"Come on".
Starscream and Skywarp looked up at Thundercracker as he stood in front of their deck chairs.
"Where to?" Skywarp asked, pushing down the sunglasses he'd borrowed from Thundercracker.
"Just come on".
Starscream and Skywarp reluctantly followed their brother to a large cage.
"And what is that?" Starscream asked.
Thundercracker shoved him and Skywarp into the cage and followed them inside, closing the door and giving a bot nearby a thumbs up. The cage began lowering.
"Thundercracker, what is this?!" Starscream demanded.
"We're going swimming with sharkticons!"
"What!?" Starscream and Skywarp yelped.
"Are you crazy!?" Starscream shrieked.
"You know how I feel about sharkticons!" Skywarp wailed.
"It's fine, we're perfectly safe in here". Thundercracker said.
"Maybe they won't come…" Skywarp muttered.
No sooner had he spoken, ten sharkticons began swimming towards the cage.
"Get us out of here!" Starscream yelled, shaking Skywarp by the shoulder.
"I can't teleport underwater!"
"Will you two calm down?" Thundercracker asked. "Their used to visitors".
"For lunch?" Skywarp asked.
"Their friendly, watch." Thundercracker stuck his arm out between the bars as one of the sharkticons approached. To his surprise, it nipped at him, and he barely jerked his arm back in time. Suddenly, all ten of the sharkticons surrounded the cage, teeth bared.
"GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Skywarp shrieked, shaking Thundercracker. Thundercracker tried contacting the bot in charge of the cage but was met with static. The sharkticons began chewing on the bars, bending a few of them.
"We're gonna be sharkticon bait!" Skywarp yelled.
"Thanks a lot, Thundercracker!" Starscream said. "What a stupid idea!"
"Look, I only invited you two along because I thought we could spend time together and have fun". Thundercracker said. "Like we used to".
Skywarp felt a little ashamed. Thundercracker could have took anyone on the cruise, but he picked his brothers.
"I'm sorry we've been such wet blankets". Skywarp said. He elbowed Starscream.
"Okay, I'm sorry". Starscream said. "Now that the tender moment is over, what do we do?"
One of the sharkticons managed to break a few of the bars, making a hole large enough to fit it's head in. Thundercracker, Skywarp and Starscream crouched down on the floor of the cage holding onto each other and screaming at the top of their vocal processors as the sharkticon wriggled half of its body into the cage. Suddenly, the cage lurched up out of the water. Starscream used his heel to knock the sharkticon out of the hole.
"Hey, sorry I missed your call," the cage operator said as the seekers stepped out of the cage. "My wife called, you know how it is". He was met with glares as the three passed by.
"I need more energon". Skywarp said.
"More!?" Starscream asked.
"Do you two forgive me for almost causing us to be sharkticon food?"
"You know, TC," Skywarp said. "this trip may have had a few snags, but thanks for bringing us along. I had a pretty good time. Well… minus the sharkticons". He looked at Starscream.
"Yes-yes, thanks. Fun had by all". Starscream said, waving a hand. "Let's all go get some energon".
That night, Thundercracker felt pretty satisfied. He didn't mind the firm bed. Starscream and Skywarp had agreed to try tennis and shuffleboard again the next day. But Skywarp had made Thundercracker promise never to sign him up for swimming with sharkticons again. And Starscream hadn't complained for five hours. Skywarp had found enough pillows to fill in the ditch in his bed and Starscream had found some fabric freshener.
"Good night everybody". Thundercracker said turning out the light.
The others muttered a response and all was quiet. For a few minutes. Skywarp's snoring filled the room and Starscream got up to get the fabric freshener again.
"This bed still smells".