This just came to me. A short bit of Aerialbot Fluff. Of course, the bit abot Airraid having a a pic of Bolt singing... I'm sure everyone already knows that, and I got the idea from someone else.. anyways... vaugue mention to a joint OC named Flightplan, everything else is Aerialbots x3.

Family Album

Silverbolt sighed tiredly. What a week. Two Decepticon attacks and a PR trip. He hadn't had a good night's recharge since last Tuesday. He was exhausted, grumpy and frustrated. Rubbing his optics, he stood up and walked down the hall to the Flyers' Common Room, wanting nothing more than some Energon and a nice recharge. When he opened the door, he was surprised to see Airraid sitting on the couch alone, a holopad in his hands.

"Hello Airraid," He said, causing the F-15 to start. "What do you have there?"

Airraid looked around and grinned. "Oh hey Bolt. Just a few pictures…" He held up the holopad for an instant before returning his gaze to it. Curious, Silverbolt leaned over the couch to take a look at the captured images. The first was an old shot of Fireflight, from when the red jet had first learned to paint. Fireflight was completely covered in smudges of green, blue and yellow paint, and grinning like a loon. Silverbolt chuckled.

"I'd forgotten about that… He used to get more paint on himself than the canvas." Airraid laughed in agreement and selected the next picture; Silverbolt's optics went wide. "Hey! When did you take THAT!?"

It was a picture of the Aerialbot leader drunk and singing on a tabletop. Not something Silverbolt was proud of. Airraid only shrugged. "While ago, Ratchet told us to get you wasted… Think he forgot to tell Prime that we had orders cause we ended up doing punishment detail for it…"

Silverbolt flinched, oh yeah… He'd forgotten about that. The medic had stormed into the next officers' meeting and yelled at a few bots about that. "Oh…" Airraid shrugged and changed pictures again. Silverbolt blinked in surprise when he realized he was looking at a capture of Skydive and Flightplan. Both tacticians were deep asleep and curled together, One of Skydive's arms was wrapped around the femme protectively. "When did you get that one?"

"They fell asleep on the couch," Replied Airraid with a grin. "Were too cute not to take a picture of."

Silverbolt smiled. "No arguments here." It was rare to catch Skydive off-guard, and all the Aerialbots, even Silverbolt, tried often. Airraid offered him the holopad and Silverbolt took it smiling. "Thanks."

Airraid turned around to get a better look at his commander. "Sheesh Bolt, you look dead tired…"

Silverbolt nodded. "I feel like that too."

"Get some rest, we don't want you collapsing on us again eh?"

"Yeah… Good night Airraid." Airraid nodded and said his own goodnights as Silverbolt stepped into his quarters. But even though he was tired, the Aerialbot commander spent a few minutes looking through the album Airraid had given him, smiling at many pictures.

One picture made him pause; Silverbolt wondered who had taken the capture of Slingshot, Fireflight, Skydive and Airraid asleep on the couch in a pile of limbs and wings. Idly, he wondered how all four of his teammates could fit on the couch and who had taken the picture, it certainly hadn't been him… Still…

Smiling, Silverbolt set the holopad on the table beside his berth and lay down, the soft glow of the holopad's screen displaying his brothers making the Concord feel very much at peace.

I may write a sequal to this.. but probably not... I have enough stories on the go...