Huffer was helping Lilith out with cyanotypes she began drying the ones that were already made as she began to put them on the shelf to dry off. She turned to look at Huffer with a small smile on her face "Thanks for helping me out. It's a little strange that a robot has to help me out of anything but I'll take it." Lilith grabbed her book and began gluing the dried pictures inside of her photography book and Huffer sighed wondering what to say since he was forced to help the girl out. "So how many more until we are done?" Lilith soon glanced at him as she heard his voice and replied with "I'll say 15 more or so until we are done!" A groan came from him as he knew this would take a while. Lilith dried the shelves and began putting the wet pictures inside of the shelf as she turned the light a little brighter.
"This should be done in a couple hours or so. You can go now." She said as she began clearing up her desk as she threw out the bowl's water into the sink as she watched him leave outside of the room. She grabbed the gluestick as she glued the papers in her book and put the book in the backpack. She put it on her back before setting a timer which was around 5 to 6 hours. She left the room as well, planning to go back home and grab a snack then go back to the Ark. It was a 20 minute walk to her place as she opened the door, got hand sanitizer and went into the kitchen. There she heard "Lilith! We got your grades!" Which she recognised as her mother's voice as she saw her letter on the table. She grabbed it, opened it up and her smile disappeared a little bit as she soon grabbed a packet of crisps and left.
"I got 42% on my grades, oh this is not good." She began looking through the papers as she put them in her backpack and soon went to the Ark. She arrived as she opened the door seeing Chromedome sitting on a bean bag nearby. He raised up his head as he noticed her as he put the book to the side and cross his arms, a little pissed from what he just experienced "Hi." He said as Lilith waved back before saying hello back. She glanced wondering what made him mad "You seem to be angry lately. Has someone decided to annoy you?" Chromedome nodded as he pointed to the others. "They keep talking behind my back. And well... Ratchet says he is too 'busy' to refill some of the tanks. Now we are trying to ration for a little while." Lilith soon said "Can't you get him out of his office?" Chromedome was a little annoyed at her question "Believe me, we tried multiple times."
Lilith struggled to understand why Ratchet would keep himself there as she gave a shrug at that. Chromedome sighed before saying "Forget it. We still need to unload the crates which we are still waiting for." Chromedome went away as she felt her shoulders relax slightly. "He is a little rude I'll say." She soon walked to the kitchen while Hot Rod was talking to Hoist who was calmly brushing the floor with a yellow matted brush. "You don't think that event with the fire had something to do with one of the Decepitcons, do you not?" Hot Rod asked as Hoist shrugged "I think so. But we still don't know who is it."
"I assume it's one of the more aggressive ones that have been trying to attack us." Hot Rod replied as Hoist nodded considering that option. As both talked, they noticed that Lilith was nearby "Ah there is Lilith. It's been a while since we seen you." She nodded as Hot Rod gave a small smile "Well ain't just that surprising, you been gone for a month or so. A lot has happened." She heard him say as she walked to grab a packet of sweets. "You got any candy canes?" Hot Rod began scrambling around the desk before he got a basket full of sweets. "Yeah we got about 5o or so sweets in this basket. Some cheap and some expensive, it took a while to bring them here." She unwrapped it as she began eating it while Hoist began to put the trash into the rubbish. She finished it off.
"Yeah I needed a snack after a hard day of constant work. So I guess this will have to do for a snack." She said as Hoist finished off cleaning the place "That should be enough for today. I think we should go to the mess hall since Ironhide invited me for a chat." They followed him as they arrived inside of the rather busy hall before a familiar gruff red bot saw them both "Ah you both came here. What a surprise, now then. Let me ask have you seen Prowl lately?" Lilith gave a shake of her head, Hot Rod gave a shrug while Hoist said a quiet nope as Ironhide gave a displeased murmur. "Great, there he goes around prancing about and not telling anyone where's he going. I'll see to him later."
"Hoist, we got some pipes nearby, we need to put them in the box, mind if you do that?" Hoist nodded as he walked away while Ironhide turned to Hot Rod "Meanwhile, you get to the side closest. We got a whole bunch of canisters." Hot Rod rolled his optics and decided to argue back with Ironhide "Why? Couldn't have you asked someone else?" Ironhide turned to him before saying "Hot Rod, don't speak to me like that." Hot Rod crossed his arms and said with bite in his tone "What too old to do that?" Lilith watched them argue before she heard someone yell loudly behind her which made her jump "GUYS! STOP SCREWING AROUND! We have work to do." She turned seeing a rather annoyed Prowl. "Ah you didn't have to yell in our audio receptors so much, Prowly." Hot Rod said as Ironhide noticed him "Ah there you are! I been have looking for you for a while now. Let's get going shall we?"
"Right." Prowl said and gave a nod both left as Lilith remembered what she was supposed to bring. She gave the letter to Hot Rod as she said "Take it, I was meant to give it to Bumblebee." Hot Rod analysed it seeing that it was a soft purple colour with a sticker sticking it together, there was the words "To Bumblebee from Lilith" Hot Rod put it in his subspace as she went to talk with someone else presumably. "Right, now that I'm alone, I think I got a guess on who caused this. It's that Primus forsaken seeker!" Hot Rod remembered how chaotic he could be as he remember that Seeker had a love of fire and explosion. "I should have guess it was him! It was so obvious anyways."
Soon he heard something nearby and ran quickly as he saw Chromedome had dodged Grimlock who had his hand through a dent through the wall "You better stop this you big dinosaur." Chromedome said with his tone harsh as Grimlock turned around giving a growl at what he just said. "Woah, okay, okay, okay! So what just happened?" Hot Rod came inbetween them as they glared at each other "He was being quite unruly and disrespectful." Grimlock turned around as he put his claws into a fist "Me Grimlock wants to fight!" Chormedome postured showed that he didn't feel excited about the situation "Mind yourself Grimlock, We are not causing more bloodbath." Chromedome said as Grimlock turned around "What did you say tiny Bot?" Chromedome blue optics gave a hard stare at Grimlock's visor "You do hear me."
Grimlock gave a scoff before putting his weapon away "Fine. But watch your back, tiny Bot." He left as Chromedome nodded at Hot Rod who looked slightly unnerved from the interaction and left.