If Shockwave had emotion he would have been frustrated, angry and probably would have destroyed half a continent. Luckily for the human race Shockwave regarded his current situation with a blank sort of stare. He had crash landed. The fault was entirely Megatron's of course, Shockwave had concluded. Shockwave had followed Megatron's course to earth after re-adjusting it for his purposes, but as he was nearing earth he realized that the planets gravitational pull was far more intense then himself or Megatron had realized. Unable to do anything Shockwave had fallen many kilometers away from his original destination. And so now he sat in a wet substance which was frozen over. Shockwave was observing the substance which he had identified as ice, or frozen water.

His feet and his bottom were submerged and the water was rapidly refreezing around him. Shockwave pulled himself from the ice and walked his way to the bank where he stepped into the white substance known as snow. He gave his feet a few shakes trying to get the left over ice out of his system. After a few moments he set his foot down and lifted his head to study his surroundings. He saw the river, he saw trees and snow, the only sign of human life that he saw was a rail road. Shockwave scanned it and found that the track if followed south would lead him straight to his destination. Shockwave had originally planned to land right in the town of Grand Cache and begin destroying immediately. Not only would this save time but then he would also be saved from the tiresome task of walking. But now with Megatron's faulty course to earth he was being forced to walk through the snow towards the town.

And so he began to walk, he walked next to the rail road and began the long journey.

Alana and Sam didn't wake up until it was well in the afternoon, Alana was surprised to find herself tucked up nicely in her bed, she wasn't sure how she had got there but all she knew was that she was hungry and she needed food now. So grumbling she got out of bed and noticed that her PJ's were on, she didn't remember putting those on either. With a small shrug she padded barefoot towards the kitchen where Sam was asleep on his plate of toast. His soft snoring seemed to come from the toast which was buttered and pasted with jam. Alana regarded him with an amused expression and then she poked him. When Sam didn't respond she poked him again, but this time harder. Once again there was no response so Alana took in a deep breath and shouted.

"SAM!" she yelled into his ear. Sam was brought out of his peaceful slumber with a small yelp. He jerked up and looked at her, a piece of toast was stuck to his forehead but he didn't seem to notice.

"Wazzgoooinon?" he mumbled. Alana stood up on tiptoes and pulled the piece of toast off his forehead and put it back on his plate. Sam observed the toast with mild surprise, he then shrugged and picked it up off his plate and took a bite out of it.

"Good morning Sam" Alana said happily as she turned away from him and walked over to the fridge. She opened it and viewed its contents, after a few moments she chose some left over subs from a few nights before.

As she settled down Sam shook his head "Ya know, You really need better food than this" Sam said as Alana bit down on a sub "You've never had a breakfast from my mom" he said with a small smile "you haven't had a real breakfast until you've tried some of my mom's pancakes" Sam rubbed his belly in memory of said pancakes and gave his toast another look, with a sigh he dug in.

After breakfast the two humans were planning to go back into the lounge and watch the rest of the movies when Ironhide stopped them.

"Where do you think you are going?" he asked putting his foot in front of them.

Sam shrugged "We wanna watch another movie; we gotta finish the ones we brought from the rental store"

Ironhide shook his head "You watched movies for the entire day yesterday, you two need exercise, go outside for a bit"

Sam gaped at him for a moment and then turned his heel "Jeez you sound like my mom" he said.

Ironhide tilted his head "sitting around too much is unhealthy"

Sam whipped around and pointed a finger at him "Mom said that too!"

"Well now your mom's seems to be a smart woman then" Ironhide said.

"Ah but I never listen to my mother" Sam said crossing his arms.

Ironhide shrugged "But you will listen to me"

"Oh yeah!" Sam turned his head away from Ironhide "Says who"

"Says the robot who not only is smarter than you but he can also pummel you into doing what ever he wants" Ironhide told him sweetly.

Sam linked his hands together and leaned in forward, "Sorry mom" he said, Ironhide growled and Sam made a break for it, he turned and dashed over to his room.

Ironhide crossed his arms and grunted in a very male fashion, then he looked down at Alana, "go get dressed for outside" he told her.

"Why?"

"Because you need to go outside" Ironhide told her.

"Why?"

"Because you need exercise" Ironhide said.

"Why?"

"Because if you don't you'll get fat"

"Why?"

"Because you'll be sitting around doing nothing and all that you've eaten is stored away in your body as fat" Ironhide told her smartly, pleased that he knew such things about human anatomy.

"Why?"

Ironhide growled "don't test me Alana" he said.

Alana frowned for a moment thinking about what she was going to say, "Why?" she asked finally.

Ironhide threw up his hands "Why me?" he asked to no one in particular.

Alana frowned again "But I asked why" she said "that's not fair" she told him.

Ironhide grinned at her "Go get your coat on" he said.

"Only my coat?" Alana asked.

Ironhide sighed "and your boots, gloves, snow pants, and hat"

"Ooooh…ok!" Alana ran for her room and Ironhide went to go pester Sam about getting on his snow gear.

Fifteen minutes later both humans were bundled up and thrown outside by Ironhide; he literally tossed them in the snow bank right outside the base. Sam came out of the snow sputtering and spitting.

"What the hell did you do that for?" he yelled as Ironhide chuckled and sat down leaning against the base contentedly.

"You need to cool off" Ironhide said

"Cool off my ass" Sam muttered as he pulled himself from the deep snow. He turned to help Alana. Once she was out she waddled on over to a clear patch of snow and fell on her back. She then proceeded to make a snow angel.

But then after a while making snow angles and patterns in the snow grew boring, she looked up and saw Ironhide arguing with Sam.

"What the heck are you sitting for?" Ironhide asked angrily.

Sam looked up at him from his position on the ground "I feel like it" he told him.

"Well get up and exercise or something, that's what you came out here to do" Ironhide said.

"No" Sam said stubbornly.

"Don't test me" Ironhide said.

"No" Sam said again, and Ironhide growled. He picked up the small human and lightly tossed him back in the snow bank.

Sam's head popped out of the snow a moments later "what the hell man!"

Ironhide just laughed, he then patted the ground next to him and said "come sit here so I can throw you again" Sam muttering curses got up and walked on over to Alana who was watching him with a big smile on her face.

"What?" Sam asked looking at her, Alana just laughed. Sam knelt down and grabbed Alana's shoulders "Okay listen. Here is the deal, we need to get back at Ironhide" Sam said.

"How are we gonna do that?" Alana asked.

Sam grinned "one word… snowball"

Alana frowned "isn't it two words"

"No! Come on Alana we have work to do!" Sam got up and grabbed her hand and led her a ways off in the forest where they began to make their ammo.

Ironhide shrugged as he watched the two humans ran off into the trees- at least they were getting exercise. They needed it. Ironhide had seen them eat up over seven bags of popcorn, four bags of chips, five bottles of Root Beer and still they managed to snack cookies and other small candies. He was surprised that Ratchet hadn't commented on it, but then again Ratchet really did seem captured by the movies that were playing. Ironhide had personally liked those Star Wars movies the best. They had a great story and likable characters, everything, he thought, that a story needed.

Then suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by something hitting the side of his head. He turned it and saw another on coming projectile; unable to react quickly enough Ironhide was rewarded with a snowball to the face.

"Oh yeah!" Sam shouted. "Who hit a giant robot in the face?... Me!" Ironhide growled and made a move to get up when another snowball hit him in the back of the head. He whipped his head around and saw Alana looking up at him with a cute smile. She lifted her hand in it Ironhide saw another ball of snow. She smiled at him sweetly and let loose the snowball. The snowball hit him in the shoulder and Alana prepared to throw another when Ironhide was hit in the back by a snowball from Sam. He felt over powered in his position so Ironhide quickly got to his feet and rushed out of range of the snowballs. He turned around and saw Sam and Alana running for him. "Come back here!" Sam shouted "I must get revenge!" he yelled again.

Alana was laughing as she hurled another snowball in his direction, it fell short and landed at his feet. Ironhide had the gall to laugh at her and she whipped another one at him. That one hit him in the chest. Ironhide made a move to grab the small girl when another snowball hit him in the face.

"Hey!" Ironhide directed his attention towards Sam, who was doing a bit of a victory dance.

"Another ten points!" he yelled happily thoroughly enjoying Ironhide being pelted with snowballs. But what he didn't count on was the massive robots retaliation. His eyes widened as Ironhide began to gather up snow in his big hands. "Ah man" he mumbled as a rain of snow fell on top of him. Alana fell backward on her bottom, she was laughing until tears were running down her face. Sam popped his head out of the pile of snow he was under and scowled. "But victory with within reach!" Sam grumbled, though it showed he didn't take it personally when he smiled.

Ironhide laughed "You know for a human of an adult age you certainly act like a child" he said.

"That's what I get for hanging around with you guys" Sam muttered as he pulled himself from the snow pile.

Ironhide then directed his attention to Alana who was still laughing, with a wide grin on his metallic face he bunch up snow in his hands and let it drop on Alana.

"Hey!" she shouted as she wiggled out from under the snow.

Ironhide put his hands on his hips and leaned down towards her "That's what you get for pelting me with snowballs he told her.

"I wonder…" Said a voice from behind them, Ironhide whipped around and saw Optimus with a large snowball in his hands, "If I were to hit you with this, what would you do?" Optimus asked.

Ironhide backed away from Optimus "Ah come on…" he said weakly "Why are you all teaming up against me?" he asked as Optimus raised his hands and threw the snowball. His aim was on and the massive ball of snow hit Ironhide in the chest with enough force to knock him backwards.

"Ooohh" Alana watched as Ironhide sat up and shook his head, he was scowling; she then turned to Optimus who had a very pleased expression on his face. She gave him a thumb up and he laughed.

Sam was backing away slowly as Ironhide was getting up; he then knelt down and began to build a snowball. Once he had a good sized ball of snow he stood up and faced Optimus.

"Sir you may be my leader but this calls for retaliation" he said as he chucked the ball of snow in the Autobot leader's direction. Optimus side stepped and the snowball grazed his arm and exploded upon contact.

"Woah!" Alana caught some of the falling snow in her hands and laughed as Optimus bent down to gather up some more snow. She turned and saw Ironhide on the run; Optimus followed after him and once again threw a snowball at him. Ironhide was hit on the back and he fell down onto the makings of his snowball. Alana sat down in the snow making her own small snowball and watched as the two robots began to wrestle. As they were doing so Ratchet and Bumblebee came out of the base, they ignored Optimus and Ironhide; Optimus had Ironhide in a headlock and Ironhide was struggling feebly. Ratchet sidestepped a flailing arm and walked on over to Alana, when she saw him she raised the arm that held her snowball and lobbed it at him, it hit his knee and Ratchet looked down at her in surprise.

"What did you do that for?" he asked as he sat down next to her.

"Dunno" Alana said, she inched closer to Ratchets leg and leaned against the cold metal.

Ratchet observed Optimus and Ironhide, Ironhide was tripping Optimus and he was laughing. Ratchet let out a small sigh and looked down at Alana "I suppose you somehow started it" he said, knowing all too well of Alana's ability to start things and leave them.

Alana shook her head "No, Sam did" she said. Ratchet looked over towards Sam who was being thrown into the snow bank yet again by Bumblebee.

"Ah…" Ratchet sounded somewhat amused.

"Ratchet?" Alana threw a small amount of snow into the air and it landed in a pile next to her.

"Yes Alana" Ratchet put his hands on the ground behind him and leaned back.

"When can we finish the movies?" she asked.

Ratchet thought for a moment "I suppose we can watch a few after we go inside" he said. "Then you have to have dinner and get ready for bed, you have school tomorrow" he said.

"School…" Alana groaned.

"It's not so bad" Ratchet said trying to comfort her.

"Mabel is there" Alana growled angrily.

"So what?" Ratchet grinned when eh saw her shocked expression. "Just ignore Mabel and she'll eventually leave you alone" Ratchet said "which reminds me… we need to change the bandages on your arm and face"

"Oh" Alana felt at the bandages with a gloved hand, "Ok"

After another hour of wrestling (which resulted in Optimus' inevitable victory) and snowball fighting (which resulted in Sam being targeted mostly) it came time for everyone to head inside. Alana was in her room taking off all her snow gear, she changed into new clothes consisting of a t-shirt and a pair of loose jeans. Then she walked out to the med-lab where Ratchet quickly changed her bandages. Her burns were healing and Alana thought the marks that were on her face looked cool. She took off the bandage from her forehead and saw that Mabel's scratch was healing nicely. Ratchet then set her down on the ground and gave her a small push.

"Go start a movie, we'll come watch soon" he told her.

"Ok!" Alana gave him a little salute and rushed off to the lounge where a pile of movies lay waiting. She picked the Wall-e movie and sat down to watch. Fifteen minutes later everyone was sitting on the couch and watching with her.

They managed to watch three movies when it came time for dinner, Alana ate her way through the rest of the subs and climbed into bed thoroughly satisfied.

The next morning she was awoken by Bumblebee, he poked her softly in the side and she sat up yelling in surprise. She looked up at him with tired eyes for a moment and then flopped back down onto her pillow and was asleep- just like that. Bumblebee gave an impatient whine.

"Come on Alana school" he said as he pulled the covers away from her. When she didn't respond he tried poking her in the side once again but she didn't respond to that either. Sam happened to be walking by Alana's room, he was getting ready for work but when he noticed Alana's refusal to get up he went on over to Bumblebee. He pulled at his collar and made a coughing noise.

Bumblebee looked over at him and Sam smiled, he gestured towards Alana "May I?" he asked.

"Sure" Bumblebee shrugged. Sam grinned and backed up a few steps, and then took a running jump at the bed. He landed on top of Alana and began to bounce on her,

"Wake up Alana!" he shouted and she moaned and turned over.

"No school" she mumbled "sick"

"No your not!" Sam laughed as he bent down and began to tickle the small girl mercilessly.

"No!" Alana shrieked in her laughter, she struggled to get away from him and fell off the bed to land in a heap on the floor. Sam brushed some invisible dust off his shirt and jumped off the bed.

"I believe my work is done" he said as he walked out the door. Bumblebee helped Alana up and told her to go get dressed. She did so dressing in her loose jeans and a hoodie. Once she had her hat on she walked on over to the kitchen and began to prepare her breakfast.

Once she was ready she picked up her backpack and looked at it for a moment remembering that her show and tell item was still in it. She frowned for a moment and then took it out.

"Alana!" Ironhide called "Time for school!"

"Coming!" Alana called back as she walked on over Optimus' closed door. She placed the wrapped up LEGO creation in front of it and ran over to the entrance.

When Optimus came out of his room later that day he noticed the familiar looking package and with a small smile picked it up and unwrapped it. He placed the LEGO version of himself on his desk in the room and with a happy smile walked out of his room once more.

Alana was sitting in her classroom working on her newest art project. They were told they had to draw their most favorite thing to do. Alana had known exactly what it was that she loved most, and that was to hang out with her family- but since she couldn't draw them she made do with the subject of playing with LEGO. She drew herself in her room and LEGO all around her. Beside her David was drawing himself playing with his action figures. She recognized one as Spider-man but the others she couldn't make out. In front of her Bret and Harry were drawing very similar things- video games.

The class room was filled with the chatter of small students and the sound of pencils and markers being used. All seemed well when suddenly a large rumble from outside caused the entire class to shake. Everyone paused what they were doing to look up towards the window, a silence fell over the class. Most children looked interested but when the rumble came again their curious looks vanished and the curled up in their seats looking scared. The classroom shook causing pens and pencils to roll off desks making small clattering noises once they hit the ground. The third time the rumble came the walls shook and papers flapped in an invisible wind. Miss S got up and walked towards the window her steps cautious. Alana curious, felt the need to do the same. Once at the window Alana saw a dark tall mechanical figure she did not recognize. She breathed out in awe as the figure turned towards their school and pointed a massive gun towards the entrance of the school. His cannon glowed and a shot was fired. Alana just had time to duck as the glass of the window exploded.

Ratchet skidded to a halt in front of the monitor room; he had heard beeping and went to check it out. After pressing a few buttons he looked up at the screen. It only took a few moments for him to figure out what was happening.

"No!" he shouted when he saw what was happening. He backed away from the computer and turned his head to the door as Optimus and the others came to a halt in front of it. "We have to get to town!" he shouted pointing towards the screen. All optics turned to the screen and like Ratchet it didn't take long for them to figure out what was going on.

"Alana…" Ironhide let out a low moan of despair.

On the screen, it showed a map and on the Map a Decepticon symbol was standing right next to Alana's school.