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(Okay I know most people don't really like OCs but I swear it is only needed to forward the plot as I don't know any Decepticon Femmes off the top of my head. enjoy and thank you to those that have reviewed!)
Blackout knew Barricade had friends. Even if the stoic interceptor denied ever needing some. The crèche had been quiet for the last few orns and the ringleader of the group had gotten bored with just trying to get out and annoy the rest of the base and had been entertained with just playing within the plain silver walls of the crèche, the rest of the younglings just going with what their leader ordered. Blackout rolled onto his front, grabbing a blank data pad and stylus from underneath his berth and started to scribble as some other younglings ran by squealing and clicking in delight as another ran after them pretending to be Unicron or some other nightmarish mech.
He tried drawing Frenzy first, the spindly hacker had somehow gotten into Scorponok's good books and the two had been partners in crime ever since, the scorpion like partner disappearing for joors at a time down the air vents with Frenzy when he came clattering down the vent in search of entertainment.
He frowned as he finished the sketch; the hacker looked more like a line with four branching eyes and misplaced arms and legs. He sighed through his vents before he tried to draw Barricade. He smiled to himself as he managed to draw the black chevron and the four bright crimson optics that made the mech look somewhat evil at times. He tapped the stylus against his lip plates in thought as he proceeded to try and place the thin, spiky and somewhat short 'door-wings' on the assassin's back. Deciding to give up when he got to the torso he dropped the stylus and examined his handy work. It was crude and childish he finally summed up, noticing how his Frenzy drawing outdone the head and shoulders of Barricade in height.
With a frown he turned off the data-pad as he heard peds walking towards him. He felt the berth dip as the crèche watcher sat beside him.
"What's the matter Blackout?" came the voice of the only femme that any youngling in the crèche actually felt safe talking to.
"Nothing" replied the grey mechlet moodily as he looked over his shoulder at the femme through his fanned rotor blades
"I think you're lonely" smiled the femme, making him scowl at her
"No I'm not!" he denied "I like being alone"
"Is that why you cling to Barricade like a lost turbo puppy?" the femme asked leaning back against the wall as Blackout looked dejected for a klick then sat up and faced her
"So?" Blackout replied almost smugly "You make puppy optics at him if he doesn't come and get energon with you"
"And how would you know that?" asked the femme clearly more amused than annoyed, the dark blue armour highlighted with silver glinting in the crèche's light, her helm like a Spartan Centurion's holding a set of garnet optics that flared in slight embarrassment and surprise
"Frenzy told Scorponok who told me" Blackout said proudly "I'm an intel gatherer"
"On the gripe vine of the Decepticons? Kid you have a dull life if that is the only thing that has you excited" the femme snorted
"That's not all!" cried Blackout determined to prove his worth to the only kind femme on the base. "Frenzy also said that Ravage is scared of the dark and that Soundwave has to talk him through the vents and stuff. And the reason that Starscream is always a traitorous glitch is that he's in denial!"
"Oh? About what?"
"Promise not to tell anybot else Shivershot?" Blackout whispered optics flickering from side to side to check for eavesdroppers
The femme obliged him leaning forward as if it was a great secret she was about to be told "They say he's in denial that he likes Megatron"
Shivershot jerked away with a roar of laughter Blackout puffing out his chest in offense "It's true! Frenzy said that's what all the others are saying!"
"I knew there was a reason Barricade kept you around little one" Shivershot grinned "Seems my old friend picked a winner with you"
"Nu-uh! Barricade doesn't have friends" Blackout said with a small smile waving a finger as if scolding the femme "He has aquai…aquainatansises"
"You mean acquaintances, Blackout" Shivershot smiled fondly patting him on the helm "You've got quite a range of vocabulary for one so young"
"I'm ten vorns old! I'm not young anymore, I'm nearly a big mech!" Blackout declared proudly fanning out his rotor blades that had become longer as he grew.
Shivershot smiled and winked an optic at him "true, you'll be doing weapons training soon with Soundwave"
"Not Barricade?" Blackout said a little disheartened "He said he's teach me the parts on his rifle!"
"Oh?" Shivershot asked surprised
"Uh-huh he was going to teach me when Bonecrusher came in looking for me and they got into a fight over me and something really weird happened to one of Barricade's optics, it actually went a bright blue colour like the colour of that crystal picture you showed me and then he beat the slag out of Bonecrusher! It was so cool! Then Megatron came in… I think 'Cade got in trouble" Blackout described waving his hands about
"Oh… that… yes Blackout he got into trouble" Shivershot said softly shivering slightly as she remembered the state of the stubborn assassin when he returned from his dressing down at the servos of Megatron to her quarters to get patched up, being to proud to go and ask Hook for assistance. "He's on a mission right now, that's why he hasn't come to see you these last few days"
"He comes and see's me?" Blackout asked confused not remembering Barricade ever coming to visit apart from collecting Frenzy when the hacker couldn't be bothered returning to Barricade under his own steam. "Oh!" he gasped finally realising that Barricade did sometimes ask about his welfare before sweeping back out in his usual predatory gait.
"Barricade has difficulty showing he cares" Shivershot smiled softly getting up "He is normally gruff with those he considers close to him, anyway, little mech you'd better get some recharge, you lot are starting weapons training next orn, and you know how ruthless Soundwave can be"
Blackout winced remembering one of the weaker younglings that had failed Soundwave's crash course in agility. The youngling hadn't made it through the recharge cycle… "Okay" he sighed lying down on his side shifting his rotor blades out of the way as Scorponok slipped out of the vent and onto his berth, curling up beside him like a catbot as the lights of the crèche gradually went out.
Shivershot smiled at the sleeping younglings, some had decided to camp out with each other this recharge cycle and had formed a pile up on one of the larger berths.
She turned as she heard the door hiss open and four optics glared out of the shadows of the corridor "He thinks the world of you" she commented as a familiar black and white frame came to stand by her
"Does it matter?" rumbled Barricade quietly crossing his arms over his chest plates as Frenzy sat on his shoulder clicking softly to himself over what appeared to be an energon goodie clasped in his four arms
"He cares about you, he sees you as his mentor" Shivershot said gravely as they made their way back to their respective quarters "If he makes it through Soundwave's training programmes you'll have a very powerful ally"
"If I admit I care for the brat will it stop you annoying me about visiting him?" Barricade finally snapped as they reached the turn off point at the end of the corridor
"No, I expect you keep following through with my nagging, and Blackout said you visit so don't pretend you aren't fond of him in your own odd way" The femme teased waving at him as she disappeared down the corridor
"Meddling femmes" Barricade spat icily stalking down the corridors and disappearing into his quarters with a low almost amused sounding chuckle.