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From the moment her father had called her on Sam's thirteenth birthday Judy Witwicky had known that'd she'd never truly love her son the way she had before ever again. From that one moment on he had ceased being her son and he had become a monster just like the rest of her family. Something in her had changed when she had learned that her son had become something that she herself hadn't.
She had been worried when Sammy had been born. Worried that he might carry her families curse but over time she had managed to convince herself that because she didn't have it then he wouldn't either. She had been wrong. She wasn't sure why she hadn't let Sam go and live with her father when he himself had suggested it but she supposed that it had something to do with the questions that her husband would have asked when Sam left. So she had told her father no and when Sam had come home she had pulled him aside and they had talked.
She had shattered her baby boys world that day and she hadn't felt even the tiniest bit sorry for doing it. Perhaps that made her a horrible person but she didn't care so long as she could keep her normal life. Sam had risen to the occasion well enough though the first week or two had been awkward for him and for her. Over time both of them had gotten used to lying to each other and hiding. But still there had always been that childlike fear that Ron would find out one day and everything in her life would crash.
At first when Sector 7 had taken them she had worried about them knowing about what her son was. She had worried about them telling Ron her secret. When it turned out to be the Autobots she had been relieved and it was all the better. Now she had a good excuse for when Sam was out late on certain nights. Despite what had happened when they had arrived they had been a blessing in disguise for her.
The more that Ron thought Sam was with them the further from the truth he was. The last thing she wanted was for him to find out the truth. Judy wasn't stupid she knew what would happen if he ever found out. She had learned early on in their relationship that he wasn't cut out for the world that she had grown up in. Now the worst had happened and everything was going to come to one ugly head.
Ron wouldn't stay after all this was done and over with. The simple fact that both she and Sam had been lying to him for years would see to that. The road outside her window whipped past in a streak of barley recognizable scenery. Bumblebee had been Sam's plan because something was wrong with Kale. At least that what he had told her before dinner.
That something was wrong with Kale and if they were to get in a fight then both of them should leave. He'd told her that Bumblebee would take them to the base and if he wasn't with them when they got there he'd explain when he did. She didn't know why she had believed him when he'd said it but something in his eyes had made her agree to his plan. Sam had refused to tell her everything he had said that she didn't want to know.
Something had been going on since Kale's arrival but she had turned a blind eye to it. She didn't care so long as she was able to keep her happy life. Now all that was gone. Sam had changed in front of Ron and he knew the truth about what Sam was. Things were going to change drastically and she couldn't do a thing to stop them. Sam had broken the promise that he had made to her years before.
Whatever happened from then on was his fault as far as she was concerned. The silence that filled Bumblebee's cab was tense and no one dared to utter a word. Each was lost in their own thoughts and wondering what to do. Nothing would be the same from then on out and all of them knew that.
Ooo
Things moved by them in a blur of motion as they ran and as they fought. Neither one of them stopped to wonder how they had made it to a wooded area without being seen by anyone. With things as they were at the moment neither one of them cared all that mattered was the fight that was being fought and the race that neither one of them were aware they were running.
The dance was one of beasts that paid no mind to anything else but the other. Weapons were natural, flashes of fangs and claws like swords and knives aimed at the other. Both tore just as easily through the flesh of their enemy. There was nothing to guide them but the animal within. The beast that lurked at their very cores and fed on their every emotion. Rage ran deep and powerful in both and would only fade when the other was gone.
The moon shone bright shade of red orange as if the woman that was said to live there knew of the blood that would be spilt. Snarls filled the air as the wolves tore at each other. Blood ran thick and red from wounds but neither one seemed to notice. Neither one cared.
"What's the matter cousin? Upset that I took her from you before you could tell her the truth and get her to safety like you did the others?" Kale said in a voice that was both mocking and hurtful.
Sam growled low in his throat, unsure if he had an answer for the question. He was mad he knew that or maybe pissed was a more appropriate word but what he was mad about now he wasn't so sure about what. True the knowledge about what Kale had done to Mikaela had been what had set him off but he wasn't sure if it was just what Kale had done to her that had caused him to loose control and turn like he had.
Perhaps it was just that everything that had been happening had finally come to a head and Mikaela's kidnapping and turning had been the straw that had broken the camels back. He'd been slightly annoyed since Kale had arrived and between everything that had been happening his annoyance had turned into something else without him even knowing it was happening.
"It's not just what you did to Mikaela, Kale." he said. "It's everything you've been doing and forcing others to do and been forcing me to do." The large black wolf across from him huffed and shook his head in amusement.
"It seems that you don't quite get it yet. You don't understand why I'm doing this." Bright yellow eyes looked into Sam's own and he could have sworn that he could see the madness the lived in them. "I chose you for my first victim because you're the worst of them all. I have a mission cousin. A mission to purify our race of all those who hide and cower at what we are." Kale said as he and Sam began to circle one another having stopped running barely seconds before.
"I do neither of those Kale. I have never tried to hide or cower from what I am. I don't think myself a god like you do but I've never hidden from myself either." Kale only laughed.
"You have done both. You have hidden from the human's and the things my pack mates have hunted and lied to your own father for years. Both you and your mother. As far as I'm concerned you're the worst of our kind and your kind can't be allowed to live."
Sam growled low and snapped his jaws at Kale. It was true that he had hidden what he was from everyone around him but Miles. Perhaps he was a coward when it came to the form he was in now but he had only done what he did to keep those around him as safe as he could for as long as he could. It hadn't been right to lie but he had done it with the best of intentions.
"I lied to them to keep them safe Kale."
"And look where its gotten you. Because of you all those you love are in more danger than before. As far as I can tell Sam this whole situation is all your fault."
Sam froze in his tracks. Some part of him knew that Kale was right but another part screamed at him that he wasn't the only one at fault.
"And what of you Kale? All this trouble you've started. If it weren't for you things wouldn't be the way they are now." Kale chuckled a low dark sound as he took a step closer to his opponent.
"Yes, I have started much but it doesn't matter. Humans are easy enough to get rid of and well I get the feeling that the creatures of steel that you've allied yourself with are of very little threat to me and my pack."
"You know nothing," Sam snarled. "Nothing of them and only enough of me to damn me and my pack to death." Kale eyed Sam for a moment before he smiled a wolfs smile exposing shiny ivory teeth that were slight stained with Sam's blood.
"You cousin are only the first on my list. There are others like you and I'll kill every single one of them given enough time."
"You damn yourself and your pack." Sam said as he lunged at Kale catching the black wolf by surprise.
Fangs sank into the skin of his cousins neck. The only problem was that he had only hit skin with his bite and nothing more. He had missed any of the veins that would have caused major damage to Kale. Kale snarled in pain as he attempted to throw Sam off but his cousin was hanging on tight as if his very existence depended on him not letting go. Perhaps it did or maybe it was the existence of others that he was hanging on for.
Sam's fangs snapped together with a loud snap as they were pulled through the loose skin that he had caught on his cousin's neck. A pair of growls echoed throughout the forest as they began to fight again. Fangs and claws flashed in the moonlight each pair holding their own promise of death. If the lady would have it their fight would end before anymore blood could be shed or anymore loved ones threatened.
"Perhaps I have damned my pack but you've damned everyone else."
Ooo
The room was silent. If he hadn't been there when the reports had come in he would have thought that all the inhabitants had been shocked into silence. While that was somewhat true it wasn't the reason for the silence. Miles was trying desperately to figure out what was going on with Sam through the connation he shared with the alpha male but he couldn't seem to get through to Sam at all.
Every time he tried he was blocked and forced back. He didn't quite know what it was that was blocking him but he was somewhat thankful that he couldn't get through. He didn't really want to know what Sam was feeling at that moment. He doubted that if he knew he would like it. Miles sighed as he stopped trying to get through. He'd end up with a headache the size of Texas if he kept trying like he was and the last thing he wanted was a headache.
The room around him was tense and everyone was on high alert.
"Jazz is on his way back to base. He should be here within a few minutes." Prowl said as his optic's shifted around the room. Things had gone to the pit faster than any of them had expected and now none of them were quite sure what to do.
"Miles did you have any luck with Sam?" Optimus asked as he took a step closer to the teen he was addressing.
"None whatsoever big guy. It looks like we're just going to have to wait for everyone to get here before we figure out what's going on." there were several annoyed grumbles from the rooms occupants.
"He's really mad isn't he Miles?" Eyes and optics shifted to look at where Hector was seated. The boy had his head resting on his arms like he was tired but they could tell when they looked at him that he was just as scared and confused as they were.
"Ya, mad enough that I couldn't even get through to him. Whatever Kale did pissed him off big time and trust me that's a hard thing to do."
"So what do we do know?" Sarah's timid voice asked as she fed Annabelle a bottle. She had come into the large room just after the others had gotten word of Mikaela's disappearance and that Bumblebee was bringing Sam's parents to the base. She was probably more scared than anyone else in the room.
"I don't know Sarah." Will said as he wrapped his arm's around his wife and daughter. He hated that he didn't know how to protect his family. He wished now more than ever that Sam had agreed to bite him. At least that way he could be of some use.
"All we can do know is wait and see what happens." Prowl said as he turned towards Miles.
The boy had started pacing back and forth whither out of fear or boredom he didn't know and he couldn't bring himself to ask. It bothered him that not a week before he wouldn't have had a problem asking but he did now when it was probably needed the most. He couldn't quite figure out the reason but he knew that dwelling on it wouldn't do him any good.
If anything it'd just make his logic circuits freeze and then he wouldn't be of any use to anyone. Something between him and Miles had changed and he didn't know if that was a good thing or not yet. He supposed that given enough time he'd find out.
"Optimus, Jazz will be here momentarily and Bumblebee will arrive in a few minutes with Sam's parents." Ratchet said as he shifted his position slightly.
It was the only indication that he was the slightest bit nervous. He was trained to keep a level head no matter what the situation but this was almost to much to take in at one time. If something like this had happened over the course of a week or two everything would be fine but it was happening so fast that even he was having trouble keeping up. All of them were. Everything that had been going on had been forced.
Miles forced to reveal the secret and Sam forced to tell them the truth. Both of the boys fighting to protect those they considered friends. Even the treaty between them had been forced. Both sides had feared what would happen if word got out about either.
Now they were being forced to wait for Jazz and Bumblebee and eventually Sam. But for now all they could do was go outside and wait for the rest of their group to regroup. Things were going to fast and no one seemed to know how to handle the situation but they were trying and that was all that could be done. All either side could do with everything going the way it was.
The November air was chilly at best and chances were that it'd get colder outside before it got any warmer. Will shivered as he stood outside of the base with the rest of the Autobots and Miles.
Sarah was still inside with Annabelle and Hector had stayed with them. The dark skinned boy seemed to prefer his wife's company to anyone else's other than Miles. He supposed that it was because she seemed like the least dangerous out of the whole group. He knew that Hector was scared of the Autobots and it was probably with good reason. If he didn't know them like he did then he'd probably be freaked out too. He couldn't really bring himself to tell the kid that they were more or less harmless.
It was one of those things that seemed like a bad idea if he thought about it for too long. Other than her initial freak out Sarah was doing fairly well. Though that probably had a lot to do with the fact that she spent most of her time with Annabelle in the small apartment like set of rooms that belonged to them.
He wasn't going to force her to do anything that she didn't want to do. He's learned that lesson the hard way not long after they'd started dating and he tried to get her to bungee jump. Besides there were things that he was sure that she was happier not knowing.
When everything was over there was probably going to be things he didn't want her to know. Something was going to change after this whole situation was done and over with, not that things hadn't already changed. These changes would be different though. Will just wished that he could figure out how things would be different.
The sound of a distant engine pulled everyone's attention to the road leading towards the base. A flash of silver identified the vehicle as Jazz. The small silver bot didn't even bother stopping before he transformed landing in front of the tense group after he'd skidded to a stop.
"Optimus." Jazz said as he offered the Autobot leader a salute. Optimus nodded his own greeting.
"I take it that you didn't have any luck."
Jazz shook his head in a negative.
"I looked everywhere for her Optimus and I couldn't find a damn thing. Not a thing. How're things looking at this end?"
"Not good. Bumblebee's heading this way as we speak with Sam's parents and we have no idea where Sam is. Though it's quite possible that he's heading this way as we speak."
"It's quite possible that either one of them could be the next to arrive. It's simply at matter of which one and when."
Prowl said as he took a single step closer to his long time friend. Now all they had to do was wait for the last members of their group to arrive so they could plan.
Ooo
It wasn't often that Ron Witwicky was caught off guard but it was as of late something that had been happening far to often for his liking. First it had been the thing with the Autobots and his son and know it was something else completely that wasn't anywhere close to being related to the first thing. It had taken some time for him to get used to the idea that his son had made friends with a group of beings that were unlike anything he had ever imagined.
The fact that they did actually consider his son had made him both worried and happy. He had worried about whither or not they were only friends with Sam because he had done them a great serviced and happy because Sam finally had friends other than the ever present Miles. The Autobots had taken him by surprise but they were something that only really needed his attention every once in awhile so he'd let Sam be.
He knew that Sam seemed to have trouble making friends despite the fact that he was a kind and gentle soul and that should have earned him more than one friend over the course of his sixteen years of life. Before he'd never given much thought to his wife's nephew Kale and how the relationship between the two boys had changed.
Maybe he hadn't cared but now looking back on the nights events he was somewhat surprised that he hadn't been able to see it before. Was he really that blind where his son was concerned? Now that he had a real reason to think about it he realized that he was. Kale had been dropping hints for quite awhile about neither him nor Sam being normal and he had ignored every single one of them. It wasn't that he didn't care about his son it was just that they had very little in common. It had always been that way with them.
There were moments between the two that he looked back on with fondness but sadly they were few in number. He could remember jumping at the idea of his son having more friends even if they were from outer space. Some part of him had realized that with the aliens would come more people.
Hell, a part of him had been over joyed by the fact that there were others out there who could keep an eye on his son for him. Maybe the events that had happened earlier had come from his own short comings as a father. If he had paid more attention to Sam then maybe he could have avoided the whole thing all together. But for know all he could seem to settle on was being confused as hell.
He wasn't quite sure who he needed to be mad at or if he even needed to be mad at all. All he really knew was that things were going to get difficult and he had a bad feeling that the happy family they had been not even an hour before was over. Things between him and his wife and his son had changed and he didn't know if that was good or bad.
Ron turned his head as he spotted a large building through the trees. He could only assume that this place he and Judy had been taken to was the Autobot's base. This would be his first time seeing it and he wished that the circumstances were better.
As they pulled closer to the building he was able to pick out the outlines of four large figures and two smaller ones. Apparently they were being waited for. The soft sound of crunching gravel under Bumblebee's wheels was the only thing either of the people sitting in his interior were able to focus on before he came to a complete stop and opened both doors. Ron and Judy shared a look before undoing their seatbelts and climbing out of the car.
No voices greeted them after the doors had closed and Bumblebee had began his transformation back into is bipedal robot mode. They had expected the other to ask questions and demand answers but they were doing neither. Perhaps they were letting them get a grip on things before they asked or maybe they were just being polite. Neither one of the elder Witwickys knew what was going to happen.
It was Miles who started the first approach. The teen walked slowly in their direction and half of his attention seemed to be focused on the forest in front of them. The two adults moved forward a few feet but refused to go any further than what seemed necessary.
Both wanted answers badly but neither knew if they would be given. It didn't seem like anyone was going to say anything to them at all. Had they been brought to this place just to be ignored now that they had arrived? No one seemed to be paying any attention to them, not even the Autobots were looking in their direction. They were all focused on the forest. It was almost like they were waiting for something. Even Miles had stopped a few feet away from them and was looking towards the woods.
The sound of rustling bushes announced the arrival of what they had been paying so much attention to. Lennox was the first one to start forward. His steps were slow and steady as if he was ready to run in the other direction if what he was approaching proved dangerous. Something moved at the edge of the tree's and Lennox took another step forward.
"Careful Lennox." Ironhide murmured as he too took a small step forwards.
The shadow moved closer revealing part of a large wolf shaped creature and almost every one and everybot standing outside relaxed. It was only Miles who stayed tense.
"Sam." Lennox called as he took another step toward the shadowy shape he was sure was Sam. Red stained fangs glinted in the light as the beast before him opened its mouth and stepped forward. There was something wrong about the animal standing in front of them and for the briefest of seconds none of them could figure it out.
"Sam?" Lennox asked as he stopped. There was something wrong he realized a moment too late. The wolf in front of him wasn't Sam. And if it wasn't Sam then who was it. Lennox gave a shout of surprise as he started to move back towards the Autobots and the other humans. Lennox knew that he was going to die and it wouldn't be a painless death. He was going to die and no one would be able to save him.
"Kale, no!"
Miles shout tore through the air as the boy ran towards Lennox. Seconds later a animalistic scream tore through the air like a bullet.
Oooooo
Holy crap this chapter was… Okay so it wasn't really a pain but it took a while to type. Sorry I'm late in updating guys but I was helping out my friends mom last week. She was getting ready for a yard sale and I was getting paid to help her. That and my writers mood died on me a bit but I think it's back now. Plus I went to a Anime Con that Saturday and on the way home we got lost cause the road we were supposed to take was covered in rocks and stuff from a landslide. So instead of getting home around 11:30 or 12:00 like we had planned we got home at two thirty in the morning and I'd only slept like an hour since four o'clock the morning before.
Ya I got home and more or less passed out. And if this isn't posted on Friday like I had hoped them I'm sorry and it's all my little brother fault. He went and popped his knee out of place again and mom had to take him to the doctors. But I look at it this way… My B-days next week on the 21st and I can't wait.
Well can't wait till that weekend when me and my friends go out. And no I won't tell you how old I'll be. Sorry about the long ramble. Please drop me a review. Even if it's only a letter. I don't care they make me happy.
Oh and I hope I managed to do Ron okay. I wanted him to be in a state of shock about the truth but make him confused and stuff at the same time. He still loves his family and everything but he's not sure about what's to come. Ehh I tried.