Sorry about not posting this sooner ^^;
I had it on DA but forgot to get it up here *giggles*
Beepbop
Chapter 2
Beepbop let out a painful beep as she felt herself coming back online. Her optics lit up and she glanced around Ratchet was beside her he looked like he had just finished repairing her arm which had gotten blown off when she left the ship. Sideswipe was lying in the berth beside her offline as was Inferno but Jazz and Sunstreaker were nowhere in sight.
"So your awake" Ratchet said glancing down at her. She nodded and sat up slowly looking around she was a bit dizzy but knew why and quickly shook it off.
"Were almost at Earth…" Ratchet trailed off as Beepbop jumped from the medical table. He was tempted to hit her off the head with a wrench like he did with all his other patients but that was a bit to uncalled for especially since the femme was new around here. Her size had greatly improved since they had left the planet she was now up to his chest he watched her as she examined Sideswipe with a worried look on her face.
"He'll be fine. You'll have to leave now though. I don't like uninjured bots hanging around here" He said calmly. Beepbop turned and nodded as she left she glanced back at the red mech on the berth she was worried for him before he was cheery and filled with life but now the way he was lying there it scared her. She walked back into the main area of the ship where Jazz kindly welcomed her.
"Welcome back." He said an award-winning smile plastered on his face. Beepbop blinked a few times then shyly returned the smile.
"So, are you gonna explain how you made the cons leave?" Sunstreaker said glaring at her.
"Let it go Sunny" Jazz said defending her. She looked down at her hands she knew exactly how she had made the decepticons leave in such a hurry she just didn't want to explain it and frankly couldn't. She took a spot on the floor and sat down. She leaned against the wall. Her actions made Jazz curious about her sudden mood change.
"You feelin alright Beepbop?" He asked as the femme let out a beepy equivalent of a sigh. She nodded then glanced down the hall she was just worried about the others Ratchet said they would be okay but she had seen one to many deaths in her life then she ever wanted to and hoped she would never see another.
"Oh yur worried aren't you," He said seeing the direction her optics had moved in.
"Don't worry bout them Beepbop they'll be fine. Ratch is the best medic we've got" He winked and turned to the navigation screen, which he was sitting at. Unlike before he was actually monitoring the area around them he didn't know whether the decepticons were going to be back or not and didn't want a surprise attack.
"Were nearing the atmosphere" Skyfire's voice rang through the ship as Earth came into view. Beepbop stood straight up the planet they were going towards was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen her optics were wide with wonder about the new place they were going to land on. They passed through clouds as they neared a landing ground close to the autobot base. Skyfire set himself down and allowed everyone within to exit. Beepbop watched Sunstreaker and Jazz leave but she remained. She ran down the hall back to the med bay. When she entered she let out a series of beeps and Ratchet looked at her questionably.
"What's wrong Beepbop?" Ratchet asked he had even started using the unusual name. Beepbop pointed outside and let out some more excited beeps.
"Yes, I know were back but I have to reactivate these two first" He said motioning to the two sleeping mechs. They had both been fully repaired and just had to wake up. Beepbop watched as Ratchet walked over to them both and waked them on the head pulling them online.
"Ow, Ratch did you have to do that?" Sideswipe complained sitting up and rubbing his helm. Inferno also sat up Ratchet had obviously not hit him as hard because there was no dent on his helm unlike Sideswipes. Sideswipe saw Beepbop and smiled.
"You ready to see Earth?" He asked her. She nodded and he got up noticing her growth spurt. He had only assumed that they had landed because if not then Ratchet would've let them recharge. Inferno glanced over at the femme before leaving the med bay and then her and Sideswipe followed. It took Ratchet a few minutes but soon he was out as well.
Beepbop looked around at the landscape it was rocky but still beautiful to her. Suddenly a red and blue mech came out causing the others to go to attention. Beepbop looked up at him curiously she was a lot shorter then him and wasn't planning on getting any taller then she already was
"Prime, the mission was completed" Ratchet reported shaking the hand his leader had extended.
"Good, What did you find?" Prime asked not noticing the pink femme that was with them.
"We found a injured femme sir." He said without making any movements to introduce Beepbop.
"Sir. I brought her back with us without permission I apologize." Ratchet said before his commander could respond. He nodded and turned to face Beepbop.
"I would assume this is her?" Optimus asked looking down at her. Ratchet nodded to the bigger mech and moved forward to introduce her but Prime already had it covered.
"Hello, I am Optimus Prime leader of the Autobots and who might you be?" He asked holding his hand out. Beepbop took it and shook but was unable to say the given nickname for obvious reasons. She did attempt at it though which only resulted in beeps. Prime looked over at Ratchet puzzled.
"There is something wrong with her vocal unit and I can't figure out what." Ratchet said a little more casually. Prime seemed to understand this is when Sideswipe stepped in
"I nicknamed her Beepbop," He said stressing the "I".
"Well welcome then Beepbop." He nodded toward Jazz and Ratchet and they followed him. Jazz pulled Beepbop along with them not wanting to leave her with the twins. Beepbop was a little surprised as she was pulled along. Why hadn't they left her with Sideswipe? She knew a lot about the way a commander acted and when they needed to speak to their officers in private. Her being there would not allow them to do so. Unless of course the matter was concerning her…
Beepbop beeped up at Jazz a confused look on her faceplate. She wanted to know why she had been dragged along but it was hard for her to tell her new friend because of the speech barrier. Jazz looked down at her for a minute then he seemed to understand some of what she was trying to get across.
"Oh, Ya wanna know why I took ya with use right?" Beepbop nodded happily as he understood her.
"The twins aren't exactly responsible," He told her. Ratchet snorted when he heard this. Jazz ignored the comment from the other mech and continued to talk
"Plus if your gonna be hangin around here we need a place for ya to stay" He smiled and they walked into the huge orange ship that was embedded in the side of a volcano. Beepbop stuck close to Jazz and Ratchet as other mechs passed by them while they were walking down the hall. A few stopped and stared at her but others either completely ignored her or nodded at her presence. At one point a blue and white mech popped out of thin air and almost tripped over her. He seemed to be sorry but he evaporated in thin air right in front of her eyes. She stared at the empty space for a minute then held onto Jazz. She would've clung to Ratchet but he seemed to be in a bit of a sour mood at the moment and probably wouldn't like her anywhere near him. Finally they turned into a room and entered. Inside two mechs were waiting one red and the other white with door-like wings on his back.
"Beepbop, Step forward please. I would like to introduce you." Prime said. Beepbop shrunk back a bit but then did as she was told.
"Beepbop this is Prowl" he said directing to the mech with door wings
"He's our tactician, and this is Ironhide" he continued pointing to the red one. Beepbop smiled but received no warm gestures in return. Prowl looked down at her rather coldly but the red one didn't seem to have very much interest in her. She turned back to Jazz who smiled and pat Beepbop's helm causing the ear like object's which usually sat up straight to go down. Optimus then directed them over to a table and they all sat down Beepbop taking a seat right in-between Ratchet and Jazz.
"Now that we've found this femme we need to decide what to do with her" Prowl stated looking at Beepbop then back at Prime.
"Does she have any abilities? She doesn't look like she is very useful…" Prowl seemed to be examining Beepbop and what the mech was saying hurt her pride.
"Leave the poor gal alone Prowl, She's probably dead scared of ya by now" Ironhide said causing a small smile to cross the small femmes faceplates she knew that she was going to like him. Prime stood up before another person could speak.
"Prowl that wasn't acceptable." He said facing the tactician. Prowl slumped a bit in his chair.
"Since we don't know the femme's abilities yet, or what fraction she wishes to side with, I will assign her a room and she will be assistance to other other mechs. Prowl you get her first." He said and Jazz shot up from his seat.
"Prime, wouldn't it be a better idea if I took her first?" He said glaring at Prowl. Optimus shook his head.
"She'll start with Prowl and that's my final decision" The others stood up and exited. Beepbop looked at Jazz and Ratchet but they made no motion for her to go along with them.
"Come with me Beepbop…" Prowl said waving for her to come. Beepbop did as she was told nervously following the other mech. Optimus handed Prowl a card key as he left the room and then they walked down the hall.
"Your room is here," He said unlocking a door. When it opened Beepbop saw that it was pretty basic. It had a berth an energon dispenser and a small window so that she was able to see outside the front of the ship.
"This is your key and you'll be helping me out for a while. Hopefully it'll help you get used to the inside of the arc." Beepbop took they card key she was handed and put it into her subspace pocket. They then closed the door to the room and walked further down the hall and entered an office.
"This is my office. You will report here right after you re-charge cycle and get assigned a job to do" Beepbop nodded she had already mapped four thing's on her internal map the entrance, the conference room, her room and Prowl office. I'm going to need more information then that she thought to herself.
"You can start by delivering these data pads." He said handing a small stack to her.
"I know you don't know your way around yet. Each of them comes with directions, use them and you'll get somewhere." Beepbop nodded and quickly left scurrying down the hall she really didn't feel comfortable around him.
Beepbop looked down at the data pads the first place was the med bay. She smiled that meant she could see Ratchet.
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Beepbop sighed as she walked down another hall. It had been at least a week since she started helping Prowl and she hadn't seen Jazz. Sideswipe or any of the others she had befriended. She had luckily been able to see Ratchet but he was always busy. She handed a datapad to a small red mech.
"Thanks Beepbop" He said smirking at the name she had been given. This mech seemed to get datapads a lot lately and she didn't understand why. His name was Cliffjumper and she had seen almost an exact look alike the other day though he was very friendly and yellow unlike this one.
She turned and started heading down another hall when something red and black caught her eye. She turned and stared running down another hall and hugging the mech at the end.
"Hey Beepbop!" Sideswipe said a smile on his face.
"Long time no see" Beepbop let go of her friend and smiled up at him. She was happy to see him again. Sunstreaker glanced down and crossed his arms.
"Great, the kids back" He said sarcastically. Sideswipe glared but Beepbop just giggled. It was one of the few things she could still do even without her vocal processor working properly. She knew Sunstreaker could be nice he had been in the past. Suddenly Prowl turned down the hall. He saw the twins with Beepbop and automatically went into defensive mode.
"What's going on here!?" He said raising his voice. Beepbop turned to face him her shoulders slouching a bit.
"Prowl nothing…" But he was cut off.
"Beepbop get over here! What were you guys doing to her!" Beepbop noticed Prowl wasn't acting like his normal self he was jumping to conclusions something the cop-bot never did. She stood her ground taking somewhat of a defensive stance in front of the twins but it didn't last long Prowl reached forward and pulled her behind him his "wings" flaring up.
"Prowl we weren't doing anything to her. She came to us," Sideswipe said trying to calm the tactician down. The small femme nodded looking up at her supervisor there was definitely something wrong. She grabbed onto his hand and started leading him down the path she had long memorized heading to the med bay. Before she went out of sight she gave Sideswipe a sad look and waved. To her surprise they returned her look.
"I'll see you around Beepbop!" Sideswipe yelled and Beepbop turned and nodded.
"Over my dead body" Prowl grumbled but he followed her like a lost puppy. She turned into the med bay and was happy to see Ratchet for once wasn't busy. She beeped a welcome and Ratchet looked up smiling.
"Hi Beepbop" He said but when Beepbop pulled Prowl in his smile changed.
"What's wrong?" He said standing up and walking over to the two examining Prowl.
"The twins were bugging her…" He trailed off a far-out look in his optics. Beepbop quickly shook her head that wasn't what happened. She pointed at Prowl with a worried expression but Ratchet was already on it.
"Prowl lay down on the berth," He ordered Prowl looked at him blankly then down at Beepbop shaking his head.
"I have to take care of her…" He said directing his hand toward the smaller femme. Beepbop grabbed his arm and pulled Prowl over to the berth and pointed to it. Prowl shook his head again.
"Prime told me to watch you so I will" Ratchet was about to break in when Beepbop obediently sat down in a chair second closest to the berth. Ratchet paused then smiled.
"Beepbop isn't going to leave here until you get looked at Prowl," He said smirking down at the femme. Prowl finally gave in and lied on the berth. Ratchet put him into recharge and then opened up the tactician's helm.
"No wonder he's been acting weird…" Ratchet said pulling out a very burnt looking chip.
"He's been so overworked he burnt his logic chip…" Beepbop looked down at him worried. Ratchet glanced at her.
"Don't worry about him Beepbop, this happens all the time. You should probably go now" She shook her head at what the medic had said even if Prowl would be back to his normal self after this she said that she would stay there and that was her full intention of doing so.
"Okay but just stay out of the way" he grumbled retrieving another chip from one of the many shelves and began working on it. Beepbop didn't know when but at one point she slipped into recharge and when she woke up all she could remember was being carried back to her room by a mech with huge white wings…
Beepbop got to work with Prowl :D
Now who should she work with next...
