Speedwriting Prompt Fills

by Exactlywhat

Well... I found the TF Speedwriting Community on LJ, and sorta kinda maybe started writing some. Figured most of these are pretty much one-shots, and it'd kinda be a waste of space to post them all as separate stories. So, here they are. *Note: this will always be marked as complete (even though it isn't), because every fill is its own story, and this isn't one continuous story.

74. Steam

Title: Steam

Rating: K+

Continuity: Severely AU.

Characters: Prowl, Jazz, Starscream

Disclaimer: Don't own.

Prompt: 3. Task: Write a steampunk AU involving two of your favorite characters.

Prowl glared at the schematics the ship's computer was currently displaying.

"What's wrong, love?"

Doorwings twitching, Prowl turned his glare on his bondmate.

"Whoa, Prowler, calm down. S'up?"

"This planet... We cannot go here! We will not be able to scan their transportational units."

"Why not?"

"Look!" Prowl growled lowly.

Jazz leaned forward to examine the screen. After a moment, he cycled air through his vents. "Steam power? They've got a whole planet runnin' on steam? How... inefficient."

"I know. But we can not replicate the process. There is no way for us to blend in! No way for us to fit... We run entirely too strangely compared to their machinery to blend in."

"So... We pass on?"

"I suppose, though the Prime will not like the fact that we have to leave a planet unexplored."

"Eh, tell him it's populated with sentient lifeforms."

"Are they sentient?"

"Dunno. But we can say we think so, an' we ain't s'posed to start wit'out his permission if we think that, so... it'll put the prob'lm off fer a bit."

"... Very well. Starscream?" Prowl said, opening a comm channel to their pilot.

"Hm, Prowl?" came the response over the comm channel.

"We're passing by this planet. We think it might be occupied by sentient life."

"Gotcha. Next planet up is in three joors."

"Thank you, Starscream. Prowl out."