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Chapter 25

Hot Rod let out a laugh at the joke Streetwise had just told about Megatron. The femme's friendship with the Protectobots really hadn't change from when she was still a mech. Hot Spot and his team still treated her like she was a mech and that was fine with her although they were a little bit protective of her in battle but not by much. They thought that it was their fault she was shot in the back by one of the Decepticons as they were right beside her when it happened. But Hot Rod told them that it wasn't their fault and to just forget about it.

"That was a good one Streetwise." Hot Rod said with tears in her optics. Hot Rod shot a quick glimpse at the clock on the wall. It was almost time for her to go on her patrol shift. She thanked the Protectobots for some laughs and excused herself and left the rec room heading to the entrance of the City where she transformed and drove to the warehouse that she was to meet with Megatron unaware that a Autobot Spy was following her.

Megatron waited for Hot Rod to show. He knew that she may be late as he guessed with her being a femme was hard to get patrols alone which he thought was stupid. The Autobot was a combat femme not a sneak attack femme. That was one of the reasons he admired the femme greatly. She wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty.

Megatron looked up from the data pad he was reading when he heard the sound of a car engine coming. The Decepticon leader hid behind a wall just in case it was a human only to see that it was Hot Rod. She was covered in dust but that didn't matter to him she was still beautiful in his optics.

Hot Rod came to a stop and transformed when she was in side of the building. She sat down on an old block of cement and began to wait unaware that Megatron was already there.

"I was beginning to think that you weren't going to come." Megatron said coming out from behind the wall and walking towards Hot Rod with something in his hands.

"Sorry took a while to get away and to make sure that I wasn't being followed. I swear their afraid that something is going to happen to me no thanks to you kidnapping me and Starscream almost raping me." Hot Rod said glaring at Megatron.

"First I would like to apologize for what that idiot tried to do. He knows that I do not allow rape on my ship for I find it disgusting. Rest assured that my 2nd in command has been properly punished for what he did to you. And I must say your friends did punish him in their own way during the last battle." Megatron told Hot Rod as he snickered at the sight of the Autobots aiming for Starscream's codpiece.

"That was pretty funny I will admit." Hot Rod replied.

"To show you that I am sorry for what happened I brought you these." Megatron said and held out a box of some type.

Hot Rod took the box and opened it to find a set of very rare Cybertronian crystals. The crystals were so rare before the Great Wars that they became even rarer when the Great War happened. But Megatron had a set of them and he was giving them to her as a peace offering.

"Thank you. I've always wanted some of these but could never afford them or find them." Hot Rod said with a smile.

"You're very welcome. What I wanted to talk to you about was I would like for you to join the Decepticons. Your teammates didn't trust you and treated you with such disrespect that it was uncalled for. But I was glad that they did rescue you and take you back to the base. As misguided as they are with trivial things, at the very least they live with a sense of honor when it comes to the protection of femmes. I do admire that you fight even though you are a femme and willing to put up with a lot of slag that you shouldn't have to put up with." Megatron said hoping to use the fact that most of her teammates still didn't trust her but they did have a sense of honor when it came to looking after femmes.

"Thank you for the offer but I'm still not sure if I want to leave the Autobots. You have treated me with respect when I had a meltdown when I first revealed that I was a femme but I need time to think." Hot Rod told Megatron who just nodded his head.

"Very well I will send Laserbeak when I would like to meet next. He will leave a message at the mountain that you like so much in a few days telling you where to meet me." Megatron said to Hot Rod and reached over and took her hand and kissed as if she was a member of the noble class and walked away.

Hot Rod waited for a few mintutes making sure that Megatron was far away before she spoke. "You can stop hiding Now Cliffjumper and Mirage. I know that your there." Within a few seconds she saw the red horns of Cliffjumper and the blue of Mirage. "I know that you two were following me since I gave the reply message to Laserbeak. We need to talk to Optimus I have an plan that just might work to our favor." Hot Rod told the two spies and transformed.

Optimus looked at the reports that Prowl had just handed him with a groan. If there was one thing that could bring down a Prime it was paperwork. And the more he got done the more that just appeared out of nowhere. His mind wasn't on paperwork at the moment it was somewhere else on a member of his team. Why was he feeling the way he was about this team member he had no idea but the feeling wouldn't go away no matter what he did?

He heard a knock on his door and said come in. In walked what was causing his to wander off. and two of his soldiers.

"Sir I have something tell you and it involves Megatron. Please hear me out for I have an idea." Hot Rod said looking her leader in the optic. She hoped that what she had planed would work.

Find out what Hot Rod is planning in the next chapter.

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