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"I am not on your team, therefore I do not see why I am being urged to meet this bot." Quickshadow stayed adamant on her decision. She did not want to see this new member, she wanted to run away and hide, wait for danger or a new mission.
"Then go, nobody is keeping you here." Heatwave grumbled back. He disliked what he felt was constant bickering, and preferred to give simple solutions...
"Heatwave, Quickshadow, stop being so rude! We are all here to welcome Arcee because she is a very important bot! She worked beside Optimus himself, how cool is that?!" Blades scolded them, but his voice and mindset quickly switched back to his usual fan-girling....
"Everybody works with Optimus one way or another, I have yet to meet someone who hasn't." The large firetruck mech stopped in his tracks. The spacebridge had been opened by Boulder, now they simply had to wait.
Quickshadow isolated herself by the side of the room, arms crossed, and her face unimpressed. She knew an Arcee before from the spy academy, and most of her hoped it wasn't the same femme...
The spacebridge glowed a nice emerald shade of green, swirling in on itself and out again until somebody finally came through. A white and pink femme, bulky in frame, and surprisingly prideful in her strut. Quickshadow quickly switched to a stunned stare, jaw dropped.
"Welcome Arcee!! I hope you're okay with a welcome party- have you heard of piñatas?" Blades happily greeted the femme in what felt like a scripted way.
Quickshadow left before anyone could truly realize she was there to begin with. She was feeling far too confused. Her spark was barely legible, her processor whirred in ways that felt foreign...what was wrong with her? Who could she even go to? Dani? Dani?! Why did she go to Dani first? Just because she's also a femme? Sure. Fine. Try Dani.
"What's up?" The woman had brought her own cake with her, on a decorated paper plate and napkin. She had popped a hip to stand, something Quickshadow thought was an odd quirk.
"I feel weird." The robot kneeled down to reach her height. "Arcee evoked...emotions I cannot define." She struggled along with her words, though the fact that Dani did not seem anything but a little surprised helped, "The same ones I feel for Heatwave, which is unfortunate because I cannot tell if it is hate."
Dani set her fork down on the plate and thought to herself for a few seconds, "...are you sure you just don't like her?" She laughed a little under her breath, "I mean, I know I felt similar before. I thought I just really hated this one guy and was really jealous of this one girl, but it turns out I just was into them both."
Quickshadow scrunched her face bit by bit, "I do not fancy anybody. It must simply be jealousy." She stood back up, setting two digits to her neck, trying to feel if her spark calmed down yet.
Dani nodded and waved the fork her way, "Okay, but don't feel scared come back and ask more questions. Girls gotta look out for girls, y'know."
The femme nodded and transformed to her alt mode, proceeding to drive away as quickly as she possibly could...after activating a smoke bomb, of course...