Before the four exited the junkyard, Bee stopped in the middle of the street, noticing the girl's purse and all its contents lying on the ground outside. When he stopped the car, the girl raced out of the driver's seat and quickly grabbed all her possessions, stuffing them into the bag. Just as quickly as she got out, she jumped back into the car. Alise noticed, however, as she came in, that she wasn't actually sitting on the seat. She was using her arms to prop herself up and Alise thought it looked odd and uncomfortable. Just as she was about to comment, however, she remembered that she didn't even know the girl's name. She mentally chided herself for not asking earlier, but she then realized that there wasn't exactly an opportune moment before. She leaned forward in the back seat and began to speak.

"I'm sorry," she started. Sam and the girl both looked back at her, but she only faced the girl as she spoke. "I know his name," she gestured to Sam, "but I don't know yours." Sam got a confused look on his face.

"Wait a minute," he said. "How do you know my-"

"Mikaela," the girl said with a smile, cutting Sam off. Alise nodded her head and smiled also, and then she leaned back into her seat and started to (once again) absentmindedly trace circles in the seat fabric. There was silence for a while, the only sound in the car being the roar of Bee's engine. But after a little while longer, Mikaela spoke.

"This car's a pretty good driver," she said, not taking her eyes off Bee's steering wheel, which was moving without any assistance.

I would hope so, Alise thought sarcastically, but she kept quiet.

"Yeah," Sam said idly. He seemed to look her over for a moment, and then another confused look crossed his face. He had finally noticed that she wasn't sitting on the seat. "Why don't you go sit on that seat there?"

"I'm not gonna sit on that seat," she said defensively. "He's driving."

Oh, so that's why, Alise thought, but she nodded to herself. She was surprised that Mikaela would even take that into account.

Sam slowly nodded. "Yeah. You're right." He was quiet for a few moments, and then he slowly continued. "You know, maybe you should sit on my lap."

Both Mikaela and Alise looked at him, their eyebrows raised. "Why?" she responded, annoyed. Alise could see why she would be. Boys were probably jumping at the chance to touch her all the time, and she probably, didn't want that from Sam either.

"Well, I have the only seat belt here," he said, calmly. "Safety first."

Mikaela paused for a moment, obviously not expecting that. She sighed, but Alise could see a little smirk playing on her lips. She turned to him. "Yeah. Right," she agreed, and she quickly got up from her seat and into Sam's lap in the passenger seat, stealing a quick glance at Alise. As she sat down, she grabbed the seatbelt, and pulled it over the two of them.

"See? That's better," Sam commented, and Mikaela smiled.

Score one for lover boy! Alise was mentally applauding, and she turned away from the two to let them have their little moment. She looked out the window and noticed that they were entering a tunnel and driving further out of South Gate.

"You know, that seat belt thing was a pretty smooth move," she heard Mikaela say after a moment.

Sam chuckled a little and Alise could have sworn she could hear the smirk on his face. "Thank you."

"You know what I don't understand?" Mikaela continued to Sam.

"Hmm?"

"Why if he's supposed to be like this super advanced robot, does he transform back into this piece of crap camaro?"

Alise froze.

She turned around angrily to face them. She was about to comment that this 'piece of crap camaro' was a replica of her car, but she didn't need to. Bee had emitted an odd noise from the speakers and he suddenly swerved to the side of the tunnel, blocking the whole side of the road. Sam and Mikaela looked at each other quickly, and opened the passenger seat door and got out. Alise stayed in the back seat.

"Bee?" she asked. He didn't respond.

Taking the silence as anger, Alise slowly crawled out from the back of the car and exited. The second she left, the car door closed, and Bee quickly drove off and didn't come back.

Alise stared as he drove further and further away, until he was out of sight. She couldn't breathe. Did he really just... leave? she questioned. Her heart was beating rapidly and she felt like someone had just stuck a dagger in her. She felt betrayed.

From the side of the tunnel, Sam was flipping out.

"Fantastic!" he yelled angrily. He was talking to Mikaela, who wouldn't look at him and was obviously embarrassed. Normally, Alise would have felt sorry for her, but at the moment, she didn't really care. "Now you pissed him off!" He paused furiously. "That car is sensitive! $4,000 just drove off!"

Alise turned to face Sam in a fury. "Is that all you care about! Your money? He needed your help! And you just instulte-"

She was cut off by the sudden sound of an engine revving behind her in the distance. She turned around. Pulling up beside her was a new, bright, and shiny yellow Camaro with the same black stripe like her old one had. She faced the car.

"Bee?" she asked hopefully. She was greeted with a chirp from the inside of the car. The car door opened up to her. Smiling brightly, she quickly stepped into the car and sat in the passenger's seat, running her hand along the leather seating and the new stereo. The car shook slightly.

"'You didn't (static) think I would (static) leave you (static) like that, did you (static) bell?'" he voiced slyly, loud enough that only she could hear.

She smiled, relieved, in response. "You clean up nice, Bee," she said fondly. He chirped happily in response.

She turned to the two still outside a few feet away, still annoyed at them, but a little less now that Bee was back. They were staring at Bee, shocked expressions on their faces. "Are you two going to stand there for the rest of the night, or are you going to get in the car?" she asked them, as she crawled into the back seat. The two seemed to snap out of their fazes, and got into the car.

None of the three knew where Bee was taking them and none of them questioned him, either. Bee was racing along the road for about ten minutes when he suddenly pulled in a pathway that led to a gated area. He easily drove through the fence that was blocking their path and they drove into an area in front of an elegant looking building with a column-like sculpture in the middle of it. Pulling up next to the column, Bee parked. Alise didn't know what they doing there. Are they meeting us here? she wondered. But then she happened to look into the sky and saw four orbs of light. At first she though she was seeing things, but then as she continued to stare at them, she saw that they were growing bigger and bigger. Then she knew that she wasn't imagining them. Sam and Mikaela, who also saw the orbs, got out of Bee to take a closer look. Alise, however, stayed in the car, feeling safer with Bee.

"Is that them, Bee?" she asked him, resting her head on the top of the front seat.

"Yes," he responded quietly. Suddenly as if they were given a sudden burst of energy, the four orbs shot across the sky with a loud whirring sound and a flash of light illuminating the sky. Alise saw that they looked more like comets now that they were closer, and then the four of them sailed over their heads. Suddenly there was a loud crash and what felt like a shockwave, and the whole car shook. Alise cringed a little at the movement, and her hand shot up to where her head was, her gripping the seat tightening.

"'It's okay,'" Bee voiced soothingly. "You'll like (static) them.'"

Alise looked at the read view mirror. "Oh, I know I will. But what will they think of me?"

Bee chuckled. She's about to meet aliens from another planet and she's worried that they won't like her, he thought humorously to himself. "'You have nothing to be afraid of. I (static) trust you, so (static) they will, too.'"

Alise gulped a little, but smiled slightly. "Okay, Bee," she said.

He chirped in response and a few moments after, Sam and Mikaela came into the car.

"I think one landed close," Sam said and Mikaela nodded in agreement. Bee's engine revved up and he started to drive away from the area. After just a few more minutes of driving, the four had ended up in a field and Bee opened the doors for them to get out. Only a few hundred yards away was a smoking mess of one of the comets. It had landed chaotic into the field and everything around it was torched and broken. It looked like the one Alise had seen on Tono's property.

Not wanting to get too close, the three humans looked on from the inclined hill they were standing on, Bee a safe distance from them. They watched as the comet started to steam and make metallic scratching noises. Then after a few seconds, something emerged from the comet; another mechanical man. Alise automatically took a step back. The man turned, but didn't seem to see them and he ran off in the direction opposite from them.

They watched him run until he disappeared and the three humans looked at each other, and then turned to run back to Bee.

Bee had taken them back into the city. It was about an hour after the three had seen the mechanical man run off into the field, and Bee had taken then directly to this area. It was abandoned. Not another person had been in sight for miles and it gave Alise chills. It was dark and late, and the events of the day were starting to take a toll on her, but she refused to let herself be tired. They were about to meet Bee's friends, and she couldn't go to sleep right now.

They were in a dark alleyway when Bee finally stopped driving. It was quiet.

"Are they coming?" Sam asked, and then suddenly, flashing lights filled the alleyway. Four vehicles pulled up in front of them. The first was a Peterbilt semi-truck, blue with red flames and the next was black Topkick. After that, a search and rescue hummer, flashing lights on its roof. The last, was a gray Pontiac Solstice. The four vehicles surrounded them, the closest being the Peterbilt. The three humans stepped out of Bee and walked in front of him to face the truck. Then, right before their eyes, it transformed into a mechanical man.

With a medley of whirrs and crunches, he slowly stood up in front of the humans, them falling into his shadow. He was huge, standing at least thirty feet tall, and being at least ten feet taller than Bee. There was a calming sense about the machine, and a feel of leadership Alise couldn't ignore or deny. Then after him, the rest of the vehicles, including Bee, also transformed into their bipedal forms.

The leader slowly bent down in front of them, but mostly, in front of Sam.

"Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendent of Archibald Witwicky?" The leader had a voice has deep as the sea, and Alise's eyes widened as she listened to it. She heard Mikaela whisper to him on his other side.

"They know your name!" she said to him, not taking her eyes off the huge man.

"Yeah," he said to the leader, dumbfounded.

"My name is Optimus Prime," the leader continued. "We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron."

"But you can call us 'Autobots', for short," the rescue vehicle stated.

"Autobots," Sam repeated, almost as if to reassure himself this was all real.

Optimus nodded and then turned to Alise. Him giving her his full attention was a bit frightening.

"And I assume you are Alise, the human who helped grant our comrade safe passage?"

Not excepting him to speak to her and feeling a little intimidated, Alise slowly nodded her head. "Yes," she said timidly, yet clearly.

He nodded his head once at her. "We thank you for your service. From what he tells us, he would not have gotten this far without your help. We are in your debt."

Alise was about to respond, when another one of the Autobots spoke.

"What's crackin' little bitches?" he said, and he did a little somersault.

"My first lieutenant. Designation: Jazz," Optimus stated.

"This looks like a cool place to kick it!" Jazz said, and then he jumped and sat on an old car. The sound of the car crashing made Alise visibly cringe for a moment and the bot noticed.

"Sorry, little lady," he said and he smirked, which made Alise chuckled. This received an annoyed chirp from Bee. She looked over at him and smiled, which made him grin back.

"How'd he learn to talk like that?" Sam asked.

"We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Wed," Optimus said, and there was a noise behind him. He turned and saw the bot that was formally the Topkick.

"My weapons specialist: Ironhide."

The large bot's arms suddenly turned into two large canons and he pointed them at Sam. "You feelin' lucky, punk?" Sam looked visibly distressed.

"Easy, Ironhide..." Optimus warned.

"Just kidding. I just wanted to show him my cannons," he said, a little put out. The canons then retracted and changed back into his arms. Sam relaxed slightly.

Optimus turned to the search and rescue bot. "Our medical officer: Ratchet."

Ratchet sniffed and he 'hmmmed.' "The boy's pheromone levels suggest he wants to mate with the female," he said, matter-of-factly, looking at Sam and Mikaela.

Alise looked over at the two, who were now awkwardly looking at each other. Mikaela took a small step away from him.

Awkward, Alise thought to herself, trying not to chuckle. Then Ratchet turned to her.

"And the other femme is repressing an infection in her arm."

She froze and down looked at her arm that she injured. She had almost forgotten about it after the night's string of events, but now that she remembered it was there, an ache crawled up her body. She heard a sharp chirp come from behind her and she turned around to see Bee looking confused and worriedly at her, while the other bots giving him confused looks.

"It's nothing, Bee," she tried to calm him. "It's just a scratch."

Rachet looked at her accusingly. "I'm detecting a more advanced form of infection for it to be 'just a scratch.' May I see?"

She looked guiltily up at him and sighed. She pulled up the sleeve of her shirt and put her scarf-wrapped arm out to him. She saw Bee come closer from the corner of her eye to look down at them. She looked up at him and tried to give him a reassuring grin, but he wasn't buying it. As Rachet bent over and unwrapped her arm, Alise could see that the edges of her wound had appeared redder and more swollen. He when finished and the last of her bloodied scarf (Bee whirred at the sight of it) had been removed, she looked and saw that it did look bad. The center of the wound were it was deepest was dark and she could see fresh dots of blood coming to the surface. It made her slightly queasy. Bee went basaltic.

"'Why didn't (static) you say (static) something!'" Bee voiced angrily, looking down at her. Alise noticed that Ironhide had nudged Jazz in the shoulder and snickered for some reason, but she didn't comment.

"We had more pressing things to worry about than me, Bee," she said softly, but he continued to scold her.

"'Not if you (static) were hurt! How did it (static) even-'"

"If I may," Rachet interjected, slightly assumed at the two. He turned his arm into a small told and aimed it at Alise's arm. Alise's eyes widened and he noticed. "Don't worry. This will help."

Alise calmed and nodded, accepting this answer. The tool sprayed a clear liquid over her wound and it dried quickly, seemingly seeping into her into her arm. She gazed in wonder at its sudden disappearance, and noticed that the swollenness of her wound already looked a little better.

"The infection should be gone within the hour, the next at the most," Rachet said to her as she looked at her arm. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Thank you," she said in gratitude and she saw Bee nod his head at him also, a smile now on his face. Rachet nodded and the two bots stood up. Bee looked visibly relieved, and a happy look was now on his face. Optimus continued once more.

"You already know your guardian: Bumblebee." Alise looked up to see Bee run in place and throw a few punches in the air. A song singing, "Check on the rep, yep! Second to none!" came on through his speakers. Alise smiled fondly at him.

"So you're my guardian," Sam yelled to Bee. Bee stopped and nodded his head at Sam with an agreeing chirp following.

"His vocal processors were damaged in battle," Rachet said, as he pointed a red beam of light at Bee's throat. Bee started to cough and looked like he was in a little pain. Alise looked up worriedly at him, but after one last cough, he looked down at her and gave her a reassuring wink. She relaxed. "I'm still working on them."

Mikaela, who was watching the scene unfold in silence, looked at Optimus.

"Why are you here?" she asked him bravely.

"We are here looking for the All Spark," he answered. "And we must find it before Megatron."

Sam looked confused. "Mega-what?"

Optimus tapped the side of his head where his temple was, and almost like a projector, he aimed an image onto the ground. Alise gasped as she saw what looked like a whole other world, only it was made of metal. She saw what she thought were homes and all different types of mechanical men, women, and even children. It was a beautiful world, full of light and vibrancy. So this is where Bee's from, she thought to herself. Optimus continued.

"Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just, until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons." The images turned and Alise saw an evil looking mechanical man come into view, with the same red eyes as the one from earlier. She assumed this was Megatron, and she watched as the mechanical world started to fall apart around them. "All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the All Spark was lost to the stars. Megatron followed it to Earth, where Captain Witwicky found him..."

"My grandfather," Sam said, and the projection stopped. Optimus nodded his head.

"It was an accident that intertwined our fates," he said to Sam. "Megatron crash-landed before he could retrieve the Cube. He accidentally activated his navigation system. The coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth were imprinted on his glasses."

Sam's eyes widened. "How did you know about his glasses?"

"eBay."

"eBay?" Alise commented, confused.

"eBay..." Sam mused, an understanding look crossing his face.

"If the Decepticons find the All Spark, they will use its power to transform Earth's machines and build a new army," Rachet added.

"And the human race will be extinguished," Optimus concluded. "Sam Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival."

No pressure or anything though, Alise thought to herself.

Mikaela then turned to Sam. "Please tell me that you have those glasses?"

Hi everyone! Long chapter, haha. My hands hurt. A lot. However, I'm bearing the pain and trucking on to the next chapter! I'm having a great time writing this and I hope you all are having a great time reading it. Thanks so much for all the love! And thanks to everyone who's been asking questions, also! Please review and tell me what you think!

As always, I own nothing!

~Mel