"Opt!" Bumblebee chirped.
"Mmhmm?" Optimus yawned staring at the tiny sparkling on his chest.
"Hungy?" Bumblebee whimpered accidently smacking prime in the face with his cast.
"Ow... I guess we forgot to feed you..." Optimus sat up slipping Bumblebee into the palm of his servo.
"ah!" Bumblebee squeaked in pain as Optimus accidently touched his bad arm.
"Oh sorry little one!" Optimus apologized warming up some energon.
"Here you go" Optimus placed energon infront of Bumblebee.
"Click click..." Bumblebee clicked trying to pick up the energon with one tiny servo.
"Hmmm well that's not going to work now is it" Optimus cooed as Bumblebee whimpered trying to drink the energon.
"I'm sure Ratchet has those bottles around... found it!" Optimus talked to himself, Bumblebee watched Optimus pour the warm liquid into the small bottle.
"No!" Bumblebee pushed the bottle away.
"Bumblebee I know you don't like it, but it's only for a little while" Optimus cooed trying to feed the fussy sparkling.
"No! Me no have bottwel no more" Bumblebee turned away.
"Bumblebee I still change you, this really isn't a big deal" Optimus sighed.
"No!" Bumblebee continued to reject the bottle.
"Argh Bumblebee..." Optimus sighed planting himself on a chair.
"What are you doing up?" Arcee asked standing behind the chair.
"Bumblebee..." Optimus put his head back looking at the femme.
"What needed to be changed big deal" Arcee chuckled.
"No he wont eat" Optimus said to Arcee.
"Why not?" Arcee asked walking infront of the chair.
"Because I put his energon in a bottle cause he can't feed himself with his arm and I figured if I tried feeding him with the cube I would spill it so yeah..." Optimus sighed.
"Here let a femme show you how it's done" Arcee smirked taking Bumblebee from Optimus.
"Look you're hungry right?" Arcee asked Bumblebee.
"Uhuh..." Bumblebee nodded.
"Well if you are hungry you'll get fed or starve your choice?" Arcee said firmly holding the bottle infront of Bumblebee.
"Ga!" Bumblebee reached for the bottle.
"That's what I thought" Arcee chuckled feeding Bumblebee the bottle.
"Argh... thank you Arcee..." Optimus yawned.
"Uhuh no problem" Arcee finished feeding Bumblebee and gave him back to Optimus.
Next day
"Come on Bee" Arcee called behind her waiting.
"I comming Cee" Bumblebee chirped slowly toddling up to the femme.
*I'm sorry Bee...* Arcee thought to herself as she watched Bumblebee trip as he tried to run over to her.
"Whoa take it easy there bud, you're still recovering from your fall" Arcee cooed helping Bumblebee to his feet.
"Arcee you there?" A voice came over her COM.
"Cliff? yeah I'm here" Arcee answered walking down the canyon with Bumblebee.
"Whatcha up to?" Cliff asked.
"Nothing much just taking a walk with the sparkling" Arcee said.
"Glad he can, it sucks the doc and prime sent me far off to patrol, I deserve it though shouldn't have left the little guy up there alone" Cliff said in a sad tone.
"Yeah you're right cliff" Arcee agreed watching Bumblebee fall in the dirt again.
"But doc did say it might get a little better once he grows" Cliff said to Arcee.
"Yeah... anyway I'll talk to you later Bee's eating dirt" Arcee said going over to the fallen sparkling.
"Alright see ya later" Cliffjumper ended the call.
"Up ya get did I not just tell you to take it easy" Arcee scolded Bee as she put him on his feet.
"Sorwey Cee..." Bumblebee apologized and toddled beside the femme holding onto her fingers with his tiny little servo.
"Hey you're growing you couldn't reach my servo... well I guess you still can't but you can reach my fingers" Arcee chuckled as she let Bumblebee hold onto her fingers.
"Me go past you Cee" Bumblebee buzzed.
"You mean grow, and maybe Bee remeber you still hsve a lot of years to grow you grow differently compared to us so it will take a little while" Arcee continued to chuckle as the walked down the canyon.
"Cee when we play with Megatwon?" Bumblebee beeped looking up at the femme.
"Play with Megatron!, never Bumblebee he's a bad bot!, he ripped your voice box out and threatened you!" Arcee growled.
"Megatwon is verwy verwy scarwy but he have good" Bumblebee chirped.
"Bumblebee how do you find good in a mech that robs your voice and destroys our world!" Arcee questioned.
"me no know but me do" Bumblebee squeaked.
"... I'm not going to argue, you're jus a sparkling you have no clue on what's happening and that's ok" Arcee sighed realizing she was being foolish for arguing with a sparkling.
"We're back" Arcee said walking into the base with Bumblebee.
"Opt!" Bumblebee squeaked and waddled over to the prime and hugged his leg.
"Hello little one, did you have a good walk with your big sister?" Optimus cooed hefting Bumblebee in his arm.
"Yeah!" Bumblebee beeped happily hugging Optimus's helm with his good arm.
"wook what me find Opt" Bumblebee said holding a small pebble in his tiny servo.
"Wow that's pretty neat go show Ratchet" Optimus placed Bumblebee down and gave him a small nudge to the medic.
"Watchet Watchet wook what me find!" Bumblebee chirped toddling over to the medic.
"Hmm lets see I see you have a Earth mineral" Ratchet kneeled down staring at the pebble in the sparklings servo.
"Yeah!" Bumblebee chirped not knowing what that mean't but was happy with what he found.
"How's your arm sparkling?" Ratchet asked looking at Bumblebee's bad arm.
"Goowd Watchet you fix everting!" Bumblebee twittered and buzzed.
"I don't... but thank you" Ratchet smiled patting Bumblebee's helm.
"Watchet play?" Bumblebee beeped poking the medics leg.
"Not now sparkling I'm busy" Ratchet said getting back to his work.
"You aways busy!" Bumblebee whined and sat on the floor behind Ratchet.
"Bumblebee you are in the way you are going to get hurt" Ratchet turned and looked at Bumblebee sitting on the floor.
"Why you no play Watchet" Bumblebee buzzed to Ratchet.
"Because I'm a medic not your playmate" Ratchet told Bumblebee picking him up by his doorwings.
"Ah! no down Wath down!" Bumblebee cried.
"Just give me a sec, I just picked you up" Ratchet growled putting Bumblebee down on the platform.
"Click click!" Bumblebee clicked angrily and sat crossed his arms and pouted.
"Someones grumpy" Arcee laughed and walked over to the grumpy sparkling.
"Are you grumpy" Arcee cooed poking the small cranky sparkling.
"No!" Bumblebee swated the femmes poking servo away with his good arm.
"I think someones ready for a nap" Optimus cooed walking over to the platform where the sparkling sat.
"Noooooo!" Bumblebee whined and tried climbing off the edge.
"No you don't, you are a magnet for injury" Arcee said quickly grabbed Bumblebee.
"No Cee down!" Bumblebee cried and squirmed.
"You stubborn little..."
"Arcee..." Optimus warned.
"Here you take him!" Arcee put the cranky sparkling in Optimus's servo.
"Shh come on little one time for a nap" Optimus cooed.
"No!" Bumblebee continued to cry.
"You know how to deal with this?" Ratchet asked Optimus.
"Uuuuh..."
"Ok here it is go stick him on your berth and shut the door he will eventually recharge" Ratchet told Optimus.
"I don't trust him on my berth he will try and climb off" Optimus said.
"He will be fine wrap him in a blanket then" Ratchet told Optimus.
"What are you doing sitting infront of your door?" Ratchet asked looking at the prime sitting on tge floor.
"There he's in there I shut the door like you asked.
"Good" Rachet nodded and looked over to the med bay.
"But he's still crying" Optimus said still hearing the cried.
"Just ignor it" Ratchet said cleaning off one of his tools he walked over with.
"ignor it?... that sounds cruel" Optimus said looking down the hallway.
"It's not he just needs to learn how to sooth himself" Ratchet told the worried prime.
"..." Optimus just looked looked at the medic as if he was ripping sparks out of soparklings.
"Optimus he's not offlining he's just crying himself into recharge it's called tough love but it works" Ratchet chuckled sitting next to the prime.
"But Bumblebee isn't the same age mentally" Optimus sighed holding his helm.
"Trust me I know, I have to remind everyone every 5 seconds" Ratchet rolled his optics.
"It just dosn't feel right..." Optimus said in a very upset tone.
"So what are you going to do about it?" Ratchet asked in an unusually nice tone.
"I'm going to go in there and pick up my sparkling..." Optimus almost cried.
"Good cause I'm going to finish cleaning my instruments" Ratchet smiled and gave Optimus a pat on the back as they got off the floor.
"And Optimus you used your intuition, and you know if it feels right it is right and that is instinct" Ratchet said and walked away.
"Shh it's ok..." Optimus soothed the crying sparkling in his arms.
Bumblebee whimpered and cried watery hiccups.
"Shh..." Optimus lulled the sparkling into recharge.
"Big guy just couldn't do it huh" Arcee smiled as she watched Optimus walk to the main room with a recharging sparkling.
"Nope Optimus knows what he's doing" Ratchet said as Optimus walked up to them.
"obviously you didn't take a long enough walk, had to get him tired for the nap" Optimus said to Arcee.
"Well I had an uneasy feeling about the atmospher and the questions Bee asked didn't help" Arcee told Optimus.
"What questions?" Optimus asked.
"He wanted to know when he could play with Megatron" Arcee shook a little.
"What!, how could he want to play with that brute after what he did to our little sparklings voice he left Bee for scrap!" Ratchet ranted.
"That's what I told Bee, but he said Megatron is really scary but he has good" Arcee shook her helm.
"Bumblebee still has much to learn he dosn't understand the evil Megatron is" Optimus said to Arcee and Ratchet.