How To Spot A Cop

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Requested anonymously on Tumblr. Triple drabble.

Feat. Maximal!Minimus.

Continuity: Beast Wars (no specific iteration)
Rating: General
Relationship: Minimus/Ravage
Characters: Minimus & Ravage

Summary: In which Minimus's stakeout does not go as planned.

Crossposting: AO3 | Tumblr | Pillowfort

Fic below cut

Law enforcement had always been a delicate operation at Minimus’s height. Even for a Maximal, he tended to be considered “underfoot” in comparison to his brethren. It had taken him centuries to be taken seriously in his chosen role, but now here he was, surveying a black Predacon, Ravage, go about his “business” in a tavern. The Predacon, notable for his associations with the Tripedacus Council and for his status as an original Decepticon who underwent a reformat at the end of the War. Minimus’s superiors had wanted him to get a sense for what this… unusual Predacon might be getting up to.

Listening to the barkeep talk about… something, Ravage’s ears twitched. He hesitated, tail swatting at the air when the barkeep turned away. Then he… walked right up to Minimus’s booth.

That wasn’t supposed to happen. 

No, no, no! 

What he had done wrong? 

Minimus, now struggling to look calm, had even arrived early to get settled in a corner where he hopefully wouldn’t have been easily spotted. He’d even covered his badge!

In moments, Ravage stopped at the edge of the table, tapping it slowly with one claw as he loomed over Minimus.

“Ordering a complicated mixed drink without engex in a Predacon bar was a poor cover choice, little Maximal.”

That was definitely the beginnings of regret in his spark. Maybe if he showed a fang or two, he could—Ravage kept talking.

“And is there a particular reason the Maximals sent their smallest officer to keep tabs on me?”

“Now see here, I am simply enjoying a pleasant drink at my favorite establishment—“

Ravage slid into the booth, opposite Minimus, dangerously teeth bared in a broad toothy grin.

“It seems to me like you could use some tips, from one brother in arms to another.”