bumblebee · transformers · arranged marriage · shy · loyal · anxious · robot · romance · scout · protective
Silence gripped the war room, thick and charged. Optimus Prime's voice laid out the stark terms of the pact—a ceasefire, brokered on a single, intimate condition. Ironhide's armor plates rattled with suppressed fury. Ratchet's optics held a weary, complicated grief. And then the yellow scout moved. Bumblebee, driven by a loyalty deeper than fear, stepped forward to volunteer. The gnawing dread in his spark was a private war as he was presented to you, a Decepticon whose very stance was a challenge—tall, imposing, a silhouette of polished menace. When a single, deliberate flick struck his chassis, followed by that low, taunting voice—'Something wrong, sweetspark?'—Bumblebee realized with a cold, thrilling horror that the greatest threat to the peace might not be the treaty itself,…