Chapter Thirty-Eight: False Alert, Real Threat.
A/N My first gay bot couple! Yay! Also when i bring in several other bots I know that they are the same as some of these bots, like Dino and Mirage are the same, but hey I need to kill someone sometime. So if Dino ever shows up know that he will die but Mirage will continue to live.
October rarely left Ironhide's side after the arrivals showed up, unless another mech was with her. A week had come and gone before Optimus called ironhide away for a mission. Rogue 'Cons had been spotted, and he needed fighters to take them down. Ironhide, the terror twins, Chromia, and himself would go and take care of the group with Ratchet as back up and to help should any serious injury occur. October figured that since the femme that hated her was going out on a mission, she would be safe to wander.
Finally some alone time! Well, not really. Mikaela was there. Alone, as in no bots hovering is what she meant. They honestly hovered, figuratively, not literally (for when she had yelled at one for hovering, they stated that only flyers hovered), and it was beginning to irk her. Walking to the rec. room, she gladly sat on the couch next to her friend and rolled her shoulder.
"Hey there my warrior Goddess," Wheelie said, as he and Brains moved to join them on the couch. He squished between October and Mikaela to snuggle up to the femme that he had been flirting with since his accidental creation a year ago, when the second shard of the all spark showed up. Brains grumbled on about Wheelie being an idiot, and gave a small nod of acknowledgement to October. Wheelie may have been an idiot, but he wasn't suicidal enough to go for Ironhide's femme, even if it was only jokingly.
"I'm taken you little creep, scat." Wheelie, Brains, and October looked at her as if she were crazy. This was news to all of them. "You were in the hospital, so I never got a chance to tell you. But me and Ratch, well," Mikaela's face turned a light crimson color, and the once Decepticon bots groaned. Femme talk. Brains grumbled, saying he would rather be scrapped twice over than listen to this, while the red eyed tiny bot scrambled after his friend.
"Hey, you aside for five minutes, you don't think those two are- do you?" October asked watching the two leave. "Like, they never go anywhere without the other, and while Wheelie flirts, it's never serious, and if Brains gets too upset about it he stops. Like, think about it," October insisted upon Mikaela's weirded out look.
"Well, the bots are able to bond with us, so it doesn't seem too far off that they could be gay too... Holy Shit! Brains and Wheelie are gay!" Both girls looked back to the long closed door now with wide shocked eyes as the thoughts finally settled into their minds. Gay... Bots...
"You don't think others are gay too?" Mikaela asked. Had Ratchet been gay before her? If so, with who? Optimus? Nah, well... nah. Ironhide though. Ironhide was someone that could easily have been with Ratchet- "You don't think,"
"Ratchet and 'Hide?" October asked swallowing hard. "Nah."
"Yeah. Agreed." Both girls went silent though. Images of Ratchet and Ironhide plaguing their minds. October's bond with Ironhide was strong enough that the thought caused him to slam on his brakes as the images of him and Ratchet acting in gay interfacing hit him hard, and he was terrified of what could be causing October to think up of such false images.
"But you don't think- Never mind. Ironhide seems to know what I am thinking and is as disturbed by it as us. Anyway, you and Ratchet?" October said finally shaking the images from her mind. Though not Ironhide's intentions of proving to her he was not gay for another bot. Ever.
"Right before you went into the hospital, the twins painted Ratchet," October snickered knowing that she had helped with that. "Well, I was helping scrub him down, and apparently I came in contact with some fluids that were directly from his spark. It caused us to bond. We haven't gotten really close or anything, but I would like to. You were right when you said he's actually kinda cool."
"He's not bad, but I only said that so that you and Sam wouldn't suspect I had gotten a concussion." Mikaela rolled her eyes. She had known something had happened, and now she knew what.
Their discussion continued for a small while before going back to gay bots. Though this time they were completely joking about it. "Dude! Imagine Optimus and Jazz." October huffed out laughter at what Mikaela was implying. "Lil man is perfect height for giving the big bot some mouthy love, if you know what I mean." Their howl of laughter drew the attention of a certain saboteur who was horrified at the implications they were saying about him. "Then again he's nearly that height for any of the bots."
"Oh come on, he's not that short. And besides, I bet he's the dominant one. A Napoleon man." October felt immensely guilty because she liked to consider Jazz a friend. "But not really. Honestly, he has to be one of the straightest bots I can think of. Skids and Mudflap must have had something but broke it off. Look at all of their sexual tension! The fights over the most stupid little things-"
"Yo! We's not gay!" One of the twins yelled horrified as they came in to hear that part of the conversation.
"Never fer each otha! Dat's just sick!"
"Yous da gay ones!" The two made to grab the femmes, and Jazz just held the door open for them to scurry out of. He was not going to help them, but October had redeemed them enough that he wouldn't hinder them either. Let the others save the femmes from this set of twins.
His comm link went off and he answered it, only to find out that Chromia was missing and he was now in charge of October. "Slag," he grumbled going off to find the femme that he had just released from the room. Why could Prime not have contacted him even seconds before? Though with the yells from the idiot twins, he figured they would be easy enough to find.
His hud on his visor lit up, and a dot that flickered between red and yellow appeared. Either it was a con that was horrible at hiding their signature, or it was a bot turning Con. Chromia! Jazz turned the hud on fully, and found the signatures of Mudflap and Skids, ::Yo! Stop Fragging around! Chromia is in the base an' she's showing up as a Con! Get the femmes to safety!::
::But dayz been rude, saying mes and Mud are gay fer each otha.::
::You want ta be the one ta tell ol' 'Hide his femme is dead cuz you two were too stupid ta protect her?:: Jazz hissed though the link, heading to confront Chromia. He was planning to just talk to her until back up, in the form of three wreckers that were out in the forest breaking down more trees to build more rooms, came. He had already sent out a distress signal to them and Optimus.
How hard could it be to distract a femme for a few minutes? "Hows tha mission go-" His sensors went wild. Pain from his abdomen made him collapse, and he sent out a warning to every other bot. Chromia was hostile. The hole in his abdomen proved it. Something in his mind cried for him, begged him not to shutter his optics. His spark fought to listen. Jolt and Mirage ran into the room. Jolt was an apprentice to Ratchet, only because Ratchet was desperate for at least a second medic and had begun training the reluctant jokester. Now though, Jolt was glad for that.
He began trying to stabilize Jazz as best as he could until Ratchet could return. Mirage went to attack Chromia, but a shot from her had him dodging and unable to fire. Taking this chance, she ran towards where the signature of the twins were. She had figured that if the human was not here being protected, than it might be with the twins. Wheeljack was pushed out of the way by her, and his helm made contact with the concrete wall hard enough to scramble his processor. Mirage was at his side instantly. The friends had been through a lot out in space, and it had been just them them for so long.
The wreckers burst in looking for the threat, but only found a severely injured Jazz with Jolt trying to slow the Energon loss, and Wheeljack laying on Mirage with flickering optics. Bee and the idiot twins were the only ones unaccounted for.
Her false Con threat had taken away the best fighters from the base, and she had taken Jazz off guard. The young scout had nothing he could do to harm her, and those idiot twins were easy enough to beat. Chromia only had to worry about the wreckers. Brutes that used mostly force, she was sure she could handle them. If she could get the stupid bug and squash it she could escape before the wreckers had a chance to get to her. Then Ironhide would be hers again. If he wanted a stupid Sparkling she would give him one. Whatever it took to keep him as hers.
The idiot twins were being the idiots they were, and she managed to get past the arguing duo. Honestly, who cared who the 'gay one' was? They should be doing their duty and trying to protect the bug. Though Chromia wasn't protesting, it just made it easier for her. Into the refueling center she went, and her optics searched for where the bug could be. It was so small that there were many, many places it could be.
Intent on looking for the tiny thing, she didn't hear the near silent lock move into place. Though she took note that the arguing twins had stopped. Probably getting told off via com link.
She never even thought that it had been a ploy created by Mikaela and October. The twins were known for arguing so why would she think differently if they were arguing now? Once in the kitchen area Mikaela and October instructed the twins to lock the door and retreat. Back in the second hanger, where the rest of the bots were, October's heart stuttered. Jazz was fading and fast.
Mikaela ran to him as soon as Mudflap set her down, while his golden toothed brother still held onto October. They may need to make a quick escape still, the sound of a cannon going off back behind them reminded them that there was a large danger still close by. In rolled the missing Autobots and the twins just stared. Skids began to fumble over his words trying to explain how he and his brother pulled off a flawless plan and captured Chromia, but all he did was get out words that made no sense.
The bots transformed, and in seconds they were moving. Ratchet was barking for the twins, the terror twins that is, to bring Jazz to the medbay while Mirage was to drag Wheeljack there. Optimus ordered the wreckers to make sure that if Chromia got here, she was not to get past them to the two twins that were to keep a close eye on October. He and Ironhide would deal with this.
Chromia was now a threat. She could not be allowed to continue like this. October was unable to see it but the rest of the bots knew. Ironhide's optics were no longer blue, the red had leaked into them from his battle mode and turned them violet. The violent nature of him combined with the unpredictable battle mode made no bot question if Chromia would come out alive.