Episode 4: Scare Night

One Saturday night, the younglings were voting on what to watch during movie night at Shockwave's house. It was 10:00 PM and they were all in Shockwave's basement. Everyone from the daycare center was there. Megatron stood in front of all of them.

"Alright, who votes Romance?" Megatron asked.

Wheeljack, Arcee, Barricade and Optimus raised their hands.

"Alright, what about comedy?"

Bee, Cliffjumper, and Bulkhead raised their hands.

"Uh...SCI-FI?"

Starscream, Soundwave and Shockwave rasied their hands.

"Okay...Breakdown, Knock Out and Dreadwing didn't raise their hands." Megatron said pointing at them.

"I don't know!" Dreadwing said cuddling his blanket.

"Doesn't matter to me!" Knock Out said.

"Yeah, their all good choices!" Breakdown said. "Wait, what did you choose?"

"I chose Comedy!" Megatron said.

"Ah, who am I kidding...Romance!" Knock Out said.

"SCI-FI!" Dreadwing said.

"Comedy!" Breakdown said.

"Uh, Megatron, did you forget a genre!" Optimus asked tilting his head.

"Oops, I forgot...Horror!" Megatron announced.

Everyone raised their hands. Soundwave and Shockwave did slightly.

"Well, the hands have it, HORROR IT IS!" Megatron yelled.

Everyone cheered and clapped. Soundwave and Shockwave look at each other concerned. During the movie, there was shivering, shaking, near yelling, and optic-widening. Dreadwing hid under his blanket. Arcee and Barricade held each other's hand tightly. Starscream dug his claws into the floor. Optimus was chewing on his fingers, then actually grabbed Bee's hand and chewed on his, much to Bee's disgust. Megatron was also starting to get scared but refused to show it. Bulkhead and Wheeljack couldn't stop looking at the screen. Cliffjumper was having a good time. Soundwave and Shockwave covered their optics refusing to see anymore. By the end of the movie, only Cliffjumper was left looking at the screen, everyone else had turned away.

"It's a shame that they made 4 movies out of this one." Cliff said smirking.

Later, Shockwave had allowed everyone to stay over for the night. They all had brought their sleeping bags. They all layed scattered around. Some stayed up to talk while some fell asleep.

"So, how was it?" Starscream asked.

"It was...a little bit scary!" Optimus said.

"A LITTLE BIT? IT WAS HORRIFYING!" Bee yelled.

"I'm scared to sleep now!" Shockwave said.

"Please, guys, it wasn't that bad!" Megatron said trying to sound brave.

"Come on Megatron you know you were scared." Starscream said.

"I will never be scared...of anything!" Megatron snarled.

"Everybody is scared of something!" Bee said.

"Please, I've never been scared before." Megatron scoffed.

"I bet we could scare you!" Starscream said.

Megatron's sword popped out.

"Wanna try?" Megatron asked threatningly. Starscream raised up his claws in defense.

"Alright you guys stop! It's getting late let's go to bed!" Shockwave said.

"Alright!" They all said.

Later that night, Megatron was having trouble sleeping. He tossed and turned. He mumbled and groaned. He seemed to be having a bad dream.

"No...don't...stay away...go away...leave me alone..." Megatron mumbled in his sleep.

His mumbling soon woke up a now angry Starscream.

"Megatron, would you quiet down, I'm trying to get some sleep here!" Starscream snarled turning his back to Megatron.

Megatron tried again to sleep. But he just couldn't. He woke up again and sat up looking around. Everyone was asleep but him. Earlier, the younglings had brought over drinks and snacks. But now the snacks and drinks were all eaten and drunk. He thought about heading upstairs to the fridge but he would have to ask first. Megatron rubbed his tired optics and quietly got up to walk over to Shockwave. He poked Shockwave on the head worried he was going to be mad. Shockwave awoke very annoyed.

"What is it Megatron?" Shockwave said getting up with his claws on his hips.

"I was just asking if I can get some energon from your fridge. We ran out of energon down here!" Megatron explained.

Shockwave noticed the empty containers and was surprised.

"Oh, you're right! Well the storage room is right there!" Shockwave pointed to a door nearbye. "Only get ONE cube!"

"Fine!" Megatron said and happily proceeded towards the storage room.

Inside, a bunch of energon cubes were huddled in the little room. Just as he grabbed one from the pile, the door shut behind him locking him in. Megatron went into a panic and banged on the door.

"HELP! HELP! I'M TRAPPED! I'M SCARED!" Megatron yelled banging on the door.

It turns out, Shockwave and Optimus were holding the door. Soundwave and Starscream had a camera ready. All the other younglings were snickering. Megatron continued to bang on the door.

"I'M SCARED! AHH! LET ME OUT!" Megatron yelled. Then he took out his little fuison cannon and blasted the door knocking Optimus and Shockwave into the air.

Starscream snapped the picture just as Megatron was shown with a terrified look on his face. Megatron saw that everybody was laughong at him. Starscream showed him the picture and Megatron became embarrased. Then, Megatron growled. All the younglings stopped laughing and watched as Megatron's growling turned to whimpering. Megatron suddenly bursted into crying. He ran into a corner of the room and curled into a ball. Everyone now felt ashamed.

"Oh man!" Optimus said.

"We didn't mean to make him cry!" Bee said.

"Why did we do that?" Shockwave said. "This is probably why he never wanted to admit it."

"Usually after watching a horror movie, playing scary tricks afterwards can have a very long-lasting effect on a person." Starscream said.

"Optimus go talk to him! Take this!" Soundwave said giving him the picture.

Optimus agreed, took the picture, and headed over to Megatorn. Megatron hid his face from everyone. Optimus came towards him and sat beside him.

"Megatron? You okay?" Optimus asked.

"No, I didn't want anyone to see me like this! What did I do to deserve this?" Megatron said uncovering his face.

"I'm sorry, this may not have been my idea, but I'll take the blame." Optimus said.

"Okay, but now you all know that I really do get scared!" Megatron said.

"If it makes you feel any better-" Optimus shows him the picture, then rips it up! Megatron smiles.

"Thank you!" Megatron said and hugs his brother who hugs back.

All the younglings smile at the sight of it. Megatron and Optimus stand up and walk back to Bee, Starscream, Soundwave and Shockwave.

"So, who had the idea?" Megatron asked.

Optimus looks at Bee who looks at Shockwave who looks at Soundwave who looks at Starscream.

"What? I didn't think of it! He did!" Starscream said pointing to Wheeljack. Megatron smirks.

"What can I say? I love scary pranks!" Wheeljack says nervously as Megatron cracks his knuckles.

"You thought what you did was scary, I'll show you what scary really is!" Megatron said advancing towards Wheeljack.

"Uh-oh, come on! Let's talk about this!" Wheeljack said backing up into a wall.

While Megatron beats up Wheeljack, the others watch.

"Hmm, that is scary!" Bee said.

"Better than that horror movie!" Shockwave said.

End of episode 4!

To be continued...