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Note : Song/Dance idea suggested by Topkicker26. Check out Crazy Frog's Popcorn video on youtube to see what I'm going for. In fact, I fully recommend watching the video first, if you can, then reading this chapter. *Snickers* I just finished writing this chapter late last night, and I can't help but laugh when I read it. LMAO! *Rolls around on the floor laughing, then sees the glares of three pissed off bots, eeps, and runs for her life*.
Wolf Mystic - LOL. Go for it. I'd try it myself, but I don't have the proper door set up anywhere near. LOL
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(Mikaela's POV)
I watched as Wheeljack walked around a corner, his optics darting up every now and then in order to keep from stepping on humans, but otherwise seeming preoccupied with something. Feeling my eyes narrow, I watched as he paused, tapped something on the data pad he was holding, and let out a sound that sounded suspiciously like an excited gasp, before he darted off even quicker. Huh, wonder what he's up to?
Shaking my head, I went back to wandering down the hall. I spotted Ironhide, along with Epps relaxing in the rec room, along with several of the other mechs, but kept walking. Sam was out with Bee, spending some quality boy-and-his-car time, and Optimus was in yet another meeting. The Corvette twins were brigged for their latest prank, and the Chevy twins were forced off base under the watch of Hound to keep them in line.
I sighed a little as I rounded a corner, and let out a tiny, surprised yelp as I almost ran into Sarah. "Oh, Sarah, hey." I smiled a little.
She smiled back before heaving a sigh. "Hey Mikaela, what's up?"
"Trying to walk off my boredom." I shrugged a little and leaned against a wall as I crossed my arms over my chest.
She nodded. "Me, too."
"Everyone's just...gone. There's gotta be something to do." I looked around. "I mean, the only one I saw not sitting in the rec room was Wheeljack."
Sarah nodded, and then snapped her fingers. "Oh! I heard he was working on something. I'm not sure what, I mean... I was told, I just forgot." Her eyes lit up. "Why don't we go ask him?"
"'Cause he was heading to his lab and humans aren't allowed around his lab, with no Autobot guides." Suddenly, I straightened up. "Although I think Jolt and Ratchet are free. I walked by the med lab earlier, and even they were insisting how bored they were."
"Well then, lets go!" Sarah linked her arm through mine and we rushed off towards the med bay to talk hopefully Jolt into coming with us.
It didn't take us long. The moment we entered the bay, both medic and apprentice were all over us, asking a million questions about what was wrong and scanning us over and over, until Sarah and I were tingling so much, our bodies almost felt numb and we could barely stand. It took us a few moments to insist that other than the scan-induced tingling, we were fine, and just wanted a guide.
Jolt jumped at the chance, literally. I was lucky we were on the berth, or we might've been two flattened squishies.
Unfortunately for Ratchet, before the medibot could say a word, Jolt had carefully scooped us up and was long out of the med bay, almost flat out running to Wheeljack's lab.
I could only hold on to his thumb as he moved fast enough to put even Blurr to shame, and laughed as Sarah clung to me to keep from falling off the bouncing metal hand. "Whoa there!" I caught Jolt's attention. "Where's the fire?"
He tilted his head a little before stopping and looking around. "I detect no fire, and there are no alarms."
Always so literal. "I meant, why are you in such a hurry?"
"I just wanted to help you."
Smirking a little, I folded my arms over my chest. "You do realize the sooner you get us there, the sooner you can return to the med bay with nothing else to do." I raised an eyebrow and laughed as his optics widened and he began moving at a much slower pace. In fact... "Jolt? You can keep it slower, but we would like to get there some time before next millenium."
He smirked a little and began walking at a normal pace, which was about the same speed as a flat out run for a human. In no time, we were entering the lab, and watched silently a moment as Wheeljack was looking into a large magnifying glass, checking out what appeared to be a microchip of some kind.
"Uh, 'Jack?"
He startled and spun to face us. "Oh, hello. I wasn't aware you arrived."
"We noticed." I smiled at him. "What're you working on?"
His facial fins lit up brightly in his equivalent of a smile. "Actually, it was something created a while ago, back on Cybertron." He turned back to his project. "We created a microchip that could syncronize signals and override processors." Glancing over his shoulders, Sarah and I must've looked pretty blank, because he sighed and turned back to us. "A kind of mind control device if you will."
"Are those....legal? I mean, Optimus is allowing this?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, they're harmless. They're used to temporarily override processor commands, but if the chip is removed, then everything will return to normal. We were thinking they could possibly be used to, as the humans say, 'brainwash' a Decepticon prisoner for information."
Brainwash... It's temporary..and harmless.... I looked over what appeared to be two probably finished chips, and the third that he was working on. Boredom inspires some truly evil plans. I thought as I struggled to hide a smirk. "They need to be tested though, first, right? To make sure it works?" I caught Sarah giving me a funny look out of the corner of my eye and almost winced at the sheer evilness of the smile that slowly overtook her face.
Wheeljack looked at me a long moment, his optics slowly narrowing. "What do you suggest?"
My own smirk crossed my face as I was suddenly accosted with a mental image. "We...test them. We grab a couple of bots when they least expect it, attach the chips and override them."
"That isn't wise. They'll be very upset."
I smirked. "It's a prank, 'Jack. Don't tell me you've never wanted to see the bots make fools of themselves." I paused a moment and thought about it. "Well more so than usual, anyways. It's harmless, right? We get three bots, chip them when they're offline for one reason or another, and then sync the overrides to all do the same thing, whatever we want." Looking to Sarah, I giggled. "Ever see the Crazy Frog video for 'Popcorn'?"
Her jaw dropped and her eyes widened. She collapsed into a tiny ball of giggling squishly, curled up against me in Jolt's hand. Then she really busted up laughing and gazed at me. "Ironhide's gotta be one of them!"
I felt my own laughter bubble forward. "And Optimus!" I paused a moment, wiping tears from my eyes. Then I imagined it again, and almost rolled off Jolt's hand, laughing my ass off. "Who's...gonna be the...third?" I gasped out, struggling to breathe and giggling the entire way.
"Isn't it obvious?" When I looked up, Jolt was smirking evilly. "Ratchet, of course."
"You're fragging kidding me." 'Jack's optics widening in horror. "Now way. I'm not getting him of all people! He'll weld Wheelie to my aft!"
I pouted and widened my eyes, unleashing my most lethal weapons on Wheeljack. Looking up at him, I even included a tiny quiver of the bottom lip, which I pushed out a little to catch more attention. "Please, Wheeljack?" Think sad thoughts, think sad thoughts. Dead puppies, dead puppies, dead puppies... My eyes began filling with tears. "Pllleeeeassssseeee?"
He looked at me a long moment, and I almost began to fear my puppy dog eyes weren't working. The longer he stared at me, the more and more I felt my heart drop with dread. Then he sighed, and it was all I could do to keep from jumping for joy, when I realized he was conceding.
"Fine. I'll finish this one and we shall get them when I am done."
"Optimus should be out of his meeting by now." Sarah added, a michevious grin on her face. "We'll need to keep them split up, so they can't warn each other, and we'll have to catch them by surprise."
"As an apprentice medic, I have access to more than enough in the way of sedatives. As long as they don't see me coming, I should be able to catch them off guard." Jolt was hodding to himself. "And they are immediate, so there is no need to fear retribution."
"Not yet, anyways." Wheeljack added quietly, from where he was working on the third chip. "Just wait until after."
(A Few Hours Later)
"Why again did we have to be the bait?" I grumbled, rubbing my wrapped ankle. "Optimus almost landed on me." I shuddered a little, as I recalled how quickly he went down. If it hadn't been for Wheeljack, who all but materialized out of thin air and caught the boss bot, I shudder to think what would have happened. I shuddered again. "That was just too close."
"Imagine how I feel!" Sarah shot back, looking around with wide eyes. "Ironhide was holding me when Jolt struck! You hear about people's lives flashing before their eyes, but I never thought I'd actually experience it."
"Well, you wanted this." Wheeljack held on to a small remote and raised an optic ridge at us. "Someone needed to be the bait, and someone needed to catch them when they offlined. Were you planning to volunteer for the catching?"
I thought about it, shuddering and giggling a little, hysterically, when I imagined tiny little me standing under Optimus with my arms out in an 'I'll catch you' fashion. "Um, no. I'm good."
"Ok, so they've been neutralized and implanted with the chips and the chips have been set to the parameters you requested." Wheeljack's optics narrowed as he handed me the small remote.
Well, small for him. It still took me two hands to hold on to the damn thing.
"Thanks." I struggled to get the remote in a more comfortable hold, and then hopped into his hand. Together with Jolt, who carried Sarah in his hand, we made our way to the rec room. "How much longer?" I looked up at the scientist.
"Any moment." Jolt answered, smirking a little.
I nodded and sat back on the sofa. I noticed vaguely that the tv was on some documentary or another, but didn't bother doing more than staring at it blankly as I mentally counted down to when all three mechs would be entering the room. I carefully shifted the remote, thankful Wheeljack had made it easy to figure out. There was a big red 'Activate' button, which I felt was pretty self explanitory, and then a 'Deactivate' button.
He had a secondary remote, a real remote for actual chip use, with all kinds of buttons to help control the chip more efficiently. We were just running a prank and trial run in one, so I didn't need anything big and fancy.
Checking my watch, I rolled my eyes when I realized ten minutes had passed. Come on. I bit back a sigh, noting that Sarah was looking about as impatient as I felt. Then the floor shook a little, and I turned eagerly, watching as two bots came into the room. Yes! I mentally cheered as Optimus, rubbing the back of his neck, walked in with Bumblebee at his side.
I waved at them, my eyes refusing to even linger on Optimus as I waved Bumblebee over, so he could unload his usual passenger on the sofa seat next to me. "Hey guys." I gave Sam a nice, lingering kiss and then hugged Bee's fingertips before he could pull them away. "Good to see you're back."
They looked at me a long moment, before Bee chirped a little and waved, heading off to speak with Arcee about something. Sam, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes at me a moment. "Ok, spill."
I watched Optmus look at us a second, his metallic eyebrows furrowed, before shaking his head and turning to follow Bumblebee. Once his back was to us, I smirked and winked to Sam, gesturing to the remote Optimus obviously hadn't noticed, considering Sam was obstructing his view of my lap. "Prank." I whispered in his ear. "Just watch."
As soon as the words were out, I watched as Ratchet and Ironhide walked into the room, seemingly in discussion about something. I bit my lip, exchanging a glance with Sarah, and Jolt and raising an eyebrow at Wheeljack, who chose that precise moment to vacate the room as fast as he could, without being noticed of course.
"Chicken wuss." Sarah muttered.
I giggled a little. "So now what? Just activate it, or wait for a better moment?"
She seemed to think about it, and we both took in how Ratchet and Ironhide walked over to Optimus. "Activate it. They're together and in the same room as at least half a dozen bots." She smirked and settled down a little. "This should be good."
I hit the bright green button, and waited.
Then I waited some more.
Frowning, I took in how they continued talking, then looked down at the remote. I hit the 'Activate' button again, but still nothing happened. Shooting a glance at Jolt, I raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me the batteries are dead."
"It doesn't run on bat-"
Suddenly loud music filled the air. The song to Crazy Frog's 'Popcorn' began playing, and I spun around as all three mechs stiffened up, catching the immediate attention of the other bots in the room. Loud, boisterous dance tunes echoed through the room, from each of the mechs, in sync with each other.
Then it happened.
All three of them began tapping one foot, their hips swaying a little with the motion. Suddenly, they all spun about face, saluting seemingly no one. One hand flipped out and they began snapping their fingers and snapping their hips to the side, along with the music.
Arcee fell over laughing, followed shortled after by Flare-up, even as Chromia stared at her sparkmate in something akin to horror and amusement combined. Her facial plates slackened, allowing her jaw to drop, and she stared unmoving at the dancing mechs.
Their expressions were hilarious, both mortified and shocked at the same time, even as Ironhide lowly growled but seemed unable to stop dancing. They began clapping their hands to either side of their bodies, then spun in place. All facing the left, they grabbed their afts with their hands and did hip thrusts forward, hopping with each thrust.
Epps had been leaning against the wall, and he was nearly screaming in laughter at the sight.
Will walked into the room at that very moment. He took one look at the mechs, raised an eyebrow, shuddered violently, turned and walked right back out of the room, sending his wife into hysterics bad enough that Jolt was leaning over her, apparently scanning her.
Bumblebee stared silently, seemingly not even able to laugh he was so in shock. He looked at Ratchet and the utter look of humiliation on the 'bot's face as he jumped forward again, before spinning in place once more and facing the other direction.
Optimus seemed the least pissed of them all, but the look on his face promised that squishy human or not, he found out who did this to him and they were gonna die.
I began laughing, clutching at my stomach as I watched the dancing mechs. I spotted Jazz tapping his foot to the tunes, and smirking a little, before said mech shot me a knowing look and shook his head.
Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet then began twirling their arms in place, and stepping one foot forward to tap the ground before pulling it back and repeating the gesture with the other foot.
"Oh. My. GOD!" Sarah sat up straight, only to see the mechs and keel over laughing once again.
Chromia's optics seemed to splutter a moment, before darkening and she toppled over backwards.
I laughed all the harder. No matter what, Ironhide's never gonna live this down! I had to place the remote on the sofa and bury my face in Sam's trembling neck, laughing my ass off to the point I was in agony and struggling to breathe.
Sam wasn't much better, and he looked traumatized, even as tears coursed down his cheeks from laughter.
Prowl walked in, just as all three mechs jumped into the air and landed, sticking one hand out as if pointing to something, the other hand on their hips and thrusting their hips back and forth repeatedly. He paused, his optics widening, and without warning a loud pop was heard and the poor mech fell over backwards.
"Sides..." Sarah gasped. "And Sunny have... They have nothing....on us!" She laughed all the harder as Ironhide shot us a vengeful look and growled again.
They faced forwards once again and began performing the macarena before linking their fingers and doing a wave motion with their arms. The mechs and femmes that weren't already on their knees from the force of their laughter, collapsed and leaned against whatever stable surface they could find, wheezing from their laughter as their boss bots continued dancing.
Suddenly, Wheeljack came running back in. Without a word, he scooped Sarah, Sam and I up. "I miscalculated the length of time the chips would last!" Was the only explanation we got, before we were whisked out of the room.
"Awww, but I didn't get a chance to record it!" I groaned, realizing a moment later that I didn't even have my camera with me.
A loud chorus of growling yells reached our ears, even as Jolt ran right behind us. "Oh trust me, every other mech and femme was." Wheeljack smirked and dropped us off, before transforming, letting us inside and driving faster than he ever had before, away from the base.
It was several hours and quite a few States later before Wheeljack stopped, and then a few days before Will insisted it was safe enough to return to base. Even so, the five -Yes five, even if Sam hadn't been directly involved this time- of us kept a close eye on our backs at all times, for a while.
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