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, grammar)

Sam felt good, he was rested and relaxed like he hadn't been in a long time. As he lay there Sam got the feeling that someone was watching him, protecting him, while he slept; slowly he forced the eyes on his Avatar open and saw the blue eyes and smiling face of Bumblebee. Bee leaned in and gave his lover a gentle kiss before returning to his previous position "you know you make the cutest faces when your in stasis" said Bumblebee as he smiled down like an angle on high. How Sam wanted to loose himself in the warmth of that smile; seeing his lover like this made him forget about all the worries of the world until all he could feel was love and joy. Sam reached out and wrapped his arms tightly around Bumblebee's Avatar "well I cant really say anything about your view but the one I have is perfect" said Sam as he pulled Bee close for another kiss. After a few minutes Bumblebee broke the kiss and said " you know, your making a tempting offer for me to just stay in bed all day and forget the race altogether" "yeh but even if we did stay in bed all day one of us would still be saying faster, faster" replied Sam.

It took the better part of half an hour for the two young Autobots to decided that heading out onto the race track was a the best thing to do but as Bumblebee said "just imagine how hyped we will be after we win, your mom might not see us for three days" the lust in his voice made Sam turn around and start kissing him again. Once more they were both locked in an internal battle to decide where they should go, one half wanted to get out the door and head to the race while the other wanted to simply return to their bedroom and lock out the world. The deciding factor came in the form of Miles as he ran into them, literally, "ouch, oh sorry I didn't see you there I was thinking about how cool you guys are going to look out there on the track, man I cant wait to see the faces of the other drivers when you smoke them" said Miles, he had returned to his eight year-old on three bags of sugar state now that he had rested and by the look of him taken a long shower. "yeh, miles, we will really tear it up out there" Sam tried to sound nice but it was hard for him after being interrupted like that and the obscene language that Bee was sending though the com at that moment didn't help things either; but Miles was on to much of a high at that instant to notice as he replied "yeh it's gonna be awesome and I bet that you guys are going to be the fastest out there the others will just be vroom arrhh and you guys are gonna be froow and shhh it'll be the coolest thing ever".

Bumblebee commed Sam and asked "is that some kind of strange obscure human language or something?, I don't have a reference in my memory as it being one of the languages spoken on earth" Sam had to use all his will power to stop him self from letting out a laugh at the message "it's ok bee, that's just the way some people describe things when they cant find the right words, as you hang out with miles you'll find that he uses sound instead of words whenever he gets too excited about something" Sam wondered at his own self control as none of the built up laughter made it's way into his reply. "I have lived on this planet for years now sam but humans still confuse me no end" commed Bumblebee "take it from someone who was human bee, they confuse each other all the time too" replied Sam. "so I take it that you had a good nights sleep?" asked Sam "yeh, I headed home a few hours after bee carried you up to bed, the cops had all gone and my dad was getting the burnt out shell that was my car taken away, so I just crashed and slept the day through" answered Miles. "well at least that explained how I moved from the chair to our bed" thought Sam "so are we all going together or.." Miles was fishing for a ride but Sam couldn't blame him, after all his car was a casualty of Sam's decision to tell Miles the truth "well we were going to ask mikalea to come with us if she can get the day off that is and my mom and dad did say that they would come along too but that was before all this happened so I'm not sure if they'll be coming along now...".

Ron thought that they were crazy going racing after what had happened but even he was not immune to the puppy dog look from two Autobot Avatars; so he ended up caving in to their pleading and now both he and Judy were getting ready for a day of watching his son and his son's lover race at dangerously high speed against other cars "at least they're just cars" thought Ron. The three cars left the Witwicky home a little after seven thirty in the morning, both Sam and Bumblebee had only their Avatars in their cabins which left Ron, Judy and Miles following behind in Ron's car. Normally at this hour the streets were empty but others had heard about the race and now people were flocking to an improvised track that wound it's way through the heart of Tranquillity. "so you sure that you want to ride over" asked Sam "yeh I'm just putting on the last of my gear now sam, I should get there a few minutes after you guys" answered Mikaela "ok but just remember we've got plenty of room if you want to ditch all that gear and ride in style" "thanks sam, but I really need to take my bike out once in a while or it'll cease up" she paused for a second and asked "your sure that miles is ok with you being all... and everything?" now it was Sam who paused for a second as he remembered the shock in Mikaela's voice when he had told her that Miles was now in the loop. "yeh he's taking all this very well, in fact he's even acting like a bit of a fanboy about all this" commed Sam "well if he starts stalking you and leaving seat covers on your door step in the middle of the night just remember that you wanted to tell him about everything in the first place" though Mikalea was laughing lightly there was a strong undertone of concern in her voice.

It didn't take Sam very long to find the meeting point for the race, the brightly coloured displays and loud music could have been seen and heard from orbit for those looking for it. As he pulled into registration area all eyes fell on him and Bumblebee, some people just stopped what they were doing and gaped while a few just got in their cars and drove away not wanting to loose the race and their entry fee. As Sam pulled up to a man in a white coat he scanned the competition, most of the cars there were nothing to worry about for either of them but one car stood out. His scanners showed that a Ferrari Enzo was Parked near a trailer just out of sight of the people singing up for the race Sam opened his comlink to Bumblebee and said"hey bee, my scanners are picking up an enzo near by, I didn't think that anyone round here had one of those". Bumblebee now focused his scanners on the car and searched police computers for the owner of record "your not going to believe this sam, according to the police data base this car belongs to a race driver called jeffrey palmer and he's no local, you know what that means we have some real competition in this race" the joy in Bee's voice could not have been contained even if he had wanted to. Though Bumblebee was delighted about having some real competition the feeling in Sam's spark told him that something was wrong; accessing as many vehicle data bases as he could Sam checked out this driver and his car. The results worried Sam a little then he cross-referenced the data against the race and where it had been "bee take a look at this" commed Sam as he sent what he had found to Bumblebee, it took Bee only a few seconds to run through the data. "I cant believe it, this guy has been in every one of these street races and every time he's won, you'd think that he would get tired after a while, after all he's not an autobot" commed Bumblebee "it's not that bee, I think this guys a ringer, theses guys running the race get people to enter and this guy wins for them every time so they never have to give away the grand prize or anything because this guy is working for them" Sam sounded steamed as he commed Bee back, but Bumblebee was happy about it all "well that just means that we have an obligation to really cut loose on this guy and claim the prize for all those that they cheated" "we should really call the cops bee" replied Sam "yeh but where's the fun in that and besides we can't call them, they would wonder how we found all this out in the first place" Sam had no answer to this so he just said "ok then, lets show these guy's what real racing is".

To say that the guy in the white coat was shocked would be like saying that Optimus was just a little taller than Major Lennox, he looked at Sam's alt form like he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "hi" said Sam pulling the official back down to earth for the moment "can I have a registration form?" "yeh ahh yeh" he said as he handed over the paper work, it only took Sam a few seconds to write down the information on the form and hand it back. In that short space of time the guy had drifted off again and Sam had to get his attention once more before he could hand over the paper work "hey!, here you go and here's the entry fee" "ahh thanks" replied the official. As Sam pulled away and parked in the waiting area he watched the guy repeat his actions with Bumblebee, "I guess he thought that things would be easy here" thought Sam. "can you believe that guy" said Bee as he pulled along side Sam "I think I would have gotten a better response from a tree" Sam just laughed and said "well they weren't expecting to have any competition here, then we turn up in two cars that could blow the others out of the running".

"everyone this way please" called a tall thin man in a baseball cap, Sam and Bee got out of their alt forms and followed him to a small grey tent where the other racers were gathering. Taking two seats near the back both Sam and Bee looked over their competition; most of the people there were locals looking for a good time and a fast way to make a buck, but a few looked like part time racing drivers here for the chance to race others. Soon they found who they were looking for, Jeffrey Palmer was sitting near the back like them though he was far from interested by the proceedings. The man looked like he was going to fall asleep at any second, "wow I'm in high school again" whispered Sam and Bumblebee just chuckled lightly. "now if I can have everybody's attention" called the tall man, he pointed to a map with a thick red line that marked the course "this will be you route, we've tried to make it as entraining as possible while still keeping it safe for all you new drivers out there, over the next twenty minutes we will be going over the course and the safety procedures, listen, learn, live". Twenty minutes had never taken so long in either of their lives, once the tall man had started talking he didn't stop "primus sam, I thought that he would never stop, he just carried on and on like there was no end" exclaimed Bumblebee "tell me about it bee, I'm just glad that we were in a tent, I think that if we had been indoors that guy would have suck all the air out of the room, he didn't even pause once while he was talking" replied Sam.

"look out here he comes again" whispered Bee, "ok everyone we need to check your cars out to make sure that they are safe, so if you will drive to the marked area over there and allow our technicians to check your car we can get this race under-way" the tall man pointed over to an area marked out by traffic cones where two surly guys in overalls stood waiting. "well I feel safer already" said Bee. The wait to be checked out was almost as bad as the lecture in the tent, Sam and Bumblebee had to wait in a line that reminded Sam of post office queues, each car in front slowly moved forward and was given the briefest check Sam had ever seen. "man where's ratchet with his wrench of doom when you need him?" commed Sam "don't say that sam, if he was here then he would put an end to all our fun, he would say something like "you bit brained speed junky, your going to get your self scraped out there"" Bee had done an almost perfect impression of Ratchet, it was so good that it set Sam off laughing.

The car in front of Sam moved away and Sam was left facing a check up by two guys that looked like they could have failed to repair a bicycle. The expression on their faces told Sam that they were lost as to how they should proceed with the exam of what they though was his car "you want me to open my engine housing?" he asked . Both men looked at each other for a moment and then one replied "no, I think that we can see all we need from here" they then precoded to check Sam's alt over, if felt strange to have people poking and prodding him like this but he did the best he could to just act normal. After what seemed like forever both cleared him on to the starting line, as Sam pulled away he noticed that one of the men was running over to a trailer with a worried look on his face.

It was the better part of fifteen minutes before Bumblebee joined Sam on the track, both had been placed near the back of the pack but it didn't bother them as soon all they would be seeing of the pack was a small speck far behind them. "so how did it go?" asked Sam over the com "ok but man his hands were cold" replied Bee "well I gota tell you that I got a little paranoid when one of them went running to that trailer" Sam could not hide the concern in his voice as he commed Bumblebee "don't worry sam, I overheard them talking when he came back, apparently he had to go tell the boss that things weren't going to be easy this time and the boss said that their driver shouldn't hold anything back" Bumblebee's words calmed Sam a little. He had been worried that they had seen something when they checked him over but it was just the fact that he had turned up in what looked like a really fast car.