Chapter 12 Still Out There

Conery groaned as she pretended to listen to her parents scolding. Optimus had informed them when Conery and Megatron had walked back into the base well after 3:00 in the morning. Now she was being lectured on proper behavior for a young lady. Megatron had yet to appear in the Rec Room, he probably knew that he would get his audio receptor chewed off for being irresponsible with Conery.

She glanced down at her parents as they stopped talking. They were glaring at her and she tilted her head in confusion. Coby tapped the side of his head and mouthed "on". Conery groaned again since her parents had finally figured out that she had turned off her audio receptors. She reluctantly turned them back on as Megatron walked through the door holding a cube of energon. He stopped when he noticed Coby and Lori glaring up at him.

"What?" He asked slowly.

"Don't you act all innocent!" Lori screamed. "You have a lot of nerve!"

Megatron lifted a hand to his head and gave it a hard smack just above his right audio receptor. "Now that you have attempted to blow my audio receptors, what did I do?" He asked.

"You took Conery out somewhere last night and didn't bring her back until after 3:00 in the morning!" Lori screamed.

"We lost track of time." Conery mumbled. "Mom chill! Nothing bad happened. We just went for a moonlit walk." She stated.

"Oh? Are you trying to tell us that nothing else occurred on the walk?" Coby demanded.

Conery shifted slightly. "Nothing absolutely vile and inappropriate for someone my age." She stated.

"So you two didn't?" Her mother asked as she eyed them both.

"Eww! Mom no!" Conery recoiled in disgust. "I'm 16! I don't want a kid thank you very much!"

Megatron's face twisted in disgust. "You thought that I would do that to her at her age?" He asked, his voice filled with hurt.

Lori blushed and Coby rubbed the back of his head. "Well some things happen when people love each other." He mumbled.

Conery stood up and walked around her parents to stand beside Megatron. She shot her parents a slightly disgusted look, but it also told them that they were forgiven for their accusation. Megatron wrapped his arm around her shoulder and shook his head in disbelief. They both turned and left the room.

Pridebreaker and Nemesis Breaker padded up to them and walked beside them obediently. Just as they entered the Mess hall so Megatron could drop off his now empty cube of energon, an alarm sounded throughout the base. Conery stiffened as Megatron let out a slight growl. Pridebreaker and Nemesis Breaker let out low, angry growls.

"Slag it all to the Pit!" Landmine moaned as he got to his feet. He had been sitting at one of the tables. "What now?!"

Megatron grunted as they all tore out of the Mess hall and raced towards the Command center. The doors opened before they reached them. Landmine slowed down and came to a stop just inside the doors, panting slightly, while Megatron's momentum carried him a little farther. Conery, however, started skidding across the room. A wheel appeared on each of her heels and she slid her feet out in front of her, almost like she was trying to break in a pair of rollerblade, and pressed down hard on the wheels. She stopped just in front of Optimus with her hand out behind her on the floor and her body was stretched out in front of her. She grinned shyly as she stood up.

"Um, sorry about that." Conery mumbled as she backed up.

Optimus lifted an optic ridge. "About what? You didn't hit me." He stated as he looked up at her.

Conery shrugged as she backed up a little more as everyone else moved forward. Megatron gave her a reassuring smile as he walked up beside her. He turned towards Optimus and his face hardened to a point where absolutely no emotion showed through. It sent a terrified shiver up Conery's spine.

"What is the problem?" He asked, his voice suddenly full of authority.

"Starscream." Optimus replied coldly. "He's attacking a nearby city, just to draw us into the open I'm sure."

Conery felt a shiver run through her entire body and she stepped a little closer o Megatron. He slid his over top of hers and gave it a soft squeeze to reassure her.

"So, what are we standing here for?" Megatron demanded.

Optimus nodded. "Autobots, and Decepticons, transform and roll out!" He ordered.

Shouts of agreement echoed around the room as everyone turned and headed towards the launch ramps. Everyone had turned up the night before since whatever they were needed for elsewhere was over. Conery grabbed Megatron's arm as he started to turn around. He looked at her and lifted an optic ridge.

"I don't know how to transform." She stated.

"Yes, I know. You will do just fine." Megatron replied softly. He pulled her up against him and kissed her softly.

When he finished, he pulled her beside him as they headed to the ramps for the jets. Thundercracker, Jetfire, and Wingsabre smiled at her as they saw her walking towards them beside the larger Decepticon leader.

"Heya Conery! Ready for the most fun you've ever had?" Thundercracker asked.

"I think so." She replied. She honestly thought she was going to bring up her energon back up.

"You'll be fine." Jetfire said as he clapped her shoulder.

"Yah, transforming is easy. You don't even have to really think about it too much. Just think change, picture your alt. mode in your head and bada bing, bada boom, you transformed." Wingsabre stated.

Conery nodded as she gave Megatron's hand a painful squeeze. He patted her shoulder gently as they all went single file into the elevator. Jetfire went first, followed by Thundercracker, then Wingsabre, then Megatron, and then finally Conery. She stood all by herself in her personal lift as they were lifted up. She had only ever been on it when she was going with Jetfire on a lift flight to show her the geography of the land for a school project. When she looked up she saw the others transform and swallowed painfully.

"Here goes nothing." She whispered.

She closed her optic shutters and concentrated on changing shape. She pictured an image of an F-17 Hornet fighter jet (her favourite type) in her mind and felt her body folding painlessly into another form. She almost screamed as she realized what had happened.

"Nice work." Megatron stated over the com link. She could almost see the smile that was on his face as he said that.

She watched as Jetfire was launched out of the base, then Thundercracker blasted out of the base, Wingsabre let out a loud "yahoo" as he was flung into the air, and then Megatron took to the sky as if it were nothing. Conery started her turbines and felt the latch hook onto her underside. She swallowed as she was pulled forward, gaining speed and momentum, and thrust into the sunlight. She was flung into the air with a scream as she tried to adjust herself. She couldn't feel anything underneath her and she didn't know what to do.

"Oh God, oh dear God!" She whimpered. "What am I supposed to do?"

"Easy Conery." Megatron stated as he flew over to her. "Don't try so hard to control this. You are a Seeker, it is instinct." He said softly as he hovered just over her starboard wing.

"But I wasn't born a Transformer! I was a human before yesterday!" She squeaked.

"You are a Transformer now, Con. It will still be instinct for you." Megatron stated softly.

Conery whimpered. She trusted Megatron's words but she didn't know what to do and she was scared. She was over a thousand feet in the air and it was only sharp, jagged rocks below her. Megatron moved forward slowly and nudged her wing. He then blasted off. Conery smirked to herself as she increased her speed and chased after him. He went into a steep nosedive and Conery followed without a second thought. He pulled up suddenly and Conery pulled up and blasted after him. She matched each of his moves, expect for when he transformed and hovered in midair in front of her. She couldn't trust herself to remain airborne.

Megatron smirked as he hovered in front of her. "See? Instinct no matter what." He stated.

Conery hovered. "I guess I just had to relax a little more." She said.

"Now that you are all calmed down, can we get going?" Wingsabre asked over the com link.

"Sure thing." Conery replied.

Megatron transformed back into his jet mode and blasted off after the Autobots. Conery followed after him. They could see the city coming into view and Conery gasped as she saw the city's skyscrapers smoking and burning.

"We have to do something!" She shouted over the com link.

"I agree!" Jetfire replied. "But what can we do?"

Conery was silent for a moment. "We have to get the surviving humans out of those buildings then we kick Starscream's giant aft back to the hole from which he sprung." She stated.

"You have got to lay off the novels." Ransack stated.

"At least I read." Conery retorted.

"Not now you two!" Override laughed.

Conery laughed as she sped up. Megatron flew beside her towards one of the buildings. She looked in and almost gagged. The smell of burning flesh and blood was sickening. She felt tears building up within her as she saw all the innocent people dead within the burning buildings. She scanned around at the surrounding buildings but didn't find any readings from humans that were still living. She floated towards the ground in the defeat.

"No one lived." She whispered.

Megatron slipped underneath her and pushed her back into the air. "Some might have been able to escape." He stated. There was a hard bite in his voice that startled Conery. "Let's deal with Starscream."

Conery shook slightly. She didn't argue as they moved through the city. The others were racing around the streets and the rooftops trying to find Starscream. Megatron growled as nothing came up on the scanners. Then, out of nowhere, something smashed into Conery from above and dragged her down towards the ground.

Pain raced through her body as she transformed and rolled to her feet. She shook her head as she tried to shake away her blurry vision. A short mech was standing in front of her. He was black and orange with an orange visor that took up his entire face in a V shape. He didn't come up much higher than her midsection.

"Well, well, well. Aren't you a beautiful little femme." The mech stated.

"Little? I'm taller than you." Conery spat as she gave her head a huge shake.

"Ooh, feisty too!" He chuckled.

Conery shuddered in disgust. "Eww." She stated.

"Well baby my name's Sideways." He said as he walked over to her and grabbed her hand.

"I think you should have been called Dead Man Walking." She replied as she pulled her fist back and punched him in the face.

Sideways screamed in pain as he stumbled backwards. Conery took the moment to look up and saw Megatron fighting with a larger blue mech with a huge purple visor. She felt herself lift off the ground and rose up and smashed into the blue mech. He let out a surprised shout as he was thrown away from Megatron.

She looked at him and he smiled. "Thanks." He stated as he looked back at the blue mech as he shook his head and glared at them.

"I'm gunna show you what happens when you try to take over the DJ's job." He said in a very mechanical voice.

Conery shook her head. "Ok, that made very little sense pal." She stated.

The mech snorted as he lunged at her. She dodged him easily and whipped a gun out of her subspace that she didn't even know she had. She pulled the trigger and was sent flipping backwards once from the recoil. It struck the mech in the face and blasted him against an already burning building.

"Ooh, that has got to hurt." Conery mocked.

The mech staggered forward and glared at her. "Now you are going to get it." He growled.

"Nah, nah, nah, nah! Can't catch me!" She taunted as she flipped herself over and watched the blue mech fly past her.

She played a game of "Catch me if you can" with the mech until he became enraged and attempted to shoot her. However that dragged Megatron into the fight. The blue mech didn't last long before he was on the ground unconscious beside Sideways, who had tried to help the mech. Conery smiled as she spun her gun around her index finger.

"That's right! You don't miss the Con!" She laughed.

"Funny how well that works out." Megatron chuckled.

"Oh, you won't be laughing for long." A screechy voice stated from behind them.

Megatron and Conery spun around. Conery gasped and stepped closer to Megatron in fear as Starscream started laughing.

"Aww, how sweet. You are scared of me." He cooed.

"Beat it Starscream! Unless you want my fist in your optic!" Megatron snarled.

Starscream laughed. 'You think that you can take me on? Oh please. You couldn't kill me even if you wanted to." He mocked.

Conery glared at him. "Shut it! Unless you want my size 10 metal boot kicking your metal can!" She snapped.

Starscream's purple optics flashed. "Ah, how sweet. You're sticking up for your boyfriend." He growled.

Conery and Megatron looked at each other and grinned. They turned back towards Starscream and leveled their guns with him. He laughed as thy fired, but it was cut short as they struck him dead on. He was flung against a building and vanished in a cloud of smoke.

"YES!" Conery shouted.

Starscream laughed as he appeared through the smoke. He transformed and flew over their heads. He opened a warp gate and flew through it. Megatron snorted and kicked the motionless body of Sideways. Conery placed her hand on his arm and he looked down at her. She walked a little closer and he pulled her up against his chest. She buried her head into his chest and sighed softly.

"You ok?" Megatron asked softly as she nudged her head softly with his own.

"A little shaken, but I'm ok." She replied. She nuzzled her face into his neck and he let out a happy moan as she stroked her fingers along his sides.

"Don't do that!" He chuckled as he nibbled on her neck. "At least, not in public."

Conery smiled. "Is that a hint?" She asked quietly.

Megatron's optics flashed. "Maybe, that's for you to decide." He growled playfully.

Conery giggled as she wiggled out of his embrace and leapt into the air. "Catch me if you can!" She shouted as she transformed.

Megatron let out a loud roar as he took up the hunt. Conery squealed as she attempted to dodge the larger Decepticon. He growled as he closed in on her and started to transform. Conery went into a sudden nosedive and temporarily lost Megatron. She ran a scan behind her and couldn't detect Megatron anywhere behind her. She transformed and hovered in midair as she grinned. She missed the sound of an approaching aircraft until a set of arms wrapped around her waist. She let out a scream as she looked behind her. Then a laugh left her lips.

"Megatron! Don't do that!" She screamed as she slammed a fist against his arm. "I thought you were Starscream!"

Megatron laughed as he pulled her against his chest. He pulled her head up and kissed her gently. She tried to turn around in his arms but he held her still.

"You can kiss me from there." He whispered.

Conery smiled as she tilted her head back and kissed Megatron upside down.

"Head back to base you two. Starscream has fled the site and we'll handle all the damage." Optimus stated over the com link.

Megatron grinned as he opened a warp gate and pulled Conery into the portal. She blinked up at him as they appeared in her room. He smiled at her confusion as he began to stroke her wings. She whimpered happily as she started stroking his sides with feather light touches. He moaned loudly as he pulled back. He looked down at her as he walked over to the door and activated the soundproof system.

"Now they won't hear anything." Megatron stated as he walked back over to her.

He wrapped his arms around her waist, picked her up, and pinned her underneath him on her recharge bed as he kissed her. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders as she returned the kiss. She trailed her fingers up from his shoulder to his neck, along his jaw and up along his horns. He trembled as a low moan escaped his mouth and he pulled his hands out from underneath her. He placed his hands on her wings and ran them along her black wings. She found herself shaking happily and a moan of pleasure escaped past her lips.

Starscream may have been out there still, but that didn't stop them from enjoying each others company. It was moments like this that would live in their memories as long as they lived. Conery smiled as she trailed her other hand across Megatron's chest and down along his cockpit. He shuddered against her as he leant his head back and moaned. Conery smiled up at him as his shudders subsided and he lowered his head to look at her. He smiled as a single finger started trailing along her own cockpit. She gasped as a rush of pure ecstasy raced through her circuits. She leant her head back and moaned as Megatron continued to stroke the extremely sensitive wiring. He let out a low purr as he leant his face closer to her and kissed her passionately. She melted in his arms as he continued to stroke her sensitive wiring. She didn't think that she would ever be happier with her love. She didn't know how much more Megatron could give her.