"Can we find more Dinobots first?"
"No Acia; you agreed to come with me so we could decide on another Autobot together."
"But Sky, I need ones for my own collection! Can't we-…?"
Skylar turned back and teasingly glared at Acia as they stepped up to the store they visited yesterday; Acia smirking at her friend's attempted glare.
"Nice try Sky…" she laughed, running off to find her Dinobots. Cassie let out a defeated sigh and wandered after her, heading over to where the Autobots stood on their shelf, but it seemed they had been joined by more over night; the Protectobots and the Aerialbots gestalts. She also noticed a couple Decepticon gestalts opposite too.
"The Combaticons…" she murmured, reading off one of the Con's boxes, then looking over at the other Bot boxes. "And the Aerialbots… Hmm, I wonder if Nik knows about the Combaticons…"
She hastily pulled out her mobile and alerted her friend of the new arrivals, then shoved it back in her bag before scanning the boxes and pulling another 'Wild Card'. She could have sworn she heard a silent cheer from the plush she picked out…
"You're seriously buying them now? Dudette, have you forgotten there's like, 3 weeks until your birthday!?"
Skylar froze, stopping herself from bagging the box, and watched in dismay as it ended up on the floor instead. As she bent down to pick it up, someone else's hand brushed over hers, and she nearly fell back in surprise.
"Darcy, it's called 'shopping for yourself'," she admitted, sighing as the teenaged-boy handed the Autobot to her.
"That's no fun cause you know what you're getting then," Darcy insisted, brushing a strand of brown hair off his face. "But… I'm interested to see you're going for the Bots. I thought you were a Cons girl…"
"Nahh, that's Nikki," Skylar admitted; her expression then turning to a frown. "But why would you care? I thought you hated these things!"
"I do."
A smirk crossed the boy's face and without warning he knocked the box from her hands and a couple off the shelf beside her, then running off laughing. Skylar clenched her fists before kneeling down and picking the boxes back up. The nerve of that boy…
"Hey Sky, you okay? I saw Darce sweet-talk with ya," Acia giggled as she walked over, then becoming as stern as her friend had been. "But seriously? Knocking things from your hands? Can't think of anything better, that jerk…"
"Yeah…" Skylar said softly, pausing when she looked through the plastic of one of the boxes. Another of the Autobot scientists, and the 'transport' shuttle; Skyfire, was searching her expression, looking for comfort. He must have freaked out when Darcy knocked his box from her hand…
"So… we going?"
"Huh?" Skylar breathed, snapping back to reality and quickly putting the boxes back on the shelf of those she didn't want. "Oh, right!"
As the two girls wandered over to the check-out to pay for their new additions, they didn't notice the pair of red optics watching them; hiding in the midst of a bunch of other stuffed toys. The owner of the 'prying eyes' let out a startled gasp when someone's hand clamped tight around his wings.
"Aha, so that's where she left you. If only she knew you could walk about on your own," Darcy scowled, lifting the toy from his hiding place. Said toy gripped his servos together in fear.
"No, n-no! Please, don't take me back! A-Anything but that!" he pleaded. Darcy only sniggered and turned on his heel, heading for the doors.
"Geez, for the Decepticon Air Commander, you sure are wimpy…"
The plushieformer had it after that, twisting around and biting the boy on the wrist; Darcy crying out in pain as he dropped the toy and gripped onto his wrist. The plushieformer hastily ran into the midst of hiding once more as Skylar and Acia ran over to Darcy, despite what he had done before.
"And to think you'd changed… What now?" Acia hissed, regretting to remember their days in primary school.
"One, of those freaks, bit me!" Darcy declared in surprise, searching for the plushie he'd recently had a hold of. "H-He was white, red and blue; and had wings!"
Skylar caught on to his description and faked a laugh, setting her free-hand on her hip.
"Seriously? You were bitten by a Seeker?" she sniggered. "Dude, they're just toys… They're not real."
And with that, the girls walked away; Darcy's eyes widening before he glanced around in anger.
"When I find you, freak; I'm going to rip your wings off for this!"
Seconds later, he'd charged out the doors and left. The nervous plushieformer peered out of his hiding spot, exhaling heavily in relief, but now he had to find those two girls before Darcy realised where he was. Not wanting to leave Thundercracker, but knowing he'd seen Skywarp with those two before, the tri-colour Seeker darted out of the store and ran after Skylar and Acia; not caring if anyone saw him. He just wanted to be loved again…
"Hey Sky, hold up a second."
Without warning, the girls stopped to look in the window of a jewellery store; the Seeker hastily stopping himself and ducking behind a potted plant as he watched them. That was close…
"Ooh, I want it. Wait out here, kay?"
"Okay, but don't be too long, Acia…"
Skylar wandered over and leant against the wall as she waited, boredly pulling out her mobile and sending a text on it. The Decepticon watched her curiously, then taking the risk and darting out of hiding…
"Darcy was actually right…" Skylar said softly, not wanting to startle the Seeker. Said-plushie stopped in his tracks, looking up at her with wide optics. "Starscream, what are you doing out of your box?"
Starscream looked up and froze; the colouring of the box in her bags familiar to his optics and he shakily drew a plastic version of Megatron's alt-mode from his wing-tip and pointed it at her.
"S-Stand down, h-human! I-I'm armed and not a-afraid to fire!" he stammered. Skylar set the second bag aside and knelt down before him; Starscream backing up in concern as she held out a hand to him.
"Don't touch!"
"It's okay, Star… I'm not gonna hurt you…" the girl said softly, keeping her hand where it was. "… I only want to know what you're doing out here; you could get caught."
Starscream kept a tight grip on his gun, shaking a little. He was without his Trine and face-to-face with an unknown human; he had every right to be afraid!
"T-That's none of your business! D-Decepticons tell nothing to Autobots!"
Skylar glanced back at the bag that held the Autobot shuttle she'd recently brought, then back at the Seeker; what could she tell him? Before she could say anything, she spied Acia leaving the store; hastily scooping up the Decepticon into her arms and demanding he be quiet.
"Okay, it's cool. Let's go," the second girl announced, picking up her bags and meeting her friend's eyes. Acia blinked at the plushieformer in her arms. "Uhh Sky? You know he's a Decepticon right? I thought-…"
"I-I know!" Skylar said quickly, taking her own bags in an attempt not to drop Starscream. "I just… couldn't resist him!"
Acia gave her friend a sceptic glance, then shrugged it off with a giggle as she started walking.
"Your plushies can go to war now."
Skylar caught on to what she was saying and shook her head with a soft laugh, then glancing down at Starscream in concern. The Seeker had fallen into plushie-mode and if Skylar knew well enough, wouldn't break from it for a while. Gently she traced the tear in his wing.
The others won't mind if I fix him up, will they? she thought, following Acia outside as they waited to be picked up. I… only hope they don't mind…
Okay, let's see who guessed it was Starscream! *looks through reviews* Oh… no one… oh well, more Energon cookies for me! *noms on them happily* … eh, I guess one of the other seekers count too. *gives those who guessed 'a seeker' a cookie*
But poor Stars; how can Darcy be so mean!?
His little sis Shelly is a TransFan like Skylar, Acia and Nikki, and she has a mix of Cons and Bots; Megsy, OP, TC, Shocky, BB, Huffer, yeah… that's her little collection. But now she's lost her Stars all because of a mean joke her brother played :(
Anyway, let's go see how easily the others are gonna accept Starscream…