Sorry for the delay, I was a bit busy with school lately and I wanted to enjoy my holidays after that, its been a long time since I could, anyway here we go!
That morning when I woke up I was still on his shoulder right under his audio receptor, I looked around lazily, the sun had risen and I could now see the area a bit more clearly, to the normal human this place wouldn't seem such a great view or anything spectacular, but to a very young being who had so far only seen planets with rock, rock and more rock, this was amazing, beyond amazing even.
Carefully I climbed back down to the soft and fresh earth and realized the ground was covered with these…what were they?I crouched down to look better at it and pulled one of the spiky green tissue looking things coming out of the ground, it came off with ease.
"Strange" I said raising it up to my eyes to examine it better it seemed to be some kind of organic life form. "hope I didn't kill it…"
I put it back down and looked up to my surroundings; I suppose the miniature furniture belonged to those creatures the day before, apart from that I went to check the tall tower like organics like the one Bumblebee was sitting against. I ended up discovering that more kinds of organic life forms actually lived inside and on the tall ones. I lost track of time and wondered around climbing up and down the tall beings and getting a better look at the view. I climbed one of the tallest and managed to see the still under construction autobot base, it was being built against a large mountain, over one of the sides I had never actually been on a fixed base, but I had however lived on a ship, meaning there wasn't much of a difference except that the ship could travel and the base couldn't. Suddenly I heard the sound I was so used to hearing whenever a bot got startled, the earth shook and I already knew Bumblebee had stood up in surprise and fallen back to the ground by tripping on something, such a reaction seemed to be common among the adults when I got out of optic range. I looked back down, barely above his head.
"Buzzer!" he called apparently panicking already, what was the big deal anyway?
"I'm over here" he looked back only to be face to face with me, I grinned sheepishly in an apologizing manner. "I was trying to see the view"
A large sigh escaped his systems.
"Don't do that! I got worried! I told you to stay near me"
"But I am near you"
"Where I can see you little missy, don't get smart with me, I know that game." I smiled as innocently as I could. He didn't buy it, he glared at me making me feel slightly guilty.
"Sorry…" I barely managed to say climbing over to his waiting hand.
"Just don't get out of my optic range, I can't protect you if I don't know where you are." He said letting me sit down on his shoulder.
"But this world looks so exciting! I just had to see it for myself!"
"Sounds like you can't help being curious, come on, we're going to check on the others to see how things are going." He said heading over to a path between the trees where he could walk with some freedom, note on the some, he occasionally had to avoid a branch or two.
"when you say the others do you mean the really BIG mech and the medical bot?"
"That really BIG mech" he repeated with some amusement in his voice " is Optimus, the medical bot is called Ratchet." I nodded remembering they said before that that was indeed the medic's name. "And then theres Ironhide"
"Eh? His here too?" I asked curiously, making him nearly trip resulting in my hands gripping his neck tightly so as not to fall.
"You know Ironhide?" bewilderment was all over his face we stared at each other, I shifted a bit in my place not liking the fact that I was surprising the bot so many times.
"Well…not exactly…I heard of him…one of my caretakers said she was his sparkmate…really crazy femme if you ask me, but she was a lot of fun to play with most of the time." Bumblebee blinked once, then twice.
"That must have been Chromia" I nodded in excitement pleased to see we had something in common knowledge. "I heard about her, never got to meet her though… apparently not the type of femme you want to mess with."
"Who would mess with a trigger-happy femme anyways?" I asked with a small giggle.
"Right…your absolutely right, still I'm sure Ironhide will love the news…"
"Well…I guess…but I don't know what happened…I…" I tried to find the right words.
"Leave it for later when we're with the others we don't want to have you repeating the story twice now do we? And any information you might have could be crucial to bringing your mother back." I nodded as the base came into view, sure enough Optimus was the first one I could spot, the mech didn't exactly camouflage either…having such a large body, not to mention his paintjob. A smaller -though not too small- black and hulky mech was helping him lift a metallic platting. Almost immediately I knew why this was Chromia's sparkmate, if two monstrous looking cannons in the arms didn't say much, then his hulky body and hardened expression would be your second answer.
"Optimus sir, Ironhide, is there anything I can help you with?" Bumblebee asked when we were close enough, on instinct I half hid behind his head.
They turned to look at us and put down the platting to greet the young soldier.
"Bumblebee, I thought I put you in charge of the sparkling, but where is- Ah…there you are little one" Optimus said when Bumblebee pointed to the back of his head. I timidly looked up at the gigantic mech and waved slightly.
"Hi…"
" She woke up then?" Came Ironhide's rough voice, of course this didn't disappoint me, it was exactly what I was expecting of Chromia's choice.
"You must be Ironhide" I commented looking at bee for some sort of confirmation, he merely nodded slightly.
"She knows me?" he asked looking a bit surprised, Optimus seemed just as surprised.
" Apparently she came on a spaceship other than the Ark, she says Chromia was one of her caretakers and heard about you." Bumblebee explained sparing me from the weapons specialist's intense gaze.
"That could have been Elita's ship" Optimus spoke almost to himself as if he was talking out loud. I looked up at the sound of that name.
"Yes, it was" I confirmed excitedly nearly falling off from my place in bumblebee's shoulder. A large smile seemed to widen on both mech's faces, so wide it would probably crack their faceplates.
"They were heading our way sir, but apparently the decepticons intercepted the ship, that's as much as she managed to tell me" Bumblebee informed looking back at me, I looked away back to the ground feeling a bit guilty for not telling them the whole story yet, but I had been tired, and scared, I didn't want to think about it anymore.
"Ironhide, go communicate with the Ark, inform them of what we know until now, they might find Elita's ship and be able to help, meanwhile I think I should be having a little chat with our young one."
I gulped hoping it wasn't anything too serious; they seemed awfully interested in knowing the details, I just didn't feel ready to talk about it.
"Sir" Bumblebee said before Prime could begin with his questioning. " If you don't mind, I promised the little one that if she is not ready to tell us something then she can take her time, she's still a little scared." I silently thanked Bumblebee for that one for I did not have the courage to express myself in that way, much less to the prime himself. He simply nodded apparently in understanding and led us away through a half built hallway, I observed with care memorizing the path in my processor while paying attention to Prime's figure ahead of us, I understood that the feeling of a leader didn't come only from his size and his structure, it was the way he moved, the way he reacted, it looked calm and collected now, but I could bet anything that if he were out on battle he could easily let that go quite a bit, though he also didn't look like the type that lost his head in battle unless something really extreme happened.
We stepped into one of the few rooms that seemed just about finished, his office, of course it would be a top priority, considering they probably had alliances with the residents of this planet and that this was where most bots came to receive or deliver their mission reports. He sat down on a large metallic chair, obviously made for his own size and motioned for Bumblebee to sit in the other in front of us, he did as he was told and picked me up from the scruff bar, immediately I was going to rampage, I hated when they did that, but long before I could start such a skirmish he set me down on the table between the two.
I felt both pairs of optics on me, but preferred to look back at Bumblebee since I had more trust in him at the moment.
Optimus was thoughtful for a while, until he finally spoke.
"You can relax little one, like Bumblebee said, I will not force you to answer my questions if you do not wish to, however I must ask you to at least try, as the very lives of the mechs and femmes you left behind could be in danger." I nodded in understanding, slowly looking up at him feeling bumblebee nudging me on the back with a finger to give some encouragement.
"I-I'll try…" I couldn't help but feel intimidated, who the pit wouldn't? I mean just look at this guy! Bumblebee hardly reached half his size! And for me he was humongous.
"Very well then, I want you to start explaining how you ended up in Saturn as best you can" he said leaning forward.
" Saturn?"
"The planet we found you on" he clarified.
"Oh…I guess that's kind of a long story…"I said collecting my thoughts and thinking of the most appropriate way to explain them. " I suppose it started with your message sir…when we received it we were headed to meet you, everyone was very happy about it. But on our way here we were attacked, I didn't get to know much of the situation, mother and the others forced me to stay in the safe room" his optics lit up a bit brighter at that, I knew I had said something that he didn't expect, but didn't find anything that strange in my own phrase.
"This safe room, was it just for your own safety?" I noticed Bumblebee was also looking quite as eager as him and couldn't see what the big deal was yet.
"Well of course not, me and every other sparkling or youngling had to stay inside, for safety matters."
"Every other sparkling or youngling?" Bumblebee repeated with a bit of a croaked voice, for a moment I thought his vocal processor was going to dismantle.
"You mean there are other young ones?" Prime asked, and I looked back at him.
"Well yeah…we're not too many…"
"How many?" he said before I could finish.
" We're seven sparklings and four younglings, most of us were born after our fathers went to look for the allspark according to mother."
I gave them a little pause as they seemed to be having a bit of a hard time sinking this in.
"What happened in the safety room? Otherwise you should still be there" Bumblebee asked, noticing his commander didn't look quite himself at the moment and probably couldn't formulate the question.
"Well…I can't quite remember…there was an explosion that blasted the wall in the safety room, I was blown off and when I came to Jetfire was taking me to the launch gate."
"Jetfire?" this seemed to be bringing Optimus back to earth." He was with the femmes?" I nodded as his grin widened " He must have suffered a lot during all these cycles…" I couldn't help but laugh at that, yes I had seen him take more than enough beatings from femmes on his stay there, but it was his own fault since he seemed to be flirting with them most of the time.
"Well he took me to the launch gate, and I asked what was going on, but he just fragging wouldn't tell me!" Bumblebee hissed and patted my head with his finger to get my attention.
"Languege little missy"
"sorry…" I said sheepishly, optimus smiled fondly upon seeing that his soldier was taking good care of the sparkling already. " He gave me a pair of jet thrusters we used to train one of the youngling seekers and took off into space with me, when we left I saw that the ship was in roughly a bad shape, and there was another one next to ours. So I could guess what was happening. We weren't followed for a while so we thought we were safe, we landed on that planet so he could have a little break, that's when three new decepticon signals appeared on his sensors, he told me to hide and I did so, but by doing that I couldn't see what was happening to him. After that, one of the decepticons came after me, and I couldn't find Jetfire anywhere, that's when you showed up, at first I thought you were more decepticons…" I took in a large breath finally finishing my conversation, I had left out a few things, but I didn't think I had to be too detailed on my escape from the decepticons on Saturn.
"So you didn't send the distress signal?" Bumblebee asked with a bit of fear in his voice, but before I could answer Optimus did it for me.
"Jetfire probably sent it so someone could help our little friend here"
"Buzzer" I interrupted making sure he got my name. He nodded in acknowledgement.
"Right, Buzzer, Jetfire knows his way around a battle even if he is against the odds, that and the fact that he is much faster than Blackout or Thundercracker, he could have easily ran away if he needed to."
"But what if his hurt?" I asked a bit fearfully, he had been trying to protect me for Primus sake!
" We'll keep a look out on our sensors, now there are a few more questions I need to ask you" I nodded feeling a bit more confident now since the worse was over. " I need you to tell me who was on the ship, and which one of them were the creators of the sparklings and younglings." I frowned a bit, I couldn't give him the entire information for I didn't know it myself.
"Well…I don't know everyone on the ship, and I'm not very good with names either…"
"Just try to" Bumblebee said giving me another nudge; he too seemed a bit excited with this idea.
"Well, for the creators, there's Chromia, Arcee and two other femmes I don't know, I don't really get along with their sparklings, all four younglings have unidentified creators and-"
"Wait, you mentioned four mothers for the sparklings, didn't you say you were seven in total?" Bumblebee asked looking a bit suspicious.
"Well yeah…there's Chromia's twins, Arcee's daughter and two other mechs from the other two femmes…" I realised I was missing someone.
"You forgot to count yourself in" Optimus said surprising the two of us.
"Oh er…right…me…and my mother of course." Silently I was wondering why I forgot myself, I must have looked quite stupid right now.
"Might I wonder who your mother is then young one?" I looked up at him as if he was stupid or something, wasn't that the most obvious thing in the world? Well for me it was.
"Elita One of course" There was a very very sudden pause, the entire room seemed to have frozen, Optimus stiffened and looked as if he was about to fritz, slowly I inched away, for some reason getting a mixture of feelings far too strong and far too confusing for me to understand.
"Um….I think its about time we go commander… I'll…just leave you to your thoughts…" Bumblebee said picking me up with more care than he had done so far and taking me away from the table, I could see the Prime was staring at the spot I had been on the table as if he had just been stabbed right trough the spark, the thought gave me chills.
"What happened?" I asked Bumblebee, but he seemed to be in his own train of thoughts as he led me out of the hall.
"Nothing for now, don't worry about it, I'm sure we'll explain it to you soon enough" I knew that was a lie, I could tell one from a mile away.
"No! Everyone keeps saying that! That's the main reason why I got in this mess in the first place! What's going on?! What did I say? Is he going to banish me or something?!" I asked fearfully, trying to climb over to his shoulder.
"Primus! No! Don't even suggest that! Optimus would never do that!" he nodded to Ironhide as he came running into the hall, supposedly to go meet with the Prime, Bumblebee had probably contacted him through the com link so that I couldn't hear it.
"Then why did he react like that? Why did we come out? He might have needed help!"
"Ironhide and Ratchet are the most appropriate ones right now to approach him"
"You didn't answer my first question" I insisted stubbornly.
"Look, I can't tell you right now, not without Prime's permission."
"But-"
"No buts. Just wait until I can tell you."
"But I'll be too curious all the time!"
"Tell you what, if I take you to see a bit more of the human world will you wait?" the suggestion was tempting, far too tempting, but really what choice did I have? He was going to make me wait either way.
"Fine…"I pouted to show I was still angry.
"Then you have to behave all right? You need to keep out of human sight."
"What's a human?" he sighed; I could tell I was giving him a headache, but at the moment I didn't care, I was cranky for not knowing anything.
"I'll show you, it's about time you meet them decently anyway." At this I noticed we were heading back to where we recharged the past night.
An annoying noise greeted my audio receptors and I couldn't help but flinch and hide behind Bumblebee's head as the little creature from the night before came running over to us, Mojo was his name right?
"Hey there little fella, you're a bit far away from your owners aren't you?" Just as Bumblebee asked this, two taller creatures came into view, panting from the effort of running; I noticed they were a bit different from each other, though I could see some similarities to our kind so I could tell one was mech and the other a femme….probably…
"Bee!" one of them said running over to him with full confidence, like he knew him all his life.
"Sam, why is Mojo over at this area, you know Ironhide will blow a gasket if he gets anywhere near the construction site…." Bee asked kneeling down to be at their eye level…well sort of… I peeked from behind his head to have a better look at the humans they were…interesting.
"Sorry, he started running off for no reason, I think he knew you were coming" he said rubbing the back of his head apologetically; well they certainly had cybertronian like reactions…or at least close to it. But I wasn't getting anything they were saying.
"What's he saying?" I asked with a frown trying to comprehend the language, my own was already hard enough to learn. He turned his head a little so that he could see me from the corner of his optic.
"Right I forgot…you don't know English yet, I can give you some files on it if you want, and you'll need it if you're going to stay with us on this planet. Sam was just explaining why his dog ran off." I nodded at him, I should get as much information as possible, especially now, mother always said that while I was young my processor would adapt with more ease to new information and so my learning at this stage was crucial. I noticed the two humans were smiling over at me, the girl saying something in cooing noises. I raised an optic ridge at her then looked at the boy who simply grinned like a fool, and then back at my caretaker. "she says your cute" he said simply, though I knew she was saying that in a more detailed manner.
He stood back up and I was glad to be out of reach from those creatures, they looked weird. They spoke for a while in that strange language, I merely ignored it, my attention had been drawn by another organic I had not seen yet, I had heard its kind first thing that morning, but I couldn't actually spot any, now at this height I could clearly see it, if I could compare it to anything, I would compare it to a very small jet, only made with different materials and a bit rounder. I crawled to the very edge of Bumblebee's shoulder to get a better look at it.
It made an odd chirping noise and then seeing that I was approaching it, flew off into the sky, flapping its wings rather than initiating any kind of jet thrusters.
"What do you think your doing?" Bumblebee's voice interrupted my awe, I glanced back at him and shrugged crawling back to get a good hold on his neck so as not to fall.
"We're leaving to get some goods for them in town, you can come and promise to behave…."my excitement piked as I watched his hesitation with glee, I could really see more of this world already?! "or….you can stay here with Ratchet and Ironhide if you don't." while my excitement completely sunk, his grin grew wider, he already knew how to negotiate with me.
"I promise"
"Good" he said picking me up and placing me on the ground so that he could transform, I had been curious before to see his alt form, but it was…unusual, was this a way for him to camouflage in this planet? It certainly was an out of the ordinary alt form. The doors opened and I took the hint to step into the back seat, it was easier to hide there anyway, two of the humans came inside and sat in the front, the male pretending to drive Bumblebee along the road. I cautiously observed from the window, ducking when my caretaker told me a car was going to pass by. It was an interesting world, certainly many things to see.
It didn't last for long though, soon we were in a more populated area and I had to remain hidden sneaking into the trunk as ordered. Honestly I was getting a bit tired of doing everything as I was told, but he did threaten to leave me with the devil with the cannons and the grumpy bucket of rust (aka Ironhide and Ratchet).
Both humans stepped out once he stopped and as soon as they left he locked the doors and said it was safe for me to come out.
Ok, to say I was amazed was an understatement; the city caught me totally off guard, nothing at all from the footages I'd seen from cybertron, and definitely nothing like a ship. There was so much colour, so many sounds, so many lights, so many ….
"humans!" I squeaked shrinking back into my seat. I heard the engine rumble to what I knew was a suppressed chuckle.
"Its all right, they won't come near, unless they try to highjack me again." I raised an optic ridge at his dashboard in question but he didn't seem to want to answer me so I let it go. " So, you want to have a go at those files?" he asked, the glove box opening with a pop to show where I could link in and receive them, I eagerly nodded and hopped to the passenger seat in the front. I wanted to know more about this planet, and one of the best ways to do so was by learning their language.
After half an hour transmitting files he said I had had enough and asked me a few questions in English, at first I had a hard time both because it was still fresh in my memory files and because I felt drowsy after so much transmission. He let me go after a while and I didn't even realise when I slipped into recharge.
I was brought back to the real world by what to me, seemed a sudden silence, I turned my optics online and looked around the inside of Bumblebee. Through the windows I could see the forest again, so we probably left hours ago judging by the lightning of the sky.
"oh good, your awake, we came back a while ago but we didn't want to wake up, how are you feeling?" Bumblebee asked in a bit of a drowsy tone, as if he had been in recharge himself.
"I'm okay…when did I get in the back seat?" I asked rubbing my optics to get them a bit more clean.
"Mikaela didn't want to wake you up so she picked you up and put you in the back, you didn't notice a thing did you?" he asked with an amused tone.
"Not at all…I like recharging…" he chuckled and started his engine.
"Come on, Ratchet wants to see you."
"Why?!" I asked suddenly feeling wide awake
"He just wants to do a check up on you." Something in his tone told me that wasn't just it, but I knew he wouldn't tell me even if I begged, so I stared straight ahead as we headed back to the in construction base.
hope you liked it, leave a comment please! and I'd aprecciate opinions since I really dont know where this is going myself.