AN: Review or PM me any ideas you might have. No guarantees I'll do it, but if I like it enough then I probably will! Can include pairings. (School time again, more infrequent updates, and didn't check for mistakes, so might be a few more than usual!)
Plot: Bumblebee can't quite manage to get clothes on his holoform, needing an upgrade. Turns out he isn't the only one.
Upgrade
"So…" Mikaela tapped a manicured fingernail to her chin in thought of what to say, "That went as well as I would have expected."
Sam groaned loudly, head thunking onto the wooden picnic bench that he and his girlfriend were currently sitting at. Mikaela hid a grin, rubbing his back in gentle, soothing, circular motions. She fanned herself a bit, glancing up at the still rising sun and deciding that it was only going to get hotter, unfortunately. She really hoped Bumblebee would hurry up, or Sam would come around enough so that they could go find some shade.
"It's really not that bad," Mikaela cooed, hand slipping off Sam's back when he sat up suddenly and glared at her.
"Oh, yes, it's not that bad." Sam retorted mockingly, "Because having Bee meet Miles was a fucking wonderful idea."
Mikaela couldn't help it, she snickered. "Alien penis."
"You know what? I hate you. My life sucks. I'm going to go commit Sudoku."
"That's seppuku, Sam. And keep talking like that and I'll call Ratchet and tell him you're sick."
"You wouldn't!"
"I would."
"He's worse than Bumblebee!"
"Which is hard to believe, considering…" Mikaela trailed off at Sam's expression, deciding to go for a somewhat safer topic. "I never knew Miles could run that fast."
"I didn't either. Guess he turns into the flash when a strange naked man starts running after him, demanding to take care of his booboos."
Mikaela giggled again, trying desperately to not break down in full blown laughter. Again. It really had been rather unfortunate; Miles just hadn't quite taken to Bumblebee's holoform…
All of the Autobots, and the Decepticons, had a holoform, hologram, or what some had taken to calling as AI's, short for Artificial Intelligences. Hologram was the most simplistic, just the projection of a human to get stuff down. Both holoforms and AI's, the same thing term wise, and were a lot more real. It not only allowed the user of it to experience sensations as a human, but to feel real and human to other humans, even able to move stuff in the world around it.
Bumblebee had made his holoform a male, and an extremely realistic, as Sam and Mikaela quickly found out his first use of it. For some reason Bumblebee could make the holoform body itself perfectly, but never managed to get the hang of clothes, though if it were a hologram it would appear clothed. Ratchet explained that the mech needed an upgrade to do an additional layer on top of the layers he already had, but had never gotten around to upgrading him. It didn't trouble them much, anymore. Sam didn't mind seeing man bits, and Mikaela only needed to look above waist height to be comfortable.
After about a month of learning everything that could hurt humans and all the dangers of the world around them that could get to them through the smallest cut, Bumblebee had started breaking down into what Sam took to calling as his drastic mother hen mode.
The first time it had happened was when Sam had managed to dislocate his shoulder swinging down from a tree, and Bumblebee had flipped. In the face of the normally calm and rational Autobot freaking out Sam had forgotten all his pain, instead patting the Autobot on the face with his good arm and telling him it was okay. The second time had been something Bumblebee himself could manage, though where exactly the mech had gotten the first aid kit neither Sam nor Mikaela was quite sure, but Mikaela's injured thumb had promptly been bandaged with a Hello Kitty Band-Aid.
Sam, after three months of trying to keep the fact that his car was sentient, with minimal help from Bumblebee, a secret from his best friend, had decided enough was enough and that they would tell Miles. Bumblebee had agreed readily, more than happy to finally 'meet' Miles. So they planned it out in a relatively secluded picnic area along a rarely traveled upon hiking trail, where Bumblebee could transform and show Miles the truth. Though Miles had claimed it sounded slightly shady and sounded like the two were planning on killing him, he had agreed too. The blonde had known something big had happened, but out of respect, and firsthand experience with Sam's own brand of breakdowns, he had never asked for an explanation.
They had met Miles already out there, and as Miles walked towards them the blonde had tripped, somehow more graceful in trees than on ground, slamming his head off the picnic table. Sam had gaped, and worry for his friend had made him forget about mother hen Bumblebee, because really, Bumblebee only acted that way towards Sam and Mikaela, his charges, not Epps when he had fractured his wrist trying to arm wrestle Ironhide's holoform. Bumblebee had just neglected to mention that as Miles was underage and so similar to Sam, his protocols had immediately claimed the teen as a charge as well, one reason he was so eager to 'meet' him.
Bumblebee had brought out his holoform immediately, and things had gone downhill from there, as he had beaten Sam to getting out of his bipedal mode and going to the teen, even though Sam and Mikaela had already been out of the mech. Miles had been a lot less concerned with his injury when he had spotted the naked guy apparently coming straight for him. Fortunately for them, Bumblebee had it so whenever he went to his holoform he went into a mild recharge in his alt mode, or bipedal mode, so he could focus completely on the simulation, because the only thing that could make the situation worse was Bumblebee picking that moment to transform and go after the teen.
Unfortunately Miles had reacted as most normal humans would in response to seeing a naked stranger run towards you saying something about taking care of your wounds, he'd screamed something along the lines of 'naked', 'penis', 'dear God', and gotten the hell out of dodge. Bumblebee had worriedly given chase, and Mikaela and Sam had yet to see or hear from the two. It was slightly amazing that, for a supposedly advanced race, how stupid Bumblebee could be sometimes.
An hour later and things had calmed down slightly. Sam had eventually had enough and yelled at Bumblebee's bipedal mode, knowing the mech could hear him. This led to Miles 'losing' the stranger, and Bumblebee, Mikaela, and Sam, after both teens had explained to Bumblebee his mistake; agreeing that Miles could wait a bit longer to find out about him.
"Are you sure you're okay, buddy?" Sam asked for the seventh time, glancing over at an unusually still Miles. Mikaela was in the front seat, pretending to drive. "That must have been pretty startling. I didn't even see where he came from. I would have been scared."
"Nah, it's okay. I mean, yeah, it was scary, but that's not the first time it happened, so..." Miles trailed off and shrugged, putting on a grin.
Mikaela glanced in the rearview mirror, "Not the first time? You get chased by naked people often?"
"Just once before…" Miles looked oddly resigned to the fact that naked people seemed to be popping up around him now, "I was taking Mason for a walk and he peed on this shit piece police car. The hobo living in it came out and chased me. It was probably a fake, though. Had To Punish and Enslave engraved on the side."
Sam choked, and Mikaela had to bite her lip to keep from laughing, Bumblebee's engine giving a surprised rev. Apparently the Scout wasn't the only one needing an upgrade.
