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The tiny brightly colored rubber balls just kept pouring out of his room and flooding their bouncing and rolling way down the hall. As Ratchet stood and stared, he wondered abstractly, and not for the first time, the merits of being bonded to the twins.
To Ratchet, it seemed obvious that someone had attempted to prank Sideswipe and probably Sunstreaker as well -most certainly in retaliation for some previous prank by the twins- and once again, Ratchet got hit first. This made the third time in three weeks. "And the rest of the bots around here wonder why I throw things," he thought. Of course as he had been throwing tools at mechs heads for far far longer than he had been bonded to the twins, the excuse was less than valid.
So he stood at the doorway, as what must have been thousands, "probably a few hundred thousand actually," bouncing rubber balls poured out of the door and raced down the hall in both directions from where he stood. Just how the unnamed prankster had managed this task of filling up what surely must have been every inch of open space in his and the twins quarters was beyond Ratchet at the moment. As was how someone had even managed to sneak so many of them into the ark, without Red Alert being aware. The amassing of, and sneaking into the Ark of so many balls would certainly have taken some time.
This brought about one final thought, "The prank crowd at the Ark certainly had the ability to be patient when it suited them."
A Note: This little Transformer short inspired by ryagelle having already matched the twins and Ratchet up and by my cleaning up my kid's playroom. I have seen other Ratchet & Twin fics, but ryagelle's, to me, seems very much the inspiration for the most recent ones and the first to go the distance. When I think on it, I find it interesting that it has taken so long for those three to be matched up as it seems like an eventual and very natural pairing in the fan fic world.