Welcome to College
The Date
All right I am completely skipping the Decepticons because they just didn't work for this set of chapters. So I am going on with The Autobots and Arcee in the same chap. I know many of you have been waiting for this so I hope you Love It! Enjoy.
Friday: 1200 hours, WheelJack and Aquanette, DE'ANDRA DELTA SORORITY HOUSE
WheelJack walked up to the front door and took in a deep breath before knocking. Voices and shuffling could be heard inside as he waited for someone to open the door. Moments passed and he was ready to walk away but before he could the door swung open and a girl with white-blonde hair and blue steaks in it leaned against the frame.
"Ya must be WheelJack." She said smiling.
"Yep, I'm guessin you're Aquanette."
"Call me Aqua." She moved out of the way to allow him in. Just as he stepped a foot in the doorway a small explosion came from the kitchen and Duchess ran out with her top fur singed.
"Dang't you Duchess!" He saw the girl with bright pink hair running out of the kitchen and reach for the dog. "I told you to stay out." She grabbed her and looked towards the two. "Sorry Aqua, she kind of messed with your grenades." Jade said shrugging sheepishly.
"It's kay, it was a doosey anyways." Aquanette said waving her off and Jade walked off to put their dog outside. "So... uh, you wanna see what I got so far."
"Sure." She walked to the kitchen and he followed behind. When they got there he could see the mess Duchess had made, the soot covered half the table and one of the chairs. Aqua dusted it off and offered him the cleaner seat. He sat down and looked at the bombs that she had already built and WheelJack went to grab one. "Wait!" It was to late, he grabbed it and it exploded in his face. He coughed and she bit her bottom lip trying not to laugh. "I was gonna say, their not stable enough." He coughed again and smiled at her.
"I kinda figured that out." She grabbed a kitchen towel and handed it to him, still trying to hold back her laughter but losing in the process. "What's so funny?"
"I'm sorry, it's just that it's kinda funny."
"Really." He lightly grabbed a grenade and looked at it. "Think fast." He tossed it to her and she yelped just as she caught it making it blow up in her face. WheelJack looked to her and started to laugh. "You're right, that is funny." She took the towel from him and wiped her face off.
"Thanks for the warning." She laughed herself and sat down in the chair. "Good one though." He sat back in the chair and folded his foot over his leg.
"Thanks." She smirked and they talked for a bit more before working on the bombs. WheelJack deemed most of them unstable so he taught her how to make newer more stable bombs that they could use without having them blow up in their faces.
Aquanette was in the middle of building a grenade when she got a screw stubborn enough not to go in. She pushed harder with the screwdriver and WheelJack looked up and shook his head. "I see part of your problem." He stood up from his seat and walked over to her. "You have to be gentle at this stage of building the grenade or they will become over sensitive." He stood behind her chair and took her left hand in his left and her right hand in his right. He then positioned her hands so that they were gently touching the grenade and not forcing it to work. Aquanette felt her cheeks heating up as he loomed over her and helped her put the screws in so that they made the bomb more stable than her original ones.
They spent a few more hours working out the kinks and twerks of the unstable bombs. Once they figured them out the built more with what they wanted to use inside instead of the soot. Afterwards they went out the back and tested out the new ones. Aqua threw the first grenade and watched as it blew up right before it hit the target.
"It blew up too fast." Aqua said sighing thinking that they were going to have to go back to the drawing board.
"Not really... It's a sensory grenade, blows up right before hitting its target, makes it cover its victims more." He said walking over to the fence and setting down a flat bomb and walking back to Aquanette. He then picked up a squeaky toy making Duchess run towards him, without noticing the dog he threw the toy and let it land on the bomb, it blew up just as duchess got there covering her in its contents. She sneezed and started to chase her tail before barking and running off. WheelJack folded his arms and smiled. "It works like a charm."
"And that was a-."
"Above land mine, painted to look like its surroundings." Aqua smirked and threw another of the grenades, it landed on the ground and smoke poured out of it covering the targets.
"Nice, perfect for fast get aways."
"Yep." He looked to the small bomb he had in his hand and then to Aquanette. "So how many did you say you needed?"
"About 50 or more of each."
"Of each!?"
"Ya, can you do that?"
"You're helping right?" He asked sarcastically throwing the grenade into the air and catching it before throwing at the target.
"Of course, I'm not losing a chance to learn more about yo- bombs." She looked away trying not to blush.
"Me neither." He smiled at her and she bit her bottom lip. "Look, if were going to be building this many bombs by... Um."
"Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow!?" She nodded at him and smiled trying to say 'sorry' "Well we best get movin." They walked back into the house and started on the rest of the bombs going as fast as they could to finish all of them in the one day they had.
Friday: 1800 hours, Arcee, Mall
Arcee had been out all day with Jade since 12 in the afternoon. WheelJack was apparently still at the house helping Aquanette build the mini bombs for tomorrow. They were as of now in a clothing store in the mall, Jade had been towing her around everywhere for something to wear. Arcee protested though saying that she was just going to wear her Biking suit. After a bit of wearing down Jade gave in and said she could wear it, but she won the battle in making Arcee get her hair and makeup professionally done. When they left the clothing store Jade grabbed her hand and dragged her down to 'KATIES HAIR & MAKEUP SALON'.
"They're having a sale today, and they're the best in town!" Jade said pushing her into the shop. Once they were in they were greeted by a girl with curled hair and deep makeup.
"How may I help you gals today?" She asked kindly looking to Arcee who had plain straight hair and no makeup. "A hair and makeup day I presume."
"Yep." Jade said pushing Arcee closer to the woman. "Someone has a date tonight." Arcee tried to smile but she felt a little overwhelmed by the lady in front of her.
"What kind of date?" The woman asked smiling.
"Well... Katie." Jade said looking at her name-tag. "It's a drive in theater date, plus motorcycle ride.."
"Alright so something simple but cute and helmet resistant for the hair. And for the makeup I am presuming something bikerish with a hint of girl."Jade nodded agreeing with Katie. "Well alright, if you'll come with me, I'll seat you down and get started." She grabbed Arcee's hand and pulled her to an empty seat.
Honestly Arcee didn't even know why she was doing this, she liked her natural self with no extremities, but this was her first date as a human so she decided to listen to Jade on this one. "Ok, were going to have to wash your hair and then we can get started." The woman said strapping some kind of tarp like thing over her body. She then led her to the sinks and began to spray her hair with water. Once they were done she brought her back and began working on her hair.
About an hour later she was done and Arcee had to admit she liked her new style. The top of her head was a large braid that worked it's way down into a smaller braid at the end, then the sides of her hair were pulled back tightly into part of her braid near the bottom.
"Now with your makeup." Katie said walking over to a desk with brushes and utensils set on it. As she was picking out some things Jade walked over and admired Arcee's new look.
"Love it! Told you she was good."
"I like it." Arcee stated.
"Like it?"
"Well I really have never had my hair done like this."
"Really? You just don't seem like the type." Arcee shrugged and looked in the mirror again, literally she had never had her hair done like this, because only a week ago she didn't even have hair.
Katie walked back over with brushes and palettes of colors. Jade walked back to the waiting section of the salon and sat down in a chair while picking up a magazine. The woman then started on her makeup telling her not to look into the mirror until she was finished.
Another hour later Katie flipped the chair so that Arcee was facing the mirror and the former bot looked into it. Her mouth dropped open and she had to blink a few times to actually realize that it was her starring into the mirror. She had black eyeliner that was thin on the inside and thick on the outer-side, her eyes were covered in a royal blue at the base and near the crease, while her top lid was shaded in a slivery white color. Her cheeks were lightly brushed with a quiet shade of pink, and her lips were painted in a deep pink color that flowed with her eyes.
"All done." Hearing this Jade shot up from her seat and ran over to see the finishing touches.
"It's gorgeous! Wow Katie you work wonders."
"Hey!" Arcee said taking it as an insult.
"I didn't mean it in a bad way." Arce rolled her eyes and removed the tarp like blanket.
"Thank you very much Katie, you did a great job." She said handing over the cover.
"Why thank you."
"How much will it be."
"50$."
"That's a lot of money." Arcee said digging into her new purse but Jade stopped her.
"I'm paying."
"Ya-no, I'm paying for this."
"Try me." Arcee dug and pulled out the fifty in cash, she went to hand it to the lady but saw her walking off with Jade's credit card. "Beat you." They walked to the front desk and waited for her to finish up the payment. Afterwards they left the mall and headed back to the house to finish up on a few details for their game with the Alphas tomorrow.
Friday: 1930 hours, Optimus and Arcee, Campus and Theater,
Arcee set on her helmet and rode out from the driveway, she then silently made her way over to the Autobotst frat house, checking her clock every few seconds to make sure she wasn't going to be late. When she got there she turned off the ignition and took off her helmet. Arcee then walked up to the door and rang the doorbell.
Her stomach was churning and her heart was pounding all the while her head was reeling. What was she doing, was she really going to go out on a date with her leader, her boss? She contemplated on turning around and leaving the place while she still had the time, but something was keeping her there and making her strain from escaping. She swallowed and took in a deep breath, to say the least she was kind of afraid. What if the date went wrong? What would Optimus think of her then? And what if they returned back to their normal state and they had to work together? She shook the thoughts from her head and bit her bottom lip.
Before she could do or think anything else the door opened and she looked to see Optimus standing in the doorway. He was smiling and looking nervous himself. He was wearing a red colored and blue striped tee that was fit with a pair of black pants, she looked to see that he was holding a blanket in his hands.
"Hey." He said speechless at how Arcee looked, she was beautiful more beautiful than any other woman he had seen around the campus.
"Hey." She replied. To tell the truth they were both lost for words, either of them didn't know what to say since they had never been on dates before or it had been a really long time. "So, uh... the movie is going to start soon, you uh."
"uh, ya, ya. I'm bringing a blanket, for just in case."
"Sure, sounds good." Arcee walked back to her motorcycle with Optimus following behind. She got on and held her hands onto the handles waiting for Optimus to get on behind her.
After a few minutes of looking he found out how and where to get on, once he was fully on Arcee started the engine. She handed him an extra helmet and he set it on just as she set on hers. "You wanna hold onto my waist." She waited but nothing. "If you don't you stand the chance of falling off."
"Oh." She was surprised by his lack of quick observation, maybe he was just as confused about this whole thing as she was. Once he was holding on she backed out of the driveway and drove out on the road.
Optimus was a little embarrassed at being confused on what to do with the motorcycle, but he was better with fully covered cars and trucks. They were on the freeway now and he had to say he enjoyed the coolness of the wind flowing against himself while they rode, he now understood why Arcee had chose a motorcycle as her alt-form.
It took them about 5 minutes, but they reached the drive in theater. He, from learning about humans, paid for the movie and snacks while Arcee chose a spot on the grounds. Once he had gotten everything they had wanted he walked over to her and saw that she was laying down the blanket. When he got over to her the movie was starting. They sat down on the blanket not really knowing what to do. As the movie started they saw that it was one called 'SAW' which Arcee had heard was a horror movie, but what could be so scary about it.
The movie started out normal, nothing that could scare anyone, but as it got more and more into the move Arcee started to notice that she was a bit scared. By now they had finished off the popcorn and soda's so nothing but a small box of candy was left. She brought her knees up to her chest and hid her face in it when a part she didn't like came on. Optimus saw her do so and he could tell the movie was scaring her. He wrapped his arms around her and scooted her closer so she was sitting next to him, Arcee peeked out of her knees and smiled at Optimus.
"Thank you."
"Of course." They looked back at the movie and Arcee could barley stand it. It wasn't that it was so scary that she was becoming childlike scared, it's because it reminded her so much of the war, it reminded her of when she was kidnapped by Arachnid and how she watched her partner die.
Optimus watched Arcee more than the movie, he could tell it was scaring her, mostly because it probably reminded her of parts of the war. He got up and moved around before sitting back down so that she was between him, he then wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned his chin against her shoulder.
"Don't be frightened." She looked up and smiled at him feeling safer and less scared, but their moment was cut short by someone plopping down next to them and smiling like a maniac.
"Hey!" They looked to see Breonna sitting next to them and eating a bag of popcorn. "What'cha doin?" She asked having a hint of demand in her question.
"Nothing that concerns you." Arcee said wanting to push the girl away.
"Aww, I wanted to watch the movie with you both." She said scooting closer to them making the two move a few inches away. "What's the matter, am I not wanted?" She made a pouty face and made her eyes sad.
"Kind of, ya." Breonna looked away for a few seconds, but before they could let out a sigh of relief she looked back at them.
"You know, this movie scares me, but I love it!... I remember when I saw my first horror film, it was with my friend back at high school... We were bored and eager to get scared, don't know why."
"Me neither." Arcee said under her breath.
"But we just really wanted to be scared, so we went to a horror film... I had nightmares for a week or more, I can't remember."
"If you don't shut-up I'll give you new nightmares to have."
"Sheesh no need to get all crabby... You know when I say crabby I think of Sp-" Arcee looked to Optimus and he nodded. They got up without her noticing and folded up the blanket thankful that she had sat on the bare ground. They got on the motorcycle and they silently made their way out watching as Brittniannes SIC kept talking about nothing. Once they were out of the theater they rode around until they reached a grassy hill.
Optimus got off and took the blanket as Arcee got off herself. He then grabbed her hand and led her up the hill to the top, from there he laid the blanket down and sat on it with her.
"I didn't like that movie anyways." Arcee said cuddling up to Optimus who had her in the same position they were in at the movies.
"Me too, not a big fan of the horror films." He said smiling now that she felt better. They sat in silence for a while gazing at the stars. "I remember back on Cybertron when I would go up to the unlighted hills and gaze at the stars. When I had got to know Megatronus he had went up with me sometimes and taught me the constellations that circled our planet. That was until-" Arcee heard the sadness in his voice remembering when his good and loyal friend had gone rouge.
"Could you teach me some of them?" She asked trying to change part of the subject and he nodded. They then laid down on the grass and Optimus began to point out the different patterns in the stars.
"That is Little Dipper," He said pointing to a small saucer like cup. "And that there is Big Dipper." he then moved his hand and pointed to a bigger version of the saucer cup. He moved his hand around and eyed the stars before speaking again. "That there is Orion the Archer." she squinted and raised her brow. "see there how those three stars look like a belt, and from there you can go up and over to see his hand holding the arrow." He was tracing out the figure with Arcee's hand and she nodded.
"I see it... any more?" He looked around and shook his head.
"Not that I can see right now." Optimus looked over to her and saw that she had the largest smile on her face, something he hadn't seen in forever since the war. He turned on his side so he was facing her. "Arcee?" He asked quietly makinher her turn to her side also.
"Yes Optimus." He really didn't know what to say, he felt something for her and he knew what it was but still he couldn't say it.
"I.. Um." Her smile was dimming now showing that she was a bit confused and he sat up followed by Arcee. "I really don't know how to... uh..." He looked to the grass and took in a deep breath, when he looked up he saw that she was closer and looking slightly confused but anticipated. "I.. um." He couldn't speak as if the words were stuck in his throat. "Did you know actions speak louder than words." She looked at him curiously and raised a brow at what he was saying.
"What do you me-" She was cut off in mid sentence by him pressing his lips against hers. She had tensed up a bit by the surprised, but after a few seconds she relaxed and fell into the moment. How could it possibly get any worse? moments passed and nothing interupted thier perfect moment, until.
"HI!" Arcee jerked back and looked to see Breonna sitting near them and smiling. "Ohhh, did I interrupt you guys sorry... I just find this hill rather entrancing and silent." She looked to both of them and smiled even more. "You guys missed the ending to the movie, well actually I did too so whatever!" Arcee stood up from her spot and so did Optimus.
"I have to get going back, I have a really busy day tomorrow." Arcee said to Optimus bummed that their moment had been interrupted.
"I should get back too." They looked to Breonna who just shrugged and kept sitting in her spot. The two packed their stuff and headed back to their houses. Arcee dropped Optimus off and said goodbye with a simple kiss. "Maybe again sometime."
"Definitely." She got back on her motorcycle and rode back to her house giving one last look to Optimus before setting her eyes on the road ahead of her. Tonight was perfect, except for the interruptions but either way. And tomorrow was hopefully going to follow in perfection, but even if they did lose at least she would still get the guy.
Once Arcee arrived back at the house she didn't bother to get into her pajamas instead she fell onto her bed and passed out with a smile on her face.
I hope it was as you thought it was going to be! Either way I enjoyed writing this chap. I will do the Decepticons soon, but they really didn't fit so ya..
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