Bumblebee, You Will Be Okay

Family's Past

"So what happened with us?" Smokescreen asked.

"Well, your mother SolarAide, she was blue and yellow and she gave berth to you two. You were twins." Ratchet sighed as the memories continued to flood his processors. He missed his partner. "I asked Optimus what to name you both. So, he had some hand in doing so. The war was already started, we had to get you somewhere safe. So me, Optimus, and SolarAide took you to our home. It was going to be our safe haven for the time being," Ratchet stopped and frowned to himself.

"Ratchet, if you don't want to continue then you don't have to," Bee spoke up.

Ratchet waved him off as he took in a vent of air, "Elita-1 was already there, waiting for us. However, it was far too late. We were met with her offlined form. It was an ambush. Your carrier, in a moment of panic, went to greet her sister in arms. Only for the cons to grab her. I...was useless. They offlined her in front of me. Optimus and I, in a fit of rage, managed to take on the Decepticons. When I was finally able to reach your career, she was far too gone. I knew my greatest concern was the both of you. I had looked for you. Though, she was only holding a sniffling Bumblebee. Smokescreen, we searched for you. We had no idea what had happened in the blurr of that evening. And it was all my fault. We never stopped looking for you. Only slowed down. I had you trained Bumblebee, but I never bared to tell you that I was your sire. I thought you would never forgive me. So, I pushed Optimus into the picture for you to see as a father figure," Ratchet finished.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee sighed as they listened to the hardships their sire went through. "I will never understand why this war had to be brought upon families."

"Me neither." Ratchet hummed to his charges. "Now, I promised Optimus I would tend to some data pads today. We may have an energon mine to ravage through. Entertain yourselves. We will talk more," Ratchet stood and laid a servo on each of the young bots' shoulder plates.

Smokescreen went to his berth room. While Raf and Bumblebee decided to take on the open road. Though, they pulled over not too far from base.

Raf listened to Bumblebee as they played race cars in his car form. "So, Ratchet is your...dad? Bumblebee, that's insane information! Who all knows?"

"Just a few. You are the only human."

"This is insane. I never considered that as the possibility!" Bumblebee buzzed in giggles at the preteen. His best friend.