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Note : After the Crazy Bot Chapter, someone made mention of using Thriller as a chapter. Well, let's just say....poor Autobots. Requested by Topkicker26.

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(Mikeala's POV)

I sat next to Sam as we watched Thriller on tv. Most of the Autobots were out, doing their own thing, leaving us humans to relax and watch a classic on tv, even as we pigged out on the leftover candy from Halloween. As we watched, Michael Jackson and the girl he was with walked down a path, laughing, and he gave her a ring. I smiled a little, loving this video as I remembered how it went.

"I'm not like other guys." Sam quoted, as he handed me another piece of candy with a smile and a kiss.

I nodded and smiled at him, accepting the candy and kiss and unwrapping it, even as I looked at the movie. "Of course not. That's why I love you." I turned and looked up, giving Sam a kiss on the chin. Grasping the edge of the candy, I popped it in my mouth, only to gasp and spit it back out, causing Sam to crack up laughing. "What the...?"

I ignored the lines in the movie as I looked down at my hand, my jaw dropping at the simple golden band, and the tiny yet exquisite diamond in the center. "Sam...?" I looked up, seeing the girls with wide eyes, and the guys smiling fondly.

Taking the ring, Sam adjusted himself so he was kneeling before me. Looking up at me, he grinned. "Mikeala Banes, would do you me the honor of being my girl?" He wiped my spit off the ring, chuckling again, before holding it up.

I stared in shock at the sparkling ring, before nodding. I held out my hand, and he slipped on the band, coming in close and kissing me, right before we both jumped at a shrill scream on the screen. Laughing, I leaned against him and swatted his chest slightly as if vibrated underneath me. "Wow, that was romantic." I held a hand over my chest and laughed again.

We watched as the 'date' with the wolfman all turned out to be part of the movie, and Michael and the girl left. My eyes shot to the ring, and I smiled before looking back up, even as the music played. Remembering 'Popcorn' with the override chips, I felt my eyes widen as an image began to play across my mind.

I almost leapt up from Sam's arms, turning on the massive couch cushion to face the other humans, with what I'm sure was a pretty scary smirk, considering Will and Epps exchanged a wary look. "Ok, I have an idea for the biggest, most jaw-drop-worthy prank ever!" I clapped my hands together, my body trembling and my heart racing. "But I'm gonna need help!"

"Oh hell no!" Will winced as Sarah swatted him and glared at him, before holding a sleeping Annabelle closer. "I mean, no!" He looked back at me. "Ironhide's still got me on his hit list for the costume thing!" Everyone snickered at the tutu reminder.

"And I really don't wanna get on their bad side anymore than I already have." Sam added, sliding down in the couch as if to try and hide himself.

Maggie pursed her lips, but then looked at me. "What's the idea?"

Turning and looking over my shoulder, I watched as Michael Jackson began dancing with the rest of the zombies before turning back and pointing over my shoulder. "That!"

They all looked at the screen, with the hoarde of dancing zombies, led by the man in red. Some of them frowned, while others broke into laughter.

"Are you serious?" Maggie's eyes were wide, but she exchanged a look with Glen and smirked. "We're so in!"

"Me, too! This, I'd pay to see!" Epps' eyes sparkled as he laughed.

Sarah nodded and then pouted at Will. "Come on. You know they won't hurt us."

"No, but they might accidentally let us get our afts blasted in battle." Will muttered quietly, before sighing. "Alright, alright." He turned to me, his lips pulling up into a grin. "We're in, obviously."

Lastly, I looked to Sam, who held up his hands in a sign of surrender. "Just tell me what to do."

I grinned and clapped my hands together. "Ok, first... Maggie, we need the override chips, as many as you can get your hands on. The more the better. Glen, we need to program them to synchronize with each other, and to do that." I once again pointed at the screen. "The rest of us will divide into teams to distract the Autobots while they're temporarily stunned and chipped. Then, we'll meet up here, after."

"What's the trigger going to be?"

I smirked and turned to Sam. "The movie, of course. We're going to act out the spoken lines in the movie theatre." I explained the details needed, watching as the others got right into it, their eyes sparkling with amusement as they thought about what we were going to do. Grabbing a piece of candy, I looked at it this time, before shooting Sam a look and popping it into my mouth.

This...was going to be huge!

(Later)

I walked into the rec room and froze, looking around. There were at least half a dozen video cameras being set up on top of large cabinets and such, aimed skyward, and each one was manned by a snickering sargeant or a chuckling cadet. Then there was the half dozen Autobots milling around, talking, and eyeing the cameras uncomfortably.

Sam was standing in a corner, looking whiter than usual, and walked over muttering as he seemed to keep a wary eye out. When he got to my side, he grabbed me up in a tight, passionate kiss, that left me startled and short of breath. "Did I ever tell you how much I love you?"

Blinking for a moment, I raised an eyebrow. "What happened?"

He shuddered. "Bumblebee fell on me."

I felt my eyes widen, as I immediately began to look him over. "Sam!"

Grabbing my arms, he chuckled a little. "I'm ok. He landed so that an indent in his armor was directly over me, keeping me safe." He shuddered again. "Remind me next time you concoct a crazy plan to say 'no'." He smirked.

Kissing him lightly, I saw Maggie and Glen enter the room, smirking evilly as they nodded to us, and walked over to the couch, where they used a stairway to get up to the top of the piece of furniture and sat down at the top of the flight of stairs, ignoring the giant tv behind them.

Sarah and Will were against the far wall, with Annabelle being bounced in her father's arms. Luckily, this time Sarah thought to bring along a harness that attached to Will, that Annabelle sat in, so if he lost his grip, he wouldn't drop her.

Epps was standing next to them, shaking his head and busting up into seemingly random laughter.

I giggled, unable to help it. Looking around, I saw most of the Autobots were already in the room, with more arriving every moment. As Ratchet and Optimus rolled in and transformed, Maggie flashed me a thumbs up, and I smirked at Sam, as she hit play on the small remote she held, turning on the tv.

I watched as the Autobots all turned towards it, watching the scene before them. My heart pounded in my chest, since this time I was actually supposed to do acting, and pulled Sam next to the stair case at the edge of the sofa.

The Autobots were huddled in a lose group across the room, and the already alerted soldiers quickly vacated the area as the scene progressed to the key point.

Sam tapped my arm, smirking and trembling the faintest bit. "It's only a movie." He widened his eyes and made his look pleading.

We'd memorized the script, and knew when we got to the key point, the Autobots would take over. The music played loudly in the background, and I was aware of Autobot eyes on us as we quoted the characters.

"It's not funny." I pouted and looked down, glancing up through my eyelashes.

Sam swallowed heavily. "You were scared, weren't you?"

"I wasn't that scared."

He nodded. "You were scared."

I turned and began laughing when I saw the stiff, blank look in the Autobot faces. They shuffled around seemingly randomly, but I knew better. Optimus Prime stood in the front, flanked on either side by Ironhide and Prowl. On either side of them was Jazz and Ratchet. All the Autobots stood in formation, but for the femmes, who had yet to arrive.

And no, they weren't part of this. I wanted someone to be free of it, so they could laugh as hard as the rest of us.

On cue, the femmes arrived in the doorway of the room, and paused as Optimus' mouth opened.

It's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark.

The voice of Michael Jackson echoed forth from Optimus' Prime's lip plates, and the humans went deadly silent as they stared at the massive robot, who was standing still as a statue. The ones manning the cameras got to work, even as Maggie giggled, shot me a look, and then smirked, looking pretty darn pleased with herself.

Under the moonlight, you see a sign that almost stops your heart.

You try to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it.

You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes.

You're paralyzed.

Human eyes were wide, and jaws swung losely, almost creaking in the silent room. Oh, wait, someone's jaw was creaking in the room. Looking up, I saw Chromia's somewhat horrified look, her jaw hanging losely and working soundlessly as Ironhide stood at attention completely silently at Optimus' side.

Flare-up was giggling her aft off, and Arcee just stared blankly.

You hear the door slam, and realize there's no where left to run.

You feel the cold hand, and wonder if you'll ever see the sun.

You close your eyes, and hope this is all just imagination, girl.

But all the while, you hear the creature creeping up behind.

You're out of time.

Suddenly, they jumped into action. The Autobots stalked forward three steps in tandem, before jumping, causing all the humans to scramble for cover or to hold the cameras from falling over. They began to dance to the video, copying the movements perfectly, and even swinging their hips like the zombies in the video.

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night

There ain't no second chance against the thing with fourty eyes, girl.

Thriller, thriller night.

You're fighting for your life, inside a killer, killer night.

I watched, breathless with laughter, as Will's jaw dropped. Sarah was doubled over with laughter, to the point she had to sit down or fall down, and Annabelle was giggling as well. Epps was laughing so hard, he literally did fall over, shortly followed by two other soldiers, who were clutching there stomach laughing.

The Autobots kept dancing, thrusting their hips forward, before swinging them back and forth. They stepped in tandem, swinging their hips forward, even as they swung their arms up, almost hitting each other.

Then a high pitched 'OW!' sounded, and Optimus grabbed his crotch plating, thrusting his hips forward, and causing Chromia to offline when Ironhide and the others followed suit. As the purple femme fell over backwards, Arcee tried to catch her, but was laughing so hard, she was taken down as well. Flare-up was already on the ground, curled up in a tiny ball with energon tears coursing down her cheeks from laughter.

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk their masquerade.

There's no escaping the jaws of the alien, this time.

They're open wide.

This is the end of your life.

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side.

They will possess you, unless you change that number on your dial.

Now is time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah.

All through the night I'll save you from the terror on your screen.

I'll make you see.

The bots jumped and spun, before resuming their dancing. My chest ached horribly, and Sam and I were leaning against each other for balance as we watched them. Epps actually laughed himself into unconsciousness, laying there with a grin on his otherwise placid face, and Will finally collapsed to his knees when he realized this, tears coating his cheeks as he struggled to breathe.

Most of the soldiers took this moment to race out of the room in laughter, some crawling, and others holding each other up as they went. Looking to Maggie, I could see her tap her watch as she and Glen shakily made their way to the door.

"Times...almost...up." I began laughing again, as the Autobots repeated the earlier crotch-grab-and-thrust, and collapsed to my knees, crawling towards the door as the music continued.

"Every man for themselves!" Will called, hauling his wife up and taking off our of the room.

Once the song was over, the chips would stop working, so we had to move fast, if we wanted to live another day. Huh, death by laughter, though... What a way to go.

I made it to the door as the lyrics resumed and turned to watch as the Autobots continued dancing.

That this is thriller, thriller night.

'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try.

Thriller, thriller night.

So let me hold you tight, and share a...

Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight.

Making a last minute decision, I grabbed one of the cameras before I took off out of the room, laughing hysterically as Sam and I b-lined it towards the cafeteria, which we'd earlier Autobot-proofed as a headquarters. Behind me, the chorus repeated, and I stumbled as I laughed, giggling as Sam had to almost haul me towards the cafeteria.

Once we made it inside, we all laughed for a good while, before we finally settled down. Of course the fact that we left Epps like a smiling corpse in the room full of dancing Autobots only set us off again.... As well as the chorus of yells I think Canada could hear...

"You were right, 'Keala." Sam kissed me, and broke into laughter again. "This has gotta be the best prank ever."

"Did you see Chromia fall over when Ironhide grabbed his crotch??" Maggie doubled over in laughter, slipping off her chair with a squeak and laying laughing on the floor.

"I was too busy staring at Epps." Will laughed again, even as his giggling wife unhooked the harness and held on to Annabelle, who was laughing and cooing herself, though she had absolutely no idea what was going on.

"What a way to go!" I called, falling against the wall with my laughter, and sending the whole room into hysterics again.

Needless to say, we're all going to be watching our backs and sleeping with both eyes open for a loooooooooooonnnnng while.

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