Bluestreak: First day of school.
Bluestreak shuffled his peds while looking through the gate bars, watching all the younglings run around chatting and playing with one another, he let out a sigh.
"Oh Bluestreak it's your first day of school!" Jazz cheered patting Bluestreak's helm, "don't be so nervous, everything will be fine, you'll make friends, learn new things and have tons of fun."
Even though Bluestreak believed his sire, it was still hard to accept that it was going to be his first day of youngling school, it looked so different from daycare. What made the Datsun even more nervous was that even though it was the Datsun's first day of school, it was not the beginning of the school year, Bluestreak had been taken to Praxian for the last decacycle during the holidays and missed the first days. Prowl and Jazz had taken him back to Praxian to do some business and see the sites, he had tons of fun but he missed his friends, now back at Iacon, he had no idea where they were.
"But what if they don't like me?"
"They will Bluestreak, you just have to get to know them."
"…but there are no Praxians here."
"Oh Blue," Jazz knew that Bluestreak was embarrassed about being the only one with door wings, "once they get to know you, they won't care about your door wings."
"But what if they don't? What if they think I talk too much? Or ask too many questions? Or what if I'm not smart enough? What happens if I do something wrong? What if I get bullied? What if-?"
"Bluestreak take a breath!" Jazz smiled as his creation did just that, "you just have to try your best, find people who like you for who you are. You never know, you might find some really good friends."
"…I miss Starscream, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker," Jazz gave a sympathetic look at the youngling who missed his best friends.
"Oh I know Blue, I'm sorry we didn't have time to comm. Them and ask where they were," they had just can back late last cycle, "you never know they might be here waiting for you."
"You think so sire? What if they're not? I wish they were though, then Starscream can teach me, Sideswipe can tell me jokes and Sunstreaker can teach me to draw," Bluestreak didn't mention that he wanted his friends to be here to protect him, when he was young he was picked on a lot because of his wing nubs but the seeker and twins would always take the bullies down and be his body guards, "can we comm. Them after school today? I really miss them and want to know where they are. I can tell them all about Praxian and they can tell me what they did on the holidays-"
"Okay Blue we'll give them a comm. After you come home, go in now before you miss first class! Look you even have time to play and meet a few of the other younglings, making new friends is always good Blue."
Bluestreak sighed as his sire pushed him through the gate, waving at his sire good bye, Bluestreak slowly made his way through the court yard looking at the other younglings that ran pass him laughing and playing. He felt awkward being there but he had no other choice, looking around he saw that the others had already formed groups, this only made him miss his friends even more. Looking over he noticed a yellow youngling playing on the swings, walking over with a small smile Bluestreak took a seat on the swing next to the new sparkling.
"Hi, my name is Bluestreak, I just got here today," the yellow bot was just staring behind Bluestreak.
"Umm hi," said the yellow bot meekly shying away.
Bluestreak didn't know what to do next and continued staring at the new bot now looking down at the ground, before Bluestreak could try to start a new conversation though someone interrupted.
"Bumblebee!" both bots looked over to see a similar looking red bot running up to them, "that's my spot fly bot!"
"Oh I'm sorry," Bluestreak quickly jumped out of the swing seeing the glare of the red bot, "I didn't know and-"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah that's your reason for everything! You flyers think that you're so great that us grounders don't need slag! Well guess what, you're not a high and mighty as you think! Just cause you can fly and all don't mean nothing!"
"But I'm not-"
"Not what? Not like the others? Your better than the rest? Slag you and all your ego, take it somewhere else and leave us alone!"
"But Cliffjumper, he didn't really say anything bad yet…"
"Yet, Bumblebee, the word is yet. You've seen them though, I'll be soon," the red bot known as Cliffjumper glared at Bluestreak, only to look surprised when he saw that the Datsun was near tears.
"I'm not a flyer, I'm a Praxian," Bluestreak only got to mutter that before running off into the building not wanting to cry in front of the two bots.
Bumblebee could only look down at the ground feeling sorry for the Datsun and how mean he was treated on his first day of school even, Cliffjumper felt guilt trickle into his spark and cursed at his hot headedness. Sighing the red bot tugged the yellow one away both heading for their class, maybe they can treat the new bot better next time they met.
Walking through the halls wiping his tears away Bluestreak felt horrible, it was only his first day and it hadn't even really started and he was already being picked on about his door wings. Sighing the youngling trotted down the hall, the sound of the bell ringing made the Datsun jump, before he knew it, the hall was filled with running and talking younglings rushing to get to their classes. Bluestreak gasped and before he could react, he was being shoved from all sides as younglings rushed to get to their first class, worst of all was that his door wings kept getting hit and scrapped against, none of the younglings were caring whether they hit them or not.
Wincing in pain the Datsun tried to weave his way out of the rush, the data he was getting from all the motion around him was making him dizzy, finally jumping into a gap in the lockers Bluestreak turned so that his door wings were away from the other bots and watched as every bot just walked pass him as if he wasn't there. The bots that did see Bluestreak just stared at him like he was from another world and started whispering, pointing and laughing at him.
Bluestreak felt lower then slag now.
Waiting to every bot was gone, the Datsun looked out from his spot to see the halls clear, sighing and dragging his peds down the hall Bluestreak made his way slowly to his first class, home room. Finally reaching the room, Bluestreak wrung his servos before knocking, at first there was nothing until the door rushed open to reveal a red bot with a yellow chest, both bots stared at each other for a click before the larger bot gave a smile.
"You must be Bluestreak right?"
"Y-yes I'm Bluestreak."
"I'm Blaster, nice to meet you there. Why don't you come in and introduce yourself."
Bluestreak wrung his servos one last time before trotting into the open doorway, walking in he instantly attracted the attention of the whole class, this only made Bluestreak more nervous, seeing how the new bot was stiff frozen Blaster placed a servo on the Datsun's shoulder, "everyone this is Bluestreak, he will be our new class mate."
This only started a burst of whispers from Bluestreak's new class mates who were jabbing each other and motioning to Bluestreak, Bluestreak's door wings only lowered when he realized what they were all pointing and talking about, "does anyone want to ask Bluestreak any questions?"
"What are those on your back?"
Bluestreak looked up and tried to see who asked that but couldn't tell, "their my door wings."
"Does that mean you're a flyer?"
"N-no," muttered Bluestreak nervous again, "I can't fly with them."
"What do they do then?"
"T-they just sense movement, temperature, what's behind me and data like that."
"…So you're like a chicken bot or something?"
At this the whole class burst out in laughter while Bluestreak stood there frozen in shock, they think he's a chicken bot?, "yeah a chicken bot! They have wings but can't fly and do anything with them!"
Blaster started yelling at the class, trying to get them to stop laughing, while Bluestreak off lined his optics trying to stop the tears that were making their way to his optics.
This was turning out to be the worst day of his sparked life.
The class only stopped their snickering when they heard the thumps and arguing coming from outside the door, before Blaster could make his way over, the door crashed open to reveal two arguing red and yellow Lamborghinis and an annoyed looking seeker. Both the twins stopped arguing when the seeker grabbed their helms and make them face the front of the class, the three new bots blinked at the grey Datsun, before the red bot ran over and tackled Bluestreak into a hug.
Blaster gave a shout of alarm and ran to hold off the red Lamborghini, "Sideswipe! Leave him alone!"
To his shock Sideswipe only smacked the larger bots servo away and dragged Bluestreak over to the other two, to his even greater shock and grey Datsun, when he saw the seeker, rushed up and hugged Starscream around the waist and started to talk continuously about how he missed them and was having a really bad cycle. Starscream, who usually hated physical affection or touch altogether, just whispered reassurance to the distressed Bluestreak and returned the hug. Now calm the Datsun let go of the seeker and greeted the yellow twin with a shy smile and a short hug, to the shock of the class the antisocial yellow bot actually returned it, Starscream patted the door wings before taking the Datsun's servo and lead him to a free desk.
Sitting down next to Starscream, Bluestreak noticed that each table was fit for two bots and the twins were just behind him if he needed them. The class was now staring in shock at the four, they stopped when the twins and seeker glared at them all, which silently communicated Bluestreak-is-ours-!-touch-him-and-you'll-have-to-answer-to-us, Blaster could only cough into his servos at the unexpected actions.
The seeker and twins was a three mech gang that made it obvious that they were not to be messed with when they first got here.
Starscream was smart and quite a study bot, but he was also cunning, witty and ruthless through verbal beatings and to those who cross him and his friends tearing their egos and self confidence to shreds, a lot of bots faced the seekers wrath for making fun of his wings on the first day, they now avoid him altogether.
Sideswipe was a fun and energetic youngling, but he loved pranks and loved to pull them on anyone, most were harmless but some were sometimes downright cruel to the bots that cross him, his twin and the seeker. Most bullies learnt this on the first day when they were faced with paint bombs, dropped trash, jumbled data pads and much more. They quickly learnt to leave him and his group alone.
Sunstreaker was a quiet, brooding and bot that scream, 'I'm so much better then you and talking or even interacting with you is a waste of my time', but shockingly he was amazing at art and could write the most deepest poetries that could bring tears to the optics of the most chilliest meches. He was not to be under estimated though, as Sunstreaker out of the three was the first one to resort to physical violence, ready to punch, kick and have a scrap against any bot that insulted him or his twin or his friend seeker.
So it was a shock to all bots when they showed protectiveness over the new bot, who looked meek and innocent as Primus's angel.
"Errr…So I guess you all know each other?"
"Bluestreak is our friend," replied Starscream in a neutral tone, but was under lined with the words that translated 'Bluestreak is part of our gang and is ours', "we've known him since sparkling daycare."
Blaster could only watch as Bluestreak smiled for the first time this cycle and nodded in confirmation, the cassette bot could only shrug and get started on the days lesson. It was at least good to know that Bluestreak had three fierce body guards as well as friends.
When class ended the four were the first ones out, with the twins shoving the others out of the way while Blaster just sighed at their antics, chatting as they walked down the halls unhindered they caught up on what they did on their holidays and what they missed out on. The other younglings just gave them room to walk as they knew about Starscream's sensitive wings, which gave Bluestreak's door wings room as he now shared his perk with the seeker, whispering and pointing at the new addition, Bluestreak ignored all of them now that he had his best friends back again.
"I'm so glad you are all here, I can't imagine going to a school without you guys. I would probably fail all my classes without Starscream, nothing would ever be as funny as one of your pranks Sideswipe and Sunstreaker how could I survive without seeing your art works? Their so inspiring," the only three smiled each of their own smiles as they were reminded of why they endeared to Bluestreak, he was such a stroke to their egos, "I thought this cycle was going to be so bad, it started out horrible, I tried to take my sire advice and make friend with another bot, I swear I didn't know you three would be here or I wouldn't even have done it, anyway just as I introduced myself this red bot can marching in and started insulting me about being a flyer when I'm not and-"
"Oh did he? Do you know who this bot was?" asked Starscream in a fake curious tone, he was hiding his growing anger while the twins glanced at each other.
"I think his name was Cliffjumper or something, he was a red minibot, and he said the most mean things about flyers Starscream! You shouldn't ever talk to him, he's mean," continued on Bluestreak.
The talkative Datsun missed the angered look of the twins and the calculated one of the seeker. Starscream glanced at the twins as they both looked at him, with a nod, the twins grinned evilly at one another. Cliffjumper was going to pay for picking on their innocent Datsun.
Cliffjumper was walking down the hall to his locker to get his data pads for the next class, walking down the hall in a quick jog, he didn't notice when he passed two shadowed bots that were watching his every move. Quickly putting in his combination for his lock, Cliffjumper opened his locker only to be knocked down on his aft by a loud 'bang'. Frozen in shock, the red minibot looked down to see that he was covered in pink paint and colorful metallic flakes.
"Oh Primus, you look 'hot' Cliffy bot."
The red bot looked up in slight fear when he saw both Lamborghini twins leaning over him and sharing identical grins, "that color is a better one then the one you had before," Cliffjumper shivered as the yellow bot traced a patch of red.
"We can fix that can't we Sunny? experiment even," purred Sideswipe his grin turning evil.
"Don't call me that, but yes, I would love to see what he would look like in puke green and covered in something else."
"I-I'm not afraid of you two!" nervously shouted Cliffjumper jumping to his peds and backing away from the twins.
"Oh that's the best part Cliffy bot," said Sideswipe in a sing-a-long voice, "you don't have to be, I mean our pranks are meant to be for fun, something to laugh at and have a little fun with."
"Some fun Cliffjumper, centered all around and about you," said Sunstreaker sinisterly with a glare, "for cycles upon cycles and cycles."
"But I don't know, maybe we might not you know, if ya like do something for us," Sideswipe acted like he could careless, "nothing too big you know."
"W-wh-what do you want?" Cliffjumper could only shudder in fear at the thought of prank after prank from these two.
"You insulted a friend of ours," growled Sunstreaker, "we don't like that at all. We want you to apologize to him and do anything he asks from you."
"Yeah, he's a close friend of ours yeah and we take it personally whenever some bot picks on him. You didn't know about him so we're gonna give you a chance. Don't and, well, we might have to get a certain some bot involved."
"Or should we say a certain 'seeker' involved."
"So what is your choice Cliffjumper?" this was said in unison by the twins who gazed at Cliffjumper both with dead serious expressions.
Cliffjumper gulped and all he could do was nod, pranks from the twins was one thing, pranks with the planning and cunningness of the seeker though was like the ultimate prank made by the pit master himself.
"Good Cliffy bot I knew you would see it our way. The bot you want is called Bluestreak, the Praxian with the grey door wings, he will be with Starscream right now."
"Go now if you know what's good for you."
Cliffjumper quickly scurried away to find the bot he remembered from this morning, the twins gave each other a high five before walking off in the opposite direction.
"Hey Bluestreak? Can I talk to you?"
Bluestreak only stared in shock at the red bot who was dripping pink paint, Starscream hid his smirk and tilted his head at the new arrival, "I'll leave you both to talk, don't worry Bluestreak I'll just be right over there with the twins."
Bluestreak watched as the seeker walked off to join the twins who waved at him for reassurance, "umm…so what did you want to talk to me about?"
"I wanted to talk about this morning, I want to apologize," muttered Cliffjumper wiping off some paint, "I was wrong about calling you a flyer and all those mean things."
Bluestreak looked pleasantly surprise and happy, he didn't notice Cliffjumper looking up pass him and to the glaring three who were warning with their optics, "so err if there was anything I can do to, you know, apologize tell me alright? I'll do it."
"Really? Wow you are really a nice bot after all, I mean I thought you were just cranky this morning and-" Bluestreak stopped himself a took a breath, "I need a partner for gym, can you be mine? Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are already paired up and Starscream doesn't take that class."
"That's all?" Cliffjumper stared surprisingly at the grey Datsun, that was all he wanted, no blackmailing, no embarrassing situations and no doing anything ridiculous.
"What do you mean?" Bluestreak tilted his head to the side.
"Umm nothing!" Cliffjumper blinked and wondered how a bot like this got involved with those three, "err, do you want to have lunch with me and the other minibots?"
"Umm, not to be mean or anything but I really want to have lunch with Starscream, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, I haven't seen them in a while and I want to catch up with them you know?" Cliffjumper just nodded while giving a relived smile.
"…Can I ask why you are pink?"
"That will have to be a story for another time Blue," interrupted Sideswipe with a smile, "come on I'm hungry and you still haven't told us all about Praxian yet."
"Sideswipe is correct, come Bluestreak we'll show you to the cafeteria," Starscream shot a dark look at Cliffjumper, "you can catch up with him another time."
"Kay!"
Cliffjumper watched as the Datsun trotted after the three, he could say that it was one of the strangest sights that he had ever seen.