There was a dark, primal satisfaction to having the girl in his quarters. Of course, Barricade didn't expect her to be so out of it. After scanning her, he made discoveries. Some that angered, and some that he expected. Pushing her against the wall she leaned against it for support with her head turned away.

But Barricade didn't go through all that he did to be ignored. The blade he pulled out, flipping it then extending, was enough to regain her attention back. Fear flashed in her eyes as she struggled to get away, but she was far from recovered and her steps were awkward.

Catching the human and holding her easily still, he brought the knife up and then down, slashing through the offensively white dress, watching as the tattered shreds landed between their feet. Alexis looked at what he did before gasping. And then peered back up at him, covering up her body as she tried to shove him away.

Now she was wearing nothing only a thin piece of silken cloth. Taking a moment to look at her, long enough that the human turned red as she bristled, Barricade grabbed one of her arms and forced Alexis along with him.

"Get in," he ordered. They stopped before his sonic shower. Barricade leaned closer and whispered into her ear, "You smell far too much like Starscream. You will clean yourself up and then..." He let the threat hang, wishing the shower could do something for that energy signature of hers that had once more taken on the annoying characteristics of Starscream. Alexis' eyes narrowed before she flinched, squeaked and then gasped when he grabbed her again. The door slid open, and he pushed her inside the sonic shower.

Barricade watched her silhouette slump down. The sound emissions of the cleaning cycle commenced as he remotely accessed it. There was something far too gratifying about watching her like that. Alexis' tiny form now in his large cleansing area, Barricade went momentarily into the past as he remembered how, when she first became his in the beginning, he would watch her take showers then too. During that time though, his actions were required to make sure she cooperated.

He watched the visual display with enthusiasm. His pseudo heart pumped as his chest tightened, tongue coming out from between his lips to drift along the bottom of his mouth. Barricade allowed her a couple of minutes which he believed were long enough to get the Seeker's stench from her flesh. Deactivating the sonic shower the doors slid open. Throwing clean clothes at the girl, it shut again.

"Put these on, or I will for you."

Alexis did as he commanded. His fist clenched as Barricade observed the sound of the zipper traveling up the front of her body. After that she wouldn't come out so he forced her. Alexis was more sure on her legs now. More life in her eyes as well, her mouth set tightly together in a stubborn frown.

There was something about just looking at the girl that could disturb him. He stared before his eyes wandered over her frame. She now wore a jumpsuit that Barricade had long ago obtained. There was no error that it resembled the one Alexis wore when she had been in his keep under Starscream's watchful optics. However, he must not have accounted for her size as well as he thought, for it was tight, clinging and dipping and curving along the femme. It was the first time he acknowledged that she was a rather curvy creature, a lithe piece of flesh that lured him, pulling the hunter into an erotic intrigue which could only have one conclusion.

He had never waited so long for anyone like he did the flesh creature who was now leaning against her legs. Soft moans escaped her mouth as she moved, sounds of pain obviously, but the airy breeze of them had desire mount upon him.

Barricade long prepared for this day. He probably had too much time to plan as he lost himself in what he would do to the human when the opportunity finally arrived. How he enjoyed toying with her and manipulating her, bending her to his will.

Alexis jumped to her feet when Barricade approached. Seemingly trying to become one with the wall as she looked for a means of escape. But she wasn't going anywhere. Metal clanking dully, handcuffs appeared in his hands. Before she could even think of trying to run, down the cuffs came, capturing her left hand and then the other.

Barricade pulled at her again. His hand clasped tightly around the metal links he made his way to a chair in the middle of the room. He sat down, and with a strength of a tug Barricade forced Alexis on him, pulling the cuffs so that her hands were straining behind his neck. One of his hands held them in place while the other clamped tight on the side of her waist.

For several long seconds, he was swallowed up in her eyes. They were filled to the brim with confusion, passion, anger, hostility, pain, focus and undeniable power. It was overwhelming, penetrating his core as he forcibly made her keep contact with his eyes.

Alexis looked away. The moment lost and forgotten when she started to struggle. Moving against him, she tried to get away. Alexis stopped when she realized how futile it was. The whole object of bringing her down on him had been so that he could look at the girl further. More than enjoying the way it unnerved her, as it had moments prior. Now all he wanted was for the human to struggle again like the way she just did, her body brushing over and above his with that glorious friction. Barricade's lids drooped as a dark hazy want came over him.

Alexis noticed his response and once more tried to get away with near frenzy, halting when, even as Barricade tried to shield it, she realized he was only enjoying it.

"You're disgusting," she breathed out.

"And you are a worthy indulgence." Barricade brought her closer and bit into the delicate flesh of her neck. His hand loosened and drifted down to her hip, gripping firm.

She yelped. Trying to pull back she commenced once more with movement, her small body connecting with his own in short bursts of rebellion.

Opening his eyes all the way when the movement stopped, he found Alexis' face hovering above his own, a strange intent look in her eyes. And then she was leaning forward with her body unwillingly brushing against the hunter. Barricade moaned with appreciation. Alexis' mouth hovered over his throat, teasing but not touching. He waited for the inevitable contact. A part of him didn't believe it was that easy. But his desire was such that he interpreted her intent backwards. Barricade knew that when he heard the sound of metal connecting with metal. And before his lust filled mind could associate the sound with the actions, Alexis was free.

"What part of you disgust me do you not understand?" She was standing before him, looking down at Barricade while a redness in her cheeks that seemed to become brighter with her anger.

He smiled, a rather easy lifting up of the mouth that strained against his flesh. The human male body was so easily stimulated that it was both disgusting and infuriating. He was starting to realize he needed more practice. For even though he had an abundance of control in his Cybertronian form, the human body seemed just straining for the sensation of pleasure as it prepared and pushed forth such distracting, cloudy stimuli. Perhaps though, his lack of control had to do with the unpredictable femme before him, and the way her flesh felt when it made contact with his own.

"You almost disappointed me," he said slowly. One of his hands moved languidly down his thigh. Remembering what she felt like that erotic tug sparked inside and traveled down. He realized with unrestrained excitement that her eyes were following his movements. She stopped quickly, her eyes jerking upwards and unwilling to travel any further. Barricade smirked.

"Why do you keep doing this?" Alexis asked.

He laughed at that, stilling his human body at that same time; his arousal could wait. Right now, with the way her fingers were tightening, foot lifting and then heel falling, her breaths slowing as her heart raged, he knew something was about to pop.

"You stupid human," he said bitterly, rancor rising as Barricade reminded himself what she did with the Seeker and so eagerly. "I want what you so easily gave Starscream. And before I am done with you, you are going to offer it to me willingly, and then I shall take you and show you what true ecstasy is as you beg me to..."

"Shut up!" Alexis sprung, elbows locking and metal clanking, wrists meeting and hands brought together followed by three quick steps forward as she flung her hands down and sharply to the left, a firm blow landed against his face.

Barricade could have moved out of the way in time, but he didn't, allowing it; he sat there. Blood poured out of a gash on his cheek. He lifted a hand up, brushing it further across his flesh as an eyebrow rose.

Alexis watched, disgusted and shocked. "Why did you allow me to..."

Her words faltered and died when he sprang upwards. She should have moved when she had the chance. But instead her vile compassion once more got in the way. Capturing Alexis again was not hard at all. Twirling her around, he released her right hand from the handcuff. Jerking her to a halt, he forced her to take a step forward, one he used to his advantage as he placed the just released cuff on his own left wrist and snapped it shut.

"Perhaps this will be more satisfying," Barricade said smugly.

Pulling her hand back, his came along with it. Trying to get away, she didn't get far. Barricade's own weight forced her back, the handcuffs squeezing against their flesh.

Bending Alexis' right hand behind her back, he tugged the girl backwards. Her back landed against his chest, his free hand taking its time as it brushed down the side of her body. That didn't last. Screaming out she twisted and turned, slapping him hard across the face before striking at him solidly with her knee.

Barricade went back but she came with him. Tripping over her legs the tension from his cuff caught up with her own, forcing the human to follow him down as they fell backwards. Both landed roughly on the hard floor below.

While Alexis was dazed, Barricade was not. Lifting upwards he pounced over the human. Pushing her hands over her head, he leaned over the right side of her body, careful not to place himself in such a way that he could once again lose control of the situation. Alexis didn't know, but she had far too much of it as it was.

Blinking several times she stared up at him, her nose wrinkling as she heaved a heavy expanse of air. And then with a quickness that fascinated, she lifted her left hand, a delicate wrist brought up as she thrust her palm forward. The flesh connected with his nose, scarlet bio fluids gushed and a sharp ache commenced, the feel of it letting him know she just broke his nose.

How violent Alexis had become. If only she knew that it stirred him further. The bubbling of arousal, which had not been that far away, lifted to the surface as he tasted the metallic sting of blood lining the roof of his mouth. Alexis did not appear as disturbed as she did last time. If he was reading her correctly she seemed more satisfied than anything else. Unaware of the added appeal she had now that Alexis had his blood sprinkled on her jumpsuit.

He had no choice but to respond to her own brutal overtures. Barricade lifted her head up and then sharply pushed it back down to the ground. She yelped, her eyes clouding over. Lifting Alexis' body, he twisted her hand behind the girl, sliding her back to him as he leaned in from behind. Folding over onto his legs, he brought her body backwards to rest between his knees.

"Your violence only serves to arouse me, Alexis. I want you to fight me. I want you to struggle and scream and cry out my name." He lowered his voice, his desire pushing it down a couple of octaves. "Hurt me, Alexis. Free yourself of this goodness. Cause me pain. Punish me. Beat me," Barricade whispered against her ear as she shivered, "make me bleed."

"Too afraid to approach me as a mech." she managed to get out, her voice a tortured whisper of a challenge, her disappointment evident.

"Oh, but it is you that have forced me to take on this base form. Forcing me to experience the profits of being a male. Anything I do to you is your own making." To emphasize his point, Barricade's mouth pressed against the back of her neck, a thin trail of blood left behind that he eagerly lapped back up with his tongue. Tasting her in his fluids, Barricade felt a sense of empowerment.

That was why he forced her back around, his body crawling over hers before settling firmly on her stomach. Alexis stayed still, but glared at him, her eyes darting to the side of her body before returning.

"Start struggling," he commanded, his voice husky with intent. He knew she had trained, and knew she could fight harder than this. His hand crawling backwards he squeezed the flesh of her inner thigh.

She screamed, gasped and paled, but somehow remained relatively still.

Barricade pushed Alexis' hands further up by her head and then swiped the hair gently out of her face. "He hurt you didn't he? Not exactly what you expected, but the fault is once more your own. Taking a Seeker as a lover is not exactly for the timid."

He hit the mark because instantly water started to well in her eyes. Alexis bit down on her lip, head turning to the side so he couldn't see. He just forced it back, wanting those life filled eyes upon him, especially now that they were vulnerable.

"I don't have to be all roughness, Alexis. Just give in to what is going to transpire. You shall be my consort. And when you are it will only be I that you need to please instead of countless others. I do not share." His threat was a hollow one. There were few like him that had discovered the hidden benefits that humans had to offer.

"You're bile! Your consort? I wouldn't wash your feet. And if you somehow forgot, I already have a mate. And no effort you make on that front will change what Starscream has done to me. But your too busy hiding being your... simulation of manhood to show what a true mech you could be anyway."

She was trying to goad him, and it almost worked. But there was a part to her words that she was unaware of, and that he was getting close to revealing. Alexis was bringing her hand up, and before he could stop it, she brought it back down, turning his hand so that it was above hers before she crashed them both on the floor below. She had paid even better attention than Barricade thought, or just knew the limitations of the cuffs on their wrists.

With the strength combined of both their hands smashing down, the pressure was enough for the handcuff to fall off her wrist as the deactivation protocol initiated from the pressure applied. She acted, punching him as hard as she could and then managing to wriggle out from under him. Alexis rolled back; her legs brought together and then springing forward as they came smashing against his chest.

She was just as surprised as he when Barricade tumbled back. Already she was running away, her course becoming an erratic one when he leapt to his feet and followed.

No longer amused by the slickness of the blood upon his flesh, he activated a program. The bio fluids, bruises and cuts faded as the cartilage under his nose reformed and merged. Cornering Alexis, she disappeared inside a hollow shaft, having little idea what she ran into. But being her size now, Barricade could see it didn't quite look like the missile launcher it was. The one that he had tried to implement into a form of an upgrade, even as he was still unhappy with the added bulk. He didn't remember leaving it lying on the floor, but he had been hurried when the orders regarding Starscream came in, and during that time had been little aware of much except for the enthralling rhythm of his spark.

Lingering outside the tip of the launcher, he peered inside. Nothing resided within only shadows and darkness, the ending of footfalls, and as he strained, the sounds of muted breathing.

There was something of a thrill at having trapped Alexis inside the thing. His hands slid along the edges of the weapon's passage as he walked inside. Barricade enjoyed the tactile contact and the coolness, sensations that made his skin bristle. It was tight inside and the farther he journeyed the darker it became. Of course, he could see perfectly well. Male or not he was beyond a mere human and not past giving himself whatever advantage he needed.

He found her within two minutes. Her small body was curled up into her legs as she leaned against them, head tilted to the side as she heard his approach.

"Don't come any closer," Alexis warned, even managing to halfway gauge his location despite her inability to see.

Barricade chuckled, "And what could possibly keep me away... Alice has gone down the rabbit hole, and I must follow."

"Alice what..."

He brought her up by the neck and squeezed enough that she gasped and struggled to breath. She tried to kick and punch at him, but he had far more than enough of that for the day, so he halted her actions by applying pressure against her legs with his own, pushing heavily against the girl as he grabbed her hands.

"I read that book. It was in your room. And if you do recall... so was I. Such an interesting set of books you had. I wonder what your parental units would have thought of the poetry you wrote that was hidden underneath your bed. I must admit I still have a hard time trying to decide if I preferred your passages of violence, or the ones of your innocent grasping for the understanding of sexual fulfillment."

Even in the dark he saw her blush, or perhaps the color change was because of the lack of oxygen. Easing up a bit on her neck, Barricade permitted Alexis to breath.

He went on, "Do you know, Alice, where you have gone? This is my rabbit hole. In fact, it is a Trilinion missile launcher. Just a quick thought and I could end this right here."

She didn't disappoint when she brought her head up, defiance in her sharp eyes as she spat out, "Then do it."

The corner of his mouth lifted while he did just that. He primed the weapon as it came on-line. Red lights flickered on and grew along the narrow passage, pulsing as it charged.

By then, with the weapon on, the throbbing along the cramped shaft through the girl and into him, the rising heat clinging to his flesh and Alexis trapped before him and the danger of what they were inside, Barricade was unbelievably stimulated.

"I could destroy you right now, and stand here watching as you were disintegrated and literally blown away. However, it will be I that personally finishes you if you fail to please me. So, my little Alice, Alexandra, please me and live."

She was confused when he suddenly let her go, her eyes darting cautiously to him and then over her shoulders to the exit. The confusion from his actions wasn't enough; Alexis ran.

Deactivating the missile launcher, Barricade trailed behind, filled with exultation for his objective. He never wanted it to end.