Rad knew he should be freaking out. After all he'd just been captured by the Decepticons. Or was it really capture when he's gone willingly? But the point was, after spending so much time around the Clow Cards that the Decepticons seemed ordinary compared to the sheer ferocity the cards could enable to happen. He didn't want to think of Arrow because of how Frenzy had actually saved him.
Maybe Kero was messing with him when he said that?
He barely registered being taken out of the cockpit he'd been in, or the glared the Coneheads were shooting him. No, what he noticed was the walls of all things. 'Why can't these walls be the Autobot orange I'm so used to seeing? Orange is awesome after all.' he thought pleasantly. 'Wow, I really am crazy.'
He was only brought out of his thoughts when he felt a new grip on him by the back of his shirt. He looked up and tried not to flinch as he came face to face with Megatron. "Do you know why you're here, fleshling?"
'There's a reason?' Rad thought, but didn't dare to say it aloud. "Um, no?"
"The reason you're here is because one of your Clow Cards is making my troops disappear." Megatron growled, not liking the fact they had to rely on a fleshling to get rid of the card.
Rad's eyes widened. 'They know about the cards?' he thought. Still, while he may not be a fan of the 'Cons, moral obligation won out. "When do I start?"
He felt himself being put roughly on the floor. "You even try and escape, it will be very unpleasant. Now follow Soundwave."
Rad looked up at the blue cassette player and felt his face drain of color. "Frenzy." he muttered. The mech seemed to ignore the fact the boy spoke and led him out, Rad following along silently.
Now while Soundwave didn't like the fact they had to rely on this boy either; it was the logical decision. As the yellow plush organic had said; it was Rad who opened the book in the first place, so he had to clean up the mess he caused. It was also an inevitability that one of the cards would find its way onboard.
Rad meanwhile was looking around the hall in boredom. 'No wonder everyone here is so moody if this is the color they have to look at constantly.' he thought and was pulled from his thoughts by a metallic growl at the distinct hiss of a door sliding open.
"What is he doing here?" Ravage growled.
"Fleshling: solution to problem." Soundwave said. He saw that Rad had begun to fidget and he was sure it was because of the way Frenzy was staring at the teen, but then again, Ratbat was also staring at the teen, thought it seemed to be more out of curiosity.
"How is he going to help us?" he chirped tilting his head.
"He's the one who's been capturin' all those organics that have been showing up everywhere." Frenzy explained without looking away from Rad. "He's the one with the powers."
"Oh! The Glowy Fleshy" Ratbat chirped in recognition.
'Glowy Fleshy?' Rad thought looking surprised at the name. 'Why do they call me that?' Thinking he was better off not knowing the answer, he decided to get right down to business. "You're probably aware of what this is, right?" he asked taking his key off its string and received nods. "Good." he muttered and held it out in front of him. "The key which hides the power of the dark, show your true power before me, I, Rad, command you, under our contract, Release!" There was a flash of bright white light and the key elongated into its orange staff form.
There was a stunned silence before Ratbat began to chirp loudly.
"Do that again! Do that again!"
Rad grimaced with a sweat drop. "Um, not now." he said distractedly. "So, I'm going card hunting now."
"Frenzy: Guard and escort."
Rad paled even more than before.
"Wow, this is disturbing." Rad said staring at the thing in front of him in the closet he'd opened.
Frenzy snickered and stored it to memory for blackmail material. "Are you kidding? This is gold!"
What they were looking at was a transformers-sized shrine dedicated to Madonna. Complete with every album she'd ever made.
Rad blinked when he found the absurd logic behind it all. "Well, he does have a king-sized ego and she is technically the queen of pop music." he mused shaking his head and closed the closet door. "Who da thought that a Decepticon could legitimately like a human?" he noticed it got very quiet at that.
"So only Autobots can like humans huh?" Rad looked over to see Frenzy actually glaring at him.
Rad frowned upon remembering his issues with this particular cassette. "Well, this sort of disproves that. 'Sides, it's not like you actually like me."
Frenzy frowned. He shouldn't say it, not now or ever, but he needed to get it over and done with. "Actually, I do like you."
Rad stared at him in shocked disbelief.