Optimus is loosing hope. His Bee always bounces back, but this time looks like his son' spark is broken for real. He tried anything to help him, and he will keep doing so forever, if that is necessary, but Bee is fading, his yellow hopeful boy has no fight left in him.
Since Captain Lennox told him what happened that night, Optimus spark ached in lost, grief and fear. Oh, his poor, poor son.
"Optimus" Sam run in his chambers without knock "Will told me what happened! I… it's Bee ok? May I see him? I mean, I understand if you hate me and you don't want me be around, it's my fault, I should have been here yesterday night… And that is not all… I mean, I know that is all my fault, this whole situation is my fault!" the young man looks as much miserable and broken as his little Bee. Even if a part of him want blame Sam for everything, he knows that the two boys just found themselves in the wrong place in the wrong moment. Or maybe wrong places. That was Bee main ability.
"Sam, it's okay, nothing of this situation is your fault. Come here young man"
Optimus let Sam steps on his hand, and lifts the boy to his chest. He lifts his chest plates, allowing Sam to see the sleeping form of his guardian.
"May I…?" Sam sounds unsure at least, and, even if Prime isn't sure what the boy is asking for, grants him with a little nod.
Sam hesitates a moment, takes a deep breath and steps in Optimus chest, wrapping himself around the broken blonde.
"I'm so sorry Bee, I wish I could do anything to make things better…"
Prime sighs, and for Sam that feels weird, being into his chest as he does so. But also he feels safe, being so close to Optimus' spark.
"what we could do?"
Optimus is not sure if Sam is asking that to him or to himself, but he answers anyway: "Ratcher is going through all the psychiatric datapads he can find, and Lennox is organizing for a military consultant to come for Bee… I wish Jazz was here, he was the so good with Bumblebee when he had to deal with the aftermaths of Tyger Pax battle and Cliffhanger death…"
That last part is more for Optimus himself that for Sam, but looks like he hit a chord in the teen. When Sam speaks again, there is a new hope in his voice. "I know what to do… Thank you Optimus"
Sam presses a kiss on Bumblebee forehead, and goes back on Prime's hand and to the ground.
As soon as his feet touch the ground, he starts to run.
When he rush into the medbay, Mikaela, who is waiting for him, rises from the chair she was sitting on. But Sam doesn't acknowledge her, and makes a beeline towards Ratchet. He stop in front of the docbot, hands on his kneels and he tries to stabilize his breath. "Ratchet…uff… I need your help…"
Mikaela is on his side, her hand on his shoulder as to stabilize him. "Sam?"
"I … we, we need the spark extractor. We need it setted to retrieve a spark from the air"
"What for Sam?" Mikaela looks concerne, as she's thinking Sam is having a mental breakdown.
"We can help Bee, Mikaela. We have just to wake 'him' up now!"
"Mikaela, what is Sam talking about?"
Mikaela breath deeply, trying to gain her bearing back, before she turns to the docbot, her mentor.
"Ratch… do you remember the secret project Bee was working on? We are going to bring Jazz back."
Ratchet had Mikaela and Sam retell him the story three times, and another time after he saw the body.
Mikaela took care of him when Bee and Sam went missing, and the body, now 25 years old, looks all considering in good shape.
Jazz could return.
Jazz could return and Bee made it possible.
/Please, believe me Ratchet, that will fix everything!/ that was what Bee told him when the docbot confronts with the youngling about the items disappearing from the medbay.
Oh Bee… That is how those men knew he could use the fast breeding technology by himself….
Ratchet was oh, so proud of their little one. So smart, so resourceful! And still, looks like Primus cannot protect him, or maybe ever hate him, because, doesn't matter what, every time the young scout is involved, things go south and the life takes the hardest path.
But every time Bumblebee fights back, making his own luck. He brings Jazz back. And yes, Sam is right, Jazz will bring Bee back, saves him from his own mind.
With a deep vent he starts to work on the spark extractor. /Please Jazz, be here, your spark has to be here/
Ratchet should know better that hope for something. But someway he is relief that he is the one trying, and not Bee. Primus knows if the youngling can take another let-down.
Apparently Sam and Mikaela cannot took another failure as well. They insist to keep trying, but after the fifth attempt to relocate Jazz spark, the young humans start to loose their faith. They hugging each other, tears streaming on their cheeks, and they look way younger than what they are.
"Last attempt" Ratchet sighs, and the teenagers are too lost to complain about that.
Ratchet's last attempt his half-hearth at least. He is turning his back to the berth were the body lie, when the body - Jazz- take a deep intake of air, and sit on the berth.
"Sh't, tha' was hard" is the first thing out of his mouth
"Welcome back old friend!" Ratchet smile to the human-cybertronian as he start to check his vital signs.
"Glad to be back, care to update me? what happen? where are the others? how long I was out of it?
and, WHY I'M IN A HUMAN BODY?"