore and get Ratchet on Sideswipe's case. So he was brought in to invent stuff.

They waited until it was a night dinner would be held outside, warm enough to do so, but already dark. It wasn't hard to somehow separate the three from everyone else, so that they'd have to walk to the designated eating place. Just the three of them, in the dark.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!"

When three screams ripped through the relative silence of the dining area, two higher pitched than the third, many organics jumped. Ironhide was up like a bullet, racing off towards the sound in both his holoform and bipedal form. His bipedal form already had cannons up and powered on. Barricade and Bumblebee were hot on his tail. Skids and Mudflap stood up, in both their holoforms and bipedal forms, and got in fighting stances. Mikaela just rolled her eyes at them. Ron and Bob raised their beers, and tapped their cans together.

"To not knowing our sons have the vocal notes of a little girl." Bob said calmly, Ron nodding in agreement.

Elizabeth glared at her husband, "Bob! Something is obviously terrifying our little boy, and you insult him?"

"Lizzie, this is an army base. An army base filled with giant alien robots from outer space. If there was really something going down, we'd know about it." Bob replied.

Judy, meanwhile, was watching Barricade and Bumblebee, Ironhide already out of sight. "Damn, look at 'em go."

Jazz laughed, dissolving his holoform and having his bipedal form stand up.

"Ah think we shoul' go see the show." The saboteur said gleefully, picking up Glen and Mikaela up.

Ron, Bob, Judy, Elizabeth, Ratchet, and Prowl followed. They didn't have to walk very far, barely turning the corner before they nearly ran into Bumblebee, Ironhide, and Barricade.

Sam had literally scaled half of Bumblebee's leg, hanging on as tightly as he could and glaring down at the ground. Bumblebee was shaking, trying hard not to start laughing at the entire situation. Ironhide was in front of the young Scout, cannons powered down and he looked proud. Will was standing in front of what looked like several horribly wounded humans, zombies, surrounded by several zombie parts. Barricade's bipedal form was next to Ironhide, though his holoform was in front of all of them, holding Miles protectively. Miles was safely situated behind Barricade, though at first the teen had jumped and clung to the holoform, before Barricade managed to pry him off. And now he was laughing.

"Dude, that was wicked! I nearly pissed myself!"

Elizabeth turned to Bob, "You win," she sighed.

Bob looked smug.

"Wha' exactly happened here?" Jazz asked, grinning as he activated his holoform.

Epps smirked at all of them, gesturing to the downed mass of bodies near Will.

"These were created by Wheeljack. Zombies to scare our three lovely boys here." The sergeant motioned to Fig and Graham. "They played the part of victims."

Fig waved from his spot next to Epps, grinning. The spanish speaking man was covered in fake blood, and his clothes were torn. Graham looked nearly identical to Fig.

Will looked fairly gleeful, "I made it explode!"

Ironhide, Barricade, and Bumblebee had only just arrived on the scene. The army Captain had fallen behind the two teens, to protect them, and had stopped and turned to face the fake zombies. However they were faster than he expected, and were already on him when it happened. The one 'attacking' him sparked and blew into several pieces.

"Oh, Primus, not another one!" Ratchet groaned.

As it would turn out Will could only do this under stress, or in other words, when he actually felt like he or someone else were in danger.