For @tinyfiestyrosiekitten and @darklordofcutlets because I know what you guys are about and what you’re about is an AU where Megatron is a rifle, and a human Orion really likes firing him off. Everything after first paragraph under the cut.
Gun. Part One of Perhaps More.
The first thing that registered to Megatron’s static-laden senses as he came back to fully online status was that everything hurt. A persistent, full-body prickling, aching sensation- the residue of stunning energy, which explained why…well, nothing seemed to be working right now. His core systems came first, but his sensory suite was muffled, every last mobile part of him seemingly unresponsive.
Hey all! Some of you are asking about the bear incident. I will tell you in due course, but for now ill give you a teaser
It involves a bear, a tree, and a lack of pants
Well I’d be worried if the bear was wearing pants…
To clarify. Im lacking pants
hopefully you’re fully equipped with as many pants as you need at this point in time, i’d be much more worried if you didn’t have any pants at all.
To clarify AGAIN: AT THE TIME OF THE BEAR INCIDENT I WAS LACKING PANTS
CURRENTLY I HAVE MANY PANTS AT LEAST 2 OK
Okay but did the tree have pants
THE BEAR HAD NO PANTS I HAD NO PANTS AND THE TREE HAS MY PANTS OK
YOU WERE ROBBED BY A TREE???
…..maybe…..not exactly
As a non-native speaker I always wonder: pants as in two long tubes of fabric that go down to your ankles or pants as in the underwear. Please tell me it’s the latter
I mean at that point it was both
A tree panty thief… i always knew trees were suspicious…
Wait, how does the bear fit in??
DAMMIT YOU GUYS
I WAS GONNA GIVE THIS ONE TO YOU LATER WITH PROPER THOUGHT AND WRINTING BUT NO YA’LL HAVE NO CHILL
BUCKLE UP FRIENDS YOU’RE IN FOR A WILD RIDE
Ok so i’m twelve. little twelve year old Rekina. I was a scout for most of my life, so the forest is like home to me ok. In a city i get super turned around, can’t find my way around to save my life
but drop me in a forest? man ill have an entire camp set up and find my way out in less than a day ok im wilderness survivor exrtordinare
So i’m out camping with my troop. We’re big kids now so the adults dicthed us for our very own solo three day hike
let me just say that my troop didn’t like me. I was the quiet nerd kid who read alone in my tent and kicked everyones aass at lighting fires, when they all were sneaking in booze, peeping on girls, and failing to light fires
So one afternoon while i’m out hunting for supper (a task no one has succeeded at, they just wanted me out of the way. fools) i discover i severly have to pee. So i got ahead and prop mysef agaisnt a tree as you do
Now, when you’re a girl, you don’t get the lucury of just whipping it out and pissing on a mushroom ok you have to remove all clothing from the lower half and squat agsint a tree like a weight lifter
so im doing my thing, my pants around my ankles, when i hear the bushes near by rustling
Those fucking boys i swear im going to kick their asses if they’re spying on me
but im midstream and you don’t just stop midtsream ina forest cause then you drip all over your under wear and its not fun
I get two more seconds of peaceful pee time
BAM the bush fucking explodes
i scream, and almost fall over because my legs are getting tired ok peeing in a forest is hard work for women let me get an amen
But its fine, i look over and it isn’t one of the boys
it’s a baby bear no threat to me
I continue about my buisness.
wait
baby bear =
mama bear
Sure enouogh the second i think that she rears up from behind the bush
now this thing is gigantic im talking would knock an nba player away from the hoop and get a slam dunk with out even trying ok
huge
I don’t move. I;m racking my brain like ok what did the manual say to do what would indiana jones do shitshitshitshit well ok as long as it doesn’t see me im safe ill just wait for it to go away and make no noise
she looks over and roars
had i not already been peeing i would have pissed my pants
I was caught, literally, with my pants down.
I think its time to beat a hasty retreat i threw the manual and indiana jones out the window
id like to say i calmly made my escape, floating like a graceful ballerina
didnt happen
i waddled away like a psychotic penguin screaming and flailing and being decidedly ungraceful ok i would have made Mumble proud for how my my little feet were moving i was like a penguin tap star
I booked it, desperaty trying to pull up my pants so i can at least die not looking like Bert from mary poopins doing his ridiculous little dance
so im running for life, a big ass knife in my hand and i know i won’t be able to stab this thing
or out run it
or out last it
i couldnt out anything it
but im good at climbing
I beeline for this massive oak and scramble up that thing like a penguin, squirel hybrid. I prop my self up on one f the high branches, stilling trying to pull up my pants, but that’s kind of hard while your ass is being tickled by fire ants
lets just say i took the short cut down
I plummeted face first out of the tree, screaming like a banshee
The bear screamed back andd ran away because when i say banshee i mean banshee ok i have the shriek of a dolphin on helium
suddenly im not falling.
A branch had snagged my jeans and now i was dangling maybe ten feet of the ground by my pants
in a true, rekina, cliche move, i slip from the branch and crsh the ground completely unharmed (except for my bruise dignity) and somehow managed to not stab myself with my knife on the way down
on small problem
i left my pants in the tree.
The branch had flung my three layers of pants three different ways
my underwear fluttered to the ground beside me like the graceful ballerina i wish i was
my long underwear was twisted around a branch not far above my head
and my jeans had been freaking rocketed into one of the highest branches, the bough too thin for me to climb
i so i put on my now fire ant infested under wear (after doing my best to clean them and quickly snag my long johns because i know one thing for certain
i still see baby bear
mama is coming back
I high tail it like i have never high tailed before ok i was hauling ass outta there
I sprint for a good minute or so when suddenly a brown blur shoot from he bush and im thinking oh shit ima dead man so i do the only logcal thing because im going down fighting aint no bear gonna find me curled on the ground
i lashed out with my knife like a frickin knight in shining armour except im not a knight
and im in my under wear
and it wasn’t a bear
in my amazing survival stab the beast reflexes i didn’t notice how low to the ground i was aiming
i had stabbed a water rat
you can bet your ass im not wasting that meat
I scoop it up, its blood splatterd all over my face and strut back towards camp
i roll in there pantsless, covered in blood, dirt, and fire ant, grinning like a maniac
“I found supper”
none of the boys ever peeped on me again
How are you even still alive
I wish i knew
Mother fucker this is exactly why the aliens are never going to attack earth. A furious monster attacked a human youngling while as vulnerable as possible and the youngling not only survived, it also climbed a tree half naked, scared the monster away, and caught dinner for it’s pack members with a blade. Not to mention we’re all just chillin’. Laughing about a terrifying near death experience.
Story of my life bro (literally)
@dannyaches american scouts are freakin hardcore man…
Left: A fish-scaled Geckolepis megalepis rests on a branch. Right: G. megalepis after losing its scales. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw.
If you tried to grab a Geckolepis megolepis gecko, it would likely slip from your hand — leaving only its scales in your grasp.
Geckolepis megolepis is the newest and largest-known member of the world’s fish-scaled geckos, according to a formal description published Tuesday in PeerJ. Like other lizards or salamanders, these geckos can drop their tails after being caught by predators, but they can also escape capture thanks to break-away skin.