-1Here begins the sequel to 'A Series of Impossibilities'. Be warned, this is WAY darker, more violent, and it contains all sorts of evilness.

Megatron and Zephyr share a sort of psychic link, and any and all strong emotions and/or sensations felt by one WILL be felt by the other.

//////////-- Anything passing along the link will be placed between four of these, two on each side.

I own only my characters, any and all OOC-ness, the evil stuff that happens and whatever isn't already claimed by somebody else.

Sins of the Father

A window opened in the silvery skyscraper's side and a slender coal-black form launched itself out, trailing a decidedly feminine-sounding giggle. Megatron must have been in a meeting, or busy doing something equally important that she didn't know about. Either way, he wasn't around. That was fine by Zephyr. She could fly on her own, and fly she did, soaring like a majestic black eagle through the eternally starry skies. The planet had boomed in population over the past few months, all of them Autobots. Since Megatron had become Lord High Protector again everything was running smoothly, they were not running low on anything, energon included, there was no fighting and best of all, no homicidal Decepticons to mess things up. She liked to watch life happening all around her, time turning in its endless dance, and here in the sky she could do just that. None of them would be disturbed by her presence since rarely if ever did anyone look up…

Had she also looked up she would have noticed a group flying above her, one of them shot at her and made a direct connection with her back. Another shot some sort of green ooze that hit her arm and froze it instantly. Practically knocked out of the air, she looked over her shoulder and saw them there. "What the…" Another shot was let off and it collided with her lower body, immobilizing her further. "No!" She was being pulled down, dragged out of the sky, shivering from the cold, not understanding why they were doing this to her, knowing only that she was in trouble, cold and afraid… There was an evil laughter in the air, she looked up and saw what looked to be a twin of Megatron only this one was blue, purple, and slightly golden. //Stark terror flooded her mind for a moment, flooded more than her mind, before she pushed it away.// Setting her thrusters at maximum burn, she struggled to stay in the air.

Megatron was listening to his brother Optimus tell him about a few ideas the Autobots had come up with. He sighed, and remembered how boring this job was, but he listened and stashed the information away as Optimus told it. Suddenly he felt different, fear, he felt terror. Megatron bolted upright, getting everyone's attention. "Something's not right," he said and ran for the door.

Her mind was whirling. "It's him… It's him and it's not him… This is wrong, this makes no sense, cold, it's so cold, they're chasing me, I'm on maximum burn and I'm still going down…" Another laugh reached her. "Well, well, so you're the little wretch that corrupted my father," came a low voice that sounded exactly like Megatron, only crueler. He came closer to her. "We're freezing you in liquid nitrogen, which is immobilizing you quite nicely, and the reason, if you're wondering, why you're still going down is because freezing your now metal body takes away and drains your powers slowly but effectively," he grinned devilishly. The panic came back as she was forced to land, coupled with desperation. It was all she could do to keep her legs from giving out beneath her as she stood facing him. Still shivering, she felt her mind beginning to blur. Still, she fought it. Her whip took shape as she wished with all her heart that somebody would help her… //Panic and desperation…// Those were the only things she was feeling at that moment, but a third emotion quickly rose to join them. //Defiance.//

Megatron felt prickles of each emotion going through Zephyr's body. It pained him to even think of what was going on. "Optimus, take as many of your men you can muster and check the ground level. Fireblaze, Dust Devil, Stormchaser, Typhoon, take to the skies and search every inch of the planet for her if you have to."

"Like heck I'll let you take me," she growled, lashing out with her whip. The Megatron twin only moved out of the way and avoided the pitiful attempt to harm him. "How pathetic you are, I have no idea how you, a little worm, could have altered my father so," he said, almost with a certain cynical charm. Her other arm was disabled, otherwise she would have used her cannon. This wasn't looking good in the slightest… She could still fight, but enough ice and she'd go down and she knew it. The evil twin sighed, bored. He motioned to the one with the liquid nitrogen blaster. "Frostbite, would you do the honors of freezing this leech completely?" The Decepticon nodded and aimed. "You got it, boss," he said and fired a giant wave of liquid nitrogen upon Zephyr. //The cold was unbearable, she could feel nothing else, could see nothing but white…// Three words passed through her mind. //"They got me."//

Megatron's bond with Zephyr was becoming a problem for his focus, but he knew that he had to hurry and find her before it was too late. He opened a multiparty com link. "Has anyone caught sight of her yet?" he asked. "No, sir," all except Optimus answered. "Optimus, have you found her?" he asked. "No, I'm sorry, Megatron." Megatron roared a loud expletive, then felt a shiver run down his silver spine and froze. "They got her," he said, more to himself, but the others heard over the com link.

It was so cold as to be painful, trapped in ice. She remembered this… She'd dreamed Megatron's memories and he'd found himself in a similar situation when he first arrived on Earth. Her mind was blurring, her thoughts slowing and growing dimmer. She tried to break free, but it was all she could do just to squirm feebly. //For a moment, she wondered if this was what it was like to die…//

Megatron had gotten a response from Dust Devil that he spotted Zephyr, and what looked like him. This made him wonder who it could be. That thought was shoved out of the way as Zephyr wondered about the feeling of death. "Hang in there, Zephyr, I'm coming!" he roared and transformed into that unmistakable warplane, streaking across the sky at an unbelievable speed. Even he hadn't thought he was capable of going that fast.

//A momentary thought of Megatron drifted through her mind, a memory of the Army's attack back when they first met, the attack that had led to her discovering her powers…// She barely realized that she'd stopped struggling. //"I stopped them then… but who… will do the same… for me…?"// A warplane came out of nowhere and transformed into the silver being that was Megatron, falling in midair, he tackled the imposter and pinned him to the ground. The imposter smiled. "Hello, Father, glad you dropped by," the twin kicked Megatron off and got to his feet. The silver Decepticon had only one question. "Who in the name of the Pit are you?" The blue twin faked sadness. "Why, I'm hurt, Father, I am your creation, the spitting image of you as it were… that is, if you hadn't switched sides!" Megatron thought for a moment, thinking back somewhere in his memory, and finally it came to him like a kick to the stomach, wrenching his innards. "Galvatron," he muttered. The blue Decepticon smiled. "That's right," he somewhat sang, holding out the I in right.

//In Zephyr's mind, she feebly reached out…// Megatron looked over at the frozen prism that held his dear Zephyr when he felt her reaching out, he turned back to Galvatron. "Let her go!" //…before a surge of blinding white swept her away into a frigid darkness.//

Galvatron only smiled as he saw his father stop in shock, then run over to the frozen casket and beat on it. "No, Zephyr, no!" he yelled, trying so hard to break the liquid nitrogen ice. "It's too late, she's already shut down for the time being, but now for more pressing matters," Galvatron began, walking over to Megatron and slapping him in the face, sending the silver Decepticon to the floor. "How dare you turn your back on your followers for a petty thing like her?" he growled, pointing at the only being the silver Decepticon had ever dared to truly care about.

Megatron got to his feet and glared at his 'son'. "I did it because she saved me from complete deactivation, she is the one who forgave me when no one else would!" he roared and charged at Galvatron, taking him to the ground. "There was no reason to be a Decepticon anymore, I wanted redemption, I wanted the grace of the All Spark, for all the wrongdoings I did," he pinned the mostly purple transformer harder against the metal ground. "I cared for her."

//Cold. Cold and memories… memories of what they had shared…//

Galvatron growled and pushed Megatron off him as the silvery Decepticon abruptly shivered from the feelings crossing his and Zephyr's bond. He then brought his cannon up and blasted Megatron in the midsection, sending him sprawling face down on the ground. "Whiplash, Seahawk, Darkstorm, Brightshadow, Frostbite. Grab our target and let's get out of here!" he ordered, his minions doing as he said and took the frozen Zephyr into the sky. Galvatron looked down at his struggling creator with a wicked smile and kicked him. "You have become weak, Father," he scowled and spat in the silver Decepticon's face. Then he took to the stars and disappeared with his followers.

Optimus and the others arrived a minute later and found Megatron on the ground, blasted and beaten, struggling with all his might to just stand. Optimus ran over to him and turned him over, asking what had happened. The only response he received was a murmured "I failed…" The Autobot leader froze for a moment. His voice… It sounded so… broken.