Chapter 21

At the base Sam was practising her powers with Red Alert and Wing Saber, she threw herself off of a high platform as Red Alert instructed and concentrated hard on what she wanted to do but she began to scream as she was about to hit the floor. At once Wing Saber held his hand out and caught her before she did. When Sam saw that she was safe she looked towards Red Alert.

"I can't fly Red Alert, it's just something I can't control."

"You will get it eventually"

Wing Saber placed her on the floor, she hunched slightly tired from the constant practising that Red Alert was making her do, it annoyed her that she had to do all this when she never asked for these powers and they had only brought nothing but trouble to her as well as her mum. Before Red Alert told her to do anything else they heard Scattershot over the speakers asking for everyone to come to the monitor room.

"Let's see you teleport us there Sam"

"Really… Why can't we walk?"

Red Alert just looked upon her with squinted optics, she could see that was no arguing with him so she thought hard of the monitor room and suddenly a yellow light appeared in front of her and grew to engulf all of them and they disappeared. Everyone had converged to the monitor room, they were all waiting for Red Alert, Wing Saber and Sam when a yellow bubble appeared and then shrunk down to Sam.

"Do you really need to use your powers to walk a couple of meters?" asked Hot Shot

Sam shrugged her shoulders and pointed at Red Alert "ask him"

Sam walked over to bumblebee and stood next to his feet while Hot Shot had a go at Red Alert.

"What good is going to come from forcing Sam to use her powers, don't you think that you should just let them do whatever they are going to do"

"Hot Shot enough" shouted Optimus

Scattershot waited for everyone to stop their bickering before speaking.

"From studying the information about the plans for the shrink ray I have discovered that Sam is right the professor couldn't have deciphered the cybertronian writing because when I scanned it in to the system it came up with ancient warriors."

"Scattershot are you saying it is ancient cybertronian writing"

"Yes Optimus"

Everyone seemed shocked by the news but Sam seemed a little confused

"So the Cons did translate it for him"

"No Sam they couldn't have, no one speaks this dead language"

"Then how did he…"

She wasn't given the opportunity to finish her sentence as Optimus gave out his orders

"Wing Saber, Hot Shot, Red Alert prepare to enter battle we're going to visit the decepticons. Bumblebee and Scattershot I want you to find out everything you can about the inscriptions from the professor, take Sam and protect her at all costs."

They all nodded transforming and driving off towards the exit except for Bee, Scattershot and Sam. She looked up at them hoping to find some sympathy.

"But I'm not ready to go see him again"

Bee transformed and opened up his door while Scattershot knelt beside her urging her to get in.

"I'm sorry Sam but it's important that we know everything and don't worry we will be there the whole time"

She knew that she had no choice and that she had to understand just like she had to understand why her parents were nether around and when they were why they had to leave without saying goodbye. She jumped in and sat there hoping that everything would be over soon. As they reached the museum Sam directed Bee to the back of the building where she knew they would be able to get inside as Scattershot followed behind. Once there Sam went inside and opened the large door used for letting in lorries for transporting exhibits, she knew that it would be open because the museum was open and she knew all of the professors habits of leaving things unlocked.

Scattershot and Bee transformed once inside and noticed that the only way they were ever going to protect Sam and get answers was to lure the professor in to the room and trap him in.

"Sam you're going to have to get the professor here" said Scattershot

"How do I do that he knows I don't like him anymore"

"Perhaps you could use that to your advantage"

Sam began to think as she exited the room and walked down the corridor, she approached the main room. She did not go round as she wanted to be discreet, she peered round the corner to see the professor giving a tour for a family, he seemed to be acting naturally and not distracted. She decided to use his tour against him so she went up behind him as he point an exhibit out to the family and she quickly tapped his back and hid. Sam did not look round until she knew it was safe then she quickly walked past in front of him to get his attention. Of course he noticed her and stopped talked for a second as he watched the young brunette walk past without giving him a slight glance.

All of a sudden lots of people got in his way and blocked his vision of Samantha as she was walking away when the people cleared she was gone and he began to looked around for her. The family he was showing around looked at the old man in concern that he had suddenly stopped and was now randomly looking around. He stared back at them and smiled.

"Excuse me for a moment, I will be right back"

He walked off to the main desk and looked around again only to spot Sam leaning against a pillar, this time she was staring right at him. He could see the hurt in her eyes at his betrayal but she seemed to have a little hate in her too. Before he knew it she was gone again he walked over to the pillar and searched around for her, it took a while but he found her again this time leaning on a door frame and then she span around and went through the door. The professor followed her down the corridor and in to the large room that the lorries came through.

As he went in the door suddenly shut behind him when he turned he saw a large metal hand making sure that the old man did not try to escape. He followed the metal hand to the two metal men knelt down in the room, both looking quite angry at him.

"What is this Samantha?"

"You don't have the right to talk to me anymore, professor"

She stepped back away from him and towards Bumblebee. He looked up at them and didn't like where this was going.

"You will tell us how you translated the ancient transcriptions" demanded Scattershot

He pointed a finger right at him which he flinched at for a moment thinking that the robot will hit him.

"I can't I promised to keep it a secret?"

Sam had heard enough from the traitor and walked right up to him quickly and punched him in the face. He fell backwards and put his arms up to protect himself from anymore punching. But no more came instead Bee picked up Sam and held her close.

"I guess I deserve that one"

"You guess, you betrayed me. You're working for the decepticons" yelled Sam

"I didn't realise they were the bad guys until I had built the ray"

"Yeah right"

Sam looked away from him with her arms crossed in anger.

"I suppose I owe you the truth"

She really wanted Bee to let her down so she could hit him again.

"When the plans were given to me I had no idea what the inscriptions meant but after a week demolishor became impatient with me but that night I had a strange dream, I saw giant robots about six of them. They looked pretty old and they called themselves the ancient ones, they told me what the inscriptions meant"

"The ancient ones" repeated Scattershot

"Who are they Scattershot?"

"The ancient ones are well known in cybertronian history but they are better known as the primes, those who lead us before Optimus. The original Primes"

Sam was curious at what she was learning there was just so much she still didn't know and wanted to know in relation to her friends.

"We must go and help Optimus and deliver him the information, who knows what else the cons have"

A slight beeping alerted Scattershot that Sam was with them and primes orders was to protect her.

"Bee you go inform Optimus, I will stay with Sam"

Bee didn't really want to leave Sam he knew that she would be safe with Scattershot but she was still hurting and if he was to go he would have to no doubt help fight Megatron. He put her down and transformed before racing out of the building and towards the cons base. Scattershot transformed too in to his tank vehicle form and allowed Sam to get in the window was down and as the door closed behind her the professor approached.

"Samantha I am truly sorry, I wish to help"

"No… You have done enough already. I'm warning you stay away from me, my family and my friends"

Before he could reply the tank reversed back and drove off. Scattershot knew that it was better to get her out of there and away from him. He headed back to the base so that he could research more and it was the safest place for Sam right now. As he was driving he noticed two dark cars following them behind, for a while he thought that it was nothing but he took a little detour to see if his suspicions were right and they were.