Anyone notice that I'm probably one of the few people who mention the Incesticons so much?
Chapter IX
The orange mech was frozen in place. The terrible words of his father and friend had torn him apart. They wanted so bad to taste Nicole's blood, they already had it on their tongues. Optic fluid fell from eyes and onto the black, age-old soot on the ground. He never meant to harm Nicole, never. He had to lie to her to spend some time along with her, and he knew that's exactly what she hated in a male; a liar. But that's what he was born into. In the world of Decepticons, you had to lie to survive or to get your way. Hell, it wasn't just Nicole he lied to, it was everyone. He lied to Ironhide, to Gunsalt, and to Red Mark, his friends who accepted him as the poor street scrap, but not as the Decepticon, the full-blooded Decepticon. So he sat there, crying away like, and quoting Kickback, his mother, Thunderblast, whenever she lost a battle. He didn't like this, at all. He hated being a Decepticon, he wanted to die, right now! But if he died, who would protect Nicole? If Jytter wasn't going to save her, the Insecticons would grab her and drag her over to the Nemesis, the dreaded warship and an Autobot's greatest fear. There, Soundwave, along with his cassettes and the Constructicons, would tear her apart to find a weakness in humans. They would use the information to bring humans down and exterminate them to find the All Spark, which was believed to be hidden on their planet.
At first, to the orange mech, it was a great idea. Of course, that was back when his mind was corrupted by darkness, as were many others under the brutal leader's command. Now that he had met Nicole, he realized how dangerous this actually was. Killing the humans wasn't just an extermination, it was a genocide, much more attention and a lot more to go through. Jytter had agreed to play the biggest part in it; to capture the human female and bring her back for studies. He was the reason Nicole was in grave danger, but if it was someone else, she'd be dead by now. Jytter looked down to his wrist. That green hair-tie was still there. He grabbed it and pulled it off, then brought it to his sensors. He took a sniff to recognize the scent.
Like a breeze on Earth's parks.
* * *
"That stupid son of a bitch!" Nicole shouted as she came home. "He didn't even come! He left me there. He left me!" She slammed the door to her bedroom before Perceptor could ask her what was the matter and jammed a fist into her pillows several times. "Why. Are. Guys. So! Retarded!" She gave the pillow one last punch before Perceptor walked in.
"Is everything alright?" he asked. Nicole sighed. She wanted to tell him to go away, but he was being a caretaker and wanted to know.
"Jytter's being a jerk," she groaned. The girl fell down onto her bed and buried her face into the beaten pillow. She gave out a muffled scream and stopped when Perceptor put a hand on her back. Nicole moved her head to the side so she wouldn't suffocate herself.
"What did he do this time?"
"We went to a so-called haunted house and spent the night there. In the morning, I got mad at him." She paused, wondering if she should give full detail or not.
"Why?" Full detail it is.
"Because for the past three days he kissed me like he loved me." She noticed that red aura around Perceptor glowing again. "I asked him if we were truly dating, or if he thought I was some prostitute and that he felt he had a right to kiss me whenever he wanted. I walked out of the room, left him behind, then waited a block away for him to walk me back home. He never came, so I left by myself."
"Thank Primus you didn't get hurt!" Perceptor sighed. "Where is that youngling? I'll make sure he pays for what he did!"
"Completely unnecessary, Perceptor," Nicole laughed. "I don't need any more drama today. Just lock the doors for me and keep him out. If he tries to get in, tell him that I don't wanna see him for a while."
"Did he harm you that bad?"
"Only my insides."
The red mech nodded and walked out of the room. Nicole heard the lock click into place and she beat her head against her pillow three times.
"Dudes. Are. Shit heads!"
"Surely we're not," said a voice. Nicole knew that voice all too well and didn't bother looking up.
"Go away, Jytter," she moaned.
"I…I came to apologize," he stammered. Nicole sighed and came up from her bed. She walked around it and opened up the window, but didn't let him in. "I'm sorry, Nicole. I had no right to treat you that way, at all. I thought you found it cute that I kissed you!"
The girl gave a slight laugh and her head bent down.
"Look, I wanted to spend time with you, as long as you're here. Don't you think you deserve it?"
Kill the girl, Jytter.
"ACK!" Jytter put a hand to his head and another to the wall to stay up. Nicole leaned over to see him.
"Jytter! Oh, God!" She patted on his back to tell him he could come up. Jytter acted quickly and was in the bed faster than Nicole could realize. He put a pillow to his forehead and tried so hard not to shout.
"Jytter, you need to relax, okay?" Nicole sighed, trying to calm the mech down. She put a hand on his head and removed the pillow. His face was tightened up to show his struggling and his fist clenched the bed sheets under him. "Jytter?"
"Get out of my head!" he said through gritted teeth. Nicole was scared and shaking. She had no clue what to do! She wasn't a mechanic, show she wouldn't be able to fix what was hurting him so much. But the pain didn't seem to be physical.
"Jytter?…Buggie buddy?…"
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD, FRAGGER!" Jytter's eyes opened wide to where they were almost complete circles and burned a bright red, stabbing Nicole in the heart and freezing her. Since she couldn't react, Jytter's arm whapped her from her chin and another arm swung over to beat her on the side, making her fall helplessly to the ground. Jytter stood up from the bed and on the floor. He stared at the fallen girl. She was bleeding from her mouth and tears came from her eyes.
"Jytter, please!" she cried.
What the slag are you doing in my head, cerebro freak! Jytter shouted inside his mind to try and remove the intruder.
Making sure you do the job right! said the dark voice. Let's kill her! You know you want to taste that sweet blood! Like Kickback always said, if the scent's sweet, the taste is even sweeter. Just like energon, but better!
"She is not food, you glitch!" Jytter had no idea he said that out loud and grabbed his head, attempting to shutdown and terminate the prowler from his mind.
Don't you dare, Jytter!
"You're dead to me!"
DON'T!
"JYTTER!" Nicole cried.
The orange mech pounded his head five times against the wall, bruising it badly, but it was enough for him to shut down. Nicole crawled over to his side, looking at the mech's head, bleeding energon as fast as she could sweat. She sobbed as she looked at what horrified her most and attempted to call for Perceptor. Her tears choked up her throat, so she wasn't able to say anything louder than a broken whisper.
"Tell me, Jytter. What was that about?" she cried. "I want to know why you acted like this. Please tell me when you wake up. Promise?"
* * *
His optics opened up slowly and weakly. Last thing he remembered doing is jamming his head against the wall to protect Nicole from himself. From himself. Jytter had to accept that he was a monster, a thing destined to destroy and kill. But the one thing that stopped him from doing that was Nicole. Just by looking at her made him stop and think about where he was and where he could've been. Jytter looked to the side to see Nicole's sleeping head on the berth and her arms serving as her pillow. The mech smirked at this image.
"Hello, gorgeous," he said, barely under a whisper. He couldn't move, but it wasn't by his hands tied down, no, not at all. He was too weak. He nearly brought himself to the final shutdown with his own blow. He nearly killed himself, but almost destroyed Nicole because of a certain Insecticon, Bombshell. Primus, what a pain in the aft.
Nicole stirred a bit, groaning about something. She was speaking in her dream, trying to stop something, but Jytter had no clue what it was. She jerked once and her eyes were widened with the terror of her dream. She looked at the dented Jytter in front of her.
"Morning, sunshine," he chuckled. Nicole dared not to laugh. She only kept her stare and her mouth open to try and breathe. "What's wrong?"
"I need some air," she said. Nicole stood up and walked out of the room. Jytter sat there, confused.
"Cybertron doesn't even have air," he corrected.
Nicole wasn't able to hear him. She was already on her way to the meeting room and made it outside to the front steps. She sat down on them, putting her elbows on knee and hands on lower jaw for support. This didn't make sense; Jytter leaving her there--she'd know a guy like him would never do that--and the 'bot beating himself up against the wall, telling something to get out of his head. What really scared her was her dream. Jytter had become violent, dark, changed, up to the point where she could hardly recognize him. He wasn't the perky little Autobot she met a few days ago, he was a stranger that wanted badly to kill her, but tried to say he was protecting her. Another figure came up, his voice sounding honey-smooth, tried to convince Nicole to follow him. The strange Jytter shouted at her not to do it, that she'd be killed once they were done with whatever they were going to do. Another black figure came up and silenced Jytter by putting a hand to his throat and choking him. The honey-smooth one turned Nicole's face from that scene over to his face.
"We won't hurt you," he promised.
"Hey, you're that human girl!" said a voice. Nicole looked up to see Red Mark, Jytter's gal pal. Looks like she finally downloaded some English, sweet English. "What are you doing here, looking like that? Where's Jytter?"
"Jytter's inside, but he's…I think he's insane."
Red Mark put her hands on her hips. "You just now figured that out?" she laughed.
"I'm serious, girl! He beat his head against my wall saying there was something in his head. He nearly killed himself! Then I had a dream; he was changed, but he said he was protecting me from something…I'm scared, Red Mark, I don't know what's going on!"
Red Mark waked over and sat next to her. She put her arms around her to give her a hug; she needed it. "Hey, hey, it was just a dream."
"But it was so real! God, I knew I shouldn't have gone to that haunted house. I'm spooked now!"
"What haunted house?" Red Mark let go of her and stared at her with confusion written all over her face.
"The one Mirage lived in."
"What?!" the femme shrieked. "That place is restricted! There's reports of Decepticons that crawl around there like bugs!" (Note the irony)
"He told me it was safe, and he seemed so sure!"
"Jytter's a good liar, Nicole. I've seen him in action before," the red femme said. Another one of her friends called her name and she stood up. "Well, gotta get going! Just wanted to know if everything was okay for you."
"Not anymore, I'm freaked out…"
"Well, do something that'll make you…not freaked out. Okay, I'm coming!" Red Mark ran back to her friends, leaving Nicole pondering. Jytter's a good liar, eh? If he lied about being in a serious relationship, he totally had her going!
* * *
Jytter groaned to himself. How could he have been so stupid! The Insecticons were an impatient bunch and wanted her die just to feed on her. He shivered at the thought of Nicole's body torn open, but it also made him starve for that rich, red blood. No, stop it! That's the most vile thing you could ever think of!
But she looks so tasty…Jytter was fighting with two sides of himself. One wanted to protect her from anything and everything. The other wanted nothing more than to feast on her flesh.
She doesn't deserve to die; she's your friend.
Your friend, you mean. You've become soft, Jytter. What's the matter? The girl change you?
Shut your fragging mouth, you bastard!
I AM YOU!
"Rrraaaagh!" the mech groaned. This wasn't fair! He didn't want to hurt Nicole, and Bombshell nearly made that happen by taking over his brain. Fortunately, Jytter's CPU is a little bit more harder to control and the mech was able to shut down before the Insecticon could have complete dominance over it.
"No…" He started to cry again. "She's everything to me."
Aww, isn't that just SO PATHETIC!
Shut up.
That girl will save your hide! All you have to do is take her back to Megatron, everything will be fine!
I wouldn't call 'betraying my best friend' something fine.
Oh, so now she's a friend? Four days ago she was your prey.
Shut up, I said!
Or what, you'll get rough with me? Ha! The only reason you're here is because you want to change and become a pathetic little Autobot for Nicole!
I hate you.
Ooh, say it again, that sounded good. It gave me shivers!
"I HATE YOU!" the mech shouted, making the room quake. His Decepticon side was just playing with him! To the side, a door opened to bring in Perceptor. He didn't look very pleased to see him.
"Who are you talking to?" was his first question, of all.
"Myself."
"Because you are insane?"
Jytter nodded his head.
"Yes, Jytter, I know what you are. After a few tests, I found it in your system. Impressive that you can mask your Decepticon signal, but then again it's frightening. How would Nicole feel if she knew? Does she?"
"She knows nothing, Autobot!" Jytter growled in Cybertronian. His voice was raspy, and sounded very hungry. Jytter's bad side wanted to kill Perceptor, too.
"You are crazy," Perceptor sighed. "I am sorry, but we can't have you around Nicole much longer."
"WHAT?!" Jytter's voice came back to normal. "You can't do that! There's things you don't know, stuff you'll never understand!"
"We can take care of Nicole without the help of a Decepticon, thank you."
"Right, because you were doing such a swell job before!" That evil side really started to get on Jytter's wiring. "I seem to recall in the back of this guy's CPU that she was mad at you for keeping her inside this slag-hole you call a base! She doesn't like you anymore! Grah! Make him stop!"
"It seems you have a lot going inside your head," Perceptor mumbled, not phased by the dark Jytter's words. "I'm sorry we can't fix that, but we would be more than happy to escort you out. Sentinel?"
From out of the shadows came the large blue mech, looking ready to beat up Jytter.
"No, please! You don't understand! Nicole's in danger!" Sentinel grabbed the mech by the arms and walked him out with stasis cuffs. Jytter fidgeted about, trying to be released from the pain. "They're going to come get her; take her to Megatron, please! I have to save her!"
"Shut your mouth, Decepti-creep!" Sentinel growled. He opened the doors to shove him outside. Nicole was still on the steps and looking at the scene.
"Nicole! Oh, Primus, listen to me!"
"She doesn't want to hear your stories, freak!"
"NO! Listen! I was possessed! I didn't want to hurt you! That was Bombshell! He took over my mind and wanted to kill you. They're all going to kill you!"
"Jytter, stop scaring me!" Nicole cried.
"LISTEN! Back at the house, I--"
"Shut up!" Sentinel shouted. He unhooked the stasis cuffs and shoved Jytter so he would trip over the steps. "Get in here, Nicole. Let's get away from that thing."
"That thing is my friend!"
"He's a Decepticon!"
Nicole felt shocked. Just suddenly hearing that your best friend was homicidal is certainly something you couldn't prepare for. She looked at Jytter, fallen on his knees on the metal ground, trying to get back up.
"Is it true?" Nicole breathed, talking to him. Jytter stood up, his shoulders slumped down in his own disappointment and eyes looking dreary.
"Yes," he said.
"You're lucky Perceptor didn't order you to be arrested," Sentinel threatened. "Now get out of here before I do it myself!"
Jytter nodded his head once, then looked to Nicole. "I'm sorry…" From his back, two large wings emerged, ones that you'd find on a jet. Jytter transformed, looking between a praying mantis and a fighter plane. Nicole gasped at the sight of him, and he flew away, leaving her alone again, probably for another month. Jytter flew on ahead, back to Mirage's old house. He looked at his sharpened hand.
Nicole's green hair-tie.
xXx
Brianna: Bombshell's a pretty rough guy, huh? Jytter is still taking those hug requests, now Nicole needs a few. Kickback dares you to try and punch him, Shrapnel wants to eat you alive, and Bombshell will do all kinds of things to mess up your mind if you try to attack him.
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