"Ewww! He brought one back?" The look of horror on Astrotrain's face made Swindle feel a little bit better, he couldn't help but smile. Even though he was still quite freaked out about the idea of one of those...things living in their shared room! Surely Onslaught wouldn't allow it...had Vortex informed him of what those things were capable of? Had he told him anything about the worms or the planet they were on? ...Oh well, one could always inform him later.

Glancing up, he caught sight of a pout from the triple changer. "I was hoping to never have to think or speak of that again...eww." Shuttering, he wrapped his arms around himself. Looking disgusted and disturbed. He gave Swindle a look, an almost pleading one. "You're going to see about making him get rid of the thing right?" Swindle could offer nothing more than a shrug, for he didn't know whether Onslaught would have any intention of listening to his pleas for a while. It seemed to offer no comfort to Astrotrain, who's hands began shaking in a mini-spaz of disgust for the slimy little creatures.

"It took me forever to get the gook off last time, too! I spent three hours in the wash and had to have Breakdown help me! Which was not fun!" Swindle stared up at him for a moment, wide-opticed and expressionless. Images ran through Swindle's processor. Astrotrain trying to get Breakdown to help him...in the wash wracks. Breakdown of all mechs, helping him wash off. In all his horrified, antsy, squirmy, paranoid glory.

After a moment, he started cracking up, before he finally broke into a outright laughing fit. Startling poor Astrotrain, who stared at him. His look of bewilderment changed into one of embarrassment after a moment. "Sh-shut up! It's not funny! Breakdown is hard to convince to stay and help!" Primus, if mechs could blush...! Swindle only laughed harder, nearly falling over from it. He instead staggered, bumping right into Astrotrain, who gave him a pouty look of disapproval. Swindle tried to sober up at the look, but failed utterly, and instead leaned on the larger mech to continue his laughing without fear or face-planting the floor.

Astrotrain crossed his arms, but cracked a small smile at his own expense. "...Okay, it's kinda funny now that I think about it. But still!" He poked the smaller, gold and purple mech, who grabbed that very hand for support when the jab nearly knocked him off balance. The large, purple triple-changer started chuckling, before joining in on the laughter. He couldn't deny it was pretty funny from a different perspective. And something about Swindle's laughter was contagious...

"Fluuuuuffy!" The laughter almost immediate halted at the sound of that familiar voice, both heads whipped around to see Vortex walking down the hall, hand cupped to the side of his face, as he called 'Fluffy' and looked around. Both stared at the silver-clad flier, who was nearing them. "Fluffy...?" Astrotrain looked to Swindle in question, and got a look of confusion and a shrug. Both grew wary and inched from the Helicopter as he turned down next to them. He glanced to them;

"Have you seen Fluffy?"

At the bewildered stares, he suddenly made a thumbs up motion at them. "He's the worm!" He bounced a bit, either oblivious or amused by the twin looks of horror. "...You..." Swindle sputtered a bit...optics huge...er than usual. "...You lost the worm?" Astrotrain completed for him, throwing his hands up, looking horrified. Vortex shook his head.

"No! Of course I didn't loose her! She went out for a walk!" He flicked his rotors at them, acting offended, and strode off down the hall. Calling out for his pet worm.

Swindle sputtered, and shook, and whipped around to face Astrotrain. "He lost it! He lost the slaggin' thing and now it's slithering around in here somewhere and probably multiplying and getting bigger and it's going to east us all and it's offspring are gonna crawl into our armor as we sleep and mess with our wiring and- and- AHHHHHHHH!" Throwing his hands into the air, Swindle sprinted off in the opposite direction of Vortex, screaming all the way.

Astrotrain stood there a moment, kinda shocked and confused at what just happened. After a moment, he tilted his head to the direction Swindle had run off in...

And quickly followed.

Authors Notes:: Ahh, I'm sorry this chapter is kinda suck-ish and short! But I promise you're gonna love the next one! ;D

Thank you Kangaroone for pointing out my spelling error! I fixed it, and appreciate you letting me know. :D

Thank you Krazi-1 for pointing out an error! I fixed it as well! I really need to re-read better...

Disclaimer:: Transformers does not belong to me, nor do any of it's Characters.