WARNING: this chapter will get confusing! Bear the confusion, embrace the confusion! Or it shall consume you! R&R Thx~Nova
Jade and Icel were both sitting by a confused Kris.
"What about this one?" Jade asked holding up another picture on her phone. Kris again shook his head. The twins sighed. It had been a few days and the only improvement was Kris's grammar and he had now successfully remembered who the transformers were and fleeting seconds of his past. But none other than that.
"Please try a tiny bit harder Kris, I know it's difficult but it's so important. Please." Icel begged.
"I told you, I can't remember, I am trying, really." Kris complained. Icel sighed.
"I know Kris; you'll get there one day." She replied placing a hand on his shoulder.
"I hope so. I really do."
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Sunstreaker and Sideswipe:
"Sides, do me a favor." Sunny said, his brother looked up.
"What, you want me to buff the hard to reach spots behind you?" Sides asked sarcastically.
"No, that would be nice, but no. I want you to help me with a prank." He explained.
"What did you have it processor?" Sides asked an old sly grin appearing on his faceplates.
"I was thinking your processor would be over loaded on some." Sunny replied.
"oh yes, I have thousands of ideas." Sides replied grinning maliciously.
"But who to prank?" Sunny asked beginning the brainstorming fiasco.
"Everyone at once, trust me I've got the perfect plan." Sides replied.
"Must you keep me waiting to bear the it?" Sunny asked leaning forward. Sides grinned again and whispered in his brothers audio receptors.
"That, is despicable, I love it!" Sunny agreed. The corner of Sideswipe's mouth drew up in a quirky smirk.
"I knew you would." And right away the two twins began to draw out plans of attack and setup for their prank, it had been so long since they had a good laugh at someone else's misfortune, and no one would really be expecting it. Yes the masters of pranksters had bided their time, possible just enough that no one would see it coming until it hit them in the optics.
Ratchet:
Ratchet sighed as he finally closed down the medical bay. It was late and Kris had just finally fallen asleep. The poor kid wasn't doing much better and Ratchet was beginning to wonder if his memories would ever come back. The girls had been such a help, as had surprisingly Knock Out. But so far the only one Kris remembered was Jazz, which made sense, but was rather unlucky in hindsight.
"Ratchet?" A voice suddenly called, it was Sideswipe.
"Yes, what do you need Sideswipe?" Ratchet replied looking at the young red mech.
"Huh?" Sideswipe said looking at him funny.
"I asked what you needed, is something wrong, because if not then I have some very important work to catch up on." Ratchet said irritably.
"Why'd you call me Sideswipe, did you finally mix our names up?" Sideswipe asked.
"What?!" Ratchet asked in shock.
"Why did you call me Sideswipe, I'm Sunny remember." Sideswipe said gesturing to himself.
"Why don't you go get your brother and come see me in the medical bay." He said stepping back in minor disturbance.
"Uh, ok, don't see why not." Side/Sunny acknowledged. Ratchet vented he truly thought he'd seen it all. Clearly he was wrong.
The twins walked back in a few minutes later.
"Ok, Sunny, please raise your servo." Ratchet said getting straight down to business. Sideswipe hesitated for a second and then raised his servo in the air.
"Hmm. Sunny, please go into the medical bay and check on yourself in the mirror. Sideswipe looked appalled but rather excited at the new instruction, Sunny would never pass up a chance to look in a mirror. Suddenly both the Sunstreaker yet Sideswipe bot and Ratchet heard a scream and the Sideswipe yet Sunstreaker came rushing out. He looked at the Sunstreaker.
"You took my paint!" He cried dramatically. The Sunstreaker jumped and looked down at his servos in wonder.
"No Sunny!" Said the Sunstreaker.
"You took mine!" He said angrily.
"Red is such a horrid color." The Sideswipe who was Sunny whined.
"Sunswipe and Sidestreaker. Well this is new." Ratchet grumbled appalled himself. He knew that this wasn't going to be easy, he would have to figure how this happened and how to switch them back, it certainly was going to be a downside to his life. Most of the downsides involved the twins though, and Ratchet simply found it hard to be surprised that they screwed something up, everyone knew it was only a matter of time before something went wrong or some prank was pulled, but secretly he was glad it wasn't the latter.
"Sunswipe, I'm going to call you that until we fix this." He said addressing the Sunstreaker who held Sideswipe's consciousness.
"And I'm calling you Sidestreaker." He said addressing the Sideswipe who held Sunstreaker's consciousness. The twins looked at each other and then nodded.
"Ok, but do you know how to fix it, I don't want to be stuck in this horrid paint job forever." Sidestreaker sneered looking down at himself in disgust. Ratchet was taken aback for a moment when he remembered that this was really Sunstreaker talking. Boy was this going to be hard to get used to.
"All, medical bay, both of you, I will inform Optimus of our uh, little misfortune." Ratchet said ushering them into the berth next to Kris.
"Come on doc, we don't need a berth, we're not sick." Sunswipe complained. Ratchet growled, Sunswipe was going to be the difficult one.
"Just as long as you don't break anything." He hissed, then slammed the door behind him.
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker:
"I can't believe he fell for that bro!" Sideswipe said happily.
"We still planning on phase two?" Sunstreaker replied.
"yeah duh, it'll be hilarious won't it!?" Sides said excitedly.
"Sure, sure, just keep your voice down would ya!" Sunny hissed angrily. Sides placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry little bro, it'll work out all fine." Sides assured his twin.
"First of all, I'm not your little brother, we're the same age, and second get your filthy servo of my shoulder plating!" Sunny growled at his twin. Sides gave a sheepish smile and removed his servo from his brother. Sunny vented in exasperation and stepped a little back from his twin. Sides just kept the smile up.
"All right, initiating phase two, alert the other twins." Sunny instructed. Sideswipe's smile turned from sheepish to a mischievous.
"With pleasure." He answered leaving the medical bay.
"See you around, Sidestreaker." Sideswipe joked.
"Don't get into trouble Sunswipe." Sunstreaker replied. And with that the twins split up off to find their own mischievous partners. And give their medic one heck of a time.
"I like this idea!" Jade said smirking. Icel was more hesitant.
"Well, I don't see why not." She said slowly. Sides did a double take.
"You actually are considering breaking rules!" Sides asked surprised, yet ecstatic.
"Well technically, there is no rule against it." Icel countered slowly. Sides smiled.
"I see where you're coming from." He said slyly. Icel returned the smile.
"And besides, I've always wanted an excuse to bend rules or pull pranks." She said with an unusually glint in her optic…eye, whatever.
"Y-you have?" Sideswipe asked in astonishment.
"Yup, being the one who tries to follow rules all the time, it's such a drag. This is my chance!" Icel said with a tone that was most unlike her strict and rather sarcastic one. Jade raised and eyebrow.
"And you never bothered to mention this?" She asked skeptically.
"I used to, back when…when mom and dad were…back when they were." She stopped suddenly choking up.
"Back when they were alive?" Jade asked softly. Icel nodded solemnly.
"Yes, you were probably too young to remember it much. It was so long ago. But they were so fun, they never minded my pranks and my funny jokes, they called them. You were so little then, so innocent. You were the one who would sit quietly and play with blocks while I ran around coloring on the walls." She gave a sad smile.
"I think you became more like you are now, once I stopped being like that. After they passed." She bit her lip and her eyes became blurry. Sides knelt down.
"Icel, I'm so sorry. You don't have to do this, not if you don't want to." He said quietly. Icel sat down in his servo. He brought her quietly up and sat down his self, and just held onto the tiny quiet human. Icel leaned into him.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"I could have no better friend." She said holding back as many tears as she could. She lay there curled up in a ball against his chassis. Sides held onto her tightly so no more hurt come find its way in.
Sunstreaker:
"Sunny?" Called a soft voice. It was so quiet at first he thought it was Kris. He turned around. It was Jade.
"Hey Jade, what do you need." He asked bending down and offering her a servo.
"Just you." She said quietly climbing into his servo. He brought her up and sat back against the wall
"Any reason?" He asked immediately telling something was wrong.
"I don't want to talk about it." She said wrapping her hands around her knees. Sunny sat down and just held her. She heaved great sigh and sat there for a few more seconds. Then she turned and leaned against his chassis. Sunny almost jumped. He never had anyone do this before. He sat there surprised for a few moments and then wrapped his servos around the girl awkwardly. Then held her more softly and he could feel her little body was warm and shivering in his servo. Jade leaned into him more and pressed her head against his chassis. He bent his helm over her and shut his optics. She had pressed a tiny hand against him quietly and they stayed like that until Sunny fell into recharge and Jade fell fast asleep. In the room next door, Sides and Icel were both in a similar position both recharging and sleeping as well.
Optimus:
Somehow he knew, somehow he knew they would come together well. Yes the two pairs of twins were perfect partners for each other. Optimus had known, he always knows, he always has, and he probably always will.
Chapter 4
Ratchet:
I just didn't make sense. Any of it. The twins, switching bodies? No mindsets. Was that correct? But how could this have happened. The answer was there clear as day in his processor, it wasn't. Or at least it shouldn't have been. Unless they someone came in contact with a charged simplifier crystal. But there was only one in existence, and Optimus had sent it to a remote island, something like Dragon stone, or Griffin Rock, yes that was it, Griffin Rock. But Ratchet didn't care about that place, he only cared about why and how this was possible, which still in his processor, wasn't.
The scans he had run over displayed nothing useful of the sorts and Ratchet wondered if he would need to Cat Scan both their processors to clarify some things which were beginning to irk him. That's when all Pit broke loose…again.
Whoever it was they were screaming bloody murder, as humans liked to call it. Ratchet's audio receptors almost had a glitch at the sounds of it. He tore into the other room with his first aid kit. There on the floor was Jade, and she was shaking her hands up and down so rapidly that Ratchets optics got dizzy. She was screaming and had a look on her face which showed pure horror.
"What is it?!" Ratchet yelled over her screams. Jade looked up at him with fearful eyes.
"I Cannotbe a human, won't, won't, won't, won't, WON'T!" She shrieked. Ratchet raised an optic ridge at this.
"Umm, are you feeling ok?" He asked skeptically to the small girl.
"What happened to my beautiful gold paint!" She whined shaking her hands at herself some more. Ratchet was really confused now. Then it hit him…hard.
"Wait! Sunstreaker?!" He nearly screamed. Sunny/Jade looked at him with fearful eyes.
"Help." They squeaked. Then Sunstreaker walked in, or rather Jade. And she was having minor difficulties standing up.
"Woah!" She yelled and *CRASH* Sunny's frame fell harshly to the ground.
"Ow." Jade groaned pulling Sunny's frame up.
"Jade!" the human Sunny yelled.
"Don't screw up my finish!" He yelled crossly.
"Sorry Sunny." Jade said as her new heating fans began to start up.
"I'm not usually this tall." She explained apologetically. Sunny sighed long and slow.
"This will not end well." Sunny said from down on the floor.
"Wait. Where are Sideswipe and Icel?" Ratchet asked. Then a scream could be heard from next door. And it also resembled the scream of bloody murder, but it was Sideswipes scream. And at that moment Ratchet knew it was actually Icel doing the screaming, from Sideswipes frame.
"Well, I think it's time we called in some backup." Ratchet said as the next pair of switched twins came rushing into the room.
*Knockout, can you please come into the medical bay. * Ratchet commed to the other medic.
*Be right there. * Came the hesitant reply. And a few minutes later a shy red mech peeked his helm through the door.
"Knockout come in, we have a strange dilemma. And you might be the only one who knows the science to it." Ratchet said.
"Me?" Knockout asked skeptically.
"Yes you, paint job, get in here." Jade said from Sunstreaker. Knockout raised an optic ridge.
"That's Jade." Ratchet explained. Knockout did a double take.
"What!?" he asked staring at the girl who was now at his level and just as shiny.
"Heh heh." She said nervously shrugging her shoulders. Knockout put a thin servo to his helm.
"And let me guess, that's actually Sunstreaker, and that's Icel and that's Sideswipe?" He asked pointing to the opposites as he said the names in turn. Ratchet just nodded.
"Any ideas?" Ratchet asked.
"Umm, maybe we should scan for Simp Crys matter in their systems?" Knockout suggested.
"No, Optimus sent the only Simplifier Crystal to a remote island. There's no way." Ratchet replied. Knockout shrugged.
"Then I guess we better start researching." Knockout answered shrugging.
"Yes, guess we better." Ratchet replied.
I'm sorry, i had to add some bonding moments with the twins! Don't kill me plz. But hope you enjoyed and hope you review! Nova out ; )