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The Switch

Summary:

TFA/TFP Crossover, the allspark even in fragment's works in odd way's, One team has often wondered what it would be like having their youngest teammate take thing's more seriously, while another wishes their youngling didn't have to grow up so fast, when the two mech's are switched both side's get to see what that reality is like as unknown to them all unforseen consequences are shown.

Both players have to play a new game and find their way home but is going home really the awnser? Maybe some things do happen for a reason.

Chapter 1: The Switch

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(Prime)

Everything hurt.

Well at least that meant he was alive that was good? Nah, that either meant he was going to wake up in the medbay with Ratchet yelling at him for getting that close to Lugnut or they were still fighting and he had been rendered temporarily out of commison.

To be fair it was their fault in the first place he was suppose to be the slagging distraction again! Honestly he had almost gone off on his friend's that night but had just complained like alway's and tried to distract the large mech.

Being hit by that stupid giant con sucked! He knew from Bulkhead that it wasn't just his small size that made it painful as his best friend assured him that the hit's, hit hard to him as well despite his thick armor the large con was just a really heavy hitter.

As he onlined his optic's everything was kind of fuzzy as he rubbed his helm his circuit's trying to focus, looking around from his position on the ground which he realized he was laying on his stomach plating; he couldn't really make anything out as his optic's were trying to adjust to being knocked out.

Looking around despite some static the bright glow of the all spark fragment was clear, as it his attention not at all noticing his surrounding's were different than they had been only awhile ago as the sight of the glowing object brought some relief.

Well at least he had the shard, reaching out without getting up yet he picking it up and opened his subspace placing it for safe keeping until he could meet up with the other's; assuming that the fight moved away from him.

Getting ready to stand up an try and follow what he hoped was a trail he let out a surprised yelp as he found himself on his knee's, looking at his leg's the reason for the pain was obvious as energon was leaking from a large gash on his yellow plating probably caused by Lugnut; as it had formed a glowing puddle where he had once lay it didn't look to good as some wire's were exposed the limb sparking a bit.

"Scrap! This sucks and hurt's!" Bumblebee complained as he finally noticed something odd.

When had the ground looked so detailed? And wasn't he in the city why was he on some strange sandy ground? Why did everything look so fragging weird!!

Trying to stand again now more in a panic he found it hurt like slag but he could get up, the pain just made him wish he hadn't as he gritted his denta quickly putting a servo to his helm he tried to contact his team; as he knew Ratchet was going to yell at him again especially when he saw his leg.

What met him was static as he tried Bulkhead's frequency, growling in annoyance he tried to comm Prowl an got the same result as he tried Optimus and Ratchet static was the only awnser he got.

"Great my comm's broken! Could this night get any worse!" The yellow bot shouted into the night air as he jumped when his yell echoed into the night, he suddenly realized he had just jinxed himself.

Looking around again with clearer optic's the place looked barren with just rock's and sand with mountain's, he still had no idea where he was but standing around leaking energon wasn't helping him as he needed to find his team and figure out why everything looked so weird.

Trying to transform into his alt mode would have been the smart move but with his leg the way it was that wasn't a good idea, he had tried to transform once with an injuired servo back when they used to fix space bridge's and all he had done was worsen the injury; he winced at the memory of how he had nearly torn off his own servo when the transformation cog's were activated.

He groaned in pain and annoyance" I knew I should have stayed with Sari" okay maybe he wouldn't have been allowed to but it would be better than how this night had turned out.

He didn't know where he was, he was injuired and it hurt like slag as he limped, everything looked weird and he just wanted to get back to base an play video game's with Sari.

Moving away from where he had once laid he didn't know he wasn't the only one put into a different world, as he focused instead on trying to find his friend's.

Glancing down at his armor it looked different too just like his surrounding's, it was way more detailed and bulgy as he turned his servo the metal reflected the moonlight as it even felt different more solid? Where had he seen this sort of style?!

Bumblebee was moving at a snail's pace as his leg wouldn't allow him to move any faster, he kept trying to avoid putting too much weight on it as the pain got worse with every step a few warning's were beginning to appear on his HUD all telling him that he was running low on energy and energon; how long had he'd been laying there bleeding out? And just where were the other's!?

A tiny part of his processor was telling him what he already knew after seeing the difference in appearance, but denial was a strong motivator as accepting what this could be wasn't something he wanted after all there was no way right!? This couldn't possibly be some...

Luckily or unluckily the sound of blaster fire began to fill the air, Bumblebee didn't get more than a few step's in before a large purple body got sent his way almost landing ontop of him.

"What the!" Shuffling backward's he fell onto his backplate's, stupid leg! As he sat up the large purple bot got up despite the visible injuries to it's armor, as it looked around and locked it's red visor onto him.

Both he and the unknown to him vehicon drone froze for a moment as it tried to figure out what the heck it was seeing, it's optic's finally landed on the autobot insignia on the yellow one's chest plate's as it's blaster immediately replaced it's servo.

Bumblebee didn't even have time to react as the purple bot stared at him for a second and now he had a blaster aimed at his helm, he didn't even have time to process the action as his stinger's would never come out in time.

Right before the plasma could leave the blaster the vehicon was crushed with a large mace.

"Take that you con!" The deep voice yelled as it utterly destroyed the vehicon, seeing as Breakdown had left the field he at least got to break some vehicon's.

Looking up Bumblebee was able to make out blue optic's on a large body as he couldn't see anything else, the moon's light was behind the other bot creating a rather menacing shadow.

He wasn't sure if he had been saved or was about to get slagged too, as his stinger's had actually deployed but weren't active as his processor was more focused on the hulking figure in front of him.

"What? Who are you!?" Bulkhead had only attacked the vehicon to keep it from running away he only now notice the yellow bot, taking in his feature's he looking more like an oversized child's toy than a threat; as he realized he had just saved this bot from getting slagged by the con.

Bumblebee's jaw almost dropped when the big mech got closer, the faceplate was more worn, he was bigger and the voice was different but only one mech he knew looked like this.

"Bulkhead?!"

Bulkhead looked at the small bot who he just now noticed was a minibot, huh, he hadn't seen that frame type since before the great war as it seemed the tiny bot knew his name.

Narrowing his optic's he spoke again with a bit more of a threat in his tone" Yeah, but how do you know that!? You a con!" The reaction he got was the minibot shaking his helm, optic's wide with fear as weird looking weapon's on his servo's waved in denials.

"What no! I'm an autobot see, see, my name's Bumblebee!" He changed his servo's back to normal as he pointed to his insignia, hoping he might recognize his name.

The reaction was instantaneous as Bulkhead's optic's widened" What! Your Bumblebee!?" The wrecker had no idea what was going on as he wondered if this mech either had a screw loose or was just messing with him as his faceplate twisted in confusion and disbelief.

Meanwhile Bumblebee watched the Bulkhead look alike get a really confused look on his faceplate's mirroring his best friend when he couldn't make sense of something, he was about to try and stand when warning's began to flash in front of his optic's again as with some panic he realized his system's were beginning to shut themselves down; he didn't even hear Bulkhead's question as he fell back system's in a force statis to preserve what little energy and energon he had.

"Slag" it was all the wrecker could say as he had noticed the bot had zoned out for a moment before completely shutting down on him, as he finally noticed the energon that was leaking from the minibot's leg how the limb had stayed attached was beyond Bulkhead's knowledge as he vented a sigh.

Great, the vortex was gone, Bumblebee was gone and now he had found an injuired minibot who said he was Bumblebee and was now conked out yeah this guy probably had hit his helm to hard.

What was he suppose to do with him leave the bot? No, the con's would probably see the spark signature and return the little guy wouldn't be able to defend himself if he did that especially in statis lock as he vented a sigh in resignation.

Shaking his helm he decided to comm Ratchet for a groundbridge usually bringing back a stranger was against their safety protocols, but this was a minibot if he turned out to be a con he could crush him fairly easily and his misson was to bring back anything of interest he found.

"Ratchet I need a groundbridge and you might wanna prepare the medbay I found something weird" he spoke to Ratchet as he tried to pick up the small form without damaging him even more.

There was a reason minibot's had almost become a nonexistent frame once the war hit, he was reminded of that fact as he really tried to not add to the dent's and scratches he was just noticing on the yellow frame as the leg wound was the worst one.

"Which servo did you break!?" the medic assumed the wrecker had outdone it again, as the signal's had shown Breakdown ealier.

"Not me doc" Bulkhead said as there was some grumbling before the green light of the bridge showed up behind him.

Walking through the bridge he wondered what exactly he was going to tell Optimus and the rest of the team once he came through, thinking about detail's wasn't Bulkhead's strength as he'd just tell them what had happened he guessed.

Though there was one bot he already knew was gonna try and have gis helm the moment she noticed Bumblebee was missing, that femme was scary when pissed off she was worst when she was worried.

Seeing the base coming into view Bulkhead braced himself for the questions.


(Animated)

He remembered getting pushed into the vortex by an eradicon while he had his servo's busy with a vehicon the last thing he saw was Bulkhead punching Breakdown, both drone's had been sent with him as the moment all three were in the vortex it had closed disorienting all three bot's as strange force's spun them around messing with their equilibrium chip's.

The next thing Bumblebee knew he was falling as he expected to hit ground, instead he fell on someone? Someone who fell foward from the added weight as the eradicon quickly activated it's thruster's to stay airborn while the vehicon fell down to earth hard destroying one of it's arm's.

"GET THE FRAG OFF!" An angry voice that weirdly sounded german yelled at Bumblebee as he looked downward and saw that he had landed on a decepticon, the purple brand was visible even in the dark night sky.

A suprise click left his translator as he jumped off the other mech, who's angry red face glowered at him before he was forced to dodge as one of the canon's on his shoulder's sending a wave of fire toward's him.

Automatic instinct's to defend himself overtook everything else as he transformed his servos into his blaster's and began to shoot at the con not at all caring that he had never seen this one before, or the fact that his surrounding's now looked different more flat, more cartoony and he definitely hadn't noticed the autobot's looking at him in suprise as the moment he began to shoot at Blitzwing they seemed to snap out of their shock.

"What just happened?! Where's Bee who's that?!" Bulkhead was the one to snap out of it first as they had been fighting Lugnut and Blitzwing for an all spark fragment when something weird had happened.

A strange vortex similar to a space bridge had shown up as their yellow friend ended up getting knocked into it by Lugnut, Bulkhead had reacted by taking on the con finally knocking him out as before anyone could take in what had happened another vortex had opened up; this one in the sky an threw out a yellow mech and two purple bot's one which was obviously a con.

"I don't know Bulkhead-" but before Optimus could say anything else he was forced to move away as the eradicon shot at him.

The vehicon joining in by trying to tackle Prowl only for the ninja bot to quickly move out of the way.

"I don't believe we've seen these decepticon's before" Prowl said as he dodged a plasma shot from the vehicon who was awkwardly trying to balance halfway in vehicle mode, transforming with a missing servo was not ideal.

The eradicon didn't help matter's as it kept firing at them from the air.

"That's because their drone's! But the con's haven't used them since the great war!" Ratchet spoke as he hadn't seen a vehicon nor eradicon drone for thousands of stellar cycle's, they were just to much of a hassle for the cons to build.

"You sure about that!?" Bulkhead said as swung his wrecking ball at the eradicon, it managed to strike the drone's vehicle mode sending it toward's the ground.

It quickly transformed as it's wings were dented and it's backplate's leaked engeron.

Meanwhile Bumblebee was jumping out of the way from a blast of ice, apparently this guy was some sort of con with a serious screw loose as he had not expected him to go from the angry red face to a calm blue one.

"You look familiar" Icy spoke as the yellow mech may have had door wing's and was taller but what a coincidence that one yellow bot went into the vortex and another yellow one came out.

"Sorry three face but I don't think we've met!" Bumblebee couldn't help the jab at the decepticons strange ability he used to love taunting con's back when he had his vocie, he rarely did it now as his beep's didn't portray emotion well as he dodged fire again the red face was back.

Blitzwing growled at the comment his cannon's smoking as he readied more fire, the blast he would have let out never came as Bumblebee watched the broken body of the eradicon crash into the crazy mech sending him to the pavement.

Wait pavement? Hadn't he been in the salt flats of Utah?

Turning around he saw a large mech looking at him sheepishly" Sorry!" Bulkhead apologized as he had been aiming for Blitzwing not the new bot that had shown up, luckily he seemed to be on their side as he noticed the autobot insignia on his body.

Bumblebee's odd optic's spun as they focused on the large mech, the light's around them illuminated the bulky form as the scout wondered if he had lost it.

"Bul-" once again there was an interruption, as it seemed Lugnut had woken up again.

"YOU AUTOSCUM WILL ALL PAY!" the large purple con yelled as he raised his fist the familar glow of his P.O.K.E powering up.

"Scrap! Everybody down!" Optimus yelled as they all tried to get away from what would be the resulting crater, even Blitzwing had gone into the air though not before picking up the offlined body of the eradicon.

Bumblebee didn't know what was happening except that somebot had yelled to get away as the large army green mech was already pulling him, the next thing Bumblebee felt more than saw was the ground rumbling and a wave of energy that they barely escaped the large mech shielding him from the worst of it.

Where Lugnut once stood was a crater and the con gone as they had used the light to escape all that was left was the destroyed vehicon who was scrap metal.

"You okay?" Bulkhead asked the yellow mech he had pulled with him, he didn't know why he did it sure it seemed he was an autobot but something about him was familiar to the green mech as he hadn't thought twice about shielding him.

Bumblebee shook his helm trying to get the ringing in his audios to stop as he looked up at the green mech, he was a bit smaller or was Bumblebee just taller? The voice was different and so was the armor but he'd know this mech anywhere.

"I'm fine" Bumblebee clicked as he noticed the other give him a weird look, it was one Bumblebee recognized from when he first got his translator.

Mech's and femme's not expecting him to use it before they found out about his...unfortunate condition.

"Bulkhead!" The name only proved Bumblebee's theory as to his suprise he noticed three other bot's running toward's them.

His door wing's twitched in response to his suprise and nervousness.

The first bot was taller than him by a few feet or so as he was mostly red, white and blue he was familar but less so than Bulkhead had been as it seemed his assumptions about the green mech were correct; he also was noticing the flat look everything had what did Miko call it 2D?

The second bot was his height and was slim for a mech, the way he walked toward's him and Bulkhead was almost silent as he wondered how the heck a giant robot could walk so quietly!?

But it was the third one that sparked recognition as he was shorter and the paintjob was different as was the armor but there was no dount about it, this mech had to be Ratchet he just had to be!

The three stopped in front of him and Bulkhead, the one that had to be Ratchet was already checking Bulkhead for any serious injuries as the other two looked at him.

It was kind of akward especially the black and gold one's stare/glare? His calm faceplate's and the visor didn't help as he was as unreadable as Soundwave at the moment.

"I'm guessing your not a decepticon?" Optimus decided to finally say, as he looked at the newcomer noticing the autobot insignia the yellow mech wore.

Beside's he had seen the other fighting Blitzwing so he couldn't have been their ally, still though they didn't know who he was or what connection he could have to Bumblebee's disappearance.

Bumblebee shook his helm rapidly as he put his servo's up" No way! I'm an autobot, I actually don't know where I am!" though he was getting a sickening feeling about this.

The Shadowzone incident came to mind but there was no way this was an alternate dimension right?! The shadowzone was the only one right!

Optimus nodded as he noticed the yellow bot hadn't 'spoken' but had used cybertronian shorthand; he had learned about it in the academy but didn't know any bot's who actually used it.

"Your in Detroit" Prowl spoke up as he had been observing the door winger.

He was pretty obviously an autobot a young one at that but at the same time he had shown up from the same vortex that had taken their teammate ealier, there was also something else something familiar about the yellow and black mech that had Prowl wanting to lower his guard to his shock; his subconscious processor having figured something out that his conscious mind hadn't seem to get yet.

"Detroit! Where in Detroit?" That was nowhere near Jasper! As he tried his comm, he wasn't surprised to get static as his suspicions began to rise again, but it was impossible.

"So you wouldn't happen to know anything about the portal that dropped you here?" Optimus hoped this bot might be able to help, but that hope was quickly swatted away by the mech's shaking helm.

"I was actually checking the vortex out with a teammate only it had shown up in Utah not Detroit" he explained as he mentally sighed, Miko would love to be in his place as after the shadowzone trip she began to wonder if there were other dimensions.

She even once mentioned a world where the autobot's were the bad guys and the decepticon's were the good guy's, she had received many strange look's but some could not stop laughing at the the idea of a good version of some con's they disliked.

Well it seemed the con's and bot's still had the same factions here, but it seemed thing's were different appearance wise instead and he hadn't reconized those two con's so maybe one's that didn't exist where he was from.

"Utah!? Did ya hit yer processor kid" the tone was gruffer and the vocalizer sounded older, but that was Ratchet's voice alright! The medic walked toward's him scanner in hand as he was actually trying to make sure the kid was okay.

Bumblebee mildly wondered if this Ratchet liked to throw wrenches or threathen welding bot's to ceiling's like his.

"I don't think so, maybe? Look I don't know what caused it" He knew he wasn't nut's this had to be some weird dimensional thing, as the medic was using his scanner on him as he tried to get the other to see he was fine only for him to start feeling a sudden ache in his arm.

Looking at the servo it was lightly leaking energon and probably wouldn't require much attention anyway.

Before anything else could be said to Bumblebee, Ratchet was the one who spoke.

"We can talk all fine and dandy back in the medbay, starting with you kid" The scan's Ratchet had gotten back revealed something interesting as he'd need a closer look at the mech.

The other's now all looked at Ratchet" Are you sure that's wise?" Prowl asked as they didn't know anything about this mech, he could be a threat.

"I don't think he'll be any trouble he helped us fight the decepticon's" Bulkhead spoke up vouching for the unknown mech, his processor was telling him he knew this bot but where?

"We'll take him back to base but until we hear his side he'll stay in Ratchet's medbay if that's okay with you" Optimus compromised as he looked at his teammate's and then at the doorwinger who nodded in agreement.

Even to him the yellow bot seemed really familiar as he felt he could trust him despite not knowing who he was.

If Bumblebee had to breath he would have been holding his breath as these bot's talked about him, it made sense for them to distrust him so he couldn't fault the dark mech's word's as it seemed the tall red and blue mech was the leader; he made a compromise that Bumblebee stay in their bases medbay while they tired to figure out what was going on.

He agreed to that as he also wanted ro know what was happening as he had just noticed the city scape surrounding them, why were they in Detroit anyway? The autobot's would never hide in such a place, but maybe it was different here.

He was brought out of his mmusing's when he noticed the bot he had pegged as the leader of the group transforming as the rest did the same, Bumblebee copied the action as his alt mode got a few look's from the other vehicle's but he soon followed them as Bulkhead was driving beside him.

"Hey, so we never got your name back there I'm Bulkhead" the green mech had no problem talking to the yellow car, seeing the sport's vehicle it looked like it was made for speed as it was something his little buddy would have found cool.

Hearing the mech ask for his name had Bumblebee thinking as he was getting a pretty good idea about what had happened with the odd vortex, but he didn't know if he should tell this Bulkhead what his name was as if his thought's were true then that meant but the other didn't seem to be here; though he would have to tell them his name eventually might as well do it now.

"Bumblebee, my name is Bumblebee"

Chapter 2: What in the World?

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The world worked in mysterious ways, the energies of the universe were a mystery where things most species with intelligence would say you can't always explain the unknown and the impossible.

Well whoever thought this was a good idea had stabbed themselves one to many times in the spark with dark energon!


Energon shortage was probably one of the worst ways to shut down as all his systems were sluggish in their response and would be for awhile, he knew he should have refueled the previous day but that new game had been way more important at the time and how was he suppose to know he was going to get blasted an end up in some alternate universe or parallel world whatever it was! He was not taking the blame for this!

What returned first was his sense of hearing static through his audios did not help the processor ache he current had which was also another side effect of crashing.

Trying to move did not work he didn't really expected it too, systems that were forcefully shut down took awhile to reboot and while he was fully aware his frame was still playing catch up which in itself was annoying he hated staying still for any longer than he had too; it irritated Ratchet whenever he was forced to fix something when Sari's key wasn't around.

Seeing as he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon he tried onlining his optic's might as well try and see where he was as if that bot had been some other version of Bulkhead he didn't think he was in any danger, unless this was some invasion of the body snatcher's scenario and he was actually in a world with evil versions of his friends an the autobots were the bad guys or something.

Nah, that was way to crazy to be a possibility.

Static was what appeared first like some black and white snow which he was expecting as slowly it began to clear, black and white turning to color before he noticed a blurry shape above him which made him realize that he was laying down as everything finally came into focus.

He wasn't sure where he was, he didn't really get to look around too see where, why? Because someone was staring at him from above and he did the only logical thing he could think to do with someone invading his personal space, he screamed in suprise which caused the bot to back up a suprise yell leaving the other's vocalizer.

Before either one could react to the other another voice broke up the screaming session they were having.

"Smokescreen, when I said watch the patient I didn't mean yell at eachother!" the voice sounded more annoyed than angry and despite it sounding different when the white an red bot came into view Bumblebee could only think one name.

Ratchet

Well if he had any doubts about being in another universe those were gone.

"Sorry doc, but hey at least he's awake" Smokescreen who Bumblebee noticed was pretty tall wow if he felt small in his own world this place looked like it was going to be worse.

The medic just seemed to grumble something as he turned to the minibot that Bulkhead had brought back, who apparently claimed to be named Bumblebee and while it wouldn't be uncommon for some bot's to share the same name this was not the case. Ratchet wasn't much of a believer in the theory of the multiverse, while some scientists on cybertron did an even tried to use space bridges to try and see if their theories were true he still held no belief in them.

Then Bulkhead had returned with a minibot in his arm's after their Bumblebee had vanished into the vortex.

The bot's systems were cybertronian for sure but they were different, far to different from any system's he had seen and he had seen many which unfortunately brought up the possibility that this bot might not be of their world just fantastic.

Bumblebee could only wince under the stare the medic was giving him, he hadn't even noticed he could probably move now as he had that same look in his optic's that his Ratchet got when he was thinking about something.

"Uh, so thanks for the save and all but where are we?" The quiet was starting to get awkward and if there was anything Bumblebee hated more than his height being mentioned it was silence.

"At the autobot's base, Bulkhead brought you back after he found you last night! Where did you come from anyway, wait are you really named Bumblebee!?" Smokescreen had once again gotten a little too close as he spouted off questions, the yellow bot wondered if this guy understood what personal space was.

"This is your guy's base!? And yeah my name is Bumblebee" moving to sit up as he noticed the walls looked like solid stone, that seemed to snap Ratchet out of his minor space out.

"Don't move yet your system's should still be interlining, you'll need to stay off that leg for a few solar cycles and I need that energon line to stay in place, when was the last time you refueled" The medic was now looking at the machine's currently connected to the bot, looking at the readings as he did seem to be functioning normally.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee just looked at the medic who had quickly fired off both questions and awnser's as Bumblebee looked at his right servo noticing the line but if it was suppose to be energon why was it blue? Looking at his leg their was an obvious weld as he didn't really relish in the idea of having to stay off his pede's where was Sari's key when you needed it.

"The last time I refueled was a few day's ago, I sort of forgot to yesterday" the minibot laughed nervously scratching the back of his helm, a human habit he had picked up.

The medic said nothing which honestly scared Bumblebee since his Ratchet would have told him that he was reckless and to have better fueling habits.

"I see, Smokescreen comm the other's that our guest has awoken" Smokescreen smiled as he gave a thumbs up and walked somewhere else in the base, leaving Bumblebee alone with the medic which was awkward.

Bumblebee barely got along with his own Ratchet though it was mostly due to him being reckless and Ratchet's lectures on how he was going to kill himself one day if he didn't get his act together.

"Sooo, if I told you that hypothetically-" he tried to start the conversation he knew was eventually going to be asked when Ratchet stopped him.

"That you are possibly of another world" the medic turned from his equipment to look at the minibot.

"Uh, yeah that, wait! Your not surprised?" Was dimensional travel normal here?

"As much as I didn't believe in that theory a recent development and your system's have proven otherwise" the incident with the Shadowzone was one Ratchet still couldn't believe was possible and had begun to look into just in case said incident was repeated.

"Oh" that was all Bumblebee could say as an awkward silence soon followed, thankfully that other bot Smokescreen came back.

"They said they'd be back soon but Bulkhead might be late, he said Miko got detention again but not to worry she'd find a way to sneak out" Smokescreen had to admit the girl was rather chaotic but never a dull moment.

"Of course she did" was Ratchet's automatic response to anything related to the girl.

Bumblebee was completely lost on the conversation but it seemed to involve someone human, did this team also have some human allies like his team did? He didn't recognize the name Miko so maybe they met different humans.

"Hey, do you know any humans? We have three who come to the base well five actually but two of them are adults and Fowler just likes yelling at us, mostly Optimus about-" wow and Bumblebee thought he talked alot as Smokescreen didn't seem to realize he couldn't get his questions awnsered if he didn't stop talking.

Bumblebee also noticed Ratchet gave Smokescreen a look, a look he recognized as the 'your giving away to much information' look, well it wasn't like he was the bad guy here and even if he was these two could easily stop him as much as he hated to admit it.

Was this the universes way of messing with him? Sending him to a world where from the looks of it everyone was going to tower over him even more than back home!?

"Okay first question, Yes I do know humans one of my best friends is human and I have no idea who Fowler is but he sounds like Fanzone because he yells at us about the decepticons too" well at least it looked like there were some similarities, Sari was the only human who actually stayed at the base due to her father going missing a few months after the entire ordeal with Megatron.

But apparently these bots had more than just one human come over and visit, Fanzone only came to yell at them usually Optimus huh, looks like that was another similarity.

"So is everyone here as tall as you are?" Bumblebee couldn't help it, he had to know the awnser to that! Of course it was a stupid question but given that he's known this guy for less than a few minutes, he had the impression Smokescreen wouldn't care.

"Oh way bigger! Like your smaller than Arcee and she's the shortest bot in this base, a decepticon could grab you like a human would a doll!" Smokescreen might have been a little to enthusiast in his explanation but hey! Honesty was the best policy and this guy was tiny so he might as well find out now.

"So everyone's huge here big shock" Bumblebee moved into a better sitting position for the sole purpose of crossing his arm's over his chest in annoyance, universe he really hated it right now.

"Don't worry about it though, the Bee I know is the shortest mech here so your both the same in height!" Smokescreen noticed height seemed to be a sensitive subject apparently as their Bumblebee wasn't the tallest either so maybe that would help.

Bumblebee looked up at Smokescreen, he wasn't sure if he was trying to make him feel better or if he was lying, either way though if it was true maybe it was just a universal fact after all if this place existed who knew how many others did.

The idea that every version of himself was the smallest on the team though was an annoying thought, like what did he do to the multiverse to deserve that!

"So who's Arcee? Never heard that name before" changing the subject from his height was apparently super easy as Smokescreen seemed completely eager to awnser.

Bumblebee wasn't sure if Smokescreen was putting on a very friendly act or if this bot was just naturally this oblivious to both personal space and was just spazzy as he began telling him that she was the only femme on the team an the only two wheeler.

Huh, maybe she was Prowls replacement here.

Neither one noticed Ratchet leave the medbay as he left Smokescreen alone usually he wouldn't leave Smokescreen by himself in range of his medical tools, he broke and lost as many as Bulkhead did but he had the minibot to keep him occupied.

Instead he pulled out the strange object he had discovered on the yellow bot while running his initial scans, it gave off incredible power despite it being a small glowing shard in his servo. The yellow bot would eventually figure out Ratchet had taken it but he was more interested in what exactly it was, could this shard be the reason for the groundbridge malfunctions? Could it be why this was happening.

The medic didn't know, but as the sound of engine's began to make themselves known the minibot would have alot of explaining to do and they themselves had alot of explaining to do too the children.

Ratchet didn't relish in that at all.

Meanwhile Bumblebee found out that Arcee wasn't the only difference in this team as apparently there was a bot called Wheeljack who'd come to earth sometimes, he was a wrecker a branch of the military that as far as Bumblebee knew from his own universe didn't exist anymore.

He also didn't know any Wheeljack though the guy sounded kind of insane from how Smokescreen described him, he was apparently extremely into causing as much damage as possible specifically blowing it up.

If his team had to deal with that he was pretty sure their would be daily arguments, they already got on his case anytime he did anything they deemed to reckless.

"Wheeljack sounds nuts" was Bumblebee's only response to Smokescreen about the bot.

Smokescreen just laughed at that" Completely! But that's what makes him so cool, you should have seen him fighting the cons it was awesome and Bulkhead too when you put the two of them together-" he wasn't able to finish that sentence though as both bots were taken out of their conversation by Ratchet.

"Smokescreen, into the main room we all need to talk about" the medic looked at Bumblebee" our guest"

Bumblebee wasn't sure if that was a dig at him or not as Smokescreen seemed a bit disappointing that the conversation was over but listened nevertheless, as that left Bumblebee alone once again as thats when he heard more voices.

When had the rest of the autobots shown up? Then again he and Smokescreen had gotten a bit caught up in their conversation, well the bot might be a bit weird and hyper yes ironic, but he did seem genuinely nice so that was something.

He had said the rest of the autobots were nice but still he didn't know what to expect, he didn't have much of a read on this worlds Ratchet so far he wasn't acting like the grumpy medic he knew at all if anything he seemed to be avoiding directly talking to him and listening to what he had to say.

That already put him on edge as this had to be some sort of act because they thought he was a threat or something, which would be stupid these guys were big enough to easily take him down after all he got damaged enough from the cons back home.

Though remembering home he remembered, the Allspark fragment! He was about to reach into his subspace to see if it was still there when the voices in the background became louder.

A femme's voice he assumed that must be Arcee sounded ticked off, sheesh Smokescreen wasn't kidding when he said she was probably going to be the most confrontational as another voice he didn't recognize spoke over her.

Hopefully he wouldn't be here long enough to find out exactly how much he should watch his back, after all if the allspark got him here then that's all he needed to go home right?

Shaking his helm he tried instead to focus on the voices trying to make out what was being said but he couldn't hear them, the thought of sneaking out of the medbay to eavesdrop was strong but he had no idea how this Ratchet would react if he did that it could prove to be the straw that finally got him to yell at Bumblebee; besides he wasn't to sure how to remove the energon line or if he could even stand.

He hated this, he hated being stuck in one place not able to move or do anything it sucked! He wasn't sure if he wanted the conversation to be done with so he could finally talk to the rest of the bots or to be left alone awhile longer.

Though anymore spiraling thoughts were stopped when he heard movement, footfalls of someone heading towards him as they were far to light too belong to anyone made of metal. It was a sound he mostly associated with humans specifically Sari as the two of them basically spent everyday together he'd gotten use to always having her around.

Nope he was not about to admit he was missing his best friend, nope focus on the possible unknown human heading towards him as soon they came into view as they kneeled over slightly trying to catch their breath before she looked up at him.

Okay this girl was definitely older than Sari but that look in her eyes was a little more familiar than he'd care to admit, there was a mini staring contest that seemed to last a full minute before.

"Your so small!"

"I'm not small!" Was Bumblebee's automatic response, really! Again with the height! It wasn't as if being here with just Ratchet and Smokescreen hadn't already been the universe rubbing it in! What was it with him and height!

"You are and I thought Arcee wasn't that tall but your really small" Miko couldn't help it, he looked like a bright yellow toy robot nothing like the other bots in the base oh man she couldn't wait until Raf and Jack saw him.

"Well your small too!" Bumblebee tried to counter only for the girl to smile at him.

"I'm human were suppose to be small, your just short" Miko countered back as the look on the others face was priceless, maybe she shouldn't tease somebot she didn't know about his height but she didn't know the bots could be this size!

Okay Bumblebee would give her that she was human but still he turned away from her" Well your probably short by human standards!" He tried to have the last word.

"I'm not an adult yet I'll get taller!" Miko waved a hand as the yellow bot refused to look at her, okay she knew she should be worried about Bumblebee being missing but this was a new bot, possibly from another world from what Smokescreen said! How could she be to worried when proof of the multiverse was just sitting there!

"Miko!"

Both bot and human looked up at the voice as Miko just laughed nervously at the disapproving looks she was receiving from the bots, after all she wasn't suppose to sneak off and see the mysterious guest until they finished explaining everything but curiosity got the best of her.

Bumblebee meanwhile wanted to gape at what he was seeing but managed to at least not make himself look more stupid than he already felt, he was used to loosing arguments to Sari since she was a little kid but this girl looked older and he didn't enjoy loosing a height argument but anyway he saw Ratchet and Smokescreen who was holding two other humans.

But that wasn't what got his attention neither had the blue femme or Bulkhead but the very very tall blue and red bot who was at the front of the group, he was obviously bigger and he looked alot older with plenty of differences but Bumblebee could still recognize who the bot was.

It had to be Optimus.

Why was he getting the feeling this place was about to throw him for a bigger loop...he hated the universe.


(Animated)

He didn't know if he was being treated like a guest or a possible threat, either way he couldn't really blame them.

It had been a few hour's since Bumblebee's appearance in this world, yes he was accepting he was probably in some parallel or alternate universe as there was honestly no other way to explain ending up in a world with other autobot's with two who looked like his teammates and not come to that conclusion; though the weird way thing's looked here was something that would take some getting use to.

He felt like he was in a cartoon with how bright and flat everything looked, was it weird he could tell their wasn't alot of detailing done here?

Despite the Ratchet he knew warning him, Smokescreen and basically anyone who wasn't Optimus or Ultra Magnus about not messing around his or any medbay, Bumblebee wasn't going to sit around while these bots tried to figure out whatever their problem was.

Seriously if he was a decepticon turning this entire medbay into a lethal weapon was absolutely possible he knew how to use just about anything as a weapon, one of the advantages of war he supposed he could even turn his own armor into a weapon if the situation called for it.

He went back to walking around the medbay noticing that it was alot more stocked than his own Ratchet's, he even noticed some cybertronian medical devices that were destroyed in the war centuries ago that was odd? Had they managed to save them from the war? But they looked practically new.

Okay if they didn't come in and talk to him by the next earth hour he was screwing whatever rules they had and getting some answers.

What could they possibly be talking about that was taking so long!?

At that moment the doors opened as the yellow mech turned around expecting to see the bots who brought him here, only he saw nothing. Did he accidently active the sensors? A malfunction?

"So thats what they were hiding from me! Those bolt for brains!" The voice alerted him to someone definitely being in the room as he looked down and saw a little girl.

Bumblebee looked at the human girl she looked younger than even Raf, why was there a human here? Did these bots also have human charges? From the fascinated way she was looking at him the girl was no stranger to a giant robot, in fact she looked annoyed very annoyed.

He wasn't sure what to do though, the girl wouldn't be able to understand him but he couldn't keep having a staring contest with her forever.

"So, my best friends missing, the guys keep talking but won't tell me anything and they said they had another bot in here when they thought I wasn't listening so your going to tell me what's going on!" Sari might just be a kid and the others treated her as such but she'd been waiting for an explanation for hours, ever since the guy's came back without Bumblebee and apparently a new bot.

If no one was going to tell her anything then she was getting her own awnsers! Besides if this guy was dangerous she'd just scream and the guy's would be here in a heartbeat her plan was foolproof.

Bumblebee couldn't help but blink at the little girls demands, had she really just tried to threaten him? He wasn't sure if he should be impressed or slightly worried about how comfortable she was yelling at a bot she didn't know.

And he thought Miko was bad nope turns out she wasn't the only human in the world who'd mouth off to a giant robot.

She was still staring up him with the most impatient look on her face it honestly looked like she was trying to look serious but it ended up looking more cute, the fact she looked so young didn't help Bumblebee make the connection to a pouting sparkling.

He sighed through his vents as she wouldn't understand him might as well let her know now that he couldn't talk.

"Look, I'd like to tell you what happened but you can't understand me" Bumblebee looked at the girl waiting for the confusion to dawn on her face.

Instead he got a huff" I can understand you just fine, your stalling!" Sari pointed at him as Bumblebee was slightly shocked.

She could understand him!? Only Raf could understand him back home, honestly what were the odds of a human from possibly another world who also knew the autobots being able to understand his translator though now he realized he was going to have to explain things to her and he very much doubted she'd leave without any awnsers.

Was this a human femme thing? Were they naturally stubborn and unfearful of giant robots who weren't decepticons? No wait scratch that, Miko would actually argue with a con if given the chance and he had no idea if this girl would do the same if given the opportunity.

"I'm not stalling I just don't know how you can understand me, I don't really talk the way your friends do" Bumblebee lowered his frame to be a bit more level with the girl who was giving him a confused look.

"What do you mean?" Sari didn't understand what he meant he sounded like the other bots.

"I talk using a translator because I don't have an actual voice, humans can't understand me because I'm using a cybertronian language to talk to others" Bumblebee tried to explain it in simple terms deciding to leave out that he basically had most of his throat ripped out years ago, he wasn't to sure exactly how much robotic gore she'd been subjected too.

Sari just blinked not really understanding what he meant as she reached for her key, he said humans couldn't understand him but Sari had something most humans didn't" well it's probably my key, it can do alot of neat stuff like fix the guy's so maybe it's working like a translator to your translator!" It made perfect sense!

Bumblebee looked at the small key hanging off the girl's neck, it was small but it was cybertronian in origin that much was obvious.

"I see" he'd ask about the specifics of the key later" So before you ask me questions I'd at least like to know your name" Bumblebee said as he looked at the girl.

"It's Sari" she reached out a hand towards the yellow bot expectantly.

Bumblebee realized what she wanted as he carefully allowed her to grasp a digit in her small hand, he was never more aware of how delicate humans were than when he was personally interacting with them" Sari, you can call me Bumblebee" the shocked reaction was actually expected given how the other autobots reacted.

"No way! Your names Bumblebee too, my best friends name is also Bumblebee is that what the guys were talking about when they said there's another Bumblebee" she hadn't been able to hear everything but she heard Bumblebee's name mentioned along with how the other bot might share his name.

At that Bumblebee shrugged" what I'm going to tell you is going to sound crazy but you said you wanted awnsers right?" He offered his servo to the girl as she readily climbed on, he moved towards one of the berths decideding sitting was the best option as he let Sari down on the metal.

"My friends are a bunch of alien space robots, doesn't that sound crazy?" Sari sat down where Bumblebee had placed her, looking up at the bot with a smile as there was alot she was willing to believe.

Well Bumblebee had to admit she did have a point there.

"The reason my name is Bumblebee is because I'm not from here, this world the place I come from isn't as bright or flat as this, it sounds weird but I'm from another universe" Multiverse okay he could understand that it was a possible given the situation he was in, but a universe that was in 2D was still a bit jarring.

Though before he could say anything else Sari let out an excited gasp as she grabbed onto his arm looking at him like he was suddenly the most interesting thing ever.

"No way! Your from another world! Like that movie where the villains of one world were the good guys in a different dimension! That's so cool!" Her and her Bumblebee had watched it a few months ago, the evil clown was a good guy in the other world! She couldn't believe it the multiverse was real!

Did that mean there was another version of her out there? What about Bulkhead or the others oh wait that meant there were other versions of the decepticons too that sucked.

"Yeah sort of like that, only the autobots are still the good guys where I'm from" Huh, he hadn't even thought about that being a possibility but he'd think about those implications later.

"So wait if your here then where's our Bumblebee, did you guys switch places? Or did something bad-" Sari's impending freak out was quickly stopped though.

"I think we did, I fell into a groundbridge and found myself here if something similar happened to your Bumblebee then he's probably with my team right now" while Bulkhead had probably been surprised by the turn in events he didn't doubt that the green mech and probably gotten his other self to the rest of the team.

"Oh that's good, hey is everyone on your team like ours here!? Is Optimus still your leader oh is Prowl still all broody like batman in your world" the questions kept coming from the eight year old as they were endless.

"Optimus is the leader of the autobots, I don't know who Prowl is I assume he's that two wheeler on your team and we apparently share batman in our dimensions" a comic book character existed in two worlds, should he be impresses or extremely disappointed about something so silly also at least now he knew that blue and red bot from before was this worlds Optimus.

He was alot younger than the one he knew that's for sure, the Ratchet of this world actually looked and sounded older than the one he knew too so ages might be different here.

"You don't have Prowl in your world!" Sari hadn't thought that maybe some bot's didn't exist or maybe they hadn't met in another universe.

"We could have but I never met him, but I do have Bulkhead and Ratchet on our team" he hadn't seen Smokescreen with the bots earlier so he guessed he wasn't on this team or maybe he didn't exist here" so since I awnsered your questions, you up for awnsering some of mine?" Bumblebee asked.

Sari nodded despite her wanting to ask him more about his world it was fair and he had let her ask alot" Sure, ask me anything" she tried to stand taller though it didn't make much of a difference when compared to Bumblebee's height, oh man she really hoped the other's in this Bee's world weren't all this big she could just imagine her best friends reaction.

"Where are we specifically, like where in the city?" he knew it was Detroit but where in the city.

"Oh, your in outskirts of Detroit this place belongs to my dad but the guys use it as their base" Sari explained to the yellow bot who looked at her in both confusion and shock.

"They stationed themselves in the outskirts of Detroit! Detroit of all places? How do they hide from the humans with the base so close to the city?" The reason they were stationed near Jasper was due to the towns small size and the fact that the big open desert gave them plenty of space away from human eyes.

"They don't hide from humans, Optimus and the others help out the city when theirs accidents or when the decepticons attack the city looking for an allspark fragment" Sari was starting to get a bit confused as shouldn't he know this or was this Bumblebee's world different.

If Bumblebee was human he was pretty sure his optic would be twitching from what Sari just revealed to him, what were these bots doing? Allspark fragment did he even want to know what she meant by that!

Before they could continue their conversation however the door opened again as the two looked to see the autobot's walking in and looking at Sari in shock.

"Sari, you weren't suppose to come in here we told you-" Before Optimus could finish his scolding as they all finally agreed on what to do with the strange bot, said yellow mech interrupted him.

"Hey instead of blaming a little girl who you should have given awnsers too, why don't you focus on the fact that you left someone you probably consider a threat in a room filled with weapons!" Bumblebee glared at the red and blue bot as he stood, Sari's curiosity was completely understandable as it sounded like no one had told her anything.

"What weapons?" The one who spoke was Bulkhead as he was the only one who didn't think the yellow bot was a threat since this entire conversation started hour's ago.

Bumblebee wondered if he was being serious or not" you left a stranger inside a medbay, just about everything in here can be a weapon" did he have to spell it out for them.

"You guys thought he was dangerous and you put him in Ratchets torture chamber!" Sari looked from Bumblebee to her friends as it seemed that they really hadn't thought about that from their expression.

"So your telling us that you are a threat?" The one Bumblebee assumed was Prowl spoke as he already felt tired with this interaction.

Okay Bumblebee had to give it to the universe, he found something more annoying to deal with than Starscream thank you universe for testing his patience.

"No I'm not a threat to you right now, what I want to know is why I had to wait in here for hours and the only person willing to talk to me an give me awnsers was a little girl?" Honestly these bots had either the dumbest mechs he had ever met or didn't know how to deal with a threat at all.

No one spoke up at that one as the only sound was Sari who was muffling some snickers, she'd never seen anyone render her friends speechless so fast.

"So since none of you seemed to interested in telling me anything I'm going to be asking the questions" did it sound like a threat maybe, but Bumblebee was stuck inside this room for hours, he was in a different dimension of all things, he didnt know how everyone back home was dealing with this and he still had to figure out how to get back home!

He really hated the universe

Chapter 3: Explanations and Mistakens

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

"You can't be serious!? Ratchet, you realize this sounds insane right!?"

Oh Ratchet knew it sounded insane, he was well aware of how crazy this situation was but there was no other explanation if there was he would have offered an alternative theory.

"I'm well aware of how it sounds Arcee, but everything points to him not being of our world" Ratchet sighed looking at the group who were various degrees of confused or like Arcee disbelief.

"Wasn't that just some joke on Cybertron, other worlds can't be real!" Sure Bulkhead had heard rumors and some bot's even believed in such things but it couldn't be real.

"You guys are alien robots from space who turn into cars and fight other alien robots, you have a bridge that can take us anywhere on earth and you guys are telling me the multiverse can't exist!" Everyone looked up at Miko who was close to falling off the railing as a wide grin was on her face, she just couldn't believe how completely pessimist they were being.

"She does have a point" even Jack had to agree with Miko on this one, they were inside of a base occupied by something out of a Sci fi movie.

"And as someone who questioned him fully he is totally from another universe, he said everyone on this team is on his team except me and Arcee how would he know that if he wasn't from another universe" Smokescreen said rather matter of factly.

Everyone stared at Smokescreen unsure if they should point out that any decepticon could get that information.

"What about the Shadowzone, if its real then maybe he's telling the truth!" Raf spoke up, having been worried about his best friend since the bots told them what had happened that night.

He wanted to believe it was real then that meant they could get Bumblebee back home if the one claiming to be him here could tell them where he was.

"The shadowzone was just some groundbridge accident, we still don't know why it exist" Arcee didn't want to believe it, not that Bumblebee wasn't still alive she knew him and she knew wherever he was that he was alive but if there really was another world then what did that make their world?

"Ratchet, are there any physical proofs to his claims" Optimus spoke looking at his medic as he himself didn't know what to think of this situation, the possibility of alternative worlds wasn't just a myth he had spent many years in the archives and had read many things not made available to the public.

It was possible but they needed proof.

Ratchet quickly pulled out the datapad he had been using to document the minibot's systems, it held everything he had learned in the time the bot was in shutdown.

He brought up what had proven the minibots claims to him as he also pulled up the scans he had of their Bumblebee's spark signature, he specifically matched up their spark's core wavelength that single signature that was unique to every cybertronian and couldn't be copied even in twins.

The children didn't know what they were looking at completely unfamiliar with how the bot's sparks worked while the rest except Smokescreen could only stare in shock.

"Thats impossible" was all Arcee could utter, as there was no denying it.

Everything was silent for a moment as the information sunk in, well all except one human girl who was bored of all the talk and decided to go see the proof herself ignoring Raf and Jack who told her to stop.

"That wasn't all that convinced me, I found this in his subspace I don't know what it could be but it gives off an energy similar to our own spark's" Ratchet revealed the glowing shard that he had discovered on the mini bot.

No one knew what it could be but the fact it seemed to give off spark energy wasn't a very comforting thought as Optimus himself couldn't help but feel like the shard felt familiar, the energy it gave off it was almost like.

"Hey guy's, Miko ran off" The bot's looked up at Jack as they noticed the girl had in fact left the railing as no one was really surprised by her actions.

"Hey, he's another version of Bumblebee we don't have to worry about him hurting Miko" Smokescreen said as that wasn't really what the other's were worried about.

It was what Miko would say to him as the girl was a little to brazen for her own good, they began to head toward's the medbay as Smokescreen offered a servo too Jack and Raf who climbed on.

The group could already hear Miko who was apparently teasing the new bot about his height as an unfamiliar voice yelled back that he wasn't small.

The scene they came upon was Miko giggling a very satisfied look on her face that they recognized from the many times she'd win arguments with Bulkhead.

The two reacted quickly when Ratchet called out Miko's name the girl turning to look at them both sheepish yet completely satisfied with herself, while the minibot turned to them optic's going wide as he looked at them Bulkhead was pretty sure the other was resisting a jaw drop from the reaction.

Well that was one way to make an entrance.

Bumblebee tried to stop staring he was just glad he managed to keep his actual jaw from dropping the last thing he needed was to look like more of an idiot, he was already staring after all though to be fair they were staring at him too.

There was an awkward silence before.

"Hey guy's, I thought he'd look like our Bee why's he so short"

"I told I'm not small it's my frame! I could be bigger if I wanted!" Lies complete lies while he could change his frame his height wouldn't change much, a bigger frame meant it would be heavier and he didnt have the strength for that.

He had been made for speed not power.

"Miko, he's a minibot their suppose to be small" Arcee said as she glared at the yellow bot, this was suppose to be Bumblebee? Another version of her best friend and a bot she considered a brother, he was nothing like her friend at all.

At least that's what she told herself.

"Well it's not like your that big either!" Mouthing off to the femme he didn't know wasn't smart but would everyone stop mentioning his height already! He got enough slag about it back home, if it wasn't Bulkhead it was Prowl or Optimus reminding him about it.

"Yeah but-" Miko however didn't get to finish her response in time.

"Miko stop antagonizing him!" Ratchet cut in as he noticed the yellow bot was beginning to get extremely tense, his height seemed to be a sensitive topic and the last thing they needed was to give him a reason to distrust them.

The girl sighed but nodded as she finally noticed that the yellow bot actually seemed really bothered by the height comments, she hadn't meant to actually hurt his feelings she had just been joking.

Bumblebee looked at Ratchet completely shocked that the medic put a stop to it, he wondered why? There was no reason for him to intervene, no one ever stopped it before.

"Miko" Bumblebee was broken out of his inner thoughts by who he had assumed was Optimus the tone was one he was familiar with, his Optimus used it on him and Sari when they did something they weren't suppose too.

The girl sighed and turned to look up at him again "Sorry about teasing you, I was really just joking I didn't mean to actually hurt your feelings" Miko really hadn't meant anything negative, she was just so used to joking around with the bots but even if this was another version of Bee she just learned that he was obviously a very different bot.

This time Bumblebee's jaw did drop as he wasn't expecting an apology at all, why was she apologizing? Then again Optimus had basically done the voice on her so she was forced to apologize, yep that had to be it! No one ever meant it when they said sorry.

"It's fine, you didn't hurt my feelings" he crossed his arm's and looked away from the girl and bots, this was awkward so very very awkward he almost wished something like a decepticon attack would happen.

Because he was starting to get weirded out by how weird everyone was acting, the only one who was acting normal was the femme trying to glare holes into his armor.

"So your really Bumblebee?"

The bot looked towards the voice as it was the smallest human Smokescreen was holding who spoke, looking at him as if trying to find something that was the only way he could describe it.

"Yeah, probably not as big or weird looking as your version" Bumblebee had also noticed the way everyone's armor looked was very different from his own, he didn't doubt his counterpart looked just as strange.

"Wait, why can you talk?" That question came from the taller boy as Bumblebee looked at him oddly.

"With my voice box?" He was confused by the question, it's not like his counterpart was mute or something right?

Though that's when Miko spoke up again pointing an accusing finger at the boy" Jack, different world maybe what happened to our Bee hasn't happened to him or maybe it won't! Or maybe-" the girl devolved into what if scenarios as everyone in the room was left either shocked in Bumblebee's case as he was mute in this world! Seriously!?

While the other's were slightly horrified at the idea of something like that being a universal constant.

"Do I want to know how the other me ended up with out a voice" Bumblebee muttered to himself not noticing the way he was being looked at by the autobot's.

Though one bots patience was beginning to run thin with all the silly theatrics.

"Can we stop with the joke's and get to the serious questions! Like where our Bumblebee went and what does he know about it!" Arcee's tone quickly ended any of the lax atmosphere that had been created.

Bumblebee found the femme's annoyance weirdly comforting it was the only reaction that felt normal so far, even if she was currently trying to glare him offline it was way better than the humans joking around and the other bot's reacting to things he didn't know.

"Come on Arcee we were getting to that" Smokescreen tried to ease the tension only to have the femme glare at him too, he still smiled as he knew better than to say anything else when she had that look on her face.

"He probably ended up in the fight that I was in before the allspark shard went all loopy, if he's as big as you guy's he's fine" Bumblebee explained before anymore comments could be made, after all if his alternative self was still taller than him he doubted he got destroyed or anything.

At least he hoped so, you never could tell with how crazy Blitzwing was and how stupid Lugnut is.

There was momentary silence before.

"Did you say an allspark shard?" Ratchet wondered if he had heard the minibot correctly.

Bumblebee nodded as he opened his subspace to pull out the shard when he noticed it was missing, before he could panic however Ratchet stepped up revealing what he had taken.

"Hey! When did you-?!" The yellow bot sputtered for a moment before he figured out how Ratchet had the item" sheesh do you search everyone who comes in here" Bumblebee crossed his arm's at the violation of his personal privacy.

"Your telling us that's a piece of the allspark! Like the allspark, allspark, powerful life giving allspark!?" Bulkhead couldn't believe what he was hearing, no one could really as they were barely grasping alternative world theories.

"Unless it's evil in this world, yeah" Bumblebee knew he shouldn't be enjoying some of the faces these bots were making but it was sort of funny, in a, I broke the universe sort of way.

Every bot in the room even Smokescreen looked at Bumblebee then at the shard Ratchet held before looking back at Bumblebee.

"Did you break a piece of the allspark off?" Smokescreen asked as he couldn't think of how else the yellow bot could have gotten it.

"No way, it got blown to pieces when Megatron came back and were sort of trying to find all the pieces now" Bumblebee said which of course only confused everyone in the room even more.

Optimus stepped up as his mind was still reeling from the fact that his medic was currently holding the piece of an alternative version of their allspark.

"Could you explain this from the beginning" Optimus asked, he couldn't help but wonder exactly what was happening in this bot's world that the allspark ended up destroyed.

The very reason he had sent their own worlds allspark off world was to keep it from Megatron, had things transpired differently in this bot's home.

Bumblebee looked up at Optimus remembering the leader existed as he had been so silent, he scratched the back of his helm nervously.

"Uh, you guys want the long version or the short one" because there was alot in between crash landing on Earth fifty years ago and now.

Everyone even the humans looked at one another before" Can I make popcorn!?" Miko asked, if they were going to get a huge story about this Bumblebee's world she wanted snacks.

"I second that!" Smokescreen said, even though he couldn't eat the human fuel.

Everyone except Bumblebee who thought Miko was joking watched as the girl ran off to make said popcorn.

"Wait! She was serious!?"


The Nemesis was currently flying over South America, the decepticon warship hidden among the clouds that made up the upper troposphere.

The inside of the ship was as dark as it's paint job as drone's walked through its corridors the night shift doing it's job for the current rotation, the only true movement came from the Nemesis most silent inhabitant as in the control room a tall dark mech stood in front of several terminals.

Four tendrils moved about seemingly at random for anyone else except their owner who was working several different systems at the same time, the bright screen reflected onto the blank visor of Soundwave who was reviewing footage of the previous night's battle taken by Laserbeak.

Soundwave had been the one who originally picked up on the foreign signal and alerted his leader to the anomaly, Breakdown and a squadron was then dispatched as they needed to get the odd energy source before the autobot's.

He skipped most of the images of Breakdown fighting the autobot wrecker and scout, what truely intrigued him was what happened when the scout fell into what Soundwave had discovered was a vortex that gave off a signal similar to a spacebridge.

The battle moved away from the area the moment the vortex vanished but Soundwave had his cassette scout where the vortex had once been, it could return and he still hadn't even been able to analyze why the anomaly had even happened.

Soundwave's assumption about the portal returning had been correct as the next images to play show something he had only seen through his cassettes eye's, the void dropped a yellow passenger who Soundwave had at first assumed was the autobot scout before realizing the armor and size were incorrect.

The portal vanished after that as once again the same energy signal previously found came back but Soundwave never got to search for it, he had to open a bridge for Breakdown and recalled Laserbeak leaving him to instead review the footage she had taken.

He closed up on the image of the yellow bot, a minibot far smaller than any he had seen before as he had the same color scheme as the autobot's scout but the armor was all wrong; it was far to how would one say.

Childish, in appearance.

The spymaster could only theorize what this could all mean as he prepared the information most important to relay to Megatron, so far that minibot was at the center of what had happened that night but without access to the bot that's all he could do theorize.

And he did have one possible theory.

Tucking that thought away for later Soundwave returned to his work, the ship didn't run itself and with Starscream now having betrayed them all the silent mech was now responsible for the former second in commands duties with the eradicon's flight paths.

A stray rather stupid thought ran through his processor, he did not receive enough recognition for the amount of work he did.

(Animated)

 

The good thing about having giant robots as your caretakers, you got to hang out with your best friend every single day.

The bad news was she still didn't know where her father was and she was always left behind when her friends went out to fight the cons.

Like really! She could handle herself, she had done perfectly well against Mixmaster and Scrapper that one time! She turned the whole warehouse against them while everyone else was out, she could protect herself if she had too!

Sure facing an actual decepticon and not two oil obsession robots were two completely different things but still, it wasn't fair and that was that!

Sari gave a nod that no one could see as she mustered all the courage and stubbornness her eight year old body could show as she stared up at Ratchet's torture chamber.

If the guys were going to ignore her and not give her any awnsers then she would get them herself! After all this concerned Bumblebee, her best friend was missing and those cogs weren't giving her any awnsers!

Sure it was late when they left and even later when they came back but Sari was always worried when her friends went to fight the decepticon's, she wasn't stupid and knew very well that her key could mean the difference between life or death. It was morbid to think that way but it was the truth, she was always afraid that one day someone wasn't going to come home and like Bumblebee told her; the key couldn't always fix everything.

Slapping her hands against her cheeks she shook away those thoughts, she already lost her dad and since Optimus and the others weren't going to tell her what happened to Bumblebee it was up to her!

With a final look at the door she walked forward as it automatically opened, the sensor's thankfully were sensitive to movement so she didn't have to be a big robot to get inside.

The usual items of the med bay filled Sari's eyes first, items, computers and berths to tall for her to look to closely at as she barely paid them any mind, instead her eyes focused on the very tall yellow figure who had seemed to have been pacing and was now staring at her; her mouth unfortunately worked faster than her brain as she pointed at the unknown bot.

"So thats what they were hiding from me! Those bolt for brains!" Oh Sari was annoyed, very annoyed, this is what they didn't want to talk about.

Her best friend was missing and instead of telling her about this they just pushed her to the side and told her she was to young an that they'd explain things later, a frown formed on her face as she was always treated that way even Bulkhead who was Bumblebee's best friend did it.

The only bot in this base who treated Sari as more than a kid was Bumblebee.

Though now that she had finally gotten to see what the big secret was about she now focused on the new bot.

He was big was what she noticed first, bigger than Prowl but still smaller than Bulkhead. He also had the doors of what she guessed was this bots alt form on his back, she'd never seen any decepticon or autobot with such a feature but she also hadn't seen alot of autobots or decepticon's.

What was odd was his armor, it was shaped or molded differently than her friends. If Sari were to make a comparison he looked more like those CGI robots she'd see in movies than her friends who had a more friendly look to them, it was weird but he still had the autobot insignia on his chest.

What Sari found the most weird however was his color scheme, he was mostly yellow with black accents just like Bumblebee and even though this bot had a different shape and face an maybe he didn't have a mouth from the looks of it she was oddly reminded of her friend.

She stared up into the bots blue optics and he seemed to be staring back studying her the way she was him as she took a breath and allowed the annoyance she felt at the others to fuel her bravery at confronting someone she didn't know.

"So, my best friends missing, the guys keep talking but won't tell me anything and they said they had another bot in here when they thought I wasn't listening so your going to tell me what's going on!"

Yelling at a robot she didn't know and was several times her size wasn't the smartest idea, but she was frustrated, tired and had already lost her father. She was at least going to find out what happened to Bumblebee if the other's weren't going to tell her so they guy must have the awnsers!

She still kept staring at him as she noticed that despite not having a mouth he looked very surprised at her, she saw the doors on his back move upward dor a moment before going back to their regular position; she wondered if that was the equivalent of a dog and its tail.

She kept up the staring contest trying to look brave but unknown to her she looked cute and impatient to someone many times her size.

The silence and staring contest ended when a loud rush of air left the yellow bot as his shoulders seemed to slump slightly, the noise was one Sari had learned was the cybertronian equivalent of a sigh.

"Look, I'd like to tell you what happened but you can't understand me"

The words were clear however even though as he spoke Sari felt an odd buzzing sensation in the air like the soundwaves from an amp, she just pointed at him annoyed" I can understand you just fine, your stalling!" Can't understand him really!?

Though that's when the bot went ridged, the doors moving up again as she recognized the action as someone when they were surprised. It was really weird how expressive this bot was when he didn't really seem to have many facial expressions, though that's when he slowly began to approach her acting as I'd he moved to fast he'd scare her away.

Yeah right, she wasn't afraid!

He was soon right in front of her lowering his frame to be more level with her height "I'm not stalling I just don't know how you can understand me, I don't really talk the way your friends do"

"What do you mean?" Sari didn't understand what he meant, besides the weird sensation she felt when he talked he sounded like any other bot.

"I talk using a translator because I don't have an actual voice, humans can't understand me because I'm using a cybertronian language to talk to others" Wait, cybertronian's had translators? Why couldn't he talk normal? Others couldn't understand him?

More questions ran through her mind faster than she could stop them as she picked up the key that was always hanging securely around her neck, the allspark key was powerful and it could basically do anything when it came to electronics. Maybe it was acting as a translator to this bots translator and that's why she got that weird buzzing feeling as she showed it to the bot and explained what it was and why she thought she could understand him.

"I see, So before you ask me questions I'd at least like to know your name" the bot asked her.

"It's Sari" she reached out a hand towards the yellow bot, very much aware he couldn't give her a normal handshake as she just took one of his digits in her hand.

It was both cool and a bit scary when she remembered exactly how big these guys could get, especially decepticon's which made her glad her friends were mindful about their sizes though poor Bulkhead still accidentally destroyed things; though when the bot introduced himself she was once again shocked.

It was just a coincidence right? There could be more than one right? She couldn't help but ask and explain her confusion as he seemed to have the awnsers the guys wouldn't give her. So when this Bumblebee offer her a servo she readily climbed on, eager for the awnsers as she giggled when he said that he might sound crazy.

"My friends are a bunch of alien space robots, doesn't that sound crazy?" She looked up at the yellow bot from where he placed her on the berth, seriously she was living a Sci fi movie and her dad made stuff that helped the city.

Also she was eight so their wasn't alot she wouldn't believe, not that she'd tell him that.

"The reason my name is Bumblebee is because I'm not from here, this world the place I come from isn't as bright or flat as this, it sounds weird but I'm from another universe"

Full stop, she didn't know what she expected to hear but that. She grabbed onto this Bumblebee's arm and looked up at him, the multiverse was real! It's was real! That was just, no way! Though that did explain the names and similar paint job, huh, did that means their were more than these two; were there hundreds maybe thousand's of different versions of her friends!?

Wait, did that mean there were evil versions of them too. There were some movies she watched with Bumblebee awhile back where the heros were bad guys in another universe as she voiced this to the alternate version of her best friend, though she now realized if he was a different version of Bumblebee he really was different in both size and appearance.

She hoped everyone on his team wasn't as big as he was or her Bumblebee wasn't gonna be happy about it. Though he still hadn't awnsered what happened to her friend" wait if your here then where's our Bumblebee, did you guys switch places? Or did something bad" after all she had no idea how this was possible, what fd he was hurt or hadn't found this Bumblebee's friends or or.

Her freak out was thankfully stopped by the yellow bot awnsering her.

"I think we did, I fell into a groundbridge and found myself here if something similar happened to your Bumblebee then he's probably with my team right now"

"Oh that's good" even though she had no idea what a groundbridge was, she assumed it was a portal of some sort as another thought struck her" hey is everyone on your team like ours here!? Is Optimus still your leader, oh is Prowl still all broody like batman in your world" he didn't seem to know who she was so maybe she didn't exist in his world or they hadn't met, as she was made to stop asking questions when Bumblebee raised a servo for her to stop so he could awnser her.

"Optimus is the leader of the autobots, I don't know who Prowl is I assume he's that two wheeler on your team and we apparently share batman in our dimensions" a comic book character existed in two worlds! That was awesome in Saei's opinion though that's when she took in what he said about Prowl.

You don't have Prowl in your world!" Who else didn't exist in this Bumblebee's universe, Bulkhead, Ratchet?

"We could have but I never met him, but I do have Bulkhead and Ratchet on our team" oh okay, so those two did exist on his team" so since I awnsered your questions, you up for awnsering some of mine?" Bumblebee asked.

Sari nodded as she had at least gotten some awnsers to her questions and even though she had many more it was only fair she awnsered gus questions too" Sure, ask me anything" she smiled, trying to make herself look as tall as she could to a giant robot.

"Where are we specifically, like where in the city?"

"Oh, your in outskirts of Detroit this place belongs to my dad but the guys use it as their base" Sari explained as this time those doors on Bumblebee's back shot straight up and didn't come down like the last few times, she was pretty sure he was giving her a shocked expression.

"They stationed themselves in the outskirts of Detroit! Detroit of all places? How do they hide from the humans with the base so close to the city?"

"They don't hide from humans, Optimus and the others help out the city when theirs accidents or when the decepticons attack the city looking for an allspark fragment" Sari was a bit confused and little scared about how much Bumblebee seemed to be freaking out, it weirdly reminded her of her own Bumblebee's reaction to shocking news.

This one's optic was even doing that movement she learned was similar to a human eye twitch.

Though before she could ask him if he was alright the rest of the team came in an she was busted, Sari groaned as Optimus began his boring lecture about her ignoring the rules when Bumblebee stood up and defended her; he actually seemed really annoyed that they left him here by himself for hours.

She actually found the fact her friends left an unknown bot alone in the base where if he was a danger and could have hurt them a bit funny, they were the adults after all and yet from their expressions they apparently hadn't thought about that except for Ratchet who looked a bit more grumpy than usual.

She was trying not to laugh as an alternative version of Bumblebee chewed them out, she couldn't help but notice the irony of such a thing as she decided that the best course of action was to relax, sit back and watch the show.

And then ask Bumblebee if he knew how to get her best friend back, after all it wasn't like this was permanent; in the movies they always made it back right?


The mine that made up the base for the decepticon's currently on earth was noisy despite the stars that blanketed the night sky.

Said noise was being caused by the bases resident hot heads as in the main room of the mine where most of the decepticon terminals were stationed and Sumdac's prison held, Lugnut was throwing a heavy punch at Blitzwing striking the triple changer in the faceplate causing him to switch faces as the con did a rather dramatic impression of holding his undamaged black and red face.

The reason for their fight? Honesty neither one remembered anymore it had just started with Lugnut complaining about their leader being gone and of course that annoyed Blitzwing and here they were.

Usually the two of them would have been punished by their lord by now for acting out once again, but Megatron wasn't in the base at the current moment which meant the two decepticon's could damage eachother to their spark's content...or so they forgot.

"Will you two walking disasters stop this already! I'm trying to dissect that drone you two brought back and yer fighting ain't making it easy!"

Before the two could react to the words both yelled out in pain as their systems received painful shock's by the medic who currently had two of his cable's connected to their frame's, they retracted in a second but the shock was still felt through their systems as Blitzwing's face switched once again as he growled at the medic.

"HOOK! What was that for you crazy scrapheap!" Though Blitzwing was cursing the medic out, in his mind he didn't dare try and attack the old mech; he might be decrypt and out of date but he always took him and Lugnut down without any effort.

And Blitzwing hated that there was someone he couldn't overpower who wasn't his lord.

Hook just shook his helm as he looked between the two decepticons and remembered why he hated working close and personal with Megatron, but his services were unfortunately required oh why couldn't Scaple have taken this assignment.

The old medic was one of the oldest bots to work on the decepticon front line's, Hook had been sparked back in the old days when the council had been starting out and corruption had not yet taken place due to the low amount of cybertronian's and the lack of governmental structure.

To say Hook was a relic was an understatement.

"Are we calm now!? I swear you youngbot's are all the same not a screw right in any of ya! I better not hear a scream outta this room or so help me Primus!" The green and purple medic turned to head back to his medbay as both Lugnut and Blitzwing watched him go refusing to move until they were sure he was gone.

Though the moment he left someone else began to laugh as a black and white con walked out of the shadow's from where he had watched the whole interaction happen, he also wasn't very big for a decepticon he wasn't even half as tall as Blitzwing himself as the praxian's doorwings twitched in amusement.

"You two never learn do you, but given all the punishments Lord Megatron has given you both and you still act like a bunch of younglings I shouldn't be surprised" the police con chuckled completely unafraid of the two rather dangerous officers.

"Barricade" Lugnut growled at the actual youngling, he was a recent addition to their ranks having joined not long before the decepticons had gone into hiding near the end of the war.

Many didn't like dealing with the scout/assassin, not only was he stealthy but if he managed to find a weakness in your mental armor he would fully take advantage of it.

"Now what did Hook say Lugnut" Barricade grinned at the death glares he received from both decepticon's.

"One of these day's that fragger is going to offline, painfully" Blitzwing growled before stalking off to another part of the base, Hook didn't say he couldn't destroy something else.

Lugnut said nothing only shooting Barricade and the area that led to the medbay a glare before heading to his quarters, his frame still felt small zaps from the electricity and since he was avoiding the medic the best way to deal with that was recharge.

Barricade was left behind in the room, well except for the movement's of Sumdac the man having gotten used to the arguments between the decepticon's over the last few months that he had been captured so he just ignored them as he worked on the project Megatron wanted him to complete; if he had any hope of getting out of this alive he had to comply.

"Has it ever occurred to any of you to take it easy when our dear lords away my good fellow, honestly how I ended up here with you ruffians I will never know" the voice oddly held an English accent as it's speaker didn't even look away from the monitor's where they were reviewing footage.

Barricade turned towards the speaker to glare at someone that he himself considered the most annoying mech to ever exist.

"I am taking it easy, it's those two who are always fighting like seriously why'd we get assigned to this backwater planet anyway!?" Earth was such a primitive planet with even more primitive creatures.

The decepticon sitting in front of the monitor turned his helm as he stared at Barricade" Because our lord order us Cade, while I might not always agree with our cause I will not complain about my post" with that he went back to studying the image's, hacking into human cameras was beyond easy for someone like him as he studied the battle that had taken place.

"I thought I told you not to call me Cade" Barricade grumbled much like the youngling he was, he might be skilled at the art of assassination but he was still the youngest one in the base and he hated that reminder.

"Would you prefer child?" Now he was just being a jerk.

"Frag you Tarn!" With that final curse he left the main room not willing to deal with Tarn any longer than he had too.

Tarn however smirked as it was so easy to aggravated the kid" Works everytime, perhaps now I can work in peace" he wasn't speaking directly to anyone as he turned back to his work.

He stared at the screen as he mainly looked at the pictures involving the yellow minibot right as the allspark fragment decided to go haywire, without moving a servo the images moved on their own as Tarn zoomed towards the image of the new bot that had replaced the other.

The color's were the same but the frame was completely different and the very first instinct of the new cybertronian had been to attack once he realized he was in danger, a reaction quite common among those who have seen the battlefield one to many time's.

That wasn't all that caught his attention as the other seemed to be a Praxian which was odd, Praxian's had been wiped out by the council during the war as the frame type was now very rare among cybertronian's.

Barricade was one such individual, the youngling was possibly one of the last of his kind from his many centuries of research, the colonys had been growing smaller seeing how they had to isolate themselves from their own species.

Still without moving a finger everything on the screen changed and rearaged everything being controlled by the mech's processor as he pulled up the energy readings he had taken, most were just the usual spark signatures of the fighting mech's but once the vortex appeared the energy readings went through what the humans called the roof.

After that the mini was pushed in by that big one Lugnut and soon after the yellow Praxian was dropped onto the scene.

He had a theory but he would require more information perhaps a physical scan of that mech or question Hook about the drone Blitzwing had returned with, it might just have tachyon particles from the portal still attached to its frame yes that would be the best choice.

The screen shut down as he stood bathing the already dark room in more darkness as the only light came from the prison of Professor Sumdac.

Notes:

And here we go, next chapter things get interesting and why did I introduce more decepticons well come on Prime Bee could pretty easily thrash the ones we have that and I have plans >:3

Also for people who ask about updates their sporadic, I'm busy with work and also get burned out ill update when I update all I ask is for people to be patient