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The following Monday, Optimus came into the school with a newfound positivity.
He was smiling widely and greeting and waving everyone he passed by.
"Well look at you Optimist Prime. What's with you this morning?" Elita greeted.
"Just in a good mood." Optimus replied.
"Hey Optimus." Jack greeted as he walked by the two, going to his locker.
"Hey Jack." Optimus spoke. "How was your weekend?"
Jack opened up his locker. "Good. How was yours?"
"Great." Optimus replied. "Y'know, I have a feeling that this week is gonna be different. Full of surprises."
"Cool!" Miko exclaimed as she walked up to her locker. "I love surprises!"
Optimus smiled at the girl. "Well, I hope the surprises to come are good ones."
Later in the day, it was during the gym class of the eleventh grade boys. The Decepticon inner circle, including several senior Autobots and a few neutrals in the class.
Optimus attended this class as well, however he sat on the bench because of his injuries.
Their gym teacher, James Hound revealed that they would be playing basketball on that day, and that he would be coaching that year's basketball team.
Optimus felt a little sad at this news. He loved basketball.
There was a unanimous vote that Ultra Magnus and Megatron be the team captains. Who they chose to be apart of their team was no surprise either.
Ultra Magnus:
Ironhide, Jazz, Ratchet, Wheeljack, Bulkhead, and Paul Rownings whose Autobot name was Prowl along with the last kid who was a Vehc named Greg.
Megatron:
Soundwave, Breakdown, Dreadwing, Starscream, a boy named Mark Shiff whose Faction name was Makeshift, and two other Vehcs named Kevin and Steve.
The two team captains met at the half court and waited for the coach to throw the ball. When he did, it was Megatron who caught it and threw it back to his team.
Breakdown caught it and immediately went for the net. He was stopped by Bulkhead who blocked his path.
Breakdown realized that he was getting nowhere trying to get around the other boy and threw it to Dreadwing farther down the Decepticon side of the court.
He caught it easily and ran forwards. He threw it towards Megatron but Ironhide came running out of nowhere and intercepted it as he began to go for the Decepticon net.
He was then blocked by Steve, who he easily maneuvered by and he shot the ball in.
The Autobots cheered as Megatron walked over to the Vehc and hit the back of his head in frustration.
He took the ball and looked around at the players currently on the court. Magnus walked towards him. Megatron feigned throwing at him and instead turned to throw the ball to Soundwave.
Soundwave caught the ball and made a straight line for the Autobot net. Jazz ran at him and tried to jump and block the ball from going in but it was in vain. The ball went in.
Magnus took the ball and bounced it twice. Then he charged towards the Con net.
Starscream ran to block his way but Ultra Magnus spun out of the way and shot the ball in.
The game went on for a while longer. The tide soon turned in favour of the Decepticons. Makeshift confused the Autobots with his uncanny ability to change his voice and do impossible impressions of others.
After watching for a while, Optimus headed into the change room. After making sure the coast was clear, he took out a bottle filled with a swirling transparent liquid. He reached into the Decepticons bags and took out their hair products, and even combs.
Optimus noticed that Breakdown had an awful lot of it, but figured that Knockout had requested that he hang on to them for him.
Optimus carefully poured the liquid into the bottles and onto the combs swiftly. When he was done he couldn't help but snicker at the thought of what the liquid would do.
The next day, Optimus went into the school excited.
"OPTIMUS!" Some yelled from behind the group of kids.
It was Megatron, stomping towards them with a look of pure anger. It was also noticeable that he was wearing his hood over a hat. He pushed everyone who was standing in his way.
"Well, how's this for a surprise." Optimus muttered mischievously.
"Who did it?" He demanded.
Optimus looked at the malicious boy innocently. "Did what?"
"Don't play dumb with me! Was it you?" Megatron continued.
Optimus shrugged.
Megatron growled and pointed towards Wheeljack and Bulkhead.
"You two! Did you do it? You two are always trying to get at the Decepticons!" Megatron exclaimed.
"What?" Bulkhead spoke.
Megatron turned to Ratchet. "Or you! You have the knowledge to do it! You hate us!"
"Did what?" Ratchet replied.
Then Megatron turned to Elita.
"You. It must've been you! You love the damn colour." Megatron spoke.
"Did what?" Elita demanded.
Megatron shook his head and pulled the hood and hat off of his head.
"Who did this!" He yelled.
His spiky, previously silver hair was now neon pink with blue highlights in the back. There were also several lines drawn high up on his forehead. It was almost invisible since it was covered by his now colourful hair.
"Wow." Elita spoke.
Several other bystanders, including the freshmen and the people Megatron accused, covered their mouths as they snickered and laughed at the Decepticon leader. Optimus' face reminded neutral through the reveal.
"Shut up shut up!" Megatron shouted at them before turning back to Elita. "Yeah, you did this didn't you."
Elita took a moment to calm her laughter before replying.
"Believe me Mason. I wish to heaven that I could take credit for this one, believe me, but nope. It's not me either." Elita spoke. "Is it just you?"
Megatron grunted as he put his hat and hood back up. "No. Not just me."
"Really? When did this happen?" Elita wondered.
"When I woke up this morning! I know that it was one of you Autobots who did this to me and my people so confess! C'mon who did it?" Megatron replied.
Elita laughed some more.
"C'mon don't be dense. Even if it was a Bot who did this why would they fess up to you?" Elita asked.
Megatron leaned in close to the shorter girl's face.
"Oh shut up Ellen. Stop giving me that." Megatron spoke.
"What? How is that any different from how everyone treats you?" Elita exclaimed. "Is having pink hair really making you that mad?"
"There! There you go again with your annoying little love of pink! And asking me if it makes me mad—OF COURSE IT MAKES ME MAD! You're getting a kick outta this aren't you? Mocking me with all the Autobots behind you! To protect you! You think that you grew up but you'll always be tiny, helpless little glitch who hid behind a big strong man...in fact I wouldn't even be surprised if you have multiple guys up your sleeve. Huh? Well do you?" Megatron ranted.
Elita didn't even have time to react as Megatron was pushed away from her.
It was Optimus, whose angry face rivalled that of Megatron's.
"How dare you...that was uncalled for! She did nothing to you!" Optimus spat. He hit the other boy with the base of one of his crutches. Then he dropped the other one and grabbed Megatron by the collar of his shirt and raised him up. Then Optimus wrapped the crutch around his neck and held it there, pushing the crutch against his neck.
"Take it back! Take it back you fragger!" Optimus exclaimed.
Megatron coughed as he struggled against the choking tool.
"Take. It. Back." Optimus ordered.
"HEY!" Someone yelled from behind the growing crowd. "What the frag is going on here?"
Everyone turned to see Sentinel come walking around the corner in all his hall monitor glory.
He saw Optimus choking Megatron and pointed at the perpetrator.
"Pax! Let him go now! Then maybe I won't report you for expulsion." Sentinel warned.
Optimus glared at the Sentinel before reluctantly letting the Decepticon leader go. He fell to the floor and gasped for air.
Optimus picked up his other crutch and limped over to the Head hall monitor.
"I'm taking you to Halogen." Sentinel spoke. "Don't want you to choke hold anyone else."
Optimus sighed and followed Sentinel without looking back at the bystanders.
That's when the bell rang and everyone filed out to go to their classes.
Megatron was still panting when he stood back up with Elita waiting there. When he stood up fully she promptly slapped him across the face and turned to walk away without a single word.
"Damn you all." Megatron cursed.
You guys get what I did there? Optimus loves basketball?...anyone? Hello?
Ooooohhhhh. Whoah slow down there Oppie. So what did you all think?
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