Just me playing around with Wildfire's sense of self.

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Wildfire tried not to return the stares she was getting from all the bots in the Ark. There were so many mechs jam packed in the makeshift base that she had yet to meet them all, and right now they were all gawking at her. The Mustang had integrated herself a few weeks ago and so far humans where by leaps and bounds easier to understand. As the fembot strode into the Ark from her patrol shift everyone she passed did little to hide their inertest. Wildfire's first instinct was to run and hide. Oh how she longed to lock herself away in her little makeshift room away from all those optics. She had never in her life been around so many of her own kind. It was unnerving. She craved solitude, but that was not to be as she was already under an intense amount of scrutiny. Right now the best thing for her to do was blend in and not draw suspicion onto herself.

"Are they all looking at you? Or me?"

Wildfire slightly turned her head to look at the human standing on her shoulder with a hand holding onto the red helm. Jess quickly snatched the red helmet with her other hand to balance herself. Apparently she was unused riding on someone else's shoulder.

"I have absolutely no idea what they are looking at." Wildfire said to her considerably smaller friend.

"Am I not allowed to be here or something then?" The human said as another passing transformer eyed the pair. "They keep looking us."

"There's no rule about human's not being welcome here." Wildfire assured. "And it's not like we're doing anything wrong."

The Mustang couldn't help but feel that it was her the others were staring at, even considering humans in the Ark was a rarity. No. Those blue, and sometimes gold, optics always seem to settle on her for too long. Maybe that was her overactive paranoia kicking in. He brother had told her many a time that she was overly paranoid, and maybe this was one of those times he was right. Perhaps they weren't staring her down because of some dark mistrust she created in her mind. Maybe it was the novelty of being the "new bot in town." Or maybe it really was the fact that she had a human riding around on her shoulder. In the short amount of time she had spent on Earth she had found that the Autobots had very few physical interactions with humans. They might pick a human up from time to time and then quickly set them down but that was about the extent of it. It was like they'd never interacted with organic life forms before. Wildfire felt that was the most logical explanation.

"Well if their looking at you let's really give them something to look at."

The large transformer held her hand up to the human who carefully stepped into her palm. Gently Wildfire deposited her friend on top of her head to the bewilderment of all the mechs present. Jess quickly, and happily, squeezed her way in-between Wildfire's helmet adornments and giggled at the mouths that where now hanging open.

"Looks like it WAS you after all." Wildfire teased.

The human and Cybertronion shared a privet laugh. The thought that she was and not a mech never even crossed Wildfire's mind.