:Alone: for SHMOMS

I own nothing!  This is a TF slash.  No like, no read.  Fluff, not smut.  For SHMOMS, enjoy!

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"Is it time, yet?" Bee asked, eager to get to the planet below.

"Just a few more minutes, Bee.  Now, remember, His name is Sam Witwicky.  He's sixteen and a human.  Try not to startle him and watch out for Decepticons," Prime warned.

"I will.  Is it time now?" Bee prodded.

"Yes.  It's time," Ratchet replied.

"See you there!" Bee shouted as he jumped out the escape door.

Bee hurtled towards Earth, excited about what he would find.

After landing in the middle of a large, flat area of ground, Bee uncurled and looked around.

'Wow!  What are these?  They're green and flimsy and seem to create oxygen.  We don't have anything like that on our planet!' Bee thought excitedly about the crops that surrounded him.

"Bee's log, first day on Earth.  I have landed safely.  Will explore.  Bee out," he spoke to his communicator.

"You have no idea how right you are, Autobot," a voice from behind him said.

Bee spun around to see Barricade's fist coming at him.  He took the hit and was sent flying into a nearby tree.

'Wow, I guess they're not as flimsy as I though they were,' Bee thought as consciousness fled him.

"You're all mine, Autobot," Barricade stated as he lifted Bee and walked toward a cave where he had been staying.

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'Ugh.  What happened?  Where am I?' Bee thought as he dared a look around.

"Hello, Autobot.  Nice of you to rejoin the land of the functional," Barricade teased.

"What do you want!?" Bee shouted at the Decepticon, realizing he was bound by his wrists and ankles.

"Oh, calm down.  I'm not going to torture you, unless you ask very nicely.  I certainly won't kill you.  I just want to talk," Barricade looked gently at the trapped Autobot.

"About what?" Bee asked, now just curious.

"Oh, just anything.  What is it like being an Autobot?" he questioned his prisoner.

"Well, it's nice.  You have friends who will risk their lives to protect you.  You have an inner feeling that what you're doing is the right thing.  It's not always easy, but it's worth it.  Sometimes, you're not sure what the right thing is and sometimes you make mistakes or hurt others, but you just apologize, forgive yourself, and move on.  It's the only job I'll ever want, that's for sure.  Why are you a Decepticon?  What do you get out of it?" Bee inquired.

"I am a Decepticon for power.  The raw, unimaginable power that courses through your circuitry when you do what you want.  The power that you know nothing can stop you.  It's like flying, you go higher and higher until someone or something pulls you back.  You don't stop just because someone gets hurt, you keep going, not letting anything pull you from your goal.  It's amazing.  The greatest feeling.  I just wish someone would look out for me like they do for you," Barricade admitted.

"You have to give care in order to get it.  You should try doing something kind for one of your team mates, just because you can.  It would give you an idea of what it's like to be an Autobot," Bee offered.

"I might just try it to know why you do it," Barricade agreed.

"What did you really drag me down here for, Barricade?" Bee pried.

"This," Barricade answered as he pressed his lips against Bee's, eliciting a deep moan from the young Mech.

Barricade broke the kiss and searched Bee's face for any sign of emotion.

"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT!!!!??" Bee shouted.

"A kiss.  Bumblebee, I wish for you to become my bonded.  I don't care about the Decepticons.  I would leave them for you.  I love you, Bee," Barricade confessed, turning his head down in shame.

"You, I mean, I, I mean, wha?" Bee stuttered intelligently.

"What do you say?  You don't have to answer now.  I'll meet you here in two days.  I'll expect an answer from you then.  See you later!" Barricade shouted, grabbing a knife an swiftly cutting Bee's bonds in one fluent motion before transforming and taking off like a batbot out of the pit.

'He, a Decepticon, wants to be my bond partner?  How do I tell him no without him killing me?  I have to complete my mission.  I need to think this out, first.  I'll go and look for the human creature tomorrow.  I need to recharge,' Bee thought as he powered down in the large cave.

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The sun shined in on a cadmium yellow body, approximately thirty feet in length.

The Autobot that possessed this body powered up and stretched out in an almost feline way.

"Man!  That was one messed up nightmare!" Bee shouted before looking down at the cut bindings and realizing that it had been real.

Bee sat up and decided to keep his little encounter last night a secrete.  The Autobots didn't need to know he got smooched by an evil Decepticon.

Bee stood and felt his legs give out.  He blacked out after hitting his head on the wall.

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(Dream)

"Hi, Bee!" shouted a joyous voice.

Bee spun around to see a human.  Sam Witwicky to be exact.

"Sam, I need your help as does the rest of your planet and ours," Bee said to the strange creature.

"Why?  I thought Barricade needed you?  He's here, waiting for your answer!" Sam shouted as he pointed at a Decepticon sitting on a rock, head in his hands, weeping.

"Barricade?" Bee asked, cautiously approaching the melancholy creature.

"You don't love me," the pitiful Decepticon sobbed, turning away from the Autobot.

"You're a Decepticon.  It won't work," Bee explained.

"You could make it work.  You just don't love me," Barricade sobbed, laying his head in his hands.

"How?  I can't abandon my team!  You're a Decepticon and I'm an Autobot and that's why it won't work!" Bee shouted.

"You don't love me," Barricade let out one final mournful cry before crashing to the ground, dead.

"Barricade?  BARRICADE!!!" Bee shouted, jumping up and hitting his already-sore head on the ceiling.

"I do love you, Barricade, and that's why I can't," Bee confessed to himself before curling up and going back offline.

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"Well, today's the day," Bee whispered to himself.

'I should get as far from here as possible.  I'll go scan an Earth vehicle and go towards the coordinates I was given and forget I ever had an encounter with Barricade,' Bee told himself as he exited the cave to find Barricade awaiting him outside.

"What is your answer, Bumblebee?" he asked, looking directly into the Autobot's optics.

"No.  I can't.  It would never work between you and me," Bee confessed as he turned away from the Decepticon.

"I'm sorry you feel that way.  I am also sorry for this!" Barricade shouted as he spun Bee around and tore his speaker out, leaving Bee without a voice.

"Fare well, Autobot!" Barricade spat with such hatred Bee recoiled in both pain and fear.

Barricade transformed and sped off, leaving an injured and confused Bee sitting on his back side wondering what the hell had just happened.

Bee decided then and there he was going to only focus on the mission.

"Bee to Optimus.  Come in Optimus!" Bee shouted into the communicator.

"Bumblebee, why are you texting?  Was your speaker damaged?" Optimus asked.

"Um, yes.  I had a bit of trouble with a few Decepticons but can now begin my mission.  I am on my way to find Mr. Sam Witwicky.  Bee out," Bee replied before turning off his communicator and going out to find an Earth vehicle.