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"Wouldn't let it show,"
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The patrol squadron did not linger long, Bumblebee letting an extended vent escape him once he believed the coast was clear.
His servo clutched his bleeding side, his readers flashing a low energon warning across his processor every few kliks, which was every few kliks too frequent. Of course he knew he was running low; it had been some time since he had consumed any energon, and now he was bleeding out. He leaned against the rusty dune more than normal, listening to the fading hum of aircraft engines and waiting for them to fully disappear.
The scout was frequently chased by different Decepticon teams, likely groups that banned together to bring his helm to Megatron in exchange for a bounty. He managed to evade capture for now, but the random schedule and lack of access to technology left Bumblebee in the dark. It was only a matter of time before he was cornered.
Thoughts of Raf and the hope that Optimus had also managed to escape kept him going,the Autobot determined to reach civilization and find a way back to Earth. By his estimates, three years had already passed on Earth; that was a matter of days by the Cybertronian calendar, and it only made him worry more about what was happening on the tiny planet. It was already clear to him that Megatron was victorious on Cybertron . . . so what did he do to Earth?
It scared him, but he had to survive, and get back to Rafael and the others.
Doing a quick scan the scout deemed his surroundings safe, relaxing just a little more as he waited for his nanites to finish the initial repairs and stop his leaking. Once that was accomplished, he began limping his way across the barren landscape, cringing as pain shot from his side up his arm and down his leg. It only exacerbated his aches and stiff pains from low energon levels.
Bumblebee could recall the battles fought on the Sea of Rust, and the secret operations which partook there. He had managed to refuel at Shockwave's outpost, sneaking energon from the lake before fleeing. It gave the 'bot hope that other energon lakes were around, at least one he could fill up with before continuing on his way.
The Sea was vast and the equipment, weaponry, and fallen comrades from the war had long rusted and become a part of the environment, leaving Bumblebee to just guess where he was. That was why it was taking him several days to not only avoid Decepticon detection, but also find civilization and get himself back to Earth. It was a struggle to return to the war that left him stranded here in the first place, as he was forced to essentially wander.
Bumblebee limped past another rust dune, pausing and pulling himself out of his own thoughts when he saw what appeared to be a strange formation in the rust. It looked like something fairly large had plowed through them, carving a scar through the normally untouched landscape. Apprehensive, he looked around, finding nothing nor hearing anything that could tell him just how recent this was, however he could also tell this was fresh. Fresh enough, anyways, to have occurred within the past few days.
Stepping onto the path carefully, he realized it was as if a ship had crashed here, or even an asteroid.
Confused, and certainly having never seen either events happen, he carefully walked in the direction the crash course occurred, watching it fade from a borderline crater to a line in the dirt. From there he saw what used to be the resting place of the object, dried energon in a pool and spattered around the resting site. Looking up, his spark almost stopped.
An energon lake was right there, perhaps only half of a football-field away from where he stood. An energon trail lead to its edge, Bumblebee hypothesizing that whoever - or whatever - it had been had dragged itself to the lake.
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