"BADASSATRONNN!!!!"
—Bumblebee's famous quote
B-127, also known as B, Bee or “Bumblebee”, is a cogless Transformer and one of the secondary tritagonists (along with Elita-1) of the 2024 animated film Transformers One. He was a former miner and later became the third-in-command of the Autobots, as well as the new best friend and permanent sidekick of Orion Pax, later better known as Optimus Prime.
Known by his original name, B-127 used to work in waste management in the lower levels of Iacon City, and had been doing so for a long time, so long that he hasn't spoken to anyone else in a while, and the isolation has worn him down a bit. He created a group of imaginary friends to keep him company, and in addition to working under various names like Badassatron (which will be either Bee or Bumblebee), he also talks too much to fill the silence, especially when he's unconscious according to Shockwave.
Biography[]
For as long as he can remember, B-127 worked in waste management on sublevel 50, deprived of anyone to talk to and left to his own devices. He created imaginary friends from the scrap metal he collected.
Everything changed for him the day when two miners bots named Orion Pax and D-16 were thrown down to waste management by Darkwing and proceeded to introduce them to his friends: EP-508, A-A-Tron, and Steve (who is foreign). Orion accidentally beheaded Steve and discovered a beacon from the Quintesson war, broadcasting a message from Alpha Trion and giving coordinates on the possible location of the long-lost Matrix of Leadership. Deciding to investigate further, the trio climbed up the garbage chute and boarded an automated train headed for the surface. They were intercepted by Elita-1, who headed for the front to report them to security. As the bots tussled, the train reached the surface and all four were thrown from it by Cybertron's shifting geology.
After a long journey full of nothing but B-127's babbling, the quartet arrived at an ancient cave containing the bodies of the Primes. Though the Matrix was nowhere to be found, Orion noticed that Alpha Trion's spark still flicked and revived him with an energon cube. Trion told them of how Cybertron's leader, Sentinel Prime, was an imposter who had betrayed the Primes and made a deal with the Quintessons that allowed him to rule under their thumb. After giving them the transformation cogs of the fallen Primes, Trion told the four to leave while he held off Sentinel's trackers.
Forced to adapt very quickly to their new cogs, the group fought through Sentinel's forces to make it back to Iacon city and reveal the truth. However, they were caught by the former Cybertron High Guard whose leader, Starscream, demanded intelligence on Sentinel, believing them to be spies. D-16 remained defiant and seized control of the Guard from Starscream. It was then that Sentinel's enforcer, Airachnid, found them and attacked, taking B, D-16, and several Guard members to Sentinel's tower.
The false Prime revealed his intention to frame them as traitors and give them a public execution, but a siege led by Orion and Elita freed them. While D-16 attacked Sentinel, B, Orion, and Elita captured Airachnid and brought her to the broadcasting room, where B, ecstatic over his new battle mask and "knife hands" went a little overboard on the attack. Broadcasting Airachnid's memories and revealing the truth to the city, B and Elita watched in horror as a rage-filled D-16 turned on Orion, dropped him into Cybertron's core, executed Sentinel and renamed himself “Megatron” to the cheers of the High Guard.
B and Elita attempted to stop Megatron's rampage, but to no avail as they were no match for his powerful new form. Just then, Orion, reformatted by the Matrix into Optimus Prime, returned to the surface and defeated Megatron, banishing him and his followers from Iacon. Optimus, now the new ruler of Cybertron, stated that he would need B and Elita at his side, much to B's excitement. As Optimus used the power of the Matrix to make energon flow once more, B looked on as all the cogless miners were granted cogs and became fully autonomous “Autobots”, determined to defend Cybertron from all future threats.
Some time later, B went to see his old friends on sublevel 50 to share the tale of his adventure. After quickly putting Steve's head back on, B proceeded to show off his new knife hands, accidentally killing Steve (again) and A-A-Tron, to his horror.
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