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"Sari," Prowl called out. He was wary from having to help clean all the mud from the base, which Bulkhead and Bumblebee had tracked everywhere. He'd also given both bots, along with Sari, a firm lecture and told them that they would no longer be able to play together outside, unless Prowl was there to watch them. That way, hopefully, there would be no more incidents like this.
Prowl ended up having to call the red-haired girl's name twice more before she finally responded. "What?" she called out. Prowl followed the sound of her voice to see her sitting in front of the television set, playing some sort of new video game with Bumblebee. Prowl came close to rolling his optics; he should have figured they might be there.

"Sari, it's time for bed," Prowl said.

"But we're up to level three hundred!" Bumblebee protested.

Prowl placed his servos on his hips. "Sari, your father instructed that you are to go to bed no later than 7:00, and it is already 7:02. You are going to bed. Now."

"I'm not sleepy though."

"Well no one said you had to sleep just that you had to go to bed."

Prowl realized seconds after saying that. that it was probably the worst thing he could possibly say.

"But Prowl…"

Sari didn't seem to notice his horrible choice of words and kept pressing on with reasons about why she shouldn't have to have an early bedtime.

"And besides, I'm just going to wake up really, really early anyway. I won't tell my dad if you let me stay up, come on prowl please."

"No Sari, it's already 7:05 so you've had five cycles extra anyway."

"Come on Prowl, just one more level."

"You're not helping me Bumblebee."

"I didn't intend to." the yellow bot replied

"Bumblebee, knock it off."

"Come on Optimus." The bot tried appealing to the Autobot leader

"Bumblebee," the Autobot Prime said sternly, "Professor Sumdac left Prowl in charge of Sari, and if Prowl says that it's time for Sari to go to bed, then she needs to go to bed." Before anyone could say another word, Optimus reached out shut off the game console, ignoring the protests from both Bee and Sari.

Prowl cast a grateful glance toward Optimus, then turned to regard Sari again. He placed his servos on his hips. "Come along now, Sari," he said. "You can either go to bed willingly, or I will pick you up and carry you to bed."

Sari grumbled, but couldn't seem to think up any more excuses. And she knew fully well that if she didn't go on her own, Prowl would follow through on his threat to pick her up and carry her. So she mumbled a quick "good night" to Bumblebee and Optimus, then ignored Prowl completely as she sulked off to her room.

Prowl quietly followed her to her room, making certain she went inside. However, she hesitated just inside the doorway. "Prowl, can you tell me a bedtime story?" she asked, and attempted to make her best "puppy dog" look.

Prowl knew where this was going but agreed anyway, now the only problem; he had to come up with a story. Or did he? She never said it couldn't be true; and the ninja did want to get back at a certain yellow bot.

"I know a good one about Bumblebee."

"Bumblebee?"

"Yes Bumblebee." Prowl had to suppress his smirk "Back before we came to earth, Bumblebee and Bulkhead were working on a space bridge. Bumblebee decided it would be a great idea to test some new paint. On everyone else. He thought he wouldn't get caught, that he was really clever; but he wasn't and when he was the only bot not covered in random paint colors, we all knew who was to blame. That work for a story?"

"I was being clever Prowl." Bumblebee had heard Prowl telling the story

Sari, having heard the complete story, had to suppress her giggles a bit. She didn't want to upset Bumblebee, plus she hadn't expected to actually enjoy the story. But in a way she was glad she had, because now she had a good excuse to ask Prowl for another story. Plus it meant staying up later, if he agreed.

"Tell me another story, Prowl!" she pleaded, bouncing up and down on the bed a little.

Prowl shook his head. "It is now 7:27," he stated. "You should be going to sleep."

"But you just said I had to go to bed!" Sari tried stalling. "You said nothing about sleep!"

"Nice try," Prowl murmured. He took a moment to tuck the girl in, making sure she had her teddy bear and anything else so that she wouldn't have any more excuses to stall. Finally they both said goodnight, and Prowl switched off the light.
The ninja bot then headed out of the girl's room and went to his own room, located close by. He sat down on the floor in front of his tree, purposely leaving his door open so he would be able to keep a better optic and audio sensor out for any possibly mischief.

He had only been sitting there for two cycles when he suddenly heard, "Prowl!"

Sighing, Prowl rose and headed to her bedroom, peeking into the doorway. "Yes, Sari?"

"I'm thirsty. Can I have a glass of water?"

"Yes Sari."

So after she got her water Prowl thought she couldn't have any reason to get up again; was he ever wrong.

"I ran out of water." she announced

This happened about three more times until Sari finally agreed to stay in bed, and she did; for a good fifteen cycles. She appeared walking with a bit of a jitter to her steps and announced very quickly "I have to go to the bathroom!"

That happened at least four more times spread over the next megacycle. Prowl was on to her game; stall for more time, but he couldn't actually tell her not to go to the bathroom. Maybe she'd won this round but he wouldn't let it happen again. Prowl did wonder, would Sari get to the level she'd gotten to with Cara? Going so far as to randomly yell out that she'd seen Decepticons?

Of course not, there was no way she'd underestimate him like that.

At least, he thought so.

Until the next morning, when the underestimating started with Breakfast.

"I'm starving!" Sari said after she had gotten out of bed and gotten dressed into a fresh set of clothes. "What's for breakfast?"

"I will make you breakfast in a moment," Prowl told her, as they stood just outside her room. The base was equipped with a limited kitchen, courtesy of Professor Sumdac, for Sari's stay. "I will make you a healthy breakfast of eggs, bacon, and sliced fruit."

"But I want sugar puffs!" Sari said. It was her most favorite cereal.
Prowl looked at her. "No," she said. "Your father made it clear he does not want you to eat that cereal because it's mostly sugar."

"But sugar means more energy!" Sari tried to argue.

"It's bad for your teeth, Sari. Do you want to get a toothache and to go to the dentist?"

"Hey I brush my teeth, remember? That takes care of that!" she tried to persuade him. "Besides, eating cereal means no killing animals!"

Prowl stepped into the kitchen and opened the fridge, glancing at the food inside. "The animal flesh would still be dead, whether or not you eat it," he said. He turned to glance at her. "I am going to make you a healthy breakfast."

Sari sighed, it was worth a try. All the little things she did that used to annoy her past babysitters just seemed like absolutely nothing to Prowl. She knew there were things that annoyed Prowl, noise in particular. Noise had to be the answer.

"Bumblebee! We're playing Guitar Hero Revamp Seven!" She knew the little mech wouldn't say no to Guitar Hero.

Prowl knew what she was trying to do the instant the noise started. She knew he couldn't stand excessive noise, she also knew Bumblebee was horrible at the game and Optimus actually wasn't. She got the two to start playing each other, knowing full well that it could last hours.

Prowl walked into the room where the others had gathered around he had to shout over the noise for them to turn it down and none of them seemed to hear him.

It would be okay, processor over matter,

it would be okay

If only they would at least play any song but that annoying "Om nom nom nom" metal song, seriously what was that band thinking and how did it ever get popular?

However, Prowl had a solution to the problem in the end; he simply switched off his audio sensors, something that an Autobot could do but no human could do. He could literally tune out any kind of sound that way, no matter how loud it was.

What's more is that Optimus, Ratchet and even Bulkhead did the same, so that Bumblebee and Sari were the only ones who could hear the noise.
It didn't take Sari long to figure out what Prowl had done, since he was able to walk into the room a few moments later with a perfectly normal expression on his face, without even the slightest trace of annoyance or discomfort.

Now Sari was truly starting to get annoyed. Was there anything, anything at all, that got under Prowl's skin, so to speak? She knew that he was a machine, so he could do things that a human couldn't. But surely there had to be something that could annoy him. That was part of her job; to annoy the person watching her.

Sari needed to get creative, maybe even call in the big guns early. She glanced at her key; she knew better, she knew she knew better.

She knew better but this idea was just too good to pass up and she couldn't not do it, even if she hadn't been trying to harass Prowl at the time she still would have had to do it.

There were quite a few old broken cars at the plant, she had wondered for a while about what would happen if she used the key, she couldn't pass the idea up.

She walked up to a red car, broken windows, no wheels, an ideal candidate. She was about to insert the key when Bumblebee called out "Sari!"

She turned her attention away from the car "What is it?"

"Prowl said you were supposed to take some vitamin things."

She glanced back at the car then said "Yeah I'll be right there."

She came back a few minutes later; Bumblebee was following her curiously this time, she decided she might as well let him in on her idea.

"I don't know Sari; are you sure this will turn out okay?" he was a little hesitant

"Aw, come on Bumblebee, it can go too wrong, besides if it turns out to be some monster and attack, I'm sure you can take it."

Suddenly there was a loud noise that sounded like a car engine roaring—although it also sounded like a wild animal roar. In truth, Sari had left the key in the car's ignition. Little did she know that it had partially repaired the broken down clunker, but the energy of the key had also turned into something of a half-aware, mechanical zombie.

It began to race through the base completely on its own, screeching its tires as it raced down the corridor into the main living area, where most of the bots had gathered. Ratchet let out a loud yelp as it came rushing toward him like a red streak, and he got out of the way just in time before it mowed into him.
The red clunker skidded to a halt several feet away and turned to "face" Ratchet, its engine revving almost like a mad bull panting, and its tailpipe releasing noxious fumes and exhaust.

"What in the name of Cybertron?!" Ratchet exclaimed.

The car then rushed toward Ratchet again, but he was ready; he held up his arms and stopped the car dead in its tracks with his magnetic arms. The car tried to move, even running its tires against the floor until the horrid stench of burning rubber could be smelled, but it simply could not move.

Optimus rushed forward with his ax in hand, then sliced through the front of the car, severing the engine from the rest of it. Then the car made a loud moaning noise, and "died".

Optimus and Ratchet then leaned in to peer inside the car. Then they saw it; Sari's key was in the ignition.

Both bots called for Prowl, but the ninja bot was already present, having been alerted by all the commotion within the base.
As soon as Prowl saw the key, he snatched it up and went in search of Sari, who was sitting in her room and looking rather innocent. She was sitting on the edge of her bed, dangling her legs.

Prowl held the key high above her head. "You started that car up," he said. It was a statement, not a question; the ninja bot knew what had happened, and he didn't need her to say anything. "Sari, you are grounded until the week is over, and I am also keeping the key with me until then."

"Come on, Prowl!" Sari tried to use the 'puppy-dog' stare, it always worked on her father so why not Prowl? "I just wanted to see if I could fix it is all, I was really, really bored."

"You knew better."

Sari sighed, this didn't seem fair, if she was going down so was someone else "Bumblebee is guilty by association."

"And because of the way you say it I imagine that you made sure he was guilty by association."

"But the AllSpark choose me to keep the key."

"The AllSpark would understand why me leaving this with you at the current time would spell disaster."

Sari was left in a bad mood for a few hours, and pretty bored. That's when she realized, sooner or later a Decepticon was bound to show up and the Autobots would either have to leave her alone at the base, or take her with them. Some grounding this was going to be. Did Prowl really think it would work?

"So Prowl, needing a recharge yet?" The medic asked, it had been about 30 cycles since the car incident.

"No I think I have the situation fully under control."

Ratchet laughed "You're funny, do you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Prowl was slightly confused, the base was absolutely quiet.

"Exactly." the medic answered "Don't you know that silence can be nothing good?"


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