By Fang Wolfsbane
"Tyla! Hey! Earth to Tyla!"
Nearly jumping out of her seat, Tyla looked over towards the red headed girl that was nearly on top of her, her lips pressed together in a frown.
"Are you okay? You've been zoned out the whole morning."
Blinking, Tyla watched the younger girl return to her seat before she attempted her best reassuring smile. There was no way she could tell the other girl that she had spent a good chunk of the night talking to a giant robot head that was meant to be a secret from.
How she hadn't discovered it yet was something Tyla was still trying to process, along with the whole conversation about how the head belonged to an Autobot that didn't want his fellow bots to know about his current condition.
Something felt off about it but considering that Sari's dad was helping to restore the head to its original form, she supposed that she couldn't blame Megatron for wanting to keep his secret. Even though he was a giant robot, being reduced to nothing but a head had to be embarrassing.
Not that she would know. If a human lost their heads it was basically game over. No redo. Not yet anyway. A shudder went through her at the thought of humans living as robots one day.
She loved spending time with the bots, in fact she considered them her closest friends, but to live like one of them… she wouldn't wish that on any being. Granted, being robots were all the Autobots knew, but if being one of them meant staying alive as only one part of something physical, she didn't want it. Wham, ban, no thank you ma'am.
"Yeah. Just… had trouble sleeping," Tyla said, not missing the questioning gaze in the other girl's red eyes. To others they would have been an unsettling colour but considering that her own weren't exactly a natural hue, she never judged Sari about hers. And considering that Sari never said anything about Tyla's probably meant that she felt the same way about it.
"Was the wattage too low?" Highdrive asked out of nowhere, reminding her that he was the one driving them back to the warehouse where the two girls planned on spending the rest of their day.
"Wattage?" Sari asked with an even more concerned look on her face as she looked at Highdrive's dashboard.
"You know, for your recharge cycle."
Even though it was basically the same principle, Tyla couldn't help but smile at the cute interpretation Highdrive had of a human's sleep schedule. It was still a little weird comparing the two sometimes though.
N ot knowing how to explain what she had been up to most of the night without divulging a secret that she had been sworn to keep, Tyla nodded, keeping her smile. "Yeah. The wattage was too low, Highdrive."
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