10/22/11: Downgraded
"What are you doing?" Bumblebee thrashed as Sentinel Minor chained him to a medical berth. Sentinel sneered as he watched the youngling in his futile attempts to escape.
"Put a cog in it, bumbler." He ordered, finding the right tool he needed to get the job done. "I need to downgrade your stingers. You're not going to need them battle-grade for where you're going."
"No!" the thrashing increased, "You're never supposed to downgrade!" Bumblebee knew the results of downgrades and he did not want to experience one himself. His shouts did nothing as Sentinel inserted the device into his servos.
10/23/11: Stop
Being a speedster, Bumblebee loathed slowing down, even for the shortest amount of time. He loved to zoom through everything, constantly racing and pushing his alt.-mode to its limits. Basically, he had the biggest "need for speed" anyone could ever have.
When Sari's health began deteriorating, that all stopped.
As she grew sickly, Bumblebee wanted time to stop, wanted to savor every moment with his techno-organic partner in crime. He wanted to hold onto those moments he had with her. When she died, he sped up again, desperate to outrun the pain. If he stopped, it would all catch up.
10/24/11: Hatred
As soon as he saw the one red optic, he almost lost it. Shockwave was the reason for all the slag he got after Boot Camp. If it weren't for the fact that he helped take down Megatron and the Earth-bound Decepticons, he would have been the outcast of Cybertron.
Because of the mech that stood before him, he had made the biggest mistake of his life. He sent an innocent bot to the stockades and was forced to live with the guilt of it all, was victim to the revenge schemes. Bumblebee absolutely hated what Shockwave had made him.
10/25/11: Reliability
If you asked Optimus Prime which bot was the most responsible, he'd answer Ratchet. The kindest: Bulkhead. The most trustworthy: Prowl. The most down-to-Earth: Bulkhead. The loudest: Bumblebee. You could rattle off a list of good and questionable qualities and Optimus would give you an answer. The latter would usually be directed at the youngest teammate. They would all complain at least once about the youngling, whether from irresponsibility or sheer stupidity. Yet, there was one trait that Optimus Prime singled out for the yellow mech.
Despite his immaturity and naivety, the most reliable on the team was definitely Bumblebee.
10/26/11: Song
At first, he thoroughly enjoyed the song. I mean; a song about you? Slag yeah! It's about time! He enjoyed it so much, bragging to the others about having a qualified theme song and then proceeding to blast it around the base. He really loved the newfound tune.
But then the humans started playing it around him. Everywhere he went, he'd hear that overly cheery, upbeat tune. Bumblebee groaned as the melody drifted into his audio receptors. There was such a thing as overplaying something.
It was official: that DDR song Sweet Little Bumblebee was most annoying song ever created.
10/27/11: Destroyed
Bumblebee knew he was the youngest on the team, knew he would be the last to off-line. He prepared himself for that and outliving Sari, prepared for friends coming and going. However, nothing could prepare him for the sight of Earth dying.
He thanked Primus for letting his friends' sparks beat as he watched the horrific event unfold. The Earth's surface was marred by streaks of black and red. The atmosphere had disappeared long ago and with it went the water and life.
And he was forced to watch as the planet, once abundant in life, was snuffed from existence.
10/28/11: Precipitation
Bumblebee could only stare in awe as small, white…fluff floated down from the deep grey clouds overhead. But…it couldn't possibly be…
His optics widened and the youngling ran back into the base.
"Sari, that white stuff from the sky is snow, right?" he asked the teenager.
"Um…yeah, why, you've seen snow before?" she replied, raising an eyebrow.
"Of course I have!" Bumblebee huffed, "And I'll have you know that it's snowing now. Look!" Sure enough, Sari looked out the door and saw specks of white dance across the cityscape.
"I guess winter came early this year." Sari whispered.
"Guess so."
10/22/11: It takes place after Bumblebee takes the blame for Bulkhead. If you noticed, his stingers were way more powerful during the "Autoboot Camp" flashbacks than before Ratchet upgraded them. My theory was that Sentinel secretly downgraded Bee's stingers and blackmailed him into not telling anyone about it. The process of downgrading (I'd think) would be very painful, seeing as the body is already calibrated for a more powerful weapon/armor. The after effects could be catastrophic to the body, throwing every system off-balance with its counterparts. Let's just say…Bee got lucky. Ok, this is way too long…
10/29/11: For the record, yes, it is snowing here, yes I lost my power and yes, I'm writing from a laptop with (at the moment) full battery. Here's hoping the power returns tomorrow. *EDIT 10/31/11:* Ok, still no power where I live, so I'm in another town mooching off of Friendly's Wi-fi. I'm writing as much as I can within the next few hours.