Complex Robotics

Turning Points

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Chapter Twenty: Turning Points

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It was only two days after Ratchet  cleared me from the Med Bay, and also two days since the big fight with Sideswipe and Sunstreaker in the Rec Room. I wished so badly Sideswipe would talk to me about it, but he refused to cooperate.

Currently, I was making my way down the hall,  when a tall, lanky boy with dark brown hair ran into me. He must have been really distracted, because the speed he was running at almost caused me to have a nice little conversation with the ground, but he gripped my arm and hauled me up at the last second.

"Crap, I'm sorry," He said, running his fingers through his hair, "Hide's gonna kill me if I'm late to training again."

That voice, it was familiar. My eyes widened, "Hey, I remember you! You're that boy from my training class!"

His brown eyes widened in return, and his mouth fell open as he stared me up and down before his coppery gaze locked with mine, "And you're that girl who took Hide down on the first day of training."

I nodded, feeling heat creeping up my cheeks and flushing my face warm. I had to admit, when he wasn't an annoying, anxious guy fumbling with his gun all the time, he was actually kind of handsome. If anything, it only made the heat in my cheeks grow warmer, and I secretly prayed he didn't notice. If he did, he didn't make any notion to prove that he knew, except raise an eyebrow in confusion and tilt his head slightly to the right.

"Speaking of which...where have you've been? Did you accelerate to a higher level or something?"

I snorted, "No, not exactly."

His confusion was still laced in his features, "Oh...well, uh-"

"I had some uh...issues to deal with," I said slowly, feeling a bit uncomfortable, "But I think I'll be back in it soon. Maybe you could show me some stuff that I missed?"

"Oh." He chuckled lightly, and I couldn't help but smile at him. His laugh was kind of cute, and the way that he ran his fingers through his curly hair sheepishly, "Well uh, yeah. I'm free after PT anyway."

I nodded, "Cool. When should we meet up?"

"Seven sounds fine?"

I don't have much to do anyway. "Alright. I'm Charlie by the way."

"Ethan," He replied.

I nodded again, and then remembered that I was supposed to go help Jenna with some military Jeeps in the hangar.

I scooted over awkwardly to the side, "I don't want to make you late for your class."

He nodded, a smile curling up on his lips, "Not really looking all that forward to getting shot at, but okay." I snorted a laugh as he waved away, turning, and continuing his frantic jog down the hall.

"Tell Hide I said hi !" I called out, listening to his voice echo through the hall before proceeding to walk forward.

I turned a corner, and froze as I stared up at the fuming golden robot making his way down the hall, not even watching where he stepped. 

Nope, not really in the mood to die today.

But before I could even slip back into the other hall, his bright blue optics were already on me, and he stopped his angry traipse.