Ultra Magnus and Marissa Fairborne discussing mutiny. From  Maelstrom - 9 full B&W comics and a few thousand pages of fan-fiction.  M for violence and language.

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Maelstrom Part 12
Sneak
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The small, cloaked shuttle flew in low over the mountains surrounding Metroplex. No alarms sounded - the security codes had all been bypassed and no living eye marked its presence. It landed in a small clearing a few short miles from Autobot City, barely passing between the branches safely. A plagiarized cloaking field mimicked the surrounding area and shielded the ship's energy emissions. The pilot reflected he could probably have set the ship down right on Metroplex's landing fields with little chance of discovery, but he was too paranoid to allow even a slim chance. Discovery would cause... complications. Once the ship was shut down, cloaked as well as he could manage, and armed with motion sensitive security lasers he left it, slipping into the night as if he were a pa


"I have to! Someone HAS to get to the bottom of this! I won't sit by and let it happen!" Marissa hissed. He saw a tremor run through her body from head to toe.

"Of course you won't," Magnus smiled at her. She was raging at him, but not really at him. Her determination always made him pleasantly amazed to know her. He wished, as he often did, that half of the people under his command had that much force of will. He doubted the 'Cons would last a week if they had.

She suddenly realized she was taking her frustration out on him again, and forced herself to relax. "Sorry...I'm really tired. Now, what's bothering you?"

"Nothing," Magnus stated decisively.

"Uh-huh," Marissa said.

"I'm serious," Magnus said.

"Of course you are," Marissa agreed with a smile.

Magnus grumbled.

Marissa waited.

Magnus muttered.

Marissa waited.

"I don't know what's bothering me exactly," Magnus blurted without meaning to.

Marissa smiled slightly and waited.

Magnus sighed, and looked to the stars for strength. "I really don't, that's the problem."

"What do you mean?"

"It's all kinds of little things. Optimus has me worried for one. He holed up when Rodi vanished but now that Rodi's back, Optimus STILL isn't out much. I used to know how he was, what he was doing, what he was planning. Now - nothing. No communication at all. Kup feels the same. Rodimus is even worse than Optimus in a way. He'll talk to you, but by the time he's done talking I always feel like someone's trying to sell me bad energon. Trying to control a conversation with that boy was always difficult, but since he's been back I feel he's taken it to a whole new level."

"Do you think something is wrong?"

"I don't know. Kup is worried though - he thinks something is different about Rodimus, and Arcee and Springer say he had some kind of traumatic flash-back when they went out the other day. Rodimus told THEM it was from the memory of being made human. I don't know, but he frightened them badly. Even Springer was visibly shaken."

"You're kidding! That must have been some memory then! Do you think Rodi's hiding something?" Marissa asked.

"I ALWAYS think Rodi's hiding one thing or another," Magnus said, "but I doubt it's too serious or Optimus would have done something about it."

"OK. So lets see, that covers Op, Rodi, Kup, Arcee, and Springer. Now, what's bothering YOU?"

Magnus scowled at her, but decided not to repeat futility. "Something's wrong in Metroplex," he said grudgingly.

"Something's wrong with Metroplex?!"

"No. Something's wrong IN Metroplex...I think," Magnus said vaguely.

"You think?"

"Yes! I think!" Magnus snapped, sounding defensive.

"You don't KNOW?" Marissa asked, astounded.

"No. I don't know. There I said it. Something is wrong in my city and I can't figure out what it is. I've called so many inspections already I think the Autobots are ready to mutiny. Nothing seems out of order but I KNOW things aren't right. It's very subtle, but it's MY city, and something is off."

"Ok, Big Guy, OK. I believe you! What do you think it is?"

"I'm not being paranoid!" Magnus said.

"I never said you were," Marissa soothed.

"You thought it!" Magnus accused.

"No I didn't," Marissa said peevishly.

"Really? Why not? If someone came at me with those remarks that's what I would think," Magnus said.


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