AN: You people seem to like cat!Miles, which is good. It's great to know my readers have a twisted mind just like me. :)
Bookworm Gal: Miles makes a great cat.
Fk306 animelover: Glad you like it! And I have another idea for embarrassing Ironhide. I think you should go through with that idea yourself!
Autobot Firekat: No, you can not have kitty Miles! He's all mine! BWAHAHAHAH
The Result of Squffie: Yes, Wheeljack could have done a lot worse.
writergurl616: Miles with Flynn Rider's haircut from tangled? Hmm, maybe. I personally loved Flynn, and his SMOULDER.
anonybot: The only other add on was one not seen, and that'll be explained if you read on.
Holen-Snape: I'm happy you like it, thanks for the review!
LionLover190: As I have no life, and I wanted to write the "second version" of part of this chapter, here's your update!
Sidenote: I wrote a "second version" of the game that was created in this. Mainly to satisfy my own Barricade/Miles craving. It's like an AU of that part of this chapter, since idk about relationships in this just yet. If any of you read "It was only a kiss" it's like a sequel to that, but Cade/Miles instead of Bee/Sam. It will be called "Blame it on the high grade"
REVIEW OR RETURN OF CAT!MILES IS NIGH! Wait... that's good... so, uh... REVIEW, OR CAT!MILES WILL NOT BE FED! HELP FEED CAT MILES
When Sam arrived at the base around eight in the morning with Bumblebee and Mikaela, he wasn't expecting to hear so much about a new cat that had popped up. Both of them were already in their costumes, and while he was thoroughly embarrassed and found it awkward to ride in Bee, he figured he could always get Miles back later. Currently, he was in the Autobot rec-room with Will, Mikaela, Barricade, and a few of the 'bots. They had just been introduced to Blurr, thankfully without being shaken around like Miles had been.
"So what's this about a stray cat?" Mikaela asked Will.
Will tried not to smirk. "Oh, Wheeljack ma-found him. If you hear a bell anywhere that's probably him. Last I heard his name was Flower, and he was in the med bay with Ratchet and Wheeljack."
"Heard anything about Miles? I haven't seen him since I dropped him off at the lab." Barricade stated, obviously not caring about any new cat that had been found.
"Oh, uhm, I think he's in the med bay too." Will replied, snorting with laughter but trying to cover it up with coughs.
Sam and Mikaela gave Will an odd look while Bumblebee and Barricade just shook their heads, walking out of the room with the two teenagers. They walked to the med bay, and could already hear Ratchet screaming and throwing things when they were two halls away. Sam paused, not wanting to go on anymore, but Mikaela grabbed him and pushed him onwards.
When they entered the med bay they weren't surprised to see Ratchet or Wheeljack, but they were surprised to see Miles sitting on one of the giant berths. It slowly clicked who the new cat was when they saw the cat ears and tail, as well as the collar with a bell on his neck. It looked like someone had drawn whiskers on his cheeks, and somehow forced him into cat paw gloves. Sam's mouth dropped open, and Mikaela said something about him being cute, causing Miles and the two 'bots to notice the newcomers.
"Hi guys!" Miles said in a cheerful voice, though his ears and tail hinted at his irritation. "It looks like these things are literally attached and we have no way of just yanking them off because someone did something with… well, spinal chord something or another. It all flew over my head, but it can't just be pulled out. And I have nano-something or fucking other in me, isn't that great?"
Wheeljack huffed, "There will only be a few side effects from the nanobots. I programmed them to make you a bit more cat like. Worse comes to worse they go wild and start mutating you. But don't worry, we'll offline you before that gets too bad, young Miles."
Miles looked at him horrified, ears flattened against his head. Sam and Mikaela had about the same expression, Ratchet looked pissed, Barricade looked pissed, and Bumblebee looked a mixture between worry, shock, and amusement.
"Relax! I was just kidding!" Wheeljack exclaimed, rolling his optics at all of them. "If anything the nanobots will only help Miles. Make his sense of smell sharper, eye sight keener as well as possibly giving him the chance to see in the dark, his canines might get a bit sharper, as well as his nails. The ears on top of his head he'll never actually be able to hear out of, he still has his regular ears. That's only if the nanobots don't deactivate as soon as we remove the tail and ears like they're supposed to. …Or if we can't get the ears and tail off in time. Oh, he might get a bit more flexible and might land on his feet more often, too. Besides that I can't think of anything."
Ratchet picked up a wrench while Wheeljack was talking, and tossed it right as he finished. Miles and Sam visibly flinched out the loud clang, and then again when Wheeljack hit the ground. It looked like Ratchet had offlined him in one hit.
"Glitched in the processor! Nothing more than a useless scrap heap! Aft for brains…" Ratchet could be heard muttering as he bent down to pick Wheeljack up and put him on a berth. "You! Get out of here, I'll see what I can do!" He snapped at Miles, startling him.
Miles jumped off the berth and quickly hightailed it over to his four friends. They all practically raced out of the room when they saw Ratchet pick up another wrench. When they got to the human rec-room Sam and Mikaela gave Miles a full once over.
"Epps and Jazz caught me. This stuff came from some roleplay kink box, and Epps won't give me the key to the collar!" Miles exclaimed, huffing. "I'm more thankful that it hadn't been opened, and they only forced the gloves and the collar on me."
Sam laughed, "Okay, I don't think I need to get you back at all!"
"I can't believe 'Cade here was actually stupid enough to let you have Wheeljack do anything for you!" Mikaela said, prompting both Sam and Bee to nod in agreement.
"You know, I actually agree with you, 'Kaela." Miles stated. "Why the hell didn't you tell me I was being completely stupid?"
Barricade growled, "Don't blame this on me! The last time I told you not to do something you went and did it anyway, and got hurt just like I said you would."
Miles was about to reply when they heard Epps screaming from down the hall. They turned to look at him as he ran towards them, then past them. They saw some large orange mech turn the corner, realizing it was Ironhide after a moment. They watched as Ironhide tried to shoot at Epps, but all that came out of his cannons were pumpkin guts. Sam started to laugh, but squeaked and hid behind Miles when a cannon pointed in his face.
"Dude. You're a fucking jack-o-lantern!" Miles said, laughing. "But I know of two others who did this to you. I need to get them back, anyway."
Ironhide narrowed his optics, "Who? I assumed he worked with the twins."
"Nope!" Miles exclaimed, smirking. "Will and Jazz. Will gave them your recharge cycle and helped replace your ammo. Jazz and Epps did your costume."
"Thanks." Ironhide stated, before turning into his alt mode and racing down the hall after Epps.
Sam turned to look at Miles. "You know they're slagged, right?"
"Will turned on me, and Jazz and Epps deserve it." Miles explained, shrugging. "Now I only need to get Prowl."
"Prowl?" Bumblebee asked, raising an optic ridge.
"He approved Wheeljack's idea. Personally I think he was getting me back." Miles replied, already walking away down the hall. Every step made the bell on his collar jingle.
The four followed Miles, pretty sure that Prowl would never have it in him to do something like that. After a minute or two of silence Sam crept up on Miles, and reached his hand out and yanked on his tail. He snickered when Miles hissed and glared at him.
"Cat suits you perfectly, bro!" Sam said, grinning.
Miles glared, "And your costume suits you perfectly. I didn't know they were going to put Bee's bee-otch on the side, but it fits."
Mikaela snickered, striking a pose next to her boyfriend. "I think we both look fabulous!" Her costume, however, did not have Bee's bee-otch on the side.
"I have to concur. I enjoy having my own cheerleaders." Bumblebee said, smirking.
Sam glared, grabbing Miles and dragging him off down the hall. "So, how soon will those things be off?"
Miles froze. "Oh God, I don't know! I can't go home like this, my parents have no idea about Cybertronians! They'll think I've been experimented on or something! And I have things inside of me! Those nanobots!"
"Woah, calm down. It'll be figured out soon and until then we'll just lie to your parents." Sam said, trying to comfort his friend, but when Mikaela glared at him he figured he had failed.
Mikaela stepped up, sneaking her hand up towards Miles head and stroking one of his ears. "Don't worry, Ratchet's good. They'll be gone quickly. Sam can bring you any homework you have, and if you need to talk to your parents just wear a hat and sit on your tail. No different than one of your usual stays here." A pause, followed by a giggle. "And one of those side effects must be purring."
Miles groaned, not even realizing he had been doing so. "Great. I'm a slagging cat."
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!" Barricade called, gesturing for Miles to come to him.
Miles just hissed at him.
News of Miles' predicament had spread through the base quickly, and a lot of people started to call him kitty, or joked about the return of ceiling cat being nigh. By the time the party was really starting Miles had took up an almost permanent spot by Barricade, knowing the 'con would scare the most annoying people away.
Ratchet and Wheeljack were working on a way to fix Miles. The last thing Ratchet wanted was the boy to be stuck with NEST for the rest of his life because a poor excuse of a scrap heap had thought it good to do something to the human's body without his permisson.
When Prowl and Miles had crossed paths Miles had almost though Prowl was innocent and hadn't done it for payback, but he caught the slightest smirk on his faceplates and glared at the mech. "You're better than I thought. Better watch yourself, Prowler." Miles had stated.
Prowl had just smirked at him, "I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about Miles Lancaster."
Those closer to Miles were half surprised he wasn't freaking out more, but then again they were doing their best to distract him. It helped when the twins called everyone in to the haunted maze they had taken the liberty of making. Everyone had to go in on foot, and the Cybertronians had to use their holoforms to make it more fair. Only three were allowed in at a time, and the first three to go were Miles, Barricade, and Sam. Not even twenty feet from the opening and Miles was already holding on to Barricade's arm, scared of what the twins might have in store.
It wasn't that bad, the few cheap thrills that would make up the basic haunted maze. They were almost to the middle when they heard Sideswipe's voice come out of a speaker placed on the ground.
"You're almost to the middle, congrajulations! At the very center of the maze is where our scariest horror awaits, so don't be too alarmed!" Sideswipe said, cutting off the transmission soon after.
Suddenly wary, the three made it to the center of the maze. Sam and Miles stared in shock at what they were seeing, trying to comprehend it, and Barricade was torn between shock, anger, disgust, and amusement.
There were holograms of Starscream and Megatron in all their bipedal glory... interfacing. Then directly next to those holograms were fake holoforms of the two Decepticons, giving them human forms to show them having sex.
"OH MY GOD MY POOR INNOCENT EYES!" Sam screamed, attempting to run past the holograms to the other side of the maze.
It turned out that this was a mistake, because Miles watched as bipedal Megatron got a chord from... somewhere, he didn't want to look too closely, and had it go after Sam and pick the poor human up. When the fake Megatron asked Sam to join them in their interface Miles had turned to Barricade with a horrified look, and Barricade had just turned him around and guided him back the way they came.
They could hear Sam screaming as they left him behind, but Miles wasn't too worried when he heard Bumblebee shouting at the twins, and could see the scout enter the maze in bipedal form. Barricade just didn't care.
Barricade entered the human rec-room with Sam, Miles, Mikaela, and Bumblebee. Every Cybertronian in the rec-room were currently in holoform so they could fit inside of it. Besides them there was Maggie, Will, Epps, Jazz, Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet, Blurr, Fig, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, and a few other army personnel that he couldn't bother to think of names for. There was plenty of high grade Energon for the Cybertronians to drink, and alcoholic beverages for the humans. The room was full of decorations for Halloween.
Ironhide was still painted as a pumpkin, Sam and Mikaela were still 'cheerleaders' for Bumblebee, Bumblebee himself was a vampire, Will was a knight, Epps was a zombie, Jazz was Yoda, Ratchet was dressed as an evil doctor, Blurr was a farmer, Fig was a Spanish conquistador, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker were each other, Maggie and Optimus hadn't bothered.
Everyone had something to drink. High grade was basically alcohol to a Cybertronian, though they usually remained stable and able to speak well. Even Sam, Mikaela, and Miles had something to drink, seeing as they were nearly eighteen and around more than capable of supervising adults. Cybertronian wise, anyway. Mikaela was only slightly buzzed, but Sam and Miles were apparently light weights. It appeared tha Bumblebee, Blurr, and Sideswipe were, too. Blurr actually slowed down, though, which was a blessing for everyone.
Sam was still upset after the twins latest prank, and had been avoiding touching Mikaela like the plague. As if just a touch could remind him of what he had seen. Both Miles and Barricade were trying their best to forget the extremely realistic holograms as well.
It helped when at one point they had gone around the room, telling something about themselves that no body else knew. Ironhide, who had been completely drunk by then, had admitted to playing pretty princess with Annabelle and enjoying it. The Weapons Specialist had then gotten angry when everyone had laughed at him, and Will and Optimus had had to drag him out of the room and get him to go recharge.
At one point, later on in the night when most of the people had gone to sleep, the remaining beings there had decided to make their own game. It was a mix of spin the bottle, the card kissing game, chicken, and seven minutes in heaven. If the person couldn't transfer the card to the person next to them successfully then the two had to play the kissing version of chicken. If one of them was chiceken then they'd lose and the braver would win, if both kissed then they had to make out for three minutes in front of all the others. The two people that were participating were chosen by a spinning bottle.
Sam, Bumblebee, Barricade, Miles, Epps, Jazz, Will, Sideswipe, and Maggie were the only ones playing the game, all at several different stages of 'intoxicated'. Will and Epps had been the first go, and when Will backed out during chicken Epps kissed him anyway since Sideswipe had a camera. Afterwards he had turned towards the camera and had actually told Sarah, who he assumed would see it, that if she was jealous he would kiss her too.
The only two who had gone the three whole minutes of making out was Barricade and Miles, though Maggie and Jazz had came close. Sam and Bumblebee had been paired up at one point, much to Maggie's excitement, but Sam had chickened out. After Barricade and Miles had both technically won their round, Miles had exclaimed that Maggie owed him money because she had said she'd pay to see the two of them kiss. Bumblebee and Sideswipe had almost felt sorry for her, but they were just too amused to actually feel that way from the look of embarrassment on her face.
The nine had fallen asleep in the human rec-room, the Cybertronians staying in there holoforms. Miles was using Barricade as a pillow as Barricade sat on one of the couches, Miles taking up the rest of it. Maggie had one of the couches all to herself, Epps was in a lazy boy, Bumblebee and Sam were sharing another couch, and Sideswipe, Jazz, and Will were on the floor.
They all were woken up by an amused Fig, who had found the camera and was holding it up.
"Well, well, you lot had some fun last night, hmm?" Fig drawled, smirking.
Miles and Sam had just groaned, one burying his head further in Barricade's lap, while the other put his hands over his ears. The Cybertronians came back online quicker, and all had clear processors as they stared at Fig in shock. And then Sideswipe had growled, giving chase.