SunnySide Down

Warnings: Will eventually contain sexual content of various nature. Readers beware.

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Red Alert ventured out to the rec room to get himself a cube of energon since it had been a while since he had anything. Sitting at an empty table, he observed his fellow Autobots; Wheeljack was animatedly talking to Perceptor about some new invention he was coming up with. He stored that information in his processor to be ready for a future explosion.

Jazz was in the middle of the room dancing to music that Blaster played from his alt-mode, a little too loudly for his liking.

Red Alert cringed to himself when he noticed the yellow and red Lamborghinis in a darkened corner of the room, hovering over something while snickering to themselves. As though sensing that they were being watched, both Sunstreaker and Sideswipe locked optics with him...then grinned. That was the cue to leave, he did not want to be around when whatever the Twins had planned came to fruition.

Rising out of his seat, he walked over to the energon dispenser to grab a cube to take with him. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement. They opened their subspace pockets and both took out 2 medium sized bags filled with thousands of tiny white paper balls.

A week before...

While Bumblebee was out on a recon mission, Sideswipe got the job of being Spike's taxi. The human wanted to go to something in the city called a 'Parade'. The human population was celebrating something or other that was significant to that particular day. As Spike was having a great time watching the other humans travel by in groups playing with things that they beat on or blow into to make a noise, Sideswipe was inspecting a group of smaller humans, children, who were throwing small amounts of gun powder wrapped in paper on the ground. This seemed to entertain them greatly, the small, sharp noise encouraged them to throw more.

Then a brilliant idea came to his mind; what if you threw a lot of them at the same time? If it was possible to grin in alt-mode, he would have. This could make for one of the best pranks ever! After some poking, prodding, and then all out bribery of Spike with promises to do manual labor, he got him to corner the market on the boxes of tiny explosives at that parade...much to the dismay of the younger humans.

Back at the Ark, Sideswipe presented his brother with his prize. Needless to say Sunstreaker was impressed and both got to scheming immediately.

Present...

While Red Alert was still distracted with the energon, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe took the opportunity to untie the bags and get ready. Preparing through their private comm-link, they initiated countdown:

One...

Two...

THREE!

The Twins whipped the bags so the tiny explosives flew out towards the center of the rec room. The grins on their faces couldn't possibly get wider as they watched their little distractions fly across the room, as if in slow motion.

Then it happened.

Snap after snap after snap sent everyone present in the room into a panic.

Perceptor was in the middle of drinking his energon when it happened, causing the scientist to spit it back out...into Wheeljack's face. Wheeljack, caught by surprise by the tiny explosions and the energon being spit in his face, flailed and caused the chair he was sitting in to tip backwards and send him crashing to the floor.

Jazz tripped over Blaster and was sent flying into the table that Red Alert was previously occupying.

Red Alert, having the most sensitive sensors of anyone on the Ark, was disturbed the most. He practically jumped out of his armor, horns flashing in rapid pulses of light, a scream ripping from his vocal processor. He ran as fast out of rec-room as his legs could carry him, all the while paging everyone on the Ark that Decepticons were attacking.

Prowl, who got very little recharge time, was already furious that he was awoken from it to deal with whatever was going on. Rounding a corner, he was very literally, run over by a glitching and screaming Red Alert. He layed on the floor where he was knocked over, "I swear, if this is a prank by the Twins..." He couldn't even finish his thought when he heard an explosion of laughing.

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe were rolling on the floor of the rec-room, holding the middle part of their bodies and laughing hard. Sunstreaker was desperatly trying to inhale air to circulate it and cool off his body since all the laughing was causing him to heat up. "I...I CAN'T! OH...CAN'T! HURTS!" He tried to blurt out a coherent sentence but couldn't.

Half of the crew of the Ark decended upon the rec-room only to find a bewildered Perceptor and Wheeljack. Jazz, who was picking himself out of the broken table. Blaster, who had transformed and was rubbing one of his arms. Then the Twins, still rolling on the floor, laughing and gasping for air.

Then came in Prowl.

"Can you two tell me why I was just woken out of a recharge cycle and run over by Red Alert who was screaming something about Decepticons planting explosives in the rec-room?" The Twins stopped laughing. The eerie calm with which Prowl spoke meant he was really ticked off. Sideswipe nudged Sunstreaker with his arm, "Uh..." Before he could answer, the sound of small snaps made everyone turn.

Bumblebee, who was moving around to get a better look, stepped on a few of the tiny bombs that didn't explode when they hit the ground. Looking at the bottom of his pede curiously, he wiped off the residue that was left and inspected it. "Gun powder?"

Prowl picked up another unexploded ball between his fingers and squeezed it, causing it to snap.

His doorwings started to twitch. The Twins noticed.

"I'm sure you already know what I'm going to say. So for the love of Primus, just go now. I will be down shortly."

That same eerily calm tone. They got up and walked cautiously past Prowl, then broke into a run towards the brig to make sure he wasn't coming for them. It was far safer behind the energy bars then outside with Prowl.

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Work in progress. Let me know what you think! The juicy stuff with happen in the next chapter ;D