Hey everyone! Please enjoy this fun chapter added to A Time for Courage. The Autobots enjoy their first Halloween, so enjoy with them!
Special Chapter: Halloween Special!
"Just a little higher!" Kiara called down to Bumblebee. He obliged by lifting her higher on his hand. She gave him the thumbs up sign and began to string up some orange and black lights on the ceiling. Heather was doing the same in Bee's other hand, and Arcee was also stringing up Halloween lights.
"So," Bulkhead asked Bruce, who was working on his costume, "what is Hallows eve?"
"Halloween," Bruce corrected. "Hallows eve is the night before, which would be yesterday night. On Halloween you go door to door in a costume, say trick or treat, and you get free candy."
"Sounds like fun!" Bulkhead said. "Of course, we don't eat anything, including candy." Bruce shrugged.
"We're good!" Heather called down to Bee.
"Alright," Bee replied and set the two humans down on the ground. Heather flicked on the power and a jack 'o lantern made from the black and orange lights began to glow on the ceiling of the Autobot bunker. "Pretty," Bumblebee breathed.
"So, what are we going to do?" Bruce asked Kiara. "The Autobots can't exactly go door to door in costumes."
"True," she mused.
Before she could say anything more, though, something jumped out of the shadows of the bunker and yelled, "Boo!" Kiara, Heather, and Bruce jumped back and screamed. Then, Kiara stopped and looked at the 'bot. Blurr took off his cape and smiled.
"Holy insert swear word here, Blurr. You almost gave me heart attack," Kiara gasped, clutching her chest.
"You almost gave me a spark attack," Bumblebee fell backwards dramatically.
Kiara laughed, "As I was saying, I have a different idea about what to do this Halloween. Follow me!" She tapped Jazz's shin and he transformed. She slid into the driver's seat and began to drive off. The other Autobots transformed and followed with Heather and Bruce in tow.
A little while later they arrived at the exact place in the forest where the Cybertronians and humans had first met. Kiara parked Jazz, got out, and he transformed once more. She went to gather wood and began to make a fire while the others caught up. Eventually she had a good sized fire made, and everyone gathered around it.
"So, what is it we are doing?" Optimus asked.
Kiara smiled evilly, "We're going to tell horror stories. Who's first?"
Ironhide raised his hand, "I was surrounded by forty 'cons and I had no backup. I called for some, but it didn't come until later."
"Oh, please Ironhide," Sideswipe groaned. "Not that story again. We've heard it countless times, and it's not a horror story."
"I have one," Prowl said, and everyone drew closer to him.
Ironhide pushed himself up to his feet, "I'll be right back."
Strike stood too, "I'll do the same." He walked in the opposite direction that Ironhide went. The Autobots and humans hurried to fill their places.
"Alright," Prowl shifted position a little and stared into the fire, "here's how it starts.
"You all know the story of Primus and Unicron, right?" Everyone nodded eagerly. "Okay. This is a story of one of their untold battles."
Bruce raised his voice a little, "Then how do you know-"
"Shhhhhhh," everyone hissed fiercely. Bruce fell silent.
"As I was saying, this was the battle over the Allspark. Both of them wanted it, Primus for good, and Unicron for evil. They had been fighting for centuries, and both were beginning to tire. 'Give me the cube, Primus,' Unicron growled in a voice like gravel.
" 'Never,' Primus said, taking one more swing at Unicron. Unicron cried out as his leg fell off. He grabbed it up and retreated.
"Unicron retreated and looked at his leg. With it he fashioned three more sentient beings, and gave them life with a shard of the cube he had managed to take. 'You,' he told them, 'are my new followers. You are called Decepticons.'
"Now Primus did the same thing, and called his beings Autobots. He needed more fighting power, for he was growing weak. He gave them the strength of circuits and pureness of spark. Primus had more of the cube, and it was not contaminated with the darkness of Unicron's spark.
"When they met in battle once more, Primus became furious at Unicron for using the cube for the wrong purposes. He and the Autobots struck down Unicron and the Decepticons. Unicron begged for mercy, but Primus refused. 'You would do no such thing to me, brother.' Primus took up his hammer and whacked Unicron into deep space. A piece of Unicron's spark broke off and fell onto his cube fragment. Primus picked it up, brushed off the fragment, and looked at his Autobots. 'You will be the new race. Carry on my legacy.' With that he gave the cube to those three Autobots, and transformed into the planet Cybertron we know today. The Decepticons were gone until Megatron rose again."
Prowl's eyes darkened, "It is said that Unicron's darkness dispersed itself into the cube, and only shows itself on rare occasions in Cybertronians. It is also said that Unicron wanders the galaxy, looking for the followers of Primus, and the Autobots who took him down." Prowl smiled evilly.
Suddenly, something moved in the bushes and jumped out, its red eyes glowing. Everyone screamed, transformed, scrambled into a vehicle, and sped away. Prowl began to laugh, and the figure stepped out of the darkness. Strike was laughing heartily and switched his lenses back to a blue-purple color. "Boy," he laughed, "am I glad Ratchet kept that lens color in me."
"Good one, Strike!" Prowl clutched his sides. Then, they went silent. Something was moving behind Strike. A new pair of red lenses appeared, giving off an angry glare. Strike and Prowl jumped, but said nothing. They transformed and burned rubber back to base.
The figure stepped out of the shadows, in a mirror of the movements Strike had done earlier. Ironhide pulled the mask from his face and watched them mournfully. "Come on guys! I've worked on this mask all week. Don't leave me in the dust. Come on!" Ironhide stamped out the fire, transformed, and chased after the fleeing Autobots.