The Bug, the spider, and regret (Book 1)

Chapter Seven

Rachet stared at him in shock; he didn't know what to say. Bumblebee looked at Arcee's still body, he wasn't sure why, but he felt as though this was the right thing to do, that is until Rachet intervened.

"Are you insane?!" The medic growled Bumblebee looked at him, "It's pointless to bring one back just to lose the other."

"Do you have any other ideas?" Bumblebee chirped; Rachet thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea came to him.

"Do you remember when Megatron possessed your mind?" Rachet asked, Bumblebee shivered at the thought but nodded, "He used something to bring himself back from the dead, what was it again?" Bumblebee shook his head.

"No Rachet, that was dark energon, we can't go to that, ever." Bee beeped franticly.

"Your right, I'm sorry, not sure what came over me." Rachet mumbled Bumblebee set his hand on the medics shoulder.

"It's okay, your stressed, the only other thing would-," Bumblebee stopped.

"What? What is it?" Rachet asked. The scout walked past him and back out to the main room, he ignored Rachet and the others, and went straight to the main computer. He ignored his comrade's questions as he tried to pin point a location on the planet. Irritated Rachet grabbed his shoulder and spun him around so they were face to face.

"What are you doing Bumblebee?" He all but shouted; Bumblebee gave him a look of sadness, and then pointed at the screen behind him. Rachet looked over his shoulder to stare at the screen, he gasped at the thing Bumblebee found. The screen showed a location in the rain forest, it showed a piece of the shard in that area. Rachet looked at the scout with a look of inquiry, Bulkhead smiled, and Optimus just stared on. Bumblebee typed in the coordinates then went to the ground bridge he pulled the lever and waited for the bridge to appear, he turned to Rachet.

"Don't give up quite yet." He beeped, Bee turned to go through the bridge.

"Wait," Optimus and Bulkhead walked over to their yellow friend, "you're not going by yourself, Bumblebee." Prime said. The scout smiled at his friends, then walked through the bridge, hope slowly rising in his spark.

When they crossed the bridge, they looked at their surroundings of thick trees, and heard unfamiliar noises. Bulkhead was a little jumpy he aimed his gun at every noise, until Optimus told him it was just the animals, and Bumblebee followed his scanner silently hoping they found the shard. Optimus came up behind him and looked at the young scout with concern before saying.

"Why did you feel the need to do this on your own, Bumblebee?" the scout turned and looked at his leader.

"It was my fault that this happened; I feel the need to fix the mess I have made." He beeped. "Besides, Arcee would have done the same for me." Optimus looked skeptical.

"Do you really believe that?" he asked with seriousness, "Or are you just trying to prove yourself?" Bumblebee's shoulders slumped, he understood what his leader meant; he didn't want the scout to run around chasing a wild goose in an attempt to prove he wasn't useless.

"I feel guilty yes, but I'm not trying to prove anything, I'm trying to heal a wound, both Arcee's and mine." Bumblebee touched his spark when he said the last few words. Optimus read between the lines, he knew that if this mission failed then Bumblebee would die of a broken spark. Unfortunately, he had no idea about the conversation Bee had with Rachet earlier.

As they walked on Bulkhead seemed to calm down that is until a monkey jumped on him, he yelled with surprise and aimed a gun at it as the poor creature jumped into the tree again. Optimus calmly told the wrecker that nothing in the jungle could seriously harm him.