An: Fun Fact, I accidentally used Simmons instead of Burns. I was gonna make him older and in command. But I decided to roll with Simmons since I already said it.

Eh, maybe I can make it work. Hope you guys think so. Besides, I can give Burns another, more prominent role.

Hopefully, you guys are fine with the way Bumblebee is. I'm trying mix in a bit of Animated into him too while maintaining the end of Prime. Some nice little bits of sarcasm and fun seeking with his matured mind. And I'm trying to convey a whirlwind of emotions due t him not only being in a new universe, but also going back in time.

i didn't really want to explain stuff like that too much cause I didn't want explain plots out in ANs nor disrespect your intelligence. It's never good for a writer to explain their hands too much. It's a bad habit to develope.

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"So, you allied with a human faction?" Megatron narrowed her eyes at the Seeker, making her shrink. The way her armor accentuated her naturally stacked body so well made her already intimidating stature more terrifying. The cons, Knockout mainly, helped polish her up upon her reentry into the Nemesis. A beautiful and horrifying warlord with the face of a harsh maiden.

"Their USA military, yes…" Starscream mumbled, cursing herself for sounding so small. The energon coursing through Megatron had put her into… unease.

Megatron nodded and folded her arms, "And there's a… mech as you put it?"

"Mhm," Starscream nodded as she pulled up Bumblebee's picture, "Basically a twin of the scout Bumblebee albeit with inverted colors. Masculine," she rolled her eyes saying that word. It was odd having that actually related to her species. She wondered if the Asari had ever dealt with that but stopped digressing her thoughts. She couldn't help but mutter about them however, "Shameless blue cretins."

"It, the mech as you put it, is inconsequential. A worthless abomination in my grand scheme," Megatron scoffed as she pulled up more on the military and the earth as a whole. Then some images of Sumdac Industries, "Shockwave may have him if he is brought in. Dead or alive. The real interest is in the Autobots as a whole second only to the planet."

Starscream chuckled darkly, "Yes, Earth…" then she awkwardly turned to Megatron and asked, "What's special about it?"

"If you had heeded my instructions properly," Megatron glared darkly in Starscream's direction, making her gulp and back up a few inches, "and went down there, you would've seen yourself. Dark energon. Vast amounts of it reside in this very rock."

Soundwave began showing a few pictures that Megatron herself had picked and their warlord began explaining, "During my… remodeling I had picked up some valuable information from the humans data feeds. Sumdac Industries."

"They actually uncovered the energon… testing some of it too," Knockout gasped before composing herself, "I have to hand it to these full organics, they're resourceful despite being crude."

"Quite resourceful," Megatron nearly hissed as Soundwave pulled up more images, this time focused on the technology and one with Isaac Sumdac himself, "at least this Sumdac is. His technology, as you can see, is rather advanced, even if the rest of his species is lacking… almost compared to ours wouldn't you say?"

Starscream shrugged, "Ah, so they got lucky-"

"It wasn't luck," Megatron hissed and caused Starscream to back down further while the others, save for Soundwave, flinched, "Technology, our technology, was somehow pilfered by some organic little animal, this insect Isaac Sumdac."

"That doesn't sound too good," Breakdown muttered as her eyes narrowed on the image of Isaac Sumdac.

"Because it isn't, Obvious Prime," snarled Blitzwing as she crashed her fists together, "they undoubtedly reverse engineered our technology for their own ends!"

"And we have no idea just how far they've gone," Megatron told them before her optics narrowed in on Starscream, who shrank under her gaze, "And the Autobots, that mech, have put us at further risk! So, I will commend you, Starscream, for your damage control… for now."

"O-of course, I am pleased to be of service," Starscream told her as she straightened herself out, "So, what is our next course of action, my Lady?"

Megatron smirked, her canines all but gleaming, "Soundwave, you've no doubt been keeping tabs on the humans outside of Starscream's limited vision haven't you?"

A few chuckles at the Seekers' expense rang through the room, but were immediately silenced when said seeker's glare was even barely in their direction. Megatron, Soundwave, and other very few cons like them could openly ridicule her without any fear. Grunts? Absolutely not. And Starscream could do more than remind them why.

But as for Soundwave, she began showing her some interesting little snippets of info on their human benefactors. Megatron scoffed at first, "This… human scientist has a rather unhealthy lust for knowledge for us."

"Can you blame him, my liege?' Starscream questioned sweetly, "An inferior life form such as a human should naturally marvel at us."

"You basking in organic infatuation disgusts me," Megatron barked as she kept her eyes on Soundwave's screen, "do not speak again."

Starscream nodded, knowing better than to even apologize.

Then came the leader of Sector 7. And his assistant. And then… the images they had procured from space. Megatron developed a look of interest, "Ah… they may not be as ignorant as we had hoped."

Starscream had to ask, "My lady?"

"They have images of us around their little niche of the universe," Megatron had gestured for Soundwave to do something and she began displaying the images on the monitors at the front of the shop, "they have images of ships. Our ships as well as some Autobots."

"What!" Starscream immediately glared at Soundwave and growled, "I had no trust for these apes, but I was not informed of how much they had actually known!"

"Guess you weren't worth telling! Maybe Soundwave didn't want your feelings hurt with the bugs," Blitzwing laughed in her crazy voice only to wince and shut up as Starscream glared at her.

"No doubt with this in mind, they may most likely mean to strike out at Autobot and Decepticon alike. I doubt, from what I gathered, they're likely to turn us or information, to the Autobots. Xenophobia can be a remarkable tool," Megatron laughed at the end before turning to the rest of the Decepticons, "Soundwave! I want you to enter your stealth mode. Starscream, prepare the humans for my arrival! I'm feeling rather gracious…"

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"Dude, you're a grown aft bot, this should not be new to you," Cliffjumper grumbled as she forcefully scrubbed his scalp, "you've never taken off your plating where you're from, really?"

"Yeah, because that would've been me I tore off," Bumblebee grumbled back, "what the frag is the point of us having hair anyway!?"

"Ask Primus why don't ya?" Cliffjumper shrugged after giving the back of his head a light and playful smack, "it's so we look good, duh?"

"And… these parts?" Bumblebee gestured to his crotch and hers, "they do anything?"

"Buddy, I just work with them," Cliffjumper said with a shrug, "I got mine for a reason. You, I have no clue whatsoever. Is it supposed to be a pseudo leg or something?" She asked that last part as she pointed to his crotch.

"This would go by faster if you two would stop running your motor mouths as usual," Arcee reminded them she was there and finishing up. She wryly cemented to Bumblebee, "I guess you really aren't a spy after all. No bot is that clueless, not even a sparkling."

"Thanks," He dryly retorted, "I guess being "dumb" has it's uses."

Arcee rolled her eyes and Cliffjumper patted him on the back, "Outta… mech, Bee! Play to your strengths!"

"And frag you too, horn head," Bumblebee added with a light glare at Cliffjumper way. He noticed her chest, the markings or tattoos on the left side, and gave them a poke, "do those do anything?"

"Same as the hair," Cliffjumper said with a shrug, giving her breasts a light squeeze, "yours are odd though. Flat and so firm."

"Seems as almost normal as before," Bumblebee said with a shrug, "still… malleable though. So odd."

Beside them, Goldbug's whistled to get Cliffjumper's attention and pointed at her own chest. Goldbug had a smug smirk and Cliffjumper rolled her eyes.

"They're about the same and if anything, my chassis is bigger," she told her, making Goldbug roll her eyes and shake her head. Cliffjumper told Bumblebee, "of course that's one of the things that still sticks to her."

"Odd competition," Bumblebee muttered before smirking himself, "but if anything, my chassis is more practical."

"How so?" Cliffjumper asked him with her hands on her hips.

"Tick tock, sparklings!" Arcee called back. That was their cue to finish up. A few more scrubs here and there then they were back in their clothes, which happened to be freshened and cleaned by Ratchet.

Felt good. Bumblebee had had a nice cleaning in a while and certainly not one that deep.

"Took ya long enough," Ironhide chuckled before she nodded towards the kids, Sari standing next to Jack while she was on a crate, "these two were waiting for you three."

"Holy crap, tell me how it went right now!" Sari shouted excitedly, "how many bad guys did you take down!? You got a recording!? Battle trophies!? Snap shots!?"

"Sari, take it easy," Jack told her, "I'm sure it wasn't… okay, there was no way it wasn't exciting, but let them breathe a little."

"Jack, they're robots," Sari deadpanned as she gave him an equally dry glance.

"Figure of speech," Jack deadpanned back.

All three of the scouts glanced at each other before Cliffjumper scratched the back of her head, "Well, to answer your questions, we maybe a little fragged in the exhaust vent."

""What?"" Both the kids asked. Sari got the hint first and clarified, "Oh, it went bad."

"Not… exactly," Bumblebee slowly replied this time, "It's just our worst enemy is back in action."

"Oh yeah, Megatron," Sari casually stated while Jack went wide eyed, "the genocidal warmongering, horrifying, psycho bot Optimus told us about. Sounds rough."

"That's horrible." Jack nearly shouted.

"I mean… yeah," Cliffjumper shrugged as she looked around for a distraction due to her lack of organic consoling skills, "so you wanna play some video games again?"

"I'm down," Sari replied before looking at Jack, "I'm sure these guys will take her down. They've been kicking butt all this time have they?"

"I, wha-" Jack didn't know what to say in that instance but given the way Sati was, he figured it was best to calm himself. Freaking out wouldn't do anything and, had to admit, was a tad embarrassing and off putting Sari was doing better than him in terms of attitude again, "you… you know what. Sari's right. We just have to be a little more careful is all."

"Exactly!" Sari gave him a pat on the back before hopping off a crate, "and we got my dad too."

"Yeah, yeah," Jack nodded before thinking back to that. How the cons had the military backing too, "would be nice to get a solid win anytime soon though."

"I've been saying that for how many stellar cycles now?" Ironhide grunted before gently patted Bumblebee's shoulder, "hey, mate, mind coming with me for a few nanokliks?"

"Sure," Bumblebee shrugged. He couldn't help but glance as the others started booting up a fighting game and briefly cursed his luck. He had to ignore the laughter as he and Ironhide started going down the hall, "so what's up?"

"You said you were from another timeline, yeah?" Ironhide glanced at him as they kept walking.

"Only for the millionth time, yeah," Bumblebee sighed, rolling his eyes, "is it that hard to believe?"

Ironhide chuckled and playfully jabbed his shoulder, "Hehe, little punk aren't you… what was the war on your version of Cybertron like?"

Bumblebee whistled and shrugged his shoulders, "How long do you have to talk?"

"Give me the big spark notes," Ironhide told him. She wanted to analyze his story and get some insight on him. She highly doubted he was up to anything with the team… but she wanted to make it clear to Arcee and Prowl. She knew of one good way to do that.

"I was nothing special, just a courier with hot wheels is all…" From there, he told her his story of the War on Cybertron. The horrors, the comrade's he gained and lost, the enemies, and The Ark.

Ironhide listened intently and studied his movements just as hard. She could see it in his body language that he wasn't lying. But most of all, what he got "right" and what he got "wrong".

'That's not what happened,' Ironhide thought more times than not. And then the story came out when he lost his voice. The Ark. She shook her head as they made it to the outside and curtly told him, "You know, I'm gonna need more than that."

"Really?" Bumblebee asked before rubbing the back of his head, "guess that was a little too short."

"Let's go on a drive. Do some patrolling," Ironhide told him before nodding west, "you take point since you're a scout and all."

"Only one of the best," Bumblebee joked before transforming and going ahead. Ironhide turned to the side and nodded before following after him.

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"Hold on, another text from mom!" Jack said as Teletraan-1 passed the game for him and he replied back.

"Hehe, that June ain't bad lookin' for a human," Cliffjumper mumbled as she remembered getting a good look at his mom coming back home. The moment she heard Jack clear his throat, she realized something, "Oh, I said that aloud?"

"Yep. Say less," Jack deadpanned as he finished up his text and sighed, "She's been so excited lately."

"Yeah, weird how getting close to the Sumdac does that to some people," Sari said as she rolled her eyes. Jack couldn't tell if that was from the fact she didn't like the notoriety or at Jack's statement, "she still doesn't know about all this?"

"No and she never will," Jack immediately told them, "how would I even explain it? I'm barely able to explain my grades taking a bit of a dive."

"You could just have Cliffjumper transform in front of her," Sari suggested as she put her controller down, "I mean, if you ever did have to tell her."

"If I get the go ahead from our head honcho Optimus, sure," Cliffjumper answered with a shrug, "but not a moment beforehand."

"Cliffjumper!" Optimus called out, "Me and Prowl wish to speak with you!"

The Autobot was on her feet immediately and set down her controller, "Alright Teletraan-1, keep the kids distracted! It's business time!"

"Yeah, yeah..." Teletraan-1 told her as she started setting up a two player game for the duo while Cliffjumper exited. The AI sighed, "How I envy you locomotive types. I miss it."

"I bet," muttered Sari before she whispered to Jack. After that, she turned to the computer and said, "Hey, we're gonna go real quick. Official Organic business to talk about."

"Ugh, you too!" Teletraan-1 whined. She hated being left alone when everyone was doing something, "Fine. I'll just talk about another recharge until I need to be used again."

"Hey, we'll be back," Jack assured the oddly sensitive machine, "We'll do something you want."

"Hmm… alright, you better. I technically control your high scores," Teletraan-1 tried to threaten them. Jack and Sari swore they saw a monitor narrow like an eye.

They walked off and didn't start talking again until they were sure they were out of ear shot of any of the bots. Sari spoke first, "At some point, we have to go out onto the field and actually help."

"Oh no," Jack immediately stopped in his tracks and folded his arms, "I think our meeting was more than enough action."

"Uh, bull scrap," Jack… wasn't entirely sure if she should be scolded for that language or not. She held up her key card with a smirk before he even had a chance to address it, "We could do way more than ride around with them."

"Sari, this isn't even something to consider. And you know, I'll bite, let's say I agree… what would we even do?"

Sari's smirk didn't fade and she put her index finger up, "You know, the government hasn't exactly been leaving my dad alone. They never do. And I do happen to get a few offers every now and again."

"And… you wanna use your connections to help the Autobots?" Jack surmised with narrowed eyes.

"No. Me and dad will use our connections so we can help the bots… if you wanna come with us," Sari looked at him and gave him a little pouty face. She was an adorable little girl. And she totally knew that.

Jack sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. There were many reasons to say no… but deep down, he actually agreed with her. He wanted to help too, at least in some capacity. Besides, he was still a teenager and he still wanted to do some cool stuff too. And besides, it's not like Sari was asking to fight. And they were getting her dad involved.

What harm was there in trying something?

He played it cool and shrugged, "Alright. Let's see what your dad says then."

And Sari fist pumped, "Oh, man, I can't wait to tell the bots… after we get dad of course!"

"I can hear excitement!" Teletraan-1 yelled before she began to warble, "Jack, my envy increased, I'm gonna ask for more!"

And Jack sighed while Sari giggled.

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After some more explanation, they made it to a sort of rocky clearing save for a few cliffs that stood well over them and a slope. Ironhide transformed and heartily sighed out, "I think I've heard enough."

"So, how much of that happened here?" Bumblebee asked, hoping she could tell him what her war was like. Suddenly, he backflipped away and barely dodged a good uppercut aimed for his chin. Landing on his feet, he glared at Ironhide, poised in her typical brawler stance, and shouted, "What the frag, Ironhide!?"

"Less talk, more fighting!" Ironhide bellowed before rushing over with a downward punch into the ground, shattering much of it. He rolled out of the way before hopping on her back.

"Is this supposed to be surprise training cause I think you're overdoing - woah!" Ironhide reached over and hunched to grab Bumblebee by his shoulder before flipping him onto the ground back first. He grunted out before looking up to see Ironhide's hardened foot coming towards his head, forcing him to roll away before he was embedded in the ground or cracked open like it, "like I said, overdoing it!"

"If I beat you hard enough, you'll start talking. Or you die. Either way, not a loss," Ironhide shrugged before picking up a large boulder.

"Are you fragging insane!" Bumblebee roared before having to dodge again, "what do I have to do to prove I'm not a con spy!"

"Die?" Ironhide shrugged before rushing at him again, "or maybe beat me?"

"Slag no, I'm not gonna hurt you!" Bumblebee told her after ducking under a punch and barely blocking a strong knee to his chest with his forearms. He was sent skidding back and shouted, "Autobots do not kill each other or fight like that!"

"And you know what it means to be an Autobot!?" Ironhide retorted, going on for a grab at his throat. Bumblebee managed to knock her hands away before going under to slide between her legs.

"This insignia," he roared as he ducked under another wild swing, "I wear with pride no matter where I am!" She went for another punch and Bumblebee decided to use her momentum against her. He grabbed her and rolled to flip her over, all while shouting, "and I won't disgrace it by shedding innocent energon!"

Ironhide grunted as Bumblebee got on top of her and looked her in the eyes. He had his hands around her throat, but she immediately took notice of the lack of a blaster primed at her head, "Are we done here?"

She looked to the side and clicked her tongue, "Well, are we!?"

Bumblebee obviously noticed and turned to see Arcee make her presence known. She leaped down from a few rocks and shrugged her shoulders, "I'm officially convinced. As is Prowl. For now."

Bumblebee immediately got off of his companion and asked, "Ironhide? Can I get the courtesy of an explanation?"

"With that sloppy fighting you did?" Ironhide grunted before shrugging, ignoring Bee's sneer, "Why not? To make it short, I made you look good and officially cleared your name with the two team hard plates."

"Not enough for you to start getting chummy," Arcee immediately added, "We're just shooting at the same group of bots. Don't romanticize it."

Bumblebee sighed although he couldn't help but smile, "Progress is progress I guess. I don't have to worry about you offlining me mid recharge."

"No, you will, but that's just Arcee's default," Ironhide told him as she went to pat Arcee's head. The smaller bot immediately slapped Ironhide's hand away.

"If you two are done acting like academy femmes," Arcee grumbled, "Prowl had an assignment for us. And we just happen to be close to an interesting site."

"Let's get to it then," Bumblebee said with a fist bump. It was hard for him to not have some vigor flowing through him after what just happened, "We raiding an energon mine? Saving a hostage? Putting out a fire?"

"Eavesdropping a recon We've believed we found," Arcee told him plainly, "Cons are getting bold as expected. So Optimus and Prowl figured we have to get bold too."

"Sounds good to me," Bumblebee chuckled while Ironhide punched the palm of her hand.

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"Everyone line up," Fowler called out as he even shoved a few people in different directions, "apparently we've got a special guest coming and we gotta look spiffy!"

"Is it one of the generals, sir?" A young soldier asked, one of the rookies that was present during the training.

"Ah, you and I both wish we were that lucky," Fowler softly told the rookie before shoving him, "now fall in line!"

"Yes, sir!" He told him, rushing to his post.

That's when Fowler noticed two vehicles coming through the darkening sky flying towards them. He only recognized one of them as Starscream. The other, undeniably alien, he had no clue what that was… but that was most likely their guest.

The Decepticon leader. A giant she-bot named Megatron.

Fowler shuddered imagining what she was like, especially with a name like that. That vehicle armor plating of hers certainly didn't help with the thought of a benevolent ruler.

He had no idea what he and humanity was in for.

Once they landed and transformed, Fowler felt as though he had been punched in the gut upon seeing her. He was not as spot on as he thought and that was worse. Just as pretty as the rest of the cons yet far more scary. He couldn't help but back up upon her eyes locking on his and mentally cursed for showing such weakness.

She ate it up, internally, but was savvy enough not to show it. She maintained her Stony composure as she introduced herself, "Greetings, human soldiers of Sector 7. I've been waiting to see the alliance my loyal comrade's had forged in my absence. I must say, I am not displeased."

Fowler heard Simmons clear his throat behind him and straightened his tie, "Likewise, Ma'am. We're just as honored to meet you. You're quite the stunning robotic lifeform."

"Thank you," Megatron felt skin crawl hearing that from such… an odd and ugly creature. The similarities and contrasts of humans with their species made them hauntingly uncanny to her, as did other bipedal life forms with such physiology, "May I enter? I wish to see what my soldiers have. I have information I wish to trade too."

"Of course," Simmons nodded and whistled, Fowler and other soldiers following close behind.

Behind Megatron, Starscream subtly glanced to the side and could notice the aircrafts on her scanners. The humans so called "Stealth Drones" or something like that. She almost rolled her optics at the primitive technology, 'For a so called military force, they sure don't like using their power correctly. Giving a scientist like Sumdac free reign over his technology… bah!'

She noticed those the moment they made themselves known to the humans. They worked well for their ears on their home world, but it was clear to her and the other cons that humanity was a low level species. And their so-called "stealth" only further cemented these notions to them. Oh how Starscream would relish having a sporting game of "Dogfighting" with them one day. Like stealing an energon cube from a protoform to her.

From far, far away, far above the sight of the stealth drone, something else flew. A robotic bird. Dark blue playing line with strips of white along with red wings. It's beak was dark orange. It latched on to the much larger drone before scanning it, careful not to trigger anything and remain completely unspotted.

Once it finished, it let go and flew back into the clouds without so much as a trace.

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Barricade, in her alt mode, was just outside the Sumdac corporate building inside the city as rain began pouring. They heard about how rarely it rained here and she couldn't help but grumble at her luck. She popped open her trunk and a cube like object popped out.

After a quick roll, it transformed to reveal a dark blue leopard-like robot with "small" arms on its back. It's gleaming yellow eyes turned from the building back to Barricade.

Barricade gently, about as gentle as she could be anyway, whispered, "alright Ravage, you're up. You know me and Soundwave like it quick."

It nodded before speeding off to the building. While not as good for information hunting like the Sumdac household, it was more than worth investigating on its own, especially after what they dug up. With Autobots on high alert and the need to still maintain some secrecy, it was best not to directly engage that area, even in stealthy missions. At least for now.

And given Soundwave's fondness of her… "pets" Barricade wanted to be especially sure Ravage wouldn't be at risk for getting too banged up. A pissed Starscream is a pain in the ass for most cons.

A pissed Soundwave… was a thought she would rather not have. Especially if she were infuriated over one of her little ones.

In the meantime, Barricade would maintain a low profile. Worse comes to worse, Soundwave could get them an emergency groundbridge. But Barricade wanted to do some digging herself.

Investigation is a cops specialty after all. She just had to make sure no pesky Autobot or two got in her way…