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This story's kinda veered away from being mainly about Sari and Bumblebbee... buuut I figure it's good to include the others more often.

Siren Song

Chapter 3 - Unbelievable

So, did you know it was possible for stasis cuffs to fit on- let along actually affect me? Yeah, that would make two of us. Okay I suppose this situation needs a bit of explanation.

We tracked down Siren, no problems. Everyone else had to stay out of her range, just to make sure she didn't pick up any energy signatures. Being technoranic, I don't have an energy signature. So I just flew over to her and it was time to let the processor-games begin.

"Siren."

"Ah, it's the little one."

"Look, you should just give this game up while you've still got the chance."

She laughed lightly "Really? But it's all for the fun of the chase little one, you'll understand one day that beautiful femmes have to go to great lengths for good entertainment."

"Entertainment? You're nothing but a robo-slut, and I don't appreciate you messing with my friends processors!"

"But the big blue one seemed to like me so much during my prison time."

"You mean Sentinel right? Mess with him all you want, but stop messing with everyone else. You know if you come peacefully I'll try and pull some strings so that you can have Sentinel to entertain you for the ride back to Cybertron." What? I never said I really liked Sentinel, and yes I was actually being serious about this offer. Don't judge me!

"But I'm having fun here." she pouted "You're really in no position to bargain, you're far too small to take me on in a fight. Where are all your friends at? I hope you're not all by yourself because of me."

I scoffed "If I thought I needed help taking down a one-trick robo-slut there's plenty of other bots I could go to."

"Really now, are they as delicious looking as the other mechs you know? Maybe you could introduce me."

"Actually, probably not. But really this is all beside the point isn't it? Look, it's getting late and honestly, I'm exhausted. Can we just fight already?"

"Oh no, no, no… as a good little femme I don't fight," she paused and it was just my luck that Sentinel was rolling into view "I let big brave mechs do it for me. Don't tell me you don't do that yourself little one."

I was going to fly off to get the others because I could tell the whole distraction plan wouldn't work as well, but before I could put any distance between us Sentinel snatched me out of the air.

"What do you want me to do with her Siren?"

"Hmmm, I don't know; she said she wanted to fight but I don't think there would be much honor in fighting something so positively defenseless."

"I'll show you how defenseless I am when I have ratchet undo the bypass on my upgrades and I take you both out along with half of Detroit!" Okay, okay it was kind of an empty threat, but I knew I should just stall time long enough for the others to notice Sentinel's energy signature in the area and know something went wrong.

"She's feisty, maybe we should just keep the little darling." Siren was clearly not put back in the least by my empty threats.

Sentinel stared at me oddly not saying a word… it was really annoying. "I'd like it if you put me down!" of course, I knew he wasn't going to actually do that but it was worth a try.

"As if I'd listen to a little brat like you! I'm on my way to being Magnus."

That pompous attitude, it had to mean that even with Siren's processor scrambling there was still some of the Sentinel I didn't know so well but didn't like. I could hear the others' engines coming our way, so I figured why not give an old but fun trick a try.

"You know I'm part organic right?"

His optics grew wide in shock

"Either let me go… or I might decide to contaminate you … or something!"

He instantly dropped me, well tossed me actually. Luckily Bumblebee managed to catch me. Then, unluckily; Sentinel had a pair of stasis cuffs on hand and he threw them our way. Since I was in Bumblebee's servos at the time, one of the cuffs went over me along with his servo.

So, you know the kind of effects stasis cuff have on a normal sized bot? Well they're a lot stronger effects on a small, half-organic. Without going into great detail about the entire stasis-cuff ordeal… They made me foam at the mouth! Oh, and Siren got away again.

And this part just takes the cake too, once I finally came around; I found out my comment about being part organic shocked Sentinel's system enough for his processor to autocorrect. So he intentionally threw those damn stasis cuffs! So if you think that I had little reason not to like him earlier besides just the fact that he was a jerk… well now I had a pretty valid reason. I think any bot would agree with me.

"Okay, we're going to catch her, we'll just all go for her at once, even if she starts scrambling processors at least one of us will be able to get stasis cuffs on her." Of course, with his processor functioning right again; Sentinel was taking charge.

"Yeah great idea just how about not using them on the tiny technorganic ever again!" Yes! I was bitter, very, very bitter about the entire thing!

"I'm not taking insults from the likes of a freak like you!"

"Hey!" The word 'hey' is always good for a quick comeback.

"Take that back!"

"Very offensive."

"She's ten times more of a bot than you'll ever be!"

"You're way out-of-line!"

"Who are you calling a freak?"

What can I say? Sentinel obviously didn't know who he was insulting; between Bumblebee, Prowl, Ratchet, Optimus and Bulkhead I didn't know who wanted to kick his skid-plate first. As for Jazz, Jetfire and Jetstorm… well I know they were with us but they were going to have to ride home with the guy so them not speaking out is understandable.

"Optimus, why didn't you just put that thing out of its misery? You're doing a horrible job here I just want you to know that. This is what happens when you send maintenance-bots to do an Elite-Guard's job." Obviously, Sentinel was poor at taking hints.

Enter the collective "What?!"

"That's it!" I glanced over at Ratchet "Do you think it's possible to undo that bypass just long enough for me to put a couple thousand holes in this jerk's skid-plate?"

"It's a very tempting idea Sari."

Eventually, things settled down and over that time; yes, I did repeatedly threaten an Elite-Guard officer. Yes everyone else acted and spoke insubordinately; yes there was misuse of an E.M.P. generator, energy blasts, stingers, fire cannons, wind, shrunken, nunchaku, an axe, a wrecking ball and fists among other things. But really; if we hadn't got that out of our systems it could have kept us from accomplishing our ultimate goal of catching Siren. Jazz and Prowl get the credit for getting all of us back on track.

Once again, we tracked down Siren. We just went for the direct approach; after all she had no chance at all against so many of us right? Sentinel couldn't be wrong about that much. Well, she did have a chance against all of us, and Sentinel was wrong.

You want to know why she stood a chance?

Do you really want to know the world-shattering truth?

Prowl.

Yeah that's right you read correctly. Prowl. Now just take a minute to let the shock get out of your system.

He just suddenly threw Stasis cuffs on everyone… well besides me; that much I was glad for, but he also didn't throw any on Siren; my gladness of course did not last.

"Prowl! What on earth are you doing?"

"Helping the pretty femme." He said it as if it was something like "I'm going for a walk." or "Don't forget to clean up the mess that you and Bumblebee made." Those four words made me start wondering if I should give up my faith in robot-kind… I mean if Prowl couldn't escape her processor-games then who could? I figured, I could at least try kicking some sense into him; after all it had worked on Optimus earlier and she probably hadn't exposed him to her magnets nearly as much as the others.

So five kicks later my foot was starting to get sore and I realized it wasn't working so well. Maybe I could shock him into being normal, after all it did work with Sentinel and he'd been hit hard by the robo-slut. Sadly there isn't much that really shocks Prowl… apparently even me saying something as completely insane as "Starscream and I are getting married." wasn't enough. While I tried the methods Siren just watched. Yep no running off, no talking; just watching. I finally got frustrated enough to address the robo-slut after my tenth try at shocking the ninja-bot into sanity.

"Undo whatever you did to him!" I knew she wasn't going to but it was worth a try.

"No can do kiddo," she laughed "it's just simply not possible."

"I'll show you not possible!" I was going to show her, I really was but right at that time everyone else started coming to and well, backup is nice and it would be wrong to not help them out of the cuffs. While I was doing that Siren got away, once again; and Prowl just stood in silence until after I told the others what had just happened.

"No I didn't! Siren did that! Sari's obviously took too many hits for one night; we should just take her home so she can get some rest."

"Well I'd love to get some rest but clearly I can't trust you Mechs on your own with this one. And I'm not being delusional here, you did it and you said you did it for the…" I paused gagging a bit "Pretty femme."

"Sari this is hardly the time to make up crazy stories."

"Prowl! I'm not making up any stories!"

"She could be! I bet she's trying to turn us all against each other, that's what organics do!"

Cue the collective "Shut-up Sentinel!"

and then came my reply "You don't even know that many organics!"

"Flying technorganic femme is truth speaking!"

"Yeah Prowl's acting completely whack."

"I am acting completely normal!" His voice cracked, that was far from normal.

"It doesn't make sense, there's ten of us, we've taken on dangerous Decepticons and yet we can't manage to catch a stupid robo-slut with magnets."

And suddenly it all hit me like a ton of bricks.

"Unless…" I glanced around at the group "If Prowl was under her influence that entire time but able to act relatively normal then who's to say the rest of you aren't doing the same thing?"

No one spoke so I continued speaking "I mean, I noticed Prowl was able to get out of Soundwave's mind control; magnets shouldn't be near as powerful. So either, you guys have really lost your game; or there's something I'm not being told."

"Nah it's just Prowl, it's about time he started making some mistakes anyway." True it sounded like something the Bumblebee I knew would say… but still, I was suspicious.

"Right, I'm sure that if anyone else had fallen prey to Siren, they'd use the opportunity presented now to speak up… and well seeing as no one speaking up it's safe to assume Prowl was the only one." Optimus acted like it was really that easy.

I needed to confirm my suspicions and when I looked up at the twins I knew just how to do it.

Fan-clubs can come in handy... Sari knows this.

I think... this chapter might count as Sentinel abuse :/

And now we patiently await Siren getting the aft-kicking she so dearly deserves.