Tied Together

by Darkfire75

Author’s note: Hello everyone. Does anyone here watch the Disney channel? If so, do you SOMETIMES watch that show ‘Lizzie McGuire?’ If you do, then have you seen that episode where Lizzie and Matt get cuffed together? Well, if you have answered all of these questions with ‘no’, then you’re in for a treat. Just read on and see what I mean. Also, this is my first non-romantic story, so I hope you like it. Read on!

Dinobot was having the worst possible day of his life. Rattrap had been bugging him the whole day. It was annoying to have this little transmetal rat comment on every single thing you did.

Dinobot had finally gotten away from the torture. He was in the command center with Optimus and Rhinox. Rattrap walked in, and he sighed. When will the torture stop?! he thought.

The transmetal walked up to him with a couple of handcuffs. "Chopperface, I wanna show ya somethin’," he said.

"What?" Dinobot snarled.

"Let me try a magic trick on ya."

"No!" He ran to the other side of the table with Rattrap following him.

"You afraid I’m gonna mess up?" Rattrap asked innocently.

"No, I KNOW you are going to mess up! Get those cuffs away from me!"

"Awe, yer such a fraidy raptor. C’mon, it won’t kill ya."

"Don’t come any closer or I’ll rip you apart!"

"Chopperface, just let me. Please?"

Dinobot looked to Optimus and Rhinox. "Must I?" he asked them.

"Just humor him. He might be good," Rhinox replied.

Dinobot growled and threw his arms in the air. "All right, amaze me with your little tricks, vermin!"

"I present you the Great Ratdini!"

"Oh, brother…" Optimus muttered.

"The Great Ratdini will now handcuff an audience member. Do I have any volunteers? Chopperface…?"

"Fine," he sighed.

"All right." He handcuffed his arm to Dinobot’s. "An’ now wit’ my amazing powers, I will undo these cuffs! Tah-dah!"

Nothing happened.

"Uh, I said, Tah-dah!"

Still nothing happened. Optimus and Rhinox began to snicker. "Brilliant trick, rodent. Now get the key and undo these cuffs the REAL way," Dinobot growled.

"Right, da key. Uh…where’s da key?" Rattrap looked himself over.

"You lost the key?!" Dinobot shouted.

"It was right here last time I checked!"

"And when was that?"

"Uh…yesterday…at noon."

"There must be a spare."

"Well, you can start lookin’ for one, ‘cause I ain’t movin’."

"Oh yes you are! You got us into this, and you’re going to get us out!"

"Then let’s split up."

They tried to walk in different directions, but they collided into each other’s backs. "We forgot one tiny little detail. We’re tied together," Rattrap inclined.

"I already knew that, vermin!" Dinobot sneered.

Optimus and Rhinox looked out of the corners of their eyes. They saw the key. They grinned evilly to each other. Optimus walked over to where it lay and picked it up.

"How long are you gonna keep it?" Rhinox whispered.

"Long enough," replied Optimus. "Um…guys, I know this is awkward for you, but…just take this incident as a lesson that you two could maybe get along with each other," he said to them.

"Yeah right! ME get along wit’ HIM?! Yer jokin’, right?" Rattrap laughed.

"I am never going to like this metal piece of slag!" Dinobot snarled in Rattrap’s face.

"Guys, I’m ordering you both on a scouting mission in grid Segos."

"But what if someone sees us?!"

"I am not going outside with HIM tied to my arm!"

"Just go get a chainsaw and take dese stupid cuffs off."

"What if the Predacons see us like this?! I don’t want to be any more humiliated than I already am!"

"Go you two."

"But-"

"I said, GO!"

They gulped. "Yes, sir…" They walked to the lift and took it down. Of course they pushed each other the whole way to the ground. "Wait!" Rattrap called up. "We can’t transform ta beast mode! How we supposed ta get anywhere?"

"Just figure it out!" Optimus called down. The two growled and walked away.

Rhinox and Optimus laughed their heads off after the other two left. Cheetor came into the room. "What’s so funny?" he asked.

"Dinobot and Rattrap are…" Rhinox began.

"Are what?"

"Are…"

"Big Green, you OK?"

"Yeah, I’m fine. They’re…tied together!"

"What?! They are?! Oh man, I gotta see ‘em!"

"Too late, they already left."

"Aw man…"

"Can you imagine what the Predacons are going to say when they see them?!" Optimus laughed.

"Yeah, they’ll say ‘What the slag is wrong with the vermin and traitor? Are they glued together?’" Cheetor joked.

The three continued to laugh their heads off.

*****

"This is ALL your fault, vermin!" Dinobot growled as he dragged Rattrap across the landscape.

"Hey, if you had listened to me sooner, we wouldn’t be in dis mess!" Rattrap replied avoiding a boulder.

Dinobot wasn’t looking where he was going and slipped on some mud. "Ugh," he growled spitting the mud out of his mouth.

"Hahaha, yer so funny! Hahaha!!" Rattrap cried pointing at him.

Dinobot yanked on the cuffs and Rattrap fell down as well. "Now there is an equal amount of mud on both of us," Dinobot said grinning.

Rattrap got up mumbling something about "stupid velociraptor bastard."

They continued to walk along. It was going quite well, until Rattrap was guided into a tree. "Oww!" he said. Dinobot tried not to laugh, but it was just so hard not to. It was so funny! Rattrap didn’t know it, but there was a bee’s hive on his head.

"You did dat on purpose!" Rattrap growled dusting himself off.

"No…I…didn’t," Dinobot muffled. His mouth curved into a smile.

"What’re you smilin’ about?"

"Nothing."

"No, you only smile when somethin’s REALLY funny. So what is it?"

"Only that, you have a very odd choice of hats, rodent."

"Huh?" Dinobot pointed to his head. The transmetal looked up. "Holy slag, it’s a hive! Get it off! Get it off!" Dinobot was laughing so much, that he forgot they were tied together.

Rattrap started running around frantically tugging the laughing Dinobot with him. The hive finally dropped and Rattrap sighed happily. Then, a bunch of bees flew out to greet them. Rattrap ran for his life hauling Dinobot with him. This time, both were running for the nearest watering hole.

They both found one not a moment too soon. Rattrap jumped in. Dinobot didn’t.

"C’mon Chopperface! Do you wanna get stung by dem bees?!" the rat shouted. Dinobot hesitated but jumped in. The bees flew over their heads and they sighed with happiness.

"I am never gonna go through dat again!" Rattrap vowed to the whole world.

"I wouldn’t mind. It was quite entertaining," Dinobot chuckled.

Rattrap sneered as they dried themselves off. They then hear jets.

"What’s that?" asked the transmetal. The raptor-bot stopped chuckling and listened.

"Megatron and perhaps Inferno," he replied.

"Oh no, da Preds are gonna see us like dis! What’re dey gonna say?"

"I don’t want to find out. Let’s find some cover."

They hide behind a large termite mound. Megatron and Inferno land.

"Hmm, strange, I thought I saw Maximals here," said the T-rex.

"There they are, Royalty!" Inferno cried pointing to Rattrap’s foot.

"Megatron, TERRORIZE!!"

Dinobot and Rattrap hesitated to step out. "Whadda we do?" Rattrap asked.

"We engage them," replied the raptor-bot.

"How?! We’re tied together, remember?!"

"Oh, I forgot. We can try to fight them with what we can reach."

"Dis is a bad idea. If we get slagged, I’m blamin’ you."

Dinobot sighed and walked out with Rattrap following.

The two Predacons looked in awe. "Go ahead, laugh at us! Everybody else is!" Rattrap said sighing.

The two regained themselves and then cracked up. "What’s wrong wit’ dis picture?" asked the rat.

"The Predacons are laughing at us," Dinobot replied.

Megatron and Inferno calmed down and drew out their weapons. "It will be easier to kill you both now that you are tied together!" shouted the tyrant.

Dinobot charged him with his sword, dragging Rattrap while doing so.

It was harder for the raptor to hit Megatron with his sword because Rattrap was tied to his other hand. Then an idea struck him. Rattrap could be used as a weapon. He was lightweight enough.

Rattrap hadn’t been expecting Dinobot to pick him up and use him to hit Megatron. The good news, was that Rattrap hit the tyrant so hard, that he fell unconscious. The bad news, was that Rattrap had used his own HEAD to hit Megatron.

Dinobot wasn’t sure what to do. He fired at Inferno with his optic lasers. The ant was sent to infinity.

"Rattrap, are you alright?" Dinobot asked him.

"Yeah, I think so. Man, did ya really have ta do dat?!" he shouted rubbing his head.

"If we wanted to live, yes."

"Well, how ‘bout we just get back ta base? Maybe we’ll find da key somewhere out here."

"I doubt it."

*****

"When the two get back, I’ll give them the key," Optimus told his friends.

"But what if they aren’t friends?" Rhinox wondered.

"Then I won’t give it back."

"I wanna see ‘em together! It’s gonna be SO funny!" Cheetor cried laughing again.

Suddenly, the lift came up carrying two battered up robots with their arms linked.

"You guys look like scrap," Optimus said. "Predacon attack?"

"You could say that," Dinobot sneered.

"Let’s just say, dat we encountered mud, bees, Preds, an’ PAIN!!" Rattrap growled.

"Does that mean that you’re friends now?" Optimus asked hopefully.

Dinobot and Rattrap looked at each other. So this was a trick by Primal, Dinobot thought. I can’t believe Big Green would do dis ta me! Rattrap pondered.

"Yes, we are friends now, Optimus," Dinobot said letting out a smile.

"You are?"

"Uh…yeah, you won’t catch us fightin’ again, right Chopperface?" Rattrap replied nudging the warrior.

Dinobot nodded. "Ok, then you guys deserve something." He took the key out and handed it to them. "Here."

Rattrap took it and undid the cuffs. They looked menacingly at them.

"I think now is a good time to run," Rhinox muttered to Optimus.

"I think you’re right," he replied. Rhinox and Optimus ran down the hall with Rattrap and Dinobot chasing after them. They couldn’t wait to get revenge. Cheetor was still laughing. Even when the chase was over.

Rattrap had monitor duty and he was looking at Cheetor oddly. "What’s yer problem, kiddo?" he asked.

"You and Dinobot…handcuffed…to each other!" he managed and cracked up. He walked away.

"Whatever. Dat was not one a’ my favorite scoutin’ patrols. But I guess Dinobot isn’t such a bad guy. I mean, for an ex-Pred," Rattrap said to himself. "We DID knock ol’ Megabutt out like a light. Heh, dat was pretty funny. Maybe I’ve been judgin’ Dinobot too long. We need ta settle our differences…nah, I like it just da way we are…"

The End!

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