My Badass Bot -Bumblebee-

Chapter 15

"-nope. Pass. Kid in a costume. No- wait." Jack stopped. We were all sitting on the couch, looking online for evidence of Autobots.

"The camera sure loves Bee." He sighed.

"What can we say? When your that awesome, your paparazzi bait." Miko said.

"Wait, is that Bumblebee?" Ratchet said, overhearing.

"On a conspiracy site. Users post evidence of close encounters, but we have it under control Ratchet." He said. "We just scrub the picture of Bee, and replace it with-" he showed the video of a cat talking about food and mars. Ratchet let out a small, short laugh as he watched, we all went silent.

"Ratchet actually laughed?" Miko and I said together.

Ratchets smile fell and he looked embarrassed. But my attention was pulled from him when Jack spoke.

"Uh, Optimus, you wanna see something funny?"

"No." Well that was straight to the point.

"Don't take it personally. Primes don't party." Arcee said, walking up.

"Never seen Optimus laugh, cry, or loose his cool." Bulkhead added as he walked up to Ratchet and Arcee.

"While Optimus keeps his emotions in check, I've known him far longer than any of you have. And he was different before he was made a Prime." Ratchet said.

"Optimus wasn't always a Prime?" I asked, trying to imagine him laughing...and failing.

"On Cybertron, one isn't born into greatness, you have to earn it." Ratchet explained.

"So different how?" Miko asked. "Are we talking party animal?"

"No, no. Optimus was more like..." He trailed off, thinking. "Jack."

We all turned to said boy, to see his surprised, then modest expression. "I'm nothing like Opti-" he was interrupted by Fowler's voice.

"Prime. Those tech heists my departments been tracking... We figured it was MECH; due to the stealth, until moments ago when a camera captured this:" he pulled up a picture of a bot leaning over some human tech. I recognized him instantly.

"Soundwave." Jack voiced my thoughts.

"Raf can swap that out for you with a funny cat." Miko offered.

"The con without a face made out with a cutting edge phase conductor. Here's a punch list of everything confirmed stolen to date." He pulled up a few pictures of documents with the words "Top Secret" stamped across them. Ratchet named them all as he seen them.

"There's only one thing they could build with these; another space bridge." Ratchet said gravely.

More sentences were added to the conversation but I didn't pay much attention, and the bits I did catch flew over my head, I was too lost in thought. Last time they went to deactivate a space bridge, we had to go hack into a highly guarded data base from the inside, braking into a building to do so, Raf almost got hurt, I got banged up, and Arcee got hurt too. What's going to happen this time around? Who will get hurt this time?

"Hey, Bella. You okay?" I turned at Bumblebee's voice whispering from behind me.

"I'm alright. Just worrying." I said, turning to him. Raf came up to join the conversation.

"How about we go for a drive? Just us three?" He offered. I looked down at Raf and he smiled up at me. I turned back to bee with a smirk, he transformed and told Ratchet what we were doing as he waited for us to get down the stairs. Raf brought his toy car along, he likes to pretend its Bee doing these awesome stunts and tricks, most of which I'm pretty sure he could do if he wanted to.