Hi again, I just want to say a couple of things. First I forgot to tell you that ~ "..." ~ is Soundwave's way of communicating to others when he doesn't want to use his own voice. Also I just want you guys to know that I will be blending a few details from this story into my other Transformers Prime story called Experiment X. Additionally, I will be posting more pictures of my OCs on my DevianArt page if you guys want to go see what they look like. That's all I have to say at the moment, so enough chit chat and let's get on to the story.

Chapter 10: The Good Times and the Bad Times

POV Megatronus

It had been three months since Arron confronted me and my daughter. Harmony was still a bit uneasy about what happened, but she'll recover from the experience in time.

Anyway, today is the day that Harmony will be attending her first day of school. She is old enough to attend, and she's been wondering what it's like to be in school. I saw my lovely wife, Neonna, get up out of bed to go wake up our daughter.

"Harmony, it's time to wake up and go to school" she said so sweetly. Then I heard little running footsteps as my little girl made her way to the bathroom to get ready for school.

I decided that it was about time that I should get up and start my day. I yawned loudly as I stretched out my body. I then sleepily walked out of the bedroom to see Neonna standing in the hallway by the bathroom door.

"Harmony, you better be brushing those teeth" Neonna said as she waited for our sparkling to come out.

"Mom" Harmony complained as I heard her turn on her toothbrush.

My sparkmate sighed before she turned to me, smiled lovingly, and said, "Good morning, Megatronus."

I smiled as I came closer to her, kissed her lovingly, and replied, "Good morning, how are you doing today, my love?"

She sighed as she replied, "Tired, and a bit worried about Harmony."

"How come?" I asked her curiously.

"Oh, I guess I'm a bit worried that something would happen today" she replied.

I laughed a little before I said, "You worry too much, my dear. She'll be just fine on her first day of school."

"I guess you're right" she replied to me.

I smiled warmly before we kissed each other again. I heard the door of the bathroom open.

"Eeeeww! Mom, Dad really? Kissing?" Harmony said in disgust.

We both started to laugh before I said in between chuckles, "Oh Harmony, once you have a sparkmate of your own, then you will understand why we kiss."

My daughter shook her head and retorted, "I will never ever have a sparkmate!"

We laughed again before Neonna said, "Never say never, my little Harmony."

Harmony pouted at us before my mate continued, "Now, go fuel up before we're late for your first day of school. You don't want to be late, do you?"

Harmony's optics widened as she raced into the kitchen to fuel up on energon. I turned to my wife and said, "She still has time before school starts you know."

"I know, but I just want her to get into the routine of getting up early" she replied to me.

I smiled for a moment before I heard Harmony shout, "Mom, I need help! I can't reach the cups."

Neonna sighed as she replied, "I'm coming."

I grabbed her by the shoulder and said, "I'll go help our daughter. You go ahead and get ready so that we can drop off our daughter at her school together."

She nodded as she went into the bathroom to get ready while I went into the kitchen to go help my daughter by getting her a cup from the cupboard.

After everyone got ready and fueled up on energon, we started to get ready to leave the house.

"Harmony, do you have everything?" Neonna asked our daughter.

"Yup" Harmony replied cheerfully.

"School supplies?" Neonna asked.

"Check" my daughter responded.

"Energon lunch box?" Neonna said as she looked to see if Harmony has her lunch box.

"Right here" she replied while lifting up her little pink and blue lunch box.

"Do you have your datapad?" my wife asked.

Harmony sighed as she complained, "Mom, can we just go already?"

"Alright, alright. Let's get you to school" she said as I opened the door.

Harmony giggled as she was the first one out of the house. Neonna walked out after our daughter while I stayed behind to lock up the house. Then we were on our way to drop off Harmony at her school. Her school wasn't really that far away from our home, so it would probably take us about fifteen to twenty minutes to get there.

I saw Harmony smile cheerfully as we walked her to school. We finally arrived at the school that Neonna and I have enlisted our daughter in. Several sparklings from different age groups gathered around the entrance of the school.

Harmony was in awe at the number of different sparklings that were her age or older. "Wow, I didn't know that there would be so many sparklings around my age, Papa" she said as her optics looked around until she noticed the playground.

I bent down towards her and said, "How about you go play with the other kids, Harmony."

"Oh, I don't know Dad" she replied to me.

"Why not?" I asked her curiously.

She shrugged before she replied, "I don't know these kids. I think it would look too weird for me to just barge in on their game."

I replied to her, "That's not weird at all. You see before Shadowwave and I became friends, he and a group of his friends were playing a game. So I came up to him and asked if I could join and he said yes. Ever since then we became very close friends."

Harmony nodded in reply before she asked, "So, are you guys coming into the building with me?"

"I'm afraid we cannot" I said as I saw her optics fall to the ground before I said, "but we will wait here until you go inside the building."

"But where would I go?" she asked curiously.

I took out her datapad from her backpack, showed her the school's diagram of the rooms, and said, "You are on the first floor of the building in room 102 with Mrs. Moonlight and her assistant Ms. Lunarstar." I then put Harmony's datapad back into her bag so that she wouldn't forget it.

She nodded her head and replied, "Do you think that they're going to be nice teachers?"

I smiled as I replied, "I'm sure they are."

All of the sudden the bell rang as the sparklings flocked into the school to go to class. Neonna knelt down to our daughter and said, "You better hurry inside before you're late for class on your first day of school."

Harmony nodded as she timidly started to walk towards the building. She walked a few feet away from us before she turned her head towards us. I gave her a smile of reassurance. She smiled back at us as she continued to walk towards the school until she disappeared inside the building.

Neonna sighed as she said, "I hope she would make some new friends and have a good time at school."

I chuckled a bit before I replied, "I know she will." Neonna turned to me and smiled before I continued, "Besides, Soundwave is going to be in her class."

My wife looked at me and said, "Why didn't you tell her?"

I smiled at her and replied, "I wanted it to be a surprise. Now we better get going."

She nodded as we turned to walk back home.

POV Harmony

I was walking inside the huge building to try and find my class. I finally found my classroom and went inside. I was amazed at how many kids are in my class. They were busy talking and playing with each other to even notice me walk into the room.

I saw my friend Soundwave as I timidly walked towards him. He noticed me and waved a friendly hello.

I sat right next to him and said, "It's nice to see a familiar face."

He nodded in agreement. I noticed that he was wearing his visor, but I didn't ask why he was wearing it.

Then the second bell rang as everyone took their seats. Two young femme then came into the room.

"Good morning class" said the beautiful light blue violet and light baby blue femme, who smiled warmly at us. "My name is Mrs. Moonlight. I'll be your Kindergarten teacher for the rest of the school year" she said cheerfully.

Mrs. Moonlight then turned to her assistant and said, "This is my assistant Ms. Lunarstar. She will be helping me with our classroom routines and assignments."

Ms. Lunastar smiled gleefully as she said, "I hope that we would have some found memories of this school year." She was also very pretty because of her cool silver blue armor and light blue and purple tie dye design on her armor around her chest, shoulders, forearms, and legs.

"Okay, before we could begin, I need to take attendance" our teacher said as she took out her datapad and a stylus pen to check off the names. "Arcee?" Mrs. Moonlight said as she looked for the girl.

"Here" said the blue two-wheeler.

Our teacher nodded as she checked off Arcee's name. "Bumblebee?" she said as she searched for him.

"Here" said the yellow and black boy who was sitting next to Arcee.

Mrs. Moonlight continued going down the list until she called my name. "Harmony?" she asked.

"Here" I said shyly as I raised my hand timidly.

She nodded and said, "You have a very cute name."

I blushed a little as I said, "Thank you."

The grey boy who was sitting in front of me huffed as he mumbled something that I didn't quite hear.

The teacher frowned at him as she said, "Now Starscream, I don't want you starting any trouble again this year."

He opened one of his optics and groaned. Mrs. Moonlight only sighed as she continued to go through the list. "Soundwave?" she asked while searching for my friend.

~ "Here" ~ he telepathically said to our teacher. She only nodded as she finished checking off everybody on the list.

Mrs. Moonlight clapped her hands and said, "Since everyone is here, let's play a game so that we can get to know each other. This game is called two truths and a lie. It is a game where you tell something that is true about yourself and tell something that isn't true. You can only tell two truths and one lie, but they can be in any order. I will call on people who raise their hand to try and guess which of the three is a lie."

She paused for a moment before she said, "I'll go first as an example. I have a loving sparkmate, I have five sparklings that go to this school, and I've been a teacher at this school for about sixty years now. Which one is a lie, class?"

Arcee raised her hand. Mrs. Moonlight said, "Yes, Arcee?"

"It's the third one. That's the lie" the blue girl said to our teacher.

Our teacher shook her head as she said, "No, that one is true" She saw

A purple femme raise her hand as she called on her, "Yes, Twilight?"

"Is it the second one?" she said.

Our teacher nodded her head and said, "Yes, it is the second one. I don't have five sparklings attending this school. I only have two sons. One in third grade while the other is in fifth grade. Now, who wants to go first?"

Arcee raised her hand as Mrs. Moonlight nodded at her so that she could start. "Okay let's see…." she paused for a moment before she said, "I have an older spark sister named Techna, Bumblebee and I have been friends since we were about twenty years old, and I've never been to any rocketball games in my life."

Bumblebee laughed loudly as he said, "I already know which one is the lie."

Arcee turned to him, narrowed her optics, and said, "You better keep quiet, Bee."

I couldn't help but smile at the two. I knew that the second option must be true because of the way those two were acting up.

"What is the lie, Bumblebee?" asked Ms. Lunarstar.

He smiled and said, "It's the last option. She's obsessed with rocketball that she's been to almost every game. And we were only twenty one when we first met, Arcee."

She shrugged as she replied, "Eh, close enough."

Then it was Bee's turn. "Okay umm…" he paused before he said, "I love to play video games, I don't have any siblings, and I always beat Arcee in the racing games."

"Hey, you always cheat in them! Besides, we both know who is really the speedster around here" said Arcee.

I couldn't help but giggle a little at those two. They really are best friends. Anyway, we decide to snake around the room with the game until it was my turn.

"That was very interesting Wildfire. Now it's your turn Harmony" said Mrs. Moonlight.

I paused for a moment to think of something that no one but Soundwave could answer. "Well, my father is a gladiator, I have been to Crystal City five times, and I personally know Thunderdash from the Blue Lightning Team in rocket ball."

Arcee's optics widened in surprise as she exclaimed, "No way! You personally know Thunderdash!"

Starscream just rolled his optics and replied to Arcee, "You're really going to fall for that obvious lie? Ha, you are so gullible, two-wheeler."

Arcee was about to retort when I shyly cut in. "Um that one is true. I do personally know him because he is my dad's friend" I said.

Arcee's smile grew larger as she smirked at Starscream's surprised look before she said, "Looks who's gullible now, Screamy."

"Anyway if you guys really want to know what the lie is, it's the second statement. I have only been in Crystal City twice since I was about thirty years old" I said.

Once everyone had already gotten a chance to play the game, I found out a few things about Soundwave that I never knew about him. I learned that he likes to play and listen to music, and his mother is a teacher here in this school. I also learned a few things about Starscream. He was held back because of his bad behavior from last year. I also found out that he really wanted to go skydiving with his father someday.

As the day went on, I figured out that school was actually fun. But that didn't really last long when recess came.

I was playing hide and go seek with Soundwave on the playground when three older mech came up to me.

"Oh why does Soundwave have to hide so well?" I said to myself as I checked around the tree to see if he was there.

"Hey there little girl" said a mech.

I turned around to see three mech, who were much older, surround me. I started to back away from them in fear as I shyly asked, "What do you want from me?"

The three chuckled evilly as the leader said, "We just want to give you a nice warm first day of school welcome."

I narrowed my optics as I retorted, "You're lying."

They laughed even more as they continued to enclose me in a tight circle. My spark began to beat rapidly now. I was terrified, I was scared again. This is like deja vu all over again, but it was about mechs around my age.

Then one of them started to push me to the ground. I fell down to the ground as I felt my metal skin scrape up against the metal ground. Tears were starting to form in my eyes as the three laughed at me.

"You're such a weakling! It's hard to believe that you're the daughter of a gladiator" said one of the mechs.

One of the other mechs clicked in amusement as he said, "Little girls shouldn't be playing by themselves." The other two snickered at the comment as they began to close the gap around me.

I saw an opening and quickly seized the opportunity and started to run away from the three bullies. I heard them case after me as I turned towards the playground equipment.

I was running for my life all over again. Then all of a sudden, someone grabbed my arm and dragged me inside a little tunnel by the side of the long slide. I was about to scream when the person covered my mouth. I tried to break out of their embrace when I heard a very familiar voice telepathically speak to me.

~ "It's okay Harmony, you're safe here with me." ~ said Soundwave as he held me protectively like he did when we met Arron.

I cried tears of joy that Soundwave was here with me. We waited and waited until we decided to leave our safe haven and go somewhere else. I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard three very spark chilling laughter.

We turned around to see the three mechs who were chasing after me standing above us.

"I told you boys that it was a matter of time" said the leader. The three jumped down from the platform and started to walk towards us.

One of them laughed loudly as he said, "Yeah, you were right, Gama."

I hid behind Soundwave as he stood in front of me.

"Oo, looks like the wimp has a body guard" said one of the bullies.

Soundwave just stood there like he didn't even hear the bully's comment.

The bully's smile faded away as he said, "Silent type huh?" He then came closer to my friend as he smirked and said, "I know a few things that would make you scream for mercy, freak."

The three advanced towards us until someone said, "Hey!"

We turned to the side to see Starscream coming towards us. He leered at the three mechs as he said, "Pick on someone your own size."

"Buzz out Starscream or do we have to put a few dents in you to shut up again!" shouted the leader.

Starscream narrowed his optics as he said, "Make me, Gama or are you going run to mama."

Gama narrowed his eyes at Starscream as he ran at him and punched him in the jaw. Starscream recoiled in pain before he tackled Gama to the ground. The other two bullies then turned towards us and smirked evilly.

One of them came at us but he stopped when Arcee and Bumblebee cut in between us.

Arcee shook her fists at him and said angrily, "You got a lot of nerve to pick on a kind girl that's done nothing to you!"

"It's none of your business, two-wheeler" retorted the bully.

She narrowed her optics as she retorted angrily, "You made it our business."

I then heard a scream as I turned to see Starscream flat against the ground with his arm twisted up against his back.

"Say uncle Starscream" Gama said as he smirked in enjoyment. Starscream whimpered even more as Gama pulled his arm up against Starscream's back even more. "Say it!" Gama demanded.

I narrowed my eyes as I grabbed Gamma's arm and shouted, "Leave him alone!" He only flung me off as I tripped over something as I landed backwards hard up against the playground equipment. Then I heard a huge crack as I screamed out in pain.

Everyone turned towards me and gasped in horror. I saw that my left leg was punctured by something small, sharp, and pointy while energon started to leak out of my small wound.

"Oh Primus!" Arcee gasped out loud before she turned to Bee and said to him, "Bee, go get help."

Bumblebee nodded his head as he sprinted to get help. Starscream and Soundwave came over to me and tried to ease my pain.

Soundwave held my servo while Starscream pulled the object out of my leg quickly. I grimace at the pain while I squeezed Soundwave's servo tightly. Then the two picked me up as I hopped on one foot towards the nurse who was running towards me with Bumblebee sprinting from behind.

The nurse got me to the nurse's office and put me on the table as she made haste to close up my wound. As she was welding up my leg, I heard a commotion outside the room.

"I'm sorry but you four have to go back to class" said a femme.

"I'm not leaving until we know if she will be okay!" retorted Arcee.

"That goes for me as well" said Starscream.

I heard the nurse sigh as she mumbled something that I couldn't quite hear. Then I turned to the nurse in front of me and asked, "Um...could you let them in please? They're really worried about me."

The nurse looked at me, smiled sincerely, and said, "You have some pretty determined friends out there. I will let them in before my assistant goes filing off their rivets." She then went to the door and called them in. All four of them raced into the room and started to ask a million questions.

I only blinked a couple of times before I said, "Whoa whoa, guys slow down."

They stopped as Bee stepped forward and asked with concern, "Are you going to be alright, Harmony?"

I nodded my head as I replied, "Yeah, the nurse said that it was nothing serious so I should be able to walk normally in a few minutes."

"Why did you try and help me?" asked Starscream.

I looked at the grey mech sincerely as I replied, "Because you tried helping me, so why can't I do the same for you?"

He nodded in reply.

Bumblebee took something from his lunch box and said, "Here, you should have some to eat." He gave me an energon lollypop.

I blushed a little as I replied, "Thank you, Bee."

He nodded as he said, "You're welcome."

Then the five of us began to talk a little while getting to know each other a little more. Even Soundwave joined in on the conversation, though telepathically.

After fifteen minutes had gone by, the nurse came in the room and said to me, "Harmony, I just called your parents to let them know what happened."

"Oh, are they going to come get me?" I asked curiously.

She shook her head no as she answered, "No, I just told them that it was only a small scratch wound, so they will pick you up after school. Speaking of school, I think you five should go back to class."

We sighed as we were ushered out of the medical room to go back to class. Once we came into our classroom, I gave Ms. Lunarstar the note from the nurse as she read what it said.

Her optics widened as she said, "Oh my! Are you alright Harmony?"

I nodded my head in reply. She then told us to sit at the circle by Mrs. Moonlight, who was reading the class a story. The five of us joined in and listened to the story.

Once school was over, Soundwave and my new friends helped me out of the building until I found my parents standing by the gate. I walked towards them as they gave me a loving hug. I then said goodbye to my friends as we left to go home.

The next day I saw Soundwave, Starscream, Arcee, and Bumblebee waiting for me at the gate. I smiled warmly and ran to join my friends in a game of hide and go seek before the bell rings for us to go inside.

*A couple decades later*

POV Harmony

I sighed as the warm rays of the sun touched my metal skin. Many decades had passed since the first day of school when I was forty five years old. Now I am in my early thousands. Well, I am exactly one thousand three hundred and twelve years old.

Anyway, Soundwave, Starscream, Arcee, Bee, and I were just hanging out at our clubhouse, thinking of what we are going to do this weekend.

"What are we going to do exactly this weekend?" complained Starscream as he was fiddling with a piece of leaf.

I sat straight up and said, "How about we go and see a gladiator match this Saturday afternoon?"

Arcee looked up at me and said, "That's great but how are going to pay for the tickets?"

"And who are we going to see in the match?" asked Bumblebee.

"Leave that up to me" I said with a big smile and a wink. "And I was thinking that we watch a double battle this time."

Soundwave turned towards me and said with concern, ~ "Don't you remember what happened the last time we went to see a double battle?"~

I looked down sadly at the memory of that double battle when I was forty five years old. I then turned to Soundwave reassuringly, touched his servo, and replied, "Don't worry Soundwave, I've made sure that Arron isn't playing here in Kaon. Besides, what could possibly go wrong?"

Soundwave still wasn't quite convinced but he nodded his head in reply.

Saturday came as we made our way to the arena to see my father and Shadowwave fight again in a double battle. I thought that it would be an awesome day to hang around with my friends on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. But I was wrong, I was so horribly wrong.