Title: Things Change (might change title)

Summary: The Elites came back to earth, only to drag Optimus's team back forcefully back to Cybertron, taking everybody but Bumblebee. Now on his own, Bumblebee team up with Sumdac Corp along with some of the remaining bots, Wreckgar, Blackarchnia, the Dinobots, and some bots that will landed on earth later to form the Defenders of the Earth. 20 years later, Optimus and the others return to earth only to see that things has change, Bumblebee included. While the others try to figure out what happened and fight against a evil group of bots named D.O.O.M, can they gain both Bumblebee's and Sari's forgivness and trust back? Animated

Rating: K+

Inspired By Stitchar's "Behind".

Chapter 1: The End and the Beginning;

Earth's Defenders are born

"What!"

Optimus flinched. He knew the team wasn't going to be happy with the news about the Elite Guard being here so soon. But that wasn't why they yelled. It was because of the orders they have gotten. They were to return back on Cybertron immediately.

About a few hours later, which were too soon for everyone, the Elites had come for them- ready to rip away the freedom they have love.

"Everybody's ready? Good." said Sentinal. "The sooner we leave the sooner we get off of this rock."

Everyone rolled their optics before they started to go up the ramp. The last one to board the ship was Bumblebee who was stopped by Sentinal.

"Bumbler," Bumblebee mentally signs at the name he was given in boot camp. "I am terribly sorry but you can't go."

"What?" said Bumblebee. He was going to asked why but... "Do I really want to know?" When he saw Sentinal smile, he figured he rather not know.

"Well, let's put it this way Bumbler." he stated. "For falsely accusing Wasp, you are here by banished."

Bumblebee just stood there in shock as Sentinal boards the ship. Once he was on board the ship started to take off. Optimus and the others were looking through their temporary rooms when they saw Sentinal, but not Bumblebee.

"Where's Bumblebee?" asked Optimus. He had a bad feeling and so did the others. Sentinal smiled. Yup, bad feeling.

"He's been left behind." replied Sentinal.

"What?" they yelled. They ran to a window (if there is any) and saw Bumblebee watching them leave with sad optics.

"BUMBLEBEE!"

They went to Ultra Magnus and he explains why Bumblebee was banished. The others try to reason with him, saying Bumblebee was tricked by Shockwave but he won't budge. The guys were saddened that they couldn't do anything to help their friend.

...

The Next Day

"They left?" said Sari. Sari was at home when the Elites came by yesterday. Bumblebee came by this morning to tell her the news.

He nodded. "Yup. I have been banish for falsely accusing Wasp." Bee explains.

Sari couldn't believe the others had left. She felt a bit betrayed by them, her friends, for not telling her about this. She looked over to Bumblebee and saw his sad optics.

"Well, don't worry Bumblebee." she said trying to comfort him. "We don't need them. We can still protect the city together."

Bumblebee smiled at his best friend and nodded. She was all he got left now and he wasn't going to lose her. "Yeah but we can't go against the Decepticons on our own."

"You're right." Sari thought then she got an idea. "But what about my dad? I'm sure he'll help us.

"True." Bee thought.

"And we can always get some of the others bot here. Like Wreck-Gar and the Dino-bots."

Bee thought it over for a klink. "Okay, I don't know about the Dinobots, but I think we can get Wreck-Gar."

"Okay then." Sari got up and started her jetpack. "Come on, there's no time to waste, we have to start our new team."

"Yeah!" Bee got up and ran after her. His spirits were brighting again thanks to Sari.

...

One week later

Detroit at night was beautiful; Bumblebee had to admit as he patrol around the city. So far the any problems they had were human criminals. There haven't been any decepticons lately. Good thing because they were in no condition to be fighting deceptcons. He and Sari have mange to find Wreck-Gar and Sari's dad agreed to be the medic and provide any assistant if needed.

Everybody in the city knows that the other Autobots were gone and were a little fearful about the decepticons still being here. But they let them know that they are working on a new team to protect the city from the decepticons.

They have tried to convince the Constructicons, but Dirt Boss wasn't going to take any orders and he was starting to cause trouble. Mixmaster and Scrapper were more like part time members. They would help when offered for oil, of course. So, the Construticons were now part-time Construtobots, at least two of them were.

But it still wasn't enough. They needed strength which they headed over to the Dino-bots. Grimlock had enough brute strength to give even the likes of Megatron pause for thought which was something that would really help out. They try to convince the Dino-bots but you know they're thin headed. It wasn't a big surprise that Grimlock was being difficult to convince.

"Well, well look what we have here?" said a voice. Bumblebee stops and transformed looking around.

"Who's there?" he called out, ready for an attack.

"Relax, bug boy. It's me."

Bumblebee turns around to see a techno-organic spider. The spider landed and transformed into the femme bot, Blackarachnia.

"You? What do you want?" Bee asked, keeping his guard up.

"Nothing. I was just wondering where Optimus and your other friends are. I haven't seen them much lately."

"Well, if you must know they left. The elite guard came and took them back to Cybertron."

"And how came you didn't go with them?" she asked.

"I was banish for falsely accusing Wasp. Or should I say Waspinator."

Blackarachnia was a little surprise. "So, they abandon you." She chuckled drily. "Been there, done that."

Bumblebee looked at the femme bot in thought for a klink before an idea came in mind. "Hey, how would you like to join the team?"

Blackarachinia looked at him in shock before shaking it off. "I'm not joining the Autobots."

"Well, I'm not talking about joining the Autobots since I'm no longer an autobot. I'm talking about a new team. Sari and I are trying to find new members to protect the city and we would be glad to have you join us."

"Really?"

"Well maybe not Sari, but she'll get use to it."

Blackarachnia though it over. She didn't want to go back to the decepticons and she really wasn't going back to the autobots.

"And..." Bee said catching her attention. "If you join us I can ask the professor to help you find a cure for...whatever you were looking for."

Well, that was a good offer. She wouldn't be on either the Autobot or the Decepticon side and she was allow to look for a cure for her organic half without problem with given resources and assistant. Who can say no to that?

"Alright. I'll join your little team."

"Great." said Bee, excited to gain a new member tonight. "Come on. We'll head back to base and I'll introduce you to others." He transformed and headed to the base.

Blackarachnia transformed and followed.

...

Two days later

Well it wasn't easy but Sari has accepted Blackarachnia into the team. And with her help they were about to get the Dino-bots on their side. Now the team was complete and everyone was settled in the base. But the real test was if they can work together. They were now in the training area trying out there new teamwork.

"Okay, time for some training." said Bee. In front of him was his new team. Blackarachnia, the Dino-bots, and Wreck-Gar.

"Okay, in front of you is an obstacle course that Sari and I have built."

"My dad has let us borrow some of his drones for target practice." explain Sari.

"Right. To start out slow we'll split you guys up into groups of two. We'll keep it like at until you can get comfortable with you partner waiting your backs. When that's done we'll switch partners again and again until everybody's comfortable with everybody."

"And once that's done we do the same with a large group until we all can work as a team." finish Sari. "Any questions?"

"Yeah. Me Grimlock don't like following smaller bots."

"Okay. How about this? Once we're about to work as a team there will be a vote on who the leaders should be. Other than that everyone would be treated equally." said Sari.

"Sounds good to me." said Blackarachina. Wreck-Gar and two of the dinobots nodded.

"Okay then let's begin."

So the teams were Bumblebee and Grimlock, Wreck-Gar and Swoop, Blackarachina and Snarl. Sari stayed on the sidelines and watch over them with a stop watch to record their time and process. The group one, Bee and Grimlock, were...yeah, not so good. The group two, Wreck-Gar and Swoop, weren't really any better as well as group three, Blackarachina and Snarl. But that was expected.

...

Two week later

The process of the teams was better than what it was two weeks ago and everyone was starting to get along and know each other with small problems. Even though their time was still slow the main thing is that they were starting to work as a team.

Grimlock was finally about to trust Bumblebee, or at least he thinks so, to watch his back. He was able to follow some orders as well.

Wreck-Gar was totally unpredictable and clueless. During the two weeks, they discovered that he had scissor-like weapons can attach to his forearms that can be combine into a single bladed weapon which can also attach to either of his forearms. After some practice he was able to form some attacks of his own and start to understand what it means about teamwork and other important things.

Swoop was a quick learner. He's the friendliest and most outgoing of the Dinobots. He's surprisingly good natured, kind, and upbeat even if he prefers his nice, quiet island to the mainland and thinks it's fun to see humans scatter at the sight of him.

Blackarachina seem to be doing fine. With the help of the professor she was able to start building a machine to that would help rid her of her organic life.

Snarl enjoys nothing more than taking the nearest solid object and head butting it. It's not so much the mindless destruction he likes, it's just that Snarl thoroughly enjoys being strong, and smashing things to powder seems like the best way of expressing this. And if he needs to mix things up a little, being able to breathe fire hot enough to melt a garbage truck helps.

As well as things were going the real test of how well they work together came when the Lugnut and Bliztwing were reported in the city. The team arrive to see them causing chaos looking for a fragment. Bumblebee and Sari knew it was just a matter of time before they show up. There were a lot of people around so they have to react quickly.

"Alright here's the plan." said Sari. "Team one and two will deal with the Decepticons while me and team three while help the people."

Everybody nodded and went to work. Bumblebee and Grimlock face Lugnut while Swoop and Wreck-Gar went up against Blitzwing. The fight went pretty well until Lugnut let out a whole bunch of missiles.

Because of that, it causes a whole bunch of buildings to collapse around people. So they had to abandon the fight and protect the people from getting crush. They use that distraction to get the fragment and left. Even though they lost the fragment, the team was successfully about to protect the people.

"Alright Defenders, good job." said Sari. The team looks at her strangely.

"Defenders?" said Bee.

"Yeah. I figured since we're a new team, we need a new name."

"Hmm, I guess I can get use to that." said Blackarachnia.

"So, it's agreed then." Everybody looked at each other before nodding.

"Alright, for now on we are the Defenders of the Earth!"

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