IWalkAlone
Chapter 4:
Refuge
Cubiczirconia was sitting on her berth with her arms wrapped around herself, looking at the floor. No one had bothered her when Ratchet was with her. She wished she could be with him every second of the day, but she knew that would never happen.
'Why me? Why do I have to be the one that stands out?' Questions ran through her mind as she began to cry, silently, again, 'No one is ever going to accept me...' She sobbed as she began to tremble. Moon walked in opening her mouth to say something and closed it right back as she looked to Cu-zee.
"Cu-zee... whats wrong?" She asked going to sit beside her.
She sniffled then looked up Moon, "I'm...not sure how much more of this I can take..." She didn't want to hurt any of them at all. She just wanted them leave her alone if they couldn't accept her.
Moon leaned down a little to look her in the optics, "Do I need to borrow Chormia's grenade launcher and kick some afts?" A joking grin tugged at her lips.
"No, that won't stop them anyway."
She recieved a snort from the other, "If I put them offline it would." Her voice had a slightly dreamy tone to it. she shook her head, "Anyway, if it takes a aft beating till they're half offline to get the message of leave you alone, I have no problem with it."
"Jazz told me to just kick their afts but they would just accuse me of turning my back on them and tell Prime that I went back to the decepticons..." The purple youngling stood up and walked out onto the mini-balcony connected to their room, "I wish I was like you, Moon..."
The other youngling shutters her optics blankly and follows, "Like me? What do you mean, Cu-zee?"
"Everyone loves you, Moon. You're beautiful, smart, and you actually have a reason to be here."
"I am not beautiful, Everyone acts like they love me, and the only reason I have to be here is the same as yours."
"...They're afraid of Ratchet, aren't they?" She turned to look at the other.
Moon couldn't stop herself from laughing, "If I behaved like them I would be to! He can dismantle them in like two hyper cycles! I mean, if you knew you were doing something wrong, wouldn't you be?"
Zirconia smirked for a second, "After they threw some kind of acid-like liquid on me today...he...helped me clean up and walked with me here. The others didn't even come near us."
"As I said, he can dismantle them, I am highly tempted to, but..." she shook her head, "I do not think anyone would be too pleased if I did." She grinned and flopped onto the berth, "I would feel better though."
Cubiczirconia seemed to be thinking about Ratchet ever since the event that happened earlier. Moonstorm couldn't help but notice the dreamy look in Zirconia's optics. She raised an optic ridge as a grin crept to her lips, oh it couldn't be, that would be too good. It was as if she felt Moonstorm's eyes on her, she turned and walked towards her, "...What's...so funny?"
She grinned at her best friend, "Cu-zee..." she cooed in her super sweet voice. "Do you like Ratchet..?"
"Ack!" She tripped over her own feet and fell forward on the ground then sat up, shaking her head and looked at Moonstorm, blushing madly, "What?"
She was knocked back over as Moon gasped and smiled, "You do!!" She jumped up and down a couple times clapping her hands excitedly. "Oh you like Ratchet!!"
"What do you mean?" Zirconia was confused, she was still hearing the main decepticon rule, the one that was repeated to her over and over again, 'Decepticon's have no emotions. There is no such thing as love' Although the only love she felt was through her mother and father. There was no other kind of love.
Moonstorm fell to her knees infront of her, "You love him, you have feelings for him, your spark waivers everytime you think about him!" She rattled off the few explinations. Zirconia was still confused, she still didn't know what that word meant, "What does love mean again?"
The other just rolled her optics with an extra whine from her cooling systems, the humans would call it a sigh.
"Love is a deep emotion. When your spark connects with another, your spark mate!"
"What?!"
Moonstorm cracked up. She knew Zirconia had heard the whole 'speech' about spark mates but she knew she thought it would never thought it would happen to her. She acks as her best friend goes offline and catches her, barely, though she can't pick her up. She paniced a little, her thoughts running as such, 'Uh! Uh! Closest person that will help!? It's-it's uh! Ratchet!! Oh, shes going to kill me!' She ran to get the mech to help with her passed out friend.
"What the slag?" Zirconia opened her optics an hour later, "Ow, my head..."
Her friend heared her voice, looks up and leaps up from her seat, gently pressing her back to the berth, "Easy, you had a bit of a spell..."
Over her shoulder Ratchet came into veiw, "Yes, you should rest." He said gently. Zirconia blushed and looked at Moonstorm, "You...you...you..." She looks up at Ratchet, "H-hi, Ratchet..."
Moon grinned sheepishly and gracefully bowed out, having had a conversation with Ratchet while Zirconia was out.
"Hello Zirconia," he smiled a little, "How are you feeling?" His attention was brought away from the two as his communicator blinked, "...You two, stay here. I'll be back." With that he ran out of the medbay. Zirconia just sat and stared at Moon, "Ok, wait a minute...how'd I end up here?"
Moon looked to her hands as she pressed the tips of her two forefingers together, "Well... you fainted and I couldn't get you up so I had to find someone to help... and Ratchet was the only one close by... I got him and he brought you back here..."
"Oi...he probably thinks I'm annoying, now."
Moon shakes her head, quickly, "No! He's worried about you Zee..." She trails off looking to the floor.
"...How would you know that?" She blinked.
She fidgets, 'Oh, well... I might have asked... what he thought of you..." She said sheepishly.
"Love, huh?" She looks down, "I'm still not quite sure what that is...but..."
"You're in love with Ratchet!"
Zirconia blinked, "Uh, I guess you could say that...even though I'm just going to go to the base's library later and do research as to what love is." She looked up and saw her friends face.
Moon giggled, "Just be careful and don't let anyone attack you, ok?"
She sighs and claps her hands together, smiling a nervous somewhat fake smile, "Well...I guess I should leave now!" She looks around then takes off out the door.
