The Hardships of School
Hello and welcome to my first story here on :)
At first a little warning. Unfortunately my first language isn't english but german. So I'm apologizing in advance for any mistakes!
Additional was this story 'The Hardships of School' originally written in german, so I translated it in english because I wanted to share my stories with other people who don't understand german. The ones who do understand german are welcome to read my german stories (a link is on my profile).
For all the other ones I hope you can enjoy my story and will hopefully understand what I'm trying to say with my english writing :'D
I would be happy about any feedback if I should continue. And I'm looking forward to any criticism so I maybe can get better in writing english^^
Pairs: Prowl/Jazz (in later chapters), Soundwave/Jazz (just implied), Ironhide/Ratchet (in later chapters), Optimus/Elita
Other pairs will maybe be added later ;)
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers
Chapter 1: A new school year
It was early in the morning on Cybertron when a annoying and loud noise interrupted the recharge of the youngest of the three siblings from Praxus.
While quietly mumbling to himself, Bluestreak's optics onlined and he realized that the noise was his internal alarm, that he quickly shut off and looked still sleepy to his side. He regarded the digital calendar that stood on his bedside table.
His still sluggy processor, that required some time to reboot properly, needed some seconds to give the displayed date on the calendar some important meaning.
As the gray mechling finally realized what the date meant he hurriedly sprang out of bed to run out of his room, down the stairs and at last to run to the kitchen, where he saw none other than his big brother Prowl.
"Prowl! Today is my first day at school! I'm so excited, but I think I still have some doubt. I mean what is when I make a fool out of myself or the other mechlings don't like me? What shall I do then? I hope that this will not happen, though. Up til now everyone who I met learned to like me, so I really don't want to mess this up. Finally I'm allowed to go to school and I'm happy about this but still... I mean..."
"Good morning, Blue'.", interrupted Prowl the nervous chatter of his little brother in a deadpanned voice, before he put the datapad in his hands on the table so he could give the smaller mechling in the doorway his full attention.
"Don't worry about this stuff beforehand. Just go and get ready for your first day at school. And could you please wake up Smokey before that?", hushed Prowl the younger mechling, while he gave him an encouraging smile, that not everyone but his family often got to see.
"Okay, you're right Prowl. I do that." Quietly laughing Bluestreak started to turn around so he could go upstairs as the datapad of Prowl gained his attention and let him stop all his movements.
"Are you learning? The new school year just started and you're already learning?! Seriously?!", asked the youngest Praxian in the house with pure disbelief.
"It's better to start learning as early as possible than later. But now go already! The time is running.", responded Prowl urgently, while he gestured for his little brother to get a move on.
It seemed like Bluestreak hesitated for a short moment, before he quickly nodded and raced up the stairs to stop in front of the doors to the room of his oldest brother.
Sometimes the gray mechling really couldn't understand the perceptions of Prowl. Even so the methods of the black and white mechling were successful, he wasn't the best in his classes for nothing, was learning not all there was in the world. If you asked Bluestreak then there were a lot greater and more important things than learning for school all the time.
After thinking about it some more time he got rid of these thoughts and remembered his original task.
After knocking on the door of the older mechling Bluestreak didn't wait for an answer to open the door and to step in the dark room with a big grin plastered on his face.
"Get up Smokey! It's time for school. Trust me, you don't want to be late for school unless you really want to make Prowl angry who will definitely make your life a living hell because of it. He doesn't like it that you always overslept in the past and still do.", blabbered the gray mechling like a waterfall, while his doorwings fluttered happily on his back.
"I don't want to. Go away!", grumbled the blue mechling before he turned, still lying in bed, his back to his youngest brother in order to get away from his loud voice and to hopefully get some more rest.
In contrast to Prowl who was a early bird, Smokescreen was not a morning person in the least. Only Bluestreak who stood up on the times that were required of him couldn't be assigned to either of these two fractions.
"Come on Smokey!", sounded the now whiney voice of Bluestreak who just wouldn't give up. In a last try to get his brother out of bed the gray mechling started to stroke very delicately the blue doorwings that twitched by the touch.
Bluestreak showed no mercy as he didn't stop to stroke the now twitching appendages of his brother whereupon it lasted not long until Smokescreen broke out in uncontrolled laughter and tried without success to get away from Bluestreaks hands.
"Alright, alright! Stop it! I'm getting up!", shouted the oldest in the room helplessly between his laughter. To his relief his younger brother stopped his attack and he could breath again.
Smokescreen could still feel the prickling sensation in the many sensors of his doorwings as he slowly sat up and gave the younger mech a false angry look. But he couldn't hold up this facade for long as the bemused optics of Bluestreak met with his own and he himself had to grin in amusement.
"You're mean.", informed Smokescreen his brother with a big grin on his face, before he stood up and went to the exit of his room.
"For that I'm allowed to go first in the washroom.", declared the taller mechling loudly, as he sped up. His little brother instantly followed him with a loud protesting cry.
Not long after the two siblings raced down the corridor to the washroom while they shouted, laughed and shoved each other in order to get first to the washroom.
In the end it was Bluestreak who won the little race and got the honor to go in the washroom and to get ready for school before his big brother who took his defeat with a crooked smile on his lips while he waited in front of the closed door for Bluestreak to get out again so he could get ready for himself.
Prowl who still sat in the kitchen could hear the tumult of his brothers upstairs. He just shook his head helplessly about such behavior before he looked to the glowing display of the datapad in his hands again.
His brothers were really lucky that their creator was already at work and their carrier was on a business trip. Would they have been here at home, the gray and blue mechling would have gotten instantly lectured about their behavior. Such behavior was inappropriate for bots of their high standard after all.
Yet Prowl couldn't hide his bemused smirk because of the childish behavior of his brothers, as finally some silence settled in the house and the black and white mechling was able to swallow some of his Energon in peace.
After some time Bluestreak and Smokescreen came in the kitchen with a polished paint and happy grins on their faces.
"Morning little brother or should I rather say our little beloved nerd?", taunted the blue mechling with a mischievous grin as he patted Prowls head in a lovable gesture.
In order to get his energon from the big energon dispenser that stood in a corner of the kitchen, Smokescreen ignored the frowning face of his little brother who didn't like to be called a nerd.
The rest of the time the three brothers talked about lightly stuff and consumed their morning energon til the time came for school.
Unhurriedly the three left their house that looked more like a mansion than anything else. Outside waited their personal chauffeur together with a luxurious looking vehicle.
Even so the little mechlings would have liked to transform themselves and drive to school they unfortunately couldn't do that. Mechlings were too young to have their own altmodes because their bodies were still too weak to bear the pressure of a transformation. So the little ones had to take some sort of public means of transport. Just mechlings and femmelings like the Praxian siblings who came from the upper class of society possessed often a personal chauffeur who drove the little ones to everywhere they wanted.
Prowl nodded as a greeting when he saw the tall and lean mech who was their chaffeur before he got in the vehicle and sat down opposite his brothers.
While Bluestreak played in a nervous fashion with his own fingers and looked every now and then out of the window, Smokescreen talked quietly over the commlink with someone and Prowl was stuck in his own deep thoughts. The time flew by and sooner then they expected there were at their destination, so the vehicle stopped in front of the schoolyard.
Not till the chaffeur exited the vehicle and opened for the three mechlings the door exited they themselves the vehicle and indicated for the tall and lean mech that he was no longer needed.
Bluestreak was astonished as he saw the impressive really big school building together with the equally huge schoolyard so that his doorwings started to flutter out of excitement.
Prowl meanwhile studied the crowd of mechlings and femmlings on the schoolyard who came all from different social levels.
A sudden alarming cry attracted the attention of the three brothers including many others who looked in the direction where the screaming came from. They were greeted with a swanky looking vehicle that slithered to a stop at the sidewalk and seemed to have nearly overrun a small silver mechling.
Prowl already knew whose vehicle that was, so one of his eyebrows arched up and he looked at the unusual small silver mechling who sat on the ground and still seemed to be in shock. The scratches in the silver paint and the blue visor that had certainly seen a better day at some point revealed for every stranger that the little mechling came from the lower class of society.
In silence Prowl observed how a gray, a purple and a blue seeker exited the swanky looking vehicle. To his displeasure he recognized all of the three little seekers instantly. Thundercracker, Starscream and Skywarp who all came also from the upper class of society, even so the black and white mechling would have liked to deny that.
"Can you not pay attention you dwarf?! The likes of you shouldn't even be allowed to walk around this grounds!", screeched the too high voice of Starscream who stood over the little silver mechling who still sat at the ground while he scowled at him.
Prowl nearly pitied the kid. But what happened next was a big surprise for the black and white mechling.
Even so Prowl couldn't hear what the little mechling with the visor said to the seeker it couldn't have been something nice as Starscream screamed out of rage. The silver mechling hurriedly sprang to his feet with such grace that no one would have expected from him before he run away with a big grin plastered on his face and disappeared in the crowd of pupils on the schoolyard. It wasn't too hard to hide in a crowd of bigger mechlings and femmelings when you yourself were rather small in size.
"The kid has guts. Not every one is brave enough to stand up against the seeker siblings, especially Starscream out of the three. I wonder who the little guy was? I can't remember seeing him anywhere before.", sounded the approving voice of Smokescreen who stood behind Prowl and had also witnessed the spectacle like many others on the schoolyard.
"Huge bravery or just plain stupidity.", added Prowl to the words of his older brother with a light nod before he turned around and looked fleetingly to their younger brother who still tried without success to locate the little silver mechling in the crowd of pupils.
"You mean because of the Decepticons?", asked the blue mechling with a now more serious face.
"Exactly. This group of tyrants and bullies is not to be underestimated. Starscream is one of the Decepticons. It wouldn't be a surprise if he wanted revenge and will now be after the kid.", voiced Prowl his concerns whereupon Smokescreen just could nod at sad agreement.
For some seconds reigned silence between the two brothers until Bluestreak who seemed to have missed the whole conversation of the two older siblings interrupted the quiet.
"Can we go now? I'm not familiar with the surroundings yet and I don't really want to get late on my first day at school. So could you two please escort me to the assembly room? Pretty please! I'm scared that I get lost and then..."
"Of course we accompany you to the assembly room Blue'.", interrupted Prowl the nervous chatter of his younger brother for the second time this day.
Gently he gripped Bluestreaks one hand while Smokescreen hold the other hand and together they led the youngest to the right destination.
It didn't take long for the three siblings to arrive at the huge doors to the assembly room, where it was time to say goodbye for the moment. But before they could have done that Starscreams voice which was for Prowls liking too shrill sounded behind them, so they stopped all movements out of surprise.
"What do we have here? The little Bluestreak is finally starting school. Exactly like our Skywarp here. What a funny coincidence! It seems like in every same class is a sibling of yours and ours."
In order to not let his displeasure be shown Prowl put a neutral mask on before he turned around to the gray seeker and regarded him and the other two seekers with a dry look.
"So it seems to be.", replied the black and white mechling in a deadpanned voice who didn't like the circumstances in the least. It wasn't and never was to his liking that Starscream was his classmate and that Thundercracker was Smokescreens classmate. And now Skywarp would be the new classmate of Bluestreak.
It was a funny coincidence indeed that the Praxian and Seeker siblings were nearly the same age and that their families held a long, linked together back-story, so that Prowl and other members of the family from both sides were forced to grin and bear it.
"Then the two offsprings should attend the ceremony.", suggested Smokescreen in a false polite tone while he pointed at the huge doors to the assembly room behind him.
"Good idea.", agreed Thundercracker and Starscream nearly at the same time before they grabbed Skywarps shoulders and shoved the little one through the open doors into the assembly room.
Prowl and Smokescreen followed suit who shoved they younger brother also gently through the open doors.
"Have fun Blue'. You can do that, no worries!", tried Smokescreen to set his little brother at rest for the last time while he gave him a reassuring smile and a thumps up. Prowl also gave his younger brother one of his rare smiles before he lightly nodded as a silent goodbye.
"Thanks Smokey and Prowl.", thanked Bluestreak his two brothers with a warm smile on his lips. Hesitant he turned around and disappeared alongside Skywarp in the crowd.
"We should go now. See you later in class!", proclaimed Starscream with a grin that couldn't have been more false whereupon he and Thundercracker left without any other word.
"We should go too.", said the blue mechling to Prowl who just nodded and started walking without a word.
"A new school year and new luck and joy!" With a crooked grin on his face Smokescreen quickly caught up to his younger brother who still just nodded abstractedly to the words of his older brother.