Bulkhead threw his wrecking ball onto the ground and made a deep trench around himself Optimus and the young mech that had seemingly joined them.
The large convoy of armoured vehicles slowed to a standstill and soldiers stepped out, Silas leading the way as he walked to the edge of the convoy.
"Optimus, I do believe you have something of ours" Silas greeted with a cold smile and Optimus' optics thinned at him, glancing back at the young mech he had taken upon himself to protect.
"Sentient beings belong to no one" He informed the human and Bulkhead nodded in agreement.
"Ah but see that's where your wrong, Riptide over there isn't quite complete yet…we still have lots of tests to do on him before were satisfied especially after our previous subject died" Silas informed them tutting as he did so and Bulkhead growled under his breath.
"Riptide come with us and we'll make sure it's painless" Silas offered holding a hand out to him and he shook his head vigorously.
"Pity, this will be rather painful" Silas muttered, flicking a switch on a small control pad he had in his hands.
Jack made a screeching noise behind his mask and clutched his helm with his head, crashing down onto the ground in a terrible agony. He writhed and turned on the floor as something shot through his helm that made him just want to die.
He felt someone, most likely Optimus, holding his shoulders as he jerked around on the ground still clutching his helm.
"Silas, cease harming Riptide immediately or we shall have to intervene" Optimus ordered and he stood, allowing Bulkhead to hold the writhing mech on the ground in order to prevent him from hurting himself or anyone else.
"Optimus Riptide belongs to us, you have no idea what or who he is…we do, and we will destroy you with that information" Silas informed him, flipping the switch back on his wrist and turning back to the convoy.
Jack finished writhing and just lay on the ground, his chest rising and falling as his fans worked the pain out of his system. He didn't know, and neither did he want to know, what Silas had put in his head, he just wanted it out.
"Come Riptide, we shall assist you to base" Optimus informed him, hooking Jack's arms over his shoulder and allowing him to lean all his weight on the bigger, older mech.
Silas watched them leave and then he to turned to leave, with a soldier beside him looking confused.
"Were just going to let them go?" He asked and Silas nodded.
"Riptide is of more use to us with them, he will run, it is an inevitable event" Silas told the soldier with the utmost confidence.
It was an inevitable event, Jack would run from this world. He didn't belong with the aliens, and he didn't belong with humans.
He was an outcast.
Jack allowed himself to be placed on the medical berth and poked and prodded by Ratchet, Miko was talking loudly asking questions and being generally inquisitive but Jack ignored it all.
He just didn't know what he was supposed to do, Arcee was missing, he couldn't speak and everyone seemed to think his name was Riptide.
But do I really want them to know? Is being Riptide better than being Jackson Darby?
He looked up when Ratchet clicked in his face and he stared at the white and red medic with interest.
"Well Riptide I can remove your mask, painlessly, but you will need to go into stasis for a short period of time" Ratchet explained and Jack nodded thinking for a moment.
Stasis…stasis…oh! That's like being anaesthetised right?
"Well it shouldn't take me more than a few clicks so I'll get started" Ratchet told him, reaching under his chest plating a flicking a switch.
In moments, the world went dark.
Megatron had once killed over thirty thousand femmes with a single shot, blowing an energon reserve into a million pieces and causing an explosion that would have destroyed the infinitesimal planet that is Earth. He knew of only two femmes left alive, Arachnid and Arcee. So when a dark plated femme came towards him he was more than a bit surprised.
"And who might you be?" He asked her as she walked precariously over to him.
"I don't have a name" She told him and he tilted his smirked at her hiding his slight confusion.
"Do you have an allegiance?" He asked her and she gave a vicious smirk that Megatron liked.
"Whichever side wants to kill humans, that's the side I'm on" She told him and he held out a welcoming hand to the young curved femme.
"Welcome to the decepticons, I am Megatron, leader of the decepticons" He greeted taking her hand and leading her over to where a team of decepticons were mining energon from a crater in the earth.
"A pleasure Lord Megatron" She greeted and he smirked, this femme, he liked.
"Arachnid, this lovely young femme wishes to join us, however she appears to have no name at this present moment in time" Megatron called and Arachnid clicked over to look at the new femme that seemed to have so suddenly gained Megatron's interest.
She was as tall as Arachnid and obviously shorter than Megatron, her frame was completely black and Arachnid knew that Knock Out would want to change that but she didn't care.
She was slender and obviously made for speed rather than strength and she had a lot of curves and she seemed totally unaffected by Megatron standing so very close to her.
"You want me to name her?" She asked incredulously, but then she saw the look on Megatrons face and she forced a fake smile.
"Of course, come this way and we shall think of suitable names for you" Arachnid told the femme and she followed the spider along the edge of the crater as they thought of names.
"You are Arachnid correct?" The dark femme asked and Arachnid nodded stiffly in conformation, not really wanting to speak with this strange femme that had so suddenly wormed her way into Megatron's good books.
"Well then, a name a name, so many to choose from…" Arachnid muttered and the femme nodded in agreement.
"Yeah…"
It was going to be a long day.
Hey peeps! Sorry this took so long but the internet still doesn't work at my place so I'm back at my grandmothers for dinner lunch and a few updates while I'm here.
Okay also, I have NO idea what to call the femme, she wont be black for much longer as Knock Out will be changing her appearance, but I need a name. Any suggestions are welcome and the one I like the best will be the one I use as her name.
Sonicxjones, I'm glad you think so
Lionfire, Arcee wasn't mentioned here but she will be in the next chapter, I have a little something planned for her, oh and Jack? Oh yeah, punch punch punch.
Bio team2, not one for words are you? But thank you very much and I hope you continue to enjoy it.
Foxbear, he is around the size of bumblebee, just a bit shorter, oh and the silent interactions wont last much longer, bye bye mask!
Richard'sQueen aka LGFS, ah that's good to hear, I have to watch it on you tube because they don't show it on tv in England which SUCKS.
SlipknotGhidorah, Thank you, and that will be revealed very very soon with the arrival of a familiar face…
Hisokauzumaki, ah that's a secret my friend, one that wont be revealed for a while I'm afraid.
Read and Review guys!
Tulip Out.
