Chapter 4, Names and The Past

(From Bumblebee's point of view)

Over the next 3 weeks, more battles happened, 1984 and I grew stronger and stronger.

Optimus had accepted the fact that I had tamed her and let me keep her.

And every once in a while, I would ride her.

Taking flight to the skyline, going past the towers, once tall, proud and golden, now, smouldering wrecks reduced to rubble.

This was all the Decepticons fault, why, if I get my hands on that Megatron.......

No point in wishing, then again, I wished for a partner, and look what Primus granted me, a Cybertronian Phoenix.

I told her all this while she was flying; we were heading to our favourite spot on the whole of Cybertron, one of Iacon's tallest buildings, the only one that didn't get destroyed during the war, yet.

She liked it when I talked to her, it kept her happy.

We then arrived at the building, she landed at one of the aircraft bays, and I got off her and sat down.

She also sat down next to me; I had brought a few Energon chips for her as a snack.

This location was where the battle lines were drawn; nobody claimed this area, neutral territory so thankfully we wouldn't get attacked.

The view from the building wasn't bad, okay, you a lovely view of the death, the destruction and the battles, but it's nice if you like that kind of thing, not exactly my cup of Energon though.

I looked at 1984, thought and said, "You know, that name you have, 1984, it's not a very nice name," She looked at me sharply, staring into my optics, I continued, "you need a new name, let me think, how about Firebird?"

She shook her head.

"Okay then, how about... Hm... Flamerider?"

She again shook her head.

"*Sigh* Let me think... Firephoenix?"

This time she looked up, as if to say, "Close, but it wouldn't catch on."

"Hm... I KNOW! PHOENIXFIRE!"

Her optics widen, she then transformed, and it was the same robot mode that was in my room 3 weeks ago.

"That's it." She said, with a gentle, female voice.

I was dumbfounded, she can talk!?!

She sat down in her robot mode and said, "I never asked your name, what is it?"

At first I didn't answer, I was too shocked, I then said, "Bumblebee, my name's Bumblebee."

I put my hand out and she shook it.

I continued, "You can talk, so why didn't you talk earlier?"

"Because: A, I was learning, listening to what everybody was saying, I couldn't talk at first, it wasn't in my programming, and B, every time I was going to, Optimus showed up."

"Wait, Optimus, what has he got to do with this?"

"Nothing, forget I said that."

I looked at her, confused, she frowned.

"Come on, you can tell me."

She looked left, then right and said, "Before I met you, Optimus tried to tame me, at first I bucked him off, he kept getting back on my back and I kept throwing him off. They were all scared of me even the red and the white mech."

"You mean Ironhide and Ratchet?" I asked.

She nodded her head and continued, "Yeah... I saw darkness in all of them, including Optimus."

We fell silent for what felt like hours.

I then broke the silence by saying, "Then why did you trust me from the start?"

"Because, I saw goodness inside you, you have a good, pure Spark. Not like the others, they have darkness inside theirs. You just, you just... You were different than the others."

"But how did you see that?"

"Eye of the Phoenix, it's one of my special powers, it means I can see good, hidden truth and secrets."

"Wow! That's so cool." I said.

She transformed in front of me, flapped her wings twice and said, "Come on Bee, we need to get back before they notice we're missing. And don't worry just grab my neck, I don't need reins anymore." she said that as she was taking off her reins off her head using her claws.

I got on her back and did what she said, her wings opened wide and we jumped.

She did a small dive, then pulled-up just as we were about to touch the ground.

"So, when are you going to tell the others?" I asked, as we were flying.

"Now, I don't want to hide any longer, I don't care if Optimus is unhappy about it, he could stick his head in a black hole for all I care, I'll still do it."

I started laughing, boy, she's funny.