Megatron's twin

92: Back to the base

They all recharged on me for the night, however, when I woke up they were all over the place. Zinc had his helm in my intake while Copper and Gold were educating themselves with my interface plating. I closed that quickly as I pulled Zinc out of my intake.

Egg shad slipped down from my chassis and ended up between me and the wall, I set all the chicks next to her as she woke up and got then their bowls and energon.

"Feeling better?" I asked as I poured them their energon.

Bit sore around the neck, might need Ratchet to have a look. She said as she drunk. I replaced her drink with some high grade. Thanks. She said and continued drinking from that.

The chicks gathered around the holy mixture and watched in amazement, Then they all squawked a single squawk. Egg shook her helm in answer and the chicks drooped their helms in disappointment.

Then Laserbeak zoomed in through a vent and landed on Egg in comfort. Then took out his tentacles and started massaging her. Egg instantly melted

Would have been pretty sweet if it didn't look so creepy.

"I'm going to make a call." I told Egg and winked as I left the room. Then I called Optimus, "Hey pal!" I started, "Can I come over?" I thought I might as well be polite.

"Ah..."

"Awesome! I'll bring the Chickens." I told him.

"We could meet somewhere else." He proposed.

"Nah, Egg needs medical attention." I told him and went for a walk around the ship.

"Why?"

"I'll explain later, and besides, the chicks need a good social circle." I added.

"About the chicks-"

"They'll behave." I waved it off, "I gave 'em a lecture a while ago, they're angels now! Messengers from Primus." I finished sweetly.

"Are you sure?"

I think the long silence that followed wasn't too reassuring, "Oh! You know, when I came back, everyone was basically asking me why I smelt of trans-fluid. How about you?"

"I went straight to the washracks." Optimus said smartly, perhaps a little awkward. "Just make a decent excuse to Megatron."

"Yup, any suggestions?"

"Just walk up to him with some high grade and say you're going down to Earth."

"Ah, yes. High grade." I giggled and snagged some from the storage. We're going to Earth, is Laserbeak still with you? I asked Egg as I hung up on Op.

No, Soundwave picked him up, are you on your way?

Yup. I told her as I spotted my door, I opened it up and let everyone into my chassis.

You need to get rid of that helm. Egg fussed.

Nah. I walked down to the command unit, then I got into character. I slumped over and stumbled in, clutching a cube of high grade.

"Oh, Primus. It's only morning!" Megs complained as he heard me fall over.

"I wanna..." I started, "I wanna go down to Earth." I slurred and giggled. Acting drunk is fun!

"Go for it." Megs mumbled as he got back to work.

I stumbled out, once the doors closed, I returned to normal. Couldn't you have fallen over a little softer? Egg grumbled as I punched in some coordinates into a monitor.

A bridge popped up ad I walked through. We ended up on a huge mesa overlooking the military base. I slid down it like a slide.

I regretted it once I got to the bottom. "Argh."

What's wrong?

"My aft is all scratched." I muttered as I walked.

I made it to the doors and peeked in, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bee were missing. Probably with the humans.

"Hey Quill." Wheeljack greeted from behind, holding a rag and covered in oil. "You bring the chicks with you this time?" He asked nervously.

They answered noisily in response and his shoulders sagged. "Did that answer your question?" I joked as we headed in.

Ratchet spotted me and glared at Optimus.

"Did you bring the chicks?" Smokescreen asked. I let them all out and he and Ratchet recoiled.

"They'll behave." I assured as they marched around single file, to Alpha Trion. He bent down to pet them.

Egg took her time getting out, I feel so old. She complained as she lied down on the floor, still exhausted from yesterday.

"You said she needed medical attention." Optimus stated.

Ratchet raised a ridge, "What happened?"

"Megs felt threatened so he held her at a choke hold." I explained and picked her up, bringing her to the medical berth. Ratchet hurried over, getting to work.

"Oh, on the topic of ol' Megs." Smokescreen started, "Since when was he into make up?"

"That was me, we didn't know it was long term." I explained as I watched Egg and Ratchet.

"When did you get so shiny?" Wheeljack asked as if he only just noticed, Smokescreen did a double take.

At that moment, Magnus walked in, recoiled at the sight of the chicks and walked over to Op, starting a conversation.

"Predaking licked me." I told him, his optic ridges shot up.

"Huh?" He asked, Smoke joining in.

"With his glossa, works better that a buffer!" I advertised.

"Dunno about that." Wheeljack muttered, "Optimus and Magnus absolutely pummelled him Yesterday, few hard knocks to the snout."

I looked over to the two, who seemed to have gone silent. "Justification?"

"Self defence?" Optimus tried as Magnus nodded along side him.

Then the other three came driving in, along with the humans.

Miko flung the door open dramatically, hesitated when she saw the chicks but let out a dramatic exhale. "I... Am scarred for life!"

Bulkhead transformed and rolled his optics.