One (Okay, Few) Sentence Writing Thing
Did an exercise to kickstart my writing, gleefully stolen from the lovely dark_puck. Made a list of Transformers, assigned each a number, rolled some virtual dice, and combined the pairs with the prompts.
01: Motion (Warpath and Blitzwing)
Tanks, no matter their size, had a distinctive way of moving in either form that Warpath thought was unmistakable. Then he met Blitzwing, who broke all of the rules.
02: Cool (Slag and Seaspray)
Getting into a fight with Seaspray cooled Slag down. But chasing a minibot into the Pacific had that effect on every mech.
03: Young (Gears and Breakdown)
Breakdown was too fraggin' young, pardon his Kaonic, to be grinning that way when he had Bumblebee's transmission in his hands. But Gears kept from complaining until he'd stuck an electroshock mine on the Stunticon's back.
04: Last (Hook and Grimlock)
Hook thought it was highly unfair to be the last Decepticon standing between Grimlock and the triple-barreled photon cannon. So he put it between him and the Dinobot.
05: Wrong (Slingshot and Laserbeak)
Slingshot didn't think a lousy cassette could outfly him.
Slingshot couldn't have been more wrong.
06: Gentle (Kup and Blitzwing)
Kup was almost gentle when he lowered the unconscious triple-changer to the ground. A loud clang would give him away just as surely as Blitzwing noticing him would have.
07: One (Long Haul and Cosmos)
All it would have taken was one Constructicon spotting him for Cosmos to fail this mission. Fortunately for him, Long Haul seemed to be napping while he waited for someone to fill his truckbed.
08: Thousand (Venom and Hook)
Mixmaster could think of a thousand more entertaining things to do than watch Hook and Venom play full-stasis. He'd started listing them loudly, too, until Hook threw him out of the room.
09: King (Long Haul and Grapple)
Grapple found it hard to protest being presented to the Praxians' "king" when he was unceremoniously dumped at the feet of an irritated-looking Long Haul. Especially since the dump truck hadn't noticed him - Long Haul was too busy trying to keep the female Praxians from covering him with jewelry.
10: Learn (Jazz and Megatron)
Jazz liked learning things about people. It wasn't something he mentioned much, but Red Alert was fully aware of his belief that a good spy was a curious spy.
Learning what it felt like to be Starscream staring down Megatron's fusion cannon was something Jazz could have lived without, though.
11: Blur (Starscream and Huffer)
Starscream had seen Scrapper's hands become blurs when he drew up plans. He'd never thought he'd see it happen with an Autobot, though.
12: Wait (Bombshell and Brawn)
Brawn didn't have long too wait before he found himself face-to-face with an Insection. Problem was, this one knew how to make anyone his ally.
13: Change (Shrapnel and Mixmaster)
After Mixmaster mixed him three drinks, Shrapnel's vocalizer stopped repeating the last few syllables of every sentence. After five drinks, his face hit the bar.
14: Command (Dirge and Gears)
Megatron ordered Soundwave to modify the watch-rosters so that no one ever had to deal with Dirge guarding Gears again.
15: Hold (Venom and Shockwave)
Venom considered Shockwave's hold on sanity to be marginal at best. His hold on reality was as unrelenting and strong as a Guardian's, however.
16: Need (Sunstorm and Mixmaster)
Mixmaster's innate need to bed any Seeker that held still long enough left him with a burned mouth and scorched mixing-drum after he met Sunstorm.
17: Vision (Spinister and Macabre)
Macabre saw the target and took the shot before Spinister did. Spinister killed the sniper that had been lining up on Macbre.
18: Attention (Sunstorm and Octane)
Octane did not appreciate Sunstorm paying any sort of attention to him, due to the Seeker's tendency to throw off energy like he was a small star. The triple-changer spent his life full of flammable materials; he didn't need small stars near him.
19: Soul (Chromia and Chromia)
In the crystalline world of someone else's mind, Chromia came face-to-face with a human woman in dragonhide armor. Only her grin made the Autobot realize she was looking at herself.
20: Picture (Hook and Needlenose)
Scrapper thought Hook and Needlenose made quite a picture, working together on an engineering job that was swiftly going over even his head.
Spinister didn't comment on the scene at all.
21: Fool (Raoul and Smokescreen)
Raoul suggested a trip to Vegas for Spike's twenty-first birthday. He claimed that it was just for fun and he didn't have anything planned, but Tracks wasn't fooled. He'd seen how interested Raoul got when Smokescreen and Mirage started talking about stocks, and that was just a dressed-up form of gambling to Tracks.
22: Mad (Ratbat and Jazz)
Ratbat considered the carefree, casual Autobot spymaster to be more than a little mad. Didn't he know he was in the middle of a war of attrition?
Jazz thought the accountant's obsessive measurement of energon and willingness to call off a successful attack because it was using too much energon was more than a lot crazy.
23: Child (Hook and Ultra Magnus)
Dealing with Mixmaster and Scavenger had led Ultra Magnus to believe that the Constructicons were children compared to him, like Hot Rod and Springer.
Hook disabused him of that notion.
24: Now (Thundercracker and Trailbreaker)
Technically speaking, Trailbreaker didn't use his forcefields the way he was currently using them. But locking Thundercracker in a cage with his own fire was better than letting the jet loose.
25: Shadow (Mirage and Snarl)
Even the slighest shadow across his solar-collecting plates would have disturbed Snarl's defragmentation. Fortunately, Mirage never cast shadows when he didn't want to.
26: Goodbye (Brawl and Venom)
Venom found it very interesting who people said their good-byes, too. Brawl spontaneously hugging Blitzwing before the Combaticon headed back to Cybertron almost got a thesis written about it.
27: Hide (Ultra Magnus and Hoist)
Ultra Magnus didn't question it when Hoist strolled into his office with a toolbox and set about working on the city-commander's door. Maintenence happened.
Later on, he found out that Ratchet and Wheeljack had held a yelling match in Medical, which had sent most of the support staff into hiding.
28: Fortune (Brawn and Swoop)
Even though Grimlock didn't like it, Swoop thought it was good fortune to have minibots along on their mission. Especially since Brawn was almost as good as a Dinobot for taking down Decepticons.
29: Safe (Reflector and Ratchet)
Reflector considered sitting in the back of Ratchet's vehicle-mode to be perfectly safe. Skywarp had long ago given up trying to figure out what bizarre definition spies used when they said 'safe'.
30: Ghost (Ramjet and Onslaught)
Onslaught thought it more likely that the armada Ramjet reported was a sensor-ghost from one too many run-ins with Warpath, but it rarely hurt to check.
31: Book (Mindwipe and Seaspray)
Seaspray was all for Decepticons reading books. It meant they weren't out doing other horrible things.
He wasn't for them reading entrails, especially not his entrails.
32: Eye (Astrotrain and Fireflight)
Astrotrain didn't trust jets stupid enough to follow him into the eye of a hurricane, especially when they weren't even paying attention to the weather.
33: Never (Chop Shop and Hoist)
Hoist never thought he would be grateful to either an Insecticon or a thief, but Chop Shop's sticky fingers had liberated the necessary components from the Quintesson lab for him to finish turning the battleship's engines into a worm-hole generator.
34: Sing (Hound and Shrapnel)
Hound tracked the odd 'singing' through the woods until he found Kickback rubbing his legs together in insect-mode. Evidently, he wasn't the only one, as he spotted Shrapnel lurking in the trees nearby.
35: Sudden (Ultra Magnus and Spike)
The first time Ultra Magnus visited the Ark, he spent most of the time worrying that a human would suddenly appear where he intended to step down. It took watching Spike nonchalantly weave his way through a Minibot Ball game, where the participants most certainly were not paying attention to the human, for him to realize that the humans could handle themselves in regards to not getting squished.
36: Stop (Bonecrusher and Trailbreaker)
There was nothing like a bulldozer knocking half a hillside on you to put a halt to your plans, Trailbreaker thought muzzily.
37: Time (Breakdown and Blitzwing)
Every now and again, Blitzwing wondered if he could use his electron scimitar to disable Breakdown's motor before the Stunticon's destructive engine-vibrations could knock him offline.
38: Wash (Scavenger and Warpath)
Warpath thought it was surprisingly cute for Scavenger to pick up water in his shovel and dump it on Long Haul to give the dump truck a bath.
39: Torn (Wheeljack and Kup)
Wheeljack was torn about repairing Kup. On the one hand, Kup was an old, experienced Autobot, and there was no reason not to repair him. On the other hand, he had all sorts of weird tech in him that Wheeljack wanted to open up and try to reverse-engineer.
40: History (Red Alert and Brawn)
Brawn had a history of getting along poorly with mechs who weren't on the frontlines as often as he was. Bumblebee was worried that Brawn would do it again with their new security chief, Red Alert.
41: Power (Bonecrusher and Ravage)
In the spy's opinion, Bonecrusher was refreshingly aware of the kind of power Ravage wielded. For a bulldozer that dropped buildings on his head.
42: Bother (Swindle and Laserbeak)
Swindle mostly thought Laserbeak's attempts at interrogation were bothersome. Living with Vortex for most of his life had its little side-effects.
43: God (Windcharger and Mixmaster)
If ever the humans needed proof of a god, Bumblebee thought, it was when Mixmaster got slammed into the wall by Windcharger's magnetic powers. No Mixmaster meant no Devastator.
44: Wall (Blaster and Huffer)
Blaster should have believed it when Huffer said he would build a perfect echo-wall, and he really shouldn't have tested it with a concert-level Bruce Springsteen song.
45: Naked (Seaspray and Skids)
Skids felt disturbingly naked at Seaspray finding him getting a wash from Charlene.
46: Drive (Rumble and Wildrider)
Rumble had just innocently hidden himself in Wildrider's tape-deck on Soundwave's orders. He expected it to be pretty boring, but he hadn't really thought about which Stunticon was taking him for a drive.
47: Harm (Motormaster and Scrapper)
Scrapper was the only technician Motormaster never threatened with grievous bodily harm while he was being worked on. Megatron blamed it on the week the truck spent as Scrapper's desk.
48: Precious (Dirge and Moonracer)
Dirge called Moonracer precious after she shot at him and missed. He didn't realize that he'd lined himself up squarely for a shot that would disable his engines.
49: Hunger (Slingshot and Omega Supreme)
Omega Supreme held Slingshot while the jet struggled with the alien hunger the Hate Plague had planted in his head. None of the Aerialbots knew how to deal with the overwhelming bloodlust they felt, not as Omega Supreme did.
50: Believe (Venom and Wildrider)
Venom honestly believed that Wildrider was the most sane of the Stunticons. Whenever he explained that, though, he had to remind his listeners that he was comparing Wildrider to the other Stunticons, not to someone who was actually sane.
01: Motion (Warpath and Blitzwing)
Tanks, no matter their size, had a distinctive way of moving in either form that Warpath thought was unmistakable. Then he met Blitzwing, who broke all of the rules.
02: Cool (Slag and Seaspray)
Getting into a fight with Seaspray cooled Slag down. But chasing a minibot into the Pacific had that effect on every mech.
03: Young (Gears and Breakdown)
Breakdown was too fraggin' young, pardon his Kaonic, to be grinning that way when he had Bumblebee's transmission in his hands. But Gears kept from complaining until he'd stuck an electroshock mine on the Stunticon's back.
04: Last (Hook and Grimlock)
Hook thought it was highly unfair to be the last Decepticon standing between Grimlock and the triple-barreled photon cannon. So he put it between him and the Dinobot.
05: Wrong (Slingshot and Laserbeak)
Slingshot didn't think a lousy cassette could outfly him.
Slingshot couldn't have been more wrong.
06: Gentle (Kup and Blitzwing)
Kup was almost gentle when he lowered the unconscious triple-changer to the ground. A loud clang would give him away just as surely as Blitzwing noticing him would have.
07: One (Long Haul and Cosmos)
All it would have taken was one Constructicon spotting him for Cosmos to fail this mission. Fortunately for him, Long Haul seemed to be napping while he waited for someone to fill his truckbed.
08: Thousand (Venom and Hook)
Mixmaster could think of a thousand more entertaining things to do than watch Hook and Venom play full-stasis. He'd started listing them loudly, too, until Hook threw him out of the room.
09: King (Long Haul and Grapple)
Grapple found it hard to protest being presented to the Praxians' "king" when he was unceremoniously dumped at the feet of an irritated-looking Long Haul. Especially since the dump truck hadn't noticed him - Long Haul was too busy trying to keep the female Praxians from covering him with jewelry.
10: Learn (Jazz and Megatron)
Jazz liked learning things about people. It wasn't something he mentioned much, but Red Alert was fully aware of his belief that a good spy was a curious spy.
Learning what it felt like to be Starscream staring down Megatron's fusion cannon was something Jazz could have lived without, though.
11: Blur (Starscream and Huffer)
Starscream had seen Scrapper's hands become blurs when he drew up plans. He'd never thought he'd see it happen with an Autobot, though.
12: Wait (Bombshell and Brawn)
Brawn didn't have long too wait before he found himself face-to-face with an Insection. Problem was, this one knew how to make anyone his ally.
13: Change (Shrapnel and Mixmaster)
After Mixmaster mixed him three drinks, Shrapnel's vocalizer stopped repeating the last few syllables of every sentence. After five drinks, his face hit the bar.
14: Command (Dirge and Gears)
Megatron ordered Soundwave to modify the watch-rosters so that no one ever had to deal with Dirge guarding Gears again.
15: Hold (Venom and Shockwave)
Venom considered Shockwave's hold on sanity to be marginal at best. His hold on reality was as unrelenting and strong as a Guardian's, however.
16: Need (Sunstorm and Mixmaster)
Mixmaster's innate need to bed any Seeker that held still long enough left him with a burned mouth and scorched mixing-drum after he met Sunstorm.
17: Vision (Spinister and Macabre)
Macabre saw the target and took the shot before Spinister did. Spinister killed the sniper that had been lining up on Macbre.
18: Attention (Sunstorm and Octane)
Octane did not appreciate Sunstorm paying any sort of attention to him, due to the Seeker's tendency to throw off energy like he was a small star. The triple-changer spent his life full of flammable materials; he didn't need small stars near him.
19: Soul (Chromia and Chromia)
In the crystalline world of someone else's mind, Chromia came face-to-face with a human woman in dragonhide armor. Only her grin made the Autobot realize she was looking at herself.
20: Picture (Hook and Needlenose)
Scrapper thought Hook and Needlenose made quite a picture, working together on an engineering job that was swiftly going over even his head.
Spinister didn't comment on the scene at all.
21: Fool (Raoul and Smokescreen)
Raoul suggested a trip to Vegas for Spike's twenty-first birthday. He claimed that it was just for fun and he didn't have anything planned, but Tracks wasn't fooled. He'd seen how interested Raoul got when Smokescreen and Mirage started talking about stocks, and that was just a dressed-up form of gambling to Tracks.
22: Mad (Ratbat and Jazz)
Ratbat considered the carefree, casual Autobot spymaster to be more than a little mad. Didn't he know he was in the middle of a war of attrition?
Jazz thought the accountant's obsessive measurement of energon and willingness to call off a successful attack because it was using too much energon was more than a lot crazy.
23: Child (Hook and Ultra Magnus)
Dealing with Mixmaster and Scavenger had led Ultra Magnus to believe that the Constructicons were children compared to him, like Hot Rod and Springer.
Hook disabused him of that notion.
24: Now (Thundercracker and Trailbreaker)
Technically speaking, Trailbreaker didn't use his forcefields the way he was currently using them. But locking Thundercracker in a cage with his own fire was better than letting the jet loose.
25: Shadow (Mirage and Snarl)
Even the slighest shadow across his solar-collecting plates would have disturbed Snarl's defragmentation. Fortunately, Mirage never cast shadows when he didn't want to.
26: Goodbye (Brawl and Venom)
Venom found it very interesting who people said their good-byes, too. Brawl spontaneously hugging Blitzwing before the Combaticon headed back to Cybertron almost got a thesis written about it.
27: Hide (Ultra Magnus and Hoist)
Ultra Magnus didn't question it when Hoist strolled into his office with a toolbox and set about working on the city-commander's door. Maintenence happened.
Later on, he found out that Ratchet and Wheeljack had held a yelling match in Medical, which had sent most of the support staff into hiding.
28: Fortune (Brawn and Swoop)
Even though Grimlock didn't like it, Swoop thought it was good fortune to have minibots along on their mission. Especially since Brawn was almost as good as a Dinobot for taking down Decepticons.
29: Safe (Reflector and Ratchet)
Reflector considered sitting in the back of Ratchet's vehicle-mode to be perfectly safe. Skywarp had long ago given up trying to figure out what bizarre definition spies used when they said 'safe'.
30: Ghost (Ramjet and Onslaught)
Onslaught thought it more likely that the armada Ramjet reported was a sensor-ghost from one too many run-ins with Warpath, but it rarely hurt to check.
31: Book (Mindwipe and Seaspray)
Seaspray was all for Decepticons reading books. It meant they weren't out doing other horrible things.
He wasn't for them reading entrails, especially not his entrails.
32: Eye (Astrotrain and Fireflight)
Astrotrain didn't trust jets stupid enough to follow him into the eye of a hurricane, especially when they weren't even paying attention to the weather.
33: Never (Chop Shop and Hoist)
Hoist never thought he would be grateful to either an Insecticon or a thief, but Chop Shop's sticky fingers had liberated the necessary components from the Quintesson lab for him to finish turning the battleship's engines into a worm-hole generator.
34: Sing (Hound and Shrapnel)
Hound tracked the odd 'singing' through the woods until he found Kickback rubbing his legs together in insect-mode. Evidently, he wasn't the only one, as he spotted Shrapnel lurking in the trees nearby.
35: Sudden (Ultra Magnus and Spike)
The first time Ultra Magnus visited the Ark, he spent most of the time worrying that a human would suddenly appear where he intended to step down. It took watching Spike nonchalantly weave his way through a Minibot Ball game, where the participants most certainly were not paying attention to the human, for him to realize that the humans could handle themselves in regards to not getting squished.
36: Stop (Bonecrusher and Trailbreaker)
There was nothing like a bulldozer knocking half a hillside on you to put a halt to your plans, Trailbreaker thought muzzily.
37: Time (Breakdown and Blitzwing)
Every now and again, Blitzwing wondered if he could use his electron scimitar to disable Breakdown's motor before the Stunticon's destructive engine-vibrations could knock him offline.
38: Wash (Scavenger and Warpath)
Warpath thought it was surprisingly cute for Scavenger to pick up water in his shovel and dump it on Long Haul to give the dump truck a bath.
39: Torn (Wheeljack and Kup)
Wheeljack was torn about repairing Kup. On the one hand, Kup was an old, experienced Autobot, and there was no reason not to repair him. On the other hand, he had all sorts of weird tech in him that Wheeljack wanted to open up and try to reverse-engineer.
40: History (Red Alert and Brawn)
Brawn had a history of getting along poorly with mechs who weren't on the frontlines as often as he was. Bumblebee was worried that Brawn would do it again with their new security chief, Red Alert.
41: Power (Bonecrusher and Ravage)
In the spy's opinion, Bonecrusher was refreshingly aware of the kind of power Ravage wielded. For a bulldozer that dropped buildings on his head.
42: Bother (Swindle and Laserbeak)
Swindle mostly thought Laserbeak's attempts at interrogation were bothersome. Living with Vortex for most of his life had its little side-effects.
43: God (Windcharger and Mixmaster)
If ever the humans needed proof of a god, Bumblebee thought, it was when Mixmaster got slammed into the wall by Windcharger's magnetic powers. No Mixmaster meant no Devastator.
44: Wall (Blaster and Huffer)
Blaster should have believed it when Huffer said he would build a perfect echo-wall, and he really shouldn't have tested it with a concert-level Bruce Springsteen song.
45: Naked (Seaspray and Skids)
Skids felt disturbingly naked at Seaspray finding him getting a wash from Charlene.
46: Drive (Rumble and Wildrider)
Rumble had just innocently hidden himself in Wildrider's tape-deck on Soundwave's orders. He expected it to be pretty boring, but he hadn't really thought about which Stunticon was taking him for a drive.
47: Harm (Motormaster and Scrapper)
Scrapper was the only technician Motormaster never threatened with grievous bodily harm while he was being worked on. Megatron blamed it on the week the truck spent as Scrapper's desk.
48: Precious (Dirge and Moonracer)
Dirge called Moonracer precious after she shot at him and missed. He didn't realize that he'd lined himself up squarely for a shot that would disable his engines.
49: Hunger (Slingshot and Omega Supreme)
Omega Supreme held Slingshot while the jet struggled with the alien hunger the Hate Plague had planted in his head. None of the Aerialbots knew how to deal with the overwhelming bloodlust they felt, not as Omega Supreme did.
50: Believe (Venom and Wildrider)
Venom honestly believed that Wildrider was the most sane of the Stunticons. Whenever he explained that, though, he had to remind his listeners that he was comparing Wildrider to the other Stunticons, not to someone who was actually sane.