Ironhide is not amused. To be fair, is as far from 'amused' as one could be. Or even further.
Those lowlifes, those bastards, they entered in NEST HQ, they invaded his house ten days ago. And, as he and his squad, human and cybertronian together, fought against them, those scums kidnaped his precious boy, his little Bumblebee, and for the second time! and this time under his nose!
And Optimus! He is his Prime, and he should follow him, but now the blue and red mech looks like he lost all the hope, and like his is not going to do anything. Almost two weeks, and he didn't do anything!
Will, on the other hand, looks frenetic and all his squad is working on tracking down those wretched.
All the men look worn out, but Hide can recognize between them those whom trained and sparred with Bee, and whom went to rescue him the other time. So, they are looking for a friend, for a brother in arms. No one will stop them.
Ratchet said that Jazz could be with Bee, since he disappeared the same night. Hide is not sure how he feels about that, about Jazz being alive again, but still lost to them. His only hope is that Jazz could help Bee.
And then, suddenly, as evoked from his own thoughts, Bee stumble in the room holding the arm of a black guy over his shoulder, helping said guy to walk, or better, limp… they are both covered in dust and in what looks like caked blood.
"Ratchet, we need help here…" Hide says pointlessly, as the human doctor in Will's team is already moving toward the couple.
As said doctor takes care of the man that Hide is assuming being Jazz, Bee all but crumble in exhaustion in Will embrace.
Ratchet picks Bee and Will together in one hand, and Jazz and the other doctor in the other, and marchs toward the medbay as fast as he dares with so many fragile charges in his hands.
When Ratchet starts to scan Bee, the little one lift his head from Will shoulder where it was lying, and with a tired smile he says: "I'm fine Ratchet, but they shot Jazz in his leg… could you check on him first?"
"Hush young one, let me doing my job, would you?"
"Bee" Will step in softly "what happened?"
At that the boy hides his face against the Captain's collarbone. "I'm sorry, it was my fault… it was all my fault, but I had to free him before them hurt him! I'm so so sorry"
Will's arms tight around the crying boy' shoulders, and his heart sinks: the boy looked as the old himself for a while, but now they are back to the self-accusing and crying.
Helps arrived from the next berth. "Hey, little brother, it's fine, I'm fine… Bee, please look at me, I'm fine and you're fine and you saved us both, and … and I'm so proud of you little brother, it's not your fault you were very brave, and you managed the situation in the best way possible, I swear!"
"Bee?" Will asks, inclining his head and trying to force the blond to look at him.
"Jazz, what happened?" Ratchet asks as he wraps Bee (and Will per extension) in a blanket, and turns to start dealing with Jazz injury.
"those bastards, they were looking for Bee, for him to finish that project…
they took us in this underground facility where they.."
"torture you" Bee step in with a small, painful tone that hurt Jazz more than his own wounds.
"..they force Bee to work on this canned soldiers"
"you was a 'canned soldier' not too long ago" Bee snorts, but the phrasing amused him, if the smirk is any clue, and Jazz almost feels like thing could be fine again.
"Are you going to interrupt him every three word, you brat?" Will asks playfully, and accompanies it with a nuggie. A giggle and a tongue sticking out are the answers that he get for it. But Jazz can see as Bee's eyes are still scared and unsure. Will seems notice it as well, and his arms go back around Bee shoulder and waist, to keep him close.
"I killed their boss, the guy that kidnaped Sam and me, and who killed all that student… It was my fault, but he pulled the trigger… And now he is dead, and Optimus will hate me, we're not suppose to kills humans!" the blond is crying again, and he's hiding his face in his hands.
"Bee, it's ok, you were doing your best to protect me, and before that to protect Sam, that is your charge…" As Jazz keeps talking, Ratchet simply jabs Bee with a needle, and the boy gets only a second to realize what just happened before surrenders, thankfully, to the sedative.
"Apart for the emotional swings, he's looking better now that in the last weeks, since the first encounter with those paramilitary organization. Even the wounds from his … termination.. attempt…even those are healing well. Couple of days of rest should be enough for the general exhaustion."
"Thank you Ratchet, I will stay with him, you can go and have some rest" Optimus optics are still focused on the medbay door, and he start to walk through it as soon as he finish to spoke with Ratchet.
"You will have to queue!" He hears the docbot retort, but it make sense only when he steps into the medbay.
Apparently everyone want to check on Bee for the night, so Ironhide is sitting on the berth with Bee, Jazz and Sam on his chest plate, with Bee sandwiched between the other two as they sleep. Lennox and Epps are on the weapon specialist' shoulder, and the three of them are speaking softly each other, but they all stare at the blonde.
Optimus sits on the berth, close to Hide's pedes. He stare at his son, and envy Jazz that can hug him.
Tomorrow, Optimus will ask Ratchet to create a human body for himself. In two months, all the remaining cybertronian will have a human body, and in three they will manage to move their sparks and their consciences from the original body to the human one and vice versa, without the aid of the 'spark-relocator'. They will be a family again, and Bee… he will deal with his past every day a little bit better. He will deal with it, as he did with Tyger-Pax, or with the Young's Sector bombardment. He will still having nightmare, but his family is going to be with him, and they will make everything better.
For the moment, they just watch their little Bee.
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