Out of My Shadows [Transformers Prime]

Playing Catchup

Wasp was silent for a moment, just looking at his twin.
"Wow," he thought. "He really does look just like me...except he's yellow, not red."
Bumblebee shifted his weight back and forth, apparently a bit uncomfortable with Wasp just staring at him like that.
"Er, sorry," Wasp apologized awkwardly. "It's just, I guess I'm kinda surprised by how identical we are."
"Yeah," Bee nodded slowly. "So, you're a Con, huh?"
"Yeah, guess that part's obvious enough; I'm one of the lower commanders with the Vehicons."
"Wow," Bumblebee blinked. "That's pretty epic, how come you're never in battle?"
"Weeell, it's a long story, but basically Starscream doesn't really like me that much, so he usually gets me out of the way for battles and the like. He's so rude- and it's not like he's any better a leader than me; at least those under my command actually like me!" Bumblebee couldn't help but smirk slightly at that.
"So what about you?" Wasp added, suddenly turning the conversation around to Bumblebee. "What do you do?"
"I, uh," he shifted his feet. "I'm a scout." Wasp blinked.
"Just a scout??" He asked, incredulous.
"Yep."
"Wow," Wasp looked at him with an odd expression that was hard to read. "How come? Don't you want to be a warrior?"
"Of course I do," Bumblebee assured him. "But I want to be made a warrior back home on Cybertron, in the presence of Primus."
"Our creator? On our dead planet?" Wasp asked, raising an optic-ridge.
"Yeah."
"Wow," Wasp smirked. "You must be the most patient bot I've ever met."
"You could say that I guess," Bumblebee nodded, slightly uncomfortable. A moment of awkward silence passed before either one spoke again. "So...what now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you found me, we've caught up a little, but what now? I mean, we're on opposite sides of this war. We can't exactly be friends, can we?"
"Who's to say we can't?" Wasp smirked defiantly.
"The other Autobots would kill me if they found out I was friends with a Decepticon," Bumblebee explained.
"Even if said Decepticon turns out to be your brother?" Wasp asked, smirk faltering slightly.
"I don't know," Bumblebee admitted. "I'm just not sure that's a wise risk to take."
"Geez, you sound like Shockwave," Wasp joked. "Always on the logical side of things." Bumblebee had no idea how  respond to that, but was saved from having to come up with a response when his comlink activated.
"Bumblebee, what's going on? Have you reached the coordinates yet? Why haven't you checked in?" Ratchet's voice demanded, sounding a little worried. But Bumblebee knew only someone who had known Ratchet as long as he or Prime had would be able to pick up on that subtle change in his tone. He smiled slightly at that, but was quickly serious again as he activated his comlink to reply.
"Sorry about that, Ratch," he apologized quickly. "Just got a little distracted I guess." Bumblebee noticed the sudden worry on Wasp's face, and he waved him off, signaling that he'd better go now and mouthed 'don't worry'. Wasp looked relieved as he transformed and drove off to who knows where.
"Distracted?" Ratchet repeated, obviously surprised. "By what?"
"A couple Vehicons jumped me in the gully," he quickly invented, feeling a little bit guilty for his white lie, but told himself it wasn't that much of a lie. Besides, Steve had surprised him back there, and then there was the group of Vehicons that were with Wasp. It worked well enough.
"Are you alright?" Ratchet asked, that worried undertone back again.
"Yeah, I'm fine, you should see the other guy," he smirked. "Anyway, I'm almost there now," he added, transforming and driving off in the direction of his post.
"Alright, but don't do that again."
"Do what?"
"If anything happens, you know you're supposed to let us know, incase you need back-up," Ratchet said sternly.
"Okay okay, sorry," Bumblebee said with a silent optic roll. "I won't do that again." With that, he deactivated his comlink, and continued on to his post, thinking over what had just happened over the last few minutes, and wondering what could possibly be next.