The eyes of the BEE:
well it's been a while kids..and I am going to get back to this sooner or later..might as well be now.
Lets see if this causes you to scream in delight.
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Chapter 10: Finding what bee hidden
When Cather came out of recharge, she would be alone. I was off with Ironhide; I had taken her morning patrol and told Optimus her shift would be handled by me. He agreed, and I had gone.
"She let you back in last night?" I asked.
"No of course not." Ironhide seethed. "Not tonight either I suspect."
"You're both stubborn." I said pulling up beside him. I earned a Laugh from my larger counterpart.
"Indeed." He said "I like that about her."
"You should tell her that." I laughed.
"I would like to keep my cannons attached." He said "For good." I understood.
"What are you planning to do to make it up to her?"I asked "You being the Femme's bot and all."
"Double barrel Plasma assault rifle, with more fire power than it should have." he said almost dreamy like.
We pulled up behind an old warehouse. "You're giving her a gun?" I thought about it for a moment and he laughed at me.
"She likes firepower." It sounded sweet almost. "Lots of it."
"No wonder she likes you." I said rolling up ahead of him. This was a mistake I quickly got rear ended by the truck. Pushing me forward. "HEY!"
"Leave it be before I start making comments about you and the femme of yours…I have plenty of….gossip."
"Gossip?"
"Human term…stories…be they true or false that spread between the populations …used to ruin or raise someone's popularity." He said.
"Oh." I moved forward "Well don't dent me …After Barricade I doubt Ratchet ever wants to see me in his med bay again."
"What are we doing out here?" Ironhide interjected and transformed.
"Air Catcher …I read some of her files." I said, it wasn't right of me, but we were bonded and I had full access to her systems.
"that crosses the lines of Honor." Ironhide said "You are bonded you should not do such a thing."
"Starscream took her…" I said. "In all ways but anything good…" I transformed and seriously looked him in the eye.
"Lead on." I didn't need to say more to Ironhide, even though his past with Catcher was certainly nothing to talk about, it wasn't good to say the least. However, honor among mechs, you never take a bonded against their will, especially if you are not bonded to them yourself.
"Her information puts her here at last recon with the Decepticons." I said and looked up for seekers that might be in the area. "Their base is around here somewhere." I said trying to get my bearings. I checked the marks on the ground defiantly trace amounts of Cybertronian alloy.
"I'm getting high heat readings from this area….weapons discharge, and hot core readings." He said. "Someone's not well."
"Think she did Starscream in herself?" I asked.
"No." Ironhide shook his head "She's not strong enough, however one of the smaller decepticons, scorponok, maybe Ravage…she could easily cause damage that would leave these trace elements here." He turned and made his way down a small hill.
He's a weapons expert, I'm a scout. If the two of us couldn't track what this was, no one could. "Where to now?" I stood back up and saw him moving down the hill. He motioned his hand.
"This way." He called out and I moved to follow as quietly as possible. A few branches broke. "There!" Ironhide shined his main lights and a metal figure moved in the brush. "Come out." Ironhide Barked. "we are Autobots ..Identify yourself or I will shoot you…so help me I'm itching too."
"Put the gun down you brute." Came the response from the bot who looked away. Ironhide got his footing better and shined his light again. "And turn off those lights."
I thought I recognized the voice but I wasn't sure. "Get up." Ironhide said.
"I cannot." Was the response from the mech. "Ironhide stop being a slagger and help me."
I blinked "Slagger?" I asked looking up at Ironhide who pulled his cannon's back and walked into the brush. I stayed back and waited. Ironhide walked out, with a mech in his arms. He was beaten badly and he was in serious need off attention. The best part was, he was an Autobot.
Ironhide stepped forward. "Bumblebee …get back to base as fast as you can tell Optimus, Lieutenant Prowl has landed on earth." I blinked, this mangled mech before me was Prowl? I had not seen him in ages, and he was defiantly different.
"Understood." I said and turned tail transforming and landing on my tires skidding away for the Autobot base. Once in Radio range I sent a message to prime.
"Bumblebee return to Ironhide, Elita and I are on our way with Ratchet."
"Understood sir." I said and cut the comm. Line. I headed back to the two. Ironhide was walking with him. Prowls legs had been mangled and were barely hanging on. His left optic was completely missing, and his protoform was weak.
Ironhide nodded to me and I looked again. Prowl was in stasis lock. "He's locked himself down until Ratchet can look at him…he'll live."
"He needs to scan a form." I said.
"He did, however he can't get it to load into his main CPU without his needed repairs. He would not even be able to transform like this." Ironhide said to me and he kept walking. I followed up behind.
"They must have caught him when he was making his landfall." I said and knelt down picking up a few parts that had fallen off Prowl.
"Yes I assume that as well." Ironhide and I both looked up, we could see the sirens coming. The buzz and chirp of the sirens heading in our direction. "ratchet." He said and knelt down laying Prowl on the ground. "Will be able to help you old friend." He put a hand on Prowl's chest. "He will be broken when he finds of Jazz's fate."
"He will?" I blinked.
Ironhide looked up at me and nodded, his face was different somehow as if he housed a great secret that no one but he should know. He looked back to Prowl. I myself looked up to see Optimus and Ratchet coming full speed to our location, Elita was behind them a few hundred yards back. "Our numbers grow." I said.
"So it would seem Bumblebee…so it would seem."