Authors Note
Hello again. Just to warn you, if you don't like gore of any sort then perhaps you should skip this chapter as a method of disposing a dead body is discuss. I've been watching too many east end London gangster films recently and they have got to me.
Also did you watch the latest episode this weekend? I saw the scene in the container terminal and I was all "OMG their in a port" and then I kept listing all the errors with the place to myself. Also that had got to be the worlds quietest port theirs no activity, and whats with those weird grapper thing on those cranes? They aren't round in shape, there rectangular... see I'm at it already.
Anyway enjoy this chapter as ever and please review... actually why do I even bother asking? Nobody listens to me.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going a corner to sulk while going through my dry cargo course notes. Now leave me alone already, or I'll punch you in the face.
I was driving the Jag along the empty desert roads. I could hear the muffled noises coming from Borken in the boot. So I put the radio on to drown out the sounds. I currently had album 'The fat of the land' by The Prodigy. I played the track Narayan as it just gave me the feeling of surrealism. I carried on driving towards Jasper and went straight through the town using the main road that cut the town in two parts. I came through the other side and went along another road climbing over a rise in the distance.
I'd been on the road for about half an hour now and I'd made some distance from the Autobot base, far enough so that the Decepticons wouldn't be able to work out the location of the Autobot base. I turned off onto a dirt road leading into the desert. The car rocked and bounced over the uneven, rocky surface.
I'd cover over two miles of dirt road according to the sat nav. I decided that it would be far enough, well away from anybody. I stopped the car and got out. I walked to the boot and opened the door. Borken looked straight at me with utter fear in his eyes.
"Where are we?"
"The Arizona desert or more precisely a half an hour to the south of the town of Jasper. Now what is the frequency?"
"Eighty seven Megahertz at sequence of one second on and two seconds off. After a minute or so they arrive by a ground bridge"
"That's it?"
"That's it"
I slammed the boot lid back down and got back into the car. I reached into the back seat and got the frequency modulator, the transmitter unit and the antenna. I set it all up on the front passenger seat. I selected the correct frequency and started transmitting one second on and two seconds off. On, off, on, off, on, off.
I kept transmitting for up to a minute until a swirling wall of light appeared out of nowhere, the Decepticons had arrived. Out from the portal came, Arachnid, Soundwave, Knockout then finally the Decepticon war lord himself, Megatron.
Their ground bridge had opened up roughly two hundred yards in front, they were looking all around for Borken who they were expecting to find, but when they didn't see him straight away it was clear on their faces they knew something wasn't right. They couldn't see my car in the dark of night but I could see them as my night vision had become finely tuned to the dark.
But after a minute I decided to put an end to their confusion by switching on the headlights in main beam. All of them on instinct turned in my direction. I started the engine and drove towards them slowly. As I got closer and closer they were trying to see who it was as they were temporarily blinded by the headlights.
I parked the car in a slight turn to the right so that the driver's door was facing them. I switched off the engine and slowly opened the door. By the time my boot touched the floor they knew I wasn't Borken. But as I completely exited the car their faces, save for Soundwave who had no face were one of mild shock. They believed I was dead.
"Hello again" Was how I greeted them.
They were too stunned to say anything.
"Sorry, did you think you think you could get rid of me that easily? Oh please I feel insulted. I've gone through much worse than that"
They charged up they weapons but they didn't aim at me but rather out in the open.
"No the Autobots are not around. This is not an ambush, besides do you think Optimus would do that?"
Megatron finally spoke "So what is the meaning for this… meeting?"
"To return something to you"
"Oh really, and what would this something be?"
I went to the rear of the car and opened the boot. I reached for Borken and hauled him out. I held him by the back of his collar and I shoved him with some force to the floor in front of Megatron.
"That something" I replied.
Borken got onto his knees and looked up to Megatron face.
"My lord, I'm sorry but I've failed you" He looked down at the floor. I just shook my head in pity.
"I've also got something else as well, although it's not yours" I opened the rear door and pulled out the laptop.
"This is what Borken tried to get for you. It's the laptop which contains all the intelligence that the British government has on the Autobots. But when he gave you information on my whereabouts there was one thing he didn't take into account… me"
"Clearly" Megatron said while looking down on the pitiful Borken lying at his feet.
"However Megatron, you will not be having this laptop" I dropped the laptop and stamped on it multiple times. Then for good measure I pulled my gun out and shot it a few times, aiming for the hard drive disk. After the work I did on it, no amount of advanced technology could repair it.
"Now what to do with this low life" I said looking at Borken, the gun still in my hand. Borken paid particular attention to it and knew what would happen.
"No please. Don't Michael, don't do it. You wouldn't kill a person who is defenceless"
"Maybe you should ask that to the third Officer and the third engineer on the ship I was working on. They were defenceless as well before they got a bullet in the back of their heads. Or maybe you should ask that the Jason Hadfield. I shot him in the back of the head as well. Besides you're not defenceless. I want to see you beg for your masters to help you. They promised you'd be spared? Well let's see what's what"
Straight away he turned back to face Megatron on his knees, shuffling towards him "Master, please. I did everything I could, but he was just too good. Please, I did what you asked for please, save me" He pleaded. He shuffled even more till he was hugging his masters' foot, hoping it would bring him sympathy from Megatron.
But I knew what Megatron's reaction would be, he simply shook Borken off his foot. He glared down at Borken, angered that a human had dared touch him.
"You failed at a simple task. You had the information all this time and yet you kept it from us. Now it is destroyed there is no reason for me to do anything for you. You let this human defeat you and I do not accept failures. You will deserve everything coming at you"
"Master please. I haven't had the experience that he has, plus I'm not as strong as him. Please master, give me one more chance. I beg of you!"
Megatron frowned "If he is stronger than you then that means you are weak. I one thing I despise most of all is the weak"
"Master please"
"Shame" I started "You had a prominent career and you threw it all away on a hollow promise. They were never going to hold up there end of the deal. It's amazing to think that you were once a beat cop of the NYPD, a job which requires a good judge a character. Surely you would have known they were not to be trusted?"
"I like you're thinking Michael, you certainly are a switched on person. I see why Optimus likes to keep you around as another one of his pets"
"That's Mr Rickers to you Megatron, only my friends call me Michael and I am no pet"
He snickered
"Laugh all you want Megatron, but you won't be for long"
That stopped him "And what are you going to do, tiny human?"
"For a start, deal with him" I pointed at Borken. I raised my gun and aimed squarely at his head and fired.
BANG!
His head exploded out from the back and all the insides splattered on the ground.
"Whoa" I heard Knockout say. Arachnid and Starscream were stunned. Soundwave was impossible to read. However Megatron grinned with an evil glint in his eye.
"Now, that is what I intend to do. I will hunt down every human you have working for you and I will do the same to them. Then I will hunt you down, one by one and I will show no mercy like Optimus does. So watch your backs and stay out of the shadows. Because I'll be there, lurking, waiting to pounce"
"You don't scare us one bit human, we will kill you first"
"You tried that already, but here I am alive and kicking"
He growled under his breath.
"Now you'll need to get rid of that body won't you? Well I've heard the best option is to chop up the body into six parts then feed them to pigs"
"Oh really" Megatron said.
"Oh yes. It helps to starve the pigs for a few days, then sight of a chopped up body will look like a kebab to a steaming drunk. You'll need to shave the head and remove the teeth for the sake of the pig's digestion, but you could do that after, but you don't want to do that. They will go through bone like butter, you'll need at least sixteen pigs to complete the job in one go so finding a pig farm would be your best bet. They will go through a body that weighs two hundred pounds in roughly ten minutes. Which in turn means one pig will consume about two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute, hence the expression 'as greedy as a pig'" I grinned at them, now I have Knockout an Arachnid worried. Worried about what else I might know. Maybe how do deal with a dead cybertronian.
"Well, thank you for that information. I'm sure it will be of use" Megatron said with sarcasm.
"One more thing, your warship. It's called the Nemesis, right?"
"Yes"
"But do you know what nemesis means?"
Megatron didn't reply.
"It means a righteous infliction of retribution, manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a horrible bastard… me"
"You must think you are clever with your words. But no words will shake me, tiny human"
I walked by to the car and opened the door.
"I will stop you Megatron, consider your plans of using humans over"
"Your dare run off when I haven't let you go?"
"I set up this meeting and now this meeting is at an end"
"You'll suffer greatly for this Mr Rickers, mark my words, you'll suffer"
I pretend to yawn "Save it for someone who cares" I got in and started the engine. I gave a bit of wheel spin to throw up some dust and I was quickly getting out of there. In the rear view mirror I could see that Knockout was preparing to chase but was stopped by Megatron. They were going to let me go. I felt lucky. Then I saw them all head back through the newly opened ground bridge. I smiled I took on Megatron and won. I concentrated on getting back onto the road.
I was on the road again, heading back to Jasper when I saw a group of headlights going the other way. I was slightly weary as it should have been empty. Then the glow of the lights intensity grew stronger, and I saw a group of vehicles forming a road block. My first thoughts were Decepticons but I noticed first a large red semi-tractor unit. Along with a green 4X4, a black and yellow muscle car, a blue sports bike and a pink sports car.
I came to slow and stopped. I got out while leaving the engine running. The Autobots transformed forming a line across the road.
"Where is Agent Borken?" Optimus asked.
I shrugged "No idea, why?"
"Because he is no longer in his cell and you are the only one who has left base since his disappearance. Now, where is he?"
"Gone"
"Gone where?"
"To a better place"
Optimus knew I was using a well-known human expression after a few moments of research behind the expression his eyes narrowed "You're going back to base straight away"
"Am I? So what about the whole freedom of all sentient beings thing?"
"Do not argue with me Michael. Ratchet, send a bridge"
The ground bridge opened up behind me. I was trapped between the portal and the line of Autobots. I was going back to base whether I liked it or not. I breathed a heavy sigh and got back in the Jag and drove through the swirling wall of light.