Chapter 3

Author's Foreword:

Thank you DarcZstrike and Shunner68!

This chapter is just a couple of scenes but I as you will see, it is quite important for what will happen in the following parts.

Tweaked it around here and there, hopefully got easier to read.

There are some parts I thought I should expand upon and I did but they will be in the "extra's" section after this fic is over.

Other updates should be up soon!

The shuttle finally arrived, carrying supplies, upgrades and new, long awaited personnel.

"How many years has it been?"

"Does it matteh? We get teh see each otheh 'gain!"

"Yes but after all that has happened …"

"We're cool."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, just watch, there'll be cake, hugs 'n' lots'a …" A sudden whistling of an object sailing through the air disrupted his speech when a wrench landed straight in his face, throwing him across the landing bay.

"… wrenches?"

"WHEELJACK!" The mech Smokescreen and the engineer were talking about jumped off the landing ship and angrily ran towards his target.

"Ratch! Lon' time no see!"

"Don't you 'lon' time no see' me, motherslagger! I'LL FRAGGIN' MURDER YOU!"

"… there will be blood too …"

"Damn that Soundwave, jammin' my groove!" Blaster barged into the room, angrily throwing his bag on the table. "Someone's gotta do something about that guy!"

"I through you were going to do your music project with Jazz?" Prowl pushed the boom box's bag off his work. "What happened there?"

"Jazz got sick and he was the only one left without a partner!"

"So? Why do you not like him? Didn't you two come up with the cassette technology?"

"Yes but he keeps hogging all of it! Most of the cassetteformers are at his house!" The red mech fell into one of the chairs and put his feet up on the desk, making Prowl scratch out a whole page of his work.

"How does that make you feel?" Smokescreen took out his headphones and joined into the conversation.

"I'm feeling horrible, bro! How else?"

"You will have something else to feel bad about unless you stop ruining my work."

"Still angry with Shockwave," the training psychologist inquired, "are we?"

"He did what he had to do for his oh so precious Decepticons because he thought it would be logical, despite the most obviously correct thing to do would be keeping up this five year old relationship both of us were in but hey, I am not judging."

"Aw, you will get over him! Come on! It's just high school, bro!"

"Senior year, high school …"

"Bro, you didn't honestly expect for your first relationship to work out, did you?"

"Well, with Shockwave I saw no logical reason for him to terminate it to begin with but whatever, it is in the past now, we both have taken different pathways in our lives."

"How does that make you feel?"

"Smokescreen, psychologists ask more than just 'how does that make you feel', you know that, right?"

"Well, you didn't tell me what was inside of you."

"Circuitry, organs, data …"

"That's not what I mean!"

"Ok, bros, either talk about the real problem here or just stop!"

"Real problem being what, Soundwave supposedly stealing your ideas?"

"Yes, mech!"

"Talk to Alpha Trion!"

"He told me to talk to Soundwave, dude!"

"Oh, is that not a nice piece of circular logic." Smokescreen frowned.

"Do you even know what circular logic is?"

"Hey, you may have brains in your breasts …"

"Oh, for the love of Cybertron …"

"Blam! What's up, guys? Have you seen Ratchet and Wheeljack anywhere? Kazam!"

"No, they must be in the labs, dude."

"Kawink! Still?"

"Well, they did say that they had to work on their projects …"

"I wonder if they have a project to work on or …"

"They are not sleeping together, Smokescreen."

"How do you know?"

"Swindle would have had the pictures of them doing it, that's how, mech."

"Seriously," the tricolor scratched his head, "what's the deal with that kid?"

"Blam! I don't care, he got good guns, that's all I need! Fapow!"

"Does anybody actually hang out with that guy?"

"No, he tries to sell everyone."

"What is he, a pimp?"

"I wouldn't be surprised."

"That is illegal."

"Aw, come on! If it wasn't for him, I would have never gotten that book for you!"

"You got my birthday gift from Swindle?"

"You can thank him later, bro."

"Chazam! That reminds me, I gotta get a few more cryoshots from Wheeljack …"

"So how is military college? You met up with Ironhide yet?"

"Fapoom! We are helping each other with sparring! Boom!"

"Who wins?"

"Inferno."

"Ha! I love that guy! That mech got style!"

"I don't like him."

"Aw, come on, just because he is in the same group with Shockwave in history class …"

"I assure you, it has nothing to do with Shockwave …"

"I think you are in denial."

"I think both of you need to get a room, bros."

"Blam! I think you need to, like, bang! Babang!"

"Dude! Disgusting!"

"Ew!"

"Well that was not awkward at all." the studious mech was wondering if he should abandon all hope on completing his assignment now.

"… take a chill pill! Fahoom!"

"Yeah, this whole conversation is not awkward at all, bros!"

"Hold on, is Inferno still in love with Firestar?"

"Last time I heard, yes."

"Since when do you care, Prowl? I thought feelings made no sense."

"I am studying them to prove that they are illogical."

"Blam! He better be tapping that soon! Fahoom! Or I will! Bang!"

"Dude, haven't you been rejected like 20 times already?"

"Babalabablam! Can't bring me down! Bzoom! Just gonna keep on getting up! Kachwink!"

"Well, that is very nice, bro, respect."

"Right on the ticker ol' buddy! Tratam!"

"Oh! Is the party today still on?"

"Slag yeah!"

"Boom, baby! Boom!"

"Marvelous."

"More people to fall victim to my psychoanalysis!"

"Pass me the blowtorch."

"Here. Be careful, the circuitry is still exposed."

"Yeh, yeh, it ain' my first time makin' eh brain."

"Yes but this is your first time miniaturizing a few supercomputers and connecting them into a logical center. Plus we would all know when you 'accidentally' unleashed a robotic petro-rabbit the size of a grown Ick-Yak that threw itself at every lamppost, eating it and converting it into weapon grade plutonium."

"That was an honest mistake 'n' yeh know it!"

"What about the time when you built a printer that scanned things, converted them into information and uploaded them onto the Internet?"

"Eh …"

"Or the time when you made a self-aware bottle of energon wine?"

"Eh …"

"Remember? It wouldn't shut up unless you poured Mecha-Cola in it?"

"Eh …"

"Or! Or! Or! Nitroglycerin ice-cream!"

"Ok, I agree that I ain' allowed teh cook …"

"Yes but the machine that made that explosively delicious food blew up a military base."

"Eh …"

"All right, I will stop torturing you."

"Yeah, yeh do that."

"Hm, but I do have to agree that you deserve more science awards than you have."

"Thanks! Ok, I am done, here," Wheeljack passed the part to Ratchet, "'re we installin' personality circuits in this?"

"No, not yet."

"All righ', give me an astrosec, need teh bring up the program."

"Take your time."

"Do yeh think we'll win the science fa'eh this ye'eh?"

"Are you kidding me? We are building a slagging brain for crying out loud! I dare Shockwave and Starscream to come up with anything better!"

"I don' know, I wouldn' underestimate 'em …"

"They can barely stand each other while we have been friends for years now!"

"Heh, good times, eh?"

"I still can't believe we managed to sneak the key back."

"I can't believe he still gives us free candy."

"You know what I like? Swindle is helping him out!"

"Yeah, the business really grew afteh he joined in."

"Doesn't Firestar work there?"

"Yeah, alon' with Chromia …"

"That's why Ironhide has been pudging out!"

"What? Fer real?"

"Yes! Remind me next time to bring a camera, I will show you. I doubt he can even see his spike anymore …"

"Whoa, that's fat! Oh! The program loaded! Yeh ready?"

"Yes. Grabbing scalpel, making incision one, incision two …"

"Prehssure's stable."

"… incision three, incision four; activating galvanization pump …"

"All good. So what 'bout you?"

"Huh?"

"Any love interests? Anyone in yer sights?"

"Well, um, eh …"

"Oh! The'eh's someone! Hehe, who is it?"

"Eh, you don't know them. Incision one is complete, putting in electron flow amplifier."

"Anotheh school?"

"Yes!"

"Malebot? Femmebot?"

"Um, malebot."

"Does that beautiful creacheh have eh name?"

"Yes! Yes they do! They absolutely do!"

"Uh-huh, what's his name?"

"Is everything all right with those stabilizers? I am seeing some electrical discharge …"

"Nope, everything looks fine here. So, name?"

"Eh, Circlelift."

"Circlelift?"

"Yes."

"Ca'ehful, yeh almost cut eh vessel. So, Circlelift?"

"Yes, why?"

"Just eh weird name's all. When yeh askin' 'im out?"

"Eh, I think today."

"Today? Durin' the party?"

"Um, yes, I am hoping he will show up."

"Yeh ain' askin' him out."

"What? Wh-why not?"

"He gotta pass the Wheeljack test first."

"Oh, there's a test, huh?"

"Yeh didn' think I 'd let yeh date just anyone, did yeh?"

"Wh-what do you mean?"

"What 're yeh doin'? Don' stop!"

"Oh! Sorry!"

"Sheesh, Ratchet, what's with yeh?"

"Eh, tired, maybe."

"I thought yeh go teh sleep at 9?"

"Yes, I do, but, um, Ironhide was, um …"

"Did he sleep walk 'gain?"

"Uh, um, eh, yeah! Yes he did!"

"Who was he this time?"

"He, eh, thought he was, um, a weapon specialist on some planet called, uh, Earth and he was some sort of a pick-up truck or, um, something, trying to find something called, eh, 'The All-Spark Cube' that gave birth to our race."

"That sounds retarded …"

"You can't even imagine."

"Think we should get Smokey teh talk teh him?"

"Oh, no, I wouldn't worry about it, it happens now and then."

"Eh, if yeh say so. Pressure decreasin'."

"So, um, are you coming to the party?"

"Eh, I don' know …"

"Aw, come on! Loosen up a little!"

"But the'eh's so much work teh do!"

"Hey, hey! Weren't you the one who told me that we all need to have fun?"

"Yeah …"

"Then come!"

"Fine …"

"You don't sound all that eager. Pass me the syringe."

"Yeah, bunch'a people I can't exactly stand er talk teh."

"Everybody else is coming."

"Eh, shu'eh, I guess."

"I am hearing Inferno will make his move on Firestar. Could you up the coolant intake?"

"I he'eh Starscream'll get drunk 'n' try teh berth Soundwave."

"What? Starscream? Really?"

"Hehe, yeah, he thinks he can top."

"Oh, that I will pay to see. Wait, I thought Bumblebee said no alcohol?"

"Yeah but considerin' that we're teenagehs, yeh really think anyone will listen?"

"Hm, true. You know, we can always leave early …"

"Nah, might as well have this last party thing …"

"What about prom?"

"Oh, right, that …"

"You are not going to prom?"

"Mo'eh drinkin', mo'eh sluts, mo'eh interfacin', mo'eh fights, mo'eh crappy music, what's not teh like? Ok, yer done with incision two."

"You forgot about the after party."

"Oh, yeah, even mo'eh drinkin' 'n' crap."

"You are not coming to prom?"

"I'd ratheh sneak inteh Alpha Trion 'n' Kup's house 'n' steal their stash ef alcohol than go the'eh."

"Well, I don't think I will be going to prom either. The temperature keeps rising …"

"Oh, don' worry, that's normal, give a few mo'eh astroseconds fer the coolant teh kick in. Who do yeh think 're gonna be the king 'n' queen?"

"I hope that it won't be Starscream, the guy has his head so far up his own aft, any further and he would be able to see out of his mouth."

"Eh, thanks fer puttin' the image in my head …"

"Besides, isn't it hilarious when he begins bitching? Ok, incision three is done!"

"Pfhe, he should he'eh Prowl bitch at Smokey fer bringin' up his chest size."

"Or Prowl when Blaster accidentally spilled sulfuric acid all over his homework."

"Prowl's a bitch, but he's our bitch."

"Did you test out the cryoshots?"

"Yeah, Warpath loves them, even began givin' each ef them names!"

"Whoa!"

"By the way, did yeh he'eh that Prowl wants teh join the army?"

"What? Really?"

"Yeh, I think he's doin' it outta spite …"

"Oh, right, Shockwave."

"That guy was kinda creepy."

"Yes! How does he eat?"

"No fraggin' clue."

"Is Blaster still upset with Soundwave?"

"I sweah, one ef these days the two 're jus' gonna jump each otheh 'n' interface like no tehmorrow."

"Oh, good! I am not the only one who noticed!"

"Yeh kiddin' me? Yeh could cut the tehnsion with a minin' tool!"

"Ten energon chips say Soundwave will top."

"Heh, Soundwave'll top almost anyone."

"Almost anyone?"

"He ain' eveh toppin' me."

"Any ideas who would ever top you?"

"Pfha! Good freakin' luck! I freakin' flipped eh giant seweh rat."

"What happened to it anyway?"

"Built a catapult 'n' launched it at Arcee."

"Who is Arcee?"

"Eh, you don' know her, she's a fembot who used teh live in the building but once she moved away, occasionally came teh show off how rich she is."

"Hold on, is the Arcee that Springer is trying to get?"

"Yeh, that one."

"Ah, I see."

"So, Circlelift, hopin' he'd come, huh?"

"Cir… oh! Right, yes, um, I certainly hope he comes."

"Yeh know, if he eveh rejects yeh, he'd be the biggest dumbaft loseh eveh. Ca'ehful! Yer almost scratched the processeh!"

"Really? Why is that?"

"Yeh kiddin' me? Look at yerself! Senieh yea'eh, skippin' three yea'ehs of medical school 'cus yer so smart, lovin' parents, yeh makin' a slaggin' brain …"

"Well, to be fair you have helped me out a lot."

"By the way, sorry 'gain fer flirtin' with yer mom oveh the phone …"

"Saying 'Hello, shmexy' is not flirting …"

"Eh …"

"It's whoring around."

"Oh, shut up, yeh!"

"Relax, she loved it. Thanks to that, my parents have rediscovered their youth …"

"Every night?"

"To the break of dawn, so hard that the whole house shakes. Wipe my forehead please."

"Sorry …"

"No, it is actually refreshing to see a couple that after all these years is still together and are not trying to murder each other."

"Uh-huh …"

"Especially when they are my parents."

"I'm happy fer yeh."

"So what about yours?"

"My what?"

"Parents."

"What about them?"

"Did anything change with them?"

"Eh, oh, right, nah, mom moved to anotheh town fer a minimum wage job, barely can support herself …"

"Sorry to hear that."

"Eh, it could'a been worse."

"And what about dad?"

"Oh, eh, ah, dad, uh, don' know, didn' he'eh from 'im fer oveh a yea'eh."

"Aren't you worried?"

"They're a sturdy bunch, they can take ca'eh of themselves."

"Wouldn't it be easier if you all lived in one town? I mean, five years have passed and a few months ago you told me that you guys had plans to all move in."

"Eh, well, mom is slowly workin' her way up so not too much teh worry bout he'eh; once she gets eh betteh position she'll come or I'll move …"

"Huh? You will move?"

"Don' know, I don' think so, the salary is betteh in Iacon so once eh position opens up he'eh, she'll come."

"Ah, I see. And nothing from your dad?"

"Eh, no, nothin'."

"I hope he at least says that he is doing well or in good health."

"Yeah, it'd be nice."

"All right! Put in the last amplifier! I think we are done for today."

"He'eh's yer wrench."

"Thanks. Hey, are you all right?"

"Oh, eh, yeah, just, um, tired, long day."

"Right."

"Uh-huh."

"So, coming to the party?"

"I don' knoooow …"

"Aw, come on! I will make it worth your while!"

"Eh, kinda scared teh hear that …"

"Hehe, come and you will see for yourself!," Ratchet waved his hand and quickly exited the lab, "remember! Bumblebee's house in 3 cycles!"

"Ergh," Wheeljack followed his friend with his optics, "the frag is he gonna do this time …"

Author's Notes:

Who is this Circlelift? Does Wheeljack actually understand what's going on? What will Ratchet "do this time"? Will Prowl finish his assignment? Will people stop making fun of his breasts? What's the link between the happening events and the scenes written in bold? I would ask more questions but this is getting a little boring! Find out next time!

So at work ... I work with the CEO ... side by side ... and he likes the way I do things ... I keep on hearing compliments all around! I guess that's good! There will be some sort of a yoga demonstration next Saturday ... THAT will be interesting to look at ...

Omg! I can't wait for Masterforce to come! Sure, not the best series of Transformers but it has its moments ... all one of them ... THAT IT ENDS! Nah, kidding, it has its moments. I am eager to see how they translated some of the dialogs! Speaking of which, Star Saber is The Warrior of Love. No kidding! Look it up! Hellbat is hilarious at times! Leozak reminds me of Starscream (I wonder if they are cousins or something) and Hellbat just makes me laugh with him running around trying to not get into trouble with the others.

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