Please note that these characters belong to their original creators as do any songs used in this fiction, not me, this is just my take on what might happen enjoy and let me know what you think.
also i am trying to fix any mistakes that i might have missed in past chapters (i.e spelling, grammer)
Sam was still trying to understand how he had managed to access so many pages and read them in such a short space of time, the last time he had surfed the net it had taken him more than an hour to comb through just ten sites, now he had read so many he though his head might explode, the phone icon flashed again and he opened his com link to Bumblebee, "bee when you access the internet, are you able to read through thousands of sights in seconds?", "yes always" was Bee's simple reply, "wow, this is all so strange to me, I keep thinking my head is going to explode or I'll start writing all over the walls again", Sam's voice was worried and Bumblebee could not help but feel it, "your memory as an autobot is much larger than that of a human, it can easily hold more information with out causing any adverse affects", hearing the expiation from Bee made him feel better, sure Ratchet was the medic but he just felt better hearing it from Bumblebee.
When the two had finished their conversation they found that Ratchet was tapping his foot on the floor, he had tests to do and was not happy about waiting, "so can I at last assume that you two are finished, I have a lot more tests to perform" they both nodded to him in unison, "alright then, lets test your ability to deploy your ranged weapons, not fire them, not lock them on to anything or even charge them, just deploy them, I don't want my nice clean medbay torn to pieces by random fire", Ratchet had a stern look on his face when he said this, the look was usually reserved for Ironhide so Sam knew that he meant business, "ok ratchet, I'm going to deploy them slowly"Sam said. The Medbot just nodded keeping close watch, looking across the icons Sam found the one he wanted it was a pair of odd looking weapons, they were crossed like a pair of swords on a coat of arms, when he focused on the icon it flashed then a message appeared "initial weapons setup starting please wait", the message was replaced a small setup menu Sam looked it over, it listed options like "primary weapon select and weapon switch function" he was lost at what he should choose, then an image of Optimus entered his head, the leader of the Autobots had just used two types of weapon setup when Sam had seen him fight, if it worked for Optimus then it would work for him.
Sam selected his ranged weapons as primary and his close combat as secondary, with a simple switch command to change them in battle, the list was replaced by the message "setup complete", plates shifted in his back and two very familiar looking weapons settled on his shoulders. "look who's been watching late night scifi movies", Mikaela was standing a little ways from him looking at his now deployed weapons, though she looked tired her face wore a smile that said she was genuinely happy, "late night scifi movies?" Ratchet asked puzzled, "yeh" Mikaela said laughing a little, "he looks like he went and stole the shoulder guns from a predator, doing a little xenomorph hunting are we" the smile on her face was growing larger by the second. Why did this have to happen now, why was his body was ripping of copyright, though he had always thought these weapons were cool he had never though that his body would take that as a sign that it should make them his ranged weapons, "I think you look great with them" Said Bumblebee, "they make you look dangerous", there was a light playful tone in the yellow Autobot's voice, Sam looked over to Ratchet wanting to ask him for help but the Medbot was searching the net right now trying to find out what was so funny.
"ahh, I see, well I think that we should wait and see what they can do before you change them sam, if your body has copied the movie version then they should have some power behind them, judging by the effects on screen I imagine that they will have their uses in tracking more than one target at a time" Ratchet said earnestly, "I'm still not sure" Sam said poking the gun mounted on his left shoulder, it was unsettling the way it moved with his head tracking anything he looked at, "well for the moment I want you to put them away, I have all I need for now" Ratchet said, Sam nodded and retracted the guns, they folded into his back and the plates covering them locked into place, he wasn't sure who felt better about this, having something that felt like it could fire all by it's self attached to his body was unnerving, he had the feeling that if he so much as sneezed then the guns would accidentally blow a hole in the wall.
Ratchet was going over some more data, so Sam thought it safe to crouch down and talk to Mikaela, "so how are you?" he asked as Bumblebee joined him in the crouching position, "I'm ok" Mikaela answered, it was a lie but she didn't want Sam to worry. She had been at her whits end watching her best two friends over the last two weeks, one was unconscious while he went through what Ratchet called an "upgrade" while the other just stood there keeping watch, powerless to help the one he loved most and she was just as powerless to help either of them. At first first she had tried to keep up the almost constant vigil that Bumblebee had started, but her body was nowhere near as strong as his and she ended up having to be carried to the barracks by Will, when she found out that she couldn't even manage to do this for Sam and Bee she threw her self into repair work, fixing any vehicle on the base that was broken and some that weren't, anything to keep her mind off the worry and the helpless feelings, the most she could manage to do was visit each day and then only for a short time, the sight of Sam's changing body was to much to bear, every time she saw him it made her feel more powerless than before, it was as if he was slipping away more and more every day, how Bee could stand it was beyond her, work was the only thing that kept the ugly nightmare of loosing Sam completely from her thought's, one more engine and he'll be awake, more and he'll be laughing and hugging Bee, one more, but one more was never enough it seemed.
When she had been told that Sam was awake all the stress and worry finally broke, the first thought was that she would walk in there and he would be like him self again, that normal teenage boy that had always been close to her, at first she thought it was love but then the feelings had transformed into a solid friendship, one that was stronger than any she had ever known, a second though then shattered the first, what if he had woken and was totally alien, not just to her but also to Bumblebee, what if he changed so much that there could be nothing between them, what if Bee was left alone and she lost her friends, one to the change and the other to sorrow. All she could do was sit there thoughts running round in her head, some good, others bad and none of them seemed to be winning, at long last Wheelie came over and said, "I'm sure he'll be ok no matter whats happened, you can't get rid of sam that easily", she smiled gently and placed a small kiss on his head, Wheelie almost fainted from a power overload.
When she first saw the large Autobot standing next to Bumblebee something inside her twisted into a knot, would it still be him in there, would he be the same, then she saw something, a small movement, a hint of body language, something that she only associated with Sam, it was something she had seen him do many times when he was nervous, it was small but it was something, when the metal plates shifted and the weapons appeared she paused, she had caught a glance at the expressionless face, it looked so different, so alien. Mikaela clenched her fists, she had fought Decepticons, traveled by space bridge and helped turn a Decepticon into an Autobot, all she had to do was say "hello", the words wouldn't come at first then seeing the guns and thinking of how they looked like a certain movie monsters she just said "look who's been watching late night scifi movies", the reaction was so familiar, so much like Sam, she saw him standing there for the first time, he hadn't changed he was still there for both of them.
Her reaction said it all, Sam had known her too long to be brushed off with a quick answer, "I know you better than that Mikaela", he said noting how she didn't like that fact that he had seen through the lie, "I'm just tired, looking after you two takes a lot out of a girl" she hoped that a little truth would help the answer slide by, Sam still wasn't convinced but let it drop for the moment, "so what do you think of the new me" he said waving his hands across his body, "not bad, a little to factory standard for my taste, we need to get some color in you fast" Mikaela said jokingly, "well apparently I can change this when I take my alt form so don't get to used to it" Sam replied, her comment made him want to change more than before, he wanted to look like himself again. Bee could tell that Mikaela's words had hurt Sam more than he was letting on, the yellow Autobot just took hold of his lovers hand and squeezed hard while he brought their head's together in their form of a kiss, Mikaela could only smile at the sight.
"well I'm sorry that took a little longer than expected" Ratchet said finally joining them, he had been trying to gauge Sam's ranged weapons strength from his scans but he had found that he could not get an accurate reading, so he decided to take a look at video clips of this "predator" creature again, if Sam's body had modeled after the movie version then they would be very powerful, but he wasn't sure given differences between the movie and the real world. Noticing that Mikaela was now with them he addressed all three, "well we need to head over to the firing range, Ironhide has a setup there that will help me gauge how strong your servos are and I think you will find it more familiar than my usual method", Sam looked at him curiously, "what could ironhide have that would be more familiar?" this was an interesting thought. Gently Sam lifted Mikaela up off the floor, he had never done this before, she felt so fragile in his hands, slowly he lifted her up onto his shoulder, she sat right where his gun had placed it's self not long before, Mikaela found a few places to get a good hand hold and the four of them headed of towards the firing range and Ironhide.
Sam was stunned, there in front of him was the largest weight setup he had ever seen, resting on it was the the largest heaviest barbell that had ever been made on earth, Ratchet motioned towards it and said "ironhide, decided that he wanted to test his servos in a similar fashion to human weight training, though I find it a total wast of time he insists that it is a far better test here on earth", "yes and I keep telling you that it gives a bot a feeling of accomplishment when testing servos, much better than your boring load cell test" Ironhide said snorting as he came over. He slapped Sam on the back causing Mikaela to loose her grip a little, it was at this time that they both decided she should get down, slowly Sam lowered his hand to the floor, Mikaela thanked him as she stepped on to the solid ground, "alright then sam lets see how strong you are" Ironhide said as he shoved the new Autobot towards the barbell.
Sam had never really done anything like this before, he had tried to lift weights years ago but little had come from it, a wounded pride and a sore body were his only rewards from the last time, slowly he gripped the bar, frightened that if he did manage to move it he would drop it breaking the floor, "don't hold back sam it's only as much as one of the twins can lift", Ironhide wasn't helping any, if he couldn't lift as much as one of the twins then he was finished. Slowly Sam applied pressure to the bar, it rose effortlessly like it weight nothing, "wow" was all he could say, "not bad" Ironhide said "now on to the heavier weights", Sam put the bar back down and Ironhide added more weight, again the bar lifted off it's supports, Sam found this as easy as before, when it was back on it's stand Ironhide added even more weight, Ratchet looked doubtful at the mass of metal, but Sam felt like he could lift it, with in seconds the bar was raised above his head, it only felt slightly heavier than the last time, snorting at this Ironhide added even more weight, it was so much that the metal bar groaned with the stress, "that's enough, I already have all I need" said Ratchet, "one more lift sam, if you can do this then you'll have managed to lift more than optimus", Sam wasn't as sure of this as he had been the last time it looked like the whole thing was about to break. As slowly as the first time he gripped the bar, the sound of straining metal filled the air and slowly the bar raised, "you can do it sam" said Bumblebee, he could do it, he was moving slowly not because of the weight but because he was afraid it might break in his hands, the whole thing was only slightly heavy, it wasn't like he could hold it for hours but he felt that he could at least manage ten minutes, the bar once more moved over his head before Sam lowered it back on to it's supports, the whole frame groaned and creaked before giving way in a collapse that was heard and felt across the base.
