Sorry about all the delays and a (not so)short chapter, but I'm juggling school, doctors, three funerals of great friends and biting plot-bunnies, forgive meeeeeee!

Same disclaimers as before

Time for a little rant:

For all the writers out there:

1- It's Canon, not Cannon, you're not shooting your characters to the moon, it's like the Canon in D Major from Pachelbel, why do you think they called the photo company that? Because they wanted to be the Canon for photo development! Also it derives from the Italian word Canone, or if you want the church term Canonico (in English is Canonical, did you ever hear the term Cannonical? Okay, Catholics have always been a little warmongering, but not so much that they coined the term Cannon before the invention!)

2- It's tome, not tomb, even if the book is really ancient, it's really difficult to store a mummy in it, or any other corpse, for that matter, or is now Lara Croft a Librarian? Except for that movie parody 'The Librarian'...

3- It's Airplane, not Airoplane or Aeroplane... Aereoplano is in Italian (so last one could derive from this one), Aviòn is in Spanish, Avion is in French, Vivamus is in Latin (when did they have airplanes, google translate?) and Flugzeug is in German... so where the hell did you find that spelling!

Sorry for this rant.

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Chapter 07: Trouble begins... a most powerful Evanesco... and Mates!

Location: SOCCENT Forward Operations Base, Qatar.

Returning back to SOCCENT after a mission behind enemy lines, Captain Lennox and his squad began discussing what they were going to do once they got home to the States. As usual, tech officer JorgeFig talked about his mom's cooking in really fast Spanish, Sergeant Robert Epps commented that he'll never accept a dinner invitation to Fig's house (ugh! Crocodile meat!) and First Sergeant Donnelly reminisced about flat beer, cold hot dogs and baseball on weekends. When asked about what he wanted to do, Will replied that he only wanted to hold his baby girl for the first time, to which his men teased him for his sappy sentiment.

In the com- room Will got the link to his home going and was... 'greeted' by he frosty eyes of his wife. Her expression made him pale in two seconds flat.

"W-what h-happened, S-Sarah?" If her face was any indication, his worst fears had come true.

Her eyes gained a more hellish quality "Your... Spawn got all by herself the plush toys from your dear mother... by making them zoom by the other side of the house... while my parents where watching her with me. You should find the divorce papers ready by your commander. Sign them and send them, the decision is final. Annabelle is at your cousin, Delphina. She got here two hours ago and will take care of her till you get back. I'm moving back to Colorado Springs with my parents." With that she ended the call not letting him even get a word in.

Knowing he would crash there on the floor if he didn't do anything to keep his mind from falling apart, he looked around himself before taking a little glass vial with a aqua blue liquid that had a fog-like substance floating above it and downed it in one go. Instantly his features calmed and he went in search for the commanding officer of the base, he had, after-all, some documents to sign.

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Bumblebee arrived first at his new home, gaining the stares of the neighbors as they couldn't see who was driving the sleek new car with the tinted black windows. Was it the handsome man from the day before yesterday? His fiancee? A friend?

When his holoform got out of the car, a trio of giggling girls that were passing by wolf-whistled and he just smiled apologetically and signed to a (hastily added behind his back) rainbow wrist-band with embroidered in black italics 'Out and Proud' and tapped his throat and gave a 'mute, sorry' gesture with his left hand while his right fumbled with a (also hastily made) key-holder.

The girls just gave a disappointed sigh,waved, and left continuing their previous talk about, strangely enough to the transformer, how all cute guys were either gay, taken or 'robots' or any combinations of them. 'And I'm all of them at the same time', he mused, jokingly.

Prowl arrived just a little later, and, while he began when he got in com range, he began berating his son for speeding so much and not waiting for him while he got to the front door and opened it, just to keep the appearances, you know...

Not an hour later, he was sitting on the windowsill of his bedroom looking at the street that he saw a old red Clio park in front of the house of his future charge. Out of it got a woman in her late forties and a boy with black hair and pale complexion. The youth should be about the same age of his Sam, and had a certain appeal to his eyes. That got him thinking about what Prowl said when they were driving here. The bastard, and even if he was his father figure, sometimes he just was a right bastard, just closed all coms after a while that he was politely asking (read continuously whining),what he meant when he told him that he had not only one, but two humans as mates.

That's why he just sped past him and got to the Victorian house ten minutes before the protector.

Maybe the fact that he had two humans as mates was why he had a more advanced holoform, capable of withstanding touch and carrying things, generating heat and using aerial humidity to imitate sweat, and, after a bit of self experimentation, even blood, pressure, pulse and more... 'tasty, spicy and salty' fluids could be reproduced, even if doing so spent his energy supplies fare faster than he liked... damn the lack of energon on Earth! Refocusing on the duo that were on the lawn in front of the Witwicky's residence taking many bags out of the car.

Making a split decision he dematerialized and reconstructed his form behind the front door, grabbed the Sony Xperia tablet from the entrance console table and got out to help the pair.

The raven-haired beauty was the first to notice him and pivoted on his heels startled. The woman turned with a little more composure but still surprised. She was the one to ask, none too gently: "Well, and who the hell are you?! Did you want to give us an heart-attack?!"

'bee just took his tablet and the pen and wrote that he was sorry that he startled them but wanted to help them, he was their new neighbor, living in front of them, he was mute after a fight gone wrong in a Gov building he was visiting with his parents and that he came to help them so he could meet them and know them better as he didn't know anyone here.

Having used all the space on the screen he gave the tablet to the curious pair and waited.

Judy gave it back and, warmer than before, said to him: "Well, thanks, we could use the help, but you didn't say your name, I'm Judy Witwicky nee Dursley and this is Harry Potter, my son's boyfriend. I hope you're not one of the boys who's squeamish about same sex relationship... else I have my titanium baseball bat indoor that is ready!" And here she had her patented hell-glint.

The transformer just blinked, scribbled his pretend name of Isaac Garrison, to call him Bumblebee or 'bee, and that he had two adopted dads and some uncles that where paired up... gave the tablet to Judy and putting again his right hand behind his back, like he was getting something out of his back pocket, materialized the band he had previously and put it on.

While Judy just nodded and gave him back the Xperia, Harry gave him a smile that bordered to a laugh and told him: "'bee, please, follow me, for now it's only just these bags to get in, the rest is going to be delivered tomorrow." That said, he handed 'Isaac' two bags that the blonde could take in one hand, so that he had the left one free for his speaking aid, took his share of bags and followed his future mother-in-law inside.

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Will got to Colonel Sharp's office in two minutes sharp and knocked. When he got a rough and tired "Come in!" he entered and, snapping to attention, stated grade, name and purpose of his visit.

The Colonel just told him "At ease, Lennox, sit down and think well before signing these papers."

But he just, still affected by the calming potion, sat and put his full name on the papers.

That done, he just gave back the papers and looked at his senior officer.

"Is there anything else, Captain?"

"Yes, sir. As you know, I'm part of the M-force program of marines, m-RECON division in particular. I formally request to begin using my full repertoire of skills, instead of just the passive ones. I got a type seven sixth sense, certified by the Moste Occulte Accademy of San Francisco, and it's on full alert since this morning. I first thought it was because of these papers, but the sensation is still..."

The Colonel eyed him warily. "If you are sure, I give you permission to use all except tier four and up dark magic. That's something that could release something that no one here can contain safely."

William got up from the chair and snapped back to attention and began to thank the Colonel when the base was rocked by a very strong explosion.

"Speak of the devil..." he muttered running out of the door.

When he reached the observation bay on the third floor of the command building, he just stared at the gigantic robot that was attacking his comrades.

The humanoid mechanical being appeared made of helicopter parts and had red eyes and a purple insignia in a stylized face with a triangular plate over the mouth. The bullets just bounced off some sort of field and the monster seemed to have an unlimited source of ammo.

His mind was already categorizing all the weak points and where to cast to get through the shield so that he could get to them before Colonel Sharp stopped at his left and ordered him to do something.

Done with his calculations, he apparated on the roof of the command center, took aim with his ebony, Hungarian horntail heartstring, 12 inches wand and let out a string of: "BOMBARDA MAXIMA, FULGIS SAGITTA, GLADIUS TERRIS, GLACIUS TERRIBILIS!" that unleashed first a concussive blast that made the beast stagger, then a thunderbolt descended from the clear sky and fried the shields, a blade of obsidian rock almost cut off its tendons and frost began to form an ice cage over the being. Blackout recovered and aimed his cannons towards his attacker and fired, but the wizard just raised again the wand and shouted "SCUTUM REVERTENS" sending the projectiles back. His reserves dwindling and noting that the metal beast was regenerating he tried to overpower one last trick: "EVANESCO MAXIMO MECHANICUS IN SIBERIA" and the being vanished with a pop in the cold tundra.

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I should end it here, but I'm on a roll! Let's see if you find something familiar...

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Miles, Miky and a reluctant Sam (that wanted to just get home to His-Harry) were sitting at the local diner drinking on a diet coke (Mikaela), a strawberry shake with chocolate flakes (Miles) and a sour cherry home-made beverage (Sam) discussing their summer projects.

Miky wanted to expand on her charm essay on magical prosthesis and create ones more realistic and that could be used even on muggles without the Statute interfering. Miles was studying the interactions of electricity and magic to create a interface between the two so that the muggle appliances didn't have to be stripped bare to be converted for magical environments and viceversa, and Sam was poring his mind over an alchemical compound he made following a very old recipe, with not so standard runic language and a little too advanced aritmancy to be the run of the mill advanced Flamellian alchemy he studied, that he modernized a little. The original result was a purple-pink fluorescent viscous material that could be only described as either raw magic or gelified-energy. His mod made the substance much more concentrated but more unstable and of a honeydew shade, with golden particles rarely floating about. All their researches tied over this as a possible fuel or catalyst for the enchantments needed. His first test had been a blast! Literally! As in: he blew up Alchemy lab 5 at school by using a drop of it to cast a dusting charm on a broom!

Looking at the time Sam saw that it was almost 4:45 p.m. and Harry should have arrived home by that time, so he said his goodbyes and went home.

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Meanwhile 'bee was speechless, while Harry was giving him the tour of the house, he had been feeling a little tingling on the holoform's 'skin, like static, all the time. He didn't mention it even when the sweet thing in front of him looked at him in concern and asked if there was anything wrong. When they reached the boys' room there was on Sam's desk a glass test tube of a honeydew clear liquid with golden flecks suspended swirling in it. When he approached it, curiosity winning another time, all clicked, It was the purest, most refined and concentrated form of Energon he had ever seen! How did they find it? He had to know! But first he commed his findings to Prowl, who just crashed with our BFF BSOD at the news.

Then he grabbed the tablet and scribbled his questions about the liquid:

-What is it?

-Where did you find it?

-Can I study it?

To which Harry just told him that the compound was Sam's summer project and he did it by modifying very old instructions in an old tome to use more modern instruments for it's creation, so he had to ask his boyfriend if he could study it.

Bumblebee just pouted and dropped his shoulders at that.

To comfort him the BWL reached out grinning a Cheshire cat smile and patted him on the head like one would an inconsolable Labrador puppy.

They both cracked up laughing.

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Obliviators did their job in the SOCCENT base and left. The new memory left behind was that Lennox and his squad used Sabot rounds, that they tested in the aftermath on scrap metal left behind by the mech, to make it flee after sustaining damage to the shield generators and the weapons systems. The real events happened that were recorded, remained only in the minds of Colonel Sharp, the magicals and squibs on base, and the data chips that where sent to the President to assess the situation and deal with a certain Sector Seven and the Department of Mysteries of the Enclave.

Will and his squad, as a reward god medals to the valor demonstrated and were sent back on USA soil to train the troops in case some other would appear on American soil.

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When Sam apparated in his home, he did it so silently and perfectly that he lost balance from the stupor. How in the seventh bowl of hell did he do that! Even with Harry so close to him, he at least stumbled and did a muffled gunshot boom! Well, food for the thought for another time, now it's snogging time with his other half!

He crept upstairs from the basement he apparated in and silently went up to his room.

The door was open and on his bed was his mate laughing himself silly with a blonde teen seated in his desk chair like he belonged there, with his handsome features and silent, 'He's mute, I wonder what happened' laughter. The young stranger turned towards him and their eyes locked. The world disappeared from around the Witwicky heir in a blur of color while past, present and possible futures appeared before his mind's eye. He blonde boy wasn't all that appeared, but didn't mean any harm to them. A protector to both, a mate, a lover, a father and a mentor all rolled in a being of hard-light and oh-so-much-more. In his ears the whispers of wars and victories roared, from futures past, made all by a spark of life so bright it almost blinded his senses and scrambled his mind.

What he couldn't know, as he was in a deep trance, was that his prophet eyes were shining, their brown almost gold, pupils dilated and opalescent. 'bee sprang from the chair to help the oscillating teen in case he was going to fall. He knew that his charge was having a vision only because he was comparing folklore over the net in overdrive and stumbled on many representations of it happening, well, many movie CG animations of it, but still it was enough similar to draw comparisons.

Harry instead was panicking over:

1- Was this Statute of Secrecy breach?

2- What was the vision about?

The only prompt reaction he had was that of blocking 'Isaac' from touching the seer and telling him to back of, or he could have damaged Sam by distracting him with an external stimulus.

Not a minute later, The teen snapped out of the trance and just told his mate to "Get the pendant, Harry!" and looking to the blonde guy he gestured to the bed and motioned at the holoform to sit.

"I know what you are, and what's your mission. I know also something else, but I need Harry's pendant to demonstrate it to you two." A wide eyed Bumblebee did as asked "Or at leas to Harry, to you it's relatively simpler, your dad, Prowl, told you already, so there's no real need to do it again."

Knowing what he was speaking of from the knowledge gained by the visions, the scout just nodded.

The Boy Who Lived came back from the den downstairs where he was studying his mother's pendant with the aid of Sam's Rune books. Right when he entered, the jade double seven-sided pyramid flared to life for the second time with a now brighter, warmer and tinglier. The glow encompassed the three, and when it passed they found themselves spooning on the bed, Harry between the taller teens. "What the..."

"He's the other one, Harry, we're a triad. I've seen it, but you wouldn't have believed it if it didn't come from the pendant. Also, he isn't human, as his father isn't."

At that Harry tensed as if he had been betrayed and 'bee snuggled closer nuzzling against his nape apologetically. He let out a warble and some clicks in cybertronian that only Harry, strangely, could comprehend: "I'm sorry my mate, but I couldn't reveal myself, I'm not from this world, and humans fear what they don't know. Please, forgive me, I didn't know for sure you were mine."

Harry answered "Okay, I forgive you, 'bee" leaving agape the other two.

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Fin.

And now I'm being a bastard, lol.