Author's Notes:
Ookami: Hey everyone! This is the second chapter, and things kinda take a detour from Shockwave's domain and jumps forward in time for the sake of getting to the good parts.
Neko: This was a fun chapter to write even if it is dwarfed by the prolog... How did that thing even get so big?
Ookami: Maybe because it was building the world for us at the same time?
Zephyr Shift: Nah, it was because we had too much fun having the first spotlight!
Lunar Cascade: No I actually agree with the Wolf here, it was mainly world building... and maybe a bit of us loving finally being written.
Ookami: Thank you Lunar Cascade. So this is going to be a more dark fic, as if the last chapter didn't indicate that, but there will be random points of sunshine.
Neko: Though do we really do any other kind of stories?
Ookami: No... But our shorter pieces can look otherwise. We don't own Linkin Park over here by the way, the band is awesome and will appear a few times more.
Neko: We don't own Transformers, any of the gens... though we do have some mashables and movie dvds...does that count? Either way Enjoy!
Ookami: We also don't own the idea of an "Iacon Welcoming Party" when it comes to these twins, that belongs to Shadowblade-Tara! Enjoyed her version in the story "This is Sabotage," and decided that every good prank has a backstory.
Song: New Divide
Sunstreaker/ Sideswipe POV
Location: Iacon
Timeframe: after an attack on Iacon, after the fall of Praxus
"Iacon a beautiful city, even after the recent attack. Because of said attack more Autobot's have been moved to the city to try and protect it. Meaning that Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, the twins raised in the Pits, have off time in the city of Iacon. All Bot's beware."
Sunstreaker hit the arm of his twin, glaring at him for doing the out loud monologue of their trip into the city. It was one of the few times that we didn't have absolutely every bot looking at them was either suspicion or hatred, and now he is trying to draw attention to those two aspects to the forefront of the bystanders around them. Sideswipe laughs, "Come on I'm just messing around, Sunny."
As the crowd around them starts to give them more space Sunstreaker glared hard at his twin. "I thought I told you not to call me Sunny." Making their way through the street was a lot easier suddenly, not that either twin would mention it out loud.
"Ok- ok. I won't call you Sunny, Sunny." Dodging the swing with a laugh, the two made their way to several shops getting seemingly random objects from each and sub-spacing the objects. The two were planning one of their infamous pranks. The base had become tenser since the attack and we decided that we needed to get all the other bot's to laugh, though the mech or femme that got caught typically didn't appreciate the work put in. But hey that's just the price of art, well that and possible brig time with possible extra consequences.
The prank that they decided to do is one they had decided to call "An Iacon Welcoming Party." So far they decided they would be placing a bunch of hidden paint bombs and bolting a berth or three to the ceiling. Until they see how well the prank worked they couldn't know whether or not it needed to be altered. Getting the paint will be the more difficult part because of the quantity needed and not drawing attention to themselves. ^Sideswipe, we're gonna need to split up if we want no mech finding out about this plan of ours with the paint bombs.^
Sideswipe nodded briefly ^ I think you're right, Sunny. I'll hit up-town you hit downtown? I want to see if we can get enough colors and variety to be able to make multi-colored bombs, maybe even rainbow one.^
Sunstreaker rolled his optics at that ^As long as we don't waste too much, we still need to actually prank some poor spark in the end.^
Eventually, the two have all the supplies they need for the welcoming party prank, though now the next question is who to play it on. The twin bond became abuzz with debate while their outside appearance seemed to be simply appreciating the walk back to base.
^Ratchet's medbay is out of the question,^ Sunstreaker stated, ^Ratchet's in too bad of a mood, that attack filled his territory with too many frames, and well he doesn't have the nickname Ratchet the Hatchet for nothing.^
^Jazz is out too, you know on the fact that he's out on a mission, and he's not supposed to be back for a while.^ Sideswipe stated
^Same with Prowl. Not that he would have been a good idea in the first place this time around. Can't appreciate a good prank like this, let alone a string of them like we want.^
Eventually, after thinking for a few minutes Sideswipe proposes ^How about BumbleBee? Maybe we can even start a pranking war with him.^
The smirk was apparent in Sunstreaker's response as well as his faceplates, ^And he is less likely to be explosively angry immediately after. Sounds like a plan.^
Sideswipe smirked in response, and any bot who knew them would know to run. Instead, the world seemed to be going as normal as they went into action.
~~~~Sometime Later~~~~
We were retreating from Bumblebee's room, pleased with how far we got with the room before the warning signal they placed in the hall went off. We got several paint bombs hidden as well as a few tripwire pranks setup but didn't quite get to the berth. Could probably get that done some other time. As we got to our room, the doors opened up and nearly immediately all we could see was Sparkling Lavender purple as it launched at us.
Before Sunstreaker could go hunt down whoever was the one responsible we had company at our room being told that the first of the paint bombs had found their target, and had been sentenced for a few hours in the brig at least. At least the mini had admitted to placing paint bombs in our room in the process, apparently mad he didn't get the jump on us in the end. Soon we were escorted to the brig with Bumblebee, who was a near blinding Shimmering Neon Rainbow. We two were stuck in a room in the brig with Bumblebee stuck in a room just a few down from us. Bee was being smart, thought Sunstreaker, for not trying to talk to them about what he did to their paint.
Over the bond link, Sideswipe in a teasing tone stated ^Sparkly lavender is not your color, Sunny.^
Growling lightly before he gave into the urge to hit the wall he responded ^No, not at all. Sparkled anything is hideous on us, and now we have to wait till after the brig time to fix it.^
Sideswipe had the gall to laugh at this. The brig rung with the sound of clashing metal as Sunstreaker responded with a punch in the side. ^Sorry, just... lately I've been thinking back to the pits and well this is just so different, and you know just reminds me of why I like our pranks so much, someone gets upset but it takes minds off of the horrible reality that we live in.^
^You mean like when we used electromagnetism on all of Shockwave's tools to his workbench so he couldn't try and upgrade us? Or more like the time we successfully put Prowl's office on the ceiling exactly how he left it?^ was the grumpy response.
Sideswipe laughed again, ^Yeah exactly like that, Primus, we've been pranking for a long time, though back in the pits it never really felt like pranking more like tricks that allowed us to survive, and stay us and not just more of Shockwave's messed up Subjects.^
Sitting on the single berth in the cell, Sunstreaker asked ^What brought up this trip down memory lane anyway? We were younglings when they pulled us out of the pits. War's been going on for a while now as well.^
Sideswipe leaned against his purple sparkly brother and sighed. ^I honestly don't know I think it may be this city... I don't know... I saw sparklings and younglings playing in the streets when we first arrived and I guess it's been on my mind for a while.^
Sighing in return, ^I know we can't really say that we had a childhood Sides, but that is why we got into the war when it began. We know how to fight these cons since we saw them back then, and there was no way we were letting some young spark go that if we had a say in it.^
Sideswipe nodded ^Yeah I know, but I don't know it's just been bugging me for the last few days, but I didn't really want to bring it up you know...^
^Giving power to the demons of our past and whatnot, I know. But the fact of the matter is that Mega-glitch is giving Shockwave more power than our meager thoughts could ever possess, and we still need to fight off the creeps drones and inventions. Our past makes us the best front liners Prime has, and like Pit, we will lose because of it.^
Sideswipe chuckled at his brother's dramatic speech ^ Yeah yeah... Sunny^
Sunstreaker growled at his brother, though it was obvious that there was no fire behind it. ^How many times do I have to say not to call me Sunny brother?^
Sideswipe laughed off his brother's complaint knowing that Sunstreaker didn't really care as long as it was him and only him saying it, and instead brought up a different conversation, all about how to get revenge on Bumblebee in this newly reignited prank war.
Neko:... Primus those two can have adorable moments... not that any bot would really know it.
Ookami: Or we are making them OOC as well, but ah well. These two deserve some care from writers it seems sometimes. Anyway, we will have another drabble posted soon, though the summary won't be explained for a while longer.
Neko: and in the next chapter we go back to Zephyr Shift and Lunar Cacscade. So we will see y'all later bye!