Chapter 31: Torn and Broken

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"I thought that Oans was under secure lock down in that little human house?!" Megatron gritted his dentas together as he snarled and growled at the same time from both irritation, stress, and everything that a leader could be put in when things fell off the plan.

The baritone he had used was pure with anger and deathly seriousness as he looked straight at Barricade's optics which was still void of emotion. Shein had to cover her ears while keeping a cringing on the servo. It was only thanks to the sound proof walls that no con had barreled into their conversation.

A few nanokliks later, she took off her hands from her ears and listened in to the mech's conversation. Barricade tone came to give her chills and made her regret whatever she had done wrong to put his guardian into this state of emotionless…

"The reports of the Younglings and the Constructicons were proven accurate after the safe measure of checking twice by both me and Knockout, my Lord." Barricade didn't flinch and spoke at even tones as he reported.

Megatron was not that satisfied though with that and only glowered more at them before his optics directed to her with a hateful glare that made her want to cry and beg for pardon on what she had done.

"Then how did the nuisance escape?!" The words hit her heart awfully straight in the middle as she whimpered. Her eyes darted to her shaking hands in front of her as she stayed still enough with tense and constricting muscles but she knew that she needs to speak up because if not, her guardian would have to endure the punishment was mainly for her.

"I-I used a-another way o-out, my Lord…" Her voice quivered as she could feel that negative energy strike her sensors. The back of her neck had told her she had got their attention on her making it harder for her to speak.

"I-I thought t-that it was s-strange for m-me to be l-locked in… I w-was n-never i-informed of a-any punishment o-on my person. I-I had b-been o-out of trouble—" She tried to explain as her voice constricted with fear. For once again in her lifetime with them, she felt so scared. Scared not of them but for what can they do to her… Her fear was mainly because of the possibility that they would disown her and throw her away. She never wants that to happen but judging from what she is in now… it was where she was heading.

Megatron shut her up as he talked again. Far harsher than what she had seen… Was it all just a dream for her that she had a home here? Was it all just fantasy? And now, she was wide awake, it had slapped her fully on the face.

"Hadn't your processor work properly to comprehend what had been done, you little insect?! You should have stayed in your slagging hole until I told you so! Even without being ordered!" The air escaped her lungs as Megatron's servo swiped her into his hold. Her heart had beaten loudly in her chest.

The Lord's hold thankfully loosened but Shein was too far gone to notice it. He had placed her on his servo minding his sharp claws in order to not harm her but his irritation is still present on his face plates for what the femme had almost done.

Since her disappearance, the plan had been moved to take place in a later date. Being in the other faction's care had only made her retrieval worse until she was held in that small facility without even an Autoscum's guard. His stress levels had rose as his faction became unruly that time but that lessened drastically when she returned…

And that was only the small part of the problem they have. If they don't handle their plan carefully with loose ends, they would all fail and maybe get exterminated.

With a sigh, Megatron looked down to the femme and met the sight of her shaking. He query Hook about this condition and soon found out that this might need the other's expertise… But that is not available right now when all of his loyal officers are gone to control the new arrivals. It was only this time that he had appreciated Starscream's takeover as the situation in the hangar worsened when he had left.

Megatron growled and groaned at the same time as his free servo came and covered his faceplates.

"Time and time again, Oans..." The Lord muttered as his thumb came over to the front of the squishy, trying to pry her out of her state. His action managed to slice open her skin as a fine red line became visible on her forearm. It leaked that life fluid that human's have but to Megatron who had seen them all leak, the femme's fluids had gained a lighter shade that glowed pink. Soon, the wound had closed up like it hadn't been there before and the blood evaporated without leaving a trace.

The only down side effect of what happened to femme though, was that her head began to pound again. She ignored it and tried to catch what Megatron was saying… failing drastically though as her eye sight flashed again.

"It seems that the nanocides are doing their functions correctly. Tell Shockwave to continue the treatment until the final process is complete but for now, Skywarp will take you back." Shein had only caught the last words as she tried to hold herself together.

"T-take me b-back?" She stuttered as her eyes met the other's optics lacking any emotion for the statement to be called a joke.

"You are to be relocated on earth again, Oans…" Megatron said as he nodded off to Barricade. "See to it that the others are informed of her presence being eliminated from the Nemesis. That would enable them to focus on their assignment…" He added as Shein's world broke apart.

"I-I… I-don't send me back! Please, my Lord! I-I never had mean to be a distraction! I swear I won't be again!" She said in hysterics as she felt lost, confusion, and desperation.

"I'm sorry that if I had become truly annoying to all of you and kept holding the faction back! I swear it won't happen again! If it is about me resting or being less productive, I'm sorry! I'll work double time and harder! … I promise… I won't ever request again for anything… I won't be useless again… Just please… Please don't send me back." Her voice faded to a whisper as that look remained on Megatron's face plates. The situation cannot be negotiated. The end. Her ears ring in decibels that the others cannot here but for that time on wards, she became deaf.

"No, femme. I had made my final decision. You are to stay out of this until I say you can come back—" Megatron stopped speaking when the femme stopped breathing for at least 4 kliks which is rather long for her to be able to do. This was desperate times so they immediately pulled back Hook to attend to the femme immediately.

Hook had come immediately as Barricade held his position for the time being with Knockout. Megatron could only stare as the femme was taken from his servos, still not breathing like the time when she had been found the earlier cycle. A doll… She became one of those plastic figures but those eyes told them that she wasn't; those eyes leaking with fluid that those human calls tears.

It only made Megatron more torn if this was the best solution they can come up.

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