Tigatron and airrazor ran to where they had heard the scream and weponfire, but only found Cheetor. "Oh, this is all my fault. I was supposed to be up in the air keeping a lookout, not talking to cheetor." Airrazor said. "It will be allright. We will find her." Tigatron comforted.
Meanwhile, Terrasaur and Waspinator flew in, Terrasaur holding the human in his claws. She wondered just how much they knew about humans. From their discussion on the way here, it was like they couldn't tell the difference between a human and a programmed mechanoid.
Perhaps she could use that?
They walked down the silver corridors, shoving the human in front of them. "i'm going, I'm going!" anna growled. "sheesh1" Terrasaur shoved her again. "Would you mind with the not-shoving-me thing!" she raised her voice.
"ooooh, flezhy-bot hazzzz atitude." Waspinator buzzed.
Anna glared. Or... tried to. He was funny. The poor wasp got blown to bits every time they fought with the maximals, and talked strangely. She just shook her head and walked on.
They came to a large set of doors, and Terrasaur rang the doorchime. "Who is it!?" Megatron snapped. "it's us." Terrasaur said in that scratchy voice of his. "We brought you the human." Megatron's voice took on a different tone now. "Aaaah, excellent. come in, then. yeessss."
The doors slid open to a dimly lit room, with a large circular tub in the center, and Megatron. Oil bath, maybe? whatever it was, it smelled like burning oil. And stank to high heaven. and hurt her nose. Anna made a face.
Megatron turned, the waves from his movement bouncing the little yellow plastic duck floating in front of his. anna resisted the urge to snicker.
a rubber ducky?
Anna opened a secure comlink to the Axalon. whatever was going on, she wanted her friends to know about it.
"So, you are the human who escaped us?" he asked, tone nothing but seriousness. "Yes." Anna replied, noting the rubber ducky bounced some more, bobbing as though it was nodding in agreement. She stifled a snicker. Thank goodness t was dark in here. An evil tyrant hell-bent on conquering the galaxy, who takes oil baths with a rubber ducky. She idly wondered if he ever sang the rubber ducky song to himself...
She had to look away. It was too much.
She cleared her throat and looked back, stoutly ignoring the bobbing bright yellow bath toy.
Megatron adopted a more pleasant tone. "What is your name, human?"
"Anna."
He was up to something. He hadn't had her thrown into the lava pits yet. "What are you up to, Megatron?" she wondered.
"Tell me, human, how did you get into that stasis pod?" the dinosaur asked, completely ignoring her given name.
"I don't know. a subspace teleportation maybe transported me into it from my home. The last thing I remember is sitting by a river, and a blue flash. Then I was in the pod." she shrugged.
Whatever his plan was, she was going to find out. and stop him before he could harm the maximals.
"And the Maximals now have that stasis pod?"
"yes."
"Well, human." megatron stood, liquid dripping from metal armor and scales. "I give you a choice. Help us get the pod back..."
his tone took on a menacing note here. "Or be terminated."
Waspinator and Terrasaur both aimed their weapons at her. Okay, time to test the old "how much do these guys know about humans" factor. From what the Maximals had said, she assumed neither side knew very much about humans at all. She smirked. "I was programmed a Predacon. Even though I don't have a beast mode." she stated. "And..." she walked up as the purple-green Decepticon got out of the tub. "I'll even help you ambush the Maximals and take their base."
He stood, towering over her. He leaned over, his red optics narrowing in suspicion. "Why should I trust you, human." he sneered. "like I said. Predacon." she made a bow before the Tyrant. he snorted. "Terrasaur, waspinator, escort the human to the command room. I'll meet you there shortly.
After they had left, Megatron met with Scorponok on his way. "Do you really think you can trust her?" the scorpion asked. Megatron snorted. "Don't be stupid. No humans can be trusted. But... she amuses me. If she thinks that she is a Predacon, let her. and if she is just acting, we shall use her own act against her." he smirked. either way, he would be victorious, and the naieve human was going to help him...