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Requested by Anemone1405
You're a cassette bot, but an Autobot. But in war, childish games can lead you to do terrible things, even if just by accident.
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'Y/N! GET THAT TINY AFT OF YOURS BACK HERE!' Tracks yelled, running down the halls after me as I laughed like a mad bot. His dark blue color scheme was currently colored a horrible lime green, complete with glitter for that extra pizzazz.
All courtesy of mwah.
I grinned and ducked behind a corner, peeking out and watching him run past before I headed in the complete opposite direction. I pulled a small data pad out of my subspace and added yet another tick next to Track's name on my list, 'And that's one more for the scoreboard.' I laughed, not that I was competing with anyone.
'Who's next, who's next?' I pondered, leaning against the wall and scrolling through it. Sure, I was a prankster, but I did have a few exceptions that evaded my ever-growing hit list. Optimus was a straight up no-no. He was the only person who could put me in my place and reaaally make me feel bad about my pranks. And Ratchet, all it took was one exploding energon cube and a wrench to the helm to see he wasn't a force to be reckoned with.
Didn't stop me from targeting everyone else though.
I was just narrowing it down to the final two bots when I walked into someone's leg, being too occupied to look where I was going. I rubbed my head and looked up, giving a small laugh when I saw who it was, 'Optimus, sir.' I said nervously, giving him a few finger guns as I tried to put my list away as discreetly as possible, 'Good to see ya.'
He just sighed and kneeled down next to me and I immediately knew I was in for one heck of a guilt trip. 'Tracks.' He simply said, making me look down at the ground, 'I saw the makeover you gave him and he didn't seem too happy about it.'
'He deserved.' I mumbled, kicking the floor even though there was nothing there, 'That narcissist stopped right outside my room, talking loudly and keeping me up all night, and this isn't the first time!'
'Have you ever talked to Tracks about it before you struck back?' He asked, tilting his head at me. I bit my lip, feeling like his optics were digging into my soul, 'No, he wouldn't have listened anyways.'
Optimus just sighed and rubbed his optics, 'Well then I'm sorry but I'm going to have to punish you for this.' He said, 'I've overlooked your pranks up until now but I will not tolerate them being used for revenge. One day it may end up hurting someone. I expect you to cease them for now and I will also be confiscating that list of yours.'
'Ugh!' I groaned and put the data pad in his outstretched servo before I turned and stomped away, sticking my tongue out. 'You know I do not like punishing my troops, so don't make me.' He called, walking away.
'Don't make me.' I mimicked in a high-pitched voice, 'Yeah, like you've never wanted to do that, you do good, goody two shoes.'
I continued my sulking all the way out of the Ark and into the desert, kicking stones as I walked and sending them flying at random, still muttering under my breath. I trudged through the barren wasteland for a good 15 minutes, not really going in any particular direction.
I looked up and soon, my gaze fell on an energon cube that was sitting on a rock a couple of meters away, the blue color standing out like a beacon among all the yellow and orange, 'What in the name of Primus?' I muttered and walked over to it.
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There was no way someone just left it standing out in the open like this, there had to be a reason it was here. I looked around but saw no signs of any bots around to have put it here so I carefully walked around it, looking for anything suspicious, and soon enough, I did.
A gold tripwire connected from the back of the cube and ran down the rock it was on, into the ground and was covered by dirt, 'Bingo.' I grinned, picking up the wire and following the trail, holding it carefully enough so it wouldn't detonate whatever it was supposed to.
I inched along it until it lead me to some rocks not too far away and tucked in between them, some carefully camouflaged cannon-like things, which upon further inspection, I found were loaded with a ton of powdered paint.
'Ooooh, I see.' I grinned, and walked back over to the cube, efficiently detaching the wire from the cube easily so it wouldn't be triggered by picking it up. I quickly went back a few feet and pretended like I just arrived.
'Oh my, what's this?' I asked in a fake surprised voice, 'A cube of energon out here? No way! Someone must have accidentally left it here. Oh well, that just means I'll have to take it back!' No doubt whoever set this up was still close so I spoke loud enough for them to hear me.
Just as expected, I heard some shuffling behind the rocks and caught sight of a few frames that clearly did not blend in with this landscape. I hid my laugh and continued to act like a stupid not, even doing a goofy walk up to the rock.
'Huh, and would you look at that! It's even completely full!' I exclaimed, picking it up and hearing the very obvious sound of snickering behind the rock, 'Optimus is going to be so proud of me for this!' I said and walked away with it, trying to hold back my own laughter as I heard the sounds stop.
Once out of sight, I grinned and ran around to where the cannons were and crouched down, picking up the still attached wire and getting ready to pull. A few seconds passed before arguing broke out behind the rocks opposite me and two bots walked out, both with Decepticon insignias.
I was surprised to see they were cassettes, like me, identical to each other except one was purple and the other red. 'Ugh, why didn't that work!' Purple yelled and ran over to it. He picked up the detached wire and groaned, 'UGH! Frenzy! I told you to check it! We just lost a cube for nothing!'
'Sorry, but I clearly remember you saying you were going to do that Rumble,' Frenzy scowled at him, walking up to him as they both looked at it, 'Maybe something happened with the cannons?'
'I already checked and they were working fine!' Rumble huffed.
'Think again suckers!' I yelled and popped up, making them both turn and look at me in surprise before I tugged on the wire and the cannons went off. The two both yelled and were showered with a cloud of color, making them cough and dying their frames with rainbows.
I cackled and stood on the cannon, standing above them and taking a sip of the energon, 'Sorry, my equally diabolical friends, but there's a new prankster in town.' I smirked down at the two as they stared up at me.
'He knew! He knew!' Frenzy yelled, pointing at me and stomping his pede, making my grin widen even more. Rumble put his servo on his shoulder and looked at his brother. The two looked at the Autobot logo on my chest before they exchanged some kind of information because Rumble smiled and stepped forward, clapping for me.
'Well done, didn't think anyone would be able to see through that.' He said. I rolled my optics and hopped down, 'Anyone dumb enough to not find a cube of energon randomly placed in the desert.' I replied with my arms crossed.
'He was right, we did make it kind of obvious.' Frenzy agreed, trying to wipe the dye off of himself. I laughed but waved my servo, 'Come on, I know a stream not too far away where you can wash off.' I said and started walking away, 'And don't worry, it's not some kind of trick.' They both looked at each other before running and catching up to me.
