[ti]Ep 2[/ti]A Lesson in Humanity [Closed, Nell]

[Bumblebee]

Week 2 | Day 4 | 8am
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Bumblebee let out an agitated whir of a sigh as he stared hopelessly at the machine used to choose and maintain a holoform. He hadn't wanted one, but with more and more humans arriving at base? It could prove useful to have so they didn't have to look upwards all the time while talking to a bot. Especially if he had to meet with others in areas that weren't meant for bots, or couldn't fit bots... Having a holoform that wasn't basically stuck to the drivers seat of his alt-form was probably useful, too. That and with him being the one who often jumped at the chance to pick up Raf from school, having a driver in the drivers seat looked.. Well, normal. The one in there right now? Stiff as a board. Boring. Totally not Bumblebee.

He couldn't exactly go around driving with nobody in the drivers seat when out and about – even with the tinted windows there was a chance someone could see in. Raf couldn't sit there, either. What if he got pulled over? Hello officer, yes, I am twelve years old and driving a sports car! Ha! That'd go down well. Not that Bee had reason to get pulled over, he was very careful when and where he... Kinda, sorta... Maybe went over the speed limit. He shuddered thinking about yesterday while picking up Raf and the cheerleaders.. He needed a Holoform that if people saw, it would look normal. More fitting than the generic 'guy' he had there for right now.

This whoooole thing is stuuuu-uuuupid~

Picking a holoform that he'd actually keep was a lot harder than he'd first thought. Obviously it had to have blonde hair. Had to be good looking, too. Blue eyes to match his... Yep. After some tweaking, frustrated angry cursing, and maybe a smack or two on the machine? He'd made himself a holoform. A few more frustrated smacks on the machine and it had clothes. Nothing too flashy, a scratty band t-shirt and ripped jeans. It was Bee.

And it was perfect. ((Yay a picture link!))

An excited flurry of beeps escaped him. This wasn't so bad after all. Flexing his servos as he looked down at the holoform. The one in his alt form was basic. It sat, and made the simple motions of driving. This one? Had to be more realistic. It had to move and act human. Now, to test it out. He'd start simple.. Walking. He could walk, he'd seen humans walk. How hard could it be to make this thing walk?

Quite hard, as it turned out.

Optics narrowing in concentration as he focused on getting the holoform to move. It took a shaky step forwards, then another.. Then another.. Then it toppled. It staggered.. Caught itself... Wavered a little.. Like someone who had too much to drink.. Aaaand.. Nope! It fell. Harshly, too. Face first on the concrete floor. At least it was a Holoform, that woulda hurt!  How did humans move about on such tiny little feet? Whatever. Take two. The holoform pulled itself to its feet under Bumblebee's control, and once again attempted to walk.

And walk it did.

It took lumbering, heavy steps. Like it was top heavy and couldn't stop. It kept walking. Okay.. Now. How to stop? Stopping would be great. He couldn't even make it do that falling thing again now that he WANTED it to. Onwards the holoform marched, down the corridor and away from Bumblebee. More frantic beeps and a smack of the machine, he managed to link it so he could see through its eyes. Where was it going?

He, or rather, the holoform, was heading toward someone, a female. A human. A human that Bumblebee didn't know or recognize. He couldn't call out to make them move out the way. Oh no. Oooh no. Frantically Bumblebee waved his arms, the holoform copying his action – waving their arms like a complete lunatic, before he marched straight through the woman, and then fell.

Well, at least he'd got it to stop.

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Nell was just here to touch base with errands more or less. She didn't have much to do, just check a thing here or there, and maybe fix something electrical because a rat chew through some minor circuit boards. She also had half a mind to gather up a list of parts that were needed around base, because being human (one who knew where to get plenty of things on the cheap) she was able to physically get into places without causing suspicion and really? What better way to get onto Ratchet's good side was there? She was sure the crotchety old 'Nurse Ratchet' would appreciate good parts for various projects or repairs.

Still, that was going to be for later, before she headed off to enjoy some of her day off to unwind. Though really, a few hours of work was still work, and she would have to unwind even more tonight.

Which reminded her to look up reviews for various bars and dives around here, because she could legit use some good booze as a way to help 'cope' with the craziness around her. And if not tonight, some other night where she didn't have to worry about a hang over the next morning.

For now, she was minding her own business, heading towards one of the work areas that could have some tools she needed to do a minor repair on that lovely rat chewed circuit board.

What ended up happening, was some dude (a sorta cute one at that) walking towards her down the corridor. Despite his lack of uniform, there wasn't anything too odd about that, she had taken to keep a change of clothes in her car for various reasons of 'if there is another pipe leak, screw the uniform hello comfort'. Now the fact he was flailing his arms like a spastic retard? Well that...That was odd. “The fuck is wrong with ya?” Was her rather uncouth way of asking if he needed medical help. The fact he kept flailing and walking towards her? She attempted to step aside at the last minute, it didn't work he walked right through her and a surprised yell left the brunette.

Welp, a yell and a string of curses that would make a sailor blush ten shades of red.

She was now flailing herself, trying to shake the seriously weird ass feeling that being walked through could cause. Sure, she knew a little about holoforms thanks to a certain spy master 5000, but she didn't really know much about them other than the Bots used them to blend in. “Do you not know how to control that damn thing?!” The mechanic asked, rubbing her arms a bit to further rid herself of that weird feeling. It was a moment later she realized it was quite possible this particular Bot had no clue how to control it, and that they weren't physically in the corridor with her.

Which meant that those holoform's had a little more freedom than simply sitting/standing near their Bot in their alt form.

If that wasn't freaky, she didn't know what was.

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[Bumblebee]

Slag slag slag SLAG SLAAAAAAG. This wasn't going well. It hadn't even been five minutes. Good going, Bee.

The holoform remained face down on the floor. Sprawled out like a sad, limp noodle. All Bumblebee could hear from the corridor was yelling. Angry, curse filled yelling. He'd messed up. This is what happens when you try to do complicated things without supervision. You walk through angry chicks with your holoform and they turn into loud, angry, screeching banshees.

Awesome.

He could just shut the holoform off. Turn it off, walk away. Pretend like it wasn't him. She hadn't seen Bee in the other room. She had no idea that it was Bumblebee's holoform. He'd get off totally scott-free! ...Except that he wouldn't. They'd know. Then he'd get lectured. And nagged. He could feel Optimus' stern gaze on him for even thinking about walking off, and could only begin to imagine the talk he'd get. Ugh. He had to face the angry woman.

Double awesome.

He'd gently tap a couple of the buttons on the machine, the holoform would fizzle out and re-appear next to him. It stood idle, staring into the distance like a zombie, as if awaiting for him to input more commands. Once Bumblebee was certain the thing wasn't going to go off marching through yet more people, he would slink forwards and around the corner into the corridor, casting a wary glance behind him as he did, just to make sure the holoform stayed where it was. It did.

Holding up both servos, the tiniest whine of an apologetic beep left him. His door wings wilted behind him. He was sorry. Optics wide as he stared down at the woman. He knew she was okay, given the fact she had been yelling and cursing like an angry sailor only moments earlier, but he didn't want her to continue yelling, especially when she saw who the culprit was face to face.

Please don't yell, please don't yell...

He'd lift one servo, awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. His other servo thumbing over his shoulder some, head tilted. His whiney beeping would perk up some, becoming chipper. Maybe this female would take pity on him and show him how to properly work the damn thing since he was clearly a menace with it. If she could make some sort of sense of what he was trying to gesture, anyway.

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In all honesty, it wasn't really Bee's fault he didn't know how to fully control his holoform and it wasn't his fault in any way for Nell's reaction to being walked through.

She was just an angry creature, like a soaking wet cat who was ready to claw the eyes out of the asshat who gave her a bath.

The mechanic would calm down though, especially as the bright yellow Bumblebee came around the corner looking as sheepish as some dog who got into the trash. His stupid ass beeps and boops were pathetic, beyond pathetic, too and Nell's eyes were locked on him. The scowl on her face was slowly softening, and a groan left her.

Why did she have to have a soft spot for the kicked three legged mutts who were probably infested with fleas? Easy, she just did.

A slow, somewhat annoyed sigh was soon leaving her before she pinched the bridge of her nose for a brief moment. “Alright, alright. Simmer down, cop magnet.” Nell told at 'Mr. bright yellow', “just gotta watch that thing, especially when if you get a chance to make it more solid cause Christ! You're liable to hurt someone if ya don't know what yet doin'.” Because she didn't want to be the one to get clothes-lined by spastic flail here. She was likely to get her share of scrapes and bruises around here from what little odds and ends work she was going to end up doing.

Reaching up to rub the back of her neck, her eyes flicked from the holoform to back up at Bumblebee, there was a small frown on her lips for a moment or two. “Don't you have anyone to teach ya how to control it?” She asked, though there was something that was bugging her since this short interaction with the mech started...“Aren't you goin' to say somethin'?” She asked. “Cause I've been known to speak 'car' on occasion but, I'm not that good with friggen' charades.” Granted, she didn't know his voice box was damaged and the only way he could speak was through Cybertronian baby talk and wild hand gestures that made little to know sense.

So sue her if she was denser than pound cake that had been over mixed.

[Bumblebee]

Once Bumblebee was sure the woman had calmed down and wasn't going to do that yelling, screechy thing anymore, he would lower into a crouch so he was on eye-level with her. Bumblebee knew what it was like to have to stare up at people to talk to them, and it was probably even worse for humans as they were tiny. That and he didn't know this human, and wanted to try and fix the terrible first impression he'd already made.

He would chirp a half-beep curiously as she said “Cop magnet”, his head tilting just slightly, and his optics would widen. Did she know something he didn't? Were the cops onto him? He'd got many a lecture about the human police force, how they enforced rules of speeding. Was this woman a cop? She didn't look like a cop, then again he'd never actually... Seen one.

He would nod in the affirmative, beeping once as she told him to watch the thing. He didn't know what he was doing. But that much was evident given the holoform had drunkenly stumbled down the hallway and into her, before falling over.

He stood up straight then, folding his arms and shaking his head, beeping sadly. No, he didn't have anyone to teach him – then again he hadn't asked, he wanted to try and work it out himself! Fat lot of good that did him.

He was trying not to beep too much, knowing that the chance of this woman understanding him was slim to none. Raf was the only human that could understand Bee's whirs, trills and whistles. And often when speaking to humans all it ended with was frustration between the two parties at his lack of being unable to communicate properly.

Although that last thing she said caught his attention. His optics widened, narrowed, then widened once more as he peered down at her. Car? She speaks car? Bumblebee was technically a car! At least his alt form was! At last, someone who could understand him other than Raf! Excitement RADIATED from his field, and he shuffled his legs excitedly, almost bopping from pede to pede.

And then Bumblebee would speak.

Excitedly.

Hurriedly.

Of course, all Nell would hear was an overly excited flurry of beeps and trills. His arms waved around as he expressed himself, telling her all about how he'd made the holoform and how he didn't mean to walk into her and how very sorry he was but WOW she could understand him so this would be AMAZING FUN! They could do this with no trouble at all! She could teach him how to holoform and he'd have another human friend that could understand him! YES!

...Except, she wouldn't be able to understand a thing. Bee would continue to chitter and beep excitedly until stopped. Better let him down gently, Nell!

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Nell watched him as he lowered himself down to her level. His curious little chirp about being called a cop magnet made a brow raise. “You know, because you're bright ass yellow” Okay, so it looked like charades were going to be played because obviously he wasn't exactly able to speak human. Either way, that was her best guess – though she would of barked out a laugh if she knew he was wondering if she was a cop or not. Sure, she entertained the idea of joining a police force after she finished up with the Army – but that was still a while coming.

Besides, with this new gig – she might end up staying in the Army for who knows how long.

His nod was a firm one and at least he got that much – he really did need to watch it. After all ,what if it had been solid when it ran right into her? Or hell, what if he decided to play puppeteer in public and caused some big ass wreck? Granted, he didn't seem that stupid and Nell doubted Optimus would allow anyone to use a holoform without a little more practice. Because shit, that would be pretty damn bad.

Of course, her mention of 'speaking car' was going to bite her in the ass. The cop magnet was making all sorts of sounds and the various twirls and whistles was giving her a headache. There wasn't a very amused look on her face, and there was a vein starting to pulse in her forehead. “The fuck?” The words were uttered under her breath. “Chill.” She told him. “I don't get a single damn thing you're speaking right now, you're givin' me a damn headache.” Seriously, did he not know that even if she could guess her way to what he was saying – she needed time to PROCESS it?!

“I can't actually speak car for fucks sake, it's a figure of speech. Like it's raining cats and dogs.” The unamused look was still on her face as she kept her blue eyes on his. “I'll play more charades with you, but you gotta take it slow or else I'll throw a wrench at your head.” And the way she was looking at him right now? Welp, it was rather telling that she was probably serious with that threat of throwing a wrench at him. “I got good aim too, now...Are you Bumblebee?” It was a lucky guess, but she knew who was who a based on coloring, at least some of them.

After all, she knew Arcee was the smaller purple one, the green new one was Rotary, and the big green one was Bulkhead. There was a few others she sorta of knew about, but that was besides the point. Nell just knew a few 'people' because of what she had been told about them – and it wasn't like there was a billion Autobots here. Either way – introductions might as well get out of the way and if there was some hope left from spazzy spastic here – maybe, just maybe, she could teach him a thing or two on how to walk the walk and 'talk the talk' as a human?

Though seriously? The specialist was skeptic as all get out about this one learning how to control his holoform.

Maybe he'll end up proving her wrong?

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[Bumblebee]

Bee would continue to chatter and beep away excitedly. His arms continued to wave around as he demonstrated the Holoform toppling over, the whirs and beeps indicting that he was laughing at himself and what had happened moments earlier in the corridor. Everything would be fine now this other human could understand him.

He missed the first words that were muttered under her breath, probably for the best; although once she started getting annoyed, and continued talking? He would realize that she didn't understand him at all, and was actually infact getting annoyed at him. His beeps and trills would sadly trail off before he stopped talking altogether.

His optics would dim, and he'd lower his gaze to the floor. He'd take a slow step backwards away from the tiny, angry woman. His posture slumped some, defeated. Just like that? His excitement ebbed away into nothing. A headache..? He.. No, he didn't mean to do that! He was a little excited, sure, but he thought that she could understand. He thought that finally there was another human he could befriend and actually talk to.

His gaze would continue to sadly focus on the floor, listening to the woman. A half-confused beep would sing out, although he'd stop himself before she yelled at him again for speaking. He didn't know the term 'raining cats and dogs' and this only confused him more. That would be really cool to see though, although wouldn't it hurt the cats and dogs..?

Then she threatened him.

He'd glance up to look over at the woman, his optics narrowing. He still didn't talk. Just stared at her. A low drone of a beep escaped him, and his hands would clench into fists. He didn't quite understand why she was resorting to threats of throwing things, all he'd done was misunderstand and try to talk. It was evident he wasn't happy about the threat, but would nod in the affirmative as she spoke his name.

Again he would take another step back, watching her curiously as he did incase she decided to throw something at him – but it was obvious he was trying to backtrack his way back to the holoform machine in the other room. He didn't even really want her help anymore, it was too early and she was far too angry. This would only end with him getting yelled at more.

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As soon as his posture slumped, Nell realized her mistake. She was used to talking that way with friends, with other soldiers, and with her brother. Sometimes, she didn't know how to deal with others well – and this was a glorious example of why the mechanic should not be around those with squishier feelings than her own.

It was also a good reason why in general – she should not be around kids, but there weren't any about at this moment in time so that was probably a good thing given how she was.

Poor Bee, she really wasn't that bad of a gal. Nell just had a hard time showing it and she let out a defeated sigh once his eyes narrowed at her and his hands curled into fists. Welp, she had gone fucked up big time – didn't she? The mechanic felt like crap already for yelling at him when he likely just couldn't communicate like the other bots can. It was like yelling at a little kid who didn't know English, and even she didn't do crap like that. At least, not normally – because she felt like that was what exactly she had done to the yellow bot who was currently retreating back towards the room.

A slow sigh left her, and she started to follow the yellow Autobot. “Hey...” The human started, half jogging to catch up to him. “Look, I didn't mean to come off like that – I'm sorry.” She did what she could to make herself sound as sincere as possible. Which, she was – she really did felt sorry for yelling at him, especially since it seemed like he was excited about someone 'understanding' his noises.

“Maybe there's some way you can communicate with idiots like me?” She asked, using a little self-deprecating humor to try and lighten the mood a little. “I can probably figure somethin' out given enough time but...I can still help you with your holoform, if you let me that is?” Hopefully that'll help ease the tension in the air, but if not? Welp, she just didn't know what she could do to make it up to him.

[Bumblebee]

Bumblebee was a delicate little thing sometimes. He was easy to piss off, and easy to upset. Today was the latter, it seemed. Granted he should've known it was too good to be true. 'Speaking car' didn't mean she could actually talk to cars, and Bee felt silly for even jumping to that conclusion. Then again, add the fact he was easily excitable to the mix and it was pretty much unavoidable that he did.

Still, she could've let him down gently! Her reaction was confusing. It was rude. It was upsetting. Bumblebee had stalked off in a huff, but when he heard the woman speak, and more importantly, apologize - he stopped mid-stride, glancing over his shoulder to look at her. He gently lowered his pede to the floor, and swiveled around to look at her.

He shrugged, beeping curiously. His optics were wide as he looked down at her. He couldn't think of any way to communicate with her; he'd always relied on Raf to translate should he need to talk to other humans, but Raf wasn't around. Slowly he would lift his servos, peering between them. Maybe he could do some kind of weird hand motions to get his message across, but that seemed overly complicated, and he wouldn't even know where to begin.

He'd work that out later, taking a step backwards toward the machine where his holoform waited patiently. Again, he would lower into a crouch to be on sort-of eye level with the woman, and he'd nod once at her words. A chipper, affirmative beep left him. He would love her help, there was no way he could do this on his own; and what better way to learn how to act like a human than from a human. Plus she had to make up for the fact she'd yelled at him for no reason!

Or, he could work out that hand gesture slag now.

He'd point at the holoform with one servo, while his other he would rest on the floor. He'd raise it up onto the tips of his servos, and curl two fingers into his palm. Then he would use the two remaining to 'walk' along the floor. He'd glance down to his servo, then to the woman. Tilting his head and beeping curiously. Hoping she'd get the hint.

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Letting people down gently, was not her forte. Well, unless she had to tell someone someone else died – but that was a different thing in her opinion and it required gentleness. This on the other hand, didn't. Or at least it didn't in her opinion – but then again she was sometimes thicker than a brick wall.

At least she realized her mistake, and she was a big enough person to apologize.

She still didn't understand what he was saying at first though – and that just shown her how this whole communicating thing is going to be tough. Still, Nell was going to do what she could to understand him – and it was better than him sulking like a toddler who had his candy taken away. She somewhat understood the curious beep, the gesture? Not so much.

The second gesture on the other hand? Welp, that was very easy to understand. After all, who couldn't understand that?! She thought for a moment as she looked at the holoform for a moment ago. “You want to learn how to walk with that thing, right?” Nell asked him curiously, her lips slowly crept into a grin and she rolled her shoulders. “Okay, so you know, we humans take years mastering the art of 'walking' and some of us suck at it.” She explained. “Seriously, a few people are damn clumsy and trip over their own feet.” The specialist remarked before she thought for a moment or two.

“So, you'd want to find the balance with the holoform, shoulders back...and then one foot in front of the other...” She then demonstrated for him, so he'd actually see it. “Just watch a bit, look at how I'm bending my knees. Guy's walk a little different than girls though, they don't have to have their shoulders so far back – there's other differences too but...” Her voice trailed a little as she slowed down to a stop and shrugged her shoulders. “Probably gonna be easier to show you those differences, maybe I can google it or something for ya?” She asked

[Bumblebee]

Bumblebee had seen people walk before. Hell, he could walk himself. He walked. Everyone walked. It was something you didn't even think about once you knew how. You just did it. So when Nell started talking him through how to walk he couldn't help but laugh, it looked kinda silly when it was being explained and the moves exaggerated some. A beepy chuckle left him and he rose to his pedes, servos resting on his hips as he watched the woman, watching intently how she moved. Something he hadn't paid attention to in the past, having been so used to being around the kids, but now he watched? He did notice how she bent her knees, and kept her shoulders back.

It looked so easy. Walking was easy! Well, in bot form, anyway. Something about balancing on two tiny human feet was what made him fail horribly, once he started staggering and lumbering forwards he couldn't stop himself, which made his holoform stumble and fall. The balancing part was tricky, even though he was so very used to it in his bot form. Plus the fact his holoform had only ever sat inside his altmode and pretended to drive didn't help matters, either.

Excitement seeped into his field, and he suddenly felt optimistic that she was the right one to teach him this stuff, even if she did get a little mad before, she seemed alright now.

His head would tilt and he'd lower himself so he was sitting. At her question, he would shake his head. The differences between male and female walking seemed.. Like too much work. The differences couldn't be that extreme that he'd have to research and study it, would he..?

He could do this, surely.

With this new found inspiration and optimism, he would again move the holoform. A shaky step was taken forward, then another. It was evident that balancing was going to be an issue. He made a point to keep the shoulders back, and made an effort to bend the knees on it with each stride, although maybe a little too far, almost lunging with each step.

He looked ridiculous.

But it was progress.

At least until two steps later the holoform lunged a little too hard and would overshot a step, falling smack onto its face, causing Bee to whine in dismay and look at Nell as if she could magically fix this.

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Her eyes rolled as he laughed at her, she ignored it. He wanted to laugh because he thought it was silly? Welp, Nell kept walking and showing him how a human being walk. He seemed to quiet down after a moment or two, and she could practically feel him watching her move about the space. As she stopped to peer up at him, it was looking like it hit him to why she was actually showing him how to walk.

He wasn't human, he likely didn't notice the fine details that went into how they walked as a species. After all, from what she noticed? It looked like Cybertronians as a whole were a little bit stiffer bunch with their hydraulics and the sort – or at least, that was what it looked like to her. He wasn't wanting to look up the differences between a man and a woman walking – though in her opinion? What was the harm in doing a little research? The Autobots had to blend into human society and all, at least when they were off base.

Either way, here he was doing his best to imitate the walking patterns. Nell's arms crossed over her chest, the corner of her lips quirking upwards as she watched his attempt and it wasn't long before a husky laugh left her throat. That laugh, grew as he overshot a step, fell face first onto the floor below, and Bee let out a slightly distressed whine. “Shit, you're over thinkin' it.” The woman remarked, her brows raising up at him as he looked down at her as if she could 'POOF!' fix this.

“It takes practice, it takes years for kids to master it – and some don't at all.” She explained, thinking on some adults who were majorly accident prone. “You made some progress already, but think smaller steps...let your 'arms' naturally sing back and forth.” She demonstrated walking again. “Pay attention to how I move my legs, especially my knees and feet.” The specialist told him. “I can take my shoes off if it'll help you understand better, but that might be goin' into too fine of details.” Her shoulders shrugged as she turned to walk backwards towards him, glancing over her shoulder at the poor defeated looking Autobot.

“But it might help you understand how we use our feet, I'm leavin' it up to you – Cop magnet.”

[Bumblebee]

The holoform didn't move from its position of face-down on the concrete floor. This worked. He could just have it lay here forever. It was probably comfortable down there. Who needs a Holoform anyway? Not Bumblebee!

...Except that he did. And had been ordered to make a proper one instead of the default sits-in-the-car-and-drives holoform. This was too much effort, and this was way too hard. His inspiration and optimism were lost the moment the holoform had toppled again. Everything was annoying at this point, and Bee was quickly losing his temper.

It was okay for him to laugh at her, but he didn't like how she laughed at him. He was trying his best here! He'd done what she said! Which was put his shoulders back and bend his knees with each step! This was HER fault. And now she was saying it would take years? He didn't have years! He wanted this done now!

Bumblebee would scowl at the woman, optics whirring audibly in annoyance as they narrowed, and his doorwings would flutter as he pushed off the concrete floor with one servo, pulling himself up to his pedes once more. He would fold his arms as again watched the woman show him how to walk. She was talking to him like he was an idiot – or at least Bee thought she was. That, plus the fact he didn't want to do this anymore were a bad combination. Bee did the only thing he knew how to at this point, and that was turn into an immature brat to save from lashing out.

With the holoform still face-down, Bee would start to mimic Nell's walk. Being overly dramatic about it as he swung his arms, exaggerating every step, almost prancing. All the while he would stare down the woman as he stomped around the fallen holoform.

"B͟e̴eͬe᷀p̺ bͦaͭ-̛b̰e̺w̳e̪o̦ŏo̲p̑~ B̦e̖e͟e͌ėp̍ B̈́r͞r̊ W̨ȯo̰ṕ~ b̭e͊-ͬbͯe̤w̶o͈o̐p͉~" He was beeping something as he mocked her, and even though she would not be able to understand a word he said? It was pretty evident it was something along the lines of 'Laa de daa~ I'm Nell~ I swing my arms and look stupid~!' due to the sing-song tone of his beeping.

He made a point to stomp through the holoform at least once. He wanted instant results, but for right now was content to throw a tantrum over.. Well.. Nothing. He was just frustrated. At himself. At her. At the stupid holoform. Mostly the holoform. Maybe Nell would have to throw that wrench afterall.

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Welp.

That went great!

Except it totally didn't, and Nell was left staring at the 'little' shithead as he threw what could only be described as a robot version of a big fat temper tantrum.

The specialist did not look amused as her eyes narrowed up at him and ooooh, how tempted was she to go with that threat of throwing a wrench at him. “CHILL THE FUCK OUT!” The woman yelled up at him, the clear annoyance that he was acting like a little turd was in her voice. One thing was for certain, she did not like him acting like a damn little brat when she was trying to be helpful. It wasn't her fault he couldn't master the art of not walking like a retarded kitten with a piece of tape on it's tail. “Besides it wasn't like I was laughin' at you for Pete's sake and when I said it can take years I meant it as 'You can't expect to do somethin' poof! MASTERED!'. Especially when you've never done it before.” A grumble left her, she rolled her shoulders slightly.

“Look, didn't I tell you that you're already makin' progress? Don't fuck that up, just keep workin' at it.” Her jaw cracked in frustration as her arms crossed over her chest. “And stop acting like a two year old, throwin' a damn tantrum like that – or else I really am goin' to have to throw that damn wrench at ya.” A slow sigh left the woman. “Just pull your holoform up again, and get back to walkin' you'll probably get it in only a few minutes – If you stop actin' like a babeh that is.” Nell told him as her eyes never left him she cracked her jaw again, she wasn't going to be scared off because he was acting like an idiot – and really, if he thought she was talking to him like one before? He hadn't seen nothing yet.

He also hadn't seen just how quick her short fuse could burn out if she let it – so it was a good thing she was honestly trying to be better about letting her temper get the best of her. A deep breath, a slow exhale, and she was trying to think of a different approach. “Come on, do you want to disappoint Optimus or are you gonna try again?” Because really, judging by his actions just now – Bee did come off as a youngin' compared to the other Autobots and if there was ONE single thing she knew about kids? They didn't like disappointing their heroes.

[Bumblebee]

Bumblebee would continue to stomp around the room, even as Nell yelled at him to chill out. He was listening to her, although his body language, quiet mocking tone beeps that followed everything she said, and the fact he didn't stop marching would hide this fact. He was mostly just testing to see what he could get away with, and for how long. Her threat of throwing the wrench did little to stop him.

Brat mode was well and truly activated and in full swing...

..Or at least it was until she said the 'O' word. Optimus. 

Why. Why did she have to bring him up. He would stop mid-stride and lower his pede fully to the floor, following through into a crouch so he could scowl at her on an almost eye-level. That was a cheap, and low blow. He did look up to Optimus, very much so. And this probably would disappoint him if he found out how quickly Bee's mood had shifted; especially when Nell was trying to help. Bumblebee didn't want her to run off and snitch to Optimus, so he would play nice for the time being.

There was a rumbling noise and something that sounded like a whir of hydraulics, followed by a whiny drone of a beep as Bumblebee sighed, lowering himself further so he was once again sitting on the ground.

She won this round, at least for now. Bumblebee was still unhappy about the entire thing, however. His optics were still narrowed and not moving from her. His patience was shot, and his short fuse meant that this better start going well and working, or he'd be back to square one and in temper tantrum town in a matter of moments.

He would turn his attention to the Holoform, concentrating on it. His optics did not change. They were narrowed further in frustration as he focused. It would push itself up from the ground and onto its feet. It swayed a moment, staggering to catch its balance. Bumblebee would beep something quietly, as if uttering a curse word under his breath, but the Holoform would remain standing. It wasn't just the walking that was hard, it was controlling the thing entirely. He'd never done anything like this. If the Holoform was tasked with sitting and making the motions of driving he would have zero issues. But this one had to walk, and act like a human.

It took a shaky step, then another. Bee focused on keeping the shoulders back on the thing, bending his knees. It didn't look quite so silly as the previous attempt, and he actually seemed to be making progress this time. The holoform looked a little.. Drunk.. but each step seemed sturdier and more confident than the last.

This 'confidence' meant that Bee would walk the holoform over to Nell. It was taller than her, coming in at about 6'1” - almost a foot taller than the woman. It would loom over her somewhat, staring her down. Bee wasn't trying to be threatening with this action, he just didn't know what to do next – and as such would beep quizzically at her while the holoform swayed some infront of her, trying to stay upright.