Optimus Prime's unusual Charge

Brain Vs CPU

"Hey, Ratch...this is cute and all but, you can put me down now..." Zucky said to the medic who was still holding her for some reason.

"Too late!" *camera goes off* "Got it!" Miko beamed. Zucky pulled her ears over her face that took on a deep shade of red-ish purple as Ratchet hurriedly placed her back down.

"Fellow circuitry or not, that phone's gonna cease to function one of these days." The medic mumbled.

.:"Uh...did I miss something?":. Bumblebee asked.

"NO! No, you did not! So don't ask!" Ratchet roared as he stomped by, mumbling incoherently under his vents.

Bumblebee raised his servo's in submission and stood back to give him space to pass by. "Okay! Primus...What crawled up his exhaust port?" Bee mumbled.

Ratchet, despite standing at the far side of the room, shot him a death glare and raised an enormous wrench for Bee to see. Bumblebee quickly jumped behind the platform stairs, trying his very best to hide from the sudden wrench-happy medic.

The humans followed suit behind the couch, and not a moment later, Optimus, Arcee and Bulkhead show up.

Prime noticed Bumble and the humans hiding for what how would assume to be Ratchet who has since moved on to his work, Optimus cocked his optic ridge at the silly sight and gave it a thought before asking:

"Though I am yet an expert on traditional earth entertainment activities; I am quite positive the one who seeks out those who are hiding, must be aware they are participating in said game of 'hide and go seek', or is this what is known as 'Peek-a-Boo'?"

Arcee who understood what was going on got his attention, signalled for him to crouch down and she whispered; "I don't think they're playing a game..."

Prime looked at her confused, and she said out loud: "They're over here, by the way...!" Which caused Bee to bleep incoherently as he grabbed all three of them and pulled them the best he could behind the platform!

When he had them there, he hushed them, and peeked over the edge at Ratchet before shooting Arcee a glare as she was just snickering behind her servo.

"So, when do we jump out and yell 'surprise'?" Bulkhead asked. There was a collective simultaneous facepalm from everyone except Ratchet who just looked up from his work, listened for a bit, shrugged and continued what he was doing.

"What? I didn't know it was his First Flash day..." Bulkhead whined as he crossed his arms. Zucky shook her head in disbelief.

The rest of the day was pretty much uneventful and soon it was time for the human children to return home, and the Autobots to retreat for a well deserved recharge. This left Zucky alone with her thoughts in the room.

She couldn't stop thinking about how easily it now was for Knockout to just control her actions the way he did earlier. 'Remote control', 'Manual Override', 'Mind control', doesn't matter what they called it, it was still scary to know and think about.

It scared her to the point she didn't want to fall asleep in case he would try making her sleepwalk or something crazy...

["Man, oh, man...What I wouldn't do to kick his rustbucket of a tailpipe aft back to Cybetron and back and the then some!"] She thought...["But I can't and that sucks...He's too big, too strong, heck; these robots take a beating and still get up and come after ya!"]

She tossed and turned wide awake, still. ["Man...if there was only a way to level the playing field somehow, or something, I don't know...."]

She knew in her current condition, no...even when she was in one piece, no injuries and such, going toe to toe with a Cybertronian is madness and it almost got her killed. She wasn't even looking for a fight, she was just trying to escape!