"Hey Soundwaver, where's..."
"Soundwaver?" Soundwave questioned the odd nickname the silver twin gave him.
"Yeah, what don't like it?" Sideswipe asked with a hint of sarcasm.
"Whatever, what do you want?" Soundwave shrugged as they walked in the desert.
"Where's, Barry!" Sideswipe laughed at the petname the sparkling gave the con.
"He was with me but then I told him about Arcee's little episode, and he went back to entertain the sparkling" Soundwave explained to the silver mech.
"I did not have an episode, I was just... you know what I'mgoing to lock you in the base with a very moody sparkling that hates the indoors all week and see how you do!" Arcee snapped at the faceless seeker, making him jump behind his brother for saftey.
"Ok... sorry" Soundwave whimpered slowly walking over between the twins and Arcee.
Base
"Optimus that's a very drastic move, are you sure it's the right move, and the only one?" Barricade asked the prime placing his sparkling down on the ground.
"Bumblebee is right, he can't stay in the base forever, something has to be done" Optimus sighed watching Bumblebee run over to the bots entering the base.
"It's going to have to be thought through before we even go to do anything" Ratchet spoke his thoughts about the prime's upcoming plan.
"What's going on?" Sideswipe laughed as he gave Bumblebee a piggyback ride.
"Whoa what's going on in here, something important?" Wheeljack asked as he and Bulkhead entered the base.
"Do you have to shout everytime you two speak?" Prowl growled at the two wreckers.
"Sorry forgot to use my inside voice!" Wheeljack joked with the officer.
"Just ignor them, it might make somewhat happy" Hound suggested to the moody black and white mech.
"Bumblebee you think you can paint me a picture?" Optimus cooed taking Bumblebee from the silver twin.
"Yeah!" Bumblebee chirped with joy as he was placed on the ground.
"Good I'd like that, but keep the painting in your room please" Optimus continued as he watched Bumblebee bound down the hall into his room.
"Ok the fam damnly is here, what's going on?" Sunstreaker asked impatiently waiting for the prime to speak to the team.
"This is not a for sure plan yet, but I have been thinking and planning, Megatron's assassination" Optimus announced to his autobots recieving mixed emotions.
"Um... well uh..."
"I know predicting what could possibly happen if we did so is many things, so if you have any opinions on what could happen, I'm wide open to hear them" Optimus told the wondering bots.
"Well my thought is, he's got Shockwave there, and ultimately if he gets all buddy buddy with Starscream, who becomes leader if Megatron goes, they will both stop at nothing to find our base and avenge Megatron" Barricade gave his opinion.
"I agree with half of that, but Shockwave and Starscream are both not to fond with Megatron, so they're already buddies, but to stop at nothing to seek and destroy our base yeah I can understand that" Soundwave and Mirage spoke their logical explanation on what would happen.
"Ok, Mirage and Soundwave what would you suggest on doing to get this bounty off of Bumblebee?" Optimus asked the two brothere that seemed to be thinking good points.
"Well if we were to go through with the assasination of Megatron, we would first have to take out Starscream and Shockwave" Mirage said mapping out his plans.
"Leaving the decepticons leaderless if we were to destroy Megatron after, but some other sucker will soon come to avenge Megatron and take over, but that would take Bumblebee's bounty off" Soundwave added to his brothers plan.
"Ok, anyone think this is a bad idea I would like your opinions too" Optimus spoke up looking around for objections.
"Look Bumblebee has always had a bounty, kill the sparkling, capture the sparkling, now I really want him dead, I mean it's not like this is new to us" Arcee stated.
"It's true... well we don't Optimus, Bee is your sparkling, what do think?" Jazz asked the now quiet prime.
"I don't know you all are saying different things that can and are happening, and they all seem pretty straight forward" Optimus sighed looking down the hallway.
"To be honest, Megatron yeah sure has the entire army and top assassins trying to get Bumblebee, but Megatron really isn't putting much of his own work into this hunt, he obviously has something else on his mind" Ratchet said to the thinking leader.
"We can manage to keep Bumblebee safe here, it's the rest of the world that get's Megatron's fury" Prowl added.
"We can all take turns sparkling sitting, no big deal, it's better then fighting a whole new war" Hound spoke up.
"Whatever you choose Optimus, we'll be there" Arcee said before walking down the hallway.
later while Optimus was trying to coax Bumblebee into recharge, he mulled over his teams thoughts and plans, he didn't want to start another war for Bumblebee or anyone to live through, he didn't want to cause more stress for his team, but he wanted to give Bumblebee some freedom and more safety.
"Da!" Bumblebee's happy chirp brought the leader out of his daze and brought his attention to the sparkling standing infront of him on the ground wanting up on the berth with him.
"What is it little one?" Optimus cooed picking up the yellow sparkling.
"What you thinking bout?" Bumblebee asked crawling over the prime.
"Many things little one" Optimus sighed starring at his ceiling.
"Like what?" Bumblebee chirped crawling back onto the prime.
"You should be recharging not asking questions you little trouble maker" Optimus playfully growled liffting Bumblebee above him.
"Aaah!" Bumblebee squealed with laughter as he was lifted above the prime laying on the berth.
"Time to recharge ok?" Optimus cooed lowering Bumblebee down putting Bumblebee's helm against his.
"Ok" Bumblebee tiredly clicked as Optimus placed him on his warm chest.
"Goodnight little one" Optimus whispered as Bumblebee quickly fell into recharge to the rhythm of the primes spark.