The halls were silent as Starscream walked. Not much seemed to really happen in the Autobot base at night. No late night gatherings, no fighting, nothing. Everyone was tucked into their berths, sleeping away. Talk about boring.
He was busy idling flipping through the channels when he got commed. Surfing the silly human television shows seemed to be the only thing to do late at night. Skyfire had long fell sleep curled up with a data pad of some stupid planet he was reading about. The larger jet had tried to capture his interest by reading facts out loud, but Starscream just threw a pillow at him and told him to shut up, stating that channel surfing was more entertaining.
Finally, he reached his destination, and firmly knocked on the door. No answer. Grumbling, he pounded again.
"You better open up," He yelled. " If you called me out here for no reason at all, so help my Primus, Red..."
Starscream was interrupted by the door swishing open and Red Alert pulled him inside. He closed the door and locked it before turning to address his visitor.
"What do you want?" Starscream spat as he leaned up against the table. He picked up a little nick knack, spinning it in his fingers.
"I want to talk to you." Red nervously replied, idly picking at his fingers to avoid optic contact.
"Oh, really?" Starscream chuckled and raised his optic ridges. "About what?"
"About how you have been flaunting your aft since you pleaded sanctuary here at our base." Red blurted out, trying to look sincere.
"Have I?" the jet asked back playfully, as he squeezed the figuring in his hands.
Red's optics flared as he noticed his figuring being squished, and he rushed forward- reaching for the object. 'Don't break that!" He attempted to take it from Starscream's grasp, but the other snatched it away.
"So, you noticed, huh? Is that all you do all day? Stare at my aft? Hmmm?" He playfully questioned, smirking at Red's cheeks turning crimson, and how he fumbled with being called out. The jet held his hand out, and opened, holding a silly porcelain car. "What's the point inviting me over if you won't let me play with your toys?" Starscream teased, laughing at how flustered Red got and dropped the fragile toy for the other to catch. He sauntered over to the other's berth and sat down.
Meanwhile, Red placed he figure back in its place and turned to face the other with an attempted stern look. He looked as if he wanted to speak, his mouth opened but quickly closed, and he ended up just biting his lip, and suddenly the floor captured his attention.
"Whatchya gonna do about it? My strutting, that is." Starscream mused, knowing he was clearly making the other uncomfortable but just not caring. Red Alert looked confused at the question. The red flier smirked and grabbed a stuffed toy that was on the bed, and started to pick at its eyes. " What the slag is this thing?" he questioned and made a look of disgust.
"Ah... It...It's a teddy bear" Red answered. "Don't-" Starscream proceeded to rip off one of the green plastic eyes. "-break it." Red grabbed it away from him. "Why are you so mean?" Red held up the plushie that now was missing an eye.
Starscream just chuckled and shrugged. " Are you gonna yell at me about that too? It was ugly." He scooted himself back on the bed and rested his back on the adjacent wall, propping his feet up on the edge of the birth. Red angrily stared at the seeker, tossed the one eyed bear on the floor and with a smirk of his own, and laughed.
"You know what you need?" Red said as he approached his careless visitor.
"What?" Starscream said casually, tilting his head to the side as he clasped his hands over his cockpit to feign listening. "I'm all audials, Red."
"You need a good punishment," Red stated boldly, but soon faded as laughter filled the room.
"And who's going to give it to me, huh?" Starscream mused. "You?"
Red Alert just blushed even harder, his whole face was pretty much beet red now. He reset his optics and let out a huff of air, but regained his composure- slightly. "Yes. Me, you ungrateful brat." Red bent down and pulled out a box from underneath the bed, doing his best to ignore the fact that the seeker purposely brought a pede down to kick at him. "Watch it buddy." the security bot said as he pointed his finger in warning.
"Ohh," Starscream bit his lip and gave him a lewd look. "Or what? You gonna spank me?" Red just grimaced at him as he opened his box and began rummaging around in it. "Better make it count-buddy." The jet former teased as he rolled over on the bed and got to his knees. "Make it sting." The finishing touch was the winged bot shook his aft in the air at the other, chuckling all the while.
Red laughed, shook his head and asked "I-Is that what you want?"
"Oh yes," Starscream mocked, looking over his shoulder slyly. "But I doubt you have the guts to do so. You Autobots are such wusses. You don't have it in you, Red."
"Wusses, really?" Red asked and grabbed something out of the box. He could tell Starscream was curious as to what it was, but he hid it behind his back. Returning his gaze to the wall, Starscream began picking at the paint that started to peel away.
"Will you stop destroying my things and my room? Red angrily asked.
"You know, Red-" Crack. "Yaaauuuwwweeeyyy" Starscream squealed as the force of the blow knocked his face into the wall. The seeker didn't know which sore spot to rub first- the hard crack on his aft or the one on his head. Turning with a look of surprise, he saw Red smirking holding a paddle.
"Why so surprised?" Red asked. "You asked for it." A slight look of concern was on the chief of security's face upon seeing the scuffs on the others helm. "Um..."
"Ooff, I didn't think you had it in you" Starscream replied as he rubbed his sore backside. "Whats the hell-" the winged bot said as he felt his wrists pulled together and cuffed in stasis locks. " What are you doing?"
"You don't think I'd let you off that easily, do you Starscream?" Red stated as he readied the paddle and gave another sharp smack at the aft again, causing the captive to shriek out again.
"Mercy!" Starscream jokingly yelled as he did his best to roll on his back with his hands cuffed . He looked up at Red and smirked. "Do you want me to beg?" Now it was Red Alerts turn to raise his optic ridges in inquiry. " Well, you'll have to do better than that." Starscream goaded. " Barely managed to tickle me, that's all."
"Huh," Red replied. "That's not the way I saw it, with you shrieking like a little sparkling." At that, Starscream scowled and did a really good pout. "Wow, and now you look like a spoiled sparkling!" A roar of laughter followed, much to the seekers chagrin.
"Watch it, Red," Starscream retorted, " You don't want to make me angry, now, do you?" With a sharp kick, Red Alert went flying back and bounced off his door and almost caught himself with his hands, but did a face plant with the floor instead.
"Ouch," Red replied, followed by an 'ewff' as Starscream made use of his head as a foot rest. "Don't get too comfortable," the ottoman bot said, pushing the feet off his head and pushing himself to sit on his knees. He rubbed his optics and looked just in time to see his important data pads go flying about the room- one of them going threw the monitor of his computer,all courtesy of Starscream's foot.
"Oops." Starscream said. " I hope you didn't need that." Red just sighed and stood up looking rather flustered around his room at the mess that was made. The bot raised his arms then let them drop, once again at a loss for words.
"I give up." He reached towards the other mech to untie him. "Just go."
Starscream pulled his tied wrists away and sneered. " Giving up so easily? I knew it." the jet genuinely laughed. "Your pathetic. You coward." Starscream leered at Red, waiting for him to respond.
But instead, Red was just sulking, looking to be on the edge of tears. "Why? Why do you say these things?" He looked around his room. " And why did you destroy my stuff?"
Starscream let out a sigh. "Because you won't go after what you want Red." The other bot just shyly looked at him all confused. " You think I didn't take notice? I can see it in the way you look at me" He lets out a chuckle, and reaches out with his legs to pull Red down on him. " Slag, your red cheeks give it away so easily."
"But, why are you acting like this to me? Red asked shyly. " Why are you being such an aft?"
"Hey, you are the one beating me with a paddle," Starscream teasingly purred. "I never said getting what you want would be easy, now did I?" The seeker bit his lower lip. "So, what else do you have in that box to beat me with?"