TF:A-Game On

Bumblebee raced into the base - if you can call it that – and ran towards the first bot he saw. Ratchet. His tires on his feet skidded to a stop right in front of the medic. “I got the game! I got the game!” Bumblebee shouted excitably.

Ratchet stared at the young mech oddly. “What game?”

The yellow mech pulled out something from behind his back. “This game! Roxanne recommended it and its supposed be really, really, really, really cool.”

The medic was sorry he asked. “Well I’m to busy for games. Why don’t you ask Sari to come over?”

“Sari’s at the mercy of the tutor bot and she promised her dad not to use her Key on it.” Bumblebee said rather quickly. “I was gonna ask Roxanne anyway since she recommended it and all."

“Well last time I saw her, she was with Prowl.” Ratchet said.

“Prowl?”

“Yeah, something about training or something.” he said, turning back to whatever he was doing before.

“Oh, ok.” said Bumblebee than ran down the corridor to Prowl’s room.

~*~

Roxanne was doing some really weird training in her opinion. She was standing on an overturned trash can with a foot in the air and both arms stretched out. “Explain this exercise to me again?” she asked Prowl who was observing.

“This exercise will help you learn balance, concentration and patience.” he said simply.

“And why do you need those skills to kick someone’s aft?” Roxanne asked still in her pose.

Prowl sighed. “So you know when to strike at the...”

“...right time, I know.” Roxanne finished. “I heard you give that same speech to Bumblebee.

Prowl scowled at her. Then he gave a smirk.

“What’s so funny?” Roxanne demanded.

“It’s just now that I realised that you look utterly ridiculous.” he answered still smirking.

“You’re supposed to be training me not turning me into a living joke!” the teen snapped. “Why couldn’t we do meditating? I know my arms won’t fall off if I do that.”

Prowl’s smirk disappeared and he started scowling again. “Because last time you tried meditation you fell asleep.”

“What do you expect you woke me up at five in the morning?” Roxanne growled.

“It was six.” Prowl corrected her.

“It was still early!” she shouted.

Prowl sighed again, by now he would have flicked her in the head but was afraid that she might lose her balance and start complaining again.

“Oh no.” Roxanne said suddenly.

“What?” Prowl asked.

“My nose is itchy.” she answered.

The mech shaked his head slightly. “Then ignore it.”

“No, you don’t understand.” Roxanne said while wiggling her nose. “When my nose itches it usually means I’m gonna...”

ACHOO!!

The girl fell off the trash can and onto her aft while Prowl avoided the spray. A groan escaped from Roxanne. “I’m ok!” she yelled while standing up.

“Was there an earthquake or something?” asked Bumblebee as he stepped into the room. Prowl growled when he saw him.

“No, just me sneezing.” Roxanne answered. “So did you get it.”

“Get what?” Prowl scowled.

“Yep, I got it!” Bumblebee shouted bringing the game into view.

“Yay! Mystic Warriors!” Roxanne squealed.

“Mystic what?” Prowl asked.

“It’s the name of the game.” the human answered glad to share her logic.

“Yeah, and we’ve gotta play it now!” Bumblebee shouted excitably.

"Please." said Roxanne putting on her extra wide smile.

Prowl growled again. “Fine.”

“Yes!” Bumblebee shouted then dragged Roxanne out through the door way.

“Why do I even bother?” Prowl asked himself.

~*~

“Die evil skeleton!” Roxanne yelled as her character – a mystic elf – used her staff to blow a skeleton to bits as Bumblebee’s character – a human knight – swung his sword at another.

Bumblebee didn’t understand why Roxanne chose the elf. She had said something about them being more supernatural than humans, but he had never seen an elf. Before playing he thought elves were little men who helped make toys for this big guy called Santa, well that’s what Sari told him.

“Come on Bee!” Roxanne yelled at him. “You’re getting killed out there!”

The yellow mech focused back on the game. His character was now surrounded by skeletons. Bumblebee pressed the buttons Roxanne had told him were for a special move causing the skeletons to turn to dust.

“Yes! Take that dead organics!” Bumblebee yelled, punching his fist into the air. “Did you see that Rox?”

“Yeah.” she said. “Did you see your health bar?”

Bumblebee looked at his characters health; there was only a slither of green left. “What?!”

“I told you Bee. Special moves cost you health points.” Roxanne said, she then giggled at his mistake.

“Great! Now I’m gonna die!” he yelled in disappointment.

“Don’t worry.” Roxanne reassured him with a smile. Roxanne moved her character and started pressing certain buttons.

“What are you doing?” Bumblebee asked.

“You’ll see.” Roxanne said cheerfully. Her character then glowed in a greenish colour as half of Bumblebee’s health bar filled and half of hers emptied.

Bumblebee blinked. “What just happened?”

Roxanne shoved him. “Hello, I just gave half my life to you, so you can play on in the game.

“Oh...” the young mech said rather dumbly.

“That’s why the elf is the best character.” she said now pausing the game. “Her abilities are balance, concentration and patience. So she can put the right amount of force into her attacks, focus on her enemies so she can find their weakness and patience to know the right time to attack.”

She looked back over to Bumblebee who was staring at her oddly. “What?!” Roxanne demanded.

“You sound like Prowl.” Bumblebee said then ducked his head so he wouldn’t get hit.

The girl’s jaw dropped. She was about to yell at him but stopped. A sly smile appeared on Roxanne’s face. “You know Bumblebee, your way to stressed. You should try being still.”

Bumblebee pulled his head back up. “You can’t be serious.” he said.

“Maybe we should watch some TV. There’s a good show about earth creatures on Animal Planet.” Roxanne continued.

The yellow mech jumped up and pointed at the girl. “What has he done to you?!” Bumblebee panicked.

“Or maybe we could meditate.” Roxanne said while crossing her legs in her seat and closing her eyes.

“I can’t take this anymore!” Bumblebee yelled and ran into the corridor screaming.

As soon as he had gone, Roxanne burst out laughing. She was laughing so much that she fell to the floor but Roxanne didn’t seem to care. Soon she was out of breath; she stopped laughing and looked up. “Oh, hi Prowl.” Roxanne said staring at the bot above her.

“What did you do to make Bumblebee so scared?” he asked.

“Oh, don’t act like you don’t know.” Roxanne said as she got up. “You were probably watching the whole thing.”

She was right, Prowl had been watching and was surprised that Roxanne had learn't some thing from her exercises after all. Maybe it was time to advance her training.

“Is there anything you need?” Roxanne asked.

“I was actually wondering if you wanted to do more exercises.” Prowl said.

She sighed. “I guess I could get used to the trash can.” she said sadly.

“Well actually I was thinking of teaching you... What did you call it again? The ‘cool’ stuff.” he said.

Roxanne’s eyes widened. “You’re gonna teach me how to fight now?” she asked.

“Yes.” Prowl answered, slightly smiling.

The human put both fists into the air. “Yay for training!”