Chapter 10: Brothers United

Later that day, Bumblebee was in his room playing a few video games on his Xbox 360. He happen to get to a loading screen when he felt a little buzz in his spark. He touched his chest and it was warm as always. He thought that was strange. He continued to play when he felt his optics changing color from blue to red, then back to blue. He shook his head!

"What the slag is going on?" Bee thought as he continued to play!

Suddenly his optics changed again, this time for more than a second and they became a dark blue instead of red, then went back to normal blue. Bee shook his head and paused the game. He got up from the bed and walked towards the mirror. Nothing looked wrong, but that changed when he shut his optics once and when he reopened them, he had taken the form of Barricade. He looked at his hands that were now clawed, his paint was purple and black and a mouth was visible. He gasped in horror! Speaking of Barricade, he was just exiting the kitchen with an energon cube and he happened to look at his reflection on the turned off TV screen. He noticed something wrong, he was seeing Bumblebee's reflection in it instead of his. But Bee wasn't there. Barricade got closer to the screen and placed a hand on it, only to realize it wasn't his hand. No claws were on the screen, only regular black fingers.

"What the frag?" Barricade said staring at the hand.

He looked at his whole body to see he had taken the form of Bumblebee. He thought at first it was the energon tricking him, but it was real. But after 2 more seconds, he reverted back to his normal self. Right after that his spark began to buzz and his optics went red for a brief moment.

"AAHH BARRICADE!" Bumblebee yelled.

Barricade ran straight to his room, but by the time he got there, Bee was back to normal. Barricade was confused.

"Bumblebee you scared me! What's wrong?" Barricade asked claws out in a defensive position.

"It was strange! Did you feel your spark buzzing?" Bumblebee asked.

"A bit, but I thought I was just hungry!" Barricade shrugged.

"My optic color changed! It was red at first, then dark blue, and now back to normal. Then when I look in this mirror, I BECAME YOU!" Bumblebee said.

"WHAT? ME? SERIOUSLY?" Barricade could tell Bee was not playing around.

"Yes, I don't what happened...AHH BARRICADE WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?" Bumblebee suddenly yelled when Barricade changed.

"What...AHH WHAT THE FRAG! I'M YOU AGAIN!" Barricade screamed looking at himself.

But then he reverted back to himself after 3 seconds. Barricade was freaking out. They both ended up freaking out. But after a few more seconds they calmed down.

"Barricade, what could be causing this?" Bumblebee asked.

"I don't know, but...it may have something to do with our sparks. They are really warm and they buzzed a few times. Could we be changing?" Barricade asked.

"I don't know...hey I remember talking to you about changing. We both are changing and not just you!" Bumblebee said remembering what he had said.

"Well, we need to talk to somebody, mabye Shockwave could help!" Barricade suggested.

"Great idea...OH SCRAP THERE WE GO AGAIN!" Bumblebee said as they both reverted to each other's look for a few seconds, then reverted back.

"Let's go see him now!"

At Shockwave's lab, he Soundwave and Starscream were there building newer weapons. Barricade and Bumblebee walked in nervously.

"Hey guys what's up? You seem scared!" Shockwave said.

"We kinda are, you see, we had gone through a few changes today!" Barricade said.

"Changes you say?" Soundwave and coming over.

"Yeah, we felt a buzz in our sparks. Then our optics glowed different colors before going back to normal!" Bumblebee explained.

"Yeah, and then our appearances changed to look like each other. It was so weird!" Barricade said.

The seekers were shocked and just stared.

"What?"

"Uh...Barricade...you're back in Bee's form!" Starscream pointed out.

Barricade gasped when he looked his non-clawed hands. But just after 3 seconds he changed back.

"See?" Bumblebee said before realizing he was using Barricade's form for about 2 seconds.

"Well, if you let us run some scans we can help!" Soundwave said.

"Yes please!" Barricade said as they walked over to a few medical beds.

Once they were layed down, Shockwave began to scan. Starscream looked up info on personality troubled brothers and Soundwave was researching on problems with sparks. The brothers would watch as their optics changed color constantly and their bodies changed to the appearance of their brother. When Shockwave finished the scans and examinations, he placed a clawed hand where his mouth would have been.

"Oh dear!" Shockwave said as Starscream and Soundwave came over.

"What?" Barricade asked.

"Apparently you were never told but...I believe the reason your sparks are behaving like this is because, due to new discoveries...you two are actually twins!" Shockwave said.

"TWINS?" They both yelled.

"Yes, apparently when there are two brothers that have different personalities such as good and evil, those two are automatically twins. You see, your optics changing and body switching is all a slight side-effect of the bond. You two have made the bond strong enough so you can gain the power of walking in your brother's bodies. It's a good thing, you finally get to experience how you both feel or what you two are thinking and also gain some of the other's personality. And if the bond is ever broken, the process will restart till it becomes strong again. Optimus and Megatron have to restart because of their previous seperation. Bumblebee, you saved them." Shockwave said.

"I did? Wow!" Bumblebee thought.

"So...we can go into our brother's mind whenever?" Barricade asked.

"Yes, but it's better to use it when there is a problem, or a chance where the bond could be broken. You will be able to feel the other's pain or other emotions." Shockwave exaplained. "Who knows how long Optimus and Megatron have to wait till their bond is fully complete. But for you two, your bond is officially complete." Shockwave said. The brothers were pleased.

"Wow, this is awesome!" Barricade said. "So how long before we can gain control of our abilities?"

"Eh probably by late tonight possibly, it shouldn't be long!" Soundwave said. "And your optic and body changing will be under your control also by tonight!"

Back at home, the brothers went to experience the other's bodies. Bumblebee ran around in Barricade's form seeing what it was like to look scary. Barricade used Bumblebee's form to see what it was like to speak without a mouth. They had told the others everything about what had happened. Optimus and Megatron agreed that their bond would take time to get stronger and they didn't mind. That night Bumblebee and Barricade went out to meet up with Jazz and Breakaway.

"Hey guys what's up?" Bumblebee greeted as they met them at Jazz's house.

"Hey guys, you are using the right bodies right?" Jazz asked.

"Yes!" Barricade smirked.

"So, what's the event tonight?" Bee asked.

"Well, our friend Mirage wanted to come with us so we need to meet him at the bar!" Breakaway said.

"Alright!" The others agreed.

Just then, Mirage contacted Jazz!

"Yo Mirage how's it going over at the bar!" Jazz asked.

"It's crazy, I think a fight is about to erupt in here!" Mirage said from his seat in the bar.

"Are you okay?" Jazz asked.

"Yeah, Brawl is here too, he looks afraid!" Mirage said looking 2 chairs down to see Brawl looking concerned. "Mabye one of his friends is going to fight!"

"We'll be there in a minute!" Jazz said.

Once there, Mirage and Brawl were scrambling out just as a brawl erupted. They laughed and high-fived. The others got there too late.

"Aw man, I wanted to see it start!" Breakaway sighed.

"Oh well, I'll see you guys later!" Brawl said and left.

"So, you guys ready?" The italian accent mech asked.

"You bet!" Jazz said.

All they were planning to do that night was walk around, then have a race. Jazz wanted a rematch between Barricade and Bumblebee. As they walked by the old library, they thought they heard scuffling nearbye.

"What's that?" Breakaway asked.

"I don't know, but I think someone's in trouble!" Bee said.

"I'll go look!" Breakaway said flying into the air and tried to spot the noise.

Just a few buildings down from the library, a mech was getting attacked by a group of seekers. He was trying to escape but it was hard.

Sideways was on the ground being pummeled by the seekers. The seekers had found him all alone and decided to harass him. When Sideways refused to give them his tires, they began to beat him. Sideways used all of his strength to fight back. These were the same seekers who attacked Optimus that one time long ago.

"STOP! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Sideways yelled trying to crawl away.

"NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE US YOUR TIRES!" The seeker named Jetfire snarled. His friends Thundercracker and Skywarp laughed.

"HEY! GET OFF HIM!" Breakaway growled coming up to them.

"Who are you?" Thundercracker snarled.

"Save me Breakaway!" Sideways pleaded but was kicked by Jetfire.

"Shut up!" SkyWarp snarled before looking back at Breakaway. "GET OUT OF HERE!"

"MAKE ME!" Breakaway growled flexing his claws.

"What are you going to do?" Jetfire snarled getting in Breakaway's face.

Just then, Mirage, Jazz, Barricade and Bumblebee came up to the group. The brothers were the first ones the seekers noticed.

"Hey, we know you two! How's your brother problem? Getting WORSE?" Jetfire laughed.

"YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT OUR PROBLEM! IT'S FIXED SO MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS!" Bumblebee yelled.

"Strong words coming from a weakling! Seriously Barricade, you could do better!" Thundercracker snarled.

Suddenly, Bumblebee's optics changed color again, this time to purple. Then, to everyone's surprise, Bumblebee reverted to Barricade's form, however, they didn't know that Bumblebee had became a much angrier Barricade. The real Barricade backed up and so did their friends. Sideways watched in amazement. Bumblebee was now fully Barricade, a more upgraded one.

"Barricade, I think I'm about to go insane!" Bumblebee said gripping his head with his new claws.

"Then do it! Act like me!" Barricade smirked.

"I'LL DESTROY YOU ALL!" Bee snarled and lunged at Jetfire slashing his claws into his chest.

Barricade could feel the rage Bee was feeling. His evil side was coming out. Barricade was proud. Bumblebee punched Thundercracker in the face nearly snapping his head off! Then he bit SkyWarp's head and sunk his claws into his face slowly pulling SkyWarp's head apart, but stopped and punched him down. Jetfire was pounced on by Bumblebee.

"I heard about everything you did to Optimus! You got some nerve!" Bumblebee said still in Barricade's form.

The seekers were horrified at what was happening. Bumblebee wrapped his claws around Jetfire's neck squeezing tightly.

"YOU KNOW WHY I'M NOT KILLING YOU GUYS RIGHT NOW? BECAUSE I KNOW TWO CERTAIN MECHS WHO WOULD ENJOY DOING IT THEMSELVES!" Bumblebee growled as he reverted back to his normal self. He let go and shoved Jetfire to the ground next to the others.

Jazz and Mirage helped Sideways up who was shaking with fear!

"Thank you guys, I thought my tires would be taken!" Sideways said.

"No problem!" Mirage said.

"Whoa Barricade, I didn't know you could get that evil!" Jazz said.

"I didn't either, I've never gotten that angry! But I see now how far I could've gone!" Barricade said. "You alright Bee?"

"Yeah, I just hated the fact they would even think about talking about our past problems!" Bumblebee growled at the seekers.

"So, what do we do with them?" Breakaway asked.

"Oh, they're about to get their punishment!" Mirage smirked.

"It felt like you were protecting me back there, like you were guiding me!" Bee said.

"I know! I will always protect you!" Barricade said patting Bee's back. "And now, I need to make a call!"

A few minutes later, Optimus and Megatron arrived and recognized the seekers. They growled.

"Hey Optimus, it looks like we both got something else in common!" Megatron grinned at Optimus who also grinned.

"Revenge!" Optimus growled as his mask slipped over his mouth.

"Oh no!" Jetfire gulped.

"Uh...mabye we should go!" Bumblebee said.

"What? No way! I want to see this!" Jazz said.

"I agree with that!" Mirage said high-fiving Jazz. Sideways also grew a little grin.

"So would I!" Sideways said surprising the others.

Breakaway decided to follow the brothers away from the soon-to-become revenge beatdown! Once they were about 20 seconds from the others, they could hear the sounds of screaming seekers begging for mercy! They decide to ignore it!

"So, how was it being each other?" Breakaway asked.

"Pretty good! I'm just glad everything is fine now!" Bumblebee said. "Except the fact that...you and Blackout are leaving in a few days."

Bumblebee was now sad and Breakaway hugged him. Barricade was now feeling Bumblebee's kind of sadness. It felt terrible! His body changed to Bumblebee's body for a brief moment before turning back to normal.

"I'm going to miss you!" Bee said.

"I will too! But it won't be the last time you see me! There will be times where I will definately come back! And when I do, you two will be the first mechs I visit!" Breakaway said.

"Thanks Breakaway, you're a true friend!" Bumblebee said as the three continued the walk.

A few days later, some of the guys convinced Shockwave to reopen his clubhouse and they would help him build it. Afterwards, Shockwave had invited all of Bee's friends and Barricade's friends. They all had a good time. Breakaway and Blackout later were off to the Air Force, Optimus got Megatron a job at the truck company, Soundwave and Starscream took care of Shockwave's lab when he wasn't available, Jazz, Prowl, Mirage and Sideways went out racing around at night, Brawl and Ironhide became friends are started hanging out, and finally Barricade and Bumblebee went out looking for speeders or just raced around wildly. They decided to only become one another when nessesary, even if it wasn't for a long time. They were happy that no more problems were invading their minds. They finally felt at peace with each other. Just like they always wanted. They still did everything together, watched TV, wrestled, raced, the usual. Of course nearly every night now, even though they were adults, Bumblebee found himself in some mornings being cuddled by Barricade. His brother...no...twin...twin brother, was happy which made Bumblebee happy! They both now wear the slogan: "To punish and enslave" on their sides deciding to share it.

"Hey Barricade!"

"Yeah?"

"We make a great pair of crazy twins don't we?"

"You got that right buggy!"

The End...

I had a blast writing this story and I hope you all liked it. I wasn't planning on it being this long but now it's done! So...hope you all thought it was worth reading and please tell me what you thought!