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[taselikeabee]

Who: Bumblebee and old man Megatron
Where: Wherever the old man hides
When: Some time after talking with Optimus
What: Bee's heard some things and he needs some confirmation
Warnings: Feels and snark?

Optimus mentioned that Bumblebee had some sort of impact on the leader of the Decepticons. Suffice to say that Bee didn't quite believe that. Former leader. Apparently the big guy took up the Autobadge for some reason. While the yellow Autobot was sure that he got through to the former warlord on some level, he had a hard time accepting that the infamous Megatron was no longer a Decepticon - that he would just up and change sides. It was one of those things that Bee needed to see to believe. That was his mission, his task, that he set out to do today. He knew that Megatron was here and saw fit to hunt the other down.

His yellow plating had been repaired, but Bumblebee was still quite badgeless. That was another issue he intended to address to Optimus before too long. Bee felt a little odd. He wore that badge with pride and honor for years. To not have it now felt like there was something of himself missing. Perhaps Megatron would know what became of it, considering that Autobots tended to recycle badges rather than forge them from their spark casings. Small blessings, right?

That would have to wait, though. Bee spotted a familiar form up ahead. Finally, he would be able to see things with his own optics.

"You'd think I wouldn't have to spend a few hours tracking a big guy like you down. Thanks for proving me wrong," he snickered.

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[taselikeabee]

"Don't be," Bumblebee says with a dismissive wave. "I think there was valid reason to believe that."

For all that Megatron had said something about no one really staying dead, it would be Bee's luck. That's just how things had been for him lately. Someone would have gotten his badge anyway. That's how they operated. Bee is kind of unsure about how to feel about Megatron himself picking it up, but there's no reason to be sorry for it.

"Just explain to me why, I guess."

[towardspeace]

"Mm." There's a pause, as Megatron tries to decide how to frame it. "I wanted to do things differently. It felt like the clearest way to demonstrate that – and to hold myself to it. And, well, it was an Autobot who made me face just how far off-course I'd come..."

[taselikeabee]

"Doing a one-eighty like that? That's a pretty strong way to show people."

One would think that there's still other ways, right? Perhaps it's not so nice to be so skeptical. Especially since Bee has apparently influenced Megatron so. That is still pretty hard to grasp.

"All I did was speak plainly," Bee replies. "Optimus has been telling you the same for ages."

[towardspeace]

"It's different, coming from him," Megatron says with a wry smile. "He always just made me want to be worse, to spite him..." He sighs, and shakes his head. It sounds so stupid, saying it out loud. "Ridiculous. I don't know. Perhaps you just got to me at the right time. The right circumstances."

[taselikeabee]

"Hasn't that always been a thing between you two?" Bee half jokes and then shudders. "You two and your codependency issues..."

Bumblebee is just calling it as he sees it. He's seen a lot between those two over the ages and some of it? Just downright creepy. Bee won't say that, of course.

"But it might be a bit of that. Might've happened sooner if I had talked to you when you asked for me."

[towardspeace]

Megatron gives him a Look at that codependency remark; he doesn't honour it with an actual reply, perhaps because it is, like, 100% accurate and true.

"... Perhaps it would have," he says, and he sounds profoundly regretful – because he can believe well enough that it might have done, because he can remember all too well how his next assault on Cybertron had been, to some extent, simply going through the motions, because that was what he did; because he's ashamed that he was so deeply entrenched that he needed someone to tell him what he was doing to be able to actually stop.

[taselikeabee]

Of course Bee just flashes him a GRIN with the look he gets. Megatron better not say anything against it. Everyone knows that it is a fact. An indisputable one at that.

"Ah well. Nothing for that..." Bumblebee finally comments. "The thing is you're realizing it now and trying to do something great. Just wish I could see the end result."