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)

Now that they were in the town it's self Sam and Bumblebee dropped their speed in order to blend in a little more. As they drove through familiar streets they scanned looking for any surprises that might be waiting for them, Bumblebee had said that the Decepticons were expecting them so anything could be hidden in any shape or form. So far neither Autobot had detected anything different about the town, just the four energon signatures, three unmoving and one making the weirdest flight patterer in earth's history. With only a few miles to cover before he reached his house Sam tried once more to reach his parents, but still nothing worked no phone either line based or mobile would connect. Sam pulled over by a small store and commed Bumblebee "I still cant reach them bee, it looks like we're not going to get the chance to even them warn them before we get there". Bee pulled up in the next nearest space and commed back "then we'll have to warn them through our audio systems when we get close enough" "but the decepticons will get the message too bee we can't just.., oh I get it" commed Sam as he finally realised what Bumblebee was talking about. Sam quickly scanned any music files he could access as he pieced together different segments of songs and audio clips into a message that he hoped his parents would be able to understand, "after living with you for all this time I think they should get the message with out the decepticons understanding it in any way" commed Sam as he put the finishing touches to the message.

Bumblebee chuckled a little at this and commed "are you implying that I have an interesting way of speaking" "no I'm saying that you have a very interesting way of communicating when your vocal unit is on the fritz and only the people who are really close to you can understand it" replied Sam. A small moment of laughter was what Sam needed at the moment, it helped break the tension and made him relax just enough so he was less likely to choke when the pressure came. Before they attacked Sam wanted to get a look at his opponents, he knew that satellites based on earth technology could not give him anything other than a picture of the Decepticons but at least he would know what they looked like. Accessing the net Sam quickly found his way into the Pentagons main frame and from there into the satellite network, searching for any live feeds of tranquillity Sam soon found one satellite directly over head. "at last a little luck" thought Sam as he tried to access it's systems, everything looked fine until he hit a firewall that was defiantly not from earth. Instantly Sam recognized it as cybertroain and he made a connection to Bumblebee so that the scout could access what he was seeing. "I'm right aren't I bee, this satellite is under decepticon control" said Sam through the link "there is no doubt about it sam, we should try and break the connection if we can so the decepticons no longer have eyes on us" replied Bee.

Sam attacked the firewall with everything he had learned from Bumblebee's training sessions on hacking computers, at first it resisted like nothing either of them had seen and even Bumblebee was forced to admit that it was the work of a skilled communications bot. Since a direct approach hadn't worked they tried a different tactic and as Sam hit the defence program head on Bee looked for any weakness that would let him slip through. It was only when Sam tried a different series of algorithms that Bumblebee saw an opening, the defence program had to alter it's self to counter Sam's attack and that gave Bee a way in. Though it only took a nano second to adapt to Sam's attack that was all the time Bumblebee needed to break through and disable the firewall, now that they had some access to the control system of the satellite both Sam and Bee could see what was going on. For Sam it was a little unnerving to know that his actions were being watched by a Decepticon some where and even more so when he got a look at the image currently being captured by the satellites camera. Both he and Bumblebee were currently being tracked by this very satellite and it's Decepticon controller, quickly Sam tried to trace the out going signal as looked for the Decepticon who was watching them. But his efforts were pointless, the trace showed that there was no signal being transmitted to any Decepticon at that time "where is this guy" thought Sam.

As Sam searched for the Decepticon in control of the satellite Bumblebee tried to access the log of it's activates and movements so that he could figure out just how much the Decepticons knew about his and especially Sam's movements. This information was protected in other ways so Bee could only gain access to small parts of it, but from these small parts he was able to figure out that Sam's secret was still safe. As more data became unlocked the record of an access alarm was shown in the logs, form the date in the file Bumblebee was able to tell that this happened right before the break in at N.E.S.T H.Q and that the satellite had been under constant Decepticon control since then. All of Sam's attempts at finding any trace of a signal between the satellite and the Decepticon that controlled it came up with the same result, there had never been a signal from this satellite to a Decepticon. "aarrgh, how can you hack into a satellite with out using any kind of signal?" commed Sam, fortunately Bumblebee had an answer for him "because the decepticon is linked directly to the satellite up in orbit, I found the record of a hatch alarm in the data that I've been able to unlock" commed Bee. Sam quickly realised what this meant, "that means that he's on the satellite right at this moment, quick where's the self destruct on this thing?" asked Sam "at a guess I'd say that if this satellite ever had one then it's been removed by who ever has control of it" answered Bee.

Sam quickly went over what he knew about satellite and how they worked, "I can't destroy it from here, it won't self destruct, but it can move, it has thrusters so it can alter it's orbit and that means I can take it out of the picture with the right commands" thought Sam. "bee I have an idea" commed Sam "we can't destroy it from here, but we can crash it from here, I need you to keep this guy busy while I access the thruster controls and send this thing into the atmosphere". Bumblebee quickly started accessing more and more restricted systems in hopes of drawing the full attention of whoever was interfaced with the satellites systems. Soundwave had been keeping watch of the Autobots as they drove into tranquility, both had pulled over a few miles from the Witwicky house, they had stopped moving and that meant that they might know something was waiting for them. Just as Soundwave was about to contact the three Decepticons who were waiting in ambush he detected some one trying to access the satellite he was in control of. The first few attempts failed but then who ever it was managed to break through the defences he had put there, for a few seconds all the intruders did was to access the camera feed and look over a few systems like the transmission log. Soundwave regarded these as low priority so he just watched what was happening, he wanted to know who had broken past his firewall and for that he needed them to stay connected long enough for a trace to work.

The Decepticon watched as the satellites systems were probed, his defences around the logs were holding for the most part and only bit's of information had been accessed. Believing that whoever had accessed the satellite systems was occupied enough not to notice him tracking their signal Soundwave started looking for the source of the hack. He had made it as far as a data exchange just outside Washington when his connection to the satellites systems came under assault, forced to stop his trace Soundwave quickly started countering this intruder's attempts at gaining full control of the satellites main systems. Soundwave was having a hard time at keeping whoever this was out of the main operating system, time and again he drove off an attack only to have a new one start a nano second later. Who ever this was had no intention of making this easy for him, of all the Autobots on earth he only knew of one scout equipped with the ability to access systems like this. "so the target thinks that he can keep me from watching his every move, he will have little luck at gaining control after I disengage the communication systems on this satellite" thought Soundwave. But before he could make another move the thrusters started firing on their own, quickly the Decepticon tried to access the controls but found them locked with an unknown form of Autobot encryption. In a nano second Soundwave looked over the actions of the intruders and then he realized that he had been fooled, one had kept him busy by making bigger and bigger attempts at gaining control of the systems and when he was fully distracted another had broken into the guidance controls and set the satellite to crash into the atmosphere somewhere above the Atlantic ocean.

As he disengaged him self from the out of control satellite Soundwave let out a curse in cybertronian at being tricked like that, but this attack was something he hadn't expected ever. As he went over the last of the data that he had managed to recover from the satellites systems Soundwave found that the hack had been performed by two intelligence bots equipped with the best hacking programs and training he had ever encountered. As far as he knew there was only one Autobot on earth equipped with that ability, which meant that this new Autobot who was by the scouts side was probably the one that had been helping the scout during the hack. This would cause a problem for the units in tranquility, Soundwave had arranged the attack expecting only one scout and one fighter as was usual in any type of known defence strategy. With two Autobot scout's on the ground there was a greater chance of detection for the Decepticon who had orders to lay in wait for the human target and that meant the plan was now far from flawless. Quickly Soundwave commed the three Decepticons on the ground "autobots have interrupted visual surveillance, plan to keep them distracted is no longer viable, when they approach the target building engage them as before, unit three is to wait for an opening and attack the autobots when they are vulnerable, all units are to lower power output, the autobots will come to the target building on their own now".

Sam watched as the tracking system he had accessed showed the satellite falling into earth's atmosphere and burning up "well that takes care of the decepticon eye in the sky bee" commed Sam. But their celebration was short lived as three of the energon signals they were tracking seemed to vanish from their scanners completely. "their on to us" commed Bumblebee as he started scanning different frequencies, "well I don't know why their bothering to hide their energon output like this we already know their here waiting for us?" asked Sam as he joined the Bee in scanning different frequencies. "their hoping to keep us off guard until they attack" answered Bumblebee as he shifted into a new scanning frequency "then why hasn't the forth one done the same?" asked Sam as the air born signal continued it's strange flight pattern. That was a good question, the air born signal was carrying on like nothing had happened at all in fact it was just traveling along in the same way he had been doing since they detected him. Given that this was the only target that Bumblebee could still get a solid lock on he directed all his scanners toward it and tried every trick he knew gather more information about the incoming bot. Try as he might there was no way he could get much more detail about it, it's power out put was still to low and Bumblebee thought that the Decepticon must be crazy to try and fly like this as at times it looked like there wasn't enough power to keep the bot in the air.

Bee analysed the few reading he could and came to the conclusion that this bot was trying to run some sort of stealth routine, "I think our last target thinks that we can't detect him and that's why he's not changed anything, the others were probably bait to draw us in and he was meant to attack when we were distracted" explained Bumblebee over the com. That made sense to Sam, if they were planning a sneak attack on what they though was a human then the air was a perfect place to do it from as there was no Autobot able to catch a flying Decepticon. "well this guy made the trip for nothing then didn't he" commed Sam "because he's not going to see any trace of sam witwicky anywhere" "that's true but it doesn't mean that he won't try and join the fighting with the others when the time comes" replied Bumblebee. Sam started his engine and pulled back into the road as he commed "well they went to all this trouble for us it would be a shame if the guests of honor were late", "yeh they even put on an air show for us" commed Bee as he started his engine.