Silver shadowed stories (mini-story collection)

A reminder of times past

It fascinating when one looks back ... wondering if things would be different ... how a single decision changed their fate.

NOTE:

"text" = Speech

:text: = Inner thoughts

text = Narrator/3rd person

_____ POV

: It's nice ... days like this. The world is small and safe. Younglings get to play, their mind free of worries, of the battles just outside them and their own survival. : _____ thought to herself, as she watched her little ones play. Suddenly a loud crash from across the scrapyard caught her attention. But she need not worry, her younglings are safe. 

: (eye roll) Sideswipe just has to push Strongarm's buttons today (sigh). When will those two learn they are a perfect team ... maybe even match ;) :

"what am I gonna do with them" grumbles Bumblebee as he stands next to her. 

: I understand the weight of leadership ... but seriously it is almost too humourous watching Bee complain about, what humans would call 'teenagers' knowing full well we were once the same as them pranking Ratchet and arguing over whose turn on the video game it was ... well sorta the same (heh) :

" Remember, we were the same once" she replied

" We weren't consistently trying to 'set off' the other"

" True, but have you forgotten how we first met? I tried to kill you, nearly killed you. Literally" replying with a fond smile, she gazed at Bee who had a pout upon his faceplate. 

" Dragging me underwater across that lake should not be a fond memory ... and you did not nearly kill me I was perfectly able and ready to fight back." 

" I'm pretty sure if you had a voice, you would have been screaming" smirking to her self before silently giggling when she saw the flabbergastered look on Bee's faceplate.

" Well... you...y-you caught me ... off-guard" he looked to the side with a small blue blush forming. 

: 'off-guard' he looked like he was off with the fairies, as the humans say. Bee tries to be so formal and authoritative but really, he's the same mech I met and grew up with. Speaking of which is that a blush! ... oh my primus, I couldn't stop the real, out-loud giggle that erupted from my voicebox. :

Bumblebee looked back at her and felt all embarrassment melt away when he saw and heard her giggle. He had not heard that sound or seen such a care-free expression from her since they were on Earth during the war, mucking around with their friends. He would be lying if he says he doesn't miss those times, the looming threat of death made every moment more precious. 

: It felt good to do that again, makes me remember Bee's and my prior time on Earth. Primus, I was so young back then even younger than Sideswipe and Strongarm. Young, dumb and (broke ;)) naive, the world was new and so big it was to easy to get lost in things that you could miss something very special right in front of you, like the longing look in your best friends optics : 

Speaking of a longing look, it was then ____ noticed the love-filled optics of her mate on her. As much as she wished she could kiss him and remember the love they had for each other, the secrecy of their love stopped her. For as much as Sideswipe and Strongarm complain about their incompatibility, they could (if they realised their feelings) walk around any Cybertron city hand-in-hand during daylight without a word uttered. While our true lovers were worlds apart and forbidden from being anything from friends. Bumblebee the law enforcer has committed an ancient crime, that crime in the shape of the little yellow and black youngling currently trying to sneak up on his (unknown) sisters. For if anyone knew of their heritage they would be targeted. 

: Yes, times have changed. For better or for worse ... I don't know but I would never ask for it to change if it risked losing the good ... because the good: ____ look at the younglings playing around her, her lover and friend by her side, the little family that has formed in the scrapyard and remembered the larger family she and Bee belonged to. 

: ... is unbelievably amazing:

Fast forward a few (a lot) years to Transformer Robots in Disguise 

It will jump back, but just so you guys won't have to wait for forever to find