#simpatico x reader

Of course the one time you wandered off without permission or Perceptor—was the last time you did that. And yes, Perceptor was the bot looking after you, when Rodimus and Ultra Magnus had confirmed that you could come aboard the Lost Light, they had asked that you pick a bot, and stay with them.

Magnus had given you a list of bots to chose from—very formal ones since Rodimus wasn’t on the list of names. So you chose Perceptor. You did and didn’t regret picking him, he was nice, but was always consumed in his work. Day in and day out was he reading data pads, calculating the functionalities of the quantum engines, or just studying.

Everything that you wanted to do was “out of this world” he would say, or in your words, he doesn’t want to do it. HE WAS A SCIENTIST FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Wasn’t he supposed to be EXPLORING like a SCIENTIST?

You sat down and let out a loud sigh, placing your arms on your knees. You watched as Perceptor would work from one work table to the next, placing certain datapads next to his main work area after re-reviewing them.

You thought about all of the bots on board the ship, Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus, Megatron…

Suddenly you yelled, jumping for joy out of the silence, making Perceptor flinch then glare at you. You gave a nervous smile, then walked up to him slowly. He gave you the same ‘what-do-you-want-from-me’ look when you started fidgeting with your fingers.

“Hey Percy…” you started, “Would you terribly mind if I—IF WE—could go visit Brain—“

“No.” He said sternly, already knowing what you were about to ask. You let out a disappointing groan, you couldn’t blame him exactly…last time you spent time with Brainstorm—well, we’ll just leave it as—an accident happened.

“I can’t trust that you two will not get yourselves into more trouble.” He crossed his arms. You hung your head like a four-year-old, pouting. Perceptor had grabbed his data pad and started working again, you looked back at him, then just turned around and started back towards the other side of the table.

It didn’t take much time for the silence to break again as Brainstorm had walked into the lab. Perceptor winced, then vented keeping himself calm, wondering what he needed.

”Hey Percy!” Brainstorm waved, “Hey Y/N!” He gave a little wave to you and you slowly waved back. Brainstorm started asking Perceptor a bunch of questions that had to do with some test runs on his new invention.

He had asked Perceptor to use you as his handy helper, and you jumped hearing him mention your name. Perceptor had glanced at you realizing that you were starting to pay attention to their conversation.

“Please? I’ll promise to be careful this time.” Brainstorm begged, knowing that Percy didn’t really appreciate the accident from a few weeks ago now. He vented, placing his servo on his faceplate, deciding wether or not he wanted to just let Brainstorm take you to help him test out a new invention.

He closed his optics finally concluding his processors.

“Alright…” Perceptor gave you a look before continuing his sentence, “…but I’ll be accompanying you this time.” Your determined face melted into concern, but you had to be thankful, you were finally leaving the quiet laboratory for the action. Brainstorm smiled brightly behind his yellow faceplate, and the three of you started for his lab.

When you guys arrived, there was a large cylindrical machine with wires connected to the base of it, and they ran across the floor, up a table, and into a large console.

You, sitting on Brainstorms shoulder plating, asked what it was.

“Excellent question!” He exclaimed, “This, my dear Y/N, is a mass displacement machine.” he walked towards the console and started pushing buttons. Perceptor had been crouched next to the base of the machine, carefully examining it.

“Meaning I can make anything small become big and vise versa.”

“And you wanted to test it on…Y/N?” Perceptor asked, slowly looking up at him. In the middle of pressing a button, Brainstorm blinked,

"Why yes of course! I mean, who else would be willing to do it?" Brainstorm continued on with his preparations, while giving Percy a side eye. Perceptor rolled his optics and walked towards them. Brainstorm placed a servo next to you so he could help you down and place you in the machine.

Just thinking about being big made you anxious, no bots to watch you or step on you, you could explore the ship more frequently, meet more bots on a daily bases. While Brainstorm was adjusting the nozzles inside of the machine, Perceptor gave confused looks at the console.

"Um, Brainstorm...?" Perceptor called, but Brainstorm had been too focused on making sure everything inside the machine was perfect for you. "There that's better..." Brainstorm placed his servos on his hip-struts looking down at you, "We'll have you big soon now my dear Y/N!" He carefully bent over and booped your nose.

"What do I do?" You asked before he closed you in the machine.

"Nothing! Just stay perfectly still." he smiled. He then closed the door, and you heard a suction come from the door.

First it was quiet, calm, and the machine hadn't started yet...at least you didn't think so. All you had to do was wait and stay still.

Suddenly you heard a shout from outside, a very muffled shout but, it sounded like Perceptor. The machine finally turned on, and the nozzles above started to glow blue and green. The inside of the machine started to glow and there were electric waves shooting around which made you nervous so you ducked as they came downward.

In a bright flash, the machine had powered down. You looked back up and realized the ceiling of the machine was still sky-high, you were still small. It must've been an accident or hopefully stopped it before a real accident occurred.

Next thing you knew, the door hissed and slowly slid open. You walked out seeing no one. You raised a brow then shook yourself, rubbing your eyes.

"Brainstorm?" you called, "Perceptor?" you stepped out into the open looking around for the two scientists. You scanned the room once more before calling out again, confusion and nervousness twisting inside.

"Percep—" You gasped as you saw Perceptor laying on the ground next to the wires of the machine. You were about to run up to him but realized something that threw you off.

Was it you...or was Perceptor...the size of a human?

You blinked, bamboozled.

You walked up to Perceptor, picking up his arm and examining it. You wrapped your hands around his now sizable helm, he clearly wasn't conscious, you moved your head in closer to examine his faceplate.

You moved you thumb over his cheekplate, and gave a smile.

"You like him don't you?" Brainstorm whispered.

You flinched, freaking out and falling backwards.

"WOAH." You breathed, "YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ME." you held your hand to your chest. Brainstorm too was your size now, he helped you back upright and sat next to you. Perceptor had woken up, probably from your scream...

You and Brainstorm watched as he sat up, holding the back of his helm, slowly turning it back and forth.

"You okay Percy?" Brainstorm asked, reaching out his servo a bit.

"Yeah, I guess." He looked over at Brainstorm, then saw you.

Pause.

He gave you a concerned look, immediately he stood up looking around, looking up. LOOKING UP.

"Um, Percy...?" Brainstorm stood up and walked towards him. Perceptor was still looking around, rubbing his optics as if it would make things seem a little more real. But this was as real as it was gonna get.

"Hey Perceptor...You look like you're gonna flip out." You stood up.

"Oh really?" he scoffed, "Because it's not like I'm somehow as small as an earthling, either that or the room got bigger. PFFT, no I'm fine! I'm not freaking out! I don't even know HOW this happened! WHY AM I SO SMALL???" His tiny freaking out barely filled the room.

You and Brainstorm exchanged puzzled faces. Perceptor had then sat down and vented to try to calm himself.

"What even happened?" you asked.

"Well..." Brainstorm started, "You see, I COMPLETELY forgot that I had asked you to help me test a mass displacement machine made for—well—machines." he nervously smiled.

"And not only that but," Perceptor continued, "The mass displacement array was somehow EXTERNAL." he slowly turned his helm towards Brainstorm and he looked around elsewhere as if he didn't do anything.

"Well..." you sighed, “Can you reverse it?”

Perceptor looked up at the console then looked back at Brainstorm.

“Well, of course,” Brainstorm started, “I’d go up there, start the machine back up, set the size up and…voosh! We’re normal again.”

“Well, that sounds wonderful and all…” Percy walked over to the cables and traced them to the main power source, “…but it appears you didn’t consider how much energy your machine needed.”

He pointed to the small energon tank that fueled the machine, and it appeared to have three drops left…

“Oh…” Brainstorm let out a heavy vent and facepalmed. To think that a machine like this would need so much energy. Perceptor walked over to the now towering table crossing his arms, you and Brainstorm had followed.

“I believe we can still figure something out though.” He said hopefully, looking over at the chair next tot the table. “Brainstorm, could you get up there and tell me how much of the energon you used?”

Brainstorm looked over at you then complied, transforming and flying up to the table. Meanwhile, Perceptor had commed Nautica and asked for a quick delivery of energon.

“3,000 gallons!” Brainstorm called from the table.

“…Um yes just a few…” Perceptor gave Brainstorm a thumbs up, “Alright then—no, no it’s fine—thank you.” He ended the comm link.

Perceptor pinched his enstril as Brainstorm flew back down to the floor. You looked at Perceptor knowing that there was something wrong.

“Are you alright Percy?” You asked curiously.

“Unless we go and get it—which we can’t—we won’t be able to receive it for another hour or so.”

Both you and Brainstorm let out exaggerated groans, until you once again had an idea. Brainstorm had raised an optic ridge and Perceptor rolled his optics.

“While we wait, we can all discover what it’s like to be human—oh sorry, I already know what it’s like because I am a human—we as in you two!”

“Hm, that would be interesting…” Brainstorm thought out loud. The idea of a human being as big as a robot left the room. So why not vise versa? Having Perceptor and Brainstorm the same size as you—well a little taller—could be taken advantage of in many ways.

Brainstorms’ helm started to buzz with excitement and thoughts like, ‘I wonder if we could get from here to the bar through the air vents’ or ‘we should purposely scare the passing bots by making them think we’re scraplets’.

The three of you ended up going off on how long it takes just to travel from point a to point b, being so small. You realized Perceptor ended up loosening a bit, he wasn't too worried about being small, he didn't seem so upset anymore.

He and Brainstorm became curious of how you felt with everyone being so much larger than you. The three of you ended up sitting and chatting for what seemed like hours.

"You don't have to just sit and watch me you know." Perceptor said.

You raised a brow, "Erm, says the same bot who doesn't like his human talking at all."

"His human?" Brainstorm tilted his helm, "I didn't know you two were that close..."

"Wha—no." You stuttered, "I just—I—it was—I was just referring to myself in third person, that's all."

"Right," Perceptor continued, before Brainstorm decided to put more nonsense on the table, "And if you want to go that far, I hear you brag about being my partner."

"HA! Well—you see—that's different." Brainstorm scoffed, and you gave a surprised face, "That's bragging not—nothing at all like you two." You and Perceptor laughed at Brainstorm.

You looked at Perceptor, "I didn't know you were such a conversationalist."

"I didn't know you liked me." He responded. And it was quick, quick enough for silence to cut through and tense the air between them.

Suddenly he leaned over to kiss you and you fell into the kiss, short but worth it. His warm dermas left yours, and you sat for a moment wondering if you wanted to kiss back.

"Heh, so I was right." Brainstorm inspected his digits proudly.

"I am too you know..." Perceptor looked at him with soft optics, “Do you like me too?”

“Not sure about you Percy, but I think he likes you also.” You chimed in with a teasing smile. You could barely tell, but Brainstorm was definitely blushing, embarrassed at the double teaming.

“Okay fine…maybe—BUT—I still got you two to kiss first.” Brainstorm said.

“First?” Perceptor laughed, “Is this your way of asking for a kiss?”

You scooted closer to Brainstorm and he locked optics with you, “I like you.” You then pecked his face mask and he went wide optic.

“You know that thing comes off right?” Perceptor pointed.

You thought for a moment, how come he never told you? So he’s always had a face under his mask? Perceptor sighed and sat on the other side of Brainstorm.

He reached for his mask and took it off. Brainstorm immediately covered his blushing face, leaning forward.

“Hey I’m not going to offend…” you grabbed his arm.

“Are you sure…?” He asked, his voice muffled.

“Yeah I promise.”

He slowly sat up, revealing his faceplate. He had what looked like wires that separated his intake. You gave a snicker expecting something actually scary or silly. Brainstorm rolled his optics, hanging his helm once again.

“No, no! That’s not why I’m laughing!” You gently pat his backstrut.

“You look wonderful darling.” Perceptor smiled and Brainstorm perked up immediately receiving a kiss from him.

Brainstorm smiled, “You guys are so nice to me…”

You and Perceptor leaned on Brainstorm, and the three of you cuddle for a while.

“I’m hungry.” You said out of the quiet.

“And yet we’re still small.” Brainstorm added.

“Oh Primus, don’t remind me…” Perceptor finished.