Chapter 8: Adventures of Cleanliness

Sari awoke with a jump as knocking came from her door. "Sari?" Professor Sumdac called from the metal sliding panel, "Are you ok? Why can't I open this door?" The girl looked down at her side. Bumblebee was still in her bed curled up right next to her. "Sorry BB," she muttered with a innocent look on her face. WHAM! Sari hopped out of the bed to go answer the door after the boy fell to his sleeping bag with a grunt from her kick. "Sari!" Professor Sumdac exclaimed as the door hissed open and she looked up at her daughter tapping his foot, "Why was your room locked?" "For protection dad," she replied quickly glancing back towards her bed where Bumblebee's arm was sprouting from behind, "You witnessed how dangerous that Decepticon was." "Oh, very well then," he replied smiling, "and how is our guest holding up."

"I feel like I was hit with a sledgehammer..." he moaned waving his arm before it collapsed back down behind the bed. Professor Sumdac waved back to the sinking arm and turned back to his daughter, "well, as long as nothing was destroyed or anything in here. I'm going to go get things ready for breakfast." "Bye dad!" Sari laughed waving to him as he retreated down the hall and she slid back into her room locking the door again. "Why am I on top of this small bag again?" the boy mumbled shaking his head as he lurched up. "Sorry," Sari apologized diving back down on her bed and planting a kiss on the kid's lips, "Emergency evacuation of my resting place had to occur."

"Glad to know I don't get warned about these things," he replied sarcastically and kissed Sari back, "What knocked me off?" "My foot," she replied showing said appendage to him, "Very effective for moving bodies off of nice, fluffy, soft, touch-enjoying, comfortable..." "Move over," Bumblebee muttered plopping himself back down on the bed and snuggling up against the girl's breasts, "Typical teenagers sleep late apparently according to you." "And typical Sumdacs have to greet the morning whether they want to or not," Sari said sitting up and hopping off the bed, "Besides, my dad's making breakfast for us." "What's a break-" "Morning food consumption." "Ah, now was that all that hard to say in the first place?" Sari her finger to her lip in thought. "Yeah, yeah it was compared to one word that sums it all up. Now then, wanna go consume?" "Sure!"

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"And this is Bumblebee's room!" Bulkhead exclaimed presenting the "art-piece" to the new resident, Sideways, "Little guy's going through some tough size changes. Just got a new body." "Must be some real big size changes," the double-agent added looking over the size of the objects in the room, "How exactly did he get a body about human size?" "This Decepticon called Blackarachnia experimented on him and well...we got to him a bit too late," Bulkhead sighed, "But so far he's been adapting well with the help of our human friend Sari Sumdac. They've been spending loads of time together. So much so that I hardly ever see the little guy anymore."

"How touching," Sideways said almost emotionlessly, "Now you said Blackarachnia was one that did this to your pal?" "Yeah!" Bulkhead said as they exited the room, "We've been trying to get the assistance of some dinobots to help hunt her down but the one we've found and its owner haven't been very...cooperative." "Dinobots?" "Mechanical lifeforms based off an extinct species of this planet brought to life by fragments of the Allspark," Bulkhead explained with a sigh walking back into the main entrance room of the factory. "So Primus brought them to life himself?" Sideways asked curiously.

"...what are you talking about?" Bulkhead muttered with an odd expression on his face, "Everyone knows that Primus is just an old myth and exists on Cybertron if anywhere. I'm talking about the Allspark silly." "Oh yeah," Sideways replied rubbing the back of his helmet bashfully, "Musta just slipped my mind. I believe I came across a powerful fragment the other day though. It was glowing red." "That's...odd," the green Autobot replied, "Normally all fragments of the Allspark shine a bright light shade of blue. Never heard of any red fragments, that's the complete opposite color almost." "Just telling ya what I came across man."

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"What are you saying Sentinel Prime?" Alpha Trio asked with the council gathered around the only remaining Elite Guard member on Cybertron. "You need to tell me what's going on," the Autobot demanded slamming his foot down in anger, "I know there's not just nothing out there on the rim of the galaxy and with Megatron loose things might be even worse if he gets his hands on whatever caused the disappearance of the Space Bridge out there!" "Believe us when we say that he would never dare try to harness something that could potentially do that," Perceptor said from the other side of the room. "As we have told you," Alpha Trion continued sternly, "it is nothing to worry about, nothing is out there."

"Like slag there isn't!" Sentinel roared, "You may not have realized but I did some investigating of my own and what I found was not good!" At this the council gave Sentinel odd glances. "What kind of investigation?" Perceptor asked. "The kind that involves actually sending something out there," Sentinel replied grinning at him, "actually, a certain two somethings that I think we should take under our responsibility to go rescue." "The twins Jetfire and Jetstorm?" Perceptor said. Sentinel nodded his head assured that he had won the right to know what's going on and send a rescue party for the boys.

"You are hereby held responsible for them going offline then," Alpha Trion declared glaring at the now stupified Elite Guard member as he turned to face the old bot. "WHAT?!" Sentinel screamed in rage, "You're not even going to go out looking for them?!" "There'd be nothing left to look for," Alpha Trion replied, "They were doomed the moment they started the mission if you intended for their sparks to remain intact." "If you're not going out there then I'm taking it upon myself to search for them!" Sentinel declared to the council and began to walk out, "Consider the Elite Guard officially disbanded!"

"While you are correct that the Elite Guard is now no more we can not allow you go out to look for the twin flying Autobots," Perceptor told him causing Sentinel to stop in his tracks, "lest you doom all of Cybertron even more than you potentially already have." "What is out there that has the council so shooken up that I can't even look for my bots that have gone missing in action?!" "Something you should not have stuck your processor into," Alpha Trion replied snapping his fingers as guards blocked the exit, "Sentinel Prime, the last of the Cybertronian Elite Guard Unit, you are hereby under arrest."

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"What are-" "Pancakes," Sari answered before Bumblebee could finish his sentence as she munched viciously into her own, "otherwise known as one of the key essences to life." "You need these to live?" he asked take a bite of his. "Definately!" she replied finishing off her stack in a matter of seconds. Bumblebee stared in awe at the monsterous eating machine Sari had become when the doughy slabs appeared in front of her face. She was right though, they were some of the most delicious things he had come across in his time as a human. "How can you consume so much life giving matter and stay the size you are before consumption?" he asked curiously as he swallowed another bite.

"...is that a fancy way of saying I'm fat?" Sari muttered stopping eating for a second to glare at him. "No," Bumblebee answered as he finished his first pancake, "It's just how are you able to keep your same size?" "It's just how the human body works," Sari said shaking her head and taking another bite. "And how are they today?" Professor Sumdac asked walking over to the table. "Almost as good as the first time you started experimenting with food dad," his daughter replied smiling at him as she chewed, "could be a bit sweeter though." "I knew I should've added more sugar," he moaned hitting his forehead and went walking back into the kitchen.

"Does your dad always act odd?" Bumblebee asked as he finished his second one. "It's what parent's do," Sari laughed shrugging her shoulders before looking at the boy, "They also don't like to hear about their daughter being in bed with a guy just for future warning." "Oh so that's why you cut off my oxygen supply when we were eating pizza," the boy said finally coming to realization, "....well why don't they?" Sari just smacked her forehead. "Me not gonna explain it right now," she sighed and munched on another stack that she had grabbed from a passing waiter bot, "Has to do with differences between boys and girls and yadayadayada. What's important now is pancakes!"

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"Where are you guys going again?" Sideways asked with his arms crossed as Optimus and Bulkhead began to drive out of the garage. "We're going to see if we can talk it over with that dinobot and his owner that I told you about," Bulkhead replied slowing to a halt. "Bulkhead, come on, we can't waste time explaining everything," Optimus said stopping in back of the Autobot, "we don't even know if they're still at that construction site that collapsed." "Mind if I tag along?" Sideways asked. "Fine," Prime muttered, "just hurry up, we need to get out there."

As Optimus and Bulkhead zoomed off Sideways morphed into his motorcycle mode and took off after them with Rook hanging on tight. "So how long will it take to get out there?" Sideways asked from the tail end of the trio. "A few stellarcycles," Bulkhead replied, "depending on how fast the servos allow us to move today of course." "Right..." Sideways muttered to himself, "...now if only I knew what stellarcycles were."

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"Thanks Mr. Sumdac!" Bumblebee exclaimed as the adult took away the last of the dishes. "I just hope you had enough," he replied smiling. "Oh yeah, I'm alright," the boy said hopping out of his chair, "Dunno if Sari had enough though." "That girl always has a huge appetite in the morning," Mr. Sumdac warned walking into the kitchen as Bumblebee made his way to the elevator Sari had taken to her room. "Wonder what the guys are up to back at the factory," he said to himself as he ascend in the glass capsule viewing the floors as he went, "Hopefully that guy from the Space Bridge didn't cause em too much trouble." DING! The door slid open and Bumblebee stepped out spotting Sari's door just down the hall.

"Knock knock," he said as he did the action against the metal panel, "guess who's here." "I'm getting dressed," Sari responded from inside. "Alrighty," Bumblebee replied and slid the door open. "BUMBLEBEE!" the girl exclaimed blushing as she tried to cover herself with the nightgown she'd taken off while the door slid shut after he entered, "I said I'm getting dressed!" "And I said alright," he replied blinking and confused. "You don't walk in on someone when they're getting dressed, especially not a guy walking in on a girl!" Sari told him shaking her head. "But we've seen you get dressed before," Bumblebee responded scratching the back of his head. "You-you have?" the girl mumbled. "Oh yeah sure!" Bumblebee said with a smile, "There was that one time where you were changing in me in car mode, another where you were getting dressed in some clean clothes at the factory while me and Bulkhead were waiting for you, the other time after you'd fallen in the river and you got dressed in some dry clothes in me after remembering to always pack an extra pair after the camping trip, the-"

With each passing example Sari's face got redder and redder until it was almost the same color as her hair. "Stop!" she said sharply with a twitching eye, "Me do not need to hear all that, one example was enough. I didn't know you spied on me while I was changing in your car mode." "Well I could also feel you as you squirmed about on my cush-" "Too much info," Sari cut him off placing her hands over her ears not realizing that she needed then to hold up the nightgown. Somehow, Sari's face managed to get even redder as Bumblebee gazed upon her almost naked body and she turned around as quickly as possible. "You go in the bathroom while I get dressed," she stammered pointing to the door to the side of the room.

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"I am sorry to have to do this to a member of the Cybetronian Elite Guard, but here is your cell Sentinel," Highbrow said as they locked the blue Autobot up, "Enjoy your stay as best as possible." "...HOW DARE THEY DO THIS!" Sentinel Prime screamed in fury banging his face against the bars after the personnel had left, "Lock me up, the last member of the Guard, and in the Metroplex no less! I need to get out of here!" "I believe I could help with that little problem," a scratchy voice declared from a cell that had just somehow opened up, "After all, I can get the best things on the market for the job." "I don't deal with the scum of the streets," Sentinel replied with a glare to the brown blackmarket crook that stepped into view, Rattletrap. "Then I guess you don't mind spending the rest of 70 stellarcycles locked up in this Primus-forsaken..." "ALRIGHT!" Sentinel snapped pushing his face up against the bars, "Just make it quick!"

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"Alright Bumblebee," Sari called flailing her dress out at the bottom, "You can come out now." "You not gonna get mad or anything?" he asked slinking out of the bathroom with his arm soaking wet. "...do I even wanna know what happened?" "I was fiddling around with that faucet thing," Bumblebee replied. "What faucet thing?" "You know, the thing that rains water down. What is it?" "...are you talking about the shower?" Sari asked raising an eyebrow and walking into view of the room. The shower head was indeed dripping. "I dunno," Bumblebee said shrugging his shoulders, "I just turned a few knobs and water came out."

"Are you telling me you've not used one of those before?" Sari muttered giving Bumblebee an odd glance. "Uh...no. Am I suppose to?" "Oh god," she sighed putting a hand to her forehead, "Alright, come on, today's lesson is one I hoped I wouldn't have to do: hygiene." "What's hygiene?" "Do not ask that," she commanded and dragged Bumblebee in. "Now then," she began folding her arms over her chest after drawing back the shower curtains, "What do you think this "faucet" called the shower would be useful for?" "Sanitizing unknown otherworldy specimens for minimal poisonous contamination," he said with a smile. Sari looked at Bumblebee oddly, then at the shower, then back at Bumblebee again, "no."

"Well then I got nothing," he moaned pulling his cap down over his eyes in boredom. "Alright, well first off, pay attention," Sari ordered taking the boy's entire cap off his head, much to his dismay, "And secondly, get undressed." "What?!" he yelped backing away a bit, "Why?" "I'm going to show you what showering is about, and for that you need to have no clothes on. Besides, you've looked in on me practically naked before." "Well I didn't know that was bad to do until a few minutes ago!" Bumblebee exclaimed hugging his shirt to his body, "Why should I take off something I've been wearing since the instant I bought it?" "...yeah, that's definitely coming off," Sari replied and grabbed the boy by the collar, "I won't look if you don't want me to, but one way or another you have to be undressed for this."

"Fine," he huffed and began yanking his shirt over his head, "But only cause I have to." Sari rolled her eyes and turned around to begin fiddling with the shower handles. "There, happy?" Bumblebee asked causing Sari to turn around. Immediately Sari turned back to the shower blushing madly. "No comment," she mumbled with her eyes wide and got the water running. "Now then," she said closing her eyes as best as possible as she walked behind Bumblebee and began to push him towards the shower, "Get inside and close the curtains." Sighing, the boy stepped in and did as he was told. "Wow, this is actually rather relaxin-ahh!!!!" "Um...you ok?" Sari asked putting a finger to her lip. "This thing's trying to burn me offline!" he screamed back and Sari reached to adjust the controls. "Ah...the inferno has sto-ahh! FREEZING!!" "Sorry!" the girl exclaimed and reached back in again to fiddle with the handles once more. "Phew, I-AH! HOT!"

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"Well, no sign of them here," Optimus sighed looking over the ruined remains of the construction site where Snarl had tried to attack Bulkhead and Prime a few days earlier, "Maybe I shouldn't have acted so harshly." "It's not all your fault boss bot," Bulkhead said patting his leader on the back to try and cheer him up, "I was the one that helped in the assault remember." "Under my command." "Well, when your commander there is done moping about the past tell him I found something," Sideways told them stretching and walking towards a broken fence. "Could be a bit more polite," Bulkhead suggested as he and Prime walked over to where Sideways was standing.

"Politeness idn't really my style," Sideways responded and pointed at the ground. Imprinted in the dirt and cement trailing off into the distance were a pair of large foot-prints. "Why would there be only one set?" Optimus wondered aloud looking off to where they led, "There were two of them." "Well, remember when we saw em when we were freed from Soundwave's control?" Bulkhead reminded the leader, "Scrapper tried to ride ontop of Snarl." "That must be it." "Are we gonna actually follow these or are you two just gonna have a little chit chat session?" Sideways grumbled putting his hands behind his head.

Both Bulkhead and Optimus Prime gave the new member odd glances. "Is something bothering you Sideways?" Optimus asked putting a hand on his shoulder. "Yeah," he replied taking the hand off, "You two just standing around theorizing what happened instead of actually taking action." "Fine," Prime said looking back at Bulkhead confused, "Transform and roll out then I guess." "Way way ahead of you," Sideways said already in his motorcycle mode as he and Rook trailed off into the distance. "You sure he should be part of our group boss bot?" Bulkhead asked as they both transformed and began to follow the motorcycle. "Not much choice," Optimus replied, "he's an Autobot Elite Guard member and there's not really anyone else he can join on earth."

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"Now why'd we stop the rain?" Bumblebee asked looking up at the dripping shower head. When Sari had finally gotten it to a decent temperature she had plugged up the drain so that the water would fill up in the bathtub. "So that I can personally show you how to effectively keep your body clean," she replied blushing as she sat on the outside of the tub. "You could join me you know," he told her with a smile, "It's pretty relaxing once it's not burning or freezing your skin off." "Uh...no," she replied smiling back squirting some shampoo into her hand, "I've already taken one today and that's another thing that boys and girls don't do together."

"Why?" Bumblebee asked, "Goes back to the boys and girl difference stuff," she sighed rolling her eyes, "Not going to explain anymore of that right now. What I am going to do though is show you how to make sure your hair stays clean. Now slide over so that your head's next to me." After he had done so Bumblebee felt Sari's hands run through his short hair with bubbles forming in it. "Um...what are you doing?" "It's called shampoo," Sari replied, "Keeps your hair nice and fresh to keep it from getting all greasy and nasty. Just make sure it doesn't get in you-" "MY OPTIC!!!" Bumblebee practically screamed clutching his eye and started thrashing about, "It's melting!"

"Bumblebee, calm down!" Sari exclaimed trying to keep the boy under control, "Here, open your eye and-Bumblebee! Stop shaking about you-AH!" "Ah," he sighed as he rose back up from the water and looked to the side of the tub, "It's alright Sari, my optic's no longer on fire...Sari?" "Yes?" Sari groaned glaring at the boy as she rose up from the water next to him, "I am here. Thank the lord you are no longer in pain and caused any unfortunate mishaps like practically drowning me." "Indeed is good you didn't practically drown," he replied smiling before receiving a bop on the head. "Well...now that I'm forced to be in this tub I guess I can show you a bit better. Make sure you have your eyes, er, optics or whatever you want to call them, closed when you're washing your hair with shampoo."

"That woulda been helpful to know before I was attacked," Bumblebee grumbled and began running his fingers through his hair. "I was trying to tell you when I began pouring the shampoo," Sari told him grabbing a bar of soap. "Now what's that? Don't I already have enough threats to deal with?" "This is called soap," Sari explained and rubbed it on her cheek, "You rub it all over your body to get it clean." "Why not just use the shampoo?" "Shampoo's only for hair." "Humans are confusing," Bumblebee sighed closing his eyes as some of the eye-burning goop dripped down his face, "They should just make one thing that cleans the whole body."

"Either way, it's what we got to work with," Sari replied as something pressed against Bumblebee's back and started moving about. It was the soap Sari had been holding. "What are you doing?..." "I'm washing your back," she told him, "Wanna try and get this done as quick as possible." "Do I get this kind of washing service everytime?" he asked, "Cause this is almost as enjoyable as a car wash." "No, it's just cause I was unwillingly toppled into the tub that I'm doing this," Sari murmured, "And I'm only doing your back." "Why?" "Cause you should be done washing your hair by the time I get done with your back so you can do the rest." "What if I wasn't done washing my hair?"

Sari blushed and closed her eyes, "Still wouldn't do the front." "Why not?" "Boy girl difference, no go into further detail right now." "Sorta hard to tell what you mean if you don't explain," Bumblebee replied and wiped some of the suds out of his hair. Just then he felt pressure on his crotch causing him to blush. "That is what the main factor in the boy and girl stuff is," Sari mumbled and started working on Bumblebee's arm, "Only guys and girls that get married to each other or real close couples do the kind of stuff that you suggest." "Like sleeping together?" The girl blushed again and banged her head against the boy's neck. " A different kind of sleeping than what we do," she responded and got back to soaping Bumblebee's arm.

"Alrighty, then let's get married," Bumblebee suggested smiling. The girl's hand stopped moving along his arm. Curiously, Bumblebee looked back at Sari, squinting his eyes in hopes that they wouldn't be invaded by the deadly suds. After a few seconds Sari burst out laughing and hung over Bumblebee's back. "Oh Bumblebee," she sighed trying to get herself back under control and gave the boy a kiss on the cheek, "you still know so little. You don't just get married to someone and that's that. You gotta be in love and stuff first." "Well we love each other," Bumblebee stated confused. Sari just hung her head with a doubtful smile on her face, "We LOVE each other, that doesn't necessarily mean we're IN LOVE." "Them I'm in love with you," Bumblebee announced causing Sari to blush and roll her eyes. "Now rinse off!" she ordered dunking Bumblebee's head under the water to get the shampoo off.

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"This is the life eh Snarly?" Scrapper sighed as he relaxed in a wrecked electrical tower and poured another drum of oil into his mouth, "kickin back, by the sea, no unwanted guests, and all the oil you can stuff down your vocal processor." The dinobot ran about joyfully with an oil drum in its beak that it was playing with. "Though maybe I really should reconsider the offer the Autobots gave. I mean, it's Bulkhead's buddy we're talking about and he never really meant to give me or Mixmaster any trouble. He's a lug with a heart of gold, it just never ends well with the other members of his team is the main problem."

"Hey!" Sideways yelled from on top of a hill above, still in motorcycle mode, "You, you two robots. Are you a constructicon and dinobot?" "Who wants to know human?" Scrapper replied getting up and tossing his oil drum aside. The constructicon immediately jumped back in surprise though as Sideways morphed into his robot mode with the driver becoming his helmet. "Me, Sideways, that's who wants to know," the ninja bot muttered coldly staring down at his victims and folding his arms over his chest plate. "An Autobot!" Scrapper exclaimed looking at the insignia and then looked hesitantly down at his own, "Look buddy! I-I don't really work for Megatron! It's just that he offered us oil and it was the best stuff we ever tasted, we did a job here and there, and well uh..."

"Hey Scrapper!" Bulkhead exclaimed waving as he and Optimus leapt out of their vehicle modes behind Sideways, "Sorry about last time!" "Oh, he's with you guys," Scrapper mumbled rolling his eyes, "What do you want?" "We wanna know if you can help or not," Optimus replied, "We really need it." Scrapper tapped his foot and put his hand to his chin ponderingly. "You know, I have been thinking about that little offer you guys gave us since the-" "We don't have time for this," Sideways said leaping down and snapped his foot into the constructicon's head sending him flying back through the wrecked electrical tower. "SIDEWAYS!" Optimus and Bulkhead both exclaimed rushing down after him.

"What are you doing Sideways? I didn't give an order to strike!" Optimus yelled grabbing the purple transformer by the shoulder only to be knocked off a second later. "Look Prime, first off, I'm getting this done as quickly and efficiently as potentially possible," Sideways responded lifting a hand to the oncoming Snarl, "And secondly, I don't take orders from you. I outrank you in any possible way. Now listen constructicon, your pet gets slagged if you don't do as we say." "Hold it!" Scrapper cried out in a panic as he tumbled back out of the wreckage, "Look buddy! Cool your jets for a second!" "Three." "Snarl stop!" Scrapper pleaded with the charging triceratops copy still charging at the intruder. "Two," Sideways continued to count as his wrist cannon began to glow. "STOP!!!" Scrapper cried. "One-"

WHAM! Sideways went soaring through the air into a pool of oil from Prime's ax as he grabbed the dinobot by the horns and skidded it to a hault. "Sideways! That is no way to ask for help!" Prime yelled before being tossed away by Snarl. "No offense Optimus," Sideways replied as he sat back up in the murky black liquid and fired a shot at the dinobot's feet, "But I don't give a damn about what you think is right and wrong." "Stop firing at my Snarl!" Scrapper ordered running over to the purple bot with his pet. BAM! The constructicon fell to the ground as the blast of plasma from Sideway's wrist cannon tore through his shoulder-plate. Snarl however, kept charging.

SHRING! Both Bulkhead and Optimus Prime stared at the scene. There lay Scrapper trying to get back to his feet with Snarl's horns dug at least five feet deep into Sideway's torso. "Sideways?" Optimus called worriedly. "Atta boy Snarl!" Scrapper cheered finally standing up shakily, "Make sure he never walks again!" Just then the group jumped in surprise. Sideway's eyes lit up brighter than they had ever glowed before and he stood up yanking Snarl's horns out of him in the process and tossing the dinobot into a pool of oil off to the side. "Sideways!" Optimus exclaimed as he ran over with Bulkhead stopping to assist Scrapper, "Are you alright?"

"What are you talking about?" Sideways asked as he walked over to Snarl's downed body, "Of course I'm fine." "But we saw the dinobot's horns go right through you!" Bulkhead said. Sideways just looked at the group oddly and turned to them pointing to his unscratched chest-plate, "Well I think you all need to get your optics checked because, as you can see, I'm just fine." Bulkhead and Scrapper finally made their way over to the scene and the constructicon fell to his knees to comfort his pet. "We were going to say yeah, we'd help ya," Scrapper told them glaring at the newcomer, "But now I'm not so sure." "You need to get that shoulder checked out," Bulkhead pointed out, "Our buddy Ratchet back at the factory is a repair bot. A grumpy old one, but a repair bot none-the-less."

"We're sorry about how our new comrade treated you," Optimus added helping Scrapper back to his feet, "He just arrived yesterday." "Are we quite through here?" Sideways sighed as he slung Snarl over his shoulder, "We have em, so let's get back to the factory." "We wouldn't be wasting time talking right now if it hadn't been for you," Optimus replied pushing a finger against Sideway's chest-plate, "So you just keep quiet and ignore us if you don't like it." "I'll see you back at the factory," Sideways said stalely and transformed into his motorcycle mode, "Might wanna hurry back when you finally decide to move." The group stared at the purple motorcycle as it road off into the city

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"Finally!" Sari exclaimed after putting on another set of clothes, "All nice and squeaky clean eh?" "I'm not in trouble for watching you this time am I?" Bumblebee asked from the bed. "No," she sighed turning around and walking over to him, "I figured that I've put you through enough in the bathroom and you might not wanna head right back in there." "Yeah, being a clean human is way too hard of work," the boy said rolling his eyes miserably, "But somewhat relaxing at parts. Are you sure I can't eat that stick thing?" "You don't eat deodorant unless you want food poisoning Bumblebee," Sari replied putting a hand to her head in partial disbelief, "But at least now you're no longer dirty."

"What about these old clothes I'm wearing?" he asked sitting up to show his normal set off. "I had those washed too," Sari replied with a smile, "When you were headed to the bath I tossed them out of the room and called for a bot to take them to the washing machine." "So there's a machine that can wash me?" Bumblebee gleefully asked, "What a relief, no longer do I have to worry about those stupid shamp-" "No," Sari said shaking her head pathetically, "It's a machine for washing clothes."

"Slag," he mumbled crossing his arms across his chest, "But about that love, in love stuff..." "Bumblebee," Sari muttered rolling her eyes and blushing as she lay down next to him, "We LOVE each other. Being in love is for people that want to spend the rest of their lives together." Bumblebee stared at the ceiling for a few seconds then responded, "Well isn't that us? I mean, I've already confessed that I want to be with you forever and you've said that you can't stand loosing me." Sari blushed and looked at the boy next to her with a small smile. "Bumblebee," she said, "I know what I said and all but...well...mainly it's just there's never been a guy that I've really felt this way towards until you. As I said before, you're the first real human friend I've really had and I dunno if we should really get involved in that kind of relationship."

"I don't see why not," Bumblebee replied with his own smile, "I mean we sleep together, play together, kiss, hug, do whatever that thing is where a guy and girl rub their cheeks and noses together, watch movies together, and even take baths together-" "Accidentally." "I don't see how much more affectionate we can get towards each other." The girl just continued staring at Bumblebee before eventually closing her eyes and pressing her lips against his. It was the same kind of thing as the night before, where their tongues interacted mostly. Bumblebee liked the feeling and it made him blush as he felt her breath move through his mouth. After a while their lips parted and Sari looked at him again.

"Bumblebee," she said breathing a bit deeply, "um...are you sure you'd wanna be with me?" "Who else would I want to be with on earth?" he asked back with a smile. Sari's mouth expanded into a huge smile as she shook her head and hugged the boy tightly, "I mean are you sure you'd want to spend your life with me?" "Of course," Bumblebee said almost immediately after the girl had finished her sentence. "Alright alright," she mumbled nuzzling her cheek against Bumblebee's, "I'll think about it. Now then...wanna go see how badly I can beat your score in Vectorman?" "Oh you're on!" Bumblebee exclaimed as they both hopped out of bed and headed for the television.

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"Is he gonna be alright?" Bulkhead asked Ratchet as the doc bot examined the constructicon's shoulder. "Unfortunately," Ratchet replied as Bulkhead looked on worriedly, "Yes, he'll be just fine. I can get the scratched patched up in no time. Don't feel good about helping a Decepticon but if it gets Bumblebee back to normal, or however normal he can be, I suppose it's worth it." "Hey!" Scrapper exclaimed from the operating table, "We only worked for Megatron for the oil." Ratchet just shrugged and kept his attention turned to Bulkhead, "How did he get this bad a blow in the first place?" "Sideways," Bulkhead told him causing Ratchet to put a hand to his chin in thought, "He's not been acting all that nice."

"He nearly slagged pour Snarl!" Scrapper added angrily. Ignoring the constructicon, Ratchet continued to stroke his chin. "That Sideways really does seem like a trouble maker," the veteran finally murmured, "Acts nothing like how a responsible bot should act and with his ability to change sides in the blink of an eye I'm starting to wonder if he really is who he says he is..." "But if he were a Decepticon wouldn't he have slagged us by now?" Bulkhead asked. "That's the main thing that bugs me," Ratchet continued and paced about, "If he weren't an Autobot then who exactly is he? Especially since he has no insignia what-so-ever without his...I think he called em Microns?"

"Well there's Wreck-gar, he's neither an Autobot nor Decepticon." "But he's just an innocent scrap heap that was brought to life by the Allspark," Ratchet replied and put a hand to his forehead, "This Sideways character is not, he's something more. And Jazz told me that things never feel right around the guy." "Well after today I'm wondering if I can ever feel anything around him again," Bulkhead said. "So...am I gonna get worked on or am I just gonna lay here and listen to you talk about that freak that tried to kill us?" Scrapper asked impatiently.

"Hold your horses kid," Ratchet replied walking over to the damage transformer, "Bulkhead, you just keep an eye on that guy alright?" "Affirmative doc bot!" the lumbering giant replied saluting and bounded off through the door. "Bulky boy seems as joyful as ever," Scrapper mumbled to the medic, "I suppose he being kept as in line as you saps had when me and him first met?" "Trying our best," Ratchet murmured back, "Now shut up so I can work."

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"Hello?" Blackarachnia said to her static-filled computer monitor, "Is someone trying to contact me?" "That would be me," Sideways replied with a glare as the screen flipped to his face. "Oh, you, that purple guy. Your head looks a bit different. So, can I be transformed back into Elita 1 yet?" "Oh no no no my dear," Sideways laughed amusingly, "Have some patience, you don't honestly expect for your body to just return to normal in a split second with no effort do you?" "Well then why are you calling?!" the female transformer hissed angrily. "To talk to you," Sideways replied, "You see, I'm now working alongside the Autobots on earth."

"WHAT?!" Blackarachnia screamed scraping the computer keyboard with her sharp appendages in anger, "You traitor! How dare-" "You didn't let me finish, as always," Sideways said in a rather...odd echoing tone for a split second, "I'm working alongside them in caugneto. I have the ability to change my alliance in a moment's notice. Anyhow, the Autobots now believe they have the keys to hunt you down." "Oh really?" Blackarachnia laughed lightly, "And how's that?" "They've caught what they call a dinobot." The spidery figure stared at the screen for a few seconds at a loss of words. "And why are you calling again?" "To tell you what to do."

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"And....done!" Rattletrap cackled gleefully as the prison cell swung open, "Now then, this kind of service don't come cheap, what do you reckon you can gi-" "How's about not having you thrown back in your cell?" Sentinel hissed pressing the smaller Cybertronian up against the wall. "F-fair enough!...you know in retrospect maybe I shoulda made a deal with you before I busted you out..." "Just keep quiet and follow me!" Sentinel ordered as he began walking down the hallway as quietly as he could, "And make sure you aren't spotted. The fate of all of Cybertron may be in our hands." "Sounds like a pretty good gig...might actually make some dough off this," Rattletrap said to himself as he joined the Elite Guard member, "Count me in big guy."

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Yep, I'm probably not gonna be updating nearly as often on this story unfortunately =( But I promise you all that it is far FAR from finished. Also, I've been wondering, how far do you want this relationship with Sari and BB to go guys? Just curious.

And just for those that don't know Rattletrap appeared in the episode "This is Why I Hate Machines," and Highbrow appeared in "Transwarpped."

Well, hope this was a good enough chapter and here's an illustration =)

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