Meeting Auri
Disclaimer: Auri belongs to Cairistona and her story is called You Have Found a Home. Peach belongs to me. Transformers belong to Hasbro, and Lamb Chop belongs to Classic Media. Any Disney things mentioned here belong to Disney Enterprises.
Peaches had done 3 different miscellaneous duties this morning; watching Skids and Mudflap while they were in the brig, collecting the humans' NEST uniforms and regular clothes to be washed and delivering them to those whose job it was to make sure that got done, and finally cleaning her family's quarters.
At lunchtime, Prowl and Optimus Prime went in to inspect the room, while Crystal lazily played with her stuffed Lamb Chop and Abby watched with interest and attempted to crawl towards the two mechs.
Optimus Prime gave Peaches the thumbs up, while Prowl made a note that the Pretender had passed the inspection. Sideways lifted Abby up off the floor while Peaches picked up Crystal and the four went to the main room to eat.
The orange and red femme transformed into her human mode, clothed in the NEST uniform and having her brown hair tied up, then sat down at a small table and began giving Abby a bottle.
"Hello." Someone said hesitantly.
Peaches turned around and saw a small, pink femme with orange and yellow flame detailing. It was unmistakable. "Hello there, you're Aurion-Blaze otherwise known as Auri am I correct?"
"Yes." She answered nodding. "And you are?"
"I'm Peaches."
"Peaches…" Auri echoed, feeling the word out.
This was going to be an interesting conversation, Peaches thought to herself.
The pink and orange femme looked at Abby, who was happily sucking on her bottle without a care in the world, and asked "Ah… you're an Autobot, but you look like a human, and you have a human child…?" she was a bit perplexed by this.
"Abby's adopted." The Pretender replied. She then set the infant down on the floor, as the latter was not hungry anymore. "Yes, I really am a Cybertronian; I'll show you."
To Auri;s surprise, Peaches "skin", "hair" and "clothes" faded as the latter "grew" taller and turned completely metallic; the slightly older femme was now orange and red all over.
"Whoa..." That was all Auri could say. She continued to gaze at Peaches in wonder.
She was even more shocked than that when Sideways stood up and introduced himself. Auri darted backwards, staring with horror. "Oh-no…!" she cried, "Con-!" She snapped out her twin knives defensively.
"Put those down; I'm not looking for a fight; if you hurt Peaches or my daughters it's another story. That really will tick me off and I'll-" the ex-con started to say.
"Sideways, don't scare her you idiot!" Peaches scolded him. "Are you stupid or what?"
"What is going on here?" a certain blue and red mech asked.
"I'll explain." Sideways then did so.
"Auri, he is not a Decepticon anymore." Optimus Prime explained when he found out what the trouble was. "He has changed his ways since meeting Peaches."
"Oh… sorry about drawing them." Auri murmured, putting her weapons away.
"It's okay." Peaches said. She picked up a now crying Abby and Crystal, and calmed them down. "Anyways, he is not going to hurt anybody because he will answer to me if he does!"
Sideways simply said. "She threatened to take me on It's a Small World when she takes Abby, Crystal and I to visit Disneyworld in a few years. And by the AllSpark, I can't stand that song at all!"
"Disneyworld?" Auri asked. "I've not heard of that… is it in this solar system?"
"Well yes; it's a park on Earth. It's where every human kid wants to go; that was a big part of me being raised by humans." Peaches replied. "Here I'll show you; you can talk to Sideways later when it's less awkward."
"Okay." Auri replied happily.
Peaches then handed the human infant and Cybertronian sparkling to the blue ex-Decepticon, who settled down to play with them.
A couple of minutes later, Peaches led Auri to the former's bedroom and pulled out the box of her childhood things. She then told the youngling about how she had been raised as a human, the discovery of her being a Cybertronian Pretender, her eventual decision to join NEST, the death of her human parents and finally how she met Sideways and bonded with him.
Auri was looking at all of the stuff in interest, as Peaches explained what it was.
"I still play with toys." Auri admitted. She smiled a sheepish smile, "I play with Duplos a whole lot and build stuff."
"I played with that stuff too whenever my human cousin Ethan would visit during the summer; he's two years younger than I am and he will be 17 tomorrow. I'll call him and wish him a happy birthday tonight." The Pretender said, and then quickly wrote something down on a data pad to remind her to do that task.
"Um, Peaches what is this?" Auri cautiously held up the stuffed Lamb Chop toy.
"That's a stuffed animal I always liked when I was younger. I always thought Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy could really talk when I watched that show about them but that's not true." The Pretender found herself explaining ventriloquism and how it worked. Auri giggled in amazement. Then Peaches said "I always liked Disney movies and TV shows hence I wanted to go to any of the Disney theme parks when I was a kid. The story of how I met Sideways reminds me of Beauty and the Beast, minus the enchanted objects, the rose in a bell jar, a Gaston-like character, my sparkmate being furry and said sparkmate not 'physically' transforming to a new look but like the Beast/Prince, changing his personality and outlook on love."
Auri looked up the movie and immediately asked "May we watch anything we want to?"
"Prime doesn't have a problem with Disney or Pixar movies, mostly, but some other movies are banned on base because of several unnamed individuals who tried to imitate stuff from them." Peaches answered. "You'll have to look at Prowl's list to find out which ones."
Just then Prowl called Auri to help him with some things, and the latter got up and went to the door. "So, may we watch some of those movies later when I have more free time?" she asked, her optics sparkling with anticipation.
"Sure, be my guest." Peaches stated.
Auri laughed a bit after looking up the song as she walked down the hallway.
Peaches couldn't help but wonder what Disney movie to show Auri first out of the ones that she had, then just smiled and simply said "I'll let my heart decide."
"Will you stop referencing Disney songs please?" Sideways asked as he walked in while carrying Abby and Crystal in his arms and trying not to drop them. "2 somebodies need a nap and I need help getting them to sleep for the one hour that they are supposed to be napping."
"All right, I'll help you love." Peaches took Abby and began singing "Stay Awake". She looked forward to later when Auri could spend more time with her and possibly Sideways.