Fear ran through Optimus and Ratchet's circuits as they watched the dead Cybertronians rise up from the Earth. Upon Megatron's command, they slinked across the valley floor toward the two Autobots, intending to attack. But then the strangest thing happened.
From nowhere and everywhere at once, music played, and the robotic zombies began to dance. Their moves were fluid, despite still moving like zombies. The three living Cybertronians stared in confusion. After a bit, Megatron shouted commands to stop dancing and attack, but his commands went unheeded, as if the only thing they could hear was the music.
Because their attention was caught up with the zombies, no one noticed Starscream arrive until he transformed and landed on a mountain peak near the one Megatron was standing on. With a sweep of his servos, and a very serious expression, he began a chant:
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
He pointed to the Autobots.
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
without a soul for getting down
His hips swung imitating dancing as he said the last two words in the line, before turning his expression serious again.
But stand and face the hounds of Hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The undead Transformers never stopped dancing and the mysterious music never stopped playing during Starscream's spiel. Megatron's patience was growing thin.
"Starscream, stop this nonsense, or I'll rip off your wings and you'll never fly again!"
Starscream just smirked at Megatron and continued chanting.
The foulest stench is in the air
"It does smell pretty bad here," Ratchet said to Optimus.
The funk of forty thousand years
"Your chronology is off, Starscream," Megatron stated, patience wearing thin.
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
he pointed to the two Autobots
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
He shook his body in a mock imitation of a shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of The Thriller
The music stopped, along with the dancing. All the zombies stared at the two Autobots as Starscream cackled, his optics going a deeper red than usual. Megatron powered up his fusion cannon and pointed it at Starscream, as the zombies walked towards the Autobots. The scene went black as Optimus and Ratchet were smothered by them.
Ratchet found himself lying on his back with his optics closed. His optics powered on, fast, worrying he had been attacked by the zombies and expecting to see a swarm of them above him. Instead he was greeted by the image of the base's ceiling. He laid there trying to figure out what happened as he fully booted up, and it slowly came back to him.
The zombie attack was a few months ago. Last night was Halloween, a human holiday that the kids introduced them all to. Miko showed them a fifteen minute movie, which they called a 'music video', about a bunch of dancing zombies tormenting two kids, not much older than the kids they know. Ratchet figured his CPU had taken both memories and merged them while he recharged. "That's the last music video I watch for a while," he muttered to himself as he got up.
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