He stared at the blaster, surprised. Jazz smiled with a mischievous glint in his visor. "I win."
"T-that wasn't fair!" Sideswipe managed to say, still blushing from what happened.
"Really?" He asked as he put his blaster in his subspace again, "Cause I just pointed a blaster in your face and if I was a decepticon you would be offline. You got distracted." He smirked at that last part. Sideswipe scowled and looked away, blushing in embarrassment. Jazz reached down offering Sideswipe his servo. He took it and stood up.
"I guess I gotta do something for you now, huh?" Sideswipe said, knowing he was defeated.
"Yep, but I can't think of anything right now." Jazz said, crossing his arms, smiling while dazing around.
Sideswipe looked at Jazz sceptically. "Was that your plan?" Jazz turned to look at Sideswipe, "To flirt with me, so I'd lower my guard?" Sideswipe said, folding his arms.
Jazz looked away from him and smirked "I'll let you figure it out." Sideswipe raised an optical ridge and turned his head away.
2 hours later…
"Bee's almost back from patrol." Fixit informed Jazz. He nodded and turned to look at Sideswipe who was talking to Russell.
"Are you sure I can't come with you?" Russell pleaded.
"Yes, if Bumblebee and the others, especially your dad," Sideswipe crouched down so he eye level with Russell "find out I took you I will be parked forever."
Russell sighed sadly, frowning "Ok."
Sideswipe felt a bit guilty so thought of a solution "Maybe next time when there's not a huge risk in decepticons being near I'll take you for a drive."
"Thank, Sides." Russell said and walked back into the Alchemor to continue his lessons about how to use the console from Fixit.
Sideswipe stood up and walked to Jazz, who was smiling amusedly at him. "What?" He asked.
"Seems you're good friends with Russell." Jazz mused.
"Yeah, Bee told me to keep an optic out for him when he's not here. Russell is actually fun to hang around with since he helps me with planning my pranks."
"You prank everyone in the scrapyard?" Jazz stifled a chuckle, smiled and raised an optical ridge, his visor shining in a certain way to show Sideswipe.
"Well," Sideswipe drew out slowly "there's not much to do here, and it's actually quite fun, especially pranking Strongarm and Drift, their reactions are always worth it." Sideswipe explained, smiling at the time he remembers pranking Strongarm by changing the colour of her paint pink.
Both of them then heard the rumble of two engines coming towards them. They turned and saw the familiar yellow and orange cars. Bee and Drift transformed and walked to the Alchemor. "We didn't come across anything suspicious. Hopefully you two will have more luck, I don't like how quiet it's been, so be careful." Bumblebee gestured to Sideswipe and Jazz.
"Don't worry Bee, if the decepticons show up we'll give em a run for their shanix." After Sideswipe finished talking he transformed and drove out, with Bee and Jazz who stared in surprise as he was lost in sight.
Bumblebee sighed like he experienced this a lot "Jazz will you keep an optic out for him please?" He pleaded.
"Don't worry Bee," Jazz assured, putting his right servo on Bumblebee's shoulder "I'll keep him safe from himself."
Bumblebee nodded "Thanks. Good luck on your patrol, report to the command centre in case you do run into decepticons."
Jazz chuckled "Sure thing Bee." Then transformed and drove outside of the scrapyard where Sideswipe was waiting impatiently.
"What took you so long?" Sideswipe asked as the both of them started to drive off onto the road on the left.
"Just assuring Bee that I'll keep you out of trouble." Jazz said like it was a fact, driving beside Sideswipe.
"What trouble?" He asked surprised.
"From yourself." Jazz answered.
"I don't need a botsitter." Sideswipe said, hint of annoyance in his tone.
"Well that sucks for you, cause you do kid." You could practically hear the smile in his voice. Sideswipe growled in annoyance. Not just because he's being botsitted by Jazz but also the fact that he called Sideswipe 'kid' again.
They drove in silence for five minutes until Sideswipe turned on his radio because the silence was killing him. A song they haven't heard before came on, it was called 'Breaking Me' by Topic ft A7S. It was a calm drive with a good beat. As they drove a good distance from the scrapyard and into a country road, Jazz shifted gears and sped straight past Sideswipe, who was surprised that Jazz would be speeding. But he didn't care as he shifted gears and drove faster to catch up. He was tailing Jazz's bumper when he made a sharp turn to the right that Sideswipe had to have reflexes like lightning to not lose balance. Tires screeched and dust flew as they tried to see who was faster. Then a new song began, 'Don't Call Me Up' by Mabel, but it was barely heard as they were more focused on the race. Sideswipe was confused of where Jazz was going because it wasn't the route they were supposed to be on. The scenery was unrecognisable to Sideswipe. They were driving on a dirt road now, then a forest came into view, by this time the song ended and Sideswipe turned off the radio.
As both of them drove slowly through the forest, Sideswipe was looking around, trying to figure out where they were. He found out on his map they were in an enclosed forest that was a shortcut to the route they were supposed to be on. The forest was what you would expect, have trees, dirt and sunlight peeking through the leaves above. Jazz transformed since they were a good distance away from the road, so Sideswipe followed his lead. He was starting to grow nervous and suspicious of where Jazz was leading him but he stayed quiet, having faith that Jazz knew what he was doing. After they walked through all the trees Sideswipe started to hear the sound of rushing water. It was a waterfall.
What Sideswipe saw was beautiful, it was a small lake with a waterfall crashing from above, sliding down a cliff. The lake was sparkling like glitter from the sun shining directly on it. Sideswipe just thought it was breathtaking. Until Jazz interrupted his thoughts and broke the silence.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" He asked cheerfully, putting his hands on his hips.
"Yeah, it is." Sideswipe paused for a moment, thinking why Jazz brought him here, "Why are we here?"
"Thought we'd take a break from that race, so I found a relaxing area on Google Maps. And it looks like we're on time." Sideswipe looked at Jazz, confused at what he meant. Then the sun reached a specific point in the sky, that it shined onto the lake and waterfall to make a triple rainbow over the waterfall. Sideswipe optics widened in amazement, his mouth wide open in surprise. Jazz turned to look at him and what he saw sent his spark soaring which made him smile.
"Woah. This... is awesome. Definitely a perfect place to relax." Sideswipe said, trying to contain his amazement. He sighed and walked over to a tree nearest to the lake and sat down leaning back.
Jazz crossed his arms and smirked "You know, you still have to do something for me."
Sideswipe bowed his head, sighed tiredly and stood up "Alright, you thought of something? What do you want me to do?" He walked towards Jazz.
"Follow me."
Sideswipe obeyed and followed him into the lake which was a bit suspicious. Jazz then stopped walking and turned to face Sideswipe. "Why are we in-"
Sideswipe didn't have time to answer the question, as Jazz cupped water into his hand and splashed him in the face. Sideswipe sputtered and stepped back in surprise as water trickled down his face. "Ok, you asked for it!" He yelled as he kicked the water with his leg, which splashed all over Jazz and made him stumble a bit, but he wasn't going to fall that easily. He copied him and kicked the water but Sideswipe kicked back to defend himself. They continued this for five to ten minutes, laughing their heads off, until both of them were venting hard, with water dripping down on their bodies, seeping into their gears, that they had to stop. As they were walking out of the lake Sideswipe took notice of the way the water glistened on Jazz's body and made him shine. He didn't realise he was staring until Jazz glanced at him and quickly looked away, a blush slowly creeping on his cheeks. Jazz just smiled. Once they stepped out of the water, they transformed and drove onto the road continuing on their patrol.