I have a little trouble..you see, I can't get the ideas for this chapter running so I have to do a little bit of brainstorming. And the results are quite..disappointing to say the least. I've been racking my head for nearly a week after the previous chapter, sure I did around 600 words but it just doesn't click with me if you understand what I'm saying.
I went to the playground, walk around the neighborhood, talk with my friends who's got siblings (since I've got none..) for any interesting experiences but still NOTHING came up. I was starting to become furious not to mentioned worried since you guys are obviously waiting for an update.
So I decided...oh well, might as well go on with the flow and try to make at least a few things interesting. Now here I am, sitting here in front of my computer and typing this thing for your enjoyment and at the same time crippling my neurons.
Sunstreaker woke up that morning with an annoyed grumble. Apparently Sideswipe had left the drapes open again and leaving the sunlight to pour in and bathe the youngling in its glow. Sure he likes the sun as any other being on this planet but waking up with it shining over one's optics is really unpleasant!
Throwing back the cover, Sunstreaker snap his optics open and start searching for his brother who apparently, isn't in the room. The youngling simply groan and carefully climb down the berth by its legs before heading to the door. He needs energon, and he needs them now.
"Sidey?" call out the yellow mechling as he peeks out the door. There was no one in sight so he decided to make his way to the rec room alone whilst grumbling profanities at Sideswipe for leaving him so early in the morning. Sure, leave a five feet tall youngling alone why don't ya? He doesn't need supervision at all!
Upon arriving, he notices that the shift haven't even start yet and practically scowled at his brother who is happily talking with Mirage. The mechling may be small but his gut is still as big as before and he all but stomp Sideswipe on the pede, earning a loud yelp that made Sunstreaker grin cheekily.
"You're awake! I thought you'd be in recharge until afternoon," the red mech drawled out. Sunstreaker merely pout and start to climb his brother's leg. Sideswipe gently pluck the youngling off his leg and place him on the table.
"Wanna energon.." the youngling said out. Sideswipe simply grins and push a small cube to Sunstreaker's line of vision. The youngling happily reach out to it and start drinking like there's no tomorrow.
"Slow down there Sunny, you don't want to choke do ya?" chuckled Sideswipe as he drink his own energon. Sunstreaker merely made a small sound and continues to down his ration hungrily.
"You think Wheeljack is able to change Sunstreaker back to his normal self?" Mirage asks from where he is seating in front of the two brothers. He watch the youngling finish his energon eagerly and start to toddle his way around the table. "You know there's a high possibility it might go wrong,"
"Come on Mirage, can't ya be a little more optimistic? Where there's Wheeljack, there's Ratchet and I bet the doc bot's watching over our resident engineer like a robo hawk these past few days considering how Sunny's becoming more and more of a target for the 'Cons," Sideswipe said back. Mirage could see he tensed slightly when he mentioned the 'Cons.
"Well, I hope you're right on this, we don't want Sunstreaker to get his age wrong least we want to have a repeat of what happened before," the Ligier said out slowly, not wanting to scare the other mech. Next thing he knew, he felt a soft nip on his electro disrupter which turns out to be Sunstreaker's doing.
"WHAT THE FRAG!" he cried out while Sideswipe merely laughed. Apparently the youngling decided to think the disrupter is some sort of goodie and is biting at it until small dents came up.
"Don't worry Mirage, he always does that. I wouldn't dare to count how many times I have to pound out bite marks after every night. Kid bites a lot in his recharge, even climbed on me one time," laughs the frontliner. Mirage simply grab the youngling by his scruffbar and held him at arms length.
"No flavour.." the youngling squeaks out with a pout. Mirage only quirk a metal brow comically with a confused,
"Hah..?"
At this point, Sideswipe had finished with his cube and grabs his brother from where Mirage is clutching him and place the youngling on his shoulders.
"I better send they tyke back to our room, don't want him to wander off where Cliffjumper can see him and decided to have payback,"
With that, he swiftly got out from his seat and with a grin, sauntered out of the rec room whilst humming a happy tune. Mirage simply watch them leave before glaring disgustedly at his now sloppy electro disrupter. He'd have to wash it with antibac soap from the humans later on.
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"Really Sunny, couldn't you at least use the bond to call me after you had woken?" the red mech said out whilst swaying his shoulders left and right to entertain the youngling.
"Can't, Sunny don't feel Sidey.." the youngling chirped out. Sideswipe hummed at that with confusion. How can he couldn't sense him? The feeling of dread now start to consume him, Sideswipe decided to have a talk with Ratchet about this matter.
"How's about we go and see Ratchet? You need to do a check up anyway and I don't want his wrench to collide with my helm. I've got too many dents to pound out lately thanks to you,"
Sunstreaker growl slightly at his brother but because of his squeaky voice and cute little face, the growl isn't all that threatning or dangerous, just outright cute.
"Aww..don't scruch your little face that way, you don't want it to be stuck like that forever," chuckled the red mech, completely taking advantage at his brother's current age. Sunstreaker on the other hand, isn't happy at being poked due to his current nature. So instead of using his usual abuse and strength -which he currently doesn't possess- he instead pouts and turned away.
"Moody today aren't you? Well, here we are. I just want to check with Ratchet about a few things to make sure everything's alright with the both of us," Sideswipe said out as he entered the medbay without even bothering to knock.
"Don't you have anything better to do than bug me today, Sideswipe?" a certain medic's voice came up as soon as he step in.
"Nice to see you too Ratch'. I'm just here to do a little check up. Sunny said he can't feel me through the bond so I was wondering if you could shed some light into this.." the red mech said out. Not a few steps he took after saying that, Ratchet hauled him straight onto a medical berth, optics clearly wide in shock.
"Say what now? He can't feel you? But can you feel him?" the medic asked whilst frantically scanning the both of them. The twins simply watch them with curiosity.
"Of course I can Ratch', it's just that it's not as sharp as before, like I'm going through a thick fog or something," answered the red mech as he kick his legs to and fro to entertain himself. Once again he heard Ratchet cursing up a storm and trying to calm himself at the same time.
"What's up with you doc?" Sideswipe asked with an annoyed tone.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner about this?" snarled the medic as he race through the medbay to get more tools. Sunstreaker simply hum a random tune to entertain himself and not even caring about whatever is going on in the room.
"How was I suppose to know? I thought it was quite normal," replied the red Lamborghini with a shrug of his shoulder. Ratchet was a little displeased when he heard him and sent a wrench hurtling towards the frontliner's direction and smiled when it sent him falling over the berth.
"It's not normal when your bond is not clear, what, you think Sunstreaker knows how to control it? He's got half of his age's processor and half of his current age's processor," the medic points out when Sideswipe got himself back up on to the berth.
"So..you're saying he's got two different ages locked in his head?" Sideswipe asks out. Ratchet look thoughtful for a moment and nods his head. He then retrieves his spark scanner and pushes the red Lambo onto his back.
"Open your chestplates, I need to see your lasercore and spark," the medic instructed. At first Sideswipe can only blink confusedly at him whilst his brother blowing obnoxious raspberries beside his head, but a quirk brow from Ratchet quickly made him do as he was told.
His chestplates part open to reveal his brightly lit, bluish-green core and Ratchet immediately place the scanner over it to get the wave reading. He'd done this multiple times especially whenever the twins had slagged themselves pretty badly and Ratchet had to confirm whether their core is still emitting waves or not.
The reason he had to do this is similar to human brain, if the core does not transmit any waves, the bot is as good as dead, like a human when the brain stops emitting its wave.
"I don't see anything wrong, but I do see a spike in your reading that's higher than normal..." the CMO said out after a while. Sideswipe tried to lift his head to see the monitor but Ratchet simply pushes it back down without even turning.
"I'll go through your records afterwards, let's put Sunstreaker down so I can read his readings too,"
"Is that really necessary Ratch'?" Sideswipe asks as he close his chestplates back together. Ratchet changed the frequency of the scanner and leer at the red twin.
"You said he couldn't feel you, so it's only fair that I check his core as well," Ratchet pointed out. Sideswipe can only shrug at his answer and got off the berth to get his brother, only to find him missing. The red twin's optics grew in size and he inhaled sharply before slowly turning to Ratchet.
"Ahh..Ratch', we have a problem, Sunny's not here," he ground out slowly, making sure he doesn't squeak the words out.
"What do you mean Sides?" Ratchet ask out without looking from the monitor. He's still running through medical files in his processor regarding Sideswipe's spike in his spark wave. "He was with you, wasn't he?"
"Was..now he's no longer here," replied the red lambo when Ratchet finally look at his way. The medic scanned around his medbay and growls, Sunstreaker really isn't there.
"He was just here!" hollered the medic causing Sideswipe to panic as well. The red twin scrambled around to search for his missing brother and managed to crash onto a few equipments that will no doubt increase Ratchet's foul mood.
"I don't know! While you were checking me, he was blowing raspberries!" Sideswipe cried out, voice clearly an octave higher as his spark pulses faster, worried for his brother's safety.
The two mechs hurriedly ran outside to search for the missing youngling. Sinsce Ratchet's medbay is close to Wheeljack's lab -so that Ratchet can tell if he had slagged himself for the umpteenth time- Sunstreaker may be in serious danger of being accidently blown off.
"We need to spread out, I'll go to Wheeljack's lab, you head off to the armoury since it's quite close to the medbay. He might try to sneak into a room he doesn't know," Ratchet instructed. Sideswipe can only nod frantically and head off to the opposite direction towards the armoury.
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For Wheeljack, he was just adding the finishing touches on the aging machine before next thing he knew, he was backed up against the wall with Ratchet pinning him. He would've pretended to give him a few sultry choice words but clearly the look on Ratchet's face shows that it might be a bad idea.
"Uhh..is there anything I can help you with, Ratchet?" asks the engineer whilst patting his friend's arm gently to coerce him to put him down.
"Have you seen Sunstreaker coming in?" Ratchet asks back. Wheeljack cocks his head to the side and scratched his fins before shaking his head. Ratchet put him down and cursed slightly at the answer.
"What's this all about Ratchet?" Wheeljack gently ask, he knows better to use strong words when the medic is stressed, it's not really good for his processor and spark. For all he know, medics need to stay calm most of the time especially dealing with emergencies, so when they're stressed, their sparks and processor would be put into shock and they'd just collapse. If not treated, their spark might burn off.
"It's Sunstreaker.. He told Sideswipe he couldn't feel him through the bond, so I decided to check their sparks, but that little glitchmouse ran off!" stressed the medic, his hands clenching into fists as warnings pop up behind his vision.
"Whoa there Ratch', calm down, you know this isn't good for you. Tell you what, why don't we go to Red Alert, I'm sure one of his many security cameras picked Sunstreaker up somewhere," Wheeljack said out.
Ratchet sighs at his soft tone, which actually helps him to calm down a little bit. The CMO nods his head and followed his friend towards the security room.
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"Red Alert? Open up, it's me, Wheeljack and I've got Ratchet. We need your help to check on something," the engineer called out from outside the room. Red Alert's door opened up a little bit to check on the two before completely opening it and allowing them in.
"What's this all about Wheeljack, Ratchet?" the security director asks as his two friends step in and the door closes.
"We're trying to search for Sunstreaker but we couldn't find him, so we thought maybe one of your cameras managed to capture him in sight," the engineer said. Red Alert seem to be spacing out for a moment and then started to press buttons like nobody's business.
"I think I may have seen him prowling around the labs hallway, let me check for a momant," the two friends waited for Red Alert to finish double checking the tapes until his cry of victory rang through the small room. "Found your little sneak, he's in Perceptor's lab as we speak,"
"Thanks a lot Red, you saved a lot of time," Ratchet sighs out thankfully. The SD wave off his worry with a wave and a smile.
"No problem, it's my job so that nothing sneaks past my line of vision. You might want to get him now before he bothers Perceptor too much," the Lamborghini said out. Wheeljack and Ratchet thanked him again and went off to retrieve the youngling.
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"I should've just lock you in the medbay.." Sideswipe mumbled out. Sunstreaker merely grin from the berth and made a few obnoxious popping sounds from his mouth that aggravates Ratchet to the core. With a final twitch, the CMO whirls around and slams the wrench he's been holding down to his table.
"IDIOT! CAN YOU JUST STOP THAT FRAGGIN' POPS? You're giving me a processor ache!" bellowed the enraged medic. Both Sunstreaker and Sideswipe jumped slightly at his aggravated tone. The mech must've been worried when the youngling went missing.
"Hold on there doc, you don't have to get riled up like this for no reason," Sideswipe tried to placate him, but when he realises what he just said, he quickly tune down his audios.
And true enough...Ratchet exploded.
"No reason..? No REASON?" roared the CMO. Both twins grab on to each other and start to tremble with fear when they saw the fire in Ratchet's optics.
"You two are gonna sizzle out of existance because of the strain your spark is going through that only Wheeljack and I know how to fix! Top of that, you decided to test my patience and sanity by doing all sorts of weird and crazy acts while you're in this state and DARE to tell me it's NO REASON?"
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe continue to stare at the seething medic for a few more while before letting go of each other. For some reason, Sunstreaker's dimming subconscious that belongs to his normal age range decide to take over for a short time.
"Well Ratch'..what are you standing around for? You want us to wait here and rust or something? Get that scanner of yours and start doing some examinations on me for Primus' sake! I don't have all day,"
Sideswipe let out a screech and ran behind Ratchet when he suddenly heard Sunstreaker's deep voice instead of the high pitched squeak. Even Ratchet seems to be transfixed for a moment before getting a grip on himself.
"Alright then..let's get started,"
Ugh..dammit.. Two weeks of holiday and another week of terrible grades..it's as if I'm falling apart.. I just can't feel my soul anymore..
I'm terribly sorry that you guys have to wait this long, it's just that..I failed three papers, two more than I can handle and one of them is add maths..which I only got 7 marks total.. I FEEL LIKE A FAILURE! And ever since then, I just can't write or eat or sleep anymore, I can only live..literally. Shed 2 kilos in three days 'cause can't eat anything decent...
And I was hoping to finish this very soon and stop writing for a while..until I can gather myself enough to write again.
And again, I'm sorry..the next chapter may be the last. I have to finish this fast..I can't take the pressure anymore, I just want to crawl off and shut down. Later..