Megatron's twin

206: Last Minute Preperations

"It'll be fine." Optimus said for the 5th time, "You were cutting back on it already." He added.

"Hrmmmm." I let out grumpily as I poked the cube Ratchet left me. I tasted it, it was plain and bland and everything high grade wasn't. "My denta are itchy."

"Yes, so you've said. Do you feel up to going to that celebration this evening?"

"What's the point, it's not like I can drink." I grumbled.

"There wouldn't be any high grade anyway." Optimus added, "Egg is planning to pick-pocket so I have to keep an optic on her."

"Agh fine, I'll help." I grumbled.

"And have fun?" Megatron suggested as he loudly slurped some high grade. I narrowed my optics at him.

"Not helping." Optimus hissed at him.

"Oh I'm just teasing." He grunted and shut up

"Are you going?" I asked.

"Yes, but I won't be socialising." He said.

"What then?" Optimus asked.

"I'll just be reminding bots of my... Position." He said.

"So you'll be there on a ego trip. That'll be a show." I snorted and got up.

"Should you be-" Optimus started, almost making to lunch me down.

"Probably not." I grumbled ignoring my less itchy denta. "When's the celebration?"

"Few hours." Optimus said, but they're setting up already.

"You want to help?" I asked.

"Of course the goodie two shoes wants to help-" Megatron started and got slapped by said 'goodie two shoes'.

"Let's go." Optimus grumbled.

"Where's Egg?" I asked.

"Just outside, her and the chicks were being disruptive." Optimus said as we stepped outside.

Well Quilly threw up on them. Egg defended, to me and aloud to Optimus.

The chicks were glaring at me. "Sorry." I said and picked them up before plopping them on my shoulders.

They seemed to accept the apology.

"Where are they setting up?" I asked as Megatron wondered off without a goodbye.

"Down where the market usually is." Optimus said and picked up Egg. "We've got to go to the landing bay first. Soundwave and Ultra Magnus are trying to connect the power cables to the market. I think." Optimus explained as we walked.

We made it there relatively quick. "I don't think I've been down here before." I muttered and looked around. It was like a large hanger at the bottom of the ship to pick up large supplies from land. There was a large sliding door too, wide open, from where we could see the market.

"Hmm, I suppose since they didn't land the ship much during the war there wasn't much use for it." Optimus explained as he spotted Ultra Magnus and Soundwave.

Jazz was there too with Arcee, they seemed to be criticizing their work. "Why aren't ye using cables?" Jazz asked.

"We are-" Magnus started.

"Where are they?" Arcee asked, "sir." She added.

"We need to- Soundwave what are we doing?" Magnus asked and Soundwave flashed some complicated stuff in his visor as we walked over.

"Could you explain?" Optimus asked.

"Sure." I started, though he was probably asking Soundwave. "You'll want to redirect some of the Nemesis' power flow first and seperate it from the ships systems before supplying it to a additional outpost, as to prevent the electrical flow from backtracking (should anything go wrong) and potentially damaging the ships systems. This way the NAILs would also have difficulty directly farming or stealing power from the ship." I explained. "So it's like a security measure." I pointed at the visor.

"Err." Arcee started, "What about cables?"

"We hook those up after we have a seperate power supply/router." I explained.

"So we get a box and fill it with power?" Optimus asked and he and Jazz looked at me expectantly.

"What? No, we seperate it, make it a one way flow with a resistor blocking return flow. You know what, I am not explaining the fundamentals of circuit flow to you. Go read a book." I waved him off and started following Soundwaves layout. It was a good layout too, very optimised.

"Right." Ultra Magnus started, trying to figure out where he could help.

"Cables in store room." Soundwave played in a series of voices and pointed to a small doorway.

"Alright." He started and walked into it, he came out moments later with a sour expression. "I'll need help detangling." He grumbled and the chicks jumped down from my shoulders to have a look.

"No no no." Optimus started and plucked them off the ground. "You're all a fire hazard, stay with Quilly." He said and handed them back to me. They seemed disappointed.

"It's not like you'll be any help with those grippers." I said, pointing at their claws. "Not any good for detangling."

"Jazz, Arcee, could you help?" Optimus called, must be pretty tangled in there.

-

Soon enough, Soundwave and I had finished setting up the system. "Wanna see where the others are at?" I asked and we wondered over. The sight was one for sore optics. "Are you sure you're detangling?" I asked.

"Yes?" Jazz started. "That needs to be detangled and that's been detangled." He said, pointing to one side of him and then the other.

"They both look tangled." I said as I stuffed the jumpy chicks in my chassis.

Ohh lemme in. Egg said and I grabbed her from Optimus before squishing her in.

"Want to help?" Optimus asked.

-

And hour later and we were done. It certainly didn't help that the cables had a rubbery casing that kinda stuck to itself but we got there! They were all now in neat coils.

"Great, since we're running behind schedule-" Magnus started.

"Hardly." Optimus muttered.

"We need to hook these up to the market place." He continued. "Before Prowl hounds me over it." He grunted. And we started transporting the thick, long cables out.

We had barely left the ship before we ran into Prowl. "We're getting there." Arcee started as the cop car opened his intake to complain. "The cables were hardly organised."

"Quite the opposite." Optimus muttered. "Where is the power port?" He asked, "It's  already connected to the rest of the market, correct?" He asked.

"Argh, yes, this way." He said and let us to a box with many cables connected to it. Soundwave started plugging in our cables and played around with the controls shortly after.

"Is it gonna work?" Jazz asked and shortly after Soundwave powered it on. The market lit up shortly after.

"Lovely." Optimus said cheerfully.

"Great, now you can all help clearing out the Center." Prowl started and we all let out a groan.

"We don't even get a break?" I whined.

"Seems not." Optimus started.

"Don't you outrank him though?" I asked Optimus and he looked between me and Prowl for a bit. "I do." He said and crossed his arms at the bot.

Prowl seemed to realise his mistake. "After your break and if you feel up to it, that is." He stammered out quickly.

"Almost forgot yerself there 'uh buddy?" Jazz teased and elbowed him in the side light heartedly.