Optimus Prime's unusual Charge

Caged bird

About an hour later, Airachnid woke up from stasis, finding herself locked in one of the cells. She was startled at first, but slowly regained memory of what happened before she lost consciousness.

*Gasp* "Where--? What, happened...? Oh...Knockout..."Her last words, laced with disdain for the con medic, trailed into silence.

A vehicon guard opened the little window to check on her and confirmed she's awake. He closed the window again. Then, he told another guard to let Megatron know of this while he stayed behind to keep an optic on her. Airachnid rolled her optics seeing the guard briefly peeking at her through the little window, before it was closed.

Suddenly there was this silent tapping sound coming from the cell next to her. At first she ignored it, thinking it was nothing, but soon enough it was way too intentional to be ambient sounds. She moved closer to the wall where the sound was coming from and pressed her Audio Receptor against the wall to confirm.

A voice was suddenly heard from the cell on the other side of the wall. "Airaaaaachniiiid~?"

This spooked her suddenly, and she moved away from the wall, but she recovered and growled instead. "AAH?!" *Sigh* "Grrr...." The femme moved back towards the wall. Airachnid knew this voice well; it's unmistakable. "Starscream...What do YOU want?"

Starscream cackled almost uncontrollably and struggled a little bit trying to stop, but eventually he did. "Welcome to the V.I.B. accomodations, dear Airachnid~" He just started laughing again like a loonatic. Airachnid could hear him rolling around in his cell as he laughed.

Indeed, Starscream sounded like he had a glitch in his main processor. All this time, Megatron has been attempting to alter his Neural net, trying to reprogram him back into a loyal servant. Airachnid didn't know this yet.

"Can it, Starscream...before I render you into Iron filings." She didn't appreciate the joke and walked away from the wall.

The former second in command did not heed her warning, however. He knew there was no way she could get through that wall, even if she tried. And even if she did, he didn't care. He'd rather die at this point, as opposed to continue on like this. From behind the wall even though Starscream was whispering, Airachnid could still hear how he ignored her and just continued on with his little game.

"Oh, the blooming, bloody spider went up the spider web...

The blooming, bloody rain came down and washed the spider out...

The blooming, bloody sun came out and dried up all the rain...

And the blooming, bloody spider... came up ...the web...again~" 

He continued to repeat this over and over again always going painfully slow at the end giggling each time as he was rocking back and forth in place, staring into nothingness as he processor wandered aimlessly getting lost as time progresses.

Airachnid, on the other hand, started groaning and growling at him. Clearly he's rubbing in the fact that she failed her mission. Both the one Megatron charged her with and her own...She was found out and here she is, awaiting her fate. It's bad enough as it is, she doesn't need 'The-One-That-Always-Screams' rubbing it in any further!

Little that she knows, Starscream was sitting on his berth rocking back and forth, back and forth slowly while he was staring out into nothingness. His faceplate expressionless. A broken bot somehow still functioning. He's long since lost touch of the seemingly intelligent conversation he started with his neighboring prisoner and was only spouting whatever happened to materialize into his helm, completely unaware of him annoying Airachnid as he went along.