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Chapter 26

True to his word, Jazz had downloaded and gone over the Romance for Dummies volume he found in the net. He even went as far as to playback in a loop during while he was recharging. He figured that since Starlight had spent so much time on this organic planet and had grown attached to it, that perhaps having Sentinel use a few organic courting moves should show what the Prime was willing to do for her favor. A good idea in theory, but then again most theories are proven false in the first few attempts.

"Okay, boss, first thing we are gonna do fer ya is school you in how ta greet a femme the right way."

"Right way." The blue Prime nodded almost as if he was being given a very specific order from the Magnus. "Alright."

"Right now, since yer… 'rusty'… we're gonna try this." It hurt, but he managed to hold it in this time, and kept his face remotely straight.

"Now I'm gonna stand over there reading this pad." He held up the propfor the blue Prime to see. "You're gonna need to walk up and ask me out."

"Wha- Why do I have to ask you out?" Sentinel demanded instantly as his second was about to turn and walk.

"You're not." Jazz stated to the confused Prime as calmly as he could considering the look on the big chin bot's face. Seriously, that thing did nothing to quail that alarmed look. "You're asking Starlight."

"But you just said…"

"Pretend that I'm Starlight, alright." The white ninja said as he walked off a little ways and leaned against the wall to read. "Now just do yer thing and ask me out."

"Ahem. Starlight. Your examplinary performance has been highly admirable and congratulations are in order. Therefore, I insist that you join me in my cabin this lunar cycle for high grade."

"…Whoa…" For the love of him, Jazz simply could not believe that had actually happened. "First of all, bro… Don't. EVER. Ask a femme into yer room like that." Oh he was sure Ultra Magnus will be needing a replacement second in command soon enough. "She… Might take it the wrong way."

Although he said it genitally enough, his processor was screaming. 'And take yer head off in the process!' Oh he was sure they were going to need a medic nearby for this. "Try it again."

"Starlight. I want you to accompany me this lunar cycle."

'This is gonna be harder than I thought.' The white ninja had to shake his head a little at the statement. "Um… Good energy there SP but how'z about we try it again… without the steel rod? And try saying 'Excuse me'."

"Excuse you nothing!" The blue Prime hollered loudly at the sleek police car. "We're not done here!

Jazz had stared at his superior at that moment. "It's gonna be loooooooong morning."

It had taken almost the entire morning, but the white ninja had made the small miracle of getting the Prime to be somewhat courteous in his greeting. The cyber ninja had actually been able to get the pompous bot to say 'Please' in his last attempt. Grated the came after 'Excuse me, Starlight, you'll be joining me for energon this lunar cycle' but it was a start. It was now just a few steps away from being an actual question! Now came one of the tricky proportions of a date. Conversation.

5 Megacycles later

"Claws trying to tear into me, acidic slime dripping from their disgusting intakes, and all 214 of them hungry for chrome. But I didn't back down." The blue bot used his eating blade to imitate his lance as he imagined to joust. "I fought my way through that hideous horde and managed to cut a path back towards the ship with my team close behind me. Yeah, it was a vicious battle, but nothing I couldn't handle of coarse." The Prime puffed out his chest and rubbed his knuckles on his chest. "Being the second to the Magnus means being able to take command at a moment's notice and making difficult deci…" He had finally noticed the robot in front of him had resting his helm in his servo with an absolute board expression on his faceplate. "I'm talking too much aren't I?"

'Where in the nebula does he get this stuff?' Once it was obvious that he had been noticed, Jazz had smiled amusingly as he nodded his head slowly to his superior. "Heh, its nice to boast every once in a while, but remember it ain't just you here SP," Jazz straightened himself out in his seat and stretch as he explained his reasoning. "A gal likes to be included in a conversation. It shows that you're interested in how they think rather than how they look."

"How they think?" Sentinel gave the cyber ninja a look as if he had stated a most ridiculous question. "I already know how Starlight thinks."

'Oh for spark's sake, here we go.' At this Jazz sighed, sat up straighter in his seat, and crossed his servos in front of him. "Really now?"

"I told you before we even began, remember?" The blue Prime mimicked Jazz's posture with a frustrated air.

"True ya know a bit about her past from the few, and may I add, seriously crazy encounters ya had with her." The white, slick Elite Guard nodded in agreement with obvious unspoken statement. "But do ya know her favorite color?" There, that had stumped his superior for a click and had him thinking about it. "What her best subject was at boot camp the second time around?" He watched as those broad blue shoulders to lower a few notches.

"Do ya know what she likes ta do in her spare time?" By now Sentienl had his hands folded on his lap looking down. "Did ya even know what she did in the guard other than beat the frag out of ya from time to time?"

"Ah…"

"My point exactly." Once again, Jazz could only sigh at the poor dolt in front of him. The bot simply didn't have a clue. "SP this is a two way deal." The ninjabot held up two digits to emphasize the statement for the other guard. "If yer interested, really interested in this gal, ya got to commit."

"It's hopeless." The big chinned robot groaned loudly as he rested his head in his servo. "No matter what I do I just can't get it!" In his frustration he slammed both of his fists onto the makeshift table then hid his face in his servo. "I'm just too… ridged!"

Jazz watched the disgruntled bot in front of him for a time. Maybe he would benefit better if he 'saw' how it should be done. "Sentinel, let me show ya something."

The two bots had soon walked down the hallway that lead into the makeshift recreation area of the Earth Autobot base. As they approached the area they were soon bombarded with youthful laughter coming from their destination. Jazz had them stop just inside the entrance where they would interrupt what was going on. What they found were Starlight and the Jet-twins sitting on the floor around a short makeshift table Prowl had put together not that long ago to experiment with an Earth Asian-style tea ceremony he had learn about. If fact the large teapot and cups were set out on the table and Starlight was refreshing the hot oil in the Twins' cups just like Prowl had taught her.

"Ha-ha-ha! And then brother and me is flying up to be getting away!" Jetstorm chuckled as he took his cup to sip at his oil.

"Ha-ha! It was being first time I am to be finding out I is having turbo thrusters." Jetfire laughed along with his brother at the memory. "I was actually having to save brother for first time being!

"Ha-ha-heh! Oh-ho-ho, you two are riots! Sentinel must've been so mad!" Starlight laughed and poured her own cup last and as best she could so as not to spill anything. She loved hearing about the Jets' misadventures. "Oooo what else did you guys do when you were in training?"

Jetstorm shrugged a little, suddenly a little shy since that bright smile was facing them. "Oh, you is knowing same thing most other cadets be doing." The blue twin did his best to keep his wind turbines from activating as he took a calming drink.

Jetfire on the other hand, felt his temperature going up and thought it best to change the subject. "But please be telling us about you is in training, Starlight."

"Yes, please be telling." The blue flying jet encouraged their femme friend.

"We is knowing you is making good pranks for training in long time ago." The orange flyer wore what Star called his petro-puppy face he was unknowingly well known for when really wanted to know about something.

"Yeah, well I've been know to cause some pretty memorial scenes from time to time." She had a sly smile on her faceplate that promised a very juicytale to fallow. "There was this one time…"

"Why the slag are we watching this?" Sentinel grumbled as he watched the delightful looking conversation in the recreation area. "I already know those two clowns can get her to talk to them when they want."

"True." Jazz resisted the powerful urge to sigh heavily as his superior apparently missed how the youngsters included the silver femme in the conversation. "But do you how they got her attention in the first place?" It looked like his have to give the blue Prime another visual example.

"Huh?"

Instead of answering right away, the white elite guard led his Prime back towards the security counsel in the monitoring room. Once there, he activated and played back the events that had happen earlier in the day on the monitor. The video showed Starlight training alone in one of the upper rooms of the plant that had been converted into a sparring room the year before. She was going to town on a group of combat dummies while hitting specific targets on the bodies that represented certain sensory nerves on a metal frame. The gracefulness of maneuvers almost looked like an exotic dance. After a few minutes of watching, soon non-other than the Jettwins themselves had appeared on the screen.

Jetfire was the first to speak as the two stop a safe distance away from the sparring femme. "Excusing us, Starlight?"

"May you please being giving us one nano of timing?" Jetstorm, giving into the twin nature of things, finished his brother's sentence.

"Sure boys." "What's up?"

The blue sibling rubbed the back of his neck in a subtle nervous fashion at what he just witnessed. "Brother and me is being in wonder…"

"If you is liking to be joining for fun time?" The orange sibling as excitedly.

"Fun time?"

Jetfire nodded, nearly bouncing at the prospect of his friend agreeing to go with them. "Yes, Brother and me is hearing little organics on TV saying that there to be much big fun in big green organic clearing."

"You is having very bad hard time last few maga cycles, we am think you needing good time now." Jetstorm stated as his did a casual stroll to her left so that he could slip his servos around her in a light friendly embrace. Jetfire so copied his brother's move on her right and laid his head on her shoulder. "Also we is missing the 'hanging out' with you."

"Aw, you guys, that's so sweet…" Starlight soon returned the hug to the two that somehow became like younger sibling to her. "I'd love to."

Jazz stopped the recording there knowing that they trio had left on their little trip shortly after the encounter. "Cool yer cylinders there, SP. There ain't nothing going on between'em." The cyber ninja had to smirk a little at his commander's growling engine of envy. "Just some harmless
crushing is all. But ya did see what happened right?"

"They just walked up to her and asked." The Prime stated as he crossed his arms, frustrated with the fact that his two junior soldiers were even capable of getting a date.

"Naw, they just used some good manners and consideration." The white elite guard stated as he referred to how the Twins had courteously asked the femme. "And they were honest about their intentions." It was then that the cyber ninja had gotten a very crazy and risky idea. No amount of preparation was going to help Sentinel if he was just going to fritz about remembering what to do when he did eventually asked Starlight out. No, what his commander needed was to fess up. "Hey ya know what? Maybe ya'll should try that." With this in mind he turned to face the blue Prime, leaned against the consol and sent out a silent text. "Just go and tell Starry how ya feel."

"Tell her how I feel?" His cry was loud enough to echo down a hallway.

"Right, I should just walk right up to Starlight and tell how wonderful I think she is." Had Jazz lost his sanity? She would never believe it coming from him. "That I find her so appealing, and smart, and confident? Fearless and honest…" His fury died down as his processor brought up her image as he described her. "I suppose I should tell her that I can't help but admire the strength she has to just smile and live in the moment? Happy, orbital cycle after orbital cycle despite what she went through in her past." Oh how he wished he could somehow have the smile aimed in hisdirection sometimes. "I envy the very loyalty she has for the Autobot cause. I honestly don't think I could ever consider working, much less joining the Autobots if I had ever been treated the way she way." He had emphasized the statement by placing a servo over his own chassis as he thought about the poor little sparkling that the entire cosmos had pretty much forgot about. "Any other bot would have broken but she… She over came all the odds and has thrived… Even now after all this crazy slag she's still thriving." His voice took on a soft wanting tone now as he spoke. "She is without a doubt the most amazing and beautiful perfect bot I had ever had the privilege to meet." Sentinel sighed heavily now, suddenly depressed. "…Maybe too perfect for me…" He hung his head and shook it at his own ridiculous idea of actually courting Starlight The Magnus's niece of all bots and began to turn to walk away. "I mean look at me, I can't even ask her out on a daaAAAte!"

There she was. Just standing there right in front of him with her servos clasped over where her spark was. "Did… Did you really mean all that…?" Her optics were wide in wonder and there was a slight heated tint to her metal cheeks.

"St-Starlight!" He did a double take towards Jazz for help, only to find the elite guard watching with an evil grin on his faceplate. The Prime had just been set up. "I-I didn't know y-you…"

"Did you really mean what you said Sentinel?" Starlight asked one more time as she took a single cautious step towards the blue Prime.

Jazz had to chuckle at that question. "Shoo, ya know he did." If it was the last thing he did, the cyber ninja was going to etch this epic moment of Sentinel's life forever in his data banks.

"Quiet Jazz!" Sentinel managed to bark at his comrade. Oh, he was going to see to it he'd pay for this somehow. "Ah, ba, I…" Caught off guard, embarrassed, and quite possible one word away from joining the Well of All Sparks, he wanted to make up some kind of lie so that he could get out of there. It was her optics that made him say. "Y-yes…" Those round beautiful optics, no longer clouded with uneasiness or mistrust, looking at him as if a single wrong word would shatter them. "Yes I did…" Without really thinking he took a step himself and offered her a servo to take. Which she did. "Starlight… I know I wasn't exactly the nicest bot but… I'd like to start over, and maybe get to know you better… The way I should have." He held her one small servo in both of his pleadingly as he looking into those twilight blue optics of hers. "Please, would you join me for a drive this lunar cycle?"

For one long silent click the two merely looked at each other unaware of the eyewitness to this moment was watching in anticipation. "…I'd like that." Without another word and wearing twin smiles, the two turned towards the entrance and left with Sentinel having his arm around Starlight's shoulder and her servo still in his other servo.

"Sweet ever-loving Primus almighty…" Jazz gasped even after they had gone. It had happened right in front of him and he still couldn't believe it. "I think I just seen a miracle…" It had been a truly beautiful if not miraculous sight to behold. Then the cyber ninja paused as a realization suddenly dawned on him. "And I had a hand in it…" Yes he had actually helped to bring the two most unlikely sparks in the entire universe together for a date. He had just done the impossible. As he began to leave the room he stared down as his servos then threw them into the air as a pair of victory punches in the air. "I must use this power for good!"

"SHUT UP JAZZ!" Two voices from the hallway yelled at him and something told the white ninja bot that he should keep his processer shut. Jazz had the feeling that it could have been the kunais that had been throw at him and imbedded in the wall a few centimeters from his head..

Sorry for the long wait but I had to asked Dreamstoryweaver to write this chapter as I could not.. Weaver as I call her did such a wonderful job. To show how much you liked her chapter please drop her a message some time. Thanks and Peace out.