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“Eject you can't have more energon sweets” Blaster tiredly told his blue cassette, “You already had 5, any more and you won’t fall into recharge.”
Eject impatiently tapped his foot, his face turned away from his Host. “…What’s more one sweet going to do…” the light blue bot mumbled and if not for Blaster’s enhanced hearing he would have missed it. The red boombox just wanted to sleep. Alas, he had to have 8 minibots, maybe he should have taken Spike’s advice and stopped after the third one.
In the living room he could hear Soundwave scolding Ramhorn and Rumble. The two decided it was the perfect time to practice some moves they saw on some human television show that they were watching with Eject. Primus help these Hosts.
“I never ask you for anything yet this is how you repay me..”
“Eject—“
“It’s alright I get it, new living arrangements but damn did I not expect you to turn your back on me for a simple request”
Blaster gave Eject a deadpanned expression as the blue cassette continued on with his theatrics. Isn’t this what humans call gaslighting?
“Alright.. fine” Blaster folded, he was tired and didn’t want to deal with the dramatics of his cassette. He opened the cabinet where he and Soundwave kept the snacks hidden. It was in the highest cabinet which gave their cassettes a difficult time reaching for it— only Stripes, Nightstalker and Ravage had somehow managed to open the cabinet.
If Eject wasn’t wearing his visor right now, Blaster knows he would have been flashed by bright optics.
He pulled out a sweetened cube of energon and gently placed it on Eject’s servos, the cassette was positively glowing. “If you can’t sleep later, don’t say I didn’t warn you” the red boombox warned his cassette.
“You worry too much!”
Blaster sighed at the minibots response. He squeezed Eject’s naval ridge, gently shaking his helm side-to-side earning him a small yelp.
“Don’t stay up too late” with that Blaster left for the living room. He passed by Flipsides and Rosanna, the two girls giggling as they quickly made their way back to their shared berth room— Blaster should probably be more concerned.
“Heya Sound—“ Blaster took in the state of the living room. Rumble and Ramhorn were sulking in a corner, Sundor, Buzzsaw, and Lazerbeak have taken up residence on the top of their datapad case any previous datapads there were now on the floor. Primus he hopes nothing broke. Playback was quietly discussing something with Rewind in a corner of the room, Frenzy was making faces at Rumble and Ramhorn from behind Soundwave’s leg.
“Blaster: Gave into Eject’s request?” Soundwave sounded disappointed, of course he had overheard that.
“Don’t use that tone with me Wave” Blaster groaned, throwing himself over the blue Host, “No one wants to explain why having six energon sweets is bad, one must learn through experience”
“Blaster: Terrible Host”
“Blaster is an amazing Host”
Soundwave let out a static filled huff before pushing Blaster off of him.
“Time: Late”
Blaster checked his internal clock and was surprised that a few hours had passed since the night cycle had started.
Soundwave had been working at the new Cybertronian Government headquarters while Blaster had finally opened up his own studio. Blaster is sometimes called to help out, especially during the beginning stages of the government or when delegations from other cities or colonies arrive, and Soundwave sometimes joins him in his studio.
“You have the mornin’ shift?”
“Affirmative”
“You head to the berth first then, I’ll handle sending the cassettes”
Soundwave wasn’t wearing his facemask, only his visor remained. Blaster could see the blue Host’s lips forming a straight line— clearly he didn’t believe the red mech. “Aww Wave, have some faith in me” he clasped his servo with Soundwave’s and brought the servo up to his lips where Blaster planted a small kiss.
“Ewwww” Damn he forgot Frenzy was right next to them.
“Take it to the berth you two!” Rumble rolled his optics and three mech-birds all squawked in agreement.
Blaster let out a static huff before leading Soundwave out the living room.
“I’ll handle them, you go ahead and get some rest” he quickly gave Soundwave a quick kiss on the cheek before turning around to scold the cassettes.
Soundwave touched his cheek, he wasn’t flustered, alright? He just doesn’t want to deal with the cassettes!
He started making his way to Blaster's and his room, passing by the kitchen where he saw Eject climbing the countertop to reach the snack cabinet. The two stared at each other for a minute before Eject slowly began climbing back down.
This was going to be another long night.
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Blaster was comfortably laying in his berth, deep in recharge.
That was until he was awoken by a tapping on his shoulders. Slowly onlining his optics, it took him a moment but when they finally onlined he turned to his side to see who was waking him up.
To his surprise it was Rosanna and Flipsides.
“Did something happen?” His voice had a deep static to it as he wondered why these two were here. Rosanna was holding Flipside's servo in her own, slowly nudging the magenta cassette forward. “She had a nightmare” Rosanna whispered, “We were wondering if we could join you”.
Blaster took a second to process what the two were asking. Reminds him of the war times when his cassettes would ask to sleep next to him whenever things got rough.
“Sure thing” he moved to make space for the two minibots. The two happily settled where Blaster previously laid. Blaster moved closer to Soundwave, the blue mech awoke confused why he was closer but accepted Blaster’s presence by snuggling into his side.
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Soundwave felt small vibrations coming from the side of his head.
Onlining his optics he finally noticed that it was Ravage patting the unoccupied part next to his head, clearly she was getting comfy.
Looking down he saw Nightstalker settling between his and Blaster’s legs with Stripes by Blaster’s pedes. Steeljaw was also here but he was by Rosanna’s and Flipsides' heads.
Soundwave laid his head back down, getting comfy against Blaster’s side once more.
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Blaster heard the shuffling of pedes followed by whispered arguments as the room’s door opened.
“See I told you they were all in here!”
“Frenzy be quiet!”
“I wanna join..”
“Quickly grab the stuff!”
It was the twins.
Blaster didn’t even bother onlining his optics as he heard them bring in what he assumes is their blankets.
“Set it up more quietly..” Blaster loudly mumbled and suddenly the noises stopped. Did they really think they could sneak in here without waking up either him or Wave?
“Sorry..” that was Rewind followed by more muffled noises but Blaster didn’t care anymore and fell back into recharge.
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The internal clock in Soundwave’s processor went off causing him to groan. He slowly shifted on the berth only to realize there was an extra weight in his legs. His optics finally onlined and was greeted by the sight of his room being filled with his and Blaster’s cassettes.
The felinoids were still in the same position, the added weight was coming from Buzzsaw who was sitting on Soundwave’s legs. The avians appeared to have entered the room some time during the night cycle and were settled in some random parts of the room.
The floor was a mess. Rumble and Rewind were sprawled all over the makeshift floor-berth, Frenzy was on the full edge and Eject had his pede settled on his back, one wrong move and Frenzy was getting kicked off the blanket.
Ramhorn laid his head on Blaster’s leg, just below Rosanna and Flipsides and Playback was settled right in the edge of the berth next to Rosanna.
Blaster was still sound asleep, his arm wrapped around Soundwave’s middle section seemingly trying to stop him from leaving.
Soundwave felt a small smile creeping up on his face. If a bot years ago had told him that he would conjunx the autobot communications bot and wake up to a sight like this, Soundwave would have sent them to meet Primus.
He slowly unwrapped Blaster’s arm from his midsection to get his cycle started.
Something tells him that today was going to be a good day.