Escaping Reality

Chapter Nine: Rebellion

"You high-heeled piece of slag!" Darkfin shrieked, aggressively kicking at just about anything she could inside the seeker's cockpit. "You better let me down before I damage whatever I can in here and take us both out-!"

         Without warning, the Decepticon suddenly began spinning, causing Darkfin's angry yelling to change into that of fearful shouts.

         "Shut up you pathetic fleshling!" snarled Starscream, his voice sounding throughout the cockpit. "Because if you don't, I can keep this up the entire trip to the warship!"

         "Do you really want me to puke all over you?! Because I will do it!" the black-haired girl promised, glaring in hatred at the control panel in front of her. Had she not been all tied up at the moment, she would've been attempting to fly him herself. After all, it was possible, at least with grounders it was.

         "Do that and I won't hesitate to drop you," the seeker countered, only to smirk to himself when the fleshling finally shut up.

         Unfortunately, the silence didn't last long, though the second she tried to open her mouth, the Decepticon ordered her to be quiet before turning on his com link. "I need a bridge."

         Of course, she should've expected the warship to not be nearby; hardly was it ever near any battles in the show, well, unless there was an important reason for it to be there of course. The warship was the Decepticon's base; they wouldn't risk that without a reason to.

         Suddenly, a groundbridge portal appeared, Starscream flying right through the vortex before transforming on the other side with Darkfin in his servos. Not even wasting time, he began to walk, Darkfin taking everything in.

         She was here. She was on the Nemesis, and she didn't know whether or not this was the happiest day in her life, or the scariest. The halls and control panels looked exactly like they did in the show, as did the vehicons she saw walking down the hall. To top it all off, she even got a look at a few sections she'd never seen shots of before, such as the prison section, which Starscream stopped at.

         "Took you long enough," a snide voice remarked, Darkfin's eyes automatically training on the one and only Decepticon medic. "And last I saw, weren't you holding two humans? Lord Megatron won't be pleased with just three-"

         "Oh shut up, Knockout! If I didn't have to deal with Optimus and that pesky two-wheeler, I would've retrieved all the humans, rather than this one pitiful scrap-"

         "Glitch, you could've made it away with Titanium if you hadn't chucked her at Optimus!" fumed the human, her eyes glaring in hatred at the high-heeled 'con.

         "Ooh. Feisty," Knockout teased, only to rub her head with his digit.

         In response, Darkfin shook her head and growled at the red Decepticon. "Touch me again and I'll wreck your paint job," she snarled, which caused Knockout to back off a bit despite the threat coming from a mere human.

         "Well touch my paint job, and you'll have a painful dissection in your future," Knockout warned, the red medic locking eyes with the raven-haired human.

         "Enough! Knockout, where did you stash the other ones, assuming you succeeded in capturing any."

         Starscream's words drew the fellow Decepticon's attention back to him, smirking in response as he gloated, "Actually, I captured two, like I was supposed to."