Thank you everybody, for your very encouraging and helpful reviews. As a random side-note for no apparent reason, I love trees! Yeah, I'm a crazy tree-hugger person, yay! OK, now that my insanity-quota for the day has been filled…
The following day, the Decepticons all avoided their leader as much as possible, since they had no idea what might happen while he was delirious.
As it turned out, he seemed to be… drawing pictures. On the floor. With his pointy hand-claws. They were pictures of how he wanted to kill his enemies, particularly Starscream.
Megatron apparently either had no artistic talent whatsoever, or nobody could fully comprehend what he drew because it was so horrifying.
In any case, everyone aboard the "pinecone ship" (as he still called it) stayed as far away from Megatron as they could. Until Caterwaul suggested something that might be fun to do to him.
Maybe the 'Cons still had some of the caffeine-energon in their systems, because they eventually agreed. After agreeing to the Decepticat's strange idea, the Decepticons set out to get the needed supplies.
Starscream had to get several buckets of purple paint. Knockout and Breakdown had to get the biggest quartz crystals they could find. Soundwave had to get several of his cameras. Caterwaul had to get 10… ferrets? (Yes, ferrets, because I love ferrets.) And the drones had to get ferret-treats and glue.
Everyone returned to the ship with their cargo, via ground-bridge. Then, they all watched curiously as Caterwaul painted the quartz purple, using her tail-fur.
She then stuck ferret-treats to the crystals with the glue and, after waiting for it to dry, the plan (*cough cough* prank) was ready!
Cautiously, the Decepticons snuck over to where Megatron was in the supply room, still drawing pictures of Starscream dying. Caterwaul quietly snickered, while the jet-con felt as if he was going to be sick.
Then, Caterwaul shoved the pile of quartz crystals into the room as fast as she could, and everyone hid.
From their hiding places, the Decepticons were able to see their leader pick up the crystals and start yelling about Dark energon. Megatron then tried to jab a piece of quartz into his chest. Nothing happened, except that the crystal broke.
"Why aren't I glowing with Dark energon power?" he demanded out loud, and then attempted to actually eat some of the crystals, which didn't work at all.
And that's when Caterwaul sent in the ferrets.
The adorable furry animals could smell the treats on the quartz, and began dragging the crystals away. (It was really cute to watch; anyone who has a ferret knows what I'm talking about.)
"NOOOO!" Megatron shouted hysterically, "The fuzzy things are stealing my Dark energon! Stop it, fuzzies!" The fuzzies scattered, dropping the purple quartz and bouncing away in a most adorable and hilarious fashion.
Megatron, still delusional, thought the ferrets had his 'Dark energon,' and chased them around the ship. While he did so, Caterwaul and the others hid the purple quartz, and then ran off.
When Megatron came back to the room, unable to catch any of the ferrets, the purple crystals were gone. Caterwaul used the remaining ferret-treats to lure out the fuzzies, after which she returned them all to the pet store where she'd gotten them.
To this day, Megatron still thinks the whole thing was a hallucination.
Didn't make sense, I know. Fear not; the next chapter has no more craziness.