Note: Bold & italics are Tasha's consciousness

Paintball

xxTashaxx

It had been two weeks sense the spin off. In that time we had introduced two of our guy friends.

You know one could be your boyfriend.

No they couldn't and you know it.

Yes they could.

No, David is obviously crushing on Amber and I want to kill Alex half the time!

Good point.

As I was saying before I was interrupted, we introduced two of our friends to the Autobots. They seemed to take to them well.

Course they did. They are all obsessed with Halo.

We are all in the rec. room preparing for some paintballin' outside.

"Hey Tasha you guys going out?"

"Yeah, you want to join Bee?"

"Actually you can't go out today."

"Why?"

"Because it's raining and Optimus said no one was to leave."

"Why?"

"He said something about flash floods." Oh that explains it. They happen when it's raining really hard. Last time one occurred several people almost drowned since the current was so strong and they kept getting whacked by stuff in the sudden flood."

"Okay. We'll just play inside."

"Alright, see you later Tasha."

"MAN THIS STINKS!!"

"Oh come on David it's not that bad"

"Yes it is! No paintball! It's a jip, I got this sweet new gun and now I can't use it"

"Well how about we just play inside."

"Can we do that?"

"I see no signs saying we can't."

"Tasha?"

"Yeah, Alex?"

"Can we do points?"

"Uh, what's that?"

Alex and David in unison, "IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER! What you do is give people or objects points! And whoever has the most after a set time wins!"

"Okay so how would we play it Alex?"

"How about if you shoot another player that's 2 points? If you hit someone between the eyes," you'd better wear a mask, "That's 4 points. And let's say if you hit an Autobot that's 1 point but"

"WAIT!! Why only 1? Seems to me that they should be more." Cause they are hard to miss Amber.

"Cause even you could hit them." BURN! Alex: 1, Amber: 0

"Yeah, but they-HEY DID YOU JUST INSULT ME!"

"Maybe."

"Why I outta." Tuning out insults

"As I was saying, they should be worth more 'cause you have to get up the nerve to shot a giant mechanical alien that could squish you!!"

-Blank stares- They have do it all the time on those video games. Hm maybe you should try them some time.

"Alright I'm game, so David you start in the west wing with green balls. Amber you can start in the south with the pink ones. Alex head over to the east and use those yellow ones and I'll start in the south with blue. We will play for 3 hours."

"Oh before I was interrupted" -stares at Amber- "If you hit a 'bot between the eyes that's 2 points."

"Ok so give everyone ten minutes from now to get to their positions. GO!"

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I was walking down the hallways keeping alert for any sounds of someone moving. Up ahead there was a hiss and Optimus walked out. YESH THIS WAS PERFECT! I probably shouldn't do this; he is the leader after all…

-BANG- a blue ball hit him squarely in the helm.

xxOptimusxx

"What the?" looking around I see Tasha pointing a gun at me and then

-BANG- I felt the bullet connect exactly between my eyes.

"YES!!" I watched as she ran off. What the heck was going on? Guess I'll only find out if I follow.

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Five minutes later I found David. He was still new here to the base but the others especially Bumblebee seemed to like him. His back was turned to me looking around the corner. He was shorter then Tasha and Amber so around five feet with a wiry but soft build, with jet black hair cut long enough to fall into his dark brown eyes. All this accented his dark skin, not black more like a permanent tan. Amber and Tasha seemed to have named him David the Mexican to his chagrin. So far he had proved himself a jokester, (big surprise with Amber and Tasha being his friends) an avid Halo player, and a decent skateboarder.

-BANG- "OW!! Who did that?!? DAVID I'M GONNA GET YOU!" And with that he whirled around and saw me.

"Hey, Amber, look who Tasha got!" He yelled while running. Amber skidded around the corner not even looking at me as she continued running firing at David's retreating back. Hm, that was interesting.

xxRatchetxx

Ah it was quiet. This was the first time in a month that the med bay was quiet. -BANG- ARG!! Why? Why must primus lure me into a false sense of peace?!

-BANG- this time it was right outside the door. When it began to open I spun to see Alex slip in. He was one of Amber and Tasha's friends. This was only the fifth time I had seen him, he was a good five inches taller than Amber who was 5'4" (Tasha being 5'3") he was of average build not really in shape but not unfit, he had blond hair that was long and curly. Sort of like the description of the human fairy tale goldilocks except it wasn't that long, just long enough to easily pull into a pony tail. With glasses and blue eyes he didn't look like the kind of person to be exceedingly annoying.

This was however a misconception according to Tasha who informed me that over half of the time she wanted to grab him by the neck and shake him (she showed this by holding her hands like she had it and then wrenching them back and forth very quickly while making growling noises). As of this moment he was peppered in blue, pink, and green paint spots.

"Run into some trouble did we?"

"WHA!" Looking around he saw me and calmed.

"You could say that."

"What are you doing and why are you covered in paint?"

"We are playing paintball. We go around shooting people and Autobots and when we are done we are going to tally points to see who won."

"It appears as though you would be losing."

"I don't think so I got David a few times and I also peppered Bumblebee along with getting Tasha between the eyes." I raised an optic ridge.

"If you shoot someone between the eyes it's double the points."

"And if you miss?"

"I would hate to be them." He looked out the door, peering this way and that to make sure no one was around.

"Well looks clear so" -BANG- I CAN'T BEILIVE IT HE HIT ME! He was running away the coward still I chucked a wrench at the door for good measure.

xxDavidxx

This was perfect!! I was currently occupying the air vents waiting for someone to come along so I can demonstrate my Ninja skills with a paint-gun!

-THUD, THUD, THUD- Ooh here comes an Autobot! Coming around the corner was IronHide, he had some pink and yellow paint on him already. He was growling something along the lines of stupid humans and how the paint wasn't coming off.

-BANG- IronHide whirled looking for whoever had just shot him. His canons were glowing and he looked ready to shoot something. -BANG- Another direct hit -BANG- Oh it was so hard not to laugh, A single snicker escaped. IronHide was there in heartbeat starring at me. I could hear the low growling coming from deep inside him.

"Uh hi 'Hide"

0.0 -BANG- Hahaha! Between the eyes, perfect shot!

"ARG!" Okay now would be a good time to run, good thing I'm small enough to easily move through the vents.

xxTashaxx

2 hours later…

It was over. Three hours of hiding, searching, running and shooting. Everyone was standing in front of me including four very irritated and amused Autobots.

"So let's get this over with shall we?"

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"Okay, Bee, could you please step forward and turn slowly." He obliged.

"Hmm, OK, -snort- Thanks Bee. Alright Optimus would you please step forward?"

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"OK the points stand thus, Amber has 23 points, Alex has 29 points," but he should get more since he was braveyoumean dumb enough to paintball Ratchet.

"David has a whopping 45 points and I have 25."

"YES!!! I WIN!!! NINJANESS WINS!!!!"

"You know Tasha we are never going to live this down."

"I know."

I would like to thank my beta CheshireMax You get a cookie and Flamingmarsh for reviewing You also get a cookie. I should have the next chap up by tomorrow or the day after