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Rachet stared at him in shock; he didn't know what to say. Bumblebee looked at Arcee's still body, he wasn't sure why, but he felt as though this was the right thing to do, that is until Rachet intervened.
"Are you insane?!" The medic growled Bumblebee looked at him, "It's pointless to bring one back just to lose the other."
"Do you have any other ideas?" Bumblebee chirped; Rachet thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea came to him.
"Do you remember when Megatron possessed your mind?" Rachet asked, Bumblebee shivered at the thought but nodded, "He used something to bring himself back from the dead, what was it again?" Bumblebee shook his head.
"No Rachet, that was dark energon, we can't go to that, ever." Bee beeped franticly.
"Your right, I'm sorry, not sure what came over me." Rachet mumbled Bumblebee set his hand on the medics shoulder.
"It's okay, your stressed, the only other thing would-," Bumblebee stopped.
"What? What is it?" Rachet asked. The scout walked past him and back out to the main room, he ignored Rachet and the others, and went straight to the main computer. He ignored his comrade's questions as he tried to pin point a location on the planet. Irritated Rachet grabbed his shoulder and spun him around so they were face to face.
"What are you doing Bumblebee?" He all but shouted; Bumblebee gave him a look of sadness, and then pointed at the screen behind him. Rachet looked over his shoulder to stare at the screen, he gasped at the thing Bumblebee found. The screen showed a location in the rain forest, it showed a piece of the shard in that area. Rachet looked at the scout with a look of inquiry, Bulkhead smiled, and Optimus just stared on. Bumblebee typed in the coordinates then went to the ground bridge he pulled the lever and waited for the bridge to appear, he turned to Rachet.
"Don't give up quite yet." He beeped, Bee turned to go through the bridge.
"Wait," Optimus and Bulkhead walked over to their yellow friend, "you're not going by yourself, Bumblebee." Prime said. The scout smiled at his friends, then walked through the bridge, hope slowly rising in his spark.
When they crossed the bridge, they looked at their surroundings of thick trees, and heard unfamiliar noises. Bulkhead was a little jumpy he aimed his gun at every noise, until Optimus told him it was just the animals, and Bumblebee followed his scanner silently hoping they found the shard. Optimus came up behind him and looked at the young scout with concern before saying.
"Why did you feel the need to do this on your own, Bumblebee?" the scout turned and looked at his leader.
"It was my fault that this happened; I feel the need to fix the mess I have made." He beeped. "Besides, Arcee would have done the same for me." Optimus looked skeptical.
"Do you really believe that?" he asked with seriousness, "Or are you just trying to prove yourself?" Bumblebee's shoulders slumped, he understood what his leader meant; he didn't want the scout to run around chasing a wild goose in an attempt to prove he wasn't useless.
"I feel guilty yes, but I'm not trying to prove anything, I'm trying to heal a wound, both Arcee's and mine." Bumblebee touched his spark when he said the last few words. Optimus read between the lines, he knew that if this mission failed then Bumblebee would die of a broken spark. Unfortunately, he had no idea about the conversation Bee had with Rachet earlier.
As they walked on Bulkhead seemed to calm down that is until a monkey jumped on him, he yelled with surprise and aimed a gun at it as the poor creature jumped into the tree again. Optimus calmly told the wrecker that nothing in the jungle could seriously harm him.
Bumblebee's scanner started to beep rapidly; he looked away from the little frog and stared into the jungle. The three Autobot's stepped through the brush and came to a river, the signal went into the murky water. Optimus scanned the water, and Bulkhead watched a few logs float by.
"It's too dangerous, we don't know what lies in these waters." The leader said. Bumblebee looked at the scanner again, the signal grew stronger, he transformed his hand into a gun, and taking a deep breathe, waded into the water.
"Bumblebee, it's no use you'll never find anything in there." Bulkhead called.
"I have to try." The scout called back. Optimus watched the yellow bot make his way towards the middle, he admired the little bots courage and loyalty to his friends, and he hoped it wouldn't be his undoing.
Bumble felt the water wash around his waist, he took another step and completely went under, and he heard a muffled yell before he resurfaced.
"You alright kid?" Bulkhead shouted.
"Right as rain," Bee chirped as he saluted. Optimus noticed one of the logs drift towards the scout, it suddenly sprang up and tried to bite the little bot; Bumblebee bashed it in the head and quickened his search.
"Bumblebee, be careful." The leader said, Bumblebee nodded and dove into the water.
"That water is going to have a nasty effect on his circuits." Bulkhead mumbled. Optimus pulled out his guns and watched the water for anymore 'living logs'.
Bumblebee followed his scanners to the bottom of the river; he jumped back with surprise when he saw a corroded desipticon half buried in the rivers sand. In the cons hand was an odd metal box, the con had it in his hand like he was protecting it. Bumblebee reached out to grab the box but a crocodile latched on to his arm and started to wrestle with him. Extremely annoyed the bot punched the creature several times until it let go and swam away, and he grabbed the cons arm in an attempt to pull the box out of its cold dead hand. He didn't like the feeling of robbing the dead, but he felt in his spark that the contents of the box would save his friend. After several minutes he yanked the box out of the cons hand, he held on to it and began to swim to the surface. Bumblebee felt water seeping into places it didn't belong, his body started to go stiff as he swam to the surface.
Bulkhead watched the water, he gasped when he saw Bumblebee's head break the surface, but the bot went under the water again. Bulkhead waded into the water to help his little friend, Optimus followed but stopped when he noticed a ton of crocodiles swimming towards them. The leader started to fire warning shots at the creatures, Bumblebee resurfaced and reached out to Bulkhead, something grabbed his leg and he was drug back under. Bulkhead grabbed the scouts hand and pulled him up; he proceeded to drag the little autobot out of the water. The scout kicked at something and Bulkhead noticed a crocodile wrestling with Bee's leg, the odd thing was these creatures didn't seem to be ordinary, Optimus noticed when he shot one it exploded like a machine. Bulkhead blasted the robotic crocodile off of Bumblebee; Optimus help Bulkhead drag Bumblebee into the jungle, once they were safe they set the scout down and called for a bridge.
"What were those things?" Bulkhead asked as he scanned the brush, Optimus thought for a moment before replying.
"Perhaps they were built to protect the cons from autobots, or the other way, it was rumored there where desipticons and autobots that hid in this jungle."
"They have a nasty bite that's for sure." Bumblebee muttered as he examined his chewed up leg. The bridge appeared and they walked through.
Rachet sighed in frustration when he saw the two bots supporting Bumblebee again, why couldn't the scout ever come back without some issue?
"What did you do this time Bumblebee?" Rachet grumbled, he noticed the scout had water dripping from his body and an extremely chewed up leg. "Can't you ever go on a mission and back without incident?"
"I'm not a sparkling Rachet." Bumblebee muttered as the other two helped him onto the bed again.
"Then stop acting like one." Rachet growled. Optimus took the box and tried to open it, Raf walked up to Bumblebee.
"Bee what happened?" the little boy asked Bumblebee told him what had happened in the jungle while Rachet repaired him, again.
LATER
"He still can't get it open." Jack mumbled to Miko as they watched the autobots.
"Dude, don't worry they'll get this figured out." The girl said her friend turned to face her.
"Easy for you to say, your bot friend is just fine while Arcee is lying dead on a table, and they aren't doing anything about it." Jack said he turned on his heal and walked away. Bumblebee had overheard what the young boy had said, he felt guilty for not helping Jack, and followed the boy.
Bumblebee found Jack in the room they had put Arcee, it tore at his spark every time he saw her the way she was now, faded color, and lifeless.
"Jack, I'm sorry about what happened, but we are doing everything we can to help." Bee chirped, Jack turned to look at the yellow bot, he glared at Bee.
"You know I don't understand you, so why are you talking to me?" Jack said with anger. Bumblebee sighed, he knew Jack was angry, but he wanted to help.
"Don't worry everything will be okay." Bumblebee crouched down and gently touched Jack's shoulder, Jack shrugged him off angrily.
"I wish it had been you and not Arcee." Jack said he stormed out of the room without looking back. Bumblebee knew it was just Jack's anger that was talking, but it still made his spark ache, everything that had happened in the past few days suddenly came crashing down on him. The scout sat on the floor buried his head in his hands and tried his best not to fall apart; he knew everything was his fault, and he didn't need any more reminders.
FINISHED WITH THE STORY! Sorry it took so long didn't know how to end it, also sorry about the randomness. If you have any idea's please let me know. :D
