Test story

The large oval shaped, red optics narrowed as the new mech stood his ground in the training area. He was staring in a slightly unnervingly, unflinching way at the two larger front liners, no taller then Jazz this mech was a full three heads shorter than them. Though for the first time both Sideswipe and Sunstreaker had an warning flag go up in their processors about this silent mech. Not enough to stop their plans, not while having just a few nano kliks with the officers out of the room, leaving the 'grunts' alone with this strange beast mode mech.

The minibots where watching, with either keen interest or wide optics, Bluestreak having faltered in his conversation with Hound. Sideswipe grinned, intending on taking full advantage of Ratchet, for once, not being around the new comer. "Come one, just a round." He said, and then pushed, "Just say if you don't want to spar."

Hound frowned, his armor flaring at that, everyone knew perfectly well that the new mech couldn't talk right now. only low sounds that seems to be coming for his beast mode or unhealthy sounding growling from internal systems. He stood up taller and was about to intervene when the long flexible tail snapped like a whip. The blue and silver mech tilted flair out his wing like fins and tilted his head and arched an optic ridge in half invitation and half challenge.

For a mech that couldn't talk, he sure could get his point across.

It was just enough that the twins couldn't resist and advanced into the sparing circle, Sunstreaker growled, both in his throat and in the chest as he moved to the right and Sideswipe to the left. When this mech didn't move still with the clear threats of the two, he was either a better bluffer then the gold mech's bother, or just stupid. Surely this mech couldn't think he could last long against them?

Sideswipe eyed the new mech's exposed back, and the odd sucker fishy things that was always stuck to the back of the blue fin-wings. For the first time Sideswipe saw that the things' optics were brightly glowing and had the sudden impression he was being watched. It was a split second before he and Sunstreaker were moving that the red mech realized the fishy things were drones, and the blue mech was watching him through the drones, as well as the fact that Ratchet and Prowl were back in the doorway.

The blue mech ducked, flexing his wings to shield a grasping hand from Sunstreaker, the gold fingers siding on the wing. The tail wrapping around Sideswipe's supporting knee proved to be prehensile and much stronger then it looked.

And then the blue mech was moving much faster then he had thus far. Well able to use his beast mode kibble to his advantage, the mech also was moving in the sure way of one having been through training, law enforcement training as well as real world application and modification on that training.

First Sunstreaker hit the ground, then Sideswipe with both energy bonds holding the mechs' wrists behind their backs, as well as a stasis cuff on one of their forearms to keep the two down. In the fallowing silence the long, prehensile tail tapped Sunstreaker on the head to make him look up.

Depth Charge gave a soft growling sound, even if it would make Ratchet twitch again, but he shook the tail tip at the front liner. The mech wasn't an easy one to intimidate, or to try again. He looked back up at Prowl to see of the black and white still wanted to 'go it slow' in testing the manta mech's fighting skills.