Another one shot!
I have been playing tons of Zelda lately and this totally popped into my head!
What are the Autobot's thinking when they watch the humans play video games? With a giant screen, there has got to be video games days at NEST!
Enjoy!
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Chapter 9
How many levels are there?
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Brows knitted together in concentration, Sam clutched the wii-mote tightly in his hand as he made swishing motions, causing the video game character on the screen to swing his sword, killing off some sort of weird hylian monster. 'Take that! And some of this! And some of that!'
He loved visiting NEST headquarters for three reasons.
Reason #1: Bumblebee and the other Autobots were there.
Reason #2: Tai was there, and not to mention her apartment was totally kickass!
But reason #3 was the most important one. The giant Autobot sized Television! It was awesome for watching movies, TV, and of course, playing video games!
The screen was flipping' huge! It was like you were actually in the video game! Tai and Sam would spend hours sitting in front of the huge screen, most likely destroying any living brain cells and not blinking for hours. Tai bragged to Sunny and Sides that she started playing Fallout 3 around three in the afternoon and didn't stop until one in the morning! Apparently, she lost track of time. It happens. Optimus was worried when he saw how red her human eye was.
Right now, Sam was trying in vain to fight off numerous amounts of birds that apparently throw bombs while attacking you with their beak. Also he had to defend some sort of bandwagon at the same time. He remembered Tai saying that this part was the suckiest part in the whole game. It took her three tries to beat it. God, she was right! Sam was getting pissed!
'Fuck!' Sam swore loudly, watching in anger as the wagon burned down...again. Growling loudly, he decided to take a small break before he broke the controller. Deciding he needed a soda, he headed toward the mess hall area. He smiled when he saw Tai sitting at a table with Barricade and Bumblebee sitting on the floor.
Tai looked up when she felt Sam sit beside her. 'What's up, homie?'
Sam simply groaned and slammed his head on the table. Bumblebee winced in sympathy when he heard Sam let out a loud muffled, 'OWWW!'
Tai felt no sympathy. She simply started laughing hysterically. 'Dude, you moron! What the hell's wrong with you?'
'You malfunctioning or something?' Barricade asked bluntly, raising an optic ridge.
'I'm getting pissed, upset, frustrated..just about every negative emotion is festering in my being.'
'Oh really?' Tai asked in a dry tone. 'And why is that, I may ask?'
Sam simply gave her a look. 'Wait, wait...let me guess...red blood shot eyes...huge bags under said eyes...forehead wrinkles that are formed in a grimace...and not to mention, your hand muscles are really tight, Barricade stop laughing!' She glared over at her guardian, who was laughing so hard his frame was shaking. 'Ya dirty minded fragger, anyway!' She turned back to Sam. 'You've been playing twilight princess haven't you?'
Sam rose his eyebrows. 'How could you tell?'
'I've been through the same thing...refusing to blink in case you miss something important which equals the red eyes...huge bags from lack of sleep due to the awesome addicting game..scowling at how stupidly hard the water temples are...and the hand muscle tightness from clutching the controller so hard you feel like your muscles are gonna snap...' She took a deep sip from her mocha. 'Trust me...been there!'
Barricade and Bumblebee glanced at each other in amazement. Then Barricade made a face that indicated the following statement..'My charge is smarter than your charge!' Bumblebee simply glared and whacked the ex-con upside the head.
'Don't make us separate you two!' Sam scolded, shaking his finger. 'So, Tai...' He made a puppy face and laid his head on her shoulder. 'Please help me beat this part!'
Tai groaned and glanced over at the two scouts. They simply gestured for her to help him in his time of need.
'Okay, fine!' She exclaimed. 'I'll help you! By the way, which part are you on?'
Sam smirked.
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An hour later:
Optimus Prime sighed as he looked over Tatyana's report, frowning at some of the rules she came up with.
'She had to put down the banana peel incident, didn't she?' He groaned at Prowl who simply nodded with a very tiny smile at the memory.
'You know her, she feels the need to write stuff that embarrasses us.' The second in command stated.
'Yes, but if she didn't, I would be very worried.' The Autobot commander said, shrugging his shoulder panels.
'By the way, what is she up too?' Prowl asked, looking around cautiously. He still remembered the Pimp mobile graffiti painted on his side courtesy of Tai and her antics.
'I believe she is with Sam, Barricade, and Bumblebee in the recreational room.'
'Ah. I see.' Prowl replied. 'We might as well go see what they're up too.'
'Yes, my legs could do with a bit of stretching.' Optimus agreed, getting up and stretching his tall frame.
As the two commanders made their way down the hall, they noticed a large group of 'Bots gathered inside the Rec. room. 'What is going on here?'
'Something stupid, I'm sure.' Prowl muttered.
What was going, however, was not stupid. Well, not in Optimus's opinion anyway. There in front of large screen was Tatyana and Sam, playing another video game of some sort. His daughter appeared to be deep in concentration while Sam looked on anxiously as she played the character on the huge screen. Optimus studied what was going on carefully and found himself sitting down next to Wheeljack and watching in interest.
'Oh, you have got to be kidding me!' Prowl exclaimed. 'Optimus!'
'Sh!' The Leader snapped, not taking his optics of the screen. Prowl grumbled before crossing his arms in annoyance.
'Fuck me!' Tai exclaimed, not seeming to notice that her father was in the room. Either that or she didn't care. 'Stupid, hard Lake Bed Temple! And it's stupid rotating-ness!'
She had long beaten the part Sam was stuck on, but her cousin insisted on her beating the Lake bed temple for him. She said she would if he promised to buy her a Starbucks everyday for two weeks. He reluctantly agreed.
'What is going on?' Optimus asked Sunstreaker. 'What is this she is playing?'
'This is The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess.' Sunny whispered, keeping his voice low so he wouldn't distract the Techno-organic. 'She's trying to beat the Lake Bed temple, which is the hardest temple in the game. It's like in the Zelda rulebook, make every water temple a pain in the ass. She's been at it now for an hour.'
Optimus could tell his daughter was getting very stressed out. Her hair was sticking up in various places, her facial expression consisted of a scowl, and she was hunched over. Oh yeah, she was in video game mode.
'Son of a..GRRRR!' Tai growled loudly as she fought the monster that was attacking the character on the screen. 'Why won't you stay down? Oh finally!' Sam then grabbed her by the shirt roughly and pointed at the screen in a panic.
'Tai! Tai! Monster! Monster!'
'I know! Let go of my shirt!' She snapped, swinging the wii-mote, nearly causing it fly out of her hands but thanks to the strap, it didn't.
After successfully beating that creature down, and several others over the course of twenty minutes, she finally found the boss key after an epic battle with some more creatures.
'Oh my god! Finally!' She exclaimed in excitement. 'I found the boss key!'
'Yeah!' Sam sounded just as excited. 'Now find the boss room!'
Tai's face fell and she sighed dejectedly while leaning forward and burying her face in his legs. 'Damn it!'
'Janet..' Barricade mumbled. Tai simply gave him the finger without even looking up.
That only made the neutral bot laugh. 'I enjoy tormenting you, it amuses me.' He drummed his clawed fingers together with a sly smirk in her direction.
'You evil yet hilarious bastard!' Tai laughed, getting back to the game after a few more minutes of deep breathing. After a few minutes of looking through the whole temple, she finally found the boss's lair.
'Okay! Here we go!' She pressed the A button. Everyone watched with bated breath as she made the character enter the room.
Tai searched her memory cores quickly, it had been so long since she fought this boss. After a couple of seconds, she finally remembered. 'Oh yeah! This guy's insanely easy for such a pain in the ass temple!'
'Is he now?' A voice behind everyone caught everyone's attention. It was Prowl.
Tai rose an eyebrow but then continued talking. 'Yea, my theory is, the game makers decided to make th water temple bosses easy because after dealing with the temple, you just want to get the hell out! So then you can go deal with the easier temples and the much harder bosses without wanting to tear your hair out.' She than let out a big stream of breath and turned to the screen. 'Okay! Here we go!'
The next ten to fifteen minutes consisted of the techno-organic swishing the wii-mote, trying in vain to get Sam to shut up, swearing every curse word known to man and Cybertron, and various other amusing things.
'This is it! This is it! It only takes three hits!' Making the character swim over to the huge monster like creature on the screen, she shook the wii-mote one last time before delivering the final blow. When the monster exploded on the screen, Sam and almost every bot in the room let out a cheer for her skills.
'Oh my god!' Sam cheered, getting Tai in a headlock. 'You beat him! You rock! You da femme!'
'You've been hanging with Fantasy?' Tai laughed, rubbing her human eye.
'Yes, yes I have!' Sam said with a big smile. 'Anywho, dude, thank you!'
Tai laughed, punching Sam affectionately on his shoulder. 'You're welcome! Now I'm gonna go play Fallout 3 to relax my nerves! And if you need any more help with this game, please hesitate to ask!' And with that, Tai turned and walked out of the room, attempting to do a little jig.
'Alrighty!' Sam sighed, stretching his limbs. 'Okay, now that that's out of the way, this should be a cinch!'
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Two weeks later:
Tai was once again hanging out in the Recreational room, Sparrow sitting on her lap as they both played a game on Tai's DSi. Jazz was sitting next to his sparkmate and his adoptive youngling and was watching them play the pokemon game in interest.
'Mommy! I gots a pikachu!' Sparrow squealed excitedly, clapping her tiny hands while still holding the stylus.
'You did! Good job, sweetheart!' Tai giggled, looking up at Jazz who was laughing as well.
Optimus who was nearby chuckled slightly at Sparrow's excitement. A few seconds later, the human door slammed open with a loud bang that echoed across the room. There was Sam, standing there, looking incredibly frazzled and pissed off.
Tai simply chuckled. 'Uh-oh.' She then turned to Sparrow. 'Sweetheart, stay here with Daddy and keep playing, mommy will be back in a few, okay?' Sparrow simply clicked and jump up onto Jazz's shoulder.
Tai walked over to her pissed off looking cousin. Sure enough, his eyes were red, he had big purple circles, and he just looked pissed off.
'Did I forgot to mention that that game has sixteen temples?'
Sam shook his head with a glare.
'I probably should've siad something, should've I?' She continued.
Sam nodded with the same look. Optimus watched the scene unfold in interest.
'Are you pissed?' She asked another question.
Sam paused for a moment and then gave the so-so sign, still glaring.
'Ah, I see.' She then gave him a odd look. 'Should I start running?'
At that sentence, Sam nodded.
'Tai shrugged. 'Going!' She then bolted out of the room with Sam chasing her, his yells of ,'TAI, I'M GONNA FLIPPING MURDER YOU!', echoing down the hall.
'And in conclusion, when playing this Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess game, always be sure to tell the player how many levels are in it...or else, it will end in disaster.'
Until all are one, Optimus Prime.
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Eeeheehee that was fun to write!
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