AC: Hello readers. I'm glad to see so many of your liking this story.
As for the Insecticon and Arcee pairing, I didn't think about it, but it might be a possibility if it is a popular demand. Not on this story, but maybe on the sequel.
Chapter 4: Insecticon can't build
Arcee optic reactivated as she went out of recharge. Her articulations made a loud sound and she stood up of her berth.
"I recharge well. Was the Insecticon I met just my imagination while I was recharging?" Arcee wondered with her processor not fully active yet.
She heard a regular venting sound and she looked at the ceiling of her room. She saw a giant robot Hercules Beetle recharging peacefully. Arcee shouted surprise that he was there and especially at the fact that he made no sound to come in her quarter.
"Wha-la-la-la-la!" the Insecticon suddenly shouted when he heard her. He saw Arcee startled and dropped from the ceiling. He transformed and stood in front of her and scanned the room. He saw nothing and looked at her. "What startled you q- Arcee?"
"What are you doing in my quarter?!" Arcee shouted.
"Oh!" the Insecticon kneel and dropped his head. "My apology! I don't know why I'm here. I was recharging on my berth! I swear on my spark! Maybe my programme activate while I recharge. Maybe."
Arcee sighted and she tapped his helm: "I guess you are telling the true."
"Thank you for your kindness my queen. I'll try and not do this again!" the Insecticon looked at her with a big smile.
Arcee knew he would fail, she just knew.
"-Arcee. Can you come with the Insecticon in the command room?-" Ultra Magnus said in his comlink.
"We are coming," Arcee replied. Arcee started walking and the Insecticon followed her.
They reached the command room and Ultra Magnus was there with Bumblebee and Knock Out, still a little blue from the purging.
"How's your servo Bumblebee?" Arcee asked worried.
"It's alright. My servo wasn't that damage and the auto-repair is soon over," Bumblebee replied.
"I'm sorry again," the Insecticon told Bumblebee again.
"I know it's not your fault," Bumblebee replied.
The Insecticon smiled.
"Why did you call us here sir?" Arcee asked.
"Since the Insecticon is going to stay with us, I thought he could be useful," Ultra Magnus said. "More importantly, it will be an opportunity for him to make him feel as one of us here."
Arcee looked at the Insecticon who was listening to Magnus.
"As for me?" Arcee asked.
"Since he doesn't want to be away from you, you will accompany him," Ultra Magnus said.
"Where do you want us to go?" Arcee asked.
"Bulkhead need help to finish the space port. It's been interrupted and damage with the return of Unicron," Ultra Magnus said.
"I understand. I'll make sure he won't cause trouble there," Arcee said.
"Is it your wish my queen? That I help Bulkhead," the Insecticon asked.
"Yes," Arcee replied.
"I'll do what Bulkhead need," the Insecticon nodded.
"Before you go, you should link your comlink to ours," Ultra Magnus suggested.
The Insecticon nodded and he put his comlink at the same frequency.
"Open the bridge Knock Out," Ultra Magnus said.
"One right into a star," Knock Out said.
"At the Space port," Ultra Magnus corrected.
"I can never have fun," Knock Out complained. "Arcee, be careful."
"I don't need to hear it from you," Arcee replied.
The bridge opened and the autobot went there with the Insecticon.
"Ouch Knock Out! You are in the antagonist zone," Bumblebee said.
"You mean the friendzone?" Knock Out replied.
"No. You need to be her friend first," Bumblebee replied.
At the other side of the bridge, Arcee and the Insecticon looked at the Space port and it was only halfway done. Bulkhead was watching what the vehicons transporting girder by group of three.
"Looking good!" Bulkhead said.
Arcee and the Insecticon joined him.
"How is it going?" Arcee asked.
"Since the decepticon are gone, a lot of them willingly accept to rebuilt Cybertron and live there as their home when it's done. There are still a few problems of course," Bulkhead said.
They saw a vehicon falling from the air and crashed on the ground. Arcee flinched when the vehicon crashed. The vehicon stood up.
"Oh! My back!" he shouted. He cracked his backplate and stood up before continued his work.
"Maybe you should rest," Bulkhead told him.
"I'm fine," the vehicon replied.
"No. You should go and see Ratchet," Bulkhead told him.
The vehicon nodded and he walked away.
Bulkhead turned around and he looked at the two: "Why are you here?"
"Ultra Magnus wants to give a chance to the Insecticon to prove himself. So he asked me to supervise him," Arcee replied.
"Because he doesn't want to be away from you. I think he can take the place of the vehicon and help bringing some girders. We are only halfway done, but we reconstruct five times faster than before Unicron returned," Bulkhead said with a smile.
Arcee noticed a vehicon at a corner depressed.
"What's with him?" Arcee asked.
"It's Steve. He's feeling down with the uncertainty of Starscream wellbeing," Bulkhead replied.
"Someone's worried for Starscream?!" Arcee asked with her optics wide open.
"Yes. Anyway, you can start when you are ready," Bulkhead told the Insecticon.
"Do you want me to go q- Arcee?" the Insecticon asked.
"Yes," she told him.
The Insecticon nodded and he walked at the direction of the vehicons.
Arcee sighted and put her servo on her frontplate. "I don't know how long I can stand this."
"I don't really like him, but he's really trying to be helpful," Bulkhead replied.
"He is loud, but he can be extremely quiet," Arcee said. "He entered in my quarter without me noticing him and he was still recharging."
"...That's scary," Bulkhead commented.
The Insecticon saw the three vehicons picked a grinder and he imitated them. The vehicons noticed him and one of them waved at Bulkhead.
"What's an Insecticon doing here?!" he shouted with dislike.
"Ultra Magnus wants him to help us. He will transport the grinders to the top," Bulkhead replied.
The vehicons grunted at the Insecticon who chose to ignore them. The Insecticon picked one grinder without any trouble and held it with one servo.
Arcee noticed it: "He's really strong."
"True. I could only bring one by myself and I needed my two servos," Bulkhead nodded.
The Insecticon picked another one in his second servo and he walked to the top of the road for the Space port. Because of his size, he was in the way of the vehicons walking down and the vehicons often ducked so they won't be hit by accident. The Insecticon accidentally hit one vehicon.
"Hey! What were you going you stupid Insecticon?!" the vehicon shouted.
The Insecticon turned around and hit another vehicon who lost his balance. He was holding the front part of the grinder and they two others grunted in pain.
"Help!" they shouted. A vehicon that came down picked the front part and release them from the overweight.
"Be careful when you turn around Insecticon!" Arcee shouted. "We really need to find you a designation."
"Okay!" the Insecticon shouted.
He turned around carefully, but he hit the vehicon who tried to stand up right at his faceplate and felt in stasis mode.
"You just knock out my friend!" a vehicon shouted running by the side of the poor vehicon.
"Sorry," the Insecticon replied.
He continued climbing with his charge. The vehicons glared at the Insecticon as they passed near him. Even without any visual indication of emotions, the Insecticon could feel it in their optic. He dropped his helm and walked quietly with his charge.
If only I was with my fellow Insecticons, they wouldn't give me those hateful glares!
He almost reached the top and saw another vehicon giving him hateful glare. The Insecticon ignored him and was about to reach the location when his right pede hit the left pede. The Insecticon lost his balance.
"Woah!" the Insecticon shouted.
He felt on his back and the grinders flew off his hands. The grinders felt down the entire road the Insecticon used to climb and left only destruction. Almost every vehicons were hit and screamed when they sky fall.
"How's that possible?!" Arcee shouted at this unrealistic accident.
"Don't know, but we have vehicons rainstorm!" Bulkhead shouted.
The vehicons landed on the ground. They almost all grunted in pain except one who stood up and looked at himself.
"I'm not dented...I'm alright!" the vehicon shouted.
The Insecticon stood up and looked down.
"I'm sorry! I really am!" the Insecticon shouted. He dropped himself too much and he felt. "Wha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!"
"It's a miracle! Thank Primus and-" the vehicon looked in the air and saw the Insecticon who was about to fall on him. "CURSE YOU UNICRON!"
He stooped screaming when the Insecticon felt on him. The Insecticon grunted in pain and stood up. The Insecticon saw the vehicon he crushed and helped him standing up.
"I'm really sorry," the Insecticon said.
The vehicon pushed the Insecticon away: "Don't touch me! You might offline all my friends!"
Bulkhead and Arcee came and checked the vehicons. They all stood up, but they were dented and grunting in pain.
"None of them are offline," Bulkhead said.
The vehicons sighted and were relief. After this, they looked at the Insecticon who felt their hatred. The Insecticon lowered his body and his shoulder.
"I didn't want to cause all this," the Insecticon wimped.
"Bulkhead! We don't want to work with this Insecticon! He might offline all of us next time! We want him out of here no matter what Ultra Magnus said!" a vehicon said.
The Insecticon backed away from the vehicons.
"Yeah!" the others replied.
"I cannot oppose the order of Ultra Magnus," Bulkhead replied.
"Then we will go on strike!" the vehicons shouted.
They picked placard out of nowhere.
"So-so-so! Solidarity!" they started chanting. "Insecticon out! We won't die for him!"
The Insecticon looked at them and he wondered if he damaged their processor.
"You had a great idea Bulkhead. You explain them what a union is and they formed the Vehicons Union," Arcee commented.
"I thought them that so they can defend their rights once Cybertron will be habitable once again," Bulkhead replied.
The Insecticon looked at the vehicons and back to Bulkhead.
"I have no choice, but to comply," Bulkhead sighted. "This is Bulkhead. The vehicons are asking that the Insecticon don't work with them. It's because he injured almost all of them and they don't want to see him again."
"-This is Ultra Magnus. I understand.-" Ultra Magnus sighted. "Tell the vehicons I'm sorry for the trouble he caused and I'll find something else for him to do,"
Acree looked at the Insecticon. He was looking on the ground with his shoulders low. He was pitiful right now and clearly feeling guilty for what he had done.
"I think it should be for another day," Arcee replied.
"-...I can hear why. Understood,-" Ultra Magnus said, hearing the chant of the vehicons. "I'll open the ground bridge."
A ground bridge opened. Arcee and the Insecticon walked away. The Insecticon whined and said: "I'm sorry Bulkhead."
They entered the ground bridge. Halfway, the Insecticon looked at his queen.
"I failed you q- Arcee. I failed you!" the Insecticon shouted clenching his fang.
Arcee looked at him and she patted his back.
"Maybe you'll do better tomorrow," Arcee said.
The Insecticon nodded, but he wasn't really cheering up.
AC: Here's the end of chapter 4.
Chapter 5: Insecticon designations.
You will discover the name of the Insecticon. I first thought about the name Beetle, but I wasn't satisfied enough with it so I found another one.