Chapters Canterlot high school bell rang and all of the students stormed out of the classes, finally, it was summer and they had a vacation from school and wouldn't be starting until August. The mane 7 Fluttershy, Sunset, Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash began to start off their summer vacation. They already had plans to do for the whole summer, most of them they would use their time to hang out together and some for work.
They all began to go their separate ways, Fluttershy was going to go to a car dealership to buy a new car since the old one is destroyed. She had all of the money she had but only had enough to buy something cheap so she was going to buy a used car, a used car that can still function.
She arrived at the car dealership and scattered around the place to find something that interested her, a man approached her and the first words that came from him were "hi my name is Bobby Bolivia, you can just call me Bobby B, so what can I help you with today," he said with a smile on his face.
"Oh nothing, I I am just looking for a car that interests me," Fluttershy told Bobby B.
"Well there is something you need to know first, the driver doesn't pick the car, the car pick the driver, it's the mystical bond between man and machine, and one of these cars is choosing you," Bobby told the shy girl.
Fluttershy then turned her head to see some type of blanket covering a sports car, she approached it and removed the blanket from the car to reveal an old yellow Volkswagen Beetle. It has a beautiful yellow paint job. Fluttershy thought that the color scheme looked cute and felt like it was drawn to her, that it chose her.
Bolivia approached Fluttershy and said "I see that this car has chosen you young one,"
"How much?" Fluttershy asked.
"Well, what about 6 six grant?" Bobby asked.
"I don't have so much money, I'll buy it for 5 grant," Fluttershy said.
"Deal," Bobby said and they both then began to shook hands.
Bolivia then walked to his office to finish the paperwork, Fluttershy opened the car to the door and sat in and held her hands on the steering wheel. It felt good and saw a smudge covering a mark on the car, she whipped the smudge with her thumb to reveal a mark that looked like a man's face.
But she didn't think so much about it.
Fluttershy was driving to the beach in her brand new car to meet up with her friend Rainbow Dash and Rarity. She drove down the sunfilled road which was filled with cars that were heading to the beach since it was summer and there would be a lot of people who will be going to the beach to swim in the ocean.
She finally arrived at the beach where she parked her car and met up with her two friends. She walked out of the car and turned her head to see Rainbow Dash and Rarity walking up to her, as they walked up to her, the first words that were spoken came from Rainbow Dash.
"Yo, Fluttershy, nice car," Rainbow Dash said complimenting her car.
"I've gotta, I gotta say that I love the paint job," Rarity said.
"Thanks, girls, somehow I felt like it chose me when I bought it," Fluttershy said smiling.
"Sounds awesome, but this car is classic, it's an old Volkswagen Beetle, it is the one car that matches your personality," Rainbow Dash said walking over to the car and held her hands on the hood. She could feel a bit of rust on the metal but it wasn't a big deal.
"Well anyways, so who wants to try out the new restaurant at the beach?" Rarity asked her friends.
"Sure," Rainbow and Fluttershy said at the same time and walked with Rarity to the little seafood restaurant at the beach.
One place outside of Canterlot city, two cars were driving on the desert road. One of them is a red 1972 Plymouth Satellite Muscle car and the other one is a blue AMC Javelin Muscle Car. These cars were Decepticon Shatter and Dropkick. They stopped at an old building abandoned building.
"Tell me why we are here again?" Dropkick asked in an angry tone.
"Relax Dropkick, the quicker we get this bug the faster we get off this insect planet," Shatter replied.
"Let's hope we find that bug in time, I don't want to spend another day here on this planet," Dropkick said not wanting to spend another day on Earth.
"You gotta take in a few more days, Blitzwing is also searching the planet with us so the trip here might be cut short if he finds that Autobot in time," the female Decepticon said.
Both of them transformed into robot mode, both of them now began to run through the sandy desert and they both began to change into another vehicle form from muscle cars to air vehicles. Shatter was a red harrier jet and Dropkick was a Bell AH-1 Helicopter.
The sun began to settle and everyone was already heading home, Fluttershy had already packed her stuff and waved goodbye to her friends. Fluttershy drove all the way back to her house where she lived.
Once she arrived she parked the car inside the garage. She stepped out of the car closed the garage door. She switched clothes after a tiring day at the beach, but she could finally relax a little bit.
The radio started up, playing what sounded like old charging music. She hears a clang come from under the car. Fluttershy looked under and sighed. Fluttershy took her flashlight and looked under the car, she searched under the car when she stumbled upon something that looks like a metal face.
She watched in fear as the eyes begun glowing blue only for the head to pull away, the rest of the car unfolding over them. The front half of the car split in half and folded forward forming a sorta chest. The doors and tires began to take on arms and hands while the interior of the car morphed into a body and upper torso. Finally, the back of the car formed into a pair of legs as the head appeared on the top of the now standing car.
They looked at each other, the yellow giant tilted its head and it began scaring Fluttershy, she began running to the door and tried to open up the doorknob, she looked at it as she was trying to open the door. The iron giant was scared as well and it moved back and its head hit the roof and it was blinded by a kite. As Fluttershy opened the door she saw it moving around blindly and it sat down on the ground. Fluttershy locked the door behind her and walked slowly over to it. It seemed like it was scared of Fluttershy
"Hi," Fluttershy said with a quiet voice. The yellow robot made a few electronic voices. "Do you speak," Fluttershy asked the robot. It moved its head saying no. "I won't hurt you," Fluttershy said and held up both of her hands. The yellow robot wasn't scared of Fluttershy anymore and moved his face a bit closer, he knew the Fluttershy wasn't a threat. He leaned in and Fluttershy put her one hand on the metal cheek of the yellow robot, the yellow robot closed his eyes when Fluttershy held on his cheek. The yellow robot then opened its eyes, Fluttershy sighed in relief. "Can you understand me?" Fluttershy asked, and it nodded yes but didn't say a word. She then held the other hand on his under check.
"What are you?" Fluttershy asked calmly. The robot frowned, "where did you come from?" Fluttershy asked. Bumblebee moved his head backward and still frowned, "okay, it's okay," Fluttershy said. the yellow robot raised up his hand and pointed at Fluttershy's t-shirt. "You like my shirt?" Fluttershy asked, "you know about Canterlot high?". The robot moved his head again saying no and pointed at Fluttershy again.
"Oh me, who am I," Fluttershy said. And the yellow robot nodded his head, yes and it seemed to smile. "oh am... Fluttershy," Fluttershy said and smiled too. "What's your name?" Fluttershy asked the yellow robot. The yellow robot moved his head indicating that it didn't have any. "You... you don't know or you don't have any?" Fluttershy asked. The yellow robot lowered his head in shyness. It made electronic noises that sounded just like a Bumblebee. "You sound like a little Bumblebee," Fluttershy said "I am gonna call you that from now on, Bumblebee," Fluttershy said. Bumblebee raised up his head to look at Fluttershy. They both smiled at each other
Author's Note
If you have already read this story before then you can notice that I've made some major modifications to this one.
Ps. Tell me what you think about the story and how I can improve on them in the future.
The Next Day
Fluttershy walks into the garage to see how Bumblebee is doing, she walked to the door of the garage and slowly opened it and she saw a big yellow iron giant in the garage. Fluttershy saw Bumblebee still in his robot form, Bumblebee turned his head around to see Fluttershy and was happy to see her. Fluttershy walked into the garage and closed the door behind her, she walked over to Bumblebee and asked him "how are you, Bee?" and Bumblebee replied with electronic noises. Still, Fluttershy could make out a few bits of it, she thought about an idea so she walked over to her bench and took out a cassette tape and walked back to Bumblebee and put it inside the cassette player Bumblebee had. "You know Bee, music can tell you what you feeling, try this," Fluttershy said putting the cassette tape in the cassette player. Music began to play but the cassette mix shot of out the cassette player like a gun shooting out a bullet, Fluttershy ducked and the cassette tape hit the wall. Fluttershy looks up again and says "maybe music it's a bad idea,"
Bumblebee began to make some electronic noises trying to say something but Fluttershy couldn't catch any word he says, her necklace that gives her the ability to talk to animals doesn't give her the ability to talk to giant robots. "Hey Bee, do you want to go outside?" Fluttershy asked Bumblebee, Bumblebee began to transform back into a car and transforms back into robot mode. Bumblebee kneels down and Fluttershy walks to him and says "where are you from?" she asked and Bumblebee replied in electronic sounds. Fluttershy still couldn't understand Bumblebee, she only picked up pieces of what he said. "Hey, do you want to go outside?" Fluttershy asked. Bumblebee nodded his head yes.
Fluttershy thought that she and Bumblebee could go to the forest to a lake where they could be alone. After packing up food and other stuff, she walked to the garage and Bumblebee began transforming into a vehicle mode and opened the door for Fluttershy to get in.
Somewhere in the desert outside of Canterlot City, a red harrier jet and a blue Bell AH-1 Helicopter was flying in the air, Shatter and Dropkick was scattering out for the Autobot scout.
"We have been scattering the entire country and haven't found B-127," Dropkick told Shatter.
"Well there is one place we haven't searched and that is a place named Canterlot City," Shattered replied.
"That's good news," Dropkick said.
"It is but this is an Autobot created and is specially trained in combat so we might need help," Shatter told Dropkick, what they need is a bit of help.
"What do you mean?" Dropkick asked.
"We might need help from those humans, the inhabitants of this world," Shatter requested, humans can be easily tricked so their plan is to trick humans to believe that B-127 is a criminal from their world.
"Why?" Dropkick asked.
"These are humans, they will believe that a criminal from Cybertron is hiding somewhere on Earth and that we need their help to catch him," Shatter explained to Dropkick.
"I love your idea," Dropkick said.
Fluttershy and Bumblebee began walking with each other in the forest, but they didn't walk on the main forest road because it can be a possibility that someone would take a walk through the forest and accidentally see Bumblebee which would create problems since people can be terrible about things they don't understand.
As they walked through the long forest they came by a lake, Bumblebee looked at the lake and looked down at his own reflection in the water. Bumblebee tried so hard to find out where he came from but he doesn't remember what happened to him. "Are you okay Bee?" Fluttershy asked. Bumblebee replied in electronic sounds like always, it was hard to actually understand what Bee was actually saying but still Fluttershy could catch parts of it. She sighed "I wish I could actually understand what you were saying," she said and padded him on the leg.
They began walking by the lake together.
At Military base one place in the desert, the military was prepared for meeting up with the Decepticons known as Shatter and Dropkick. They were all armed with weapons to make sure is they were a threat to humans, Agent Burns and Agent Fowler was at the scene where they would meet with these alien beings.
"So what we are meeting up with aliens from another planet that wants to negotiate with us?" Agent Burns asked.
"You're damn right Agent Burns, we intercepted a call from them a few hours ago to meet up with us here to a quote on quote talk," Agent Fowler explained to Agent Burns "we still don't know what we're up against but we will know once we know what they want,"
In the air they could see a red harrier jet and a blue helicopter flying towards them, the aircraft vehicles began closing into the ground and they then began transforming into muscle cars and drove close to the humans and transformed into robot form. The soldiers kept their weapons at the two iron giants, they then began kneeling down and began talking to the small humans.
"What the hell are you?" Agent Burns asked the two robots wondering what they are or where the came from.
"I know you humans have a lot of questions on your mind but my name is Shatter," Shatter said introducing her self "and this is my partner Dropkick, we are from the planet known Cybertron,"
"Well, my name is Agent William Fowler and this is Agent Burns, but let's get to the other topic of this conversation and that is why are you here?" Agent Fowler asked.
"You see, there is a war raging on our planet if this criminal isn't found that war may find it's way here," Shatter explained holding up a hologram that looked like Bumblebee with a battle mask covering his face.
"Wait, you are saying that your war might find it's way to earth?" Agent Fowler asked.
"That's correct Agent Fowler, we are here to capture the criminal known and take him back to Cybertron, that will be what we need so we strongly ask for your help to capture him," Shatter said.
"And if we don't catch him in time?" Agent Burns asked.
Dropkick moved his head to look at Shatter, Shatter turned her head and looked right into Dropkick's eyes. "We'll burn the whole planet cinders," Dropkick said, but not literally, it was actually meant as a joke. Shatter looked back down at the humans and said.
"Sorry for my friend, he is just a jokester, we are not going to burn down your planet, we will be quickly out of here once we capture this criminal," Shatter told the small humans.
"Understood," Agent Fowler said "let's go back to base," he told his soldiers. All of the soldiers then began lower own their guns and jumped into the military cars and began driving back to the base. "Are you guys coming with?" Fowler asked Shatter and Dropkick.
"Agent Fowler, we are honored," Shatter said, Shatter and Dropkick then began transforming into vehicle mode and followed the military back to the base.
Author's Note
I hope you like this story, it took me a bit time but I finally finished it.
Tell me what you think about this story or this chapter
Bumblebee and Fluttershy were hanging around in the forest and by the lake, they then began to walk to a site where they had a great viewpoint of Canterlot City. Bumblebee had a great view of the city, he looked down on the city thinking it is beautiful, but still wondering where he came from.
They then began walking all of the ways back to the house, they walked through the dense forest when small bits of sparks were coming from Bumblebee's chest.
"What is wrong Bee?" Fluttershy asked and then noticed the sparks coming from his chest. "Can I have a look?" Fluttershy asked to see what was going and maybe that she could repair it when they get back to their house. What Fluttershy's friends don't know about her is that she is also a mechanic, she just hasn't joined the engineering club at school or hasn't told them about it since it isn't an interesting subject to bring up or that it is just a talent she kept to herself.
Bumblebee laid down on the ground and Fluttershy opened the chest piece to see the robot parts inside of Bumblebee, it was nothing like's she's ever seen. When she tried to fix one of the parts inside of Bumblebee it activated a hologram that beamed out of Bumblebee's chest.
The hologram displayed a robot that was way bigger then Bumblebee, he had blue legs a red upper body a blue head with a faceplate covering his mouth. The message was a bit broken and it was unclear to hear his voice but they could pick up parts of it.
"I am putting in a message in in in in... B-127... Our war rages on my friend," said the giant hologram and it was cut out.
Fluttershy was confused, she looked over to Bumblebee and said: "the voice was mentioning a war, are you hiding something," Fluttershy said. When the voice was mentioning a war, she began thinking that Bumblebee was involved in some kind of a war.
At a military base in a desert outside of Canterlot City Agent Burns and Agent Fowler and many other men in the room where discussing trusting the alien robots known as Shatter and Dropkick. This gives them a lot of concern that they might want to harm humanity or destroy the entire planet.
Somewhere at the base, one of the soldiers noticed that Dropkick was all alone and Shatter was nowhere to be seen, he walked up to Dropkick and asked. "Where is your friend?"
"Shatter went on scouting and said she'll be back pretty soon," Dropkick replied.
Outside of the military base far away, Shatter was driving through the desert when she reached a little hill of a mountain, she parked there and transformed into robot mode. She looked up in the air to see a purple F-4 Phantom Jet flying in the air, it began flew down to the ground and began transforming into robot mode.
The Decepticon landed on the ground, he was purple with a yellow head that looked like a helmet, his face looked like it was a gas mask pilots use. He approached Shatter and Shatter was the one to speak first.
"Blitzwing, we have negotiated with the human military who will help us to hunt down the Autobot scout B-127," Shatter told Blitzwing.
"Good, those humans don't know what is coming to earth," Blitzwing said "report when you have that scout in your sight,"
"And if you find him first?" Shatter asked.
"I will report back to you," Blitzwing said.
Back at Fluttershy's garage, she was repairing the thing that created the hologram so she and Bumblebee could get that clear message and know what the hologram meant, sometimes when she fixed it she would look at Bumblebee for a second and imagine what his intentions are, is he a good robot or a bad robot. She was not sure about it but she hoped that he was a good robot because if not she would be in deep trouble.
After a few minutes, she finally fixed it and walked over to Bumblebee and they began to play the prerecorded message, "are you ready Bee?" Bumblebee nodded his head. But before she could play the message Rainbow Dash walks into the garage.
"Hey, Fluttershy I wondered that..." Rainbow Dash looked shocked up at Bumblebee. She has never seen a giant robot before so in the nick of time she used her speed geode and raced over to Fluttershy and grabbed her and ran with her out of the garage. They ran out of the house and far away from the house where they stopped at a parking lot.
"Fluttershy are you hurt?" Rainbow asked out of concern.
"Rainbow Listen..." Fluttershy said but got cut by Rainbow Dash every time.
"Did that thing do something to you if so I am going to..." Rainbow Dash was cut right there by Fluttershy who yelled to the top of her lungs.
"Rainbow Dash listen to me!" Fluttershy yelled which was enough to make Rainbow Dash stop talking. "Rainbow Dash, Bumblebee didn't do anything to me,"
"Bumblebee?" Rainbow said with a confused look.
"That's what I call him, look Bumblebee didn't do anything to me and Bee is lost," Fluttershy explained.
"Wait you named it Bumblebee and you are friends with it?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Yes, I was repairing a hologram thingy when you came in," Fluttershy said.
"Well don't tell Twilight about that hologram thing... wait you said you were fixing that thing," Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy nodded her head yes, "I didn't know you were a mechanic,"
"Oh I am, I just never told you about it since it wouldn't be an interesting subject to talk about, but can you please take me back to Bumblebee?" Fluttershy requested and Rainbow Dash grabbed Fluttershy and raced back to the house.
She raced all the way back into the garage where she looked up at Bumblebee with her heart beating faster than ever, she has never seen something like this before.
"You haven't properly introduced, Bumblebee, Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash Bumblebee," Fluttershy said introducing them to each other. Bumblebee waved his hand hello to Rainbow Dash and she waved back. Fluttershy walked over to Bumblebee and begins to play the hologram.
It showed the hologram of the red and blue robot and this time the voice was better and they could hear what he was saying, "My name is Optimus Prime, I am praying this message in you B-127, as our war rages on Cybertron, I am sending you to Earth, there's only one way to end this war, you must protect Earth and it's people, you are one of the greatest soldiers we have B-127 I trust friend," the hologram said and it turned off.
"Wait, planet, you are an alien," Rainbow Dash asks out of confusion but didn't get any answers, just electronic noises. "What the hell is he saying?" Rainbow Dash asks.
"I don't know," Fluttershy said "not even my geode can help me talk to an alien robot," Fluttershy turned over to Bee and asked, "is there anyone who can help you, do you have a family?" Fluttershy asked wondering if there is someone who can help him. Bee is pointing his finger at Fluttershy. "Oh me?" Shy asked and Bumblebee nodded.
To Be Continued
Author's Note
So what do you think about this chapter, tell me what you think and if there is something I can improve on.
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash looked at each other for a few seconds and looked back at Bumblebee, Fluttershy looked confused. "But why me?" Fluttershy asked and Bumblebee spoke in electronic noises, still, Fluttershy couldn't understand him, not even Rainbow Dash.
"What the hell is he saying?" Rainbow Dash asked Fluttershy since she knew Fluttershy to talk to animals it would make sense for her to understand Bumblebee. But that geode only gives her the power to talk to animals, not to alien robots from another planet that speaks in electronic noises.
"I, I, I, I don't know," Fluttershy said, "although I can talk to animals with this geode I can't talk to an alien robot,"
Rainbow Dash began dragging Fluttershy out of the garage where they could speak alone, they walked through the door that leads into the garage into the house and locked it behind them where they could talk without Bumblebee hearing them talking.
"What do you mean you can't understand that thing, don't your geode help you communicate with things that don't speak, oh I don't know, human?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I am sorry, but I don't know, the geodes powers must be limited, so It means I can only talk to animals but not alien robots," Fluttershy explained.
"So we have no idea with that thing is saying, we don't know he is evil or not..." Rainbow Dash was cut right there by Fluttershy who said.
"Evil or not? you saw that message, the other robot said that Bumblebee need to protect Earth and it's people," Fluttershy told Rainbow Dash in an irritated and annoyed voice, indicating that she is mad at Rainbow, but she spoke a bit silent so Bumblebee couldn't hear her.
"But what if it is some sort of a trick?" Rainbow Dash asks.
"I've been hanging out with Bumblebee for a few days now and it doesn't seem that he is trying to kill me or kill other humans in sight," Fluttershy explained.
"Yeah, but what if it is a... is a..." Rainbow Dash couldn't come up with something else, she began agreeing on Fluttershy about Bumblebee not being evil. "You're right Flutters, but one thing I don't get it... why Earth?"
The two girls began looking at each other with confused looks, Dash was right, why pacifically Earth, what is so special about this planet. There are 100 million trillion planets in the cosmos, so why Earth, what is so special about this blue ball in space circling around one sun and is the only planet with life in that solar system.
"I need to go," Rainbow Dash said.
"Wait where are you going?" Fluttershy asked Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy was concerned that Rainbow Dash might tell anyone about Bumblebee.
"I just need to go, it looks like you have the whole relationship with... Bumblebee under control," Rainbow said.
"Don't even dare to try to tell anyone..." Fluttershy was interrupted by Rainbow who said.
"I am not gonna tell anyone I promise, I just don't want to be caught up in this," Rainbow said and used her speed amulet and ran out of the house in superspeed.
Fluttershy looked at the Rainbow streak as it disappeared out of sight, she hoped that Rainbow Dash would not tell anyone about Bumblebee. She walked back into the garage and saw Bumblebee listening to the message,
"as our war rages on Cybertron, I am sending you to Earth, there's only one way to end this war, you must protect Earth and it's people,"
Bee frowned after listening to the message, Fluttershy noticed and she walked over to him and held her hand on his hand, Bumblebee looked at Fluttershy and smiled although he didn't have a mouth. Bee lovered his head in shyness when Fluttershy asked Bee if he wanted to go out and drive. Bumblebee raised his head and nodded his head yes.
Bumblebee and Fluttershy were driving all the way down from the house and across the town, they were now headed to the beach where no one could see them. Although it is summer and a lot of people will spot Bumblebee, they go to one place at the beach where no one can spot them. They drove down to the beach and Fluttershy walked out of the car, and Bumblebee transformed into robot mode. Bee crouched down and Fluttershy walked over to Bee, she looked into his eyes and told him.
"Bee, if you are going to stay here on Earth we need to keep you a secret from other humans on Earth because people can be terrible about things they don't understand, from now on, the only person you can show yourself around is me. So what you need is to learn how to hide from other people," Fluttershy explained "now we need to practice, so let's say we're driving and all of the sudden... somebody's there hide," Fluttershy said and hid behind a rock. There was literally no other around, she only said it as practice. As she hid behind that rock for a few seconds she looked over the rock to see Bumblebee hiding his head behind another rock, and he wasn't even in vehicle form.
"Are you serious," Fluttershy said, Bumblebee raised his head from the rock and walked over to Fluttershy. Fluttershy walked over to Bumblebee and Bee crouched down again. "Look, Bee, what you need is to hide from humans, and you have the ability to transform into a car, so let's do this again," Fluttershy said and began walking backward "somebody's there hide," Fluttershy said and hid behind the rock. She heard noises over the rock. She looked over to see Bumblebee in his alt-mode. "Good work Bee," Fluttershy said and walked over to Bumblebee, Bumblebee transformed into robot mode but accidentally got sand on Fluttershy. Bee cleaned it off with his hand "I am good, I am good thanks," Fluttershy said feeling the robot hand on her head whipping of the sand.
Bumblebee and Fluttershy then drove from the beach to a gas station where Fluttershy could get some food when she walked out of the car (Bumblebee) and up to the store when she almost crashed into Gilda. Gilda has been a huge bully to Fluttershy ever since childhood, she would often scare Fluttershy or push her down to the ground.
"Oh, I am so sorry," Fluttershy said.
"Watch where you going deep," Gilda said pushing her to the ground and walked into the store.
Fluttershy got up from the ground and wasn't going to tear up either, she took advice from Rainbow Dash that she needs to stand up to herself. She then walked into the store to confront Gilda. She saw Gilda by one of the shelves, Fluttershy walked over to Gilda to talk to her.
"What do you want dweeb," Gilda said.
"I just want to say that I am not going to stand down to a bully like you," Fluttershy said.
"Whatever," Gilda said not caring about what Fluttershy had to say.
"No, there is no whatever in this, if you think that I am going to stand down to someone like you then you are wrong, if Rainbow Dash was here..." Fluttershy was cut right there when Gilda grabbed her shirt.
"And what would she do huh?" Gilda said to Fluttershy's face. "Literally you can't do anything to me because you are weak,"
Fluttershy had nothing to say to her and Gilda dropped her on the floor and walked out of the store. Fluttershy sighed in relief that she wasn't beaten up by Gilda. She rose up from the ground and walked outside of the store and over to Bumblebee and both of them began to drive home.
Author's Note
Ps. I changed Bumblebee's vehicle mode into a VW Bug so it could touch more on G1 in the earlier chapter.