Chapter Nine

So It Begins

The yellow bot screamed and scuttled like a crab to get away from me. "What is that?" He shouted, tripping over his feet as he scrambled to get away. The red one laughed and looked closer at me.

"I think it's a sparkling."

"Hi." I grinned up at him, hiding behind the leg of the table.

"Yeah, she's a sparkling." There was a crash as Bumblebee slammed the doors opened and tripped over the now silent yellow bot, both went crashing to the floor and ended up in a tangled bunch of limbs on the floor.

"Bee, damn you got taller... and heavier." Sunny croaked. Bumblebee hurried to his feet, managing somehow to get out of the pile of limbs and took a good look at the two bots before breaking into a grin and chattering some sort of greeting to the two of them.

"Yup, we made it." The red one grinned, hopping over to his friend and who I assumed what his brother and gathering the two up in a hug.

"Get off." Sunny snarled as he examined his newly scratched armour before turning his attention back to me. "So it really is a sparkling?" He asked, bending down a little to get a better look at me, bright blue eyes blinking owlishly. He soon narrowed them as he decided that he had gotten a bit too close and I might infect him with my very breath or something.

"She." I corrected, crossing my arms over my chest and coming out from behind the desk. Obviously if Bee was friends with these two they couldn't be that bad. "I'm TerraNova."

"Hey there pretty lady." The red one turned to grin at me. "I'm Sideswipe and this is Sunstreaker." He nudged his brother as he didn't bother to introduce himself. "We're twins." He held his brother to him with one arm slung over his shoulder as he refused to let him move away.

Bumblebee decided to scoop me up, setting me comfortably on his shoulders. I gently placed my hands on either side of his head to keep myself balanced. I grinned at the two twins, now being eye level to the two of them.

"Sunny I can't believe you screamed." Sideswipe suddenly started laughing, obviously remembering the quite astounding and feminine high pitched scream that Sunstreaker was able to produce.

I tried not to laugh but the look of sheer surprise when he looked at me was too much for me to bare. When Sunstreaker started glaring at the two of us I actually had to stop laughing because it was much scarier than I was sure he could manage.

Bumblebee reached out to punch him as soon as he felt that I was trying to hide behind his head. Unfortunately I was too big at this point.

"What are you two doing out of the stations?" Rachet boomed from his place over by the door that he had just walked through, smiling at me and Bee before turning his attention to the twins. "Well?" He demanded as the twins couldn't come up with anything that resembled a sentence and made their way over to the beds they were sat on before they saw me.

He sighed as he joined them, standing over them and scanning for injuries. "What have you two been up to this time?" He asked.

The twins exchanged looks, obviously debating about whether telling the medical officer and getting into trouble. "Nothing." They spoke in unison.

I snorted, patting Bee on the head gently getting him to put me down. "Bee can we go outside?" I asked, looking up at him. He nodded and took my hand, leading me out of the room. But before we left I turned around and stuck my tongue out at the two bots who were now being berated for getting scratches all over themselves. I knew Ratchet would be lecturing them for a while.

Outside I was able to look at all of the soldier going about their training, this really interested me because I had gotten to know quite a few of them and it amusing to see them being serious for once. Epps and Will had gotten it into their head that it would be fun to prank them.

I was planning on getting them back soon. I just had to come up with a brilliant idea first. Too bad I had no ideas.

Life was cruel sometimes. The last time they pranked me was while I was walking down the hallway, by myself for once, they popped out of a random doorway and smothered me in whipped cream. Rachet had blasted me with a hose to get it all off me and it was not an experience I ever wanted to go through again.

And it called for revenge.

But watching them train I felt so much respect for them, of course this didn't stop thoughts of revenge flow through my mine, but I felt pride at knowing them and being apart of this thing. I had no choice of course, I was an alien robot but still, you know what I mean.

My eyes narrowed in on a bunch of equipment on the further side of the yard, an idea started forming in my mind. Bumblebee was still with me but I knew I could get him in on my plan, he was known to be a bit of a prankster at times, usually his pranks were directed at his charge, Sam.

"Hey Bee?" I motioned for him to bend down so I could whisper to him. "What do you say to a little bit of mischief?"

His eyes started sparkling.

Bee and I quickly formed our plan, he would lay in wait in his alt form and pretend to be in stasis as I would hide behind some barrels on the other side of the room. We waited for Will and Epps to come through the doors, we knew they would have to come through here to get to the showers as they'd just been exercising and training outside. I did feel a bit bad but I knew they could quickly wash it off.

We waited for about two minutes before the first wave of soldiers came through the door. I started to get the giggles but quickly silenced them as the two targets made their appearance. I peeked around the edge of the barrels and nodded to Bee who revved up, making the two men jump and hurry out of the way which moved them closer to where I was waiting to pounce.

I grinned sadistically as I jumped on top of the barrels and poured green and blue paint over the both of them, laughing hysterically as I did so. Once they cans were empty I launched myself over to Bumblebee who transformed and picked my up, making sure I was out of reach of the two men who were now wiping the paint off their faces.

Someone took pity on them and threw them both a towel. Their eyes found mines through the paint and I gulped. It was look that promised that their revenge would be a lot sweeter than mine was.

"We gotta get out of here, baby." Bee managed to get through the radio, getting a better grip on me as we ran to the med bay. This was the only place we were really safe from any retaliation, everyone was way too scared to get on the wrong side of Rachet.

"Why do you have paint on you?" Sideswipe asked from his bed, he was lying down with one arm behind his head acting as a pillow. Sunstreaker was on the bed next to him, resting both hands on his chest as he rested.

"What paint?" I asked innocently, looking down at myself and seeing none, but then I saw Bumblebee's leg and knew I'd managed to catch him without meaning to. "Oops." The green and blue were really obvious against the yellow paint. I gave him an innocent look as he grumbled to himself, putting me down on a bed near the twins.

AN: So there we go, a few people have mentioned before they wanted some pranks or something so there was my best shot. There will be more obviously as I'm having a kind of prank war going on. Sunny and Sides will get involved in the next one I promise, if anyone has any ideas they are welcome, I'm not really much of a prankster so my prank was kind of lame I apologise.