-1Bear with me, this sort of thing isn't something I'm very good at writing.
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Sarah sat outside, just lying in the sun and staring at the sky. Another quiet day. Perhaps the Decepticons weren't interested anymore, or perhaps they just couldn't find them. The sound of heavy footsteps approaching drew her attention and she turned to behold none other than Megatron walking up to her. "Hello there," she called out to him. He sat down beside her, which would have been an odd sight to any onlooker but seemed perfectly normal to the both of them. "My brother said I should scout the surrounding area from the air, seeing as I'm the only one who can do that. I was about to go do just that, but then I saw you sitting there looking bored. So I was wondering…" He then proceeded to, of all things, get nervous. "Would you be willing to… I mean, would you like to, ah, fly with me?" The memories bestowed upon her by the All Spark let her know just how utterly ridiculous the situation was. The mighty Megatron, the bloodthirsty, utterly fearless leader of the Decepticons, was acting like a smitten teenager talking to his love interest. It was funny, but she knew better than to laugh. Instead, she smiled up at him and agreed.
Mere moments later she was seated in his cockpit and the two soared high above the land together. Lively banter filled the air as they talked and laughed together like the friends they were. Megatron had to admit that Sarah had him feeling something he hadn't felt for a long time. She seemed to genuinely care about him. It had been ages since anyone else had honestly cared about him. His followers and enemies had feared him, hated him, respected him, wanted him dead… but they had never actually cared about him. And now the living incarnation of what drove him to make war upon his own kin had forgiven him; no, had more than forgiven him… This was new, this was unexpected and deep down he wasn't really sure he deserved it, but this feeling… Knowing that she cared…
Lost in his thoughts as he was, she was the first one to notice what was coming up in the distance. "Hey, a military air base." He could hear the smile in her voice as she peered down at it. "Wow, look at those airplanes down there… From what I've heard, that particular model is called an A-10 Warthog. Nasty-looking suckers, aren't they?" A chuckle escaped her. "Well, it's only because they are. Meanest jets in all the world, those. Rulers of the sky, number-one guaranteed to dominate." This gave him pause. "Meanest jets on this planet, huh?" An idea came to him. Had he been in his normal form he would have been grinning wickedly. "Hang on for a few seconds, Sarah. I'm going to do something that may seem a little bit strange to you." He was cruising at a high altitude, beyond the reach of human radar, but that didn't diminish the intensity of the scanning beams he sent down as they played upon one particular plane. "If this world is going to be my home, I may as well look the part." Sarah gasped as metal flexed and flowed around her, reshaping itself as a picture-perfect replica of the plane on the ground, save for the fact that the color stayed the same. That bright silvery coloration remained, and she imagined that Megatron probably resembled an aircraft sculpted of solid chrome.
His scanners detected the energy signature of weapons fire… coming from the direction of the Ark. "There's trouble," he alerted Sarah. "You're already strapped in, and that's good, so just hang on tight because I'm heading back at top speed." Wasting no more time, he banked sharply, purple fire emanating from his jets, betraying his alien origin despite his now decidedly manmade-looking form, and without a word he shot off into the distance.
Starscream cackled as he and his airborne cohorts circled above the newly discovered Autobot base. He was glad he'd talked Ramjet, Dirge and Thrust into coming with him. Now that Megatron was gone he was the leader, just as he always should have been. "The girl, Autobots…" He called down to them where they were pinned down just inside the base's entrance. "We know what she is, and we know you have her. Hand her over and perhaps we'll spare you for now!" It wasn't much of a surprise to him when Prime told him exactly where he could stick his offer. However, what came next was a surprise.
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Guess what comes next!