"We need to get him to Ratchet, stat," Optimus announced. Bulkhead carefully picked up Prowl and carried him to the rover. "Autobots, roll out!" Optimus shouted and followed him. Bumblebee was about to board when he was stopped by Sari.
"Omigosh, Bumblebee, youweresocool! Yousavedeverybodyandstoppedthemonster! It wastheawesomestthing EVER!" she squeaked at once.
"Sari, take it easy. I have to go. My friend, he's hurt. Real bad," Bumblebee said solemnly.
"Can I come with you? Please please please?" Sari begged.
"No Sari."
"But I wanna know more about you."
"No Sari."
"I can help!"
"No Sari."
"I said ROLL OUT Bumblebee!" Optimus bellowed.
"Coming!" he replied.
"I promise to be real quiet," she whispered. Bumblebee glanced unsurely back at the rover. "You can trust this face, can't you?" she smiled innocently.
"Yeah alright," Bumblebee sighed, "There's a closet you can hide in until we get on the ship. But you've gotta stay quiet! Until I can figure out an excuse."
"Yes!" she shouted eagerly. Bumblebee looked at her angrily. "I mean uh, yesss..." She ran onboard the rover behind Bumblebee.
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"Ah yes. Good as new," Bulkhead smiled at his newly repaired wrecking ball.
"So how's Prowl?" Optimus asked. Ratchet frowned.
"Is he gonna, ya know, kick the bucket?" Bumblebee asked.
"Well, he's not dead yet, that much can be said," Ratchet said. Bumblebee caught something in the corner of his eye: Sari was peeping around the corner for a look into the Med room.
"Uh, I've gotta use the bathroom," Bumblebee announced, "Be right back!" He ran out the door and pushed Sari into the hallway. "Sari!" he whispered loudly, "What do you think you're doing?!"
"I wanted to see," she explained.
"Do you have any idea how much trouble I could get in for letting you on board?"
"Okay, okay, I get it." Bumblebee took two steps back into the room then looked back at Sari. She smiled innocently. Bumblebee reluctantly went back into the Med room.
"So, anything new?"
"Bumblebee, you've only been gone thirty seconds. Nothing's new," Ratchet growled. Bumblebee gasped. Once again, Sari was trying to get a look in on the Med room.
"Uh, I gotta go to the bathroom again!" He ran out and could be heard "whispering" from inside the Med room for a full minute. When it ended, the Autobots looked at each other. Bumblebee then returned.
"Okay, what I miss?" he asked.
"Those nanobots get in your brain or something Bumblebee?" Bulkhead asked.
"Oh no, I'm perfectly fine," Bumblebee smiled. The smile turned to a shocked frown when he saw Sari, trying to put on one of his stingers. "Though I seem to have lost all control of my bladder! Be right back!" He ran out into the hallway, grabbed Sari, ran down the hallway, and snatched back his stinger.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Bumblebee had at this point forgotten all about stealth.
"Well those stinger things of yours are really cool," Sari said.
"I thought I told you not to touch anything!" Bumblebee was now waving his arms angrily.
"You just told me to lay low," she corrected.
"AND YOU CALL THIS LAYING LOW?!" In his frantic waving, Bumblebee knocked over some equipment making very large bangs. Now Bumblebee could hear footsteps in the hallway coming his way.
"Uh, uh, uh, uh," Bumblebee searched for a place to hide Sari and found a ventilation shaft. "Stay where ever you end up. I'll come get you." He picked Sari up and dropped her into the chute just before Optimus appeared behind a corner.
"Everything okay Bumblebee?"
"Oh, yeah I feel much better now!" Bumblebee giggled nervously.
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Sari laughed as she slid down chute. She grunted when she fell out of it and hit the ground on her butt. Suddenly, she was bathed in a blue light. She squinted and looked for the source. It was some kind of weird box that had opened up and revealed a bright blue orb. She had never seen anything like it before, and yet, she was drawn to it. It felt like an old friend long lost. It called to her, and she came closer. She reached out until she touched it. It flashed and knocked her back. Suddenly, images flashed through her head: cities, people, animals, plants, and what seemed to be memories of past lives.
"Okay, that was weird," she told herself. The orb then concentrated its light into a blue beam that pointed at her key card. It morphed and shifted into a blue t-shaped key with markings of a brighter blue color.
"If you screwed up my key, you owe me my security deposit," she told the box. Then she felt a hand grab her shoulder...
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"Sari, you in here?" Bumblebee asked. He'd looked all over the ship to no luck. He prayed to Primus that she hadn't gone wandering again.
"Hello Bumblebee," Optimus greeted.
"Uh oh hi Prime! I was just uh-" he was stopped when he saw that Sari was standing right next to him. She waved nervously.
"So, I suppose you have an explanation for this?" Optimus crossed his arms.
"Actually, I'm down to my top five," Bumblebee said.
"Prime! Get up here now!" Ratchet barked over the intercom.
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Prime, Bumblebee, and Sari walked into the Med room. Ratchet was still trying to operate on Prowl.
"His condition's getting worse! I can't keep him stable!" Ratchet shouted. Sari's key then began to glow hot and pull itself to Prowl's table. Bumblebee realized what was happening and helped her onto the table. She smiled at him and knelt over Prowl. She took the key off her head. She didn't know how, but she knew what to do. She pushed the key against his skin. The key glowed and passed through the flesh like a ghost. She pulled it out after a few seconds. All Prowl's wounds then began to heal and soon enough he'd woken up.
"That- is quite the cure," Prowl said. He wiped some blood off his arm. The wound had completely disappeared. Everyone else in the room stared slack-jawed at the spectacle.
"How'd you do that?!" Bumblebee gasped.
"I have no clue," Sari answered.
"It's official, I've seen everything," Optimus announced, "I've witnessed more action in this one year, than in my entire career as an Autobot.
"Year's not over yet," Ratchet looked at a vis-screen that showed everyone several scuba-bots searching the lake.
"I think my dad's looking for me," Sari said.
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The rover rolled onto the docks. The Autobots and Sari ran out to meet by several police cars.
"Put your hands where I can see 'em!" Fanzone ordered over the megaphone. The Autobots obediently raised their hands.
"It's okay, they're friendly! Well, except for the old guy in red and white. He's kinda grumpy," Sari defended. Her father then pushed his way out of the police crowd and ran to her daughter then smothered her in hugs.
"Oh Sari! I was so worried!" he told her.
"So, Dad, can we keep 'em?" she asked.
