ALRIGHT! im back peeps! supper pumped about it too, have lots of stuff to catch up with! hope you all haven't felt too abandoned, and im super sorry for the long wait but that you all for staying faithful! XD
now i have to warn you, after my long break from this story my writing style has changed. this story is gonna slow down, heaps, so dont be too shocked about that. i might later on go back in redo the first 27 chapters but thats only if i have time. updates will be slow but hopefully they will be at least once every 1 or 2 weeks.
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I squealed with laughter as I flew above my brother, his own excited twittering being caught by the wind as we circled around the base. This was Chargas' second flight and I couldn't be more proud of my younger trine mate. Only a month after we were brought back to the base and we were acting just like two over energized sparklings. Granted, that is what we are, technically in my case, and it just felt so right.
My attention napped back to Charga as he suddenly dropped down, losing his control of his thrusters. I caught him easily, holding him out below me as I continued to fly, letting him get his thrusters back before I released him. I twittered anxiously, but happy that he was so excited. It was almost perfect, being in the sky with my brother, my Ama and Aita close by on the ground. Almost. Part of my mind was lost in the thought of my final trine mate, but I never focussed on that fro too long.
I chirruped at Charga, signalling him to the ground. Sam and Mikaela were coming to the base today and the human part of mind was craving the company of other teenagers. From what I remember from the last time they came to base they should have started there last year of high school last week, and I was excited to know how they were going. I kind of missed school, you never realise how much school meant to you until you couldn't go anymore. I wonder if I could convince Ama into letting me go. I knew Aita would let me, I was is 'Sweetspark' after all. And then there was the problem of Optimus so me being able to go to school we even more unlikely.
We landed in a rush, our excitement from our flight cycling through our bond. I brushed past my brother, his head now reaching my hips, glancing back at him with gleaming optics. The chase was on. We ran down the air strip towards the base, my brother occasionally using his thrusters to keep up. The noon sun glinted of our new armour as we closed in on the base.
As we got closer I noticed a group of soldiers being led by Epps around the front of the base. They must be the new recruits that I heard about from Ama. With a thought to Charga across our bond we shifted towards the unsuspecting humans, wild grins on our faces. When we were only a few meters away Charga zoomed over my head and into his favourite human. All the new soldiers jumped, having not yet been introduced to the autobots yet, and I quickly joined my brother in crowding Epps, crouching next to him and cuddling him in my arms.
We were left as a purring, nuzzling pile of metal and one slightly shocked human.
"Epps, Epps, Epps! What are you doing? Who are they? Can I help? Will you play with me?" I chittered at Charga's questions, having some of my own to barrage the soldier with.
"Are they here yet? When will they get here? Do you know where they are?" I stared wide opticed down at the human I was cuddling like a soft toy, my dread waving happily behind me.
Epps wormed his way out of my grasp but Charga had managed to hand on the mans arm and I doubted highly that he would let go any time soon. As I stood to my full height I gaze was drawn to the group of newbies. One of the soldiers, a large man with blond hair and kind blue eyes, had stepped forward, an awed and nervous look on his face
"Uh, sir? Is everything alright?" Epps just chuckled at the soldier.
"No worries De'Marco, just a couple kids trying to find some trouble." Epps chuckled as mutters of 'Kids?' cycled through the group. Epps cast me a playful reproachful gaze and I whirred an apology.
"Men!" the soldiers were instantly at attention, thought there gazes were now flickering to Jazz, who was moving towards our little group from the base. I sent him a brief buzz of happiness but otherwise kept my attention on Epps.
"I would like you to all meet your first cybertronians. These are our resident troublemakers Careen," he gestured to me, "and her younger brother Charga." pointing to my brother. " you are to nothing but nice to them, or their parents might just use you as target practice!" Epps ended with a cheery smile, Charga waving from his side. I waved also, and smiled widely at the blond soldier who had stepped forward.
"Slag right I will!" came the cheery voice of Jazz as he stepped up behind us. Some of the soldiers stepped back slightly at Jazz's size but apart from that merely looked slightly nervous at being in the presence of such a large being.
"This bug lug here is Jazz, Primes second in command. He is going to be help me show you 'round the base." Epps then turned to Jazz. "hey, you don't happen to know where Bee and the Squirts are do ya? I have it on good authority that Careen might be looking for them." I squeaked at that and ducked my head, dread curling in embarrassment.
"hmmm, I don't know, but I did hear some particularly loud music coming from the rec room on my way here. But I cant say for sure." Jazz said with a smirk, visor glowing.
Before he knew what hit him I latched onto his neck, a stream of 'thankyouthankyouthankyou' pouring from me. Before my Aita could react I was on the ground and skating into the base at top speed. If one of the older bots scolded me later for going so fast and causing damage then I would tell them that it was an emergency. And it was! Sam and Mikaela were here and who knew how long they were staying.
I chirred loudly as I rounded a corner that led to the rec room. I kept chirring as I closed in, and as I burst through the large door, making the three occupants look up, I zoomed straight to Mikaela, the closest of the two humans and did to her the same that I did to Epps. I purred and nuzzled her hair as Mikaela laughed in shock and Sam fell over with his own laughter.
"Hey Careen! How have you been sweetie?" I twittered happily at the young woman and let her step away before quickly latching onto Sam, enjoying his indignant shout as I curled myself around him and held him like a big teddy bear.
"Great! I'm all better now and Ama just got back from a mission and Aita finally let me leave his sight! I taught Charga how to fly and he is really good and he has gotten bigger! Ratched had to make him a new frame and he is gonna need another one again, I can tell, he is gonna be really tall when he gets older. And-"
"Woah there 'Ri! No need to spit it all out right now, we have time." Sam chuckled from his spot held in my servos as we sat on the floor. My face lit up and I turned to Bee for confirmation. At his nod I burst into excited twitters and in a flurry of twisting metal I was in my human form, plait waving in a happy flurry behind me and pupils glowing.
"Really?" Sam just smiled and ruffled my hair and I jumped to my feet in excitement and pumped my arms into the air.
It was Mikaela who stepped forward to calm me down.
"its just for the weekend. We have to go to school on Monday." at the mention of school I peered up at her, the brown hair girl was taller then me when I was in human mode. My human mode was based around a 5 foot 16 year old after all.
"School?" I didn't ask because I didn't know what school was, I asked because I wanted to know what their school was like. I miss school, and my friends. Sam and Mikaela obviously thought it was because I didn't' know what school was.
"Why don't you just look it up on the internet?" My glowing eyes brightened in embarrassment and I reached around to pull my hair into my hands.
"I uh, well you see i… icantconnecttotheinternet!" the words left my mouth in a rush and a blush spread across my cheeks, that had the slightest blue tint the red. And again it wasn't even that I didn't know what school was! Now I had to tell them that. It was super embarrassing.
The two teens looked at each other as Bumblebee chuckled and swiped a finder down my back in comfort. Mikaela stepped forward and wrapped an arm around my shoulder, smiling down at me like I was a small child.
"well why didn't you say so? Come on, we'll tell you about Tranquillity High yeah?" I just smiled abashedly at the two and let them pull me to sit on Bee's legs.
The four of us spent the next few hours talking about their life at school and then just their lives in general. It made me want to see it all the more.
