Please note that these characters belong to their original creators as do any songs used in this fiction, not me, this is just my take on what might happen enjoy and let me know what you think.
also i am still trying to fix any mistakes that i might have missed in past chapters (i.e spelling, grammar and so on)
It was seven A:M on Saturday morning and the weekend had just started for Sam and Bee, both young Autobots raced away from the college dorm as fast as they could with out drawing attention to themselves. Open roads beckoned, roads where there were no teachers, no classes, no traps set to catch cheats, just open endless lanes that lead to distant places. Both soon found what they had been looking for, this highway had so far been unexplored by the pair but that would change today. Sam felt the air rush over his alt form with the force of a powerful storm, other cars were little more than a blur as he passed them at speeds that no human driver could handle. Only one car kept pace with him and that was Bumblebee alt form, they were racing once again, their race, no rules, no winners no losers, just speed and each other. As another mile marker told Sam that he was no further away from campus than he had been all week "we've never gone this far on a drive before bee" commed Sam "and we're not stopping yet sam" replied Bee as he took the lead once more. Soon they reached open country and golden fields of crops greeted them, soon both commented on how it looked like they were driving through an ocean of gold that ebbed and flowed with the wind like a living thing.
Deciding that he wanted to take a break Bee commed Sam and said "I want to pull over for a few minutes sam" "sure thing bee, where do want to stop?" asked Sam in reply, scanning the road ahead Bumblebee found a small side road that lead to a clearing beneath an old tree. "this way sam, I found a nice spot" commed Bee as he turned off the main road, Sam followed him along the old dirt track until he saw the spot Bee had picked out. Sam slowed down and carefully scanned the area looking for anyone who might be about, finding that the surrounding miles only held cattle he commed Bee and asked "do you want to shift out of your alt form and switch into robot mode for a while?". Bee only needed a moment to think about the question before he answered "yes", the uneven track slowly worsened and soon they reached a point where they had to transform into robot just to keep going. A few minutes of walking brought them to their desired spot, the tree looked older than any human Sam had ever met, it's old gnarled trunk bore the scars of many heavy storms that had racked the area over it's life time. Thought huge by human standards the tree barely inched it's way past the top of Bumblebee's head, Sam crouched down and did his best to sit beneath the old tree with out damaging it. But it turned out that all he could do was lay flat on the ground partly shaded by the trees taller branches "well, I've picked worse spots to take rest over the years bee" said Sam as he shifted trying to get comfortable. Bumblebee did not answer straight away as he was looking out across the wind swept fields "bee?" said Sam, "it goes on for miles in every direction, no large buildings or anything and yet it's full of life" replied Bee. Shifting him self up so that he was resting on his elbows Sam asked "is that so strange?, there are lost of places like this on earth, I'm sure that you've seen plenty since you got here" "it's not that sam, it's just.., I was thinking of how cybertron looked before the fall, we were the only form of life there and we lived in what you would call city's, any open planes like this were usually only used by bots who wanted to travel at high speed" replied Bumblebee.
This was something Sam had never thought about before, the only images he had ever seen of Cyberton were those shown to him by Optimus during their first meeting and those were of a Cybertron in depths of war. "what was it like bee?" asked Sam "beautiful, but so very different from earth, our city's stretched on for hundreds of miles, the buildings were built to our proportion so even the larger bots could walk around at full height" Bumblebee paused lost in memory for a second before he continued. "at night from a distance, the city's looked like oceans of light against the darkness, so many things were possible there, bots could be repaired of serious damage in just a few hours with little risk, ships left to explore other worlds and we felt like we had reached a point where our race could call it's self the most advanced in the universe" Bee's voice trailed off and he feel silent. Sam didn't like the feeling coming through their link, he had never felt such pain from his lover "I'm sorry bee , I shouldn't have asked" he said wishing that he could take back the last few minutes. "no sam, whether you asked or not these memories would have still been in me" said Bumblebee "and in a way this is your history too, now that your an autobot" Bee moved into a sitting position next to Sam that caused his head to brush against some of the branches of the old tree.
With out being asked Bumblebee continued with his story of Cybertron almost as if he needed to talk about it no matter how much it hurt, "we had done so much, lived so long, many believed that we could do no wrong they thought that we were perfect and that was our biggest mistake". Sam got into a sitting position next to Bee as his lover told him the rest "there were those of us who started to look down on other life forms in the universe, they regarded them as lesser life forms and therefore unimportant when compared to our race, from that point things got worse, those bots started to think less and less of other forms of life some not caring about how many they destroyed by accident as they went about their business, while others began to believe that the universe would be better of if such lesser creatures did not exist". Bumblebee paused for a moment his spark heavy with the weight of old memories "the divide grew between bots, some considered other forms of life just as important as our own while others said that they were a plague on the universe, still more were unconvinced that either side was right and said that further study was needed to make a decision regarding other life forms". Bee let out a sigh as he needed to pause for him self, he had not thought about all this in a long time and the emotions that went with it were hard to deal with "the final act that started the conflict came in the form of a returning ship, one of it's crew had been damaged by a simple organic life form on a distant world being surveyed, to most this meant nothing but those who proposed that other forms of life were worthless used it to gain a larger following, they said that if other life forms could harm our kind then they could kill our kind as well, this caused more bots to take interest in their views, many who were not interested as they though matters with such life forms were beneath them started taking notice, being told that such lesser creatures could kill them caused these bots to start calling for the destruction of all other forms of life".
Bumblebee looked out across the the golden fields once more and let out another sigh, "a group of bots decided to take matters into their own hands and left cyberton on what was supposed to be a survey mission to determine how dangerous this life form was, but it was a cover for their real agenda, the destruction of all life on that world" Sam interrupted at this point and asked "megatron was leading that mission wasn't he?". Bee just nodded in answer as he carried on with his story "there was a time when megatron was an autobot like optimus, like all of us, but that mission was destined to split our race once and for all; when megatron and his crew arrived on that primitive planet they destroyed every form of life they found there, nothing was left but ash and scorched earth, but megatron didn't know that one of his crew was shocked by what had happened, so shocked that he contacted cyberton and told our leaders what happened". Sam stayed silent as Bumblebee continued "word of what happened spread across cybertorn, some hailed megatron as a hero who had ensured the safety of our race, while other condemned him saying that he had broken our most sacred laws and that when he returned he would have to stand trail for what he had done". "when the ship landed megatron and those who followed him were arrested and brought before our leaders so that they could answer for their crimes; megatron stood before them and said that he had done what was needed to protect our race, but the primes said that was not true and all he had done was to kill innocent life forms; it was at that moment that megatron supporters attacked and in the confusion megatron killed three of our leaders" Sam felt a deep sorrow that he never knew Bee carried at that moment.
The sadness showed on Bumblebee face more than any other emotion ever had before as he once more resumed his story "it was the first time in untold ages that one autobot killed another, the day was marked as the darkest one in our history; megatron and the others who were with him escaped into the depths of the city hidden by their followers, the remaining leaders announced to the rest of the planet that megatron and those who followed him were no longer autobots, that they were now to be classed as something else". Sam couldn't take the feelings coming through the link he wanted to chase these feelings away from Bumblebee's spark and keep them away forever "I never knew any of this bee, no one ever told me" Sam moved close to Bee and held him in his arms hoping to make his lover feel better. The sadness softened a little with Sam's touch but Bumblebee still needed to finish his story "many bots started searching for megatron, some to capture him for his crimes others to join him, weeks passed where nothing was heard then a massive broadcast swept the planet, megatron announced that he had done this for our race and that if our leaders could not see that then he was saddened by that fact, he offered to turn him self in to our leaders to show that the deaths had been a terrible accident and to speak with them about saving our race" once more the sadness returned to Bee' face. "our leaders were not so sure about this so only a few went to meet with him and they made sure that extra security was in place ready for an attack like before, but Megatron had deceived them, when he offered him self over to them for judgement those meant to guard the leaders turned on those they were supposed to protect, it's said that megatron laughed as those who wanted to talk peace with him were torn apart" Sam felt that if Bee were human then he would be weeping like no one ever had before.
Bee moved even closer to Sam as he continued "after that attack our leaders stopped listening to anything megatron had to say, an announcement was made that those who followed megatron were now to be called decepticons for the deceptions they used on their fellow bots, megatron responded to this by creating the decepticon mark for his followers; the first full scale attack happened not long after that, megatrons forces attacked what you would call a nursery where our young were being raised, those they couldn't capture were killed without mercy, from that point on we were at war, each side attacking the other with more ferocity after every battle; the great city's fell and were replaced by weapons platforms and killing fields, sparkless remains were stripped for parts like they had never been alive, our home was lost to war..." Bee trailed off at that point as he didn't want to remember any more. Sam had a lot of questions but he knew they would have to wait for a long, there was no way he was going to make his Bumblebee look into any more memories like that any time soon if ever. "I cant give you back what's been lost bee, but I can try and make those memories hurt less if you let me" said Sam as he brought Bee into a kiss, as their foreheads touched small sparks and jolts of energy transferred between them and Bumblebee felt the pain ease a little. "thank you sam" he said "just being here with you makes me feel better, it lets me think what what might be rather than what's been lost and these old memories seem to fade a little the more I think about my future with you" Bee held on to Sam tightly as if he was an anchor to the present in a sea of memories from the past.
The two stayed like that for hours, from time to time they would talk about different things, none of them however related to the past events on cyberton. For Bumblebee it had been the sharing of something he had not spoken about to another for a very long time, for Sam it was an insight into the past and an understanding of how a once great race had fallen into something so savage as war. "I knew that bee had been through a lot and there's probable even more that he's not told me, but I never imagined the pain of all this went so deep" thought Sam, "my poor bumblebee, I understand why you feel the way you do some times, you go so fast because it helps you leave those memories behind you" as this thought entered Sam's mind another bar on his power meter dropped to normal. Now just one remained and Sam would soon find this out, but the path to lowering the last one would be harder than all the others.
thanks for reading, my next post will be delayed as I have been told that I need to take a rest from writing for a while, so the next chapter will not be up for at least a week.
