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It started as Sari showing Bumblebee a video on YouTube about some haunted house attraction. For the most part Prowl ignored it, only finding himself paying attention when he heard Bumblebee gasp or mutter how cool something was. Which meant Prowl didn’t ignore it at all, and he knew basically everything about these “Woods of Terror” before Bee loudly and clumsily bounced up to go talk to Bulkhead about it. At that point Prowl put it out of matrix, thinking that nothing would come from it.
Fast forward a week, and there he was chaperoning Bee and Sari to the horror attraction. Apparently, while Bee would fit in those houses just fine without banging into the ceilings, no one else would. Except for Prowl, even though he would have to hunch over most of the time. Optimus didn’t seem to care that Prowl would be discomforted, stating that Sari needs Bee to chaperone her and Bee needs Prowl to chaperone him.
‘Not like he is a sparkling’ he thought. Bee and Prowl pulled up to the parking lot facing the attraction and all its glory. The bright neon lights and the comically exaggerated features of the quote on quote “scary decor” comforted Prowl, this would just be like sitting through those dumb thrillers Bee insists the team watches every Saturday. It took a while, but after Bee realized that they didn’t need to park, for obvious reasons, they went to the ticket booth. The robotic duo got some stares as they walked past, mostly in awe but some in fear as if they were part of the attraction.
“I guess folks in North Caroline haven’t really heard about us, right Prowler?” Bee nudged Prowl when the third pedestrian did a double take on them as Sari grabbed the tickets before they walked to the main area to pick an attraction,
“It’s North Carolina, Bumblebee, but yes I would guess they haven’t, with the way they are behaving.”Prowl responded, the situation causing his face to rest in a scowl reminiscent of Ratchet.
“I personally can’t imagine why saving the entire freaking Earth would be anything worth noting to different states or countries.” Sari added, though a grin was on her face.
‘She is being sarcastic’ Prowl told himself before he started to explain why it was a big deal and why humans are so shortsighted.
“Ok Sari! we came for the Texas House, let’s go there!” Bee enthusiastically pointed over to the big gate, his optics shining extra bright with his excitement.
“Aw but I want to see the other attractions! This whole thing is supposed to be a few hours long!” Sari complained. Bee impatient as ever looked ready to challenge Sari, probably feeling anxious with the idea that he would have to wait to get to the event he wants to see.
“We can see them all Sari, but let’s start with the Texas Room, and go from there. Bumblebee would probably be more fun to be around if we got what he wants to do out of the way first.” Sari hummed, pretending to think while Bee nodded his helm vigorously.
Prowl already knew she would agree, it was the logical thing to do when you go anywhere with Bumblebee. It was a lesson learned within the first few days with the mech. If you wanted Bumblebee to be present in the moment, you have to first let him do whatever it is that is distracting him. Otherwise it’s all he will think or talk about.
“It is based on Texas Chainsaw Massacre!” Bee told Prowl ecstatically,
“Really?” Prowl vaguely remembered seeing that movie with the gang on a Saturday at some point.
“I dunno, it’s just what people said online.” Bee smiled and shrugged, Sari sighing beside him.