A/N: New Chapter, this time we'll be meeting Megatron, this will be good! Hope you guys like it! Now on the with the show!
Chapter 5-Accursed Crystal
I walked the large caverns of a large mining operation under the Earth. I had asked Soundwave to let me go planet-side. I was starting to go stir crazy from being in the ship. He agreed if only he could track my position constantly. Seriously that mech creeped me out, there was something in him that eerily reminded me of the Raven Queen.
I shivered slightly at the thought.
As I walked down the halls I heard more heavy mining activity and decided to follow only to find myself at the top of an open-air cavern with the Nemesis looming over the hole as a tube brought up Energon.
There were many miners here, working, drilling etc.
Nothing to fascinating, which left my thoughts to wander slightly.
Not but a day ago I wanted to kill the seeker known as Starscream, than, I step in when he is obviously about to make a huge mistake that will most likely stop him from being hunted by the Autobots like an animal that he is.
What the fuck is wrong with me?! I want that damned seeker dead! Not alive to keep bothering me and fucking up the entire Decepticon cause that I was trying to learn about at the moment!
Sorry, sorry, I tend to swear when I am really upset.
Just ...UH! He is so, so...I don't even know the right words!
Pretentious is one of those, not to mention a thick helmed idiot and the biggest schemer and deceiver I had seen in awhile.
Than the devil's voice pierces my thoughts below. "Of the energon deposits we have located while you were away, Lord Megatron, this one is by far the most significant. The drones have been mining without a pause during your absence, and have amassed quite a stockpile. You there! Fetch me a sample!"
"Starscream! Now that I have returned I will issue the commands." Came a booming voice, I looked down closer to see standing next to an almost cowering seeker was a large built mech of silver and purple, scars littered his faceplate and his blood red optics remind her of some very evil creatures she once encountered in her world.
The canon on his arm was also a noted feature, something I would be aware of.
Starscream went on, "I Understand, Lord Megatron. Then as your humble servant, shall I ready the Space Bridge to bring forth the Decepticon army you have surely gathered during your three years in space?"
"My army will come. But my time away has yielded a more intriguing means of materializing them. The solidified form of the matter the ancient texts referred to as the Blood of Unicron!"
My optics widened as he pulled the dark crystal out, my Spark ached at the sight of it. I hissed as pain bloomed in my spark and helm, I didn't like it, nor did I like that look in the supposed leader of the Decepticons optics, something I had seen before in myself….
...Corruption.
Starscream circle his leader cautiously, staring in awe. "Unicron the Destroyer But it is said that his blood is the anti-Spark!"
Megatron smiled wickedly. "Plucked from cosmic shores, gaze upon Dark Energon!"
"Legend tells that it holds the power to revive the dead." Starscream eyed it like candy.
But I wasn't focusing on the seeker now, when I heard of it's supposed properties I understood now. Being a creature who was raised from the dead twice, one by a death goddess and one by a Prime, I knew being raised by divinities was a good thing. But to be raised by evil, it was necromancy. And thus it caused great pain to be near it.
Megatron went on, "We require only a cadaver to be certain. Are you willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?" He eyed the seeker hungrily.
No, this can't happen, the corruption, necromancy. If this goes on….
I called out standing tall, "I wouldn't be so haste Lord Megatron."
He looked up in surprise than back to Starscream with a sneer.
"Who is SHE!? And where did she come from, why didn't you say anything?!" He growled and seekers wings folded down as he cowered.
"I-I was about to mention her, my Lord. She is a neutral that may end up joining us, she has unique gifts and as such I just ..." He trailed off as Megatron huffed and looked back up.
I needed a face to face, but that was a long drop for someone of my small stature.
But I had the perfect spell, I flattened out my servos and putting the thumbs together I twisted around my thumbs in order to make a bird shape, an arcane circle appeared around my hands as I decided to jump off the cliff, then I thrust my servos forwards and a small shock wave emitted from me and my descent halt slightly, almost like a feather falling to the ground.
Hence the spell name, Featherfall.
It wasn't long until my peds contacted the ground and I landed gracefully in front of the Lord Megatron.
He stared in intrigue, awe and shock.
"How did you do that?" He asked, I kept a straight face and bowed slightly.
"Magic, I can use minor spells to aid me, what you witnessed was the spell, Featherfall." I looked up, "My name is Moonfall, it's an honor to finally meet you."
He then looked to the dark crystal than back to me, "You said I that shouldn't be haste to bring my army to fruition, why?" This felt like a test, and keeping a straight face while in incredible pain was only achieved because I had to endure test like these back in the Cult.
"Because, that substance will be your end." I have me a quizzical look, "Tell me, do you feel a weight on your very spark? Are there thoughts that weren't there to begin with? Do you want to use this to raise the dead, to prolong your life for the sake of beating your enemies, are you now willing to do horrible things you never considered before?"
He looked at me with wide optics, I could feel and see the corruption slowly waning against his will.
"H-How did you know that?" I looked at him with worry.
"Because, that is corruption in its purest form. I have felt that darkness inside of me, and frankly I don't want you, any Cybertronian for that matter, to wake up on day, look in the mirror and realize the monster that you have and will become." There was a bead of silence, then I went on.
"Somethings are best left untouched, my Lord. This darkness, this crystal, is corrupting you. Making you weaker in this war and frankly, if Unicron the Destroyer is a creator of this substance than it stands to reason that if you partake in it, you will be bound to him in death, not the Allspark."
There was a long pause, his optics shifted as he thought and fought. Before hissing and dropping the crystal and venting deeply.
"She's right...I felt it. Making me...weak. I need to be strong in order to lead my Decepticons to victory. And this substance is a hindrance, you," He pointed to a vechicon. "Dispose of this, then have Soundwave destroy the rest aboard the Nemesis."
He looked back to me with respect, "How did you know all of this?"
I hummed, "Lets just say...Cults have a way of imbuing corruption into ones spark and leave it at that."
He seemed intrigued on the little detail he got from me, I looked to my right to see Starscream staring at me with an unknown emotion, I couldn't tell you what it was but it was strange, and he was quiet, which is also strange.
"I think you will make a fine Decepticon, Moonfall, if you wish it?" He brought out his servo, I grasped it.
"Happy to be a service, Lord Megatron."
