"Bad habits"
Summary: When Slipstream and Cyclonus hear Barricade say some choice words, Soundwave isn't too happy...
Continuity: Revenge of the Fallen post movie
Author's note: Okay, I'm not actually sure I want to write a TF Christmas story after all.
Four Earth years had passed since Cyclonus and Slipstream had come online. It was very unexpected what had happened one day with those two; it was after their training session when they met up with Soundwave afterwards to get their day's rations of energon.
"Can we ask you something Daddy? Besides that we mean?" Slipstream asked.
"You may." Soundwave replied.
"What does 'fragging pieces of slag' mean?" Cyclonus asked.
"Where did you hear that?" the Communications officer asked, trying to mask the fact that he was shocked at his "son" saying that phrase.
"Barricade called us that when we almost accidentally fired at him during targeting practice." they replied.
Soundwave was a bit irked; he usually never swore, as he saw no point in doing so. He also did not like those things being said in the presence of sparklings. When he found Barricade, the former would give the latter something to think about...
More or less, Barricade was arguing about the whole thing. "What? They're going to hear it a lot fomr everybody else!"
"Well, I do not want them hearing anymore of that!" Soundwave yelled. "If you do say anymore of those words in front of them, I will reveal your biggest secrets to everyone else that's here."
"What secrets?"
"The one about you watching an Earth cartoon when you're supposed to on duty and actually enjoying said cartoon."
Barricade groaned but left, muttering "afthole" to his superior. Sounddwave sighed. It would take a very long time to get Cyclonus and Slipstream out of those habits.
"Daddy, what does 'slag you to the pit' mean?" Slipstream asked as she walked up to him. "Rumble said it first."
Here we go again, Soundwave thought. "Those phrases are meant to be terrible things; you are not to say them, at least not until you are much older." he replied. "Do you understand that?"
"Yes."
Frag it, Soundwave thought to himself. He would eventually have to explain what those phrases meant because more likely than not, one of those two twins was going to ask again someday but that was another story...
Author's note: Sorry I took so long to get this done; I've got another story that I'm writing and well, you'll have to find out what it is when I post it, but I will tell you that it's going to be about a different Transformers character (sorry but I'm losing inspiration for this again and am only slowly getting it again). No, it will not be as long as this and it will be about an Autobot.