Reincarnation.
Summary: When Sam goes missing, a search for him by the Autobots bears no fruit. Missing, presumed dead, it is many years later that they discover what has happened to him.
Warning: Character 'death'.
Rating: M for safety
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro/Paramount, not me.
Continuity: Movieverse.
A/N: Thanks to DitzyMusicLover on this site for allowing me to write this bunny of hers. I had a similar (but far poorer) related bunny, but with the addition of her idea, it has vastly improved. Thanks also to MeowthTwo, also of this site, for the use of her OC medic, Headfixer.
Reincarnartion.
Prologue.
Sam and Bumblebee were out at the Lookout, which is where they went every Wednesday, and perhaps this regularity was their undoing, or maybe they were being followed, or perhaps they were just unlucky. Whichever it was, when the Autobot and the boy realised they had unfriendly company, they reacted in their usual way. Bumblebee activated his cannon, motioning the boy behind him, and the boy quickly obeyed.
Moving forwards to give himself a space advantage, Bumblebee faced down Barricade and Dropkick. As the two closed in on him, Bumblebee watched them warily, and then moved to defend as both of them attacked him at once.
The ferocity of their attack took him by surprise, the Decepticons were playing for keeps. They had to be after Sam, he reasoned, there was no other reason he could think of for their unexpected attack.
It didn't take Bumblebee long to realise that, outnumbered as he was, he had no chance of winning this battle, and he urgently commed the Base for help even as he began to succumb to the vicious attacks of the two Decepticons.
When Optimus, Ironhide, and Ratchet got to the Lookout, Bumblebee was severely damaged and barely alive, and there was no sign of Sam.
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Twenty minutes previously.
No matter how hard Sam had struggled, the two Decepticons wouldn't let him check on 'Bee and certainly weren't about to let him go. Dropkick roughly showed Sam into the back of Barricade's alt, and as Barricade closed the door and locked it, Dropkick folded into his own alt.
Although Sam tried to get out of Barricade all the way to the Decepticon Base, his efforts were futile. When Barricade let him out, he was in a small walled area and had no-where to run to, although Sam did try. Barricade picked him up in one hand and carried him, yelling and shouting, to Starscream's hangar, where he was dumped unceremoniously in front of Starscream.
"You have been a thorn in mine and the Decepticon's sides for a long time, fleshling," Starscream said. "I could imprison you, but that only gives you a chance to escape and the Autobots a chance to rescue you. No, I think we would be best rid of you." He looked up at Barricade.
"Kill him," he instructed.
Sam tried to run and hide, but Barricade quickly caught him, squeezing him hard enough to break bones, Sam's screams cut off as his ribs punctured his lungs. Then he threw him against the far wall, where he hit with a heavy thud. For good measure, Barricade picked him up, threw him on the tarmac outside, and trod on him, not heavily enough to burst him, but heavy enough to be sure he was dead.
Barricade stepped back from the shattered body of the boy, but a moment later, the boy was haloed by a blue-white light, which spread to blot him out. As the white swelled and expanded, Barricade retreated into Starscream's hangar, while Starscream himself began scanning, and called their medic, Headfixer, to confirm what his scans were reading.
Headfixer arrived as the glow began to fade. "Yes, it's AllSpark energy," he said. As the glow faded, the three could see the form of a mech left sprawled on the ground where Sam's body had been. The mech stirred, and clumsily sat up, looking confusedly at the three mechs surrounding him. There was no fear on his faceplates, only confusion and curiosity.
Headfixer ran a scanning beam over him, then moved over and connected a cable from his wrist.
"Yes, the memories indicate that this was the human boy. It seems the AllSpark has changed him into a mech. Whether he will be able to consciously use the energy is a matter of debate. Currently it seems he cannot connect with his memories: he has no clue who he is, where he is, or who we are. This may be due to having to get used to his new form, or it could be a symptom of shock." He paused.
"In time it would be likely that his memories will return, whatever the reason for his temporary amnesia, but that may take some time. If you wish, Lord Starscream, I can intervene and help him remember now."
"No, don't do that," Starscream said.
"I have a better idea."