#trick or treat with the vehicons...i love

[noodleblade]

this isnt really much of a writing prompt (unless you simply wish to take it that way, which is good too) but do you ever think about how ko/bd would be absolute sickos for halloween. knock out already likes horror and the two get involved with human culture enough whenever october rolls around on the nemesis theyre gritting their teeth to not put fake spiderwebs and fog machines around the warship and convince its members to dress up

Happy Spook Month:3

LOL yeah KOBD loves Halloween. If nothing else, their Nemesis supplied cable subscription (thank you, Soundwave) is playing all the slasher movies this time of year and Knock Out is obsessed. Breakdown enjoys them too, but he is also a Big Fan of the more gimmicky Halloween flicks. This combination makes them sooo annoying to everyone else on the Nemesis that cannot be bothered with Earthly customs.

They probably have no takers on actually getting dressed up or participating (though, they did notice Soundwave not remove the little bat they hung above his console so they'll count that as a win). Starscream had the potential to enjoy the holiday but his pride over being better than Humans makes it difficult for him to actually admit interest. They don't even bother with Megatron.

Actually, the vehicons would probably hesitantly join in. They sneak little Halloween themed decals and tell each other various ghost stories. Breakdown is happy to encourage the festivities and helps them keep it hush hush. Maybe even on the day of, he gives them little tiny energon candy treats...

By coincidence, they tune their internal radios to play only Halloween themed music too. The vehicons pick it up so Monster Mash can be heard regularly playing in the mines through like 18 sync'd speakers.

Oh and kobd absolutely steal a fog machine but that's an all-year-round item. It does wonders for dramatic effect.

[lets-try-some-writing]

Thoughts on Halloween

Yeah I know its a little late but I was busy. Anyway enjoy the bots reactions to Halloween.

Decepticons

Halloween on the nemesis is an interesting affair. No bot can pinpoint who first introduced the concept to the crew (except Soundwave of course) but it has since been put into practice every year due to the morale boost it brings.

Megatron refuses to have anything to do with the ridiculous human holiday and stays locked up in his berthroom throughout Halloween. He would have preferred the holiday had never taken root among his crew but there is little he can do about it since it has become so strongly integrated into the lives of his crew during his absence. As such the few Vehicons brave enough to attempt to trick or treat at his quarters are met with a murderous glare before being handed a random miscellaneous item.

The quality of item differs wildly between recipients. One Vehicon can get a pile of old scrap metal and another can find himself with some priceless item from pre-war Cybertron. Hence the incentive to attempt trick or treating at Megatron's quarters.

As for Soundwave and Shockwave, neither leave their respective posts and often work straight through the holiday. However as both recondnise the benefit of the holiday they leave out bowls of treats or random trinkets for trick or treating Vehicons. Occasionally though, Soundwave will dress up his cats in little costumes and give them treats. It is the closest he gets to celebrating to human holiday.

On the other hand Knockout and Breakdown are always super into Halloween. They go all out, decorating the entirety of the lower decks, preparing goodies, dressing up, and having a grand time giving out treats. Knockout tends to dress up as the most flamboyant thing imaginable, often leading him to only change his color scheme or add a hat or something (after all what could possibly be more marvelous than himself?).

As for Breakdown, he is very consistent in continually dressing up as a cowboy every. single. year. It drives Knockout up the wall since he has prepared numerous other costumes for his friend. But Breakdown always has the best time swinging around his rope and tipping his hat at others on the nemesis so Knockout lets it slide.

Starscream also dresses up and participates with a bit of prodding from Knockout, however due to his wings he usually dresses up as a ghost since its easily modified to suit his frame type. He will die before admitting it but he really really likes trick or treating. He always has a ton of fun darting from door to door collecting goodies, and he especially loves emptying Soundwave and Shockwave's bowls into his bag.

And of course the Vehicons take every opportunity to party, get completely sloshed, and consume copious amounts of energon goodies. They also all go to great lengths to dress up, even betting on costumes to see whose is the best.

Autobots

The kids introduced the holiday and it was accepted over night. The bots have no particular attachment to Halloween but the kids love it and the younger bots (Bumblebee and Smokescreen) don't get many chances to act their age. As such all the Autobots have taken to celebrating alongside the human children in stride.

Optimus is a little stiff when it comes to anything not relating to his primely duties, but as a mech who attended to and dealt with every conceivable ceremony on Cybertron, he knows how to get into the spirit of things. He has a singular costume and sticks to what he learned about Halloween like it is gospel.

He has memorized every form of dialogue commonly used on Halloween, and through thorough research has come up with the 'ideal' way to approach the holiday. On Halloween night once the children arrive at base to do a little trick or treating, Optimus will go to his berthroom and apply some basic paint to look like a Cybertronian zombie. Then he will wait patiently until the children come to his door and offer them little trinkets that he makes in advance.

Ratchet is not fond of celebrating human holidays and would much prefer to celebrate Cybertronian ones, but he goes along with Halloween anyway. Despite his reservations he is very devoted to making his costume when Halloween rolls round. He spends days preparing intricate costumes to wear and will carefully go out of his way to produce human confections. When the children come to trick or treat at his door, he always has thematic lights a smoke machine running in the background somewhere. And always makes a dramatic appearance before shoving a wrench and a treat into the children's buckets.

Ratchet will never admit it, but he finds it fun to attempt to scare the children with his hyper realistic costumes.

Bulkhead and Arcee are rather neutral on the topic of Halloween and don't really bother dressing up much. Bulkhead might put on something simple like a hat, or perhaps throw a sheet over his head and call himself a ghost. Arcee also might try to put on some basic face paint or maybe a witch hat, but she refuses to do anything more. Both spend most of Halloween following the children around to keep them from getting into trouble. However they do enjoy watching a Halloween themed film with the children after all the trick or treating is done.

Wheeljack LOVES Halloween. He thinks its the best. Free goodies and the chance to scare and or inconvenience people? That is right up his alley. He goes all out on Halloween, dressing up as a pirate or a mad scientist more often than not. He does not give out candy, instead he loves to give the children his unique gadgets, often a concealed weapon or explosive. His favorite little give away items thus far have been his confetti grenades. It brought him no end of amusement to watch poor Jack set his off by accident and end up covered in streamers and glitter.

Jack has avoided trick or treating at his station since.

Then there is Ultra Magnus. He doesn't participate beyond operating the games and setting up the decorations for Halloween. He doesn't give out and treats and instead gives the children toothbrushes, toothpaste, and some vegetables. He wants them to be healthy and strongly believes that the kiddos do not need any more candy than they are already receiving. Thankfully the children accept his offerings kindly and only throw them out after they go home for the evening.

Lastly there are Bumblebee and Smokescreen who are as enthusiastic about Halloween as the children and love to both give out goodies and then collect some of their own from the bots around base. Smokescreen is particularly fond of the after party where he tries to and generally fails to dance with any degree of grace. He has fun all the same though, often getting Bumblebee involved in his shenanigans. As for Bumblebee, he is mainly concerned with getting a bigger pile of goodies than Smokescreen, and as such goes to great lengths to get a little something extra to boost his goodie count.

[cybertronian-cupid]

Hiiiiiii~ Cupidsssss~~ The season is to be upon us soon, and I was wondering how you think TFA Jazz, TFP Wheeljack, amd TFP Megatron might react to/deal with their very Halloween-enthusiastic s/o? Like, they go all out with decorations, their outfits/costumes, and music, etc.

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year 🍁🍂🎃

They should feel grateful that their s/o keeps this to one or two months a year. With us they'd have to deal with it 100% of the time. Year round.~Mila💟

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TFA Jazz

He's all about that Halloween playlist.

He's confused by all the different genres in it, but still loves it and adds music he likes and is in spirit to the holiday

He is pumped for the costumes and gets his s/o to help him dress up as a spectre or one of the characters from the musicals he likes.

He might actually suggest couple costumes when he finds out about them

He gets a bit spooked the first time he watches a horror movie and ends up clinging to his s/o, but over time he chills out about them. If his s/o is easily spooked, he finds a way to comfort them during especially scary scenes.

His favourite sweets for the occasion are candied apples and popcorn balls.

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TFP Wheeljack

He’d go above and beyond making Halloween props with S/O

He has seen all sorts of things, so he can share quite a few horror stories and come up with his own spooky tales. He finds most of the human horror stories silly.

He, S/O and the kids go and pull pranks on bullies in Jasper. Miko is getting every ounce of the Halloween experience right along Wheeljack.

Fowler and Ultra Magnus are the main prank targets at the base.

Wheeljack got egged on at one point and after that hell of a cleanup, he drew the line on not doing that ever.

“I would not wish this upon my worst enemy.”

Knockout is not his worst enemy however, so he makes the egg-ception for the pretty bot.

When they they go out trick or treating his holoform is dressed in a cowboy getup

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TFP Megatron

The holiday may be intriguing and he is happy to see his s/o so enthusiastic, but he tries to limit the amount of the decorations at first.

He somehow managed to forget just how contagious their enthusiasm is.

It starts out with different jack-o-lanterns popping up everyday, with troops keeping track of how many there are in various parts of the ship.

Next thing he knows there are Halloween string lights on the hab door to his quarters. The following day they are on every door of the ship.

He actually walked in on his S/O shooing off some Vehicons that were clearly not helping his human put up some sort of fuzzy decoration on a corner wall. They claim it’s a common spider decoration. He’d take offense on behalf of Airachnid if he hadn’t seen just how convincing it looks from afar. At this point he just lets them go wild.

The upside of all the organic decorations they put up next, is watching the more squeamish of his troops deal with the fake human remains and gore.

The doctor knowing about the holiday and being somewhat knowledgeable about the horror movie genre is a surprise. According to S/O however, humans do not bleed nearly as much as the on-screen bloodbaths suggest.

He doesn’t appreciate the scare of seeing them posing as a heavily injured corpse until the initial shock passes. Their costume and stage make up were incredibly convincing, he had to congratulate them on that.

[spinners-imagines]

Halloween on the Nemesis!

More Halloween One-shots!

Megatron

- Human, why is his ship covered in white webbing and glowing pumpkins?

-Why are you covering Vehicon 5t3v3 in black tarp? Why does he need a cape? He has work to do.

-You tell him that it’s for Halloween, a human tradition where you dress up as spooky characters and eat candy.

-Yes, human, but what is the use of this holiday?

-You shrug, “It’s really just for fun. I’m dressing up as my favorite, most terrifying person I know.”

-Megatron walks away and leaves you to your work, but... he can’t help but wonder who you’re dressing up as.

-A couple hours later, you call him into his private quarters. His optics widen when he sees you in silver armor. Those shoulder plates and that helmet seems very familiar.

-”You’re dressed as... me?”

-”Yeah, Knockout helped out with the armor.” You struck a pose, “You like it?”

-He offered a small smile. He could get used to this holiday.

Starscream

-Human, why are you giving human treats to the Vehicons?

-”It’s for Halloween, Starscream.”

-Halloween?

-”It’s a human tradition.”

-He is a little interested. You go around in your neighborhood asking for some candy or threaten them? He didn’t know you humans could be like this.

-You tell him that usually the tricks aren’t too bad. Most of the time, people would toss toilet paper all over someone else’s yard.

-You shovel some candied sweets in your mouth and ask him to carry you into his private quarters.

-Slightly wary of your plans, he takes you there.

- You happily show him your costume, putting on your plastic wings and fake helm. “How do I look?” You do a little twirl.

-He is amazed by the amount of time and detail that you caught in your costume. You even got his insignia! Of course you would want to dress as the greatest mech in the galaxy!

-”Great! Now, let’s go TP Megatron’s quarters!”

-His expression shifts from happiness to a worried frown. “I’m doomed.”

Knockout

-Decorations? Cool, just don’t get your fake spiders all over his Med Bay.

-Costumes? Sweet, just don’t scratch his paint while you put this cape on him.

-What’s Halloween anyways?

-”It’s a human thing, KO.”

-He shrugs it off. He already knew humans were weird, so this was no surprise to him.

-What’s this? A crown? For him? Thanks, sweetspark, but that won’t fit on his helm. Breakdown helped? Oh, well alright. This fur cape is quite comfortable, though.

-You’re dressed as a human cop? Why? Fashion police?

-You smile and put on your glasses, “Well, I was sent to find the Handsome King of Glamor, and it seems that I’ve found him.” You wink.

-He smirks, “Well, it seems that you have good taste, officer.”

Soundwave

-He already knew about this holiday, so he’s unfazed by your decorations. 

-You want to borrow Lazerbeak to put up some streamers? Sure, go ahead.

-You tap his pede. He looks down and picks you up to his eye-level. 

-You’re wearing purple armor and a visor? You’ve dressed as him?

-He’s flattered, but unfortunately has a lot of work to do. 

-Well, if you want to go trick-or-treating he’ll send a Vehicon to drive you. Don’t worry, Lazerbeak will watch from the sky.

-You don’t? Then what will you do?

-You want to just... stay with him? Oh, you warm his cold, Decepticon spark.

-It may be boring to you, but you love Soundwave too much to leave him for Halloween. Don’t worry, he’s already planning a way to pay you back.

Breakdown

-Decorations? Costumes? Candy? What’s going on?

-Halloween? What’s that?

-Wait, hold on, you dress up as something you like and go around demanding for candy or threaten them with a trick? Well, count him in!

-He’s happy to drive you around to go trick or treating and to see some decorations.

-So, what are you dressing up as? A cowgirl? Cool, what’s the other outfit for?

-It’s for him!? Are you sure it’ll fit his holo-form? Oh, alright.

-Wow, it fits! And you think it looks good on him.

-Now, you’re matching! A cowboy and his cowgirl, going around trick-or treating.

-Afterwards, you're both regretting how much candy you ate. Breakdown is slouched in a chair, and you’re holding your stomach in pain on his chestplate.

-Turns out, holo-forms cant eat too much human food either 

-Knockout, stop laughing. It’s not funny.

-...Shut up already.

-Oh god, just shUT UP!! You suddenly scramble up and chase the medic like a madman. Knockout’s running away as fast as he can from you and Breakdown is still trying to get up after he fell off of the chair, laughing as hard as his systems can take.

BONUS

Airachnid

-This is simple.

-DO NOT TELL HER ABOUT HALLOWEEN.

-She will scare the living crap out of humanity, possibly murdering a few people.

-Primus, she will terrify the entire Nemesis, and LOVE it.

-Megatron will be jumpy for days afterwards, which is a horrible danger to everyone.

-So please, JUST DON’T.