Transformers Rescue Bots - The Future

2: Strange Family - S

Ratchet needed some help, so he dragged the strangest group with him to deal with it and revealed more than he should.
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Blades certainly did not expect this.

He had been very busy making lesson plans as that was something he never ended up doing at all which left Heatwave extremely upset and now Blades was practically glued to a desk to complete some. His Carrier, Ratchet, phoned about a time and place to meet, no context but he had to attend by himself, no one else should go with him.

He did go, meeting up and figuring out only a little bit. He was brought into a room, one which had some bots that made no sense grouped together. Not only was Ratchet in the room, but also Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and even Heatwave. He noticed a random bot in the room too, one who he did not recognize.

"Just take a seat." Ratchet seemed like he just wanted to get this done, but Blades still had no clue what was going on.

There was only one available seat, one beside Bumblebee. Sure it was exciting to be beside such a bot but Blades certainly knew that this unknown meeting would not be exciting.

"It's nice seeing you again but why such a crowd?" The mysterious bot says. His optics seemed so bright and joyful despite his current tone of speech. Blades noticed how he has some similarities but this bot was coloured yellow like Bumblebee.

"Honestly, I thought you were dead." Ratchet sighs, then goes in for some sort of truth that immediately needs to be spilled. "Blades, that right there is your Sire, Budlight."

"SIRE?!" Heatwave is absolutely done with this, planning to walk out. He literally just got his students to be good accepting friends to Hot Shot and did not want to be dealing with a stupid family reunion. "Nope, I am not staying for this!"

Heatwave was dragged back into his seat by Optimus, who was just as surprised as most of the other bots in the room. Bumblebee had no idea how to feel regarding this bot that now was symbolized in the room, but Blades surely looked like he was at a loss for words.

"You. . . . You never came back." Blades didn't really know why his own Sire, alive and clearly well, never had returned to care for him at all. "Why? Why did you abandon me?"

"Blades, I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready-" he was truly trying to explain himself, but Blades was quick to cut him off.

"Carrier wasn't ready either and yet you left him, do you even know how much damage that actually was?" Budlight seemed extremely confused. "He struggled much more than he should've at first because he didn't know what to do, his job made it rough, he was begging for every single bit of money he could get all while trying to raise me."

"Blades-"

"He didn't ask for any help and he certainly wasn't asking you to, he hoped you would help and you walked out." Blades was seriously unhappy. "Now you come back, alive and yet are you trying to beg for some forgiveness?"

". . . . . I was just trying to get to know my son-" the response surely wasn't as good as it was.

"It has been quite awhile, I have my own life that is much greater without you in it." Blades says. "I was happy knowing you were gone and yet you still remain alive."

There was much shame within the room, those who are lost being reminded of or the debate of whether or not it is really good to be confronting a bot who had never been seen before.

"I told you this wouldn't end well." Ratchet says, almost like it was a prediction of some sorts. "But you said you had more to say."

"Yes, I do." The room was tense as Budlight continued. "I felt guilty for leaving Ratchet like I did, so I wasted myself in High Grade and constantly slept around. Before I knew it, I had a child of my own, but even that didn't last as something was done that could not be reversed."

"And where is that bot now?" Optimus asks, giving the possible idea to find this random bot that might have been abandoned.

"Dead, but I guess you would all say I deserved it." Blades had second thoughts about his words.

"No, you didn't deserve to live."