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Chapter 29
Takes place shortly after the last chapter.
No matter what Optimus tried, he just couldn't get into recharge. The thought of what happened to Bumblebee ranged though his meta. What happened to Bee had to have been bad for Sentinel to ask him to only have the femmes be waiting for them. The red and blue Prime couldn't begin to fathom what had happened to the youngest member of his team. As leader it was his job to protect his team and he couldn't even protect the smallest and youngest of his team. What kind of leader was he if he can't protect his team?
A knock at the door brought Optimus out of his thoughts. He got up and walked to the door.
"Who is it?"
"It's Lilacx. I need to talk to you about some things if that is alright with you."
"Sure come on in." Optimus replied and opened the door for the purple femme.
Lilacx entered the room looking a little tired. She walked straight over to one of the chairs that was in the corner of the room.
"Are you alright? Can I get you any energon?" Optimus asked being polite.
"No thanks. I'm fine. I just need someone to talk to." The young femme replied.
Optimus could finally get a look at Lilacx who looked like she was ready to fall asleep any moment. From what Optimus knew of the Renegades, Lilacx was the youngest and was being trained in all the positions that the Renegades had. The young femme was maybe a few years older than Bumblebee was and was defiantly from a noble family as were all the Renegades. She was a little taller than Prowl and looked like she had some Cyberninja training with the way she fought.
"What do you need to talk about?"
"How is it that Skydancer came to be on your team?" Lilacx asked. She was curious as to how her princess came to be on a space repair team.
"When I met Bumblebee, she was a happy go lucky bot that had just been kicked out of boot camp because she caused a building to fall on Sentinel and Sentinel being the jerk he was booted her along with Bulkhead out. Ultra Magnus must have figured out just who Bumblebee was and to protect her assigned her to my team." Optimus explained.
"It would make sense. No one would look for a princess among commoners. No offence on that." Lilacx said making sure to let Optimus know that she wasn't being rude or demeaning. Lilacx was raised that you respect all ranks of society and treat them how you want to be treated.
"None taken." Optimus replied really not offended by what Lilacx called him. Something caught his attention. "What do you mean 'princess'?"
Lilacx's optics went wide at what the Cybertronian in front of her had just said. She had just revealed that Skydancer was a princess. She was in so much trouble when ShadowStriker found out that she'd let the secret out. Something about Optimus told Lilac that he could be trusted with Skydancer's secret.
"What I'm going to tell has been a guarded secret for some time. Please don't say anything to anyone about it." Lilacx pleaded. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw Optimus nod his helm. Lilacx then began explaining about the monarch system of Polarius and why Skydancer was so important to the planet.
Optimus couldn't believe that Bumblebee was royalty. She never acted like it but then again her mother never acted like she was better than anyone.
"One of the reason I think that Skydancer really ran away was not because she wanted to know her father, she wanted to be a normal femme as she never really had a chance to be one on Polarius. Wherever she went everyone knew who she was and treated her like a princess. She hated it with a passion." Lilacx explained to Optimus.
"That would explain the way Bumblebee acted when I first met her. She was loud and annoying and was always doing crazy things in order to attention. She was doing things that she couldn't do on Polarius." Optimus replied still not believing that Bumblebee was heir to the Polariusian throne.
"She's done what I always wanted to do. She's free at the moment to do what ever she wants to do and not worry about what others think. I was raised to serve Lady Starsun's family and die for them if needed. I was never allowed to just be me. ShadowStriker saw me one day and asked my parents if I could become an apprentice to the Renegades. I was praying to Primus that they would say yes and they did. When I joined the Renegades, the first thing that they told me to do was relax and to be myself.. I told them that I didn't know how to be myself. ClearStar and Stormy became my teacher in how to have fun. Over time I learn how to have fun and serious at the same time." The Purple femme said.
"How badly was Bumblebee injured to have only you and the other femmes present?" Optimus asked. He wanted to know what had happened to Bumblebee when she was rescued from Megatron.
"Let's just say it a good thing that Skydancer is in a mech form." Was all Lilacx told Optimus.
It took Optimus less than a second to realize just what Lilacx meant. How dare Megatron try and do something like that to a youngling. Optimus wanted to run off and find Megatron and smash his face in.
Lilacx could sense the anger coming off of Optimus and knew that she had to calm him down. She stood up and walked over to the red and blue Prime and placed a servo on his shoulder. "Skydancer is gonna be ok. Prowl and her father got to her in time. The medics fix her up and right now she's in recharge with her father watching over her." Lilacx told Optimus trying to calm him down. "We wanted to go after him as well but the main thing is that Skydancer is safe and among family and friends that can help her though this hard time." Lilacx said with a smile.
"Your right about Bumblebee being safe and it's better that we focus of helping her. It just that I see her as a little sister." Optimus said looking at Lilacx.
"I feel the same way Optimus. She is only a little bit younger than me and I care about her because she was the one that help show me how to have fun." The apprentice femme replied.
The two bots looked at each other and realize that they both had a lot in common with each other. Both needed to be taught how to have fun and loosen up. Both were protective of Bumblebee and viewed her as a little sister.
"Look we can talk more in the morning. I need to get some recharge and it looks like so could you." Lilacx said and got up and headed for the door. "Good night Optimus."
Optimus smiled at the young femme. "Good night Lilacx."
Optimus watched the young femme leave his room. She was right about needing some recharge. He walked over to his berth and laid down and tried to get some sleep. In the morning he was have a talk with Bulkhead and Ratchet about what happened to Bumblebee and hope that they could help her.
next chapter, the rest of the earthbound Autobots find out what happened to Bee plus more.
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