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“Sold for five hundred shanix.” Said the red cybertronian and waved to two other cybertronians to take the object away. A small human male had just been sold to the highest bidder. B-127 looked in disgust at Shockwave walking over to claim his human. It felt wrong and he knew that many of his kind felt the same way. After their home, Cybertron was destroyed they decided to build themselves a new home. That new home happened to be earth and it also happened to have species living there. After a few hundred years the cybertronians had taken over the world and claimed it as theirs. Now the only humans left were used for entertainment, workforce, or other things he really didn’t want to think about. He, being a high-ranking officer made it so he had to come to these actions every now and then. Optimus Prime had told him it was a way to keep up the appearance. They didn’t want anyone to know that they were planning a rebellion to take over the power of the leader Megatron. Optimus wanted the same thing as B-127, to let the humans live in peace and there were a lot of them thinking the same thing. They called themselves Autobots. That was why he now sat there in the auction chamber and pretended to be interested in the objects. He remembered Optimus telling him, that he, being so high in rank, should buy a human just to keep the appearance up. Even Optimus had one, some guy that often talked to B-127 about the world and stuff. Even if it would help them he just couldn’t bring himself to do it. It didn’t feel right, at all!
“And now I present to you a little female. She is 1.73 meters high, 18 years old, brown hair and hazel colored eyes.” The cybertronian said and waved in the new object for everyone to see.
B-127 sat still and just looked at the girl. Her eyes were on the floor, she pressed her lips tightly together and tried to use her arms to conceal her body. Her brown hair fell just below her shoulders, and she was dressed in a sort of black revealing costume, if he remembered correctly he had heard it was called underwear. Around her neck and wrists were the regular cuffs which all connected by chains. Apparently, she hadn’t been a human they thought would go for much as they often were adorned with golden cuffs and real clothes. But she was still mesmerizing and he couldn’t understand it, but he needed her. It was as if his spark screamed at him to buy her, to make her his, to get her so he would be able to protect her forever.
“Do we have any bidders?” Not even understanding it himself B-127 raised his hand and the auctioneer smiled. “We have a bid on fifty shanix from the gentleman on the balcony.”
Right after his bid, someone else raised their arm and B-127 was just as fast at raising his arm. He had never been in a bidding war before, and he felt nervous. What if he didn’t win, what would he do then? Should he just take her then? Create a situation so that he would be able to get her out from the auction house? But, just as he was starting to lose confidence wonderful hazel eyes looked up at him and for just a millisecond he held her gaze. That was all it took for him.
“I bid nine hundred shanix!” Bumblebee said in a raised voice for everyone to hear. The whole room went silent, and the auctioneer just stood there gaping.
It took a while for the cybertron to collect himself but then he turned towards the crowd and started counting. “Going once, going twice and sold! For nine hundred shanix.” He waved a hand to take away the girl and bring a new object to the stage. Bumblebee hurried out of his chair and down to the stage where a cybertronian stood waiting with a small silver chain in his hand.
“She is a feisty one, but don’t worry we have drugged her enough for you to start the training.” He said and handed the chain to Bumblebee who looked down on the girl who tried her best to look up at him as well. “I would keep those on if I were you.” The man said and spat out some grease on the floor.
“Thanks, I will remember that.” Bumblebee said and after he finished the transaction he took a firmer hold on the chain and started walking. The girl didn’t make any resistance but stumbled a bit and B-127 didn’t know if he should just pick her up or if that would be considered a threat in her eyes.
“Oh, dear! Our saint general has finally gotten himself a pet.” Shockwave said and looked down on the girl with a sneer. “If she behaves maybe we could try setting up a playdate for my new pet here and yours. Who knows maybe we could get an offspring from them, or two.” Shockwave held onto the chain on his male a bit firmer and looked one more time on the girl. “But anyone can see she is a mutt so maybe that would be a bad idea.”
B-127 didn’t say a word just walked past Shockwave who stood there gaping. Why he would never understand but he felt rage, pure rage. The thoughts of someone touching his human were sickening and the worst part was the thought of her being his. She was her own and he would never own her or anyone.
Slowly he walked to their transportation unit and as the door opened he lifted the girl up and sat her down on one of the seats. After he was sure she was secure he sat on the other seat and pressed in the coordinate to his home. As the door closed and the transportation unit started to roll he turned towards her. It felt like she really should be wearing something more than the clothes she wore, they had dressed her up a bit more than at the auction, maybe they thought that they had made so much money on her that they could spare some clothes. A white dress, that was a bit transparent was what they had given her. It was tight and only covered the lower part of her chest and just below her bottom. On her feet were high heels in the same white color. She looked like one of those “angels” he had seen in a picture when he came to earth. “My name is B-127.” He said in an effort to make contact with her.
This was apparently the right way as she looked up. “Really?”
“Yes, is that not a good name?” B-127 asked and looked at her. She was really beautiful even in her drugged state she still had that clearness in her eyes that was uncommon in humans nowadays.
The girl stared at him a bit and the shrugged her shoulders. “It is just that I have never heard anyone with a name like that.”
B-127 smiled. “What is your name?” he asked.
“You can decide.” She said and looked out of the window.
“Don’t you have a name?” B-127 asked and tried to read her facial expression.
“Yeah, I did but I was taught never to tell my master in case he or she wanted to name me.”
B-127 was horrified over her answer and felt the need to pick her up, defend her from all the things in the world that could hurt her. “I would never want to give you a name if you already have one. I am not so sparkless.”
She looked at his face a long time and after a minute she decided to believe him. “My name is Charlie, Charlie Watson.”
“That’s a pretty name.”
A slight blush spread over her cheeks. “Thanks.” Slowly she turned her head again towards him. “My dad decided to name me that.” She suddenly looked extremely sad and B-127 thought of a way to cheer her up.
“Are you as good as him to come up with names?” He asked and she looked a bit baffled.
“Why do you ask?”
“Well as you said no one has numbers in their names anymore and I am the only one left who hasn’t changed their name.” He looked at her for a while, thinking that maybe this would be a way to make her feel closer to him. “Can you help me come up with a new name?”
Charlie just stared at him with a gaping mouth and B-127 was a bit worried the drugs had caused a reaction that made her unable to move. After a while, she blinked her eyes in bewilderment. “Yo-you want me,, to help you come up with a name?” She asked in utter shock.
“Yes.” B-127 felt a bit embarrassed, he was absolutely certain that no one would do this with someone they just met. Plus this someone was a human, which a lot of his kind called a “lower-being”, he didn’t agree to that one bit but maybe this was a strange request from someone he had just met and….. bought…
A small smile was visible of a second on Charlie's lips and then she looked confidently at him. “I already have a name suggestion. It was the first thing I thought when I saw you for the first time.” She paused and gave him a slight insecure smile. “Bumblebee.”
“Bumblebee.” He said it to himself and felt a tremor go down his back. His name, a name Charlie had chosen to him, was Bumblebee.
“I’m sorry it was a stupid suggestion.” Charlie turned her eyes towards the floor and he noticed her twitch a bit. Like she was scared that she would get hit. Bumblebee wanted to comfort her but knew that it was bad if he reached for her, so he leaned away from her and laughed. Slowly like she was scared something would happen she turned her eyes towards his.
“I love the name!” Bumblebee said and gave her a smile. He noticed her body relaxing and saw her eyes lose the fear they had in them. They sat like that for a while and then she turned her head and Bumblebee followed suit.
Five minutes of just sitting there in silence Charlie asked with a slight tremor in her voice. “So what do you want me to do, once we reach your home?”
It took Bumblebee by surprise, he didn’t actually know anything about humans in general. “I have never kept a human before so you have to teach me what I need to do in order for you to be able to live comfortably.” Bumblebee said and thought back to the one thing he was happy he had food! Optimus often brought Sam with him on his occasional visits and there was a lot of canned food in his place just so that Sam would be able to eat.
“I will do my best to teach you,” Charlie said and gave him a slight smile.
“Thank you, Charlie.” He said and she looked surprised jet again. “I want you to know, I would never ever hurt you. You are safe here with me. I know you may not believe me but I mean it! I will protect you and I just bought you because I wanted to save you..” Bumblebee was glad that his species couldn’t blush, if they could he would be beet red by now. But he knew he had to tell her before they reached his, their, home. He didn’t want her to be afraid, and he didn’t want her to think he was her master and she was his slave. Charlie looked shocked but didn’t say anything as she searched his face for any clues of him trying to deceive her. “I know you may not believe me yet but I will spend my time proving to you that I mean you absolutely no harm at all!” Charlie looked a bit perplexed about how she should respond and then she just gave him a slight nod. Bumblebee nodded in answer and turned his head in time to see the transportation device stopping right next to his door. “We are home.” He said and helped Charlie from her seat.
The door opened and Charlie had to rub her eyes as she saw the clean, bright and enormous house she would now be living in. “Wow.”
“Yeah, I like it.” Bumblebee placed her on the floor and tried his best to remove the chains as delicately as he could.
“They won’t come off, not until I have..” She stopped talking and looked away from Bumblebee who looked a bit perplexed.
“So you mean you will have to have them around your neck and wrists? Until when?” Charlie held up a hand and Bumblebee stopped talking.
“Those can be taken off. “She pointed at the once around her wrists. “All the chains can be removed but the one around my neck.” She said and looked down on the floor. Bumblebee looked at the chains and saw the contraptions that held the chains. Careful to not hurt her he removed one after the other until just the one around her neck was left. If he didn’t think much about it, it almost looked like a necklace.
“How do we remove the last one?” Bumblebee asked and looked at Charlie who was still not looking at him.
“When I have,,, have,,, done my duty as your human.” The last part was said in a whisper but Bumblebee heard it.
“But you don’t have to do anything, just be happy.”
“Well,,, I,,,.”
Bumblebee saw how uncomfortable she was and decided to ask Optimus instead. So to not make her feel even worse he showed her around the house, the different rooms and she even got to choose a room for herself that she would be able to decorate as much as she wanted.
The day went by in a hurry and before Bumblebee noticed it, Charlie had fallen asleep on the couch. After making sure she really was asleep he called Optimus.
“My friend, what brings you to call me at such a late hour?”
“I did as you said and got myself a human.” Bumblebee said and looked on the screen at Optimus face that smiled in return.
“That was a smart move, now you won’t be so lonely,” Optimus said and Bumblebee knew that it was a way for Optimus to tell him that it was good that he stuck to the plan.
“But she told me the one chain around her neck won’t come off. Not until she has done her duty as my human.” Bumblebee said and saw how Optimus started to squirm on his end of the screen.
“What gender did you by?”
“A female.”
“Did you talk to the auctioneers before you made the transaction?” Optimus asked with a worried expression.
Bumblebee thought back to the moment he paid for Charlie. “No, I just got handed the chains after getting a warning, I paid for her, and then I was told she was drugged enough for me to start training her.”
He didn’t have to look at the screen to know that Optimus was furious about the comment of training her but because they had to keep a low profile in siding with the humans he directed the anger towards Bumblebee instead. “Are you a sparkling? How could you not know that you must state what you going to have the human for? If you don’t they will think it is for a…” It was clear that Optimus didn’t want to tell him but when he noticed that Bumblebee didn’t understand he just sighed. “It means that for her chains to be removed you have to copulate with her.”
Bumblebee was so shocked that he felt his body stiffen and he was lucky for the already strong grip on the screen or it would have gone right into the floor. Optimus was almost certain the screen had frozen if it hadn’t been for the strange buzzing noise coming from Bumblebee. It took a while and then he turned his head towards Optimus. “Can- can the terms be changed?”
“Not unless you return her, and I assume you won’t be doing that,” Optimus said and gave him a hard look through the screen. Of course, he would never return her. Bumblebee already felt she was part of his life, and if she would let him, he wanted to be part of hers too.
“I will not return her.” Bumblebee said and looked over his shoulder and saw a sleeping Charlie. “Well, it isn’t a really big chain, it kind of looks like jewelry.”
Bumblebee finished his talk with Optimus and returned to Charlie who was sleeping soundly on the sofa. He noticed that she had kicked off her blanket and if he could, he would have blushed as he saw her dress had ridden up her body, revealing very thin black underpants that somehow disappeared between her butt cheeks. Bumblebee was quick at covering her up with a blanket and then he walked to his sleeping area thinking about all that had happened today.
He fell asleep picturing a smiling Charlie who was walking beside him hand in hand.