Megatron's twin

207: Meeting on Cybertron

We all decided to sit down for a bit, just outside the market to take a quick break. Prowl seemed almost disappointed by Optimus' decision.

Smokescreen and Bumblebee wondered up to us from the market, cubes in hand. "Hungry?" Smokescreen asked.

"Yea, but it doesn't look like you guys got spare." Arcee started.

"Nah, but there's two young bots, seem to be fond of Autobots, they were handing out some cubes." Bumblebee said.

"High grade?" I asked.

"No, standard." Bee said.

"Argh, good enough." I said and got up.

"Maybe you wait here?" Optimus said, putting and servo on my shoulder and pushing me back down.

"Hmm? Why?" I asked and he gestured to my frame. "I'm not that bad looking-"

"That's not what I said-"

"Sure it is-"

"You look like Megatron." Jazz pointed out while Smokescreen squeezed out a cough that sounded a lot like 'dip-shit'.

"We'll be back in a few minutes." Optimus said and left with the others, leaving me with Soundwave, Smokescreen and Bumblebee.

"They better bring some cubes back for us too." I grumbled and Soundwave nodded.

And us. Egg added, her squawk coming out muffled.

"Yea." I agreed and Smokescreen shrunk away slightly. Lazerbeak however ejected and started bumping into my chassis. "You're too big, you dork." I grumbled and pushed him away.

"Wants to see Chickens." Soundwave patched together and I let them out. The chicks jumped on him eagerly, pinning him to the floor. He seemed to be happy about it though and we watched them play as we waited for the others.

"A few minutes my aft." I grumbled, more than a few minutes later.

"They might be swooning over Optimus." Smokescreen said, still keeping and optic on Egg.

"That's my job." I grumbled as the mech in question finally came into view. He seemed flustered. "What took so long?" I asked.

"The mechs were fan and Optimus doesn't know how to take a compliment." Jazz laughed.

"Suppose you could say he's not a prime example of a smooth talker." Arcee said, "What, I make puns sometimes." She shrugged as a few of us gave her a surprised stare.

Optimus let out a small chuckle as he set down a cube for the chickens and butterfly before handing Soundwave and me a cube.

"High grade?" I joked.

"No-"

"I'm kidding." I snorted and took a sip, at least this is better than med grade. "They didn't spike this right?" I asked, "Not that spike." I added, seeing Smokescreen's expression.

"I don't think so?" Jazz started.

"Cause they could have been pretending to like Autobots." I added.

"I already tested a sample, it is fine." Magnus said. "You can never be too careful." He added with a shrug.

Once we finished our drinks we headed to the centre of the market. Though without Bumblebee and Smokescreen, they had something to do apparently. All we had to do was set up some tables and seats. Too bad there wasn't a stage, Megatron would be disappointed.

"You think they'll 'ave music?" Jazz asked.

"There's speakers over there." Prowl said, who had joined us moments ago. "Though probably not the live kind if that's what you were asking.