Prompt 3: Scenario: embarking on a long journey.
"'That leaves you just ten minutes. You will have to run,' said Gandalf.
"'But-," said Bilbo.
"'No time for it,' said the wizard.
"'But-,' said Bilbo again.
"'No time for that either! Off you go!'" Sam read from the big book resting on his lap. It had started two days before. He had been reading The Hobbit in the Rec Room, and a few of the 'bots had gotten curious. The newly arrived Protectobots, to be precise. First Aid had asked him what it was. When he replied a story, his brothers gathered around and asked if he would mind reading it to them.
When the startled teen had asked why they wanted "story time," Hot Spot had smiled and told him that their creators had often spent long joors reading Cybertronian stories to them, and ever since then, they had never turned down hearing stories.
Laughing, Sam had agreed, flipped back to the first page, and started reading aloud.
Over the course of the next two days, more and more bots, and a couple humans, had joined the Protectobots in listening. Sam would be the first to admit that his babbling could be annoying, but to his surprise, as well as most of the other occupants of the base, when he was reading, his voice fell into a sonorous, lilting, pleasant rhythm.
Everyone on base had spent at least a few minutes listening to the teen reading the familiar, classic tale of the long journey. Prowl, Ratchet, even the Prime.
And they were only on the second chapter!