Nutritional facts: Contains stripping and strange sounds
" Well, this is home. Not much, but...its a place to crash and eat." she said, putting her jacket on the chair, revealing a small tank top underneath, and showing alot of skin. Megatron snorted.
" And you want ME to wear more clothes? You should talk." he said, poking the couch suspiciously and finally sitting on it.
Mikaela turned practically 360 degrees from her position. " WHAT..did you say to me?"
" I said, you make a fuss about me not wearing enough clothes and you show a lot more of yourself then I did in the medical facility."
" That was different. You were completely naked, I'm not!" she explained
"And you even go about in public like that." he added, pointing at her accusingly " No shame, no shame whatsoever."
" Wha...Well it's different with girls ok? If you don't like it, don't look!"
He huffed. What did it matter what gender could do or couldn't do? If she could get away with wearing next to nothing, he could too, right? Besides, these pieces of fabric were cumbersome and he didn't like how scratchy the top layer was. It irritated his skin.
" Alright...I get it." he said, taking off his shirt and throwing it on the floor uncaringly. He admitted it did feel cooler now without that piece of cloth covering his chest. It felt nice. Next he undid the button to his jeans, but left the zipper untouched. He figured he didn't want to freeze.
" Don't you DARE! Are you insane?! You can't just...DO that in front of me!"
" If you don't like it....don't look." smugly echoing her words, and laying back on the couch, arms hanging down the other side.
Again, she was reminded of her Dad, he used to lay back like that after a long day, then he'd ask her to go get him a cold beer or rub his shoulders. Of course, she wasn't about to let Megs drink one of those, he was already a walking lunatic without it. She wasn't going to rub his shoulders either. She did however, notice a large burn mark on his toned chest, the one Sam had spoken to her about back in the hospital. It still looked raw.
" I don't see why I have to follow your rules, and yet you can break them?" and again he was fiddling around with the zipper.
Mikaela's eyes widened. " Fine! Fine...I'll put something less revealing on. Just don't..do that. Being shirtless is ok, just leave the pants on!"
" Glad you see things my way." he said with a smart alec grin. She glared at him before she went to her room to go change. He chuckled, loving her reaction to what he did. Humans wer such fun creatures to torment. They were so apprehensive to their own naked bodies, that it bordered on hilarious.
And oh how she hated him so much already. And why did she ever agree to this? Wasn't looking after Megatron Sam's duty?
She sighed " Because I'm just sooo darn nice. I sware if he tries that again, I'll gonna kick his sorry butt out of here."
She closed the door to her room and fished out a less revealing shirt from her closet. Just before she slipped it on, she heard a shout from beyond her bedroom door.
" Mikaela! My lower body is making strange sounds! Where are you, female?!"
She groaned. Oh this was getting ridiculous. She slipped on her shirt and opened the door to see him right in front of her door. He looked kind of scared and held a hand to his bare stomach.
" I think something is broken. Can you fix it?" he said as a matter of factly. The way he said it, and his confused expression was just too much. She forgot her frustration and couldn't help but let out a giggle.
" Why are you laughing? There is nothing funny about my body being broken! Do you have something to fix this or will I have to return to that pit-forsaken place again?" His stomach growled even louder.
" What the slag is wrong with me?! It's getting worse and you're just standing there laughing! Do something! You're worse than Starscream!" he roared
" Nothing is broken. That sound means you need food, energy." she said, remembering the term' Energon', Bee used for what Cybertronians called 'food'.
" Energy? Any human sized energon cubes around here?" he said rubbing his stomach.
" Nope, just regular human food. And since I'm too tired to cook, we're going to order out, and you get the honor of trying pizza for the first time." she smiled, dialing the pizza place on her phone.
" Pizza?"
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He'd been hesitant to try it at first. How did humans eat again...food to mouth, chew, swallow? Was that all there was to it? It seemed deceptively too easy. How was he supposed to convert it to energy, when it was a mash of fluids and solid pieces? But he figured if this process got rid of the ache in his stomach, he'd be willing to risk it. " Well, here I go."
He eyed the triangle shaped food suspiciously. It wasn't until he took a bite, was when he realized just what he'd been missing. That taste. The sensation of taste in general. He was momentarily too surprised to chew.
" Megs? Are you alright? Do you need wat...."
" Mmmm..thish ish real gooo!" he said, talking while chowing down on the pizza. Then swallowing. " The..tomato sauce, the hot little slices of meat...and this melty stuff..." he looked at it, then at Mikaeala " What was it again?"
" Cheese?" she smiled. Watching it dribble down his chin, she handed him a napkin.
" Amazing. If I had known humans ate this, I would have asked to be..." he decided not to finish that thought, and took another bite. Afterwards he wiped his mouth on his arm.
" Use the napkin, Megs. You're getting all dirty." she said, he replied with an 'oh' and did so.
Mikaela sat back in her chair " Oh boy, I'm stuffed! You know, you should watch how many slices you're eating. You could get sick on that stuff."
" Nonsense. My will power is very strong. I can say no at anytime." he said smugly.
Mikaela shook her head. " Whatever. Just don't say I didn't warn you."
He continued to inhale practically half the box, as she turned on the TV to the news. He sat on the floor, both entranced by the TV and the slice he was eating. She put the volume up. The news was reporting the incident that Sam and her had just gotten away from. It was like seeing a movie, since it felt so long ago. Her memories of the whole thing told her it was definitely real.
On screen, someone had caught Ironhide and some of the other Autobots fighting in the streets, a Mountain Dew vending machine coming to life and the building Sam was on just before Megatron blew it up. At first it looked like Sam was killed, but she knew better. Suddenly, a large shot of Megatron appeared, bashing Optimus into a building.
" That's me!" exclaimed Megatron, scrambling to touching the TV as if trying to touch the image itself.
" Megs, I can't see the screen!" said Mikaela. He sat back, watching himself blow up a building on screen.
" Wow...from this angle, I didn't know I was so big....and is that a banner hanging off my aft? When did that happen?!"
Aft? Did he mean his...Mikaela let out a laugh. It was true, a banner to a burger joint had stuck itself to Megatron's rear end on screen, while he was fighting Optimus. It came off after awhile, but it was apparent it had gotten lodged in some place. The Megatron in front of her was just entranced by the whole news report . She watched him go through a series of expressions, from awe to anger, to a scowl and then excitement. He was really enjoying this.
" There's that slagger, Starscream! You coward! If I ever see you again it will be too soon!" he shouted at the jet that appeared on the TV screen. She cocked her head " Starscream?" she asked.
" My air commander. The biggest traitor to ever grace our ranks. Always wanting to take my place as the leader of the Decepticons. It's a wonder I never off-lined him after all the times he proved his disloyalty to me."
" Off-lined...that means...to kill doesn't it?" she asked. "Why didn't you? If he was that untrustworthy."
He nodded " Offlined...kill..It's a little different, but basically the same, hard to explain. And as much of a traitor as he was, if I had finally given him everything he deserved, which was quite alot, it would have put a strain among the other mechs and I. They were not fond of him, but they do look after their own." he said, taking a bite of a slice of pizza and swallowing.
"I needed their loyalty and having them turn against me, would have been been the downfall of everything I had planned. Not that it matters now. I couldn't lead even a single Decepticon in this form."
" But the others died, even if he were to become leader, who would be left to follow him?" she said.
He chuckled " Do you honestly think that the Decepticons you saw were the only ones? There are more, many more out there. No doubt Starscream will tell them of my pathetic death and take over as leader. And unfortunately, most will follow him. Excluding a few still loyal to me, such as Soundwave."
" Are they coming back here?" asked Mikaela, being careful to how she said it. While this was valuable information, if she seemed too overeager to hear it, he might not give it to her. She didn't entirely trust him, he was Megatron after all, human form or not.
" Possibly. Although I fail to see the point. There is no Allspark anymore and this planet lacks the sufficient means to harbor our kind properly. It may have fossil fuels, but it's crude and unrefined. It will cause problems later on to our internal systems, if used too much." he said
" If they wanted to dominate a planet, they should head past this galaxy and toward Gie-Tsch, it has plants that can be concentrated into energon. All that needs to be done is to kill the Gieians with nitrogen, and we'd have a new home." he continued
" That's awful." she said.
" Why? At least it's not on your planet." he said, taking a bite of a pizza slice.
" But it's still wrong. To dominate a place for only it's resources and kill it's people."
" Isn't that what you humans do to each other in other countries? What was it? For oil, I presume?" he said dryly. She cringed, he was right. Humans do things similar to each other. Maybe not kill the whole population, but still kill. For resources.
" All living things rely on the deaths of others. A snake eats a mouse, a mouse eats a worm, a worm eats the insides of both in the end. No matter how smart the species, it will kill to live and live to kill. Cybertronians and humans are no exception to this."
Wow, since when was he ever philosophical? Wait, how would she know if he was ever like that, anyways? She realized just how little she knew about him, other than he was once a huge tyrant of a leader who went around and murdered other lifeforms for energy and almost did the same to Earth not too long ago.
Now he was a (semi) normal human man, looking around 40, eating pizza from a box and watching his old self on TV. Man...things can change in a blink of an eye. Another thing she noticed was that while his change from metal to man was quite traumatic at first, he seemed to be taking it quite well now. Maybe he was getting used to it or just accepted the fact he was stuck as a human?
" Mikaela." he said in a serious tone. She braced herself for another set of philosophical musings. He pointed to the pizza box,
" Do you have anymore of this stuff?"
She smiled tiredly. Maybe the fact he hadn't been so angry about his new humanity was...because of the food. It distracted him. For such an older man, he sure acted like a kid sometimes. She wondered if he was like this when he was a Cybertronian. And if he did, she shuddered to think how his army put up with it. No wonder Starscream wanted to take over.
'Well at least I know what to do to shut him up." she thought. " Wave a box of pizza in front of his face, and you got him in the palm of your hand.'
" Yea, but I don't think you should eat anymore." she said, taking the now empty box with her to the kitchen. He glared at her.
" I demand pizza, femme!" he said in a threatening tone. As if he was going to chuck a blast of energy from a cannon at her.
Mikaela shook her head, hands on her hips.
" You won't get a thing, if you want to 'demand' anything from me, buddy." she said, just as fiercely as he did. He looked taken aback by her reaction. She was alot more strong willed than he thought. She wasn't afraid of him, and she showed it.
" Fine. Can I, please...have more pizza?" he grumbled
" I don't recommend it, but...ok..fine, two more slices."
He cheered silently over this small victory, and sat back down in front of the TV again, watching the exciting battle he had just been apart of. It seemed so long ago, like a distant memory. The girl brought him some newly heated up slices of pizza and she drink another can of soda.
" What time is it?" asked Mikaela
" Time?"
" Uh, the little do-hicky on the table next to you. The clock." she pointed out
" 11:34." he said flatly. 'Do-hicky? Humans have very odd names for things.'
" That late?! Wow, I'm not going to get up tomorrow, that's for sure." she said, yawning, causing Megatron to yawn too.
" What's that?" asked Megatron grabbing his mouth.
" What was what?"
" That action. My mouth opened wide for a bit, inhaled air, and made a sound." he said, kind of surprised.
" Oh! Yawning? It just means you're tired. It's late and we have to get to sleep soon." she smiled
" Sleep?"
" Uh...recharge?"
" Oh. Why did I yawn?" he asked
" Oh, that always happens, You see, someone will yawn and automatically, you yawn. It's something that you tend to be unaware of. Honestly, you have no knowledge about human habits at all, huh?"
" I never bothered to study about them. I regret not doing that now, but I had no idea this would happen to me."
" Well, that's what we're here for, me and Sam. We can teach you everything about humans, and what we do and why."
" You're a useful femme." he smirked
" Uh...thank you? Anyways, we better get to bed. I'll get some blankets and you can sleep in the spare room." she said, standing up and walking to a closet down the hall. She grabbed a few blankets, and a small pillow. She motioned to him, and pointed a room down the hall. " There you go."
" I want to stay here. In this room." he said
" Oh...ok, that's fine. But if you're uncomfortable, you can go into this room to sleep. But don't go into the room with the red banner."
" Why?"
" That's my Dad's room, and no one is allowed in there. Ok?" she said solemnly, sitting down and sipping her soda across the room.
Megatron nodded, wondering about the room that was off-limits. And her father. What happened to him? Why was he not here with his family? It stuck him as odd that a mech would not be with his family during times of peace, unless there was a war somewhere else far away, or he was no longer alive. He didn't give it too much thought after awhile, and let his attention fall to the TV.
They watched the end of the report, then some news of some place called Qatar, then laughed at some stupid sitcom. Mikaela fought her sleepiness and noticed Megatron was already dozed off on the recliner in the corner. His snoring was about the last thing she noted before finally falling asleep herself.
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Author's notes: Ok, it was a filler chapter, but it did establish some of the characters' traits. Such as Megatron, because he wasn't given a smidge of personality in the movie. Those who didn't know the character, kind of thought " ok, he's a bad guy, but...what made him a bad guy?". The movie was made more for the fans of the series, who knew who was who already. I hope they give us more character depth in the next movie.
Anyways, in this story, I based the Megatron in this fanfic, off of the Transformers cartoon series and a tiny bit from the comics. So it's a combination of movieverse and retroverse. A little good from each one. Hope you enjoyed the story so far, I'm enjoying the reviews!^^
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Blooper:
" There's that slagger, Starscream! You coward! If I ever see you again it will be too soon!"
She cocked her head " Starscream?" she asked.
" My air commander. The biggest traitor to ever grace our ranks. He was also the biggest machoist I ever saw. Always doing something stupid so I could hit him or blast him with my cannon. I got to the point of doing nothing to him, and letting him beg to be kicked. The sicko!"
" You Decepticons have some major issues." she mumbled
