othmtmte. /Skyroller/ and pocket dimension. Newly Minted Arms

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Elita: *looks around as a shy head peeks around the door of the tiny room that she and Optimus share* *sets her book down and smiles* Hello, Iaso. Do you need Optimus?

Iaso: *seems a bit nervous for some reason* Yes.

Elita: *gestures for the girl to come in and let the door close behind her*

Iaso: *comes in and watches to make sure the door shuts*

Elita: *also watches the door shut, and then points to the second door. A door which is on the wall between this room and Garnak's!*

Iaso: *blinks when she sees the second door. Nods to Elita before proceeding to this other door*

Elita: *watches to make sure Iaso isn't too frightened when she finds out that the second door opens into open space surrounded by tropical trees under a purplish sky*

Twirl: o.O?

Iaso: *what she was expecting to find was another small room. NOT a door leading to . . . a planet?* *blinks with much confusion before looking back at Elita to make sure she's not hallucinating this*

Elita: *encouraging nod* *quietly* We bought a subspace portal. Optimus and Alpha Trion like to spend time in the clearing.

Optimus: *startled laughter follows the sound of something soft and hollow bouncing off a bot's face*

Alpha Trion: Oh dear. Sorry, Optimus. *laugh*

Iaso: *hears that there's someone with Optimus* . . . Maybe I should come back later.

Elita: No. Go ahead. *soft snerk as another "boomp" sound is followed by laughter*

Iaso: *thinks for a moment* Okay. *will venture forth, then*

Twirl: *watches the door slide shut behind them, then turns on her master's shoulder, chirping muted and barely audible past the sound of leaves, birds, and breeze. Tries to hide from that breeze when it touches her*

Iaso: *puts one hand up around her datasprite as she walks, staring around at trees and birds such as she'd never seen while growing up in the Further Rim*

Optimus: *comes into sight as she rounds a curve of the forest. Is standing next to a pole with a hoop on it, demonstrating to Alpha Trion how to toss a ball*

Alpha Trion: *bit wobbly on his feet as he nods and aims carefully. Toss!*

Optimus: *catches the ball with his face and laughs before catching it in his hands*

Iaso: *pauses as she rounds the corner, wincing a bit at the hit to the face and once again feeling like she's interrupting something*

Optimus: *quick smile for Iaso, then turns back to the elder* Why don't you have a rest, A3?

Alpha Trion: *ruefully* Yes, I do seem to have exhausted my excess energy again. Thank you for showing me this sport, Optimus. *gentle smile for Iaso, and then he's vanishing with a swish and slight flash*

Iaso: *blinks at the swish and the slight flash . . . though it's solved the interruption problem* *and now she's alone with Optimus*

Optimus: *bounces his ball a little, and then offers to toss it to her, his mouth curved in a relaxed and content smile that might seem out of place on the usually so serious former Prime*

Iaso: *moves to receive it, needing the distraction while she figures out what she wants to say* *because she hasn't been trying all the way there or anything*

Optimus: *gentle toss, and then holds out his hands to receive it*

Iaso: *catches it a bit unsteadily, somehow surprised that it wasn't as hard as her brothers would try doing things* *will try to toss it back*

Optimus: *catches, and then bounces it off the ground a few times before looking around as his smile widens* Ahh. Smell that.

Iaso: *takes the air in with her olfactory sensors, not sure what to expect* *and is surprised to find the smells are quite pleasant. Much better than the ones she was normally exposed to on the streets*

Optimus: *sets his ball down by the pole, and then walks over and stoops to pick a fuzzy rounded leaf that's large enough for him to hold it easily. Rubs it gently between his fingers, and then holds it to his nose for a moment before inviting Iaso over with a gesture*

Iaso: *comes over automatically*

Optimus: *smiles as he offers that leaf, which has a sharp, but sweet and spicy scent*

Iaso: *takes the leaf and smells it, taking in the scent*

Optimus: *looks around, his optics peacefully blue* *quietly* They've thrived while I was gone.

Iaso: *blinks in surprise, realizing he's referring to the plants* You've been here before?

Optimus: *softly* Yes. It's been my sanctuary for a long time. *tilts head and looks down as a small bird lands on his hand and checks itself out in his reflection. Rumbled chuckle*

bird: *satisfied with what he sees, he chirps and scoots away with a whir of tiny wings*

Iaso: Oh. *watches the bird*

Optimus: *watches the bird, and then turns his attention to picking another leaf and rubbing it against his windshield*

Iaso: *absently watches this, too*

Twirl: *brushes against the leaf that Iaso is holding, her chirping tiny and quizzical*

Iaso: *notices movement and holds the leaf where Twirl can reach it better*

Twirl: *softly* Oooooo. *intent study as tiny hands feel the texture*

Optimus: *sneeze* *chuckle*

Iaso: *watches her datasprite for a bit before the sneeze reminds her that she came out here for a reason. Looks to Optimus*

Optimus: *rubbing his nose with one finger as he looks up at that friendly purple sky. His leaf is absently held in his other hand*

Iaso: *here we go* Dad?

Optimus: Yes? *looks down with that friendly smile, then polishes his nose with his leaf*

Iaso: *how does she do this?* Remember how a kraken shocked your arm and it's still stiff but none of the medics can find anything wrong with it?

Optimus: Yes. *nods, still polishing his nose* *eyes stray toward a bird song*

Iaso: I can fix it.

Optimus: *and now he looks at her* Can you?

Iaso: Y-yes. It's my ability.

Optimus: *will hunker down and look at her, the polishing hand falling still and going to his knee* *gently* How does it work? It won't strain your systems?

Iaso: *surprise at his seemingly quick acceptance* *stumbles over her words a couple of times before she takes a deep breath* L-like a defrag. And, uh, I don't think so. I have extra energon if I need it though. *pauses as she remembers back to when she used her ability on Random* But, uh. *another pause as she realizes something about it* But it might hurt you. Especially since it's sat for this long.

Optimus: *sees her surprise as he settles down onto his skid and crosses his legs* Do you hear that beeping?

Iaso: *allows herself to be still in order to hear better*

merry deedling: *can be heard behind her, where she'd passed some packed ground on her way toward Optimus and Alpha Trion*

Iaso: Yes.

Optimus: *quietly* I may not be an outlier, but I do have three bodies. And Jazz and Nightwish both mentioned that you have a gift.

Iaso: Three? . . . and I wondered if you already knew.

Optimus: Not the details. *slight grin* Jazz just told me that you have "stuff goin' on". *nods toward the beeping* Roller's dancing.

Iaso: Oh. *somehow knowing that the beans weren't completely spilled makes her feel a bit better* *turns to look towards the beeping*

Roller: *spinning around on the packed area as he deedles and beeps to himself. Is evidently having a ball*

Iaso: *watches* He? looks like he's having fun.

Optimus: "He's" right. He has his own limited intelligence, though he's also part of me.

Iaso: Okay. *that is starting to clear up how Roller's related to one of the "three" bodies Dad said he had*

Optimus: My trailer is my third body, though it only serves that way when this body is too damaged to keep my spark lit.

Iaso: Oh. *thinks on that* I hope it doesn't have to happen often?

Optimus: So do I.

Iaso: *reflects on that*

Roller: *finishes dancing and scoots off after a bird, beeping away*

Iaso: *watches Roller go*

Optimus: *will watch her, and the world around him*

Iaso: *thinks for a few more moments before she remembers what else she wanted to talk about and turns back to him* Did Jazz tell you I know about Prowl?

Optimus: *gently* I can see that you do.

Iaso: *deep intake and exhale*

Optimus: *reaches for another leaf*

Iaso: *not sure what more she wants to say, even though part of her feels like she should*

Optimus: *busily scrubs his aching component with the leaf* *quietly* It's probably a good idea to go on avoiding her. *clean clean clean clean!*

Iaso: *comes closer* I don't want to know what'll happen if Prowl finds out. *which is probably why you might not have heard about Iaso using her ability in a while, Optimus* . . . Even if I don't think Prowl should be keeping whatever happened in like Prowl has. It's not been good on the spark.

Optimus: *looks up from his polishing, his eyes dark with sadness* It isn't. But people can only be helped if they want it, most of the time. And I've told her to give you space.

Iaso: *slow nod; she knew that was the case but needed to mention it anyway* Thank you. *though part of her wonders how effective that'll be in the case of Prowl, but it's good that another person has her back against Prowl*

Optimus: *studies her face gently* *slight smile* Wheelie and D.O.C. have backed up the request. *checks his arm, and then tentatively holds it out toward her*

Iaso: *appears more relieved after hearing about Wheelie and D.O.C. but then looks a bit surprised when Optimus hold out his arm and looks up at him*

Optimus: *brows lift* You offered to work on this?

Iaso: I did. I just didn't know you wanted me to go through with it.

Optimus: *surprised* Anything that will make this function better will be greatly appreciated.

Iaso: *feels a bit silly for not realizing his intent earlier* Okay. *puts her hands over the offered arm before looking up at him a little nervously as she repeats what she had told him earlier* This might hurt a little. *deep breath before she starts and then Optimus will feel a comfortable warmth coming from her hands and into the arm as her hands move in the perfect blend of gentle, firm confidence and manipulate the soreness within the arm. It's clear from how quickly she works that she's put a lot of thought into how she wants to tackle this job. At the end, she runs her hand over the arm as a last check before she removes it and takes a step back* How does that feel?

Optimus: *turns hand and arm, and then clenches his fist, his expression intent as he checks pain sensors and readouts* *surprised* You got that rotator click, too.

Iaso: *small smile* It'd been bothering you, too.

Optimus: *quiet, wry humour* It bothered Ratchet more.

Iaso: *thinks on what she knows about the respected medic*

Optimus: *as he shifts his position slightly* Though it was First Aid that used to make funny noises about it.

Iaso: *sounds like a joke her brothers would make*

Optimus: *hand into subspace, and then offers her a little piece of white rock with a faint purple glow* You know how Kup mutters about razzafrazzin?

Iaso: *distracted from her thoughts when Optimus offers her an energy stone . . . which is far bigger than the ones she had had growing up. Accepts it, forgetting she had packed her own energon and then it takes her a moment to process Optimus' question* Yeah?

Optimus: Well, First Aid sounds more like he's fritzing.

Iaso: *realizes that Dad's explaining the noises First Aid used to make* Oh.

Optimus: *shakes his head, eyes dancing with fond amusement, then looks at her* How do you feel?

Iaso: All right. *but she'll take a bite out of the energy stone Optimus gave her since it's in her hand*

Optimus: Good. *turns his head slightly, eyes going out of focus. Then frowns*

Iaso: *sees that Dad's taking a serious comm call and will finish eating her energy stone while she waits*

Optimus: *sighs and turns his attention back to her* I have to go. Go ahead and stay here as long as you want. *shifts again, getting one leg under him*

Iaso: *in response to him needing to leave* Oh. Okay. *looks around her, wondering if she wants to stay here*

Optimus: *as he stands* *gently* Elita is right there on the other side of the door, and the birds and lifeforms are too small to harm you.

Iaso: Uhh. *looks around her some more* I think I'll leave, too.

Optimus: Alright. *walks a distance away and transforms, then lets Roller into his trailer*

Roller: *doopydoopydooo!* *zoom up the ramp!*

Iaso: *not sure what to do with herself*

Optimus: *back to root mode, and looking toward Iaso with a smile as he waits for her to come with him*

Iaso: *returns the smile and will walk back with him to the ship*


((co-written with random_xtras))