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Identities

Chapter 2 – Kidnapped!

Nanite- 12.4 seconds

Breem – 8.3 minutes

Joor- 6.5 hours

Orn- 13 days

Vorn- 83 years

(Bumblebee)

"Bumblebee to Ironhide. Do you read me?"

"Ironhide here. What it is BB?"

"Ironhide I hate to be a pain in the aft, be Sam and I have found ourselves in a spot of trouble…"

"Oh, Primus, BB! Are you Ok? Is Sam hurt?"

There was no mistaking the urgency in his voice. I find it so touching to know that this old, ornery, gun-toting, bucket of bolts (his words not mine) could still care as much as he did. I smile to myself.

"Yes, 'Hide. We're both fine, but it seems that we are out of a base of operations tonight. Sam's parental units have kicked us out and left us with no where to go. We have been driving around for almost 11 Breems and we are both about to go into shutdown."

"Ok." I was trying very hard not to laugh, he sounded so relieved. "So BB, what do you need?"

"I was wondering if you could ask Lieutenant Colonel Lennox if he would mind house guests."

"Ok, give me a minute; I'm with him right now."

"OK, I'll wait." It's too bad I wouldn't get an answer. At that exact moment a searing pain raced across my alt body. I feel Sam jerked from the seat, the seatbelt snapping around him cutting him deeply across the chest and waist before coming lose and he's thrown out the open window. I can't see what happens to him as the van that rammed me pushes me over.

The van stops moving after my alt form is on its side; I can see the driver threw the stained-glass windows. He does not even seem fazed that he just hit me, but he's on his phone.

Then he throws the van into gear and peals out of the scene. I can hear him running for a little while but I quickly tune it out and do I diagnostic scan. I can not believe the damage done, my hydraulics are killed, as are most of my communication links. There is extensive external damage as well, but all my support systems are online and working just fine. I won't die, but I have no way to transform, and I really have to hope that someone is close because long range communications is down. (1)

My vocal processors are completely trashed again, so I do the only thing that I can think of, I send out an urgent SOS text to the other Autobots. The one thought that occurs to me as I sit there and wait is that if I had called Ironhide a breem later, then he would really have to worry.

Optimus Prime and Ironhide respond at almost the same time. Optimus says that he just got on the highway to Tranquility and will be there in less them a breem, and to hold tight. Ironhide starts to curse up a storm and says to hang tight; he would be there in less then a nanite. I feel like say really what else am I going to do? I'm on my slagging side for Primus's sake!

Ratchet writes back and says that I would have to hang tight (Primus! What is it with them and saying that?!) because he was on call, but that he would be there as soon as he could.

I hear screaming tires behind me, but I can't make out who it is. A second later Ironhide's alt from screams to a halt next to me, and my sensors pick up on the burning rubber of his tires.

A string of small curses in Cybertronian and I hear a very human, "Oh, Shit!" from inside the cab. Ironhide throws open his doors and Will Lennox, Robert Epps, and three others that I could recognize but could not name jump out.

With a shutter and the sound of grinding metal Ironhide's true form pulled threw as Optimus pulls up in his alt form. With a similar shutter and much louder grinding metal sounds Optimus stood up tall, and strode over to where my alt form lay on it's side. I can't say anything to them which makes me that much more agitated.

Together Optimus and Ironhide manage to get me up on my wheels. A screaming siren has everyone looking to the distance and Ironhide and Optimus ready to run for it least some human finds them.

Before they can get far though Ratchet's alt form pulls up to the scene. He stops and transforms next to the stunned friends of Lieutenant Colonel Lennox, He looks around the scene, looking baffled.

Optimus approaches him, and says "Ratchet, what are you doing here?"

"There was an anonymous call at the hospital about a bad accident up here. I didn't think that there was any connection between it and what happened to Bumblebee, but apparently I was very wrong.

I can put two and two together well enough and I realize that the man in the car must have been on the phone with the Emergency Personal. Why, I can't figure out, but whatever so long as Sam's ok.

Ratchet comes over quickly and starts to work. I can feel him pulling at some very sensitive cords.

Suddenly he whispered harshly, "Slag! What the Pit? Were you hit by a van or a slagging planet?" I knew it was bad if it had Ratchet swearing, but I was sure that it wouldn't take him that long.

It took longer than I thought but Ratchet knows what he's doing. The first thing that he managed to fix were my communication links, thank the Matrix.

I pri com Optimus wanting to tell someone about Sam. That and I wanted to distract myself from what Ratchet was doing.

"Bumblebee to Optimus."

Optimus straitens up a little and looks at me. "Ah, good to see that ratchet fixed your com link already. What is it Bee?"

"It's Sam, Sir. He was with me during the accident, but I don't know where he is now. Suffice to say, I'm a little worried."

"All right, I will ask Lieutenant Colonel Lennox and his friends if they would be willing to look. Do you know the general direction in which he went?"

"Off the ridge there, Sir. Near the river, where there is the least distance to the ground."

Optimus looks over, and I can tell that he doesn't think that anything like a human could survive the fall, but he still turns to Will and asks, "Excuse me, Lieutenant Colonel Lennox?"

"Please Optimus," Will said quickly, "just Will, you're my friend, and I don't like friends needing to use my title."

Optimus laughs softly, "Of course, Will."

Ironhide butts in, "He tends to forget we're not at war anymore."

Optimus pins Ironhide with such a glare he probably would have made Megatron proud. Ironhide shifts uncomfortably and I am hard pressed not to laugh.

Optimus continues talking to Will but you can hear the strain in his voice, "Yes, anyway. Bumblebee just informed me that Sam was with him at the time of the accident, but apparently he was thrown from him upon impact. Ironhide and I must stay here to assist Ratchet if need be, so I was wondering if..."

Will nodded, "Say no more, Optimus. Just point in the right direction and the guys and I will find him."

Optimus points to the cliff and Will and his friends flinch. I can't help it, I start to shake. Ratchet yells at me, but I don't hear it, no one, not even the humans themselves think that Sam could have survived that fall. I was scared that I just lost my best friend.

Will walks over to me, and almost like he could read my mind, he says, "Don't worry Bumblebee. I'm sure that Sam's fine especially if he hit the water, but he will be beaten up. The guys and I will go look."

They walk off, and help each other climb down the cliff. I can do nothing more then sit there and wait as Ratchet works on me.

Ratchet just finished with the internal repairs when they come back. Will walks over to Optimus, he looks so downcast my processors start to fritz and my spark skips a beat.

"Optimus," Will says softly, "We can't find him anywhere. I mean there is only so far that he could have flown right?"

Optimus nods, "Yes, Lieut…Will. There is. Bumblebee's major repairs are done so we can help."

"Ok, just be careful big guy. We did find something that might interest you. It looks like something hit the ground quite hard."

Optimus nods again, "All right then, led the way Will."

With a shaky jerk I transform, dented and bent metal sliding painfully into place. The humans climb up onto our hands and shoulders and Will shows Optimus exactly where it looks like something hit the ground.

Indeed it looks like something about Sam's size and weight hit the ground, but where was whatever it was. Optimus starts to walk around, and a short distance away finds something that makes the energon flowing threw my systems run cold.

He points to a spot on the ground away from the tree line and near the highway and say, "It looks like a struggle took place right about here. And look over there, Tire tracks... I am starting to fear the worst."

No one says anything for a while before Will said softly, "Damn it all, Sam's been kidnapped!"

No one says it, but I know that everyone is thinking, 'If he's still alive.'

End Chapter

(1) - Ok just to explain, their long and short range communications are a LOT better then ours. Their short range is like our long range, AKA a short range for them is from Hollywood, California to about New York, New York.

That's it for Chapter 2, hope you liked. It was really meant to develop the plot and add a dash of drama and a just the smallest helping of humor to lighten the mood. And now I sound like I'm cooking. Anyway R&R and see you all later. Should have chapter three up before tonight.