Circle Backwards: Part 2
I spent the night stuck in that stupid bird cage wishing that Shockwave would just go the hell away and give me a chance to pick the lock on my cage. For once in my life I was glad I had worn my metal hair sticks. It really wouldn't take me much to spring the lock with one of them and so I had them out and hidden in my hands looking for some chance to get out.
It never came. He stood there all night long and kept an eye on both of us. It was pretty aggravating actually. Not to mention uncomfortable as hell in that stupid lil' cage. Still both Optimus and I did our best to stay as patient as possible until some how his attention lapsed. In the mean time I was getting so bored that I was about to scream. So I decided that if I was going to be miserable, ole one I was going to be miserable too.
"HEY Ugly!" I yelled.
"What human?" Shockwave shot back.
"Well a couple of things actually," I crossed my arms and looked out at him. "First off you can tell me why you kidnapped me and Optimus?"
I nodded to Prime, who was still nailed to the wall next to me.
"It was the most logical move human," Some how I got the looking down the nose impression again. "In order to get what we want from the Autobots we needed someone to ransom. Who better than their commander and his lifemate?"
"That's supposed to make sense?" I griped, "What the heck are you trying to get from them any how." I stopped and thought about it for a second, "Oh no, not the yoyo with the purple windows."
"Indeed."
"So you were going to trade the two of us for Motormaster?" Prime asked.
"Don't you THINK that's just a BIT of OVER kill?" I snapped.
Shockwave had been looking at Optimus while he was talking but now he snapped back around and looked at me.
"I don't know what you are talking about female, and I have no intention of trying to understand you. We just needed someone that they would be willing to trade for."
I slapped my face in to my hand for a second, "Ya know we were going to trade him for something else. A base, Energon, hell even just a promise for you jerks to leave us alone for a while! WHY do you have to do everything the hard way?"
I heard a funny smothered sound and I guessed Prime was trying to not laugh at me giving this creep a hard time. Honestly I didn't care. I had made up my mind that I didn't like Shockwave and I had every intention of letting him know it.
"I do not expect a human, MUCH LESS one that is allied with the Autobots to expect how the machinations of the Decepticon army works. All you have to do female is stay in there and accept your role as hostage."
"I don't HAVE to do any thing creepy," I folded my arms and "hmmphed" at him.
He wasn't very impressed and I could tell he was trying to think of something to say to me. I now had his attention and he didn't care about Prime for the moment. Which I realized was exactly what we wanted. Now all I had to do was to keep his attention long enough for a certain Red and blue commander to get loose. I put my best snarky grin on and got ready to let him have it with both barrels. He was one of those snotty, logical, Mr. Spock types. Getting on his nerves and making him mad was going to be my pleasure.
"You have great deal of nerve for a creature that is effectively at my mercy." He told me flatly, "It would be much more logical for you to be silent and cooperate."
"Logic?" I made a face at him, "In case you haven't noticed, I DON'T do logic."
"It occurred to me," He replied, "Thought if that comes from being human or from being female, even an intellect like mine couldn't fathom."
I glared again, "Okay. The human cracks I was expecting. But the sexism I don't have to deal with. You can take it and stuff it up your exhaust. Sides the only reason you make fun of women is probably because you CANT get one!"
"You make suppositions about me?" He crossed his arms.
"You're bloody well right I make them." I crossed my own arms and mirrored his stance. "OH and by the way. What's with the superiority crap?"
"Your meaning escapes me yet again."
"Okay well first off, if your voice gets any flatter its going to turn into a pancake. Secondly, what I mean is why do you go around letting on like your better than other people?"
"Because I am."
"Nice to know your confident handsome, but to be honest you don't have any thing to be over confident about." I shot back.
"Of course I do. I have every reason to portray superiority to both you and Prime. Decepticons are superior to Autobots and Cybertronians are superior to humans. It is not being boastful or arrogant. It is simply a matter of fact."
"Really? You think you're better than me?" I grinned.
"As I said before it is a matter of fact human. I do not have to "THINK" it. I know it."
I nodded, "And I suppose you "Know" you're better than Optimus as well?"
"I see that you begin to see reason female." He nodded at me.
"And I guess you "Know" that there is nothing that a Decepticon like you isn't better at than any Autobot."
He held his head up as if he were highly pleased that I had come to this conclusion, "Indeed."
"Really?" I smiled. "CLAP."
Okay I really have seen to many old science fiction movies, because I flat well know that came from one of them. Still it was the perfect thing to say to this pompous ass. I could tell it was the perfect thing to say to him because it took about five minutes for it to register with him. Then he stiffened and some how managed, despite not having a face, to look utterly and completely outraged at me. Which was exactly what I had wanted, I now had his full attention and that left Prime free to pull his trick. I kept on grinning at him knowing that this would make him even worse.
"You heard me big fella. You think you're so bad, so smart, and so perfect. That you're so much better than me because I'm a mere human. That your so much better than Prime because he's a worthless Autobot. Then go on and prove it too me."
"YOU WRETCHED …" He was literally fuming.
If he had ears there would have been steam coming out of both of them. That just made me keep on going.
"Oh did I make you mad?" I asked. "Well I would apologize to you, but in a few seconds your not even going to be awake to care."
"What are you talking about you miserable little…" He suddenly froze and snapped around to see if Optimus was still against the wall next to me.
Guess what?
"Looking for something Shockwave?"
The purple transformer whirled around to see where Prime's voice was coming from and found him just in time to see his fist come flying. Then he was on the floor and I could almost see the little tweeting birds flying around.
"That was good," I told Optimus as I popped the lock with my hair stick.
"That was good?" He raised one eye ridge at me, "No my darling, lovely, genius of a Lifemate. "CLAP" Now THAT was good."
