I'm happy now! On Friday, my schoolbag got stolen while I was getting my lunch. My Barricade was in there. T_T But earlier today, I got a call from my school. They found my bag and have an idea who might have taken it from surveilance footage, and although my MP3 player is gone, my Barricade was still in the bag. I can get him back on Monday! Bumblebee will be so happy! It's kind of lonely for him on the bookshelf by himself.
Story related: You can thank my sister for the Mario reference in this one. XD
Lyrics used are from: "The Legend of Zelda" by The Rabbit Joint, and "The Song That Never Ends" by whoever came up with that song
"Link, he come to town, come to save the Princess Zelda!" Jazz and Bumblebee both sang as they walked along through the field to their destination. Optimus was beating himself up inside for agreeing to come along. "Ganon took her away, now the children don't play, but they will when Link saves the day, HALLELUJAH!"
"I'm sorry Optimus, but your sanity is in another castle," Arcee said sympathetically.
"Look, can we just hurry it up and get to wherever the hell you guys want to go?" Optimus asked, annoyed. He never would have agreed to do this, if it weren't for the fact that he knew they'd be getting in trouble if he hadn't.
Jazz pulled out the map that they'd printed. "Okay, so we've gotta go through there…" He pointed towards a dark, eerie-looking forest. "…the Forest of Squirrels. I wonder why they call it that?" Bumblebee and Arcee shrugged.
Optimus stared at the forest. "Are you sure?!"
"Yep. See?" He handed Optimus the map.
Optimus groaned when he looked over the map. They did have to go through there. Where were they even going? He looked at the destination on the map. "The Reaper's house? We're going to the Reaper's house? Who is this Reaper, and why do you want to go there so badly?" he asked.
"The Reaper is this skeleton-like dead guy that leads dead organics to the afterlife," Jazz answered.
"Floaty died. We're going to save him!" Bumblebee added.
"Floaty WHAT?!" Optimus accidentally blurted out. "Um… I mean…"
"Died. Just this morning. I miss him so much…" Bumblebee sniffed, his optics filling up with tears.
Arcee noticed Optimus looking away nervously. "Um… Are you okay, Optimus?" she asked.
Optimus looked back at her. He seemed slightly panicked. "Yeah. I'm fine. I wasn't aware that Floaty died…"
"He left me just like my guinea pig, Nermal, did!" Bumblebee whimpered. Arcee patted him gently on the back.
"You mean suddenly, with a lot of blood and squealing?" Jazz asked. Arcee glared at him when Bumblebee began to cry harder over his deceased pet rodent.
"Nermal! It should have been me that got ground up in the garbage disposal!" Bumblebee sobbed into Arcee's shoulder. Optimus reached over and smacked Jazz upside the head for bringing that up.
"Poor Nermal. What a way to go," Arcee sighed. Must have made quite a mess, too…
"Okay, Bumblebee. Just calm down. We should probably get going so we can get there before dark," Jazz tried to change the subject.
"Before dark? It's 9:35 in the morning! How long is this trip?!" Optimus asked.
Bumblebee sniffed. "Okay. Let's go get Floaty, then."
"Yes, let's," Arcee agreed.
"Adventure, yes!" Jazz said before they started to march off towards the Forest of Squirrels.
"How do I get myself into this crap?" Optimus sighed while he followed.
None of them were aware that they were being watched from up in the trees…
"This is the song that never ends! It just goes on and on my friends!" Jazz sang as they walked along.
"Must you?!" Optimus snapped. Jazz had been singing that song for the past fifteen minutes, and it was really starting to irk him.
"Some people started singing it not knowing what it was…" he continued, ignoring him.
"Jazz, please, stop singing!" Optimus begged.
"He can't stop singing Optimus, it's the song that never ends!" Bumblebee protested.
Optimus whacked Jazz in the back of the head, making him stop singing immediately. "Well it just ended."
Jazz shook his head and ducked as Optimus accidentally sent a branch swinging back in his direction. Arcee just walked under it. "You know, maybe it's not so bad being the shortest Autobot," Arcee shrugged. She suddenly heard something running behind them and spun around.
"Is everything okay, Arcee?" Jazz asked, pausing to look back at her. Optimus and Bumblebee looked back as well.
"Yeah. I just thought I heard something. It was likely some kind of animal," she replied before continuing along with them.
Optimus turned back around and almost walked into a branch- but it wasn't the branch that caught his attention. It was the fact that there was a squirrel in the branch, dressed in a little black outfit. It bonked him on the head with a nunchaku that it pulled out of hammerspace and leapt back onto the trunk of the tree. He backed away from the tree and shook his head. "Did you guys just see that?"
"See what?" Bumblebee asked.
"A squirrel just hit me on the head and ran away!" he replied.
"No…" Arcee shook her head. They stared at him strangely.
"No seriously, a squirrel hit me with a nunchaku and ran away!" he repeated. They all suddenly heard something dropping out of the trees and looked around to find that they were surrounded by squirrel ninjas.
"Oh… So that's why they call it the Forest of Squirrels," Jazz said.
"Aww! Look how cute they are, with their tiny weapons and little ninja outfits!" Bumblebee cooed. He poked one and picked it up by its tail, prompting it to swear and shake its tiny fist at him. "Aww! It's so cute!"
"Bumblebee, put the squirrel down!" Optimus commanded. Bumblebee sighed and did as instructed.
"Er, we didn't mean to intrude or anything, little Ninja Squirrels… We were just passing through," Arcee tried to calm the angry squirrels. They tried to move out of the circle of squirrels, when one of them threw a shuriken at them, causing them to quickly back up again.
Optimus noticed the squirrel that whacked him sitting on the branch again. "There you are!" he pointed at the squirrel. It hissed at him.
"What do we do now, Optimus?" Jazz asked.
"Now…we run!" Optimus replied. They took off running and screaming through the forest while the Ninja Squirrels chased after them.
Arcee jumped up into Bumblebee's arms when something exploded right beside her. "What was that?!"
"They're throwing exploding nuts at us!" Jazz replied.
"Where in the hell did they get exploding nuts from?!" Optimus thought out loud.
"My walnuts!" Wheeljack cried when he realized that someone had raided his snack pantry.
"I dunno, just keep running!" Bumblebee responded as a shuriken flew past him and imbedded itself in a tree.
"Way ahead of you!" Jazz shouted as he ran past. They suddenly came to a cliff. "What the hell?!" Jazz face-palmed. "Why are cliffs always conveniently placed to hinder someone who's trying to run away? It's like that guy who made the Earth has a wacky sense of humor!"
"Jazz, look out!" Bumblebee couldn't stop in time and slammed into Jazz, sending them both over the edge.
"Jazz! Bumblebee!" Arcee called after them as they fell to the bottom.
Bumblebee groaned while he sat up, stretching out. He looked around, not recognizing the area of forest where they were now sitting. "Jazz? Are you okay?" he asked.
"I was until you landed on me," Jazz replied. He stood up, roughly pushing Bumblebee off of him. "Where are we?"
"I don't know… It looks like a jungle…" Bumblebee replied.
Jazz looked at the map. "It says we're in the Jurassic Jungle."
"Okay, so if the Forest of Squirrels is named so because it's full of squirrel ninjas, than does that mean that the Jurassic Jungle is filled with…?" Bumblebee and Jazz both looked up when they heard something in the bush in front of them, then screamed when it lunged.
Ooh, what happens next? Dah, dah, dum...
