Bee Strong…

Trying to get things together kids, this one is short but it's an open to something bigger. I hope you enjoy. Bumblebee is opening up to the Possibility Catcher is not out to get him. Ironhide is another story entirely.

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The Darkness came quickly in this place. I sat on the edge of the cliff for almost an hour. Optimus had radioed and I had told him I was taking personal time to myself out in the open. I had a lot of time to go over everything in my head.

I heard the twig break; I turned and saw a rabbit dart out of the underbrush. I stood up, and when I looked up; before my sensors could give me proper output I got a metal hand in the face. I blinked and turned. I could hear my CPU giving out my report.

Fuel line separation, neural drive corruption

Another hit to the face. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I felt my driver side door being pulled from my back. "Autobot."

Main structure compromised.

Barricade! I turned and grabbed his forearm and with what strength I had left I pulled him over my body and crashed him to the ground. I immediately broadcast my coordinates in a wide band towards the base. All of them would get it. "I will turn you into SCRAP!" Barricade moved back up and tried once again to tackle me down. I grabbed at his arms and flipped back kicking him over me.

I turned and walked up to him laying there. I pressed my foot down on his chest. I raised my arms like a fighter in the ring and played applause out of my speakers. I was showing off, and he took advantage of that and grabbed my leg and used his other hand to shoot me in the knee. I winced and backed off of him. He Stood and Shot me in the chest. The round didn't penetrate my armor, but it got close to clipping my spark chamber. "Stick it up your aft! Decepticon!" I ran at him and jumped him pushing him down I pulled back and started punching him in the face. I was doing my best to keep stedy.

Spark Chamber compromised, Fuel System shut down convert to vehicular mode, stasis lock eminent.

Barricade rolled and pushed back up and leapt at me. I stepped to one side and caught his arm in the process. He forced himself against me and knocked me to the ground. My driver side door disconnected from my back and rolled onto the ground. I pushed against him; he got his foot across my shoulder and lifted it pushing down against my neck.

"Little autobot, a sparkling." Barricade pushed against my shoulder. He shot a cannon at my neck. I felt it crack in half, my vocal processer was destroyed.

Vocal processor Offline; Stasis lock in 60 seconds.

With that shot he had exposed my spark. I heard it though, my salvation. Two auto cannons. "Let him go Barricade!" Prime. I knew the others had come. I rolled out from under the confused Decepticon and shot my cannon at him. "Bumblebee! Quickly!" I nodded and stood Grabbing barricade around his arms holding him. He caught me off guard again by tripping me over with his legs. I tumbled down again.

"I am going into STASIS LOCK!" I yelled out as I pushed up on barricade's leg and managed to toss him off balance. The last thing I remember hearing was.

"BUMBLEBEE!" I heard Catcher yell out. "You monster I will have your HEAD!" I could hear her Energon cannon as she started coming closer. I looked up at her as my world went black.

Stasis lock complete

I awoke on the table. I reached up and grabbed my head. "Be still, he did a number on you didn't he?" Ratchet walked up me and took my hand and lifted me up to a seated position. "Caught you off guard..." I nodded. I couldn't talk and I knew it. I lived a long time without a voice a little while longer would not kill me.

"Is he awake?" Catcher was at the door looking in. I wanted to tell her to leave, but in my condition it wasn't possible. I waved at her to show that I was indeed conscious.

"Does that answer your question?" Ratchet looked at her.

"Prime wants to see you Ratchet." She stepped into the lab and looked at me. "When you have a free moment."

"I'm free now." With a sigh Ratchet put down one of my door hinges on the table; he still needed to reattach my door. I rolled my eyes, should have left me in stasis lock. "Don't move." He pointed to me "I'll be back in a moment and we can get that door of yours back on." I gave him a wave.

"You had us all scared." She said walking up to me. I didn't look her in the eyes. I didn't want to. "Look. I know it's not worth much, but for the little it is worth now I am sorry." This made me look up I was surprised by this. I made a small sound a hum out of my speakers. "For everything that happened between us on Cybertron." I watched her. "I am trying to make it up to the both of you." She meant Ironhide, though I'm sure he would be least likely to listen to the red femme. "I understand if you cannot forgive me. I just…" she was stumbling over words.

I lifted my hand up and placed it on her shoulder. I gave her a nod and then motioned to my neck. "Oh, I know you cannot talk." She smiled at me. "That is why I said what I did, because you would have no choice but to listen." I blinked a bit and looked down at her. She was right. "I shall leave you to your thoughts, Prime will be back soon with Ratchet. I just wanted to make sure you were ok. Barricade did some real damage." I whirred up another sound I hoped it sounded question like.

"He got away..." She sighed "We're tracking him though; you'll get another chance Bumblebee." I nodded and watched her go. There was a little relief in my spark for once. I did not have a bad feeling about her. I was certainly confused. I looked down at my door on the table. I was definitely not whole. I didn't feel much like a bumblebee either. The doors made up wings on my back. They made me feel more organic.

It did not take long for Prime to arrive. He looked down at my door on the table and then to me. I wanted to apologize I should have been ready. He looked back at Ratchet and waved him out of the room. I quickly loaded my visual files into a folder for Optimus I knew he would want them. "Bumblebee…I am surprised at you." Oh Primus a lecture, that is the last thing I wanted to hear. I just started to nod. "You left yourself prone…and now your vocal processor is going to take more work to fix, if it can be fixed at all." I rose up my hands as if in defeat. "It's ok…we got valuable information from his attack, he had to know that we were near. I am just glad you were not damaged beyond repair. Primus knows I need you." This made me felt better. I transferred the files to him. He turned to me once more. "No more going out alone; for anyone, always in pairs." I nodded. Prime made his way out of the small office ducking to get out.

Ratchet stepped back in and looked at me. "Let us get this door back on." He picked up the door hinge and moved around to my back. "I am getting tired of putting you back together." I chuckled silently. "Hold still."

I walked out of the Lab an hour later my vocal processor was fixed to the best of Ratchet's abilities. He was right however that if I wanted to continue my life talking I would need a new one.

I passed Ironhide in the hall; he seemed to be back to himself. "Hey." My processor was squeaky but worked.

"You are repaired, good." He turned and pointed at me. "You are to meet me in the conference bay; I will be discussing attacks on prone victims." I rolled my eyes. I let my guard down for five seconds and I get the Energon kicked out of me, and now I have to sit through a tactical lecture. "1800 hours."

I nodded and looked down at my feet. I could not believe this. They were treating me like a sparkling. I kicked the dirt floor and walked down to the main quarters and opened mine. It was sparse really. I didn't have many belongings. I moved to my recharge bay and sat. I just wanted to be alone for five seconds. The door buzzed. I looked up "What now?" I muttered quietly trying not to strain my voice.

I stood and walked over to the door pressing the button. The door opened quietly and I looked down to see him. "Oh my God, you're ok!" Sam clutched my leg tightly.

I let my shoulders drop. "How did you get here?"

"Optimus brought us." I blinked a bit.

"Us?"

"Yeah Mikaela." Sam let go of me and looked up. "Optimus contacted me after you got hurt. I'm glad to see you're ok."

"Ratchet does good work." I turned into my little room and sat back down on my recharge bay. Sam walked in and the door closed behind him.

"I have to go in a moment." I admitted. "I have to go have a lecture."

"For what?" Sam looked at me oddly "They grounded you didn't they?"

"What?" I blinked.

"Put restrictions on you." I nodded to him.

"I have to listen to an Ironhide lecture." I nodded. "No one is allowed to leave the base alone." I informed him.

"I met your girlfriend."

"My what?" I looked at him. "That girl-bot; I talked to her. She seems nice." I nodded.

"She is getting that way. She's changed much since last I saw her." I blinked my blue eyes down to Sam. "At least I hope so."

"Still don't trust her do you?" Sam looked at his watch, and then back up to me.

"Not really but I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt." I stood "I have to go see Ironhide." I was not trying to make Sam leave I just did not need to be on Ironhide's bad side.

"May I come?" I looked down at my human companion. I shrugged.

"I don't see why not, but if Ironhide asks you to go you need to leave." I sighed and motioned for him to leave my room. I followed him out of the room and down the hall. Catcher met up with us in the hall. "You have to go too huh?" I motioned to her.

"Yes." She snorted "I swear he's doing this to get back at me." She was in the same mood as I about this whole lesson.

"You hurt him…" I looked down at her. "And he unlike me is not so easy to forgive." What I said caused her to stop. I turned back to her in the hall. Sam looked back.

"You forgive me?" the look on her face was soft, and warm, it was the face I had fallen for thousands of years ago.

"I don't hold onto anger, it's not good for my being." I turned and continued to walk "Let's not be late, Ironhide will not be pleased if we are late." She caught up with me, and we did not speak further. I couldn't I needed to rest my voice, she just walked beside me. I don't know what human's mean by rebuilding old bridges, but from my understanding that is what we were doing. I have no idea why I was being so open with her. I guess everyone deserves a second chance.

He stood outside the doors arms crossed looking at the two of us. "Inside the both of you." He looked down at Sam. "Come too learn what not to do in an attack situation?"

"Sure." I heard Sam answer behind me.

"Good, you need combat training, come I will give you a good lesson." I rolled my eyes, Ironhide would love this. At least I would not be alone. I took a seat next to Air Catcher at the table. Sam crawled up into one of our massive chairs and than onto the table and sat Indian-style in front of me and looked to Ironhide. "All right, you were caught off guard because you were careless." Ironhide pointed at me. "Lets try not to have it happen again." I wanted to forget I was here.

To be continued….