Chapter 12

The whole drive back I didn't so much as look at Sam. I was afraid that if I spoke to or looked at him I would lose it. To keep my focus on what lay ahead I gripped Bee's steering wheel as tight as I could. "Allison, look I'm sorry, I just want to go to college, be normal," Sam said.

"When does normal include casting your friends aside for own wants and needs?" I asked venom in my voice. I had few friends and I would never cast them aside. I didn't fight 16 years of being told I was worthless, stupid, a dumb whore, useless, idiot, fucking bitch, and much worse and being physical tortured to throw my friends away. I had scars all over my body, many of them words like, worthless, unwanted, useless, and stupid. In someone's eyes I had value; I was more than a play toy to have pent up sexual energy and anger taken out on. I was a living being that deserved respect, just like all living, breathing creatures, including the Auto bots.

"I don't think I can do another war. I'm not a soldier," Sam said.

"You are now. You and I had the first contact with them. We signed up to fight alongside them the moment you drove Bee out of that 'Used Cars' dealership. The moment you touched that Cube sliver you signed up to fight alongside them for the rest of your life. You and I carry the Allspark. We are in this together for life," I shouted. We were a few miles away from the school and Sam tried to say something to me. "Let me out Bee," I said cutting Sam off. Bee pulled over and I got out. As soon as my feet hit the pavement I ran.

"Allison!" I heard Sam call, then a car door slam. Bee was refusing to let Sam follow me, for which I was grateful. I saw Bee go by me with Sam looking annoyed that he couldn't follow. I was grateful for the training that the Auto bots, Lennox and Epps had given me. I knew several forms of fighting now and was capable of running 6 miles in about 20 minutes. I arrived at the school within minutes and went to my room and grabbed my bathroom stuff. I then went for a hot shower. My first class was at 10am, and right now it was 9am. I was glad that today I had no classes with Sam.

I headed for my first class, college algebra, at 12pm I had English Literature, then a lunch break, at 2pm I had physiology, then at 3 to 4:30 Sociology. I was not looking forward to tomorrow. I would have to see Sam in my first class of the day. We had Astronomy at 9am. My first day of classes went smoothly and since I had read all the text books already, I didn't have any real homework to speak of. Later that night I was sprawled out on my bed looking at the ceiling thinking of the Auto bots. Something big was going to happen and soon. As I drifted off I heard the Primes, "You can't prevent this, but you can change the ending. Change it youngling, restore life. Find the power within yourself."

I suddenly jerked awake, stifling a scream. I had seen Optimus die again, but this time I was given more information. I knew I had the Allspark inside me but I didn't know how I was supposed to restore life to one that had died. As I was lost in my thoughts my alarm went off. I got up and turned it off.

I headed for the tiny closet in the room and pulled out a pair of jeans, a graphic tee with a wolf on it, and my jacket. After dealing with my waist length dark hair I slipped my tennis shoes on and grabbed my bag. On my way through the buffet room I grabbed a juice, bagel, apple, and bottled water. As I walked to class I ate. I found a seat about half way up the rows in my classroom and sat. Sam and Leo sat down beside me.

"Good morning beautiful," Leo said.

"Morning Leo, and you're cute but I'm jail bait," I said not looking up from my book that I was reading. I had bought a book on politics and was quickly finishing it. Sam was 18, I was guessing Leo was as well, but I was 17.

"What are you reading?" Sam asked.

"Why would you care, you don't want to help our friends," I said as the class started to fill up. When the teacher walked in I put the book in my bag. I put my apple core into my juice cup which was now empty and set it under my feet as I pulled out my pencil and note book and started taking notes.

"Space. Time," the teacher said taking a bite of an apple then letting it fall, "Gravity." He mouthed something to one of the students that I didn't catch. "I will be your escort your guide into the heart of darkness," he went on and on but my attention was now elsewhere. Sam was flipping through his book at break neck speeds. Leo and I tried to get his attention as he was starting to distract the class. Suddenly he pushed the book off of his desk and raised his hand.

"Put your hand down, put your hand down," Leo whispered.

As Sam stood waving his hand the teacher said, "Young man, there are no questions until I reach the climax of my lecture."
"I just finished your book and there's one problem. Einstein's wrong," Sam said heading to the black board saying something about the one and no one ever talks about the other 17. He started writing Cybertronian symbols on the board. I recognized it as a math problem, but I could read it. Everyone else thought he was nuts.

"Young man I will not be punked in front of the Dean. Now, this is my universe here. DO you understand? I am the alpha and the omega. Get out of my class," he said pushing the black board away from him and Sam apologized leaving. "Would anyone else care to have some kind of mental break down?" the teacher asked. After a few minutes we continued as though nothing happened. This man clearly didn't know what an omega and an alpha were because you could not be both.

When class was over I headed for Sam's room. I opened the door to find Cybertronian symbols all over the wall. "You might want to have that in a note book instead Sam," I said reading all the symbols.

"Why can you read this?" he asked.

"Yeah, and so can Alice, she's a Decepticon," I said.

"What's it say?"

"Not here," I replied just as Alice walked. I really hoped that she didn't hear any of that; Leo seemed to be talking her ear off. She suddenly pushed Leo and me out of the room telling us to get out. I then saw Mikaela, "Mikaela!" I called running toward her.

"Allison, have you seen Sam?"

"Yeah, he has a Decepticon doing something to him in his room," I said taking her to his room.

Mikaela opened the door, "Sam?" she asked. Alice was straddling him, kissing him.

Sam broke the kiss, "Mikaela!" he said shocked.

"Is that your girlfriend?" Alice asked. Sam made a small noise to indicate a yes.

"Ex," Mikaela replied walking away from the door.

"You're an idiot and on your own," I said walking away after Mikaela. Mikaela and I were headed down the hall to my room as we heard a fair amount of noise coming from Sam's room. We turned around to go save his sorry ass.

"Sam, your bed buddy Alice," Leo started. Sam screamed like a little girl as Alice's tongue went back in her mouth; just the tip of it was flesh covered, and the other several feet were metal. Mikaela threw a metal box that she was holding at her and it went out the window. As we ran out the door Sam closed it behind him. "What was that?" Leo asked as we ran through the campus grounds, heading for the library.

"Trouble," I said pressing the button to connect to the Commlink on my necklace. "Decepticon alert!" was all I said. It was all I had time to say as gun fire went by us.

"An alien robot," Sam replied.

"For real?" Leo asked.

"Just run," Sam replied. As soon as we were in the library we headed for the second floor that over looked the first. We hid behind some statues and the railing.

"Oh my god I can't believe I once almost had sex with in my dream," Leo said.

"I can tell that you really missed me a lot Sam," Mikaela said,

"It's not my fault. Look I'm a victim. I am a victim," Sam argued.

"Oh you're a victim? Of what? Of what? A little 80 pound girl," Mikaela shot back.

"It was like getting humped in the neck by a mountain ox." I rolled my eyes as Sam tried to argue with Mikaela.

"You didn't have to put your tongue in her mouth." When Sam went to argue she said, "You did! You did!"

"Look have you ever had your stomach tongued by a mountain ox with a five foot tongue? It's not fun for me, ok Mikaela? And it smelled like diesel. Like a diesely tinge to it."

"You're such a little girl!" Sam asked.

"I'm not talking to you for 10 seconds, we're going to have 10 seconds of silence," Sam replied.

"You can't give me the silent treatment," Mikaela said in a harsh whisper. "I hope you had fun because, this," Mikaela said pointing between her and Sam, "this is over."

"She violated your orifice, she did that. She probably placed her alien spawn in there. You need to vomit, right now! Yak it! Yak it! Right now!" Leo said. At that Sam puked.

"Who are you?" Mikaela asked disgusted.

Leo gave his whole name, "I'm the key to this. The aliens, they want me because of my site."

"Leo, they couldn't care less about you if they tried," I said as a huge hole was blasted through the book shelves. Sam jumped over the railing and on to the hanging lights, Mikaela and Leo used the stairs and I just jumped and landed on my feet. Thanks to my new hips and knees, I could do stuff like that and not get hurt. Sam dove near a leg of a table, while Leo and Mikaela dove under one.

"Mikaela!" Sam yelled as a hole was blasted through some bookshelves. I took cover in the shadows. We soon made it over to an exterior wall, all of us bunched up together. I wanted to use me gun that Ironhide gave me, but there were too many people here. Someone could get hurt. Suddenly a huge hole appeared in the wall next to us. We took our chance and ran out of it.

"Bee!" I yelled. He skidded around the corner. "Hold her off!" I said as Sam picked up a metal box and Mikaela, Sam, Leo, and I piled into a car that a student had left unlocked. Sam passed the metal box back to Leo and I. As Alice came out of the building Sam started to freak out. Bee quickly snagged her and Mikaela hotwired the car.

"Oh my god, you know how to hotwire a car, that's so hot," Leo said.

"Not the time Leo," I said. Mikaela sped us out of there as Bee followed calling the others to us.

"So what else did you forget to tell me? I think you forgot to mention some minor details!" Leo said completely freaked.

"That thing you saw back that was a little baby, whoa!" Sam said getting interrupted by a helicopter blocking our path. Mikaela skidded out; trying to avoid the helicopter and another car hit us just as a spike of some kind came through the roof of the car.

"Oh my god, oh my god!" Leo shouted, completely freaking out. As we were lifted up we spun, from having been hit by another car. As the car was lifted into the air over a huge body of water Sam fell out of the car hanging on to the door.

"SAM!" Mikaela yelled reaching across the seat to grab him. Leo and I reached from the back seat to grab him. We pulled him back in and Leo resumed his screaming.

"We're going to die! We're going to die! Oh my god!" Soon we were dropped into an old factory of some kind and our car was cut in half, leaving Mikaela and I on one side and Sam and Leo on the other. When I realized where I was I felt my heart sink. The day had come.