As Ratchet wandered the med bay putting away supplies and tools, and cleaning up any messes he had made while repairing both the twins and Moonbeam, the moment the twins were on lined they had rushed out of there, Moonbeam was in a different section that they hadn't seen. After Ratchet had finished cleaning he decided to check on Moonbeams vitals, everything checked out okay, as he turned from the berth she lay on he heard the creaking as metal moved on a metal surface, he turned to see Moonbeam sitting up, rubbing her processor, quickly he turned to face her directly, he pushed her down with gentleness he very rarely brought forth.
"Lay down" he said, with only a slight bit of gruffness "you need to let your systems adjust to the changes." when she cocked her processor to the side he guessed the answer immediately "I've removed the rust that had built up in your circuitry, you'll be able to put down your faceplate defense plate and your optic guard, and you should be able to vocalize now that I've repaired your vocalizer, do you understand me?" she lay there staring at him and he couldn't help but feel a little put out that she wasn't replying.
"Alright, I know you can talk now, why don't ya just tell me how you feel or ill give ya reason to be quiet." he said his gruffness returning full blast. He immediately regretted his harshness when she recoiled and lay in a fetal position on the birth, trembling with fear.
Ratchet sighed and leaned back from moonbeams shivering chassis. "I'm sorry kid, I guess I'm a little high strung since…" he paused looking the femme over; he couldn't help but think of the ninja bot that had lost his spark to save them, quickly he gathered his straying thoughts," …since Prowl. I guess I'm kinda worried to lose another friend, can you forgive me?" he asked, the gruffness in his voice on the minimum, he felt depressed since Prowls sacrifice for them…
He was a little startled when he felt a servo on his shoulder guards, he looked up to see Moonbeam had put her servo on him trying to comfort him, slowly a small smile flitted across his faceplate, then Moonbeam nodded, turned around on the berth and stood up, slightly wobbly at first, but quickly took control, all the time Ratchet kept a watchful optic on her, scanning for any chance of her possibly falling.
Moonbeam made a few laps around the med bay to make sure she was steady, and then she turned to Ratchet, gave him a thumb up, then a small wave and left the med bay, when she left a small smile tugged on his features, he then turned back to his projects, this had been a very eventful solar cycle.
When Moonbeam left the med bay she immediately was lost, she wandered the halls till she entered the rec. room, out of curiosity she went over to the large cement couch and sat down, she sat there for a moment looking around at everything, at the TV, the game console, and all the little things splashed here and there, as she was sitting there observing she didn't notice the pink chassis moving silently behind her, it was only when the figure was directly behind her did Moonbeam sense the form behind her, quickly Moonbeam somersaulted forward as she sensed the figure directly behind her, she then jumped up and turned around in a defensive crouch, what she saw was a pink femme leaning forward on the couch looking at Moonbeam with friendly, but cautious optics.
After a moment of inspecting one another the pink femme spoke first, "hello, and who might you be?" she said sweetly, slowly Moonbeam shifted out of her defensive crouch and stood looking at the femme, but still didn't speak.
The femme looked at her curiously, "Can't you talk?" she asked, concern in her voice, moonbeam nodded once, which only made the femme look confused, "then why don't you speak to me? Did I startle you?"
"no, she just doesn't want to talk" a gruff voice said behind Arcee, which made her jump and spin around to face Ratchet who had walked in to see their little chat.
"She seems reluctant to let down her mask, even though I've repaired it so she could speak, I think she has to get used to the idea before she decides to try it out." Ratchet said in his usual gruff manor, "I'm sure she'll come around in her own time." He concluded stepping over to Moonbeam, "now Arcee this is Moonbeam, Moonbeam this is Arcee…" he said making servo gestures between the two. Quickly he explained Moonbeam to Arcee who listened with patience, but even she made a small grin when she heard how she had had beaten up both Bumblebee and Bulkhead single handedly, and without weapons of her own.
"Really, all on her own, and with NO training?" Arcee grinned, "That sounds fantastic! I wish I had been there to see that with my own optics!" she began to laugh a sweet bell like laugh; Moonbeam just kept cocking her processor to the side at Arcee's reactions.
ratchet looked down on Moonbeam, he knew it was about time to show her to her new living quarters, so he said his goodnights to Arcee and led Moonbeam to an empty room, he gave her the basics on what it's for, what times to come out, and if she needed anything to just ask, she only gave him a nod after his long winded explanation, then she slowly backed away from him closed the door and went to the berth, Moonbeam lay down and off lined her optics, only to online them when she found she was uncomfortable, slowly she rolled off the berth, landed catlike on the floor, transformed and lay like that, she fell into recharge feeling slightly more comfortable.
When Moonbeam woke up her first thoughts were where was she? Then she remembered the events from the night before, she transformed and stretched her servos, calmly she went to her door and opened it, only to jump back as Jetstorm and Jetfire tumbled in along with Bumblebee, which had been leaning on the door. Immediately they all untangled themselves and made a break for it, Moonbeam only peeked curiously down the hall at the retreating trio, after a moment she simply shook her processor and headed towards where Ratchet had explained where the rec. room was, calmly she sat down and waited for something to happen.
Luckily she only had to wait a few moments before she heard multiple peds coming down the hall heading for the rec. room, calmly she sat still as they entered the room, suddenly she heard a high pitched feminine voice call out to her.
"Hey Moonbeam," Sari said sounding happy, "how was your first night in your own room?" she asked with an upbeat tone.
Moonbeam leaned her processor back and became thoughtful, after a moment she turned to look back at Sari and gave her two opposable digits up, that was enough for Sari who gave her a happy grin and jumped up onto the cement couch, she then jumped onto the back part of the concrete couch and turned to the others who had entered the room, and gave them all a big grin.
"See, I told you she would like her room." Sari said excitedly, moonbeam turned her processor to look at the others who had entered the room, they were none other than the threesome who had fallen into her room earlier, Jetstorm, Jetfire, and Bumblebee, Bumblebee was staring sheepishly at the ground, but the Jetfire suddenly gave his brother a big triumphant grin and held up a servo with wiggling digits at his twin, who complied with muttering and putting purple glowing little rectangular slats half the size of Sari onto his brothers held up servo, who put them into his subspace with a smirk. Moonbeam was confused and stood up and walked around the cement couch towards the twins, she pointed a digit at Jetstorm then Jetfire, who answered by giving her curious looks, again she pointed, this time at Jetfire's subspace, he seemed to realize what she meant and pulled out a single glowing object, he held it up and pointed at it curiously, Moonbeam nodded, pointed at it and shrugged, Jetfire just laughed.
"It is being an energy chip, they be Cybertronian form of currency, we trade them for things being of energy or other items" he said happily, "I was betting brother that you would be enjoying your new room, and be speaking of matter of bets…" he turned to bumblebee who sheepishly handed over some energy chips to Jetfire, whose grin grew even larger, turning back to Moonbeam he handed her a single chip and placed the rest into his subspace, "this being for you, it is looking good no?" he said happily.
Moonbeam stared at the chip for a second, gave Jetfire a small nod and put it into her subspace, calmly she walked past the trio and began to wander the halls, she was passing a door when she sensed something out of the ordinary, she sensed there was a break in the security in one of the rooms, slowly she approached the door and placed one of her audios on the door, listening for a moment. What she heard was the whistling of wind and something rustling, she raised a balled servo and made a few quick raps on the door, she waited a moment, when nothing answered she reached over to the sensor pad and opened the door, when the door swooshed open she was surprised to see a tree growing from the back of the room, it had grown so tall it had broken a large hole in the roof, the doors closed behind her with a whoosh, slowly she approached the enormous life form, she looked up to see a massive entangle of branches, fascinated she reached out and touched it, it seemed to ripple with life, a small wind gently caressed its branches, making it move to the contours of the wind, suddenly Moonbeam felt the urge to climb the massive organic plant form, as she jumped from sturdy branch to branch she felt as if she had gotten smaller, no other tree had been able to hold her weight like this, as she climbed further up she noticed the branches became more fragile as she climbed, as she neared the top she sensed that she wouldn't be able to climb as she had at the beginning, she slowed down, concentrating and placing each ped and servo carefully, so not to break and part of the tree. The foliage grew thicker as she climbed, and when she poked her processor out of the hole, the tree having grown much higher than the roof she was able to climb onto the roof and get a view of the roof and all that could be viewed from it. As she walked along the roof she looked around curiously, everything looked so odd up here, she watched as clouds drifted across the summer morning sky, her mind began to see little images from the clouds, slowly she sat down cross served, and leaned back to look at the hues os pink and gold swirl along with the clouds, she lost track of time as the clouds faded along with the shimmering pinks and gold's as the day wore on and became warmer, it was only when the last trace of clouds and their fascinating colors disappeared did she get up and begin to wander again, she had been only walking on the roof for a moment before she sensed something quite odd, she scanned the area with her optics and saw nothing at first, but then out of the corner of her vision she spotted some sort of silhouette, it was gold and black, but when she turned to face it, it disappeared, confused she approached where she had spotted the odd shadow, on the edge of the building, she walked over till she was directly behind the spot she had seen the silhouette, as she looked around she noticed it was at this part of she saw a wonderful view of the sunrise, slowly she stepped forward and sat down, even though the sun was nearing midday she sat there, again Moonbeam sensed that something odd, she turned her processer to look beside her and was surprised to see the silhouette again, but it seemed clearer, it looked like a mech, he was wearing a samurai like outfit, but then he just disappeared, startled Moonbeam stood up and backed away, how odd…but then she decided to just file it to her memory banks, still looking at the spot she had spotted the silhouette she went back to the tree and started to climb down, as she ducked her processor back under the roof she could've sworn she heard a mechanical humming sound, but she only shook her processor and climbed downs, at the foliage grew thinner and the branches grew stronger she began to hop from branch to branch, she landed with a small thump and she started walking to the door, but as she was about to open it she heard the humming again, slowly she turned around, but saw nothing, she then just turned back to the door, touched the sensor pad and walked through as the doors opened, this, she decided, she would keep a secret as the doors closed behind her.
At that moment she heard a loud warning noise and she turned to see Jazz rush up, he grabbed her servo and began to pull her down the hall he had just come from.
"Looks like we're gonna have a little excitement, dig?" he said grinning.
Moonbeam could only let him pull them to the base entrance where they both transformed and headed off to whatever 'excitement' was in store.