Disco Beast
By: Sapphire
"Would you hurry up, Rampage!" Lady Venom hissed irritably.
Rampage struggled to squeeze out of the limo. How he, a 15 foot crab, had managed to squeeze into there in the first place, he wasn't sure.
"I'm....grngh! Coming...Miss...OOH! Ow...Venom!" he called. His entire body was outside the vehicle except for his head and shoulders.
Lady Venom sighed and looked up at the night sky. The stars were very bright tonight. Behind her was the entrance to the hall where the disco was going to take place. She was already running late and her 'date' had his face buried in the back seat of a hired limo.
Suddenly, there was a roar, a whoosh of air and a loud thump. The ground trembled and Lady Venom looked down to see what she already knew was there. Rampage sat on his rear, rubbing his shoulders. He looked up at her with a goofy grin.
"Come on, Crab Cake. The others are waiting," Lady Venom said as she helped him to his feet.
The two proceeded to the entrance, where they signed in and entered the hall.
Inside the hall, a few people were chatting away excitedly while the DJ set up in the front.
One of these people was desperately trying to communicate to this rather odd DJ.
"No, it's not Evenzence, it's Evanescence! I want you to play Bring Me To Life by Evanescence, got it?" she asked, exasperated.
The DJ shuffled amongst his pile of CDs and suddenly let out a cry of triumph.
"Ahh! Wazzzpinator found it! Wazzpinator will play song when zzzapphire-bot indicatezz."
Sapphire sighed.
"Yes, very good; but remember, your name is DJ Wazzup tonight, ok?"
Waspinator clapped his hands together in remembrance.
"Yezzz! DJ Wazzup!"
Sapphire turned around and walked into the center of the hall to join her friends, hoping Waspinator (or DJ Wazzup) would remember her request. It was for Sinead who said she'd be coming tonight.
She joined up with her group of friends. Those who were here were Lady Scale and her date: Transmetal Two Dinobot, Kacheetah and her date: Cheetor and Darkfire75 with Orlando Bloom.
"Hey guys," Sapphire said with a weary smile.
"Hey Sapph! Looks like you were having a tough time with old DJ...what's his name?" Kacheetah asked.
"DJ Wazzup," Sapphire finished bluntly.
"Oh, yeah. So, when is this disco getting started?"
Sapphire looked around. There were quite a few Beast Wars characters mingling with each other including characters from fan fics. Who she was really waiting for, was the rest of the artists and writers.
"As soon as the others arrive. Hey! Here comes Lady Venom and Rampage now!"
All of them turned to see Lady Venom and Rampage approaching them, claw in claw.
"Hello you two!" Cheetor greeted.
"Hi everyone!" Lady Venom said. Rampage was grimacing and rubbing his shoulders, but he flashed everyone a polite smile before resuming his expression of pain.
"Is Rampage ok?" Lady Scale asked.
"Yeah," Lady Venom said, "he just got stuck in the limo door."
"You brought a limo? Woah! Stylish Lady V!" Sapphire laughed.
Lady Venom shrugged.
"Well, technically I had to get a big vehicle to transport him. It was a choice between a monster truck and a limo. Although a monster truck would've been fun, I thought a limo was better to arrive to a dance in. Besides, he paid for it," she said, glancing up at Rampage who went a little pale.
"Yes...and I'll be paying for it for the rest of my life," he muttered.
Over the next half hour, most of the guests arrived.
Cheetra came with Ravage, who was wearing a black suit. Sapphire had never seen Ravage look so handsome. Solar Blaze came along with a cloned Dinobot, although to this day no one is sure whether she owns the clone or the real thing, since both Dinobots insist on their authenticity. Lord Skyfire arrived with a new bot no one had seen before. She had the best mode of a mole but managed to pull off the amazing task of actually being a pretty mole. Her colours were earthy tones, except for her face and stomach which were a soft blue.
"Hello everyone!" Lord Skyfire said cheerfully.
"Allow me to introduce Lady Groundwater."
Everyone said hello to Lady Groundwater, each of them introducing themselves.
Lady Groundwater was very shy, very sweet...but later turned out to be a bad dancer. Then again, she was a near-blind mole, so you had to give her a break. Lord Skyfire didn't seem to mind, though. He kept lifting her off the ground with his large eagle wings and the two fly-danced (if there is such a term) which turned out to be a lot more fun than dancing on the ground.
Sinead arrived with one of the Dinobots. She was wearing a lovely red top and really cool black jeans. Dinobot had a bowtie on which, although a little on the funny side, was a good way of indicating which Dinobot belonged to whom!
Starath arrived with TM Megatron, Hacker arrived with Depth Charge, Pacerpaw was accompanied by Rhinox, Sharpshot took Blackarachnia since both she and Silverbolt felt like a change. Varyn arrived with Silverbolt, Nurannoniel came with a very handsome looking Transmetal Optimus (who TM2 Dinobot insisted was wearing some transformer make-up to make him look extra nice, although the Maximal denied this to no end.) Miss Special took Inferno, Crazy Ivan took Airazor and Sapphire, naturally, took along TM Rattrap.
Everyone was ready to start dancing when Starath noticed someone was missing.
"Hey...where's Dannn?" Starath asked.
Everyone looked around but nobody saw him.
"I don't know maybe he's-"
Sapphire stopped mid-sentence when something at the door caught her attention. Her jaw dropped and everyone followed her gaze to the entrance. Their jaws dropped too.
Standing there, arm in arm with Cindy Crawford, was Dannn. He walked up to them.
"What? What's everyone staring at?"
"Your date," Sharpshot said a little over-enthusiastically. Blackarachnia whacked him over the head lightly.
Dannn looked at Cindy, then at Sapphire.
"What?! I read over the invitation and nothing on there said I couldn't bring a human date."
Sapphire took a while to absorb and process this. She shook her herself out of her stupor.
"You know, there wasn't. So, let's get this party started!"
The first song was very lively and although it took a while for the writers and artists to persuade their dates to join in, soon everybody was dancing. Sinead's Dinobot proved to be a very good dancer, although Solar Blaze's was a bit more difficult.
"Ouch! That was my foot, Dinobot!" Solar Blaze cried.
The large raptor bit his lip.
"I'm sorry, Miss Blaze. I'll try to be less clumsy."
Solar Blaze cast and eye over to Sinead's Dinobot, who was boogieing like like there was no tomorrow.
"I don't understand, one of you is a clone which means you're both supposed to be identical!"
Dinobot shrugged and Solar Blaze sighed.
Meanwhile, Depth Charge and Hacker were really getting into the swing of things.
"You're looking lovely this evening," Depth Charge said, actually trying to make out Hacker's face amidst the constant flashing of disco lights.
"And you look very nice in Guess jeans and a tie, Depth Charge," Hacker commented with a sneaky grin.
Depth Charge was not very good at taking compliments, nor giving them, so he quickly changed the subject.
"So, have you seen X lately?"
Hacker's facial expression became a little annoyed.
"He's with Lady Venom and don't you go spoiling everything with one of your fights! Lady Venom told me she's spent weeks trying to teach him how to dance, and had two foot operations in the process!"
Depth Charge pouted.
"Fine," he said but muttered, "clumsy crab..."
"I heard that!" Rampage called from across the dance floor.
Depth Charge stared at him incredulously.
"How did you...?"
Hacker twisted him around and forced him to dance with her in another direction. She joined up with Sapphire who was looking a bit upset.
"Hey Sapph! Great disco you've got here. Why are you looking so blue?" Hacker asked.
Miss Special was by her side watching Inferno set alight each of his snacks with his flamethrower before eating them
"Oooh! Marshmallows!" Inferno cried.
Sapphire looked from Inferno to Hacker.
"It's Rattrap. Ever since we've got here he can't keep away from the cheese snacks," Sapphire sighed.
Hacker gazed at Inferno and paused thoughtfully.
"Why don't you get Inferno to burn them?" she suggested.
Sapphire's face lit up and she turned to Miss Special.
"Miss Special! I need you to command your drone...er...date, to do something for me, please...."
Satisfied, Hacker danced away with Depth Charge.
The next few songs were lively and fun and everyone was enjoying themselves until a slow song came on.
DJ Wazzup was playing 'Wonderful Tonight' by Eric Clapton which is, for those of you who know it, a very romantic song.
Sinead slowed her pace and leant against Dinobot's chest. Dinobot nearly jumped six feet.
"Uh...you know," he said, looking uncomfortable, "I think I'll just go and get something to drink..."
He started to edge away but Sinead, with surprising strength, yanked him back.
"Oh no you don't! You promised you'd dance every song with me, including the slow ones! Now where's the honor in breaking a promise, huh?"
Dinobot looked torn apart.
After a long pause, he sighed and gave in. The two slow danced while Lord Skyfire and Lady Groundwater slow-flew above them.
"You know," Lord Skyfire said to his date, "everyone looks much fatter from a bird's eye view," he commented as he looked down.
"I heard that!" someone yelled from the crowd below, and Lord Skyfire could've sworn it was Rampage.
He turned to face Lady Groundwater, alarmed.
She giggled.
"Don't worry. Nobody can get you up here."
Lord Skyfire relaxed and the couple continued fly-dancing...er...fly floating? Oh, you know what I mean.
Below, Dannn and Cindy were trying to put out the flames Inferno had caused while setting fire to the cheese snacks for no apparent reason. A depressed Rattrap had wondered over to the drinks bar but had been sharply intercepted by Sapphire, who then forced him to slow dance with her.
Lady Scale and Transmetal Two Dinobot were the most glamorous couple of the evening when it came to slow dancing. She'd taught him well, it was obvious to all, as he was a superb dancer. Cheetor and Kacheetah made a cute couple and both of them blushed throughout the whole song.
When the song finished, Sapphire looked towards DJ Wazzup and waved her hand.
He saw her signal and started to play 'Bring me to Life'. There was an audible squeal of glee from Sinead and everyone smiled, including Dinobot.
The night wore on until it was eventually time to go home. Before everyone left, though, Sapphire made a speech.
She took a microphone and stood next to Waspinator.
"Attention everyone! Lend me your ears. Yo! Listen up!"
This eventually got everyone's attention.
Sapphire cleared her throat.
"Firstly, thank you all for coming-"
Silverbolt clapped furiously but Varyn silenced him with a 'shhhh!'.
Sapphire continued.
"And I want to take this opportunity to say a few words on my fellow writers, artists and most importantly, friends."
"They'd better be nice things!" Rattrap yelled but Starath shushed him up.
Sapphire sighed and cast Rattrap a loving glance which struck terror into his very core.
She faced her audience again.
"In alphabetical order... Crazy Ivan. You were the first male at the message board! Hooray for you! And, you're a good writer and a nice guy all round. Cheetra...you are one of the best artists I've ever had the honor to view the work of. Shy and rarely seen, but definitely welcome whenever you do visit us. Dannn - you're funny, you're original and you're smart!"
"And obviously good with women," Rattrap muttered but Rhinox and Pacerpaw both clunked him on the head.
"Darkfire - you're lots of fun, you're humorous and your fics are...well...very entertaining!"
Darkfire lets out a loud, knowing laugh and Orlando Bloom edged away, suddenly little intimidated by her.
"Hacker. You're a Rattrap fan, which is a big enough positive as it is!"
Solar Blaze sighed and slapped a hand across her forehead, receiving sympathy from Sinead and Varyn.
"But you're also a great artist and writer. Kacheetah! You're cool, you always make interesting posts at the board and you have SUCH a handsome date tonight."
Cheetor went a deep shade of crimson and Kacheetah giggled.
"KewlGurl, who unfortunately couldn't make it as she's touring the world with Elijah Wood...lucky fish...is a lovely person and the only Gundam Wing writer at the site...even though I've never seen the show, but hey! Lady Venom - you're SO intelligent, you're SO talented and you were the first person I really got to know in the fan fic world. I'm glad to have you as a friend. Lady Scale - your galleries are hilarious! Your art is magic and you've got a wonderful sense of humour! Miss Special - your fics are so much fun to read and you created a really cool character. Go Angel! Whoo hoo! Nurannoniel - you've drawn the CUTEST chibi Optimus I ever did see and you have a great personality. Pacerpaw - I've only just met you, but I like you already. Your writing is interesting, you're a Rhinox fan and the first I've met, not to mention the first Swede I've met. I look forward to reading more of your stuff. Sinead- your writing is among the most beautiful I've ever encountered, you write from the heart and you are an incredibly unique human being. Sharpshot - you're cool, you write cool fics and not to mention, you run a really cool website. Everyone go visit Beast Wars Heaven! Starath - you're bubbly, you're sweet and you write the nicest emails. Love ya to bits! Lord Skyfire..."
Lord Skyfire landed softly with his date beside Lady Venom and...was that Rampage?!
"You have the record for writing the most 'lol's in an AIM conversation, which makes you one of the happiest people I've met! Not only that, but you're an excellent artist and an equally good writer. Solar Blaze - one of my oldest friends. You're kind, you're sensible and you are very, very talented at drawing. Thank you for your support over the years! ::sheds a tear::
Solar Blaze goes "aww" and leans against her Dinobot, who goes "Ummm...help?" while looking around desperately.
"And last but not least, Varyn - you are one of the most deep, intelligent writers I've met. You've got so much scope and your fics are so intriguing. Keep up the good work! And now, ladies and gentleman, I bid you adieu. It has been a fun disco for all of you, I hope-"
Sapphire is interrupted again by an over-enthusiastic Silverbolt, but this time everyone joins him.
"Many thanks to DJ Wazzup."
A big round of applause is heard for DJ Wazzup who bows.
"Good night everyone!" Sapphire yells as she hops off the stage. Everyone starts to leave.
When everyone is finally outside, Lady Venom says her last goodbye to Sapphire and comes out into the cool night air.
"Rampage!" she calls. She's lost her date.
Suddenly, she hears a loud wail coming from around the street corner. She rushes over to the source of the noise and stops dead in her tracks. She sighs heavily and puts her hands on her hips while tapping her left foot.
Her view was that of Rampage's big bum, sticking out of a parked limo.
"Grnghh! Uh...Lady Venom....some help, please?"