Bumblebee's decision

"Bee’s decision" by TFkat

The sun in the horizon was about to go down, as Bumblebee prepared himself to go back to headquarters, since he was off duty. The wind was warm and everything seemed to be nice and peaceful. He smiled to himself. This was a really nice night!

He decided to walk home instead of transforming and driving back, since he needed a little alone time. As he walked down the big ravine leading to a massive cave hole leading down to a small valley, he suddenly saw something lying on the ground, straight ahead of him.

“What in the universe..?” He moved closer to have a look. He got pretty frightened as he noticed it was a Seeker jet and took a few steps backwards again. But wait a minute… he wasn’t even moving!

“Uhm… hello?” He poked the Seeker with his foot slightly. There was no response, except for a slight moan. Bee noticed the red colouration of the Seeker now. Starscream! What on earth was he doing there?

“Decepticon?” he said. He didn’t really know why he bothered really. It was Starscream for Primus sake! He noticed that he was very injured on his wings and he was bleeding from his chest. He was really torn.

“Help…. M-me…” Starscream begged very weakly and barely moved. Bumblebee felt a sting of pain in his chest and felt worried. He almost felt bad about this feeling but couldn’t help it. “He’s a living creature too… I can’t just leave him here…” he thought to himself.

Starscream lifted his head slightly and looked up at Bumblebee who was standing in front of him, looking at him. His red ruby optics flashed fatigued and he could barely see because of a large crack in his left optic. “Don’t worry, I’ll get help for you”, Bee suddenly said without thinking much about it. He got wide optics as he realized what he just said.

Starscream scratched the ground with his fingers because of the pain. “Please…” he begged. “Please… help…go get help...” Bee noticed how scared Starscream actually was and it surprised him. Starscream, Megatron’s second in command, was scared and he was admitting it to an Autobot?? He really needed help. Who knew? Maybe he would even be grateful afterwards.

“I’ll… I’ll be right back, don’t move!” He stuttered and ran towards the cave opening. “Very funny…” Starscream said tiredly with a touch of sarcasm.
He sighed as he ran off. Who was he supposed to ask for help anyway? Ratchet wouldn’t help a Decepticon, especially not someone like Starscream. Oh Primus, what had he brought himself in to??

As he arrived back at the base, he was constantly thinking about Starscream. Who could he talk to about this?? Who would swear not to tell anyone? He looked around at the others. Oh boy, if they just knew…

“Hey lil’ buddy what’s goin’ on?” Jazz was suddenly standing behind Bee who got a bit startled at the voice. “Oh! Eh… hi Jazz… well not much... just thinking a little, that’s all. Hey uhm... I have something serious to show you... please promise me not to tell anyone, it’s important that you shut up...” Jazz looked a bit concerned.

“Sure I can Bee. What is it? Or even better: where issit?” Bee made a short gesture at the exit and made Jazz follow him outside. He pulled him aside and said in a low voice. “I’ve found one of the Decepticon jets in the ravine near the valley we normally relax in. He’s really hurt; I don’t know what to do... you gotta come look for yourself!” He transformed and drove off, expecting Jazz to follow. “But why is – hey wait up man!” Jazz quickly followed him.

It had gotten all dark now, except for a few stars in the sky. It had gotten a lot colder and Starscream was passed out from the massive pain, by the time they got there. Jazz was shocked to see who it was but he didn’t get angry and Bee knew he wouldn’t. “Should we help him or just let him…let…” Bee couldn’t say the word. Jazz was patting his shoulder as comfort.

“No I think we oughta help ‘em out.Leavin’ someone who’s almost dyin’ in pain, just aint right. Not even if it’s ol’ Starcreep.” He kneeled down and so did Bee. “We could clean his wounds Jazz... I have brought something.”

Bee opened one of his windows and took some cloths out made especially for wounded areas. Jazz carefully moved Starscream onto his back so they could clean his wounds. “Man… that’s horrible... looks like he made a crash during a flight..” he said as he looked at Screamer’s wounds.

“But he’ll at least avoid infections when we clean him Jazz. I think that’s all we can do for now. Here, you take some of them and I’ll use some to clean his face wounds.” Bee got down on his knees next to the much bigger jet and gently began to clean his face wounds, by moving his head slightly to one side. He took a good look at him. He was actually pretty handsome when you looked at him up close. He had very nice features and didn’t look like the other Seeker jets at all, only from a distance.

He began to feel more and more concerned about him and as he cleaned a big wound on his cheek, Starscream opened his optics and the bright red light from his sensors hit Bee slightly. They looked at each other. Bee didn’t tell Jazz about it, this was just between the two of them. Bee gave him a little careful and insecure smile.

Starscream looked at his every move. As their optics met again, he smiled weakly at the mini bot. “Don’t mention it. It will be alright.” Bumblebee whispered and smiled back.