Chapter 3: A Cold Welcome

Knock Out looked at himself, covered with rotten energon. He felt sick and he wimped before starting to overheat.

"You...You!... YOU! YOU COMPLETELY RUINED MY PAINTJOB!" Knock Out screamed.

"You should bring the Insecticon out of here and give him some energon!" Ratchet suggested as Knock Out took out his drill.

"PREPARE FOR SURGERY!" Knock Out screamed.

"I'll do it," Arcee said walking away with the Insecticon tailing her. Ratchet was busy trying to contain the fury of the ex-decepticon.

"COME BACK HERE YOU SPARKLING OF A-" Knock Out screamed was cut when the door to the medic room closed.

Arcee looked at the Insecticon.

"You know how to leave a mark," she told him.

"I know my queen," the Insecticon replied with a smile. Arcee rolled her optic at that smile.

They reached the storage room where the energon was. Arcee picked one energon cube.

"Anyway, here's a clean energon," Arcee said.

"You are so generous my queen," the Insecticon told her with a smile before he consumed the energon with a loud sound. He saw there were a few more. "Can I have another one my queen?"

"Stop calling me queen," Arcee grunted annoyed before she continued. "My designation is Arcee."

The Insecticon twitched his head a little confused. Arcee waited for his processor to catch on.

"Oh! Understood Queen Arcee," the Insecticon told her.

"Just Arcee."

"Queen Arcee."

Arcee continued arguing while glaring at him until she gave up for now: "You can have another one."

The Insecticon picked another one and consumed the entire cube. He patted his tank.

"Wha-la-la! It's so good to have a full tank," the Insecticon told Arcee.

"What's that sound?" a voice said coming in the storage room.

It was Bumblebee who saw the Insecticon.

"So this is the Insecticon you found," Bumblebee said.

The Insecticon moved protectively in front of Arcee.

"Who dares trying to talk to my Queen Arcee?" the Insecticon asked.

Bumblebee tried not to laugh at what he said and when he was calm, he spoke: "I'm Bumblebee. I'm a friend of Arcee."

"Is it true my Queen Arcee?" the Insecticon asked.

"Yes. He's a friend who saved my life a few times during the war," Arcee replied.

"Thank you from protecting Queen Arcee when I wasn't there to protect her," the Insecticon said.

Arcee grunted in annoyance: "I can defend myself. I almost beat you."

"True Queen Arcee," the Insecticon replied.

Bumblebee raised his head and tried to be polite: "It's a pleasure to meet you."

The Insecticon looked at the hand confused.

"Grab the hand and shook it," Arcee told him.

The Insecticon didn't reply or do anything for a while.

"What's happening to him?" Bumblebee asked.

"His processor is in slow motion for now. He didn't recharge for a-"

"Grab and shook it," the Insecticon said.

He grabbed the hand of Bumblebee and the autobot shouted in pain.

"LET GO!" Arcee ordered before the Insecticon shook the hand.

The Insecticon opened his servo and he released the hand of Bumblebee. It was dented and damaged. The only good this was that Bumblebee was leaking energon.

"What is wrong with you?!" Arcee shouted.

The Insecticon wimped and he dropped his helm: "I obey your order. I grabbed his hand and was about to shook it."

"Not that hard!" Arcee replied loudly.

"I didn't know," the Insecticon wimped and looked down.

"Are you alright," Arcee said walking near Bumblebee and checked his servo.

"I'll...ask Ratchet to check...it out," Bumblebee said. He walked away painfully.

"Sorry," the Insecticon said.

Bumblebee replied with a painful glare. He disappeared in a corner.

"I really didn't know," the Insecticon said.

"You should learn to control your strength," Arcee told him.

The Insecticon yawned and after a few seconds, he nodded.

"I think we should find out a place you should recharge," Arcee told him.

"Thank you Queen Arcee,"

"Just call me Arcee!" she snapped out.

The Insecticon was taken aback. He took a step back and nodded. "As you wish qu- Arcee," he felt pain in his spark when he angered her.

They reached the main room and three more autobots where there. Wheeljack, Bulkhead and Smokescreen were present. They looked at Arcee direction and saw the Insecticon. Wheeljack and Bulkhead glared at him while Smokescreen wondered if he saw what he thought he saw.

"Arcee. Is that an Insecticon or my optics are malfunctioning?" Smokescreen asked.

Arcee vented: "He is an Insecticon,"

"What's it doing here?" Wheeljack said while watching the Insecticon.

"He's following me around," Arcee answered annoyed. She hoped those questions will end soon.

"Why?" Bulkhead asked.

"Why are you glaring at me that way?" the Insecticon asked.

The three autobots looked at the Insecticon wondering why he said it now.

"His processor is slow right now. He needs to recharge," Arcee answered.

"Recharge depravation," Smokescreen commented.

"I thought this Insecticon was stupid and-" Wheeljack was cut.

"Arcee is my queen. I must follow her for her safety," the Insecticon replied to Bulkhead question.

The three autobots looked at Arcee and the Insecticon and their mouth plate opened wide.

"He obviously doesn't know you," Bulkhead commented.

"That Insecticon is really stupid," Wheeljack grunted.

"Anyway, I'll bring him to a room where he could rest," Arcee said.

Wheeljack walked beside the Insecticon and he said aggressively: "You better don't cause any trouble Insecticon and especially to Bulkhead. I've deal with a lot of your kind,"

The Insecticon looked at Wheeljack by the side and clenched his servo into a fist, but didn't do anything else.

"We should go," Arcee told the Insecticon who followed her.

The three other autobots watched them leaving.

"Why did you provoke him?" Smokescreen asked.

"A good Insecticon is an offline Insecticon. They are dangerous and extremely aggressive. I'm sure this one had a plan in his processor," Wheeljack answered, thinking about the one who almost offline Bulkhead.

"There's not a lot of them who can talk. It is a possibility, but they are loyal to the Decepticon and they are no more," Bulkhead agreed.

"How can you be sure? Starscream wasn't found; a few decepticons might want to take power at Megatron place," Wheeljack replied.

"If you are searching for him Wheeljack and he attacks you, it would have nothing to do with it," Smokescreen replied.

"Maybe. But a sightless hint of betrayal and he's offline," Wheeljack said.

Arcee guided the Insecticon to a room and she opened it.

"This is where you will recharge," Arcee told him.

"Is this where you recharge too?" the Insecticon asked.

Arcee could already guess where this is going: "No. This is where you will recharge."

"I must protect you Q- Arcee. I have to be with you," the Insecticon replied.

"No. Do you know what privacy is?" Arcee asked. She knew it will happen, but it annoyed her.

"What is that word?" the Insecticon asked.

Arcee grunted and her optic twitched for a second: "When you are alone and thinking alone."

"No," the Insecticon replied honestly.

The Insecticon crossed his arms and was thinking: "Nope. Insecticons minds are always connected, so only one of us could talk for all of us. I just learn mine is disconnected."

Arcee nodded: "That make sense. I want to be alone when I recharge and you should start learning it yourself."

The Insecticon clapped his claw together and chuckled nervously: "I said that I'll always be by your side q- Arcee."

"I order you to let me recharge alone," she ordered the Insecticon.

The Insecticon saw her glare strait in his optic. He dropped his shoulders and his head. He held his arms and he vented loudly: "As...As you wish."

They entered in the room and left Arcee alone. Arcee sighted and she walked in her quarter to recharge. She was glad that the Insecticon wasn't on his back for a while and decided to recharge. Having him on her back was exhausting.

"I don't want to know what's going to happen tomorrow," Arcee sighted.

AC: This is the end of chapter 3.

Chapter 4: Insecticon can't build