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 still trying to fix any mistakes that i might have missed in past chapters (i.e spelling, grammar and so on)

The soft bed below him creaked as Sam shifted his weight, waking up in their room with the remote charger near by was far better than coming out of stasis on some distant road with almost no power in his system. But the comfort of the familiar was soon washed away by the feelings that he had been having since the day before, it was like some one was watching, waiting, just beyond the range of his scanners and Sam knew that who ever it was had dark motives in mind. His Avatar quickly looked round the room for any sign of danger as the scanners on his alt form did the same to the local area, for a moment Sam thought that he had detected energon signatures close by but repeated scans failed to show anything. Thought fresh scans showed nothing Sam still felt on edge, in fact he was so distracted that he didn't notice when Bumblebee's Avatar snaked it's arms round the waist of his own Avatar. The first thing Sam knew about it was when Bumblebee gave him a sharp squeeze to get his attention.

"what, oh sorry bee, I was a million miles away for a moment" said Sam as he kissed Bee gently on the lips "what's the matter sam you've been like this since you came out of your stasis nap yesterday, is something wrong?" asked a very concerned Bumblebee. Sam was lost in his thoughts about how something was wrong again for a moment before he said "I just have this feeling that something is coming bee, something bad and it frightens me to think that you might get hurt when it gets here". This got Bee's full attention, he would allow nothing to upset his Sam like that "what ever it is sam I'll take care of it, nothing is going to harm me or you I promise" said Bumblebee as he hugged Sam tightly. The protective feelings coming from Bee made Sam fell a little better but he was still unable to shake the deeper feelings that something was very wrong.

Bumblebee had decided that since Sam was having these bad feeling they would be taking their time getting to class rather than running the whole way there at the last second. They left their room around the same time as the other students, Bumblebee scanned the crowed for any sign of danger, but all he found was the normal activates of campus life. There were people dragging them selves to class after only having thirty minutes sleep in the last twenty four hours, while others raced along full of energy ready for Monday's first classes. Everything looked normal, even his scans of the area showed no sign of anything not even the slight blip of energon that Sam had detected earlier. But now that he was fully awake Bumblebee could feel the strong emotions coming from Sam and like Sam they had put him on his guard as well. The only times Bee had felt something like this was when he was going into battle, these were the feeling of the moment before the shooting started, before the enemy showed it's self, the point between decision and action when he knew something bad was coming but could do nothing about it and it saddened him to think that his lover was having to feel all this and if Bumblebee had any say in events then Sam would never have to go through something like this ever.

A sharp high pitched scream caused both of them to turn and get ready to fight, but when a girl came running out of the shower shivering and complaining that the water was freezing they both relaxed a little. "what is this bee?" asked Sam "why do I feel like there are eyes watching me from every shadow, like something is going to pounce on me any second?" "I don't know know sam, but some how you know and I know that it's real, I can feel what you feel and I know that something is there too, I just don't know what it is" replied Bumblebee. "yeh well if I get any more false shocks like that one I think I might have a spark attack" said Sam as they passed by a group of laughing guy who were trying to hide a large wrench. Bumblebee shock his head as one of the guys dropped the wrench on his own foot and let out a loud "ouch, dam it", neither Autobot Avatar paid any notice to the noise this time though. "I'm starting to wish that whatever is coming would just get it over with" said Sam as they headed out of the dorm towards their first class of the day "be careful what you wish for sam" said Bee "you may not like what you get".

Unknown to Sam or Bumblebee an encrypted com message was discussing the fulfillment of said wish at that very moment. "barricade to hack have you found the witwicky boy yet?" commed Barricade, the connection was filled with static for a few seconds before Hack replied "not yet but my information shows that he will be here shortly" the infiltrator's voice had a shrill impatient tone to it that angered Barricade. "if we fail lord megatron he will offline us personally" commed Barricade sharply "I have never failed any assignment I have been given" commed Hack, the infiltrator was doing his best to goad Barricade for his own amusement and it was working. Barricade revved his engine hard as he commed back "unlike you I have fought the autobots head on in battle, I have shed energon and metal in the name of lord megatron, you on the other hand have simply attacked a few bots in stasis and stolen information when required, you have not known true combat". Hack was enjoying Barricades anger greatly, he loved angering bots who thought that they were better than him "but still I have never failed at any task I have been given, where as you who failed to destroy even a single autobot in mission city or since you got to this miserable planet are now in fear of being off-lined for such failures".

If Barricade did not fear the thought of Megatron tearing him limb from limb for disobeying orders he would have entered the campus and destroyed Hack there and then, but self preservation stayed his want for destruction, at least for the moment. "all recent commends given to me by lord megatron have been fulfilled so I have little to fear from him, but you have only just arrived on this rock and must prove your self useful to him on this battlefield" combat with words was not something Barricade enjoyed but it would help him control his temper until he could dispatch Hack safely. Hack sneered at the remark as he commed back "all you have done is to frighten some of these stupid organics here and there, something any decepticon could do just by showing its true from, when I am finished here today I will be rewarded for dispatching the boy and retrieving his main processor or brain as these discussing thing things insist on calling it". Barricade sensed an opening that he could use and commed "at least I do not have to reshape my self to look like one of these things for any mission, unlike you, your present form is truly hideous and no real decepticon would assume such a shape". This barb had gotten to hack far more than any ever had "I make this sacrifice for my mission, I had to watch my target for days before I replaced it, every movement, every gesture, I endured this because I was ordered to and when I am finished I will retake my original form until ordered otherwise, that is my function and it is one I do with pride". Hack though quickly about how he could strike back and quickly came up with a new insult "at least the only time I have been forced to touch one of these things is when I killed it, you on the other hand were forced to carry one recently, how did it feel to have such a disgusting thing inside you as it left it's oily residue everywhere and leaked fluids intermittently".

Hack had pushed him to far, Barricades rage grew beyond his control as he readied him self to tare the infiltrator to pieces "watch your power out put barricade, I almost detected you then and I knew exactly where to look, if the autobots locate you energon signature then they will take the boy beyond our reach and I will not fail for the first time ever because of you". Barricade backed his power output down and restrained his temper once again "when this is finished you and I will speak about this face to face" commed Barricade a menace echoing in his voice "if you survive combat with the autobots" thought Hack "after all the last time he faced just one of them barricade was badly beaten, with two here I may never have to speak to him again" Hack grinned at the thought of Barricade being blasted into pieces as he dealt with the boy at his leisure. "this is the last com before we attack barricade, the boy will soon be here, try to remember the time of the attack I would hate for you to get this wrong and fail lord megatron" commed Hack as he closed the com link.

Sam and Bumblebee were just entering the building that contained their first class for the day when that conversation between Hack and Barricade ended. "if this feeling wasn't bad enough we still have that jerk colan to deal with" said Sam as he and Bee made their way to astronomy one-o-one "after what happened friday I don't think he will dare do anything to us sam, after all if the dean thinks that we're something special then he's got to play along and be nice" replied Bumblebee. It was true that miss Everton had spoken to the dean about him and Bee but Sam doubted that Colan would let things rest so easily even with orders form the dean to the contrary.

The flow of people to Colan's class was mostly steady, only a few star struck girls raced to the door in hopes of getting seats at the front of the room. " hey" called a familiar voice from behind and both Avatars turned round to find Leo standing behind them, "leo" said Sam surprised by the teens appearance. "I've been looking for you guys, especially you sam" said Leo in a tone that conveyed trouble, Sam and Bee both looked at each other worried about what that tone meant. Leo motioned for them to follow him away from the crowd, at first neither was sure if they should but a glare from Leo told them it was best not to make a scene in a crowded hallway. Leo lead them to an empty class room a short distance away from Colans and opened the door for them, the moment they were inside he closed it and checked the room for other people. Neither Bee or Sam knew what he was doing, but it was freaking them both out.

Leo finished checking the room and put his books on an empty desk "I've been waiting to see you all weekend sam, but at least I knew I could catch you here this morning at this time" there was more than a hint of anger in his voice as Leo glared at Sam. Bumblebee didn't like this, he had never seen Leo act this way before and he was sure that some form of trouble was about to follow soon after Leo finished talking. "two days I've waited, to long days" said Leo as he walked toward Sam "you know what I've done for the past forty eight hours sam, work, I've been writing down the answers to all the tests I've been given just like everybody else here, well not everybody else" he paused and pointed at Sam. "you haven't been doing that have you, word is that your some kind of genius who can do all his work for the day in his lunch break, now either your really a genius or your autobot guard is doing the work for you" Leo looked steamed about all this. He sat on the desk by his things and said "right now I don't really care which one it is, what I do care about is the fact that you didn't offer to help me once when we shared a room, you let me do all my own work without even offering me a scrap of an answer when I was stuck, what kind of friend are you" Leo looked more angry than hurt about all this but it was not something Sam could easily explain.

Leo let out a sharp breath and looked Sam dead in the eyes "that's in the past now and if you were trying to hide whatever it was back then that's ok, but now that it's out you need to help your friends out and I am sure that I am your friend sam, I got tasered helping you on the second day of knowing you so you could at least help me study when I get stuck on a test instead of just sitting there pretending that your studying so hard you cant help me". Sam relaxed and calmly said "first off leo I was studying hard before it's only since all this" Sam made a gesture to his eyes "that I've found the work easy, if I could have helped you back then I would have and if you need some help now Bee and I will help you study but neither of us will do the work for you and just for the record our guardians don't help us cheat at tests either we do all our own work". Leo looked a little dejected at the answer, secretly he had been hoping that Sam would feel so guilty that he would do most of the hard work for him, at least for a while that is.

"ok, I guess you helping me study is fair for me helping you save the world" said Leo "I'm not helping you because of that leo, or the fact that you got your self tasered and tasered your self all those times, it's because you are my friend" with that little shot Sam knew that he had managed to ensure that Leo would never try anything like this again. On the way back to Colans class room all Leo could look at were his shoes, Sam would forgive him in a few days but for the moment a little guilt trip was fun to watch.