Rosie's POV
"I'm not so sure I lost my swimming side." I whisper to myself, as I put on the swimsuit that I found in one of the empty lockers. Its a black one piece, but what amazes me is that I haven't seen a single woman in this whole place; and yet they have a women's locker room and some clothes.

"Rosie, you about done?" Clem calls from the door. My stomach is churning, just like the times I went to swim meets and competed.

"Yeah, I'll be right out!" I yell back to her. I hear her walk away, as her footfalls echo in the locker room. I'm not sure I want swim in front of everyone. What if I'm not that fast like Mason says? Well better get it over with, I already agreed to the race.

I walk out to the pool to see everyone talking to each other, until Mason sees me. He starts waving, gaining the attention of the others making them look towards me. I cross my arms and shift my weight to one foot, nervous at the attention.

A man about the same height of Will, but has black hair. He's wearing camouflage swim trunks, black cap with goggles. I walk up to them and the man extends his hand to me.

"Hi I'm Mark, I heard you're a fast swimmer." I shake his hand replying,

"Rose, I'm not so sure I am after all these years." I smile before he goes over to the diving boards for races. I get on the one next to him, with the side of the pool on my left. Everyone is sitting on the stands, except for the bots.

"Alright, you guys are going to swim to the end and back. On your marks, get set, go!" Will shouts, his voice booming off the walls. I dive into the water, my legs together flapping like a mermaid a good distance before coming up.

When I bring my arm down to the water, I push the water with my hands and kick. When I come to the wall, I flip and push off with my feet and swam using the mermaid technique. I come back to the surface, and continue the rest of the race with strokes.

I feel as though everything from my time on the swim team, coming back to me. The crowds cheering, and feeling free from everything. I bring my hand down to feel concrete meaning I finished the relay. I put both of my hands on the side of the pool, catching my breath.

"Damn," I hear Epps whistle. I look up to see everyone eyeing a watch in Will's hand.

"What?" I pant. Will looks at me, then the watch, and back at me.

"Rose, your time is faster than Mark's. He set a record for a minute forty, your time is a minute and ten seconds." Will replies. Clem is smiling brightly beside Will saying,

"Please tell me we can brag this in Mark's face." I knew she was joking when she let out a small laugh as her smile grew brighter. I hear water splash and look to my left to see Mark getting out of the pool.

"Looks like I have competition now. Nice job kid." Mark says walking to the locker rooms. I watch as Mark's figure disappears into the locker rooms.

"Alright Rose, once you get changed, you have free roam until dinner." Will says walking away as another soldier calls for him by the entrance.

"Great job Rose, I can't wait to tell the guys about this." Clem says with a big smile. I look at my hands that are gripping the concrete edge in shock.

"I haven't swam like that since...since I was in school." I sputter getting out of the pool.

"I told you she was fast." Mason says and everyone laughs at him.

"Well hey, now you can swim again. If you become an 'intern here, you get some pretty nice perks." Clementine says with a smile as she nudges my side gently. I roll my eyes with a smile before responding,

"Oh sure, says the one who called in work. 'I have an internship.'" I put more emphasis on internship and air quotes on the phrase.

"Rosie I'm going to play games with Jazz and Sideswipe!" Mason shouts as Jazz picks him up.

"Be careful!" I shout after them just as Jazz skates out of he pool area, along with Sideswipe.

"Ooh Mama Rose has been ignited." Clem states with a small laugh. "The reason I called in was because Haejax got into some trouble, and I had to come talk to the man in charge of yelling at him for five days straight." She explains with a shrug. "I guess robotic alien teenagers get into trouble just like we do, huh Rose." She finishes with a smile.

I laugh with a knowing smile but quickly go back to her calling me a mom! I punch her shoulder playfully and say,

"Quite calling me a mom!"

"But you are a mom! I bet you'd scale me if I went out drag racing right now with Haejax, just because the track isn't that safe." Clem pointedly states with a playful smirk. I glare at Clem, my eyes narrowed to a squint and my arms are crossed.

"Well I wouldn't want to hear you come crying to me if you got hurt. I would just say, I told you so." Clem laughs, but once she calms down she says,

"Come on Rose, let's explore this place a little bit."

"Alright, but let me take a shower first? I really need help navigating this place. Might as well call it a labyrinth."

"Yeah I know right, I'll wait for you here." Clem states with a smile.

"Okay, I will be quick." I say quickly walking to the showers. I walk to the farthest one so I know, no one will sneak a peek. I turn the shower on, the waterfall like spray fall on my body. The water is much warmer than the pool, thank goodness.

Do I really act like a mother? I frown at the thought of me being rude to others. I just want to keep Mason safe, that's what I promised mom and dad. With a sigh, I shut the water off and change back into my clothes.

I quickly towel dry my hair, but it will just turn to curls in a while. I leave the locker rooms to see Clem sitting by the edge of the pool. Clem looks in my direction standing up asking,

"Hey, are you ready to go?" I nod in response as I give her a smile.

"Where to first?"

"Wherever you'd like. We can go hangout in the bots' hanger for a while and annoy Doc." Clem says with a small mischievous smile.

"Sure and hopefully I remember their names this time." I state walking next to Clem down a hall. "And just to be clear, you were talking about Ratchet, right?"

"Of course, I came up with nicknames for almost everyone. Ratchet is the only one who acts like he's mad, but I know he doesn't really mind." Clem explains with a smile. I nod when she finished.

"That's good to know. Anything else I should know? I would hate to make a fool of myself." I say as I fumble with my fingers.

"No just be yourself, just because they're alien robots, doesn't mean that they treat humans any different. They just joke about having to watch where they step." Clem said with a small laugh, making me laugh with her.

"Umm, I just have one question. Why is Ironhide so grumpy?"

"Because he doesn't like the fact he can't roughhouse with us I guess. I honestly don't know." Clem says with a small shrug. I think for a minute remembering him as a human when he visited my house. I just shrug as we enter the hanger.

Upon entering the hanger, the few bots there turn to us. Ironhide has his arms crossed, looking grumpy as ever. Optimus is in his semi truck mode, and there are three motorcycles in a line.

"This the new addition?" A voice comes from the motorcycles. I stop in shock thinking that I've met all of them when Mason and I arrived.

"Yep. Chromia, Arcee, Elita, this is Rose." Clem introduces us with a smile as the three motorcycles transform. The motorcycles were females, or 'femmes' in cybertronian language; they were light blue, pink, and purple. The blue one crouches down in front of us.

"Awe isn't she cute." She says with a smile. "Can I keep her?" She asked as the purple one laughs and shakes her head.

"Chromia, you asked if you and Ironhide could keep Clementine too; and you got too..." She laughs.

"Yeah, but I'd love to have two girls instead of one Arcee." Chromia said again crossing her arms.

I wave nervously, biting my lower lip. "Hi."

The pink femme stands behind Chromia and Arcee, with her arms crossed, shaking her head softly. "You two never change...so, how long have you known about us being on earth?" She asked as she loomed down at me.

"I've met Haejax when I was seven, but other than that, just today. My little brother is here too." I explain looking up at the pink robot. "Ugh, I feel bad for asking this but, what is your name?"

"I'm Elita, the one trying to claim you is Chromia, and the other is Arcee." She says softly.

"It's great to finally see the human who found out about us. We knew that the sparkling had been found by an earthling, we just never knew who that earthling was." Arcee adds.

"It's nice to meet you Elita. Wait, Haejax talked about me?" I'm shocked that they were wanting to know about me all those years ago. "How long have you guys been here?"

"We only got here within the last two years, but others like Bumblebee and Haejax, have been here for quite a while." I nod listening to the information being given. Loud voices could be heard coming down the hall. There was a loud crash and an angry shout followed suit.

Then suddenly, silver and red come rushing by us, nearly knocking Clem and I over. The two closer femmes immediately scooped us up to keep us from getting squished, as they glared at the two mechs.

"Hey watch it, we aren't a couple of speed bumps you know!" Clem snaps softly as Arcee and Chromia put us back down.

"Thank you Chromia, Arcee," I say as I put my feet on the ground, getting out of Chromia's hand. Jazz turns around and Mason is giggling in Jazz's hands, and Sideswipe is laughing with them. "What's so funny you guys?"

Then an angry Ratchet comes running into the hanger.

"Oh no...PROTECT THE EARTHLINGS!" Chromia says in slight panic, as Clem pulls me out of the way of the angry medic.

"Hey Jazzy, put the kid down before you put before you get pulverized into scrap metal, we don't want him hurt." Clem yells at the silver bot. "And you better get running Sides, he's not as slow as you'd think." She added.

Jazz puts Mason down as he and Sides skate away. I turn to a laughing Mason and walk up to him.

"Mason, what did you do to make Ratchet so mad?" I ask.

"We were just playing a joke. That's what Sideswipe said." I frown and shake my head at him. I kneel down and grab Mason's shoulders.

"Give him a break Rosie, I mess around with Ratch all the time. He won't hurt a human, only other bots." Clem said with a smile.

"It also helps that you have Ironhide and Chromia to hide behind though." Arcee said as Clem shakes her head.

"True, that helps too. They're not so bad for alien parents." Clem says with a small laugh. I turn to Clem then look down before stating,

"It doesn't matter Clem. Mason this isn't our home, so we need to treat the base and its residents with respect. You need to think about others feelings before doing something so reckless." I scold Mason.

"Rose..." Clem said softly as she stands next to me. "This base and everyone in it is a family; we protect, love, and tease each other constantly. It's as much your home now as it is the bots, and mine." She finishes with a small smile.

I smile at her speech, but it turns to a frown. I grab Mason's hand and walk over to Ratchet.

"You will apologize." I tell Mason. Mason frowns and looks up at Ratchet.

"I'm sorry Ratchet." I nod to him and turn to the others.

"We will be in our room until dinner if you need us. Ratchet, I'm sorry for any inconvenience that Mason, Sideswipe, and Jazz have caused you." I apologize.

Narratives POV
Jazz and Sideswipe start to feel bad.

Ratchet lets out a small almost unnoticeable smile as he looked down at them before he nods and walks back to the med bay. Rose walks away with Mason in tow.

Once they get to their rooms, Rosie has Mason stay in his room to think about his actions. While Rose is in her room thinking if she's doing the right thing.

"I'm...gonna go check on Rose and Mason..." Clem said softly as she went after them a few minutes later. The first room she stopped at was Mason's, as she gave his door a small knock.

Mason looks up from his bed and says, "Rosie?"
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Optimus watched the scene and sighs. Ironhide grumbles and scolds the two.

"You two could learn something from that femme."
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"No Mace its Clem. I wanted to come make sure you were alright." She said softly. Mason walks to the door and opens it to see Clem.

"I made Rosie mad."

Sideswipe feeling bad skates to Rosie's and Mason's rooms.

"Don't worry Mace, she isn't mad, she was just worried about you." Clem said softly. "She even treats me like this from time to time." She adds. "Come on, let's go talk to Rosie okay?" She said reaching her hand out to the boy.

Mason takes her hand as they leave. Sideswipe turns the corner just as Clem and Mason come out of his room. Rosie lays down on the bed as a migraine starts to form. Clem sees Sides as they leave the room, and gives him a small wave. Sideswipe rolls to Mason and Clem and kneels.

"I'm sorry you got in trouble Mas, it wasn't even you little man." Mason walks over and hugs Sideswipe's leg.

"That's what we're going to clear up right now. Ratchet would've let us know if he was in on it." Clem said with a small smile.

"Here little man," Sideswipe said picking up the small boy and letting him sit on his shoulder. Rosie is laying on her bed staring at the ceiling but hears voices outside her door. Clem laughs softly as she walked up to the door, and knocks softly.

"Yes?" Rose calls from her spot.

"Hey can we talk?" Clem asks softly. Rose gets up to answer the door, only to see Clem, Sideswipe and Mason. Sideswipe kneels to their level, being careful with Mason.

"Look Rosie, it wasn't Mason's fault. I played the prank on Hatchet, not Mason or Jazz. They were just watching, so it should be me who needs to apologize." Rose frowns sadly but smiles at Sideswipe.

"I was trying to tell you that Sides always got in trouble, but you never gave me a chance and went ahead and walked away from us." Clem adds softly.

Rose frowns feeling like she disappointed her best friend. "I'm sorry, I just have a lot going on. I'm being more cautious since this isn't our home." Rose meets Clem's gaze. "I'm sorry if I made you upset Mason." Rose turns to look at Mason who just smiles in return.

"Well that's the main reason we came here." Clem says with a small smile. "I want to make this place feel more like home to you." She adds softly. Rose smiles and hugs Clem, but is interrupted by stomachs grumbling. We look to Mason as he giggles.

"Is it time for dinner?"

"Sure, come on I'll show you to the mess hall." Clem says waving her hand towards her in a direction down the hall. She laughs with a smile. Rose smiles and follows with Sideswipe behind them. After traveling through a few halls, we make it to the mess hall. There's a table where Will, Epps, and a few of the boys are at.

"And we have arrived." Clem says jokingly with a smile. "You can go ask the cook for something and he'll make it for ya. I usually just get the fried chicken." She said with a small laugh.

"Thanks Clem, come on Mason." Sideswipe sets Mason down and the two go get their dinner. Rose gets a variety of foods and helps Mason. "Thank you sir."

"Thank you," Mason says after Rosalie. They make their way to the table where everyone else is at. Clem went ahead and sat down since Epps went ahead and ordered her something. Rose sits next to Will and Mason is next to her. Rose begins eating her food when the bots come in as their 'holoforms' and sit at the table.

"Hey lil' man!" Jazz calls and sits next to Mason. Clem smiles as she scooted over for some of the bots as Haejax and the Arcee triplets sat down as well. Bumblebee sits next to Will and smiles at Rose. She looks down trying so hard not to blush as her stomach is all tingly.

Rose's POV
"What have you guys been up to?" I ask taking a bite of my mashed potatoes. There was a pause before Bumblebee answered.

"Just training with the others." I nod my head at his response as I finished my meal.

"Oh Mas, before I forget!" I quickly got up and sped walked to the counter where a variety of foods are placed out. I grab a cookie and make my way back to Mason and the others. "Here you go. I'm sorry if I made you upset."

Mason takes the cookie and starts munching on it, brining a smile to my face. I can feel their beady eyes on us, but I don't care. I may have been harsh on him earlier, and I can't stay mad at him.
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"You sure you can find your way back?" Sideswipe asked, as we begin to leave the mess hall. I give him a smile and nod.

"How hard can it be?" He and the others chuckle. As the others walk the other way, I catch a quick glimpse of Bumblebee looking at me. My heart flutters and I quickly guide Mason around the corner to where our rooms could possibly be.

I see the familiar hall and lead Mason to his room first. I grab him pj's from his bag and let him get dressed. When I notice him having trouble with the shirt, I help him and his head pokes through. He grins at me and I laugh softly.

"Can you sing Rosie?" I smile at him. Same old Mason, either a song or story before bed.

"What song shall I sing to my lost boy?" I smile at him as he loves Peter Pan, so gave him this nickname.

"Peter pan from the radio!" I shake my head, that's not the songs name, but I know the one. I sit close to the edge of the bed as I tuck him in.

"There was a time when I was alone
Nowhere to go and no place to call home
My only friend was the man in the moon
And even sometimes he would go away, too
Then one night, as I closed my eyes
I saw a shadow flying high
He came to me with the sweetest smile
Told me he wanted to talk for awhile
He said, "Peter Pan, that's what they call me
I promise that you'll never be lonely, " and ever since that day...

I am a lost boy from Neverland
Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods
Always on the run from Captain Hook
"Run, run, lost boy, " they say to me
Away from all of reality
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free..." I finish to a whisper and kiss his head goodnight. I get up, but leave the bedside lamp on and turn the other lights off. I quietly shut the door and turn around to see Ben - erm Bumblebee.

"Oh geez!" I whisper yelled, as I place a hand over my racing heart.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I heard a noise and came to check it out. I didn't know you could sing like that." I blush and bite the inside of my cheek.

"Yeah...I tend to sing to Mason before bed. That's usually how he falls asleep, or I read him a story. Was I too loud?"

"N-no, it was great! I'm just sad that I missed it!" His praise makes my cheeks burn even more, if that was even possible. Now we are in an awkward silence and the tension was building up.

"I'm gonna...go to bed!" I say pointing to my room and quickly go in and shut the door.

"Okay, night Rosie..." I hear him mumble from the other side of the door. When I hear the soft thumping of his feet walking away, I release a breath I didn't even know I was holding. I fall to my knees with my hands against the door.

"Night Bee..." I barely whisper.