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Out Fishing
You know when you spend a few days on a story and then end up deleting the whole thing to restart it, yep happened to me. But I gotta say this is a much better chapter than what I was previously going to put up. But Enough Chatter, Enjoy!
Thursday: 1000 hours, AUTOBOT FRAT HOUSE
There was nothing to do and the Autobots were becoming more and more bored by the minute. The only one who was being productive was Ratchet who was working on his computer trying to get work for his next class ready. Optimus walked up and sat in the chair across from the Autobot medic, he seemed anxious and nervous at the same time. Ratchet looked up from his computer and then shut it.
"Is there something bothering you Optimus?" He asked looking worried and confused.
"Ratchet, I think I am becoming sick."
"How so?"
"Well, I can't stop thinking about this one person, and whenever I do I... this feeling washed over me."
"This would be expected, you are not cybertronian anymore, the Matrix is not holding back your emotions. You're most likely just feeling them coming back to you all at once."
"It is not like that, it's this feeling I have not felt before, and if I have I don't remember it."
"Can you explain what makes this feeling come to you."
"Well, I can be doing anything, but once I think of this person it.. it just comes and I feel... I feel as if my heart is going to... burst. Does that make any sense?" Optimus knew he sounded different from his normal self, he just wanted to know what was happening to him.
"Who is this person you're talking about?" Optimus took in a deep breath before answering.
"Arcee." Ratchets eyes widened at this, he knew Optimus had, had feelings for her, he just didn't know that they were this strong.
"Optimus, this feeling that you have is one I have not seen in you forever, in fact it has never been this strong."
"What is it?"
"This feeling is 'Love' Optimus, and I'm afraid I can't help you much in that aspect except to follow what you know is the right path." Optimus sighed and got up from his seat.
"Thank you anyways Old Friend." He got up from the table and walked away leaving the medic to finish his work.
About a half hour later SmokeScreen and BumbleBee came in holding a bunch of rods with string attached to them. They laid them on the table and smiled.
"Were running out of food, and after a bit of internet search I found that fish is a great food."
"I may not of been raised human, but I know those are not fish." SmokeScreen laughed at Ratchets words.
"I learned that these are called fishing rods, they are used to catch the fish." Ratchet looked back to his computer and started to type.
"Just be careful." WheelJack walked in just as he said that and folded his arms.
"Your not comin with us doc?"
"I told you not to call me that." WheelJack shrugged and picked up a large rod.
"Everyone else has agreed to go."
"Well then every one else can enjoy themselves." Optimus walked back in and took a rod for himself.
"I believe that all of us should go, learning the ways of the humans would give us a better advantage over the Decepticons... and it would be fun." Everyone looked to Optimus with surprise when he said that, of all people they would never expect him to say 'fun'. Ratchet huffed and got up from his seat, he then grabbed a rod and looked to everyone. "I would advise that you change into something more productive." The medic walked off to his room to get changed into something new, just as Bulkhead and Magnus walked into the kitchen to grab their rods.
"How do you supposed we get to the uh.. lake?" Bulkhead asked.
"We will have to take what the humans call a bus. First we will need a case to carry all of our supplies." SmokeScreen ran back to the closet and pulled out a large duffle bag, he brought it back and let everyone put there fishing rods in it. Ratchet came back soon after with a new pair of clothing on. They then left the house with Thunder following after them happily.
The team found the station and took the bus to the lake, when the Autobots got there they piled out and found an open space in the sandy beach. SmokeScreen and Bee hung out in the water along with Thunder who was splashing around and getting everyone wet. Ratchet had brought his computer with him so he could finish up his work, Ultra Magnus was finishing up his extra homework that he had. Optimus, Bulkhead and WheelJack decided to get some fishing in so they could try and catch something, or at least figure out how to work the rod.
"I think I got one!" Everyone looked to the dock to see WheelJack standing up and pulling on his rod. "This one is, whoa!" SPLASH! A few of them laughed while others tried to hold in their laughter at Jackie getting pushed into the water by Bulk who was laughing his head off. Thunder swam over to the fully drenched man and licked his face. "Back off." WheelJack said glaring at both the dog and Bulk when Thunder barked, he then swam back to shore thankful that he knew how to swim. "I lost my rod." He said looking around.
"Take mine, I don't need it." Ratchet held up his and Jackie took it. The wrecker walked back to the dock taking a few taunts from Bulkhead.
"How was your trip to the lake?" Bulk said trying to hold back laughter. WheelJack just glared at him and started to fish again. Thunder went back to shore and walked over to Optimus, he then shook his body to dry himself and ended up getting the three wet.
"Thunder," Optimus said while the dog sat down next to him, he patted him on the head and rolled his eyes.
WheelJack and Bulkhead fished for a little while longer before wading into the water to cool off from the suns heat. Optimus stayed on the dock and fished catching a few that were good enough to eat. To tell the truth he wasn't even paying attention to the fishing rod or anything else for that matter. His mind was on Arcee, she had been ever since she had kissed him on the cheek.
He had never been truly in love, back on Cybertron he did have femme's he liked and even dated as Orion Pax, but his feelings for them were never as strong as this feeling for Arcee. He was pulled out of his thoughts when his rod started to tug on him, he looked to it and noticed that it was pulling harder than before. Optimus stood up and pulled against it trying to win the fight, but was losing in the process. A fish jumped out of the water that was about 15 feet long and very large. The others eyes became big and Bee walked out throwing up his hands to say he was finished in the water.
When it went back down in to the water it pulled the rod harder and pulled Optimus into the water with it. It swam deeper and deeper pulling him under, he was hesitant to let go wanting to win the fight. As they got deeper though, his ears started to hurt and he pulled on the rod harder making the string snap, the large fish turned around and stared at Optimus, it then started to swim towards him and The Prime pushed himself back up to the surface. Once he was there he gasped for breath and grabbed onto the dock slightly tired from the tug-o-war. When he looked down he saw the fish swimming back down into the depths of the lake. After it was going he made his way back to shore only to be hovered by his team.
"Are you alright Optimus?" Ultra Magnus asked.
"You're not hurt are you?" Ratchet asked following behind Magnus. He looked to Bee and saw that his eyes were wide with worry.
"I am fine everyone." He answered sitting down on a bench.
"You were under for a while, you sure you're alright, I can get-" He held up his hand to the rookie and shook his head.
"I truly am fine SmokeScreen, nothing to be worried about." They all took a step back to give their leader some space, he got up and walked back to the dock to grab the fish he had caught. "I did catch some fish for us tonight, although we may need to find out how to cook it."
"I can do that, since no one else on our team has chosen to make the food." Ratchet said eyeing them all and they backed up looking at each other and shrugging. Once everything was packed up again they headed back to the house to make dinner and get ready for the next day.
Once they were back Arcee pulled into the driveway and waved to them.
"Hey WheelJack I need to enlist your help." She said taking off her helmet.
"What'ya need?"
"Some help with building a few mini bombs."
"I can do that."
"Great, come by De'Andra Delta Sorority tomorrow after classes, you'll be looking for Auqanette." WheelJack nodded and Arcee went to go put her helmet back on, but Optimus stopped her.
"Arcee." She looked to him and saw that he was drenched.
"Hey Optimus... why, are you soaked?"
"Accident at the lake." He said looking to his wet clothing. "I need to ask you something."
"Ok." She was curious as to what he would ask her since he was seeming a bit nervous.
"I...Um." He cleared his throat and diverted his gaze from her. "I was... wondering if you... um... wanted to go..." He cleared his throat again and she looked to him curiously. "If you wanted to go out."
"Out with you." He blinked and then nodded his head. "I would love to Optimus... what time is good for you?"
"Well I..." He really was at a loss for words.
"One of my friends said theres a drive in theater down a ways, a movie's playing at 8 tomorrow."
"Sounds perfect... One thing, I don't have a car."
"That's ok, we can take my motorcycle." She smiled and slipped on her helmet, they waved goodbye and she rode off from the house.
Once she was gone Optimus let out a relieved sigh and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He never knew that asking someone out was so hard.
The Prime walked back in and saw that Ratchet was smiling at his accomplishment, he returned the smile and walked back up to his room, adamant on changing his attire into something more suitable and dry.
Phew! Thought I would never get that finished. I hope you all enjoyed it, I had gotten the fishing idea from a song I was listening to and thought it was better than my last. I want to say that the 'Movie Date' and WheelJacks help with the bomns are Ideas from BossBot97, thank you! Any others who have sent me chap ideas I'm working on them, and will get them out there. One more thing I forgot was I wanted to ask what favor should Knockout make StarScream do?
Please Review, Constructive Criticism Welcomed, if needed. I am taking a few chap Ideas if any of you have any for me! Thank you to all who have Favorited, Followed, and Review, it helps keep me motivated to write more!