Niave

Chapter 8: The Warlord's Shady Agenda

Lila slumped against the confines of a foggy blue cube and sighed. After Megatron and Soundwave figured out how to reverse the accidental magic, Megatron had happily blasted her with the staff and thrown her in his berthroom under an empty energon cube.

Apparently, he was a worse handler than her mom. He was offended by rudeness and words as if she'd stabbed him. Did she really deserve to be thrown in a makeshift cage for sassing him? She could have, should have squished him or outed his secret to everyone.

But no. She was mostly nice about it. She even did honest work for him with translating the ancient cybertronian hieroglyphics, when she could have sabotaged it.

And yet he tossed her in here!

The energon cube walls suddenly lifted and Lila flopped onto the ground unceremoniously. Megatron stared down at her with his ever present scowl.

"Took you long enough!" Lila exclaimed. "I thou-"

"Nevermind."

Megatron dropped the cube back into place, nearly crushing her foot in the process. Lila gaped at the walls before pounding her fists against it angrily. "Hey! Let me out!"

He didn't. In fact, it was over two hours before he lifted it again. Lila was more calm, but more annoyed. She'd even managed to accumulate a headache with all the intense thinking she'd done about how Megatron was a terrible perso- a terrible robot man.

When Megatron peered down at her, she crossed her arms.

"Are you going to be good now?" he asked.

Lila tilted her head, "As an evil warlord, what is your definition of good?"

He dropped the cube back onto her and Lila flinched before ramming into it. "Hey! You didn't answer me! That was a serious question!"

She kicked it aggressively. "You're such an ass!"

Flopping back against the cube, Lila growled out in frustration. How in the galaxy did he manage to get an army to follow him when he was so rude!?

Lila sighed and took a step away from the cube. Her vision swam and she stumbled, leaning against the wall for a second before sitting down. He likely wouldn't be back for hours. She might as well take a nap.

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Megatron was exhausted.

Not only had he spent the majority of yesterday in a human body, working with Soundwave to get rid of it, but all night and all of today, he'd been working to catch up on his duties. While Lila hadn't actually done anything to reduce progress, she hadn't done anything to improve it either.

His forces were done getting their energon out of the ocean, but it had taken far longer than it should have. The Autobots must have caught onto the energon signal as it exited the Nemesis's protective shields, and they came to steal it.

It took almost two hours to send them scurrying back into their hole, and Megatron was sure that Team Prime managed to get away with a few.

Through all that work, his anger at Lila for getting them into this mess had dissipated multiple times, but every time he heard that infuriatingly snarky voice of hers, he wanted to take his blaster and splatter her across the walls.

"Lord Megatron!"

He turned his helm as a vehicon ran over and kneeled.