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Rebecca Hb. ([personal profile] beckyh2112) wrote2011-03-05 09:57 pm

[Transformers] Their Best Work

A failed attempt at a fill for [livejournal.com profile] 25fluffyfics. Writing fluff for Hook is hard.

Title: Their Best Work
Characters: Constructicons
Rating: G
Word Count: 200+
Summary: The Constructicons celebrate the inauguration of Crystal City.


Their Best Work

***


The formal inauguration of Crystal City was long and boring, even to Hook and especially to Mixmaster. A number of high-ranking officials from the nearby city-states came to make speeches, Scrapper was called on to speak, and the mech who commissioned Crystal City was a Sigmatist. She demanded some of the Sigmatist ritual forms to celebrate a living creation go into the city's inauguration, which stretched it even longer.

The informal inauguration took place in a bar inside the still-unopened city. Mixmaster tended bar, Bonecrusher kept an eye on the door in case any of the officials thought they could wander into the Constructicons' party, and Scavenger and Hook traded toasts throughout the evening.

"What annoys me-," Hook said after his fifth toast.

"-Is damn near everything," Long Haul drawled, earning sniggers from Scavenger, Mixmaster, and Bonecrusher.

Hook gave them a withering look. "What annoys me," he said again, "is the way everyone talks as if we'll never build anything finer than this place."

Mixmaster cackled. "They said that with the Principal Office! And the Corundum Museum of Fine Arts! And the Scintillating Electro-Didgeridoo Ampitheater!"

Scrapper cycled his visor light up a few notches. "This place is a masterpiece. It will be difficult to do better."

"But not impossible!" Scavenger exclaimed. "We've done masterpieces before, we can do them again!"

"Never on this scale," Long Haul pointed out. "We did buildings before. This is an entire city. We'd have to build a continent to top that."

"Relax!" Bonecrusher laughed. "Give it a few millenia for Crystal City to change hands, and they'll be saying our tear-down is the best demolition work we've ever done!"

-End-

[identity profile] poptartodoom.livejournal.com 2011-03-06 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
*snrk* Scintillating Electro-Digeridoo Amphitheater?

Best. Name. EVER.

[identity profile] beckyh2112.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
It is awesome. Sadly, destroyed by the War. Truly, a lost marvel.

[identity profile] lunatron.livejournal.com 2011-03-06 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Writing fluff is hard in general. >_>;

I love Long Haul's snark. Long Haul is awesome in this.

I like, for this, the concept that Crystal City isn't all that to them.

Now they need to build a continent.

Bonecrusher is creepy and ominous.

[identity profile] beckyh2112.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Fluff is pretty hard, but it is usually easier than I have found it to be with Hook. Of course, my general moods lately have not been all that encouraging of fluff either.

I try to write the other Constructicons being awesome. <3

They should totally build a continent.
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[personal profile] senmut 2011-03-11 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I like this a lot.

[identity profile] beckyh2112.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[identity profile] wyntir-knight.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantastic! I love the characterization, and it's just so very much like the 'Structies to be striving for excellence like that.

[identity profile] beckyh2112.livejournal.com 2011-03-13 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.