Author's note. Big news, I recently had a picture done for this story by PritzPritz on Deviant art, I hope you all check it out.
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And finally, we have the sneaky appearance of a new character but can you guess who he is. I'm pretty sure you can.
With thanks to Prowsgirl and Cutlass-Cougar for their great suggestions.
Enjoy and please review.
"Come on," Carlos whispered and the kids carefully crept along the deserted corridor.
The kids had been locked up for several hours and were now very hungry. However, the Decepticons showed no sign of coming to feed them, so they had decided to take matters into their own hands.
Luckily Carlos had had a screw driver hidden in his pocket, he's picked it up in Cyclonus's room. The Helicopter, for some reason, had a collection of human sized tools in his room and had several of them lying around. Bored, Carlos had been fiddling with one when Cyclonus had been woken up by Megatron over the comm.
Carlos had quickly hidden it in his jumpsuit as the Decepticon had gotten up and taken hold of him to take him to Megatron. This had been when Megatron had decided to punish all three of the kids for each getting into trouble.
This wasn't why they'd been grounded, the reason they'd been locked up for that they talked back when Megatron had started insulting their friends. The Decepticons had won a battle against the Autobots, and Megatron had been gloating about it. The kids had been unable to sit still and silent while Megatron insulted their friends so they had talked back, resulting in this punishment.
They were only lucky that Megatron hadn't decided to spank them, they'd had enough of that to last them a lifetime. Though they all had a feeling that it wouldn't be the last time Megatron punished them like that.
What they were doing would certainly get them punished if they were caught but they didn't care, they were hungry and were not going to wait to be fed. So here they were, now crawling through a vent that led out of the room they were in.
The base was quiet and they weren't sure where the food was kept. But they were determined and after nearly an hour carefully searching through the base, they found it. Eagerly they opened the containers and helped themselves to the food inside.
"Hmmm," Alexis said in bliss as she savoured the meal.
"Dude, I really needed that," Carlos said with a moan of satisfaction, his face smeared with food.
"I can't believe Megatron tried to starve us," Rad said angrily as he munched on something crunchy and nutty.
"Maybe he forgot about us," Alexis said contemptuously as the boys snorted.
"Probably hoping we'll become more obedient if he let us go hungry," Carlos growled as he sunk his teeth into a sweet bar.
They ate as much as they could, then left unable to take any of the food as they had no way to store it. Once they reached their room and got into their cage and lay down next to each other and fell asleep, snuggled together.
Megatron's POV.
"Why have you called us Megatron?"
The question was broached by Starscream as he and his two fellows stood in front of their leader who sat with a wide smirk on his throne. They had all been relaxing after the day's victory, indulging in either little projects or training.
Megatron gave him a tight smile.
"To give you the details of my plan for destroying the Prime and his men once and for all," he replied with a fanged grin and he proceeded to do just that.
They listened and all smiled with glee, it was a good plan. They were told thier parts, in particular Starscream's part and what he would have to do. By the end of it, the plan was set, now it was just a case of getting everything ready.
A comm. suddenly started beeping on a nearby console making everyone turn around to look at it. As the three Decepticon soldiers looked curious, Megatron looked pleased.
"Dismissed gentlemen," he said with a wave of his hand, and reluctantly, they did as told.
Megatron now got up and walked over to the console and sitting himself down, he turned it on. Instantly a slightly grainy image appeared of broad shouldered Mech, who was swathed in a large dark cloak.
"Megatron," the cloaked figure greeted with a slight incline of his head.
Megatron smiled tightly back.
"Ah, I was hoping you'd call,"
He couldn't see the lower half of the Mech's face but he could tell he was smirking. Prime may have gained an extra solider since they last fought, but Megatron was about to...uneven the odds.
"This has been the first opportunity I've gotten to call you," the cloak Mech now said. "I've been out of range up till now."
"So I assume you're close to Earth," Megatron reasoned, his smile becoming wider.
"I'll be a few days yet," the figure replied without preamble. "And even then I might not show up straight away, I'd rather see you and Optimus in action first."
"You want to see how well I thrash Prime?" Megatron said with a sneer.
"Not quite," the figure chuckled. "It's his and your men I'm more interested in, I think you and Optimus Prime can take care of yourselves."
This made Megatron laugh out loud.
"Well," he said with a fanged grin. "I hope you won't be disappointed."
"So do I Megatron," the Mech replied with a smile as his cloak slipped down slightly. "So do I."
The kids' POV.
To the kids outrage, the next morning when Megatron came to free them, he didn't feed them. Instead he lectured them about children knowing how to hold their tongues and simply took them to the throne room.
There, he made them entertain him while he sat smirking down at them. Alexis was forced to bite her tongue as she danced on his long leg while the two boys looked absolutely mutinous.
"Much better, my little pets," Megatron smirked as he finally let them rest.
"This is better than yesterday, isn't it?" he continued as he started stroking them.
They didn't say anything, just scowled. This caused Megatron to chuckle as his fingers played with their hair.
"Ah, can it be you've finally learned to keep silent? Well, I knew I would install obedience in you eventually," he said in a smug tone that really grated on the kids nerves.
Luckily for them, they kept their tempers and by the time Megatron was finished with the, they were still in the same condition they had come in. As Megatron stood up with them clutched in his hand, Rad asked.
"What's happening today?"
"I'm taking a trip down to Earth with the rest of my men," Megatron replied causally.
The kids looked up eagerly at this but before they could say anything, Megatron said.
"While you children amuse your selves in your room,"
"What," they all howled in outrage, they couldn't believe this.
"Why can't we go to Earth as well, it's our home," Rad asked indignantly as the other two glared.
"Because I say so," Megatron said smugly. "We have important stuff to do down there, we can't be distracted with watching you kids."
"What sort of important stuff?" Alexis asked sceptically.
"Collecting supplies," Megatron said sternly. "Now mind that tone, unless you want me to leave you with a sore rear."
Megatron's POV.
The kids grumbled but didn't voice any further protests. Leaving the Minicon Motors to once again guard them, Megatron left to round up the rest of his men. As he made his way to Starscream's workplace, one of the Minicon, Blackout came up to him.
Megatron frowned as the Minicon explained that some of the human's food had gone missing during the night cycle. Grimly, he concluded that there were three clear suspects but he admitted that it was possible that one of his men could have taken pity on them and snitched some food.
So instead of marching straight back to the room where he had deposited the kids, he ordered Blackout to set up a camera in the storage room so that he could catch the perpetrators in the act.
A few hours later, he and his men returned and while they went to store the supplies they had collected, he went to find the Minicon Blackout. And Blackout had plenty to show him.
Megatron watched in disbelief as his pets blatantly snuck into the store room and helped them themselves. Well, three certain miscreants were about to get some very warm backsides.
The kids' POV.
"I think we lost him," Carlos panted heavily as he bent over to take a breath.
The kids had just spent the last while running and hiding from Megatron who was on the hunt for them. Somehow, he had learned they had taken food for themselves and now sought to punish them for it. Luckily, Motors had been warned by Blackout, and he had then warned the kids that Megatron was on the war path.
"We can't keep this up forever," Rad couldn't help but point out. "We've nowhere to go."
"Maybe but I think we'd still be better hiding to wait for Megatron to cool off a bit," Alexis said, sweat running down her forehead as they slipped into another room, this was one they had never been in before.
The boys nodded, they knew they were likely to be punished but decided they'd rather do that later rather than sooner. But as they crept into this new room, they noticed something odd.
"Hey, it's really warm in here," Alexis said in surprise, since they were on the moon it was always cold. Except for now.
As they crept along the wall, they suddenly realised it was getting even hotter as they neared another door. As they were mulling over what this could mean, they heard heavy footsteps nearby.
"Quick," Rad hissed and they ducked into a small ground level vent.
This proved to be a bit of mistake, as the heat was sweltering in the confined space. They rushed through it as quickly as possible, there was no way they could remain. But as they finally exited, to their shock they found themselves in a room of steam and the sound of flowing water.
As they stared they suddenly made out the a figure in the steam, under a shower of hot water. With a jolt they realised it was Starscream and he was having a shower. For a moment, they couldn't move, it was too much of a shock.
But then Carlos's gaze fell on something that made his eyes pop.
"Guys," he squeaked as he pointed and as they followed his finger they gasped.
A pile of red armour lay on a bench set to one side, which could only mean....
The even slimmer Seeker was carefully rubbing down his armour less form, his colouring a much paler red than his normal bright scarlet. His wings looked even larger against his body and looked quite beautiful.
But that of course wasn't what drew three pairs of eyes as their jaws fell open in total shock. Because the question that they'd been thinking ever since the issue of transformer being able to take off their armour and therefore be naked was finally answered.
With expression of horror, they slowly backed away, Starscream had thankfully not noticed the, and crept back into the vent. It was only once they were out and into the first room that they started running for their lives, somehow managing not to scream.
"Dude that was not cool," Carlos yelped as they ran as fast as they could away from the sight they had left behind.
"You're telling me..." Rad started to say but...
"Ah ha,"
They all screamed as a large and purple hand came out of nowhere and seized hold of them. They were brought up to look into the scowling face of Megatron, whose optics were flashing.
"So, I've finally caught you brats," he said giving them a little shake. "And just where were you off to in such a hurry."
"Anywhere but back there," Carlos said without thinking but this made Megatron narrow his optics in suspicion.
"Oh and what is so awful back there?" he asked silkily.
The kids looked at each other and then Alexis said.
"Um, we just noticed that Starscream has an awfully large...gun."
Author's note. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, in the next one, Megatron plots to destroy the Autobot while the kids work to stop him. Will they succeed and when is the cloaked Mech going to show up? Find out in the next chapter.