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Ok I just realised this is nigh impossible to read if you dont have good vision, so a transcript will be placed under the cut here

Ep 30-32: Transwarped by Marty Isenberg, Michael Ryan, Marsha Griffin

Bumblebee's Private Journal

Wow, what a solar cycle! And I thought yesterday was crazy, what with the bridge and all. So, let's review. Sari's a robot? Longarm's a traitor! The Orion's a dude named Omega Supreme, oh, and it's he's lost in space. So, given all that junk, how do we warn Cybertron that their head of intel is a spy? Answer- Bulkhead repairs Megatron's space bridge! Pretty slick idea, Prime, we just go and warn them ourselves, and as an added bonus we can take leave in Iacon.

Off Bulky and I go to the ruins of the mines for salvage. Even witnessing it first-servo, I still can't wrap my processor around Bulkhead as a space bridge genius. Talk about "does not compute", am I right? He's all "don't trip over the power core" this and "careful with that homing beacon generator" that. Maybe I should have listened, cuz I picked up one of them and then the next thing I knew I was in OUTER SPACE. I mean, smack-dab in the middle of nowhere, stars all around me. Made me wish I had my turbo boosters, so at least I could move. I hung out up there for a while, bored out of my helmet. I was thinking about going into sleep mode when I warped randomly into a DIFFERENT part of space.

Different is better when you're bored, right? WRONG! I got swalled by a giant rock thingie. One gulp, down I went. I felt myself warp again, then the rock guy starts moving around like crazy. I was getting a lot of comm link static too, so I guessed I was back on Earth or just maybe somewhere in the Commonwealth. Never was I so glad to see sunlight than when the monster split open and collapsed into a zillion pieces.

But the shocks don't end there, no. Guess who saved me? Was it good old Bulkhead's wrecking ball? Some sweet ninja-moves by Prowl? Maybe a little magnet action? Uh uh, no way. It was Sari! I shoulda seen it coming. Since she's actually a robot, she used her key to upgrade herself into a teenager with wicked sweet powers. That might have been a mistake, though. After finishing off the last of the fragments of the rock lord dude, Sari tried to power down... and failed. Her upgrades started going out of control all over the place, smashing up the city! I wanted to help her, so even though Optimus warned me to stay back, I didn't listen.

Remember me writing about how not listening to Optimus is never a good idea? Let me second (third? fourth?) that. I got in too close to her and suddenly BOOM. Laser blade, right in my chest. I know she didn't mean it but it hurt like nothing I've ever felt before. My system crashed.

I don't know exactly how long I was offline. Thank Xal that Docbot managed to patch me up in the field. Then he took me back to the plant for about 10 megacycles of repairs. He even wired my turbo boosters back in as an optional upgrade, but told me to use them only in emergencies. (Like there's a shortage of them around here or something!) I don't blame Sari, it wasn't her fault. I look forward to hearing about how they managed to stop her without hurting her.

End page.

To the right of the text are two reference images of Bumblebee. One shows him with the damage he got from Sari, and the other shows him with bandages around his chest.

Some extra notes:

A solar cycle is equal to one day. A megacycle is 2.6 hours, and there are 10 megacycles in one solar cycle.

In terms of anatomy, a servo is a hand, and processor refers to the brain/mind.

absolutely fucking insane move from the almanac to a) have a recap of part of transwarped from bee's perspective, b) somehow make him getting stabbed even more emotional, and c) USE REF IMAGES FROM WHEN HE'S HURT????