Escaping Reality

Chapter Two: Shenanigans

It was Day Two of the Quotev Convention, and the four girls were rather exited to get to their activities. Each had signed up to make sure that they got at least one activity together, though free time was given to everyone regardless. Either way, it was finally time to enjoy their free time before getting back to whatever activities they'd signed up for.
         "Hey Jinx!" Katrina called as she ran over to where her friend in green stood, two other kids following close behind her. "You remember the Blade Twins of Quotev right?"
         The two kids consisted of one boy and one girl, both clearly identical, though the boy seemed a bit shy compared to his sister. Even though she'd never seen their faces, Starjinx recognized them almost immediately.
         "Oh yeah! You guys haven't been active in weeks though! What happened?" Starjinx asked the pair, the girl replying, "School and slagging internet."
         "That sucks," Katrina commented with a small frown, though she ended up shrugging and hugging the twins. "It's been lonely on Quotev without you guys."
         "Really? We thought no one would care," the female twin said with a small look of sadness in her blue eyes.
         "Starblade, Nightblade, you guys are way too awesome to not care about," said Starjinx with a grin as she looked at the two fellow brunettes.
         "Thanks," uttered the boy, Nightblade shyly while Starblade also returned the words of gratitude.
         "Hey guys look who we found!" The voice of none other than Sasori interrupted the group as she, Midnight, and two others dashed to the scene, stopping once they reached the group of Transfans.
         "Sup!" Katrina greeted before glancing at the Blade Twins. "Look who we found."
         "Hey those guys are my roommates!" Starblade proclaimed with a grin.
         "Really? Sweet!" said Starjinx as she looked over the two new girls.
         "Name's Darkfin, the best navy trooper Megatron's ever gonna find," said the black-haired girl proudly before glancing over at her friend. "This is Titaniumwrench. She's kind of mute so she won't talk really."
         The girl known as Titaniumwrench smiled and held up her hands as she signed something, though when everyone looked at her in confusion she settled for a simple wave.
         "Well, now that we've gotten our group together, we can finally rival the Star Wars fans and their army!" joked Sasori as she glanced at a large group of teens gathered on the other side of the field.
         Snickering, Midnight smirked and decided to pitch the idea of looking for more Transfans, though most of the group decided against it. After all, their group was big enough as it was; adding more people to the mix would maybe make things complicated. It didn't take long for the group to begin throwing ideas around, each kid very bored and feeling the need to do something interesting for the nest thirty minutes of their break. When the Quotev Staff decided to bring out icy-pops from the Quotev House, however, the group was able to think a bit better thanks to the sugar inside their frozen snack.
         "Wanna go hang with the Avengers fandom? I've been chilling with them for a while and they're pretty cool," Starjinx suggested.
         "Nah, otherwise we'll have to visit the other fandoms we like too, and that'll probably take forever," said Sasori with a frown.
         "How about we do some rule-breaking then?" Midnight questioned, Darkfin immediately agreeing with her Decepticon friend.
         "Rule-breaking? Are you sure? We don't wanna get kicked out, exactly," Starblade said in concern.
         "Well we're only gonna be here a week right? So might as well make the most of it," Darkfin chimed in, Midnight nodding her head in agreement.
         "Um... Well then what rule are we gonna bend?" asked Katrina cautiously, surprised herself that she was going along with this; must be the Decepticons rubbing off on her.
         "Something simple that won't get us in that much trouble, but would all the same," Midnight mused, trying to think of something good.
         "....We could go into the forest by ourselves. We're not supposed to go in there without a guide, and forests are interesting enough," Starjinx commented, rather unsure about the plan.
         "Hmm... Not as bad as I hoped but you know what? Sure," Darkfin approved, Midnight joining in soon after while the rest of the group shrugged.
         "Well it we're gonna break some rules, we better start now. Only fifteen minutes till activities start up again," Starblade pointed out.
         "Then let's get going; there's no time to waste!" With that, Sasori and the others set off for the treeline, almost all the teens set on finding an adventure.

"Come on slow-pokes!" called Darkfin as she climbed over yet again another tree trunk, the small group of Transfans following behind the adventurous girl.
         "There must've been a lot of storms in the area or something, judging by how many tree trunks are on the ground," Sasori mused as she looked around the wooded area.
         "Well this winter was pretty bad," Starblade pointed out, Nightblade nodding in agreement.
         "True," Sasori complied before jogging to catch up with Darkfin.
         "This place is so cool. Then again, forests in general are cool," Starjinx said to herself before jumping into a small creek and splashing in the shallow water, though due to the creek being in a ditch, the splashing water didn't touch the others.
         "My turn!" called Katrina before joining her friend, Titaniumwrench following suit.
         Together, the three splashed in the creek, Midnight eventually joining in before cupping water in her hands and splashing the others. Titaniumwrench was the first to retaliate by kicking at the water, thus sending up a spray of creek water towards the Decepticon fan. She was soon followed by Katrina and Starjinx, though it didn't take long for Starblade and Sasori to join in with the "water wars."
         "Die Autobot scum!" Starjinx yelled dramatically as she splashed the Autobot fans, Midnight commanding, "Decepticons, follow my lead!" before spraying yet more water at Starblade, Katrina, and Titaniumwrench.
         "Nightblade, help!" Starblade pleaded, all while falling to her knees as she pretended to be wounded. Eventually, her brother joined in, pretending to defend his older sister from the "evil Decepticons."
         "There's no need to fear, Katrina's here!" Katrina exclaimed right before getting splashed in the face.
         "Guys, what are you-" Darkfin was cut off as Sasori uttered, "For Cybertron!" before jumping into the creek with Darkfin's hand in her own, pulling her almond-eyed friend with her.
         Unprepared, Darkfin stumbled and ended up awkwardly landing in the water, only able to keep most of her Quotev shirt and part of her pants from getting wet. At this, Sasori stopped what she was doing while the others went over to see if their Decepticon friend was alright.
         "Hey Darkfin, you okay?" Starblade asked as the black-haired girl got to her feet.
         "Yeah I'm fine, but you won't be, Autobot." With that, Darkfin playfully lunged at her helper as she proclaimed, "For Megatron!"
         With a few laughs shared between the group, everyone got back to playing out the battle between their characters. Each of them knew of one another's characters fairly well from role-playing; it was just their human appearance that threw them off at times during their little battle. The whole thing was childish and they all knew it, but the group didn't care either way; they were Transfans after all. It was only when they heard a loud crack when half of the group froze.
         "Guys, did you hear that?" hissed Midnight to the others, causing the remaining few to stay still as well.
         "Yeah. Did the Quotev Admins finally bust us?" Starjinx mused, trying to keep her voice down.
         "Wouldn't they have shown themselves already?" another questioned before am unknown voice exclaimed, "There's no energon here!?"
         The group then silenced themselves completely as they heard yet rustling up ahead of them, though it sounded more like large footsteps now that they thought about it. They then looked at each other questioningly, no one daring to move except for a curious Titaniumwrench. The Transfans then proceeded to give her a tense look while the Autobot fan silently began making her way towards the edge of the creek and peaked over the ditch they were in. Seeing what their friend was doing, the remaining seven approached the edge in a quiet, yet almost hasty way; they all clearly wanted to see who or what was making all that racket, especially since it had continued to sound throughout the area. Neither of them, however, were prepared to see the source of the sound.
         Standing in the middle of the forest, was a transformer.