They finally reached another open place, this time some kind of parking lot. Once again abandoned. Even the buildings around the place seemed abandoned! Terrwyn was not feeling so great about it. The robots were obviously intent on hiding themselves from the rest of the world. Which meant that if they hurt her, no one would even know!
The car opened it's door for her to get out. As she did, she noticed it was already starting to cool off, and the sun was slowly setting. The girl groaned at this. Another night gone from home!
Barricade transformed next to her, making Terrwyn stare up at him in awe. It was still odd to see, a normal car changing into a huge alien robot. She had never thought it was even possible!
A soft sound then filled the eerily silence of this place, and the blondine glanced up at the source of it. An alien looking jet quickly came their way, but... it didn't look like that last one at all! What was his name again? Starscream?
Terrwyn got slightly nervous as she watched the thing come closer every second. Was this the Mega-whatever, he talked about? Would he be even more dangerous than the rest of them? She wasn't sure what to expect.
As soon as it was close enough, the jet dived to the ground and transformed just before hitting Barricade.
The girl's eyes widened at the sight of it. He was even bigger than the others! Perhaps even bigger than that Screaming guy!
"So this is the little Terrwyn Gould?" Megatron asked, glancing down at the small human femme. She didn't look like much.
"And you are... Mega-something?" She didn't bother remembering the name, but right now that might have been a good idea.
The huge one growled, "I am Megatron, leader of the Decepticons." And she'd be wise to remember that well.
"Mega...tron." Alright, she got that. "Hi, I'm Terrwyn." Wait, he already knew that. "I have no idea why I'm here but ugly over there said you wanted to talk to me." Now that was a contradicting sentence.
Barricade's optics flickered bright red for a moment. How did that human dare to call him ugly?!
"Quite an attitude, I see." Megatron stated as he lifted his claw, gesturing for Barricade to not hurt her for that comment.
Terrwyn nodded, somewhat proud of that. "So I've been told."
Wondering how brave she actually was, Megatron lowered his left servo just enough so she could get on. Yet she simply stared up at him in confusion, "What?..." Not all that clever. Doing his best to keep in his frustration, Megatron growled: "Get on."
With a small nod, she slowly walked forward and placed her hands on one of his huge fingers. Hesitating for a moment, Terrwyn glanced up to see if he was actually sure about this. A scowl was answer enough, and she pushed herself up on his huge finger, then crawled to the middle of his hand. Ugh, this metal felt dirty! Don't those things clean themselves?!
Megatron lifted his servo again, then glanced at Barricade. "Be gone. I will inform you when I'm done." As he wasn't going to be this girl's taxi. His servants could do that.
Barricade nodded, even if he obviously did not agree. That human was a pest! So were all of them! Yet he transformed and drove off without complaining. Megatron did not take well to people that didn't agreeing with his orders.
When he was finally out of sight, the leader of the Decepticons examined the human for a moment. She was slender, obviously not the strongest one out there. Really, she simply seemed pathetic to him.
"I heard you tried to run from us." Megatron started as Terrwyn was quiet. Didn't all his soldiers tell him she loved to speak up? Her silence so far was surprising.
"Being kidnapped once is enough, thank you very much!" Terrwyn had began mumbling at first, but the rest of the sentence was said rather loudly. She tried to make herself believe the thing wasn't intimidating at all! Because it couldn't hurt her, right? They were her father's clients so they couldn't do anything... Right?
"You should learn to cooperate, insect." Her attitude was indeed annoying, but he could sense the fear that was hiding underneath it. And that was what pleased him.
Terrwyn growled under her breath. Cooperate?! "You could all be a little nicer, you know! I'm just a normal teenager that couldn't care less about your freaking war!"
There was the speaking up he was told about. Good... "You will care, in time." When her planet was at his mercy, she would care. "Although it seemed like you already do. Why else did you go after the boy?"
Boy? What boy did he mean? Did he mean the boys from the site she found? Then how did he know? This didn't make a lot of sense to her.
Megatron chuckled as he realized she was confused. "Sam Witwicky." The name was spoken with obvious hatred, though.
More names, just great! "I don't know anyone by the name of Sam whatever-you-just-said. ...My friend went to that college! Yes, that's right! I wanted to visit her!" That was a good lie. It was not like anyone knew what college she went t-.
"You mean Alice?" Now he was even more amused by her attempt to lie. The Pretender was given strict orders to not inform Terrwyn about the mission.
How did he know?! "Could you all just stop spying on me?!" It was getting so frustrating. "How do you know about Alice?! She has nothing to do with this!"
"More than you think." Megatron began to slowly pace towards one of the abandoned buildings, the girl being shaken around a bit as he did so. Her hands quickly searched for something to hold on to, being afraid to fall. And she found it. She grabbed the sides of some armor plates, realizing the underside was even more gross! Ew... The girl made a face.
Megatron took notice of this. "Is there a problem?" His voice was sarcastic.
"You're one filthy robot, you know that! Do you even clean yourself?" What if there were spiders inside of him? And insects? The thought freaked her out.
The girl had a lot of nerve to insult him like that. "I could crush you right now, fleshling..."
"Then why don't you?" And have this be over with?!
Megatron was tempted to really do so, but he still had some use for her. He reached the building and pretty carelessly threw her on top of it. There, now she was about at eye hight with him.
Terrwyn rolled onto the hard stone of the roof, groaning as she was finally laying still. "I hate this. I hate the fact my clothes get ruined all the time, and most of all..." She pushed her upper body up, glaring at Megatron. "I HATE ROBOTS!"
This caught the Decepticon leader's attention. He slammed his fist down a few feet away from her. Not only because he was somewhat angry at her disrespect, but because he wanted to intimidate her. Only fear would gain him respect, it would seem.
Terrwyn let out a yelp as he did that, and saw part of the roof collapse. No, now she didn't feel safe at all! What if the part she was on collapsed as well?! She glanced up at him in fear, "Fine! What is it that you want? Tell me already!"
Now that was better. Megatron smirked down at her. "I need you to infiltrate the Autobot base and collect some specific information." He was being very straight-to-the-point.
"Autobot base? Information?" Terrwyn's head filled itself with thoughts. But it came down on one specific thing: she just wanted to go home and forget about all this!
"Yes... Laserbeak will accompany you on your mission." There was no way he trusted her on going alone. It would be a mere test, though. Nothing too important.
"The chicken?!" Now she really couldn't keep it together anymore. The girl pushed herself into a sitting position, about to lose her mind. "I can't go infiltrate any place... And the bird will just ruin my clothes more... And what if I get caught? What if I..." For a moment, she had completely forgotten Megatron was there. And he was pleased to see that. Perhaps she would finally understand how serious it actually had gotten.
"My dad's gonna be furious..." Terrwyn concluded. He had tried to keep her out of all this and she just didn't listen to him. Only now she actually realized that...
"He has accepted to the mission." Megatron stated, even though he knew Dylan wasn't given a choice. Humans would have to accept the Decepticon's rule now.
Terrwyn was shocked to hear that. After all this protecting, he... accepted to it?
"I advice you do not fail us." Because else she had no use to him at all. Really, he already doubted she could be useful, except for perhaps some slight entertainment.
The blondine gave a small nod. "What information do you need?..." Not like she was some kind of spy at all! All experience she had was from watching movies. ...Perhaps she could imitate those? Try to learn some moves?
"Whatever you can find in their computers. You will leave tomorrow." As the Autobots would either be exiled, if the humans complied, or be lured away from base some other way. There would be less security. If the Fallen's plans would fail, at least they would have the information she found. It'd be a win-win situation.
That was a vague answer, but Terrwyn accepted it with a nod. "A-alright... Can I go home now?" She wished to see her father before doing anything like that. Besides, it was slowly getting dark outside... There was no way she would stay here with this scary robot...
~"Barricade, you may take the human home."~ Megatron spoke through his comm-link, not seeing a reason to keep the fleshling here any longer. He had better things to do. Especially now the Fallen was back on Earth, and the search for Sam Witwicky had begun.
~"Understood."~ Barricade spoke as he began to make his way back.
Terrwyn, however, had never heard an answer. "...Well?" He wasn't going to keep her here all night, right?!
"Yes. Prepare for your mission tomorrow." He hated talking to Younglings for a reason, or teenagers as humans called them. They were annoying and had no real use.
"I will..." Terrwyn replied as she started playing with her hair, thinking about how to prepare. She would need some fitting clothes, that she wouldn't mind getting dirty. A good hairstyle that wouldn't get in the way... Some information about breaking in... Yeah, this couldn't go wrong...
After a few minutes of silence between the two, with Megatron simply observing the insect, the sound of an engine could be heard. Terrwyn glanced up and only saw the two headlights shining brightly. Had it gotten that dark and late already?!
Without warning, a claw curled around her fragile body and within seconds, she was back on the ground. This had been Megatron's doing, Terrwyn realized as she stood before the familiar police car. It's door opened for her.
"Ehm..." Terrywn looked around and up at Megatron, who's head was barely visible now. You could just see the red light of his optics. "Goodbye?" She asked, a bit unsure, before climbing into the car.
This was somewhat surprising to the leader. No one ever said 'goodbye' to him. However, he didn't think much of it as he watched Barricade drive off with the human inside of him.
Terrwyn stared out of the window, trying to find out where exactly the were. Not like she could think of any place at all. They were in the middle of nowhere. Then, she randomly realized something, making her blush. "Ehh... Barri...cade?" She had almost forgotten his name, but then remembered it was actually a normal English word.
The car stayed silent, just waiting for what the human had to say. She got the hint and stated: "I kinda... need to go to the bathroom..." She hadn't gone for a long time, and the ride here had taken a while. It surprised her she didn't do it in her pants when Megatron startled her so badly, but was sure she couldn't keep it in any longer.
Barricade let out a very annoyed grumble before stopping at the side of the road so she could do it in the forest. This was going to be a long drive...
[] Ohh, there we go, her first meeting with Megatron! Humor lacked in this chapter, I think, but that's for story reasons. No one sane would joke around with Megs anyway (not like Terrwyn's very sane...).
Eh, Megatron's plan doesn't involve her meeting the Autobots, but I can spoil she will, just to add some drama. C;
Thanks to all people who have followed, favorited and reviewed so far! Keep doing it, and I probably won't ever lose interest in this story. :P []
