Hey guys! Thanks for sticking with me ^^ I hope you all like this chapter very much,and I'm sorry if I'm going really slow on updating the storys I have. School just started again from being out for spring break and with homework and what not,yeah it's gonna get slow. But some insperation that I get I get at school so,ha,hopefully the chapters will get better! XD
Also,sorry about the names of Bumblebee's parents on this one. Lol,I'm having a bit of a creativity fail. I know,Bumblebee's carrier (mom) Sounds like a Pokemon's name. BUT I"M STUMPED OK? XD Lol,sorry for the lack of creativity ^^; And with Bees' creater (dad)...I just don't know -_-; I'm tired let's just put it at that! XD
Bumblebee was depressed. Why hadn't his parents come back yet? It's been over 3 months and not a single word since they had last spoken to each other. Bumblebee was now at least 6 cybertronian years old now. His creaters left for the war when he was 2. It's been 4 years now. Why haven't they come back yet? Bumblebee couldn't help but sit in front of the monitors in the main living area. One of them should contact him any moment now right? Bumblebee waited for a few minutes longer then normal just in case they were late getting in...nothing.
Disappointed,Bumblebee hopped off of the chair in front of the monitor and started to exit the room. But he stopped,the monitor started to go off. Little Bee rushed to the monitor as fast as his little legs could carry him. Once he had gotten to the monitor he pressed the botton.
"Hello? This is Bumblebee!" He said with a big smile on his face. But to his disappointment he saw that it wasn't his creaters,but their general,it was General Rockslide. He had a...well this was a surprise! General Rockslide had a depressed look on his face. "What's wrong sir? Where's carrier and creater? Are they around?" Bee asked with hopefull optics.
The general looked to the side. He couldn't look optic to optic with young innocent Bee. 'This will break his young spark for sure' The general thought. He loved Bumblebee,like his own son. But he had to tell young Bee. If he didn't,the poor sparklet would never know. General Rockslide took a deep cycle of air in through his vents and let it out. "I'm sorry to tell you this Bumblebee. I wish I wasn't the one to tell you. But Butterfree and Dashdrive,your creaters...they both died on the battlefeild today.I'm so sorry." He said,getting it over with quickly.
Bumblebee's optics widened. "They're...dead? No...no..NO IT CAN'T BE!" Bumblebee cried. He grabbed his helm as he cried with all he had. His energon tears staining the ground. General Rockslide tried not to greive with Bumblebee. He was still in the precence of his men and other Generals. Rockslide sighed,gave his concence to Bumblebee and logged off.
"Bumblebee? What happened?" A Mech asked. Bumblebee looked up and saw his red and white caretaker. Bumblebee got up from the floor and ran as fast as he could to the comferts of his friend. He launched himself into the red and white mechs arms,sending both of them to the floor. Sitting up with a groan,the mech asked "Bumblebee,what happened? Please tell me?" The red and white mech asked,gently kissing the top of Bumblebee's helm.
"They're gone! Carrier and creater... *sniff*... they're gone!" Bumblebee cried into his caretakers arms. Little Bee held onto his caretaker for dear life. Afraid that if he let go,he would forever be alone. The red and white mech kept Bumblebee in his arms and held him for a long while. Knowing that it would comfert the small child in his time of need. The mech stood up,Bumblebee still in his arms,and walked to the childs room.
The caretaker opened the door and attempted to lay the sparklet down on his little berth,but Bumblebee wouldn't let go. "Don't leave me alone. *sniff* Please Big Red?" Bumblebee asked with big optics,still brimming with tears. The mech couldn't help but smirk at the nickname the child had given him. Bumblebee said it once when he was 3 and the nickname just stuck.
'Big Red' Just sighed and told the young child "Don't worry Bumblebee,I'll be here in the morening when you wake up. I'm not going anywhere." Bumblebee smiled and allowed his caretaker to tuck him into his berth. 'Big Red' bent down and kissed Bumblebee's temple gently. "Goodnight kid."
He said with a smirk.
"Don't call me kid! I'm a big bot! If you call me kid I'll call you 'Medium Red' instead!" Bee said with a frown. 'Big Red' Just laughed and smiled down at Bumblebee. "I'll keep that in mind Bee." He said,bending down to kiss Bumblebee's temple one last time before the little sparklet fell into recharge.
"BUMBLEBEE! PAY ATTENTION WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!" Bumblebee snapped awake from his trance and looked at Ratchet with surprised optics. These memories have got to stop! Everyone was starting to look at Bumblebee with great concern. "I'm sorry Ratchet! I haven't been getting much recharge lately." Bumblebee defended,currently that was the best thing he had to actually go on!
And at the moment...Ratchet wasn't buying it. "Well,if you haven't been getting enough recharge then I can fix that easily." Ratchet said,pulling out a wrench. He was honestly getting fed up with the same excuse 'I haven't been getting enough recharge lately'. Bumblebee had bee taking light recharges on the medical berth in the medbay for the past 3 days,and under his supervision!
Ratchet did say that the next time Bumblebee used that excuse he would make extra sure that Bumblebee got some recharge. Even if Ratchet had to put Bee in stasis lock he would make sure that the younger mech would actually get some recharge! However,the next thing that would come out of Bumblebee's damaged vocalizer would shock everyone in the room.
"I'M SORRY BIG RED PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!" Bumblebee cried,you could clearly hear the childlike distress coming from his broken voice box. Bumblebee looked up in surprise. Where in Primus's name did that come from? Embaressed,Bumblebee tried to apoligize the best that he could. But by the look on Ratchets faceplate,it seemed that he was the one not listening this time.
"Bumblebee...what did you just call me?" Ratchet asked,optics wide and full of disbelife.
Bumblebee started to panic. He didn't know if he'd just upset Ratchet more or if he'd confused him greater then what they both were used too...and that's saying something. Bee couldn't help the flush that appered on his faceplate. He then looked down in shame and said "B...big Red? I'm Sorry Ratchet. I've been having so many flash backs that it's just messing everything up. I'm so confused!" Bumblebee whined.
The look on Ratchets faceplate could only be discribed as true hope! 'Does he finally remember me? From so long ago?' Ratchet reached out a servo to place on Bumblebee's shoulder,but before he could make contact Bumblebee turned and drove out of the base faster then any one of them could blink. Ratchet was confused. Why did he run away? Didn't Bumblebee remember him? His old caretaker? Ratchet then put two and two together and figured out that Bumblebee's memorie circuits must still be fried.
"Uuuuuhhhhh,Ratchet? What's going on? Why'd Bumblebee run off?" Arcee asked,concern was clearly present in her voice. Ratchet thought that it would be best to explain everything now that Bumblebee was out instead of later. If he told them when Bumblebee was present...let's just say that he didn't want to mortify him. Bumblebee needed to remember on his own.
Ratchet sighed and turned to the group. "Alright I'll explain. When Bumblebee was about 2 cybertronian years old,his parents went to fight in the war that had just began. I was a trainie at that time and needed the extra credits,or money,to pay off my school bills. I thought that babysitting at the time was probly the only thing that I would be able to do at that time. No hospitiles would take in a trainie without any experiance,so babysitting was my only option." Ratchet explained.
Ratchet looked over and found that Jack,Miko,Raf,and were deffinently interested,while Bulkhead and Wheeljack on the other hand passed a couple of glances at each others way. Both trying not to laugh. But with the look that they had both gotten from Optimus,that certainly shut them up.
Ratchet smirked and continued on with the story. "Anyway,after I had gotten the job I noticed that Bumblebee's parents were really upset about fighting in the war. I asked them what was wrong and they told me that they didn't want to leave Bumblebee without another family member. Turns out Bumblebee's parents were the last of both of their familys,and Bumblebee was their only child. I was shocked that Bumblebee had to go through something like that,although it's not uncommon it's still painfull to see a sparkling go through something as sevier as that.
"After I had gotten settled in I took extra care in watching over Bumblebee. After a while I guess you could say that we had became good friends. He was almost like a younger brother to me at the time. But,whenever Bumblebee was 6 cybertronian years old his creaters General contacted him and told him that Butterfree and Dashdrive,his parents,had died on the battlefield earlier that day." Ratchet's face went from content to kinda depressed in a heartbeat. He sighed as he remembered how upset Bumblebee was after hearing the news.
"Oh,poor Bumblebee! How did he take it?" asked. She was concerned of course. She really has grown fond of Bumblebee,just like how she has grown fond of the other bots,but whenever she noticed that Bumblebee was down she would always try her best to cheer him up. But,after hearing something like this that had happened to Bee so long ago,she didn't know how she would help to cheer him up this time.
"Not well June. He entered a depressed state shortly after. I tried my best to make him happy again,I tried everything,nothing worked though. The only thing that would make him happy is if I would play with him,then he would light up and smile just how he used too. But after a while even that stopped working."
"Doesn't Bumblebee remember you Ratchet? Why did he call you 'Big Red'?" Jack asked
"Well,sometime when Bumblebee was about 3 years old he suddenly called me Big Red. It stuck ever since." Ratchet thought with a smile. "But about his memories however...*sigh* When he was about 8 or 9,Bumblebee was taken out of my care and put in a foster home. I tried to get him back but nothing would work,I almost got kicked out of Medical school for it." Ratchet said,he remembered when he did almost get kicked out. He had to make it up by consantly having to stay after his class's to make sure that no tools were stolen.
It stunk for him,but with all of the time spent with Bumblebee he found that he had gained a lot of patients. "Soon after,I had lost all contact with Bumblebee. I couldn't check up on him to see how he was doing,didn't see him around the city,nothing. But years later whenever I had finally met Bumblebee again,he was in the hospital with a serious head injury. I found out later on after he was treated that he foster family he was sent too were abusive.
"They had held Bumblebees helm under a pot of boiling oil for punishment of accidently bumping into his foster father in the hallway. The oil slipped through the seams of his helm and fried a good portion of his memorie circuits. He remembered a few important details of his life,but all memories of me and his real parents were lost. He was sent to a much better foster family but soon after he had signed up to join in the fight for cybertron. Thus we had 'Officially met' after the incedent with Megatron and Bee's voicebox." Ratchet said,rubbing his forehead in distress.
The story was told,everything was explained and everyone was shocked out their processors. Bulkhead and Wheeljack looked like they were about ready to blow a gascit. Arcee,Jack,and June looked like they were about to go out and find the abusive family and beat them to slag. Miko,Raf,and Optimus...they just looked increadibly shocked.
Optimus and Raf had no idea Bumblebee went through something like that. And Miko,she just couldn't believe that someone as happy,high spirited and energetic like Bumblebee went through something as horrible as that! It was criminal!
"So what had happened to that abusive family?" June had asked out of anger.
"They ended up joining the Decepticons. Their sparks were extinguished soon after." Ratchet said matter of factly with a blank expression. He shrugged his shoulders,he figured that it would happen.
Arcee's mood lightened a little bit,Jack's as well,and June looked satified to know that that abusive family never touched Bumblebee again.
Ratchet was satisifed as well. But the matter at hand now...where had Bumblebee run off too? He walked over to the moniters and started searching for Bumblebee's energy signiture. He soon found that Bumblebee was located at least 25 miles due west of their position. It was far away from any human civilazation but it was still close enough to make Ratchet worry.
"Bumblebee. Come back to base. I'll send a ground bridge." Ratchet said into Bumblebee's ...but no responce. I was only static. Ratchet soon took notice of Bumblebee's spark signature. It looked...suspicious. They all soon found out that Bumblebee was in the heat of battle. Ratchet sent out a ground bridge to get to Bumblebee's postition. They all ran through,the humans stayed behind to man the ground bridge.
When they had arrived,everyone saw Bumblebee sprawled out on the ground. Knockout Standing right above him with his electric rod against his neck cables. "Bumblebee,you're going to pay for the damage you've caused me." Knockout said with pure venom in his voice. "I'll make sure you won't leave this area in any repairable shape!" Knockout spat.
"Go ahead and try!" Bee said as he knocked the rod out of Knockouts servos and brought him to the ground. That's when the autobots sprang into action. Knockout knew that he was dramatically out numbered and decided that he'd spare his paint the few extra scratch's. Knockout contacted Soundwave and a ground bridge was sent soon afterwords. The 'Con fled quickly with the promise of getting Bee back for the bad dents and scraches he'd inflicted on him.
Bee shook off the battle and started walking towords the others on wobbly legs. Poor Bee was tired,he didn't think that he could stand much longer,never the less transform to drive back. He was about ready to collapse untill Ratchet rushed up to him,set him down on the ground and started checking his injuries. They weren't so bad,a few dents and scratches here and there. But Bumblebee's energy was so low that it made Ratchet worry.
He contacted Jack,telling him to send a ground bridge A.S.A.P.
It's been a good 12 hours since the battle with Knockout. Ratchet fixed up Bumblebee as good as knew and,under Bee's request,was sent to his berthroom for some well needed rest. A few cycles dragged by and Bumblebee still couldn't find it in himself to recharge. The events of the day were just horrible for Bee. From accidently calling Ratchet 'Big Red' to haveing a battle with Knockout over a little chip he had given the 'con by accident,it was just hard trying not to think of all that went on during the corse of the day. Bee tossed and turned in his berth,trying to fall into recharge somehow but nothing was working. However,little did Bee know,Ratchet was having the same problem.
Ratchet was also thinking about the days events. Even though confessing that he himself was 'Big Red' ,Bumblebee's childhood caretaker,to the others made him feel better about the situation,it did nothing to ease the dissapointment in his spark when he realised that Bumblebee did not truly remember him. Not him,not his real creaters,nothing. It made him feel angry with himself. If only he could...
'If only I could gain the slagging courage to ask/tell him. Even a little bit would help.' Both Ratchet and Bumblebee thought as they finally fell into recharge.