(Rooster Teeth Hybrid AU) Michael Hates Lasers

A oneshot Rooster Teeth animal hybrid AU fic. The glorious original AU is by tumblr user padalickingood, go check em out!

There is some cursing in this story, but...well...it IS Michael Jones, what did you expect?

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It was a surprisingly quiet day at the Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter office. Michael had recorded his Rage Quit the day before, and the GTA V videos for that week had already been recorded, edited, and uploaded thanks to an explosion of productivity from Gavin. Said lyrebird hybrid was currently taking a short break from editing a Minecraft Let's Play, taking the time to slightly open his wings and adjust a handful of feathers that had been causing him a prickling itch. He glanced at Michael, absorbed in editing yet another video for the day. Gavin stifled a giggle and whispered to Geoff, catching the ram's attention. He nodded, removed a keychain-sized cat laser from his pocket, and tossed it to Gavin, who caught the toy with surprising precision. He stifled another giggle, nodding as a signal for Geoff to take out his phone and start to record a video. Gavin aimed the laser at Michael's screen and turned it on. A small red dot suddenly appeared and caught Michael's attention; the cat hybrid's head followed the laser without thinking, his ears twitching; he slowly brought his hand towards his screen to catch the dot. In a portion of a second Michael had slammed his hand onto his monitor and covered it with the other after the dot refused to disappear.

"Fuck!" Michael exclaimed, reaching upwards as the dot traveled to the wall behind his desk. The cat hybrid rose out of his chair, slapping the wall with his hands.

"GOD DAMMIT!" he yelled as the dot traveled onto his desk, then back to his monitor. Michael began to aggressively pursue the laser, his cat ears flat against his head and tail lashing.

Gavin and Geoff had begun to tear up from laughing at this point, Geoff still filming. Ray, Ryan, and Jack looked away from their screens to investigate the commotion, and so the room quickly filled with laughter. Michael eventually became fed up with chasing the dot and realized Gavin's antics. He pounced on top of Gavin, whose wings burst open to their full span from surprise. Michael wrestled Gavin to the floor of the room, coughing feathers all the while.

After about two minutes of Gavin screeching and Michael yelling insults and assorted obscenities, Geoff grabbed the back of Michael's hoodie and yanked him away from Gavin. The hybrids eventually settled down, Gavin folding his wings tight again after collecting the feathers that had fluttered to the floor and throwing them away. Michael picked up the cat laser off the floor where Gavin had dropped it and snapped the brittle plastic tube in half while glaring at the lyrebird, throwing it into the trash. The boys resumed their work and remained quiet for a few hours...

...Until Gavin snuck catnip into the hoagie he had bought to split with Michael.