Bumblebee's Story /BOOK ONE/

Chapter 4: We Meet Again

Years passed, and I was 21 stellar-cycles. I was headed to my job as an energon miner, and then while I was walking, a cherry-red bot bumped into me.

I turn around to see, Knockout. The mech was surprised to see me, and he was with Breakdown. 

"Bumblebee!? My, my it certainly has been a while. 10 stellar cycles, Arcee was grief-stricken when she hadn't seen you in ten years." The mech smirks.

"What are you doing here Knockout? Shouldn't you be impressing the femmes." I roll my optics and say.

"Oh Primus no! Breakdown is much better, we're even planning to become sparkmates when we're at age!" Knockout purrs the last past to the orange-faced mech.

"Energon mining? Who knew the tiny, insignificant, little bug would be mining energon. Arcee moved back to Cyber City. You already lost your chance with her." Breakdown smirks.

I roll my optics again, and turn around. Headed to the mines, ignoring the two mech's behind me.

"Come on Breakdown, we have better things to do than speak with this bug." Knockout says, before leaving with Breakdown to Primus knows where.

I continued walking until I reached the mine. I entered in with my equipment ready, put on my mask, and started to mine. That is until our supervisor informed us about something.

"Miners, we've gotten an order for a shipment of fresh energon headed straight to one of the big cities. They're paying extra, so put your backstruts into this!" He yells. 

I sigh, and start mining the energon. I have been doing this for such a long time now, that my body didn't react to the heaviness of the mining equipment. As I continued mining, three bots came in the cave to watch. 

I heard our supervisor talking with them, they were probably the ones who ordered that energon anyways.

"So, if you plan on seeing energon being mined. Which I don't know why any bot would, but I could introduce you to everyone if you would like?" He asks.

"Ironhide, I think that would be great. And I wanted my daughters to see this because they should know how hard bots are working just so we have our life fuel." A femme says.

"Well, you already introduced me to those femmes, so I'll let you three free in the mines, so as long as my miners don't get off track from their priority which is to mine all that energon for your order, of course." Ironhide replies.

"Oh, really thank you! Girls, you may go talk with any bot you'd like. Make sure they continue to mine though." She told her children.

"Well, Carrier. May I stay with Ironhide?" One of the femmes' asks.

"Chromia, ugh. Fine." Chromia's mother replied.

Wait, Chromia? I clearly remember, 10 years ago. Chromia was Arcee's older sister. And if she was here, then. Primus no, Arcee's carrier was the one who ordered this energon.

"Alright fine, but they do get breaks right?" A younger femme asks.

"Yep, they do get breaks. Don't worry, but they're scheduled so the energon doesn't delay." Ironhide replied.

"I can work with that." The femme replies.

I continued to mine the energon, and I felt pedsteps coming from behind me. I chose to ignore it, but then I felt a tap on my shoulder plate. I turn off the drill, and turn around to a small blue and pink femme, and I flash a small smile from behind my mask.

"Hang on. Do I know you? Sorry, when I used to go to the academy, there was another bot who looked just like you, minus the mask. His name was Bumblebee." She says.