Chapter 2: Up to speed

The two reunited friends sat on Bee's berth and talked. They missed each other dearly and felt tired and embarrased from their fight. Jazz kept his optics hidden under the visor as he tapped his claws together again.

"So uh...that was uh...some fight!" Jazz said.

"Yeah, we uh...really messed each other up. I'm sorry!" Bumblebee said.

"I'm sorry too! We should've figured out who we were arguing with before all that." Jazz said and noticed energon dripping from his mouth.

"Is your mouth okay, I hope I didn't hit you too hard!" Bee said.

"No I'm good, I'll recover! Man, if we hadn't stopped I would've knocked your optics out." Jazz laughed. "Sorry if I cut you too bad right there that looks deep."

"Ah don't worry, it will heal, so Jazz how's it been?" Bee asked deciding to start catching up.

"Pretty good in fact, I miss this old town. Good thing I ran into you!" Jazz said nudging Bee.

"You know Jazz, I really miss you! I was hoping you would come back one day! And I don't mind being locked up in jail with you!" Bee said.

"I feel the same way! How's life been?" Jazz asked.

"It's been pretty good in fact, lots of dirt to race around, I won many dirt challenges." Bee said.

"Really? Wow i'm impressed, I sometimes win night races inside the city." Jazz said.

"I still can't believe I couldn't recognize you even though you've worn the same visor since we were created." Bee laughed.

"Mabye it was the visor that blinded my sense of recognizing!" Jazz laughed.

The two mechs started up another conversation just as Prowl and a few other enforcers came by.

"So, I see you two finally made up!" Prowl laughed.

"Huh, how do you know what happened?" Bee asked.

"We were watching from the monitors in the main room, we were hoping for a little bit more violence!" Prowl said.

"Ugh, whatever! So how long are we in here till?" Jazz snarled.

"Actually, I've decided to give Bee another chance! You and me, the dirt road, one lap. If you win, you and Jazz can go free, if I win, you're both stuck here for a week!" Prowl challenged.

"Alright, I'll take that challenge!" Bumblebee said as Prowl opened the cell doors. "I love racing at night!"

"You won't win!" Jazz said glaring at Prowl.

"We'll see! Let's go!" Prowl said.

Outside of town, back where Bumblebee previously was, he and Prowl were ready to race. Prowl never lost a race and he wasn't about to now. He revved his engine loudly and Bumblebee just revved his with a low noise. Jazz was to race behind them to make sure no one cheats, especially Prowl.

"You better not cheat!" Bumblebee growled.

"Oh I don't plan to!" Prowl snickered.

"Ugh...anyways...3...2...1...GO!" Jazz yelled.

The three mechs took off. Bumblebee knew these roads like the back of his servo. He easily raced ahead of Prowl kicking up dust in the process. Prowl coughed as the dust smacked his grill. Jazz laughed from behind. They drifted around turns and went up banks. Bumblebee loved to soar high into the sky. He would easily land back on the ground without messing up. Prowl and Jazz however couldn't leap as high and often had a hard time gaining control. They came to a tunnel that Prowl decided to use against Bumblebee. He had planned to use his nitrous to speed up since it was so dark that Bumblebee or Jazz couldn't tell he was using it. But Bumblebee had other plans. As Prowl sped up, Bee blocked his way. Prowl growled and tried to get beside him but Bee wouldn't let him. Bee decided to block the whole entrance by turning to the right very hard and quickly turn his front wheels left to drift through the tunnel with his whole body blocking the road.

"BUMBLEBEE!" Prowl snarled.

"What you forget Prowl, is that I am the current champion of the dirt racers, no one can defeat me, not even you!" Bumblebee said as they exited the tunnel.

Bumblebee and Jazz took a sharp right and Prowl wondered why. He found out when he flew over a ledge and was sent down a bank, landing onto a pile of rocks. Bumblebee and Jazz raced passed the finish line and screeched to a hault.

"TOLD YA PROWL!" Bee cheered and fist-bumped Jazz.

"Prowl must've ate a bunch of rocks going down that hill!" Jazz teased.

Prowl emerged from the bank enraged. He was covered in dust and tiny rocks laid on his head and shoulders. He shook them off and came towards the laughing mechs. When they saw Prowl they laughed harder and Jazz lifted up his visor to get a better view.

"I thought you said you always won!" Bee said.

"Looks like we got a liar!" Jazz said.

Prowl growled and clenched his fists.

"I should've won that race!" Prowl snarled.

"Well, you didn't! And now we are out of jail!" Bee said.

"Have fun getting rocks out of ya processor!" Jazz said.

"Yeah, I bet you're going to have a really fun time getting that visor of yours fixed when I'm done with it!" Prowl snarled and advanced towards Jazz.

Jazz flipped down his visor to cover his optics as he faced Prowl.

"You looking for a fight?" Jazz snarled.

"Maybe I am!" Prowl snarled.

"Talking about my visor gets your ass kicked copper! How about I crack yours?" Jazz sneered.

Now Jazz normally wouldn't fight in a dusty area, but this time he was willing to make an exception. He flexed his claws and got ready. Bumblebee wondered if he should intervene. He didn't want to see Jazz fight. Then he remembered something and he pushed them apart.

"Hey Prowl, you can't mess with us for a month remember? You said that the first time, and you have to stick by it!" Bee said.

Prowl growled again as his visor flashed.

"Fine, but you better watch your back!" Prowl snarled before glaring at Jazz who cracked his knuckles.

"You both better!" Prowl said and he transformed and took off purposely tossing a huge cloud of dirt and dust at them with his back tires.

Jazz flipped him off with both middle talons before turning back to Bee who was relieved Prowl was gone.

"Nice win man!" Jazz said.

"Thanks, but Jazz you know how I feel about you getting into fights!" Bee said.

"I know, but...he insulted me!" Jazz said.

"True, but...I don't think any of us could actually beat him in a fight!" Bee said.

"Oh...so where do you live now?" Jazz asked.

"Oh I'll show ya!"

Bumblebee lived in an average sized house that was far from downtown. It was in a more rural area with lots of dirt. Inside, Jazz awed at the expensive possesions Bee owned.

"Nice pad Bee, this looks like a cool place to kick it!" Jazz said hopping on the couch in the living room.

"So, just meeting me is what brought you here?" Bee asked exiting the kitchen with some energon.

"Well, not entirely! I needed to you know, come back to my roots, the dirt, the streets, the mechs...the slagger Prowl!" Jazz said before sipping the energon.

Bumblebee had known Jazz long enough to know that he wasn't always saying the full truth. He could see the mouth on Jazz twist slightly.

"You okay?" Bee asked.

"Yeah...just...thinking!" Jazz said.

Bumblebee sat beside him seeing that Jazz was tapping the side of the cube. He seemed to be troubled.

"Jazz, there is something wrong! You can tell me!" Bumblebee said.

Jazz gulped. He seemed to twist his mouth again to look like he was crying. Bumblebee hesitately lifted up the visor to see a shocking surprise. Jazz was crying. Jazz turned to Bee with watery optics.

"Oh no Jazz what's wrong?" Bee said putting down the cube.

"It's nothing...nothing! Nothing you need to worry about!" Jazz said wanting the conversation to change.

Bumblebee knew Jazz only cried when either something of his broke or he saw a sad movie. Bumblebee rested a servo on Jazz's closest clawed servo and gripped it.

"Jazz, you can tell me! I'm your best friend!" Bumblebee said.

"It's just...you know my cousin Sideways?" Jazz asked.

"Yeah, the one who always was picked on for his poor racing skills!" Bumblebee said.

"Well, I've never seen him in a long time!" Jazz said. "I'm worried about him!"

"I'm sure he doing okay, whatever he's doing is probably just a plan to get away from anything troubling him." Bee said. "What reminded you of him?"

"Well, before I came over here, I decided to check up on him to see if he was okay, but when I got there, I found a note left by him saying that he had ran off somewhere to get away from people that pick on him for being a slow racer and that he wanted to clear his mind. He always got picked on by others racers around Iacon. I guess he had enough. But I don't know where he has gone off!" Jazz said trying to wipe his tears away.

"Jazz, I'm sorry! But what could we do? I'm sure once he finds what he's looking for, he'll contact you!" Bumblebee said. "I bet he was expecting you to see the note!"

Jazz just nodded and sipped the rest of his energon. He flipped his visor over his optics not wanting to be seen like that. He let out a small chuckle.

"Yeah, I hope you're right!" Jazz said and leaned his head over on Bee's shoulders.

Bumblebee and Jazz sat there for a little while completely silent! Unknown to Bee, Jazz fell asleep, it was very late at night, and Bumblebee decided to go to sleep too.

To be continued...

I think the next chapter will be a flashback! I really want to have a flashback chapter so mabye it will be next!