*cough cough* Hey, who's throwing dirt? I'm not dead, I'm just lazy...ahem. June was hell, but, I never have to take Science or French again! *cue angel music*. I survived volunteering at a summer camp and getting my report card back so here we go to celebrate.
Heh, I can hear TriGemini Prime now, "Next week my aft."
Anyways, please enjoy.
The following day all of the students received their report cards from the first semester just before lunch.
Jack opened his to find a single 79 upon the sheet.
"Science huh. Oh well, it's to be expected I guess." Jack spoke to himself during lunch.
"Howdy Jack-rabbit!" Miko exclaimed happily.
"Hey Miko," Jack replied. "How're things on your report card?"
With a big smile on her face, Miko shoved the piece of paper proudly into Jack's face.
"Straight A's glitches!" she practically shouted, causing several people to turn their heads.
"Really? Huh. The way you kept parading around during the semester, I was under the impression that you were just barely getting by." Jack replied honestly.
Miko didn't seem to take offence. She merely crossed her arms and smirked smugly.
"What can I say tha's jus' how I do." she proclaimed. "How about you Steadfast? Are your marks good or are you barely standing your ground?"
"Funny, but no. I'm doing fine. Just kinda glad that this semester is over." Jack replied.
"Yeah I know right? I love Mr. Kup as much as the next guy but history was getting more and more boring every day." Miko added. "Look, let's get going to lunch. I plan on bragging to Bulkhead that I got better marks in science than him."
"How do you know you got better marks than him?" Jack asked.
"Hunch. Let's go lunch!"
"What's wrong Breakdown?" Knockout asked his friend as they were about to head out to lunch.
"Nothing." Breakdown replied clutching his stomach.
Knockout put his hand on Breakdown's shoulder.
"Nothing my aft. You've been like this for the past two periods. Go to the bathroom man, jeez." Knockout said.
"Really, I'm fine." Breakdown attempted to stand up straight, but still wore a pained expression.
"Consider this doctor's order. Bathroom. Go. Now." Knockout spoke with finality and turned to leave the larger student alone.
Breakdown sighed and turned to do as Knockout told him.
Turned out that cheesecake from the previous night had come to bite him back.
As Breakdown was heaving into one of the toilets, Skyquake came inside.
"Breakdown?" Skyquake called, looking into the open stall, witnessing the large student on his knees bent over the toilet.
"Skyquake?" Breakdown replied. "What're you doin' in he-"
"Uh, doin' my business. Hey, you really don't look good man. Why don't you go get signed out?" Skyquake suggested.
"'Cause...I got stuff to do h-"
"Yeah, lots of stuff. Look, I'll go get a bag or something and I'll help you to the office."
"I don't need a fraggin' crut-"
"Yeah, I'll be back."
With a bag in one hand and Skyquake's shoulder in the other, Breakdown was carefully but surely making his way through the halls of the second floor towards the staircase down to the main office.
"C'mon man. Almost there." Skyquake assured him.
Breakdown nodded as they continued on.
They turned the corner to see a pair of Vehcs being on the receiving end of what looked like verbal abuse, courtesy of Airachnid.
"You two idiots!" she exclaimed. "That information is utterly useless to me. I don't need to know where their meeting places are, I want to know what they're doing there."
The two Vehcs looked at each other nervously.
"Uh, well, we...we don't really think that, that giving you that level of info would be, uh, good for the Decepticons." One of the two boys stammered.
Airachnid narrowed her eyes. In the blink of an eye her hands were suddenly around the Vehcs's necks, pinning them against the wall.
"The Decepticons will become obsolete the day Megatron graduates...or is expelled." Airachnid's voice lowered into a malicious hiss. "Don't you see, such an outcome is inevitable. Being so loyal will get you nowhere in a dead faction, this stupid little faction war will be truly meaningless in the end. I saw that a long time ago, now, what's wrong with having some fun along the way?"
"The Decepticons will win the faction war and will rule over the school with an iron fist for years down the road." the other Vehc spoke confidently.
Airachnid snarled and raised her hand against him, but was stopped mid air by a much stronger hand.
It was Breakdown.
"Those are some mighty bold words for an outcasted glitch like you." Breakdown spoke.
Airachnid turned, glaring at him, before putting on a flattering smile.
"Why that was rude. I was only speaking the truth Breakdown. It hurts doesn't it? Knowing that all of your efforts now will be meaningless in a few years." Airachnid said.
"Enough!" Skyquake exclaimed, walking up next to Breakdown. "Megatron created the faction and has led it in a way that will allow it thrive for years down the road. Saying such blasphemous things just goes to show how ignorant and far gone you are from the faction."
Airachnid snorted. "'Blasphemous'. That just goes to show how far gone you are in the head Skyquake. Megatron is just a boy. A foolish, headstrong boy who was somehow able to brainwash and manipulate nearly half of the school. Just wait and see, once he graduates, he'll turn his back on this place and leave the rest of you pitiful idiots out to dry."
That seemed to do it. Skyquake lunged at the girl. The two Vehcs jumped out of the way as the two crashed into the wall.
They struggled for a bit, before Airachnid was able to claw her way out of the boy's grip and quickly maneuvered out of his grasp. She turned to run and found Breakdown blocking her path. Dodging his initial strike, she grabbed a fistful of his hair and sent her knee flying into his stomach, causing him to cough up several drops of saliva before she took off running in the opposite direction.
Breakdown groaned as Skyquake came up to him.
"Breakdown! Come on, let's get you to office." Skyquake spoke but Breakdown shook him off.
"No." he replied, wiping his mouth. "I'm good, besides, I bet giving that glitch what she deserves will make me feel a whole lot better."
With his mind set, Breakdown took off after Airachnid with Skyquake bringing up the rear.
They chased her through the halls and up a pair of stairs before catching up to her at a dead end.
She frantically tried to make a break for it but the two bigger students grabbed onto her and sent the lithe girl flying.
She hit the wall and frantically began to pathetically crawl into a corner.
"Heh," Breakdown smirked. "Easy prey."
"What in all hell are you two doing?" a familiarly arrogant and cocky, but deeply unwelcome voice echoed from behind them.
"Sentinel!" Breakdown exclaimed.
"We-we were just talking." Skyquake spoke frantically.
"Oh thank God!" Airachnid screeched. "They just started assaulting me, chasing me. Sentinel."
Sentinel pushed past the two boys and helped the girl up. She flung her arms around his neck in a flashy little movement like some B-List actress halfheartedly playing a damsel in distress.
"Don't worry Ara, these guys won't go after you anymore, or rather, anyone, ever again." Sentinel said.
Skyquake and Breakdown didn't know what they should be more taken aback by, Sentinel's threat or Airachnid's performance. She was rubbing herself against the hall monitor.
"My hero." she spoke in a sing song voice, turning her head towards the two other students and she showed them a malicious smirk.
"Scrap," Breakdown cursed under his breath. She must've seen Sentinel down one of the halls they had passed. They had been caught right in the centre of the spider's web.
"Alright," Sentinel spoke as he tried to compose his reddening face and began to push Airachnid away. "Let's get going you two."
Sentinel grabbed the two boy's arms and began walking away with them in tow, Airachnid following behind them with a look so smug it could rival anything Starscream could dish out.
It was with that that Breakdown's stomach finally made it's move. Running around and getting kneed was not good for it in its current, lacklustre state.
So, with a quiet grumble, Breakdown threw up once more...on Airachnid.
A classic horror movie scream was heard throughout the school that day.
Killed two birds with one glitched stone. I know guys, I hate it too but there are plot reasons. At least Breakdown got the last laugh right?
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