Perfect Storm Chapter Two: Bumblebee & Hot Rod
A.N. This story was meant to be uploaded a long time ago, but I ran into some complications with its plot, but with the help of BigMoose01, I was able to overcome those obstacles and now, here's the finished product, which is not only my second Transformers story, but also my first story for the Cyberverse cartoon, which I really enjoyed watching.
The Autobots, having managed to recover the Allspark on Earth, were now on their way back to their war-torn home planet of Cybertron to restore life to it on their ship, the Ark. Unfortunately, nothing exciting had happened since then, and the crew had been driven mad by a lack of action, and Bumblebee, a scout for the Autobots, let out a sigh to prove it as he and his pal Hot Rod went about their work.
"I know." Hot Rod said. "I'm so bored."
But Bumblebee had an idea.
"Wanna swipe a shuttle?" he asked.
"Oh yeah!" agreed Hot Rod. "Let's go!"
With that, the two Autobots started to the hanger, but were caught in their tracks by the Ark's captain, Optimus Prime, who was also the leader of the Autobots.
"And where do you think you two are going?" he asked.
"Uhhhh..." began Bumblebee. "Well...we were...um..."
"Yes?" prodded Optimus. "Go on. I'm listening."
Fortunately for Bumblebee, Hot Rod saved the former the trouble of trying to come up with an explanation as to why they were leaving the bridge.
"We were just going to go down to the stasis pods and go into stasis for a while." he put in.
"Uh, yeah, that's it." nodded Bumblebee. "Just gonna catch some Z's, as the Earthlings would put it."
Much to Bumblebee and Hot Rod's belief, the Autobot leader bought it.
"Very well." he nodded. "Carry on."
Once they got the go-ahead from their leader, Bumblebee and Hot Rod left the bridge and raced down to the hanger. Once they arrived, they boarded one of the Autobots' shuttles and took off, with Bumblebee at the helm.
"Hey, Hot Rod, thanks for backing me up there." Bumblebee said.
"No prob, Bee." Hot Rod replied. "Now that we're out, what do you suppose we go do?"
"I don't know." said Bumblebee. "What do you want to do?"
Hot Rod logged into the shuttle's computer for something to do, and he soon found a travel advertisement that showed three generic Autobots, two red and one blue, in front of something that looked like a beach. Above them was text that read "Visit Copacabana! The Best Vacation Spot In The Galaxy!".
"Copacabana, huh?" Hot Rod thought out loud. "Hey, Bee, What say you to a day at the beach?"
"Yeah, sure, let's go." Bumblebee agreed.
With that, after finding out the planet's coordinates, Bumblebee piloted the craft towards Copacabana. They soon arrived at the planet and found a landing pad. When they touched down and exited the shuttle, they were anamored at what lay before them. The planet's surface was absolutely gorgeous. One half of the planet consisted of beautiful white sand and the other consisted of gas that was a spectacular cerulean blue. They could also see many mechs and femmes taking it easy and numerous sparklings playing in the sand.
"Man, look at this place." gasped Bumblebee. "I bet Windblade would love it here."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" asked Hot Rod. "Let's hit the beach!"
With that, the two bots found a spot on the beach. As they were getting themselves situated, two more bots came over to them. Both were redecos of Red Five, except one was blue and the other purple.
" 'Sup, bros?" the blue one greeted in a California accent. "I'm Backside and this is Cutback."
"Nice to meet you both." replied Bumblebee. "I'm Bumblebee and this is Hot Rod."
The four bots each shook hands, and Bumblebee noticed the wave-boards their new friends had.
"You guys come here often?" he asked.
"Totally." nodded Cutback in the same accent as his friend. "In fact, we live here."
"Yeah, we surf here all the time." added Backside. "You dudes wanna catch some gas waves with us?"
"Count me in!" replied Hot Rod.
"Same!" agreed Bumblebee.
"Gnarly!" said Backside and Cutback together.
With that, Bumblebee and Hot Rod retrieved their own wave-boards from the shuttle, then joined Backside and Cutback. Soon, the four bots were riding gaseous waves.
"Woohoo!" Hot Rod cheered.
"Yeah, we're flying!" Bumblebee cried out loud.
After a while of surfing, they all paddled back to shore, then went over to a sort of "beach hut"-esque structure and all had a round of liquid energon, which was served in hemispherical vessels with metal straws in them. The server was a sea green redeco of Arcee.
"Wow." Bumblebee as he sipped his drink. "This energon is really good."
"Yeah, Windswell really makes a good brew here." agreed Cutback.
"And you dudes were absolutely gnarly on those waves back there." added Backside. "You sure you haven't done this before?"
"We have." said Bumblebee. "We often do it when we can. Of course, we always tell Optimus where we are going beforehand."
"That reminds me, we better get back to the Ark before anybody notices we're gone." said Hot Rod.
"Right." nodded Bumblebee.
Bumblebee and Hot Rod then looked at Backside and Cutback.
"It was nice meeting you two." said Bumblebee. "Maybe we should do this again sometime."
"Totally." agreed Backside.
"See you around, bros." added Cutback.
After bidding a final goodbye to Backside and Cutback, Bumblebee and Hot Rod went back to their shuttle and took off. They soon arrived back at the Ark, and just as they landed in the hanger and exited the shuttle, they saw Optimus, who looked angry.
"Where have you two been?" he demanded. "I thought you two had gone into stasis, but I had Prowl check every single stasis pod, and they were all empty. Can you two explain this?"
Bumblebee and Hot Rod decided that it was time they told the truth.
"You see, sir, we were just bored, so we decided to go out and do something fun." explained Bumblebee. "We went to this beach planet called Copacabana and surfed there for a while."
Optimus listened very closely.
"I see." he said.
"Optimus, we're sorry we lied to you." said Hot Rod.
"Well, while I don't condone dishonesty, I suppose I can let it slide this one time on account of the circumstances." Optimus decided. "Just don't do it again, okay?"
"Yes, Optimus." Bumblebee nodded.
"Now that we've made up, it's time we were heading back to the bridge." said Optimus.
With that, the trio left the hanger and started back to the bridge. As they were, Bumblebee looked at Hot Rod.
"Boy, the others are gonna be so jealous of us for this." he whispered.
"You said it." laughed Hot Rod.
And from that moment onwards, Hot Rod and Bumblebee continued to serve the Autobots with the memories of their time on Copacanbana stored in their memory files.
The End