Title: Talk Like a Pirate Day Rating: G Characters: Dinobots, Jazz, Hound, mention of Prowl Warnings: None Universe: G1 Disclaimer: I, in no way, shape, or form, own the Transformers© franchise or the characters it contains. They belong to Has/Tak, No infringement intended. Any OC's to my knowledge are solely mine.

Summary: It's "Talk Like a Pirate Day' today. Even the MSN home page had a bit up on it for awhile. Anyhow in the spirit of the day, a Transformers drabble was spawned from this live journal prompt: "Ahoy me hearties, the call of the sea be strong! Seein' as it's Speak Like a Pirate Day, let's have all ye landlubbers, scallywags and sprogs tell us in a buccaneer's tongue who yer first mate be, and what sort of booty yer willin' to walk the plank for. Savvy?"

And except for pirates, it really has nothing to do with the prompt that spawned it. (hense "spirit of the day.")

Featuring the Dinobots. Have Fun. Arrr!

We dino pirates yes we be!

We sink Con ships to bottom of sea.

We pillage, we plunder, we tear Cons 'sunder!

We hunt, we fight, we rowdy all night!

We dino pirates be!

The chanting was increasing in volume along with the thunderous noise and shaking of the Ark's halls that preceded the Dinobots whenever they swarmed the halls.

Jazz, pressed himself to the wall on one side of the hall, Hound copying his movement on the other side. Seconds later around the corner thundered the Dinobots out of a side hall and upon seeing the saboteur and the scout came to a jolting halt. With the exception of buzzing and pinging from excited Dinobot systems, silence reigned.

Hound looked the Dinobots over; surprised to see them all in robot form and all with their swords out. On each of their chests or torso where the Autobot faction symbol rested; a new symbol had been added next to, above or below the red one. A human skull with a set of human bones forming an 'X' had been painted in white on a rectangle field of black.

Grimlock bent down to bring his optic band level with Jazz's head. A few seconds past and he made a snorting sound then swung his head around to look Hound over. A shake of the head and another snorting sound preceded his straightening back up.

"Arrr!" said Grimlock

"Aye!" chorused the rest of the Dinobots. Then in one motion, the Dinobots moved on; swing swords, chanting voices and shaking halls warning all to move out of the way.

Hound tore his gaze from the group as he stepped back into the center of the hall. "Just what was that all about?"

"Ol' Prowl's keeping all his primary trouble makers busy today."

"Huh?"

"It's the humans Talk Like a Pirate Day today."

"Yes?"

"Well the twins set a silly string trap for Ironhide this morning, except they caught Prowl instead. Soooo, in the spirit of the day Prowl spent an hour or so teaching the Dinobots how to be pirates then sent them off to hunt the twins down."

Hound dimmed his optics briefly as he pondered this.

"What are they going to do when they catch Sides and Sunny?"

Jazz grinned. "Make them walk the plank of course."