Night walked into the room to see that there was yet another dog plushie on her bed. They always dropped them off when she wasn't here so it was always a surprise to come back to. She had thanked the twins for the first plushie when she saw them for a training session and they had explained that it was both a gift and an apology, but she hadn't seen them since then. Between the patrols and the work she was doing with the construction crew, she'd been really busy lately. Right now she had six plushies lining the edge of her berth. They were all dogs and each was a different species. Echo looked over at her collection and laughed.

"Oh, they are so into you," said Echo.

"They said the first one was like an apology gift," said Night.

"Maybe," said Echo smiling slyly. "But gift two through six obviously wasn't. Unless of course they've managed to insult you that many times and you didn't tell me."

"It's nothing like that," said Night shaking her head. "I haven't seen them lately so it's not like I can ask. It's not like they've asked me to court them either so I don't want to jump to conclusions. As far as I know, they see me as a friend."

"Maybe this is their way of keeping in touch with you when they can't be there," said Echo. "Leave it to Sideswipe to give you something you're meant to sleep with. He's not really good about being subtle."

Night snorted.

"I'm headed to the rec room," said Echo. "Do you want to come with? A bunch of us is meeting up. Flareup said there's this game she wants to teach me."

"Will Jazz be there?" asked Night glancing her way.

Echo ducked her head shyly. "He was invited as well. Whether he shows up or not is up to his schedule."

"How are things going with him?" asked Night.

"After I apologized, it was like everything reset," said Echo. "I suppose I should be grateful. We chat when we meet up in the rec room, but that's as far as it goes. It's kind of what I was expecting. I sort of threw most of the mechs for a loop when I let my real personality out, but on the plus side at least I don't have to fend off as many courtship requests. Cliffjumper blames my personality shift on Arcee just to get a rise out of her. It's pretty funny to watch."

"I'll go," said Night. "Maybe I'll run into the twins."

Echo and Night entered the rec room just in time to see a mini brawl going on. Mudflap and Skids were tangled up in a brawl with Cliffjumper, Brawn, Windcharger and Huffer. The twins instead of fighting each other were tag teaming the other bots in the fight. From the way some of them were stumbling, Night could tell that they were overcharged so it was unlikely they'd listen to reason. Night immediately commed Prowl about the brawl and he sent a reply that help was on the way. A moment later a chair was flung their way. Both Night and Echo ducked and the chair sailed over them. Behind them they heard a clang and a muffled cry and they exchanged a glance before turning around. Inferno was on the ground holding his head where he'd been hit by the chair. It was still laying half on top of him.

"I'll take care of him. You see if you can break them up," said Echo pulling the chair off of Inferno and crouching down over him. She gently fingered the dent on his head in concern as his optics came back online.

Night stepped into the rec room sidestepping another chair that came her way. She was coming up behind Brawn when she saw the twins enter the rec room. They took one look at her and then waded into the battle. Sunstreaker grabbed Huffer and put him into a headlock. Sideswipe tackled Cliffjumper and they crashed to the floor. To his credit even pinned down, Cliffjumper didn't stop struggling. Brawn had evaded her, but Night managed to get a lock on Mudflap and when Skids went to retaliate, she moved fast enough for the hit to land on Mudflap instead of herself. Night could hear both Sunstreaker and Sideswipe snarl suddenly and Mudflap immediately started swearing at his brother for hitting him. Red Alert ran into the room and incapacitated Skids before he could try again. Skyfire came in as well followed by Prowl. Skyfire grabbed the last two mini bots one in each hand and held them away from each other and off the ground.

Outside in the hallway, Echo had gotten Inferno to his feet and was taking him to the med bay to get checked out. He seemed to be walking okay, but his arm was draped over her shoulders just in case. They had nearly made it to med bay when Inferno started to go over. Echo immediately clutched him around the chest trying to keep him upright. She glanced down the hall in a panic and spotted Jazz and Flareup headed her way. They stopped and froze for a minute staring at them. Flareup looked like she'd won a prize while Jazz looked like he'd been dropped kicked by Megatron.

"Jazz, Flareup," called Echo desperately. "I need help getting him into med bay."

Jazz immediately ran over and helped her support Inferno while Flareup trailed behind. They quickly made it into the med bay where Echo explained what had happened to First Aid. "You might be expecting a few more mini bots provided they don't throw them directly into the brig," said Echo.

First Aid sighed and shook his head.

Jazz, Flareup and Echo headed out of the med bay and back toward the rec room to see if they could still use it for their game. Flareup suddenly giggled and patted Echo on the arm.

"What?" asked Echo raising an eye ridge suspiciously.

"When we first saw you in the hallway, we thought we had interrupted a romantic moment," said Flareup smirking.

"I was trying to stop Inferno from falling over," said Echo. "He didn't need to be busted up further."

"Yea, but it looked like you were hugging him," said Flareup laughing.

"That might be your thing," said Echo in retaliation. "But I prefer to keep my romantic moments off camera." She nodded toward the camera in the hallway.

"At least I'd have a record," said Flareup saucily.

Jazz coughed to get their attention as he trailed behind the two femmes.

"Sorry Jazz," said Echo immediately. "Flareup, don't scar the mech."

They arrived at the rec room to see that it was empty. A few tables and chairs were still knocked over, but for the most part the damage was minimal. They went around and set everything where is should be. Jazz took a seat next to Echo as they waited for the rest of the group to show up.

Down in the brig, the mini bots and the younger twins were tossed into the empty cells under Prowl's direction. Skyfire headed back to the lab while Red Alert went to the med bay to check on Inferno. He told Night that Justice was currently watching the monitors so he wasn't worried. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe escorted Night back toward the rec room after sending some choice insults toward the brig residents.

"You're not hurt, are you?" asked Sunstreaker looking her over as they walked.

"No I'm fine," said Night. "What about you?"

"Not even a scratch," said Sunstreaker.

"I got scratched," stated Sideswipe.

"Because you tackled the fragger," pointed out Sunstreaker.

"Well even for a mini bot, Cliffjumper is a scrapper," said Sideswipe. "The only one that could take him down without getting scraped up is probably Ratchet."

"True," agreed Sunstreaker.

They entered the rec room to see Flareup, Jazz, Hound, Echo, Groove, Bumblebee and Bluestreak already there.

"Are you two playing?" asked Night nodding toward the table.

"We will if you do," said Sideswipe.