Sweet Little BumbleBee

Nighty Night Time

Optimus bounced BumbleBee again, until BumbleBee began to frown," What is wrong little one?" Optimus asked as Bee glanced up at him," Hungy" bumbleBee mumbled, and almost all the mechs froze," Ratchet.."," Working on it.." Ratchet said quickly turning towards their energon supply," IronHide go get a energon filter from WheelJack." Ratchet said as he pulled two large energon cubes from the pile," Uh? What's going on?" Jazz asked as he leaned over to Optimus, to get a glance at the pouting little bee," Sparklings can't process regular energon, it makes them sick, so bots give them filtered energon, or they get filtered energon from their creators." Ratchet said as he plucked BumbleBee from Optimus's servos," Although every sparkling has a different type of energon filtering." Ratchet placed BumbleBee down," What was the energon filtering like..." Ratchet asked the young bot hoping he knew what he was talking about," Sweet! Sweet!" BumbleBee chirped before clapping his hands," I'm back." IronHide's voice rang through the room, and Ratchet sighed in relief," Ok let me get down to business." Ratchet said as he grabbed one cube of energon and split it into smaller cubes. Quickly grabbing one of the smaller cubes and pushing it into the filter. The blue energon cube began to turn into a soft pale pink," This should be it, heavy filtered energon ends up being sweet." Ratchet said as he handed the small cube to BumbleBee, BumbleBee took the cube and glanced with obvious confusion at Ratchet," You know how to drink it, right?" BumbleBee nodded," Why it pink." He asked as he sniffed the cube, slowly Ratchet turned to the filter," It's what Bot's your age need right?" He asked as he switched the level on it," Bue.." Bee mumbled quietly," Bue? Do you mean Blue?" Jazz asked as he got closer to Bee, and he nodded," You drink energon blue? So no filters... But energon is not normally sweet... Unless." Ratchet bent down and pulled out a long pole of titanium and began to shave it, when he was done he gathered all the shavings and began to crush them in a mortar and pistil," Most abandoned or orphaned Younglings are given titanium mixed energon, as it had a similar consistency to filtered energon. It was a new break through in creation care, but at the time medics and doctors didn't have enough Younglings  to try on. They.. They were all dropping like flies." Ratchet quietly whispered out the ending, his optics glazed over and saddened," But.. If he's drinking mixed Energon it means he never had filtered, mixed energon is also usually for older sparks." Ratchet said adding the titanium dust to the energon," So Bee didn't have a creator?" Jazz asked Ratchet quietly, bouncing to the older mech other side," It seems so." Ratchet whispered handing the small titanium flavoured energon cube to the happy sparkling," Yay, yay!" Bee cheered quickly gulping the sweet liquid down," Tire" The small bot mumbled, placing the empty cube down," I tire.." He mumbled again," Oh are you tired?" Jazz asked, gently picking up Bee, who nodded in response," Just get some recharge and I'll keep you safe ok!" Jazz stated, gently holding Bee in his arms," He's so cute while he recharges!" Jazz stated," I really don't think we'll need help raising a sparkling." IronHide smirked at Ratchets comment, their optics following Jazz and Bee," I think now, would be a good time to go to the meeting." Optimus said, motioning towards the medbays door," While Bee is recharging, I think it would be wise to start the meeting, less he wake up." Optimus said clarifying his reason," Yeah OP is right, we've already seen how he deals with new people. The poor Mechling is terrified of new people." Jazz said rocking Bee slowly," I guess we should head out." IronHide said, glancing at the sleeping bot who began to suck on one of his own servos," I'll stay here, I have work to do." Ratchet said glancing at Optimus," I should say, Jazz and IronHide should hide Bee until Optimus explains it all." The medic said, turning towards the energon cubes. The mechs nodded, and Optimus smiled," It'll be an interesting life with Bee here."