Author's note: I haven't updated this in a while! I'm planning to make this one of my longer fics, honest I just got busy with DBTB (Now finished) a few One-shots and DOTU (I'm actually really proud of that one if you have nothing to read R/R that, it could use the love.) So I'm finally back to MegaOP goodness yay!

Warning: Friendship and Mech love. Gamers start your consoles!
Disclaimer: Hasbro executives hang their heads in perverted shame reading my stuff ^^

Decadence

New High Score

It was 9:00 when Optimus woke up. He groaned as he got up, apparently he and Megatron had a bit too much fun the night before, he was stiff and sore all over, but at least well rested. Suddenly he realized that he'd slept in and became hotly embarrassed as he realized that the Elite Guard must still be there. He probably didn't look much like a leader sleeping in so late. Before Optimus headed out of his room he stretched to find where he ached the most so he could determine what he should and shouldn't do today. Walking was apparently one of them.

He stretched a couple of times wincing as he did, but the movement also made the pain dull out, and just as he was ready to head out, the door to his room opened and Ratchet was there.

"Oh, wake now are you?" the old medic grumbled.

Optimus yawned, "S-sorry, didn't recharge until very late…" he stretched out his arms again, "And not very well after that…" he added trying to make his sleeping in sound justified.

"Sure you didn't, sure you didn't." Ratchet teased, "Try telling that to the Elite Guard next time they visit, a couple of them kept asking me if you were sick."

"They've already left?" Optimus asked, Ratchet nodded. The Prime sighed and took a step forward, he was slightly dizzy, and stumbled a bit, "Well…I am starting to feel a little sick." He said shaking his head, he blamed part of this on Megatron and could just imagine the Decepticon leader chuckling and telling him to get over it. "But I'll be fine in a few minutes."

Ratchet nodded, "Go get some oil, it'll solve your problems, now it's my turn to catch a little stasis nap." To prove his point the medic yawned and stretched himself, "Wake me when the ruckus is over." He asked, nodding towards the rec. room were voices had started to rise.

"Gotcha." Optimus replied and headed that way, however what he saw darn near made him jump out of his armor.

"C'mon, I'm going to make real Autobots outta you one way or another!" Sentinel bellowed in his drill-sergeant tone.

"Alright I give! I give! Prowl can watch his stupid nature program!" Bumblebee whimpered under Sentinel's foot as Sari giggled at him.

"You think this is about the nature program!?" the blue Prime glowered down at him, "Oh no, this is a lesson in respecting your superior officers."

Ratchet opened the door behind Optimus, 'Oh yeah, kid, one more thing…"

"I thought you said the Elite Guard left," Optimus asked aloud. "Why is Sentinel here?"

Upon the sound of his name Sentinel looked up with a glower and yanked Bumblebee up off the floor hitting him lightly on the head, "Now look what you did! You woke Optimus up!" he scolded, pulling the little yellow bot into a head lock and rubbing his knuckles painfully into Bumblebee's helm, "And I bet you were the reason he was up all night, weren't ya? Weren't ya!?" Bumblebee only yelped while Bulk-Head looked away shamefully.

Optimus was about to protest, he hadn't been there the entire night so he wasn't exactly sure what his excuse for not recharging would be, but Ratchet piped up with a yawn, "I know they were the reason I was up all night." Prowl nodded in agreement.

Optimus decided that perhaps this was a lie he could get away with and gave a nod as well. "Y-yeah."

Sentinel continued to hold Bumblebee angrily and stared at Optimus, "Well ol' buddy I had planned to catch up on some lost time, but these boys," He said pointing to the younger Autobots, "are in serious need of disciplinary action."

"You have no idea." Optimus agreed, "But nothing ever seems to stick with them."

Sentinel rolled his optics, "Whaddya say Optimus, how 'bout I take them off your hands for the rest of the day, I promise I'll have them back before dark, and I'll make sure they understand what's outta line and what isn't."

"Well…" Optimus looked at his men, they were a bunch of undisciplined glitches, perhaps Sentinel could turn them around and maybe one day they could make it back into the Elite Guard. "Aw what the slag, go ahead." He shrugged.

"Boss-bot!" Bumblebee protested. Sari and Ratchet laughed.

"Come on." Sentinel ordered, still carrying the yellow bot and motioning for Bulk-Head to follow him outside.

"See you later." Prowl teased.

"You too!" The blue Prime snapped.

"What?" The Ninja protested, "What'd I do?"

"It takes two to argue, kid." Ratchet clarified, and turned to Optimus, "You still look pretty tired; you stay here and rest, I'll go with and make sure they don't kill each other. Just rest up, I don't need you actually getting sick." Optimus nodded.

"Put me down." Bumblebee begged and as Sentinel complied opened his big mouth once again, "So what, we do a couple laps around the city? We'll be back before the Zombie Marathon on the Sci-Fi channel starts, right?"

"A few laps!?" Sentinel repeated, "Oh no, you are not getting off that easily, we're crossing state-lines!"

"Wahoo!" Sari cried inviting herself along, "Road Trip!"

They must have left the city before Optimus realized he had been left alone in the base. He didn't think it could ever be so quite. It was rather nice. He sat down and started flipping channels hoping to find some movie or show that he could watch for a while, but apparently there was nothing on until the Zombie Marathon that Bumblebee wanted to watch.

I'm so bored.

Optimus sighed and turned the TV off. The Prime stood and looked for something else to do. Perhaps he should have forgotten about Ratchet's advice to stay behind, it wasn't like they were doing anything too drastic he should have gone with the group. Optimus wandered the base, bored out of his mind. He couldn't remember ever being so bored in his life. That's when it occurred to him that maybe his boredom wasn't all his.

He stepped outside and focused on Megatron's frequency, "Hey." The Decepticon leader answered, "What's up?"

"Just wondering if you were doing anything." Optimus replied. What's up? The young Autobot smiled to himself, was he teaching Megatron, or was he teaching him? Megatron might have snapped at him if he had tried small conversation with him before they had bonded.

"No, aside from Blitzwing bolting Starscream to the ceiling there's nothing happening. You?"

"Nope." Optimus answered. "Megatron, you can find me through our link right?"

"Of course. Is there a problem?"

"I'm bored, and no one's going to be at the base until later tonight." He told his lover, "If you won't lead your warriors here later you're welcome to drop by."

There was silence on the other end as Megatron contemplated the offer, "Didn't get enough last night? He teased at last.

Optimus laughed, "That wasn't what I meant." He said, "I want to just hang out, we could both use the company."

"'Hang out'?" Megatron repeated.

"That's right, 'hang out'." Optimus sighed, "Look, just come over and we'll watch a movie or something."

"In broad daylight?" Megatron asked, "What if someone sees me?"

"I told you, no one's going to be here for a while, and the humans probably don't understand the difference between Autobots and Decepticons quite yet, I think if you land on the roof no one will notice or care."

The reply was a while in coming, "I'll be there shortly."

Optimus smiled brightly, "I'll be waiting!"

Then the link was cut. Optimus stood outside the base for a little while. Suddenly the security popped into his mind and he figured he'd better set the cameras so that Megatron would not get caught. After fixing that, he went over to the movies, trying to pick out a couple that Megatron might be interested in watching and noticed that either Bumblebee was learning to make life easier for others or Sentinel had alphabetized them himself. He picked a couple and moved on to the CDs, thinking music would be fun as well. Lastly video games, Optimus wasn't exactly fond of them himself, but he thought if Megatron wanted to try them he should find something that wasn't too obnoxious.

Once that was all done it was just a matter of waiting for Megatron. It was half an hour before the Decepticon arrived, "Sorry." He said, "Starscream was following me, I think he wanted to fight."

"I thought he was bolted the ceiling?" Optimus questioned, now worried that perhaps they'd be caught.

Megatron laughed, "I had Lugnut get him down… Something I blame your soft personality for." He answered, "And of course I made sure that Starscream will have to think twice before he tries to follow me again, and for now he'll be lucky if he can get himself in working condition before the week is out." Megatron kissed Optimus reassuringly. "So what did you have in mind?" he asked.

The Prime led him inside after making him swear on their bond he wouldn't tell the other Decepticons the location of their base, which Megatron did. The Decepticon took a look at the CDs first, carefully popping them in one after another trying to decide if any of it was something he cared about. Optimus was relieved that Megatron tossed away the rap music, he couldn't stand the noise himself, but was rather surprised when Megatron approved of Prowl's Classical Orchestra.

"Excuse me if I prefer music over noise." The bigger mech said.

"Oh no, I'm glad you like it, I just didn't take you as the time to like something so…" Optimus paused and listened to the music carefully to find the right word. "Gentle."

Megatron nodded, "True, this is still a little tame for my taste, but its better then some of the other things I've heard, both here on Earth and across the universe." He told him, and put the last CD in checking it for its worth, and smirked, "Professor Sumdac has a terrible taste in music, Usually I can ignore music I don't particularly care for, but when you don't have servos to turn off your audio sensors there's only so much of that stuff you can stand listening to. Ah! This is more like it." he announced discovering band featuring a female singer that appeared to be mixing classical orchestra and heavy metal, that was on a mixed CD burned by Sari.

Optimus brought him the movies he thought sounded interesting and after a few minutes they agreed on one, Megatron turned off the music and they put the movie on. Being much larger then any of the Autobots (With the exception of perhaps Bulk-Head) Megatron took up most of the couch when he sat down. Optimus didn't mind, sitting in the Decepticon's lap snuggling into his chassis was rather comfortable as they tried to follow the plot of the movie until the end credits.

"Wow..." Megatron said dispassionately.

"Yeah…" Optimus agreed looking back at Megatron, "I wish I could get those two hours back."

The Decepticon nodded, "The plot had potential, but really could that have sucked worse?"

Sighing the Prime asked "You wanna try for another one or play a video game?"

"Dunno, I think I've lost my faith in human filmmaking for today. What's a video game?" Megatron replied.

Optimus showed him and after explaining the difference between movies and video games they started one of Bumblebee's favorite fighting/role-playing games. They designed characters and played a couple practice rounds to get used to the controls; Megatron appeared to be enjoying himself; that made Optimus smile. Megatron paused the game suddenly and went back to the stereo and put the music back on. Confident in their skills now, they started on the story mode. Optimus discovered without Bumblebee, Bulk-Head, and Sari shouting at each other over them and Prowl demanding they turn it down, the video games weren't as bad as he'd originally thought.

"Look out!" he shouted, as one of the monsters appeared behind Megatron's character.

"Got it!" The tyrant replied, hacking the creature to the ground, and came to help Optimus' character as monsters encircled him.

Optimus laughed as they finished the round and they got their bonuses, "Level up" the game announced.

"What does that mean?" Megatron asked.

"It means your character is stronger now. Oh! We'd better save here." He answered and moved his avatar into a beam of light, and entered the save menu.

"Oh."

Time passed quickly, they had just beaten a boss when Megatron stretched. They entered a new tournament, one that had them fight monsters one-on-one, it was Megatron's turn and as he was fighting, Optimus smiled, "Would you like a can of oil?" he asked.

"Mmm-Hmmm." Megatron replied. It sounded like a yes so Optimus got up to fetch them some. He just happened to look out the window when he noticed the time. From the game room Megatron shouted, "Optimus, what does 'New High Score' mean?"

Optimus rushed back in. "Save the game and drink your oil, the others could be back any minute." Megatron stared at him, not sure what he meant for a moment, but he took the oil and put it to his lips as he opened the save menu again.

"Uh, hey Optimus?" The Prime jumped, and put a hand to his com-link, accidentally hitting speaker meaning Megatron could hear it too, which meant that if the Decepticon said anything he would be heard on the other end.

"Sentinel?" Optimus asked, Megatron darn near choked on his oil, and turned off their game ready to bolt if he needed to.

"Good you're awake. Listen, uh, you remember how I said I'd bring your boys back before dark, well… Um…"

From Sentinel's side of the link Optimus heard Sari suddenly shout, "Bumblebee stop squirming, you'll only make us sink faster!"

"Yeah… I might not be able to do that…" Sentinel said nervously.

Megatron overheard and though he tried to stifle his laughter, a definite "Hhnnnrrrk" could be heard on his end of the link. Fortunately Sentinel didn't recognize the voice as anyone other than Optimus, "Hey! Are you laughing at me?" He snapped, "I'll have you know that me and the clumsy one are the only bot's NOT in the sink hole!"

Optimus paused a moment to wonder where Sentinel had taken them that they were stuck in a sink hole, and how they had gotten there, "Which clumsy one?" he asked, and smiled hearing a unanimous 'I heard that!' from the other side " Do you need help? I'll come give you a serv-"

"No, no, it'll take you longer to get here then it'll me to get them out." Sentinel assured him, then there was a shout from his side, "Augh… there went Bulk-Head,"

"So you won't be back tonight?" Optimus asked, "When do you think you'll make it?"

"Well, I can't make any promises, but keeping your guys' ability to attract trouble in mind, I'd say anywhere between high noon tomorrow and this time next week." His old friend answered sheepishly

"Call me again when you're back in the state." Optimus sighed.

"Got it." Sentinel replied.

"Hey!" Ratchet snapped "Would you stop chit-chat'in and get us a rope already!?!"

"Calm down I'm coming! Call you later!" Sentinel said and cut the link.

Optimus waited a moment; arms snaked around his waist and pulled him close, his lover's lips were at his neck, curved into a smirk. "Sooo…" Optimus turned around and Megatron kissed him, "Mind if I stay the night?"

Optimus couldn't say no to that idea.

Author's note: Just wanted to have a nice fun little chapter, hope you liked and I will be continuing this fic, just remember to review to ensure that.

Editor's Note: Good news, I don't have to go to surgery, but my hand is still rather sore so if there any mistakes I missed, just let us know.