New Life, New Obstacles

Chapter 4

"Any particular reason you wanted me to go on a patrol with you, Lieutenant?" Steeljaw asked as they drove away from the scrapyard.

"I wanted to talk to you."

"About what?"

"About you and Strongarm."

"We have quite the drive ahead of us, start talking then."

"Are your feelings true?"

"Yes, I would never do anything to hurt her. Which is why I haven't attacked you yet, or the others, save for Sideswipe. I know how close she is with all of you and I'm willing to give it a chance to try to get along with the rest of you."

"Yes, I kind of figured, it's good you care for her so. When did you start falling for her though?"

"After I arrived at the scrapyard after I freed the others," he replied.

"You mean after you fought her you fell in love with her?"

"I think that was when I realized it. But I think I had liked her since our first encounter."

"And how did your first encounter go? She never really did tell me what happened."

"I tricked her into thinking I was an Autobot guard aboard the Alchemor," he replied, not wanting to give him the full details of their encounter.

"I see. What else?"

After a moment of silence, Steeljaw ended up telling Bumblebee the whole story. Something about him commanded respect, even though he was a young leader he knew what he was doing.

"I see. Surprised she even got feelings for you after that. And what about her made you like her even though she was an Autobot?"

"I'm still not sure, maybe it was the way she handled herself against me or the way she carries herself. She's strong, and she's willing to fight for what she believes is right."

"As does the rest of us but you still hate and despise us." Steeljaw was silent, he didn't know how to respond to that. "So, is that the reason you started falling in love with her after your fight?" Bumblebee continues after noticing his silence.

"I think so, after the scrapyard, I couldn't stop thinking about her and I just wanted to see her again."

"Is she the reason for your sudden change of plans?"

"Yeah."

"Thank goodness I sent her back to the scrapyard then or else you probably would have never fallen in love with her and you would have stuck to your plans, you would be in stasis with the rest right now."

"Don't expect me to thank you for that."

"Wouldn't dream of it. Have you and Strongarm been secretly seeing each other since the scrapyard incident?"

"Yes, Metalsound took it upon herself to look after Strongarm after her fight with Springload."

"So that's the main reason why she was there. Had you always planned to make Strongarm your mate?"

"Not exactly, but it just happened."

"You do know you took a lot from her with that, right?"

"I know."

"But then she knew what can happen if she has an affair with a criminal and she did it anyway, and I can tell she loves you. Which is why I didn't put you in stasis with the rest but instead put you on probation and do community service."

"Was that all?"

"What was the whole deal with you kidnapping her?"

"You said that I would never see her again, except on the battlefield."