"English"
::Comm. link::
{Cybertronian}
[HUD notifications/scans]
::Bond conversations::
:Speaker speech:
"Intercom"
Memories/flashbacks/stasis
{:Ghost/apparition speech:}
(Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers; just Filly and my other OC's)
(Authors Note: Salutations dearest readers, I hope you all are enjoying the story so far because I'm certainly enjoying writing it. I apologize for not updating sooner, but I recently returned from a trip out in Colorado that lasted nearly a month. I was only supposed to stay nine days, but my sister and brother-in-law insisted I stay a bit longer. Had I known that I'd be away for nearly a month, I would have brought my laptop with me to work on my FF's. Well, no matter. I'm back and busy writing. I cannot guarantee that I'll be posting another chapter right away, but rest assured that I am indeed working on this story along with my others. It's all about balancing my work and setting aside time for each one...that, and sometimes life distracts me. Either way, I look forward to posting another chapter in the future. Until then, feel free to R&R and be sure to stay warm and safe out there. As the great J.R.R Tolkien once said, "The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.")
Chapter 13
Upon entering the rec room, Filly noticed Bumblebee and Bluestreak playing a round of Smash Brothers. Not wanting to disrupt their game, she silently rolled behind the bar counter and stepped out of her vehicle form before tiptoeing over to the massive Autobot-sized couch. Once there, she crawled over to Bumblebee without him noticing, and pounced onto his ped with a giggle, causing the young scout to look down at her with an amused smirk. "Hello Filly."
"Aw Bee, how did you know it was me?!"
He chuckled and gently picked her up before placing her on his knee, "Oh come on now, who else on base could possibly create a holoform this adorable?" He gently rubbed the top of her holoform's head, making her giggle.
"Oh Filly, I love your holoform, it's so cute! Did you just make it today? That's very good, because now you can walk among the humans disguised as one. Oh how cute would it be if you played with some human children? They're so small and squishy looking," Bluestreak softly petted the top of her head, admiring the softness of her holoform's hair. "Oooh! You're so soft and adorable! I could just hug you."
"Then why don't you," she asked with a smile. "You and Bee can activate your holoforms. I'd like to see them, if it's alright? Pweeeease?"
How could they say no to such a sweet face? With an amused chuckle, Bee gently placed her on the floor before he and Blue got up to transform. Once in their vehicle forms, they activated their holoforms: Bee's was of a 16 year old cacuasian boy with short, blond hair, round cheeks, innocent eyes, a charming smile and a clean shaven face. His attire consisted of a pair of Levi's denim jeans, a yellow hooded sweatshirt and white tennis shoes.
Bluestreak's holoform was of a 19 year old cacuasian boy with shoulder-length, greyish blonde hair, dimpled cheeks, a gentle smile and a smooth face. He wore denim jeans, dark dress shoes and a grey cable knit sweater. Before Filly could say anything, Blue scooped her up in his strong yet gentle arms and hugged her. "Oh you're even softer and squishier than I thought! Oh, I'm sorry, I hope I'm not crushing you," he loosened his grip and smiled when she reached up and smushed his cheeks together.
"Wow Bluestreak, you look amazing and your face is so warm and soft. And you're squishy too! Oh, you have dimples! They're soooo cuuuute!" She then playfully ruffled his hair, "And your hair is silky and smooth. I love it!" She then looked over at the younger 'man' beside him and emitted a tiny squeal, "Oh Bee, you look so cute!" She made little grabby hands, indicating that she wanted him to pick her up.
Both Bumblebee and Bluestreak shared a laugh before he complied with her request and gently took her from the sniper's grasp, to which she then proceeded to smush his face. "You're so squishy. I love it!"
He chuckled and booped her tiny holoformed nose, "I could say the same about you, Filly. You're also really squishy and soft."
"And cute," added Blue. "I mean look at those little pigtails and her pretty butterfly wings and those itty bitty, freckles on her rosy, little cheeks. Of course, you're always cute, Filly. I'm just pointing out facts about your holoform. Not to say that your natural form isn't cute: it is very much adorable in every aspect. This form is just something new and we're seeing it for the first time. Oh, you should show everyone else your holoform. They'd love it! I know Smokescreen would. Maybe he'll activate his holoform too. Wait, does he have a holoform? I can't remember if he does or not. Although I'm pretty sure he does since we've all been on Earth for quite some time now which should have given him plenty of time to create one."
At the thought of seeing Smokescreen's holoform, Filly's eyes widened, "Uncle Smokey has a holoform too?! I wanna see. Can we go see him? Oh, I wanna see the twins' holoforms too. Can we visit them as well?"
Bumblebee chuckled at her cuteness before gently ruffling her pigtails, "Sure, we'll go visit them. The four of us have been meaning to finish our Smash Bros tournament for some time now. Hey, maybe you'd like to play Filly."
"Me? Oh no, I'd rather just watch you guys play. Besides, I don't really know what the point of that game is supposed to be. Also, you're in the middle of a tournament and I'd rather wait until you finish before I attempt to play."
"Alright, if you insist." He and Bluestreak then led her out of the rec room and down the massive hallway, to which she suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong Filly? Are you feeling sick? Do we need to Comm. Ratchet, or Jazz and Prowl? Do you want one of us to carry you to the Med Bay? Oh I hope you're not sick with another virus. We were all so worried about you the last time."
She smiled and shook her head, "No Blue, I'm okay. I just had an amazing idea." She then phased out her little shoes, leaving her in adorable orange socks, to which she playfully began sliding around on the metal floor. "Weeeee! This is fun! Come on you guys, try it out. We can't do this in our natural forms, so why not have a bit of fun with our holoforms."
Both Bee and Blue smiled and phased out their own shoes, leaving them in white socks, to which they too started to skate across the floor with the little femme. The three of them laughed and skated all the way through the hall until they were forced to stop and phase out their holoforms for a few seconds in order to avoid the stairs. Upon activating their holoforms once more, they found themselves standing outside of Smokescreen's room, to which Filly rapped her tiny knuckles against the large metal door and eagerly awaited for a response.
Within seconds, the door opened, revealing the Praxion mech. "Well what have we here? A trine of lost humans?"
Filly giggled and shook her head, "No Uncle Smokey; it's me, Filly, and Bumblebee and Bluestreak."
He fondly smirked and knelt before them, to which he gently rubbed the top of her holoform's head with his index digit, "I know sweetspark. I was just playing along with ya. I recognise Bee and Blue's holoforms when I see em, but yours is new to me. Did you just recently make it?"
"Yep! Baba and Papa helped me download the necessary programming and 'poof'' I now have my own holoform."
"Well I'm glad you do because now you'll be able to blend in better among the humans the next time we go on an outing."
"That's what Baba said to me. He said if I can manage to keep my holoform activated for at least three hours a day for the next several days and if there aren't any Decepticons, then he and Papa will take me to the park."
"Well that sounds like a manageable goal. You know, if you do manage to achieve that feat, I can see about taking you to an aquarium one day."
She tilted her head in confusion, "What's an aquarium?"
"Oh, it's a public building that contains massive transparent water tanks that house fish and other sea creatures, like sharks, octopie, eels, stingrays, starfish, jellyfish, sea otters, and whales. I personally like sea otters because they're so fluffy and cute looking, although some species of fish are really cute too. Oh, and they're colorful! You'd love all the pretty colors of some of the fish they house. It's like watching a rainbow under the water, but you're not actually under the water or in the water, rather the water is all around you and held back by the glass tanks that house the marine animals," Bluestreak stated.
"Basically, an aquarium allows you to see a variety of flora and fauna normally found in the depths of Earth's oceans. It's a fascinating and convenient way for humans to better understand their oceans by giving them a view of what lies under the water's surface," Bee replied with a smile and rubbed the top of Filly's head, making her giggle.
"Wow, I now wanna see an aquarium sometime. Can we go, Uncle Smokey?"
He chuckled and gave a nod, "Of course we can go, but only if your creators say it's okay and if your outing in the park is successful. We don't want there to be another Decepticon encounter like the last time."
She shuddered, "No...I don't want that to happen again. Sunny and Sides ended up hurt because of those meanie Cons. I wish they'd leave Earth and move somewhere far, far away."
"So do we all, Sweetspark. But sadly, having the Cons. close by allows us to keep an optic on them and monitor their activity to some degree. We cannot allow Earth to suffer the same fate as Cybertron." He composed himself and offered a warm smile, "Now, if I'm correct, I believe you came here hoping to see my holoform."
She nodded as her eyes lit up, "Yes, please. I want to see everyone's holoform for myself. Personally, I think Bee and Blue's look cute. And Baba and Papa's are really nice too."
At her comment, both Bumblebee and Bluestreak felt their cheeks blush as adoring smiles lined their faces: they never had someone call their holoforms cute before. Well, except for some human femmes this one time…, but it just sounded so sweet coming from Filly. More genuine and unbiased.
At that, the older Praxion gave a lopsided smirk, "Very well. I'd hate to disappoint an adorable femme."
She giggled and watched as he transformed into his vehicle form before activating his holoform: it was of a tall, caucasian male with short, dark brown hair (with a hint of grey here and there), a well-trimmed moustache, high cheekbones and a broad chin. His attire was made up of dark jeans, a red dress shirt and dark boots. "Wow, Uncle Smokey, your holoform looks amazing!"
He chuckled and picked her up, "Well thank you, sweetspark. I find your holoform to be amazing as well. It's also quite precious, just like yourself," he booped her little nose, making her smile and hug him while enjoying the warmth he emitted. "Now let's see about paying the twins a visit. I'm assuming you'd like to see them too?"
Filly gave a nod, to which he carried her off down the hallway with Bumblebee and Bluestreak following suit.
XXXXX
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were currently in their room finishing their own projects when there came a small knock at the door. Sunny had been putting the final touches on his new coat of wax while Sides had just finished reading a chapter in one of his data pads: it contained a variety of Marvel comics and he had just recently started reading Deadpool.
"Sideswipe, do you mind answering that? I'm almost finished polishing my chassis."
"Sure thing, Sunny."
"Don't call me that! You know how much it annoys me."
"Yea, I know. That's why I do it," he smirked, earning him an annoyed glare from his twin. With a smile, the red twin then got up from his berth and opened the door to reveal a small group of humans. Of course he knew they were holoforms, but he decided to play along with the act: "Oh lookie here, some humans found their way into our base without anyone noticing. I guess I'll have to inform Optimus of this sudden lack of security."
"Sideswipe, it's me," Filly giggled.
"Me who? I don't know a 'Me'. Sunny, do you know someone named 'Me'?" He gave her a small wink, to which she continued to snicker while Smokescreen, Bumblebee and Bluestreak chuckled in amusement.
Sunstreaker approached and rolled his optics while a slight smirk appeared across his face, "No Sides, I don't know a 'Me'. But knowing those squishy humans, I wouldn't put it past them to name one of their younglings 'Me' or even something equally ridiculous like 'It' or 'Who'." He knelt in front of the tiny holoform and asked, "What brings a little squishy like you to our domain?"
"Sunny, it's me, Filly. And that's Uncle Smokey, Bluestreak and Bumblebee," she gestured towards the three holoforms standing beside her.
"Oh really now?" He gave her a smile, to which she nodded.
"Uh-huh, but I'm guessing you already knew that and were just trying to humor me?"
"It worked though, didn't it?"
"Yea," she gave him a gap-toothed grin. "But it's a pretty convincing holoform right?"
"Of course. If I was a human, I would have completely fallen for it."
"Really?!"
"Yep." He then stood back up and asked, "I take it that you're here hoping to gaze upon our holoforms so that you'll have an idea of what they look like in case we have to use them among the humans sometime?"
"Wow, how did you guess?"
"You just told me," he winked, causing her tiny cheeks to blush and a disgruntled look to appear across her face. "Okay, I'm not a fan of the holoforms, but yours looks really cute when you make that face."
Sideswipe smirked and gave a nod, "I agree, bro, she's like an angry, little cinnamon roll. An adorable, orange cinnamon roll." He knelt down and gently poked her tiny tummy, causing her to laugh.
"What's a synonym roll?" She adorably asked.
"Cinnamon roll," Bumblebee corrected with a chuckle. "It's a pastry humans sometimes consume during their morning nutrient intake. Apparently they're really sticky and gooey, but otherwise sweet to the taste."
"Oh, I wanna try one. I recently learned that we can consume organic materials while in our holoforms as a means to sustain them for longer periods of time."
"Yes, but that doesn't mean we should resort to ingesting said materials. The whole process seems rather unsettling and repulsive," Sunstreaker replied with a disgusted look across his face.
Filly gave him a sly smile and asked, "Why? Are you too scared to try it?"
Damn she was good. The golden twin raised an optic ridge at her while his twin smirked, "Oooooh bro, she's callin' your bluff! You better prove her wrong."
"I don't need to prove anything, Sideswipe. I refuse to consume organic material for all of your amusements."
"I bet you're just afraid that you'll like it," Filly replied with a casual shrug.
Double damn.
The frontliner crossed his arms and narrowed his optics at her before finally emitting a slight chuckle. How could he possibly be mad or even slightly frustrated at such a sweet, little femme? Even if she was invoking his ego/pride. "Alright then, sparklet, I'll take you up on that challenge. But afterwards, I don't want to hear you say that I'm too scared to try new things ever again. Got it?"
"Yep," she smirked.