Disclaimer: Don't own Transformers – Hasbro does. Don't own Pokémon – someone else does.
Decepticon MasterChapter 2 – Mutiny
"I lust for battle." Megatron announced, causing Pikachu to grimace. They had been walking the forest road for some time, waiting to come across another pokémon to fight, but nothing had come up.
Megatron stopped and looked down on Pikachu. "I require intel; what are you're abilities?"
Pikachu glanced up at Megatron and blinked. "Pikachu pi pi? (You mean other than shoot bolts of lightning?)"
"Yes! Reveal your powers to me, so that I may deploy you as it pleases me."
Pikachu thought about it for a moment. "Pi pi chu pika kachu… (Well, I can climb trees pretty well…)" To demonstrate, the lightning rat raced up a nearby tree and sat perched on a branch. Megatron was decidedly unimpressed.
"I see." Megatron pulled out his pokédex. "Perhaps this can illuminate the matter."
With a beep, the pokédex began speaking. "Pikachu. Its powers include; Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Thunder, and Tackle." Then shut up.
Megatron was even more unimpressed with the red machine in his hand. "Why must I deal with incompetence at every turn?" He said to himself.
Pikachu shrugged, but then their attention was snagged by a low caw. They turned to see a small bird pecking at the earth for food. Megatron immediately turned his pokédex on it.
"Pidgey, the bird-pokémon." It announced. "Pidgey are common and easy to capture."
They waited for more information, but none came. Megatron shook the device a little, but nothing more was forthcoming.
He sneered. "Bah, useless human technology!" Megatron squeezed his hand and shredded the red pokédex. Letting the strips of metal fall to the grass, Megatron pointed at the Pidgey. "Pikachu!" He screamed. "Attack! Shooow nooo mercy!"
Pikachu scratched behind his ear with his hindlegs. "Piii, Pikachu. (Ahhh, do it yourself.)"
Megatron was in a rage. "This is mutiny, Pikachu! Mutiny!"
The Pidgey stirred at all the noise, and Megatron decided to attack before it got away. Raising his cannon, he fired a powerful fusion blast, but the bird managed to take flight as the purple blast struck. Watching the bird fly speedily away, Megatron yelled after it.
"PIDGEY!! Come back and face me, you coward!"
Angry that their battle had been shunned, Megatron looked to the side and saw another bird. Without pause, he fired again, sending the creature through the air.
"Die, pathetic winged pest!"
The bird stood up from the ground, and the transformer noticed that it looked very different to the Pidgey. It was sleeker, with a sharper beak, and a vicious look in its eyes. Megatron liked this bird, preparing to fight.
But rather than meet him in a glorious duel, the bird squawked into the air, summoning legions of its kin. Pikachu, who had been spectating, saw the approaching cloud of birds and leapt from its branch in fear, barely avoiding being pecked in the back of the neck.
The flock swarmed around Megatron and Pikachu, who tried to ward off the flurry of pecks desperately.
"What treachery is this?" Cried Megatron. "Retreat! RETREAT!!"
The two of them sprinted off blindly, covering their heads from the pursuing birds. Megatron raised a forearm to his mouth, a small communicator flipping open.
"Soundwave!" He begged desperately. "I need back-up immediately!"
Hardly a moment passed before Soundwave flew in beside the running Megatron. The birds curiously ignored him.
"Hail Lord Megatron!" The navy transformer saluted.
"Soundwave, what are these things?" Megatron demanded. Soundwave obliged in his droning monotone.
"Spearow – the unnecessarily aggressive pokémon." The Communications Officer recited from behind his faceplate. "Spearow are known to attack trainers in unfairly large numbers and be all-round jerks."
Megatron growled, trying to swipe a Spearow from the air. "I know that; what are our options?"
Pikachu, sprinting along at Megatron's feet, offered his thoughts. "Pika pichu? (Can't you guys just fly off?)"
"They'll catch us." The Decepticon leader stated, but his red eyes gleamed as he saw an approaching cliff. "But if we can't escape above ground, we can under water!"
Making a beeline for the cliff, Megatron scooped up Pikachu and dove off. The Spearow passed overhead while the two off them fell towards the lake below them. Soundwave stayed airborne, forgotten by all.
Decepticon and pokémon together crashed into the water, dragged immediately by its surprisingly strong current. They were pulled passed a school of magikarp, and Pikachu tried to scream through the water when a gyrados sped towards them, desiring to feed.
Megatron punched the creature in the mouth, sending it reeling. Kicking his iron legs, the Decepticon swum them away in case the water snake decided to fight back.
Then suddenly they were caught in a long hook.
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Sitting peacefully by the still river sat Misty, a young girl with fiery red hair. She was trying to relax, since she usually loved fishing, but today nothing was biting. It was getting her down.
But something was on her mind, which had drawn her so far from her hometown for a simple fishing trip in the first place. She needed to get away from her sisters and their small army of suitors, since it reminded her that she still had never had a boyfriend. Already Misty had reached the ripe old age of twelve, and was fast approaching spinsterhood. Would she never find a man?
Suddenly, something tugged her line, brightening her spirits. Standing up, she pulled with all her strength, but the catch fought back. It looked like a big one. Broadening her stance, Misty made one more might tug…
…pulling the catch high into the air to land roughly just near by. Since it clearly wasn't a water pokémon, Misty skipped over the rocks to see what she had fished from the river.
She paused at what she saw – a very handsome white transformer with beautiful red eyes.
"Hellooo nurse…" she muttered, before noticing that he was clutching a pokémon – a Pikachu. The Pikachu was coughing up water, but the transformer wasn't moving. She crouched down beside him to see if he was okay.
Suddenly, the transformer's hand lashed forward and grabbed her suspenders, pulling himself upright.
"I liiiive!" He rasped. Misty covered her mouth to keep herself from gasping. He had such a gravely, manly voice.
It must be destiny, she decided.
"Uh, hi there!" She said, standing up as the transformer got up too. Beside them, Soundwave floated to the ground, unnoticed by everybody.
Megatron fixed the flesh-bag with an annoyed look.
"What?"
Misty touched her hair shyly. "Hey, I was just wondering what you were doing swimming around out there?"
Megatron turned away roughly. "That's no business of yours." He lifted Pikachu by the scruff of his neck up to eye level. "Pikachu, report."
Pikachu opened his eyes wearily. "Piikaaachu… (Next time tell me before you jump off a cliff, jerk…)" He said, coughing up more lungfuls of water. Misty started at his condition.
"Hey, is he okay?" She asked, hoping that pokémon would be a nice conversation-starter. "You should get him to the Pokémon Centre down at Viridian City – it's not far from here."
Megatron was about to tell the nuisance what she could do with her advice when Soundwave broke in.
"Megatron, alert. Incoming."
Looking up, the Decepticon saw that the Spearow flock had found them and was intent on seeing them terminated.
"A thousand curses!" He cried, looking around and seeing a shuttle parked on top of the rise – presumably the girl's. He signalled Soundwave and raced up to it with Pikachu.
Misty, who had intended to offer them a lift, was about to call out when Megatron used a fusion blast to blow a hole in the side of her shuttle. He and his companions burst inside and slaughtered all its crew in a matter of moments.
As they started its engines, Misty's rage at having her shuttle stolen overrode her desire for a date.
"Hey!" She cried over the igniting turbines. "That's my shuttle!"
Megatron stuck his head out the window as it began to take off. "Either I take your shuttle or your life! Be grateful for my generosity, earth-germ!"
The shuttle launched from the ground, throwing up a cloud of dust and leaves, leaving Misty coughing at the fumes and seething in anger, but nonetheless vowing to find that man and meet him again.
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Standing tense at the control board, Pikachu groggily sitting nearby, Megatron guided the craft over the trees, desperately hoping to outrun the Spearow.
Killing the crew had been a mistake; with only he and Soundwave piloting, the shuttle was barely staying in the air, let alone leaving the pursuing birds behind. He clenched his fists and growled. This was not good.
Clouds were gathering, and it started to rain. He spared a thought for the girl at the lake who had 'lent' them the shuttle. With only her fleshling meat and bones to protect her, the weather would be hard on her in the wild. But he shook the thought from his mind – there were more important things to do.
Suddenly the shuttle shook. Outside, the Spearow had gathered around the shuttle, striking at its engines and key points. Smoke spewed forth from its gaping wounds, and the ship began to lose altitude.
"Attention; primary and secondary reactors down." Declared Soundwave. Megatron swore, striking his now useless controls.
"Slag it all!"
One Spearow, the one Megatron had attacked initially, swooped in and made one final blow to the fuselage. This caused a sudden explosion on board, causing the shuttle to veer uncontrollable.
"Mayday! Mayday!" Soundwave cried, still in his dead tone. "Prepare for crash!"
The Spearow backed off to clear the explosion. In a trail of smoke, the ship crashed like a comet into the forest, then erupted in a pillar of flames and raining wreckage.
Reactivating his optics, Megatron registered considerable damage over his entire body. Looking up, he saw Soundwave knocked offline and Pikachu laying next to him, blackened with wounds to his frail biological body.
Reaching out and prodding the creature, Pikachu opened his eyes, groaning in pain. Knowing that the Spearow would come back to finish the job, Megatron reached around and took his pokéball, setting it in front of Pikachu.
"Your damage is extensive." He said. "Retreat into your stasis-ball until we can repair you."
Weakly, Pikachu shook his head. Megatron respected the small rat's valour in refusing bondage, even if it meant death.
"Adirmable." He stated, then pushed upright, despite his internal diagnostics screaming at him that he was beyond operational parameters. He never paid attention to those parameters, anyway. Pikachu watched, a growing sense of respect welling within in.
Megatron turned to face the Spearow alone as they swept in for the finishing strafe. His fusion cannon was tossed aside, he was theoretically damaged beyond operation, but there was one thing Megatron would never do, and that was bow to another.
"Hear me, Spearow!" He announced, raising his hand authoritatively, though he wobbled a little. "I am Megatron, leader of all Decepticons. I will not rest until all worlds, all peoples kneel before me." He growled and decided to speak in a manner they'd understand. "I will be the number one Pokémon Master in all the universe!"
Megatron narrowed his eyes and spread his arms wide, mockingly, as though to say 'hit me with all you've got'. "My ambition, my destiny is stronger than all of you together; a thousand – a million million times over." He snarled large. "I will defeat and capture you all!"
Pikachu gaped up at his trainer, bravely standing in the rain as hundreds of Spearow descended upon him. Ignoring the pain, Pikachu pushed himself on his claws, willing to fight for this transformer who aspired for ultimate greatness.
Just as the Spearow neared their target, Megatron shouted.
"Pikachu, now!"
The rat was stunned as Megatron back flipped into the air and transformed into a pistol. Landing in Pikachu's lap, the yellow rat instinctively fired a thunderbolt and pulled the trigger.
A stream of anti-matter, drawn directly from a black hole, poured forth from Megatron's barrel, slamming directly into the Spearow. A blast of black light, visible for miles, struck the flock from existence, leaving only an empty sky as the clouds cleared.
Normally, such an attack would drain Megatron of all his energy reserves, but Pikachu's blast of electricity charged his batteries enough that he could still remain conscious. Gazing up at the now blue sky, he saw a strange, sparkling pokémon fly by.
Having had enough of birds for the day, Megatron considered shooting it down, but he didn't have the power. He turned and looked at the even more exhausted Pikachu. The rat smiled at him, but Megatron was beyond sentimental happiness.
Getting to his feet, Megatron gather up his weapons – the fusion cannon and Pikachu, then kicked Soundwave back online. They didn't have the energy to fly, but they could still hopefully get to the next town on foot.
Leaving the shuttle wreckage behind, Megatron pondered what he'd said to the Spearow on the whim of emotion.
"I suppose I didn't capture them in the end, after all." He mused.
They were content to stroll until they heard a shout far behind them, remarkably like the girl from the river.
"What the HELL happened to my shuttle?!"
They ran the rest of the way.
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Author's Notes:
Oh, that got a little serious there. I suppose it was a dramatic scene, though…
I don't plan on going through every episode, or even necessarily sticking to the anime plot. This isn't exactly planned out, but we'll see what we do.
Not a terribly creative way of introducing Soundwave, but meh.
Misty out of character? Surely not… :P
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