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Chapter 7: Why You Don't Lock-Up Rampage
"Well this isn't good." Rhinox said as he observes their newest obstacle. Depth Charge's team has made it back to the cellblocks only to find their progress halted by a number of undead guards more heavily altered then previous undead having become bigger and had dark energon crystals erupting from their bodies in various locations.
"Speak for yourself rhino." Depth Charge said as he takes aim. Big monsters were his specialty after all.
"Attacking fellow guards? That's not very Maximal of you Depth Charge." said someone as they appear out of the crowd. They were much bigger and pointier now then Depth Charge remembers but he knew that voice anywhere.
"Lock-Up." Depth Charge said narrowing his eyes as his fellow guard well former fellow guard and now Herald of Unicron judging from the symbol on his chest.
"Wow the most sadistic guard in the prison is now a Herald of Unicron I am completely shocked." Snapper said blandly.
"I'm not." Retrax said.
"Sarcasm is lost on you isn't it Retrax?" Jetstorm said with a sigh.
"Wasn't given much of a choice when Unicron came calling, but there are perks. I will consider this one of them." Lock-Up said. "Scrap'em all!" He said to the other corrupted guards who take that as their command to charge.
"Rhinox protect the others while I take care of this." Depth Charge said and proceeds to start shooting.
"Blow it out your exhaust fishy. I don't stay back when there is fighting to be had!" Bonecrusher said before charging and reminding everyone he was a buffalo and plays bowling with the corrupted guards sending several flying.
"Yeah let's go bananas!" B'Boom said taking advantage of the fact his beast mode hands were the same as his robot mode hands and came with thumbs picks up a stray blaster left on the ground jumps up into the rafters and starts laying down cover fire laughing wildly. Spittor literally leaps into the fray jumping from guard to guard knocking them down to the ground.
"Suddenly I know how Primal feels when I'd disobey orders." Depth Charge said. Next to him Rhinox gives a soft chuckle.
Having already waded into the thick of things Rampage zeroes in on the only person present who still had a flicker of a spark left and thus someone he could inflict pain upon: Lock-Up.
"Well, well if it isn't Depth Charge's conjunx. You know I never understood what made you so special. A freak is just another freak to me." Lock-Up said. He was probably lucky Depth Charge didn't hear that thanks to all the sounds of violence surrounding them, Rampage thought. Let's see if we could add some screams to that?
"Even in my cell I could sense you and your cruelty." Rampage said as he approaches knocking aside any undead guards that got in his way.
"Oh? Do tell ugly." Lock-Up said, as he got ready for a fight.
"The fear you inspired, the pain you inflicted, but there is something I'm curious about." Rampage said as he got optic to optic with Lock-up.
"What's that?"
"You can dish out pain so easily, but can you take it?" Rampage said right before he grabs Lock-Up by the throat and slams him against the wall. Then throws him to the ground and moves to slams his foot on him only for Lock-Up to catch his foot and hold it up before it could come down. Using his new pit damned strength Lock-Up is able to throw Rampage off him.
"Some fight in you after all? Good. Let me know when the pain starts and I'll make it worse!" Rampage said with a mad laugh even as he was down on his skid-plate. Lock-Up frowns why wasn't this freak scared of him? They should all fear him!
"The only one suffering here will be you claws!" Lock-Up said bringing his hands together and raises up his huge arms intending to bring them down in a smashing blow.
"Thanks for the idea!" Rampage shifts to beast mode and uses his claws to grab Lock-Up's arms and after a moment of strain tears them off. Rampage then switches back to robot mode with his weapons drawn. Now armless Lock-Up backs up in fear.
"This isn't fair! This wasn't how it's supposed to go! He promised me the power and strength to get revenge on everyone who looked down on me! You should be on your knees begging for mercy!" Lock-Up said as he starts to rant.
"Is that why you joined him? How droll." Rampage said switching back to robot mode weapons drawn. "I was hoping for something more original."
"Wait! Why don't you join Unicron too?" Lock-Up said in desperation.
"And become someone else's slave? No thank you." Rampage said in disdain. At least being a Predacon allowed him to be among fellow freaks and other societal rejects not that he'd ever tell anyone that mind you. Oh, he still hated them he had just learn to tolerate them enough that his first reaction to them being near him wasn't to brutally kill them.
"He can give you the power to kill Depth Charge!" Lock-Up said and in response Rampage starts to chuckle before throwing his head back and going into a full-blown laugh. Lock-Up awkwardly laughs along at least till Rampage stops laughing grabs him by the throat and pulls him close.
"Only one problem with that: I don't want to kill Depth Charge." Rampage said in a whisper before throwing Lock-Up into the wall and pointing his triple barrel launcher right between his optics.
"I want him to kill me."
"Please don't!" Lock-Up said, but Rampage pulls the trigger anyways.
"Well that was disappointing." Rampage said looking down at the smoking corpse. The entire upper body had been blown away. Rampage turns to see how the rest of the battle was going and if he could "help" anyone out in his own special way.