Chapter 2: The Caramel Dance
Starscream was officially ticked.
Starscream had walked through the halls of the Nemesis on edge. He had been in his room doing desk work, but strange sounds coming from the Bridge were too strange to go uninvestigated. He heard pounding in the walls- constant pounding that hadn't ended for the last 3 cycles. Just as he reached the door, the pounding stopped and he could hear clangs and bangs as the room's guests guffawed, falling over each other and carrying on. What was so funny?
Well, he found out. And he didn't like it at all.
When he opened the door, he was greeted by the sight of about 20 Decepticons in the bright orange room rolling around on the floor laughing. In the middle of the room, on the map table stood two giant teddy bears. They both looked at him before music started up, possibly the Macarena, and both figures started dancing. Embarrassingly.
The Decepticons burst into new fits and Motormaster passed out. He was painted a bright pink, and the Contructicons paintjobs couldn't decide whether green or purple was the dominant color.
Starscream developed a severe twitch in his left wing.
"What is going ON!?"
Suddenly, he was up on the table and dancing. He was only about 7 ft tall and all the Decepticons in the room were laughing at him. Why was he dancing? And why were the walls bright orange!? The Nemesis was purple and blue!! And Motormaster was definitely NOT pink!!
Starscream woke with a violent jolt. He stared at the ceiling for a cycle before sitting up and shaking his head. What in the Pit was that? Recharge visions? He was the Air Commander of the Decepticons. He shouldn't be having strange and embarrassing dreams, as humans called them. He swung his legs over his recharge berth and was about to stand up when he heard the walls thumping. He heard laughing outside.
He stared in abject horror as the doors to his quarters opened.
In danced two 7 foot tall teddy bears, one blue, one red. They each had a speaker strapped to their backs blaring:
'OH I'M A GUMMYBEAR! YES I'M A GUMMY BEAR! OH I'M A YUMMY, CHUMMY, FUNNY, LUCKY GUMMY BEAR!!'
Starscream blanched and his jaw fell open. The two bears climbed up onto his desk and started doing a strange dance. Deep in the Seeker's mind a part of him recognized it as "caramelldansen" before the rest of his mind rebuked him for knowing what it was called.
Now he knew why he had that weird dream. And now he remembered that these bears had done the same thing three times in the last 2 weeks! Done gaping, the Air Commander's systems went into overdrive as his oil pressure spiked.
"RUMBLE! FRENZY! GET THOSE RIDICULOUS COSTUMES OFF AND GET OUT OF MY QUARTERS!!"
The bears 'eeped!' and scrambled out of there, Starscream behind them shouting, null rays ablaze.
Megatron strode into the hangar. Before him lay piles of energon, steadily growing as Skywarp and Reflector filled the energy converter with fuel they recently acquired. That operation had run smoothly. Megatron smirked in satisfaction.
Soundwave appeared off to his left and walked over. Something in his posture made him seem both confident and hesitant at once. Megatron gave him a quizzical look.
"Cassettes: Prank."
"Ah," Megatron said, at once amused and annoyed. "What are they doing this week?"
"Activity: Unknown. Starscream: In pursuit."
Megatron nearly slapped his hand to his faceplate in a very human gesture. Instead, he kinda blinked. A rampant Starscream was a very troublesome and annoying Starscream.
"Cassettes en route, Megatron."
Megatron was pulled out of his musings as the far entrance to the hangar blasted open. In ran two large teddy bears with speakers dragging behind them on strings, screaming. Behind them was the Air Commander yelling about rodents and candy, firing his infamous guns at the duo. A straight, almost bored look on his face, Megatron watched as the trio leaped over a pile of energon, crawled under a large workbench, came out, pounced onto the conveyor belt, tripped over a couple energon cubes causing them to explode in Reflector's face, ran in circles around Skywarp before stray Null Ray lasers hit the purple Seeker and a random drone causing them to collapse, played a brief game of cat and mouse among the huge pile of metal crates in the corner, and then dove into an ai rduct. Halfway through, Starscream got stuck and kicked violently trying to free himself while shredding the hangar's ventilation system. The two bears crawled out of another shaft, ran over, and started a tribal looking victory dance while the downed Seeker shouted obscenities. It was quite a sight.
Megatron looked over at Soundwave, who looked back at him.
"Reflector! When Skywarp come back online, tell him to get Thundercracker and have them get Starscream out of the shaft. Starscream will tell the Constructicons what happened to their vent system personally."
"Yes, sir."
"Soundwave, handle the cassettes. Immediately. I'm going to my quarters."
"As you command, Megatron."
Across the room, two bears were caramelldansen-ing, holding their destroyed speakers to their heads.
I had a lot of ideas for this one, but it came out pretty simple. Heeheehee. Next I think they'll target either the Constructicons or the Stunticons.
