Bumblebee at Tyger-Pax

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Megatron strolled through the chaos like it was walk in the park. He had his signature smirk on and was staring right at Bumblebee. Megatron had heard about how treasured the youngling was to the autobots, and he intended to finish what he had started. If he offlined the youngling the entire autobot forces would be weak and vulnerable, and that was why he found himself sauntering through the battle completely untouched by neither autobot and decepticon. No one was dumb enough to attack Megatron alone, so he had no issues walking around in the heat of battle with no interference.

Bumblebee was petrified. He literally couldn't move. Ironhide had noticed this and followed bee's line of sight, immediately understanding what had made his charge freeze up completely.

Ironhide actually growled, he hadn't seen Megatron in battle since Bee had been injured, he had spent most of his time helping Bee recover, only going to fight occasionally when it was absolutely necessary that he was there.

"Bee stay back, do not engage in battle with anyone, and stay with Ironhide," Optimus said leaving to go fight his arch-enemy.

"No prime, this is my fight! He hurt my youngling and he is going to pay!" Ironhide said putting a hand up to stop the larger mech.

"Very well, be careful, do not let anger blind you," Optimus said.

"I won't prime." Ironhide said, Optimus always came up with wise words on the most random times, it made the old weapons specialist laugh.

Bee was cowering behind Optimus, who had resumed fighting but was still managing to form a shield with his body around the youngling at his feet. He felt bad for Bee, his first time back in battle and that glitchhead Megatron had to show up and put Bee back months in his slow recovery. Optimus had thought that Bee would be fine and that he had passed on from the trauma almot completely, but now he was nervous that he would end up as bad as when they first brought him in, or worse.

Ironhide ran through the battling mechs and femmes, occasionally stabbing or shooting a stray con that would come at him. He stared at his target, who had only just noticed the approaching opponent. Ironhide took all the anger he had towards Megatron, all the times he had seen Bee struggle since the incident, and turned it towards his fighting.

He gathered all the hatred up into one big glob in his mind and channeled that into his arm cannon, he raised it as he approached the decepticon warlord, and shot a round more powerful and purposeful than he had ever shot in all his years of experience.

The blue ball of energy hit the decepticon leader in the shoulder, it would have hit him straight on if he hadn't of moved in apprehension of getting his spark blown from his body.

Megatron growled, this old bucket of bolts was getting on his nerves, many of his soldiers had fallen at the black mech's servo. He would assure that the weapons specialist would no longer be an annoyance.

Ironhide approached Megatron and punched him in the faceplates, acting too quick for the larger mech to react. Megatron shook his helm a bit and rolled his helm back to look at the angry optics of the black mech.

Megatron slashed at Ironhide with his sword, drawing energon from his stomach. Ironhide staggered back but regained his balance and lunged towards Megatron. Ironhide quickly drew his sword and plunged it into the warlord's shoulder joint, the wound spurted energon and Megatron grunted in pain.

The two fought like this for what seemed like eternity, neither making much of an advance, only drawing small amounts of energon, Ironhide was beginning to think he would soon run out of steam, but he couldn't give up.

Just when Hide was going to give in, although Megatron didn't look much better, he thought about Bee, he saw him coming into base with energon covering his neck, e saw him struggling to talk when he couldn't form any words, he saw the days he had spent trying to get Bee to leave his room, and the nights he had spent comforting bee from the endless nightmares, to do this to a youngling was unacceptable.

Ironhide just focused on that, if Bee could survive Megatron's torture then Hide could stand up in a fight against the same mech, especially if it was to return some of the pain that Megatron had given Bee.

With a new amount of energy Ironhide cracked down on Megatron with a barrage of attacks, punching and slashing in a random order. There was so much fury in these attacks that the con was helpless against it.

Megatron could fight those who were hateful and despised him, but Ironhide had changed tactics, he wasn't fighting for hatred anymore, now he was fighting for his love of Bee. Love and compassion was one bond Megatron could not withstand.

The silvery mech found himself on the ground, being pummeled by an angry autobot.

Being the coward he was, he called for a retreat "Decepticons, fall back!" Megatron managed to get out as he transformed beneath Ironhide's peds.

The jet flew from under Ironhide as fast as a bullet, leaving him ventilating hard and staring at his retreating opponent, he had won, he had been able to get rid of all the hate he had been harboring and he felt free because of it. Although it was a horrible occurrence that they had to run into Megatron when it was Bee's first time back out, it was also an example that they could move on, and defeat their inner demons.

As soon as the decepticons were out of sight Bee ran up to Ironhide and have him a big hug. Bee was practically sobbing, he was letting out robotic buzzes and whirs.

Bee was about to text Ironhide to thank him when he stopped himself, the sobbing noises, he could still make those without his vocal processor. His processor brought up an old and fuzzy memory file, Bee had learned a cybertronian code when he was very young, he had never realized how similar it was to the way he expressed his emotions. Laughing, crying, they all could be changed into the necessary sounds in order to communicate.

Bee figured now would be an amazing time to try it out, it would tell Ironhide that he wouldn't have to start all over with Bee's progress and that Bee could make his own progress from time to time.

Bee pulled up the memory, analyzing it enough that he could remember the the basic words and letters.

Than . . . He struggled to form the words but kept pushing forward, Thank . . . you. He managed to beep to Ironhide.

Hide looked down in astonishment, had he just heard Bumblebee speak? no, it was an old code, he spoke it fluently and it seemed like plain cybertronian when he heard it, now that he thought about it he remembered teaching Bee about it when he was little, there was no way he remembered from that long ago, was there?

"I knew you'd find a way," Ironhide said grabbing Bee's shoulders and beaming at his charge, "I guess you'll never shut up now, will ya'?" He said jokingly.

No..Nope Bee chirped still placing many of the words and letters in the right places in his processor.

Will you teach me how to use it again? Bee texted, not knowing how to say something so complex.

"Of course I will," Ironhide said, putting an arm around his shoulder and walking back towards base. He was so proud, his charge had healed him in a way, letting him know that they could both help each other heal.