Megatron's twin

5:First Encounters

After the episodes of Orion Pax...

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"Megs never does the dirty work does he?" I asked Knockout as we continued watching a Vehicon miner drill into the wall in the underground train tunnels. "always sends someone else to do it," I continued, "he's probably sitting on his aft clipping his nails." Knockout nodded in agreement as we continued to watch.

"Say... during the war on Cybertron..." He started.

"Yea... What about it?" I questioned.

"Well, you look like the big M, so, did you ever run into the auto bots?" He continued.

"Yea, sometimes," I nodded, "what about it?"

"What happened?" Knockout quizzed.

"Why?"

"Just wanna pass time." He gestured to the on going drilling. "And I'm sure it'll be amusing." I smiled grimly and recalled a memory for him. The one where I first encountered Autobots.

I walked through the wreckage of what was once a energon storage unit, looking for energon under piles of metal plating. So far, my scavenging had not revealed anything that interested me. From outside I heard a short hissing but chose to dismiss it, continuing my search. I heard low mumbling not soon after, I climbed up higher on the rubble and ducked down when I saw two Cybertronians. One Femme, blue with pink details and the other, a red mech with silver horns. "The life signal is coming from over there Cliff." The Femme pointed to the wreckage I was hiding in. They where Autobots.

"It's probably just some scavenger." He complained, the femme rolled her optics.

"We're still checking the wreckage." She argued back. I rolled my optics, I don't have time for this, I ducked back down and continued searching. I decided I would leave if they called for reinforcements. I dropped some plating and it made a loud clang. I was never one for stealth.

"What was that?" I heard not to far away.

"Chill Arcee." Came a reply, I heard them getting closer and turned to face where they would soon be. They appeared and instantly got out their blasters.

I sighed, "why am I always greeted like this?" I questioned them earning a slightly confused glance from the red one. "I've never heard a single hello, or, how do you do? It's always straight to the blasters." I threw my hands in the air, exasperating my point.

"Um, hi?" The red Autobot said smirking nervously.

"Why, thank you." I said stepping forwards.

"Stay where you are Megatron!" The blue femme said, stopping me in my tracks.

"Ah... What did you call me?" I asked, raising a optic ridge.

"Megatron." She confirmed.

I snorted. "My name's Quillux." I held my servo out to shake.

The Autobots looked at me like I was crazy. "Enough to playing around, what are you doing here?" The femme asked, ignoring my statement.

"Looking for energon." I answered honestly.

"What?" She said.

"Well, you see, this used to be a energon store unit." I said, explaining to her.

"We know." Said the red bot.

"But we don't believe your lies." Finished the other.

"Then don't." I said shrugging. "Everyone can believe what they like..." I said. And looked at them, the red one was saying something into his com link while the blue one continued pointing her blasters at me.

"Your still pointing your guns at me." I observed.

"I know." She said.

"I stated before I don't like it." I added, reminding her.

"So?"

"So... Its making me uncomfortable." I said.

The red bot looked back at us, "reinforcements are coming." He said to his partner then nodded at me. "We're taking him prisoner." The blue bot asked him something and he replied quietly enough for me not to hear.

"Um, guys?" I said getting their attention.

"Yea Megs?" The red bot joked.

"I don't want to be taken prisoner." I stated, expressing how I feel.

"We know." He said.

"So you intend to take me by force?" I questioned.

He nodded. "Well how else are we supposed to take you?" He asked.

"By inviting me nicely as a guest." I suggested. They stared at me dumbstruck, the femme recovered first.

"Your coming with us. As a prisoner." She added to clear up a otherwise upcoming question.

"Very well." I sighed and before they could react I dug my pedes into the ground and slammed my arms together, transforming them into my cannon.

I aimed to shoot between them to and did so. The recoil forced me back five or so meters, and the blast impact blasted the two apart like a grenade would. Another hiss came from behind them forming a ground bridge, and out stepped a red and blue bot (who I recognised as Optimus Prime), accompanied by a slightly smaller one. They too, pointed their blasters at me. I let out a loud, high shriek causing the new bots to frown and the red bot to snicker from where he lay.

I transformed and fled dodging the blasts that followed me.

"Well there's a downside to looking like the big M." Said Knockout smirking.

"Or him looking like me." I added as a after thought.

He shrugged. "And Op didn't know Megatron has a twin." He snickered.

"Yea." I nodded. "He was probably thinking Megatron was the one shrieking in terror. If so, I ruined his reputation many times." I chuckled, Knockout chuckled in agreement. We looked back at the drill which was backing away to show us their progress.

We peered inside and saw a container visible. "Ah, about time." Exclaimed Knockout.

Suddenly shooting came from behind.