By Fang Wolfsbane
"Have a nice day," Tyla hummed as she watched another customer drive off in their car whilst she was left behind in the overly cramped cubicle known as the ordering window.
A glance around the corner informed her that she wouldn't be bothered for at least the next five minutes. She could finally breathe.
Stretching her arms above her head, Tyla looked over in the general direction of City Hall. The Autobots had been invited to a ceremony to celebrate a new train of some sort as 'foreign' guests. As the daughter of the man who invented that particular train, Sari had gotten her a ticket to attend but Tyla had to deny her right to claim it. Her boss had wanted her to work on that particular day. It annoyed her to no end, but luckily Sari had understood.
It didn't mean that she was any less annoyed by it. Not in the slightest. Highdrive had been kind enough to promise her a souvenir and she promised to watch as much of the ceremony as she could via Livestream.
Satisfied that she had at least some time to herself, Tyla fished her phone out of her pocket and went to the local news channel's website where the stream was already in progress. Personally she found newsfeed like this pretty boring, but it wasn't every day one could claim to be friends with the people – or bots in this case – on live TV.
With one earbud in and the other ear free, Tyla silently listened to the broadcast, nearly smiling at how nervous Optimus seemed. Heck, even Bumblebee and Bulkhead seemed calmer.
The main reason why Professor Isaac Sumdac had invited the Autobots as his special guests was because of their help in saving his employees and building from the whole nano-insect situation. A shudder went down her spine at the memory. She only hoped he and his staff learned their lesson concerning those kinds of experiments. The idea behind it was well intended, the execution, not so much.
T he ceremony itself seemed to be going pretty well with Optimus even delivering a speech on behalf of the Autobots. Tyla was just about to end the broadcast on her end to prepare for the next customer to pull up by the window when a shadow across the screen caught her eye. Unable to stop herself, she looked only to watch as a new transformer appeared on the scene, although this one wasn't a friendly.
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