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)

"and that's basically how I became an autobot" said Sam as he finished explaining how he had gone from human to Autobot . Apache who had been listening intently just remained silent as he processed the information through. After about a minute of thinking the aerial Auotbot said "well sir, your story actually explains how you became both an autobot and a prime, when the power of the allspark fragment brought you back you had the ability to awaken the matrix of leadership, something only a prime can do by the sound of things". Apache tenderly reached out his hand and placed it on Sam's shoulder as he continued "you may have been human before you died in egypt, but when you came back you were an autobot and a prime no less and to be honest you started your life as an autobot in much the same way as beings from cyberton, you were a sparkless shell for a time then the allspark gave you life, it's that simple sir". Sam was beginning to realise that Apache had a very straight forward way of looking at things and that for him things were either one thing or another with little room for anything in-between. Sam let out a sigh as he accepted that Apache wasn't going to see him as anything but a prime and a commanding officer "ok apache, if that's what you want to call me then I'm ok with it, just don't over do it for the moment as I'm still getting used to it" said Sam. Apache simply nodded at the young Prime and said "yes sir and thank you for trusting me with your secret" as he saluted Sam once more.

Sam let out a small sigh combined with a laugh "if this is what he thinks under-doing it is I'd hate to see what he thinks over-doing it looks like" thought Sam. A strange voice caught Sam's attention as a young co-pilot spoke to him "sir we have just touched down and are ready to transport you and your party back to autobot city". For a moment all Sam could hear was stifled laughter from Bumblebee who seemed to think this was funny "bee" commed Sam "sorry but your face when he said sir, it was just to much to take" replied Bumblebee. "thank you"said Sam "I'll get the rest of my party together and we'll board in a few minutes", the young co-pilot saluted Sam and dashed off the waiting plane. Sam brought a hand to his temples in an attempt to massage the forming headache away but was stopped by a sharp pain from his arm caused by the fact that he had moved it to quickly in it's damaged state. "we' best get the others and head out, do you want to ride with us apache or follow in your alt mode?" asked Sam "I think I'd best follow sir, just in case one of those prat con's decides to pull something while your in the air" replied Apache as he started to transform. Sam just nodded at him as he and Bumblebee made their way over to the mess and the others. It was a drain but Sam needed to let his family and friends know they were ready to leave in private so he transformed and activated his Avatar and headed inside the small building. His Mom was asleep against his Dad and Miles and Mikaela were just talking about how she was going to deal with her Dad when he got back from his little trip. Sam nudged his Dad and said "the planes here we need to get moving" Ron just nodded at his son as he started to wake his wife.

Sam crossed the room and was about to speak to Miles and Mikaela when he caught sight of Miles face, he had rarely seen such a look of terror on anyone before but Miles was sporting a look that said just one thing, fear. Sam didn't get chance to speak when Miles jumped up and said "planes here?, great, just let me get my car and we can get going". Miles rushed past Sam and out the door before Sam could say anything "what's wrong with him?" asked Sam as Mikalea watched Miles flee the scene. "I may have frightened him when I talked about what I was going to do about my dad's little trip with wheelie, he's a big boy he'll get over it" answered Mikaela with a smirk.. Sam smiled back and said slightly laughing "the plane's here, we should go" Mikaela got up and replied "ok let's get going". They headed outside and Sam found Bee waiting for him in his alt form his own Avatar active despite the power drain. Bumblebee's Avatar hugged Sam's the moment they saw each other and said "come on let's get you on the plane, we can get some rest on the way there". Quickly Sam, Bumblebee, Judy, Ron, Mikalea and Miles who still refused to leave his car boarded the plane while Apache lifted off and hovered as the plane started it's engines ready for take off. Once the plane was air born Apache followed at a safe distance and used what working scanners he had to search for any in coming threats to both the cargo plane and himself.

Sam wasn't sure if it was because of all the fighting and emotional strain but as soon as the plane was air-born he started drifting into stasis. As his view of the world dimmed Sam caught one last glimpse of of Bumblebee's alt form sitting just ahead of him in the plane, Bee looked just as tired and worn out as he did. But the view was replaced by darkness as Sam fell fully into stasis far from the waking world. For a time Sam felt like he was falling, just falling with out end or reason in the most relaxed state he had known for a long time. Then slowly he began to slow and stop and once more he was in the meeting place of the Dynasty Primes, a single figure stepped forth from the light and spoke "you have done well in surviving brother". The Prime stood before Sam with a look of pride about him that Sam had never seen before, "your time of trials is not over yet, the balance of power among the decepticons has yet to shift and when it does your world will change forever". Sam was more than a little confused but the Dynasty Primes words, not because this was all new to him but because he had the worst case of deja vu he had even had in his life bar none. "I feel that I know all this" said Sam "that is because we have spoken of this before young one and as before you will not fully remember all of this" explained the Prime. "we must be brief as our time is limited, you have much to learn from optimus about being a prime and little time in which to do it, you must let go of any feelings that will stop this, you, your world and those you care for depend on it" said the Dynasty Prime. "he lied to me how can I just forget that, I trusted him and he couldn't tell me the truth about who I am" replied Sam sharply, the Dynasty Prime just laughed lightly and said "the fire of youth can be such a burden some times, optimus did what he did to protect you, but he was not alone in this want and in part he kept the truth from you because he was asked to".

Now Sam was really confused, who had asked Optimus to keep this from and why had they done it "who, who asked optimus" demanded Sam. "you will learn all in time brother, but for the moment let go of any anger you have, all that has been done has been done out of love in one form or another, you can trust your brother optimus he will no longer keep anything from you and remember that this was harder on him than anything he has ever had to do, fare...." the voice of the Prime faded as the world grew black around Sam. An instant later Sam was awake as the plane toughed down on the runway in Autobot city. Sam's body was stiff all over and he ached as he tried to move, "bee are you ok?" asked Sam "fine" replied Bumblebee with just a trace of pain in his voice. Sam accessed his com system and said "you liar, I know you better than that your still hurt" "I'm not lying to you sam I'm getting ready to deal with ratchet" explained Bee gently, "ok, I'll let you off this time bee" commed Sam jokingly which caused them both to make things hurt even more as they laughed a little.

The rear exit to the plane opened and Sam saw that Ratchet was storming his way over to them quickly "look out bee, your going to have to do a much better acting job this time around" commed Sam. As they got out of the plane Ratchet stood looming over them like an annoyed parent as he waited for whatever explanations they were going to try and give him. "the both of you transform now so I can get so I can get a good look at you" said Ratchet with a tone that left little room for refusal. Sam and Bee quickly commed each other as they tried to find a way out of this, though they were both still in pain neither wanted to be looked at right now. Sam wanted to talk to Optimus in private and Bumblebee wanted to stay by Sam's side when he did so Sam replied "it's just a scratch ratchet we can wait until your finished checking apache over". Ratchet didn't look impressed by the response "are you a med-bot sam?" asked Ratchet "no" replied Sam "then how do you know it's just a scratch and not something more serious, the answer is you don't so the pair of you can get your aft's in my med bay now and transform into robot mode without argument or do I need to reinforce my statement" said Ratchet as he produced a heave wrench and started smacking it against his hand. Both young autobots knew only to well that Ratchet would not hesitate from throwing said wrench at in injured bot to get them moving if he thought they wouldn't listen to him. Sheepishly they both drove over to the Med bay with Ratchet following close behind just in case one of them tried to make a run for it on the way over.

Sam and Bee soon found them selves in the new med bay, as the door closed sam was faced with the first room he had ever seen that was built to an Autobot scale. In the past he had seen the buildings at N.E.S.T. H.Q but those were just modified human buildings, this was built by Autobots for Autobots. Sam transformed and looked around the new med bay, everything looked unused and polished, like it had just come from the manufacturer or something. But what was most interesting was that Sam felt like he fitted in here, he was no longer a giant alien robot in a tiny world, he was just normal like everyone else around him. But that thought didn't last long as Sam remembered that he still had to talk to Optimus about him being a prime him self. "can we get this over with ratchet, I need to talk to optimus now" said Sam as he continued to look round the room "hold your horse power" replied Ratchet "I need to look you both over first, or are you claiming that your both so good you didn't take any damage". "why didn't I think of that one" though Sam as he examined a set of unfamiliar tools that were laid out on a table in front of him. "well since your already transformed you can go first sam" said Ratchet as he approached with something that looked like some kind of new medical scanner. Sam quickly turned his damaged arm away from Ratchet and said "take a good look as you can see there's no damage beyond a few scratches and dents", "a quick look won't do sam I need to run a full check on you and lets start with that arm your trying to hide from me, or didn't you think I noticed the damage there when you transformed" replied Ratchet.

Sam let out a small complaint as he sat on a large metal table that Ratchet was pointing to. The Med-bot straightened Sam's damaged arm out so that he could get a better look at it, the damage looked normal at first glance but as Ratchet probed deeper he found something the shocked even him. "what in the name of the allspark is this!" exclaimed Ratchet as he inspected Sam's energon distribution system. "what is it?" asked a panicked Bumblebee as he quickly transformed and rushed to Sam's side. "I don't know" said Ratchet as he used every form of scanning he could think of to inspect what he had found, "it's like the energon has almost crystallized over the damaged section of sam's energon network, it's stopping the leakage of more energon while allowing this section to supply energon to the rest of sam's arm like normal". Sam looked at the damage worried that something had gone wrong with his new body "does that mean that my energon is drying up or something?" asked Sam a little frightened "no your far to young for that no matter what the circumstances" replied Ratchet. Bumblebee held onto Sam tightly as Ratchet set his scanners to their most sensitive settings and probed the area gently hoping to find out what was going on. The scanner soon picked up slight changes to the edge of the wound and as Ratchet watched he saw signs of new metal growing and closing the wound beneath the crystal structure. The process looked familiar to Ratchet even though he had never seen it on a bot before, but as he watched the growth continue Ratchet realized that he had seen this before, in a human body.

Very carefully Ratchet took a small sample from the outer edge of the crystal and analysed it's structure carefully under the most powerful scanners he had. For a few minutes the Med-bot was silent as he performed his tests and analysed the reading. At last Ratchet turned to Sam and said "it looks like you even more left over gifts from your human form sam, your body has created some form of crystallized energon patch over the wound, there is a slight difference in your energon that allows this to happen and because of this process you are healing faster than normal due to full energon flow in the aera, but I still have some work to do to you, just not as much as I thought". Sam looked at his arm and relaxed, this was just some kind of hold over from when he was human that had surfaced to help keep him safe. "you had me worried there for a moment ratchet" said Sam with true relief in his voice "well since you can wait a little I'm going to start on fixing bumblebee's injury's" said Ratchet as he advanced on Bee. Once more Ratchet was stunned by the readings he got as his scanner flickered over Bumblebee's back, the Med-bot let out a grunt as he spoke to the young Autobots "just tell me what exactly have you both been doing while you've been away" "what do you mean?" Sam and Bee asked confused. "what I mean is that for some strange reason bumblebee has the same altered energon in his system and it's stopping the energon loss in his wounds just like yours" said Ratchet looking them both over carefully.