New Beginnings
Author: Challenger2011
Fandom: Transformers/Beast Wars
Claim: Bumblebee
Bumblebee had never experienced the changing of seasons before. Cybertron was not an organic planet, so terms such as spring and summer or fall and winter had no meaning to him. The war on Cybertron had already started by the time Bumblebee had come online for the first time. Because of that he knew little of what his home planet had been like in its Golden Age. He sometimes wondered what it looked like back then. Was it as colorless back then as it had been when Bumblebee had saw it? He supposed it didn't matter now. Cybertron was dead. Forever it would remain a gray, lifeless husk, littered with the gray bodies of the deceased.
When he arrived on Earth, Bumblebee had feared that the planet was going to be the same as Cybertron – dead. Everything in the area where he had arrived was dead. The grass was brown, the trees were bare, and on that particular day the sky was gray. He almost panicked – thinking that maybe they were too late to save this planet – when a quick search on the human's internet told him that the planet was fine and that this was normal for this planet. It shocked Bumblebee. How could something like this actually be normal for a planet? He didn't understand it and he wouldn't understand it until spring.
Spring had amazed him. The dead brown grass transformed into a lush green color, leaves started to appear on the trees, and flowers started to bloom. More creatures started to appear, adding to the array of colors. Bumblebee wondered if the humans saw it the way he did. Was the grass as green to them as it was to him? Did it symbolize life and a new beginning for them or was it just something that they took for granted? Whatever they thought of it, he hoped that they would never lose it. He hoped that they would never have to know what it was like to live on a dark, gray world and that they would always have a chance for their new beginnings.