Chapter 12: Help Has Arrived! (I Think...)

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The next morning, Bee got off of his berth, ready for another day of doing nothing! {Note the sarcasm. ;) } As he stood and was about to open the door to leave his room, his chest exploded in pain. Bumblebee cried out and collapsed, clutching his spark.

"~H~h~he~el~p."

Ratchet looked around the living room. Prime was at the monitors, no surprise there, Bulkhead's painting—again—, and Prowl's meditating in front of the tv.

The turned off tv.

"Where's Bumblebee?"

"Still in berth?" Bulkhead asked more than stated.

"Well, the security footage never shows him coming out of his room." Prime said, rewinding the footage to the time they all went to berth. The medic got a bad feeling and headed to the youngest bot's room. He knocked on the door.

"Bumblebee? Are you up?" A faint groan reached Ratchet's audios. That being enough for the medic, he quickly opened the door to find the yellow mech on the floor, clutching at his spark.

Ratchet carefully picked Bee up and quickly carried him to the Medbay, the others giving worried expressions when they saw the yellow bot. The medic set him down on a med berth and hooked him up to spark support.

"Bumblebee, I'm gonna put you in stasis for now, it'll help keep the pain from harming you. I'll bring you out when your brothers get here, alright?"A weak groan left Bee as he nodded slightly. Over ridding the yellow bot's coding, Ratchet got Bee into a medical stasis. He sighed as Bumblebee calmed down. "I hope they get here in time."

"Are you sure that's a good place to land?" A grey-blue bot asked Sideswipe.

"Yeah! It's an island, completely isolated, and no sign of those human-thingies! It's perfect!" The red twin argued.

"Could you please just land the ship? I'm getting claustrophobic." A blue and red mech said.

"Well, Smokey, I told you it was gunna be a long ride."

"Zip it, please. You're lucky I even agreed to come." A dark green mech laughed.

"Sure he is, Smokescreen." The dark grey mech beside him sighed.

"Hound, Trailbreaker, prepare for landing. Mirage—where is Mirage?"

"Right here." A white and blue femme appeared from thin air.

"When we have landed, scout the area. We don't need an ambush."

"Again." Sunstreaker muttered.

"Very funny, Sunshine." The yellow twin shot his brother a glare.

"Just land this thing, I'm already outside of my comfort zone." Sideswipe rolled his optics. The ship jostled a bit, knocking everybot around inside, before settling down.

"Eh, not one of my better landings." Sunny groaned from his place on the floor.

"You can say that again."

"Way t'be." The grey bot said, sitting up. The red twin shrugged.

"Oh well. Everyone knows their landing duties, right?" Nods answered him. The crew left the command center and Sideswipe opened communications. "Hey, Sunny, wanna talk to Hatchet 'fore we meet 'im face t'face?"

"Probably should, huh?" Sides nodded and typed in the frequency. Optimus answered the call.

"Heya, Prime! We're on... what's this planet again?"

"Earth?" His twin replied with a roll of his optics.

"That's it!"

"Great timing. Ratchet had to put Bumblebee in a medical stasis so he wouldn't shut down. Where are you?"

"Umm...On an island." Sunny scoffed.

"Real helpful."

"Shut up."

"I take it he's your twin?"

"Yup! Meet Sunstreaker!"

"Hi." Optimus nodded a greeting.

"Seriously, what are your coordinates?"

"Uh, hang on." Sideswipe walked over to a console. "Eh, my fantastic landing messed up our systems. But it's in a considerably small body of water near a city."

"That helps some. Shape of the island?"

"Crescent-like." The grey mech ran back in.

"Sideswipe, there are—thingies attacking the ship!"

"Thingies, Blue?" The twins could easily tell the gunner was exasperated.

"Giant robotic thingies that breath fire!" The twins shared a glance, then looked back at Blue.

"Breath fire?"

"That's what I said! And the one flies with wings, but they move!"

"The Dinobots. Hang on, we're on our way. Don't engage them unless you want damaged."

"Yes, sir." The screen went dark and Sides sighed.

"Bluestreak, get the others back inside. We'll wait for Prime."

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