Writing Competition - old fic
Title: Bunny Invasion!
Author:
rose0mary
Rating: K
Genre: General
Verse Generation 1
Characters: Megatron, Starscream, Skywarp, Soundwave
Warnings: None
Other Notes: I, Rose0mary, do not own or have rights to the Transformers Franchise - only borrowing the characters. All will be returned, in the same condition they were found.
The bridge of the Nemesis hummed. It always hummed, regardless of the joor or the orn. Sometimes though, the incessant humming was drowned out by other things. Megatron giving orders, for instance.
“Get it out!”
Soundwave noticeably winced. If anyone had been looking anyway. Most of the crew, those in the command center anyway, were more interested in other things. Such as trying to figure out what exactly had caught Megatron’s ire.
Starscream snickered. “But Lord Megatron, it is harmless.”
“I don’t care. I want it gone.”
“If you insist, Lord Megatron.”
The crew watched in trepidnation as Starscream approached Megatron’s throne. Under normal circumstances, only the Lord Protectorate touched it. No one dared to step any closer than they had to. Aside from the Air Commander and the Communications Officer anyway. Currently though, the chair was inhabited. Inhabited by someone other than the Decepticon Leader.
Skywarp trembled as he watched the scene. He feared for the creature that sat calmly on the metal chair, understanding nothing about its situation or its upcoming fate.
Starcream, glared at the white fluffy thing. It was disgusting. The fur, so typical of many of earth’s creatures, did nothing to hide its organic origins - infact, the fur emphasized the fact this was an organic creature.
“Don’t hurt the bunny, Star.!” Skywarp pleaded just as Starscream reached out his hand and wrapped it around the tiny creature. Starscream tightened his grasp, and glared at his trinemate.
“So, it was you!” growled Megatron.
Skywarp cowered under the combined glares. “Not me. I just helped.” He backed up farther, trying to keep both mechs in sight without making it obvious he was intending on retreating.
Starscream did not notice as the bunny wriggled out of his unsuccessful hold. The others, watching in silence, saw the white form slip between the claws and land on the floor, where it hopped around.
“You helped.”
Skywarp looked around for a reprieve, or another mech to step forward and take some of the blame. None did. “It wasn’t my idea.” He cried. “But it sounded good. Humans raise them for food, and -“
All the mechs shrank back. Even Megatron. “Humans eat these things?”
Skywarp, anxious and relieved that he wasn’t in trouble, nodded rapidly. “Yeah. Some do. The rabbits were taken from the location they were being raised, and -“
“There are more of them?”
“Um, yeah? Don’t worry, we took the cages too!”
“How many?”
“All the others are penned up.”
Megatron growled. “I want them gone. Now.”
“But,”
“NOW!”
Skywarp trembled slightly before fleeing. The dropped bunny followed, without a care in the world.
Soundwave relaxed slightly. As long as Skywarp remained the only named mech in this little fiasco, all would be fine. Unnoticed by all, he commed his symbiot. ::RAVAGE, please hunt down the bunny that just hopped out of Nemesis Bridge. Megatron will be pleased if he never saw it again.::
The rest of the shift passed in silence. Aside from the humming of the computers and other machinery that made up Nemesis, that is. Then, the humming, a constant reminder that energon still flowed, and that Cybertron would be restored, cut off.
Several mechs cried out. The lights, dim to save power, flickered from the lack of energy flowing to them. The computer councils in use died. “What?”
“Silence!”
With no one daring to breathe, the groaning hull, straining to hold back the ocean, became the only sound heard. “Find out what’s wrong.”
Mechs scrambled to obey. Soundwave, stepped back from his station. With all the computers offline, his job of monitoring all communication channels and keeping an eye on everyone’s activities no longer mattered. It still did, but with Megatron still uneasy after nearly squashing the bunny (honestly, he hadn’t been expecting a squishy thing to be in his seat), it was best to not be seen idle.
Soundwave, grateful that no one paid any attention to him, and were more interested in jumping as Starscream demanded, commed his cassettes. ::RATBAT, please check the status of the rabbits. Count and recount them. LASERBEAK, BUZZSAW, check the vents. RUMBLE, FRENZY, notify me of any new chewed wiring.:: He stepped back, following Starscream’s orders. Right now it was important that the others all see him obedient and subservient to Megatron - as long as Megatron did not correct or change Starcream’s instructions, he spoke for the warlord. It grated on Soundwave, but the alternative was for someone to realize it was his cassettes, the smallest and weakest of the Decepticons, that brought the dreaded bunny on board.
Megatron, no fool, and always aware of the political maneuvering, noticed the slightly unusual behavior of Soundwave. Soundwave not seeking confirmation that Starscream did speak for Megatron was odd, and was to be overlooked at the moment. However, when the power was back, then it would be time to bring it up.
One breem, then two, then three, passed as the mechs hurried, trying to find the short, and fix it before all the power ran out. Finally, just as the twentith breem passed, the humming resumed. ::MASTER, fixed it.:: cried out an exuberant Rumble. ::Ratbat’s war bounty somehow escaped and chewed the wiring. We found them and put them in an empty crate.::
Soundwave relaxed. Only one more thing to do. ::RATBAT, find Skywarp and get the rabbits out. All of them. RUMBLE, FRENZY, I don’t want to find anymore human items in the base. Especially not the animals.::
::Got it, BOSS:: replied all the symbiots, some more gleeful than the others. Soundwave turned around intending to reach his station, when Megatron intercepted him. “Soundwave, do you know where the fitlthy earth thing came from?”
Soundwave paused momentarily. He did not debate on lying - all white lies, half-truths, omissions, and other were not encouraged. “Ratbat:, enthralled by humans. Noticed the hutch, took it. Skywarp assisted in transporation.”
“Anything else?”
“Negative.”
Megatron looked at his communications officer. “I do not want a repeat of this.”
“Understood. Symbiots already notified.”
The crew, relieved that someone else was handling Megatron’s ire paid minimal attention to the low conversation. All in all, it had been a typical day on the Nemesis. Not that every day was like this, but more than note sometime after the first week after a successful raid, there was a day like this, before they went out on another energon collecting incursion. On human power plants and oilrigs. Now that the frantic day was over, everyone could rest easily.
Author:
rose0mary
Rating: K
Genre: General
Verse Generation 1
Characters: Megatron, Starscream, Skywarp, Soundwave
Warnings: None
Other Notes: I, Rose0mary, do not own or have rights to the Transformers Franchise - only borrowing the characters. All will be returned, in the same condition they were found.
The bridge of the Nemesis hummed. It always hummed, regardless of the joor or the orn. Sometimes though, the incessant humming was drowned out by other things. Megatron giving orders, for instance.
“Get it out!”
Soundwave noticeably winced. If anyone had been looking anyway. Most of the crew, those in the command center anyway, were more interested in other things. Such as trying to figure out what exactly had caught Megatron’s ire.
Starscream snickered. “But Lord Megatron, it is harmless.”
“I don’t care. I want it gone.”
“If you insist, Lord Megatron.”
The crew watched in trepidnation as Starscream approached Megatron’s throne. Under normal circumstances, only the Lord Protectorate touched it. No one dared to step any closer than they had to. Aside from the Air Commander and the Communications Officer anyway. Currently though, the chair was inhabited. Inhabited by someone other than the Decepticon Leader.
Skywarp trembled as he watched the scene. He feared for the creature that sat calmly on the metal chair, understanding nothing about its situation or its upcoming fate.
Starcream, glared at the white fluffy thing. It was disgusting. The fur, so typical of many of earth’s creatures, did nothing to hide its organic origins - infact, the fur emphasized the fact this was an organic creature.
“Don’t hurt the bunny, Star.!” Skywarp pleaded just as Starscream reached out his hand and wrapped it around the tiny creature. Starscream tightened his grasp, and glared at his trinemate.
“So, it was you!” growled Megatron.
Skywarp cowered under the combined glares. “Not me. I just helped.” He backed up farther, trying to keep both mechs in sight without making it obvious he was intending on retreating.
Starscream did not notice as the bunny wriggled out of his unsuccessful hold. The others, watching in silence, saw the white form slip between the claws and land on the floor, where it hopped around.
“You helped.”
Skywarp looked around for a reprieve, or another mech to step forward and take some of the blame. None did. “It wasn’t my idea.” He cried. “But it sounded good. Humans raise them for food, and -“
All the mechs shrank back. Even Megatron. “Humans eat these things?”
Skywarp, anxious and relieved that he wasn’t in trouble, nodded rapidly. “Yeah. Some do. The rabbits were taken from the location they were being raised, and -“
“There are more of them?”
“Um, yeah? Don’t worry, we took the cages too!”
“How many?”
“All the others are penned up.”
Megatron growled. “I want them gone. Now.”
“But,”
“NOW!”
Skywarp trembled slightly before fleeing. The dropped bunny followed, without a care in the world.
Soundwave relaxed slightly. As long as Skywarp remained the only named mech in this little fiasco, all would be fine. Unnoticed by all, he commed his symbiot. ::RAVAGE, please hunt down the bunny that just hopped out of Nemesis Bridge. Megatron will be pleased if he never saw it again.::
The rest of the shift passed in silence. Aside from the humming of the computers and other machinery that made up Nemesis, that is. Then, the humming, a constant reminder that energon still flowed, and that Cybertron would be restored, cut off.
Several mechs cried out. The lights, dim to save power, flickered from the lack of energy flowing to them. The computer councils in use died. “What?”
“Silence!”
With no one daring to breathe, the groaning hull, straining to hold back the ocean, became the only sound heard. “Find out what’s wrong.”
Mechs scrambled to obey. Soundwave, stepped back from his station. With all the computers offline, his job of monitoring all communication channels and keeping an eye on everyone’s activities no longer mattered. It still did, but with Megatron still uneasy after nearly squashing the bunny (honestly, he hadn’t been expecting a squishy thing to be in his seat), it was best to not be seen idle.
Soundwave, grateful that no one paid any attention to him, and were more interested in jumping as Starscream demanded, commed his cassettes. ::RATBAT, please check the status of the rabbits. Count and recount them. LASERBEAK, BUZZSAW, check the vents. RUMBLE, FRENZY, notify me of any new chewed wiring.:: He stepped back, following Starscream’s orders. Right now it was important that the others all see him obedient and subservient to Megatron - as long as Megatron did not correct or change Starcream’s instructions, he spoke for the warlord. It grated on Soundwave, but the alternative was for someone to realize it was his cassettes, the smallest and weakest of the Decepticons, that brought the dreaded bunny on board.
Megatron, no fool, and always aware of the political maneuvering, noticed the slightly unusual behavior of Soundwave. Soundwave not seeking confirmation that Starscream did speak for Megatron was odd, and was to be overlooked at the moment. However, when the power was back, then it would be time to bring it up.
One breem, then two, then three, passed as the mechs hurried, trying to find the short, and fix it before all the power ran out. Finally, just as the twentith breem passed, the humming resumed. ::MASTER, fixed it.:: cried out an exuberant Rumble. ::Ratbat’s war bounty somehow escaped and chewed the wiring. We found them and put them in an empty crate.::
Soundwave relaxed. Only one more thing to do. ::RATBAT, find Skywarp and get the rabbits out. All of them. RUMBLE, FRENZY, I don’t want to find anymore human items in the base. Especially not the animals.::
::Got it, BOSS:: replied all the symbiots, some more gleeful than the others. Soundwave turned around intending to reach his station, when Megatron intercepted him. “Soundwave, do you know where the fitlthy earth thing came from?”
Soundwave paused momentarily. He did not debate on lying - all white lies, half-truths, omissions, and other were not encouraged. “Ratbat:, enthralled by humans. Noticed the hutch, took it. Skywarp assisted in transporation.”
“Anything else?”
“Negative.”
Megatron looked at his communications officer. “I do not want a repeat of this.”
“Understood. Symbiots already notified.”
The crew, relieved that someone else was handling Megatron’s ire paid minimal attention to the low conversation. All in all, it had been a typical day on the Nemesis. Not that every day was like this, but more than note sometime after the first week after a successful raid, there was a day like this, before they went out on another energon collecting incursion. On human power plants and oilrigs. Now that the frantic day was over, everyone could rest easily.