Four more
Title: Tracer
Characters: Barricade, Frenzy
Universe: Bayverse
Rating: Teen
Summary: Normal electronic bugs are hard to avoid - but tracers that can move and reposition themselves for better results? Don’t blame Sam! He didn’t know.
Prompt: Frenzy/Scorponok - Pranks on their masters
Barricade released Frenzy, knowing the cassette would have an easier time getting close to the targeted humans unnoticed. The fact he was busy fighting Bumblebee and the two organics took advantage of the delay had nothing to do with it.
Frenzy chased the female. It was risky because she hadn’t fallen to panic or reverted to mindlessly fleeing (the boy had reverted to escape mode), but the female was also carrying electronic gizmos. If Frenzy could get close enough to scan, he could be in position to replace the functioning drone she carried.
Barricade snarled. Bumblebee had gotten away, taking the humans with him. The enforcer prepared to chase the scout and make it look like the Autobot had gotten away cleanly.
Frenzy hunkered down. The crazy female had almost deactivated him! If she had been capable of noticing the difference between her phone and the sentient replacement, he wouldn’t have been picked up for the ride.
Idly, Frenzy wondered how Scorponok was making out - if he’d finished his task of eliminating the ineffective fleshy resistance across the world.
Title: Cat and Mouse
Characters: Scorponok
Universe: Bayverse
Rating: K+
Summary: We all know how the cat-and-mouse tale turns out. But what if the mouse had a working brain?
Prompt: Frenzy/Scorponok - Pranks on their masters
Scorponok had never heard the warning “Don’t play with your food”. If he had, he might have gone straight for the kill, instead of taking his time picking the morsels off one-by-one.
Turbo-rats, after all, couldn’t kill well-armed, properly maintained, recently fed Cybertonians. Not even in swarms of thousands. These fleshy defenders were smaller than an adult turbo-rat, lacked proper armor, and had virtually no weapons to speak of.
While Blackout destroyed the buildings, making sure NOTHING remained, his cassette chased the escapies. The metal scorpion half-wished Frenzy was here - . It was easier to keep prey moving, exhausting their bodies with two hunters - he know the sole other cassette was chasing his own target
Title: Separation
Characters: William Lennox, Sarah Lennox
Universe: Bayverse (premovie)
Rating: Teen
Summary: Will Lennox didn’t look forward to his almost yearlong deployment overseas. But duty demanded he go, and so he went.
Prompt: William/Sarah Lennox - Parting is such sweet sorrow
Sarah Lennox held onto her husband, reluctant to let go.
“One last kiss for the road?” Will Lennox could have escaped that desperate grip. He didn’t want to. Once he left, he wouldn’t be able to hold her for over nine months.
“Call me every day.” Sarah tilted her head so their lips met. “Promise me.”
“I promise.” Will broke the kiss, held his wife tight. “Talking won’t be the same.”
Sarah loosened her grasp. Kept her arms wrapped around his broad chest. “I’ll wait for you.”
Will hugged Sarah tightly. Stepped back, never tearing his eyes from her face. “I will be back - you can count on me.”
Mrs. Lennox refused to blink back tears. Already, she could count the days of deployment - the numbers were looming before her were almost insurmountable. “I love you Will!”
“I love you too, Sarah.”
Title: Standing Firm
Characters: Ironhide, Arcee
Universe: Bayverse (middle of RotF)
Rating: Teen
Summary: Optimus will be remembered. His sacrifice will not be in vain.
Prompt: Ironhide/Arcee - To the End
The Autobots stood strong and tall as the grey frame of Optimus Prime was brought back to base one final time. Then, the cable winch was released.
Inwardly, Ironhide wanted to flinch. He could have, and the humans would have assumed the landing of the large metal body is what caused him to sway. Outwardly, Ironhide stood his ground, clenching his fists.
Arcee couldn’t believe Optimus Prime was dead - he was the tower of strength the Autobots looked up to, the pillar of support they leaned on. Without Optimus Prime, how could they go on?
Vengeance would drive them. For a time. Then, their course, their anger, would loose momentum and the Autobots would falter, to be slaughtered like so many before.
When Optimus Prime’s body was put to rest, NEST dispersed. Some to duties that went on irregardless. Some to finish tasks that had been interrupted. Some, to jobs that were temporary.
Ironhide walked to the end of the runway. The casual disregard the human pilots revealed for the frame of a leader, troubled him almost as much as it astounded him. Ironhide noticed when Arcee chose to join him.
“I can’t believe he’s gone.”
“Everyone deactivates.”
“But to be stabbed in the back?”
“Optimus went down fighting - protecting a friend.”
“It was an inglorious murder.”
“There is nothing pleasant about killing.”
The two waited, emotions seething. They waited in silence, trying to regain control - acting now was the worst decision and they both knew it.
“If I must die, it will be in battle.” Arcee spoke at last.
Ironhide kept his back to the setting sun. “Dying in battle is the only way I see myself going.”
Characters: Barricade, Frenzy
Universe: Bayverse
Rating: Teen
Summary: Normal electronic bugs are hard to avoid - but tracers that can move and reposition themselves for better results? Don’t blame Sam! He didn’t know.
Prompt: Frenzy/Scorponok - Pranks on their masters
Barricade released Frenzy, knowing the cassette would have an easier time getting close to the targeted humans unnoticed. The fact he was busy fighting Bumblebee and the two organics took advantage of the delay had nothing to do with it.
Frenzy chased the female. It was risky because she hadn’t fallen to panic or reverted to mindlessly fleeing (the boy had reverted to escape mode), but the female was also carrying electronic gizmos. If Frenzy could get close enough to scan, he could be in position to replace the functioning drone she carried.
Barricade snarled. Bumblebee had gotten away, taking the humans with him. The enforcer prepared to chase the scout and make it look like the Autobot had gotten away cleanly.
Frenzy hunkered down. The crazy female had almost deactivated him! If she had been capable of noticing the difference between her phone and the sentient replacement, he wouldn’t have been picked up for the ride.
Idly, Frenzy wondered how Scorponok was making out - if he’d finished his task of eliminating the ineffective fleshy resistance across the world.
Title: Cat and Mouse
Characters: Scorponok
Universe: Bayverse
Rating: K+
Summary: We all know how the cat-and-mouse tale turns out. But what if the mouse had a working brain?
Prompt: Frenzy/Scorponok - Pranks on their masters
Scorponok had never heard the warning “Don’t play with your food”. If he had, he might have gone straight for the kill, instead of taking his time picking the morsels off one-by-one.
Turbo-rats, after all, couldn’t kill well-armed, properly maintained, recently fed Cybertonians. Not even in swarms of thousands. These fleshy defenders were smaller than an adult turbo-rat, lacked proper armor, and had virtually no weapons to speak of.
While Blackout destroyed the buildings, making sure NOTHING remained, his cassette chased the escapies. The metal scorpion half-wished Frenzy was here - . It was easier to keep prey moving, exhausting their bodies with two hunters - he know the sole other cassette was chasing his own target
Title: Separation
Characters: William Lennox, Sarah Lennox
Universe: Bayverse (premovie)
Rating: Teen
Summary: Will Lennox didn’t look forward to his almost yearlong deployment overseas. But duty demanded he go, and so he went.
Prompt: William/Sarah Lennox - Parting is such sweet sorrow
Sarah Lennox held onto her husband, reluctant to let go.
“One last kiss for the road?” Will Lennox could have escaped that desperate grip. He didn’t want to. Once he left, he wouldn’t be able to hold her for over nine months.
“Call me every day.” Sarah tilted her head so their lips met. “Promise me.”
“I promise.” Will broke the kiss, held his wife tight. “Talking won’t be the same.”
Sarah loosened her grasp. Kept her arms wrapped around his broad chest. “I’ll wait for you.”
Will hugged Sarah tightly. Stepped back, never tearing his eyes from her face. “I will be back - you can count on me.”
Mrs. Lennox refused to blink back tears. Already, she could count the days of deployment - the numbers were looming before her were almost insurmountable. “I love you Will!”
“I love you too, Sarah.”
Title: Standing Firm
Characters: Ironhide, Arcee
Universe: Bayverse (middle of RotF)
Rating: Teen
Summary: Optimus will be remembered. His sacrifice will not be in vain.
Prompt: Ironhide/Arcee - To the End
The Autobots stood strong and tall as the grey frame of Optimus Prime was brought back to base one final time. Then, the cable winch was released.
Inwardly, Ironhide wanted to flinch. He could have, and the humans would have assumed the landing of the large metal body is what caused him to sway. Outwardly, Ironhide stood his ground, clenching his fists.
Arcee couldn’t believe Optimus Prime was dead - he was the tower of strength the Autobots looked up to, the pillar of support they leaned on. Without Optimus Prime, how could they go on?
Vengeance would drive them. For a time. Then, their course, their anger, would loose momentum and the Autobots would falter, to be slaughtered like so many before.
When Optimus Prime’s body was put to rest, NEST dispersed. Some to duties that went on irregardless. Some to finish tasks that had been interrupted. Some, to jobs that were temporary.
Ironhide walked to the end of the runway. The casual disregard the human pilots revealed for the frame of a leader, troubled him almost as much as it astounded him. Ironhide noticed when Arcee chose to join him.
“I can’t believe he’s gone.”
“Everyone deactivates.”
“But to be stabbed in the back?”
“Optimus went down fighting - protecting a friend.”
“It was an inglorious murder.”
“There is nothing pleasant about killing.”
The two waited, emotions seething. They waited in silence, trying to regain control - acting now was the worst decision and they both knew it.
“If I must die, it will be in battle.” Arcee spoke at last.
Ironhide kept his back to the setting sun. “Dying in battle is the only way I see myself going.”