When The Decepticons Invented Protogens

As soon as Shockwave walked out, Dyne felt a vibration from the C.R.U.M unit attached to his wrist; it was quite convenient having that built into himself, for information was more powerful than any ordinary weapon. He pulled up the map of their base of operations, he saw 2 energy signatures to the left of himself, obviously Pyroat and Aerocip. But a room marked on the map on the other side of their base was flashing red and back to green. Dyne cocked his head, who marked it? He tapped on the marked room and it projected into a hologram labeled "Barracks", this caught the attention of the other Protocons. "So that's the place we're supposed to go next solar cycle?" asked Aerocip. Dyne replied, "yeah, that must be why it was marked on my map..." If the hologram was anything to go off of, the room was wide and open; a circular dome-like roof, with a raised balcony-like area on the far side of the rectangular room. It faintly resembled arenas that were present on ancient Cybertron before the Great War. An odd choice that they would base the design of the barracks on an arena; that was where the Decepticons were forced to fight before they rose up against the tyrannical Autobots. Pyroat yawned and stretched her legs, "What a cycle this was!" She expressed with excitement, counting on her claws as she continued talking, "infiltrated that weird human house replica thingy, nearly blew up that smelly Autobot, got practically blown up ourselves, patched up in the med bay and now we're official Decepticons!" She tapped on the Decepticon Insignia now emblazoned on her breastplate, "This was absolutely thrilling!" Dyne had an idea, he turned around and held his tail up to Pyroat and Aerocip, "I was thinking, since that was essentially our first mission, we should have some sort of gesture of celebration, like a thing we do to express our satisfaction" Aerocip tilted her head at him in confusion, and Pyroat was barely holding back a laugh, so Dyne elaborated further, "Humans have this thing called a high-five, and it's how they express their friendship in a way." Pyroat let out her laughter, "Why didn't ya say that before?! By the Primes you sounded weird!" she continued giggling, but Dyne was quick to answer, "because that's a weird concept to explain! Look, let's curl our tails together, it would show our unity and trust in each other!" Aerocip curiously intertwined her tail with Dyne as Pyroat rolled her optics and went along with it as well. It felt satisfying, it was soft yet strong, together but somehow just one entity. A great sense of pride rose in Dyne's spark, he could see 'Cip and Pyroat felt it too. They uncurled tails, Dyne began to speak, "I hate to be a downer here, but there were a few things we could improve for our next mission..." The Protocons walked side-by-side as they conversed, heading back to their rooms together. Aerocip looked nervous, "I agree, Dyne. If I was better educated on human objects, I wouldn't have encountered that Autobot and jeopardized the mission!" Dyne sighed, "It wasn't all your fault, I should've been more clear." Pyroat cleared her pharynx to speak, "It doesn't help to blame yourselves for what happened! Scrap, I coulda been more on-task than I was, but that doesn't matter right now! The problem currently is "How could we improve?" got it?" Dyne was taken aback by her logic, Pyroat must really care about furthering her rank... that thought just gave him an idea. "How about we study together?" he asked. Pyroat snapped at him, "How are we gonna do that, genius?" Dyne cracked a smile,"Meet me in my room, I'll show you."