Exile
Part 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers. They belong to Hasbro and Takara. I am merely taking them for a short spin.
Optimus watched as Bulkhead tried to explain the finer points of Earth art to Hot Shot and Ironhide, smiled when Bumblebee decided to take matters into his own hands. The yellow bot grabbed a can of pain, throwing its contents at Ironhide. The red bot let paint drip off him for only a moment before grabbing his own and reciprocating. Within minutes, members of both crews, including Ratchet, were throwing paint on one another, not caring there would be a mess to clean up.
Optimus even joined in when Ratchet grabbed him by the wrist, thrust a paint can into his hand and shoved him toward Bumblebee, who was already covered in a myriad of shades. Bumblebee grinned, seeing his leader joining in.
But while he and the others were enjoying themselves, he caught Rodimus watching them, but he left the room when he felt the optics of the other Prime upon him.
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Optimus found Rodimus outside, on the roof.
"You could have joined in, you know," Optimus said.
"I didn't much feel like it," Rodimus answered.
"Ironhide told me what you did to end up here," Optimus said. "What exactly did Sentinel say?"
"Nothing that needs repeating. Sentinel, as these humans say, is a jackass," Rodimus said.
Optimus smiled. "The humans have many other words that describe Sentinel with frightening accuracy," he said.
"And your Bumblebee seems rather fond of them," Rodimus said. "He's been teaching them to Hot Shot and Ironhide."
"Want me to talk to him about it?" Optimus asked.
"No," Rodimus said.
"Speaking of talking, when you got here, you said you rendered Sentinel 'speechless.' What did you mean? Ironhide said his jaw was broke, but. . ." Optimus said.
Rodimus grinned. "Sentinel can't talk, and Ultra Magnus has limited his communication by comm to sentences of 10 words or less," he said.
"Bet he loves that," Optimus said.
"I heard he's livid," Rodimus said.
"It's probably forcing him to use his processor in ways he's never imagined," Optimus said. "His vocabulary has always been rather limited. . ."
"You two have a history, I know that much," Rodimus said.
"And not a pleasant one," Optimus said.
"Look, there's another reason why I'm not on Cybertron anymore," Rodimus said. "Things there are changing, and not for the better."
"What do you mean?"
"We can finish this discussion later," Rodimus said.
Optimus watched him go, wondering what was going wrong on their home planet.