The world worked in mysterious ways, the energies of the universe were a mystery where things most species with intelligence would say you can't always explain the unknown and the impossible.

Well whoever thought this was a good idea had stabbed themselves one to many times in the spark with dark energon!


Energon shortage was probably one of the worst ways to shut down as all his systems were sluggish in their response and would be for awhile, he knew he should have refueled the previous day but that new game had been way more important at the time and how was he suppose to know he was going to get blasted an end up in some alternate universe or parallel world whatever it was! He was not taking the blame for this!

What returned first was his sense of hearing static through his audios did not help the processor ache he current had which was also another side effect of crashing.

Trying to move did not work he didn't really expected it too, systems that were forcefully shut down took awhile to reboot and while he was fully aware his frame was still playing catch up which in itself was annoying he hated staying still for any longer than he had too; it irritated Ratchet whenever he was forced to fix something when Sari's key wasn't around.

Seeing as he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon he tried onlining his optic's might as well try and see where he was as if that bot had been some other version of Bulkhead he didn't think he was in any danger, unless this was some invasion of the body snatcher's scenario and he was actually in a world with evil versions of his friends an the autobots were the bad guys or something.

Nah, that was way to crazy to be a possibility.

Static was what appeared first like some black and white snow which he was expecting as slowly it began to clear, black and white turning to color before he noticed a blurry shape above him which made him realize that he was laying down as everything finally came into focus.

He wasn't sure where he was, he didn't really get to look around too see where, why? Because someone was staring at him from above and he did the only logical thing he could think to do with someone invading his personal space, he screamed in suprise which caused the bot to back up a suprise yell leaving the other's vocalizer.

Before either one could react to the other another voice broke up the screaming session they were having.

"Smokescreen, when I said watch the patient I didn't mean yell at eachother!" the voice sounded more annoyed than angry and despite it sounding different when the white an red bot came into view Bumblebee could only think one name.

Ratchet

Well if he had any doubts about being in another universe those were gone.

"Sorry doc, but hey at least he's awake" Smokescreen who Bumblebee noticed was pretty tall wow if he felt small in his own world this place looked like it was going to be worse.

The medic just seemed to grumble something as he turned to the minibot that Bulkhead had brought back, who apparently claimed to be named Bumblebee and while it wouldn't be uncommon for some bot's to share the same name this was not the case. Ratchet wasn't much of a believer in the theory of the multiverse, while some scientists on cybertron did an even tried to use space bridges to try and see if their theories were true he still held no belief in them.

Then Bulkhead had returned with a minibot in his arm's after their Bumblebee had vanished into the vortex.

The bot's systems were cybertronian for sure but they were different, far to different from any system's he had seen and he had seen many which unfortunately brought up the possibility that this bot might not be of their world just fantastic.

Bumblebee could only wince under the stare the medic was giving him, he hadn't even noticed he could probably move now as he had that same look in his optic's that his Ratchet got when he was thinking about something.

"Uh, so thanks for the save and all but where are we?" The quiet was starting to get awkward and if there was anything Bumblebee hated more than his height being mentioned it was silence.

"At the autobot's base, Bulkhead brought you back after he found you last night! Where did you come from anyway, wait are you really named Bumblebee!?" Smokescreen had once again gotten a little too close as he spouted off questions, the yellow bot wondered if this guy understood what personal space was.

"This is your guy's base!? And yeah my name is Bumblebee" moving to sit up as he noticed the walls looked like solid stone, that seemed to snap Ratchet out of his minor space out.

"Don't move yet your system's should still be interlining, you'll need to stay off that leg for a few solar cycles and I need that energon line to stay in place, when was the last time you refueled" The medic was now looking at the machine's currently connected to the bot, looking at the readings as he did seem to be functioning normally.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee just looked at the medic who had quickly fired off both questions and awnser's as Bumblebee looked at his right servo noticing the line but if it was suppose to be energon why was it blue? Looking at his leg their was an obvious weld as he didn't really relish in the idea of having to stay off his pede's where was Sari's key when you needed it.

"The last time I refueled was a few day's ago, I sort of forgot to yesterday" the minibot laughed nervously scratching the back of his helm, a human habit he had picked up.

The medic said nothing which honestly scared Bumblebee since his Ratchet would have told him that he was reckless and to have better fueling habits.

"I see, Smokescreen comm the other's that our guest has awoken" Smokescreen smiled as he gave a thumbs up and walked somewhere else in the base, leaving Bumblebee alone with the medic which was awkward.

Bumblebee barely got along with his own Ratchet though it was mostly due to him being reckless and Ratchet's lectures on how he was going to kill himself one day if he didn't get his act together.

"Sooo, if I told you that hypothetically-" he tried to start the conversation he knew was eventually going to be asked when Ratchet stopped him.

"That you are possibly of another world" the medic turned from his equipment to look at the minibot.

"Uh, yeah that, wait! Your not surprised?" Was dimensional travel normal here?

"As much as I didn't believe in that theory a recent development and your system's have proven otherwise" the incident with the Shadowzone was one Ratchet still couldn't believe was possible and had begun to look into just in case said incident was repeated.

"Oh" that was all Bumblebee could say as an awkward silence soon followed, thankfully that other bot Smokescreen came back.

"They said they'd be back soon but Bulkhead might be late, he said Miko got detention again but not to worry she'd find a way to sneak out" Smokescreen had to admit the girl was rather chaotic but never a dull moment.

"Of course she did" was Ratchet's automatic response to anything related to the girl.

Bumblebee was completely lost on the conversation but it seemed to involve someone human, did this team also have some human allies like his team did? He didn't recognize the name Miko so maybe they met different humans.

"Hey, do you know any humans? We have three who come to the base well five actually but two of them are adults and Fowler just likes yelling at us, mostly Optimus about-" wow and Bumblebee thought he talked alot as Smokescreen didn't seem to realize he couldn't get his questions awnsered if he didn't stop talking.

Bumblebee also noticed Ratchet gave Smokescreen a look, a look he recognized as the 'your giving away to much information' look, well it wasn't like he was the bad guy here and even if he was these two could easily stop him as much as he hated to admit it.

Was this the universes way of messing with him? Sending him to a world where from the looks of it everyone was going to tower over him even more than back home!?

"Okay first question, Yes I do know humans one of my best friends is human and I have no idea who Fowler is but he sounds like Fanzone because he yells at us about the decepticons too" well at least it looked like there were some similarities, Sari was the only human who actually stayed at the base due to her father going missing a few months after the entire ordeal with Megatron.

But apparently these bots had more than just one human come over and visit, Fanzone only came to yell at them usually Optimus huh, looks like that was another similarity.

"So is everyone here as tall as you are?" Bumblebee couldn't help it, he had to know the awnser to that! Of course it was a stupid question but given that he's known this guy for less than a few minutes, he had the impression Smokescreen wouldn't care.

"Oh way bigger! Like your smaller than Arcee and she's the shortest bot in this base, a decepticon could grab you like a human would a doll!" Smokescreen might have been a little to enthusiast in his explanation but hey! Honesty was the best policy and this guy was tiny so he might as well find out now.

"So everyone's huge here big shock" Bumblebee moved into a better sitting position for the sole purpose of crossing his arm's over his chest in annoyance, universe he really hated it right now.

"Don't worry about it though, the Bee I know is the shortest mech here so your both the same in height!" Smokescreen noticed height seemed to be a sensitive subject apparently as their Bumblebee wasn't the tallest either so maybe that would help.

Bumblebee looked up at Smokescreen, he wasn't sure if he was trying to make him feel better or if he was lying, either way though if it was true maybe it was just a universal fact after all if this place existed who knew how many others did.

The idea that every version of himself was the smallest on the team though was an annoying thought, like what did he do to the multiverse to deserve that!

"So who's Arcee? Never heard that name before" changing the subject from his height was apparently super easy as Smokescreen seemed completely eager to awnser.

Bumblebee wasn't sure if Smokescreen was putting on a very friendly act or if this bot was just naturally this oblivious to both personal space and was just spazzy as he began telling him that she was the only femme on the team an the only two wheeler.

Huh, maybe she was Prowls replacement here.

Neither one noticed Ratchet leave the medbay as he left Smokescreen alone usually he wouldn't leave Smokescreen by himself in range of his medical tools, he broke and lost as many as Bulkhead did but he had the minibot to keep him occupied.

Instead he pulled out the strange object he had discovered on the yellow bot while running his initial scans, it gave off incredible power despite it being a small glowing shard in his servo. The yellow bot would eventually figure out Ratchet had taken it but he was more interested in what exactly it was, could this shard be the reason for the groundbridge malfunctions? Could it be why this was happening.

The medic didn't know, but as the sound of engine's began to make themselves known the minibot would have alot of explaining to do and they themselves had alot of explaining to do too the children.

Ratchet didn't relish in that at all.

Meanwhile Bumblebee found out that Arcee wasn't the only difference in this team as apparently there was a bot called Wheeljack who'd come to earth sometimes, he was a wrecker a branch of the military that as far as Bumblebee knew from his own universe didn't exist anymore.

He also didn't know any Wheeljack though the guy sounded kind of insane from how Smokescreen described him, he was apparently extremely into causing as much damage as possible specifically blowing it up.

If his team had to deal with that he was pretty sure their would be daily arguments, they already got on his case anytime he did anything they deemed to reckless.

"Wheeljack sounds nuts" was Bumblebee's only response to Smokescreen about the bot.

Smokescreen just laughed at that" Completely! But that's what makes him so cool, you should have seen him fighting the cons it was awesome and Bulkhead too when you put the two of them together-" he wasn't able to finish that sentence though as both bots were taken out of their conversation by Ratchet.

"Smokescreen, into the main room we all need to talk about" the medic looked at Bumblebee" our guest"

Bumblebee wasn't sure if that was a dig at him or not as Smokescreen seemed a bit disappointing that the conversation was over but listened nevertheless, as that left Bumblebee alone once again as thats when he heard more voices.

When had the rest of the autobots shown up? Then again he and Smokescreen had gotten a bit caught up in their conversation, well the bot might be a bit weird and hyper yes ironic, but he did seem genuinely nice so that was something.

He had said the rest of the autobots were nice but still he didn't know what to expect, he didn't have much of a read on this worlds Ratchet so far he wasn't acting like the grumpy medic he knew at all if anything he seemed to be avoiding directly talking to him and listening to what he had to say.

That already put him on edge as this had to be some sort of act because they thought he was a threat or something, which would be stupid these guys were big enough to easily take him down after all he got damaged enough from the cons back home.

Though remembering home he remembered, the Allspark fragment! He was about to reach into his subspace to see if it was still there when the voices in the background became louder.

A femme's voice he assumed that must be Arcee sounded ticked off, sheesh Smokescreen wasn't kidding when he said she was probably going to be the most confrontational as another voice he didn't recognize spoke over her.

Hopefully he wouldn't be here long enough to find out exactly how much he should watch his back, after all if the allspark got him here then that's all he needed to go home right?

Shaking his helm he tried instead to focus on the voices trying to make out what was being said but he couldn't hear them, the thought of sneaking out of the medbay to eavesdrop was strong but he had no idea how this Ratchet would react if he did that it could prove to be the straw that finally got him to yell at Bumblebee; besides he wasn't to sure how to remove the energon line or if he could even stand.

He hated this, he hated being stuck in one place not able to move or do anything it sucked! He wasn't sure if he wanted the conversation to be done with so he could finally talk to the rest of the bots or to be left alone awhile longer.

Though anymore spiraling thoughts were stopped when he heard movement, footfalls of someone heading towards him as they were far to light too belong to anyone made of metal. It was a sound he mostly associated with humans specifically Sari as the two of them basically spent everyday together he'd gotten use to always having her around.

Nope he was not about to admit he was missing his best friend, nope focus on the possible unknown human heading towards him as soon they came into view as they kneeled over slightly trying to catch their breath before she looked up at him.

Okay this girl was definitely older than Sari but that look in her eyes was a little more familiar than he'd care to admit, there was a mini staring contest that seemed to last a full minute before.

"Your so small!"

"I'm not small!" Was Bumblebee's automatic response, really! Again with the height! It wasn't as if being here with just Ratchet and Smokescreen hadn't already been the universe rubbing it in! What was it with him and height!

"You are and I thought Arcee wasn't that tall but your really small" Miko couldn't help it, he looked like a bright yellow toy robot nothing like the other bots in the base oh man she couldn't wait until Raf and Jack saw him.

"Well your small too!" Bumblebee tried to counter only for the girl to smile at him.

"I'm human were suppose to be small, your just short" Miko countered back as the look on the others face was priceless, maybe she shouldn't tease somebot she didn't know about his height but she didn't know the bots could be this size!

Okay Bumblebee would give her that she was human but still he turned away from her" Well your probably short by human standards!" He tried to have the last word.

"I'm not an adult yet I'll get taller!" Miko waved a hand as the yellow bot refused to look at her, okay she knew she should be worried about Bumblebee being missing but this was a new bot, possibly from another world from what Smokescreen said! How could she be to worried when proof of the multiverse was just sitting there!

"Miko!"

Both bot and human looked up at the voice as Miko just laughed nervously at the disapproving looks she was receiving from the bots, after all she wasn't suppose to sneak off and see the mysterious guest until they finished explaining everything but curiosity got the best of her.

Bumblebee meanwhile wanted to gape at what he was seeing but managed to at least not make himself look more stupid than he already felt, he was used to loosing arguments to Sari since she was a little kid but this girl looked older and he didn't enjoy loosing a height argument but anyway he saw Ratchet and Smokescreen who was holding two other humans.

But that wasn't what got his attention neither had the blue femme or Bulkhead but the very very tall blue and red bot who was at the front of the group, he was obviously bigger and he looked alot older with plenty of differences but Bumblebee could still recognize who the bot was.

It had to be Optimus.

Why was he getting the feeling this place was about to throw him for a bigger loop...he hated the universe.

(Animated)

He didn't know if he was being treated like a guest or a possible threat, either way he couldn't really blame them.

It had been a few hour's since Bumblebee's appearance in this world, yes he was accepting he was probably in some parallel or alternate universe as there was honestly no other way to explain ending up in a world with other autobot's with two who looked like his teammates and not come to that conclusion; though the weird way thing's looked here was something that would take some getting use to.

He felt like he was in a cartoon with how bright and flat everything looked, was it weird he could tell their wasn't alot of detailing done here?

Despite the Ratchet he knew warning him, Smokescreen and basically anyone who wasn't Optimus or Ultra Magnus about not messing around his or any medbay, Bumblebee wasn't going to sit around while these bots tried to figure out whatever their problem was.

Seriously if he was a decepticon turning this entire medbay into a lethal weapon was absolutely possible he knew how to use just about anything as a weapon, one of the advantages of war he supposed he could even turn his own armor into a weapon if the situation called for it.

He went back to walking around the medbay noticing that it was alot more stocked than his own Ratchet's, he even noticed some cybertronian medical devices that were destroyed in the war centuries ago that was odd? Had they managed to save them from the war? But they looked practically new.

Okay if they didn't come in and talk to him by the next earth hour he was screwing whatever rules they had and getting some answers.

What could they possibly be talking about that was taking so long!?

At that moment the doors opened as the yellow mech turned around expecting to see the bots who brought him here, only he saw nothing. Did he accidently active the sensors? A malfunction?

"So thats what they were hiding from me! Those bolt for brains!" The voice alerted him to someone definitely being in the room as he looked down and saw a little girl.

Bumblebee looked at the human girl she looked younger than even Raf, why was there a human here? Did these bots also have human charges? From the fascinated way she was looking at him the girl was no stranger to a giant robot, in fact she looked annoyed very annoyed.

He wasn't sure what to do though, the girl wouldn't be able to understand him but he couldn't keep having a staring contest with her forever.

"So, my best friends missing, the guys keep talking but won't tell me anything and they said they had another bot in here when they thought I wasn't listening so your going to tell me what's going on!" Sari might just be a kid and the others treated her as such but she'd been waiting for an explanation for hours, ever since the guy's came back without Bumblebee and apparently a new bot.

If no one was going to tell her anything then she was getting her own awnsers! Besides if this guy was dangerous she'd just scream and the guy's would be here in a heartbeat her plan was foolproof.

Bumblebee couldn't help but blink at the little girls demands, had she really just tried to threaten him? He wasn't sure if he should be impressed or slightly worried about how comfortable she was yelling at a bot she didn't know.

And he thought Miko was bad nope turns out she wasn't the only human in the world who'd mouth off to a giant robot.

She was still staring up him with the most impatient look on her face it honestly looked like she was trying to look serious but it ended up looking more cute, the fact she looked so young didn't help Bumblebee make the connection to a pouting sparkling.

He sighed through his vents as she wouldn't understand him might as well let her know now that he couldn't talk.

"Look, I'd like to tell you what happened but you can't understand me" Bumblebee looked at the girl waiting for the confusion to dawn on her face.

Instead he got a huff" I can understand you just fine, your stalling!" Sari pointed at him as Bumblebee was slightly shocked.

She could understand him!? Only Raf could understand him back home, honestly what were the odds of a human from possibly another world who also knew the autobots being able to understand his translator though now he realized he was going to have to explain things to her and he very much doubted she'd leave without any awnsers.

Was this a human femme thing? Were they naturally stubborn and unfearful of giant robots who weren't decepticons? No wait scratch that, Miko would actually argue with a con if given the chance and he had no idea if this girl would do the same if given the opportunity.

"I'm not stalling I just don't know how you can understand me, I don't really talk the way your friends do" Bumblebee lowered his frame to be a bit more level with the girl who was giving him a confused look.

"What do you mean?" Sari didn't understand what he meant he sounded like the other bots.

"I talk using a translator because I don't have an actual voice, humans can't understand me because I'm using a cybertronian language to talk to others" Bumblebee tried to explain it in simple terms deciding to leave out that he basically had most of his throat ripped out years ago, he wasn't to sure exactly how much robotic gore she'd been subjected too.

Sari just blinked not really understanding what he meant as she reached for her key, he said humans couldn't understand him but Sari had something most humans didn't" well it's probably my key, it can do alot of neat stuff like fix the guy's so maybe it's working like a translator to your translator!" It made perfect sense!

Bumblebee looked at the small key hanging off the girl's neck, it was small but it was cybertronian in origin that much was obvious.

"I see" he'd ask about the specifics of the key later" So before you ask me questions I'd at least like to know your name" Bumblebee said as he looked at the girl.

"It's Sari" she reached out a hand towards the yellow bot expectantly.

Bumblebee realized what she wanted as he carefully allowed her to grasp a digit in her small hand, he was never more aware of how delicate humans were than when he was personally interacting with them" Sari, you can call me Bumblebee" the shocked reaction was actually expected given how the other autobots reacted.

"No way! Your names Bumblebee too, my best friends name is also Bumblebee is that what the guys were talking about when they said there's another Bumblebee" she hadn't been able to hear everything but she heard Bumblebee's name mentioned along with how the other bot might share his name.

At that Bumblebee shrugged" what I'm going to tell you is going to sound crazy but you said you wanted awnsers right?" He offered his servo to the girl as she readily climbed on, he moved towards one of the berths decideding sitting was the best option as he let Sari down on the metal.

"My friends are a bunch of alien space robots, doesn't that sound crazy?" Sari sat down where Bumblebee had placed her, looking up at the bot with a smile as there was alot she was willing to believe.

Well Bumblebee had to admit she did have a point there.

"The reason my name is Bumblebee is because I'm not from here, this world the place I come from isn't as bright or flat as this, it sounds weird but I'm from another universe" Multiverse okay he could understand that it was a possible given the situation he was in, but a universe that was in 2D was still a bit jarring.

Though before he could say anything else Sari let out an excited gasp as she grabbed onto his arm looking at him like he was suddenly the most interesting thing ever.

"No way! Your from another world! Like that movie where the villains of one world were the good guys in a different dimension! That's so cool!" Her and her Bumblebee had watched it a few months ago, the evil clown was a good guy in the other world! She couldn't believe it the multiverse was real!

Did that mean there was another version of her out there? What about Bulkhead or the others oh wait that meant there were other versions of the decepticons too that sucked.

"Yeah sort of like that, only the autobots are still the good guys where I'm from" Huh, he hadn't even thought about that being a possibility but he'd think about those implications later.

"So wait if your here then where's our Bumblebee, did you guys switch places? Or did something bad-" Sari's impending freak out was quickly stopped though.

"I think we did, I fell into a groundbridge and found myself here if something similar happened to your Bumblebee then he's probably with my team right now" while Bulkhead had probably been surprised by the turn in events he didn't doubt that the green mech and probably gotten his other self to the rest of the team.

"Oh that's good, hey is everyone on your team like ours here!? Is Optimus still your leader oh is Prowl still all broody like batman in your world" the questions kept coming from the eight year old as they were endless.

"Optimus is the leader of the autobots, I don't know who Prowl is I assume he's that two wheeler on your team and we apparently share batman in our dimensions" a comic book character existed in two worlds, should he be impresses or extremely disappointed about something so silly also at least now he knew that blue and red bot from before was this worlds Optimus.

He was alot younger than the one he knew that's for sure, the Ratchet of this world actually looked and sounded older than the one he knew too so ages might be different here.

"You don't have Prowl in your world!" Sari hadn't thought that maybe some bot's didn't exist or maybe they hadn't met in another universe.

"We could have but I never met him, but I do have Bulkhead and Ratchet on our team" he hadn't seen Smokescreen with the bots earlier so he guessed he wasn't on this team or maybe he didn't exist here" so since I awnsered your questions, you up for awnsering some of mine?" Bumblebee asked.

Sari nodded despite her wanting to ask him more about his world it was fair and he had let her ask alot" Sure, ask me anything" she tried to stand taller though it didn't make much of a difference when compared to Bumblebee's height, oh man she really hoped the other's in this Bee's world weren't all this big she could just imagine her best friends reaction.

"Where are we specifically, like where in the city?" he knew it was Detroit but where in the city.

"Oh, your in outskirts of Detroit this place belongs to my dad but the guys use it as their base" Sari explained to the yellow bot who looked at her in both confusion and shock.

"They stationed themselves in the outskirts of Detroit! Detroit of all places? How do they hide from the humans with the base so close to the city?" The reason they were stationed near Jasper was due to the towns small size and the fact that the big open desert gave them plenty of space away from human eyes.

"They don't hide from humans, Optimus and the others help out the city when theirs accidents or when the decepticons attack the city looking for an allspark fragment" Sari was starting to get a bit confused as shouldn't he know this or was this Bumblebee's world different.

If Bumblebee was human he was pretty sure his optic would be twitching from what Sari just revealed to him, what were these bots doing? Allspark fragment did he even want to know what she meant by that!

Before they could continue their conversation however the door opened again as the two looked to see the autobot's walking in and looking at Sari in shock.

"Sari, you weren't suppose to come in here we told you-" Before Optimus could finish his scolding as they all finally agreed on what to do with the strange bot, said yellow mech interrupted him.

"Hey instead of blaming a little girl who you should have given awnsers too, why don't you focus on the fact that you left someone you probably consider a threat in a room filled with weapons!" Bumblebee glared at the red and blue bot as he stood, Sari's curiosity was completely understandable as it sounded like no one had told her anything.

"What weapons?" The one who spoke was Bulkhead as he was the only one who didn't think the yellow bot was a threat since this entire conversation started hour's ago.

Bumblebee wondered if he was being serious or not" you left a stranger inside a medbay, just about everything in here can be a weapon" did he have to spell it out for them.

"You guys thought he was dangerous and you put him in Ratchets torture chamber!" Sari looked from Bumblebee to her friends as it seemed that they really hadn't thought about that from their expression.

"So your telling us that you are a threat?" The one Bumblebee assumed was Prowl spoke as he already felt tired with this interaction.

Okay Bumblebee had to give it to the universe, he found something more annoying to deal with than Starscream thank you universe for testing his patience.

"No I'm not a threat to you right now, what I want to know is why I had to wait in here for hours and the only person willing to talk to me an give me awnsers was a little girl?" Honestly these bots had either the dumbest mechs he had ever met or didn't know how to deal with a threat at all.

No one spoke up at that one as the only sound was Sari who was muffling some snickers, she'd never seen anyone render her friends speechless so fast.

"So since none of you seemed to interested in telling me anything I'm going to be asking the questions" did it sound like a threat maybe, but Bumblebee was stuck inside this room for hours, he was in a different dimension of all things, he didnt know how everyone back home was dealing with this and he still had to figure out how to get back home!

He really hated the universe.


I'm alive and im so sorry this took so long work, burn out and lack of motivation got me, im so sorry I'll try not to dissappear for so long next time

I promise this story is not abadoned i have big plans i just need my stupid motivation to kick in!