EHSparkwoman: Would anyone like to do the disclaimer?
Knock Out: EHSparkwoman doesn't own Transformers; it belongs to whoever created it.
EHSparkwoman: But if I did; you'd all be doing some of these dares!
Starscream: Primus help us…
AN: First off, this entire story is written on paper; so all I have to do is type it up! And secondly, the Decepticons in the club may seem out character a lot; but it is done for comedic reasons! Also this is an AU; because of the mechs (and femme) on the Decepticon team, set some time during season 2. If text is written like this then a character is thinking what is written. Some Cybertronian time units you might need: nanoklik = 1 second, breem = 8.3 minutes, solar cycle = 1 day.
To anyone observing the goings on aboard the Nemesis, it might have looked like a normal day. The only thing slightly unusual was the fact that both the second in command and one of Megatron's more loyal jets were both in the Med-bay. However, neither of them appeared to be injured and they seemed to be waiting for someone.
"Where is he?" Dreadwing asked.
"How should I know? He is the medic; so he should be in Med-bay." Starscream answered, with more than a hint of sarcasm. Just after this, the mech they were waiting for walked calmly through the doors, as if completely unaware that they were waiting for him.
"Good to see you both here."
"This is where you told us to meet, Knock Out; why else would be in here?" Starscream quipped.
"In your case Starscream, getting fixed up for the umpteenth time!" Knock Out retaliated, and Starscream quickly got annoyed.
"This was your idea as well; surely you need to explain what we agreed to?" Dreadwing hoped this wasn't going to get too nasty.
"What you agreed to is being dared to do something by someone else; and having to carry it out." Knock Out explained.
"Who goes first?" Starscream silently hoped it wasn't him. Knock Out held up what looked like a bucket with three wires sticking out of the top.
"Whoever gets the shortest wire gets dared. The mech who gets the longest can dare him!" Knock Out had a few ideas in mind. All of them grabbed a wire and pulled it out of the bucket. They held the wires next to each other's and Knock Out smirked, realising who got the shortest one.
"No! I won't do this! You fixed it!"
"If that were the case Starscream, I would have got the longest wire." Starscream looked back at the other wires and saw the longest was held by…
"Dreadwing? You get to tell me what to do?"
"Yes, Starscream and I know just the thing…" Dreadwing paused for effect.
"I heard recently you'd had a falling out with Airachnid, this true?"
"That glitch tied me up in her webbing and tried to leave me behind in the Harbinger!"
"That wasn't recent, that was a while ago. You two still haven't made up from that?"
"No Knock Out, we haven't."
"In that case, you'd better apologize to her." Starscream looked shocked by what Dreadwing was suggesting; why should he apologize to Airachnid when it's her fault?
"And I believe the humans say 'kiss and make-up'." Dreadwing was trying not to start laughing; Starscream looked repulsed by that idea.
"Give whatever you want in means of an apology but… I dare you to kiss Airachnid!"
"I hope I never get dared by you; if you can come up with dares that nasty!" Knock Out thought he was very lucky.
"Never! I hate the glitch!"
"You agreed to this Starscream; you knew what it would entail." Dreadwing told him.
"The only thing at risk is your dignity, but Lord Megatron would have beaten all of that out of you!" Knock Out quipped. Starscream growled in response; he still had some of his dignity, or he'd be running around the Nemesis without any armour on.
"Fine, I'll do it! But if she asks, I'm saying you dared me!" Starscream pointed at Dreadwing.
"Starscream, the first rule of Dare Club is…" Knock Out paused; hoping Starscream would say it.
"If anyone asks you why you are doing that, you can't say 'Because I was dared to.'" Dreadwing smugly answered. Starscream seemed to get the idea and stalked angrily towards the door. I wonder where that wretch is hiding… Ugh! I can't believe I agreed to this… Starscream thought to himself.
"I can track him using the security footage; so we can see the moment he makes a complete fool of himself!" Knock Out told Dreadwing. They both then started following Starscream using the security footage.
It didn't take Starscream long to find Airachnid; she was busy doing what she normally did around this time of day, training the Insecticons. It appeared that the training session was over; as the Insecticons were now filing out along the corridor. Starscream walked into the training room as calmly as possible.
"Hello Airachnid." She spun around and hissed.
"What are you doing here Starscream?"
"I've… err been looking for you…" Starscream hated how nervous his voice sounded.
"Well, you found me; now are you going to stand there like a fool or are you done?" Airachnid answered smugly and pale blue rushed into Starscream's cheeks.
"Err… I've come to apologize to you…" Starscream wished he wasn't blushing like a sparkling with a first crush. Airachnid looked shocked.
"Apologize? You? Don't make me laugh!"
"I'm sorry for being nasty to you for all of this time. I… err should have forgiven you sooner…" So he was serious. Airachnid thought.
"Right then, you've said you're sorry…" And sounded rather convincing in doing so. She added silently.
"So are you done now?" She was trying to sound like she didn't care.
"No actually, I'd like to make it up to you." Starscream now adopted a more confident stance.
"And how do you intend to do this?" Airachnid asked.
"I need you to promise something first…" Starscream now sounded nervous again.
"What's that?"
"That you won't attack me while I'm making it up to you…" Starscream didn't think she'd agree to this.
"Fine. And now I'll ask you again; how do you intend to do this?" Airachnid told him, with a hint of amusement in her voice.
"Like this." He then walked forward and slid his arms around Airachnid, who already didn't like this. Starscream pushed his lips against hers before she could change her mind. Airachnid was shocked. Wait, Starscream likes me? That would explain why he was blushing! She felt something rubbing against her lips and opened her mouth to allow it access, after realising what it was. She felt his tongue stroking the sides of her mouth for a few nanokliks, before it slid back out again. Starscream moved his head back and Airachnid saw his cheeks were pale blue again. Starscream ran off before she could say anything. Airachnid had only one thought. That mech can kiss!
Starscream quietly snuck back towards the Med-bay; hoping that they wouldn't say anything, other than 'did you do the dare?' He went through the door and was promptly greeted by Dreadwing.
"Hello Starscream." He said in exactly the same tone Starscream used.
"You only had to give her a peck on the cheek you know, you didn't have to do that." Knock Out said, before bringing up an image on the computer screen. The image showed Starscream cuddling Airachnid, with their lips firmly pressed together.
"H-how did you get that?" Starscream asked nervously, his cheeks turning blue for the third time that solar cycle.
"This? Oh, this is from the security footage in the training room." Dreadwing answered.
"And judging by the fact Breakdown is asking me if I knew you had the hots for Airachnid; I would assume that the Nemesis' grapevine is as efficient as ever." Knock Out told Starscream, who looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.
"Moving on then, Starscream, I believe it is your turn to dare someone." Dreadwing said and Starscream regained his composure.
"Right then, Knock Out I had an interesting thought when you mentioned about my dignity…"
"Or lack thereof." Knock Out quipped back.
"And the thought was that if I had no dignity left I'd be running around the Nemesis without any armour on." Starscream continued on, unperturbed be the quip. Knock Out looked nervous; he had an idea what Starscream was going to ask him to do.
"I dare you to run around the Nemesis without a single piece of armour to cover your protoform!"
"What!? You expect me to remove all of my armour, just like that?" Knock Out didn't like the sound of that.
"Are your audios malfunctioning? I'm sure you heard me!" Starscream smugly said. Knock Out sighed and reluctantly started removing his armour, until only one piece remained. He started to walk towards the door before Starscream stopped him.
"Ah, ah, ah. What part of all of your armour did you not get?"
"Obviously the 'all' part Starscream." Dreadwing sounded amused.
"What?! Oh! Alright fine! But you'd better not look…"
"Why would that be Knock Out?" Starscream asked amusedly.
"Never mind… Do I have to stay out there for the rest of today or…?"
"About a breem should do it." Starscream told him.
"Then don't look!" Knock Out crossly shouted at both of the other two mechs, who then turned and faced the other way. A few nanokliks later, they heard a clang as metal hit the floor and then the sound of Knock Out running towards the door. Both of them turned around to see if he'd disappeared. On seeing he had, they quietly locked the door; setting an internal timer for a breem.
"We followed you on here, using the security footage; we can follow Knock Out like that too." Dreadwing explained, before looking through the security footage for one naked medic…
Knock Out, meanwhile, was trying to walk through the corridors like there was nothing strange happening. However, this would have been much easier if he didn't see optics everywhere, or shadows that looked like Airachnid. About an eighth of the way through the time, was when Knock Out did meet someone he would have preferred not to. A pair of Vehicons had just walked out of one of the storerooms, and had ended up spotting him. Oh no! Knock Out thought. Why'd I have to find Vehicons? Now everyone on the Nemesis will know! I suppose I might be able to talk to them…
"Err… Hello there. What are you doing here?" Knock Out was sure he saw one of the Vehicons optic bands flicker, before they collapsed. He could hear the other one muttering into his com-link, so Knock Out made a sound like he was clearing his throat. The Vehicon turned to look.
"Care to explain his reaction?" Knock Out pointed at the Vehicon now lying on the ground.
"Oh, he really likes you, sir." The Vehicon answered, before walking off in the same way Knock Out had been going. Knock Out continued to walk that way; unaware of what was waiting for him a few hallways down. After a bit of walking along the corridors, Knock Out was sure he heard chattering coming from around the next corner.
"I heard from one of the mechs on duty that our favourite high ranking officer is walking around the corridors!" An overly happy sounding Vehicon told the others.
"So?" Another one answered, sounding bored.
"He also said something about this officer's length."
"What do you mean…? Oh…" This Vehicon sounded annoyed then disgusted and he walked off; hoping that this officer didn't show up.
"So…" An interested sounding Vehicon asked.
"So what?" The first one asked.
"How big is he?" Knock Out was beginning to dislike this conversation.
"What are all of you doing here?" The Vehicons all jumped and then looked around. They saw who was speaking to them. Some of them walked off but a few of them were still stood there. All of their optic bands flickered before all of them collapsed. That was weird. Knock Out thought, continuing to walk along the corridors. He had just about a quarter of a breem left before he could go back, when he met someone that looked familiar.
"So the Vehicons weren't wrong; there is a mech wandering the halls in his protoform!" Knock Out turned around and ran back towards Med-bay as fast as his legs could carry him. It had to be her! He thought. I wonder what spooked him… Airachnid thought, slowly beginning to follow him.
Just over a quarter of a breem later, Knock Out opened the door to Med-bay and darted inside, standing with his back pressed against the door.
"You are very lucky; we'd only just removed the lock!" Starscream didn't even try to hide that he was looking.
"Airachnid saw me!" Knock Out blurted out and instantly regretted it.
"We saw that; why did you take off like a rocket after that?" Starscream asked amusedly.
"Do you have the hots for her too?" Dreadwing asked and Starscream started sniggering.
"You can't laugh at me Starscream; you put your tongue down her throat!" Knock Out answered. Just at that point they heard a banging on the door. Knock Out backed away from the door and motioned for the others to stay quiet. The banging on the door however didn't cease and it was sounding more persistent.
"Scrap." All three of them said at the same time.
AN: The blush rushing to their cheeks is blue because their 'blood' is blue. And oh Primus! Somebody seems to have caught them! Is this going to be it for the Dare Club already? You'll just have to wait and see!