Optimus Prime's unusual Charge

Captive

["Surprise?! Oh, that can NOT be a good sign..."]

I already tried pleading with them, but clearly I'm not getting away that easy. He called what I assumed is his leader and asked for something called, a 'Ground bridge'? Whatever that's supposed to be. No sooner had he ended the conversation, did what looked like a portal appear out of nowhere!

"Alright, wheel 'em in!" Breakdown called to the various other bots in the room and they pushed what looked like these giant minecarts through the portal, leaving just the three of us remaining.

"Like heck I'm going through that portal!" I yelled.

["Two of these metal monstrosities is quite enough, even too much to be honest and if these two are already this nasty to begin with, this 'Megatron' they keep talking about is probably 'Mega-trouble' times infinity, so big ol' NOPE on that one!"]

"Oh, shut up! It's not like you have much of a choice, fleshy!" Knockout snapped at her.

Breakdown switched his hammer back into a servo and took her off Knockout's own servos.

Though the possibility of anyone being crazy enough to try and fight off Giant Mecha Action figures with attitudes, is next to non-existent; still it didn't stop me from instinctively trying to call out for help.

"AAAAH!" I shrieked. "LEAVE ME ALONE! HELP, ANYONE! PLEASE!"

Suddenly feeling claustrophobic in his enormous fist, I started screaming and kicking as hard as I can, but they're just too strong! Though my high-pitched wailing seems to bother their Audio sensors.

"Argh! What is that?! Don't these things have an OFF switch somewhere?" Breakdown tried covering his audio receptors from the sounds the creature was making.

"Urgh, Hold my datapad, will you?" Knockout growled.

He was clearly annoyed by the sounds as well and grabbed her off Breakdown's servos again and pinched the base of her neck. Sure enough, she fainted and fell limp in his servo.

"How did you do that?" Breakdown couldn't believe what he just saw.

"Oh, please Breakdown...I'm a Doctor. How the body works, is my speciality. That and I may or may not have been doing some research on fleshy biology." Knockout answered.

"So...What's it like?" Breakdown curiously asked.

"Well...Similar in some aspects to ours, but...I'll save you some unpleasant Spark terrors from the details." Knockout shuddered."Now, hurry along my friend, Megatron will have our heads if we make him wait."

They walked through the ground bridge, and it vanished without a trace.

Once aboard the Nemesis, they reported to Megatron.

"We bring good tidings my lord." Knockout bowed.

"We've successfully cleared the entire mine, several tens of carts full and by my observations, this is the good stuff." He presented Megatron with a piece of the crystal which shined brightly and brought a smile to the warlord's scar-littered faceplate.

"Excellent Knockout; you and Breakdown definitely earned your share tonight."He smiled."Take note Starscream; you might learn something from these two." He directed his attention to the seeker.

"Noted." Starscream glared at Knockout's smug expression and grumbled under his breath.

Megatron shot him a death glare, and as fast a lightning did his demeanor change as he tried to quell his glorious master's wrath.

"Eh, I mean: of course, Lord Megatron! I will observe all their movements so closely, that soon enough, you might not be able to tell us apart! Anything to serve you with the utmost respect, deserving of a true Cybertronian leader!" He pathetically groveled.

"Be gone, Starscream... make yourself useful and help the drones stack the energon cubes in the storage room." Megatron ordered with an Icy tone.

"Oh, of course Megatron; immediately!" Starscream bowed one last time before quickly leaving the room.

After he had left, Megatron turned his attention back at his medic/scientist.

"Now then...about this; surprise of yours..." He looked expectingly at them.

Breakdown came forward, bowed and presented the minuscule unconscious fleshy in his servos.

"We also found this in the mines, my lord..." He began, but trailed off due to Megatron's changing facial expression.

"Is this some kind of joke, Breakdown?" Megatron growled.

"Forgive me my lord, but I don't understand..." Breakdown answered confused.

Megatron stood up to his full height.

"Allow me to spell it out for you, Breakdown... WE ARE DECEPTICONS! We do NOT take fleshy pets in, like those Autobot fools do. Now I ask you again; is this some kind of joke? Because Breakdown, I am not laughing!" Megatron thundered.

Knockout was silent the whole while, feeling bad for getting his friend in trouble, but as a decepticon, he can't show such weaknesses, especially in front of Megatron. He still wracked his Processor over how to remedy this situation, before things got worse. Just then, the creature woke up.

"Ugh...what's...what's with all the y-..."When she realised where she was, and the horrendously ugly metal titan staring at her, looming from above..."*gulp* Yelling?" It took all her strength not to begin panicking and shrieking again.

"Well now; what a pleasant surprise indeed, Breakdown..." Just like that, Megatron seemed to have forgotten what he was yelling about, when he heard the peculiar being speak. "...and there I was thinking that you've gone and brought what the fleshy's call a 'Puppy-dog' on board this ship."

"N-no Lord Megatron, Never!" Breakdown hurriedly answered.

"See to it, that it remains so..." The warlord squinted his optics at Breakdown and turned to Knockout.

"So, Knockout..." Megatron began. What is it about this particular fleshy, that you thought was so interesting you just had to show me?"

"Uhm...(oh scrap)...Besides it being an abomination, it can...uh..." Knockout frantically scoured his processor for a wise answer to give his leader.

All the while they were distracted talking to the 'Shredder's' and a metal bucket's love-child', I started trying to pry myself free from this garbage compactor's grip to no avail.

{"Please, please, of all the moments in the world, THIS is where I need you the most! Please, don't leave me hanging!"} I silently pleaded and tried concentrating over their loud voices, until;

*POOF*

"What in the Allspark?!" Breakdown stood there slackjawed, looking at his servos.

Megatron raised an optic ridge turning back, only to find that their captive was nowhere to be found.

"BREAKDOWN?!" He roared. "How did our prisoner esc-GAAH!"

I reappeared in mid-air and fell right on top of his helm, but miscalculated my landing and ended up hanging with my legs and tail dangling in his face, while I dug my claws on top of his helm to stop myself from slipping! "This is what I meant, with NOT leaving me hanging!" I squealed.

I tried finding a solid ridge or something to climb up, but couldn't, and found myself scratching Megatron's face even further with the talons on my feet!

"AAAH! Get this thing off me!" He roared and was about to swat me off his faceplate, when I finally managed to crawl up his helm and jump right in the nick of time, before his enormous servo got me!

I hopped off his helm to one of the other ones, and I landed on the shoulder of Breakdown, who tried to grab me, but I slinked away toward his back strut and clung on for dear life as he started swinging about trying to get me.

"HEY! Get your claws out of there!" He roared. Then he got an idea; he will back up into a wall, and that should do the trick.

But realising what he wanted to do, I climbed back up his strut onto his helm and hopped off to the ground and started skittering about trying to find a way out of there. Then I got a close call with a huge grey ped right in front of me!

"And where do you think YOU'RE going?!" Megatron Snarled.

"Anywhere but wherever you wanted to take me, Jerkwad!" I spat and doubled back and headed in the opposite direction. Breakdown blocked my path, but I managed to squeeze past his pedes anyway.

Then out of nowhere, my tail was caught! I turned to look at what it was, and I was unceremoniously hoisted by my tail up to face Knockout again! "Gotcha!" he sneered.

Not giving up as easily as he probably thought, I swung my body up and grabbed hold of his arm with my Talons and trying to pry open his digits with my hands. But as soon as he saw my claws around his arm guards, he flinched and tossed me with what felt like a tremendous force to me, against the wall!

"Gah! *thud* ughnnn..." I groaned in pain and coughed for a bit as the impact literally knocked the air out of my lungs. ["Knockout, alright..."] I realised.

"KNOCKOUT, YOU FOOL! GRAB HER BEFORE SHE ESCAPES!" Megatron Barked at him.

They ran over and when I felt the ground trembling underneath me, my head shot up and I frantically scoured my brain for an escape plan! ["That's it!"]

Scanning the ceiling, I saw what looked like a beam or a vent; I couldn't quite tell what it was, because of the lighting. Quickly getting up and forcing my aching wings to fly me up to the structure and sat there to catch my breath a bit.

Starscream, who never really left, was eavesdropping on Megatron and his goons. When he heard the commotion, he carefully cracked the door open and peeked in. Seeing how everyone was looking up at the ceiling, he directed his attention on their target.

"What in the Allspark?" he whispered.

I had to get moving, they'll probably call in reinforcements to get me down, shoot me or start throwing things at me! What's that? I heard a new voice whisper something...I eyed the room carefully and saw the door was slightly ajar and a pair of those creepy red eyes peeking in from the sliver.

["Bless my comically big ears! That may be my only way out of here, so I'll have to make this count!"] I remembered how they hated my screeching, so I got myself ready.

I never do this, because I want people to start liking me for a change and not hunt me down for being a monster, but these ol' bean cans took the cake in that department already; I made my fur stand on end stiffly like Porcupine spines, opened up my wings wide and hissed at the one behind the door.

Megatron shot Starscream a glare and he panicked, letting the door open completely! ["Bingo!"]

"STARSCREAM YOU FOOL, CLOSE THE D...AAAARGH!" Megatron roared at Starscream, but cut off by an inhuman screeching that came from above. This caused them all to cover their audials in pain.

Keeping up the screeching, I dove down from my perch and flew high over their heads through the door into the hallway! I stopped screeching once I started feeling light-headed, but kept beating my wings to pick up speed, trying to find a way out.

"GET HER! SHE'S ESCAPING!" I heard Megatron yelling, but I kept going.

"Right away, Master!" Breakdown transformed and sped out after the creature. Knockout didn't have to be told twice and followed suit. That left Starscream alone with the fuming warlord.

Megatron gritted his dentas when he saw Starscream's pitiful posture. Megatron's armor growing hotter as his faceplate grew red and Starscream noticed him trembling as he balled his servos in anger.

"AAAAH!" Starscream almost shrieked like a little girl, that's how high-pitched it was. He quickly transformed and rocketed out the door and down the hall after that fleshy pest, narrowly avoiding being blasted to smithereens like the door was, by Megatron's arm canon!

"AAAH!! I better catch that thing, before Megatron decides to have my wings with his energon at his next refuel!!!" He shot through the halls like a bullet, almost knocking over various crewmates in his hurry to catch up and get as far away as possible from the room where Megatron was in.

"Drive Knockout! You almost got 'er!"Exclaimed Breakdown who's fallen behind his fellow decepticon who's vehicle is actually built for speed.

"Is that a Jet engine I hear?!" Knockout panicked.

"We almost got her Lord Megatron, don't hurt us!" Breakdown pleaded, thinking it was his Master coming to destroy them for failing him.

The Jet, however, flew right over their roofs and sped onwards reaching closer to the target.

"Ugh! It's just Starscream!" He almost gave me a Spark-attack!" Knockout huffed.

"Hey, I have an idea; how's about we hang back and let him do all the work and claim credit with Megatron later, huh?" Breakdown suggested.

"Breakdown, you're a genius!" Knockout exclaimed. They still made sure to catch up to Starscream, if their little plan was going to work.

I was seriously beginning to tire out, so when the opportunity showed itself, I resorted to gliding. So long as I don't hear anyone, I'd be fine...I hope.

Suddenly she felt the air around her starting to heat up and the metal the hall was made of was rattling like there was an earthquake going on!

"Oh, come on!" I yelled out of frustration, starting to flap as hard as I could to pick up speed as well, though in the back of my mind I knew that I could probably never outfly whatever was coming my way, even with all this adrenaline going around in my system. Either my wings cramp up from the strain, or my heart gives out, but no way am I giving up!

"COME BACK HERE!" I heard a squealing coming from in the hallway behind me, almost completely drowned out by the Jet's engine.

With no corner to turn in, I could only fly forwards. Dropping to the ground was out of the question, cause if this thing flies over my head at the speed, its going; the sheer strength of the forces at play would probably kill me!

["Must...keep...going...nnnnghhn!"] I struggled stubbornly, but then... as quick as lightning; I was consumed by darkness... I never felt anything, because I've gone numb...

["Did I die? I dunno, but I'm still here...I might be dead, and my thoughts are those from my spirit."]

"Gotcha! Thank the Allspark; my wings will be safe!" Starscream celebrated as he slowed down and landed back on his two peds after transforming.

"Why thank you, Starscream for lending a servo in catching the prisoner for us. Now, let me just take her back to Megatron, and you can be on your way..." Knockout began.

"No, I'll be taking her back! I did all the work!" Starscream interrupted.

"Indeed...I can't believe I agree with you Starscream, but you did capture this creature on your own." Megatron emerged from the shadows whilst the two bots were arguing.

"Oh, Thank you Lord Megatron! I'm always honored to serve under you my liege..." There we go with the groveling again...He handed Megatron the prisoner, who was unconscious again.

"HOWEVER..." Megatron continued. "You deliberately disobeyed my orders!" he roared.

"Uh-oh..." Starscream's features drooped completely at the realisation of where Megatron was going with this.

"I distinctly remember ordering you to go help the drones stack energon IN THE STORAGE ROOM! Where's the Storage room, Starscream?!" Megatron's energon was starting to boil again.

*eep!* "In the back of the ship... my lord..." Starscream twiddled with his digits sheepishly.

"Then, why are you not there, STAR-SCREAM!" Megatron asked angrily, pointing his arm canon at him.

"Eeeek! Out of my way, I have cubes to stack!!!" Starscream shoved past Breakdown and Knockout and hurriedly flew to the back of the ship.

"Now...where were we...? Ah, yes. Knockout, we already saw what this thing can do, but I want you find out anything and everything about this...Monstrosity." Megatron trailed off at the end there, looking at the creature with disgust as he plopped her down in his Scientist's servo.

"Find out what makes it tick, what other abilities does it have? Are there any more of it out there? And if we can harness it's abilities..." Megatron gave him his famous venomous smile as he fantasized how he would be able to crush the opposition once and for all.

"As you wish, my lord." Knockout bowed and turned to head on over to the lab.