Warming Up

Penny hummed a little tune as she walked up the porch steps of her house. The rain cascaded down from the gutter pipes, making her hair and the bots wet. The one with the wings squealed loudly as his wings got colder from the water.

"I'm so sorry baby!" Penny said, rubbing his wings to calm him down. "I promise when we get inside to warm your little wings up."

Starscream stopped whining and practically melted to her touch. The way she was rubbing his wings made him buzz with happiness. Whatever she was doing to him made the others move towards her hand to feel the warmth. Knockout pushed him away as he purred with glee as she ran her fingers over his frame.

"Goodness gracious! Why do you have so many dents and scratches on you?" She exclaimed, patting Knockout's helm. "I'll have to fix that up for you when we get inside."

Putting the box down, Penny took her keys out from her purse. Twisting the lock, she opened the door to welcome in the warm heat. She picked the box up again, struggling to hold the entire thing in her arms. The bots and cons beeped excitedly, feeling warmer and happy to be inside a home.

Penny's house was spacious for someone living alone. The foyer stretched down the main hallway, two paths to separate into the living room and the kitchen. Stairs lead upstairs to her bedroom, bathroom, and a extra guest room for any guest or child that stayed over late. The laundry room laid in the basement.

Penny placed the box in the living room, allowing the babies to explore the area. She took off her coat and hung in on the coat rack. Shaking her hair of all the excess water, she walked into the living room to watch the babies explore their new home.

Optimus climbed on the coffee table along with Ratchet, who was poking the remote on the table. Bulkhead waddled towards the couch, raising his stubby arms to reach the edge. Breakdown saw him and started to mimic his motions, but to no avail. Knockout found one of her mirrors and started to look at his reflection, beeping at how horrible he looked. Megatron sat in her big chair like he had claimed his own throne. Soundwave found her discarded laptop and used his small tentacles to plug himself in. Arcee was still stuck in the box, making small cries as she struggled to get out. Smokescreen saw her in peril and grabbed her arms to get her out. Dreadwing watched them nearby under the couch. Bumblebee saw Penny walk in and beeped happily. He started to crawl to her, but was pushed down by Starscream who hugged her leg. Penny patted his helm, making him hug her tighter. Bumblebee started to cry, blue tears running down his face.

"Awww! I'm sorry sweetheart!" She cooed, picking him up and jumping him in her arms. "You all need my attention, so I have to figure out how to split my time between all of you."

It was then she noticed that he and the rest of them were wet from the rain. She gently set Bumblebee down and pried Starscream off her leg as she went downstairs to grab some towels. Finding the most fluffiest she could grab, she wobbled up the stairs and back into the living room.

"Okay itty bitties, I need to dry you all up!" She said, getting all their attentions. "Can you all come over so I can dry you up?"

The autobots were eager to get dry, so they all crawled towards her. The decepticons all looked towards Megatron for an answer. Penny noticed Megatron giving her a wary look before she smiled warmly at him. She wondered why he would give her such a look, she could be trusted. Penny realized that she would have to earn his trust. Placing the towels on the couch, she leaned down to face level of Megatron.

"Okay, I know that you don't trust me, but we need to work together. I may not be the best choice to take care of all of you, but I couldn't turn my back at a box full of robot babies." Her hand wavered a bit over his helm as she gave him a pat. "I want to love all of you. Please give me that chance."

Megatron was floored at her kindness. He felt his spark jump at how nice this strange human woman was acting. He had known nothing, but horror and fear his entire life. He had fought in the pits of Kaon for years and had never been shown any form of love. Now in his innocent mind, he was seeing her as more than just a mere human. He was seeing her as a caretaker, a protector to their kind. Maybe she could be trusted...

For the first time in his new reborn life, he smiled widely.

Megatron nodded his helm, looking at the other Decepticons. One by one they all surrounded her, waiting to be cleaned off. The Autobots were impressed by how compliant the Decepticons were. Optimus gave Penny a look of gratitude. He was happy to see his best friend smile at her.

"Thank you guys, now let's get you all cleaned up."

Penny's P.O.V

I could've sworn I saw that blue and red helmet one give me a small smile of thankfulness. What is wrong with these baby robots? Did they understand me or something? Perhaps I'm looking too much into this, I have to start thinking straight. Here I was, coming home to a nice lonely house when I suddenly become the adopted mother to a litter of the cutest bots. They all seemed...familiar, like they were from some sort of television program or something. But that didn't matter now. What mattered was that I had cold, wet bots that could get some sort of computer virus. I chuckled softly at that. So I sat down on the carpet and spread out the towels. All the bots sat on the towels, rubbing their stubby arms on them.

"Okay babies, who wants to go first?" I asked them, all their eyes wide with excitement.

I wasn't surprised to see the yellow one crawling up my legs and jump on my legs. He was so gosh darn cute! The white one with the red and blue stripes crawled up the other side of my body, following behind was the cherry red bot. I took the big blue towel and scooped them all up at once.

"Drying is better than being wet!" I singsonged, hearing them all beep like they were giggling. "Shiny and dry!"

I released them all in one fell swoop, giving them all big bear hugs. The yellow one lingered longer on my chest, not wanting to let go. I was about to pry him off when a long tentacle wrapped around his body and yanked him off me. I watched him struggle a bi before being put down by the one with the screen face. He crawled on my legs next, his blank screen freaking me out.

"I wonder where your face is, Slendy?" I asked him, cradling him in the towel. His screen face flashed for a second before a smiley face emoticon appeared. Suddenly, my heart was racing at how sweet the gesture was. I felt a tug on my back to see the girl bot giving me a pouty face. "I guess you want some attention too. We girls do have to stick together." Using my other arm, I brought her up and dried the both of them. Like I did with the others, I gave them a big bear hug.

And this continued for ten whole minutes. I had dried, fluffed, and hugged all my new family members. Each one had a different reaction towards me hugging them. The one with the wings also lingered longer than he should have. I even petted his wings, making him purr in delight. I found the action sweet.

With them all nice and dry, I knew it be a matter of time before they were all hungry. So I made a trip to the kitchen and checked my fridge for something to make for them. Then I realized what I was doing, closing the fridge.

"What am I going to feed these alien babies? What do alien babies even eat?" I asked aloud, hoping some mysterious force was listening to me. I heard the sound of clanking as I felt someone poking my leg. My eyes went down to see the orange and white bot giving me a grumpy look. Honestly, he looked more like an old man than a cute baby. "What is it? Do you know what to feed you guys or something?"

He nodded, making me jump in surprise. Did he just understand me or something? Okay maybe I am tired. Nevertheless, I watched as he went under the kitchen sink. I picked him up and placed him on the table, looking at what he grabbed. Did robot babies like oil or something? Come to think of it, why did I keep oil in the kitchen?

"Um...okay? I guess this will work. Thank you for all your help, small grumpy bot." I said, taking the oil from his hands. I searched the cabinet to find some small cups for them to drink out of. Soon enough, all the babies came waddling into the kitchen. Dinner wasn't ready yet, I had to get them out of the kitchen.

"Can you guys wait in the living room? I promise that the food will be ready in a minute!" I told them, shooing them out. They all beeped with hunger, but they obeyed. Two of them stayed behind; the blue and pink female and the red male with the scratches.

The red bot came near me, watching my every movement. What was wrong with the red one? Did he had some sort of problem with the way I worked? Finally, I found the cups I had when the smaller children were over. Carefully, I opened the oil can up and deposited the black stuff into the cups. I saw the female bot pick up the other can before mimicking my movements and helping out with the rest. She was so helpful! What did I do to deserve a girl bot like her?

"Thanks for all your help!" I told her, patting her head. She gave a beep of happiness, I guess feeling pride for helping out. That's how she should feel, show those boys whose boss! I placed all the cups on the tray before noticing the red bot jumping up and down below me. I raised an eyebrow at his behavior. He pointed at the tray in my hands and gestured holding it.

"You want to help me too?" I asked him, him beeping in reply. "Well I wish the human kids were as helpful as you two! But I'm going to let you hold a couple of cups. I'm not sure that you can handle a tray just yet." I gave him two cups and the female two cups too. "Come on, you two. Time to serve the rest of the family."

Oh yes, I have cute bot fever! The feeding hour shall be next time!

What kind of cuteness would you want to see in this story? Tell me in the comments! Until then, awww!! I love Baby Bumblebee!