http://go-endeavour.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] go-endeavour.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] randomplaces2007-10-21 06:56 pm

Transformers' 'verse. Transformers' base. Finding Jeimu

In the period of time that Endeavour had been spending at what she came to call the Base of the Bots, there'd been many changes to the place.

They'd acquired a giant pile of CRT monitors. She wasn't exactly sure how they'd acquired 'bot sized couches, but then again, here she was, sentient and chipless and a 'bot herself, so anything was really possible.

She walked past where Bee and Jazz were hanging out on the floor, shelling monitors like they were peas, and continued on her way to the workshop at the back of the hangar.

Halfway there, she heard a dull clang and felt a weight on her back. She turned her head slightly and looked. Honey was clinging to her back, shifting slightly with every move Endeavour made. It was a little hard for the sparkling to stick; the vestiges of Endeavour's thermal tiles were mostly on her back and they were definitely not ferromagnetic.

Still, Honey was determined and Endeavour didn't mind, so she carried the sparkling all the way to the workshop, before sitting down in her chair made from SRB components and gently extricating Honey from her back.

"Now, what are you going to do in here?" Endeavour asked the little one, who just stared up at her attentively. A sigh left the older 'bot, and she flipped open a panel on her upper chest. Out scrambled a little six-wheeled machine, who wheeled in circles around Honey, chattering away in mock Cybertronian. Rover liked to think he could speak, but he couldn't.

Hoping that Rover would provide a decent distraction for Honey, Endeavour focused on her latest tinkering project: dismantling a whole load of older, more complex monitors the group had somehow acquired. Pretty soon she was into her work, and had her TDRS receiver sticking out of the back of her neck, picking up some old 1980's music station. She hummed along while she worked.

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-21 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's that?" Ratchet asked of the music as he put a hand on her shoulder and leaned over to see what she was doing. Then he winced at a thud and laughter from the other room. "Ironhide got a roach in his works."

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
"They came in the monitors. We had so many in the main room the other day while you were out that Bumblebee wound up stepping on Sam's foot." He absently gave the back of her neck around the TDRS receiver base a gentle rub. "But I meant the music. I haven't heard this kind before."

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Most of them." He took his hand away from her neck and peered into one of the monitors on the work table, which had all been torn open. "But we keep finding more. They can't hurt us, though."

Honey ran across one at that moment and very enthusiastically stomped on it.

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
He rubbed her back again, then looked up as a laughing 'Uncle' Jazz came in with an armload of opened monitors.

"Don't even start," he warned his smaller teammate, being very tired of the silver mech's outrageous teasing of the two of them and flirting with Endeavour.

Jazz just wriggled his eyebrows at the femme as he set down his load, then turned and went back out.

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
"I wonder, sometimes." Ratchet pressed his thumb on a roach that scurried away from the new pile of monitors, then settled down in his own chair to pursue his own metallurgy experiments. Honey came to chase Rover around his feet, and he smiled at the little femme's antics. "Hello."

She gave him a cheery trill of beeps, then flopped down on her belly and studied the world from that angle.

[identity profile] dajazzmech.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Jazz peeks in from his own bug squashing duties. "What's up?"

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ratchet had nearly fallen over backward at the shriek, but quickly got to his feet and handed the frightened Honey to her mother, who had pushed past everyone else at the door and come in ready for battle.

Then he turned to Endeavour and spoke soothingly as he reached for her, "They can't hurt you. Come on down before you fall."

Bee hugged her daughter, then turned and batted Uncle Jazz upside the head for snickering.

[identity profile] dajazzmech.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Jazz clicks at both Bee and Honey and holds his arms out to hugs them as they pass by. "Bugs is bugs."

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Ratchet rubbed her back, then pulled her into a hug, feeling a little embarrassed about their living conditions for the first time. "It's alright. No one but Uncle Jazz is laughing at you, and he doesn't count."

"Hey!" said the local Jazz as he moved away from the door to return to what he'd been doing.

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles at her, then turns back to the door as Prime looks in.

"We're needed on base," says the leader. "Endeavour, will you be alright staying behind?"

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Ratchet sighs and gives Endeavour a shoulder squeeze, then heads for the door. There's a sound of bodies vacating the hanger and then engines fading to the distance.

And then Bee peeks inside with Honey on her hip. "Do you want to go find that friend you told me about?"

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
Bee chuckles and shifts her grip on Honey so that she can pull out her PINpoint and the gadget for finding coordinates and pointed the latter at her friend.

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh? Oh, sorry. Nothing. It's just reading where you're from so I can program the coordinates into the PINpoint."

[identity profile] nottabeater.livejournal.com 2007-10-22 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"We can find her after we get to the reality." She presses the button that will change their arrival place from the place that Endeavour set out from. "Nobody from your old place has to see us."

Then she looks over her shoulder as Sam and one of their soldier friends come in. "Hi guys, what's up?"

"Nothing," said the soldier. "Just looking for somewhere to hang for a little while."

Bee sets Honey down as she wriggles to see her friends. "Wanna babysit?"

He and Sam both brighten. "Sure, how long you gonna be gone?"

"A few hours. The guys might be back before me." She watches her daughter hug and kiss each friend before running to get her soccer ball.

"I'm cool." He grins, then looked at Sam, who nods and goes after Honey and the ball.

"Thanks." She grins herself and turns back to Endeavour. "Ready, Freddy?"

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