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Fandom: Transformers
Pairing: Smokescreen/Red Alert
Theme set: Delta
Title: It started with a bomb and a therapy session
Rating: K+, may have some T bits floating around.
Warning[s]: The normal warning of abuse of the comma and semicolon, universe bouncing (Some are G1ish, some 07/09 movieish, and many who knows what universe they could happen in.), my general lameness?
Notes: This pairing brought to you by a discussion at the tf_bunny_farm In a post that can be found Here.
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#01 - Air
The first time they had met was not one of romantic note, as thick electromagnetic smoke filled the room and the diversionary tactician had dragged him and his team out of the jail cells.
#02 - Apples
Neither were like Hound and Trailbreaker when it came to earth’s natural wonders; so Smokescreen could only snicker and then hide when Red Alert was asked to help some humans during some apple picking festival alongside Inferno.
#03 - Beginning
It had been a shock when the stubborn and clip tones during appointments had moved to snark filled conversations, and then just began to be a comfort; and Red Alert then panicked at the implication.
#04 - Bugs
Smokescreen had joined when Red Alert’s glitch had calmed down to be a minor annoyance, but that didn’t stop him from doing all he could to keep it as such a minor bug in the processors and not life threatening again.
#05 - Coffee
“You just need to look at today’s security feed of Blurr on high grade to know how my day has been for your little files Smokescreen.”
#06 - Dark
When the groups had left Cybertron on various missions, it seemed that everything was closing in on them all that much more, as Smokescreen watched the security bot try and keep their bolt hole from being found.
#07 - Despair
Soundwave had found them and they had scattered unthinkingly into the ruins, he felt down in his spark one of them wasn’t going to make it to the rendezvous point in one piece.
#08 - Doors
It had taken a great deal of logical thinking and mental berates for Red Alert to go through the door and begin another awkward session of figure out what makes Red tick.
#09 - Drink
Smokescreen liked to indulge in high grade whenever he could, but for the life of him he couldn’t figure out why he could only glare at the cube after Inferno had walked out with the little red and white Lamborghini.
#10 - Duty
They both had layers of orders and objectives for the Autobot cause; most being ones that would gain betrayed looks from their fellows, but they understood it was necessary for this war to end at some point.
#11 - Earth
The first time they had seen that mostly blue planet they hadn’t thought much about it, now though, Smokescreen wondered when it had been anything less then important to them.
#12 - End
When the gate fell at Autobot City, Smokescreen already knew what that meant, even as he ducked behind another rubble pile as Seekers strafed the area again.
#13 - Fall
After the entire Negavator incident, Red Alert always felt as if his world was situated at an awkward ninety degree angle and he only kept from tumbling over because it would prove Smokescreen right on his needing rest.
#14 - Fire
Despite Wheeljack’s ability to make air explode on a whim, there were very few times when Red Alert had to be back up on fire detail; until they came to earth and Smokescreen had to bite back the need to drag Red Alert away when the alarm went out and Inferno came running down the hall.
#15 - Flexible
Smokescreen had never been grateful for the movement of his doorwings then right now as he used one to silence the ranting Lamborghini with a well placed twitch; and not a soul in the rec room the wiser of it.
#16 - Flying
There was only the grumble of an engine shifting gears and the flashes of red, yellow, and red and white passing by like a blur before Smokescreen watched as Red Alert seemed to fly over the hills and dips of the road while muttering on their comm. channel about how he was going to dismantle the twins and Ratchet wouldn’t be able to salvage them.
#17 - Food
Humans had a lot of odd sayings, though the one about food for thought was starting to become adapt in describing his situation, as he stared at the video monitors in a daze at the implication his glitch was not making him want to run away from the fast talking Datsun that admitted to being manipulative.
#18 - Foot
Their time amongst the original Ark members had worn them down enough, that he barely paused in his argument with Red Alert about taking breaks between triple shifts when they passed by medbay and saw Sideswipe welded to the ceiling by his pedes.
#19 - Grave
Most of the Ark were confused when Red Alert, breaking several of the rules he normally cites them with, fled into the wilds around the Ark with Smokescreen calmly following after with a dark glint to optics and one of Ratchet’s tranquilizers in hand.
#20 - Green
He was starting to wish he could kill humans, and that the human who created this holiday was still alive to be killed; just because he was not amused by the sudden clang of a magnetic shamrock hitting his bumper and an overly charged Smokescreen grinning at him like that.
#21 - Head
It had been part of the reason he was brought on by Optimus, to look into the depths of cpus and report such to the leader in hopes of finding a way to make them all better and able to win this war; the game of seeing how much he could make Red Alert twitch before being socked-Lamborghinis hit hard- in the face and sent to medbay was purely for entertainment since he refused to admit he liked the damn lambo.
#22 - Hollow
“Just because I can hear a pin drop 1.4 miles away doesn’t mean I can suddenly divine where every sinkhole is without first driving over it, and that’s what got us in this mess in the first place.”
#23 - Honor
Smokescreen wasn’t the first to be considered honorable with his gambling and cheating, and his lack of boundaries in his quests; that’s why he was the perfect one to keep everyone else honorable when they started to slide and he showed them up.
#24 - Hope
Neither of them were naïve or optimistic, but they both could agree that it was hard to not have hope after the first few human months on that little organic plant.
#25 - Light
Red Alert never realized how much he missed the optic hurting brightness of a medbay until there was no medbay and he attempted to keep the damn fragger next to him alive while someone went to see if First Aid had survived the attack.
#26 - Lost
The coordinates had been as accurate as he could get, with the transmission garbled as it was due to how many solar systems it had traveled and the general mad dash his convoy had done from decepticons; so he did not appreciate the little smug note when Red asked him if they were lost again, since he was only off by three units this time Primus damn it all.
#27 - Metal
It had never occurred to him just how different they were even on a structural level until Smokescreen had gripped his left shoulder plating hard enough to leave dents; and place this frantic and bewildered look on faceplate at the little wounds he had caused on accident during his panic to get him out of that cellblock.
#28 - New
He wasn’t known for serious relationships, finding that once his processor had picked a mech or femme apart on a psychological scale he became bored and looked for a new thing; Powerglide was still waiting for him to get bored after how many vorns of watching Red Alert, and amazed he still wasn’t tired of poking that security bot to see his reactions.
#29 - Old
When the Allspark had been launched and the teams made to search for it, he had become an old hat-as those odd organics the first contact group had a fondness for would say- at doing both his and Prowl’s job and Optimus’ for his group of six, but gladly gave it all up and attempt to curl around the little red and white Lamborghini that had came out with the welcoming group and frag anyone that mentioned his ruined reputation due to that act, he was tired of being a leader.
#30 - Peace
He had blinked in puzzlement for a good five or so kliks before tilting his head at Smokescreen in bemusement as the door winged mech just vented a gust of air and made some note; it was a really odd question to make Smokescreen ask when most of them didn’t think they’d survive to see the war over and done with.
#31 - Poison
He didn’t know why it hurt so much, like he had ingested a tainted cube of energon and couldn’t seem to purge it, when he had turned away from the security room with a flippant goodbye and headed towards his group.
#32 - Pretty
Red Alert could only scowl at the Datsun that started laughing when he complained about the random mech that kept staring at him, and only threw a datapad at the cryptic answer of Lamborghini amidst the laughter.
#33 - Rain
The first time they had seen a road had been washed out during a flood Smokescreen had stared at it in some sort of awe, as he ignored the exclamations of Trailbreaker, and only stopped watching the road disappear under mud and water when the sudden jolt of a Lamborghini hitting his side due to another deluge made him finally move before they all got swept down in alt mode.
#34 - Regret
Sometimes he wonders if Smokescreen ever resented what Prime had asked of him, enough that, even though both never acted like a typical pair that, it wasn’t worth everything that led up to it.
#35 - Roses
The sheer horror displayed by several of the ‘nature lovers’ upon finding out about a human custom of giving dead plants to one another had been funny and something inane to discuss when Red Alert dodged his normal questions during their session.
#36 - Secret
Red Alert tended to come off as secretive and hard to trust, yet Smokescreen had learned to notice he wasn’t as closed mouthed as the claims would have you believe, you just needed the right amount of dry humor and some knowledge of how to read between the lines.
#37 - Snakes
The sheer amount of wire running through the hallways would have caused him to normally wish he could cry in frustration like humans, but considering he managed to rope Smokescreen into helping him rewire the Ark in exchange for cooperation during their next session; Red Alert didn’t feel that overwhelmed by the task.
#38 - Snow
Whatever Primus forsaken being that had created this concept of frozen water and salt to fix it could go to the pit, especially if they manage to get back to the Ark and someone took the paint scuffs for something other then them careening into each other due to lack of traction.
#39 - Solid
“Walls, remain unmovable even when someone is over charged to the point they believe they have a sigma ability, and I’m starting to see why you have so much blackmail on mechs Red Alert.”
#40 - Spring
If anyone had told him that he’d see a Datsun fly for all of a minute he’d have sent them to Smokescreen, if said Datsun hadn’t tripped the really processor freezing absurd trap Air Raid had set up with the giant spring Wheeljack had been looking for.
#41 - Stable
Sparklings were to be raised in a quiet and loving home to grow up healthy they said, but he had done fine on the streets of Kaon, and his already jaded view of the world helped him survive this long in the war.
#42 - Strange
The entire tactical department would never make sense to him, and yet they were the ones he understood the most in this crazy base.
#43 - Summer
Smokescreen had joined with everyone else in the sigh of relief when Red Alert and Inferno had come back with the good news that summer vacation was starting, so no more visits to schools for at least three months for them all.
#44 - Taboo
There was probably something about seeing the resident psychiatrist in a less then professional manner, but considering who started this, Red Alert figured Smokescreen just didn’t care about that in his normal way.
#45 - Ugly
The weld hadn’t been smoothed out yet and thus was jagged and rough, with bits of metal nicking anything that ran across it, and Smokescreen only really hated it because it mocked how close things had gotten after they had met again before heading to wherever Prime and his team was.
#46 - War
Nine million years and still going on, both didn’t really see in counting anymore as it was just a matter of life now.
#47 - Water
“I should just assume the normal group is to blame and not ask how they managed to make half of the security room an aquarium while you were in medbay?”
#48 - Welcome
It had been a joke at first but it did seem to add a bit of mocking foreboding to mechs like those in Special Operations to see that Doctor is IN sign on his door, and he’d have to thank Red Alert for the idea.
#49 - Winter
Both had shut themselves in to their respective offices at the first sign of frost that didn’t melt with the rising sun, and only those who had also been on the Ark in the past knew why.
#50 - Wood
When they ended up as part of the group to revisit earth after all the vorns away, they knew deep down it would look different, and staring at the tree nearly as tall as Red Alert, and coming from where the rec room used to be; it just made them realize how quickly this planet changed and grew up.
Pairing: Smokescreen/Red Alert
Theme set: Delta
Title: It started with a bomb and a therapy session
Rating: K+, may have some T bits floating around.
Warning[s]: The normal warning of abuse of the comma and semicolon, universe bouncing (Some are G1ish, some 07/09 movieish, and many who knows what universe they could happen in.), my general lameness?
Notes: This pairing brought to you by a discussion at the tf_bunny_farm In a post that can be found Here.
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#01 - Air
The first time they had met was not one of romantic note, as thick electromagnetic smoke filled the room and the diversionary tactician had dragged him and his team out of the jail cells.
#02 - Apples
Neither were like Hound and Trailbreaker when it came to earth’s natural wonders; so Smokescreen could only snicker and then hide when Red Alert was asked to help some humans during some apple picking festival alongside Inferno.
#03 - Beginning
It had been a shock when the stubborn and clip tones during appointments had moved to snark filled conversations, and then just began to be a comfort; and Red Alert then panicked at the implication.
#04 - Bugs
Smokescreen had joined when Red Alert’s glitch had calmed down to be a minor annoyance, but that didn’t stop him from doing all he could to keep it as such a minor bug in the processors and not life threatening again.
#05 - Coffee
“You just need to look at today’s security feed of Blurr on high grade to know how my day has been for your little files Smokescreen.”
#06 - Dark
When the groups had left Cybertron on various missions, it seemed that everything was closing in on them all that much more, as Smokescreen watched the security bot try and keep their bolt hole from being found.
#07 - Despair
Soundwave had found them and they had scattered unthinkingly into the ruins, he felt down in his spark one of them wasn’t going to make it to the rendezvous point in one piece.
#08 - Doors
It had taken a great deal of logical thinking and mental berates for Red Alert to go through the door and begin another awkward session of figure out what makes Red tick.
#09 - Drink
Smokescreen liked to indulge in high grade whenever he could, but for the life of him he couldn’t figure out why he could only glare at the cube after Inferno had walked out with the little red and white Lamborghini.
#10 - Duty
They both had layers of orders and objectives for the Autobot cause; most being ones that would gain betrayed looks from their fellows, but they understood it was necessary for this war to end at some point.
#11 - Earth
The first time they had seen that mostly blue planet they hadn’t thought much about it, now though, Smokescreen wondered when it had been anything less then important to them.
#12 - End
When the gate fell at Autobot City, Smokescreen already knew what that meant, even as he ducked behind another rubble pile as Seekers strafed the area again.
#13 - Fall
After the entire Negavator incident, Red Alert always felt as if his world was situated at an awkward ninety degree angle and he only kept from tumbling over because it would prove Smokescreen right on his needing rest.
#14 - Fire
Despite Wheeljack’s ability to make air explode on a whim, there were very few times when Red Alert had to be back up on fire detail; until they came to earth and Smokescreen had to bite back the need to drag Red Alert away when the alarm went out and Inferno came running down the hall.
#15 - Flexible
Smokescreen had never been grateful for the movement of his doorwings then right now as he used one to silence the ranting Lamborghini with a well placed twitch; and not a soul in the rec room the wiser of it.
#16 - Flying
There was only the grumble of an engine shifting gears and the flashes of red, yellow, and red and white passing by like a blur before Smokescreen watched as Red Alert seemed to fly over the hills and dips of the road while muttering on their comm. channel about how he was going to dismantle the twins and Ratchet wouldn’t be able to salvage them.
#17 - Food
Humans had a lot of odd sayings, though the one about food for thought was starting to become adapt in describing his situation, as he stared at the video monitors in a daze at the implication his glitch was not making him want to run away from the fast talking Datsun that admitted to being manipulative.
#18 - Foot
Their time amongst the original Ark members had worn them down enough, that he barely paused in his argument with Red Alert about taking breaks between triple shifts when they passed by medbay and saw Sideswipe welded to the ceiling by his pedes.
#19 - Grave
Most of the Ark were confused when Red Alert, breaking several of the rules he normally cites them with, fled into the wilds around the Ark with Smokescreen calmly following after with a dark glint to optics and one of Ratchet’s tranquilizers in hand.
#20 - Green
He was starting to wish he could kill humans, and that the human who created this holiday was still alive to be killed; just because he was not amused by the sudden clang of a magnetic shamrock hitting his bumper and an overly charged Smokescreen grinning at him like that.
#21 - Head
It had been part of the reason he was brought on by Optimus, to look into the depths of cpus and report such to the leader in hopes of finding a way to make them all better and able to win this war; the game of seeing how much he could make Red Alert twitch before being socked-Lamborghinis hit hard- in the face and sent to medbay was purely for entertainment since he refused to admit he liked the damn lambo.
#22 - Hollow
“Just because I can hear a pin drop 1.4 miles away doesn’t mean I can suddenly divine where every sinkhole is without first driving over it, and that’s what got us in this mess in the first place.”
#23 - Honor
Smokescreen wasn’t the first to be considered honorable with his gambling and cheating, and his lack of boundaries in his quests; that’s why he was the perfect one to keep everyone else honorable when they started to slide and he showed them up.
#24 - Hope
Neither of them were naïve or optimistic, but they both could agree that it was hard to not have hope after the first few human months on that little organic plant.
#25 - Light
Red Alert never realized how much he missed the optic hurting brightness of a medbay until there was no medbay and he attempted to keep the damn fragger next to him alive while someone went to see if First Aid had survived the attack.
#26 - Lost
The coordinates had been as accurate as he could get, with the transmission garbled as it was due to how many solar systems it had traveled and the general mad dash his convoy had done from decepticons; so he did not appreciate the little smug note when Red asked him if they were lost again, since he was only off by three units this time Primus damn it all.
#27 - Metal
It had never occurred to him just how different they were even on a structural level until Smokescreen had gripped his left shoulder plating hard enough to leave dents; and place this frantic and bewildered look on faceplate at the little wounds he had caused on accident during his panic to get him out of that cellblock.
#28 - New
He wasn’t known for serious relationships, finding that once his processor had picked a mech or femme apart on a psychological scale he became bored and looked for a new thing; Powerglide was still waiting for him to get bored after how many vorns of watching Red Alert, and amazed he still wasn’t tired of poking that security bot to see his reactions.
#29 - Old
When the Allspark had been launched and the teams made to search for it, he had become an old hat-as those odd organics the first contact group had a fondness for would say- at doing both his and Prowl’s job and Optimus’ for his group of six, but gladly gave it all up and attempt to curl around the little red and white Lamborghini that had came out with the welcoming group and frag anyone that mentioned his ruined reputation due to that act, he was tired of being a leader.
#30 - Peace
He had blinked in puzzlement for a good five or so kliks before tilting his head at Smokescreen in bemusement as the door winged mech just vented a gust of air and made some note; it was a really odd question to make Smokescreen ask when most of them didn’t think they’d survive to see the war over and done with.
#31 - Poison
He didn’t know why it hurt so much, like he had ingested a tainted cube of energon and couldn’t seem to purge it, when he had turned away from the security room with a flippant goodbye and headed towards his group.
#32 - Pretty
Red Alert could only scowl at the Datsun that started laughing when he complained about the random mech that kept staring at him, and only threw a datapad at the cryptic answer of Lamborghini amidst the laughter.
#33 - Rain
The first time they had seen a road had been washed out during a flood Smokescreen had stared at it in some sort of awe, as he ignored the exclamations of Trailbreaker, and only stopped watching the road disappear under mud and water when the sudden jolt of a Lamborghini hitting his side due to another deluge made him finally move before they all got swept down in alt mode.
#34 - Regret
Sometimes he wonders if Smokescreen ever resented what Prime had asked of him, enough that, even though both never acted like a typical pair that, it wasn’t worth everything that led up to it.
#35 - Roses
The sheer horror displayed by several of the ‘nature lovers’ upon finding out about a human custom of giving dead plants to one another had been funny and something inane to discuss when Red Alert dodged his normal questions during their session.
#36 - Secret
Red Alert tended to come off as secretive and hard to trust, yet Smokescreen had learned to notice he wasn’t as closed mouthed as the claims would have you believe, you just needed the right amount of dry humor and some knowledge of how to read between the lines.
#37 - Snakes
The sheer amount of wire running through the hallways would have caused him to normally wish he could cry in frustration like humans, but considering he managed to rope Smokescreen into helping him rewire the Ark in exchange for cooperation during their next session; Red Alert didn’t feel that overwhelmed by the task.
#38 - Snow
Whatever Primus forsaken being that had created this concept of frozen water and salt to fix it could go to the pit, especially if they manage to get back to the Ark and someone took the paint scuffs for something other then them careening into each other due to lack of traction.
#39 - Solid
“Walls, remain unmovable even when someone is over charged to the point they believe they have a sigma ability, and I’m starting to see why you have so much blackmail on mechs Red Alert.”
#40 - Spring
If anyone had told him that he’d see a Datsun fly for all of a minute he’d have sent them to Smokescreen, if said Datsun hadn’t tripped the really processor freezing absurd trap Air Raid had set up with the giant spring Wheeljack had been looking for.
#41 - Stable
Sparklings were to be raised in a quiet and loving home to grow up healthy they said, but he had done fine on the streets of Kaon, and his already jaded view of the world helped him survive this long in the war.
#42 - Strange
The entire tactical department would never make sense to him, and yet they were the ones he understood the most in this crazy base.
#43 - Summer
Smokescreen had joined with everyone else in the sigh of relief when Red Alert and Inferno had come back with the good news that summer vacation was starting, so no more visits to schools for at least three months for them all.
#44 - Taboo
There was probably something about seeing the resident psychiatrist in a less then professional manner, but considering who started this, Red Alert figured Smokescreen just didn’t care about that in his normal way.
#45 - Ugly
The weld hadn’t been smoothed out yet and thus was jagged and rough, with bits of metal nicking anything that ran across it, and Smokescreen only really hated it because it mocked how close things had gotten after they had met again before heading to wherever Prime and his team was.
#46 - War
Nine million years and still going on, both didn’t really see in counting anymore as it was just a matter of life now.
#47 - Water
“I should just assume the normal group is to blame and not ask how they managed to make half of the security room an aquarium while you were in medbay?”
#48 - Welcome
It had been a joke at first but it did seem to add a bit of mocking foreboding to mechs like those in Special Operations to see that Doctor is IN sign on his door, and he’d have to thank Red Alert for the idea.
#49 - Winter
Both had shut themselves in to their respective offices at the first sign of frost that didn’t melt with the rising sun, and only those who had also been on the Ark in the past knew why.
#50 - Wood
When they ended up as part of the group to revisit earth after all the vorns away, they knew deep down it would look different, and staring at the tree nearly as tall as Red Alert, and coming from where the rec room used to be; it just made them realize how quickly this planet changed and grew up.