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"-I was passing my time away
To the left and to the right
Bulidings towering to the sky
It's out of sight-"

Bumblebee's still pretty thrilled about how things worked out at home after all the hell Megatron and Shockwave put everyone through. Hence the choice of song. On the other hand he's here now, and that's good too; it's been a while since he's seen some people. Getting everything back in working order at home keeps a mech busy as anything. Nothing wrong with a little R&R.

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"Attacked him, when Megatron had dispatched them both and they were out of his sensor range," comes the answer. "They tore each other apart. Starscream, I think, saw the Swarm coming. Shockwave thought his disengaging was a trick, and tried to press the assault. That was when the Swarm broke his control and overwhelmed him."

"Shockwave is now offline."

You underestimated Starscream didn't you?

"Can't say anyone's going to miss him any."

"He killed Sunstreaker to provide parts to repair Megatron," says the text scroll. "I have no regret for what happened to him."

More than just being angry over the death of an Autobot, Bumblebee considers that one personal. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe raised him, more than any of the others in his cohort.

Rad will not begrudge Bumblebee for that. He understands that if a similar thing were done to Kup, Rodimus would pull no stops in getting revenge against the perpetrator.

"You sounded a little like Ironhide there."

His expression says that this comparison is not a bad thing at all; that he might be a little amused at this side of Bumblebee.

Too many people underestimate the Bumblebees of the multiverse. Many of them learn what a mistake that is.

"Despite casualties most managed to make it through."

Pause.

"Are any staying or going home after this?"

There is a faint air of suppressed amusement to Bumblebee at the question; he steeples his fingers a moment. And if a brief snippet of the Red Hot Chili Peppers can be heard- "I drive on her streets 'cause she's my companion, I walk through her hills cause she knows who I am-" ... well.

The scroll clears. The next word to form is merely "Yes."

"I hope that they enjoy their new home, the ones who stay; that Cybertron is never far from their sparks."

"That should not be difficult," the text scrolling upwards says. "Given that when the space bridge overloaded and destroyed itself, it caused a swap of what was at both ends."

It did—

"What?"

Oh, man, Rodimus is going to kill him when he finds out about the Space Bridge...

"It ... sent a piece of Earth in exchange for a piece of Cybertron?"

Yeah. Kill him until he's dead.

"A piece of Iacon half a mile in diameter in every direction," says the text.

Feeling like he swallowed a metric ton of lead weight,

"How do you manage to keep it from being detected?"

"Unless you kill every Navajo living in four states... that information is available with a simple phone call. Welcome to the wonderful world of high technology."

The Autobots consider the X-Files to be some of the finest comedy Earth's produced yet, but once in a while Bee finds a good line or two.

He doesn't seem especially upset about it, for what that's worth.

"And what do the humans make of this?"

Things weren't always so smooth right after the Autobots and Decepticons awoke on Rad's Earth. He hopes it went better for Bumblebee and the others.

"We have been public knowledge for some time," Bumblebee's speech balloon points out- since the majority of the story is done there's no need to display that much text at once any more. "Ironhide and I were guests of honor at a robotics convention in Japan. We work with the human governments to settle things."

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