This is a very long chapter!
I own nothing, just an insane passion for Transformers and Lion King.
last note, even if all of you already are confident with this convention:
"bla" speak
/bla/ BB speak
(Bla) BB tought
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A colorful mech is suddenly in on Bumblebee and start to attack him.
They fight, they are almost at the same level but Bee is a little bit better. He can be a scout but he was trained to be a warrior. He was trained with Smokescreen, and in their sparring session Bee alway managed to pin the other youngling to the ground. Just like he pin the other mech now. But now is not a sparring session, now is Bee fighting to survive to the attack of the taller mech.
The Wrecker he was chasing look at them from the corner of Bee field of view. And he is not alone… Wreckers decided to live a peaceful life way before Optimus became king, so the only threat is the mech Bee just defeat.
Bee look at him now and that is not possible!
Before he can say anything the other mech, the taller one, the one that has the same optics and the same -shitty- combat skills of his long lost best friend, the one the Wreckers call "Smokey", this mech just look at the yellow mech and ask: "Bumblebee? Is it really you? "
/Smokescreen? How did you.. where did you come from ... we think you're dead…. he told us you're dead/
"Whoah!, Bee, slow down, what happened at your voice? what happened to you?"
/what happened to me? Smokescreen, it's like you're back from the dead. You don't know how much this will mean to everyone...What it means to me./ even if he is talking through beeps and chirp the pain in his voice make Smokey' spark shrink.
"Bee…"
/but doesn't matter now! You're alive. And that means... you're the king!/
(and I will be free from him, from his servos all over my plates, from his..)
(STOP IT, stop it NOW, you cannot lost yourself in those memories! You find Smokescreen)
(I told you that him still alive!)
(oh, shut up!)
"King? Pbbb. Kid, have you got your mech crossed." is the unrequited comment of the shorter Wrecker. But at least is a reasonable reaction. The other one reaction is way weird!
He is just drops at Smokescree's pedes and he's noisily kissing it: " King? Your Majesty! I gravel at your feet" Smokescreen is trying to stop it, meanwhile the other one just says:"Bulkhead, it's not "gravel," it's "grovel" And don't; he's not the king. " and turning to the younger bot " Are ya?"
"No, I'm not the king. Maybe I was gonna be. But, that was a long time ago."
"Let me get this straight. You're the king? And you never told us?"
Now Smokescreen become defensive "Look Wheel-jack, I'm still the same guy."
"But with power!" the other, Wheel-jack, seems a little bit too enthusiastic to Bee… (Maybe I should save Smokey…)
/Could you guys ... excuse us for a few minutes?/ It will not be easy, of course
"Hey, whatever he has to say, he can say in front of us. Right, Smokescreen? "
(Smokescreen, help me here) "Hmm…." (Come 'on) "Maybe you'd better go".
Wheel-jack doesn't seems too happy "It starts. You think you know a guy... " but at least they leaves…
(Well, now I just need to convince him to save us)
(if you was good enough you shouldn't have to be saved by him)
(but I'm not good enough, am I?)
(you are good just to take it, he said, to give me heirs, he said and his servosAndHisMouthAnd … oh Primus, don't let me remember! )
"…bee….. Bumblebee?" oh, the yellow mech realize he get lost in his mind again, and seems that the other one try to call him couple of times.
/Sorry, just zoned out/
"I noticed… Are you ok? I mean, you know, with your voice gone and all the rest… " (you didn't grow any delicacy, didn't you?) Bumblebee just sigh
/You've been alive all this time. Why didn't you come back to Primus Rock?/
"Well, I just ... needed to get out on my own. Live my own life. And I did. And it's great! "
/ We've really needed you at home./
"No one needs me."
/Yes we do! You're the king./
"BumbleBee, we've been through this. I'm not the king. Megatron is."
/Smokescreen, he let the decepticons take over the Primus Lands!/ "What?" /Everything's destroyed. There's no energon, no oil. Smokescreen, if you don't do something soon, everyone will starve./
"I can't go back"
Bee cannot decide if it hurts more the pain in the optics of his friend or the betrayal sensation he caused with his word
/ Why?/
"You wouldn't understand."
/What wouldn't I understand?/
Bee is preparing himself for a fight, or for a yelling match…
"No, no, no. It doesn't matter. Hakuna Matata."
Ok, now Bee is confused
/What?/
"Hakuna Matata. It's something I learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen and there's nothing you can do about it! So why worry?"
The urge to fight is there, but also the disappointment is start to grow
/Because it's your responsibility!/
"Well, what about you? you left."
/I left to find help! And I found you. Don't you understand? You're our only hope./
(my only hope, how you cannot see it? we grow apart so much? in the past you'd read me like data pad!)
"Sorry"
Urge to fight, disappointment, and, worst than everything else, loss
/What's happened to you? You're not the Smokescreen I remember./
"You're right; I'm not. Now are you satisfied?"
/No, just disappointed/ he spare the other from the list…
"You know, you're starting to sound like my father"
/Good. At least one of us does/
That's it. Smokescreen is obviously cut by the comment about his father; he angrily turn into BumbleBee at his words"Listen! You think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through."
Smokescreen turn and leave, and Bumblebee just give up, curl himself in a ball and start to cry.
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witch08: thank you, I'm very glad you catch it! I was in the theatre and I was like: Oh Gosh, everything fit! I had to write it!
I hope I'm not offending anyone with the themes or for play a little bit with a masterpiece like the lion king!