Skyfire waited anxiously outside the Medbay, when he decided to visit Starscream. He tapped his pedes on the floor nervously. His thoughts swam in questions and possibilities of how Starscream will react when he wakes. Skyfire was suddenly snapped from his thoughts when we heard pedes walking close to him. He looked up, straight at Ratchet in the optics. He was scared and concerned for Starscream.
"Is he a-alright Ratchet?" Skyfire's voice was laced with nervousness.
"I successfully got him to be stable. He will need to be in the Medbay for the rest of the week though. You can visit him if you want to. Just make sure you don't damage any of the medical machines with your big frame" Ratchet pointed at Skyfire with his wrench, threatening him.
Skyfire raised his hands defensively. He smiled a bit shamefully. Ratchet just scoffed then smiled.
"You can visit him now." Ratchet stated. Ratchet walked back inside, probably going to check on his medical supplies. Skyfire stood up and walked into the Medbay after Ratchet left inside. He laid his optics on Starscream. His chest plate was melded back together as well as his deep cracks in his faceplates. There was no more exposed wiring and his joints were as good as new. His minor scratches and dents were probably buffed out. Tubes ran to his arms to the medical machines behind the berth. Skyfire carefully stepped closer to Starscream, until he was right besides Starscream. He made sure his wings were down, so he does not hit anything. Skyfire traced Starscream's helm with his finger. A smile was growing on Skyfire's faceplates. His finger traveled down towards Starscream's lip components. He lingered there for a bit before looking away, a little embarrassed. Skyfire decided to look at his hand. Some of the light blue paint was blown off just like the majority of his body. He lifted his hand gently then wrapped his big fingers around Starscream's small hand firmly.
"Starscream…it has been awhile since we last spoken a word to each other. I have been doing well here in the Autobot's base. We are like a, by human terms, a family. Everyone works hard, while looking after each other. It's nice." Skyfire paused for a couple seconds, appearing to be deep in thought, before talking again. "I hope you have been faring well in the Decepticon's side. Though from how Megatron treat most of his troops….I wouldn't be surprised that you are having a hard time. Especially with being the Second-in-Command."
Skyfire heard faint pedesteps in the background, then was a bit of loud tappping on the Medbay doors. Skyfire turned around to see Blaster leaning over to the entrance.
"Hey Skyfire, my flying friend, we need you in the Rec Room. The Bots and I thought you might want some chill time with us." Blaster asked in his ever optimistic voice.
Skyfire looked back at Starscream for about a minute, before looking back at Blaster with a smile.
"I would love to join you and the other Autobots." Skyfire whispered a goodbye to Starscream, placed his hand down, and walked out of the Medbay to meet up with Blaster.
Skyfire visited Starscream everyday of the rest of the week. Skyfire would comfort, and talk to Starscream, who is still in stasis mode. Skyfire though was slowly becoming worried on how Starscream will react. Skyfire can always try and calm down Starscream, but what if he won't stop freaking out. Skyfire was digging through his memories, try to remember what usually calm Starscream down. After filing through old memories, Skyfire finally remembered what calmed down Starscream.
"My cooking!" Skyfire shouted happily in his room fairly lit room. Skyfire let his processor swim in those happy memories. He remembered he took a Cooking Class in his third year at the Academy, since Animal Science was already full. He let Starscream eat an energon cookie, with soft iron chunks in it, from his graded cookie project, and it was the first time Starscream had stars sparkling in his eyes. He praised Skyfire while still eating a cookie. From then on Skyfire made food for Starscream, since he refused to eat anything else other then the food that was made by Skyfire.
He chuckled. His cooking always put Starscream in a good mood. Though something dawned on Skyfire, where is he going to get the cooking equipment from and where is he going to get the ingredients from?
Skyfire began slightly panicking. His wings began twitching nervously.
"Okay, what to do, what to do?" Skyfire thought. "Wait, I can ask Wheeljack, Preceptor, Grapple, and Hoist to see if they can build several cooking equipment for me. Then that leaves the ingredients. I know that a good few of them don't come from or grow on Earth."
Skyfire walked over to his datapad and began writing a list of ingredients, then wrote a separate list for the four builders/scientists. Skyfire was extremely focus on the details and workings of said cooking equipments.
Almost a cycle later, and finally Skyfire finished the schematics of the necessary equipment. He sighed happily and tiredly. He subspaced his 'shopping' list, but he still held other list in his servos. Skyfire jogged out of his quarters to the Science Center. After going through the hallways of the Ark, Skyfire slowed to a stop and peered into the Science Center. He wanted to make sure there was somebot there. Wheeljack was rummaging through some drawers, while Preceptor was in Microscope mode, probably inspecting something. Hoist and Grapple were off in the back sketching out schemetics for their next project.
"Ah! Just the bots I was looking for." Skyfire stated
Wheeljack turned his head to Skyfire.
"Is that so?" Wheeljack questioned
Skyfire entered the room, with his big red and white wings lowered.
"Yes! I was hoping you all can build somethings for me." Skyfire hoped.
"Wait…all of us? Is it a really big project, that needs all four of us to do?" Wheeljack asked
The three other bots attention were on Skyfire now.
"Well, it is not a big project, but I need these built as efficiently as possible." Skyfire answered as he gave Wheeljack the datapad that he has been holding. Preceptor, Grapple, and Hoist crowded around Wheeljack to look at the datapad. The immediate expression was intrigued and confused.
"Why do you need us to build cooking equipment, Skyfire?" asked Preceptor
Skyfire grew a little embarrassed, but he spoke up anyway.
"So I may cook." Skyfire answered plainly
There was a few moments of silence, until Grapple broke it.
"Why the urge to do so now?" Grapple wonders
Skyfire's wings twitched in agitation.
"Look, I would to answer your questions, if I had time, but I don't. I just need an answer if you bots are going to build them." Skyfire explained in a calm voice
They looked at each other as if they were reading each other's mind. Finally they answered.
"Sure Skyfire. We will try building them as quickly as possible." Wheeljack answered
Skyfire lit up with glee. He immediately scooped up the four bots and began hugging them tightly.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!" Skyfire quickly said as he was crushing the four bots
"Y-Y-You're welcome… Skyfire. Can you pleeasse… let us go" Hoist asked, struggling to in-vent.
"Oh!" Skyfire let go of them and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry"
"It's alright. Just go easy on the hugs." Perceptor responded
Skyfire nervously smiled. "I am glad you all agreed to this. That means I can go take a visit to Cybertron." Skyfire stated. Skyfire ran into the hall before the four bots can say anything else. When Skyfire ran outside, he transformed into a shuttle and flew to the nearest Space Bridge.
After flying for a few minutes, he made it to the Space Bridge. He transformed back to his bot mode, and landed with a thud. Skyfire walked up to the control panel. He pressed in a couple of buttons, before the Space Bridge was whirring to life. He walked in before the opening closed. The Space Bridge was slowly powering up until, it warped him back to Cybertron, in the room in Shockwave's guard post. Skyfire groaned. He hoped Shockwave was not here at the moment. Skyfire composed himself and waited for the door to slide open.