Yes i am aware of the fact that it is short. But i really thought it was a good cliffy/ending. so... There
The blue with pink femme left the medbay and walked straight to the training room. She needed to blow off some negative energy.
That is how she ended up in a mostly destroyed training room. Arcee took a deep breath before moving into a new set of attacks. She was of course aware of the deep green autobot watching her confused but she honestly didn't care at the moment. She was furious.
So when Smokescreen joined Bulkhead the racer was confused to see a furious femme "yo Bulkhead, What happened to Arcee?" Bulkhead shrugged "I am not really sure… She and Bumblebee returned from their patrol. They went to the medbay and later Arcee was kicked out by Ratchet. She immediately went here." the less experienced of the two nodded. "She looks mad…" Bulkhead nodded "She looks furious… the kids got home savely?" Smokescreen nodded "No biggy."
Arcee tried to ignore the two talking bots. But it wasn't easy, she was stressed and just burning with anger.
The two finally shut up when the doors of the medbay opened. All three turned and saw the scout make his way to his room. the door of the scout's room closed behind him.
Arcee was already moving towards it and was about to knock on the door.
"I will have to ask you not to do that just yet Arcee." The femme turned and stared at her leader "But Optimus I-" Optimus raised his hand to stop Arcee. "Ratchet wishes to talk with you about what you saw to make some more sense in this all." Arcee looked ready to go against it but Optimus spoke again "That is right now the best way to help Bumblebee." Arcee stared before nodded "Yes sir" and the femme made her way towards the medbay.
Optimus turned to look at the two very confused autobots "Optimus? What is going on?" Bulkhead was the one to ask as he looked worried from the medbay towards Bumblebee's room. Optimus thought before answering "We are not sure at the moment Bulkhead. But I will have to ask you two to stay clear of Bumblebee for a while. His heat cycle has started a while again and being around other mechs and femmes will only make that harder for him."
The two looked even more confused before bulkhead understood "Because of his mixed coding?" Optimus nodded and gave a correct before moving back to the monitors.
Smokescreen looked at bulkhead "So… Bumblebee was in the medbay because of his mixed coding and Arcee is furious… because of something…" Bulkhead shrugged "I guess so…" smokescreen looked at the medbay before grinning "Let's just ask when Ratchet is done with his questions!" Bulkhead was about to say that that was a horrible idea when Arcee left the medbay.
She looked even madder then before and went straight to the training room where she started to train again.
Smokescreen smiled as he walked towards the training room. Bulkhead run after Smokescreen but walked into a pile with boxes and wasn't be able to stop the rookie. The rookie smiled as he entered.
Arcee didn't look up from her target. Though she wasn't really seeing her target, all she could picture was that blasted con. Ooow, how she wanted to just go up to the Nemesis and shoot some cons. But seeing that Ratchet had told her that is was for the best for them to lay low, she was here instead, attacking unmoving targets.
She heard footsteps come closer but she didn't turn. Right now she just needed to keep her mind away from what had happened… just long enough for herself to calm down so she won't go on some-
"So… why are you so mad?" It was always Smokescreen, who asked the wrong questions at the wrong time. Arcee decided against answering, more for the rookie's sake then her own. "I mean… What did Bee do on patrol to make you so angry-"
That did it. "Bee?! Bee didn't do ANYTHING! It are the cons that I am angry about! And you want to know why I am mad?! YOU really want to know that?!" Smokescreen stood frozen on the ground as Arcee screamed. "Soundwave! Soundwave who is what is fragging wrong!" Arcee growled and shot at the target again "That fragging con thought that he could just use Bee! The FRAGGER thought he could just force himself on bee while he is in his heat! AND now I am here! instead of hunting that fragger down because Ratchet thinks it is better that we stay low for a while! SO that is why I am mad!"
Smokescreen stared at the furious femme in shock when a other voice broke the silence "That con tried to do… that to Bumblebee?" the two turned and saw a shocked Bulkhead. Arcee hadn't noticed the green autobot and said autobot had heard everything. Bulkhead looked with shock at the small femme, Arcee nodded "If I hadn't been there Soundwave would have…" Arcee let's out an angry scream and kicks the target once more.
"You want to hear the worst thing about it all? That somehow Soundwave WAS be able to pick up on Bee's heat to begin with! While no grounder or flyer can! Only with mixed coding can but everyone knows that Soundwave is a freaking seeker! Frag him!" the two mechs stood in shock as they worked though the information they had just been given. Before they could give their own opinion their Prime walked in and asked them to follow with him to talk with Ratchet.
.~,~.
They got the orders to give Bumblebee the time to ride the last of his heat out. So they needed to keep themselves busy.
Arcee, Bulkhead and Smokescreen ended up in the training room again. Though they were cleaning it up together now, order from the medic of the group to keep them busy.
Smokescreen watched the green mech move the stuff of the room around while the femme glared at the wall.
A silence hang in the air when they heard the door into the base open. "Hello! Did I miss anything?!" Bulkhead looked up and grinned "Hey Jackie!"
Bulkhead left the training area to talk to his old wrecker buddy while Arcee and Smokescreen stayed in the room. Wondering what they should do and how they should tell Wheeljack what had happened… and if they needed to tell him. Arcee sighed "I will have to ask Prime what we need to tell Wheeljack-"
"The cons tried to do what to Bumblebee?! He is still a kid! Those fragging cons! When I get my servos on them I will make them regret ever thinking about trying to force themselves on a bot!"
Arcee groaned and felt like facepalming, Trust Bulkhead to just go up to his friend and tell him.
.~,~.
He should decorate his room. Bumblebee let his optics trace over the empty walls and felt that thought come up again. He had been stuck in his room for five days now, on doctor's orders, and while it helped him with his heat it was slowly dying of boredom. But it was better to stay here then go out though. He still needed his energon and luckily Ratchet brought that to him.
Bumblebee felt the tension in the air around the base since he came back. It didn't take a genius to guess why that was the case.
The explosion that echoed though the base had the scout shoot up and looked at the door in shock. What was going on? Were they being attacked?
"Wheeljack! What did I say about explosions inside the base?!" That was Ratchet. So Wheeljack played with explosives inside his room… There were worst things. The scout laid back on his back and tried to relax again. His heat hadn't given any problems the last few days so that was the bright side of it all.
"What about staying quiet so Bee can rest don't you understand?!" Bumblebee groaned as he rolled unto his side. Sure he had had some very weird and awkward run in with Soundwave, also terrifying but he won't let them know that, but they were acting like how they acted with Tyger Pax. Without notice, he raised his servo up to his throat and stroked the scars there.
Why had this all happened? How had Soundwave been able to locate him? He could guess how though. It was Soundwave after all, the third in comment of the decepticons, the communication officer. That however raised a new question, Why had Soundwave let him live? Why hadn't Soundwave just offlined him? It would have been easy. The scout couldn't think of any reason for the con to have kept him online. And any reason that he thought of wasn't comforting. He didn't like how his processor was warning him that he had only survived it because he had been in heat. The scent may have had some effect on the con. Maybe the con thought to keep him as some interface toy- NO!
Bumblebee shook his helm and put his faceplates into his servos, cycling air though his vents while trying to stay calm. No, he won't allow his processor to go down that path and tried to look for some different reason. Sadly he couldn't come up with everything. Though a very small part kept saying that he was missing something very obvious. The scout turned on his side and stared at the wall and offlined his optics. Maybe some recharge would do him good.
.~,~.
Soft knocking woke the scout up from his recharge. The yellow mech looked around his room before turning towards the door. Another soft knock was heard "Bee? Can I come in?" Bumblebee unlocked the door at the sound of Arcee's voice. Arcee entered the room and closed the door behind her. "Hey… I… I wanted to talk…" Bumblebee nodded and looked around his room in search for his translator.
Arcee joined the scout on the berth as Bumblebee put on his mouth guard. Arcee looked at her servos and smiled at the scout "You feeling better? doing okay with the whole heat thing?" Bumblebee grinned behind his mask "I am fine, still a little overheated sometimes but nothing problematic. It isn't my first heat so I know what to expect." Arcee smiled and hugged the younger mech "Cee?" the femme was slightly shaking as she held the younger mech "I should have noticed… I should have noticed that you had entered your heat… and then Ratchet explains that… that… sick fragger… that he had been…" her optics looked straight at the shocked blue eyes of the scout "Why didn't you tell us the moment it happened?" Bumblebee looked at his servos and looked at the femme "I tried… of course… I just wasn't sure how to explain that I wake up, after a moment what was supposed to be 'me time', on top of a decepticon. And to make things worse on top of Soundwave. I didn't even remember what had happened or why it happened… I wasn't even sure how to start explaining that…"
The femme nodded and hugged the yellow mech. "Just know… that you can always talk to me… We have known each other for so long. You have always helped my Bee, with Tailgate and with Cliffjumper. I promise I will always help you Bee, don't ever doubt that." Bumblebee hugged the femme and nodded "I know Cee. You are my best friend and nothing will ever change that." Arcee nodded and hugged her friend.
.~,~.
Later, Arcee was kicked out by the mad medic when he came to bring the scout his energon. The scout spent the rest of his isolation time in peace. Once he was friend he spend most of his time inside the base. Optimus still felt uneasy about letting the scout go out on his own and Ratchet was backing him up on it.
Another week went by and the level of tension around the base finally seemed to go down. That helped the scout a lot. His heat had gone by and that brought a certain rest around the base.
Everything was starting to look up when Ultra Magnus arrived. Optimus and Magnus spend a lot of time talking about the decepticons. Bumblebee had asked Ratchet if he would have to tell Magnus what had happened but Ratchet had told him that he would need to leave that to Optimus. That the Prime would choice a good time to tell what happened.
So when Ultra Magnus ordered the bots to move with him to have some outside training when Optimus one on one of his own patrols the tension rose again. No one went against it and the bots left the base. Ratchet stayed behind to watch the groundbridge but before they all left the medic pulled the scout to the side "If anything happens. Contact me and I will bridge you out of there. You hear me?" Bumblebee had nodded and promised he would watch out.
The training was boring and to be honest. It fell good to be out again with the others.
Since that day Bumblebee left the base more often, always with someone but at least he got out again. Bee mostly left with Arcee seeing as the femme didn't want to leave the younger mech alone.
Things were starting to look up again… Of course that is the moment that Primus decided that it was time to change it up a bit.
Bumblebee and Arcee were out on their patrol when they got the comm. from Ultra Magnus. :: Ultra Magnus to whoever can here me. Wheeljack and myself are requesting backup:: On the background the the femme and mech could hear the fighting and wheeljack screaming that he didn't need backup. The motor and car changed course and set of towards the autobots in need. "You sure about this Bee? Maybe you should go back to base and…" Bumblebee sighed "Cee… please. I know what happened but I am still an autobot. We haven't seen Soundwave outside anytime in these past two weeks. Let's just go help Wheeljack and Ultra Magnus" Arcee nodded, as much as she could in her alt mood, "Let's save those two idiots."
.~,~.
The two entered the battlefield and started to shoot away at the cons there. The vehicons dropped like flies as the two made their way though. It didn't take long for the autobots to gain the upper hand as they fought the cons off.
Everything went quiet when the last vehicon was downed. The four autobots looked around before Arcee turned towards ultra Magnus "What happened?" Ultra Magnus turned away from the femme while he talked "We picked up a possible energon signal and went to investigate. We found these vehicons and they spotted us." Wheeljack pointed at some mine "Looks like we found one of the cons' mines." The four autobots all moved towards the entrance.
Ultra Magnus stopped by the entrance "Someone will need to stand guard. Wheeljack." Wheeljack was about to go against it when Arcee gave him a glare. No way that they were leaving bee outside to watch everything or that Arcee was letting Bee out of her sight. Wheeljack sighed and went to stand next to the entrance. The three other bots walked into the mine.
The energon mine was mostly empty so it was save to say that it was one of the older ones. Non the less the autobots collected whatever energon they could and requested a groundbridge.
The four started to work together to move the energon though the bridge. None noticed that they were being watched. The circumstances weren't ideal for Soundwave's taste but they would have to do. The con had planted some explosions around the mine while they had been working and would have to blow up whatever was left of it to make the bots distracted long enough to take the scout. But with the energon there it could turn into a disaster really quick. So he waited.
The ex-wrecker moved into the mine to check if they had gotten all the energon when Soundwave set off his trap.
The mine blow up and the three bots moved towards the now caved in mine. Ultra Magnus stood were the entrance had once been "Wheeljack?! Wheeljack can you hear us?" Bumblebee looked at the older mech "I can't reach his comm." Arcee nodded "I already contacted Ratchet. He says that Smokescreen and Bulkhead are already on their way and that he will contact Optimus with the groundbridge." Ultra Magnus nodded "Arcee, go meet the others half way and lead them here. Bumblebee see if you can find some crack to get to Wheeljack quicker." The two nodded and did as ordered.
Soundwave stalked after the scout until he was far away enough from the now in comment autobot.
Bumblebee scanned the walls when he heard a voice "Sorry, this will hurt for a bit." Bumblebee was about to turn around when he felt a shock though his protoform and fell his processor offline.
.~,~.
Soundwave caught the yellow bot and removed the feeler from the medical port. The con quickly scanned around him but Laserbeak informed him that Magnus was still by the cave in. Soundwave lifted the scout up and called up his own groundbridge.
The silent con stepped though it and disappeared to the Nemesis.
