TFP: Alone

Chapter 25: New Life

A/N: The Learning Center in Vos

Legacy's P.O.V.

It had been exactly three years since the bombing at the Learning Center. A few weeks after the incident, it was confirmed that it was done by rogue Decepticons. Fraggers.... Now I was fifteen. Dad says I'm growing up to fast, but I still feel like a little girl on the inside.....sometimes.

I was looking at a picture I had taken with the twins on my datapad that had been downloaded onto my new one. I was in between the twins and we all had big smiles on our faces. I swiped the picture and looked at a face swap Mom and I did. It made me laugh and I wipe a tear from my eye and run a servo through my hair.

The Officials finally figured out something for all the homeless down in the lower levels and moved them to Kaon to restore the city. In return for their labor, they would get community housing and rations.

We moved to Kaon as well for Dad's work. He got promoted to Lieutenant and was always gone. I commuted via shuttle to the Learning Center in the next city-state over; Vos. Some of the other students rode the shuttle with me, but we mostly kept to ourselves.

I went to school with mostly seekers. Not many talked to me and I didn't really talk to them. The instructors were nice enough and I was moving up in my History class, which remained my favorite class.

I got up off my berth and set the datapad on my nightstand. Looking at the piece of driftwood I had sitting there. My room was decorated in some posters I had printed of some of my favorite Earth entertainment. Some movie poster hung around my room such as Lion King, Finding Nemo, and The Goonies. Then Music: Twenty One Pilots, Lana Del Ray, and Journey. Then some art pieces I had copied: The painting from the museum, Van Gogh, and Andy Warhol. My room was colorful and reminded me of my home.

I made my way to the washroom and looking in the mirror at myself. My armor had been replaced after the bombing for something a little more sturdy and that fit, given that I was filling out my fame. I had to admit, I was quite shapely. Now, my armor was mostly a dark blue with white trim. My helmet was sitting on the sink because I had been getting ready to cut my hair.

"Daddy, can you come help me cut my hair?!" I call. I hear pedesteps coming down the hall and Dad peaks his head in the doorway.

"Sure." He said. I hand him a pair of scissors and he looks at my hair. I had been long overdue for a haircut. It was now at my shoulders and I had been having to put it up so it wouldn't poke out under my helmet.

"Cut it short. Like how the hair on your holoform was." I say. He nods with a sigh and gets to work.

After twenty minutes, the job was done. It was sloppy, but nobody except Dad would be seeing it. I never wore a helm around the house.

"You need to get to school. I'll walk you to the shuttle." He says.

We walked through the ruined streets of Kaon, the first sun hasn't even risen, leaving Kaon especially dark from all the dust from construction.

I had a new pack with my datapad in it along with my rations, infused with human nutrients. I looked up at my dad, smiling.

It was good to have some normalcy in my life. We had a routine. It was great. I still grieving for Orion, Mom, Rack, Ruin, and Sureflight. I still have nightmares about Shockwave, Silas, and the bombing, but I always had my life to wake up to. Something good.

Sideswipe's P.O.V.

Sunny was behind me and we lift up a support beam together, walking with it on our shoulders.

"Sideswipe!" I hear. I turn around, with the beam in servo, and Sunny nearly falls.

"Watch it dumbaft!" He growls.

"Yeah Kup?!" I yell.

"Make sure you weld that on the frame good. We don't need a repeat of what happened last time." He teased.

"Shut up!" I say embarrassed.

::That was funny.:: Sunny grinned.

"No it wasn't." I huff.

"Whoa! Look out!" I call hopping off the upper deck down to the ground. Sunny looked up and his optics became as wide as saucers.

The skeleton of a building was coming down and Bots were rushing out, watching as all our hard work crumpled to the ground.

::Sunny,:: I start. :: This is my fault.:: I whimper. He looked at me then his face broke out into a grin and be started laughing hysterically. He drew the attention of the other Bots around us and pointed at me. I felt all their optics on me and I felt so small among the huge crowd of worker Bots.

We soon finished our day's work and we headed to our barracks. It was a huge building that we built ourselves. It was crowded, noisy, smelly, but it was home. Sunstreaker and I made our way to our designated bunks and I climbed up to the top berth. Sunny laid down on his and grabbed his carving knife from beneath his bunk and he started working on his project on the bottom side of my berth. I lean over the side and watch his face as he concentrates on his carving.

::When do you think we'll be done here?:: I ask.

::Dunno.:: He hummed.

::Do you think we'll stay or we'll go onto the next city?:: I inquire.

::We'll see.:: He said cryptically.

Other Bots were filling into the barracks, Kup taking the bottom berth on the bunk next to us. It was almost like old times. Enforcers soon came in and monitored the distribution of our energon rations. We all refueled silently and I felt drowsy as the warmth of the energy fill my tanks.

I tossed the empty cube somewhere behind me and I rest in my berth, clasping my servos behind my helm. I thought about Iacon often and whatever happened to the Bots that Sunny and I used to fight. I thought about the poverty, lives lost, and I sometimes thought about Legacy. I always blocked these thoughts from my brother, knowing it would make him even grumpier than he already is.

I wondered where she ended up, if she was still in Iacon, if she was depressed, maybe even considering self-termination over everything she had lost. It made me kinda sad to think of her like that, but it was a possibility. I remember seeing the sadness in her eyes the last time I saw her, right after we escaped out of the collapsed Learning Center.

A/N: If any of you are Harry Potter fans I posted a new story about Remus.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/60767171-miserable-without-you-harry-potter-remus-lupin-oc

And for Walking Dead fans I wrote a one-shot.

https://www.wattpad.com/story/65618531-what-changed-your-mind-bethyl

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! It was definitely one of my favorites so far to write! XD