Hello everyone! Not much to say about this chapter but sorry for the delay. And Happy Chapter 50! Thanks to everyone who have kept me writing this story. And that's you, all my wonderful readers! :D! Hope you all enjoy! Please review and tell me what you think!
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~Mel

Alise and Mikaela were on edge ever since they boarded Flight 57 to Philadelphia. Wanting to get to Sam as soon as possible, the hours that the flight took seemed to go nearly twice as slow as they actually were. This was probably due to the anxiety that the two were already feeling from Sam being in danger, coupled with the fact that they were currently in possession of a miniature Decepticon. The con was still in the toolbox from earlier, and he was now sitting in the luggage compartment above their heads as their carry-on. Though at the time the two were sweating bullets while trying to get through security, it was surprisingly easy to get him through. Besides a few outbursts from him from inside the box, there was no problem with him showing up on the x-ray. Alise realized that he must have manipulated the screen in some way and for the first time, she was grateful to the con for saving them the trouble of having to explain why they had a living robot stuffed in a toolbox.

When the flight landed and they were able to get off the plane in Philly, it was only about an hour or so later than when they left South Gate because of the time difference. The two then hailed a cab that agreed to take them to Princeton. Of course the cabbie charged them a significant amount extra that would have been considered highway robbery, but neither of them were really in the state to notice or care. Either way, Alise's NEST salary would be able to cover it.

"Did Will call back yet?" Mikaela asked about halfway through the ride. It was the first time either of them had said anything since the ride started.

Alise shook her head.

"No," she responded, her voice on edge. "I checked before we got on the plane and right after we got off. Nothing." She didn't want to tell her friend the rest of what she was thinking. However, by the tone of her voice, Mikaela already knew she was.

"Lise, what aren't you telling me?" she asked quietly. She didn't want the cabbie to overhear what they were saying. She also didn't want to her voice to rise from her nerves.

Alise sighed, knowing she couldn't not tell her now. "I called Will once to ask him who the actor was who played the ninth incarnation of the Doctor on Doctor Who. He picked up and gave me the answer, while he was en route in a helicopter to a mission in Kenya." Alise shook her head. "For Will to not pick up his phone is a bad sign. Last time he didn't they were battling Decepticons."

Mikaela tensed up at this, and Alise didn't blame her. She now shared her worry.

When they finally arrived at Princeton, Alise paid the cabbie with her debit card as they got their stuff out of the back, including the toolbox. They then thanked the man, retrieved her card, and quickly started to walk towards Sam's dorm room. Mikaela said that Sam had told her previously where it was, and all they had to do was find a certain building and then the dorm number. After quickly consulting a map and a male student who was more concerned about what Mikaela was wearing than actually helping them, they arrived in the dorm building that he was in. They were lucky that Sam lived on only the second floor, so they were able to find it moderately easily. Alise saw the smile that was starting to form on Mikaela's face, and she smiled herself, knowing it was because they were about to see Sam, even through all the stress. She knew the feeling, when she thought about Bee.

Soon they found his room on the second floor. The hallway was empty, Alise observed, and it smelled like teenagers and traces of alcohol, which made her cringe. Mik didn't seem to notice however, and instead began to open the door.

"Sam?" she asked inside with a smile on her face. Alise also looked in with one too. They thought it would just be him in the room there, maybe with his roommate.

However, both of their looks instantly dropped when they saw the sight in front of them.

On the bed at the other side of the room was Sam with a skinny blonde girl on top of him, the two kissing deeply. When Sam heard the door open he looked over to see Mikaela and Alise standing there, and stopped immediately. Mikaela had a look of hurt all her face, while Alise's was one of shock and anger.

"Mikaela!" he reacted, as the girl on top of him turned to face them.

"Is that your girlfriend?" she asked him, not seeming fazed by the fact that they had just been caught. Mikaela snapped out of her hurt demeanour and her face turned emotionless.

"Ex," she answered for Sam simply, and then left the room, leaving Alise still standing there still staring at Sam with a look of murder on her face. Sam quickly looked to her, wide eyed.

"Lise!" he said quickly, moving from under the girl. "I can expla-"

Alise cut him off with a quick motion of her hand telling him to stop. She shook her head in a state of disbelief, and then left the area without saying anything, quickly catching up to Mikaela, who was storming up the hallway. Neither of them knew what to say.

"I come all the way here from damn South Gate, with a damn robot in tow, and a damn shard from a damn alien cube, to see him making out with a damn blonde on his damn bed!" Mik said hotly as they quickly walked away. Alise's head snapped up when she heard that Mikaela had brought the All Spark shard with her, but didn't comment and let her continue. "This is it! I could deal with his quirks, the long distance relationship, and even the damn Decepticons! But this?" she hissed the word. "We are done!"

Suddenly, there was a loud crash from behind them, so loud that some students had actually looked out of their rooms to see what it was. The two snapped around, and though they didn't see what the source was, they knew it had to be coming from one of the dorm rooms. They looked at each other with a look that shared what they were both thinking; they both had this deep feeling they knew which room it was coming from.

Dashing back down the hallway, they almost ran into a tall hispanic boy that had reached Sam's room before they did and threw the door open. He looked in the room and began to speak.

"Sam, your bed buddy, Alice- whoa! Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!" The two girls looked in to see what he saw. Sam was on the floor as the girl, who they now assumed was Alice, crouched in front of him from the bed, a metal extension coming from where her tongue should have been wrapping around Sam's neck, choking him. When she saw that they were in the room, her tongue retracted and she growled, as Sam began to scream like a little girl. The girl posed on the bed like an animal waiting to strike.

"Holy shit!" Alise yelled over him in disbelief, as Mikaela threw the tool box containing the mini con at the girl, or robot as it seemed now. She ducked as the box almost hit her, and it crashed through the window behind her, glass going everywhere. Alise and Mikaela, abandoning all their belongings, then started to run off as Sam continued to scream, get up from the floor, and follow. For some reason, he felt the need to close the door behind him. Alise looked back to see that the boy was following them also.

They had made it outside when they heard an explosion from the inside of the building and students starting to scream. Not daring to look back, they raced on full speed as Sam led them to a huge building with large white columns in the front. They ran inside at full speed, earning from weird looks from students that already occupied the large room inside, which happened to be a library. Alise heard the three others talking around her as they ran, but she couldn't comprehend what they were really saying. The only thing that was racing through her mind at the moment was to find a place to hide. Then, Sam dived in front of a long desk and the other three followed suit. The four sat there on the floor, all breathing heavily. Mikaela and her seemed to be okay, but Alise noticed that Sam looked like he was going to be sick and the boy, who was sitting next to her, had a crazy look in his eyes.

"Oh, my god! Oh, my god!" the boy started to say in a whispered voice. "I can't believe I almost had sex with her in my dream!" No one else except for Alise, who had a disgusted look on her face, really seemed to hear what he said because Mikaela then turned angrily to Sam.

"I can tell that you really missed me a lot, Sam!" she all but spat at him, again in a whispered voice.

"Look, it's not my fault, okay?" he responded to her in the same tone.

"Oh, it's not your fault?"

"Listen! Listen, I'm a victim!"

"You were a victim?"

"Yeah."

"Of what, a little eighty pound girl?"

Sam gave her a look of exasperation. "Of, of, of molestation. It was like getting humped in the neck by a mountain ox!"

"You didn't have to put your tongue in her mouth!"

"I didn't!"

"You did!"

"Look. You ever had your stomach tongued by a mountain ox with a five-foot tongue? It's not fun for me, okay, Mikaela? And it smelled like... like diesel! Like a diesel-y tinge to it!"

Alise couldn't help but mentally chuckle at his sentence. Of course that would be the thing he would be thinking of at a moment like this.

"You're such a little girl!" Mik answered back. Sam then closed his eyes.

"We're gonna have ten seconds of silence right now. I'm not talking to you for ten seconds."

Oh god, now he's starting to sound like Judy, Alise said to herself.

"You can't give me the silent treatment! You know what?"

"I'm not talking to you for ten seconds. You have three seconds left."

"You know what? You can give me the silent treatment all you want, but you can't keep me from talking." Sam opened his eyes.

"What were you gonna say?"

"I hope you had a lot of fun, because this, this is over."

Alise noticed Sam's face fell a little. However, she couldn't think about it too much because suddenly the boy next to her started to speak on a rampage.

"She violated your orifice with her nasty alien probe?" he started to say disbelievingly. "She did it? She went in there? All her little embryo alien babies are gestating and hatching inside of you. They're growing right now, probably! You need to vomit it right now. Yak it! Yak it right now!"

At hearing that, Sam actually did vomit next to him, the running, Leo's description, and the "diesel-y tinge" getting to his stomach. Alise looked away for fear she would do the same. She looked at the boy next to her with a disgusted look on her face.

"Who are you?" she asked him incredulously. At this, he seemed to turn on the charm and smiled at Alise smoothly.

"Leonardo Ponce De Leon Spitz," he said, giving her a very practiced reply, and an open hand. When she didn't accept it, he put it down, and got a serious look on his face. "Okay? I'm the key to this. The aliens, they want me 'cause of my site." Alise could have facepalmed right then, however, something caught his eye and he started to yell. "Whoa! Whoa, guys, right there!"

Suddenly, explosions started to occur all around, and they saw that Alice was walking in. Only this time she quickly transformed into something different than a girl. Her skin disappeared and was replaced with metal, and her hair became a mess of metal live wires. When all traces of human had left her, Alise recognized what she really was. She was a humanoid Pretender, a Cybertronian that could change its appearance to look like a human. Alise had never seen or met one until then, but she remembered Lennox and Epps telling her about how they would run into some occasionally posing as officials in governments. She had seen pictures of them in their true forms in different meetings she had interpreted at, and Alice looked like a form of one of them.

Students start to scream all around them as chaos erupted in the library. They knew they had to leave.

"Run!" Leonardo shouted, and the other three listened. Quickly running through a mass of other students trying to escape and papers that were flying everywhere, they tried to get out unnoticed but were quickly seen by Alice. She took aim and started to fire at them, nearly missing with each shot. At one point, she blew a hole through the wall of the library, and it was then that the four were able to make their escape. Quickly they ran outside and into the street.

After a few minutes of running on the street, they stopped and looked around for a moment, and Mikaela ran up to a car and started to hotwire it to make a getaway (which Leo thought was very hot.) Alise noticed that they had ended up back near Sam's dorm building when she saw the broken window on the second floor. However, when she remembered what Mikaela had thrown to break the window, she looked over to the bush under the window. Lying there was the toolbox they had brought with them, hopefully with the small con still inside. Alise started to run over to the box. Sam, not knowing what she was doing, started to panic and yell after her.

"Lise!" he yelled frantically. "What are you doing? Get over here!"

"We need that box!" she called back, not stopping to explain further.

She quickly retrieved the box, and feeling that the con was still inside breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey, let me outta here!" he yelled from the inside. "Just wait 'til I get outta here! You two'll be in for a ass kick-"

"Shut up, matchbox!" she yelled at him, and when he continued to rant on, she shook the box, which got him to quiet down.

She then ran back to the car Mik had managed to get started and jumped into the back with Leo, who looked a little too happy for her to be sitting there. She put these thoughts aside however, when she saw Alice coming towards them.

"Drive, drive, drive!" Sam started to yell. "She's right there! She's right there!"

Mikaela, however, didn't listen, and waited for the girl to come closer. "Come on, come on, come on."

Seeing this, Sam began to panic some more. "Drive, drive, drive! Back up the car!"

Alice stopped in front of the car and growl at them, her retractable tongue starting to grow again and come towards them.

"No! Whoa! Tongue tongue tongue!"

"Oh my god! Oh god!" Leo started to yell himself.

"Mik! We need to go!" Alise added to the mix, calmer than the boys but still not liking where she thought Mikaela was thinking of doing. As it turned out, she did just that.

"Kiss this, bitch!" Mikaela yelled, and she floored it, hitting the Pretender with the car and ramming her into a lamppost in front of them. Even after making contact with the post, Alice still was thrashing in a struggle. Mikaela didn't relent, however, pushing the gas in as fast as it could go. After a few moments of this, Alice's struggling began to slow, and eventually, she stopped moving entirely. Mikaela stepped off the gas, prepared to go a second round if necessary. However, Alice didn't move again. The Pretender was dead.

They all took a moment to catch their breath, each of them breathing heavily. After a short while, Alise realized she was shaking, her hands trembling severely. She didn't notice this before, and she made her hands into fists to try and calm herself down. She couldn't start to panic now; she had to be the rock in the group. She traced her necklace in some comfort, thinking of Bee. She hoped that even if Lennox didn't call her back, he was able to get a message to him. She could just imagine how worried he would be if he just happened to check her location and realized she was on the other side of the country.

Suddenly, Alise's phone went off in her pocket. Everyone in the car jumped, the sudden noise startling them. She dug it out of her pocket and quickly looked who was calling. Seeing the caller ID, she breathed a sigh of relief and quickly answered it.

"You've got a hell of a timing, Will," she said into the phone, calming down now that she was talking to him. Mikaela and Sam turned to face her and gave her relieved looks while Leo just looked confused.

"Lise, what the hell is going on?" he asked quickly. "Where are you?"

"I was just about to ask you the same thing! Mikaela and I are in New Jersey with Sam, and we just nearly got our asses blown off by a Pretender! What's going on?!"

"Lise, listen to me okay?" By the tone of his voice, she knew this couldn't have been good. "We're calling a code red. You three need to get out of there and somewhere safe. We'll send an extraction team and get you, but you need to get out of the open and off your phone."

"Will, what's going on?!"

"It's Megatron. He's back."

Alise didn't even have time to comprehend what he had said. After the words left his mouth, the car the four were in jerked upwards, and something latched onto the roof, crushing the metal. Everyone in the car made sounds of surprise and fear, which only increased when the car started to ascend. It quickly escalated from being a few feet off the ground, to more, and more, before they were at least a good hundred feet in the air.

"Oh my god! Oh my god!"

"Whoaah!"

"Saaaam!"

"Aaaaaa!"

"Alise!" Lennox yelled through the phone line. "What's happening?! Talk to me, Lise!"

"Will, we're getting pulled up!" she yelled into the phone line. She put down the window and looked out and up. Her eyes widened when she saw that they were being taken by a large black helicopter attached to cable holding them. After a moment, she realized what, or more specifically who it was. She groaned. "Dammit Will, Grindor has us!" She recognized the Decepticon from one of the many meetings. He was moving them quickly above buildings and trees, and they were already above an industrial part of the city.

"Lise just hold on!" Will yelled into the phone. "We're gonna find you guys, okay? The Autobots are on their way!"

"WILL!"

Her voice climbed a few octaves as the cable connecting them to Grindor detached. The car seemed to still in the air for a moment before quickly falling back down to earth. It started to make a nose dive towards the ground, and all the occupants of the vehicle screamed loudly, all convinced this was the end. Then, for what seemed like forever but really only lasted a few second, the freefall ended, and they crashed through a warehouse and onto the ground.

The whole front of the car smashed into the ground, flattening it. The airbags in the front activated, Sam's and Mikaela's heads both smacking into them. Alise and Leo weren't so lucky, her head smacking against the seat in front of her and Leo's whole body falling into the seat in front of him. The car then fell on its roof and rocked back and forth once or twice, before finally stilling.

Alise didn't move for a few moments are the car stopped rocking. She seriously felt as if she had been hit by a bus, her body aching all over, the front of her chest having taken the force of the blow to the seat, and her head having been hit. She didn't make a move until Sam started to shift in front of her.

"Mikaela?" she heard him mumble. "You okay?"

"I'm alright," she replied, but Lise could tell she must have hurt herself too. Mik slowly turned her head around. "Lise? Lise, you okay?"

"I've been better," she mumbled as she sat up, glass from the window that had broken next to her sliding off of her. Next to her see saw that Leo had already sat up and started to get out of the car. She followed, and so did Sam and Mikaela. As she got out, she also brought out the toolbox that the small con was in. She climbed out of the broken window and she saw that her phone was smashed into multiple pieces, probably after flying out of her hand and into something. She inwardly sighed. No chance of calling Lennox again now. She pushed that into the back of her mind and carried onward.

She didn't know what to expect when she exited the car, but what was in front of her was the last thing she hoped it'd be.

"Oh Jesus! Oh Jesus!" Leo started to yell next to her, as Starscream looked down at Sam, and started to reach for him. The sight of the con made her stomach feel sick, and the memories of Mission City and being chased came back to her. His vow of her death also flowed through her mind, and she knew that it he saw her, she wouldn't make it very far. She moved near Mikaela, standing with her side to the large con.

"Let's see..." Starscream said menacingly, and he grabbed Sam, and Sam cried out. The sound made both her and Mik flinch. But not as much as when they saw who Starscream was taking him over to. Standing in the middle of the factory was Megatron, worn and battle ridden, but very much alive. Alise felt the need to vomit.

"Come here, boy," he commanded as Starscream came over. "Closer."

"Oh god," Mikaela whispered as she witnessed this, and Alise grabbed her hand and started to slowly lead her over to a staircase near them, Leo following. They needed to move out of their current location.

"Okay, okay," Sam tried to reason as he was placed on a metal table and forced down. Megatron then stuck his face in Sam's, a grin falling upon his menacing features.

"You remember me, don't you?" he asked darkly, almost kiddingly.

"I did what you said, okay? Just don't hurt us," Sam tried again, but the lord of the cons silenced him.

"Shut up!"

Alise turned away, not wanting to watch. She heard Sam let out some pained grunts and yells, and her heart sank, especially when Mikaela cried out to him. She still couldn't bring herself to look at him.

"Wait wait wait!" he tried again, but cut himself off. "Ahh!"

"It feels good to grab your flesh! I am going to kill you! Slowly, painfully. But first, we have some delicate work to do."

"Ah, wait wait wait wait wait! AHH!"

"How I could snap your limbs off! Doctor, examine this alien specimen."

"NO!" Alise then cried out, the thought of Sam being examined by a Decepticon too much to take. She had seen what the Decepticons were capable to doing to humans, and she wasn't about to let that happen to him. She dropped the toolbox next to her and stepped forward, her eyes ablaze. If her friends could stick up to the cons, then she could. However, not many of them had done so to Megatron, but she put that thought aside, knowing that her courage would quickly disappear if she didn't.

Her voice made the whole room stop. She saw that Sam was still on the metal table, only this time he was strapped down. Above him was Megatron standing, Starscream to his side, and a tiny con crawling over him that reminded her of a spider. They all looked over at her, including Sam.

"And who are you to make such a demand?" Megatron said menacingly, started to walk over to her, his head coming up to the railing she was standing on. She took an involuntary step back and didn't answer.

Megatron examined her, trying to determine how the little insect had the gall to defy him. Despite his view that all humans looked the same to him (except for the ones who he wanted to take his revenge on) there was something about this one that seemed familiar to him.

Then it came to him. It was the human he had observed on the day of his death, the one able to change the minds of others so quickly, speak in different tongues, and who had injured Starscream, the one he wished to study and use to his advantage. And there she was, right in front of him. She must have had something to do with the Autobots, he determined. It was too much of a coincidence for her to have been in Mission City and now traveling with the Witwicky boy for her not to be involved with them, if not only a friend of the boy. Either way taking her would be to his benefit. And there she stood; defenceless, unprotected, an easy take.

His red eyes glowed, and he growled, intrigued.

"Tongues speaker," he hissed at her.

Her body immediately tensed up. Her blood ran cold. Tongues speaker? she mentally screamed, becoming very afraid. What the hell does that mean?

"Is that what I think it is?" Starscream then stated, almost disbelievingly. He took a step closer and then grinned menacingly at her. "Why, it's the insect who injured my hand!" He gave her almost a crazed look a darkened smile. "I've never really regained full use of it, fleshy." He raised said hand, and Alise noticed that one of the fingers seemed to be twitching automatically. Starscream then turned to Megatron. "Master, if you would please give me the pleasure of peeling the flesh from her bones, I would be eternally grateful." He said this last part in her direction, Alise terrified.

Her and Megatron then locked eyes for a moment, and Alise's head felt like it was burning up. She turned her head to break the contact, her heart rate starting to rise, and she knew he could tell, which made it beat even faster. Though Megatron didn't want to say he wanted to save her for study right then, he couldn't let Starscream kill her... yet.

"There is a time and a place for everything, Starscream," he said authoritatively. "And this is not that time." Starscream looked visibly disappointed, but obeyed, but not without sending one last dangerous look in Alise's direction, making her shiver. She looked over at Mikaela then, who also had a horrified expression on her face from watching the scene in front of her.

Megatron was about to speak once more when instead, he heard the Doctor, the small con working on Sam yell out, "Beseeching my shard! Easy or tough way?"

They then all turned to watch as a worm like con crawled into Sam's mouth and began to make its way through his head. All the humans on the second level's stomachs lurched watching the sight, especially when Sam started to gag.

When the worm exited Sam, the Doctor made some noises that were a combination of English and Cybertronian as the worm projected symbols that looked to be alien and images from Sam's memories. Alise could see images of herself, Mikaela, the Witwickys, and others flash by.

"Oh, there they are," Megatron said approvingly. Sam, wide-eyed, looked at the images before him.

"That's what I'm seeing in my head," he said disbelievingly.

"These symbols can lead us to the Energon source."

"We must have ze brain on ze table!" the Doctor then shouted. "Chop chop!" Everyone who wasn't an extraterrestrial to Earth froze.

"Brain? What does he mean by- by my brain?" Sam started to panic.

"Well, you have something on your mind, something I need," Megatron said snidely.

"Hold on! I- I know you're pissed. I know you're pissed. Because I tried to kill you and, and it's completely understandable. Somebody tried to kill me, I'd be upset, too."

The Doctor, not minding a word of what he was saying, crawled over him again and began to look up his nose. As Alise and Mikaela stood next to each other and watched the scene in front of them in horror, Alise started to feel something shaking beneath them. It felt like the ground was shaking... like footsteps...

"-and see where it leads us, okay? So, you just call Doctor Inspector off and let's just talk for five seconds!" The Doctor began to take a mini saw to his head. "Wait, wait, wai-"

Then the world started to fall apart.

Crashing through the window in the top of the warehouse came Optimus, glass and debris showering them. He immediately posed, ready for battle. Then, not a moment later, Bumblebee came crashing in through the wall next to them, sparks falling and walls falling.

Alise looked over to him at the same time he did to her. They locked eyes for a moment, and in that short time before his mask went down, his eyes said it all. Run.

Bee shot at Starscream over their heads as the three began to run. Mikaela had grabbed the toolbox at her feet before they did, and it was now banging against her legs.

"Come on! Go, go!" Leo shouted at them, and he grabbed Mikaela's hand to try and pull her along.

"Sam!" Mikaela yelled, and Alise spared one moment to see that he had been released and was now running around on the ground. The two girls wanted to go back for him, but Leo kept pulling them along.

"Go, go, go! Move!"

The three humans had made it to a staircase and out an old emergency exit that lead them to a street. When they got outside, they stopped short, none of them knowing where to go. They were on the other side of the building from where the fighting was happening, and they didn't have much time.

"What now?" Leo asked, out of breath. Alise had no idea.

Then, the three heard a noise from around the corner. It was the sound of a revving engine. If she had known that noise as well as she thought she did, she knew exactly what, or more so who, it was.

Bee sped from around the corner and raced towards them, kicking up dust in his tracks. He then stopped in front of them, his door open before he even reached them and his tires screeching in protest. Alise and Mikaela jumped into the back seats and Leo in the front passenger as Bee immediately closed the door and took off.

"Nice save there, Bee," Alise said affectionately, panting she was so out of breath. She was answered with the seatbelt she was sitting next to suddenly wrapped around her in a near choking hold. She started to run her fingers along it, hoping to make him feel better.

"Yeah, Bee," Mikaela said next her, her out of breath also. She gave him a weak thumb's up in the rearview mirror. "Good job."

"Okay, what the hell is going on?!" Leo suddenly snapped from front seat, turning on the two girls. "There were two massive alien robots back there probing Sam, Alice is blowing shit up, we just fell out of the sky in a car..." He stopped and started to run his fingers through his hair and happened to look to his right and jumped, happening to see that no one was in the driver's seat controlling Bee. "And the car is driving itself. This is great, just great. Fantastic."

"'Who the hell is this?'" Bee sounded in a rough voice from the radio, making Leo jump again and look at it with a horrified expression.

"He's a friend of Sam's, Bee," Alise explained. "He was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"Oh, it has a name," Leo continued. "Wonderful." He began to mutter to himself in Spanish. "It's okay, it's fine, everything is okay. You're just losing your mind, that's all. College is already getting to you. Either that or you're going to wake up drunk at a party any minute now, and everything will be okay..."

"If only it was that simple," Alise commented to him in his tongue, and he quickly turned towards her, a dumbfounded look on his face. Before he could reply, however, there was a large crash behind them. All of the humans turned their heads to see Megatron crashing through the building behind them, pieces of wall and glass flying all around them. Bee sped up and continued to drive away from the scene, and they watched as Megatron transformed into his vehicle form and drive away.

"Bee, where's Sam?" Mikaela asked quickly, a worried tone in her voice.

"'He's with (static) the prime number!'" Bee answered her, and Mikaela relaxed slightly.

They continued to speed to where Alise assumed they were meeting Sam and Optimus, and that place was located in a forest. They drove for about ten minutes before they broke away from the main road and onto a dirt one. No one spoke, everyone too on edge, even Bee. After another five minutes on that road, Bee suddenly jerked, causing everyone to jump. He then started to drive even faster than before. Alise looked to see that the speedometer was pushing 130.

"Bee, what's wrong?" she asked immediately, knowing something wasn't right.

He didn't answer right away, and when he did, her breath caught in her throat.

"Optimus-s's-s s-signal is-s gone."

Mikaela and Alise shared a silent look of absolute horror while Leo just looked confused.

No, no, no, no, no! Alise's mind was screaming, in every language she knew, in every way possible. She had been with the Autobots long enough to know what that could mean.

Suddenly they were surrounded, but luckily not by enemies. It was the Autobots, all of them. First she saw Ironhide, and then followed by Ratchet, the Twins, Acree, Jolt, and Sideswipe.

"Autobots attack!" she heard 'Hide bellow out angrily, and Bee slowed down. At first she thought he was planning to fight, but then realized that he was stopping to pick up Sam, who she now noticed running out of the forest. Leo moved over to the driver's seat, and Sam all but threw himself into the open seat.

"Bumblebee get them out of here!" Ratchet yelled, and all the remaining Autobots, except for the twins who followed them, started to fire at the Decepticons emerging from the woods as Bee drove away.

It was only until Bee had put some distance between them and the others that anyone spoke. Sam looked visibly shaken, pale and in a fixed stare.

"Sam," Alise said softly. "What happened?"

"He's dead," he replied in a blank monotone. "Optimus is dead."