A Mess
***
Rumble and Frenzy stared up at the Energon Dispenser. Someone had decorated it with tinsel. Bright shiny green tinsel.
"Object: Questionable. Reason?"
The two Cassetticons jumped as they heard Soundwave's voice behind them.
"We didn' do it." Rumble said hastily. "It was on there when we got here."
"Yeah." Frenzy nodded.
Soundwave gave them a silent stare as the doors on the other side of the room, slid open. Dirge and Thrust walked inside mess hall, stopping to stare at the glittery strands. Their optics then landed on the Cassetticons twins.
"Oh." They said unanimously.
"Hey! We didn't do it!" said Frenzy, hands balled into fists at his sides.
"Yeah, right." Dirge said as Thrust rolled his optics.
"Subject: Tinsel. Question: Why?"
The Cassetticons just shrugged. Thrust giving Dirge a odd look.
"Perhaps," Thrust interjected. "We should come back at a later time. If someone decided to sprinkle Tinsel around like a little gay fairy, I don't want to know what they might have done to the Energon."
"I'll say." Dirge groaned and grabbed Thrust's arm, tugging him out of the mess hall. "It's either high grade or poison."
Leaving through the sliding doors, they ran into Starscream.
"Out of my way!" He shoved past them, marching over to the Energon dispenser.
Ignoring the Conehead's glares, Starscream paused as he caught sight of the tinsel.
"Just why, is the dispenser covered in tacky strands of shiny paper?"
" 's tinsel.." Mumbled Frenzy.
"I'm not going to even ask how you two got it up there."
"We didn't do it!"
*** Three cubes later ***
"And tha' ish why I would make a bether leader then tha'.. tha'.. Megathron! Hic!"
"I was right!" Dirge said. "It was spiked."
"Pity it wasn't poison, though."
"But what did they spike it with?"
***
Megatron growled as he stomped down the hall. An hour ago he told Starscream to go get him a cube of Energon. It was only five minutes to get to the mess hall and back. Which meant Starscream was doing something else, which was most likely trying to kill him.
He could put up with all of Starscream's treachery, but he was going to do it in his own time! Not when he sent him to fetch Energon.
Keying open the door's to the mess hall, noting that Starscream was definitely doing something stupid if the doors were locked, he stood there in shock.
Crowded in the room was at least half the army, and in the middle, dancing on the table, was Starscream. It also seemed as if there was a new spray paint Picasso on board the Nemesis, as someone had taken the liberty to paint a bra and thong onto the drunk Seeker.
The Seeker did a high kick and flipped a strand of Tinsel around his neck like a Boa.
Megatron took one large step backwards and keyed the door closed. He stood there a minute and his first thought as soon as the shock wore off: This was probably Starscream's best attempt to kill him.