Chapter 2: The Function of Stirling UNIT

Nightshade walked out of the mech sized room where Megatron was staying. She still had to decide what to do about him. What she had found in both his mind and Spark was strong enough to prove that he was telling the truth. A truth that she had not expected from the likes of Megatron. From what she knew about Megatron he was the conquer of worlds and took great joy in destroying other lifeforms. This Megatron, he was different. She could feel two different personalities within the Mech. There was the one that was better known as the warlord and didn't care for anything but himself. Then the second personality was the Mech whk he was before he even meet Orion Pax. He was the Mech who wanted Cybertron to be equal and had started to stand up for the lower classes in Cybertron. This was Megatronus the miner who turned gladiator so that he could be heard by the Council.

He did deserve redemption. Every lifeform deserved it. For this to happen and for him to seek redemption was going to be far the biggest thing she had dealt with in the century that she was based on earth. In all the years she had been on the planet she had only needed to deal with Time Lords like the Master and the Ranni. There had also been Dalek and Cybermen invasions that had been stopped before they got worse and UNIT allowed the human race to continue with its mundane life as if nothing had happened. She was also keeping a tabs on the Autobot and Decepticon war that was raging in their world.

Rubbing a gloved hand over her face, a human motion that she had picked up, she walked towards the hanger of UNIT. The Moonray was there. It was not just the Moonray she was hoping to find. No she was hoping to find some silence to gather her thoughts about the whole thing. One thing she knew for certain as she past humans and Daleks who had sided with Dalek Sec and some Silurians, was that she was going to have to keep the two Megatrons apart. Then that led to another question. How was UNIT and SHIELD to know which was which? That was something that she was going to need to resolve with Megatron before things got even more complicated. And before she found a mountain of paperwork on her desk that could be much smaller.

Things were already complicated. Kate and Osgood were busy dealing with Dalek Sec and were getting him ready to join her team. He would be debriefed at what Stirling UNIT done and what its role was within the whole organisation. Stirling UNIT was the part of UNIT that dealt with the really bad things that crawled across the earth. Nightshade's team was not truly human. Many of them where aliens or even undead creatures like a Siren medic and Madusa herself. Nightshade's team had fought everything from paranormal ghosts right up to insane gods who wanted to turn earth into a temple. They also dealt with alien invasions that SHIELD and UNIT had no idea were happening.

The next couple of hours she knew that it was only going to get worse. The soliders based at Stirling would learn of Megatron's presence even if they did not know he was there yet. No, Nightshade would have to have a meeting with everyone based at the base and tell them what she wanted them to know. She would only tell them what they needed to hear and if there was anything else they would have to ask Megatron himself.

Thinking back at Megatron, Nightshade had to decide what she was going to do about him. If he was looking for redemption he would not find it while he was kept in that room. She would have to make him do something otherwise both of them will get bothered by the humans.

The hanger doors slid open on sensing her but Nightshade did not go in. No, a plan was already forming in her mind. Megatron was going to get his redemption alright. He was going to be given a second chance. Turning on her heels she left the hanger and walked back to the guest room and to where Megatron was thinking over everything that he had done to both Cybertron and to Earth.

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Megatron looked out the window of the guest room that Nightshade was allowing him to stay in while he remained at her base. The Predacon- no the Dragonoid he reminded himself of had left the room to check something out and to come to a conclusion. No doubt she was seeking advice from another source much like Optimus with the Matrix. Or she just needed to clear her mind. There was also the chance that she was getting a prison cell ready for him to spend the rest of his life in for the crimes that he had committed on Cybertron and Earth.

Venting air through his systems once again he watched as humans trained. It appeared that whoever ran this base wanted every fighting style to be covered in basic training. That training covered the use of guns right to hand-to-hand combat.

The sound of the door suddenly opening behind him caused him to jump around and come face to face with Nightshade. The Dragonoid had returned to her normal form. Her red optics were filled with a purpose that Megatron did not knos how to feel about it.

"Come with me!" she ordered. She turned around and walked out of the room. Her tail that ended in a deadly spike dragged behind her. She was not given him any room to agrue about the matter and so Megatron followed her out of the room.

Stepping out into the corridor that connected his room with the rest of Stirling UNIT he was taken aback at what he saw. He had expected to find corridors that were plan and of a standard military design, but this was not. The corridor was a warm red with golden leaves painted into the walls. The leaves glitered from the lights that hung from the ceiling. Even the lights had a natural design looking like branches that had glowing white flowers that brought light into the building when natural light could not gain entry to. On the walls in brown or black frames were pictutes of creatures and heroes that no doubt defended earth in the past and in the present.

Following Nightshade he passed many creatures that looked like humans but were not. As far as he knew was that humans did not have tails or clawed feet. "Their called Silurians!" Nightshade explained as she saw him looking at the scaly humanoid creatures.

"Silurians?" he asked as he kept following Nightshade. He was glad that the corridor was wide and high enough for him to walk about without the fear of getting stuck. He also had to take small steps to avoid stepping on Nightshade's tail. He knew from experience with Predaking, that if a Mech stepped on a Predacon's tail it would always lead to pain. He was sure that Nightshade would be the same if someone stepped on her tail. So he was making sure that he did not dig a deeper hole than he already had with the Dragonoid who could take human form. For now he did not know what to expect for the small Dragonoid and he did not want to find out.

Nightshade made a barking noise that could have been her holding back a laugh."Don't tell me that you never looked into earths past in your dimension, Megatron?" she asked as she looked over her folded wings to look right at him in the optics.

He shock his head. He didn't even consider looking to see what he could learn from Earth and its people. He had just thought that it was a waste of time. That was until he found out that Earth and Cybertron shared a past with each other. Cybertron with Primus as it's core and Unicron at Earth's core. He wondered if in this dimension it was the same.

Nightshade sighed. She and the Doctor for years had been taking baby steps to have both humans and Silurians live in harmony. So far it had been meet with opposition on both sides. Senator Kelly and General Ross did not trust the lizard men and a few generals of the Silurian arny did not trust the apes. There had been a few times that Nightshade had sided with the Silurians and their thoughts against humanity. The Silurians who had sided with UNIT were members of Madame Vastra's tribe and had a stronger alliance with the humans who were allied with the Doctor. Kate and Nightshade thought that it was best for the Silurians of they were in a team that was not fully human and so Nightshade took a whole squad of Silurians.

"Earth has not always belonged to mankind! Until sixty-five million years ago it was ruled by the dinosaurs and a humanoid race known as Silurians! The Silurians lost the planet when they thought a planet was going to impact with the earth. But it was the moon coming into orbit. The Silurians went into hibernation but have been woken up due to humans mining too close to their air pockets of their underground cities!" Nightshade explained as she led him into a huge open planned room.

Megatron got a good look at the open room that Nightshade had led him into. Unlike the rest of the building that had a natural feel to it, this room looked like it could have belonged to the Iacon Archives during the Golden Age of Cybertron. Huge pillars made out of black marbel supported a cieling high above his helm that reflected the sunny weather outside. Flickering in the centre of the room was a hologram of the planet. Somtimes it would zoom in on a certain city to see the latest news report before zooming back out to show the whole planet. There was also a huge screen bolted on the wall that was showing a life feed of a party outside of London. There was also a sofa and a flat screen TV that had a game console connected to it. Seeing that reminded Megatron of the three human children who had allied themselves with the Autobots.

"You know a lot about this, Nightshade!" he stated after looking all around the room. "I would never have expected that there was two races on earth like on Cybertron!" he said more to himself than to Nightshade.

He looked at Nightshade to see a glint in her optics. "I have to! If I didn't me and the Doctor would never have come to the conclusion of allowing the Silurians to live in selected pockets around the globe or even transport those who had awaken to a planet that is very similar to Earth. That planet is known as Siluria. A beautiful place but it is also deadly! Anyway I act like a referee for many interactions between hunans and Silurians. Many of the Silurians have joined UNIT to help people see that they are similar to humans!" Nightshade explained to him.

"I have a question Nightshade? Why have you brought me here? I mean by all rights you can drag me into a cell and discard a forgotten key for all the crimes that I have committed!" he spoke as he glanced at the hologram of earth. "I don't deserve redemption like Primus and Optimus believe!" he sighed as he looked at his pedes. He could not bring himself to look at the world that was showing a news report of a HYDRA attack. An attack that Nightshade was watching with growing dread.

"I have brought you here to explain what it is we do here, Megatron! Here at UNIT Stirling we deal with things that UNIT and SHIELD can not deal with. We have saved Earth from invasions from other planets and dimensions were good is evil and evil is good. We have also stopped mankind from awakening ancient evil that had been locked away for a reason. We also deal with aliens and the Undead who do not abide by the laws that UNIT and their governments have agreed upon when they are on earth!" she explained. She could already tell that she was causing Megatron great doubt. No wonder with what they had stopped over the years. "But also to ask for your help!" she said before she knew that she had said it.

Megatron's optics widened. He never thought that Nightshade or anyone who had vowed to defend a planet asked him- the destroyer of Cybertron and countless other worlds. "I'm not the right mech to ask for help, Nightshade!" he sighed. He wanted Nightshade to lock him up and forget all about him

"Megatron stop living in the past! You are in another dimension and have been given a second chance! A chance to help defend this world as I work on getting that curse off your Spark!" Nightshade said as she placed a clawed paw on his leg.

"But you said the curse was an impossibility of getting it removed!" Megatron rasped. He had thought he would forever be curse thanks to Unicron. But it would seem that he was wrong. Nightshade possible knew a witch like she had told him when she scanned his mind and Spark.

"It can be removed! But a piece at a time! If I have it removed in a oner it wont just harm you it will also harm me as a Curse Breaker!" she explained. "But anyway! Like I was saying I am needed in Eastern Europe! HYDRA is back and I have my word to keep of joining the Avengers! You are more than welcomed to join me Megatron!" she said keeping calm as she studied Megatron.

Megatron looked down at Nightshade. She was given him a chance. A chance to make up for what he had done. He knew Optimus Prime would take her offer in a Sparkbeat. "I will help you Nightshade!" he informed her.

Nodding her horned head Nightshade turned her full attention back to the hologram of earth. "Good to hear that Megatron! Now we need to get to the domain of Dracula!" she told him.

"What's HYDRA and whoes Dracula?" he asked her as he followed her out of the room with marble pillars and out to the gardens outside.

Opening her wings with a snap Nightshade flapped downward and hovered above the ground. "HYDRA is a science league that was formed 70 years ago by the Nazis before branching off and becoming its own movement nearing the end of the war!" she started to explain as she hovered optic level with him. "Dracula, well he's a vampire who sees all human kind as a plague on his world and will do anything to cause a genocide!" she finished explaining before breaking a part and changing into a jet. The jet then zoomed away from the ground and leaving Megatron to stare after her.

A smirk came over his faceplates as he leapt into the air to transform into his jet form to chase after Nightshade. The much smaller alien jet was by far faster than his and he was soon falling behind. Thaat was until Nightshade glided in beside him. In silence the two jets raced towards the land of Dracula the Undead King.