Chapter 4: Fang Trouble
The next day, Makeshift woke up to find the house silent. He peered in his brother's room to see no one there. He ended up checking all the rooms but found nothing. As he headed into the kitchen, he thought he heard a fight outside in the back. He ran out there to see Bee and Barricade having a friendly sparring match. Barricade had Bee in a headlock and Bee was desperately trying to get out. He kicked Barricade in one of his legs to no avail.
"Give up?" Barricade laughed.
"No, you may be tougher but I will last more than 15 minutes this time." Bee said as he kept on kicking Barricade's legs.
Barricade took his free hand slowly clawed Bee in the stomach. Bee winced in pain, but he was having fun! With all his strength he flipped them onto the ground igniting a wrestling match. However, it ended quickly as Barricade pinned Bee down. Bee groaned in defeat.
"Just like old times!" Barricade laughed and both sat up.
"Yeah, you were always the better one!" Bee said a little dissapointed.
"Don't sweat it Bee, next time I'll go easy on you!" Barricade said patting his back.
Bee couldn't help but hug Barricade which Barricade returned. Makeshift smiled. Just then Optimus peered over the fence. He lived right beside Bee and the other two.
"Hey guys, have you seen Shockwave?" Optimus asked jumping the fence.
"No, why, what's wrong?" Makeshift asked.
"Well, yesterday at he party, Shockwave mysteriously left about an hour before it was over. Nobody knows why!" Optimus said worried.
"Who was the last person he was with?" Barricade asked.
"I think it was Moonstriker!" Optimus said.
"Well, let's see if he's home!" Bee said.
Shockwave was sitting on a hill. A hill that was behind his house. He was looking on at the view of the town. Yes, the hill was that big. He heard the sounds of multiple vehicles coming his way. Bee was the first to transform and go to him.
"Shockwave there you are, what happened that you had to leave early?" Bee asked sitting next to Shockwave.
"Do you remember that time when another one of my friends had huge fangs and he accidently bit my arm?" Shockwave asked shaking a bit.
"Yeah?" Bee said nodding.
"Well, that kinda got me afraid of big fangs. It haunts me now!" Shockwave said.
"Okay? But Megatron has fangs!" Bee said.
"Yeah, but not as big as Moonstriker's fangs!" Shockwave said grabbing his antenna's in fear.
"What does this have to do with why you are scared?" Bee said.
"Well, yesterday, I was sitting at a table with Moonstriker, Dreadwing and Knock Out and well...while we were eating he happened to stick out these very huge fangs from his mouth. I was already scared of him since I met him and seeing those fangs just made me loose it. So, later on I left because I was just too afraid to see him." Shockwave said now embarrased and ashamed.
Bee felt sorry for him. He patted his back.
"It's okay to be scared. But at least tell us before you leave to go somewhere else. But not even we knew he had fangs. That's pretty cool. But I had nearly forgotton about your fear of fangs." Bee said.
"I bet he noticed and now he probably thinks I'm a bad friend!" Shockwave said covering his face in his hands.
"I'm sure he understands! But, don't you think he has a right to have them out?" Bee said.
"Of course, they're his fangs. Oh, I should apolagize!" Shockwave said.
"If you want, let's go!" Bee said.
Fortunately, Moonstriker hadn't noticed Shockwave's fear of him at all. He was at home playing a few video games when he recieved a knock at his door. When he opened it he smiled.
"Hey guys what's up?" Moonstriker asked.
"Uh, well...I need to apolagize to you."Shockwave said stepping forward a bit.
"Apolagize? For what?" Moonstriker asked confused.
"I saw you yesterday at the party with some very huge fangs coming from your mouth." Shockwave started. "I was already afraid of you because of how scary you looked and the fangs made it worse."
Moonstriker's confused look turned back into a happy one.
"Dude, no need to be sorry, I never told you guys before. All monster mechs have large fangs like these!" Moonstriker's fangs pop out reaching nearly to his chin. "Just something we were born with. You could say we are kinda like cybertronian vampires but we're not." he finished explaining.
"Dude that is awesome!" Barricade said.
"Why don't you just keep them out?" Makeshift asked.
"I don't know, I just never did!" Moonstriker said.
"Well, you could try!" Optimus said.
"I might!" Moonstriker said smiling making the fangs bend to shape the smile.
"Still afraid Shockwave?" Bee asked.
"No, not now!" Shockwave said wishing he could smile.
"You know I was planning a little prank on Cliff for not being able to come over to the party." Optimus said.
"What prank?" Makeshift asked.
"Using Moonstriker's fangs to scare him silly!" Optimus said.
"Then he will end up like Shockwave was!" Barricade said.
"Yeah, nice try Optimus!" Cliff said racing past them in vehicle form while laughing.
"Scrap!" Optimus face-palmed.
To be continued...