Truth or Dare: Transformers

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This is a side-story to my upcoming fic "On Broken Wings I'm Falling" that can stand alone. I'm just using some ideas and OC's from that story here. Rated T just to be safe, might get a little iffy later.

Talking: "English or other earth language" "Cybertronian" 'thought' :comm. link: (Bond talk)

I've read a lot of truth or dare fanfictions and thought "that looks so fun" … so here you go!

On any given day, life in the Autobot base could be described as "hectic" or "boring". But right then, as the day cycled winded down, the Ark rec. room was filled with 'Bots on their downtime, enjoying friendly conversation over energon or just getting their rations in. With the exception of a couple 'Bots, who would rather be out enjoying their time off outside; only one problem, it was raining.

Spike and Carly, who had ridden to the base with Bumblebee, came in dripping wet. "hoo, sure is raining out. Thanks again for letting me use your jacket Spike," Carly handed him his raincoat back before taking a moment to wring her hair out . "No problem, it's raining cats and dogs out there" Unfortunately he had forgotten Autobots take things literally.

"Really? How is that possible?" Hound came over to them, worried about the small animals that were supposedly falling from the sky. Spike laughed and waved him off. "It's just an expression, Hound," "but he's not far off though," Spike jumped and turned around as Silverbullet came in behind them.

"Jeez, I didn't hear you come in, How do you do that?" "Practice" he jumped again as her Bondmate, Greenblades, came in in the same fashion. The Techno-Dragons smiled down at him and then directed their attention, almost business-like, to the other occupants in the room. "Weather's getting rough out there, might want to make sure your windows are closed, and we would advise against going outside, we already saw a couple dozen trees get blown over on the way here."

"Why were you guys on your way here?" they looked over at the Lambo twins—not sure which one spoke—who were playing a video game on the 'Bot sized couch. "We got a call asking to come over and help with whatever Chip, Skyfire, Perceptor and Wheeljack are working on. What, you don't want us stopping by?"

As if on cue, Skyfire and Perceptor came in, Chip riding in the former's servos. "I wouldn't go outside right now if I were you, We had the radio going in the lab and weather reports say 'emergency travel only'," "We've been through worse…" she stopped when she felt someone grab her shoulder strut and looked up to see Skyfire's serious face. "Don't," Silverbullet hesitated, remembering how he came to be on Earth. "Don't worry, we won't," The group moved to a table "We were actually about to take a short break, we've been working for roughly two hours," "oh, sorry we're late…" Perceptor cut her off. "Not at all, we just wanted to get an early start on the…" and then the scientific conversation started; brainstorming theories, going over details and such.

The din of the crowded room kept a steady rate until Blam! The base shook and all the lights went out, plunging the base into darkness. Screams, confused shouts, frightened gibberish and the occasional thud sounded out as mechs got up and milled around, trying to figure out what was going on.

"DECEPTICONS!" someone pulled a weapon and started firing wildly. "Ironhide, hold your fire, you don't know what you're shooting at!"

"WHEELJACK!" "Wasn't me, I didn't do it…" they could see flashing lights in the hallway and everyone that had headlights turned them on so they could see the inventor enter the room grumbling "why does everyone always assume it was me?" " 'Cuz whenever you're in the labs bad things happen." "I was out in the hallway when that happened, so…" Spike shouted out above the ruckus. "GUYS, GUYS, It's just a power outage, it happens sometimes, especially during storms like this," "He's right," the dragons had gotten out flashlights. "The best thing we can do for now is wait it out and try to find a way to get the power back on after this blows over," "Why not now," Wheeljack made his way over to the table where the others sat. "If we tamper with it and it keeps fritzing it could short out the circuit board, along with whoever's fixing it," Everyone sat down again "ok now what?" "How 'bout a game?" "Great idea, Carly. Have a certain one in mind?" they all thought about it. "How about "Truth or Dare?"?"

"How do you play?" "Play what?" Elita 1 and a few of her femmes—who were visiting at time—came in. " 'Truth or Dare?' It's a game that human's play. We could teach you guys if you want?" The femmes smiled "Alright, let's go see if anyone else wants to play." They went to find their Bondmates and friends to get them into the rec. room. "Ok, first of all, everyone sits in a circle, should we sit on the floor or…" they were already pushing the tables together to make room for anyone. "…or that works too. The rules are actually really simple, but let's wait until everyone is here so we can explain them to everyone." The femmes came back with almost all the remaining Autobots. "So what's going on?" "What happened to the lights?" Optimus Prime came over to the humans. "Elita says you were playing a human game, correct?" "Yeah, there's a power outage because of the storm so we were going to teach you guys how to play 'Truth or Dare?' is everyone here?"

One head count later…

"Everyone's here except Prowl, Ratchet, Red Alert, Slingshot and the Dinobots" Silverbullet rolled her optics "figures… ok, how 'bout this; first one to bring one of those 'Bots in gets to go first," They all agreed until they heard sounds of a struggle out in the hall. "Jazz, be reasonable, I have to get my work done." "Ah am bein' reasonable, you were due for a break an' it's not like ya can get lot done wit' the power out, so you might as well come to the rec. room with everyone else." They all looked with their lights to see the TIC pulling the SIC by the servos. "Ok, I guess Jazz is going first, let's get the others so we can get started, I'll go ask the Dinobots,"

Sometime later…

After Ratchet came down from the , Inferno came in carrying a trembling Red Alert, who had assumed the fetal position. "Found him like this under tha terminal. He's pretty upset tha' the monitors shut off on him," "oh right; no power, no monitors." Bluestreak crouched down next to him. "Hey, don't worry Red, it's ok. If the weathers so bad that it can mess with our bases power grid I really don't think the 'Cons could trying anything. None of them are crazy enough to be out in this weather. Except for Skywarp, maybe, but he doesn't usually attack on his own, does he?" "uh, how 'bout we all take our seats, that way when the Dinobots get here we can begin,"

Every sat around the adjoined table, which the humans had strung glowing tubes that were similar to giant "glow bracelets"—provided by the 'Bots—around the edges so everyone can see each other and placed a lantern in the center. Silverbullet checked on Red Alert, who hadn't moved. "Are you ok?" he twitched violently. "How can you all be so calm when the Decepticons could attack at any time and we are vulnerable right now?"She sighed "What Bluestreak said was true. On our way over here, we flew over the area where the 'Cons come in and out of their base. Megatron had called everyone in and put their base in lockdown. They're not going anywhere until the storm passes, and it will. We're just trying to pass the time until then. Care to join us?"

He slowly peekedout from between his servos to see she held her hand out to him. She even retracted her claws completely to seem like less of a threat. He got up and sat next to Inferno when the Dinobots came in. "Me Grimlock no see why we have to play silly game with Autobots." "Me Sludge no see at all." "Why so Dark?" They repeated what was said before and everyone found their seats.

"ok, everyone the name of the game is "Truth or Dare?" to play we will take turns asking each other "Truth or Dare" the person asked has to pick one of those options. If they pick 'truth' the person asking has to ask them a question and they must answer truthfully. If they pick 'dare' they have to dare them to do something." "What kind of questions can we ask?" "The questions can be about anything, and I mean anything,"

"For example…" Silverbullet got a devious grin on her faceplates. "Let's just pretend Sideswipe picked truth; Sideswipe, have you ever snuck into someone's room while they were recharging?"

The red front liner spluttered "n-no," his twin glared at him "yes you have, when you try to slip back into our quarters without me noticing, and half the pranks you pull involve taking them by surprise in recharge." "And if you get caught lying, or don't want to answer the question or do the dare, you have to offer up an article of clothing, or in a bots case a piece of armor." "WHAT?" "Don't worry you'll get it all back when we're done. However, there are restrictions on the dares; no interfacing—kissing dares are common and fair game though—and nothing overly dangerous or illegal, like underage drinking or sword swallowing. Anything else we should go over?" no one could think of anything. "Alright, game ends when we all decide to quit or run out of pieces to offer."

"Everyone know what's going on now? Last chance to back out," they all agree. "Ok, Jazz goes first since he dragged Prowl here before anyone else could." Prowl was offended to be part of a bet. "Who da ah ask first?" "Anyone you want, and then it's their turn to ask someone and so on and so forth until the game ends."

"A'ight, I choose…"

To be continued…

I am un-Betaed so I apologize if any mistakes escaped my notice. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. (A.N. : notice I didn't specify continuity so anyone from any continuity can be here.) Any flames will be converted into Energon to make Energon goodies for the nice people that review.