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Chapter 3
Insight
"I have
been considered a cold-blooded killer, a thief, and an assassin.
It is true. I can kill without a thought but do not murder all that
is good. Those that I have killed I did so to keep the balance between
good and evil." Paraleasion thought, as she went back to the crash
site, stripping the ship of everything that was needed. Mostly parts
from the computer. As she hauled everything she contemplated her
dilemma.
She was created
by the Maximal Elders and the Tripedicus Council to be the one to keep
things in balance. The Tripedicus Council had plans of their own,
such as taking over the galaxy, and expected her to side with them.
On the other had, the Maximal Elders wanted her to side with them if a
war between the two factions ever arose. She decided not to chose
a side, and stuck to her original existence, neutral. As time wore
on she got tired of the labs. Constantly being poked, prodded and
the like, so she escaped. Aurora had found her in an alley near her shop,
took her in, and raised her. She taught Paraleasion the basics of
living in a rough area such as The Slums. Paraleasion had started
to realize, that now free, she could fulfill her role as balance.
She had started to kill those who were criminals, a threat to others.
Those that would not be missed, or so she thought. They were missed
and the style of killing was linked back to Paraleasion. Hygus, once
her boyfriend, had given false testimony but still got her put in jail
for life. Aurora had killed a couple of bots and framed Hygus.
He got life also, and as a combined sentence, they got stuck in the same
cell. They couldn't kill each other or do anything to harm one another,
they had to be nice. It was hard to be nice to the guy that had put
her in that place. Not too long after that, Aurora mysteriously died.
In prison Paraleasion had plenty of time to think about what she had done,
and didn't regret any of it.
When Paraleasion
escaped she did everything and anything to get away. Now, she regretted
it. She killed two innocents and planted the blame on another.
That was not a very Maximal thing to do. It was more of a Predacon
thing to do. Since she was neither, it made hard to justify what
she had done.
Paraleasion knew
that she was going deeper into the forest. That was what she had
planned to do. What she didn't want to do was run into anyone.
Now, all she needed was to be was alone, so that she could find a place
to hold up and plan her next move. There were seven Predacons and
six Maximals. Paraleasion needed to do something to equal the tide.
Seven against six wasn't really fair and since she didn't know that much
about either she had to gather information. Paraleasion sighed, looking
around for a place to stay and found a nice cave next to a placid lake,
surrounded by old growth trees. She smiled and went inside to investigate.
Inside it was...dark, and dusty. A small stream ran through the middle,
dividing it into two sections. The cavern got smaller and an opening
barely large enough for her to get through was at the back. She crawled
through the space, and entered a dimly lit area. Lichen grew on the
walls, glowing, providing the faint light. It was perfect.
Hard to find, easy to defend and oddly cozy. She especially liked
the natural lighting. Paraleasion set up a jerry-rigged computer
in one corner. In another was the collapsible recharging bed.
Now that all of that all of that was done, she could do some information
gathering. Which meant sneaking into bases, hacking into computers
and doing it without getting caught or slagged. She grabbed a disk,
shoved it into a subspace compartment and proceeded to the Predacon base.
Well, at least attempted to. She finally had to "persuade" a strange
looking bot that called himself Tarantulas for directions. So, in
the right direction, she kept in beast mode to avoid suspicion. The
Predacon base sat in a river of lava, which surprised her. Getting in wasn't
too hard. Take out the buzzing idiot, creep through the ventilation
system, and drop into the control room. Wordlessly Paraleasion transformed,
took out the disk, and searched through the files. She found the
ones she was after, including the profiles of the Maximals. Megatron,
bless his evil little spark, had saved her a trip to the Maximal base.
So, disk safely tucked away, she proceeded back up through the air shaft,
passed the scrapped buzzing idiot, and back to her hideout.
Paraleasion crawled
through the small entrance, and went to the computer. She looked
through the files and concluded that the Preds needed to lose one or two
of their units. The unit that intrigued her most was the one called
Rampage. For some reason she could not take her eyes off the hologram.
Somehow she knew he was the one that had to be done away with. To
do that she would need help and had a feeling that Depthcharge was her
bot.