Bee My Love

Chapter One

Bumblebee sat outside the Autobot base in Jasper, Nevada watching the glowing orb in the sky sink lower and lower. Due to the decreasing sunlight, the usual hubbub of the base had died down and now only the occasional round of guard troops interrupted Bumblebee's thoughts. He usually didn't have any time for deep thinking due to the war, but Decepticon activity had been at an all time low recently, and missions had been few.

Bumblebee was glumly reminiscing on the fact that he was no longer as young a bot as he used to be. Sure, he wasn't nearly as old as Optimus or Ratchet, but his window of opportunity to find a mate was slowly closing. He hadn't paid much attention to the femmes because of the war, and as a result he still had his mechhood. But the problem was, as the war had progressed, most of the femmes had been wiped out, and were now rare. In fact, the only Autobot femme he had seen in the last few years was Arcee, who was definitely not his type.

While Bee sat gloomily staring at the receding sun, a flash streaked across the darkening sky, and an explosion echoed on the sand a few miles to Bee's right. Intrigued, he transformed quickly into his alt mode, a yellow Chevy camaro with black stripes, and sped in the direction of the blast.

As he neared the smoking crater left in the ground, he transformed to his full height and approached cautiously, brandishing his weapon.

A Cybertronian form lay crumpled in the wreckage, whether unconscious or offline he wasn't sure. They were sleek and slim, suggesting feminine nature, and the black patterned with gold stripes and symbols on her armor looked familiar.

Only when Bumblebee carefully rolled her onto her side did he see the spiked Deception symbol engraved on her right shoulder plate. His sensors whirred with recognition as he stared, dumbstruck, at the femme before him. Her name was Magnia, and they had met before when they were mere sparklings.

Bee's optics flickered, remembering hours laughing and playing with her on a deserted, dusty planet where the Autobots had briefly set up camp. A Deception base had been nearby, without either side being aware, and one day Bumblebee had been wandering when he had encountered Magnia.

They had become immediate friends, not realizing they were on opposing sides because they were both too young to have even known what an Autobot or a Deception looked like. Bee recalled that he had thought Deceptions were vicious monsters with fangs, not a small femme the same size as him. That is, until Optimus had discovered where Bumblebee had been sneaking off to everyday, and forbade them to ever see each other again, ordering a tearful Magnia to return to her base at once.

Bumblebee beeped thoughtfully, considering the injured femme. He couldn't just leave her here, but he could just picture Optimus' reaction if he brought her to Ratchet for repair. Sighing, he carefully picked up the femme and began reluctantly carrying her towards the base. He was going to have a lot of explaining to do.