The Joy of Toggling

Over at the Decepticon base, Frenzy was watching Dr. Ratchet while the others were looking at the Scorponok.

"So he was shot in the head,"said Dr. Ratchet.

"Right," answered Frenzy.

"And you gave him jumper cables for a laser hole in the head."

"Exactly."

"Yeah, I think that's a perfectly acceptable treatment."

"That's what I said."

"Oh yeah, people often overlook to alternative methods of care. Like that Autobot that was shot in the foot during the battle? All I did was rub his neck with some Anti-Freeze. He was fine."

"Yeah, I don't know about all that. I'm just glad that Megatron is wrong."

"Frenzy! Your supposed to be guarding the prisoner," Megatron yelled, "Not playing lookie-loo with him all day long!"

"Come on Megatron, he doesn't even have a gun."

"Oh, well you two will be great friends then," Starscream said sarcastically, "He doesn't have a gun, and you didn't bring any cells!"

"Hey thanks, kiss-ass. If I want to take guarding tips from the guy that lost our last prisoner, I'll be sure to ask you."

"Oh man, that is a rust," commented Rumble, "Dude, you just got rusted. Rusted, dude, rusted."

"Oh shut up, your armor's pink," retorted Starscream.

"Uh, hey, guys? I, I just want everybody to know that Frenzy and I aren't, uh, technically friends. We're just talking. That's it," Dr. Ratchet explained then turned to Frenzy, "Sorry man, but it's pretty obvious that you're really unpopular, and if I'm going to make any progress around here at all I can't really be directly associated with you. I'm sure you understand."

Frenzy just stared at him in disgust.

"It's only because no one likes you. Stop staring at me."

Over at the Autobot base, Jazz was wondering about something and asked his leader.

"Hey Optimus - if your body is the Decepticon's mechanic, and mechanics usually fix stuff, can't you just activate your repair sequence and fix Joan?"

"Huh... Well, yeah it's worth a shot, I guess. Alright, stand back."

Optimus was trying to activate some mechanism in Soundwave's body but nothing was working.

"Anything?" asked Jazz.

"Yeah, it's not as easy as you'd think it would be."

"Maybe there's a button on you somewhere."

"See what you can find. I'll keep trying from in here... Hurhoor... Oh! Hey!"

"Found it?"

"Nah, no wait. All I found was the time and temperature function. It is currently twenty-six degrees, by the way."

"What? It's not twenty-six degrees out here, that's freezing.

"Celsius, Jazz."

"Oh come on dude, Celsius sucks."

Jazz knelt down in front of Optimus, "Hey, I found something."

"Oh yeah? You found a button?"

"No dude, it's more like a…switch."

"Well, give it a flip."

"I don't want to flip it."

"What's the problem?"

"It's in a weird place."

"Oh you've got to be kidding me."

"You flip it."

"These arms aren't that flexible, I can't even reach down there."

"What about Bumblebee?"

"Man, he's so stupid, I don't even know if he knows how to operate a switch."

"Oh man…"

"Jazz, Jazz, come on. We'll laugh about it later. I'll buy you dinner."

Jazz got down again on his knees and tries to flip the switch on Soundwave's body.

"It won't move, it's stuck."

"Did you try wiggling it?"

"No way, I'm not wiggling your dongle."

"Oh, stop being a baby. Just wiggle it."

As Jazz went back down, Optimus decided to mess around with his teammate.

"…So, you come from around here baby?" he joked.

"Okay look, if you want me to do this, you can't talk like that," yelled Jazz.

"Alright alright alright alright, I'm sorry, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding."

"I wish R-C was here, she wouldn't have any problem flipping it."

"You obviously did not know R-C that well."

Jazz was able to get the switch flipped and then a beeping noise came on.

"There! Anything?" he asked.

"Nope. Nothing. That's kind of weird," Optimus thought, "Do you hear something beeping?"

Back at the Decepticon side, Megatron was thinking about what to do with the medic.

"Are there any ideas on what to do with the prisoner?" he asked Starscream and Rumble.

Unbeknownst to any of them, the beeping started up in there vicinity.

"Well, we have to get him away from Frenzy, because ...yeah, you know, it's kind of cruel and unusual to have to talk to him," said Starscream.

"How bout we um, let him trade armor color with uh, one of us?" suggested Rumble, "That would show him."

Just then, the headlight 'eyes' of the Scorponok turned on and the pincers moved around.

"Scorponok online," the vehicle said, "Homing beacon activated."

"Megatron…D, did the car just talk?" Rumble asked.

"Uh oh…" said Megatron.