Transformers Fan Fiction ❯ Fragments of Memory ❯ You'll be in my Heart ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6: You'll be in my Heart

 

A/n: Chap title is song © to Phil Collins, Disney

 

 

The sun was moving past noon into mid-day when the communicator finally made a little bleep, and kept bleeping. Bumblebee held his arm up, looking at the device with satisfaction. They had a signal at last! He set down the decommissioned Decepticon and moved the screen so Arianna could see.

“Do you see that cluster of dots? Those are the Autobots. If something happens to me, disengage the tracker like this-“ He pressed a small green button “and take it with you to find the others. You can call them like this-“ and hit the large gray button under the display.

“Why would something happen to you, Bee?” Arianna asked nervously.

“Well, now that I'm online, it's possible the Decepticons will pick up my signal. Let me call the others now though, the sooner we get you to the base the better.” He spoke briefly into the device in a language completely alien to Arianna. A reply came quickly, and she could hear cheering in the background. Bumblebee looked at her with a large smile.

“I told them I found you.”

Arianna blushed. More strange language came out of the intercom, and Bumblebee flipped the casing back over it.

“Ratchet and Hot Rod will be here in about a day; I gave them the coordinates.”

They sat on a hill dotted with trees that folded out into a lush valley and waited.

 

The Decepticon studied the crash site where their charge last went missing. Fusion had failed; he knew the young bot couldn't handle it by himself. Speed wasn't everything. He sent out a tentative wave of thought, trying to touch on Fusion's signature. It was met with a dull block, and Soundwave knew the Decepticon was near death. She had gotten away, and another set of seeking waves revealed that Bumblebee had taken her. Time for plan B. Starscream had told him that the destruction of the girl's city would draw her back. He opened his chest cavity and his mini-bots flew out one after the other. Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ratbat, and Rumble spun to attention.

“We avenge Frenzy now.” Soundwave said shortly. They had all grieved for the last addition to his simbiotic mini-bots. “As much destruction as possible.” The bots nodded in unison and started leaping excitedly to do their Brother's bidding.

 

Arianna stood and with a sinking feeling watched as a cloud of blackness rose over the dense trees behind them. That was the city! Her friends…her brother! They were all there. What was that smoke? Bumblebee stood as well, his face grim, and he put a hand on the girl's shoulder.

“We need to keep our place. We are hidden here and can reman so until the others get here.” Several balls of fire started erupting, and more trendils of smoke appeared. Soon, they watched as the whole skyline became a dense cloud of smoking destruction.

“Bee, that's my home! My brother is there, I can't loose another family member!” she cried desperatley.

“The Decepticons are behind this. They know I took you.” His voice was leaden. Soundwave was no doubt in the area. “We cannot go back.”

“But people are dying! They're dying because of me!!” Arianna screamed. Small explosions were now audible. She shook off Bumblebee's hand and darted suddenly off of the hilltop back into the forest. Bumblebee leapt after her.

“Wait! No, you can't!” he called out, sweeping his hand to catch her. She pounded on his fingers.

“You let me go! Let me go right now! How am I supposed to leave? Its my -home-!” she yelled, tears streaming down her cheeks.

“You are the reason I'm here, your saftey is the most important thing!” he yelled back, her tears unhinging his nerves.

“Important to who? The only person I have left in the world is still there!” Arianna pointed to the skyline behind them.

“Then he is already dead.” Bumblebee said, bringing her chin around to meet her gaze. “No sacrifice, no victory. That is the Witwicky family motto.” He said, stilling himself forecfully at the sight of her red-rimmed eyes.

“Yeah, well, it sucks.” She said, knowing she wasn't being very nice, but she didn't care. She wasn't Arianna the intellect and logical thinker right now. She had taken in all this nonsense about her and this shard of Allspark, knowing that to go with Bumblebee was the right thing. But she was now Ari, a lost girl, clinging behind her brother for protection from playground bullies, burying herself in research to ignore the glares of less intelligent students, wailing in greif at the casket of her father- and weeks later her mother.

 

“You're important to me.” Bumblebee said softly.

“Because I might kill all of you one day when the Decepticons get me?” She scoffed.

“No, because- because you are you! You're my most important mission…the most important person in the world to me. You have no idea how much it hurt to let you go! I can't let you go again, especially into that!” he gestured to the city behind them. “I endured twenty years without you, and I wont loose you just after I've found you again!” Bumblebee cried. “The last time I saw you I swore I'd come back for you and protect you, and I loved you! I didn't know it was possible to love something as small as you were, but I did and it almost killed me to give you to the humans!” he raved, staring intensely into her eyes. Arianna's mouth hung open in shock. She had no idea- she thought that he was just carrying out his mission. That he was glad to see her because her real dad had wished it of him. Bumblebee opened his mouth as if to say something more, but instead set her down gently and ran back out to the hill. She stood there, not really knowing what to do. No one had ever spoken to her like that. The only people in her life that ever loved her was her family. She walked back out to the slope, finding the Autobot sitting with his hands around his legs.

 

Oh Primus, what the hell did he think he was doing? He was a soldier, and she was his mission. It didn't matter that she was the last link to a boy he came to feel was a brother. It didn't matter that he had once been able to cradle her in the palm of his hand. It didn't, -shouldn't-, matter that she had finally smiled at him after so long, just before he gave her away. She-was-his-mission. Nothing more, nothing less. Prime would have killed him for that little outburst. His emotional processor was way out of wack.

“Shit.” He said simply and clunked his head to his knees. “Shit, shit, shit.” Each curse was accented by a clunk.

 

Arianna walked up to him slowly, reaching out a hand, drawing it back suddenly when he bashed his head. She was alarmed when he did it again three times.

“Hey, don't hurt yourself…” she said softly. Her hand went to his back and trailed to his arm as she came around to face him.

“Hmmph.”

“Seriously, its allright.” Arianna held fast to his arm. One ocular peeked out from behind his knees.

“I'm sorry- I shouldn't have…I-“

“I wont leave you.” Her words cut off his attempts at an apology

“I didn't want to tell you.” He said, averting his gaze.

“I understand.” Arianna said and reached out to be picked up. He complied and placed her in his hands. “I have never had to give up anything in my life until I agreed to come, but I know you will be there with me, protecting me.” She explained softly. They sat like that until the sun reached a slow death on the treeline before them, her head resting on his chest, his hands holding her.