Hey everyone, here's chapter 8! Hope you enjoy :) and thanks Seeker 3 for the review, I tried my best to call to my inner child haha. I'm glad you like her.
Ch. 8
"Sire! Sire!" Frost shouted from her shared berth with Prowl.
Prowl rushed over from his desk, knocking over his chair in the process. "Frost, what's wrong sweetspark?"
"I… I had a bad memory." Frost leaned into Prowl's body.
Prowl rubbed her back after sitting beside her on the berth. "You're okay now. Want to talk about it?"
"Mhm. In my memory I was outside playing, and you came outside with me. You told me that I'd be going away for awhile." Frost sniffled as she pulled away to look into Prowl's optics. "I don't want to leave you. I want to be an Autobot like you."
Prowl smiled sadly though his spark swelled with pride, that she still had her spark set on being an Autobot. He rubbed the back of her wings and kissed the top of her helm. "Don't worry sweetspark, I won't let anyone take you away. Do you need to refuel?"
"Mhm. Sire can I ask you something?" Frost asked as Prowl lifted her down onto the ground.
"Anything." Prowl said as he took hold of Frost's servo and made their way to the Rec center.
"I want to go to Cybertron. Mirage and Hound were telling me about it. And Mirage about the Towers, and the Crystal Gardens." Frost smiled as she skipped beside Prowl.
Prowl chuckled at how quickly Frost had gotten over her bad memory. He had felt relieved that Optimus was sending a few patrols out to the area where the Decepticons could be hiding. He was also relieved when Ratchet had given Frost a clean bill of health. Her wings were functioning at the recommended levels, and she was virus free. Prowl and the Autobots were glad to see that Frost had nearly forgotten about the whole Megatron thing, nearly.
"Sire? You're doing it again." Frost patted Prowl's leg to get his attention.
Prowl shook his helm clear, looking down in confusion. "Doing what again?"
"You make a face when you're thinking really hard." Frost admitted.
Prowl half chuckled and scooped Frost up into his arms. "I'm sorry, I was just thinking about how big you're getting." He lied, hoping she wouldn't worry about hum.
Frost giggled and smiled silly. "I am, soon I'll be as big as Superion! Or maybe Skyfire!"
"Eh, maybe not that tall sweetspark. You'd be at least as tall as Smokescreen." Prowl smiled.
They walked into the Rec room, a few Autobots were examining Frost's picture. Skyfire and Powerglide were leaving the room as they entered. Powerglide stopped to talk to Prowl. "Prowl, the Arielbots and I searched the area by air, and we couldn't find anything."
"They must have a base underground, or in a building." Prowl said to Powerglide before kneeling down in front of Frost. "Frost, I'm going to go talk to Optimus about something. I'll even see if he'll let me take you to Cybertron for a little bit. Ok? But for now I want you to stay with the Dinobots okay?"
Frost looked over at the five Dinobots with an unamused expression. Sludge snatched Slag's energon and carefully sat it on the horns on his back, which were also Slag's face when he transformed. Frost looked back with a frown, "Can't I come with you Sire?"
"No Frost, this is going to be adult talk." Prowl said with a smile. "I'll come get you once I'm done, okay?"
The white and ice blue Praxian nodded. "Okay Sire."
She dragged her peds across the floor as she went to the Dinobots. "Hi guys. Whatcha doing?"
"Me, Grimlock and other Dinobots are playing. What is tiny Autobot doing?" Grimlock transformed into his Dino form.
"Sire went to go talk to Optimus Prime, and he told me to stay with you guys." Frost said as flickered her wings. "Do any of you know any games?"
"Us, Dinobots no play. Dinobots only fight." Slag sneered angrily as he tried to get his energon.
Frost giggled behind a servo, "Do you need help Slag?" The hot headed Dinobot nodded, Frost climbed up Slag's back and grabbed the cube off of his back. She handed it to him before jumping off his shoulder, stumbling a little. "There you go."
"Me, Slag thanks runt." Slag grumbled and glared at Sludge and Snarl laughing away from the group. "Dinobot Sludge and Snarl, going to pay."
"Me, Grimlock not think that is a good idea." Grimlock placed himself between the two jokers and the angry one.
Frost felt her wings slowly moved downwards. She backed away and decided to go find someone a little safer to hang out with. She looked around the base, coming across the patrol charts that her Sire made. "Everyone is too busy to play with me." Frost frowned and continued until she made it to the entrance of the base. "I can't go outside by myself. Maybe I could if Vector Prime was here."
Ever since Vector Prime's last visit he hasn't appeared in any of her recharges or at all. Frost thought that his absence meant he was attempting to come visit her in person, so on some night Frost would have Telatraan I show her the sky. She would even ask her Sire if knew when the Prime would be here, of course he never gave her a clear answer. So until his next visit in her memories or during the day the little Praxian would look up at the sun and have a one sided conversation, hoping he was listening.
Frost found a slab of rock and climbed on top of it, and pulled the two datapads that Jazz had given her. She looked at her empty datapad trying to decide what to type to her uncle. "Hmm, two is c. No, two is f."
"I like to play games and learn new things. Could we play some more spy simulator games?" Frost looked at the key code a few times before saving the datapad and placing them in her subspace. "But how do I put it in Uncle Jazz's quarters?"
Frost shrugged with indifference. She was completely unaware of the two Cassetticons hiding in the distance. She skipped her way through the back of the ARK until she came to a stop in front of Jazz and Blasters quarter door. Frost stood on the tips of her peds to get a better glimpse of the number pad. "Hm, what's Uncle Jazz's code?"
She pressed the first four numbers, but that was incorrect. After five more failed attempts she got locked out for thirty seconds. Frost groaned sadly and sat in front of the door pouting. "Now what?"
"Did ya try 6-8-7-4-2?" A voice said with some an accent behind it. Frost looked up and watched Jazz sit down beside her; he smiled at her.
Frost looked up with a guilty smile before standing up and putting in the code. The light flashed green and the door slid open. "Thanks, I uh was trying to put this in your room and surprise you."
She pulled out her data pad that was meant for Jazz, and handed it to him. Jazz continued to smile as he took it. He turned it on and looked over it. The visored mech half chuckled when he easily decoded the small paragraph. "Of course we can lil spark. Guess dis means it's my turn. Ah'll drop it off later tonight."
"Okay." Frost nodded with a smile. "Can we do the simulators now?"
Jazz shrugged as he stood up, and helped Frost stand up. "Sure. What kind of uncle would Ah be if Ah disappointed my lil Frost?"
"Ha ha, you're funny Uncle Jazz." Frost laughed as Jazz took both her servos and gently swung her up into the air and did a few small spins. "Wahoo! This is fun!"
Jazz laughed with her before stopping and setting her on the ground. Frost stumbled around, trying to balance herself, but in the end she fell on her aft. "Ya okay?" She nodded with a dizzy look on her face. They both laughed until Frost could see straight. Jazz took hold of her servo and they made their way to the simulation room. "Remember what Ah said bout dah simulator?"
Frost nodded as she walked in the middle of dark room. The only light was from the Holo computer and the giant platform where Frost stood. "Mhm, it's not real."
"Good girl. Ya can put the visors on now, put yer servos on the controls." Jazz ordered and Frost lifted her servos on two poles with the similar white glow as the platform. "Dah simulation will be simple. Find all ten Autobot insignias before dah time runs out. Ya have twenty earth minutes. Ready?"
Frost took a deep intake and nodded. "Yeah."
"Simulator starts in five… four… three… two… one." Jazz's voice disappeared as soon as the blue light flickered across the visors. Frost looked around the room, using the poles to move and grab things.
Jazz watched her on the monitor, he remembered the first time he used a simulator. It was when he joined the academy, and if you could be the record time you got to remain in the academy. Jazz was put in a squad of femmes and mechs that thought it was a joke, so he took it as a joke too. Until half his team was sent home for failing, and that was when the mech took the simulator as a life or death situation. It was his turn, and everyone diode the think he'd get the required score to proceed, until Jazz proved them wrong. Not only did he pass, he set a new record with his optics offline. Jazz rose through the ranks in the Special Forces and led his own group, which they all joined the Autobots.
"Jazz, have you seen-" Prowl walked in the room and nearly exploded when he saw Frost walking through an empty warehouse on Cybertron, well a simulated version. "Explain. Frost. Simulator. Now." Prowl whispered with agitation, his wings stood straight out.
"She's doin good isn't she? Her scores have improved since last time." Jazz pulled up, on another screen, of all her scores. Each improving by ten nanoseconds. "Don't worry Prowler, Frost is just gettin insignias."
"Jazz, I specifically told you I didn't want Frost to use your simulator!" Prowl's whispers got louder.
"Frost, ya got five minutes!" Jazz ignored his friend's rant, and turned to face him. "Prowler, Frost loves it. It gives her somethin tah do besides those pads."
Frost looked straight up, on the screen was a tall mountain and on the side of the steep side was the last insignia. She looked around for anything that she could use to climb up. The youngling grabbed a cable and a hook, tying the two together. Prowl watched how quickly she came up with a solution, and was now attaching the cable to a crane that was near her. She attached the cable to the crane.
"Why wasn't she with the Dinobots?" Prowl crossed his arms as they continued to watch Frost. She was trying to figure out the controls for the crane.
"It's not tall enough." Frost exclaimed loudly as her wings fell.
"Use yer environment Frost. Remember, everythin has a solution." Jazz explained calmly to her. Jazz then answered Prowl's question, "Ah don't know. She was sittin outside my room."
Frost found the lever that extended the arm of the crane, she quickly pushed upwards until the crane lifted up and out just enough for her to get it. She climbed out the cab of the crane and climbed up to the top of it. Slowly Frost jumped across to the arm and climbed up the arm. Prowl was worried that she'd fall, but he knew that she would physically get hurt. He watched her reach the end of the arm, and touched the red insignia.
The screen and visors flashed green, indicating that she completed the simulation. Prowl gawked at the time she got; '00:05:15'. Frost pulled her servos away from the podiums and removed the visors. "Did you see? Did you see, I beat my score!" Frost shouted excitedly and ran up to Prowl and Jazz. "Did you see Sire? I did just like Uncle Jazz told me to, and I beat my score!"
"Yes, yes I did see sweetspark. But you knew I didn't want you to use the simulator." Prowl used his disappointed tone, and Frost bowed her helm sadly. "What if Jazz or someone else wasn't here and you got hurt? Or you accidently did a simulation that scared you?"
Frost's wings pressed against her back, and she refused to look up. "I'm sorry Sire. But Uncle Jazz only let's me use it if he's with me."
"And Uncle Jazz knew that I didn't want you to us it. I want you to go get your energon and straight to our quarters. I need to have a stern talk with Jazz." Prowl pointed to the door and then put a firm servo on Jazz's chest. "Don't even think about sneaking out Jazz."
Frost looked up with a frown, Jazz looked down at her and nodded. "It's okay Lil sparkling, Ah'll be okay."
She nodded and slowly walked out, the doors slammed shut. Frost heard her Sire shouting and saying a few naughty words in Praxian Cybertonian. "I didn't mean to make you angry." Frost whimpered and cried as she ran straight to their quarters. She climbed on the berth and cried in the blankets.
I'm working on a few more fanfics. At the end of Prowl's daughter I'll have a poll to see which one you all want to read first, but of course I'll post all of them so don't worry :)
