"Optimus, what did you call us in here for?" Bumblebee asked, leaning his face plate on one of his servos. The leader of the team had called them into the meeting room for some reason that slipped the mind of everyone.
"There's something I need to talk to all of you about." Optimus said, he seemed a bit excited but at the same time nervous. The leader waited till everyone was seated to continue.
"I have been thinking a while on this and finally decided we need another bot on this crew." Optimus said. Sari quickly looked over at Bumblebee, knowing he wouldn't be happy about this, the yellow mech looked at the leader in shock.
"D-Don't you think this is a bit too soon, remember what happened with Prowl. That could happen again." Bumblebee told the leader, hoping that he would convince Optimus.
"Bumblebee, it's been two weeks, I think it's time to get over what happened. It's not likely that something like that would happen again." Optimus said to the yellow mech. Bumblebee sighed to himself, he truthfully didn't want to get over it, he didn't want to forget.
"Besides I already chose someone…" Optimus said a little quieter, knowing that this may cause a bit of trouble.
"What!" everyone yelled, they all looked at Optimus in shock.
"How could you choose someone without us?" Bumblebee asked angrily. He felt like Optimus was just replacing Prowl.
"I'm sorry, but we need someone else to get the work done and to help us get the All Spark. He should be here soon." Optimus said as he looked at his clock.
"I'm sorry Optimus but I agree with Bumblebee here, you shouldn't have done this without us." Sari said to the leader. Optimus opened his mouth to speak when a bot entered the room. He was a blue mech, a little older than Sari.
"Uh, this is the bot I chose to be the new member of the crew." Optimus said scratching the back of his helm.
"Hey everyone…" The mech said with a small wave, his attention quickly turned to the yellow mech in the back of the room.
"Bumblebee is that you?" He asked. Bumblebee's optics quickly widened.
"Elm!" Bumblebee said surprised. Everyone looked at the two in confusion.
"You two know each other?" Sari asked the two, somewhat surprised.
"Bumblebee's my brother." Elm said to the group shocking everyone.
"Well, adopted. His parents adopted me when I was just a baby." Bumblebee said to everyone. Sari quickly slid over to Bumblebee.
"You're brother's kinda cute." She whispered with a small giggle.
"Oh shut up!" Bumblebee said as he pushed Sari away.
"Ok so you guys will be ok while we're gone?" Optimus asked Bumblebee and Elm. The two were going to stay back at the base while the others went to the main base to talk to Ultra Magnus about the All Spark.
"Don't worry Optimus we'll be fine." Bumblebee said cheerfully. Sari smiled to herself, it was good that Elm was here, it would help Bumblebee get his mind off Prowl. Sari just wasn't sure if it was good to leave the two brothers at the base alone, if Elm and Bumblebee grew up together then there was a high chance Elm was a lot like Bumblebee, meaning the two would basically wreck the whole base or do something crazy like that.
"Come on Sari" Optimus said snapping the maroon femme out of her thoughts. She must have zoned out when everyone was leaving.
"Bye guys." Sari said to Bumblebee and Elm while leaving the base. Elm elbowed his brother.
"So who's you're hot friend?" He asked, Bumblebee turned to his brother in shock.
"Her name is Sari and you can't date her, she's my best friend." Bumblebee told his brother crossing his arms.
"Fine…" Elm said with a sigh as he walked away from his brother.
"So what is there to do around here?" Elm asked looking at one of the monitors.
"Eh not much… Hey what are you doing?" Bumblebee asked walking to Elm, who had just turned on a monitor.
"I'm gonna try to intercept a call." Elm replied.
"Cool! Wait a second, I thought you were training to become a medic, how did you learn to do this?" Bumblebee asked.
"I am, one of my friends taught me how to do this. It's really easy, watch and learn!" Elm said as he started to type in multiple codes on the monitor. There was finally a couple beeps from the monitor.
"Ok so now all we have to do is wait for the monitor to pick up a transmission." Elm said. After a couple moments of waiting the monitor started to beep again and a pop up appeared.
"Did we pick up something?" Bumblebee asked staring at the screen.
"Yes, just hold on one second while I open up the link." Elm said as he pressed a button on the pop up. Bumblebee bit his lip in anticipation as the link opened.
: Starscream, are you there? : A voice asked on the transmission, the two brothers gasped in shock.
"We opened a Decepticon link!" Bumblebee said to the other.
"We should turn it off before we get in trouble." Elm said to Bumblebee.
"No way this might be interesting!" Bumblebee told his brother while he turned the sound up.
: Yes my glorious leader. : Starscream replied.
"Elm, I think Starscream is talking to Megatron." Bumblebee said and earned a 'duh' look from his brother.
"Did you get nothing from the 'glorious leader' part?" Elm asked Bumblebee.
"Shut up, you can be pretty stupid too." Bumblebee replied putting his attention back on the monitor.
: I need you to do something for me. : Megatron told the seeker.
: I'll do anything you say. : Starscream replied.
"He's such a kiss up." Bumblebee told Elm, who laughed in return.
: I need you to kill Prowl: Bumblebee gasped at what Megatron said. The yellow mech was trying to grasp why they were going to try to do this.
: Can I ask why? : Starscream asked confused.
: He's going to join the Autobots : Megatron told Starscream.
: What he's one of our best privates. : Starscream said.
: I know. I told you this would happen when Darkshadow brought him back : Megatron said angrily.
: Darkshadow should've just killed him when he was a sparkling. We shouldn't have raised an Autobot sparkling as a Decepticon. : Starscream told Megatron.
"Wait he's an Autobot!" Bumblebee yelled in shock.
"Be quiet Bumblebee." Elm whispered to his brother.
: Yeah…. Well are you going to kill him or not? : Megatron asked somewhat annoyed.
: Alright, I'll do it. : Starscream said ending the link. Elm just turned off the monitor.
"Man, I'd hate to be that Prowl guy, being killed just because he's different." Elm said to his brother, but Bumblebee wasn't listening.
'Prowl is an Autobot…. Wait a second, was that what he was going to tell me before on the comm link? That he was an Autobot and was leaving the Decepticons…. It had to be….' Bumblebee thought to himself.
"We have to save him." Bumblebee told Elm, the blue mech looked at his brother confused.
"Why?" He asked, it wasn't like he wanted this 'Prowl' guy dead, he just didn't understand why it was so important.
"I know him, h-he was a friend of mine…. I can't let him die." Bumblebee said, a surge of guilt ran through him.
"Alright, I'll help…. Just how can we defeat Starscream, I mean we don't really have much training in fighting…" Elm said. The two quietly pondered ideas for a bit until a devious smirk grew on Bumblebee's face.
"Hey Elm, do you still have access to the weapon shed?" Bumblebee asked, Elm looked at him suspicious.
"Yeah, why?" Elm asked.
"I have a plan."
Prowl walked down a road with his suitcase, he was leaving the Decepticons forever, he had to. His spark wouldn't let him stay there. Prowl truthfully didn't know where he was going to stay, since the Autobot crew wouldn't let him come back for what he did. Prowl was hoping he could win the crew back over again, especially Bumblebee. For some reason Prowl cared immensely about what Bumblebee thought of him. The black and gold ninja was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard someone land behind him, Prowl slowly turned around to find Starscream.
"Well, well, well, looks like I found you, traitor." Starscream said pulling out his sword.
"Starscream what are you doing?" Prowl asked stepping back a bit.
"I'm going to do what we should've done when we first found you." Starscream said as he went to slash a Prowl, luckily the cyberninja dodged the blow.
"Y-You're going to kill me?" Prowl asked shocked, the Decepticons, the people he grew up with, wanted to kill him.
"Don't worry, it will only hurt a lot." Starscream said with a laugh as he was about to slice at Prowl's helm. He was interrupted as a large laser blasted him making him drop his sword and be sent away from the black and gold mech.
"For you." A voice said with a childish laugh. 'Wait a second I know that voice…' Prowl thought to himself, he turned around to see Bumblebee accompanied by a Blue mech who was holding a laser gun.
"Bumblebee?" Prowl asked shocked, as he walked over to the yellow mech who had just picked up Starscream's sword.
"Hey Prowl." Bumblebee said blushing a tiny bit, luckily it wasn't that noticeable. Elm cleared his throat reminding the yellow mech to introduce him and Prowl.
"Oh, uh this is my brother Elm. Elm this is Prowl." Bumblebee said cheerfully. He didn't notice when Starscream got up and started to walk towards them.
"You can't get rid of me that easily." Starscream said to the three, preparing to battle.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. It's three against one, and we got better weapons than you." Bumblebee said, Starscream just slumped his shoulders.
"If I were you I'd leave and lie to Megatron telling him that everything was taken care of." Bumblebee said smugly. Starscream gave the three a glare before he flew away.
"How did you know to come here?" Prowl asked the two.
"We intercepted a transmission between Megatron and Starscream when they were making the plans to kill you." Elm told the cyberninja.
"Well thanks." Prowl said to the two. Elm realized that Bumblebee seemed to want to talk to the mech alone.
"I'm uh gonna go back to the base, I'll see you later." Elm said walking away.
"Prowl…. I'm so sorry for not helping you at first, it's just I was crushed after everything." Bumblebee said, upset. Prowl grabbed the yellow mech's hands.
"Bee, it's ok. It's totally understandable, I would've done the same thing if I were you. Let's just forget the past and move on." Prowl told the yellow mech who was blushing madly because of the fact the the two were holding hands.
"You're right, I just hope everyone else will move on and let you join the team." Bumblebee said to Prowl.
"I'm not worried, if you're on my side then we can definitely win them over and get them to let me join the team again." Prowl said giving the yellow mech a hug, making all his body heat up.
"You're welcome. I'm glad you're back, I missed you." Bumblebee told the older mech.
"Come on let's go back to the base." Prowl said to Bumblebee, the two transformed and quickly headed back. Bumblebee couldn't help but ask himself, 'What are all these feelings for Prowl that I'm getting?' The yellow mech couldn't wrap his finger around it, he just wanted to be around Prowl as long as possible, but maybe, just maybe, it was a good thing to have these feelings.