It had been 10 years since Optimus Prime had hidden the chain, and everyone had just about forgotten it had ever existed, having pushed it to the backs of their minds. Sari was 17 now, and anyone could see that she was maturing into a beautiful young woman. Bumblebee was older too, and he was secretly glad that, no matter how many boys came, Sari had never gone out with anyone.

Sari and Bumblebee were driving home after a trip to the store and the gas station, talking about when they were younger. Unknown to them, another one of Dr. Sumdac's tests had gone wrong, and was wandering town. The two were straight on course to crash right into it.

"...remember that time when--" Sari's words were cut short as Bumblebee screeched to a stop in order to avoid hitting the creature in front of them.

"What IS that thing?!"

The "thing" in question was over 15 feet tall, had 7 tails, 8 wings, 6 eyes, 3 heads with extremely sharp 5 inch long teeth, and was so mutated you couldn't tell what it had started out as. It looked around and spotted Bumblebee at its feet. It snarled horribly, and Sari and Bumblebee were frozen in terror. Then, rising to action, Bumblebee tossed Sari and the groceries onto the ground and transformed, assuming a fighting stance.

"Sari! Run!" Sari ducked behind the nearest building and ran through the streets until she was behind the thing, out of sight. She watched as Bumblebee shot lasers at it, managing to slice off one of it's heads, which grew back and split into two.

His lips were moving fast, and Sari assumed he was speaking to one of the autobots back home. But as he was distracted, she saw the creature's eyes glint, and she got a dreadful feeling deep in the pit of her stomach.

"BUMBLEBEE! LOOK--" she gasped as the creature whipped all 7 of its tails around and threw Bumblebee into an old building. She didn't think, she didn't hesitate, and next thing she knew she was sprinting towards the thing, not even entirely sure what she was going to do.

Bumblebee groaned, and sat up slowly. The creature had thrown him onto the 5th floor of an old, graffiti-covered building at just the right angle for one of the columns that filled the room to collapse on him, crushing the communicating device. He pushed a piece of rubble aside and stood up. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of the creature thrashing about, trying to reach something on it's back. He looked closer, and, to his horror, saw Sari climbing up it's neck! What was she thinking?!

The thing was shaking its heads from side to side, and Sari was in terrible danger of being thrown off to plummet down towards the ground where she would surely meet her death.

Bumblebee whipped around, about to transform into a sleek yellow camaro when something in the rubble from the column glinted and caught his attention. He walked over and moved the broken pieces around and spotted a chain with a seashell dangling from it. Bee picked it up and instantly all his memories came flooding back. He gasped.

"Can this really be it? After all these solar-cycles?" he murmured.

"BUMBLEBEE! HELP!!" screamed Sari, and Bumblebee snapped back to attention. Thinking quickly, he ran to the broken wall.

"SARI! CATCH!" he threw the chain, and Sari glanced at him wildly, reaching out a hand and just managing to catch it on the tip of her finger. As she held it in her palm, memories came drifting to the front of her mind: swimming in the lake and catching sight of something glittering in the rockbed; putting a chain around Bee's neck; crying on human Bee's shoulder at midnight...Optimus walking away, claiming to hide the chain. Startled, she lost focus, and lost her grip as the creature flailed around again.

She hurtled towards the ground, screaming.

"SARI!! THE CHAIN!!" Bumblebee yelled.

Without thinking, she slipped the chain around her neck and was transformed into an agile autobot once again. Instinctively, without knowing how she did it, Sari turned and landed gracefully on the concrete, leaving small dents where her feet had been.

By this time, Bumblebee had also reached the ground and was in combat with the creature. Sari ran up and also started fighting it with her new-found strengths. But even with two autobots fighting, the creature kept evading their attacks, seemingly growing smarter with each move they made.

It flapped all its wings, and a huge gust of wind blew violently towards them, shattering all the windows on the way. It hit the two at a speed of 75 mph, and they were thrown completely through a building, crashing painfully into a large oak tree, which shuddered and fell over onto a street, causing 4 car crashes simultaneously.

Sari and Bumblebee laid there, winded, as the creature slowly stomped toward them. Bee groped for Sari's hand, clasping it tightly. She squeezed back, smiling wearily at him, and Bumblebee thought that even though she was dirty, scratched and dented, she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. As they gazed at each other in what they were sure were their last moments before they went offline, Sari's optics suddenly lit up.

"Bumblebee! The chain!"

"Huh?" Not wasting a second, Sari jumped up and started sprinting towards the creature.

"Sari!!"

A split second before Sari crashed head on into the creature, she jumped, at the same time transforming into a swift jet, and sped into the air.

Overhead, she looked at the heads, and noticed, as Bumblebee once more engaged it for a distraction, that one head kept back, almost seeming to give orders. Sari swooped down, and directly above the head in question, she transformed.

"Bumblebee! Catch meeee!!"

As she fell, she removed the chain and flung it around the head, where it slid down to the base of the neck. In a flash, the creature was transformed into remarkably and unbelievably, a Black Widow spider.

Bumblebee dashed forward and flung himself into the air, catching Sari and skidding across the road. He got up into a kneeling position and squeezed Sari tight. To Sari's surprise, she found herself crying uncontrollably, and she clung to Bee.

"It's okay, it's over..." soothed Bee. "You did great!"

Eventually Sari's sobs subsided, and she pulled back to give Bumblebee a watery smile. He smiled back, then stood up and walked over to the spider, where it was trying to escape.

"Not so fast there, mister," he said, and squished it. He picked up the chain and gazed at it for a moment. Then he glanced over to Sari, who was still kneeling on the ground a little ways away. The results of the battle were showing and she was all scraped up, but to Bee she was gorgeous. He looked back at the chain and smiled.

Carefully he walked back over to Sari and knelt down again. He smirked, and Sari tilted her head and looked at him questioningly.

Slowly, ever so slowly, without breaking eye contact, Bumblebee slipped the chain over his head. Almost instantly he was changed into a dusty, bruised, and beaten-looking 18 year old boy with a mop of sandy-blond hair with bright blue eyes. Sari smiled, and Bee smiled back.

Then his face turned solemn. "I thought I would lose you way too many times today." he whispered. "And each time I was so afraid, and so worried that I would never get the chance to tell you what I've felt inside for so long." Sari's eyes searched his, hoping.

Slowly, Bee leaned forward and touched Sari's lips with his own.

Emotions exploded inside each of them instantaneously: love, tenderness, longing, and sheer joy. They could hear the blood pounding in their ears, and everything seemed to vanish around them. Nothing else existed or mattered except each other.

Sari reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck, and he held her close, neither one breaking the kiss.

When they came apart slowly for air, Bumblebee whispered in Sari's ear tenderly the words he had been longing to say for so many solar-cycles, the words that Sari had been desperately longing to hear for so long.

"I love you."

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