Bee knows that his pacing around is driving Sam mad.
In the last couple of weeks, thanks also to the summer break, they fell in a routine: in the morning Bee, and sometime Sam, will train with Will squad meanwhile Mikaela spend time with Ratcher, learning how to heal Cybertronians. They still work on Bee's body as well, but the possibilities that the yellow mech return the same as before are few… In the afternoon Bee will have Sam's and Mikaela's lessons on "how to act like an human teenager" or, in other words, hang around, go to the cinema or for shopping and be young healthy human beings.
In the evening, or night, Bee will sneak out of his bed and studies for his test, the one that should determine which class he is going to be put in, and end up to have a cup of tea with Will, when the Captain finish his work and before Ironhide take him back to his farm.
Last week Sam made a joke about Bee having a crush on Will, and Bee suspect that if the boy didn't talk again about that is only for the fears of Mikaela's kick.
That is a good routine, but today is going in a different way. This morning their defense system identify a Decepticon signature, 200 miles away from Tranquillity. So, the three teenager are waiting for the NEST squad to come back from the fight, and Bee cannot stay still, too worried and nervous for his comrades.
Suddenly, a crash noise come from the medbay, and the three teenager run there, Mikaela in the first position as she feels responsible for the medbay when Ratchet is not there.
The noise come from the corner of the room where Jazz's and Bee's offlines bodies are lying. They aren't the only two body, since Ratchet keeps some Decepticons body to take parts.
The room is dark when they enter, and so Mikaela doesn't realize whom is making those noises till she runs directly in the arms of a Cybertronian, one of those the Allspark generated when Sam was carrying the cube around.
This one looks like it was a vending machine if the logo on his side can be consider a clue.
the Former vending machine is holding Mikaela now, and is shooting to the two boys.
Ducking under a berth, shielding Sam with his own body, Bee wishes Ratchet had controlled better for signs of life before take "replacement part" here at the base. He also wish he had bring with him a weapon, even just the throwing knife Epps give him after one of their training session. But more of everything else, he wish he can go back in his real body.
This time his wish is not only drive by the "I'm unhappy in this body" thought, neither by the "I cannot help my family in this way" one. No, this time this wish is based on "is my duty as a guardian protect Sam and I will protect him with my life if it is necessary, but all the strategies I can think now are rubbish and ended with the death of all of us" thought.
So, he keeps thinking, and keeps wishing and he start to feel something strange, like if something is flutter inside him. He recognizes his spark, whose is singing for be released, and he feels like he's getting the possibility of push is spark back in his old, real body. He indulge this feeling, and start to push, and the feeling become so strong that dark spot appears on is vision. With a final push his spark free itself, and Bee surrender to the darkness.
Sam is terrified. One of those creatures that populated his nightmares is there, and it got Mikaela.
He can feel Bee chest pressed again his back, and is amusing as Bee still act as his guardian regardless his size and his body.
Sam turns to Bee to talk with him and sees if they boy got a strategy, but any question run out of his mind as he sees Bee stagger, and he barely manage to grab the younger boy when he faints.
Sam starts to looks for wounds as he hold Bee at his chest, and he almost miss the crackle from one of the berth.
But after he can just holds the boy and watches as the yellow bot, his wounded guardian, saves Mikaela and rip apart the vending machine. the whole procedure last less that two minutes, and after that the last standing cybertronian collapses on ground with a whine, holding his spark chamber.
"Bee!"