Hey look! I'm alive! Sorry it took me so long to update... I blame my muse and my general klutziness. I almost broke my right index finger putting in a new garden bed at my house, and well it was annoying to attempt to type with the splint on while trying to stay awake from the meds when I wasn't irritating it at work. Oh joy... Needless to say I've almost got the plants planted whoo!
YAY I've made it to a hundred reviews!
Many thanks to my awesome beta Khalthar! This chapters prank is thanks to him!
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers
Word count is in around ~ 2129
Chapter 17: Ire and Scorn
~x~
~Cassie~
~x~
Cassie was blatantly ignoring the smirking form of Sideswipe's holoform as she scrubbed down the mats in the training room. The red head was currently leaning against the wall watching her with a cool gaze in his blue eyes.
After having separating her and Sam they had each spent the better part of the night in the brig. She had the pleasure of being annoyed by both Sam's glares and Crescent's ever annoying singing until she finally keeled over from exhaustion. Sometime in the middle of the night someone had thought to haul Sam off to the med bay to deglitterize and patch him up.
She on the other hand was still red and after she had woken up, she had been escorted by Epps to the training room and set to scrub down the mats. Garbed currently in only a black tank top and a pair of shorts, the currently red skinned girl was focused solely on the task set before her.
As for who may have scored the coup de gras, she was fairly positive that the corvette was the main culprit... just as she was equally sure that the boss bot knew it was him as well... but seeing as there was no incriminating evidence to point to him, he had gotten off Scott free.
Cassie grimaced as she tossed aside the now filthy rag before stomping over and snatching a clean one out of the pail. I wonder when the hell was the last time they actually thought to sanitize these damned things?
"Who knows." Crescent grumbled as she attempted to ebb off some of Cassie's sour mood.
Cassie glared at her red hands. Even with the solvent she was using the damned dye was stubbornly refused to wear off her skin. What the freaking hell did he use? Henna ink?!
"... You know that could be possible... Isn't that stuff permanent?"
"Damn near, damn it! I always wanted a tat but not a full body one! Hell all I have to do is smear charcoal on my face and get some fake horns and I could pass as a female Darth Maul!" she threw the new towel at the specter.
Crescent chortled at her twin's rant.
"Oh shut up." Cassie growled before going back to scrubbing.
"Having fun over there?" Sideswipe called from his position on the wall.
"You shut up too."
Sideswipe held a hand over his chest as if he was wounded. "But I only came to keep you company..."
"You do realize I'm currently planning on putting you on cinder blocks and hi-jacking your tires while you sleep." Cassie said as she tossed aside the now filthy cloth.
"I doubt you could even do it."
Cassie placed her hands on her hips. "You do remember that my dad was a mechanic right? I did learn a thing or two from him... And changing tires, both with a hydraulic wrench, and with a normal wheel jack was one of the few things he taught me. So don't test me."
"Oooh I've got chills in my energon lines from that threat." Sideswipe waved his hands as he walked towards her.
"I'll shove a potato up your tailpipe." she growled.
He smirked as he stopped in front of her. "I'd like to see you try."
She glared up at him as he towered over her before breaking into a grin, giggling. "God you're such an idiot. Even if I get you back for this, you won't see it coming."
"Yeah right I'm the king of pranks. You'll never be able to pull a fast one on me." Sideswipe smirked.
"If you say so."
Epps chose that minute to walk in. "Yo Cassie the place is looking good. Ratchet says he's got the solvent for your dye job."
"Thank God! I am so over the Red Skull look. See ya later Sides."
~x~
~Sideswipe~
~x~
The femme was nuts. Thinking that she could threaten him. He shook his holoform's head as he dismissed it, returning his consciousness to his real body. Ah well... he loved a good challenge, even if she did have her twin and his mentor with her, she would not beat him.
:Optimus to Sideswipe. Report to my office at once:
Sideswipe sighed... He could feel a lecture coming to him very soon.
~x~
He should have known that Optimus wouldn't be happy, not with the fact that the two fleshies had injured not only each other but several of the soldiers in their brawl... He knew that it was hard to pull the wool over his commanders optics, after all how many did Optimus know that could orchestrate such well planned and ornate pranks without leaving a trace of their involvement?
The only condemning evidence of any kind that Prime had on him was the fact that he had caught Sam coughing up the cash he owed him from losing their bet.
But the sentence for his 'supposed' *coughcough* actual *coughcough* involvement made him stare in shock at Optimus.
"You can't fragging be serious!" Sideswipe gaped at his leader. Optimus had his battle mask in place but he could tell that Prime was smiling behind the damned thing. "A YEAR?! I can't prank for a YEAR?!"
"I could make it an entire vorn."
Sideswipe's denta clanged tightly together at the stern warning in Prime voice. He bowed his head and muttered his acceptance of his punishment, before briskly turning and walking out of the room.
He growled as he rolled out to meet both Ratchet's and Ironhide's smirking mugs. Servos clenching tightly. He stormed his way through the base making his way past Cassie who was currently talking with Will, but spared time to smile a brief but sly smile at him.
The sensation that he associated with Jazz and Crescent hit him in his shoulders... It had to be Jazz. "Really?" he growled. "You have got to be kidding me." he turned to glare in the direction the brunette had wandered off in.
~x~
~Jazz~
~x~
He had spent most of the day (and all of the previous night) avoiding Cassie and Crescent. Now... was it because he had gotten a full view of Cassie in all her glory? Or was it because he was pissed at Sam for stealing the girl's entire wardrobe? No... It was all Sideswipe's doing... Who else could instigate a prank war between the two teenagers better than the Prankster King himself? And the fact that she had been dyed red.. It was Sideswipe's original color, he may have as well signed his fragging name on her...
So here he was clinging to the mech, listening to him grumble as he made his way to the energon dispenser in the rec room. "Ah know ya ain't really tha' mad at Cassie more than the fact that you got caught." He murmured even if the bot couldn't hear him...
"Leave me alone Jazz." Sideswipe grumbled.
Jazz tightened his hold on the frontliner. "Nah... Ah thin' Ah'm good righ' here." He grinned as he snuggled into Sideswipe, knowing that it would only piss him off even more.
"Get. Off. Of. Me." Sideswipe's plates bristled as he hissed… Jazz's reply was to poke him in the back of his helm. "GAH! LET GO OF ME JAZZ!"
Jazz grinned as Sideswipe's irritation was tangible enough for everyone to give him a wide berth, avoiding the ranting bot and his shadily dark corner of the rec room. He shot some glares at the humans that dared to look at him before they quickly exited the room. Jazz chuckled at Sideswipe's sigh of defeat. "I take it you're annoyed with me." he muttered in Cybertronian.
Jazz responded with an extra long jab to Sides back.
"Can you blame me? I had to make sure how far I could push her. After all, she is going to be my charge she'll have to know how to take a prank or two, plus I had to see her skills. I was just... testing her metal." Sideswipe said before pulling out a cube of high grade from his subspace. "It was sheer chance that Sam would manage to take her clothing... She did give a nice view though..."
If Jazz could have physically hit Sideswipe he would have at that moment.
~x~
~Later that evening Crescent~
~x~
Cassie was currently glaring at the paperwork that Will had obtained for her to go over in order to be able to pull the wool over Galloway's eyes... it was mainly composed of base rules.
"I'm bored."
"Why hello bored nice to meet you." Cassie said dryly, not even looking over at her twin who was currently poking her arm.
"Cassie... I'm sure you've read that thing twice by now."
"Yep... I thought I noticed some incongruities and rather loose loop holes the first time. I was just taking note of them." Cassie mumbled as she rested her head on her forearms.
The spirit groaned as she flopped back onto the floor only to yelp as Crescent found herself staring up at Jazz. "Don't do that..."
"Do wha'?"
"Sneak up on me." she said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Ah can' help it... How would ya like ta help meh with somethin'?"
Crescent raised a brow. "Help you with what?"
Jazz's aura was positively devious. "Is Cassie still awake?"
"Barely."
"Good. Ah was wonderin' if ya felt up ta pulllin' a prank..."
~x~
~The next morning~
~Sideswipe~
~x~
Sideswipe onlined to a mild hangover and the feeling of one of the spirits leaning against him. He grumbled as he sat up on his berth and almost immediately face planted into the floor as his balance was thrown off by a miserable rolling in his tanks accompanied by a loud rattling noise... He groaned into the floor as he attempted to pick himself up, trying to fight the urge to purge his tanks...
Sideswipe leaned against the edge of the berth in misery as he cursed at the poke he received in his forehelm. It had to be Jazz... This had Jazz written all over it... Especially since he had only felt this miserable once before...
~x~
~Flashback~
~x~
Sunny had smirked when Prowl entered the Recreation Room, the Praxian was painted pink with the words 'I need a good frag' painted in lime green on his door wings. His optics landing on the twins Sideswipe glanced at his brother as they tensed ready to bolt from the irritated enforcer.
"'ey Prowler... Why is mah name painted on da back o' ya doorwings?" Jazz's voice asked in a mixture of curiosity and shock from his position at the energon dispenser. Prowl tensed as his wings went rigid and klicks later his processor glitched.
Several bots, including Sunny and himself burst out laughing. Jazz blinked down at the fallen Prowl. Sideswipe smirked as he called out, "We figured that you could use a little encouragement Jazz." Several other bots gathered cheered in response.
Jazz's visored helm snapped up to glare at him and Sunny... the grim look on the usually lax bot was not a comforting thing... But then again neither had been the wrenches that Ratchet had tossed at them when he had answer the comm link that summoned him to the rec room.
He and Sunny figured they were in the clear after they had finished their time in the brig... but nothing prepared them for the next orn after they woke up in their berths. It had started when he had onlined for his morning monitor duty shift... He had sat up on the berth that he and his twin shared only to fall back onto his twin who woke instantly to screech about his paint job and slung him off the berth... only to fall onto Sideswipe as he too found himself suffering from a sudden imbalance...
It wouldn't have been too bad if Sunny hadn't soon purged on him...
They eventually found themselves in the med bay having their tanks pumped for the itty bitty ball bearings that had mysteriously ended up in them...
~x~
Sideswipe wiped his mouth as he finished purging into a bin... pressing a hand to his abdominal plates in a mild attempt to calm his tanks and the movement of the damable little balls irritating them. "I... would love to know how the Pit you did this Jazz..." he groaned before opening a comm link to the Hatchet.
The Fav/follow list has grown more! Add your name to the ever growing list! XD
Many mnay many thanks to Catgoddess92, Katanna Cain, Princess Of The Sea555, TFAN Override, imjaysong, liv cahill, HeartGuardianSol, koekiemonster (guest), Khalthar, Alice Gone Madd, Bat Girl 22200,Defender 54, .Royalty, Shadow Night Prime, Skyress98, Vodid, Heather Taft3, meangirl8, raven-saber, Dances in the Twilight, Fandom Jumping Expert, Whitelily Prime, arakmellon, jessica541991, wordgeek1000, Alumniea, AnimeQueen99, Forestfirekid, GveryThinGGoesRACER, MiniAjax, NilliaWafersP, Soundtrack-Fanatic, angelic-muse-of-nature, , hadrianlopez1, WhiteWolfWoman, Blue-Black Flames, Cutie Kyuubi, Hamato Sakura, darkhuntress621, kellyhorse, valeries26, The Writer Akayla, 1, BrokenScarlet, Enigmatic Daydream, FreyaHawthorne, Leader of the Wolves, Littlebirdd, Mango-sama, TF angel, TatteredAngel 42, HeartStarryNights, Croonsgirl, UndeadHatter, SarahGayle, HappehKitsune, Kate555, EmeraldStar8273, FluffyPizzaPie, Rumbling Frenzy, Kiesha is a darkest mind's fan, Maria Prime, Reader103,Shady Kitsune, SilverMistLove9898, YepNopeMaybe, dancertoria, truethings, ruler of the ice dragons, Agnew-san, Lauz-millz, SasshriaRayu, Vampirbite801, arakmellon, lillithwolfshadow, scaryeyes101, Dakota or bigcat night Prime, Kokerret , twizzlers24, FredWeasly,99, Jimmy 144, Patches9812, emc2fantasyfan, Emily Thacker (guest), E-Man-Dys (guest), Fangirl01music, CarsCars2Fanatic, Derra, .Mini-Fan, Marfo Fuara, Muirgen79, Nessamir, ShiroOokami44, Sky65, SomeoneThatExists, chained2love, night prince, predalien1425, MercenaryBunny, Candlestic, EmeraldDagger, Gotta Dance 88, Nox rcanna The Nerconomicon, sarielgrace, Jasmine SiMing, Rayna17, mezzieb1, Rockubyebaby, ShadowScroll, arealnative, canikostar99, Melanyrose, The Ghost129, Zeng Xiao Long Sunstar Crystal, Loveatdonnie, CrazyKitteh007, technoWriter15, VineAuror, Tbkitty00 (guest), trat199816, Bluehelixx CarlssonElyy Falcon's Hyperdrive, FlowerForTheDead, Hero-100, Shadow Noir Wing, Pyromaniac Demon, Valavare, Kyubbi lover 98,Soaring Hawk1, TwiggRules, Yuki420, firespark15, Jennybot19, Kyriafox, Waterfront, Wingstrike, darkling98zouless,DisneyCraze, OrbofImagination, Morgageb, DoctorHarleyPrime, Penny The Queen Of Imagination, jetstorm1959, cbrown0925, MaddySan5926, SAMCRO1864, StormMonStarLight, TerrorTwinEpicness, Kira The Dead Ninja, MidnightStar64, golden-priestess, StarGazer360 , AND Lovina Rossie-Vargas,9 tailed vixen, AyanoZonurai, Crystal Blue Butterfly, GothicEmoGirl95, MiserysNightmare, Nova-girl703, ShizukaRen-Hime, alannasanderson101,girlsugarskull48654, meeep15 for fave/follow/reviewing... Eee ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou! Y'all inspire me to write!