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It was two days later when Ratchet, albeit begrudgingly, released Bumblebee from the med-bay.

"You're energon levels may be back to where they need to be Bumblebee, but you still need to take it easy for a little while," the medic reminded. "It takes longer than four days to fully recover from being in stasis lock."

"I know Ratchet. Arcee already told me that I'm staying here at base for a while," Bumblebee replied as he walked out of the med-bay, happy to finally be able to move around again. Whenever you were in the med-bay, it was practically guaranteed that Ratchet was going to force you to recharge the entire time so you wouldn't do anything that would make him have to repair you again.

Arcee and Bulkhead were on patrol and Raf was still at school, so Bumblebee decided to go watch some cartoons for a little while. He really wanted to talk to Optimus though, but he didn't want to bother him. The Autobot leader still hadn't regained any other memories and still didn't like to be called Optimus. It seemed to Bumblebee that he was spending most of his time in his room, away from the others. Bumblebee wasn't sure why Optimus was seemingly trying to avoid all of them – it confused him really. While even before he lost his memories Optimus had been rather distant, he never had outright avoided them before. Bumblebee was just about to go find Optimus and talk to him when he entered the room.

"Hi Optimus!" Bumblebee enthusiastically greeted.

"Hello Bumblebee," Orion replied, ignoring the fact that he was being called Optimus still. "Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah, I am. I'm still a little tired though," Bumblebee admitted. It amazed him that after two days in stasis lock and two days of recharging, he could still be tired. He guessed it had something to with what Ratchet said about it taking more than four days to completely recover. "What are you doing?"

"Ratchet wanted me to come to the med-bay for a moment," Orion answered.

"Is he trying to find a way for you to get your memories back?" Bumblebee asked.

"I'm not sure, perhaps he is."

There was something in his tone right then that almost made Bumblebee think that he didn't want his memories back. But that didn't make any sense. Surely Optimus wanted to have his memories restored.

"You want your memories back, right?" he asked.

Orion pondered that for a moment. Did he want his lost memories back? While he was sure that it would be good to have them back, he was also almost afraid of what he would be remembering. There had to be some things that had happened in the past that he had forgotten that he wouldn't want to remember.

"I don't know," Orion admitted. "I suppose I do, but I don't know what I would be remembering. I imagine there are some things I wouldn't want to remember."

"But there's probably a lot of stuff that you would want to remember though."

"True," he replied. "I better not keep Ratchet waiting."

"Okay," Bumblebee said as he watched Orion walk towards the med-bay.

"I'm going to see if I can figure out a way for you to get your memories back," Ratchet explained after Orion had entered the med-bay. "In order to do that I need to find how exactly your memories were lost."

"How are you going to do that?"

"By doing a few scans for now. I'll see what I find from that before I do anything else."

It was close to an hour later when Ratchet finished. He frowned as he studied the results. According to them, there was absolutely no reason for Optimus/Orion's memory to be gone. Everything was functioning perfectly – no signs of damage or anything else that could have caused his amnesia.

"Orion, how much exactly have you remembered?" Ratchet asked.

"Not much. I remembered Bumblebee's name when he was captured by the Decepticons and a few other things, but that's it. Why do you ask?"

"Because according to my scans there is nothing causing your memory loss – there are no malfunctions or anything like that."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that without a cause, there is little possibility in me finding a solution. It's as if your former memories, for the most part, never existed."

"If that is the case, how was I able to remember the things I did?"

"That I do not know," Ratchet replied. "Perhaps eventually your memories will somehow return on their own, but I currently have no short term solution. I'm sorry."

"That's alright Ratchet," Orion said. In truth he was a bit relieved – he could just remain being Orion Pax. But then he thought of the other Autobots. They were expecting him to be Optimus Prime, their leader. Could he let them down like that? He had a lot of things to think about now, there no was no doubt about that.

As soon as Ratchet had told Orion that he had informed the others that he had no way of restoring his memories, Orion left his room to go talk to a certain youngling. He had a feeling that Bumblebee was going to be very disappointed to learn that he most likely would not be regaining any memories on being Optimus Prime any time soon. When he noticed that the scout was not in his room, he started to search the base for him. This led him to where he was now – the storage room of the base.

"There you are," Orion said when he saw the yellow youngling sitting on the ground, door wings drooped slightly. "What are you doing in here?"

"Nothing," Bumblebee replied. "Just thinking."

Bumblebee had headed straight to the storage room right after Ratchet had told them that he had no solution on getting Optimus' memories back and that they may in fact never completely come back. He had needed somewhere to think and the storage room was rarely visited, so he had went there instead of his room. Bumblebee was slightly worried that Optimus was going to think that he had lied to him before now. After all if he didn't have any memories of being Optimus and there was a great possibility that he would never get them back, what was to keep him from thinking that Bumblebee had lied to him about it all? And if he thought that Bumblebee had lied, what if he decided to leave the Autobots again?

"I take it that you are disappointed," Orion said, sitting down next to Bumblebee.

"Yes," Bumblebee responded before blurting out, "You're not going to leave are you?"

Orion looked at Bumblebee in surprise, "Why would I leave?"

"Because you might think that I was lying to you before about being Optimus and not trust me or the others."

"I do not think that you lied to me and I am not going to leave," Orion replied. "I believe that you are telling the truth about me being Optimus Prime, even though I still have a hard time believing that I am a Prime."

"You are a Prime."

"Then I will try to be Optimus Prime. But I am also going to be Orion Pax."

"Okay! Wait, what am I supposed to call you then? Optimus or Orion?"

"Considering the fact that I believe that you are going to call me Optimus no matter what… you can call me Optimus."

"Really!"

Orion – no Optimus – had to let out a small chuckle at Bumblebee then. Even if he wasn't completely comfortable with being called that, he wasn't going to disappoint Bumblebee. Perhaps it would grow on him over time.

"You may not have the memories that Optimus did, but you're still the same on the inside. You're still a good leader and I trust you with my life. We'll all still follow you no matter what."

Bumblebee couldn't know how his words touched Optimus. He had been wondering that very thing. He didn't remember … what use was he to them now? He still felt like an outsider, but the Autobots were definitely growing on him. He suspected some familial feelings were growing. And maybe, just maybe, having some Orion left in him would make him an even better leader this time. To Bumblebee it didn't matter if Optimus didn't have his memories back. His family was together again, and they would make new ones.

A/N: And this brings us to the end of Remembrance. I had a lot of fun writing this and I want to thank you all for all of your support! It means the world to me knowing that people are enjoying what I write! I might revisit the Prime world again if I get another idea for a story and depending on what happens in season 2. Speaking of season 2, the fourth episode's title and summary has been released and I think that, hopefully, Bumblebee fans are going to enjoy it.

Here's what it's called:

Operation Bumblebee, Part 1

Bumblebee questions his worthiness to his team after he is compromised.

I'm betting this is the first part of Bumblebee's story arc about his voice. It sounds like he's about to get some good character development as well and I'm looking forward to watching it!