Happy Prime Chapter 2
Haven't had much brain for writing - another super busy week at work (November, my slow month, what happened to you?), but trying to keep up my momentum of at least writing something once a week. Skeleton kitty is doing a little better - turns out she's declawed, vet couldn't find anything majorly wrong with her without doing more tests, finally started eating regular canned cat food better yesterday (I'd been feeding her liquid food, but that stuff's pretty expensive), keeps me up most nights wanting to snuggle but gets growly if I try to pick her up.
Warning for some discussion of mech preg, email format again :)
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Did you get to meet Optimus again? Is his holo avatar dreamy? Did you get his autograph?
I’ve seen all the news reports, but what was it really like having a little robot kid in camp? Did the other parents, like, totally freak out?
Come on, tell me tell me tell me!!!
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Geez, excited much? lol, yes, you silly monkey, I got to meet Optimus again. His holo avatar looks just like he usually does, only smaller. Hound says they can make it look like anything - I was picking his brains before the first day of camp - but they thought sticking to their regular robot forms would be less confusing for Happy and for everyone else. Then he projected himself as a six-foot tall mountain lion. It was awesome.
I’ll admit I was a little nervous, but Happy’s first day at camp went great! We gave all the other parents a heads up before the first day, so everyone knew what to expect - there were a lot of questions, but we only had one withdraw, and then two other parents requested to transfer their kids in from different camps, so it all evened out. Usually we have a few kids show up late on the first day, but everyone was there really early! The counselors said there was a line already when they got here to unlock the building.
Optimus and Ironhide parked outside, and then came in with Ironhide carrying Happy, and OMG she’s so little! I know Optimus told me how tall she was, and you’ve seen the pictures, but she’s just so little and adorable, and she was looking and pointing at everything and asking questions non-stop the whole time. I thought Optimus was just joking about Ironhide, but he really didn’t want to put her down, and then when he finally did Happy went right inside with Julian to meet the other kids and start in with the crayons and Play Doh, only I didn’t get to see because I was too busy answering the third degree from Ironhide. I swear, Prime totally winked at me when he dragged him away, it was too hilarious.
I was a little worried Happy would be overwhelmed; all the other kids kind of looked at her and stared at first, but she’s a confident little thing, she just said hi and seemed so delighted by everyone and everything, and when a couple of them got brave enough to poke her she just poked them right back, really gentle about it, though, and then she giggled like it was the best game in the world, and the other kids started giggling too. When she takes your hand with those little finger digits you can just tell she’s being so careful - it’s really sweet. One of the kids told her she wasn’t a person, she was a robot, and she told them “I’m a robot person” and everyone seemed ok with that, lol. From there I honestly mostly forgot she wasn’t just another kid!
She was a bit of a Hermione Granger at first - Happy apparently has a pretty extensive nature database already. She’d just jump right in with the right answers all the time to everything, but we just gave a few hints about taking turns and using imagination, and everyone learning things at their own pace, and she picked up on what we were getting at pretty quick. Started letting the other kids have their say without correcting everything all the time, although you could see her little optics blinking away every once in awhile at the sillier stuff. She seemed a little puzzled by the imaginative play at first, but I think she was starting to get the hang of it - during free time they had a whole adventure going with the toy stuffed animals in the treehouse, and Happy had the stuffed frog hopping around, just one of the gang. One way she’s definitely different from human kids, you never have to tell her anything twice!
Anyway, when Optimus and Ironhide came to pick her up she had to take them all around and show them everything and introduce them to all her friends (the little campers were totally awestruck to meet Happy’s “mom and dad” - sometimes Optimus was the mom and sometimes he was the dad, didn’t seem to particularly care which) and then try on her camp t-shirt (it fits over her head, just barely!)
You should have seen the look on Ironhide’s face when Happy was showing Optimus her worm farm she made today! Not thrilled, to put it mildly, lol, but Optimus was all serious attention when Happy introduced him to her worms. She named one Megatron because it was big and fat and the other one Bumblebee because it was wiggly. You could tell Optimus had missed her, the way he held her and listened to everything she said. Ironhide got to carry the worm farm :P
I did not get an autograph from Optimus, I’m afraid. Come on Wednesday and do a tree class for the little bits, and you can ask him for one yourself, though ;) He totally won't mind - he did a bunch for the other parents while he was waiting to pick up Happy, and seemed to really enjoy talking to them about their kids.
Hound says hi, by the way, and that he’s sorry he had to bail halfway through the stream re-planting project this spring - that was when Happy showed up, kind of took priority for awhile.
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Aww, Happy sounds so adorable! I’m glad it went well, and I can’t stop laughing over the thought of Ironhide living with two worms named Megatron and Bumblebee. Poor guy! XD So...is Ironhide Happy’s dad? How does that even work, exactly? They’ve been pretty vague about the details in the news interviews, other than she was a spark that came from the Matrix.
Gah! So tempting, I’d love to teach a class, but little kids scare me! Last time I tried to talk to a class of preschoolers it lasted all of ten minutes and then they all started getting up and running around.
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Ironhide’s not the first parent to be dubious about the worm farm! (Hey, if you come to nature camp, fair warning, some of the nature’s going to come home with you.)
I’m pretty sure Ironhide is Optimus’s significant other, although all the Autobots are Optimus’s significant others in one way or another, according to Hound. Apparently Cybertronian society isn’t really into monogamy, and that’s all the detail I’m going to go into on a work email account, lol.
Anyway, Hound said Happy’s spark was provided by the Matrix, not necessarily “fathered” by anyone, although Optimus incubated her in his chest for awhile. Remember that thing that was in the tabloids back in February, claiming that Prime had a heart attack in the middle of some UN meeting? Hound said that one was actually true - poor Optimus dropped like a rock when Happy’s spark first ignited. Then he incubated her in his chest for about a month while protomatter accumulated around her spark - at a certain point it peeled away from Optimus’s protoform, which doesn’t sound fun at all, and Ratchet put her in a little simple body he’d built. The cool thing? All the Cybertronians on Earth contributed metal for her frame from their own bodies - even the Decepticons, if you can believe it - so it’s kind of like they’re all her parents.
You can totally handle a class of fifteen preschoolers including one robot-kid, I have faith! Just come and talk a few minutes about the work you do in forestry and let them ask questions, and then we can go do a tree hike and collect leaves and we’ll do some leaf rubbings. You’ll survive, I promise!
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Wait, what what what? Are you implying the robots have, ahem...carnal relations? I’m horrified! I’m appalled! I’m...strangely intrigued. We really need to meet for lunch sometime. And invite Hound along.
One month pregnancy, not a bad deal, really, and wow, everyone donating metal for her frame - kinda sweet. Weird, but sweet. I can’t really picture Megatron doing anything of the sort. It’s been nice not having to look over our shoulders for Decepticons, though. Hope that lasts!
Ok ok, you talked me into it. What time on Wednesday?
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
One word: hermaphrodites. Ironhide has more in common with those worms than he probably realizes!
Awesome, how about 2:30ish? Right after snack and then by the time we’re done it’ll be time for the parents to start picking up, and you can meet Optimus. See you Wednesday!
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Warning for some discussion of mech preg, email format again :)
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Did you get to meet Optimus again? Is his holo avatar dreamy? Did you get his autograph?
I’ve seen all the news reports, but what was it really like having a little robot kid in camp? Did the other parents, like, totally freak out?
Come on, tell me tell me tell me!!!
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Geez, excited much? lol, yes, you silly monkey, I got to meet Optimus again. His holo avatar looks just like he usually does, only smaller. Hound says they can make it look like anything - I was picking his brains before the first day of camp - but they thought sticking to their regular robot forms would be less confusing for Happy and for everyone else. Then he projected himself as a six-foot tall mountain lion. It was awesome.
I’ll admit I was a little nervous, but Happy’s first day at camp went great! We gave all the other parents a heads up before the first day, so everyone knew what to expect - there were a lot of questions, but we only had one withdraw, and then two other parents requested to transfer their kids in from different camps, so it all evened out. Usually we have a few kids show up late on the first day, but everyone was there really early! The counselors said there was a line already when they got here to unlock the building.
Optimus and Ironhide parked outside, and then came in with Ironhide carrying Happy, and OMG she’s so little! I know Optimus told me how tall she was, and you’ve seen the pictures, but she’s just so little and adorable, and she was looking and pointing at everything and asking questions non-stop the whole time. I thought Optimus was just joking about Ironhide, but he really didn’t want to put her down, and then when he finally did Happy went right inside with Julian to meet the other kids and start in with the crayons and Play Doh, only I didn’t get to see because I was too busy answering the third degree from Ironhide. I swear, Prime totally winked at me when he dragged him away, it was too hilarious.
I was a little worried Happy would be overwhelmed; all the other kids kind of looked at her and stared at first, but she’s a confident little thing, she just said hi and seemed so delighted by everyone and everything, and when a couple of them got brave enough to poke her she just poked them right back, really gentle about it, though, and then she giggled like it was the best game in the world, and the other kids started giggling too. When she takes your hand with those little finger digits you can just tell she’s being so careful - it’s really sweet. One of the kids told her she wasn’t a person, she was a robot, and she told them “I’m a robot person” and everyone seemed ok with that, lol. From there I honestly mostly forgot she wasn’t just another kid!
She was a bit of a Hermione Granger at first - Happy apparently has a pretty extensive nature database already. She’d just jump right in with the right answers all the time to everything, but we just gave a few hints about taking turns and using imagination, and everyone learning things at their own pace, and she picked up on what we were getting at pretty quick. Started letting the other kids have their say without correcting everything all the time, although you could see her little optics blinking away every once in awhile at the sillier stuff. She seemed a little puzzled by the imaginative play at first, but I think she was starting to get the hang of it - during free time they had a whole adventure going with the toy stuffed animals in the treehouse, and Happy had the stuffed frog hopping around, just one of the gang. One way she’s definitely different from human kids, you never have to tell her anything twice!
Anyway, when Optimus and Ironhide came to pick her up she had to take them all around and show them everything and introduce them to all her friends (the little campers were totally awestruck to meet Happy’s “mom and dad” - sometimes Optimus was the mom and sometimes he was the dad, didn’t seem to particularly care which) and then try on her camp t-shirt (it fits over her head, just barely!)
You should have seen the look on Ironhide’s face when Happy was showing Optimus her worm farm she made today! Not thrilled, to put it mildly, lol, but Optimus was all serious attention when Happy introduced him to her worms. She named one Megatron because it was big and fat and the other one Bumblebee because it was wiggly. You could tell Optimus had missed her, the way he held her and listened to everything she said. Ironhide got to carry the worm farm :P
I did not get an autograph from Optimus, I’m afraid. Come on Wednesday and do a tree class for the little bits, and you can ask him for one yourself, though ;) He totally won't mind - he did a bunch for the other parents while he was waiting to pick up Happy, and seemed to really enjoy talking to them about their kids.
Hound says hi, by the way, and that he’s sorry he had to bail halfway through the stream re-planting project this spring - that was when Happy showed up, kind of took priority for awhile.
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Aww, Happy sounds so adorable! I’m glad it went well, and I can’t stop laughing over the thought of Ironhide living with two worms named Megatron and Bumblebee. Poor guy! XD So...is Ironhide Happy’s dad? How does that even work, exactly? They’ve been pretty vague about the details in the news interviews, other than she was a spark that came from the Matrix.
Gah! So tempting, I’d love to teach a class, but little kids scare me! Last time I tried to talk to a class of preschoolers it lasted all of ten minutes and then they all started getting up and running around.
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Ironhide’s not the first parent to be dubious about the worm farm! (Hey, if you come to nature camp, fair warning, some of the nature’s going to come home with you.)
I’m pretty sure Ironhide is Optimus’s significant other, although all the Autobots are Optimus’s significant others in one way or another, according to Hound. Apparently Cybertronian society isn’t really into monogamy, and that’s all the detail I’m going to go into on a work email account, lol.
Anyway, Hound said Happy’s spark was provided by the Matrix, not necessarily “fathered” by anyone, although Optimus incubated her in his chest for awhile. Remember that thing that was in the tabloids back in February, claiming that Prime had a heart attack in the middle of some UN meeting? Hound said that one was actually true - poor Optimus dropped like a rock when Happy’s spark first ignited. Then he incubated her in his chest for about a month while protomatter accumulated around her spark - at a certain point it peeled away from Optimus’s protoform, which doesn’t sound fun at all, and Ratchet put her in a little simple body he’d built. The cool thing? All the Cybertronians on Earth contributed metal for her frame from their own bodies - even the Decepticons, if you can believe it - so it’s kind of like they’re all her parents.
You can totally handle a class of fifteen preschoolers including one robot-kid, I have faith! Just come and talk a few minutes about the work you do in forestry and let them ask questions, and then we can go do a tree hike and collect leaves and we’ll do some leaf rubbings. You’ll survive, I promise!
From: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
To: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
Wait, what what what? Are you implying the robots have, ahem...carnal relations? I’m horrified! I’m appalled! I’m...strangely intrigued. We really need to meet for lunch sometime. And invite Hound along.
One month pregnancy, not a bad deal, really, and wow, everyone donating metal for her frame - kinda sweet. Weird, but sweet. I can’t really picture Megatron doing anything of the sort. It’s been nice not having to look over our shoulders for Decepticons, though. Hope that lasts!
Ok ok, you talked me into it. What time on Wednesday?
From: naturelady@yourcityparks.org
To: treegirl@cityforestrydept.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So?!!! Gimme the scoop!
One word: hermaphrodites. Ironhide has more in common with those worms than he probably realizes!
Awesome, how about 2:30ish? Right after snack and then by the time we’re done it’ll be time for the parents to start picking up, and you can meet Optimus. See you Wednesday!
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