"Jeez, Bee, I'm pretty sure I should feeling offended…" Sam says with a pout.

"What for Sammy?" Bee looks innocent and clueless. A week is passed since the "vending machine accident - part 2", and Bee is in front of the school main entrance, showing his timetable to his closest human friends.

"Because YOU have the same classes as ME" Sam is shocked. He's also amused that he will be able to see him all days all the day, but still, the blonde is 13, he is 4 years younger, for Primus sakes!

"Oh, oh that… well, I still your guardian, so I manage to be with you as much as possible!" Bee's smile is the brightest, Cheshire cat grin he'd ever seen.

"You cheated, don't you?" Mikaela looks amused."You shouldn't be one of the good boy?"

"Well, cheat is such a big word…" Bee was bitting is bottom lip, and Sam wondering from who he takes this habit

"Beeee!"

"I mean, is not a big deal… I just jumped couple of question and gave few of wrong answers to be sure to be in your same range"

Sam was speechless, so Mikaela asks: "you simulate a test at home at the best of your ability?"

"Yeah.."

"And?"

"And I could jump the high school and go to the college now, but my investigation of your culture suggests that high school is more related to improve social skill rather than improve only the knowledge, and I'm sure that this will offer a great opportunity to learn more about teenagers in their main environment." Bee stony face seems too old for his young features.

"Oh" is the only answer Sam can produce.

At this Bee face opens in smile and he adds "Well, this, and if I had to spend time with old boring adults, I would prefer to stay in the NEST rather than in a College. I can wait to explore the human interaction and behavior of individual at the further level of instruction next year"

"Wow, now I know what been a the guinea pigs feels like" Sam is amazed

"Ok then, are you ready for starting this anthropological study?" Mikaela tease him.

"yeah…" he restart to bit is lower lip, and he looks so young and innocent that Mikaela have to reassure him "that will be nothing comparing to fight a battle without you legs"

"But at least in that case I'm sure I know what I'm doing" Bee' whisper go unheard as Mikaela and Sam are already on the stairs.

They are halfway through the first day, and through the math class, one of the few Bee and Sam don't share with Mikaela, when the first gunshot broke the silence.

Their corridor seems free and they try to make a run for the front door. Their teacher is the last one, her duty is make sure everyone escape safely.

There are running steps approaching from the other wing of the school, and Bee grab Sam's wrist and pull him in the janitor room.

The other students don't notice them, as well as the teacher. The two can hear their screams, as well as one single gun shot that make everyone going silent.

A male voice command the students in the canteen, and give to his men - soldier Bee deduce - orders for keeping them quite.

They wait. Sometime, when they enter in this room, Bee covers the other teen mouth with his hand.

Now he release him, and turn to check on the wellbeing of the older boy. Sam looks fine, a little bit scared as it's normal for the situation, but he's not loosing it, and that is a relief for the blonde.

"I will bring you out from this mess, I promise!" Bee is all business like, and all Sam can do is smile at the shorter boy. "Yeah, you always do that", after that pushed from an instinct that says now or never you could both die now, Sam gently caresses Bee's cheek and kisses him.

Bee is not sure of when he close is eyes, nor of when he lifts himself on the tiptoe to reach the other one better and kiss him back. He's sure, anyway, that this is the best moment of his life.

Of course that is the moment the soldiers find them.

Apparently they were the target, and Bee can spot another vending machine turned cybertronian between the soldiers.

Bee and Sam are pushed on a van, their faces covered by sacks, and they are running away in no time.

Apparently Bee was the target, not Sam. Sam, as they explain for them, is just a leverage.

They want the fast breeding technology, and the only two able to use it are Bee and Ratchet.

Apparently kidnap a 13 years old skinny boy looked easier that the alternative.

"What do you wanna that technology for?"

Bee is not really interested, he is just trying to stall the situation as long as possible.

The man whom answer, the one that looks in charge, do it with a stony and emotionless face.

"We wanna create an army. At the first, we were interested in have it made of metal, as the vending machine you destroyed a week ago. We start to follow your kin, to gain knowledge on how create more of those the we retrieved from Mission City, but that technology looks disappeared with the Cube. And just when our hopes were fading, your accident showed as a new path.

With the fast breeding technology we will be able to clone the same soldier in no time, and we will have the biggest army ever!"

Bee hate this man, he looks mad and scaring, and this time he knows for sure that he will have to be conform and gain more time for the others to find them or for himself to figure out a way out.

"What if I would like not help you?"

"You don't have to 'like' it, but you will do it anyway"

"Why he should?"Sam yells

"Oh, well, let's play a little game: I brought here 104 student plus the two of you. Bumblebee here has two week of time to give me the first grew up soldier. For every day I had to wait, I will kill that amount of students, so the first day, tomorrow, I will kill one student, the second day two of them, the third one three and so on. The last day, I will kill 13 students, and Samuel."

"Wait, you cannot pretend I give you something by tomorrow, I need to set up and procure the materials and…"

"And we already procure for you all the element you used for that body in the hided room"

Bee's brain was already in overdrive, trying to figure out how to escape from this situation. They have other hostages, and that means he will not just fight his way out, unless he get a diversion… Mmm, with the elements he have in his hands, which kind of weapon he could realize? a bomb seems the easiest way, but how kill them without kill Sam and himself in the process?

Or he have to give up and second the psychopath. But his technique required one month for a grow up man. He have a night. He cannot, he cannot so that in time "Please, I need more time that that!"

"No, and another word and Sam will be upgraded to day seven."

And that is the end of the conversation.