AN: This is chapter THIRTY ONE. If you're looking for THIRTY, go back. IDK if you guys got alerted of a new chapter or not since I deleted the Author's Note then reuploaded the chapter?
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The Result of Squffie: Thanks for pointing that out, but I decided not to go back and fix it. Have Sam make a mistake, or whatever!
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It was a testament of just how used the NEST Cybertronians were getting used to humans. Some more than others, but those some were the needed targets in this case.
Almost all of the NEST Cybertronians had no problem with going into recharge with a human inside of them. Only some could go into recharge with a human inside of them, and stay in recharge even if the human got out, got back in, and so on. There was a total of only four who could do it, and one of them could only do it with one person. Bumblebee, Ironhide, Barricade, and Sunstreaker. Jazz was almost there, but his Special Ops training was getting in the way of it.
It hadn't even been a full week since Sam, Miles, and Orion had been returned to NEST when the plan was put into action. The plan was, naturally, planned out well, especially when one of the Autobots was roped into helping out. A movie night had been suggested, but one that had to be held outside, so that the projector could project the movie on to one of the walls. Sam and Miles had no knowledge of the plan, but could see the mischievous looks that Jazz and Epps shared through out the night. They just didn't really care, since they doubted it would be them in the line of fire.
It was cold that night, so Sam had stayed in Bumblebee, Miles had stayed in Barricade, Will in Ironhide, and Epps in Jazz. When the two teens had fallen asleep, Barricade and Bumblebee had grown bored quickly, and slipped into recharge themselves. The two young Cybertronians had activated their Guardian protocals since they both had their own Charge, and these were on high alert with what had recently happened. Neither were going to order the teens out into their own beds, though Barricade, true to his nature, did put on a show of complaining. Ironhide went into recharge with Will still awake, leading the Captain to climb out of the Weapons Speciliast and smirk at his Jazz and Epps.
They woke up the two teens, then ushered them out.
A few hours passed by, and the three pranksters gathered some of their fellow NEST members around the still in recharge Cybertronians. It helped that Jazz could jack their systems and make sure that didn't wake up until they were supposed to. Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Fig, Miles, Sam, Prowl, Ravage, and Soundwave stood, waiting.
"Al'ight, looks like everyone's 'ere!" Jazz grinned. "'ow Sunshine, Ah wan you tah scream somethin' along the lines of Decepticon attack."
Prowl frowned, "This is highly inappropriate, and none of the three will appreciate this. Ja-" He was effectively cut off by Ratchet, who made a few quick movements that shut off his vocal components.
"Now, Sam, Miles, after he does that, you guys and Will are gonna do your own scream or something, 'kay?" Epps asked, waiting for the nod. The two teens nodded, and he smirked.
Jazz held up his servo, and signaled for Sunstreaker to proceed.
"OH SLAG IT'S THE DECEPTICONS! EVERYONE GET READY TO BEAT SOME AFT! HO-HUMANS OUTTA THE WAY!"
He smacked his hand hard against the ground to make a loud clashing noise, and the three humans took this as their cue to scream.
Hearing the alarm even while in recharge, battle protocals activated in microseconds, pulling the three out of recharge quickly. Guardian protocals activated a second after when Sam, Miles, and Will screamed. Bumblebee was the first to react, transforming in an instant. Barricade followed not even a second later, but then both froze. Ironhide transformed to bipedal form, arm changing into a cannon, when he too froze. In his shock he let his cannon finishing powering up, and fired off a blast.
Everyone watched in surprise as the three mechs transformed. Thousands, no hundreds of thousands, or tiny pink and green packaging peanuts began to pour out of Bumblebee as he transformed. Some were scrunched between metal plates as they shifted and reformed, or destroyed completely. Barricade transformed, and the result was the same. Ironhide's transformation was, too, until he fired his cannon. All that happened was that thousands of tiny pink and green peanuts shot out to rain down on the assembled group of Cybertronians and humans.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Fig, Sam, and Miles started to guffaw, followed quickly by Epps, Jazz, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe. Prowl looked like he was shaking with silent laughter, his voice vocaliser still shut off. Ratchet was smirking, and Optimus looked amused even with his battle mask down.
The pink and green packaging peanuts continued to pour out of the three mechs, though now the wave was slower. Most were now surrounding them on the floor and piling up around their peds as they stood there in shock. Bumblebee bent down and picked up a handful. A strained sound left his vocaliser, before he tossed the packaging peanuts in Barricade's face, and started to laugh out right.
Sam followed his Guardian's example, and picked up a handful of the tiny peanuts. Smirking, he tossed them at Miles.
"PEANUT FIGHT!" He yelled, and the room disrupted into chaos.
"What in the world...?" Trent looked around the outside area in shock. Mikaela had been there for a few days, but then her father had gotten sick and she needed to leave, so Trent had been left in her place.
The walkway was covered in pink and green packaging peanuts, and there was even several large piles of them. In several different places large materials were turned on their sides or stacked together.
Trent looked up at Blaster, raising an eyebrow. Blaster returned his look, "Optimus suggested I should come out here, and bring you with me. I am just as lost as you are."
Neither spoke as they looked around themselves once more.
"I have a new message, this one from Bumblebee." Blaster said, and Trent looked up at him expectantly. "Most only know him by his Chinese name. Ho Lee Schitt." The mech sounded almost amused.
"Wha-" Trent was cut off as he heard a sudden loud scream to his right. He spun to that side, watching with wide eyes as Sam darted out from behind a make shift barrier and head sprinting towards him.
"Holy shit!" Was all he managed before Sam gave another war cry, and tackled him into one of the piles of packaging peanuts.
Judy and Elizabeth stared at the scene before them, looking highly amused.
"And just who do you expect to clean this mess up, hmm?" Elizabeth asked, trying hard not to laugh.
A chorus of groans was her only answer.
After Sam and Bumblebee had effectively challenged Barricade and Miles, who only naturally dragged in others, it had gone down hill. Soundwave, Ravage, and Prowl had quickly escaped, even while teams were being formed.
Barricade had Miles and Will, and they were team Flower Power. Bumblee had Sam and Fig, and they were team Buzz like a Bee. Jazz had Epps, and they made team Awesome-o. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe joined up with Ratchet, creating team Medico. When asked about the name, the Twins claimed it was from one of the fan-fictions they had read where Ironhide and Ratchet were together, and Ironhide referred to Ratchet as a Medico. And Optimus and Ironhide joined forces, calling themselves the Destroyers. Well, Ironhide had deemed them that. Optimus had just laughed. When Blaster and Trent came, they too became another team, and were thus dubbed Late to the Party.
At first, it seemed that even with the abundance of packaging peanuts they were going to have a shortage somewhere. But then Epps and Will snuck off with Jazz's holoform, all three driving back three dumpster trucks full of the green and pink things.
Then things had turned crazy. They all went to war with eachother, using the tiny pink and green packaging peanuts as ammo. There was occasional wrestling too, but barriers had been built in various strategic places to create cover and places to hide.
And now it was all over. All the Cybertronians were laid out in various places on the ground, cooling fans in high gear. Sam laying over Fig, both too lazy to move. Will was sprawled on top of Ironhide, and Miles was sprawled on top of Optimus, though no one was sure when or how he had gotten there. Trent was leaning up against Blaster, and Epps was laying on the hard ground, eyes closed as he panted. The sounds of pinging metal as it cooled down, the occasional shift of a human or Cybertronian, and the cooling fans and panting were the only sounds for a couple of minutes before Elizabeth and Judy had come out to see them.
Judy laughed, "Just how long has this been going on?"
"Well, we woke 'em up a' about... 8:30 this mornin', and i' only took us abou' ten minutes tah start fightin'..." Jazz explained, though he didn't bother to explain who the them was. It was now six at night, and they had skipped lunch. Everyone had left them alone, though Judy and Elizabeth had come to stop them since it was almost dinner time. And they had business to take care of.
"And whose idea was it?" Judy asked.
Jazz and Epps pointed at Will.
"You slagger!" Ironhide cursed, shifting just slightly as he poked Will. The human groaned, attempting to shove the annoying appendage away. Both of the mother's laughed, Elizabeth shaking her head while Judy grinned.
"We came out for two things," Judy started. "Dinner's almost done, and we need to talk to you Optimus."
There was a groan as Optimus shifted, attempting to sit up, then stopping. "You mean work?" He asked softly, his tone almost a childish whine.
This set everyone off into a small round of laughter.
"We just wanted to talk to you about our babies' schooling." Elizabeth grinned, ignoring Miles' 'Aw, mom!'.
"Oh, okay." Optimus laid back down, obviously not thinking of it as too important. "Whatever you think is best. I agree completely."
Judy smirked, "Good. We'll be ready to move in by next week."
Miles yelped in surprise as Optimus sat up quickly. He went from laying on the Prime's check plates, to landing on his his leg with a soft thump. His overworked body protested at the slightly rough treatment, and he groaned, before sliding off Optimus' leg and crawling over a few feet and laying next to Barricade.
Sam stared at his mother in surprise. Epps broke down into laughter once more, and Ratchet was shaking his head, muttering something about stupid Prime's who would get them all killed.
"What?" Sam and Optimus asked together.
Miles sat in Will's office's chair, spinning himself around and around as he waited with Will and Epps. Sam and Optimus were currently fighting with Judy and Elizabeth.
"So..." Epps began, only to trail off.
Miles grinned, "Guess I'm movin' in. I mean, I guess I see why. Soundwave was able to find us pretty easily. It just happened to be at a time when there was no NEST Cybertronian around and we were more vunerable, but those two can't always be with us anyay."
Sam slumped visibly on Optimus' desk, and the Matrix bearer himself vented softly in the Cybertronian version of a sigh.
"Sam and Miles can move in, along with Mikaela and Trent, for safety purposes, and complete their teaching here. The rest of you will only be able to stay during visitations, however."
And the next round of fighting began.
In the end they ended up making the compromise Optimus had offered. The teens would be allowed to move in, and be offered online classes as well as being driven to a class occasionally when needed. Their families would be allowed to visit, but only for a certain amount of time.
Even though they had lost a bit of what they wanted, Judy and Elizabeth had still sauntered out with their heads held high. Optimus had followed with Sam sitting in his hand, both looking like they had just went a round with five Megatrons and came out on the losing side.
This was an unending source of amusement for everyone at the dinner table with them, and holoforms were a lot more expressive then their natural Cybertronian expressions would have been.
The only thing that had brought down their mood was when Prowl had appeared, saying everyone who had participated, minus Optimus, Ratchet, and Blaster, had to pick up every single last one of the packaging peanuts up. Miles and Sam were assigned the duty of helping pick out any stuck ones from Bumblebee and Barricade even if they hadn't helped out, and Jazz and Will were assigned to Ironhide.
Once Prowl had left it had been rather quiet, until Miles leaned back in his seat and smirked.
"You know, he only said we had to pick them up, not what we had to do with them..."