The game passed quickly, each team holding their own and pushing each other to the limits.

Soundwave had struck out two Autobots and there had been three close calls for a force out. A blue femme named Chromia was at second base. Soundwave studied the mecha at home plate.

A tall pink femme with a sleek build took to the center. It seemed her presence caused a stir as the Autobot crowd cheered loudly and the cheerleaders started chanting, and beating on make shift drums.

'Watch out Cons. Watch out' clap clap

'WATCH out Cons. WATCH OUT' clap clap

'STEP BACK, CONS, STEP BACK' clap clap

Arcee turned to the crowd and blew a kiss, receiving loud praise from the fans before taking her stance, bat raised high over her shoulders, her soft smile was something you'd see in a sweet jellied energon commercial but her optics could have been pure ice for the look she gave Soundwave.

He reeled back quickly, changing pace suddenly and throwing the ball within a split second of wind up. He watched it slice through the air and suddenly slow down.

He tensed, Arcee had seen it coming somehow and was swinging. The clunk of the ball hitting metal echoed through the stadium. A split second of absolute silence as the ball flew away from Arcee to roll between third and second plate, causing ground to be chewed up as it sped off.

The crowd erupted as outfielders Megatron and Vortex raced off to the ball. Chromia sprinted past them and reached home plate easily as Arcee followed her lead to get to second.

Megatron skidded across the ground as he scooped up the ball and threw it to 2nd base. Skywarp caught the rough leather ball just as Arcee skidded onto the plate.

'SAFE' the umpire cried much to the joy of Arcee's obviously dedicated fan-base. She waved at them, her slender hand moving back and forth graceful belaying her obvious strength.

'Good luck next time.' she said panting to Skywarp.

'Uh thanks, you're a pretty impressive batter.' he said honestly before snapping back to attention and throwing the ball to Soundwave.

'Arcee sure is loved isn't she?' Mirage said as Chromia returned to the dugout. His bat held firmly between his legs and his baseball cap covering most of his light blue face.

'Yeah we did well on keeping our ace batter a secret, everyone focuses on Hound's technique. But I don't think the Cons did any info gathering at all.' she said sitting down and helping herself to the coolant.

'Yeah, it's pretty insulting seeing as we thought of them as enough of a threat to spy on them.' Mirage bit out, his beautiful features pulled into a scowl.

'True that, did you and Jazz find anything else of note, other than the pitcher I mean?' she asked, using a rag to clean up the condensation as Grimlock took home base and missed the first pitch.

'The seekers are pretty good but they don't rely on the other team members for anything, seems that Megatron has no choice but to separate them out if he wants them to work with the rest of the team.' he said stretching his arms and shoulders as Grimlock missed another strike.

'The big guy is uhmm Astro-something, anyway he seems to be only in this for that big cream and purple one, whenever he leaves the field, Astro loses all interest.' he said Chromia hmmed at him.

'Maybe if we take him out straight away when he's on bat it'll demoralise Astro-buddy.' she said, Mirage nodded a coy smile on his faceplates.

'That's a good idea we'll have to tell Firs- Oh no Grim!' he said as the large tailed mech sulked over to the dug outs.

'Grimlock, sorry.' he said pathetically his bat dragging behind him. Hound went up to him gripping his arm.

'Don't be silly you didn't do anything wrong.' he said smiling. As his team gathered around him for the new plan.

'Alright guy's that's the first inning over, take some rest and then we'll make sure they don't pull anymore hat tricks on us.' he beamed at his team.

'Ah finally!' ratchet said getting up from his seat. Optimus chuckled at him.

'You're really that hungry' he asked Ratchet hmphed at the professor nodding his head.

'But I gave you so much to eat earlier.' Optimus said softly keeping his optics on the older mech Ratchet walked off with a stern look to the other but not another word.

Rumble and Frenzy looked over confused.

'Is he angry?' they asked. Optimus blanched.

'Ah no nothing like that. He's just hungry and the vendors don't come to this area often enough for him.' he said his smile back in full force.

'Frag me, these mechs aren't playing around.' vortex complained. Picking his bat ready. Megatron hmmed his agreement as he gripped the bas eof his bat.

'It's better than waitting for this match for so long to not even have a challenge.' he said, watching them play with so much passion helped steel his resolve and want to crush them more.

'Yeah plus if we win, we'll look pretty darn cool to those cheerleaders.' Vortex added before returning to his copy of 'Play-femmes' Megatron pondered that. It would be incredibly hot to seduce one of those cheerleaders into a hot mess wearing those colors, maybe even painting them with his own mar- Megatron went to get some coolant to cool down his processor.

'Alright guys we're going with the plan 'roll out' everyone in position!' he called as the Autobot went on the offensive. Mirage and Chromia walked together to the outfield.

'Hey Mirage did you see the Captain in action, Jazz said he's pretty cocky.' Chromia asked quickly, it wouldn't due for mechs to think they were slacking.

'That's the thing we didn't see him bat at the Maximal game, they were way ahead and then the acid rain got the game cancelled, they were declared the winners anyway.' he said before walking away with a nod to his team mate.

Chromia scowled. It wasn't good that they had no idea about the Captain's ability, she knew the Decepticons favored strength and while the Autobots voted and came together to choose captains the Decepticons were known to have huge inner fights and challenge each other for the title.

'A dark horse hu? Good luck Aid.'

First-Aid swallowed, it wasn't that he doubted his own skills...much. It was just that someone like Soundwave was hard to compete with. He shook his head strengthening his resolve.

'No! My team are counting on me too make every pitch count, even if I'm not as good as Soundwave-' He started to spin his arm, body bent as he prepare to throw at the large red and black seeker.

'I can still do my best for my team.' He let the ball fly through the air it curved perfectly as it passed the seeker and into the mit of Grimlock.

'Pretty seeker in trouble.' he said his voice muffled even more by the large helmet he wore. Starscream scoffed at him turning back to the pitcher.

'Lucky shot.' he mumbled. From the dug-out however Megatron smiled. It was always beneficial to send the seekers out first, there play style was quite average so it was easy to see what kind of capabilities the pitcher had. He turned to Soundwave who was back on his phone.

'Hey Soundwave there's a game being played.' he said pushing the pitchers hat over his visor.

'Baby sitter has not replied to messages, nor answered Soundwave's call?' he said his voice worried. Megatron grimaced, it wouldn't due to let Soundwave turn this into a big issue and lose concentration.

'i'm sure everything's fine, maybe they're eating or playing together.' he offered, looking to his team mates to back him up. Astrotrain made a noise of agreement while Blitzwing napped, leaning into his friend.

Soundwave nodded, sending another text to his younger brother's and the babysitter before putting the phone away.

Starscream managed to hit the ball square back to the pitcher and was stopped at first base. He pouted a little, his wings flaring out at the sides, tying to look imposing.

Thundercracker was next to bat and then Skywarp. Starscream relaxed a little, he always felt better when his two brothers were on the field with him.

Thundercracker managed to get a foul and so Starscream moved to second base and Thundercracker stayed at first.

Skywarp shot him a gleeful look as he approached the home base. Thundercracker ignored him in favor of stealing some glances at the cheerleaders, it was almost certain that he would miss the first swing anyways.

A small yellow bot caught his optics, the red and blue contrasted nicely and he could see two little horns framed his petite face.

Primus he's attractive.'

Skywarp missed the first swing by a mile, much to Starscream's amusement.

'Gonna have to find out what after party I need to crash?' Thundercracker chuckled, before reacting on impulse at the sound of the clunk, he knew Skywarp always missed the first swing, sometimes even the second but he always hit the ball once when he was batting.

Starscream ran passed third base, soon followed by Thundercracker. He looked back to see Skywarp being tagged out by a white and blue mech with large spoilers on his back.

'Looks like I'm at the top of my game, ey ey?' he said smiling at Skywarp who just stared blankly at him as he went to the dug-out.

'You know cause my names, TopSpin.' he cried, chuckling to himself before throwing the ball back to First-Aid.

Skywarp sat at the dug outs his face contorted in confusion. AstroTrain sighed and nudged Blitzwing awake with his elbow.

'Wha-what we won already?' he asked. Wiping the drool from his faceplates.

'No scrap head we're still in the first inning and you better not have drooled on me.' he said before checking his uniform.

Jazz brought the large cone to his faceplates.

'EVERYONE Ready?' he asked, gaining whoops from the crowd. He smiled as the cheer squad started to hand out large foam fingers to the younger audience and move between the bleachers to help clean up between pitches.

Jazz knew they didn't have to but the team enjoyed helping others and it looked good on their record, plus he knew his mechs would get bored fast of just dancing and shouting.

'HERE WE GO AUTOBOTS.'

'HERE WE GO' he raised his left pede high and stomped twice in time with the audience, Percepetor and Bumblebee at his sides helping lead the rhythm, they turned to face the team and repeated the cheers.

Soundwave looked up and saw the cheerleaders in time to see them start a new chant that echoed around the pitch, the sky was getting dark quick and floodlights had already been turned on.

He didn't blame the others for being a bit jealous of the Autobot team, Decepticon high was a small school and so the sports and engineer clubs were always more attractive then cheer squad.

But he had to admit it would be nice to have a team chant their names as they gained another victory.

First-Aid smiled broadly at the display. He was always reminded that he was part of a much larger team than just the baseball players. He scolded himself for such a cheesy thought but focused back as the next batter stood at the plate.

A large purple mech with black faceplates looked back at him and First-Aid couldn't help to think he looked like he'd rather be anywhere but here.

First-Aid threw the ball but his curve didn't go far enough and Onslaught knocked it high in the air. As he ran Mirage sprinted forwards and dived for the ball catching it in his servos and holding it up.

'F-frag!' Onslaught shrieked. He turned and grumbled all the way back to the dug-outs to the hysterical laughter of Starscream and Thundercracker.

'Shut up, least I don't have to much dust on me yet.' he grumbled sitting down with a thud.

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AstroTrain had no problem smacking the ball deep into outfield and got to second, while Dreadwing almost managed to break the ball with how hard he hit it. Getting Astrotrain a run and making it to second himself.

When Vortex came up to the plate he was pretty confident and even shone his visor brightly and flashed a scrap eating grin to First-Aid.

'Oh I am so striking you out, Con.' he thought to himself as he pulled back.