Prompt 4: Challenge: pick three characters before reading the rest of the prompt. Now think of a film. The characters you've chosen end up at a drive-in cinema/movie theatre together. The film you thought of is playing. What happens?

Characters: Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Starscream (apparently I like Ss.)

Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

After millions and millions of years fighting, the Autobots and Decepticons had battles down to a science. Or perhaps a dance.

Everything was always the same, whether it was Megatron attacking somewhere and the Autobots coming to the rescue or... well, that really was all that happened now. The times of Autobot attacks had long since ended.

There hadn't been any Autobot attacks since they had crashed on Earth. How could the Autobots attack, when the Decepticons lived under the sea?

And anyways... here on Earth, the bases seemed to be kind of "safe" areas. Sure, the two sides sent spies, but there were never any all-out attacks.

But back to the battle. Megatron and Prime would get into their little tussle, the Seekers would make bombing runs over the Autobot forces, the Autobot and Decepticon melee fighters would clash on whatever battlefield Megatron had chosen while the snipers and long-range fighters would choose what cover they could and take pot-shots at the enemy. Prowl and Soundwave would hash out genius plans that very few bots would follow, leading to chaos. Or increased chaos.

And then the gestalts would form (if the battle was big enough), and the surrounding area would soon be rubble. The Twins would take to the sky and attempt to rip the wings off the Seekers, and the Seekers would throw them off, usually after taking major damage, and usually going down with the Twins. The Seekers would fly off with their tail-fins between their legs, and Sideswipe would catch his brother and hope that they could find somewhere soft to land, because his jetpack (by that time in the battle), was rather low on fuel and its ability to hold up two bots was king of doubtful.

Which was what was happening when the Terror Twins and Starscream (who Sunstreaker was still holding on to for some reason) crashed into the parking lot of a drive-in theater.

Thankfully, there weren't many people there. Three girls were sitting on the back of an old pickup truck in the very front of the lot, numerous junk food wrappers scattered around them. Two couples were sitting inside their cars on opposite ends of the parking lot. Other than that, it was empty.

So when Starscream (living up to his name), Sunstreaker (living up to his reputation – his paintjob was slagged, and the world needed to know it!), and Sideswipe (living up to tradition – he had followed the script perfectly, of course, flying up to catch his brother; Sunstreaker was the one who had broken the pattern by holding onto the Seeker) slammed into the pavement, no one was injured.

With a groan, Sideswipe lifted himself out of the crater. "Whelp. That went well."

"Aft. Look at my paintjob! It's completely ruined!" Sunstreaker moaned as he climbed out alongside his brother.

A screechy growl echoed from inside the crater (how Starscream had gotten below them, nobody really knew). "You're complaining about your paint? Look at my armor! Look at my wings!" the Seeker whined as he struggled to his knees. "Um... A little help?"

Venting and rolling his optics, Sideswipe held his hand out to the Decepticon Aerial Commander. "Up ya get."

"Do you guys mind?" a feminine voice interrupted, and all three Cybertronians whirled around. One of the three girls was standing on top of the pick-up, fists on hips, glaring at the two Autobots and one Decepticon. She twitched her head to the side, flipping her blonde hair over her shoulder. "We're trying to watch a movie here!"

"Jenny! Sit down!" the girl on the left said.

"I won't, Adeline! I don't care if they are giant alien robots! I'm trying to watch a movie! The best part is coming up in a minute!"

"Ellie, help please?" the curly-haired girl asked the other, the long-haired one who had yet to say anything.

Ellie shrugged. "Hey, I don't care. I know the movie by heart. Though... Hey, 'bots! Which ones are you?"

Starscream growled and stalked forward. "I am Starscream, rightful leader of the Decepticons, Winglord of Vos, Aerial Commander of Cybertron, and you will bow before me!"

The long-haired girl stared at the Seeker in amusement before dipping her head in a polite nod. "Pleasure to meet you, Winglord Starscream. My name's Ellie. These are my friends, Jenny and Addy. We would appreciate it if you quieted down a little. This is a very good movie. And Jenny, you think the whole thing is the 'best part'."

Jenny snorted as she sat back down. Starscream stared as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe snickered behind him.

Adeline glanced back at the three Cybertronians and shot them a small smile. "You're welcome to join us, you know."

"Why would I deign to watch a miserable little film made by ugly flesh... lings... What on Cybertron is he doing?"

Sideswipe and Sunstreaker walked up next to the Seeker and stared at the huge screen. On it, a human boy was beating up another. It was strange though... the laws of physics didn't seem to apply. The two boys were... practically flying as they attacked each other.

Then one of the boys started to sing.

"Oh, Primus, that's horrible."

"I know, right?" Jenny said, grinning.

"That's the point!" Adeline said. Ellie just chuckled.

"Hey, Screamer, it sounds like you singing!"

"You have no idea what I sound like singing, slagger!" the Seeker snarled. "In seeker-cant, my voice is actually rather... well, attractive."

Sunstreaker snorted as he settled on his aft next to the pickup. "I'll believe that when I hear it. Just sit down. I'm not really in the mood for fighting today."

Sideswipe sniggered. "Oh, goodness, the universe must be coming to an end! Sunshine doesn't want to fight!"

Sunstreaker just waved his hand in his brother's direction. "Mute it. This is actually rather amusing."

"As in pitifully pathetic?"

"As in so lame it's hilarious. Now mute it."

Sideswipe followed his brother's instructions, staying silent (though it was clear he was hiding his giggles) as he sat down next to his brother.

Venting heavily, Starscream did the same. "You know, I'm not really into fighting today either. Might as well wait out the battle here."

"See? I told you he wasn't as dim as you said, Sunny!"

"Mute. It."

Sideswipe snickered, but didn't say anything else, ignoring the glowers shot his way by the two other robots.

They spent the next hour sitting in front of the giant screen, the three girls in front of them, watching the human movie, snickering and laughing at the sheer improbability and stupidity of it.

Some time after the credits rolled (they had spent a long time debating where that door to nothing the main characters jumped through in the end went to and if it was or was not a space-bridge), the three mechs went their separate ways. The three human girls had long since left, saying their goodbyes to the robots as they drove away.

"So. This was fun," Sideswipe said, smirking at Starscream. The Seeker smirked back.

"Surprisingly, it was. Perhaps we should do it again sometime."

Sunstreaker snorted. "Right. Fraternizing with the enemy. Prowl's gonna really lay into us."

Sideswipe groaned. "Don't remind me. Really. Let's just say we got lost."

"We've got built-in GPSs."

"... Well, frag."

Starscream laughed. "Well, it's been great. I'll be seeing you!" he said cheerily, and ignited his thrusters. The Twins watched as the Seeker disappeared into the night sky, then transformed and slowly drove back to the Arc.

Prowl actually didn't punish them at all. They told him they had crash landed and had taken a while getting away from Starscream (true, technically speaking. They had crashed, and they had been a while in leaving the Seeker – or him leaving them; it was semantics, really, and neither of the Twins were really into that kind of stuff).

Starscream returned to the Nemesis with little fuss. The Decepticons were used to him coming and going at odd hours.

The next time they met in battle, after the wingleader of the Elite Trine had been dragged to the ground, Sunstreaker punched Starscream across the face, throwing him a few feet. The Seeker landed belly down in the mud. With a grin, the Aerial Commander grinned up at the yellow Twin, mischief in his optics.

"You made me swallow my gum!" he cried indignantly, an evil smirk on his face.

Sideswipe, standing somewhere behind his brother, collapsed in giggles. Sunstreaker's scowl was twitching at the edges, fighting to become a smile. Starscream, lying on the ground, broke out into gales of laughter.

The rest of the assembled armies stared in confusion at the three mechs, normally the deadliest of enemies, laughing together on the ground and wondered, exactly, when the world had ended.

(The three laughing mechs knew it was when Sunstreaker didn't feel like fighting, but it wasn't like they were about to tell.)