Comedy of Errors

*Another Baby Bumblebee pic! Now with a cute sweet!*

"Okay, I know for fairly certain that this is a terrible idea."

Penny had one "duh" moment after another in her life, but this one definitely took the cake. Her car was a small Toyota Venza, bronze in color and small in size. She also had twelve small alien children who were certainly going to need car seats to be able to get into this car. But she really noticed that she would have to make some space for all of them to fit in. That itself was a challenge as all of them wanted to sit up front with her.

She rubbed her temples in exasperation. What had gone wrong today?

The bots and cons took one look at her car and started to waddle around it, searching every inch, nook, and cranny. Knockout was disappointed that she didn't own a nice red car, so he pouted the whole ride. Breakdown and Bulkhead had found some of her card games and were tossing them up in the air. Arcee was surprised at all the books at the back of the car. Ratchet was working with the locks, finding a way to turn the child safety locks on. Smokescreen and Bumblebee started to hop in the seats of the car while Megatron sat in the front. Soundwave fooled around with the GPS, making it talk in different languages. Starscream started to screech at Dreadwing for crossing over his side of the car. Only Optimus was sitting calmly in her lap as she drove them towards the General Store down the street. Penny could only smile as he patted her knee.

"Thanks Small Leader, you really know how to cheer me up in these times." Penny whispered to him, making Optimus beam in delight. Optimus wouldn't admit it, but he really enjoyed being a sparkling again. Being the Prime was hard work for him, but spending time with the human called Penny was making him feel calmer and more wanting to help the poor woman. Besides, she was the one who adopted all of them.

The car pulled into a parking lot as Penny struggled to park the car. She had always been one to struggle with parking. When she started out driving, she had her father almost cuss at how horrible her parking skills were. Successfully parking the car, she unbuckled herself and Optimus.

"Alright you guys, when we get into the store, I need you to be on your best behavior." She gave them all a stern look as they al got out of the car. "No touching anything, no begging for anything, don't talk to strangers, keep weapons hidden, and for goodness sake keep out of trouble!" She added pleadingly. "I really don't want to explain to the authorities why my robot babies were jumping around the store."

They all nodded at her, making Penny feel a bit less stressed. Grabbing Optimus' hand, she lead a long line of bots who held the Prime's hand. She could only laugh at the long line of cute bots that trailed behind her, looking similar to ducks following their mother. The sliding doors of the store opened to reveal rows and rows of retail. All optics sparkled with excitement as Penny went to retrieve a shopping cart with Optimus and Ratchet. The second they came back, all of the bots had dispersed throughout the store.

Penny felt her heart skip a beat when she realized she neglected to keep a watchful eye on her children. Her mother would freakin kill her for doing something so stupid and foolish. Ratchet noticed a spike in her internal nerves and beeped curiously at her. Penny looked down at him and a prime before lifting them both up and placing them in the cart.

"I need to find them all! I can't believe I did that!" She told them, pushing the cart around different aisles. "KIDS! WHERE ARE YOU?"

With Knockout and Breakdown...

A group of women were talking in the makeup section, gossiping about the latest town gossip. They were so in tune with their chat session that they didn't notice the small red bot and his one eyed companion walk down. Knockout was determined to find himself some red paint to fix his paint job and something cute for Penny while he was at it. Breakdown tagged along because he wanted to find a gift for Penny as well.

"Are you sure we should've left the group KO?" He asked the vain medic, a look of worry on his face. "Penny will get mad at us!"

"She won't be mad if we get her the best gift in the entire world! Not to mention, some red paint to fix my poor frame!" Knockout whined, looking at the various nail polish colors. "Do you think I'm a Red Candy Apple or Scarlet Romance?"

Breakdown shook his head at his best friend's antics before pointing at a deeper shade of red polish. "I think Hot Fire suits your personality more."

Knockout grinned at this color, nodding his head. "I like it! And Penny will wear my color with pride! Help me get the bottle buddy!"

Breadown hoisted him up on his broad shoulders. Knockout reached precariously towards the bottle as he gripped the shelf they were on. Suddenly, the shelf gave way as many of nail polish colored bottles teetered towards the duo. A loud crashing sound was heard as Knockout and Breadown was covered head-to-toe with nail polish.

With Bumblebee and Bulkhead...

"Hey Bee! Check this out!"

The two bots had found themselves in the toy district of the store. Bee had wanted to find some new toys for them all to play with so Bulkhead tagged along to help him out. They ended up finding the exact aisle they were looking for. Bee was happily playing with a rocking horse when Bulkhead caught his attention. The green bot pointed up to the pyramid of stacked LEGO boxes in front of him.

"What are those block things?" Bee asked, jumping off the rocking horse. "They look fun!"

"And they are building blocks! Do you know what this means?"

"We get to build things with them?"

Bulkhead nodded and smacked him on the back. "Exactly! Maybe we can build a model of Cybertron to show Penny! I bet she would love it!"

The two grabbed the box of LEGOs near the bottom, only to make the structure start to wobble a bit. There was a chain reaction as the entire display fell right down on them, millions of multicolored bricks scattering all over the place. The bots in question cried out in fear as they were being buried alive!

With Arcee and Smokescreen...

"Smokescreen slow down!"

A few patrons gasped at the small car driving around their feet followed by a small blue motorbike. A few children gave squeals of delight, asking their parents to grab them. An elderly man gave them shouts of anger, waving his newspaper. Some rowdy teens rooted for them, cheering Smokey on. He happily obliged, going faster down the aisles while poor Arcee dragged behind.

"We need to head back to Penny! She's going to be super mad at us if we don't!" Arcee squeaked, trying to avoid the falling toilet paper rolls that were falling from them bumping into the shelves. "Do you want her to be mad at us?"

"No problem Cee! All we have to do is find her again. If I can race down more aisles, we're bound the run into her sooner or later!" Smokescreen explained, going a bit faster. "It will be like we never left."

"I'm not so sure about this, but anything to get back to Penny." Arcee said, putting the pedal to the medal to catch up to him.

With Megatron and Soundwave...

"Finally, we've found the place where they keep the security!"

Megatron had Soundwave find them the part of the store where they kept all the cameras and pretty pictures. Soundwave obliged, wanting to use the footage to take nice pictures of Penny for his data banks. Megatron wanted to use the security system to spy on the others....and mostly Penny. He had grown too attached to her and wanted to find out why. It wasn't like him to grow to love someone like a mother considering he didn't remember his own carrier from long ago.

After opening the door, the twosome found the guard sleeping at the table, a half eaten bagel and empty coffee cup around him. Soundwave carefully maneuvered around him, placing himself and Megatron on the table. Now his hacking expertise would come to play. Cracking his servos, he started to type a simple algorithm to train all the cameras on his new favorite caretaker. He felt Lazerbeak chirp in agreement inside him, he too loving Penny as much as he did. With his trained sparkling optics, he had located where Penny was. Megatron looked over at the screens to see her running down the rows of produce and other shoppable items with Optimus and Ratchet in a strange carrying vehicle. To his surprise, she was calling for all of them? Was she worried about them all running off?

He decided to keep watching the screen, while Soundwave fiddled around with the master controls. A jolt of electricity went through his tiny body as the power surge caused the whole store to go on lockdown.

With Starscream and Dreadwing...

Dreadwing groaned as he heard Starscream complain to him how lost they were. They had been separated from the group a while back and he was up to here with all his complaining. He thought of the way that Penny would act if she ever found them. Her face was so calmly and sweet that it made his spark feel so anew. He really hoped they could find her again real soon.

Meanwhile Starscream was feeling more anxious and frantic. Penny had left his sights! Now he was more determined to find her and return to his rightful place on her leg! Yes the leg he'd claimed his and not that worthless bug who claimed the other. Penny was his cuddle buddy, not Bumblebee's!

The two fliers suddenly were in the dark as many shouts and screams came from all directions. Starscream started to shake in fear and muttering under his breath. Dreadwing got out his tiny sword and started to swing it around. The two were scared, but only Dreadwing showed a brave face and awaited what dangers lurked around the corners.

I smell a part 2 in the making! Can Penny round up her kids before they get spotted?