Surprise... In more ways then one

Blood-Spill was once again called to battle while Shockwave stayed behind and did paper work for Megatron.

"We do all the work while, Shockwave gets to sit on his butt." Blood-Spill growled quietly.

"Move your aft, Blood-Spill." Strika growled.

Knowing he shouldn't anger his commander, he picked up his pace and caught up with Blackout, the huge Decepticons shadow engulfed the entire younger Decepticons form.

Blood-Spill didn't get intimated easily, but Blackout and Strika intimated the hell out of him, but he didn't let that show he was the youngest in this group so he couldn't afford to make any rookie mistakes.

Cyclonus came out of no where like he always did and landed in front of Strika.

"I've spotted two Autobots in a cave." Cyclonus said in his usual emotionless voice.

"They shouldn't be to difficult to take out. Oil Slick, Blood-Spill; find the two Autobots and take them out." Strika ordered.

Wordlessly Oil slick and Blood-Spill headed toward the cave where the two Autobots were taking refuge. As they neared the cave Oil Slick grabbed a small glass cylinder that glowed neon green, Blood-Spill knew that color any where. It was Oil Slick's favorite weapon to use some times, acid.

On silent command Blood-Spill changed his hands so they became claws, he noticed out of the corner of his optic that Oil Slick was looking at his claws.

"Any reason your looking at my hands?" Blood-Spill asked.

"I was thinking seeing how those claws of yours are already pretty deadly that having the tips dipped in acid would make them even more deadly." Oil Slick said with a smirk.

Blood-Spill liked the sound of that, but it sounded like a painful procedure. "That sounds like a great idea, but I think I'll have to take a rain check on that."

Oil Slick shrugged indifferently as they made it to the mouth of the cave.

"Shh, who knows who out there listening." A male voice said from some where in the cave.

"Yeah, like turning Energon into bombs hasn't been done before." Another male voice said.

"True, but Strika's team won't know what hit them." The first male voice replied.

Blood-Spill ignored the urge to growl as he took out his fully automatic, then he and Oil Slick entered the cave to take care of the two Autobots. But what they didn't expect was the amount of Energon cubs in the cave, enough to put two Decepticons in stasis for while if the explosion doesn't kill them first.

"Well what do we have here? Two Autobots trapped in a cave with no way out." Oil Slick said with a small smile.

He apparently forgot that he and Blood-Spill were in a cave filled nearly to the top with Energon cubs that could become bombs at any minute, Blood-Spill just kept his mouth shut knowing that if he distracted Oil Slick the Autobots would try to attack.

The two Autobots looked like they had been caught with their hands in the Energon cookie jar.

Suddenly every thing happened in slow motion, one of the Autobots threw some thing into one of the cubs setting it off and the others followed suit.

Pain wracked Blood-Spill's body as the explosion hit him, knocking him off his feet, he rolled several feet before stopping on his stomach, his left arm mangled underneath him. The smell of blood and Energon filled the cave. He forced open his optics, he had no idea where Oil Slick was but he could the mangled bodies of the two Autobots. All he could think about was his best friend and lover Shockwave, he looked at his right arm and noticed that all five of his clawed fingers had an inch of acid on them.

He chuckled painfully before losing consciousness.

* * *

When Blood-Spill came to he felt extremely stiff and he heard two bots arguing, he instantly recognized both of them; Strika and Shockwave.

What ever Shockwave said to Strika it pissed off some thing fierce.

"Don't you dare, Shockwave! Just because your Megatron's favorite doesn't mean you can order me around." Strika growled.

"You two are going to be thrown out of the med bay if you two don't keep it down." Came Hook's annoyed voice.

Strika growled and left the med bay.

Blood-Spill could see Shockwave's shadow threw the curtain as well as Hook's shadow.

"How bad is the damage?" Shockwave asked.

"Surprisingly not that bad, aside from a few acid burns he should be able to return to battle in four days. Sadly the same can't be said for Oil Slick." Hook replied.

"I don't give a slag about Oil Slick." Shockwave growled.

The curtain was suddenly pulled back and Blood-Spill closed his eyes at the sudden bright light.

"Ahh, your awake." Hook said then looked at his left arm.

Shockwave looked relived to see that Blood-Spill was fine and the damage wasn't that bad, but he knew that Strika wasn't a capable commander when it came to Blood-Spill.

"How-how long was I out?" Blood-Spill asked his voice breaking a little.

"Four days." Hook replied. "I'll leave you two alone."

After Hook left Shockwave closed to the curtain to have some privacy with his friend.

"You heal rather fast, Blood-Spill." Shockwave said going closer to him.

"I guess I just got luckily." Blood-Spill said with a shrug.

"I'm going to talk to Megatron and see if you can help me with a few things." Shockwave said.

Blood-Spill wanted to protest but Shockwave put his pointer finger/claw on his lips.

"You can't fight me on this, Blood-Spill." Shockwave said then transformed into Longarm and smiled down at him.

Blood-Spill smiled back and nuzzled his best friend's hand when he touched the side of his face, how he had missed his touch.

Shockwave leaned down and claimed his lips his glossa asking for entrance into Blood-Spill's mouth which Blood-Spill granted him.

Shockwave pulled away a minute later and transformed back into his normal form.

"I'll see you in a few days." Shockwave said.

Blood-Spill watched his lover leave, his attention turned when another patient was placed in a berth next to his.

"So how did you end up here?" The new comer asked.

The new bot had black and purple armor, black claws and four blood red optics.

"Energon explosion." Blood-Spill said looking at his left arm.

"Some bots have all the luck. I pissed off the wrong Decepticon," He replied. "I'm Barricade."

"Blood-Spill."

"So when did the Doc tell you that you'll be able to leave?" Barricade asked.

"In four days. My friend wants me to help him with paper work instead of going back into the field."

"Tell him to go slag himself, I can tell you're like me, you love the smell of battle as well as the feel of Energon on your claws." The black and purple Con said getting more comfortable.

Blood-Spill couldn't help but like Barricade, there was some thing about him that he was attracted to.

"Easier said then done." Blood-Spill said opening and closing his left hand.

"Really, who's your friend?" Barricade asked.

"Shockwave believe it or not."

Barricade's four optics looked like they were going to bug out of his head. "Your friends with Shockwave!"

"Pretty much." Blood-spill said laying his left arm on his stomach.

* * *

Blood-Spill woke suddenly when he felt some one stroking his chest, he looked and to his surprise Barricade was out of his berth, running his claw up and down his semi broad chest.

"Barricade what are you doing?" Blood-Spill hissed quietly.

Barricade just chuckled. "What does it look like I'm doing?" He replied placing his on the side of his face.

Blood-Spill closed his optics at the gentle contact wanting more. He got his wish when Barricade kissed him, he kissed Barricade back. The kiss only lasted a few minutes but it felt like an eternity to Blood-Spill.

"Maybe tomorrow we can take this a little further." Whispered Barricade with a cheeky grin.

Blood-Spill chuckled. "Don't get a head of yourself, 'Cade we just met, but that doesn't mean we can't fool around." He said also smiling.

"It's a date then." Barricade said going back to his berth.

* * *

I hate paper work, it's so boring. Blood-Spill thought growling slightly.

He had been doing paper work with Shockwave for a month now and it was getting annoying. It was getting to the point where he just wanted to smash his head into the closest wall. He missed being on the battle field where he belonged. Kicking ass and taking names, well taking lives was more correct. Doing paper work wasn't for him, but he had to admit he was very good at it.

A door opening caught his attention and Shockwave walked in, ever since he took off from Shockwave's apartment, their relationship as lovers was strained and it felt uncomfortable at times. But their relationship as friends had never been stronger, he could still see need and lust in his friend's optic when ever Megatron wasn't in the room.

"Is that report almost done?" Shockwave asked placing a small stack of data pads on the right upper hand corner of his desk.

"Yeah, just a few more details and I'll be done." Blood-Spill replied looking up at his friend while still typing.

"How can you do that?" Shockwave asked.

"Do what?"

"Type without looking at the screen?" He replied.

"It's a skill that I perfected when I was young. A useless talent as my dad use to put it." Blood-Spill said turning his gaze back to the screen.

"I'll do get us some Energon. And don't fall asleep at the computer again." Shockwave said.

"Ok, that was one time and it was late if I might add." Blood-Spill retorted with a huff.

Blood-Spill finished the report a few seconds later, he looked up when the door opened again.

Wow that was fast. Blood-Spill thought.

To his surprise, it wasn't Shockwave, it was Barricade.

"Barricade, what are you doing here? If Shockwave finds you here, he'll disembowel your ass." Blood-Spill said standing up.

Barricade just smiled. "What your not happy to see me?"

"Of course I'm happy to see you, but your not on Shockwave's good side at the moment." Blood replied looking over Barricade's shoulder.

"He doesn't know about us does he?"

"No, and if he did, you'd be dead by now," He said.

Blood's optics widened when he heard Shockwave's foot steps coming back.

"Shit, I need to hide you! Get under the desk, be quiet and be good." Blood-Spill hissed.

Once Barricade was hidden underneath the desk, Blood-Spill quickly sat back down and acted like he had just finished the report when Shockwave came in holding two cubes of high grade.

"Is the report finished?" Shockwave asked walking over to Blood-Spill's desk, setting the two cubes down.

"Just finished them, care to take a look before I send them to Megs?" He asked.

Blood-Spill instantly regretted suggesting that, the second Shockwave's body ever so gently brushed up against his, he had to fight back the need to want Shockwave push him onto the desk and pound into him, leaving him senseless. He averted his optics down to the floor hoping that Barricade wouldn't do any thing that would get him sent to the med bay because of Shockwave.

"Every thing seems to be in order, you can send it to Megatron," Shockwave said. "You type just as fast and neatly as I do."

"I learned from the best." Blood-Spill said giving Shockwave a small smile.

Shockwave placed his hand on the side of Blood-Spill's face, his clawed thumb stroking his cheek. They both found themselves leaning forward for a kiss.

"Shockwave, come to the Control room there is some thing we need to discuss." Came Megatron's voice from Shockwave's COM link.

Blood-Spill ignored the urge to sigh with relief when Megatron called.

"On my way, lord Megatron." Shockwave said.

Shockwave looked at Blood-Spill before turning to leave the room, once Blood-Spill could no hear his footfalls, he gave Barricade the ok to get out from under the desk.

"About time he left, I think I pulled some thing." Barricade said standing up to his full height.

"Your fine, Barricade. I suggest you leave, I don't know what Megatron wanted but it shouldn't last very long." Blood-Spill said.

"Your cute when you care you know that?" Barricade said with a cheeky smile.

"Go, before Shockwave comes back." Blood-Spill said pushing him toward the door.

"Alright, I'm going. So I'll see you tonight then." Barricade said his four optics darkening with lust.

"Yes, my apartment, now go I'd rather not see you gutted by my overly jealous and protective friend." Blood-Spill replied.

"He could always join us."

"Yeah, he doesn't like to share." Blood said pushing him out the door.

"Shame, we could have so much fun together." Barricade replied with a smirk.

"Just go, horny bot." The red and silver con said shaking his head.