Run.

"Run my baby run my baby run

Run from the noise of the street and the loaded gun

Too late for solutions to solve in the setting sun

So run my baby run my baby run"– Garbage "Run".

Warnings: Violence, explicit language, maybe some sex (but I'm not sure) – you know, the usual.

Timing: Post season 2 finale, in my very own Beauty of the Beast Prime timeline.

Rating: T to M (and possibly even MA).

Pairings: multiple.

Disclaimer: Transformers Prime © Hasbro. Story's plot and OC's © me. There may be some OC's that aren't mine – they belong to their respective creators.

Hard Life Easy.

"You are my secret lover

And so I took you undercover

You ask me "How you doin' tiger?"

I say, "My hard life just got easy"

Big mountain Colorado

Small island Fiji

I take you everywhere I go because

You make my hard life easy (...)" – Satellite Party „Hard Life Easy"

oOo

Abandoned energon mine. African equator rain forest.

Tesarus was sitting on a large boulder with his elbows on his kneed and his face resting in his servos. Every now and then he would vent heavily and ask if they were done yet. Helex would only sigh heavily; Vos would ignore him and Kaon answer with simple 'No'. Tarn was oblivious to his team and observed everything around him while the pyrotechnics worked inside.

After what seemed eternity to Tesarus but was closer to an hour three Vehicons emerged from the dark cave-like entrance to the mine. They carried a detonator that looked like TV remote.

"We are done, the mine is mined." One of them reported. He looked normal, more or less, but he spoke with heavy accent and there were scraps of chequered fabric hanging around his code piece. 1)

"Splendid, detonate the charges." Tarn ordered.

"Yes sir." Another Vehicon said and pressed a red button on his detonator. Nothing happened.

They waited patiently for couple of seconds before the Vehicon with the detonator pressed the button again. And again nothing happened.

"You broke it!" The third one said.

"No I didn't!" The one with detonator yelled.

"Then why it doesn't work?" The third one asked.

"Maybe we shouldn't use the Chinese stuff." Said the first Vehicon.

"Shut up Sheev, the stuff is good. We probably wired it wrong." The one with the detonator pointed at the mine.

"Give me that." The third Vehicon took the detonator from his fellow Vehicon. He looked it up, pressed the red button couple of times. Nothing happened.

"I'm telling you, we wired it front to back." The one who recently held the detonator said.

"It's Chinese! It should be front to back!" Sheevington whined 2).

The third Vehicon turned the detonator in his servos, scratched his helm slightly and opened its back panel. He took out the battery powering the device, reached into his personal sub-space and took out new one. He placed the new batter in, closed the panel and switched the detonator on again. 3) He pressed the red button and entire group of Decepticons found themselves on the ground, thrown down by the explosion collapsing the old mine and closing its entrance.

"Wheee... it look like the stuff was good and we wired it right after all." Sheev pulled himself back to his pedes.

"I do hope that this was one-time problem?" Tarn narrowed his optics. He didn't appreciate being swept off his pedes by exploding mines (he didn't mind being swept off his pedes by nice company, or better yet series of transformations followed by nice company).

"Now that we have fresh batteries, that's shouldn't be an issue." Sheev shrugged. To him it was just an opportunity to blow stuff up even if technically, he was blowing stuff down.

"That's a good thing to hear. Music to my audios, you may say. Now we move to the next one. Kaon, how is the communication?"

"All channels are silent, Tarn." Kaon smiled slightly. "For now, all is clear."

"Inform me immediately if you will receive anything." He activated his ." Operator, the next set of coordinates, please."

Before the Groundbridge opened, Tesarus smiled to his companions. "At least this one didn't end boring."

"You need professional help." Helex shook his helm but there was no malice in his voice.

oOo

Nemesis location, somewhere above Caribbean Sea. Night time.

Airachnid could spot Nemesis from pretty far distance. The Decepticon flagship was easy to see for someone who knew what to look for: its position lights giving it away. The landing deck was well lit for all flyers to safely touch down. The dark shape floating in the night seemed ominous, a massive leviathan floating slowly in its aimless journey, but Airachnid knew the ship well and she was not intimidated. After all Nemesis was a ship, magnificent but just a vessel. If there was anything to be concerned about it was the crew... Though rather not the crew itself, but its certain members. The She-Spider knew that she could avoid them and she had two Insecticons to command in case of emergency. She had her goal and was determined to reach it at all costs. Arcee and Jack be damned, she wanted off this accursed planet.

The trio approached the landing deck and gently touched down. The door was closed, but not locked, they entered without being disturbed. The upper hangar was empty, but that wasn't a surprise, it was only used during missions or operations. Remembering that the Nemesis functioned according to Greenwich Universal Time, Airachnid quickly figured that it was still night shift, meaning that the corridors would be mostly empty. She and her two Insecticons quickly navigated their way through insides of the ship.

Neither of them noticed slight shift as the ship changed its course.

oOo

Small military base. Nevada USA. Darby household. Late evening.

Megatron stood leaning against the door frame to June's bathroom with his arms crossed, looking as casual as a Decepticon Warmonger in human house can. He never expected to find himself in such situation, but he guessed that entering relationship with an organic woman would sooner or later end with him waiting outside while his lady was being more or less violently sick inside. He wasn't an expert in medicine, organic or otherwise, but he knew that it was not exactly healthy.

"Are you sure you don't need to see a doctor?" He asked while glancing at the door.

"No, it is not that serious." The door answered in voice of one rather tired June Darby. "And I think that it has passed for now."

"Do you know what could cause you such problems?" The Tyrant asked. In Cybertronian purging tanks was just as common as vomiting in humans, ingesting bad energon was most common cause with tank or intake malfunctions a close second.

"I know what could cause that!" Miko peeped from the living room where she passionately slaughtered hordes of zombies.

"Really Miko..." June groaned from the bathroom. She didn't realise that they were talking loud enough to be heard.

"I know, I know. But give me a second!" The girl said as she paused the game and ejected herself from her spot only to race to her room where she started to make some rustling noises.

"Miko?" June asked opening the door. She managed to get herself presentable again by washing her face, but she still looked tired.

There was triumphant 'got it' and then the door to Miko's room opened and the teenage girl matched back with proud face of someone who just conquered half the galaxy. "Here you go Mrs D." She said and handed a small box to the nurse.

"What is it?" June asked looking down at the box.

"I keep one just in case, you know, after that one incident. 4)" The girl explained. "Not that I need it right now. 'Bee and I learned our lesson." She quickly added.

"Really Miko, a pregnancy test?" June didn't seem amused.

"What can it hurt?" Miko grinned as she retreated to the couch. "You can rule that one cause if nothing else." She added and then returned to her zombie slaughtering.

"Can it be?" Megatron asked with stunned face. He was more than well aware that technically it was possible if less than likely. Human organic DNA and Cybertronian CNA matched perfectly thanks to Unicron's input, and there were rare cases of techno-organics created in unions with species less genetically compatible than humans and Cybertronians. The key word here was: 'rare'.

"In theory." June stared at the pregnancy test. "It's not impossible, but the chance is slim."

"Do you have any symptoms?" He pulled bewildered face. Suddenly he looked more innocent than anyone sane would be willing to give him credit for.

"You mean other than puking my insides out?" June asked but couldn't get irritated at that face "I do not have the main symptom. 5)" She said and disappeared behind the door. "But then again, I didn't have it in first three months when I was with Jack. It happens in some cases 5)."

"I see." Megatron pulled a face. That wasn't his favourite aspect of being intimate with a human.

Femmes didn't menstruate and at first he was spooked by the idea of June bleeding freely from well vascularized internal organ. The first time he was around June at that time of the month he was expecting some sort of bloodbath scenery, but all he got was a cranky June (he was introduced to the idea of PMS a bit earlier and discovered that it lasted before and during the bleeding time). Now days he wasn't taken aback by the idea that his consort was walking around bleeding and acting as if nothing happened (save for being easy to irritate). He guessed that a mech could get accustomed to everything.

He was pulled out of his philosophical and physiological musings by his . Talking about 'perfect' timing. "What is it?" He barked. This was better to be important or else someone would pay dearly.

::Lord Megatron, we have detected Airachnid on board.:: Came the calm and cultured voice of Lt. Raoul, commanding officer of the night shift.

"Are you certain it is her?" The Warmonger asked. The last thing he needed right now was some false alarm.

::I am positive, My Liege. General Soundwave is on the move as we speak.:: That was more than Megatron expected to hear. If Soundwave was on the case it could only mean that the Spymaster detected the eight legged traitor.

"Have you informed Tarn?"

::Negative, My Liege. I called you first.::

"Then what are you waiting for. Call the D.J.D. I want them on Nemesis this instant!" Megatron growled. He understood why Raoul called him first, this was the procedure and he was not angry, he was actually pleased that someone followed the protocol but he needed the D.J.D. on board and he needed them now.

There was no time to waste as Airachnid had at least two Insecticons with her and while Soundwave could fight an Insecticon (not to mention Airachnid) just a well as Megatron did, fighting two Insecticons and possibly Airachnid at the same time was more than even the Decepticon Warmonger could pull off, at least for prolonged time. And that was assuming that Shockwave's scramblers 6) wouldn't choose to suddenly malfunction, which was possible taking the tendency for everything to go south at the same time.

"June... " Megatron called, he needed to go but didn't want to leave his dear consort alone in moment like this.

"I've heard, something on Nemesis?" The woman asked.

"Airachnid reared her treacherous head." He said. "She's on Nemesis."

"I see, you need to go."

"I can stay for a moment if you want?" He said not so sure if he really could stay longer.

They weren't spark-bonded because she didn't have spark to begin with, but it was of no consequence to him, as long as he was concerned they were as good as bonded. He never expected to find himself in such predicament but now it was only natural to him, and so he never wanted to leave his tiny organic femme in time of need.

"No, you go, Airachnid needs to be dealt with." June called remembering well the day she met the Spider Femme.

"What about the test?"

"If it's negative then it is negative. And if it's positive then it still needs to get confirmed by an actual doctor." June sighed. It was late and she was tired, she decided that the test could have waited until morning.

"It may take me a while."

"I know."

"I'll be back as soon as it's done." Megatron promised.

"Just go and deal with her, I will be waiting for you to tell me how it went in the morning." June opened the door and smiled.

"As you wish." He bent and kissed her.

"And you should be in bed already." June addressed Miko when Megatron pulled away.

"I'm almost finished. I just need to beat this boss so I can save the game." Miko called. "And good luck with the Spider Hag."

"Heh." Was the only reply they got from Megatron as he left the house.

TBC

1) That's Sheevington, who took his name from The Dukes of Hazzard, the 2005 movie.

2) I based it roughly on the scene from the Dukes of Hazzard movie, where they're blowing up the safe and Sheev has problem with Chinese fuse.

3) This was based on a scene from Ocean's 11 (the 2001 remake with George Clooney and Brad Pitt) where they have the same problem and Matt Damon provides set of fresh batteries.

4) See "Love You Again" for reference.

5) During pregnancy menstruation stops at once, as if cut clean off, but some women can still bleed during first few months of pregnancy – it is not real menstruation, it's a fake caused by hormonal changes in time of actual menstruation. It's not unheard of and it is not dangerous, it just happens, but it should always be consulted with a doctor, just in case.

And a sensitive pregnancy test, can detect pregnancy that is only 10 days old.

6) The ones that Shockwave made, just so Airachnid couldn't establish telepathic link with them. See Spider Woman for reference.