(Reader's POV)
Bumblebee and Windblade were walking through the forest, since the scrapyard wasn't far away and the forest was very pretty at noon. Besides they wouldn't want to waste energon on the groundbridge. It was a bit quiet..and awkward, so Bee decided to break the silence of the five minutes they've been walking.
"Are you excited to train Firefly?"
Windblade thought for a moment "Yes, I just wonder what her weapon is. I hope it's simple so I can actually train her with it."
"Don't worry you'll be fine, just do the best you can." Bumblebee reassured.
"I know, she was a soldier during the war so it should be easy to teach her a few skills I know." She smiled.
Bumblebee noticed a few things when Windblade came back. Like how she would always smile when she was with Firefly, or when she blushed when Firefly compliments her for what a great fighter she is, and how she glances at Firefly a couple of times. Although he wasn't going to say anything, he chuckled.
"Why are you laughing?" She asked.
"Nothing, I just know you like Firefly." He smirked.
Windblade stopped walking abruptly. Once Bee turned to look at her, he saw her blushing face illuminating a light blue colour. "What's wrong?"
She looked at the ground slightly embarrassed. And said in the quietest voice she could make, which was a meer whisper "Don't say anything to her. Please?"
Bee could only give a friendly laugh and put a servo on her shoulder reassuringly "Don't worry I won't, I promise."
Windblade gave a grateful smile "Thanks," then smirked mischievously "then I promise not to say anything on how you like Grimlock." Then she started walking again, he blushed really hard and stood still with wide optics for a moment and smiled, acknowledging the fact that he did like Grimlock. He then ran to catch up to Windblade at her right side.
"You promise?"
"Promise."
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In the scrapyard Russell was watching a horror movie, Denny and Fixit were making final adjustments to Firefly's weapon. Firefly was currently talking to Strongarm, Jetstorm and Slipstream about war stories near Sideswipe who was training with his blade. Drift was meditating somewhere and no one wanted to disturb him, and Drift said that listening to war stories was educational for Jet and Slip so they let them skip this meditation session.
"Ta-da!!" Fixit yelled triumphantly.
Everyone turned their heads to see Fixit holding the weapon in the air above his head.
"We've finished the weapon for you Firefly!" Denny said happily, proud of his work.
Firefly smiled warmly and stood up from her hunched position from where she was telling stories and walked over to them. Strongarm and the mini cons close behind her.
"Thank you for putting so much effort to make this for me." She said kindly.
Fixit held out the weapon for her to take "Don't worry, everyone needs a weapon to protect themselves, since you're going to be with us for awhile it's necessary to have one."
Firefly then reached with her servo and gratefully took her Decepticon Hunter, and smiled admiring the new weapon.
(Firefly's POV)
At that moment I saw Windblade and Bumblebee from the corner of my eye having heard Fixit's statement. I turned as did everyone else, when they came closer to us. I looked all over Windblade to see that she was unharmed, I was relieved. I did however notice that she had a few scratches on her paint, I wonder what happened. My question was answered by Bumblebee.
"We ran into our Cybertronian, which turned out to be Steeljaw. We don't know what he was doing but," he paused "he somehow knows about Firefly being in the base."
Almost everyone gasped. I on the other hand was a bit nervous because I know the Decepticon's reputation. Then I realised everyone was looking at me worriedly.
"I heard of the Decepticon Steeljaw in one the police files on Cybertron. I know that he wants to make Earth a Decepticon home. And through the rumours, I heard he could be quite a tricky con to deal with." I explained.
Bumblebee nodded "And now that he knows you're here, I think you should start training and be prepared. Do you have your weapon?"
I lifted the Decepticon Hunter that was in my right servo, thought in my mind what I wanted my weapon to be, and it transformed into a bow. It was amazing! The string was the colour blue.
Everyone was amazed and smiled. It made me really happy to see the joy in their faces. I smiled.
"Alright then let's get started," Windblade said as she gestured with her servo for me to come with her. So I followed. When we reached our destination she said "Okay, first I want to see what you can already do without a weapon."
I looked at the ground. I didn't know what to say to her. I saw in the corner of my optic Jetstorm and Slipstream training with Drift watching their moves carefully. This place was like a training area so everyone was welcome, if there is enough space. I wondered how they could fight so well, my first thought was because of practice and a good mentor. I was in awe. I tightened my grip on my bow to make it go return to its real form. I put it in my subspace and looked back at Windblade and nodded with a serious face. She surprised that I went from smiling kindly to looking serious so quickly.
We both got in our stances, and I don't know how it happened but something inside me changed. I narrowed my optics on my opponent who lunged towards me and swung her arm to punch me. Time slowed down for me as I saw her fist heading to my face. I stepped sideways and dodged her punch thinking 'too slow'. I was quick to move behind her and kicked her in the back, she fell forward onto the ground on her side so she could get up quicker. When she shook her head and got up, a bit wobbly, she tried to side kick me. But I saw it coming so I ran at the speed of light to the right around her wings to end up at her right side. When she put her leg down she looked around to see where I went, but I didn't give her a chance to look at her right. I used my left leg to side kick her legs and she fell to the ground.
It was at that moment I sensed that she was getting tired. She was venting hard which made me worried. All this time I had narrowed eyes of concentration but now my eyes softened, but I still had my guard up in case she decided to retaliate again. But instead she raised her right servo and breathed out "Well done."
I realised that when I was fighting I was really tense, so I took a deep vent and calmed down. I reached down and held my servo out for her, which she took and helped her up. When she stood up her face was inches away from mine and I couldn't help it, I stared into her deep blue optics.
Then she winced in pain, which snapped me out of my trance and I took a step back. "Are you okay?" I asked worriedly.
"Well...you did side kick my legs..." she said trying to keep the pain in.
I started to feel guilt creep up on me, but Windblade did say she wanted to see what I could do when it came to fighting hand to hand. I grabbed her right arm and put it around my shoulders, so she could use me like a walking stick and put her weight on me, so it would be easier for her to walk. I unconsciously put my left servo on her hip so she won't fall. I glanced at Windblade to see a small blush on her face. It looked cute on her. We both didn't talk throughout our slow walk/limp back to Fixit so he could fix her leg.
However we didn't notice Drift's mini cons who were watching the whole time stared in awe as we walked back to the Alchemor.
It started to get dark when I sat Windy down where Fixit told me. I noticed Denny telling Russell to go to sleep. So I decided to go recharge myself after saying goodnight to Windblade and Fixit. I walked to my makeshift berth, layed down, closed my optics and slipped into recharge smiling, thinking of the feeling of how Windy was pressed up against my body. It felt warm.
(Reader's POV)
However nobody noticed the glint of red optics through the trees in the woods looking at Firefly. Then it faded into the darkness of the forest.
End of Chapter 4