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Chapter 39 - Chapter 9 part 4

Bumblebee was tinkering on a invention although he had no idea on how they worked as a bolt had flung into his face as he stepped back wincing a bit. He grabbed the wrench trying to put the bolt back into the mini healer tool that Ratchet had trouble fixing. He soon heard footsteps behind him as he turned seeing Wheeljack come his way. "Having problems kid? You just got to do this way." Wheeljack soon began screwing in the bolt and turned it counter clockwise with ease. Bumblebee looked up curiously before asking "Can I try?" as Wheeljack nodded. Bumblebee soon grabbed the wrench out of his hand and attempted to turn the already screwed in bolts. He soon finished it off as he could tell behind that battlemask, that Wheeljack was smiling slightly.

Bumblebee could tell Wheeljack's optics looked thoughtful as his fingers held his rusted and golden wrench. Wheeljack worked on the machine attentively while helping him with the parts to fixing it. 30 minutes later, they finished fixing the machine as Wheeljack said "You know? Your surprisingly a quick worker. I mean aren't scouts quite speedy?" he looked at the healing tool as Bumblebee asked "Are you going to take this back to Ratchet?" Wheeljack nodded before deciding to get to the medbay. Bumblebee glanced off to the side seeing Reion pass as he came up to her "Reion! It's been a while. How have ya been?" Reion soon answered back "I been fine, Bee. What about you?" Bumblebee nodded as Reion soon questioned him "Can you do a favour for me?" Bumblebee looked curious "What kind?"

Reion started to look more serious as she said "Ratchet has been worrying me lately, he been up more than usual and I think he might be overworking himself, can you keep an eye on him?." Bumblebee thought to himself, that was true. Ratchet was barely seen out of his own work area these days. Bumblebee nodded as Reion sighed in relief "I didn't think anyone could help considering how much he tries to reject help." Bumblebee watched her leave afterwards as he went into the library to read something in the meantime. He opened the door seeing that the library was still slightly dusty as he got on the ladder and climbed it up. He grabbed a leather book from the second top shelf and climbed down as he sat in the chair and began reading it.

The book was about the types of cybertronian weapons that had been produced over time and there was two sections in the book. One section was labelled 'Primitive weapons' and the other was 'Advanced weapons', both had footnotes and small boxes which had information were separate from the main articles. Bumblebee flipped through the pages of the book while Fireflight soon came inside and climbed on the ladder and grabbed a book which was most likely about jet alt modes and their capabilities as Bumblebee looked up before stating "You been in the library more often as of late." Fireflight gave a slight smirk before coming towards the table and sitting downwards before hastily opening the book to a certain page as Bumblebee went back to reading in thought.

Soon they heard a noise and see Jazz come inside, although they had noticed the crack on his visor and slightly strained smile that he was giving at them "Yo, how is it been?" He asked with a slight roughness in his voice while Fireflight looked concerned "It's been fine around here, what happened to you?" He asked back as his imaginative attitude had faltered a bit to show seriousness in the situation as Jazz answered "Eh, the last mission I been in didn't go so well. A lot more innocents got caught on the crossfire than I thought it would be." Bumblebee looked a little frustrated at that "The Decepticons again? This is just getting ridiculous, we been protecting humans for a reason!" Jazz held his shoulder with a look that said 'calm down, buddy.' As Bumblebee stopped but looked downwards at the floor as his shoulders were tense. Fireflight soon went back to his usual cheerful attitude "I'll get going. I got what I needed." as he left the area.

"Kid, I know your upset but you need a moment?" Jazz looked as Bumblebee looked at him for a moment before glancing at his hands before replying with a simple "Yeah." As Jazz soon left the area as Bumblebee looked silently at the window which had dust and cobwebs around the edges while the smell of old paper came from the shelves, the sounds of something quietly rustling could be heard before it landed on the floor, Bumblebee looked downwards in confusion as he saw a simple note fall onto the floor with the text "SKY_ROBOTS - Do not read" with blobs of ink on it as it fell to the floor.

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