Hi mom!
On Earth, Isaac Sumdac waited patiently in front of his space bridge on top of Sumdac tower. It has been about one hour since he called Sari. He couldn't wait to see his daughter and the Autobots again, though he felt sad since Bumblebee was now gone. Him and Sari were so close. His thoughts we interrupted by a large ship coming out of the space bridge and the doors opening. Sari came limping out and hugged him tight.
"Dad!" She cheered. The Autobots were in her footsteps, with Optimus yelling to someone inside, probably Sentinel, and Ratchet patting the door, saying something to the ship.
"Sari! Oh how I missed you!" He hugged her back then looked down at her leg. "Care to explain?"
"Yeah…" Sari's face went solemn. "I'll explain later-"
"Now would be nice, please."
"Fine." Sari sighed and started explaining.
The Autobots watched as Omega Supreme backed up into the space bridge, out into space, looking for a new Cybertron. Ratchet seemed most upset as his good friend left. Arcee touched his arm gently to comfort him.
"Let's go back to the base," Optimus turned towards his team. "get some rest. We'll start fixing Detroit tomorrow. Transform and roll out!"
Bumblebee opened his optics slightly. His processor was buzzing. He noticed Blackarachnia typing on a device. Bumblebee tried talking, but all that came out was a grunt, his vocals were busted, Blackarachnia turned, hearing Bumblebee's grunt.
"Well, well, well. Look who's finally awake." She walked up to him. "Bumblebee, right? Yes… I remember you now, I knew you looked familiar!" She got right up to him, their face plates were hand distance away from each other. Bumblebee grimaced and moved his head to the side. Blackarachnia just laughed. "You're cute, bug." She said as she walked to the back of the room. The back wall then erupted with animal noises, making Bumblebee jump. "These are my pets." Blackarachnia gestured towards the wall. "They're kind of on the stupid side, so I built this." She then motioned toward a chamber, it reached the ceiling and had several wires coming from the top, leading to a computer a few feet away.
I am not going in that thing! Bumblebee thought as he tried to get out of Blackarachnia's grasp, but it was more difficult than he thought. He realized he was strapped in his berth with metal rings. Blackarachnia chuckled.
"Nice try, bug, but yes, you're my guinea pig!" She smiled and clapped her servos. "This contraption allows my pets to have a more techno side to them, if you know what I mean, but since you showed up, why not try it on you first then reverse engineer it." She walked up to Bumblebee. "Would you like to be a techno organic, bug? It's not that bad, just look at me!" Bumblebee gave her a weird look. "Right, bad example. Well what about your little girlfriend. Sari Sumdac, is it?"
GIRLFRIEND? Bumblebee raised his brows.
"Well, let's get to it then!" She walked behind Bumblebee's berth and pushed him toward the capsule and opened it. "Oh," She added. "It might hurt a bit." Blackarachnia pushed Bumblebee in and closed the door. She swaggered to the controls and pressed a few buttons. The capsule lit up, sparks flew into the air and smoke came out from the top. Blackarachnia stepped back.
Inside the capsule, Bumblebee was startled and blinded by the bright light. Blackarachnia was right, it did hurt, a lot. He would've screamed, but since he couldn't, he clenched his teeth. He felt himself shrinking before he fainted.
Blackarachnia heard a small thud from inside the capsule and the doors opened. Smoke crowded the entire room. She walked up slowly to the capsule and smiled. Blackarachnia knelt down beside small figure. "Well," She laughed, "looks like the machine worked a little too much." She laughed. "Oh well. I learn from my mistakes."
The Autobots were happy to be home, but still grieving about Bumblebee. After a while, Sari and Isaac came over and hung around. Isaac watched as Bulkhead painted. Bulkhead was glad he could paint again, but he would miss having Bumblebee looking over his shoulder. Optimus sat in front of the monitor checking for Decepticons, he missed having Bumblebee disobey him and go play his video games. Ratchet and Arcee were in the medical bay. Ratchet kind of missed that little yellow bot. Kind of. Jazz watched TV, trying to find a channel that would lift his spirits.
Sari decided she would go lay down, rest her knee. She walked by Bumblebee room and stopped. She turned around and opened his door. In his room was a berth on the right and a large desk on the left. Straight ahead was about one hundred pictures nailed to the wall. Sari limped forward to get a closer look. They were pictures of him and his friends.
See saw one of him with his thumb up in front of a bodiless Bulkhead.
There was another one of him having his arm around Ratchet, although Ratchet didn't like it. Bumblebee was all grey with rocket boosters on his back. He was making a toothy grin.
Right beside it was one of him and Prowl playing Twister. Sari remembered that she was the one who took it.
Sari noticed one of him and Bulkhead making sophisticated looks in front of Bulkhead's art that apparently saved the world.
Then she noticed a whole section of about twenty five pictures that had just the two of them. Most of them were from the time they went to Five Banners Rollercoaster Kingdom, eating cotton candy and going on rollercoasters. Not to mention reporter bots ruining their whole day, asking Bumblebee too many questions. He loved it, of course, but eight year old Sari wasn't amused. The other pictures were newer, as Sari was a teen techno-organic, they had goofy faces and giving each other bunny ears with their fingers. Sari wiped her eye and realized she was starting to cry. She walked into the hall, only to be stopped by Optimus staring down at her.
"Sari-"
"Sorry, Prime." Sari interrupted, "I was just walking out."
"Actually I was thinking if you and Bulkhead could do some late night patrolling on the beach. I heard that something crashed into lake Michigan." His face looked worried.
"Yeah, sure, we'll comm if something happens." Sari walked away to find Bulkhead.
Optimus stood in front of Bumblebee's room, taking a glace inside. He sighed before closing the door. He had a distant feeling that this was only the beginning.
Galvatron banged his servo on his throne in the cockpit of his new ship. He caressed his forehead in frustration.
"Something wrong, my liege?" Shockwave scurried over.
"Nothing too drastic, Shockwave. It's just that the humans have become suspicious. It seems they have noticed us falling into this lake."
"Well that gives us limited time to find the Matrix until we are discovered." Galvatron leaned forward. Shockwave looked at were his leader was looking.
"Energy signals." Shockwave confirmed. Galvatron smiled.
"Yes, and one strong one. The Autobots are here, and one may have my Matrix."
"I believe it would be necessary to gather Decepticons. Some, I believe, stayed on Earth." Shockwave thought for a moment. "Like Blitzwing."
"Good thought, Shockwave. We ready our troops as soon as possible, then go after the Autobots. They won't be going anywhere."
Bulkhead transformed on the sandy beach of Detroit. It was about 11:00 pm Earth time, Sari told him earlier. Bulkhead still didn't understand time.
Sari steadied herself from Bulkhead's transformation, grabbing on to her crutches. She looked up to the sky. There was a full moon and only a couple stars that she could see. She sighed and looked down to the black waves crashing on to the shore. The sound made her sleeping, the only thing keeping her awake was the tiny sting in her injured leg.
"So," Bulkhead broke the silence, "You start heading one way and I'll go the other?"
"Sure." Sari turned and limped away from Bulkhead. He then turned and walked the other way.
Walking on a sandy beach alone gave Bulkhead time to think. So many things have happened in the last few days. This walk gave him time to cool off, he still felt down, wishing his best friend was here with him. Even though Bumblebee was really obnoxious and crazy, he was still a great friend. He felt guilty when he remembered how Bumblebee took the blame for almost crushing Sentinel under a building in boot camp. He then laughed at the thought when they first met, when he walked up to the small bot and asked him to take his picture. Bulkhead remembered all the good times they had together, playing video games, having oil chugging contests, in which he always won at, and just basic hanging out and laughing. He remembered when he and Bumblebee got into a big fight, which resulted in Bumblebee telling him how much their friendship meant to him. That sunk into Bulkhead's possessor when he realized Bumblebee was gone forever.
"Bulkhead! Come quickly!" It was Sari's voice. Bulkhead quickly transformed and sped to Sari, blasting sand into the air.
When Bulkhead reached Sari he was surprised at what he saw. Sari seemed perfectly fine, despite her worried look on her face. She was kneeling down on both legs, being careful that her bad one wasn't causing her too much pain. Bulkhead turned his gaze to a body laying beside her. He knelt down on the right side of the body, which Sari was kneeling on the left. When he got a closer look at the body, it appeared to be human boy. He looked around Sari's age, with dark skin and flowing black hair. It reminded Bulkhead of Bumblebee's human form, besides a couple things; one, this boy's hair was a longer black than Bumblebee's, but that could have been his hat preventing his hair to plop down, and two…
"…He's naked." Sari blushed, and looked up towards the boy's face. She noticed the boy's six pack abs and hard biceps. The moon casted shadows across his face, his eyes rested peacefully, but it felt like he has been through a lot of pain. Man, this guy's cute! She couldn't help but blush, good thing it was dark. "Well, he's breathing." She managed. Sari turned her neck around, trying to find and ID of this kid, a wallet or something! She stopped her search at the water, the tide was coming in. "Let's pull him away from the water."
"Good idea." Bulkhead gently picked up the body and walked away from the water. Sari grabbed her crutches and started limping with him. She looked over at his left arm as it dangled from Bulkhead's servos. It seemed to be red. Sari's first thought was blood. She looked down at his wrist, it looked like he was wearing a bracelet of sorts, but Sari would need a closer look to be sure.
"Right here's good." She stopped and kneeled as Bulkhead gently placed the boy on the sand. Sari set her crutches aside and carefully grabbed the boy's wrist and looked closely, yup, that was blood. "He's hurt," She looked up to Bulkhead.
"Should we get 'em to the doc-bot so he can fix 'em up?" Bulkhead crutched down.
"Yeah, I think so, looks bad, and we don't know where this kid came from." Sari looked back down at the boy's wrist to look at his bracelet. It seemed to be orange and yellow, she turned the bracelet with her thumb and found letters on it.
BB & SS BFFS
Sari froze and dropped the boy's hand. Her head slowly turned to Bulkhead, mouth open and eyes wide.
"What is it?" Bulkhead asked.
"Bulkhead, this kid is Bumblebee." Sari said. Bulkhead was surprised, is Sari crazy?
"Come again?" He said, unsettled.
"This is Bumblebee!" Sari sounded more confident this time. "Look!" She showed him the boy's wrist, which had the bracelet on it. "It's the bracelet I made for Bumblebee! You watched me make it, remember?" Bulkhead gathered his thoughts.
"Right, when he had the Jet twins over…" He looked down to the boy. "…Little buddy…?" Maybe his best friend wasn't gone forever.
Well there's another chapter! Hope you enjoyed it! It's 5:00 in the morning and I'm just finishing! I'm a trooper.
QUESTION: What shall happen to our human? Bumblebee (or not)? ;)
a) Have no voice?
b) Go dancing with Sari?
c) Have no memory?
d) All of the above?
e) Your choice?
f) Two of my choices?