Heyo! So I'm gonna try and get back in the swing of updating everyday now. Wish me luck :D

In this chapter, we will experience extreme randomness-as usual, a glasses- wearing Stella, picnics in the mountains of Kentucky, wildlife encounters, splashing wildly through a creek, and who knows? We may even find out that Breakdown is an excellent cook when it comes to making energon snacks XD

Song to listen to while reading: Happy music - Daydreaming by Capo Productions Music

Megatron watched the girls as they scurried around like ants. They were going back and forth from their room and the rec room, cramming a huge checkered blanket into Megan's backpack/jetpack. They also packed various food items, such as crackers, juice boxes, bottled water, and basically every other type of snack they could cram into all of their backpacks. They also had different clothes on than usual. Megan had on a grey t shirt with a white jacket tied around her waist. She also had on grey highwaters and a pair of purple sneakers. Her hair was pulled into a loose ponytail with a purple scrunchy and she had her new headphones around her neck. Stella had on a lightweight blue and red tie-dyed long sleeve, a pair of jeans cut off at the knees, and white sneakers. Her hair was also pulled up into a loose ponytail with a pink scrunchy and she had on a pair of small, red framed glasses. Turns out when Knockout found out that she needed glasses in order to see to her fullest, he told her that she had to wear them. When she argued that kids were going to make fun of her because she looked like a nerd, he told her- as hard as it was to believe, coming from him- that looks don't matter, and if people picked on her, they were the ones missing out. She agreed to wear her glasses reluctantly, but she couldn't deny the fact that she liked wearing them. She was slightly nearsighted, so everything farther than ten feet looked out of focus, and everything beyond that was like trying to figure out what a toddler's watercolor painting was supposed to be. With her glasses, she could see everything clearly, and it gave everything a new look and meaning.

''And besides,'' Megan had said, '' it'll make you look like you're actually smart!'' And they did make her look smarter with her glasses on.

Kiwi had on a lightweight red long sleeve, and an old pair of dark blue jeans with holes in the knees and a few small holes in the shins, jeans she used to ride in. She had on black sneakers, and her ponytail was braided and held together with a red ribbon. Her red bangs were the only parts of her hair not pulled into the braid, and her bangs were brushed behind her ears.

Sarah had on a dark purple turtleneck that hid the scar going across her neck. She had on black denim jeans and black sneakers. Her hair was left down, but she had it all brushed over her left shoulder. She was smiling as she suddenly whacked Kiwi in the back of her head with a bag of marshmallows. Kiwi spun around, a grin plastered onto her face as she threw the bag back. Sarah was about to throw it back at Kiwi when Stella suddenly grabbed the bag from them.

''Now now children, you should know better than to play with your food!'' she chided them, even though she was grinning all the same. Kiwi was suddenly chasing her before she even registered what was happening.

Now, here's what started all of this.

Early in the morning, but not so early everyone was asleep, Megan and the girls had walked up to Megatron, asking him if they could have a picnic. Not really knowing what a picnic was and not really caring either, he'd said yes. Well, after he saw them getting some of the other decepticons to come along with them, he finally got curious as to what they were doing, so he asked what a picnic was.

''A picnic is this really fun event where you pack a bunch of snacks into a basket, or a backpack in our case, a huge red and white checkered blanket to sit down on, and you find a nice hill, or meadow, or somewhere nice, and you sit down and eat all the stuff you brought. Then, you usually do something fun afterwards. Since you guys are so giant though, Kiwi actually took the time to sew six of those huge red and white checkered blankets together, and she even took the time to line them up so the pattern continued and looked like a part of the same blanket.'' Megan answered. So far, they had Breakdown, Airachnid, Knockout, Sandstorm, Starscream, Dreamcatcher, Soundwave, Skyblue, Mariposa, Midnight, Greenstripe, Predaking- Shockwave didn't want to come, and Megatron to come. Of the autobots participating, they had Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead, Jetfire, Jetstorm, Prowl, June, Fowler, Jack, Raf, and Miko. The other autobots were either too busy or didn't want to come.

What surprised Megatron more than the fact they convinced him to go?- which in all honesty wasn't surprising at all. The fact that Airachnid had once again convinced Breakdown to cook snacks for the cybertronians that will be present. Who knew the big lug could cook?

Anyways, as the girls finished packing the stuff they were going to be bringing, a groundbridge suddenly opened up, releasing a small crowd of autobots and their human friends. Miko ran up to the girls.

''Dude, Mrs. Darby made us some great tasting chocolate chip cookies, some macaroni salad, and Agent Fowler grilled some hotdogs. And I tried my hand at cupcakes. My hand succeeded!'' she said excitedly. The girls nodded enthusiastically.

''That's great! It's better than what we had gathered, which was basically junk and more junk!'' Stella said. Miko looked at her and paused.

''I didn't know you wore glasses''

''I hadn't been. Knockout's making me wear them''

''They make you look smarter and prettier. But if you need glasses, have you been wearing contacts all along?'' Miko asked. Stella shook her head.

''I haven't been wearing anything. I don't like the way contacts feel, and people pick on me when I used to wear my glasses.'' she said. Miko nodded.

''That's understandable, but it's sad that people pick on other people over the simplest of things'' she said. Stella nodded. Sarah suddenly jumped into the conversation, holding up three bags of jumbo marshmallows in one hand and trying to sign what she wanted to say with the other. She ended up spelling a lot of her words out.

''You've got marshmallows to roast later on? Cool!'' Raf said as he walked up to them, as well as Jack. Miko glanced between Jack and Megan and smirked.

''Why are you smirking?'' Jack asked.

''What are you planning this time?'' Megan asked.

''Nothing'' she said innocently- innocently as in 'I'm totally planning something!'.

''So, do you girls have any idea where we're going?'' June suddenly asked the girls, trying to keep herself distracted, and to help her remember that the decepticons weren't going to try and kill her as soon as she blinked.

''As a matter of fact, we do! We're going to a place that we used to have picnics with our granny. It's a huge clearing right on top of a mountain in Kentucky. No one hardly goes up there, so we'll be safe from anyone seeing the bots and cons, and it's got an amazing view of the mountains surrounding it. It's also got plenty of deer trails winding down the mountain, so we might even be able to go on a hike later!'' Megan said excitedly.

''Okay. So when are we leaving?'' Fowler asked. Megan scrunched her face up.

''Soon, I know that. Hey Megatron!'' she looked up at Megatron while yelling his name. He looked down at her when he heard her.

''Yes?''

''When are we leaving?''

''As soon as Breakdown finishes whatever he's doing'' Megatron said, seriously curious as to what he could be making that took forever. As if on cue, Breakdown and Airachnid walked in, both carrying cybertronian 'baskets' filled with energon snacks and goodies.

''We're leaving now'' Megatron said, finally giving the girls a solid answer. Sarah signed out the coordinates to Soundwave, and he opened up a bridge to the location. As the teenage humans all ran through the bridge, the rest of the group walked calmly through. When the last of the group was finally out, they saw the humans running around like ants once again, trying to lay down the blanket, which covered half the clearing up. It was definitely big enough for everyone to sit at. There was a teen at each corner of it, trying to flatten it out and lay it even. As soon as it was evened out, they started unpacking their backpacks. Miko dug out her cupcakes and Jack pulled out the cookies his mom made and the hotdogs Fowler made. After sitting them out, he dug out the buns, the ketchup, and mustard. No chili or anything because it really wasn't necessary. Breakdown shrugged and sat the two baskets filled with energon snacks in the center of the blanket. As they finally finished setting everything up, they called the bots and cons over to eat with them. Once everyone was situated, they started picking out what the wanted to eat. Stella made herself a hotdog with mustard on it, but no ketchup. Megan made a face.

''I'll never understand how you can eat a hotdog with pure mustard on it'' she said.

''Easy. I put it in my mouth and eat it'' Stella explained. Megan rolled her eyes.

''No one likes a smart ass'' she said. Stella just laughed.

Arcee looked at Breakdown after biting into one of the energon snacks.

''You made these?'' she asked, disbelievingly.

''Yeah, why?''

''They're great! I haven't had energon snacks like this since we were on cybertron!''

''Well, thanks. Airachnid forced me to make them'' he said.

''Oh please, you know you enjoyed making them'' Airachnid said, rolling her eyes. Breakdown tried to keep from smiling, which only made him look like an idiot. All three of them ended up laughing.

Jetfire and Jetstorm were completely entranced as Starscream told them a story of when he used to command a trine and been a fierce flight commander. They were especially curious when Starscream mentioned how many pranks one of his old trinemates used to pull.

''Tell us, mister Starscream sir, what kind of pranks did your trinemate pull?'' Jetfire asked. Stella looked up at the wide eyed twins and giggled. So did Megan, Kiwi, and Miko when they saw what she was giggling at. Sarah simply grinned widely.

''Well, for starters, his name was Skywarp. He was a huge idiot that almost always managed to get himself injured. One time, he managed to successfully glue Megatron to his throne. On another time, in a battle between the autobots, they were severely confused when they discovered he was blasting them with pink paint instead of deadly fire. Then one day he was simply following Soundwave around all day, going 'Hey Soundwave, hey Soundwave! Hey, hey! Soundwave!' all day until Soundwave finally flipped him over and drug him down the hall by his heel. Then he slung him into the rec room for all to see. He never did prank Soundwave again. Then there was the time he teamed up with Soundwave's old cassettes, Rumble and Frenzy. That was a fun one. Every time someone walked into the rec room, the most annoying song known to Cybertron would play. They had to disable the mechanism triggering the song or Megatron would have had them offlined'' Starscream said, remembering all the pranks Skywarp used to pull. Sadly though, he and Thundercracker both disappeared during a great fight between the autobots and decepticons. It was the same fight that Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage and Ratbat disappeared in. It was shortly after that when Soundwave stopped talking all together, simply using other people's voice recordings to speak. He'd vowed to not speak again until he was reunited with his missing cassettes. He was afraid to talk. If he talked, he knew he'd break down and weep like an autobot sparkling. Starscream sighed sadly. The jet twins understood that he wasn't in the mood to talk anymore, so they backed off and left him in peace. As everyone finished eating, the girls started packing everything up once everyone was done. Miko received much praise for her chocolate cupcakes, and there weren't anymore of Mrs. Darby's cookies left. There were two hotdogs left, and Mrs. Darby said she'd save those and give them to 413 later. Then, they noticed the girls looking around for a wide deer trail that all of them could go down. Finding one that was wide enough for most of the bots to slide through easily, with only a little struggle from bots bigger, they called them all over and showed them the path leading into the forest. Prowl was all for it, and so was Soundwave. As they all started walking down the trail, they tried to walk slowly and as quietly as they could. It's hard to do when you're made of metal and weigh more than four tons. Somehow they managed to be quiet enough though. Obviously for the fact a small herd of deer ran across the trail in front of them. It consisted of two does, their fawns, a young three pointer, and a ten pointer. The ten pointer stopped in the middle, looked at them, stomped it's front hoof, snorted, and then took of running to catch up with the rest of the herd. Megan grinned. As they continued on, they found more wildlife in the form of birds, a bald eagle flying way over head, a few squirrels, a chipmunk, and even a skunk. The humans advised them not to go anywhere near the skunk. They could agree, seeing as it put out a foul smell. As they moved along, they suddenly found a huge creek that could almost be classified as a small river. They all kind of stopped moving, not sure what to do next. That is until they saw Kiwi suddenly crash into the water, trying to run through it. Ever tried to run through water? Yeah, it doesn't work. She ended up swimming because her sneaker slipped on a rock underwater and she fell down into a deep part. It didn't take long at all for the rest of the teenagers to splash through the water wildly. The bots and cons all sat down. Well, most of them did. Jetfire, Jetstorm, and Greenstripe decided they were going to splash wildly as well, so they went further upstream so as to not hurt the humans, and then they went wild in the water. The humans kind of stopped what they were doing just to watch the three bots upstream bounce around, splashing water as high as the tops of the nearby trees. And that's when Megan and Jack both found out what Miko was planning, all though only Megan realized it. When Megan turned around to talk to Miko, Miko splashed water into her face. Caught by surprise, she slipped. Jack, who was right behind her, caught her, but he ended up splashing into the water as well. Megan was up like lightning, splashing water at Miko faster than she should have been. Miko was splashing back at her with the same ferocity. They'd already splashed water at each other at least thirty times before Jack finally got back up onto his feet and gathered his bearings. Then, he jumped into the splash fight as well. As the day wore on, Mrs. Darby got bored so she struck up a conversation with Megatron. They chatted the day away, and as dusk began approaching, the teens climbed out of the water, followed by Jetfire, Jetstorm, and Greenstripe. They walked back to the clearing they'd come from. Once there, Sarah dug out the three bags of jumbo marshmallows she'd brought and they went to find sticks. Fowler got a campfire started for them and then they all roasted marshmallows until they ran out. The bots and cons watched curiously, but everyone was content. It had been a good day, and now everyone was ready to sleep. Soundwave opened up a bridge to the Nemesis, but he was tired as well. It ended up being a huge sleepover in the middle of the rec room floor. Shockwave walked in to see if Predaking had come back with them, but was surprised to see that he was fast asleep, Stella passed out on top of his head. Come morning she wouldn't even know she'd been on top of him and she'd be completely on the opposite side of the room. Shockwave shrugged as he walked back to his lab. The girls were highly illogical and major pests, but maybe, just maybe...

Maybe they weren't so bad

Wow, that's a long chapter. Well, for me it is at least XD

What's this? Could it be that Shockwave does have a spark?

This is madness!