Coward
Chapter One
Prison
"Do I have to do it?"
"Yes."
"Can't you get anyone else to do it?"
"They're all out in the field, someone has to feed them, Arcee, for the love of Primus... My hands are tied as is."
Same old medic, same old attitude...
She grumbled all the way, carrying a canister of energon with her. The war may be over, though what with piecing Cybertron back together, it was easier said than done. Some Decepticons willingly surrendered and were helping Bulkhead with construction. Those who did not agree to a peaceful surrender were placed in the Nemesis prison hold. Amongst them was the vainest, most conceited of them all.
The face behind the screen smirked at her. "Where's the big guy?"
Arcee narrowed her optics. "He's... out."
"And they sent you? They shouldn't have...!"
It was a good thing the screen was the only thing preventing her from striking him. She slipped the energon into the holding cell, the energy source soon in Knock Out's hands. The Decepticons did just lost the mighty war. Knock Out must have lost everything. Friends, comrades... their home. If Bee didn't have the doctor's buffer, Knock Out wouldn't be as cooperative.
"I said I'm joining the winning team," he began. "Why am I still in here? I've changed, I've seen the error of my ways...!"
As she began to walk away, her footsteps paused. They fought each other here and there on Earth. He always ran to Megatron for shelter when he needed a ground bridge, and now he said he was joining the 'winning team'?
She strut back to the prison cell.
"You're lucky that Optimus told us to put you here, rather than abandon you on some uninhabited moon," began Arcee. "You were the one who joined Megatron. If you have a cause, you stick with it to the very end, now you're switching sides when you have nothing left to loose? You're a coward, Knock Out."
Before she stepped out of the corridor, she stopped one more time. Turning, the smirk disappeared from his face, the air of bravado now stunning shame.
"You know, for a moment I felt sorry for you and your kind. Can't believe that I actually did."