Good morning afternoon or night my friends and followers bringing out chapter 19 for you lot.

And now I answer all of the reviews since the last chapter.

Wika0304: Aha another chapter, and as to when they arrive, it may be a little while as in when the story is set is quite a few episode before Smokescreen drops in.

Solid Dog: Okay I've told you before dude to quit it with the multiple pages long spam reviews that are honestly like demands rather than anything constructive and it's starting to annoy me. Before I was actually contemplating adding Lockdown but after the repeated things like that it's become annoying to even think about. If you don't start leaving actual reviews about the story or smaller suggestions not something that would require writing a whole new story I'm just gonna delete them.

To anyone who read my response to Solid Dog, I am alright with reviews I always like it when people review the story so don't be afraid to, but spamming the review section with demands is very annoying.

Victorvonboom: Was actually debating whether I should continue with the story or make more reunion chapters. So this chapter will have some more reunions and I think I'll make a poll to see if you guys want to see more.

Liam: thanks for the praise means a lot so much so that I've made a new chapter tada.

Starpotter: Ahh thanks I think when I looked it up it came up with the Ace combat variant, which made me think it was a fictional aircraft, which I'm trying to avoid using. And after this chapter I'm putting up a poll about whether I should do more reunions, which having ideas for may be a problem cause I don't want to make it repetitive. And well someone had to teach Jameson why Ratchet is to be feared.

Valorus: Glad you got a laugh out of… whatever. And I'm guessing your user name is a coincidence? Lol

d8rkforcen1ght7: Glad to see my story can elicit the feels.

Kristinal: sometimes jokes for me it's a swing and a miss or I strike absolute gold.

Lucario: Yeah it was part of the reason I added the funny bit at the end, I couldn't figure out what to add that would make sense.

Draegoon: Heh being tall is fun and all until you slam your head into something about twenty times a day. And yeah, I want to see something get blown up more than anything, but the story must progress and I can't throw essentially minimally trained children at millennia old warriors. And hey only worry about being crazy if you're talking to yourself and you get a response, although now that I say that I wonder about myself.

Shakespear RZA: Thank you for the suggestion's I'll be sure to keep them noted.

So yeah reviews are responded to and if you read any of them you'll know that I've made a poll as of this chapter going up, it's about me doing more reunion chapters.

Also anyone have ideas for future chapters I'll be sure to hear them out. Also should point out that I know very little about other cultures so if I make some mistakes relating to Raf and Miko's families I'm sorry about that, just point it out and I'll try and fix it.

Now onto the actual chapter now.

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"No thinking—that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!"

-Sir Thomas Sean Connery

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Chapter 19

Emotional Reunions

"Ugh, why couldn't we have just ground bridged them here?" Miko groaned as she draped herself over a crate bored as they waited. June chuckled as she watched the active teen reduced to boredom under order from Ratchet after she wouldn't stop bugging him.

"Because while our presence on your planet is known by many nations leaders, your government felt it safer for Agent Fowler and Lt. Colonel Lennox to escort your parents here as they are foreign nationals." Optimus explained not fazed by the former human's immature act of mimicking the prime.

Without looking Ratchet Gibbs slapped the femme, eliciting a yelp and earning him a glare. "Additionally you know that unless you are used to ground bridging, the chance of sickness is quite high."

Miko groaned at the reminder of her first time bridging, and the bones vibrating feeling that lasted the rest of the day. "Okay yeah that makes sense."

"Don't worry Miko, their being flown to the same military base your host parents are being cared for at and all of them will be here soon." June spoke up trying to ease the younger femme.

"Yeah, but could they just be a little faster, all this waiting and I'll end up like Ratchet in record time." The jab caused Ratchet to sputter in indignation and Miko could see him tempted to reach for his subspace.

"Pit spawned femme; I swear I don't know whose worse you or the twins." Ratchet grumbled just loud enough for Miko and June to catch.

"Hold on, twins? Who's that?" Miko questioned, and the question got Ratchet to ignore Miko even as she poked and prodded the medic to tell her.

Her answer never came from Ratchet though as Optimus felt is was alright to answer Miko's question. "The Twins, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are some of the best front lining soldiers in the Autobot cause, and were masters at taking out enemy air forces. However they were also masters at pranking everyone no matter their rank. One of their favorite targets happened to be Ratchet."

"What happened to them?" Miko asked entranced at the thought of meeting these mechs.

"We are not sure; they were stationed aboard the Ark, along with a large amount of the remaining Autobot forces. With which we have long since lost communication with." Optimus responded with a reserved tone that showed his worry over his comrades.

"Well knowing you guys I'm sure their fine." June smiled at the appreciative look Optimus gave her, "Beside at least they don't have to worry about Megatron like you guys do."

Ratchet scoffed hearing her, "Yes, but Megatron has plenty of perfectly capable and psychopathic soldiers under his command many of whom are not here." Miko seemed to perk up again at the mention of other cybertronians, despite them being cons.

"Hatcheeeet, come on you can't just bring that up and not go into details." And once again Miko started pestering the medic again, as he silently cursed her thrill seeking and annoying curiosity. However the proximity alarm blared and June laughed as she heard Ratchet murmur 'Thank Primus'.

Miko however shot up and started bouncing around; so far she seemed the least nervous about the prospect of seeing her family again. It didn't stop her from freezing up however when they heard the elevator start on down. It took no time at all for the doors to open to reveal the elevator filled with six people. Lennox and Fowler were stood front while Miko's parents followed closely behind while Miko's host family followed them the special agent speaking with all of them however the bots could only hear the tail end of the conversation.

"…Mr. and Mrs. Nakadai and Mr. and Mrs. Samson, allow me to introduce you to a the leader of the Autobots Optimus Prime." Fowler stepped aside allowing the four new people in the base a clear view of the large mech, Optimus kneeled down to put himself on a more equal footing with the new arrivals.

"Hello, I hope all of you are doing well in these times?" Mrs. Nakadai approached the railing with no little amount of trepidation, but her spouse seemed on the verge on having a major nerd out, as he stared at everything in awe and wonder. To the bots it was obvious were her spirit must have come from. Her father had a rounder face with sharp eyes and wore thin rectangular glasses with messy black hair. Her mother had a thin face and she was taller than her husband, and compared to him she looked much more serious, it honestly baffled June the difference between her and her daughter.

Miko's host family seemed shell shocked, torn between terror and intrigue. Mr. Samson seemed the most kept together between the four of them so he answered the Prime. "Er yeah we've been holding together as much as we can since were still not allowed back into town." Mr. Samson sighed as he stepped forward and leaned against the railing.

"It's been… weird, without Miko running around, been expecting to see her running in way after she said she'd be back home, covered in dirt and scrapes with a smile on her face." Mr. Samson smiled at a particular memory of the girl doing just that, getting a very vocal reaction out of his wife. "But, we couldn't even do what we were supposed to do and make sure she was alright."

This seemed to snap Mr. Nakadai out of his awe and his expression turned to sorrow. "Andrew, you were not at fault for what happened, you heard what Mr. Fowler said. These Decepticons targeted her and if you tried to have helped they would have killed you" Mr. Nakadai rested his hand on Mr. Samson's shoulder and the man took it and the words great fully.

June glanced back at Miko only to see her frozen while facing those who cared for her. June put a servo on her shoulder, to try and ground her, getting her to focus on her. Miko jumped having not noticed June getting closer to her, but gave June a confused look when she looked to the nurse.

"You just looked a little lost. We could leave if you want and come back in a little but when Optimus is done if you'd like?" Miko was about to agree, she wasn't sure what she could or should say to them. She spent all her time being impatient about seeing them again that she never thought about it.

Miko started following June down the corridor when an angry outburst caught her attention, it wasn't aimed at her and it wasn't her parents. "Isao is right Andrew it's not our fault, it's theirs, they brought this war here and then they thought to bring children into it."

Mrs. Samson was seething, and it shocked everyone that she would speak so boldly surrounded by metal titans. She was red in the face and was mere seconds away from starting to tear into the Autobot leader verbally, if she wasn't stopped by someone shouting "Stop it!"

The Humans had only been focused on the leader that they didn't think to watch the other bot in the room, the medic at the terminal was just ignoring them, while the one femme standing next to the black and pink femme stared at her in surprise.

The black and pink femme though was angry though, her amber colored optics flaring as they stared at Mrs. Samson. "None of this was supposed to happen, and no one in this room is to blame, if you want to blame someone, blame the Decepticon's they're the ones that started this whole mess and attacked Jasper."

Mrs. Samson scoffed as she turned her back on the femme, "Of course you'd say that, blindly have to defend your leader don't you." She accused as se glared at her over her shoulder, "You robots are the reason why Miko was dragged into this war to begin with."

Miko was at a breaking point as she argued with her host parent, even if she didn't know who she was really talking to the words still stung a little. "I wasn't ever dragged into anything, and I'm not blindly defending him, if it wasn't for Optimus we'd all be dead ten times over."

Mr. Samson quickly grabbed his wife and whispered something in her ear trying to get her to calm down. He quietly led her over to the human area and sat her down on the couch trying to stop her from exploding at the Autobots again.

Mr. Nakadai stepped forward and quickly apologized for her as he watched them. "She has been taking this the hardest out of all of us, when Miko wasn't terrorizing them she actually enjoyed our daughters company."

"Yes, Miko can be quite a hand full at time." Optimus said and Ratchet scoffed at the understatement.

Through the entire ordeal, Mrs. Nakadai had yet to say a single word; she quietly observed the situation and everyone around. But the one person she couldn't keep her eyes off of was the black and pink femme who held such a resemblance to her daughter. Her face looked so similar, and her paint job was Miko's favorite colors and her helm held a similarity to the way Miko had her hair while she lived in the states.

"What is your name?" it surprised Miko that her mother wasn't speaking to any of the other bots but asked her the question directly.

"Uh M-"She almost said Miko but managed to catch herself, she didn't want them to know yet, not until Optimus explained everything. "My name is Soundshock."

Her mom's eyes squinted slightly, but she nodded in acceptance of the name. Miko gulped though regardless, she never was able to lie to her mom, everyone else? Sure, easy can do, except for maybe Optimus. But her mother was able to drag anything from anyone no matter who you were. 'Huh maybe we could sic her on screamer.' Miko thought as she watched her parents interact with Optimus, although her mother oddly enough didn't seem as invested in the conversation and explanation as her father.

"What do you do here?" Miko looked down at her mother in surprise as she asked another question, but figuring it wouldn't hurt she answered.

"I either train down in the training rooms or I hang out with my Friends Bulkhead and Wheeljack, or sometimes Valorous and Codebreaker." Miko replied remembering to use Jack and Raf's Cybertronian names, she had spoken about her friends to her parents and she was certain she would remember the names.

"Are you friends with Miko?" this question brought Miko up short as to how she should answer; it was certainly an odd question to skirt around.

"Uh yeah, we know each other alright," Mrs. Nakadai gave Miko a weird look at how she phrased her response but let it go. They went on like this for a while Miko's mom asking questions to her daughter that she didn't know was her daughter. Optimus was still talking with her father and host parents who finally calmed down.

June took to observing the group sat atop one of the crate in the room away from everyone. Ratchet was still ignoring everyone else and trying to get work done at his terminal.

As they were talking Mrs. Nakadai jumped as she felt something brush her leg and looked down to see a fluffy black and grey cat looking up at her. "You have a cat wandering around here?"

Miko blinked at the small animal, it was one of the few times she'd seen the illusive feline, it was either sat on top of Jameson's helm, next to him at the terminal, or just hiding. "Uh yeah, she doesn't really come out much this may be the fifth time I've seen her."

Mrs. Nakadai kneeled down and stroked the cats back who gladly accepted the attention. "Does she have a name?" and Miko thought back to the times she had asked about it.

"Yeah, lucky, I think which is kinda fitting for her actually." Miko kneeled down and ran a single digit down the cat that quickly turned around and rubbed her head against the metal finger. "One of us found her in Jasper, a big guy called Warfront takes care of her."

Mrs. Nakadai smiled at the cat, reminded of Miko's cat back in Japan. She stood up and stared Soundshock in the optics searching her amber optics for something; it was a bit unnerving, because the only time Miko had seen her do that was when she got into trouble. Both of them were silent for a while as Mrs. Nakadai studied her daughters face.

"You speak Japanese really well; did you have to learn it?" Miko brightened at the question; it hadn't even registered the question and what it meant; only that someone had asked about her homeland.

"I'm actually from Japan," and when the words left she realized her mistake, as her mom took in the information with a nod. Once again Miko stayed silent, thinking back she hadn't even been aware she started speaking in her native tongue, it really only happened when she was angry or really excited.

Miko was painfully aware that her mother knew something was out of place and she wasn't so sure if she would understand, or be willing to try to understand. Her mother was a smart women, she was able to put together anything given to her as was her job as a historian.

"Why?" it was a single word but Miko knew her mother understood who she was talking to now. "What happened to you?" Miko looked her mother in the eye and could see the tears starting to fall and knew she had to explain everything.

"The Decepticon's, Optimus could probably explain it better, but they made me like this," Miko wished she could cry a little, just to let her express herself more, but she pushed it down as she got closer to her mom. "And I wasn't sure how you and dad would react, I was scared." It was one of the few time Miko would ever make such a admission, but Miko's worries were thrown away as Mrs. Nakadai pressed her hand against Miko's faceplate keeping her eyes on her daughter.

"Oh Miko," She said quietly, as she wiped tears from her eyes, "You have no reason to be scared, we love you and would help you no matter what happens to you." Mrs. Nakadai hugged her child's faceplates and Miko slipped her servo behind her to reciprocate the feeling.

It was then that Optimus had finished his explanation to the other three members of the group. The Samson's were slack jawed, and Mr. Nakadai was in a state of shock as he processed some of the adventures that his daughter had participated in and what the Autobot leader was talking about. He could understand part about how she met the Autobots, but for his girl to willingly put herself into danger on multiple occasions he… he actually had no room to judge as he had done the same at her age just not to such a degree. And this talk about experiments, it sounded like something out of fantasy, but so did this entire situation.

But the implication that his daughter had become one of the titans that was around him was baffling and he had to admit that if it was true he was a bit jealous. It was then that he realized his wife hadn't been by his side, and looking around he saw her crying in the arms of the femme from earlier Soundshock, who… looked a lot like… his… daughter. The realization of that slapped him in the face; apparently his wife didn't need to be there to put two and two together.

"Miko?" Mr. Nakadai asked as he walked closer to who he presumed was his daughter. She responded in a quick bout of Japanese, which had her father rushing to her to hug her as well.

The Samson's only stood back and watched as the girl they hosted held her family, not really sure if what they were seeing was real or not. Mrs. Samson also felt terrible for her outburst not realizing that it was Miko she had yelled at, her husband wrapped an arm over her shoulders in comfort.

Optimus stepped back with June and just observed as the family reunited. June smiled at the Autobot leader, but she could tell that he was already tired, and to think they had to do this a few more times.

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Jack laughed as he watched Vince keep his sister away from his cube of energon, Raf watched amused as he sat in a chair opposite of them. Apparently Claire liked the pretty blue color, but Vince didn't want her to accidentally fall into the cube that was larger than she was. Vince's parent's watched the siblings squabble fondly sat on the table eating their own lunch. They were all in one of the empty storage rooms that was turned into a break room with makeshift furniture.

Vince having enough of his sister picked her up and placed her on his shoulder where she sat securely but couldn't leave without help, everyone laughed as she pouted. Sighing Vince looked at Jack, "So Miko's meeting up with her parents now right?"

"Yeah, mom says everything's going alright, one of her host parents had a bit of a breakdown, but it's all good now." Jack said as he took a drink out of his cube. Raf fiddled with his cube at the mentioning of family, he was nervous, just as anyone else was when the topic was brought up. "Fowler said he got approval for your family next right Raf?"

The youngest former human nodded, and silently sipped his energon, "Fowler said that if everything went well and quick with Miko's family, he would be able to bring them today." Jack blinked in surprise at the speed in which Fowler was able to get approval for the families, he remembered that Galloway guy being a problem.

"That's great to hear Raf." Mr. Smith said from his wheelchair as he put the trash from his lunch in a bag. Vince's family and any family member who wished to stay on base were allowed to, it was big enough and everyone's rooms were big enough for their families. So the Smith's decided to stay instead of going back to a military base.

"I just… I don't think I can hold out standing there while Optimus explains everything to my family, I'd end up having a nervous breakdown or something." Raf leaned back and rubbed his faceplates and Jack patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it will be fine, If Vince's family could still like him like this you'll be fine." Vince scowled at Jack, but his sister burst into giggles and even his failed in suppressing their laughs. Jack laughed as his optics dimmed for a second, and he nodded to himself. "Alright well Miko's on her way here, and Fowler just left to get your family Raf He'll be back in a little while.

They continued conversing between each other bouncing from topic to topic until Miko eventually found her way to their room. And of course she arrived with her usual flair of almost kicking down the door.

As she came into the room Jack could see four people in her arms, all of them looking a little green as she skipped around the table and gently set them down, trying not to jostle them too much. "And these are some of my friends, The orange one is Raf or Codebreaker, and one next to him is Jack or Valorous, and big and green is Vince or Hardcharger." And as usual Miko was back to being loud.

Mrs. Nakadai seemed to recover from the wild ride before the others however that still didn't mean much as she still had her hands on her knees. "Hello… it is nice to meet… all of you." She said between breaths.

Mr. Nakadai laughed and said something in Japanese as he collapsed with a smile on his face. Miko responded in kind, and everyone who didn't speak the language looked on in confusion when Mr. Nakadai responded with more excitement.

"Isao, not everyone speaks Japanese," one of Miko's host parents bumped the man as they collapsed on the table. Mr. Nakadai blinked in surprise not realizing he had reverted back to Japanese again.

"Err my apologizes, I hadn't realized, this has just been a very… interesting and amazing experience." Isao waved his hands all around the room namely at his daughter and other former humans in the room. "Miko had explained to me that they have vehicle modes as well, and that I would be interested to see what hers was when she finally obtained it."

That caused the rest of the humans to look at the former humans around them as that was the first to hear about it. "You can turn into a car? That's so cool!" Claire declared from her perch on her brother's shoulder.

"An eighteen-wheeler actually," Vince admitted as he took another drink from his cube, finishing off his energon. "It's one of the few vehicles that fit my frame."

"And some of us can turn into planes to," Miko said as she poked Jack in the side causing him to smack at her servos, and as always missed. "And Raf can make himself look and sound like other bots."

"Ugh that's so cool I wanna be a cybertronian." Claire pouted, but the statement made all the bots look at each other uneasily as they remembered the process it took to become what they were.

"Anyway did Jameson ever say when we could get our alt-modes?" Jack asked as a way to change the conversation. Raf and Vince only shrugged, and Miko seemed to be laughing to herself again.

"No, He's been stuck on cube cleaning and inventory duty ever since he threw that wrench at Ratchet." And everyone winced at the thought of cube cleaning, having to scrape out the crystalized remains of the energon out of the bottom was always a pain. "Besides I think the person to ask about that would be Fowler."

Jack nodded in agreement, and sat back as he finished off his cube. Everyone sat around for a while; Miko's family sat and talked with Vince's and exchanged stories of how all of this affected them. It was nice to have more people to talk to, and with Raf's family coming in soon that number would jump.

A knock at the door interrupted the conversations and Bumblebee poked his head in, ignoring everyone else he looked to Raf, "Hey Fowler just called in and he'll be here soon if you want to wait in the command room." Bee waved his arm for Raf to follow and the younger mech complied, following his friend eagerly and nervously.

The humans among the rest of them though only looked on puzzled as they watched the yellow mech disappear around the door. "Did you guys actually understand that or was that some kind of code?" Mr. Samson asked as he looked up at the former humans.

"Yeah, we can understand him; it's a basic dialect of cybertronian that he can speak easily, because his voice modulator was damaged a long time ago." Jack explained as he stood up to put away his energon cube. "It's not my place to go into detail about it."

Jack bade his goodbyes to everyone and left saying he needed to go train some. Everyone else stayed in the room and continued conversing with one another, able to take comfort in their similar situations.

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"Hey Bee can we just… wait here for right now?" Raf asked as he stopped walking, they were just near the entrance to the command room, and per his friends request the yellow scout stopped.

"Is everything alright?" Bee asked, his door wings flickering occasionally with his beeps and whirs. Raf nodded and took a deep vent trying to calm his anxious spark.

"Yeah, I just, can we wait until Optimus explains everything? I'm not sure I can see them without… I don't know doing something. It just this is all…" Raf couldn't finish and Bee pulled him into a hug allowing the younger mech to breakdown a little.

Bee whirred empathetically, as he rubbed the back of his charges helm. "It's alright Raf, don't worry about it, this is new for everyone." Bee hugged Raf tighter as he started shaking. "I've seen your family they love you and will continue to love you, besides even Miko broke down a little when she faced her parents you're not alone in this, you're like a brother to me."

Raf pulled away from Bumblebee, quietly thanking his best friend. "Can we just wait still? I think that would be best." And Bee nodded, quickly comming Optimus and telling him Raf's wishes.

Optimus understood, and informed the scout that Mrs. Darby was on her way to help Raf. Bee sent his thanks and closed the link, and focused back on comforting his distraught friend, even as his door wings flicked in agitation at not knowing how to help. So he settled with rubbing up and down Raf's back trying to calm down the youngling, and it seemed to help as his shaking seemed to subside for the time being and the panic in Raf's purple optics faded.

As Optimus said June came down the hall a purpose to her step and her optics glued to Raf who had yet to notice her. "Raf? Are you alright?" Raf jumped slightly but gave her his attention.

"Y-yeah, just… just letting my nerves getting the best of me." Raf smiled shakily, causing June to frown and nod.

"Alright, just take a deep vent, Inhale hold for ten seconds then exhale, and repeat. Okay?" June instructed with a smile on her faceplates. Raf followed her instructions while Bee watched glad his friend was getting help.

"What happened?" Bee asked over the comm while Raf was busy following Mrs. Darby's instructions. June glanced at Bee for a moment and making sure that Raf was doing alright she responded.

"I think he had a mild panic attack, If he keeps doing this it may help but if it doesn't I may need Ratchet here, or maybe his family." June explained while rubbing the back of Raf's helm while he continued his exercises. Bumblebee quickly researched what a panic attack was for humans and winced at the potential severity they posed, if this was mild he never wanted to see a severe one.

It took roughly twenty minutes until Raf was calmed down, and June stayed with Raf the entire time along with Bumblebee who had since received a comm from Optimus that he had explained everything to his Raf's family and they eagerly wanted to see him.

"Alright, I… I think I'm good now." Raf said as he took one last vent and smiled at June, feeling a lot more stable than he had previously. Bee whirred in relief and June returned his smile, however all of them were distracted by rapid and quiet footsteps. Like those from a human not from a cybertronian.

An older woman's voice broke the noise, and jolted everyone. "Rafael Jorge Gonzales Esquivel, if I don't see you in the next five seconds, I swear I will…" And it ended in a stream of quickly spoken Spanish that Mrs. Darby barely understood from the little Spanish she knew. Rafael however got the picture as his optics widened to comical proportions and he bolted down the hall as what was presumably his mother counted down.

Bee ran after him and June tagged along at a slower pace however even the scout had trouble keeping up with the speeding youth. Of course they weren't that far from where the voice came from else they wouldn't have heard it, but when they caught up to Raf, he was frozen in front of a group of seven humans with Fowler at the head of them as if trying to prevent them from going further.

June blinked at the large family who stood surprised at their appearance in front of them, she had met Rafael's mother before but she hadn't know that he had such a large family. It was honestly a miracle that Fowler had gotten approval to let all of them on the base.

"Rafael?" the eldest woman asked who was at the head of the Esquivel clan; she seemed a mix of awed and incredibly angry.

"Hola mamá," Raf said quietly as he rubbed the back of his neck a habit he seemed to be picking up from Jack.

Hehe I wanted to make this longer but felt it was a good cutoff point.

So this is the longest chapter I've posted in a little while, kinda but it off cause I'm not sure how to continue it without a small time skip, and the Poll that I'm putting up in a bit after this chapter goes live.

Also hope everyone's doing alright with this Corona crap once again, and also hope everyone in the US is doing alright in the midst of these riots taking place. Seriously, what better way to honor a man than to tear down businesses and people's homes. Sorry I try to keep anything relating politics or something of this nature out of the story or the AN but this is a bit frustrating to watch.

Anyway be sure to fav/follow if you enjoyed and if you have ideas or constructive criticism feel free to leave a review. I hope everyone is having a good day/night and stay frosty my friends.