Marie slowly opened up her optics to see the bland ceiling of the med-bay. The lights were still dimmed seeing as it was still earl in the morning, but she did not mind. If anything this was soothing to her. It gave her time to think about things without anyone else around. Marie did not want to get out of bed; however, she knew that she needed to brave the day if she wanted to get anywhere in her life. The first thing on the schedule would be to ask Rachet more about the Cybertronian behaviors and history. She needed to know how to properly act like a Cybertronian if she was to get along with these species. She would not, under any circumstances, give up who she was. She might not like what was given to her, but by God she was not going to turn tail and run. Marie slowly closed her optics as she let out a sigh.
"What did I do to deserve this?" Marie muttered "What makes me so special to get a second chance?"
Was she supposed to considered this something lucky and good? Being able to continue to live; however, she has given up so much to be able to live a little longer. No longer is she even the same species for God's sake! Is all of this really worth it to live for a little bit longer? Maire closed her optics in frustration. Suddenly a message appeared in front of her closed optics. Access Allspark data? Yes or no…. What the slag did that mean? What was the allspark again? Didn't Optimus mention something about it? Access Allspark data? Yes or No? Marie sighed once more before making the quick decision to access the allspark data.
"Yes." Marie muttered out loud.
Before her very optics symbols she had never seen before flashed. The symbols started to go faster and faster until her processor could no longer handle the strain that was being brought upon it and forced her body into a recharge like state. Even though her body was shut down for recharge her mind was not. Everywhere around her was pitch black as the symbols dance a cross her vision. Unnerved Marie tried to utter out for help into the black void. Realizing that she could not make a sound she started to panic even more than she already was. Her heart was hammering against her chest as she tried to figure out what was going on. Just as she was about to try speaking again a voice echoed around her.
"Hello young one." A sweet and rich voice said to her.
Marie started to turn in circles to look for where the voice originated from.
"Ah little one you won't be able to see me" The voice chuckled.
Marie started to open her mouth wanting to ask what she meant by that but stopped when she remembered that she could not speak.
"You may speak now if you wish." The femme voice said.
"Who are you and where are you? Actually more importantly where the fuck am I?" Marie snarled.
"For one so young you seemed to have a lot of fire. To answer your question you are simply within your mind. As to who I am? Well I am just a program installed in you to help you understand and figure out the allspark that you now possess. But if you wish to call me by a name you could simply call me Cyber." Cyber explained.
Marie sighed and rubbed her helm. "I can't even get one freaking day to sort this crap out, can I? But I suppose that it was my fault for saying yes."
"Do you wish to wait? If you do you can simply call upon this protocol by stating my name and then stating protocol." Cyber explained
"So I can wait then? Like I don't have to tackle this one right now?" Marie asked
"If that is what you so wish." Cyber stated
"So I simply have to say Cyber Protocol for you to come up?" Marie questioned
"Yes." Cyber answered
"Then I would like to wait for some time. I really need to digest this crap before I can handle anything." Marie huffed
"Understood young one." Cyber said.
With that the next thing that Marie came to was snapping her optics open to see the face of Sideswipe peering down at her. Before Marie could let out a screech Sideswipe hastily covered her mouth.
"Shush! Don't scream! You don't want Rachet to run in here do you? Trust me that is something you never want to happen." Sideswipe hastily said.
Marie narrowed her optics at him then rose her hand to grab his wrist to lift his hand off of her.
"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" Marie snarled at him while sitting up.
"Sorry. I just was walking by when I heard some noise coming from in here and grew concerned. So I decided to come see what it was and saw that you were moving around in your recharge. I was just about to wake you when your optic snapped open. Sorry about scaring the slag out of you." Sideswipe said sheepishly.
Marie huffed before asking, "What the hell are you doing roaming the hallways this early in the morning anyway?"
"I just got done with my patrol and was making my way back to my room when I heard you." Sideswipe explained.
"Well you can see that everything is fine so you can be on your way." Marie huffed
Sideswipe smiled slightly, "You don't honestly think that I am going to leave a upset femme alone do you?"
"What the…Why do you think I am upset?" Marie grumbled
"Many bots make those noises in their recharge when they are having unpleasant recharge cycles. If you want to talk about it I am all ears as the humans would say." Sideswipe said
Maire raised her optic ridge before answering him. "Well I do not want to talk about what I was dreaming. I mean I really don't know you all that well."
"Well how about we get to know each other? We could play the human game called twenty questions? That way you could get to know me and maybe forget for a little while about what ever you were dreaming." Sideswipe proposed.
"I have a feeling you won't be leaving anytime soon?" Marie questioned
"Nope. So you might as well play." Sideswipe chirped cheekily
"Fine," Marie huffed "Whatever makes you leave quicker."
"Awesome! I will start. What is your favorite color?" Sideswipe asked
"Real original. I guess I would have to say light blue and white." Maire said
"Well I need to know so that way we can get paint ready for you when you get out. I mean you can't just stay silver now can you?" Sideswipe said
"I guess? I am going to go out on a limb here and say that your favorite color is red. Am I right?" Marie asked
"You would be right sweetspark!" Sideswipe said; while, winking.
"What is your favorite thing to do?" Marie sighed out
"Pranking and racing. What about you? What do you like to do?" Sideswipe asked
"Um..I guess reading?" Marie said
"Just reading? That won't do. Sunny and I will have to help you find more things to do." Sideswipe mumbled
"Hey! I will have you know that there is nothing wrong with enjoying reading." Marie huffed
"It isn't," Sideswipe agreed "If there was more than just that. You didn't even sound confident with liking that."
"Well I just never had the free time to do anything entertaining alright?" Marie grumbled
"Well then let me help you find something." Sideswipe said
"Must you?" Marie sighed
"I must. I mean you might as well agree and go along with it willingly because no matter what you say I am still going to try and find something you are going to like." Sideswipe said while shrugging his shoulders.
Marie put her head in her hands while she slumped her shoulders. "Are you always like this?" Marie muttered
"You mean am I always this awesome? Because if so than the answer to that question is yes." Sideswipe said
The door to the med-bay suddenly swung open as a shadowy figure stood in the door way. The figure slowly stalked forward into their viewpoint while glaring at Sideswipe. The mech seemed similar in appearance to Sideswipe; however he was a bright shinny yellow and had what appeared to be fins on the side of his helm.
"So this is where you have been?" The mech deep voice snarled
"Yup! Sunny meet the femme we saved. Her designation is Marie." Sideswipe said while pointing at Marie
Sunstreaker's optics glanced over at Marie before quickly looking back at his brother.
"My name is Sunstreaker," Sunstreaker snarled "And I don't care what the femme's name is. Lets go."
"Aww. Come on Sunny. Why don't you stay awhile and get to know her." Sideswipe said
"No slag for brains." Sunstreaker grumbled "Let's go."
Sideswipe sighed before looking at Marie. "Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow my dear femme." Sideswipe said
"Leave." Marie deadpanned
"Sheesh. Not a fan of Shakespeare? Well I will see you later!" Sideswipe chirped
With that Sideswipe left Marie's side to follow behind his brother in leaving the med-bay. Right before the door closed Sideswipe turned to glance back at Marie and winked at her while giving her a roguish smile. After the door had finally closed Marie could not help but to sag in relive. Finally she was left alone. Marie laid back down in hopes to get maybe a couple more hours in before she had to brace the world. It wasn't even 7 am yet and she already was done with everything!
Sideswipe walked behind his brother as they made their way back to their shared room. Across the bond he could feel his brothers fury at him for what he had done. Sideswipe shock his helm. If only his brother was more open to bots, maybe then they wouldn't have so much trouble fitting in. As the door to their room got closer the tensor that the bond felt. Sideswipe knew the astroclick they made it threw that door his brother would be on him like a cyberhound out of the pits. Sunstreaker went through the door first and then Sideswipe went through and sure enough Sunstreaker turned around to stare Sideswipe down.
"What the slag do you think you are doing?" Sunstreaker growled
"I think I was helping a femme who had a night cycle." Sideswipe said calmly
"Do you even think for click? You piece of scrap! It is none of our concern what happens with that femme! We don't even know where she truly comes from let alone what her intentions are." Sunstreaker snarled
"I do think it is our concern. How could I just walk away from a scared femme. Have you no spark? And about where she comes from and what her intentions are. Prime already looked into that and even explained to us about her! If Prime can trust her than so can I. It has nothing to do about that. You just don't want us around her because of what our sparks do when we are near her." Sideswipe stated
"I don't trust her and I never will. This femme just crashed landed right next to our base and doesn't know anything about our society? Do you not realize how wrong that sounds? Is your processor even functioning?" Sunstreaker huffed
"Not knowing anything about our society? Well that can be fixed really fast. You know as well as I do that a patch allows no mech or femme to hide anything. Everything they saw or did is present, no matter what." Sideswipe said "And trust? Did you forget that no-bot trusted us when we first came to the autoboot cause? I see no reason to not help her or get to know her."
"Just stay away from her Sides. She is not our problem, she is Jazz's." Sunstreaker grumbled
Sideswipe just sighed and turned away from his brother to headed to his berth. He had a long night on patrol and did not have the energy to argue with his brother anymore. Once he was situated on his berth he laid on his side were he was not facing his brother.
"Look lets not talk about this anymore. I just got off of a long patrol being stuck with fragging Bluestreak and I would rather get some recharge." Sideswipe grumbled
Sunstreaker huffed and stomped over to his berth to also get some recharge. Once he was situated he sent out a command for the lights to switch off and started to head back to recharge.
Hey Guys! Sorry for taking so long with this update. Since summer is coming up I am going to try to do two updates per month! I have already started on the next chapter. Please give me your feedback on the story. Let me know what you guys think. Oh! Before I forget did you get the hint I was throwing out there? If you need some help, think of the books title. Happy Readings!-Spectra
