AN: Any of you who have read Kanto Transformed will remember Shockwave mentioning that stunt back on Cybertron. Well what that stunt is and why he doesn't like Skywarp much is in this chapter!
"Why do the teachers always seem to set us lots and lots of work?" Skywarp sounded like he had more work than the others but they all had the same; he'd just left it until the last minute.
"Because if they didn't then they wouldn't be teachers." Sideswipe seemed slightly happier.
"Do you guys want to break the boredom that we all seem to be suffering?" Rumble sounded sick of doing work.
"How we gonna do that?" Frenzy seemed confused.
"I think we should prank everybody in the year!" Rumble seemed too confident about the idea.
"Not Elita, Firestar or Chromia. We want to be able to get girlfriends and they are the prettiest…"
"Sunstreaker quit dreaming, they're all gaga about Starscream." They had heard he had been called that, but they had no clue why.
"We still shouldn't get them… But we will have to get the rest of the year!" Frenzy seemed to like this idea more now.
"How are we gonna prank Starscream; you can't fool him into a prank."
"We'll work something out, Skywarp. But for now let's get the others, that's three each." The others now seemed to agree with Rumble; that was doable.
"Let's do this thing!" Sideswipe shouted and then the others went off to find some stuff to help with the pranks.
"I told you two that those two are definitely in their rooms. Why don't you believe me?" Rumble didn't understand why they were so sceptical.
"You're a prankster. You don't trust or believe them." Sideswipe had had a few tricks played on him and most of them were caused by him being gullible.
"Did you remember the string Sunstreaker? This trick ain't going to be any good without it."
"Of course I did. Are you sure both of the doors open inwards?"
"Yeah. Well that's what Rumble said."
"Would I lie? Wait on second thoughts, don't answer that!" Sideswipe and Sunstreaker tied one end of the string to one of the door handles and the other end got tied to the door across from it.
"Now how to get them to come to the door…"
"We could do the obvious thing and just try knocking on the door and they'd come answer it, just in case it was Valium. Use your processor Sideswipe." Sunstreaker went to knock on one door, and Sideswipe couldn't think of any better ideas so he went off towards the other.
"Ready?"
"On the count of three." Sideswipe suggested.
"One."
"Two."
"Three!" Sideswipe waited until after speaking to knock on the door. His twin did the same.
"What is it?"
"Thundercracker, I think Valium wanted to speak with you." Thundercracker seemed confused; he'd not been in trouble. Meanwhile across the hall Sideswipe was having a similar conversation with Soundwave. Both of them thought the same thing. I'd better go and see what the problem is. This was the whole point of the trick though. Both of them decided this at about the same time so neither of them would be able to open the door without a struggle. The Twins outside the doors could hear movement. A few seconds later the rope went taught; the sign they had been waiting for.
"We'd better not be here when they find out this was a trick."
"Come on bro, let's go hide." Sideswipe began to move away to find somewhere nearby to hide; if you're going to prank someone, you need to see their reaction.
"Whoever is pulling on the other side of this door better give up right now. That's so immature." Thundercracker seemed more annoyed than Soundwave. The twins seemed amused by the fact that neither of them could work out why the door wouldn't open. Something had to give. The something was going to be the door handles, both came off on the sides where the two robots were feverishly pulling to try and get the doors to open. This left both robots sitting on their backsides about a metre back from the door.
"Uh oh." Thundercracker then saw what had happened and realised he was going to be in so much trouble. Soundwave had a similar thought. Thundercracker then realised he could open the door. He thought that Rumble would be on the other side of it and be sniggering about the trouble he'd caused. Whoever has done this is going to be… huh? Thundercracker saw that there was only a bit of string connected to the other handle which was on the floor outside the doors. Attached to the other end of the string was another handle. It belonged in the other door. Soundwave then opened the door and worked out what had happened.
"Someone tied that string to the door handles so we would end up having a tug of war."
"It had to have been Rumble; he's the only one who would do that, I don't think Skywarp would…"
"We'd better get out here before they spot us." Sideswipe and Sunstreaker seemed satisfied and walked out the dorm room door.
Meanwhile…
I hope this is actually Wheeljack's room. I don't want to get Frenzy… Rumble had somehow managed to carry something around school without being noticed. How he didn't know. He placed the bag in the middle of Wheeljack's room and then pushed something on the side of one of the black orbs in the bag. I've got five minutes to get clear of the room so I don't end up covered in this… Rumble then walked off to find somewhere to hide.
Two minutes later…
Why did they just mention this to us now? I could have had this homework done… Wheeljack seemed annoyed with Ratchet; he'd forgotten to mention the science homework for Valium, due in two days' time. Wheeljack wasn't going to be doing much work however. Just after he'd gotten settled, the devices in the bag exploded, filling the room with black smoke.
"Who put smoke bombs in here?" Wheeljack sounded annoyed.
"Whoever it was needs to find a new trick. These are getting old!" Rumble couldn't help sniggering. That smoke also was going to cause more trouble, smoke rises and it was floating up towards…
CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! CHEEP! Everyone heard the smoke alarms and came to see what the problem was. They somehow found it funny where the smoke was coming from.
"What did you blow up this time?" Shockwave seemed amused. Wheeljack wandered out to see the others, he wasn't impressed.
"Which of you put smoke bombs in my room?" The others were trying not to snigger; he was also covered in sooty black marks from the smoke.
"We don't know, but if I'd done it I wouldn't be sticking around." One of the green and purple mechs in second year answered, Wheeljack thought that one was called Hook, but he did get some of them mixed up.
"I'm going to find out who done this and then they're going to get it." Wheeljack then noticed that the smoke bombs had run out of smoke to put out so he then put the bag with them in, in a bin.
Rumble then chose to sneak quietly out the door. Wheeljack ain't gonna find out it was me. My bro will make sure of that!
A little while later…
Why did Sunstreaker and Sideswipe have to do the door trick? Now everyone doesn't trust people knocking on the door. Skywarp was complaining. His trick needed a door but he wasn't going to be able to do it unless the person wasn't in his room. He knew his target had friends in the other group and he was probably trying to do Valium's homework in Ratchet's room; Wheeljack's was covered in soot. Skywarp checked that the bucket wasn't going to accidently be knocked down and then a thought occurred to him. Due to the way that these doors opened, he couldn't get out without dislodging the bucket, and that would cause problems. He found somewhere to hide and then hoped that his target wouldn't take too long.
Ten minutes later…
Why did he have to take so long? I'm bored! Then Skywarp heard voices and one sounded like his target. That voice was getting louder. Then he heard the door start to move and the bucket twitched a little. Skywarp grinned; this was going to be good. The door then moved back and the bucket fell from the door straight onto the head of the target. He heard a squeak shortly afterwards then remembered that puke green paint didn't exactly look cool. Also they had used that paint in art recently and the people who had tried to finger paint complained that it felt really slimy. His target then removed the bucket and Skywarp had to bite his tongue so he wouldn't end up giggling, most of it was still running down the target and he looked funny. He then heard another voice that sounded like Ironhide.
"What happened to you Optimus?"
"Some mature person put this…" Optimus pointed to the bucket with a small amount of paint let in it "Above my door and now I'm covered in puke green paint!"
"I'll go with yuh to get it cleaned off, come on."
"I can't! Everyone will see! It'll be mortifying!"
"Stop worrying. Everyone is busy doing Valium's homework." Ironhide was hoping he was right. His friend seemed to believe him. Optimus began to quietly move towards the dorm door, as if that would make it any less obvious. Skywarp had however thought ahead and most of the robots in second and third year had come to see what he was telling them about. It didn't seem like Optimus was going to be allowed to forget this, at least not for a while.
Meanwhile…
I'm glad that the bucket was kept in my locker. I don't know my bro's code but I do know Jazz's and he is going to be really annoyed when he realises that! Frenzy still had the bucket from their last prank and he was glad this one was smaller than the one Skywarp had; Jazz put way too much stuff in his locker. Good, Jazz is going to get a shock!
Jazz didn't suspect anything he did however seem to realise that his locker seemed fuller than it should have been. Jazz twisted the numbers around to the code. No one would think that I would use the basic code on any lock… 0000. When the door opened, the bucket fell forward and covered Jazz in slime. He shrieked and then ran off looking for somewhere to hide; Optimus had been caught covered in a similar substance and he wasn't going to be laughed at by the older years.
He screams like a femme! I wonder if Starscream got named that for a similar reason…
Later on…
"You lot should all be thinking about going to sleep now." Flameburst got the feeling that most of them were going to ignore his advice. When they are tired in the morning they can't blame me…
"Now seems like a good time to set this prank up."
"Too right bro. Everyone else will be going to sleep." Sunstreaker seemed amused. He is going to be so annoyed when he realises! Sunstreaker wondered why Sideswipe wasn't moving yet.
"Come on! We don't have forever!" Sunstreaker had to go to Iron dorm and Sideswipe had agreed to help Rumble with one of his tricks.
Iron dorm…
"Your bro must be helping me."
"I've got a couple of other things to do…" Sunstreaker walked past Rumble who seemed annoyed at being made to wait. I'm glad I though ahead to hide that stuff in Bumblebee's room. I don't think I could have run here carrying it! Sunstreaker was going to set this trick up first. Luckily it seemed that his first target was sleeping. He is going to hate me if he finds out I did this! Sunstreaker collected the barrel from the place that he had hidden it and then poured the substance in it over his target. I only hope he'll see the funny side too… My other target definitely won't! Now where to hide this barrel… Sunstreaker seemed to decide that the best place to hide the barrel was where it was in the first place. He then wandered off to find his second target's room.
"Who else were you supposed to get Sunstreaker?" Sunstreaker thought Rumble would help him find the room faster so he asked him.
"Which one of these rooms belongs to Megatron?" Rumble pointed at one of the doors and Sunstreaker then pondered why he thought he heard voices coming from inside. Luckily it turned out he was hearing things. I just hope he doesn't wake up while I'm doing this… Sunstreaker had to attach a collar like device around Megatron's neck. It's what the device would do that was going to annoy him. Sunstreaker was lucky, he didn't wake up Megatron but that collar was easy to notice. I wonder if my brother has bothered to come down here yet… Sunstreaker seemed amused when he wandered back outside.
"Couldn't think of a less discrete way to get caught?"
"Ha. Ha. You try carrying a femme without dropping her. This was the easiest way."
"You sure you didn't do that because you won't get a femme yourself so you'll carry sleeping ones."
"You two shut up! Anyway Ravage is going to have a nasty surprise when he wakes up tomorrow morning."
"Why is that?"
"He's in our group, you'll find out then. I'm going back in case Kup wakes up." Sideswipe walked out the door closely followed by Sunstreaker who had also realised that there was now no reason for him to hang around. This left Rumble to try and carry Moonracer to someone's room; he had a rather cruel trick planned for her…
Meanwhile…
The other guys had the better idea. I could have waited in my room; this hiding place isn't exactly comfortable… Skywarp had decided that it would be easier to hide inside the room than trying to sneak in later on. Shockwave is going to hate me for this… Shockwave had confided in Skywarp about who he had a crush on; and he should have probably known better! Now I'll just have to get him to tell the world! Skywarp had also thought to bring a tin of paint stripper with him. This will only draw more attention to it. I'd better get to work…
A few minutes later…
There! Now I'll just have to get out of here before someone catches me…
"Sk-Sk-Skywarp…" He jumped when he heard Shockwave speak. He then realised why.
Shockwave talks in his sleep! I didn't think we could do that! I wonder if anyone else does… Skywarp now had a new idea but he decided it would be a bad idea to hang around any longer so he quickly shuffled out the door.
Cobalt dorm…
I hope he doesn't wake up… He is known to get mad very quickly over nothing… I don't want to be shouted at! Frenzy seemed worried and he had good right to be; he decided to cover the most mechly of all of them in pink glitter glue. Now that's done I can finally get some sleep. I wonder where Skywarp is; he was supposed to be setting up a prank too…
The next morning, Nickel dorm…
"Could you sleep much last night?"
"Not really Sunstreaker, too busy hoping that our pranks don't backfire." These two Twins wandered off to Ravage's door, to see if he'd discovered the prank that Sideswipe set up…
"Yuck! What is that?" Ravage pulled his hand back from the door; it was covered in stuff that felt sticky. How am I going to open this door if I can't pull the handle? Toughen up Ravage! It's not like the door is going to eat you… Ravage put his hand back on the handle and then ended up pulling back and crying out again. He then pondered why he heard laughing coming from the other side of the door.
"If you think it's so funny, you come and open the door. Someone's covered this side of the handle with something sticky and horrible.
"It's honey Ravage, it's supposed to be sticky." Ravage heard Sideswipe answer with what it was then shouted angrily.
"I should have known you'd have something to do with this! I'll get you for it you know!"
Meanwhile, in Cobalt dorm…
I wonder if someone has pointed the 'tattoo' out to Shockwave yet… Skywarp hoped that he could point it out; it could be funnier that way then everyone would notice. Skywarp did notice something else and ended up giggling about it.
"What's so funny Skywarp?"
"You're supposed to be the toughest mech in our year and by the way I love the new paint job!" Skywarp then realised that the mech didn't know that he'd got a new paint job.
"What do you mean?"
"Well you're coloured pink and it's sparkly."
"Anything you're not telling us Ironhide?" Frenzy commented. Ironhide hoped this was a bad dream or they were just winding him up. However a mirror on one of the walls told him they weren't.
"I hope this is a dream…"
"If it was then you'd also have a tiara on." Frenzy seemed more amused by that image.
"When I find out which one of you two did this…" Ironhide stormed past them and head off towards the showers quickly; hoping that the third years wouldn't be up yet; he'd never hear the end of it if they were.
Iron dorm…
EEEEEEEEEE! Everyone pondered what the screaming was.
Moonracer must have woken up and realised what happened… Rumble seemed amused.
Almost everyone came to see what the fuss was.
"Are we interrupting something?" Bluestreak asked. He was one of the third years.
"Whichever of you guys did this better tell us where the keys are so we can get out of this!" Ratchet sounded annoyed.
"I'm gonna tell Firestar you're after her mech!" Arcee seemed to be enjoying this too much.
"What do you mean by that..?" Ratchet didn't like the sound of that.
"Just give us the keys whoever did this…"
"You didn't seem bothered about kissing Seekers Moonracer."
"You be quiet Blaze! You're not helping."
"I did have the keys…" Rumble then realised they were going to get him back for this. "But then I gave them to my brother. You'll have to go ask him where they are!"
"Can you go for me Wheeljack?"
"Alright Ratchet but you'll owe me…"
"Fine." Ratchet didn't seem to like the idea but it was better than this.
"Someone totally should snap that!"
"What do you think that I did Blaster? This is great stuff for blackmail…" Astrotrain already seemed to be formulating a plan. If someone had wandered in and saw that they would have thought the two of them were cuddling until you noticed that the pair of them had their hands handcuffed together behind the others back. There didn't seem to be any interest in the room now so those that could got up to see what else had been happening.
"Hey Shockwave…"
"What is it Arcee?"
"She likes you too."
"What do you mean?"
"You mean you didn't realise that you had got a tattoo on your arm."
"What does it say?" Shockwave sounded worried.
"It's heart shape with Chromia written inside." Shockwave turned red. How did they know? The only person I've told about my crush is…
"SKYWARP!" Shockwave stormed off looking for Skywarp. Everyone that heard that however came to ask what he was mad about.
"Skywarp wrote the name of Shockwave's crush on his arm using paint stripper."
"And?" Most of the older years vaguely remembered a femme shouting out she had a crush on Shockwave, but they didn't know what she was called.
"If you think I'm going to tell you you've got another thing coming!" Arcee decided to go and see where Bumblebee was; he seemed to be avoiding people this morning. As did another mech but no one was sure why.
"Hey what's the matter?" Arcee couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
"Someone's put sticky stuff all over me! It doesn't feel very nice either! It makes it tricky to move!" Only the first years came in to see what the problem was. Rumble began sniggering and the others wondered why.
"Bumblebee is covered in honey!" Everyone then saw what the joke was however only one person didn't see the funny side.
"You're going to pay for this Rumble!"
"Hey I didn't do it! I saw Sunstreaker come in here yesterday with a barrel of the stuff."
"Then I'll make sure he gets repainted in that puke green paint that Optimus got covered in yesterday." Bumblebee wandered off to get cleaned up. The other first years decided to go and bother the mech who hadn't come to join them yet.
"Hey Megatron! You gonna come out?" Jazz asked.
"I'm trying to sleep!" Megatron then heard giggling coming from outside. He covered his mouth; his voice was high pitched and squeaky, like if you inhale helium.
"If you come out we might be able to help you." Rumble knew that would probably make him move. He must have that collar on Sunstreaker brought with him. That's what it does! The door reluctantly opened because the robot behind it was not sure whether or not seeking help was a good thing.
"You guys better help me. I don't want my voice stuck like this!" The others still thought the voice sounded funny though.
"The only thing that's different is that funny collar. It must be tweaking your voice." Jazz seemed to be the only one to notice the collar.
"So if I remove this…" Megatron paused to remove the collar "My voice should go back to normal." He realised after speaking that it clearly was the collar.
"Someone should hang onto this! It could be fun making people's voices all squeaky." Arcee seemed to think it was a good idea.
"I'll keep it in my locker then. If it's in my room, I'll get in trouble." Megatron wandered off towards the lockers.
Break time…
I'm not sure Skyfire is as gullible as everyone claims…
"Hey Skyfire!"
"What is it Sideswipe?"
"I think I found something cool over here! Come have a look."
"Where is your brother?" Skyfire was suspicious.
"He's busy and you're the only other person around…"
"Alright fine. Let's go." Skyfire reluctantly followed Sideswipe. The pair of them ended up walking towards the trees. Sideswipe spotted the rope noose on the ground and carefully stepped over it. Skyfire however pondered why Sideswipe had stopped. He had placed one of his feet inside the noose.
"Why did you stop Sideswipe?" Skyfire seemed confused when Sideswipe didn't answer. He then felt a tugging on his leg and he ended up being strung upside down from the tree.
"HEY! LET ME DOWN NOW!"
"Temper, Skyfire." Sideswipe sniggered; Seekers did look funny upside down. Skyfire then spotted Sunstreaker and Rumble hiding in the bushes with the rope in their hands. They then motioned tying it around the tree.
"NO!" Skyfire knew that he would be stuck there for a while. Rumble and Sunstreaker however tied it round the tree.
"Don't worry Skyfire, we'll tell your pal Starscream you're stuck up a tree." Rumble sounded amused.
"And we'll see what he makes of that!" Skyfire failed to see the funny side. Sideswipe seemed pleased with himself though.
Nickel dorm…
I wonder if Prowl will come back here… I hope not. How come Rumble gets to have all the fun? Frenzy seemed annoyed but then proceeded to hiding Prowl's stuff in other people's rooms. He decided to frame the other Twins; they were going to get into enough trouble anyway. Frenzy then seemed scared; he heard Prowl's voice! He went and hid in one of the empty rooms. It didn't take Prowl long to realise what had happened.
"Come on you guys! It's not funny to hide my things!" Prowl spotted a note telling him that Sideswipe and Sunstreaker had hidden it in their rooms. Prowl first went into Sideswipe's then Sunstreaker's. It didn't take long to find the things but he'd still got worried, which amused Frenzy hiding in someones room; he wasn't sure whose.
Meanwhile, outside…
I hope the teachers don't see me up here. But this is the best place to hide for dropping water balloons on people's heads! Skywarp had hidden on top of one of the exit ways and was waiting for his target. I hope she falls for this… Here she is.
"Hey Arcee!" Arcee couldn't help wondering where the voice came from.
"What is it?" Skywarp now seemed nervous. I hope no one else hears this.
"I love you!" Arcee seemed shocked and then began to wonder who it was. Skywarp had hoped she'd do that; it made her an easier target. Bombs away! Arcee screamed when she felt about a dozen water balloons land on her. She then got annoyed when she heard someone laughing at her.
"That was a cruel trick! I hope you get caught up there!" Arcee ran off annoyed. Skywarp then climbed down. Only a femme would fall for that!
Lunch break…
"That was great!" Rumble still couldn't believe some of the tricks they'd got away with.
"It sure was but now we've got to get the toughest one in our year to fool…" Frenzy seemed most nervous about this.
"Starscream!" They all said at the same time.
"I've got an idea."
"Do share, Sideswipe."
"Here's what we're going to do." Sideswipe whispered the idea to the others. Starscream wasn't going to know what hit him.
AN: Cliff-hanger! I would have put the prank for Starscream in this chapter but I thought this chapter was really long as it was. Also Ravage is similar to Rumble and Frenzy but he has more features like his actual form in the cartoon.