Work has decided to increase my hours again. I'm back in floral and they may move me to grocery. I don't care either way. I still want two days off a week. Doesn't everybody?
Once Megatron and Inferno were back in his quarters, he sat Inferno in front of his child.
"Watch her."
Megatron had turned and headed back out the door.
"Why must I watch this thing? It's not even mine."
Just before the door shut, Megatron had turned and looked back at him.
"Do as I say Inferno, or you'll
no longer be welcome in my company."
Megatron knew he didn't
have to threaten Inferno that much. He was always putting the
"Royalty" first. This alone would break him. Inferno picked up
the child and held her close. The doors closed. He held the child out
in front of him.
"I still don't like you."
The baby slapped its hands together on his cheeks.
Megatron was giving orders from his chair; Waspinator had just come out of the restoration chamber.
"How are you feeling?"
"Better. Wazzpinator get back at Spider-bot for what he did."
"I have no time for these petty squabbles now. I need you at the following coordinates. I shall join you shortly."
"Wazzpinator zzick of zzlag job."
"Need I remind Waspinator that the ceasefire refers only to Maximals?"
Waspinator shrank and swallowed hard.
"Wazzpinator go."
Megatron shook his head then contacted Scorpinoc.
"Yes Megatron."
"Scorpinoc… are you alone? You sound out of breath."
"Oh that's nothing. One of my experiments went wrong and blew up in front of me."
"I see. Meet me at the entrance of the base in two nano clicks."
"Yes Megatron."
Scorpinoc ended the call and looked down at Terrorsaur.
"I'm sorry. I have no time to finish."
"I understand. When Megatron says jump, he means now."
Scorpinoc had lifted himself off of his new lover and headed out the door.
Megatron had his conversation with Scorpinoc and headed out to their said location. Megatron had looked down and noticed that Samantha's footprints were heading in a different direction. He paid no attention to it and left to take command of yet another situation.
Airazor and Rattrap were heading for the alien oasis.
"There it is."
"Great, now we can be the first to get vaped."
"You always think positive?"
"Hey, that WAS positive sistah. I could've said dat we'd be da first to get tortured and then vaped."
"You're a real fun bot you know that."
They landed and began to search the area. Airazor did something that was going to be regrettable later. Chancing a scan. Rattrap was thrown over into a sand dune and slide back down. The structure began to change shape and grow into a fortress. Rattrap forced himself back up and contacted Optimus.
"Come in fearless leader."
"Have you found the alien
anomaly?"
"Oh boy have I ever, it turned itself into some
kind of nutty bungalow and swallowed Airazor. You better get your
monkey butt down here before…"
The communication was stopped.
Waspinator had attacked him from behind.
"Oh man, it just ain't my day."
"Maximal leave, Wazzpinator zzecure area."
"Hey back off. I got here first.
Besides we've got a cease fire, remember?"
"Zzo,
Wazzpinator not zzhoot."
Waspinator had put his gun away and ball his hand into a fist. He hit Rattrap right in the jaw. He went flying backwards and twisted to his front.
"It's so nice how sweet we are to each other."
He had got back up and was prepared to fight back. He lunged at Waspinator and rolled into him. He slid back and kicked dirt into Waspinator's eyes.
"Thing is, ya gonna fight with a rat, ya better fight dirty."
Rattrap then did what no one thought they'd ever see him do; he kicked Waspinator right in the crotch. Now I don't care who you are, but that must hurt.
"Oh yeah, he doezzn't like
dat."
Rattrap was making fun of his little speech problem. But
it so helps the scene. He got beside Waspinator and gave him a
noogie. After he had finished, he threw him over his shoulder and
gave him one final kick between the legs. Waspinator was lucky to
stand up again after that.
"Wazzpinator think area izz zzecure enough."
Rattrap watched Waspinator fly away with his arms crossed against his chest. He was giving the look of oh you better fly away. Optimus had landed behind him.
"I swear I can't take you anywhere."
"Hey I'm just keeping the peace."
Optimus just shook his head.
"There's no way to get in?"
"You see a doorbell?"
"Try a cutting laser."
Rattrap had gotten to work, trying all his best stuff but nothing was working. He was about ready to try some of his new explosives.
"Nothing's working."
"As I surmised."
"Megatron."
"Swiss cheese we're in for it now."
"You thought a mere laser would cut into these alien's technology? They can create energon itself. You need a different tactic."
"Biological?"
"Exactly."
Scorpinoc had shot into the alien craft and watched as the wall was being eaten away. Megatron took a step forward.
"Hold it Megatron. There's a Maximal trapped inside so a Maximal shall be the one to get them. We go in first."
"Perhaps that would be best solution. We do have a truce after all."
"So long as you don't forget."
Optimus went in first and Rattrap followed reluctantly.
"I want extra hazard pay for this."
They had continued their way until they found Airazor lying on the floor. Rattrap started dragging Airazor out of there. Optimus began to make contact when the ropes came out and restricted him, lifting him into the air. They began to finish the scan they originally made of him. Rattrap had finally pulled Airazor all the way out. (If you notice, Rattrap was talking in rhyme before they left. It was like watching Dr. Seuss all over again.) Once Rattrap was able to look back up, he found Megatron and Scorpinoc standing above him with gun in his face. Rattrap knew what that meant. Optimus was still fighting his own battle. The scan was complete. The alien had taken the form of Unicron.
"We have scanned your data tracks and found this form. We have no physical form that you could comprehend."
"We mean you no harm. But if you scanned me, you know we didn't come to this planet by choice."
"Yet you are here. You have contaminated the project. That which does not fit with The One shall be terminated."
(The One was in the Original G1 Comics, he was said to have created both Unicron and Primus. Afterwards, we have little knowledge of what became of him.)
"Tell us what we've done wrong so we can correct it."
"It is already too late. We must sterilize the experiment."
"But there are living creatures here, you with all your power, even you have no right."
"You speak to us of rights yet from what we have learned from you, you do not treat your brothers with respect."
"What are you talking about?"
"The one you call Megatron, he is of your kind, you treat him and his own as lesser then yourself. How can you hope to promulgate to us when you don't even follow your own axiom."
Optimus had nothing to say to that. What could he say? It was true.
"Begin termination sequence."
Optimus knew he had to get out of there. He burst out and headed for the door. He had come out to see Rattrap and Airazor standing like they had just finished fighting.
"What's going on boss monkey?"
"They called it a termination sequence. We better get out of here."
Megatron was watching them from the distance. He had to hurry and get to his next destination.
Black Arachnia and Tarantulas were heading into the Maximal base with Inferno close by.
"The Royalty was right, the spiders spin their own web of intrigue."
Rhinox was in the base and had seen what happened to the moon. It had vanished. The stasis pods were falling from the orbit. There was no way to track them. Black Arachnia and Tarantulas had burst in through the roof and took out both Rhinox and Dinobot. They both landed and headed for the control console. Black Arachnia stared at the screen.
"What is it?"
"The beginning of the end."
Cheetor was standing with Tigertron over the hill and watched, as this was all taking place.
"What's going on big cat? What
is that?"
"The light at the end of the world."
Optimus had contacted the other and told them to all get back to the base as soon as possible. They did as ordered and ran like the wind.
Samantha was still by the mountainside, digging as fast as she could. She had noticed the anomaly but found it better to keep digging. Then on the other hand, Megatron would worry about her and she'd get it from him later. There was so much to do and no time to do it. She had to get into that underground cavern even if it killed her.
Megatron was sitting back in his chair and giving orders.
"They're leaving, we scared them away."
"Hardly."
Terrorsaur could be such an idiot sometimes. He just ignored him at that point. Scorpinoc had become fascinated with the idea that the moon had been destroyed. Megatron had yelled at him for being just as stupid.
"Computer run program final hour."
He watched as his program was pulled back up.
"The Maximal base, and the shield is down, oh yesss. Scan the interior, use alien frequency."
He was told that two Maximals were inside and three Predicons.
"So my loyal drone is still with them. Perfect."
Black Arachnia was watching Tarantulas work. He was downloading a program into the stasis pod they were about to steal. She knew Tarantulas had no intention of taking her with him once she saw how small it was. She was getting ready to shoot him in the back when Inferno showed up.
"The Royalty will be very interested to know what you two spiders have been up to."
Tarantulas began to fire at Inferno. Inferno couldn't help but laugh.
"You're no match for me. Burn traitor burn."
Tarantulas had become engulfed in his flames and could no longer see where he was going. He ended up right in the wall. He fell backwards and unconscious. Megatron was watching and found that his plan was no longer following through.
"NO! What has that fool done?"
Inferno went back to working on the stasis pod. What were they up to? Black Arachnia had surprised him from above and their little fight had begun. By the end of it, Inferno was on the receiving end. He got blasted and was knocked out. Black Arachnia had to think fast. How was she to get out of there? She had no choice but to go into Tarantulas' mind and look into his data tracks to get the information she needed. All was well at first, and then he began to invade her mind. She panicked and threw the headpiece away from her.
The Maximals landed just outside of the base. None could believe what was happening. The moon was gone, still trying to wrap their minds around that, and trying to figure out what to do next. Airazor had noticed the others.
"Tigertron and Cheetor are coming."
"Oh terrific. Now we can get turned into hot boiling slag together."
"Shut up Rattrap!"
They all entered the base and found it too quiet and deserted.
"Great, the whole world is about to be destroyed and those two are on a positron break."
"Optimus, above us."
"Get them down from there and into the CR chambers. Rattrap Airazor I want you to find the spiders that did this."
"Yeah give me the hard work."
"Before you go, if you find them, I want them functional."
"Ya just had to spoil my fun didn't ya?"
Black Arachnia had resumed her mission. The aliens were increasing the planets temperature. The energon would explode.
"Brilliant. They are igniting the energon deposits, wiping out all life on this planet, simply to deal with us. What shear ruthlessness, what disregard for sentient life… I rather like these aliens."
"Like them? How could you like them? They're trying to destroy us!"
"But Wazzpinator hazz planzz."
"Megatron will save us."
"I think not. I saved that for Tarantulas. Resume data flow."
"Unable to comply. Maximal shields at full capacity."
"BLAST!"
Black Arachnia had finished her work. Finding herself with two guns to her head.
"Do you know we have a truce?"
After a few moments, Optimus was called to the back.
"There is no way that this little thing can fight a planet buster."
There were more options opening for them now.
"It's still something Rattrap."
"Yeah, then what? You gonna stop it with one of your, we can do it speeches?"
If he could force a transwarp explosion, the alien device would cease to function. Everyone knew it was suicide. Black Arachnia couldn't stop laughing. Once Optimus had volunteered to go into the ship, his team started saying they'd go for him.
"What about you Rattrap?"
"Hey, suicide ain't in my job description."
"Nor mine. Let's get to work."
After the adjustments had been made, there was an odd silence.
"In you go."
"Cozy."
"Just like a
coffin."
Everyone glared at her. She knew it was no time to make jokes like that put it was too hard to resist. Everyone said something supportive to him. It would be hard to see him go.
"Hey uh, just in case you don't
come back… can I have your quarters?"
"No. But just in case
anything does go wrong, you are the finest crew I've ever had the
pleasure to work with."
"Do Maximals always say such
slop?"
She was knocked unconscious. Optimus made ready for his
journey. It was to be a short one.
"The pass codes have been changed, Optimus is piloting the ship. How delicious, yesss."
Optimus was typing in his information getting ready to jump out of the ship. As he was within range, he pulled on the hatch.
"Unable to comply. Pod hatch is magna sealed."
"That's impossible."
Optimus kept pulling at the hatch and it wouldn't budge.
"Ironic isn't Primal?"
"Megatron."
"Yesss, we
both came up with the same plan but in my version the pilot does
down, or in your case, up with the ship. You Optimus' do love to
sacrifice yourselves don't you? Farewell Optimus Primal, you lose."
Just as Optimus was heading into the alien structure, you could swear you heard him on earth.
"MEGATRON!"
(We are finally done season fucking one! We must party. Energon drinks on the house!)
