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"Bumblebee"
"Kathy Xavier Telepathy"
A/n: Kathy Xavier is an OC that is supposed by Charles Xavier's daughter by a late wife named Megan... for more information on her look into my X-Men Evolution fanfics she is sometimes refereed to Katherine or Kate but it's all the same character just early incarnations.
"Bee, what's happening?" Raf cried in fear
"Arachnid is attacking us" Bee replied
"Arachnid… oh no…!" Raf curled up in his seat, he had heard stories of the ruthless spider fem-bot and didn't wish to meet her anytime soon
"I called for backup, Arcee and Bulkhead should be here soon"
Suddenly the sound of a laser caught there attention
"Who was that?" Raf asked in fear
"Not one of ours, but they're attacking Arachnid"
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend… hopefully"
Jack wasn't sure why Arcee suddenly took off, popping off a wheelie in the process, but by the string of cybertronian and earthen swear words she let out he knew it wasn't anything good.
"Arcee, what's going on?" Jack asked
"Raf and Bumblebee are under attack!" she snapped
"B-by whom…?"
"Arachnid" Arcee growled
"Oh…" Jack replied
Arcee arrived on the scene to see that someone was already firing on Arachnid, she wasn't going to ask how the lasers seemed to come from the man's eyes, she was just grateful for the assist.
"Jack run!" she ordered
Jack got off and ran to the strange humans that were attacking Arachnid's vehicle mode. He was welcomed into their protection so he didn't ask how they were able to do what they were doing.
Yessenia kept the polarization in place hoping that keeping the two bots polarized with the same charge would keep the yellow vehicle bot and his sole human occupant safe until a plan could be formed
"Polaris…!" Scott called
"Yeah Cyclops"
"Get the boy out of there" he ordered "I'm sure with her help we can cover you"
Jack noticed that the one called Cyclops had already deduced or assumed Arcee was female
"What safety?" Polaris demanded
"The cave… at you're eight o'clock"
"Got it"
Jack used his phone's com patch to pass the plan to Arcee who reluctantly accepted it and passed word around that the human known as Polaris would be taking Rafael to the safety of a nearby cave until they had ran off Arachnid.
Bumblebee didn't want to let his little charge go to a stranger but in the end he knew it was for the best, he couldn't protect Raf this way.
Raf got out as the girl opened the door and they were soon running to the cave as Optimus and Bulkhead pulled up and transformed.
Suddenly Arachnid shot the top of the cave entrance causing a major cave in
"Raf!" Jack called in horror.
The X-men watched this play out completely dumbfounded.
Raf looked at the teen that had saved him, he could tell that the wheels in her mind were turning.
"There is light coming in here, so we must have at least some air flow" she stated then looked to Raf and sighed "the least we could do is get to know each other until they can get us out"
"My name is Rafael but most just call me Raf"
"My name is Yessenia and because of my power to control magnetic fields I am often called Polaris"
"How did you get your power?" Raf asked
"It's a natural genetic mutation" she sighed. She couldn't do this anymore; she couldn't make small talk with him like she didn't know the truth of his identity. He was her little brother, the little brother she had fretted and worried over for years. She had looked at the pictures Professor Xavier had found her over and over and now to have him there, it was impossible to act as if that didn't exist in her heart and mind.
"Rafael, I have to confess something and you may not believe what I have to say, but I already knew your name, the nickname is a new piece of information but… I knew who you were"
"How… how is that possible? I've never seen you before in my life!"
"Once again, that is not true, you were just a baby, you wouldn't remember me, but… I am your sister" she handed him the image she had clung to for all the years she couldn't find him
"This… this can't be real… it's… you're lying!"
"No… Rafael, I'm not lying… why would I lie to you?"
"I don't know" Raf said, he was still skeptical, her coming in now seemed weird to him he checked the picture with his portable scanner and found it was not doctored but that left the question of was the girl in the picture the same one as he was looking at. He looked at his file with the adoption agency and found a link to a sibling and followed it to find a picture of the girl he was looking at. That synched it, she was telling the truth
"Yessenia, if you're my sister… then… what's going to happen with my adoption?"
"Nothing, Rafael, for one I'm only 17, I can't object to it even if I wanted to and I don't want to… you deserve to have a family" Yessenia said "I got out because of Professor Xavier. I shouldn't have dropped this information on you the way I did, Raf, and I apologize for that, but you don't realize how hard it was for me to sit here and say nothing about it with all I know"
Raf sighed, the more he thought about it the more he realized it had to be almost impossible for her to keep that away from him
"What was mom like?" Raf asked as he sat beside Yessenia
Meanwhile the Autobots and the X-men were trying to dig Rafael and Yessenia out.
"Yessenia's powers are making it impossible for me to contact her telepathically" Kathy growled in frustration
"Keep trying Timetrap" Cyclops ordered in frustration
"Wait, if you can't contact Polaris, try contacting Rafael" Rogue suggested
"And scare the poor kid worse, I don't think so" Timetrap said "he's too young, he won't get the concept of telepathy, he'll think he's hearing things!"
"It may be our only option, Timetrap" Optimus voiced "while I agree it is not ideal but I know Rafael and know that he is more intelligent and mature than you give him credit for"
"If you think he can take it" Timetrap stepped back and placed her hands to her temples. First she had to locate the young boy's mind, which was no problem
"Rafael, do you hear me?"
There were several tense moments of silence before she got a reply of yes, but it was loud like one that was unpracticed with that particular form of communication.
"Wow, easy, you don't have to focus so hard on things to send them to me" she told him with all the gentleness her father taught her to use with one as young as Rafael "I need to know if the two of you are okay"
"We're fine" Raf replied
"Good, do you know if there is any airflow?"
"Yes, there is"
"They're okay, and there is air circulating so they're in no danger of suffocation anytime soon" Timetrap said as she returned to helping the digging process
"Thank you for that report, Timetrap that means they're going to be okay" Cyclops stated
"We're close" Jean said Kathy nodding in agreement as they felt the static from Yessenia's magnetic powers getting stronger
"Rafael, has anything changed in there?"
"There's more light"
"We're really close" Timetrap stated as Optimus grabbed a large chunk of stone
"Who's hands are those?" Raf's young voice rang through Timetrap's mind at tolerable volume but it was obvious he was concerned
"Those belong to Optimus, why… you can see them?"
"Yes"
Optimus got the way clear and Jack ran in to get Rafael.
They came out and Kathy approached Rafael
"You did good, I was worried how you would react to me contacting you like that" Kathy sighed "I thought it would scare you"
"It did… until Yessenia explained what was happening"
"Okay, that explains the hesitation" she smiled "either way you did good"
A few minutes later Charles and Ororo joined them and made formal introductions. Charles figured Yessenia had told Rafael the truth despite his telling her to wait. He knew asking her to wait wasn't ideal in her mind but by the way Rafael was acting towards her she had proven that she was his sister.
They all arrived at the base and Charles called Rafael to himself
"You know the truth about Yessenia, don't you?"
He nodded "She told me, but I just want to know how she found me and why she never came to me earlier"
"She couldn't come to you sooner, and… as to how she found you… I have a machine at my school that allows me to find mutants due to the fact that the brainwaves of mutants are slightly different from normal humans"
"And I'm one?"
"Indeed, you have a rather rare gift… have you ever wondered how you could understand Bumblebee when he speaks?"
"Yeah… sometimes"
"Your gift allows you the ability to control and communicate with technology… a lot of it is with your mind. It grew slowly, thus why you never realized what you were doing it just became second nature… but the moment I noticed you I began to monitor your progress"
"You want me to come to your school, don't you, that's why you came?"
"Actually no that is not why I came to Jasper, there is a girl, a bit older than you that needs my help… you… I had no intentions to even seek you out. You have no need for my help you have your powers completely under control… like I said its second nature to you. My school is for mutants that need help learning to control their gifts and you do not need it. Not to mention the fact that I feel that you are too young for my school to have anything that you would benefit" Charles smiled "you have just been handed a family that love you. Take the time to enjoy the gift you've been given and… when you're older, we can reconsider you joining me at my school, but at this time I see it as unnecessary."
Meanwhile June was letting the Autobots in on what Arcee already knew.
"So Jack, how does it feel to suddenly be a big brother?" Miko asked
"Interesting, but I kind of already thought of Raf as my brother so nothing's really changed except he now lives under the same roof"
June smiled as she overheard what Jack told Miko; she was glad to hear that he felt that way about Rafael. She had also noticed, much to her dismay, Rafael had yet to even refer to her as his mother much less directly call her 'mom' or anything of that nature. Part of her wasn't surprised that he hadn't done so, he had been in the foster system for so long it might seem foreign to him or worse it might not have truly set in that this was permanent, that he was out of the foster system. She sighed inwardly and resigned herself to the truth, he would most likely never think of her as his mother.
Later that day in another section of the base Raf caught up to Jack
"Jack… when is mom's birthday?
"In three weeks, why…?" Jack asked slightly confused "and why won't you call her 'mom' to her face, she'd love that"
"I was thinking about that… I started to… but… I need to begin to think of her as my mom before I can call her that"
"Okay… and why did you want to know when her birthday was?"
"I have an idea to surprise her"
"Okay" Jack shrugged if Raf didn't want to tell him what he was planning that was his business
"There's something else I wanted to ask you… and Arcee" Raf said
"What is it?" Jack asked as Arcee entered the room, she had heard that Raf needed to talk with her as well and decided to join them to hear the question
"Well Jack, you've ridden with Bee and me several times and I was wondering…"
"Raf, I see where you're going and the answer is no" Arcee sighed "given you're size I can't guarantee you're safety and I'm not going to risk you getting hurt. Don't forget if you get hurt under my care I'm the one that has to face Bumblebee, Optimus and June and to be honest I don't know which would be worse!"
"Wait, I think there's a way we can do this safely" Jack commented turning to his guardian and partner
"How…" Arcee looked to him seriously"
"Get him the right safety gear and keep our speed down… maybe about thirty-five miles per hour tops, it's plenty fast enough for balance and slow enough for safety."
"And if we take a spill"
"When have we ever taken a spill, Arcee, be honest"
"Never" Arcee replied
"Exactly, you've never had an issue with that and as long as we stay on paved roads there won't be a problem"
"Yeah… okay I'll give you that… but you're explaining this one to Optimus"
"But…"
"Junior partner, remember that" Arcee reminded Jack
"Slag"
Jack ran the idea past Optimus, who initially wondered why he was being involved then Jack explained that it was to, perhaps, take some heat off Arcee should Raf be injured.
"It seems you have given this a lot more thought than your racing adventure a few months ago"
"Yes, because this involves my brother; that just involved the bots and me"
"Okay, then I will approve, just keep Rafael safe"
"I will, Optimus… I promise"
June's birthday rolled around and it was shaping up like any other day until around dinnertime.
June was finishing up dinner when she noticed something unusual out of the corner of her eye.
"Raf…" June said and turned to see he had taken the initiative to set the table
"Yes, mom"
To Be Continued…