Transformers: No Sacrifice, No victory.
Chapter one: A Freak Occurance.
It didn't take very long at all for Sam and Bumblebee to arrive at the Park where Mikaela was supposed to be waiting. Sam had offered to pick up Mikaela and give her a ride to the meeting place the day before, but she had declined saying it wasn't far from her house and a nice little walk would help her keep In shape.
Personally Sam thought her shape was perfect and no exercise was needed, but heaven knew that girl had an independent streak, and he had leaned quickly to let her have her way with the little things.
Pulling up to the quiet park Sam was pleased to notice that Mikaela and he would be the only people there, for a little while at least. But even so, it was still to risky for Bumblebee to transform with the park so close to houses so the autobot would have to wait. Unbuckling Sam slid out of the car and shut the door gently.
"Are you sure you don't Mind waiting Bee? You could leave and do your own thing and come back in a couple of hours if you want, we wouldn't mind." The teen offered concerned for his metallic friend's comfort.
The response he received for his Guardian was the sound of the camaro's engine turning off. Sam smiled understanding the act as a signal that the autobot was just fine with hanging out and waiting for the couple to finish their time together. "Ok, thanks Bee." Sam said giving the hood of the car a grateful pat as he rounded the front and caught sight of his new girlfriend.
A grin spit Sam's face as he saw Mikaela, and she caught sight of him and gave wave from her seat at one of the small pick nick tables that dotted the park. 'His new girlfriend'. Sam just couldn't get over how lucky he was, how unbelievable the whole thing felt when he stopped to think about it. The best part in his opinion was the way he felt each time his eyes caught that first glimpse of her when they got together.
And that's why it sucked so much that she was going out of town for two weeks the next morning on some 'family reunion' being held by an aunt in Ohio. Such was the reason for the day's get-together, a little last minute one on one time before having to go without for several days. IT was amazing how bad the thought of not being able to see his girl made Sam feel. Especially considering that two weeks ago he didn't even have a girlfriend to miss!
"Hey there." Sam said talking over to the table and wrapping his hands loosely around Mikaela's waist as she stood to greet him.
"Hey yourself." She answered with a smile leaning in for a lengthy kiss that left them both a little breathless upon parting. Sam was more than readily for a round two, but she pulled away with the adorable little teasing grin and sat on the bench patting the table across from her.
Sam swallowed and forced his heart rate to return to a more normal rhythm, than smiled back taking the seat across from her. His eyes focused adoringly on her face, and he studied the way little strands of hair escaped the current hair style of choice and fell around her features.
"Sam?" the sound of his name forced the teen to pull himself back into the realm of here-and-now. He grinned sheepishly having been caught spacing off and Mikaela rolled her eyes good naturedly and repeated what she had been saying.
"Like I was saying, it's only for two weeks right? And we have that day trip at the look-out planed for when I get back, so it won't be that bad. Besides the time will just fly by now that its summer."Mikaela reached out and took one of his hands in her own reassuringly. The contact reminded her of something odd and she glanced down at his hand. Gloves again? Frowning slightly her blue eyes roved over the black leather material before raising up to meet Sam's questioning look with one of her own.
"Gloves still?" she asked softly watching as he looked away for a moment pulling his hand back self consciously and resting it on his leg. Mikaela knew that a day or so after the end battle Sam's hands had suffered burns from contact with the Allspark during the end of the battle. But she had thought they would have healed by now.
"Yah, they're still bothering me a bit. Burns are kind of slow to heal you know? But they are a lot better now. I think I'll keep the gloves for another day or so." He said in a casual manner that sounded the slightest but forced before looking her in the eye and grinning "Besides, they make me look sexy right? Leather and all that. Girls are into leather right?"
Mikaela smiled back letting the worry roll off of her for the moment. Sam was right, burns did heal slowly, but other than that he was acting perfectly normal so there was probably nothing to worry about. "Something like that." She said stroking the side of his face with one hand "I love you Sam. Don't ever change ok?".
Cupping her face in his gloved hands Sam leaned in and whispered in her ear, inhaling the faint smell of Jasmine and orange that was uniquely Mikaela.
"I won't." before kissing her soundly. The pair remained in the loving pose before a loud, annoying sound broke up the tender moment. Pulling away from each other the pair glanced in the direction of the noise and noticed a familiar truck pulling into over to the side of the street that bordered one side of the park.
"Oh crap." Sam hissed under his breath recognizing the particular truck as belonging to a large violent Jock named Trent. A meathead who just happened to have been dating Mikaela before the whole world went nuts a week and a half ago. Sam knew there would be fallout with Trent over his new relationship with Mikaela, but he hadden't expected that confrontation to happen at a time like this.
As brave as he might be, Sam was a realist and knew he couldn't stand up against the football player if it came down to a physical fight. And if that happened in front of Mikaela…well he couldn't stand the thought of being humiliated in front of her like that. But Sam wasn't going to get anymore time to think about what he could and could not do because the truck door opened, and then here came afore mentioned jock…looking as pissed as hell.
"What's going on babe?" Trent said moving towards Mikaela. Purposely ignoring Sam for the moment and bypassing the other boy with a bump to the shoulder "I've been hearing stuff all over ya'know…crazy stuff cuz I know you would never trade down for a looser like Whatwickee here." The bigger boy drawled practically oozing testosterone.
"It's Witwicky." Sam said balling one hand into a fist and using the pain that caused to focus his anger "And from where I'm standing it looks more like she got out of a bad deal instead of just a swap." He could feel his heart speed up, and that little sensible part of his brain start freaking out and screaming at him for committing suicidal actions like insulting the brute to his face.
But Sam was past the time when he would just let crap like that go. He had stood up to Megatron, he certainly wasn't going to let some jackass like this push him around without a fight. The response came at once.
"Who's asking you?" the jock immediately turned on Sam, giving the impression he had been waiting for just that kind of moment to vent his anger.
"What was that…?" Trent asked pushing Sam roughly by one shoulder, than again, and a third time while forcing him back against a tree "I said. Who. Asked you?"
Sam felt his back hit the tree, felt the texture of the rough bark and the small twig that pressed into his spine, and felt the anger welling up in his chest and spreading out to his limbs like trails of fire. It was the oddest feeling, like there was an actual burning force flowing from his chest to his hands…and he wanted so badly to hit the smug bastard right in the face with extreme prejudice.
What ever might have happened next was diverted by Mikaela tugging on Trent's arm forcefully "Back off Trent, just leave it alone! I mean it, leave us alone and go….or I'll tell everyone about that embarrassing little problem you had after the spring dance!"she shouted, cheeks flushed with anger and concern.
Trent emedially backed off and turned to look at his ex with furry and disbelief written all over his face. "I don't believe it. You actually…." The boy sneered and hissed at Sam. "Fine. I'll go. But one word about that, and I swear I'll mess up your little boy there so bad he won't know what end is up."
Mikaela felt Sam tense and put her hands on his chest to keep the furious teen steady "Fine whatever, just go." She said not moving when Trent gave her a disgusted look and stormed back to his truck, slamming the door before peeling away with a screech and the lingering smell of burnt rubber. Turning back to Sam she suddenly noticed how warm his chest felt and pulled her hands away "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine." Sam hissed turning his back on her and kicking the tree to vent some of his pent up frustration. It had been humiliating enough just knowing he couldn't match up to the jerk, but to have his girl defend HIM instead of the other way around? Jeeze, what kind of a boyfriend was he? What kind of a guy for that matter? But what could he do? Yell at her? No..she was just trying to help. It was his own Damn fault for being weak!
"Damn it!" Sam snarled and punched the tree, immediately regretting it when the pain vibrated up his arm like liquid fire trailing up from the injured appendage. But it was what happened next that really, really earned some serious attention. The watch on his wrist sparked, and then vibrated violently causing Sam to freeze despite the considerable pain he was in. Mikaela's eyes widened as she looked at the device in shock.
And then came the kicker, the watch proceeded to unfold and than stood up taking shape until a tiny, wicked looking creature peered up at the two with little red glowing eyes.
"Holy…" Sam started.
"Shit!" Mikaela finished for him.
And then, his watch attacked. Normally it would have been comical. a three inch tall robot attacking two almost full grown people. But nothing about the situation was funny. Both remembered how the cell phone that had been given life at the Hoover Dam base had shot holes in bulletproof glass, proving that even a micro transformer could do real damage.
Violently Sam swung his arm, and after a few good shakes the little creature was shaken free and landed a few feet away. Righting itself with what could only be described as a pissed off noise the 'watch' charged causing Mikaela to let out a startled yelp and Sam to stomp on the critter repeatedly.
"Is it…dead?" Mikaela asked after a moment looking warily down at Sam's foot.
"I…don't know" Sam said reluctant to lift his foot up and find out. But a sharp pain in the arch persuaded Sam to move with a yelp of pain, and the little creature decided it was time for a retreat running off across the grass.
Sam took off after it immediately; he wasn't sure what to do but knew that the 'thing' couldn't be allowed to run around free! His head pounded with a sudden ache, and his mind swam with confusion. How did that happen just than? The autobots had told him that it was the Allspark that gave life, but the Allspark was gone so none of this made sense!
As they approached the parking lot a indescribably but distinctly familiar noise was heard. The sound of a transformer shifting modes. Bubmblee had heard the faint yelp of pain from Sam, and then picked up the two of them running in his direction and was concerned enough to ready himself for any threat.
"Sam?"the yellow autobot asked in a still somewhat raspy voice taking a step forward.
Unfortunately for the 'watch' it picked that moment to try and make it across the parking lot, and so met it's end as Bumblebee's massive foot stepped down demolishing the mini-bot without Bumblebee even noticing something had been there at all. Sam and Mikaela both slowed to a stop..eyes riveted on Bumblebee's foot. This caused the Autobot to glance down at his foot questionly then back at Sam tilting his head in an obvious question.
"Um…we…" started Mikaela unsure of how to explain what had just happened to the Transformer.
"I noticed my watch was missing and we came…running to look for it." Sam finished lamely earning a surprised look from Mikaela. "Sam…" she started only to be cut off as Sam cheerfully took her arm and looked up at the rather skeptical Autobot. After all Bumblebee had heard what he thought was a cry of pain, but maybe he had misread it. After all, there were still many things about human's he didn't understand. And Sam had no reason to lie about it if he had been hurt.
"You stepped on my watch." Sam pointed out waving at the transformer's massive foot. Bumblebee glanced down and lifted his foot, but of course nothing was really left to see. Looking back up at the couple he gave an apologetic shrug to Sam.
"It's ok, My fault anyway. I should have gotten the watch band fixed. Anyway it's about time for us to get Mikaela back…she forgot to do a few things before having to leave." Sam said giving Mikaela a 'please don't say anything' glance before turning back to his friend.
Sam didn't know if Bee believed him or not, but the autobot took a few steps back and transformed without any further questioning. Getting into the car Sam strapped in and turned to watch Mikaela do the same, giving her another warning look. It was a long, quiet ride back to her house. And Bumblebee, unsure as to why the mood had changed between the two of them, flipped through channels in an attempt at cheering them up.
Finally the car reached her house and Sam silently exited the car, moving to open the opposite door for Mikaela before walking her to the front door in silence. Mikaela, knowing she had to do something quickly turned to Sam and said "I forgot my purse in the car. Just wait for a minute ok?"
Before waiting for a response she turned and jogged back to the car, leaving a stressed Sam standing on her front doorstep. Reaching the car Mikaela leaned in the rolled down window and 'pretended' to search for the purse that was around her shoulder under her overshirt.
"Bee, I need to talk to you in private. Steal yourself tonight. It's about Sam." She whispered knowing the Autobot could hear easily. Then straitening up she pulled her purse from what looked like the front passengers seat and walked back to Sam.
"I think you should…" she started saying, looking him in the eyes.
"No. I don't want to worry him. It's probably just a freak occurrence anyway. After all they've been through lately, I wan't to let them relax for a while. We don't know yet if it's just something that will fade. So don't say anything yet please?" Sam whispered urgently glancing back at the Camaro before giving her a quick peck on the cheek. "Goodnight. I'll see you when You get back ok?"
Mikaela frowned and bit her lip, but she could see in Sam's face that he wasn't going to budge on this. "Goodnight Sam." She muttered and slipped inside her house without another word. Sam stood on the stoop for a long moment, before turning and walking back to the car. Slipping inside he leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes. The headache and nausea were making a comeback big time and he didn't want to thing about anything right now.
"Let's go home Bee." He murmured running one hand through his hair and listening to the engine rev softly in response before pulling away from the curb. After a moment the radio flipped on 'if you fall down, finding you way down. I'll make sure you get up, finding you way back home...' Sam smiled with his eyes closed and sighed "Thanks Bee, I'm glad your here." He whispered weakly.
And at that moment Bumblebee knew that something was very wrong with his human.
Author's Notes-
I know there are a few spelling/grammar/sentence structure mistakes in my writing. I double-check and run the chapters through a spellchecker, but I am disabled and although I try my best…I still miss a lot of little problems. I will see about getting a good Beta reader to correct these so I can edit and repost the chapters. To everyone who reviewed thank you so much. You're the reason I stayed up till three am typing and than checking over this new chapter! If you still want to read more, please let me know. Update - Thankyou so much everyone for the reviews! I got rid of the bold text, also I am getting a Beta reader very soon! I hope I can keep entertaining all of you. (As for why Sam didn't tell Bee right away. This happens not long after the big battle and he dosen't want to toss the Autobot's back into worry and stress so soon...so he is fooling himself by thinking 'it will probably go away soon. I can hanndle it myself wihout worrying anyone.' But don't worry, the Autobots are brought up to speed very soon!