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Note : Requested by laureas.
Note 2 : You know you're addicted to Transformers when you see a yellow hummer drive by and think "Oh my God, it's Ratchet!" LMAO!
P.S. I try to keep all pennames with the requested chapters, but I get a lot of requests and without even thinking of it, tend to delete my reviews (in my email inbox) after replying to them, so I may have forgotten a few, or I may have gotten a name or two wrong. If so, if you requested a chapter and it has someone else's name on it, let me know and I'll fix it. :)
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(Sam's POV)
"Uh...Sides...?" Seeing the familiar form of the silver and black mech, I raised an eyebrow at what he was doing.
Which was currently running in my direction with an apparently live wire in his hand, if the electricity bouncing back and forth had anything to say about it. I took a step back and to the side, wondering if he'd suddenly gone homocidal from all the revenge pranks. Then I saw his grin.
Yup, definitely loopy. As the mech slowed down and raised an optic ridge, I hid in a half open doorway leading to the cafeteria. "Hasn't anyone ever told you? You shouldn't run with a live wire." Ok, yeah, the saying was 'you shouldn't run with scissors' but somehow I had a feeling live wires would do more damage to an alien robot than a pair of tiny scissors.
Then I paused. Well, depends where they get stabbed. Shaking my head, I dislodged that train of thought before looking back up at the mech.
"Sam, hey!" He acted as though he hadn't heard a word I'd said. "Can you hold this for me?" He bent down and practically shoved the wire in my face.
Jumping back with a yelp, I glared at him. "Um, how about 'no'?"
Shaking his head, Sideswipe looked up and laughed a little, then twitched. "Oh man, I'm so slagged if..." He trailed off before snapping his fingers. "I got it!" He turned and ran back down the hall, disappearing from sight.
There was a moment of silence, and then a loud zap, a bright flash of light, a burst of a siren, and a pair of loud cries.
"Oh slag." I winced and shook my head. "I mean crap!" You know you've been spending too much time around Autobots, when... Shaking my head, I turned and hid in the room beyond the door. I didn't even dare look out, almost afraid of what I'd see.
Funnily enough, when I saw Sideswipe later, he was smirking and snickering, seemingly randomly.
I should have known better than to dismiss it.
(Later, Mikaela's POV)
I watched as Sam's eyes followed Sideswipe around almost suspiciously, narrowing whenever the silver and black mech would snicker or smirk. "Uh, Sam?" He jumped a little and I barely resisted the urge to giggle as I raised an eyebrow. "What's up? You keep staring at Sides."
He frowned a moment. "I just...." Grabbing my arm, he carefully led me over to a corner of the cafeteria. "He came to me earlier, asking me to..." Shuddering a little, he held out his hands and looked at them. "Hold on to a live wire for him."
I felt my eyes widen, and immediately grabbed his hands. He didn't... No, he couldn't have. He wouldn't be here if he did. I checked his hands, running my fingers over his palms. "Sam..."
"I didn't." He gently took hold of my hands and held them steady, the tone of his voice causing me to look up. "I didn't, but he was talking to himself." Sam's eyes left me a moment, and narrowed again.
Following his gaze, I watched as Ratchet came into the room. He seemed to look around, before narrowing his optics at Glen, who was eating a ham sandwich on whole wheat bread. Walking over, he plucked the sandwich out of Glen's hands. "This is far too nutritional." He tossed the sandwich over his shoulder with a look, before digging his hand into one of the holding spaces on his body, pulling out a small bag and plopping it into the young man's hands. "That's much better. Enjoy." Turning, he walked off.
I stared in shock as Glen held up the bag of barbeque potato chips. His eyes were wide, but a smile quickly broke out over his face, and he popped the bag, taking a huge hand of chips and stuffing them in his mouth.
"Did you just....?" I looked to Sam, and startled, watching as he almost glared suspiciously Sideswipe's direction. "Sam?" He didn't even blink. "Sam!" I punched his shoulder and watched as he winced and turned to me. "Hi. Welcome back to Earth, how was Cybertron?" I raised an eyebrow. You did just see what Ratchet did....?"
He nodded. "And I know who to blame." Closing his eyes, he rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed a little, undoubtedly picking up the habit from Optimus. "When I refused to 'hold the live wire', Sideswipe took off down the hall and around a corner, and apparently electrocuted someone."
"And that someone..." I turned and watched Ratchet chaseing a soldier who was attempting to drink a bottle of water, a bottle of pepsi clutched lightly in one of his hands, while he called after her how much less nutritional the pop was, and therefore, how much more she should be drinking. "Ratchet?"
He nodded. "There was a blast of a siren. Sideswipe's been grinning like Moonracer flashed him..." He snickered. "Again, and now Ratchet is acting weird, right? It's all...connected." Even as he said it, he didn't sound all that sure.
I turned back to the soldier, who was now dangling from Ratchet's hands.
"Alright! Alright! Give me the damn pepsi already!" She yelped, half glaring as Ratchet held her bottle of water upside down and drained it right there on the floor. She sighed heavily and took the bottle he offered her, opening it, taking a swig, and staring the large yellow medibot in the optics as she seemed to swallow.
Satisfied, Ratchet put her down and walked off. The moment he was out of sight, she walked over to the nearest garbage can and tossed the pepsi, spitting out the mouthful and heading over to a vending machine and buying another bottle of water, before hiding it behind her back and dashing off.
"Ratchet the...anti-nutritional freak, right?" I raised an eyebrow, not sure if I should laugh or worry. "Um, don't we have a picnic going on, out back? As in, lots of nutritional snacks and stuff?"
Sam frowned a moment, before his eyes widened. "Oh crap!" Grabbing my hand, he began leading me across the hangar at top speed.
We ran outside through the back door, and across the massive base towards where a group of our friends had gathered for an outdoor picnic, enjoying a nice, quiet day. I saw Bumblebee sitting next to Arcee, watching as Annabelle ran around with a carrot in her fingertips and laughing at something. His door wings fluttered a little and he seemed to be quite enjoying himself.
Seeing Optimus turn his optics towards us, I raced forward, barely biting back a sigh as I stopped by his folded legs. "Uh, Optimus? I think we have a problem." He leaned down, his optics darkening in worry. "Something's happened to Ratchet."
"No!"
Turning over my shoulder, I felt my eyes widen. Speak of the devil.
Ratchet was running in our direction, his optics widened with horror and a hand out, as if reaching for us. He quickly reached out group and began grabbing the healthy snacks from people's hands. "Stop! This is all nutritional! You must stop at once!" He pulled a sandwich out of Sarah's hands and tossed it like a basket ball towards a garbage can, before carefully knocking an apple out of Maggie's hand. "This is horrible!" He looked actually worried.
"Ratchet...?" Optimus slowly and carefully raised to his feet.
Reaching into holds all over his body, he began pulling out all kinds of junk food. He tossed bags of candy and chips down on the ground, and even somehow managed to pull a bag with a couple of seemingly fresh, hot burgers out, handing them to Will. I don't even want to know. "These are much better. Far less nutritional, and they taste much better." He then spotted Annabelle with her carrot and his jaw dropped. "Sparkling, noooooo!" He reached for her, trying to pick her up.
Ironhide, seeing what was going on, let out a low, menacing growl and quickly picked up the tiny girl, carefully cradling her in his arms. "Back off, glitch!" He growled, standing upright and taking a careful step back.
"You need to get that carrot away from her!" Ratchet's optics were wide with panic. "It's... It's full of nutrients! It's healthy!" He made the word sound suspiciously like a cuss, with the tone he used. He quickly pulled out a bag of twizzlers and held it out, as if trying to tempt the larger bot. "These are far better tasting!"
Everyone was staring at Ratchet, like he'd grown a second head.
"Ratchet... Has something happened?" Optimus approached slowly, stepping carefully over myself and Sam. "What happened to you, old friend?" Holding up his hands in a placating manner, he stepped forward.
"Nothing, really." Ratchet turned back to Ironhide, who held Annabelle closer to his spark and growled at the medic. "Can't you see?"
There was a sigh, and suddenly Prowl was dragging Sideswipe over.
I rolled my eyes. "Sam thinks Sideswipe might have inadvertantly shocked Ratchet with a live wire." I explained, catching the attention of all the bots.
"Well, yes, he did, but I feel fine." Ratchet turned his optics from me to Annabelle, and suddenly cried out. "Nooooooooooooooo!" He stared helplessly as she chewed on the carrot she held, swallowing her bite and taking another. Ratchet actually flinched at that.
Suddenly, Optimus lunged forward and grabbed the medibot, flicking at something at the back of his neck and catching him as the yellow bot collapsed, immediately going offline. "Wheeljack, Hound and Jolt, I need the three of you to return Ratchet to his med bay and scan him." He passed the unconscious bot off to the others. "Find the problem and fix it. As for you..." He narrowed his optics at Sideswipe.
"It was an accident, I swear!" He held up his hands. "I asked Sam to hold onto the wire....." He trailed off as Bumblebee's optics widened and Optimus' narrowed. "I mean... I was just.... Oh, I'm so slagged!" He trailed off and dropped his head, walking along easy enough as Prowl led him off to the brig.
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Note : Probably not that funny, I have no idea where this came from. -.-' Hope you like it, anyways.
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