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• Numb Little Bug by MerlinFromBerlin

  Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime  

  • Explicit
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  21 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Bumblebee & Optimus Prime & Ratchet
  • Bumblebee & Optimus Prime
  • Bumblebee & Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Bumblebee & Team Prime (Transformers: Prime)
  • Bumblebee & Rafael "Raf" Esquivel
  • Bumblebee (Transformers)
  • Optimus Prime
  • Ratchet (Transformers)
  • Transformers Prime Cast
  • Primus (Transformers)
  • there's a few other characters in chapter 1 but I didn't tag them as all of them appear only once
  • pronouns shenanigans
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • AU - Puppet of Primus
  • Energon
  • Used as in
  • Blood and Injury
  • Blood and Violence
  • Parent Optimus Prime
  • Dadimus Prime
  • Parent Ratchet (Transformers)
  • dadchet
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • mostly canon-compliant
  • Until it's not :)
  • Angst
  • Child Soldiers
  • Bumblebee Needs A Hug (Transformers)
  • all of them actually - Freeform
  • he deserves them too
  • but well what can you do - the plot demands otherwise
  • there will be fluffy scenes in between the others
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • very wonky sense of self at best
  • had a bit of fun with language again in this one :D
  • I'm also back at mudering OCs for the sake of the plot again :)
  • Transformers Spark Bonds
  • Possession - Freeform
  • Team as Family
  • Found Family
  • I probably forgot to add something
  • but well that's what the edit button is for
  • AU - Chosen by a God with a fucked up definition of benevolence
  • Functionism (Transformers)
  • however - for now that mostly just happens and is only truly unpacked later
  • not outright suicidality but at least way too much comfort with the idea of one's own death
  • Tyger Pax
  • Slow To Update
  • Animal Death
  • it's skippable and it's peaceful (Old Age) - not violent
  • but traumatic for Bee nonetheless

  Summary

  The feeling was already there when it became aware of life for the first time.
  It was eternally graceful and wise.
  The feeling would still be there long after its awareness of life had faded for the last time.
  It was eternally graceful and cruel.
  

  Or: When Primus created a newspark to save the life of its Prime, he did not expect his little puppet to survive its first mission. However, when the sparkling is surprisingly saved through the capable servos of a certain, grumpy medic, the god is not opposed either. Instead, he recognizes this as his opportunity to influence and ultimately end the War on Cybertron through his creation—no matter the cost.

  Or, put more crassly: A retelling of Transformers Prime with Bumblebee as Primus’ puppet.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Little B

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  22,219

  Chapters:

  2/7

  Comments:

  32

  Kudos:

  117

  Bookmarks:

  26

  Hits:

  1,213