"Strawberry jam one of the world's deadliest poisons"

I don't want to quit this story but I'm having a hard time writing the rest, which is weird because I have the ending chapters and just need to connect them! *sigh* so please be patience as I try to sort out my mind! Also on a Happier NOTE AHPPY VALENTINES DAY! Yeah LOVE! 3

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Chapter 12

Putting manliness aside, Miles will freely admit he was terrified for his life when Barricade burst through a wall at top speed. His legs cramped and fell asleep, feeling like hundreds of needs where poking him. His breaths coming in fast and shallow gulps as he tried to explain to his brain that he was perfectly alright, not that his brain actually believed him. However Miles firmly denied screaming at the top of his lungs like a terrified little school girl, although Judy claimed to have recorded it on her phone. Luckily for him, she didn't know how to access youtube. Barricade looked smug at having caused the squishy such roller coaster of emotions, while the parents in the back seat where flushed with wide, excited eyes.

"Can we never do that again?" Miles croaked out, his voice raspy and harsh.

"Lighten up." Ron called from the back seat as Judy giggled like a teenager again, leaning on her husband's shoulder.

Miles looked back at his best friends parents and sighed dramatically at Barricades raised eyebrows. "We must listen to our elders."

"Stupid aliens and their fast cars and smug smiles." Miles grumbled as he folded his arms and slumped down in his seat.

He watched the barren scenery wiz by as Barricade continued zooming through the desert at top speed. Going fast didn't terrify him nearly as much as breaking through a brick wall did. Miles relished the thought of never doing that again, but he suspected that being friends with an alien made it a likely occurrence to happen again.

"What do we do now? We broke your dad and Sam's parents out, what now?" Miles asked after a lengthy silence and the laughter had died down.

Barricade gripped the steering wheel tight, as his forehead crinkled. "We're not safe anywhere. My own fraction has been taken over and since my father was missing in action there was no one to replace him, so the position went to his second-in-command a cowardly Mech who's just a puppet for another. Not to mention the Autobots will continue to hunt me down and now the humans will be after us."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Miles growled, but looked out the window biting his lower lip in worry.

"Where are we heading?" Judy piped up from the back seat.

Barricade looked back at the red headed women and smiled assuringly. "I have a place, more like a warehouse in Mission city. We can rest up peacefully and I can check on my father before we make any other plans, but I think first on our list would be to rescue Samuel and the female from the Autodolts."

Miles snickered at the name while Judy nodded solemnly. "They won't hurt him, will they?" Ron put a comforting hand on his wife's shoulder.

Barricade shook his head, his curly black hair whipping around. "No, they're more likely to step on him." He sighed heavily. "Autobots are harmless to humans."

Miles wanted to question but he fell silent as Barricade pursed his lips tightly. Wanting to comfort the clearly distraught alien Miles smiled softly as he reached out and stroked the dashboard before giving it a gentle pat and leaning back into his seat. He saw Barricade smile from the corner of his eye as he fell into a dreamless slumber.

"I'll get them back, all of them." Barricade whispered.

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Will Lennox wearily regarded the young teen in front of him as Simmons clutched his face, being the only guard on the dam at the moment all the men listened to him before Simmons, so even though the man was shouting to have Sam and Mikaela restrained no one moved a muscle. Will's dark brown eyes slid over to the small Autobot, who looked visibly shaken, only training kept his lips shut but as he passed the dark haired boy he gripped his shoulder.

"I think we got off to a bad start." Simmons growled as he glared at the two teens, readjusting his suit. Although he'd like nothing more than to throw both teens off the dam at the moment, the skinny girl first, he had to act like the adult in the scenario, live and let go. The fact all the soldiers where siding with the kid might have made him a bit more forgiving.

"I will beat you with your own arm."

Sam growled incoherently at the agent and frowned when the man walked in the opposite direction towards a door which he opened to reveal a staircase descending into the dam. "What you're about to see is totally classified."

Glenn and Maggie jumped excitedly at the word classified and where scrambling towards the stairs, half of Will's team following the pair behind Simmons as the man started droning on about the creation of the dam and how it was built to keep things out as well as conceal certain aspects in. Mikaela hesitantly followed after glancing at Sam with question, Epps following close behind her congratulating the girl on her punch. Leaving Sam, Bee and Will on top of the dam.

"We'll get them back." Lennox promised, Sam barely nodded in recognition.

"Why?" The boy whispered in confusion. "Why is this happening?"

Bumblebee looked crestfallen. "It's been going on for eons."

Will nodded solemnly, Sam snapped his attention to the captain as he stepped forward. "Why are you working for them?" Bee's eyes widened in surprise at Sam's rude comment, but softened as the boy continued. "They attached Bee and kidnapped my family and friends."

"My loyalty goes first and foremost to the Autobots and riding the planet of all Decepticons." Will stated formally as he waved towards the door, indicating Sam and Bee go through first.

The further down they traveled, Simmons' voice drifting up as he continued talking about the first seven founders and how they'd found something and then built the dam around it, Bumblebee started getting fidgety. Sam honesty stopped listening not caring in the least what the pompous ass had to say; in fact he'd like nothing more to shut the man up, preferably with another fist to the face. By the twenty third level down, Sam's legs honestly hurt and he was thankful they were going down not up. Bumblebee looked ready to tear his eyes out of his socket, which Sam prayed he wouldn't because the eyeless doll freaked him out the first time. His neck burned where the chain around his neck hung, the small cube feeling like a ton around his neck. Simmons opened a door and the group traveled into a large tunnel littered in turned over boxes, unconscious scientists and tire marks.

"This is how you handle a situation?" Sam asked dryly.

"Barricade's a successful escape artist, only a high-tech Cybertron cell could have held him." Bumblebee defended.

Simmons frowned as one man come to whisper in his ear before hurrying away quickly to assist in cleaning the place up. "It seems NBE2 didn't escape, your friend Miles did most of this."

"Miles?" Sam and Mikaela gasped.

Simmons's smiled smugly as he crossed his arms, his smile faltered when the action aggravated his forming bruise. Sam scoffed at the Sector Seven agent. "Take us to Bumblebee."

"Listen kid."

"I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know, but that was Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, who escaped and now has my best friend and parents. Miles wouldn't run off with evil robotic aliens."

Simmons chuckled as Will's NEST team shifted uneasily at the word 'Decepticon.' "Kid there are more things at stake here then some-."

"Take me to my car." Sam screamed at the top of his lungs. At Sam's outburst all of the NEST team reached for their guns and pointed them at the nearest Sector Seven agent, three guns trained on Simmons himself, the man paled but refused to back down. Glenn and Maggie huddled together near Mikaela who looked thoroughly confused and taken back.

"We confiscated it." Simmons hissed.

"Then unconfiscate it." Sam shot back, looking over at Bee.

"I have people's lives at stake here." Simmons replied and Sam had to grudgingly give him a bit of respect for still back-talking with three loaded weapons aimed at his chest. "I can't allow that thing loose; we don't know what could happen."

"Losing not's really an option for these guys." Maggie cut it, Simmons eyes flickered to the girl geek before he sighed, his shoulders slumping.

"You wanna leave the fate of the world on the kids Camaro? Fine." He nodded stiffly and started walking out of the room and into a bigger one off to the right, most of the guns still pointed at his chest.

"WoW!" Glenn gasped as the odd group followed after Simmons, most of the soldiers dropped their guns, to look up and gape at the giant metal cube.

Hundreds of wires that snaked along the floor where attached to the cube, said cube buzzed softly in the background, as if compelling all those around to stare at it. Sam's eyes glanced over the box, partly impressed as he searched the room for the unmistakable yellow of the other half of his intergalactic friend. In the far corner Bumblebee's larger form was being restrained by various squints. Sam broke from the group gaping up at the cube, ignoring Mikaela's call to him and sprinted towards his friend, shoving the first person he saw. He couldn't believe they would be so cruel to the defenseless alien; Bee clearly wasn't resisting and only squirmed when they sprayed him with cold air.

"Get off him." Sam cried as he ran around pushing the five workers away, who backed up at the crazy look in the teen's eyes and a wave of Simmons hands.

Sam scrambled up upon the table Sector seven agents had somehow managed to force the mech on and was running his hands over his friend, his eyes wide and worried. The human Bee had come up beside him and also laid a hand upon his larger from, closing his eyes before the mech started humming.

"We're just fine. Couple o' scrapes and bruises.

Nothing can slow us down." The radio from the yellow mech softly called as the human Bee smiled at Sam.

Mikaela ran up to the boy and the alien and was about to question them, when the dam shook with an explosion, the yellow lights flickering as clouds of dust enveloped the area and alarms blared in all directions. Another blast hit the dam, shaking the area and making the girl unsteady. She wobbled in place crying out in surprised as emergency lights flashed on.

"What's going on?"

"We're under attack." Simmons yelled, men and women scrambled about but the odd group stayed half-way between the massive cube and yellow Autobot.

"We need to get outta here." Lennox yelled over the blare of the sirens. Epps stepped up to Mikaela while Will reached out and gripped Simmons's shoulder forcefully when the man tried to walk off. "Where's the nearest city, we need to meet up with reinforcements."

Simmons looked around at the chaos enfolding at his base and sighed dejectedly as another blast hit the dam. "Mission city is 22 miles away."

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So sorry for the long wait but happy Tuesday!

Faith Robin- Hahahaha how do u put up with me

Talltree-san- Barricade with a handcuff fetish...I'm gonna keep that in mind…something will come of that!

Sub0chick- Snap I did jinx it ok so I unjinxs it by throwing a salt shaker over my left shoulder! Yes megs is cade's dad! Oh but wait for more it's about to get crazy! Awww thanks for saying that….I love cade and miles too personally they are my fav...i cannot wait to write more!

ILovePepsi2- Yeahhhhh anti-coke! I always felt Mikaela didn't play a big enough role…..and I always wanted to punch the man myself so Muahahahahha!

LunarLacrimosa- WoW YOU reviewed to my story...oh my it's an honor! And I think barricade has a hero complex tooo….hehe the 'bad boys' are always the ones with the white knight complex cause they ust wanna be loved!

Thanks for reading!