Bumblebee landed on the solid ground as he stepped out of the ground bridge. As the vortex closed behind him, the young scout began to check his surroundings. He was on what appeared to be a foggy island that was devoid of human inhabitants. Bumblebee began to walk towards the source of the meteor.

As Bumblebee kept marching past the tall trees, he kept himself on constant guard. The gray fog covering the area made the scout feel extra cautious. He made sure his weapons were on standby. The last thing he needed was for the Cons to discover the meteor and get there before he could. He felt as if a group of vehicons was about to jump on the scout.

Especially since it landed so close to the island called "Griffin Rock", the place where Optimus had a group of Rescue Bots living there.

Rescue Bots.

Bumblebee was never involved with them whatsoever. But like many noble Cybertronians, he admired what they stood for. In the time of the War of Cybertron, Rescue Bots were the proud middle ground of the conflict. They both sought to save and rescue Autobots, Cons, and citizens.

But their role of neutrality ended bitterly when Megatron decided it would be best to eliminate all Rescue Bots. Millions of sparks were shot and extinguished. He and all Autobots mourned over their deaths, and many vowed to bring vengeance.

But now that he knew that there were still living Rescue Bots. It gave him a small glimmer of hope for their future. As long as Megatron never knew of them.

Suddenly Bumblebee paused when his tracking device began to beep. Four unknown Cybertronian life forms were now on the island with him. By the way they were moving, it seemed they have headed the same direction the meteor was.

Bumblebee was prepared to thrash these cons. After following their signal for a while, he could finally hear their heavy footsteps. He climbed up one of the trees to see if he could spot them secretly. It might have caused some leaves to fall, but he made sure to make zero movements.

He could hear them right under him, so he quickly leaped over to another tree. And then another, just to get a good shot of these foes. But he finally noticed that these Cybertronians were not vehicons.

It was then he realized his presence was known, as one bot muttered: "Someone's here." He leaped in front of the tree Bumblebee hid on top of with searing bravery.

Know that running away was futile, the scout landed out of the tree and into the group in front of him. It took him less than a minute to realize that he finally met the Rescue Bots.

—-

"It's...it's Bumblebee. It's an honor."

The two mechs grasped servos as a sign of greeting.

"I'm Heatwave" the fire truck mech greeted.

"Boulder." Said the great shorter bot.

"And I am Chase, we have all heard many stories about you."

Bumblebee held a bubble of excitement. These bots seemed to be around his age, so it made him feel less young. But he held his composure, for he could tell the Rescue Bots looked up to him.

:: Well it is nice to meet you too::

The first thing Bee realized was that all bots had their own human companions. But they seemed to have a connection to each other.

The second thing that Bumblebee realize was…

Bumblebee stopped himself for a second.

The last Rescue Bot before him seemed to be the most interesting. He was clearly a mech, though if he was a bit skinnier and had a less masculine voice, he could easily be mistaken for a fragile femme.

But by Primus was he cute.

Bumblebee then quickly walked over to the orange bot, who seemed to be speaking to his human allies. When he finally noticed the scout, Bumblebee gave a casual greeting of "hello there."

But the bot's response was so adorable. Or as Niko puts it, "kawaii."

The cute bot was so starstruck that he accidentally greeted himself as Bumblebee. When he tried to correct it, he covered his face in blushing shame until the child of the group corrected him. He finally introduced himself as Blades.

Strange name for such a cute Mech.

Bumblebee turned around and faced the rest of the group.

:: I am glad to finally meet you Rescue Bots.::

He informed the group of his reason for coming to the island. It turns out they were also searching for the meteor. So it was decided that Bumblebee would accompany them to the location of the meteor.

Hm. Mr. Bee has a nice ring to it.

And thus, and a new group was formed.

—-

Bumblebee, Heatwave, Chase, Boulder, and the Burns family walked throughout the forest. Blades was traveling with his companion by air. It seemed rather odd. Autobots never really had flight alts. The only Cybertronians who did were the-

Bumblebee shook his helm. He did not want to think of those brutes. Especially seeing how different the Rescue Bots were from Team Prime.

But judging by the fact that Blades kept bumping into treetops, made him think he chose the alt mode as a last minute resort.

Bumblebee decided to walk a bit of a distance from the group, secretly keeping an optic out for any possible Decepticons attacks.

He heard the sound of a helicopter whirling. Turning his helm he saw the orange and white mech himself. He seemed to pull out a rope with a hook and getting a bit too close to the-

"Bumblebee, grab onto my widge and-"

Blades didn't have time to finish for his hook got latched onto a tree. Resulting in the helicopter to be flying in circles. All the while screaming in distress, while his partner was struggling to be unhooked.

Bumblebee quickly ran up the tree that had ensnared the two.

:: It's ok, I got you.::

He unhooked the widge from the tree, setting both of them free. Blades flew back into the air, confirming that he and Danni were safe.

Danni let out a sigh of relief.

Blades, however, was not as satisfied with being released.

"I can't believe I did that! My one chance to work with a legend!" Blades howled in defeat.

:: Hey don't worry about it:: Bumblebee beeped happily, as he climbed down the tree:: Some days you do the Rescuing, some days you get rescued.::

—-

The rest of the team had finished inspecting the meteor. It was not dangerous or held anything that the Cons would want. Seeing that there was no reason to be concerned, they decided to meet at the boat.

Bumblebee was glad to at least go on a mission where no cons tried to take him out. Well, technically this wasn't an assigned mission since neither Ratchet or Optimus-

Oh, Scrap!

Bumblebee realized he left Raf alone at Base. Even after promising to be back before the rest of the team did. It's been hours, no doubt that his leader returned not too long ago. Oh he was in so much trouble.

Bumblebee turned to Blades, trying to not show any signs of panic.

:: Hey Blades, do you think you can come back with you guys? I need to check in with Optimus.::

"Yes," Blades peeped, "I think."

Blades turned to Chief Burns.

"Can Bumblebee come back with us? He wants to us our com screen to check in with Optimus Prime."

"Of course, glad to have you." Chief Burns responded.

"Check in?" Chase began "Optimus is aware of your presence here is he not?"

The yellow scout flushed in embarrassment.

:: Weeeelllll….Not...Exactly.::

Chase looked down towards Kade to translate what he said.

Kade just responded with a snarky "Thanks. I got that one."