They both headed to the same planet in separate transports to pursue each their own criminal. For Magnus it was Cyclonus, simply because he was a Decepticon. For Marissa it was a wanted criminal wanted on ten separate planets for very punishable crimes. Ultra Magnus automatically got into a scuffle with Cyclonus the moment he unboarded his vehicle. For Marissa, after she discovered Magnus there, she spotted her quandary and headed off to apprehend him. Both of them were not having the best time in each of their private battles, even when Cyclonus decided to fly off abruptly laughing all the way before firing into Marissa's transport instantly destroying it.
While Marissa finally had hers caught and placed in cuffs, she started off towards it when that happened thusly angering her instantly after she peeled herself off the ground before throwing curses.
Seeing his own transport was still fine and working, Magnus came up to her quickly. "Want a lift?"
"Yes. Thanks."
"Get in so I can pursue him before he becomes lost again." He suggested none to kindly.
Rushing in after him, she went to the brig he had in there to instantly lock her prisoner in before joining him up front. "I should shoot him for destroying my ship."
"Well are you all right at least?" He asked as he activated the thrusters once he locked in on Cyclonus's coordinates.
"It'll take more than that to knock me down." She replied sitting down in the controls vertical to him with her back facing him.
Since it was mostly him in this ship, he hardly had anyone in it besides himself and a prisoner. Very rare he would have another, and that other being would have to sit where she was currently. "Well I know you won't ask me what his crime is."
"Well being a Decepticon is all the explanation that is required. It isn't like he skipped charm school many times so we are bringing him for judgement there." She quipped with utter seriousness.
"If that later case was the reason, than there will be a whole group of Autobots heading to the brig right about now." Magnus spotted Cyclonus in the distance. "There he is now."
Seeing where he was, she waited for a fight to ensue. She hated to admit it, but there were times she craved it just for that adrenaline burst that it did to you. Watching Cyclonus transform for a minute, he stopped to fire dead in the path of them causing Magnus to jerk to the left before firing off his weapon. Cyclonus fired again, before he transformed again to his alt mode, and flew from them. Magnus refused to lose him from his sights as he fired at him again making Cyclonus manuever so quick and abrupt that there was a strong jolt from the top of the ship. Pulling up the monitor to see where he was, Magnus wasn't going to take any chances as he pulled up a reserve helmet to toss over to her before a strong sound was heard.
Pulling the helmet up, she pulled up the monitor to see that the prisoner was starting not to breath from the lack of oxygen in the air. Activating her anti gravity boots she took the restraint off and fled as fast to the brig. She knew Magnus would always have a spare around here.
"Marissa!" Magnus called.
"You can't let your man get away and neither can I. Do you have another one of these?" She called back.
"Yes, right next to the control panel at the brig. Be careful. I have to head out there." He told her as he went to the air lock to let himself out where he was greeted by Cyclonus just peering at him with open amusement. "You're coming with me."
Shaking his head, Cyclonus just went into instant fight mode with him as they tussled on top of the ship. Inside, Marissa got out the other helmet to instantly slap it on the prisoner's head before she re-activated the brig again. Stepping back, she kept hearing them both so she decided to head back out front to look through the monitor that they were just fighting. Pulling up the weapon, she aimed it at Cyclonus to stun him. She knew Magnus wanted to bring him in alive. Being patient she waited for her chance before she hit him point-blank causing him to almost float off before Magnus caught him to drag him inside.
Magnus slapped some stasis cuffs on him as he walked to the brig door to throw him inside. Walking back to the front, he pressed a few buttons to make a metal door slam shut over the hole. "I'll let you know when the air is stable in here." When a few minutes passed he let her know. "We have normalcy, Marissa."
Taking off her helmet, she leaned back in her vast seat. "That was fun."
Hearing a communications alert, he pulled it up. "Hello Arcee. Is there anything I can do for you?" He asked in his normal typical way.
"Quite a performance you did there, Magnus. Any way you could of let me have any fun if I wanted it?" She teased.
"I know how you have fun, Arcee, so no."
"Oh Magnus, you need a femme to give you something in your berth for one night, but wait there is only me right now." She replied. Both Marissa and Magnus caught the notable sneer in her voice. "A pleasure bot perhaps? Or maybe I can extend myself for one night. Provided you don't bore me to tears."
"What do you want, Arcee?"
"Oh nothing just wanted to spread the torture around. Bye lover." Arcee closed with a long laugh before they heard the communication was indeed cut off.
"I agree with the evil femme. You need to attend yourself in a berth. Perhaps your female friend there could help." Cyclonus mentioned loudly.
Closing that section off to stop from hearing anymore, but still leaving the monitors open, Magnus sighed as he calculated the position of where she was stationed. "We still have a lot of time between here and there."
"Cyclonus is more charming sounding than her though." She said before standing up. "I do need to check on my prisoner though." Walking through to that area after lifting that wall back up, she went to face the guy as he still sat there huddled against the wall. "You can take off that helmet now."
"I should extend a note of apology for my remark just a moment ago."
Lifting her chin up to regard Cyclonus who sat on the berth staring down at her, she just shrugged. "Heard worse."
"I can imagine, but still. I may not be fond of you flesh creatures, but I can't degrade anyone to that level."
"But yet you did."
"True, but I'm in here. Although not for long. He knows I always manage to get away." Without bothering to glance at the human next to him, he asked. "And him?"
"He makes you almost look like a missionary, Cyclonus." She answered. "While, yes you have killed, I never heard of you killing any sparklings and doing other unspeakable things to them."
Flashing his eyes at that, Cyclonus sneered at the male beside him. "You should of let what I've done kill him then."
Sighing, she went to the corner of his cell to be far away from her inmate. "I can't do that, you should know that."
"Yes, just as noble and forthright as him out there. Boring, but I daresay I'm certain you get your fair share of offers compared to him." He said with a mischievous smirk as he winked at her with one optic. "He's dead below the waist. You don't seem to be."
Marissa stared at him for a bit before turning around. "Yes well, nice talking to you. Bye for now." Heading back out, she closed the partition again. "He is still more of a delight then Arcee at times."
In silence now for twenty minutes, Marissa looked over at her stoic friend in concern. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Marissa, just concentrating here."
"Well you are concentrating pretty hard for someone who doesn't have any obstructions in his way. What is the matter?"
Magnus thought about the question. Thought about answering it, but instead just said. "There may not be any meteor fields in front of us, but it doesn't mean that there isn't any more Decepticons in the area."
She nodded at that, but she knew he was avoiding the question. "How much longer till we get to my base at least?"
"According to my calculations, an hour."
Getting up, she walked over to his side, and climbed up so she can be more eye level with him instead of always turning. She was mindful where she stepped before she settled near him where she noticed his optic flash briefly on her before staring straight ahead. "Does it hurt your feelings?"
"What are you referring to?"
"Not the first time I've heard anyone say that you need to get something or that you are a stick in the mud. Does it get to you?" She wondered.
"I never let it bother me."
"Not even a little?"
Activating the auto pilot, he leaned back knowing she wasn't going to stay quiet. They both were use to interrogating others for information and while her questions to him were gentle sounding, they weren't any less obstructive right to his being. "Why are you curious, Marissa?"
"Well I guess I just don't want you being hurt by it, that's all."
"Thank you for the concern, but I've lived a long time to live beyond all that." He said with a slight smile.
"Would you of taken up Arcee up on her offer if it was serious?"
Laughing at that question, he noticed it took her by surprise. "Her? No. While she is attractive, she is someone I wouldn't ever consider." Examining her, he asked her. "Cyclonus. Would you consider that mech?"
Eyes widening up at that question. "Why would you ask that question about him?"
"Not only can I see things in this monitor, but I can hear them."
"But he didn't proposition me."
Leaning forward to his friend, he said softly. "He did in his own way." Leaning back he placed his hands on his lap. "In spite of him saying how he doesn't like creatures made of flesh, I've caught him a few times in those places with some. Decepticons are sometimes bad liars."
"I'd rather have sex with that control stick right now." She quipped.
Eyeing the stick in front of him, he received a flood of thoughts there that made him stammer which in turn made her giggle. "Not funny."
"But you are certainly a male and no matter how you may say or think you don't want to feel that way, you do." She countered.
"How is it that lately whenever we have been speaking it has circled around this subject, Marissa?"
The way he spoke that question and the way he ended it with saying her name, it was spoken in the most level headed way, but to her it sounded a bit... Sensual. "I guess this lonely life gets me to think a lot of things and since you and I are close friends, I just feel comfortable in talking to you about anything."
Seeing something on the monitor, he opened up the partition to quickly run into the brig area with her following behind as Cyclonus managed to open the cell. Preparing her weapon, along with the helmet, she watched as they started to fight in front of her. Cyclonus got his stasis cuffs off to reactivate his weapons. Punching a hole through the ship again, Marissa and the prisoner placed their helmets on while she shot at him. Smiling down at her, he snapped her up in his hand while looking wolvishly at Magnus.
"Waste of a perfectly fitting female, Ultra Magnus." Cyclonus stated. "Imagine if this one was a femme. Just imagine all the power she'd wield."
"Put her down." Magnus said evenly. "This is between us."
Giving the scum a brief glance before looking to Magnus, he shook his head. "I am not fond of hostages, but perhaps you can deliver that one for her while I take her with me. Oh don't worry, I won't harm her. I want to see the bite she has on her." Winking his optic at him, Cyclonus once again shot the ship up again before climbing out one of the holes before transforming to speed away. While she cursed at him, he smiled internally. "He'll be fine and you'll see him again. I just want to see how soon it will be."
"Why?"
"Want to see if the tin man has a spark? I do." Cyclonus teased as he headed off to his secret place. In honesty, he really kinda enjoyed this game between them. The unending tug-o-war between them where it seems no one wins.
Seeing that the ships holes were patched over, and that the prisoner inside was brought to her base. He informed them quickly what had happened before he got back on his ship to head off to locate them both. Receiving a ping, Magnus noticed it was from Cyclonus. He did enjoy doing this to him.
After sending the signal, Cyclonus gazed over at her face. "He'll be on his way. Is there anything you would like to do to pass the time?"
"Rip yours wires out, perhaps." She replied as amused as she can get.
"You can touch them, but not rip them. You do know that touching them can be erotic, don't you?" He teased.
Making a face at that, she said. "Actually I didn't."
Walking close to her, he spoke to her casually as if they did this all the time. "Well I know your cousins know. Surprised you didn't. I guess they don't tell you anything in that way."
"We don't talk like that."
"I guess you aren't close then." Sitting down near her, he stretched his legs out in front of him.
"Actually I'm sure they do talk about that stuff, but it was probably early on. I know they aren't the types to kiss and tell." She offered as she studied him. "Are you the type to kiss and tell?"
"No, but Magnus has seen an indecent moment between me and someone before. Not like I care. Would you like to know what I enjoy doing with a femme though?"
"No. Not even in the slightest." Marissa answered turning her face out to look outside the cave they were in.
"I'm glad you don't. Each one is different. Never met one that I actually must have all the time." Waving his hand in front of him at an unseen gesture, he added. "Not in the salicious way. Not someone I want to bond with, although being a Decepticon you automatically void that feeling out of your life."
"You are just trying to weaken me right now. Place me on your side so when Magnus comes I will tell him not to apprehend you." Marissa stated.
"Actually not. I'm just trying to kill the time until he arrives."
"All right rabbit ears."
Feeling his helm, he shrugged. "I see why he likes you. Pity he will never get any farther with you then just being friends."
Getting up from where she was sitting, she wandered to the mouth of the cave to look out into the rocky terrain. She still had her helmet, so past the barrier he placed up, she would be okay to still breath some air, but she knew she had no ship of her own so she was stuck until help arrived. Glancing behind her she was met with his curious optics on her before she turned back to the view. Closing her eyes in thought, she was caught off by surprise when she felt something run along her back making her jump away, and face him. "Don't you ever touch me again."
"Give and take with flesh. It is interesting." He remarked as he stepped away to sit in his original seat. "Did he make a notice that I hit on you? Oh don't look so surprised there. While we are both on different sides of the law, we do have similar tastes in a way. Well not in one way, but it is enough for him to locate me easily enough."
"Fine, yes, he did, but we always shoot the breeze when we are together. There is nothing more than that between us." She replied. "Besides as I told him, I would rather have my way with the control stick on that ship." She was surprised that she got the same expression on Cyclonus's face as she did from Magnus, but unlike Magnus she felt bold enough to ask him this question, "What are you thinking about?"
"Impure thoughts, Marissa." He replied before receiving a communication from Galvatron making him stand up to go to the controls to send out another ping to Magnus. "Duty calls. Pleasure speaking to you, don't worry Ultra Magnus has been informed that you are alone here." Studying her a little, he said. "Pity I hardly see you on the battle ground. I can already sense you are ruthless. Oh well."
"How do I know that you didn't tell him you are moving me? You are in a faction of liars." She pointed out getting near him.
"I'll be thinking about you and a control stick, dear Marissa." Cyclonus told her before taking off.
After watching him leave, she waited until she heard Magnus approach the cave. Seeing his form walk up cautiously, she went to greet him. "He's gone. Glad you came."
"Of course." Picking her up with his hand, he asked. "Did he harm you?"
"No, he just wanted to chat and play a game with you. He was called away on duty." She replied as she just stood in his palm as he walked to his waiting ship.
Magnus wanted to ask her what they chatted about, but decided that they seemed to say too much in a short amount of time on his ship before Cyclonus escaped. It was nice to see that his friend was safe and sound though.
You know what Magnus... I'm sensing a theme here too. Writing at night releases these thoughts in me. I'll let my friend laugh at me later for this. :P
