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What Arcee was looking at was... Bizarre.
The medic from Blue Cop's team was bandaging Blue's altmode up saying that it will speed up the work of his nanomachines, which- yeah she had to ask Ratchet if it was true but it definitely felt like a big fat lie. She brought up her servo to her chin, thinking. The bow looked absolutely hilarious, others would be delighted, she had to save this as a picture. A tiny, barely audible, click came from her optic. She saved it into her permanent memory storage, no way she can lose this artifact now. Arcee's mischevous em field attracted attention of a nearby cardbot, she felt a very serious stare coming from her left.
She looked down and saw the white and purple cardbot. Wasn't he one of Blue's partners? She couldn't really remember the specifics of their relationship but right now the stare was laced with judgement.
Right. Maybe the bow was a tradition and her laughing at it wasn't the best move.
She tilted to him and whispered "Im sorry, we just dont tie bows on warriors, I didnt mean to- " she was interrupted.
"he does that only to get more money out of his patients." his gaze went back to Blue Cop who looked rather embarrassed by the big bow on his car roof.
Arcee straightened up again. Now the silence between them was very uncomfortable. She couldn't dare to look at him again and he didnt say anything too but it felt very weird. Maybe she should say something again? Oh Primus, she couldn't remember any conversation starters. She nervously tapped her pede until the smaller mech started talking to her again.
"I remember a time when he had a lot of bows on him to cheer up bots in the hospital," he said quietly to her but still looking at his partner, then added "they painted him pink too."
Arcee stared at the cardbot while her processor tried to piece together a picture of this.
"Wait really?" she tilted to him again, curiousity got her. The smaller mech continued like before, his optics incredibly serious.
"It was the second public event he attended as a Star Guardian. It was in a far off region." A spark of warmth shined in his optics, something full of love and respect was in his voice. "It was a long time ago."
After a short pause he added very quietly, "I have a picture though." His stare wandered somewhere else now, like he was trying to hide his embarrassment.
Oh this was incredible! She absolutely needed that picture. Blue Cop, the one who terrorized the Autobots for a month with his weird combinations and behavior, fully painted pink with ribbons.
"could you please send me a copy of it? Is it on a data pad or something?"
She didn't get an answer. Instead the smaller mech cautiously looked around and made a "come here" sign for her to lean down even more. Once their helms were at approximately the same height he looked at her helm trying to find something, while Arcee just stood there in confusion. Before she could ask what the slag he was doing he clanked the front of his helm to the back of hers, right into her ports. Arcee jumped away in pain, furiously rubbing her helm.
"Why did you do that for-?!"
Data transmission done!
Open the transmitted file?
y/n
Arcee looked at the mech with a frown. "if it's malware Ratchet will kill both of us."
She cautiously opened the file.
It was a blurry photo from the above of a small pink mech surrounded by a group of workers all with big weilds and metal patches on their frames. The pink mech was posing with one of the bigger workers for the drone camera in front of them, both smiling brightly even if they had no mouths. The silly bows and ribbons shined joyfully in the otherwise miserable place. He was simply radiating hope for the better for the ones who must have suffered greatly.
She looked back up at the mech in his altmode on the medical berth, others talking to him and smiling.
He seems to still be doing just that.