As foretold, I'm reediting this story to go with my plot I FINALLY figured out. Been watching some car shows with dad lately so hopefully something will stick. Check out the bottom when your done, and don't forget to review!

I want to know if this chapter was better or worse than it was.

Out of boredom because the Decepticons not attacking for a while, and Sari gone with her dad for the day to spend quality time together (since it's almost impossible to get Isaac Sumdac out of his lab). Bumblebee managed to convince the others to do a little exploring of the complex the Autobots are staying at. Optimus reluctantly left the computer monitor and decided he could use a distraction. The others figured, why not? They went along with it, for they too were too were close to being as bored as Bee was... After an hour, they made it to the basement level.

This is where things get interesting.

The basement level looked more like an abandoned showroom. Prowl tried finding the lights and succeeded. The place was HUGE! There were many vehicles under tarps and photos and trophies all over the walls. There was dust everywhere, which wasn't surprising. After all, Sari DID say her dad didn't even know he owned the place.

Regardless Bumblebee looked like a kid receiving barrels of free candy... Bumblebee and Bulkhead ran from car to car, taking off the tarps to the cars. Cars that looked oddly familiar.

"Hey guys! Check it out!" Bumblebee yelled when he revealed all the cool cars.

There were many cars lining both sides of the walls:

One car is a sleek black, red and grey with various logo's and the purple Decepticon insignia next to or under his car's number.

"Is that?!" Optimus stared incredulously at the well-known insignia. He looked incredulously dumbstruck at the other cars. The others soon catching on as well.

The next car was black, pinkish purple with grey doors and a pinkish purple stripe down the side with this number and another version of the Decepticon insignia with wings on the side; wings resembling those attached to Starscream's back.

Then there was a black and gold car with really cool spider designs resembling Blackarachnia's alt-mode. There was even added the techno bits, making it really look like her alt. The logo is that of the classic black widow with Cybertronian circuitry stylized onto it.

On the other side on the end was a car that looks like a tribute to all construction workers everywhere with a green and purple color scheme. Their logo was a made up Femme Constructicon drinking oil…

The next car was actually the car Jazz transforms into! But with some modifications added to it. But it still kept that Jazz-iness about his car. They used the Elite-Guard insignia.

"What is going on here?!" Optimus wondered in shock.

Last was the closest car on their right, near the door.

Bumblebee yanked the tarp off.

The car was none other than the car Bee turns into! But this car looked like it was in a major accident a while ago, considering how wrecked it looks. Bumblebee shivered, after all, he transforms into an identical car to that one.

"You guys, should probably see this..." Prowl said while pointing to the steering wheel. The rest of the bots walked closer and saw what Prowl was pointing to. It was an Autobot insignia in the center of the steering wheel.

"Is that-?" Optimus started in shock.

"That's impossible!" Ratchet yelled incredulously.

"No way..." Bulkhead said. And considering that the coloring was faded, it is most likely an off-lined Autobot.

"It looks like this guy has been around a long time..." Bumblebee trailed, referring to how rusted it looks.

"But what is an Autobot doing all the way out here? And who do you think it is?" Ratchet asked.

"I don't know Ratchet." Optimus trailed, but then something got caught in his eye in the drivers' seat. "?"

"What is it Prime?" Bee asked. Optimus bent over and carefully opened the door. The inside was empty of anything besides the tape and something on the rear view mirror. He carefully plucked the thing off and held both the thing and the tape in one hand and stood at full height. The thing was a bumblebee-shaped air freshener with the words 'Bee-otch' under it. "?" He looked at Bumblebee.

"Hey Bumblebee, mind if I see that air-freshener of yours?" Optimus asked. Bee blinked.

"Uh, sure." He opened up a spot on his chest and pulled out said item. Optimus blinked in disbelief. It was the same as the one in his hand, but obviously newer.

"Boss-bot?" Bee asked, snapping Optimus from his thoughts. He opened his hand and showed the others. They all gasped.

"Hey! It's the same as your lil' buddy!" Bulkhead declared. Somehow, Bee didn't like where this was going. "Lil' buddy?"

"Huh? Oh, y-yeah! Whoever this guy was, he had good taste!" He laughed uneasily. He looked over at Optimus who was staring at the tape.

"Maybe this tape would give us some answers..." And with that, one by one, the went back to the main room.

About five minutes later, found them all in the main room and Prowl setting up the tape. A moment later he was done and sat down on a makeshift chair he made a while back, and pushed play via the remote.

The camera was switched to the news channel- Which confused the Autobots.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the racing world! I am Claire Bennet and I shall be your host for the evening. It will be my greatest honor in doing so, for this year of the World Racing Grand Prix hosts none other than Sara Sumdac!"

The crowd cheered in the background.

"That's~ right! Sara Sumdac. A.K.A. the Speed Demon. She's a legend among the women division as the racer that always comes first, and the 'Fastest Thing on Wheels', Sara Sumdac! Apparently, Championship day isn't the only thing on her mind: It's also her daughters' 4th birthday! Little Sari Sumdac and her dad are sure to be cheering her on in the stands!"

"Sari!?" Bumblebee asked shocked, mostly to the camera switched to someone actually holding the camera: Isaac Sumdac. Sari was laughing because her dad couldn't keep the thing balanced to save his life!

"Daddy! Let me hold it!" His laughing could be heard as the camera focused on a little-er Sari. "C'mon dad! Mommy's waiting."

After a moment they were in the garage her mom was assigned. It was huge!

But what caught the Autobots attention... was the Pit Crew. It was them! The human versions of them from the virtual world!

"No way..." Bulkhead trailed.

"Impossible..." Optimus said in awe.

"There's just no way that that is possible!" Ratchet yelled in disbelief.

"T-that's us!" Bee yelled while pointing to the screen

The camera focused on a woman in front of the crew in yellow. Then she turned.

She looked like an older version of Sari! She was close in height to the human Optimus, had cinnamon-like chocolate skin, red eyes, red hair also in two ponytails, but going to her waist in length and in layers spiking outwards behind her.. She wore a black and yellow racers uniform. She squealed and Sari ran into her arms as her dad took the camera.

He actually managed to steady it!

"She looks just like her." Bee stated gently.

"Sari, I'd like to introduce you to my pit crew." She said while standing with Sari in her arms. Sara waved her hand to each of them as she said it. "But you gotta remember, with us and how things are going; we can't use our real names. So here on the track, we each have our own nicknames."

"Cool!" Sari giggled. Sara chuckled and pointed to-

"Over there is Ratchet-"

"Wha-?" Said bots eyes widened.

"Ratchet is the medic in case of accidents. *Then whispered in Sari's ear* He is a war veteran and tends to go into his old war stories when you least expect it. So I'd suggest bringing a pillow around him."

"HEY! I heard that!" The girls just laughed.

Our Ratchet just grumbled, and Bee and Bulkhead snickered.

"Over there is Optimus. He's the self-appointed leader of the group. Normally it would be the driver... but he actually gets things done. So... I let him take the wheel on that job." Sara rubbed her head sheepishly.

Our Optimus chuckled at that. He saw his other in the background and saw how similar they were in many ways.

"Over there is Bulkhead, he's the mechanic. I've had these guys on my crew for a month now and they are way better than my old crew. Prowl is somewhere around here, apparently he's a distant cousin to Optimus."

Our Optimus and Prowl looked at each other. Cousins?

"And then theres... uh... Yo Optimus!" Said man turned and faced her. "Do you know where you're son is? I wanna introduce them!" She yelled over to them. They were on the other side of the garage, messing with a car under the hood.

"Knowing him, he's probably in trouble of some kind!" He joked. Our Optimus was deep in thought wondering who his 'son' would be... He groaned.

"Alright, I have a few minutes, I'll go find him. Would you guys mind watching her for a few?"

"Sure!" Bulkhead said cheerfully. He was covered in grease in oil. Sari giggled and ran over to him. The duo immediately becoming friends.

Bulkhead chuckled at that. Bumblebee was trying to figure out where his 'other self' was.

"Don't bother, he's right here." The camera turned to see Prowl's counterpart holding the human Bee in mid air by his shirt. He looks 12 years old though.

"Hey! Let me go!" Bee Struggled. Sara rolled her eyes, Prowl plopped him on the ground, grabbed his ear and dragged him over to Optimus. Optimus crossed his arms, but looked at him like this was an everyday occurrence.

"Prowl?" Said man sighed.

"I found him on my computer trying to play videogames on it."

At which both Bumblebees snickered at, while both Prowls rolled their eyes and glared, almost in sync with their counterparts.

Then an announcement came on saying that the preliminary race is gonna start in an hour. Sara put her hands on her hips and smiled. "Guys, is it alright If I have a few minutes alone with her?" They nodded and left; Optimus was dragging Bee out by the hair.

Everyone got a kick out of that, except Bumblebee of course.

Even Isaac, her dad, left the room and left the camera on a table nearby showing them and the covered up car.

After a moment the two were alone. Sara looked sad for some reason and was failing at trying to hide it. Meanwhile Sari was running up to the car.

"Can I see the car? Please, please, please, please, PLEASE!" While making the cutest pout ever! Sara couldn't help it. She laughed and shook her head.

"Sure sweetie." Sara walked over to the car and yanked off the sheet over it. It was the wrecked car from earlier!

The difference, this car had a makeover. The yellow paint had this metallic shine to it and varied of shades between yellow and orange depending on the lighting. The black stripes had this custom spray painted pinstripe design on top that made it even cooler. The design was thin lines of varying shades of blue with tiny metallic painted Allspark crystals here and there ending with a stylized version of Sari's Key. The wheels were traded for the kind specifically for racing. Everything was modified for racing. (1)

"Wow! And you're driving this!"

Even Bumblebee had to stare in awe at it.

"You like?" Sara asked while opening the drivers side door and sitting inside, trying to show off. Sari giggled.

"This car is so cool! I wish I had a car like this!"

Everyone cast a subtle glance at Bumblebee, thinking about Sari.

"Who knows, someday you will." Sara said while shrugging with a smile. Then she frowned. "Sari... come here." She patted her lap. Sari looked at her curiously and reluctantly sat in her lap. Sara wrapped her arms around her.

"I wanted to apologize. I haven't been around you as much as I would like because of my busy schedule..."

"Its ok, mommy. I'm used to it from daddy-"

"That's still no excuse! Look, what I'm saying is is that this Championship race will be my last one for a while. After the race today, I'm retiring so I can be with you more." Sari's eyes widened happily, but then frowned.

"But you love to race! You're always happy on the track!"

"Still..." Silence between them. Then Sari got an idea. She pulled out something from her pocket.

"I got you something! It's for luck in your race!" She held out the little air freshener.

"For me?" Sari nodded happily. Sara gently grabbed it and placed it on the rearview mirror.

"So... have you named the car yet?"Sari asked trying to change the subject. Sara laughed and the two got out of the car. She closed the door and the two stood in front of the camera, backs to them. Sara put her hands on her hips in thought, and Little Sari copied her. Then after a moment, Sari jumped up and down waving her hand like she was in a class room.

"Ooh! Ooh! I have an idea!" Sara just laughed at he little girl.

"And what's your idea?" She said leaning over playfully.

"Bumblebee!"

The 'Bots blinked in surprise.

"Bumblebee? Why bumblebee?" Sari huffed and ran to the car.

"Because~ it's black and yellow, has those freaky stripes and reminds me of one!" They looked at each other and then started laughing.

The bots snickered at Bee, who smiled, lost in his own thoughts.

"Alrighty then!" She walked over to a table and picked up a crowbar and walked back over to the car. She held out the bar like she was trying to knight someone in a play. "In the name of Sari Sumdac! I now christen this car! This car will forever be known as... Bumblebee!" Sari jumped and cheered.

Our guys just laughed playfully at all of this.

"Alright... enough play. Why don't you go play with Optimus' son and call the others back in so we can get ready." Sara asked between giggles.

"Okay. mommy." While running to her mom and jumping into her arms and giving her a hug. Sara held tightly and spun her around and then just held her. Sari grabbed the camera and ran out the room giggling.

Then the camera turned off for a moment then turned back on to see Sari looking for Bumblebee. But instead saw Optimus making out with Elita 1!

Our Optimus' face was soo priceless, everyone laughed at the look on his face!

The duo blushed by being caught on tape by a giggling Sari. Optimus had the decency to blush at least. Elita just giggled. Elita was pretty. She had blonde hair in a ponytail and had a yellow sleeveless shirt and blue pants and a yellow zip up sweater tied around her waist. Optimus was wearing a red short sleeve shirt that flattered him well, blue jeans and a blue and white Racers uniform.

"Why hello there! You must be Sari, right." Elita asked. Sari must've nodded, judging by the movement of the camera. "Well, I can't give my real name, but you can call me Elita, ok? And this is my husband, Optimus."

Our Optimus was blushing big time at that, and Bumblebee proceeded to tease him about it.

"Nice to meet you!" Sari giggled, as well as Elita. Um, excuse me? But... um, have you seen the boy from earlier? My mom said to be with him until the race starts." Optimus crossed his arms with a knowing smile. Then huffed at the trouble said boy is probably already in by now.

"You might wanna try near the track. He loves watching the cars go by during practice."

"Okay! Thanks!" The duo waved goodbye as she ran. As she ran, She ran into a whole bunch of familiar faces.

Apparently Megatron and Starscream were on separate teams and were both drivers and rivals. The Starscream clones were the originals' pit crew and also drivers. Lugnut, three Blitzwings (For each of Our Blitzwings' faces, and each wearing a tan and purple military arab-like clothing.) and Soundwave were with Megatron. There was also Blackarachnia that turned out to be Elita's 'twin sister'. The Constructicons were their own team and their team was actually CALLED the 'Constructicons.' There was even Ultra Magnus, the Jet twins, Sentinel, and Jazz!

"It's like Everybot we know is in this race!" Bumblebee threw his arms up in exasperation!

Eventually she did find him. He was on the railings near the top, (facing the left side of the camera)leaning over on his hands watching the practice races in awe. Then he saw her and smiled. He hopped down and mutely told her to follow.

It was soo loud, Prowl had to lower the volume until they found a quiet spot.

He was smiling big time. Little Sari put the camera down on a tire so it faced the two on screen next to a trailer to their team.

"Hey, sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce myself earlier. My name's Bee. What's yours?"

"Um... I don't have a nickname yet..." He chuckled.

"It's alright. How about we think of one together then?" He offered. She giggled and nodded. After a few minutes the nicknames -for each other- became so ridiculous they fell on the ground laughing!

Our guys even got a kick out of a few they came up with.

"Hey... did your mom mention what she's doing after this race?" He said sitting on a pile of three tires on top of each other.

"Yeah... she said she's retiring. But she loves to race!

"Yeah, but she's also your mom." She looked at him curiously. "What I mean is... your mom; she's spent her whole life around cars and racing. Even now, she's still getting used to being responsible for someone other than herself. She's strong and independent. Also, everytime I see her, she's always talking about you." Sari watched wide eyes.

"Wow... Zat is deep for a half pint!" They turned and saw the crazy Blitzing laughing. Bee glared at him. Their Blitzwing wasn't a bully... more along the lines of annoying brother whose sole purpose in life is to give you hell.

"Oh, ha ha. Either way, she really is trying. So, wanna know what you can do for her, until then?" Bee hopped off the tires and walked over to the camera.

"What?" He stopped in front of the camera and smiled.

"What you can do is cheer her on. Just knowing that her daughter, her only reason to cross that finish line is cheering her on is enough for her. After all..." He turned and faced her. "...you ARE her finish line."

Meanwhile everyone in the room stared open-mouthed at that. Seriously doubting if that really is our Bumblebees' freaky human double. It was wicked deep, that's for sure.

Then Bee turned and turned off the camera.

The camera changed to Sari holding it again, yelling out Bees' name trying to find him. Then he saw a trailer, hitched up to Optimus' Big Rig Alt-Mode!

"Is this the one they're staying in?" She said to herself happily. She knocked but no answer. "Maybe he's taking a nap." She slowly opened the door and almost dropped the camera.

The Autobots jaws were on the floor staring wide-eyed in disbelief at what was on the screen.

Inside the trailer was anything related to the Autobots, Decepticons, even Cybertron! There was various pictures, both photos and drawings. There was the Autobot insignia here and there. But most of all, when the camera zoomed in when Sari looked around... in the photos WERE the Autobots! Optimus, Ratchet, Prowl, Bulkhead, Bumblebee... and Our Sari in her teenage form. Sari set the camera down next to the door giving a great view of the entire trailer while she looked around

"Cool! ...Whoa! Is that my mommy?" Sari asked at one of the pictures.

In the picture was Bumblebee with a girl on his shoulder with Bulkhead behind them. The girl was a teenager with hair like Sari's but shorter.

But also:

From her neck down, she resembled a Cybertronian. She had yellow armor that turned in to a dress with a tannish-white stripe down the middle, much like Sari's dress. She had matching tannish-white pants/armor and stylized shoes. On her back looked like miniature jet wings, but she also had a jet-pack on.

Meanwhile... out Autobots were at a loss. How is it possible that they have all of those photos and whatnot? And who was that girl in the pictures? It could be Sari, but she's 8. So, Sara as a teenager? But they don't know that girl... Many other questions consumed their processors at the sight of a tiny Techno-Organic that reminded them greatly of Sari.

Then, they heard talking outside the trailer door. She started to panic. But before she could do anything, the door opened. And in walked a surprised Bee.

"I-I'm sorry! I- I was trying to find you a-and thought you were taking a na-!" She tried to explain. He just held up his hand calmly.

"It's ok. I don't mind." He said with a smile. Then his gaze went around the trailer. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"Uh... yeah! Who are they?" Bee smiled.

"These pictures..." Obviously trying to word things right. "They were made by your mom, years ago."

"My mom?" He nodded.

"Yeah, she told me about it. You see, this is a made up story with your mom as that girl over there." He said while pointing to the girl in the photo she looked at earlier.

"Can you tell me the story?" She begged with her infamous puppy-dog eyes of doom. He sweat-dropped. After a moment, he sighed and smiled.

"You see the robots in there?" She nodded. He walked up to a group shot of them (The one Bulkhead printed himself, but obviously not as big. Turned into a poster.)

"They are... *chuckle* 'Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron'."

"Cybertron?" He nodded. And over the next 10 minutes, they watched as Bee told about every adventure they ever had, especially the ones on Earth. He told about how they all met for the first time, Optimus' story with Blackarachnia, Megatron and Starscream, how the Constructicons and Dinobots came to be, even how Sari upgraded herself. He even told how Megatron was finally captured.

Meanwhile, the others pretty much figured out, that their humans aren't their freaky doubles, but actually them!

"So what happened next?" Little Sari asked, totally absorbed in his story. Bee's smile changed from happy to sad.

"I, uh... I don't know." Bee clearly lied, but little Sari believed him.

"So I take it the other racers, know this story, too? Since they are all named after these guys?" Spreading her arms around, referring to all the bots' in the pictures.

"Yeah... they know the story... In fact. Did you know, that you were named after the girl in the story?"

"Really?!" He nodded. Then she thought of something. "Your name 'Bee', did you name yourself after Bumblebee? The Autobot?"

Our guys watched as 'Bee' clearly flinched and tried very hard to choose his next words carefully. Prowl paused the tape, giving Bumblebee a break for a minute.

"It must be hard for him." Prowl started, causing Bumblebee to jump a little. "If he and the others in the pit crew, really are us, somehow in the past... then 'Bee' is clearly having a hard time with this."

"No kidding..." Bumblebee said mostly to himself.

"The question is... how did the rest of their story go? And... why are they even in the past in the first place..." Optimus trailed.

"Not only that..." Bumblebee started. "But... that car we found earlier..." Their optics widened.

"No..." Ratchet spoke sadly.

"B-but that's impossible!" Bulkhead tried to reason in vain. They all stared at Bumblebee.

"The yellow bug. The Autobot symbol..." Bee said sadly. "That fallen Autobot... is me."

They all were quiet. The image of the beyond wrecked car and the layer of dust... it matches with how far back this tape was recorded. Then prowl spoke up.

"Do you think... this is why she became friends with us so easily? Because of whats on this tape?" After a moment, Optimus spoke.

"I don't know Prowl. I really don't know..." After a moment, Prowl reluctantly pushed play.

"Yeah... Me and Bumblebee are a lot alike, huh?" He said with a barely hidden pain in his grin.

1) I decided to give Bumblebee a little makeover for the race, cool huh? Been watching a lot of car shows with dad lately and was inspired. XD

Ok, guys. I'm begging here. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DO SOME FANART FOR THIS STORY?! I Really want to see a pic of Sara and Bumblebee (car or Bot, preferably car for sake of story but will take either) posing for the cameras! PLEASE! If I deem your pic worthy of the paparazzi at the finish line, the pic will be displayed as the cover pic for this story! Full credit and everything.