Megatron came at the worst time ever. To Terrwyn at least. She was still in a deep sleep, and Starscream was recharging as well, when the huge robot came barging in.

The sounds of a jet, then the transformation, and then bursting through the doors woke both of them up. Terrwyn was startled, and seeing two red glowing eyes in the darkness... She had a good idea of who it could be. The female cowered back into her mattress, wishing she could just disappear now. Even her back ached at the memories of last time she saw him...

A grunt was heard, after which the leader's dark voice angrily spoke: "Stop laying around, Starscream. I thought you had a job to do..."

Could the jet really be expected to stay awake for months? Terrwyn didn't think so, but it wasn't something for her to worry about. The matter at hand was much more important.

Loud footsteps neared her, and the eyes came closer. Lights flickered on by Starscream's doing, and soon she could see the big frame of their leader himself.

"M-megatron..." Terrwyn tried her best to keep herself from hiding underneath the blankets, but she was biting her lip.

"Lord Megatron to you, fleshling..." He was already angered. Just great.

The female nodded quickly, "Lord Megatron, I'm sorry..." Being cold, having just woken up, and still recovering from a broken back... Those things did create a nice environment for fear.

"How is your spine?"

Wether that was sarcastic or not was hard to determine, but even if Terrwyn thought it was, she would answer honestly. "It's doing alright..." Except for those moments when she runs for a few minutes straight or things like that, but she wouldn't tell him in fear of being seen as a weakling. Well, more of a weakling.

"Good." He reached his huge claw for her, and she was afraid she'd be hurt again. Instead, the touch was rather gentle for his doing, pushing her up into a normal sitting position. It was as if the top of his finger scanned her back, going up and down gently looking for any problems still there.

She didn't move at all, afraid of what he might do. His expession she could never figure out.

Starscream came closer, "Her recovery has gone well and quickly, my liege."

"Finally some good news..." He growled his sentence, then wrapped the finger around her waist and pulled the girl up to her feet.

It was weird for Terrwyn, but she complied again. Her eyes lowered to the ground, before facing upwards and looking to his face. "My father said you had work for me..." It was difficult to not sound afraid.

"Indeed I do." Megatron seemed to be somewhere else with his thoughts.

The blondine carefully waited, a silent fear of being squeezed lingering in her mind.

"As you weren't much use last time, I thought of an easier job..." He let go of her, and Terrwyn was quite relieved at that. Megatron was such a huge and intimidating... alien. It sounded wrong, didn't it? An alien. He was an alien. From another planet.

"What is it?" She almost didn't dare to ask, yet she did.

He glowered upon her for a while, before finally speaking. "You shall be returned to the Autobots, having them believe you were our prisoner and they your saviours."

Terrwyn thought that would be way too suspicious, but hey, if the boss wanted it...

"Pay attention, insect!" He hit his hand next to her, making her jump up in surprise. Had she really gone and rolled her eyes at that?! Stupid, Terrwyn, really stupid. Whilst talking, he had spat on her too! It was cold, it was slick, and most of all sticky. "Ew..."

"Be glad I allow you to live." The tyrant hissed, getting quite enough of this femme's attitude. She must've forgotten the pain she went through when breaking her back before.

"I'm sorry, my lord!" Terrwyn was still in fear at the huge fist beside her, his menacing glare, and well... the liquid on herself didn't make it much better. It even got in her mouth, and you know, that did not taste good.

"The Autobots will come to rescue you at your so called 'execution'," Now he continued as if nothing happened, but kept a close eye on her. "which Starscream will oversee."

Terrwyn was just nodding now, and didn't stop that either. Lets just agree with the big bad robot and all will be fine.

"You will speak to them of plans we have, plans to use a certain weapon. As you know too much, we tried to... eliminate you." The leader said that as if he really wished to do that now. Probably did, actually. It just wouldn't be beneficial. "I warn you, however... If they figure out the truth..."

"I understand." The girl wouldn't be happy if that happened! Nope, not at all!

A smirk covered his faceplates again. "Good... You're learning." One finger reached for her head again, making her squeek and cower backwards. He chuckled darkly, petting her blonde messy hair. "I enjoy seeing you squirm..."

Petting her was all he was doing, yet Terrwyn was still staring up in fear. This... thing... felt like evil itself! Enjoying her fear, pain, all of that...

"Starscream." Megatron never stopped his 'affectionate' gesutre towards the human. "Tomorrow you shall perform the act. Make it slow, so the Autobots will have time to find you..." At least it would be believable if Starscream was taking his sweet time, or so the leader thought it to be.

"Of course, my liege." The seeker bowed slightly, trying to keep a straight face. It indeed was amusing to see Terrwyn cower, even if it hadn't been his doing this time. Humans... such nice playthings.

Megatron stood straight then, turning and facing the door. "I will be expecting a report in two days." He transformed, then was off. With a twirl, he disappeared into the dark sky.

The heat of the engines actually reached Terrwyn, who had sank through her knees from the intimidation. When that guy was around, she honestly feared for her life. Her small body was still shivering, and she wasn't sure what to say or do.

"I see you don't like him either." Starscream chuckled, making sure to close the doors of the hangar before coming over to the human femme. She was still quiet, and staring up at the jet who was smirking. He swiftly picked her up with blankets and all, making her yelp before growing quiet again.

"Where is that feisty girl I knew?" He teased, playfully nudging her in the stomach with one of his fingers and keeping her down.

"I think she... disappeared the moment I passed out from breaking my spine..." It did look that way. Terrwyn wondered what happened to herself as well. Where was her care for fashion, her stubborn attitude, and all of that?

Starscream shook his head at that, tutting in response. "You were fun enough afterwards. But then Megatron suddenly made you tremble."

There was truth in there. A bit too much. Terrwyn sighed softly, "True... He is... scary." When did she ever admit someone was scary? Never. Until Megatron had come along.

"Tch, last time we talked you were being far less respectful." Starscream just enjoyed this human a bit too much. Her shame was funny.

"I know, I know... I still don't like him, but..." Her body was still shaking, even if Starscream was holding her now. "You don't understand what it's like for me!" Weirdest of all was probably getting used to Starscream, one of those aliens. "I miss human interaction, too..."

"That'll come soon enough." He spurted. What did she need humans for? Wasn't it a privilege to be liked by him?!

"Don't worry, I won't just forget you." She smiled kindly now, patting his hand.

"You better not. I don't want you to be an Autobot ally next time we meet!" He shoved her around a little, though it made her laugh instead of squirm this time. Surprising.

"I won't be! Worst that might happen is me demanding better clothing!" Because what she was wearing now was simply terrible. Not to start about the hair...

Starscream found it unfortunate that he'd need to give his so called pet away to those Bots now. After all, he had taken care of her for weeks as ordered by Megatron.

Terrwyn's eyes widdened a bit, then saddened all of a sudden. Like a realization had just hit her.

"What is it?" The seeker was annoyed to ask, really, but it seemed important to those fleshies. Showing compassion, blegh.

"I won't be going home..." Terrwyn's emotions were flying like a rollercoaster. "It's almost Christmas and..." Like a Con would understand that!

"Christmas?" He hadn't really heard the term before.

"Oh, it's a holiday in which family gets together and well... eats and has fun." The blondine wasn't sure how else to explain that one.

"Pathetic." Exactly why humans were such an idiotic race.

She glared with her blue eyes at him. "For you. To me it's pretty important to see my father again! He raised me, ya know!" Even if things didn't always go well, he had paid her food and all.

"Didn't I do the same while you were recovering?" To him raising was the same thing as watching over someone who couldn't do it themselves and taking care of their pathetic needs.

Terrwyn's expression changed to a puzzled one this time. He saw that as raising her? To her, in human terms, that meant quite a lot. "I-I guess?" Maybe he did have a point... "You can come and celebrate Christmas with me any time, you know..." She wouldn't really mind! If he saw himself as family...

The cultural differences were quite big, and they didn't really seem to understand each other. But it worked, funny enough. Starscream already felt a bit better. "That's what I thought." Not like he cared for the holiday.

"But I'm going to be at the Autobot base once it is Christmas." She groaned softly.

"We can't celebrate it now?" What kind of celebration is that when you can only do it at a certain time?

She shook her head with a small grin. "That's not how it works, Starscream."

"Then how does it work? You humans have weird habits." It made no sense to a Cybertronian.

"Something about religion... I don't totally get it myself either." Terrwyn had never been too interested in those things. Who needed history? Wasn't the future what really mattered?

Starscream had to grin at that once more. "I like humans who don't see the point in their own habits." They'd make better slaves, after all!

"And I like alien robots who don't throw me around and try to injure me all the time." By now she knew that what Starscream did was playing around, no matter how scary. The others, however... Barricade was creepy.

"Don't get your hopes up, you." He would keep her awake until the plan would start. After all, that'd be the proper goodbye, yes?

"You're planning something evil?" Terrwyn was already thinking about what that could be.

He snickered once more. "I always am, dear Terrwyn." Now that sounded dark coming from him. She wasn't too moved. "Right. I knew that..."

"We should find a nice little spot and create our scheme, don't you think?" He was already moving towards the doors once more, having them open up again. The cold breeze from the wind hit her cheeks, making her shiver some. It was really cold at night.

He closed his hands around her, even if that would block her complete vision. It would be warmer. Terrwyn cuddled up in the blankets, finding a nice and comfortable spot in there as he walked outside. She'd softly rock up and down at the movement. More calming than you might imagine. She had to yawn.

"Don't fall asleep in there." Starscream warned her, having heard that sound before when she seemed to get close to sleeping. Why did humans need to show that? It was like telling everyone around you that you'd be less on your guard.

"I'm tired." Terrwyn complained, playing a bit with her blanket. It stunk after all these weeks. Smelled like sweat. Her sweat.

"I can fix that." He smirked to himself, and for a moment nothing happened.

"What do you mean?" She asked eventually. Still nothing. Not even a reply. "Starscream?" … Now it was getting a bit freaky. "Starscream, what are you planning to doOOO!"

She was suddenly flying and completely disoriented, landed on her butt once more, and was in his cockpit racing through the sky. After a moment of being stunned, she kicked him gently. "Warn me next time!"

"Don't you dare kick me, human." He hissed, rolling over in the air so she was upside down.

The seatbelts luckily had creeped their way around her already, so she didn't fall. It just made her dizzy and sick feeling.

That, and she was tied up in her seat for she blankets were still wrapped around her. It made moving rather uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry! You just have to watch out what you're doing!" Followed by a sneeze that she couldn't cover for her hands were stuck.

"Watch it!" He would cringe at the wet feeling if he wasn't flying. "You organic nasty creatures!"

"I can't help it I'm organic! If anything, I'd like to be one of you." Now that would be awesome. Car fashion... Reminded her, Starscream needed a paintjob.

"I'll tell Shockwave that. Maybe he can find a solution..." It sounded like an interesting experiment! Human to Cybertronian...

"Wait, you took that seriously?" Terrwyn didn't like the idea of losing her beautiful body!

"Who knows. There might be a possibility." She actually gave the seeker an interesting idea.

"I don't want to lose my blonde hair! And blue eyes!" They all had red eyes, it was creepy.

"Don't whine when you get the chance, fleshy. It would do you good." He countered that. "Think of Megatron. Perhaps he won't hurt you anymore."

Terrwyn winced at the memories. "He hurts you, too..."

A growl was his reply. "You're a clever one."

"That's not what you said last time..." They always called her stupid, didn't they?!

"We taught you well." Really, in Starscream's eyes, she did change ever since she had no human contact anymore. It made her far more tolerable. Hopefully that wouldn't change at the Autobots base, but it probably would.

"I can't wait to go shopping again." She randomly spoke up, trying to show him that they didn't change everything!

"Shut it." Like the jet could really care for shopping. Once again, a human thing that made no sense.

Terrwyn shrugged for as far as she could. He was no fun when it came to fashion.

Hours later, they were in a forest close to a quiet road. Starscream was leaning against some hill on which Terrwyn was already sitting. Sure, her pants would get dirty, but she didn't like these pants anyway. They could burn for all she cared. Not while still on her legs, though!

"How long do we still need to wait?" Terrwyn groaned, leaning her chin on her hand. The sun was already out for a while.

"According to my calculations, they'll soon be here..."

"Okay." Too bad, and yet it was good. She hated waiting, but dang... She didn't look forward to go back to the Autobots now she finally had some sort of friendship with a Con. On the other hand, how hard could the Bots be now she was used to the bad guys? "I'll miss you."

The seeker did not expect that, but had to smirk either way. "I never thought a human would tell me that." He pushed her over.

She fell onto the dirt and looked irritated now. It was on her face! "What?!" With both arms she had to push herself back up, glaring at him.

"You'll need to look dirty, not well cared for." He was chuckling. Her anger was so amusing...

"You pathetic piece of shit!" She took a rock and threw it at him, but managed to miss such a big target, making him laugh some more.

"Is that all you can do?!" He taunted loudly.

"You watch it, you...!" She hopped onto her feet, and walked over to his side. It didn't take him long to swoop her off her feet, and leave her dangling up side down. She struggled to get out, until she noticed how high off the ground she was already. "Put me down safely!"

"Not before you apologized."

"Starscreaam!" She sounded like an annoying toddler now.

"I'm not hearing you apologize." He waved his hand a little, having her scream out.

The sound of engines reached the Cons audios, and he immediately put her on the ground. "They're coming."

She was still a bit shaken, but did her best to get up.

"Run, you fool. I'll make sure to miss." His weapon was pointed at her, making her scream again. Sure they had planned this but...

Terrwyn quickly ran off, sinking through her knees after a few metres, but getting up to run again. How often would bullets still glide past her ears like that?!

Dirt was flying around, loud explosions could be heard to which she had to cover her ears at times, and leaves flew in her face. She was scratched here and there by twigs and wood, too, making her bleed a little. The girl ran from left to right and back. Even if he wasn't really trying to kill her, Terrwyn was scared to death.

From the road, she saw familiar cars appear that transformed and began to shoot at the Decepticon. Terrwyn being distracted by them, ran into a tree, hitting her head quite hard.

"Ow..." She rubbed her forehead, turning to look at the battle. Lights were flashing everywhere, and it wasn't very clear what was happening. Might just be because she hit her head quite hard, however.

How would Starscream be doing? Terrwyn hoped he was fine, not getting hurt there... Why was he still in the battlefield? He should just run! Four against one or so really wasn't fair.

Luckily the jet did, transforming into the air and flying off. What she didn't know is that to himself he softly spoke in Cybertronian, which could be translated to: "I'm counting on you."

Terrwyn sat down, falling onto her butt. Phew... That went... well, quickly. Or maybe it just seemed to pass so quickly for some reason?

Huge feet were getting closer, and the girl looked up. That was Optimus Prime...

He knelt down, scanning her face. "Are you hurt?" She seemed to be, holding her head like that.

"N-no, I'm... fine." Terrwyn had a bit of trouble getting her words back. "T-that was..." Though no explenation came.

"It's that girl again." Another deep voice said, one she didn't really recognize anymore... "She's more trouble than she's worth. Perhaps we should just leave her here."

"Iron Hide." The Prime was not happy with the attitude, giving him a scolding before turning back to the femme. "Can you stand?"

"I... think... so." She tried to push herself up, stepping around a little to keep herself from falling again.

More cars appeared then.

"You're late!" This silver one called out to the army like vehicles. "Job's already done!"

Terrwyn had some trouble taking a good look at him. That was... Side...something.

"Terrwyn, what was Starscream doing to you?" Optimus Prime seemed more worried about the matter at hand.

She once more looked up to him. "Tha who...?" Yes, she really had lost it a little.

"This is no time for jokes." He seemed to keep in a sigh.

A man came running towards them. "What happened?" His eyes observed the girl, taking a few seconds before recognizing her. "Didn't we lose her to the Decepticons a few weeks ago, after she spilled Megatron's name?"

"What?" Terrwyn shook her head wildly to try and get herself back. "Megatron... Oh, that huge scary alien robot... Right, him, yes... I hate him." Luckily it didn't come out that she was here because he ordered this to happen.

"You remember him?" Optimus Prime seemed even more concerned now. "What did he tell you?"

"So much!" Terrwyn seemed half excited for some reason. "Does it matter? Most of it made no sense anyway."

"Perhaps not to you, but it might help us." The Prime gestured for Iron Hide to back down, who felt the need to kick a tree instead.

"Well, he stated a few times it was amusing to see me suffer. Not like that was fun for me..." Terrwyn still felt a little light in her head. "Could I get some food? I'm starving."

"You seem rather well-fed for a Decepticon prisoner." Ratched had to make the comment.

"Oh, they didn't want to starve me. Don't really know what I was doing there, anyway." Did she know, she had to wonder? Maybe as blackmail to her father?

"...She's lying." Iron Hide didn't like the attitude at all. "The Decepticons wouldn't let her live unless she held something important."

"I do hold importance! But that's a long story. I'd like some food first." So she could actually make up a story about why they'd want to keep her without her father knowing where she was. His cover needed to stay intact.

"We've got some in the car." Lennox said, offering her his hand. "If you'd come with us?"

"Again?...Well, guess I have no choice." She was too dizzy to run away anyway. "I might just faint if I don't eat soon..." And so, she took his hand.

He led her to the car, making sure she didn't fall over anything. She didn't seem very bright at the moment. With that, her spine was hurting from all the action.

Optimus Prime stood once more. "This truly is an odd case."

Ratchet nodded to the Prime. "If the Decepticons kept her alive for so long, she must hold something important."

"They would've gotten what they wanted. Seems like that punk was trying to kill her." Iron Hide still didn't like it.

"Indeed. We stand before a mystery, and only one person among us would know the answer." The Prime glanced down at the girl who was now safe and sound inside the car, eating a Snickers that had been given to her.

"Never seemed too bright, did she?" Sideswipe joined in on the conversation now.

"Exactly that is suspicious." Ratchet knew most humans didn't act like she had done. "The Decepticons wouldn't care for someone like her."

"Hmm." Iron Hide observed her. "Perhaps it's linked with her intrustion from before."

"I wouldn't doubt it." Optimus Prime said, noticing Lennox was getting everyone together to leave again. "We will question her once we're back at the base. Autobots, roll out!"

[] Megatron this time was really badly written, I'm sorry. I just couldn't get into him today. Still wanted to write this and dang, I love this chapter. Just cause of Starscream! And Terrwyn got a chance again to be funny.

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