Beast Wars Prime

Cons and Combiners

Hello again everyone. You ready for some good fights and laughs? Great, let's get started. Although, I probably should reiterate that I do not own any rights to any media. After all, this is fanfiction.

Optimus Prime strode through the halls of Fortress Maximus. He'd just finished checking on the progress of the spacebridge upgrades and was pleased to hear that the changes would be finished in less than a day. After that, it would be a simple matter of using the coordinates from the golden disk to retrieve the remaining Autobots. After all the other complications of the last two days, it would be a blessing.

Rodimus had messaged him from the United Nations stating that they would like to perform an inspection of Fortress Maximus, to prove that they were indeed benign. While Optimus could agree to that measure wholeheartedly, he knew that some of the Autobots might not take too kindly to it. Then there was the situation with the Predacons.

He'd been surprised to hear that three of the Predacons had survived the labs' destruction. The fact that Jack had managed to form something of an alliance between them and the Maximals was a feat that made him very proud. Optimus only hoped that the peace between them could be maintained in the face of their oncoming scrutiny. He was pulled from his thoughts by laughter and several loud crashes from the Maximals' new den area.

Investigating, he saw that most of the other Maximals and several Autobots were laughing as they watched a red and blue blur speed from one part of the room to another. A closer inspection revealed that the blur was really Jack in beast mode. He crouched down next to June who had a look of humor and exasperation on her face.

"June, what happened here?" Optimus asked.

"Miko." She answered with a nod of her head to the young femme. Said femme was now doubled over laughing at her boyfriends' antics. "She managed to slip Jack some catnip and it gave him the zoomies."

"Zoomies?"

"A feline instinct to run as fast as they can." June explained. She contemplated the situation for a moment. "Do you have anything akin to a laser pointer on you?" She asked, eyeing Miko mischievously.

"Yes, why?"

"I think Miko needs some payback for this." June grinned as she whispered her plan to Optimus.

Moments later the laughter increased as Jack attempted to play "catch the dot" with the laser sight from one of Optimus' blasters. The Autobot commander couldn't help but smile fondly at the young Maximal so carefree. Seeing that Miko was distracted with her laughter, Optimus aimed the laser sight at her, and waited.

Miko was blinking away tears of laughter from her eyes and didn't even know something was wrong until Jack bowled into her. The two landed several feet away with Jack landing on top of her in lion mode.

"Gah." Miko exclaimed. "Very funny!" She yelled at Optimus who was chuckling. "Okay Jackrabbit, get off me. I can't feel my legs."

"But I'm a good kitty." Jack slurred as he purred contentedly on top of his girlfriend. He nuzzled Mikos' neck and sniffed. "And you smell like pretty." He began to lick her face.

"Ugh, kitty kisses." Miko cried out as the others laughed. She hadn't counted on Jacks' lion tongue being like a real cat. "Ow, stop it!"

"You taste like pretty."

"That's enough." Optimus called fondly. "Arcee, take Jack to med bay until the catnip is out of his system."

"Copy that." Arcee replied as she went to pick up her partner/nephew. Unfortunately, she soon discovered why some people say that cats are liquid.