A friend of mine and I were playing clix and he wanted to do this move.

Human Bomb and Uncle Sam were adjacent to each other HB had a token. He made a transporter attack with Sam using his give me your tired power.

Then he moved Sam next to HB and tried to pick him up and keep moving. By my friend's logic, the rules only say that a character needs to be adjacent at the begining of the move action to be carried, not that it has to be carried at the begining of the action. Now, I know that this is wrong, but I can't figure out for the life of me why this is wrong.

Help me out?

"To be carried, the friendly character must be adjacent to this character at the beginning of this character’s action"

this is the reason why. he has given him an action to use M&A he does not give a move action then attack then give another move action. its all one action.

actually it seems that Sam went out of adjacency then attempted a pick up.

that's illegal all right.

he had to be carrying HB at the onset of the M&A action and Sam wouldn't get the AV bonus because HB would be "off" the board for the M&A action.

hope that helped.