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[personal profile] paxpertyrannidem 2017-07-07 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
The young gladiator is crisscrossed with battle damage and red war paint from Kaon's fighting rings. While Orion had met him long ago, Megatron's rhetoric had began to turn more violent. He had virtually disappeared by the time he was sent to Messatine, ideas kept alive only by a slow trickle of writing and an unquenched rebellious fervor.

By the time he returned and began to emerge in Kaon's underground, Megatron of Tarn was a changed Cybertronian. He was quiet, save for when he addressed the crowd post-match, but a heavy presence that was easily felt either way. A tight coil of barely contained rage that had laced every word towards the evils of the Senate. A bare echo of the soft-spoken miner that had written so eloquently about pacifist change.

He had risen from the dirt, slaughtered his former master Clench, and was motioning to seize rule of the entire underground infrastructure. His influence was growing, and it was beginning to attract the eyes of Sentinel Prime's Autobot Security Forces. Megatron knew revolution was coming, and he knew he had to assemble an army the likes of which Cybertron had never seen. The more Sentinel and the Senate squeezed, the easier recruitment would be.

And he was very much interested in a former student of the recently mutilated Senator Shockwave.

"-You. What is your name?"
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[personal profile] paxpertyrannidem 2017-07-14 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
The small Cybertronian's phrasing doesn't go over Megatron. The way he shrinks slightly at saying the moniker that was clearly inflicted on him by another. Megatron sees an easy opportunity in luring him in.

"That is not what I asked. I am interested in your name, not what others decide to call you."

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[personal profile] paxpertyrannidem 2017-10-07 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Damus," he repeats, in that grandiose voice that had stirred a massive crowd to a red-hot furor just moments before. He ignores the latter part of Damus' statement, it was clear enough the mech was unhappy with the nickname thrust upon him. So for all intents and purposes here, it did not exist.

"I have heard of you before, Damus. You and I have much to discuss - in private."

A large hand - slick with the energon and grime of a thousand battles - guides him to a darker corner of the rally stage. His encouragement was a rather assertive order that could have easily come off as far more threatening, but the energy from Megatron was magnetic. He seemed eager to learn more of this new Decepticon-to-be.

The corner would give way to the jagged jaws of a torn up industrial tunnel, foul smelling chemical fluids and steam still seeping weakly down the center of the floor. Decepticon rallies were in every dark nook and cranny of Kaon out of necessity, and so each location came with it's own set of idiosyncrasies.

The crowd was thinned to almost nothing, bar a few of what Damus might recognize as close allies of the insurgent next to him. For all intents and purposes, it would be them and them alone.
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[personal profile] paxpertyrannidem 2017-10-10 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Damus didn't need a face to show he was hypnotized by Megatron's invitation. The Decepticon feels it in the Cybertronian's sheepish movements.

"The destruction of the Academy is known even down here," he raises his arms to gesture to the industrial pit around them,"and only a fool believes the excuses presented afterwards."

It also helped that Megatron had other means of finding information on events like these. Of course, he wouldn't mention this.

"It was a tragic and cruel punishment, but what else would one expect of a Senate opposed to your very existence."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Ravage likely hadn't meant for Megatron to actually go and meet Tarn when the cybercat had handed over the phone. However, Megatron couldn't see any other way. There is always a bit of a niggling fear that Tarn might not keep his word. It wouldn't be the first time that the DJD hasn't upheld a promise. Yet, the tank had held out on hope anyway. Offering himself for the others... It is the least that he could do for them. They had made him almost comfortable on the ship. He had actual friends and individuals that had seen him as he is, not the tyrant that he had been.

True to his half of the deal, Megatron hadn't fought back. Yes, the feel of those restrains on his wrist had caused the panic in his spark to rise... He just has better control of it than that. It's with silence, but his head held high that he follows Tarn back to the ship.

It's not his first go behind bars either. In fact, it's almost a welcome relief. Megatron doesn't really do much in those days. He thinks. Reflects. Though he doesn't even consider the possibility of escaping. That would make the deal he had brokered pointless. Likely Tarn is thinking about what to do with him. It's no surprise to Megatron. What does someone like Tarn, who had practically worshiped the tank's every word, do with his mentor and idol suddenly being a traitor to the "Cause" and has no plans to return to it?

Megatron originally doesn't look up as Tarn finally sees fit to come to the cell. The cube is there, but he doesn't touch it. "Finally decided, have you?"
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm surprised you haven't and yes... You probably should," Megatron counters, eyeing Tarn warily.

He doesn't take the cub until Tarn has a drink. Megatron hardly trusts him at the moment, especially given the extremes that the DJD had went to in order to obtain the tank. Megatron isn't sure he can predict what the other is going to do. He takes a careful sip, frowning.

"Do not hope I will return. I am done with violence," he answers coolly. "While I don't regret removing the Senate from power, I do believe all of the lives lost afterwards to be a waste. How can I not? The crew was prepared to rewrite history, leaving me to die and the Functionists to rise to power, in order to spare the rest of the galaxy."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Not because they were petty and bitter," Megatron argues. "Because they felt so strongly about our kind wiping out billions of non-Cybertronian lives that they'd rather themselves suffer and allow the rest of the galaxy to flourish. The only reason I am here is because one individual was petty and bitter enough at the Functionists to not allow it to happen."

Which had done a lot to cripple Megatron's confidence in his choices. If the people he had wanted to free from the corrupt Senate would rather be shackled than allow their war to spread... What right has he to stop them? Megatron hadn't even tried to convince them otherwise.

He grumbles, taking another sip from the energon. It's different, yes, but perhaps that's because Tarn has odd tastes himself.

"I align myself with those that think I can change."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't really the Autobots that defeated us in the end... It was the humans of Earth. I care little for organics, but humans are," Megatron pauses, looking for what he wants to say. "I have some respect for them. They are as adaptable as we are."

His dislike for organic races hasn't changed, even though he's helped save some. The tank swirls the energon around before taking a few more drinks from it. Honestly, he had expected some level of starvation in attempt to make him more malleable. That's what he would have done back in the day.

"I thought about reworking the Decepticons," he admits. "However the damage has been done. I've created too many monsters and have generated too much hate for much of anyone to want to change."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You gave up... Megatron full on laughs. No, no it hadn't been that. Unsure of what to do, yes. The ex-warlord hadn't known at the time how to proceed and that is why everyone lingered on Earth for as long as they had. "I spent the following year or so being repaired. No, I hadn't given up until I watched someone die. His death stirred in me something long forgotten and that's when I gave up on the idea that the Decepticons could change."

Now Megatron slides his own empty cube away. He isn't surprised by Tarn's speech, not in the least. The tank's taken note of the increase in his frame's temperature, and subtly shifts. He decides to keep an eye on it, in case of any thing else abnormal. Something isn't quite right, but Megatron can't place what.

"Taking a page from Starscream now, are we? And here I had thought better of you."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-09 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am not disgracing the 'cause.' My desires have not changed, only what I am willing and unwilling to do to get there," Megatron frowns, optics narrowing.

He doesn't like that term. Reconditioning. The tank only narrows his optics further at Tarn's question, figuring the two are somehow related. Tarn is going to have a hard time to get Megatron to resort to violence once more. He'll take the blows but not give them in return. There's no way that Tarn is going to be able to break him through that sort of exercise.

The other tank is right about one thing. Megatron's frame is warmer and it is getting uncomfortable. His gaze falls back to the energon cube. Something had been put it in. Something that could get passed his filtration systems. Megatron is still determined to not show that something is effecting him, even if his optics have dimmed somewhat.

"What did you do."
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[personal profile] sorrynotguilty 2017-10-10 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Chemical encouragement... If his frame hadn't been running so hot, his lines would have turned cold at the mere thought. All this time, Megatron has tried to stay away from such substances. He likes to be in full control of his mental faculties. Anything that could hinder that isn't worth any potential benefit.

His face remains impassive, even with his very spark feeling out of place. Again he subtly shifts, taking in Tarn's words. It dawns on him then what the leader of the DJD intends to do. For a moment, he sees red. How dare he!

"I see. Can't coerce me of your own accord so you must resort to this method," he sneers.

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