Krissy: Then get going, my robotic friends!

**The groups go off.  Camera crew follows Bumblebee and Spike, they enter the room to find Jo sitting at the desk with a whip in hand*

Bumblebee: I remember that!  Prime and I used to **Bumblebee notices Spikes glare.  Jo raises an eyebrow**

Jo: Pardon?  No!  I dont what to know!  **throws away the whip**

Spike: I told you not to talk about that anymore!

Bumblebee: Sorry.

Jo: Shut up both of you.  Now, what do you see for this room, guys?

Spike: **thinks for a moment** I think it needs a nice mint green in here to bring out the green in the carpet.

Jo: Riight.  What about you, Bumblebee?

Bumblebee: I want to paint it GOLD!

Jo: No.

Bumblebee: Oh.  Yellow?

Jo: Ill think about it.  How about a nice shade of black?

**silence**

Jo: Or not.

Paige: I knew it! You cant run this show without me!  Already the yellow team is having problems.  They havent even gotten past selecting colors.

Krissy: Meanwhile, Ironhide and Prime have met up with their decorator.

Rabby: Hi lover-boys!

Prime: For Primus sake, not you!  **He tries to run for the door, but finds that it has been fused shut**

**Ironhide whispers in Primes ear about a romantic candle lit dinner if he goes along with this show thing**

**Optimus turns to the room where everything is yellow.  Even the sofa*

Prime: Lets do this then.

Rabby: Great!  So, other then yellow, is there a theme you can see for this room? 

**both robots pause to think**

Prime: I think it could go for a 80s look.

Ironhide: I think and Italian theme would look great in this room.

Rabby: Strange combination.  I hate it.  I was thinking of a Spanish look for this room.  I have the paint colour picked out already.  **a can of paint appears, inside is a golden peach paint**  What do you think?

Prime:  That would work.

Ironhide: I wanted the walls to stay yellow.  **pouts**

Rabby: I have some plain white fabric blinds that we are going to paint a floral pattern around the edge.  As far as the couch goes, well, well get Ty and Karin to make that for us.  In the end, its going to be an olive green.

Prime: Do we get to do some finger painting?

Rabby:  Uh.  Sure.

Prime: Yay!

Krissy:  **sticks her tongue out at Paige**  As it turns out, Rabby firmly takes control of the situation at red teams end.  Will her Spanish theme stick?  Well find out when Trading Spaces returns.

Paige: **tackles Krissy to the ground pulling her hair**  I am the best!

**commercial break**

Announcer: **speaking much too fast for his own health** This program is brought to you in part  by The Other Wind.  The Other Wind, getting your post where it needs to be on time!

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Spike:  Ive been meaning to get me one of those.

Bumblebee: But its just a cardboard box!

Spike: Shh!

Paige: **fixes her hair hastily and gives a fake smile**  Were back to Trading Spaces.  Our other host has gone to the powder room for a moment.  Lets see how our two teams are doing.

Jo: Okay then.  So were going with the tri-colour theme?

Bumblebee:  I guess.

Spike: Is yellow in it?

Jo: No!  We went over this already.  The three colours are blue, green and orange.  The walls will be blue, the flooring green and the furniture will have and orange tint to it.  The blue is this: **she pulls out a can of paint, the contents a gray-blue.  She takes a paintbrush and dips it into the paint.  She slops it onto the wall** I will dry a little darker, but that wont matter too much.

Spike: But, the only furniture in here is all made of metal.  How are we going to tint metal?

Jo: Stupid man! Well deal with that when we have to work on that project.  For now, Bumblebee can clear everything out of this room.

**Bumblebee drags the desk out of the room along with the matching chair.  He takes down what few framed picture there are on the walls**  **Jo hands around paintbrushes to everyone**

Jo: Okay.  All four walls have to be painted, so get with it. **she makes used to the robotic body and uses the attached jet pack to start painting in the corner of the room.  Spike and Bumblebee work on the same wall**

-Meanwhile back at the red teams room-

**Ironhide and Prime have already started painting and half the room is already done.  Rabby watches the work get done around her.  On one wall, a roller coats the wall with paint with no one there to operate it**

Paige: **walks in**  Wow!  Look at all the work you guys have done already. 

Rabby: Arent you observant.

Paige: **looks at the roller** How does it do that?

**the roller comes away from the wall, flies over to Paige and spins rapidly, spraying her with paint**

Rabby: Ours is not to wonder why

Paige: **wipes some of the paint off her face**  And another thing, how did you get the furniture out of this room?

Prime: **turns to Paige** Dont you do background checks on your designers before you hire them?

Paige: The other host said she had no criminal record, so that was all I needed to know.

**Prime sighs and gets back to work**

Paige: What?

Rabby: I made it disappear.  Like this.  **Rabby looks at Paige and Paige disappears**

**Paige finds herself in the hallways stuck between the sofa cushions**

Paige: **screams** I hate working on this show!

**A random Autobot passes by and notices the big yellow couch that, to him, screams sit on meeee.  So he does, and as far as the cameraman can tell, right on top of Paige**

Krissy: **sitting on top of the random Autobots head** Already five hours have beens spent and neither team has much done.  Trading Spaces will return to see how the two teams are getting along.

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Ironhide: Knowin them theyd probly mess up everythin about us.  **looks to Prime for input**

Prime: **glares** I put that show together.

Ironhide:  **moves to a new section of the wall to paint**

Krissy: Were back!  Our two teams are starting to get a move on, now that Paige is recuperating somewhere.

** scene changes to an outdoor area protected by a blue tarp, under the tent like structure is Ty, Karin and Rabby, all talking but no sound coming out of their mouths.  Rabby looks at the camera and the sound comes back**

Ty: So, what you want is the frame for a sofa?

Rabby: Yup.

Ty: But it has to be made out of metal, right?

Rabby: Yup.

Ty: Okay.  **wanders around collecting the things he will need to build the giant sofa of doom**

Karin: So, Rabs, how does it look?

Rabby: Better, but still not better enough.

Karin: Was it that bad?

**Rabby points to the ugly dirty yellow sofa being torn apart by a garbage truck Transformer.  Rabby ponders for a moment**

Rabby: Hey, Ty, could we just modify that sofa to be like my design?

Ty: **fires a flare off at the Transformer**  Sure. I dont see a problem with that as long as that big bot over there doesnt muck up the workings.  **The Transformer runs off**

Rabby: Great, less work for the sexy Ty.

Ty: Yeah well, you know at least that Im great.  Thats more then that Paige girl does.  She never even comes to talk to me, ya know?  **Fake sobs**

Karin: **glomps Ty**

(Technical reference: Glomp: a tackle hug used by someone to someone they admire)

Jo: **wanders into the building site** Umm Karin, what are you doing to him?

Karin: **jumps up** Nothing. ^_^

Jo: ¬_¬ Really now?

Ty: **gets up and acts as if nothing at all happened out of the ordinary** So, what can I do for you?

Jo:  We need shelves, or a bookcase to be exact.

Ty: Good thing I feel like welding things today.

Jo: Too bad there arent any Transformers that turn into useful things, like a pencil holder or something like that.

Ty: Yeah.  Would make my job simpler.

Paige: **walks in** Hey guys! What are you all doing standing around here?

Jo, Karin, Ty, Rabby: Working more then you.

Paige: Hey! That isnt fair.  I just got out of the hospital.

Jo:  Too bad that robot discovered he was sitting on you.

Paige: Aw, common, you know you would miss me.

**silence**

Paige: You would I tell you!  **she storms off**

Krissy: Its nearly the end of day one and our two teams have been a little distracted by Paiges annoying presence. At red teams room, the walls are painted and dry, but other then that, not much accomplished.  At the yellow teams room, the walls are painted and still wet.

Jo: **carts in a bunch of boxes** What I need you two to do for me tonight is to lay down these tiles. **she pulls one out of the box*  They are real easy to use.  All you need to do is peel the paper off the back of them and stick them on the floor.  Start in the corner over there and work until you are dead tired!

Bumblebee: **takes a tile out and looks at it** Umm.  Wasnt the floor going to be green?

Spike: Yeah!

Jo: **crosses her fingers behind her back** They didnt have any in stock so, I had to take what they had.

Bumblebee: Oh.  Hey!  Some of them have little autobot insignias in the middle.

Spike: Cool.

Jo: **sneaks out to leave the two to work**

Rabby:  I think weve got a good start here today.

Prime:  Do we get to rest now?

Rabby: Just because you asked, no.

**Prime and Ironhides shoulders drop**

Rabby: Im going to leave you two with stuffing the pillows for the couch and the painting for the curtains.  **Rabby quickly demonstrates how things should be done and vanishes in a puff of pink smoke**

Prime: Im an Autobot leader I dont need this sort of stress!

Ironhide: **pinches Primes butt** Auw, common, ya know ya luve it. ;)

Prime: **yelps and beats Ironhide with a bag of pillow stuffing**

Day 1 over, Day 2 begins.

Jo: Morning every- **gasp**

Spike and Bumblebee: You like it?

Jo: Not really.

Bumblebee: **sighs**

**The floor is finished, but all the tiles with Autobot insignias are placed together in a clump in the center of the room**

Jo: We have some left over plain tiles.  Ill just move a few tiles, and then the floor will be done.  **she takes a long drink of coffee**

Rabby:  **appears in the red teams room** Ohaiyo--**gasp!!** I always knew it was true!!  **Points at Ironhide and Prime cuddling in a pile of nicely made pillows.  The two suddenly sit upright, looking ashamed** Im so glad to be on this show all of a sudden.  **Evil grin**

Ironhide: Its not what it looks like.

Rabby: Im sure its exactly what it looks like.  Prime, is it what it looks like?

Prime: **cant tell a lie, nods slowly**

Rabby: Well thats good.  You should never try to hide the true feelings inside.

Ironhide and Prime: **blush**

Paige: This is getting strange.

Krissy: It was strange to begin with.

Paige: It looks like the yellow team is a little behind.

Krissy: However, red team is already ahead of the game.  With the pillows and curtains finished **Prime proudly displays his finger painting skills by the mess on this hands and the leaves on the curtains** they can move on to the couch.

Rabby: **throws Jos empty coffee cup at Ty and hits him over the head** Dude, wheres my couch?

Ty: Well It looks like that.  **points to the finished frame of a corner couch.**

Rabby: Great!

Ty: One problem: I cant get it into that room as long as its sealed shut like it is.

Rabby: Dont worry about it.  **The couch disappears**

Ty:  Consider it not worried about.

Rabby:  **disappears in a puff of pink smoke**

Jo: **throws a different empty coffee cup at Ty and pegs him in the forehead** Hey, hows my bookcase?

Ty: **points to the partially assembled mammoth bookcase** Is that what you are looking for?

Jo: It isnt finished.

Ty: No, lazy robots didnt want to work all night for no extra pay.

Jo: Bummer.

Ty: Yeah, Karin and I have been doing what we can.

Karin: **in robotic body** I broke a nail!!!

Ty: Right.  I have to get back to work.  Hell knows when those lazy bots will be back.

Jo: Later. **She wanders off**

**Ty and Karin walk off to the bookcase.  Karin, using the super strength of the robotic suit, holds up the shelf as Ty secures it into place**

Rabby: So, this is the couch.  What do you think?

Ironhide: If someone were ta sit on it, theyd fall though it!

Rabby: **slaps herself in the head**

Ironhide: ??

Prime: She means is this: **slaps Ironhide clean across the room**

Prime and Rabby: It isnt finished yet!

**Rabby Prime and Ironhide begin with covering the couch with an olive and sand fabric**

Jo: **walks back into the unfinished room** Okay, Ty isnt done with out bookcase yet, so well have to move on.  **she hands Bumblebee a long bit of thick chain.  She gives a lead pipe to Spike** What we need to do is de-stress this desk.  To do this, we need to beat it like there is no tomarrow.  Got it?

Spike and Bumblebee: Got it.

Jo: Good. **She pulls out a chainsaw, jumps onto the desk, and begins thrashing the desk with the inactive chainsaw, leaving dent marks where the metal teeth bit in**

**Spike and Bumblebee beat the desk with their designated tools**

Paige: **bites into a greasy slice of pizza** Oh! Hot!

Krissy:  Will the two teams finish everything in time?  Find out when trading spaces returns.

Announcer: (again speaking like in five seconds he would explode) This program is brought to you in part by The Unfashionable Store. The Unfashionable Store is the store that supplies Paige with all her unreasonably hideous clothing.

Paige: Is it that bad? **talking with her mouth full**

**silence**

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**static**

Paige: What kind of reception is this?  **she smacks the TV**

Krissy:  **smacks Paige** Yeah, tell me about it.  Has the mother ship moved out of range or something, because the more you talk the dumber I feel.

Paige: **glares at Krissy** Were back for the last segment of the show and our too teams are struggling to finish in time.

**shot of the interior of red teams room, everyone is kicking back and sipping various drinks.  The room is in perfect order and finished**

Paige: What is going on here?

Ironhide: We got tired a workin an we decided we would finish what we were doin and kick back.  That there winged gall took care of most of our troubles.

Paige: You did this? **glares at Rabby**

Rabby: Yup.  I didnt need all that extra time you gave us.

Paige:  **pulls on her own hair** ARGH! **sees that Rabbys hair is longer and lunges after it**  Im going to kill you!! This show is about the crunch of time!!

Rabby:  **flicks her hand at Paige and Paige is turned into a cup of Jell-O pudding.**  Oh, Krissy!  Look, puddin!

Krissy: Did you say puddin?  **dives for the pudding cup, unfortunately it grows legs and wanders off**

**shot of the interior of yellow teams room, they are doing their best to assemble the grand bookcase that Ty and Karin made together.**

Jo:  I said more to the left.

Bumblebee and Spike:  **shift to Jos left with the bookcase frame**

Jo: Perfect.

Spike: Wasnt this where we started off?

Jo: Never mind that, we need to place all 85 volumes of The History of Cybertron back in order!  **Jo points to the stack of various volumes of the book collection, all of them being at least 6 inches thick.  All of the volumes are out of order**

Spike:  What!?  Those were all in order when I look them out.

Jo: Yeah, but Bumblebee and I though it would be fun to have a book fight, seeing as we have no pillows to make a pillow fight.

Spike: **searches the room for volume 1**  Great!  Youve just made our job that much more troublesome! 

Bumblebee: Actually, you can do it by yourself Spike.  Im too tired to work anymore.

Spike: What?  Youre a robot! You dont get tired!  Thats why I like you.

Bumblebee:  O.o;;

Paige: **Wanders into the room** This is more like it.  I see the crunch of time is getting to you.

Jo: Not really.

Spike: **grumbles as he hauls volume 1 onto the highest shelf he can reach** I dont see you helping us Paige.

Paige: I just did my nails.  Would love to, but cant.

Spike: ** glares at her for a moment. He lifts up volume 2 and throws it at Paige**

Paige: **knocked over by the blow from the book but quickly recovers. She looks at her messed up nails then at Spike**

Jo: She has adapted!

Bumblebee: Huh?

Spike: **tackle Paige into the hallway**

Jo: I guess that means that we have to finish this ourselves.

Bumblebee: Maybe not.  **he whispers something in Jos ear**

Kissy: Unfortunately our time is up for the two teams.  Will Prime and Ironhide be able to stand Jos decorating blandness?  Will Bumblebee and Spike stand a room with no yellow?  Is Paige dead?  Well find out after the break.

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Paige: **painting her nails** Were back with trading spaces, our two groups are about to have a peak at their new rooms.

Krissy: **leading Spike and Bumblebee (who have their eyes/optics closed) into their living room** I hope you two are ready for your new Spanish theme room.  Open your eyes... or whatever.

Bumblebee: **looks around the room**  Oh, very nice.  **he clasps his hands**

Spike: What is this? Where is my yellow couch? My walls!

Bumblebee: I love the curtains!  Is that finger painted?

Krissy:  I think that was Primes doing.

Spike: **pouts** I dont like it.

Paige: What rude contestants.  **she leads Optimus Prime and Ironhide into the office room, for some reason, all you can see in the dark room are a few candles lit here and there**  Um What is going on here.

Prime: Computer: Lights at maximum output. **lights turn on**  What is this?  **he looks at the room, the walls a soft blue metal, on the floor are stacks of books, at the top of each stack is one green candle that is lit**

Ironhide: Well aint this romantic?

Prime: *Ahem, yes, I suppose.

Ironhide: ^_^ I just love the floor!

Prime: **looks around the room again**  I does have a nice relaxed feel to it.

Paige: Dont you love the desk?  Its your old desk painted over!

Prime: **thinks about it, but in the end doesnt answer Paige**

Krissy: **enters the room with Spike and Bumblebee, and a bottle of non-alcoholic energon** Hey there!

Spike: **still pouting**

Prime: **pats Bumblebee on the back** You did a fine job in here.

Paige: Thats all the time we have.

Krissy: For Ty, Karin, Jo, Rabby, Camera man #1 and camera man #2, this has been an episode of Trading Spaces!  ^_^

The End!