Chapter 3 – Megatron's double life
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"So, Mirage," Nina grinned, "How fast can you go?"
"As fast as you like," Mirage replied.
"You aren't speaking in third person?"
"Nah," Mirage chuckled, "I only do that to annoy Sunstreaker – he hates it,"
"I like you," Nina laughed, "You have a sense of humour,"
"Thank you," Mirage chuckled.
There was a sudden crash and Mirage flipped over several times.
"Ow! Shit! Ow!" Nina muttered, "Mirage, you okay?"
"Nothing damaged," Mirage replied, "You?"
"Well I don't think anything's broken," Nina replied, "Ow! What the –" she exclaimed as the car flipped over again.
"You might want to get out," Mirage warned.
Nina nodded and somehow managed to haul herself out of the car before it transformed.
"Oi!" she yelled at the big black scary-looking robot she guessed was a Decepticon, "Do you mind? We're in the middle of a race!"
"You are foolish, human female," the robot sneered, "I am Megatron."
Nina looked at him, "Oh, right," she said, "the porn star,"
"What?" both transformers looked alarmed.
"You and Starscream, right?" Nina grinned, "You should seriously wear a mask if you don't want anyone to recognise you,"
"STARSCREAM!" Megatron transformed and left, evidently to hunt down whoever was responsible for the rumours, not knowing that one of the perpetrators had been right in front of him.
"Well that was easy," Nina grinned, "Come on, let's move."
Mirage transformed and the pair sped back to base.
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"Where the hell have you been?" Lennox demanded as a battered Mirage rolled into the hanger.
"Run in with the Porno pair," Nina grinned, hopping out, "Yo Ratchet!" she yelled, "Newbie in need of urgent medical attention!"
Ratchet grumbled and took Mirage off to be fixed.
"Both of them?" Maple asked, tackling Nina, "and you didn't invite me?"
"He gate crashed," Nina shrugged, "And no; just Tron, but he drove off to yell at Screamer, so it might be true."
"Aw boy," Maple grinned, "nobody's ever going to take Megatron seriously every again,"
"Let's hope not," Nina grinned, "They'll kill him off and that'll do us a favour,"
"You fought Megatron?" Optimus Prime asked, full of concern.
"No," Nina replied, "He flipped us over twice and then I told him all about his porn-star double life," she giggled, "you should've seen his face, it was epic."
"I'm not even going to ask," Lennox grinned.
"Maybe we should scare Galloway with it?" Maple suggested.
Nina grinned and turned to Lennox, "Told you she was a genius" she turned back to Maple, "Come on, let's find him," they ran off to search for Galloway and Lennox was shocked to find himself feeling an emotion he had never before directed at Galloway; pity.
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Galloway was hiding.
For the hast half-hour, whenever he had tried to chastise the new recruits for doing something wrong, all they wanted to do was tell him all about Megatron and Starscream's porn star lives.
He could never look at a pot plant in the same way ever again.
Why me? He thought to himself.
Because you're annoying and a snob came the answer. He turned to find both girls stood there grinning insanely.
"Found you," was all they said.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Galloway ran away and found the nearest non-transformer vehicle, requisitioned it and fled to the nearest airport.
"Score one to us," Nina grinned, "Lennox owes us twenty bucks,"
"Hell yeah!" Maple grinned; the pair ran off top find Lennox.
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"He won't be coming back," Nina was saying.
"Which means they'll send someone even worse," Sideswipe replied, "Well done, Nina,"
"We'll deal with them," Nina replied, "I was thinking maybe we could make a CGI video?"
"EW!" everyone shuddered
"Well, not us, obviously," Nina said, "Maple, you remember Will?"
"Do I?" Maple snorted, "Will who was always trying to find out our bra sizes? That Will?"
"Yeah, that one," Nina grinned, "He's really good at CGI, they look real. Why don't we send him a few pictures of Megatron and Starscream?"
"You have his e-mail?"
"No," Nina grinned, "He added me on facebook."
"Awesome," Maple giggled, "Let's see what he can do."
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"You want me to what?" Will asked, shocked.
Nina and Maple had gone missing a month ago, and now Nina was calling him with the most insane proposition ever.
"C'mon, Will," he could tell Nina was grinning down the phone, "just this once, it's to scare the next person who tries to pull rank over here."
"Are you going to tell me what's going on?" Will asked
He heard a couple of other voices in the background, one of them sounded like their boss, "Major" something.
"Will," Nina said, "I can't tell you what's going on because it's all official secrets and stuff."
"Nina," Will countered, "You, me and Maple have been friends since you were seven and Maple was ten. You can tell me anything."
"Not this," Nina replied, "If I do I'll get arrested."
"Again," Will chuckled, "As if the last eight times weren't enough,"
The discussion soon became an argument at the other end, which was silenced by Nina telling the people involved to shut up; she was trying to take a phone call.
"Lennox still thinks it's a bad idea," Nina explained, "but Maple disagrees, as usual,"
"She would," Will replied, "She's from Sheffield,"
"What's that got to do with the price of hats?" Nina asked.
"You've been watching Alice in wonderland again." It wasn't a question.
"Of course I have," Nina grinned, "I'm still trying to work out how to steal the hatter's hat."
"You're insane,"
"But that's why you love us so much," Nina was grinning again.
"Fine. You win,"
"Huh?"
"I'll make the flipping video, but you need to tell me how it goes with the new moron,"
"Will, you're a saint," Nina laughed, "A dirty-minded saint, but a saint all the same."
"And I still want to know what's going on."
"Well do you want to be abducted and taken to Diego Garcia?"
"I might consider it," Will replied; "Porkers are crawling all over the place; it won't be long before they find that tech project we were working on before you disappeared,"
"I'll see what I can do," Nina replied, "Thank you so much, by the way,"
"No problem," Will replied, chuckling, "See you around"
"Hopefully," Nina replied, "and hide the project,"
"Will do
They hung up and Will chuckled to himself; Nina and Maple had definitely gone insane.
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"He'll do it, but –"
"Yes!" Maple grinned, "Wait – there's a but?"
"Yeah," Nina turned to Lennox and asked, somewhat sheepishly; "Can Will join NEST too?"
"No,"
"What?" Maple complained, "Will's a certified genius! He can fix cars, he's in danger from the Rozzers and he hacked into MI6 – 3 times – without getting caught! He's perfect!"
"Unless you count the lamppost incident last winter," Nina commented.
"You dared him to do it," Maple commented.
"You egged him on as well."
"True," Maple grinned, "But it was worth it just because his tongue got stuck"
"He stuck his tongue to a frozen lamppost?" Lennox asked.
"Well it was either that or moon a passing porker," Nina replied, "so he chose to lick a lamppost"
"Which is safer because you can't get arrested for that," Maple chipped in, "Although the Rozzers can try,"
"They tried to arrest me for sneezing once," Nina commented.
"Yeah, well you were taking the Mick before you sneezed,"
"True,"
"It's out of the question," Lennox said again, "I can't bring another person in without parental consent,"
"Will's 21," Nina replied, "He doesn't need parental consent, and he's still got our tech project – I don't want the porkers getting it."
"What tech project?" Maple asked.
"Why not?" Lennox questioned.
"Because they'll ruin it and it'll go on a murderous rampage," Nina replied, "We haven't quite finished adding in the protocols yet. And never you mind, Maple,"
Maple pouted but said nothing more about it.
"We can bring the tech project," Lennox decided, "But not this friend of yours,"
"Will none of the due respect, Major," Nina informed him through gritted teeth, "If we're going to finish the project, I need Will. Without Will there wouldn't be a project, and he's the only one who knows the passwords to set the protocols – and he's not likely to tell me over the phone or anything."
"We can't risk going back to get another recruit." Lennox insisted.
"But you can risk going back for a tech project that you don't know much about," Maple countered, siding with Nina as usual.
"Major," Optimus commented, "The girls have a point, and this Will seems like an ideal recruit. We can always make room for one more,"
"Fine," Lennox gave in now that everyone was ganging up on him; "We'll surprise him."
Nina and Maple whooped and high-fived each other before running off to find Sideswipe.
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"Will Thomas?"
"Who's asking?" Will asked, eyeing the 30-something-year-old suspiciously.
"Major Lennox," the man replied, "your two friends put me up to this."
"You're those people who abducted Nina and Maple?" Will asked, "Are they okay?"
"They're fine," Lennox replied, "they've settled in really well and they want you to join as well."
"Why am I not surprised," Will chuckled, "Gimme a sec, I'll just sort the calibration and I'll be right with you – Jarvis!" he yelled into the flat, "We're moving out!"
"Right you are, sir," a clipped southern accent replied.
"Who's Jarvis?"
"My computer" Will explained; "Nina found a southern speech pattern and said I should make an AI – I took her up on it."
"Calibration completed, sir," Jarvis said.
"Authorisation X-20-Alpha-7," Will replied.
"Of course sir," Jarvis shut down and a CD popped out of the laptop.
"Won't be a minute," Will said.
Five minutes later the "tech project" (which turned out to be two cars, but Will wouldn't explain anything) was loaded into the back of a brightly coloured American truck and Will was mercilessly interrogating Lennox about NEST
"So what's the deal?" he asked, "You abduct Maple and Nina, you apparently wanted to abduct our tech project and you need me for that – is that the only reason I'm being signed up?"
The truck chuckled (fortunately, Nina had warned Will about the robots that could turn into cars, so he wasn't really surprised).
"Nina said you'd ask questions," it commented, "although she failed to specify quite how many."
"Probably because she's gotten used to the questioning," Will replied, grinning, "So? What's the deal with the NEST thing?"
For the several hours the flight to Diego Garcia took, Lennox and Optimus Prime were answering the very detailed and, in some cases, slightly uncomfortable questions of NEST's newest recruit.
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"WILL!"
Will was tackled by his friends, Nina grinned and hauled him back up again when Maple had finished complaining that he and Nina still owed her a seventeenth birthday present.
"It's been 8 weeks!" she grumbled, "You're never this late!"
"Will is," Nina replied, "If it weren't for me it'd still be in pieces all over his garage."
Will laughed and pushed his D&G glasses further up his nose before trying to wrestle his white-blond hair into a vaguely normal hairstyle.
"Come on," Maple grinned as she and Nina grabbed him by both arms, "You need to meet the 'bots,"
Will didn't bother to protest as the two maniacs half-dragged him to the autobot hanger.
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After a grand tour of the NEST base, being told that his job was to "baby-sit" the nineteen-year-old Nina and seventeen-year-old Maple ("fat chance of that happening," he muttered, "They'll steal my glasses" naturally they did, just to prove him right) and having a guitar-hero tournament against Sergeant Epps, Will was finally given uniform and allowed to relax and catch up with the girls.
"So…" Maple grinned, "Did you manage to make the video?"
"Jarvis decided not to save the codes for it onto his file," Will replied, "So I've lost it, I'm afraid."
"Stupid Jarvis," Maple sulked, "Why did you have to give him a conscious?"
"AI's are supposed to have consciousness, Maple," Nina grinned, "It's what makes them artificially intelligent."
"Speaking of AI's," Will jumped up, "Nina and I need to add the finishing touches to your present."
"Right," Nina and Maple followed Will to the hanger where the tech project was being stored.
"We need to add the security protocols," Will was saying, "And the anti-hack systems."
"My field," Nina grinned as they sat at their computers and started tapping rapidly at several keys.
"And send," Nina grinned as she and Will simultaneously hit the enter keys; there were a couple of flashes under the tarpaulins covering Maple's present and Nina's "baby" before Will pushed another button and the tarpaulins were removed.
"Happy birthday, Maple!" Nina and Will sang as Maple stared, dumbstruck, as the black Ford Shelby GT500KR before her.
The car's lights flashed and an intelligent male voice issued from the speakers.
"Greetings, Miss Hood," the car said, "I am KITT and – according to your friends – your birthday present."
Maple squealed excitedly and tackled Nina and Will before jumping into the driver's seat of her new car.
"You might want the keys, Maple," Nina chuckled, handing the grinning seventeen-year-old a set of keys that had been sat on her table for the past month.
Maple grinned, turned on the engine and floored the pedal, whooping as she sped off out the gate of NEST HQ.
"Was that a good idea?" Will asked.
"She'll do it anyway," Nina replied, "Besides; KITT's designed to keep her safe."
"What about Megatron?"
"Aw, don't worry about him," Nina grinned, "remember we added the same weapons and defences that KITT from the TV-show has; they'll be fine."
Will looked uncertainly at the closing gate before turning to the second car; a BMW Z4.
"Wake up, NAIA," Nina grinned, patting the bonnet, "Test drive time."
The lights of the BMW flickered on.
"Finally," a young-sounding voice sighed, "I was starting to wonder if you'd forgotten about me,"
"Coming Will?" Nina asked as she climbed into the driver's seat.
"Sure, why not?" Will shrugged, hopping into the passenger seat and fastening his seatbelt.
"Right then," Nina grinned, "Let's see if we can't catch up with KITT,"
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