War Bonds (ON HIATUS)

Chapter 8: A busy morning

The next morning, the halls were filled early. Bots were running around carrying weapons, supplies and other things. Everything the young femme could see was how busy everyone were. She stood alone in a corner of a hallway observing everything that was going on, she stood there in silence, in thought. She thought to herself that everything had it's positive, that by doing this process of making teams leave might give them a bigger change to regain Cybertron, just as her friend told her. He was someone to trust, he was the one that everyone wanted to be friends with. Everything she saw was like blurred out when Bumblebee came to mind, it was always like that.

Everything came back clear when she had to jump to the side to avoid being stumbled on. She felt small, she was small, she has always been small. She hated being how little she is, everyone seems to tease her about her size, and she hated it, the only ones that respected her was the adults and Bumblebee. To Bumblebee, it didn't matter how a bot looked, the true identity is in a bot's spark. Bumblebee would be someone to look up to, but Arcee already did.

Arcee had enough after a while, standing in a corner watching but stumble on each other all day would be boring, so she assembled her thoughts she had thought about while standing there, and left the corner. She headed for the cafeteria, even though it was very early in the morning, almost the whole base was awake. In the cafeteria, bots were sitting drinking an energon cube while talking to the bot beside them. The only thing Arcee could do was look at the base like it was now, because in some hours, the base would be different.

She looked over to a pair of bots sitting on the seventh table on left side of the room, it was Tailgate and Astrotrain. Tailgate was white mech with so called goggles hiding his optics, he was many stellar-cycles older than Arcee, ten to be exact. Arcee and Tailgate were good friends, he was like one of the many older brothers she had. Astrotrain was a blue and green femme, she was known for taking one of the top record times on the speed training races, she was around the same age as Tailgate, but you might think she is younger by her very high-pitched voice.

Astrotrain and Tailgate were also best friends, known each other since they were small, just like Arcee and Bumblebee. Arcee would sometimes suspect something between the two, but she never told them. On the right side of the cafeteria sat some of the older warriors, the ones that had lived through the war (meaning that they were created before the war broke out). Arcee scanned the room until she came to see a familiar yellow plated bot sitting on the other side of the room reading a datapad.

Arcee chose to walk over, and maybe, scare the mech. The mech however, sat in silence, picking up so much he could from the text he was reading. With time, Bumblebee had become more interested in reading and paperwork, he first thought it was annoying, but became more appreciative of it. He was so focused on reading that he didn't see the petite blue femme walking up to him.

- Look out! The floor is Megatron!

Bumblebee jumped and dropped his datapad while he let out a scream of terror as he heard Arcee sudden and absurd saying, making everyone in the room snap their helm in his direction. Bumblebee blushed so hard his faceplate flushed blue. Everyone soon continued on what they were doing, and Bumblebee picked up his datapad and gave the femme a sly look.

- How many times do I have to tell you not to do that?! He snapped amusingly, but still annoyed.

- How many times you like, but I won't be obeying, egghead, Arcee retorted ironically.

- Egghead? Bumblebee asked lifting an optic brow.

- Yeah, egghead, Arcee firmly said putting her hand on her hip.