June Bug 1
Nemesis: Lord Megatron barks to his officers, "Find me that Fem-female Darby! We shall set a nice little trap for Prime and his Autobots. Forget the children, go for what will even make the children foolish."
It's not long and Soundwave is pinging Megatron coordinates. In return, he orders both Shockwave and Starscream, "Set the trap. No bickering between you two, just do it."
"Where are you going?" Starscream scoffs hating the idea of having to work with his own personal Nemesis the genius and most loyal of all Megatron's soldiers: Shockwave.
In glaring down on Starscream, Megatron makes him bowing backwards in three powerful strides. "Taking care of things for myself. I'm not going to let you or anyone else screw this up. If you want it done right, do it yourself, so I will. Now, GO!"
Shockwave bows, Soundwave cants his helm and Starscream gulps, "Yes master."
In a sharp turn away, Megatron is down the halls of his ship and onto her flight deck. He takes a run, and dives off the deck falling into his jet form and firing off at sonic speed to Jasper's Hospital. It feels so damn good to feel the wind surrounding him. Although he could have time alone anytime he really wants, it just feels so good to pull off a mission alone for a change.
What he hasn't told any of them, is he wants to find out about this Carrier of Jackson Darby's. That little human has so many rumors flying about him. Young Darby is enough of a pain in his side by being noble, strong willed and…too much like Optimus.
No, Orion.
Megatron sighs to his own private thoughts. Of course he will never admit to even Soundwave or Shockwave that he misses his old friend Orion and what they could have done for their home together. It's didn't have to be this violent. There's days that even he knows he could just stop this, but pride and determination looks so much like arrogance now.
Anyway. The reason he wants to meet this Carrier Darby for himself, is he wants to find out what she has taught young Jackson Darby. What makes him so different for the kid the glasses (nerdy like Soundwave or Shockwave) or the little feisty femme (so much like Starscream in disobeying everything thing and causing havoc for not just the Autobots but the Decepticons as well).
Maybe there is still some hope for Optimus and him to get through this peacefully. Yes this is still a trap, but if there a way Megatron can convince June to convince Jackson then there may be hope yet to sway Optimus' stubborn spark to see reason!
He huffs and drops his speed so he can settle down and wait without kicking up too much dirt and giving away his position behind a thick grove of trees. Now he waits.
It's not long and the female medic is exiting the building and climbing into her old yet functioning vehicle. It's not an Autobot or anything flashy, just a dull boring car that would blend in with so many others on this road. If it wasn't for Soundwave locating her cell phone' unique band, he could easily lose her. He does not want to pick her up at her home, because Arcee is there so often, so his plan is to snag her enroute without grabbing the wrong fleshy.
She pulls out of her parking space and onto the main road. Much to Megatron's delight, looks like she might be heading out into the open desert. He chuckles and launches as a jet. He can come in low over the top of her, and drops a magnet (much like those scrap yards have) and easily picks up her light vehicle. Like catching petro rabbits in a cage!
June only screams once to be let go, but considering this is a Decepticon warrior, there are really no options. She flips open her phone, but really isn't that surprised to find the single is jammed. So she humphs and crosses her arms over her chest. Getting hysterical isn't going to do any good in a crisis, that much she knows from ER duty with druggies or plenty of hysterical family members of patients.
"So, what's the plan? I take it I'm bait for the Autobots or am I an experiment for your scientists?"
Megatron chuckles and sends a deep voice through her radio speakers, "Experiment, now that does have an added bonus. Thank you for the idea, I'm sure Shockwave will be pleased."
June rolls her eyes and groans. "Great job June, aid the enemy for your own demise."
Megatron tisks, "Oh I'm sure someone would have thought about it eventually, but you just happened to be the first to voice it."
"Well in that case, I think I chose to remain silent rather than help you any more."
That does bring out a delightful laugh from Megatron. The timber of his laugh is enough to shake her car and does strange things to her body.
Although she's a bit pissed at being kidnapped and not at all thrilled about being use like a carrot in a rabbit trap, she can't help but enjoy the sound of his laugh. More than that, is the fact that little ol her has caused him to laugh not once, but twice. This is not an evil maniacal laugh either, but one of pure entertainment. She has made him amused by just being herself.
But there's something else. Could it be respect? He's not goading her to be frightened or even telling her to shut up. He doesn't mind her banter. June is not stupid enough to antagonize him, but she is a bit curious about that respect thought.
She drums her fingers along the steering wheel as if bored. She's not about to let him know she's scared shitless.
"Don't worry, Femme Darby, we will be there soon enough."
"Can't wait," she grouses. "Take it I'm not getting flowers, candles or even chocolate?"
"Oh, is that what Optimus Prime brings you?"
June chokes on her saliva and this time she is the one to start laughing. She laughs so hard that her sides begin to hurt. "Oh lord, please tell me that was a joke, because you can not seriously believe he and I are… something."
Megatron's spark lifts to seeing her laugh so hard that tears come down her face. Just to see how hard he can make her laugh, he pushes a little further, "That's true. Prime's too much of a prude that he's probably had his cod welded shut like an Elitist Chastity plate. After all this time, he probably wouldn't know what to do if his spike got stiff and a femme shoved her wet value in his face!"
June knows she shouldn't laugh, but she keens over gasping for breath. That was a load of information she just really didn't need to know. As a nurse, she's seen her fair share of male intimate parts to not be aroused by just the sight of one (erect or limp), but the thought of a prim and proper Optimus shoving a female away just cracks her up.
"Oh and I supposed that as Decepticon Warlord, you have had every female between here and Cybertron begging for you attention?" It was daring and bold, but she just couldn't stop herself.
"Wouldn't you like to know," the tone is low and very lecherous. It stops her mirth pretty quickly. "We're here," he ends the conversation with a profession clip before it can go any further.
First he flips to his bi-pede mode with her car in his hand, but he doesn't dare look at her. For their last bit of conversation, June can't look at him either, for she knows her eyes would track down to his cod and that would make things even more uncomfortable than just being a carrot right now.
"Report," Megatron commands his officers.
"Everything is in place, My Lord," Shockwave answers standing by his console.
"Autobots are on their way," Starscream relays his information as well.
"Good, just as it should be." Megatron has a his back straight and on high alert. Earlier games with June are far in the past. Right now, he is Warlord Leader in control of his domain.
June just sits and waits. Having seen him in a fun mood and now all business, it's a bit of a shock for her. For Optimus is always professional if not fatherly. She can't remember him ever having a bit of fun for himself. Has he even got any hobbies? Could Megatron be correct in that Optimus is all prude with the Prime title? Is this one of the things the Matrix of Leadership buried and killed was the fun in Megatron's friend Orion?
But Nurse Darby doesn't get to think on that for long, because the sound of Autobots arriving takes everyone's attention. Optimus, Ratchet, and Wheeljack come in swords at the ready.
With deft fingers, Megatron plays with the car holding June. "Well that took less time than I expected." He's delicate in not making it rock too much to make her sick, but she is precariously perched in his claw tips. One sneeze and she'll be on the ground. At this height, those rubber tires won't let her bounce much.
Ratchet growls and takes a step, but Optimus palms his chest to a halt. "What is it this time, Megatron? You have the Energon stores, not us. You have most of the artifacts, not us, so what to you want?"
"What you always want, Prime." Megatron plunks the car down to the table top, and slaps his palm over the hood. Easily he could squash it like an aluminum can under a foot, but the claw tips keep that from happening. "Talk, I want to talk."
"About what?" Wheeljack flicks his swords.
Megatron shoots the Wrecker a bored look reminding him of his place. "None of your business, soldier."
This time Optimus steps beyond Ratchet and Wheeljack so that he is face to face with his adversary. He does stow his sword though. "Alright, I'm here. You baited the trap and caught me. What do you want because I have better things to do than play your games."
"Cybertron's life is not a game. Or have you forgotten Her, oh Holy Prime?" Megatron growls and clenches the hand not around the car. "And no, I'm not going to let the female Darby go just yet so that you can dash away and hide again. We are going to deal with this here and now. It's your games I'm done playing."
Optimus takes a deep sigh, and nods. "Fine, she stays."
Ratchet tries to sputter but Optimus holds a hand up silencing him. Wheeljack stows his kantanas but unclips his grenade. "Take this, you might need to shove it down his throat or up his aft."
For that Optimus does scowl at his soldier. Megatron though cocks a brow at the rather cocky mech. "Like to see you try."
Wheeljack shoves past Optimus and thrust up. Shockwave though shoots his cannon sending the grenade rolling to the floor. That would have been fine if Starscream hadn't dove for it landing next to a bio-tank and accidentally activating it as it slides further under a tank. He scrabbles for it.
The beeping sends everyone for cover. Shockwave activates the ground bridge and grabs for Megatron's arm which sends the car headed for a long fall.
Megatron, Ratchet, and Optimus go for the car. The two Autobots end up shoving each other further away and sliding behind a protective barrier. Megatron though catches the car and rolls away.
When the pitch of the grenade increases, Starscream runs for the open ground bridge. Wheeljack is right after him to try and stop him. "You coward. Stay and fight like a mech!"
Shockwave leaps to grab for Megatron's ankle and drag him through the bridge, but it's too late. The grenade goes off under the tank firing glass, bio-agent and a shockwave through the air. The purple scientist is flung off his pedes and backwards through the ground bridge crashing into Wheeljack and it closes. Optimus and Ratchet are buried under their barrier as it falls over.
Megatron gets the worst of it. Bio-agent is all over him and soaking into his seams. Between the shockwave, shrapnel, and crash to the ground, his chest plate is knocked loose and even his spark chamber is breached. Bio-agent slips in. Lastly, his hand holding the car falls over limp.
June comes to and is shocked to find her car is upright. She starts it, and pulls forward. Some how Megatron's fall protected her from a worse crash, and his hand wrapped around the car kept it intact. She's actually able to drive out from under his fingers and does so aiming for a spot of daylight in the cavern wall.
She stops suddenly though when a body falls across her hood. A human male.
Although she is scared, and really just wants to flee, she can't leave a human to be one of the Decepticon science experiments. In a flash, and with the help of adrenaline, she drags the six foot-four, well muscled, late forties, unconscious man into the back of her sedan. She's not gentle about it but has to get moving before the Decepticons come to and try to catch her or their escapee experiment.
She barrels out of the cave and out in the direction of the setting sun. That much she did pay attention to when Megatron was pulling her through the air. Jasper is to the west of this place and soon enough she finds a dirt road, which leads to a single lane paved one and so forth.
Once she is on the highway, she dares to look back at the man. Before it didn't matter if he was alive or dead if they weren't even anywhere away from danger. Now, they have a better chance of being safe and she can access his injuries. The man is shivering, from whatever goo they had over him but he's still out. No obvious signs of injury or blood, thank goodness.
At the next turn out, she pulls over and gets the blanket from the trunk of her car and emergency water. By the time she returns to the back seat, he is starting to moan and come around. She drapes the blanket over his naked form.
"Hey, careful there. I'm a nurse, I'll get you some help. Can you tell me your name or what happened back there?"
The man sits up, blinks his eyes and then lifts his head to look at her. The ruby red eyes should have told her, but it's his voice. "Nuh. What the - What happened?!"
June's knees give out and she lands in the gravel on her butt wheezing. "Megatron?"