"RED ALERT!"
Red Alert woke out of a sound recahrge as someone pounded on his door. Grumbling he typed in the code, allowing it to slide open. Prowl stood in the doorway. "I need back up. The twins are fighting."
"Their always fighting." Red Alert moaned, rubbing his optics tiredly.
"Not the usual type of fighting. I've never seen them like this." Prowl said softly. "Even Ratchet has never seen them this angry with each other."
Red Alert sighed, and followed Prowl. Prowl didn't notice Red Alerts distant optics as he walked. His computer was more worried over how the twins were behaving.
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Red Alert could feel the anger across the bond all three shared, and he attempted to sort out all of the different feelings that were spinning wildly across the bond. He could pick up anger, hatred, jealousy, and a little bit of…sorrow? Red Alert tapped in the code to the rec room to find nearly the entire crew hiding as they peeked at Sideswipe and Sunstreaker who stood in the middle of the room, glaring.
Silently he regarded them, and held up a hand as Prowl was about to speak. .:Twins?:.
Two angry pairs of optics switched to Red Alert, who didn't flinch. He could feel the anger- but it wasn't directed to him. It was directed elsewhere. .:What's the matter?:. he questioned, trying to lay ahold of the feelings that rolled down the bond.
Sunstreaker snapped, .:Tell Sideswipe that he can go to the pits! I've had enough of his stupid-:.
At the same time, Sideswipe was also trying to speak. .:Tell Sunstreaker that he's being a glitching moron! I don't-:.
Red Alert sighed, beckoning the two to him. .:We can finish this in my room.:.
Silently the two followed, not looking at each other.
As they left, Ratchet demanded, "How'd he do that? They both threatened to deactivate me-"
Prowl shrugged, and Infernos worried voice asked, "Should we go after them? What if they try to hurt Red?"
Prowl turned and began to stalk out of the room. Jazz hurried up to him, asking, "What are ya going to do Prowler?"
"Nothing."
"WHAT?" Infernos outraged voice clearly told Prowl that he didn't think that was a good idea. Prowl turned coldly to Inferno.
"The twins do not dare actually killing him. Nor will they dare hurting him overly, because they know what exactly Ratchet will have to say to that. Red Alert will be fine."
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Red Alert sat the twins down in his room. The twins looked around, noticing that it was the same as ever. Completely bare, no trinkets, no nothing. Red Alert sat down on his only chair, as the twins were forced to either sit on the floor or sit on the recharge bunk together. Both opted for the berth, but made sure they were as far apart as physically possible.
Red Alert didn't bother with actuall talking. He had always been horrible at it. Instead he sent a pulse of worry and questioning through the bond. Sunstreaker was the first to reply. .:Shadowrunner and Starwind.:.
Red Alert flinched at that, pulling both legs up to his chest. .:It wasn't your fault.:.
Sideswipe entered in, .:We should've been there. If we had, nothing would've turned out this way.:.
Red Alerts optics shuttered off as he thought back to the fateful day…
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Red Alert smiled at his creators, holding up a datapad. "I did it! I finally graduated!"
Shadowrunner smiled proudly at his son, as Starwind smiled sweetly. Red Alert peered around, asking excitedly, "Where's Sunstreaker and Sideswipe? I want to show them as well!"
The smiles faded. "They left because recruiters came knocking on the door and they didn't want to be bothered."
Red Alerts shoulders sagged for a moment, then he nodded happily. "Well, at least they don't bother me. None of the sides want a glitch to be in the army." His tone was slightly bitter, but neither of his creators said anything.
They had settled down to share a nice cube of energon, when suddenly the world became washed in sticky, running energon-
Red Alert looked up to see mechs with Decepticons symbols, holding the guns. His optics were huge, and he scrambled backwards, attempting to get away. Shots rang out, and Red Alert panicked, screaming across the bond for the twins. He felt no answer, and he whimpered as a shot blasted past his face.
Red Alert curled up, hearing heavy footsteps coming towards him-
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.:Red?:. came two worried questions as the twins realized Red Alert was no longer listening to them.
Red Alert shook himself out of his daze. .:You kept me from becoming deactivated. It was really close as well. A second later and-:.
The three looked at each other, and Red Alert sighed, head falling down. .:At least you two could fight. I couldn't even do that.:. Bitterness rose within Red Alert, as he continued, .:All I could do was simply sit there and watch. Watch them-:.
Red Alert found he couldn't finish it, but his feelings spoke for him. Sideswipe hesitantly leaned over as Sunstreaker shifted uncomfortably. .:You did what you could.:.
Silence fell among the three, as they remembered other days. Days where killing was the unthinkable, and their creators never gave up on them. Even with kids like them.
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"It's been really silent."
"I know!"
"Why did Red take them into his room?"
"How am I supposed to know?"
Whispers and hisses were common place in the Arks crew as they stared uneasily at Red Alerts door. Inferno had been forced out onto a patrol, making his own temper flare high. At least it was Bumblebee he was going out with.
Of course, judging from the coded messages that Bumblebee was sending, something about fires, all was not going well. The door suddenly slid open, and Sunstreaker and Sideswipe stepped out, Red Alert right behind them. Red Alert was scowling, and the twins smirking. "Twins… you two really know how to ruin my day, don't you. Reminding me of that."
"It wasn't our fault!" Sunstreaker protested. "Besides, you got out on time-"
"Shut up." Red Alert groaned, face falling into his hands. "You two please, just go away."
The twins left, laughing. Red Alert stayed in the hallway for a few more moments, before Jazz came out of nowhere, demanding, "What did you tell them to get them to stop hating each other?"
"Say? Nothing."
Red Alert left with that cryptic remark.
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Bumblebee stared at Inferno who was glaring at the rapidly growing bonfire. "Inferno, if you keep it up, you're going to burn down the entire forest-"
The comm. link flared to life at that moment, as Red Alerts voice came across. "Inferno, Bumblebee, we need you to go to the coordinates that I'm about to send you and fight the fir that has appeared there."
Bumblebee glanced a the coordinates, and shook his head. "This… is our coordinates Inferno. C'mon, you need to put out the fire."
Inferno didn't twitch. Bumblebee decided to try a new tactic. "The faster you put out the fire, the faster you can get back to the Ark-"
Inferno moved fast, his frustraion at the current situation making itself evident as he stamped out the fire. Bumblebee privately paged Ratchet. :Hey Ratchet?:
:Yes Bumblebee?:
:Is Inferno mentally unstable?:
:A little. He keeps it well under control however. The worst it ever gets to is a few fires.:
Bumblebee sighed, letting the conversation go. This was not what he wanted to hear.
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Red Alert looked up as Inferno entered. "Inferno!"
"Hiya Red!" Inferno said, his usual sunshiny self. "How'd it go with the twins?"
Red Alerts optics widened at that question, and he shook his head. "That's a little private."
Inferno was not about to be deterred. "Red? They didn't do anything-"
"NO! Nothing. I just-" Red Alert gestured, wishing that he could talk to Inferno and communicate his reasons why.
Red Alert was never much of a talker, and never had great social skills. It was becoming more and more apparent by the moment as he struggled to keep both the secret of him and the twins being actually triplets, and the fact that he rather liked Inferno out of his voice. "I-"
Red Alert gave up, Inferno spark fell, and at last he said, "I see."
Inferno left the room, and Red Alerts head slammed into the table. Repeatedly. I really screwed that up.
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'cause no relationship is perfect... and I wanted them to join the Autobots in some spectacularly gory way...
