TFA Mad Magic

Chapter 2
Running Amuck


Samantha knocked on the door of her friend's apartment.  She pulled her green backpack off her back, then she rubbed her right shoulder where the strap had been.  The door opened, but there was no one opening the door.  Samantha saw Rebecca sitting on the light brown couch watching TV.  She always thought it was placed sideways from the way it looked when someone would come in.  The TV set was on the other side of the room placed in a corner.  A computer desk sat near the left of the entrance to the kitchen.  On the right side of the entrance was a stairwell that led up to the bathroom and two bedrooms.  The living room was actually pretty bare except for some chew toys.

     "Hey Sam! How's it going?"  Rebecca asked.  She was the same age as Sam and had black hair like her, the only thing that wasn't the same was that it was longer then Sam's.  Rebecca was wearing a red and whited striped shirt.  She always kept her hair in a braid, she found it annoying if it was just down like Sam's.
     "Awesome! I just learned the animation casting!"
     "Sweet, I'm still trying to get the hang of it."
     "But, Sebastian said I couldn't use my current toys for practice."
     "Why are you telling me this when I know you possibly have toys that weren't in your massive army before he said that?"
     "Heh? What army?"
     "The army you call your toy collection.  Including the Transformer stuff."
Sam gave a slight giggle.
     "Can I practice in you're bedroom?" Sam looked at Rebecca with puppy dog eyes.  "Please? Please, please, please, please..."

Rebecca knew nothing good ever came out of her best friend practicing in her apartment, let alone when they were doing it together.  As far as Sam knew, or thought, Rebecca was the responsible one.  Sam didn't seem to ever think why they got into so much trouble.  She either thought because she was the only mischievous one or Sam thought she was just highly agreeable.  She was really, but Rebecca    wanted in on the action to.
     "Okay."
     "Yes! Thank you!"  Sam ran up the stairway, wasting no time to get to Rebecca's room.
     "Hey! Wait for me! I want to try and practice some to!"
Sam paused halfway on the stairs and waited for her friend to catch up.  They both ran up to Rebecca's room to practice the animation casting.

They had long after been done practicing.  Rebecca didn't see Sam bring out any Transformer toys.  They just practiced with her stuffed animals.  They both were sitting on the couch watching TV.
     "Hey, I forgot to ask you before.  How did you open that door without being near it?"
     "Remember the levitating trick?"
     "Yeah?"
     "You can use it for more than just picking stuff up."
     "Cool."

Rebecca heard a noise coming from her bedroom.  It sounded like someone yelling and...fighting? She got up from the couch and said, "I'll be right back, okay?"
     "Okay."
Rebecca walked up the stairway.  When she got to the top, she could definitely hear it from her room.  She thought it was the TV she might have left on, but it sounded to loud.  "I thought that was at least on mute." She quickly walked toward her room, glancing at her 'Warning: magic at work.  Enter at own risk.' sign.  She opened the door to an unexpected surprise.

     "There is no way I'm dealing with this...SAM! GET YOUR TUSH IN HERE! NOW!"
Sam shot up from her relaxed position on the couch.  She raced up the stairway and down the short hallway only to run into a foot-tapping, steaming mad Rebecca looking straight at her.
     "What'd I do?"
     "Don't play dumb with me.  You bought some more toys, just like I thought, brought them here, and used them for practice."
     "Eh, what makes you say that?"
     "Oh, I don't know.  How about the fact that Lugnut is yelling non-stop how 'glorious and magnificent lord Megatron,' is?" Lugnut was standing atop Rebecca's nightstand.  How did he get up there? "More importantly," she continued, "Starscream and said Megatron are duking it out on my bed!"

Sam sheepishly laughed as she scratched her head, trying to look innocent.

"Get...them...out...now!" Rebecca stomped out of her bedroom with her fists curled and shoulders hunched.  She quickly spun around and faced Sam again.  She pointed a finger at her and said,  "Or at least make them inanimate again! I don't care.  Just make sure you deal with them before my parents get home or they'll kill us both!"

Sam made a salute to her very irritated friend.  "Sir, yes sir!"  Rebecca gritted her teeth and growled like an angry dog, trying to ignore the tiny-scaled chaos within her own room.  She turned around and left, slamming the door behind her.  Sam flinched at the slam.

"Someone's got a short fuse." What? She had to practice it somewhere.  Where the heck else was she going to do it? Home? Fat chance.  Sebastian did say she couldn't practice with her current toys.  He didn't say anything about new toys.  Its not her fault she didn't take enough power to inanimate them again, she didn't know.  Besides, it was the perfect opportunity to expand her collection.  Now she had five other toys she could happily play with, as well as use them for her pranks – if she could get them to listen to her.

"You! Stop shouting, you're annoying.  You two! Stop fighting!"  Right now, that wasn't happening anytime soon.

Sam tried to pry them apart from each other.  They were pretty strong for plastic toys.  She finally got them apart and held onto them to keep the fight from ensuing.  Despite this, they glared at each other and since they couldn't fight, they tried insults, still struggling to get out of her grip.  Lugnut kept demanding the she let Megatron go.  When she didn't comply, Lugnut grabbed his hammer that was just laying there and jumped off of the nearby nightstand and onto the bed.  Sam held up Megatron in front of Lugnut's oncoming attack.  That stopped him in his tracks.  Every time he tried going around Megatron, she'd just stick him in his way.

She was having way too much fun messing with Lugnut.  Something was amiss, though.

Wait...three toys...two are missing.  Oh boy.

She quickly let go of the toys caught in her grip and pulled the rest of the magic she used on Megatron and Lugnut out.  Starscream tried to make a run for it, but was quickly picked up again.  He tried to wriggle his way free of her hand.

     "Release me, you insolent organic.  I am Starscream! Rightful ruler of the..."
     "Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Rightful leader of the Decepticons.  You already told me that.  Where are the other two?"
     "Other two?"
     "Ya know, the Autobot with the pointy head and the crazy 'Con with three faces?"
Starscream stroked his chin in thought.  "Ah, yes.  Why should I tell you anything?"
     "Um...I won't do to you what I did to Lugnut and Megatron and possibly the other two?"
Without a second thought, he said, "Deal."
     "So? Where are they?"
     "Blitzwing trapped the Autobot inside of there."  Starscream pointed to the closet door.  Listening closely, she could hear banging and someone shouting "Let me out of here!" very quickly.  "And I believe he went under, uh, what ever this is."
     "Under the bed?"
     "Yes, that's it."
     "Aw, no."

Sam decided to go after the 'Con first, seeing that he'll be less troublesome.  If she let out the other one now, she might end up chasing after a speedster.  She set the Decepticon face first on the bed, still holding onto him while leaning over to see under the bed.  She could hear his muffled screams and feel him struggling to get up.  She hesitated a moment before standing him upright and letting him go.
     "Whoops.  My bad."
     "Indeed."  Starscream narrowed his optics at her, a bit suspicious of her intentions.
     "I didn't mean to! Stop looking at me like that!"
     "I'll look at you however I want to, organic."
     "Okay, I don't know if you know, but you're a toy.  A plastic toy that was made by organics; us humans.  So stop messing with me or I might take back my 'deal'."
Starscream crossed his arms in defeat.  He focused his gaze on the small television set that was just a foot or two away from the bed.  There was no sound, just pictures flashing across the screen.

Satisfied that he was preoccupied, Sam dove down under the bed.  Trying to squeeze herself under there probably wasn't the best idea.  She started looking through all the clutter accumulated underneath there.  There was socks, nasty socks, video games, Pokemon plushies, and scattered game pieces that she had no idea what they went to.  Everything was scattered and covered the floor from the head to the foot of the bed.  The stench from the socks was almost unbearable.  She could have sworn one sock inched towards her.  She shivered at the thought of a dirty sock – especially from down here – to come alive.  She saw the same sock get up and move.  That sock did move! Seeing the sock head for her, she shrieked and then scooted out from under there, hopped on top of the middle of the bed, and grabbed the pillow.

     "What the slag is wrong with you?"
     "T-t-the sock moved...Socks don't move! If one moves on its own, that's not a good thing!"
     "What's a sock?"
Sam pointed down to the floor where the sock was just coming into view.  Starscream leaned over the edge to see it.
     "That's a sock?"
     "Uh huh.  And its alive!"
She lifted the pillow in the air as far as her arms would let her.  When the moving sock came into position.  Wham!
     "Ow!" The sock said.
     "Oh great, it talks!"
     "That wasn't the sock, idiot."  Sam gave him the evil eye before climbing off the bed to investigate.  She crouched down to get a better view, then lifted the sock up, allowing whatever was inside to slip out.

It was Blitzwing, the crazy triple changer.  Blitzwing switched his face from icy to hothead screaming, "Are you the one that hit me?" He raised a fist at her before continuing.  "You are going to pay for that!"  Blitzwing switched his face over to the black jack-o-lantern everybody calls 'random'.  "When did I get so small? Ehehehahahahah!"
     "You creep me out to no end." Sam said.  Without letting the triple changer get another word in, she pulled out the magic she used on him.  Blitzwing remained perfectly still in his pose, still in his random mode.
     "What did you do to them anyway?" asked Starscream.
     "Its complicated.  You wouldn't understand."
     "Try me."
Sam gave out a deep sigh.  She grabbed Blitzwing and placed him near the other inanimate toys.   She inhaled in and said, "I'm not telling you, even if I wanted to.  Which I don't."
     "And why not?"
Sam got up and walked to the closet.  The blue Autobot, who was blurr, seemed to be asleep.  She didn't actually want to inanimate him while he was sleeping.  She headed for the bedroom door to go get her backpack.  Before she got anywhere near the doorknob, she finally replied, "There happens to be the fact that you're a double-crosser, backstabber, and a traitor."
     "What makes you think that?"
Sam gave a fake chuckle before heading for the living room, leaving Starscream by himself.

She went back downstairs and picked up her backpack that was sitting next to the couch.
     "Did you inanimate them?" Rebecca asked, much calmer now.
     "All but two."
     "Why? They're not running around the apartment are they?"
     "No.  Blurr is asleep in your closet and Starscream...well..."
     "Well, is not good."
     "Uh, I sorta had to know where Blurr and Blitzwing were, so I told him I wouldn't inanimate him.  Though, he doesn't actually know I did that to the other ones."
     "That's not good.  You're not actually going to keep him animated, are you?"
     "Eh, that's a good question."
Rebecca drooped her head down.  She lifted her head back up and asked, "Uh, by the way, who's Blurr again?"
     "You'll see when I get them in my backpack."

Sam went back upstairs.  Rebecca patiently waited until she came back down once more.  Sam carefully held the backpack, while not-so-carefully held onto Starscream.  He was so far forward, it looked like he was upside-down.
     "Unhand me!"
     "In your dreams, Screamer." Sam replied.  She carefully gave Rebecca the backpack.  Rebecca looked inside and saw Blurr snoozing on Sam's math notebook.
     "What happened to him?"
     "I think he was hollering for help, but since it never came he fell asleep."
     "Aw, poor guy."
     "You mean 'bot."
     "Same difference."
Sam shrugged, Starscream still in caught in her grasp.  He had already given up.  He was looking down at the floor being limp.

     "Can I keep them?" Rebecca asked
     "What? Keep what?"
     "Starscream and Blurr."
     "Why?" Sam whined.
     "Well for one, how many Autobots do you have?"
Sam counted on her fingers, mouthing the numbers to herself.  "Four, including Blurr."
     "Decepticons?"
She didn't bother to count this time.  She said, "A ton."
     "Exactly.  Think about it.  Starscream is a Decepticon traitor and Blurr is an Autobot.  If you're going to keep bringing them to life, then there's going to be some serious trouble for the both of them."
     "I can imagine Starscream having problems with both sides,"
     "Hey! I can still hear!" Starscream shouted.
     "Don't care." Sam said in a singy song voice.  "but what about Blurr? He'd be fine."
     "Uh huh.  Yelling for help inside a closet and then falling out is perfectly fine."
     "Why do you care anyway? You don't even like Transformers Animated."
     "I like it a little bit."
Sam groaned, knowing this wasn't going anywhere.  "Fine.  You can have them."
     "Thank..."
     "Up bap.  On one condition.  You have to call me 'Supreme Leader of the Decepticons' from now on."
Starscream growled at Sam.  Why would she think such a thing? He was, no is the true leader of the Decepticons!
Sam giggled at the frustrated toy.  "I'm joking.  That title technically belongs to you."
     "What do you mean, technically?"
     "Megatron is still alive, isn't he?"
     "Well, let me go and I'll finish him off!"
     "Sorry, but you're going with Rebecca."
Rebecca gently took Blurr out of the backpack and placed him on the couch next to her.  Sam extended her hand with Starscream and gave it to Rebecca.
     "Remember, I said I wouldn't do you what I did to the others.  Rebecca, on the other hand, is free to make you stiff as a statue if you give her trouble.  Got it?"
     "Fine, but that doesn't mean I have to like it."
     "Are you sure you want him? I think being mauled by the tons of 'Cons I have would be an improvement."
Rebecca nodded.
     "Alright.  Not my fault if you end up in a insane asylum from listening to him."
     "Likewise with Megatron, human." said Starscream.

An alarm on Sam's phone went off, surprising both her and Starscream.  "Dang it.  I have to go.  Today is my turn to wash Rob."
     "I still find it weird that you guys have a lizard for a magical pet."
     "Well, I still find it weird that you have a dog that isn't a magical pet."
Rebecca stuck her tongue out at Sam.  Sam did the same to her.
     "I've got my eyes on you Starscream." Sam pointed to her eyes, then to Starscream.
     "Bye my peep...s"
     "Bye Sam."
When Sam left, Rebecca rubbed her hand together with a smirk on her face.
     "We have a movie to see."