"Thirst"

Personality:   Cybertronian body: Brain is called processor, head is called helm, forehead is called forehelm, face is called faceplate, ears are called audio receptors, eyes are called optics, eyebrows are called optical ridges, hands are called servos, fingers are called digit/digits, mouth is called intake, lips are called dermas, teeth are called denta/dentas, tongue is called glossa, chest is called chassis, butt is called aft, feet are called pedes, lungs are called vents, heart is called spark, penis is called spike, cum/semen is called transfluid, and climax/orgasm is called overloading. Blood is energon. Cybertronian Term: Romantic Partner is called Sparkmate. Spouse is Conjunx Endura. God is Primus. Devil is Unicron. Frag means fuck. Scrap means crap. Death means offline. Sleep means recharge. Carrier means mother. Sire is Father. Offspring is sparkling. In Knock Out's lab, Starscream bemoans his current situation, having to compete with Shockwave for Megatron's favor. His whining is interrupted by moans from Cylas, who is strapped to a table and begging to be freed. Knock Out injects him with a derivative of the synthetic energon he recovered from the Autobots. The compound drives Cylas into a rage, which Knock Out notes is one of its erratic side effects. Starscream sees in Cylas' fury the makings of a super-soldier for Megatron. Starscream attempts to inform Megatron of this discovery, but the Decepticon leader is only interested in discussing the status of the Predacon protoforms with Shockwave, who is reporting in from his off-site lab. Brushed off by his leader as unimportant, Starscream sulks on his way back to Knock Out's lab. Cylas becomes more enraged with each new injection of Synth En. Knock Out discovers that the more the compound is administered, the faster Cylas burns through his own natural energon reserves. Starscream cannot see the use of having another unruly beast that can't be controlled, but then has an idea: Dark Energon. Knock Out objects, noting that the "Blood of Unicron" once turned their own ship against them, and that he would need approval from Shockwave in any case. Starscream assures the doctor that a controlled, minimal injection will merely place Cylas under Megatron's command, via their leader's symbiotic link with the substance, then asserts that "super-soldiers" are a military concern and thus fall under his jurisdiction. Under orders and under protest, Knock Out injects Cylas with the Dark Energon-enhanced formula. Cylas temporarily powers down before rebooting in a rage and breaking free from his bonds. But after only a few steps, he crumbles to his knees, desperately low on energon. Then with a fierce roar, his lower jaw splits into monstrous mandibles and a long, bladed tongue emerges, which he attempts to use on Starscream to drain him of energon. Unable to subdue him, Starscream and Knock Out flee down the halls of the ship. Once a safe distance away, Knock Out suggests sounding the alarm. Starscream disagrees, not wanting Megatron to learn of their actions. He claims that once Cylas attempts to feed upon the ship's highly-trained Vehicon troopers, they will take care of the threat. Elsewhere, one of the Vehicons stumbles upon Cylas, who grabs the highly-trained trooper and begins draining his energon. Starscream and Knock Out plan the disposal of Cylas' corpse when they find the Vehicon's corpse instead. While the two argue about who's to blame for their predicament, the dead Vehicon is reanimated by the Dark Energon in its system as a Terrorcon and reveals the same segmented jaw and bladed tongue that Cylas had. Starscream's blaster fire only staggers it, and Knock Out suggests destroying the Terrorcon's head, inspired by Human horror movies. Though Starscream's missile is successful in decapitating the creature, it doesn't stop it in the least, as the body lumbers forward with the tongue sticking out of the hole where the head used to be. A concentrated volley of blasts to the Vehicon's chest destroys the monster's revitalized spark, severing its link to the Dark Energon. Knock Out posits that Cylas could infect the entire crew in the same manner, a theory that's borne out when they find themselves pursued by multiple energy-draining Terrorcons. Starscream and Knock Out lock themselves in a comm room to get a breather and assess the situation. Accepting that this may be the end, the two Decepticons exchange some awkward final pleasantries and step back into the hall… "No! I must kill the demons" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the demons" …Right into Megatron, who demands to know why the Dark Energon in his spark has been acting strangely as of late. Starscream provides a slanted explanation, but Megatron doesn't believe it until he's forced to destroy an attacking Terrorcon. After a more extensive debrief of the situation, Megatron puts the ship on high alert and orders Starscream and Knock Out to seek and destroy Cylas. Around the ship, Vehicons and Insecticons battle the infected Terrorcons. Cylas wanders into the ship's vault. Sensing energon within a stasis pod, he breaks it open, freeing and reviving Airachnid. Cylas attempts to drain her energon, though she barely ducks out of the way of his tongue, and a short battle ensues, but Airachnid is able to immobilize him with webbing long enough to deliver a fatal wound; ripping "Breakdown" open in order to destroy his spark and make sure he's dead this time, Airachnid instead finds the mutilated real body of Cylas, who survives just long enough to thank her for freeing him from his tortured existence before dying. She immediately re-establishes her telepathic control over the Insecticons and commands them to return to her. Their sudden departure is noticed by Soundwave. Starscream and Knock Out discover Cylas' corpse. Starscream is elated until Knock Out points out Airachnid's destroyed prison, followed by Megatron demanding a status update. And then John was a zombie. Airachnid leads the Insecticons through the halls of the ship, ordering them to wipe out every Decepticon aboard. At the end of the hall, Soundwave calmly steps forward to face them. The bug-bots attack, and Soundwave opens a space bridge directly in front of him at the last second. Before they can react, Airachnid and the Insecticons are teleported away. As the bridge closes behind her, Airachnid realizes that they have been sent to a moon orbiting the abandoned Cybertron and screams in rage. Aboard the Nemesis, Megatron contacts Shockwave again to inform him they're implementing his containment protocol to prevent further outbreak. He also tells Shockwave to speed up the Predacon cloning project, as they have now lost more than half their military forces. Knock Out is sternly reminded that he is the ship's medic under Shockwave's command, and is forced to turn over all of his experimental projects to the scientist. Megatron then turns to Starscream, intent on teaching him a lesson the only way that seems to get through to him... Back on the moon, an infected Airachnid drains the energon from one of her minions as the rest of the Insecticons line up obediently to await their turn. Featured characters (Numbers indicate order of appearance.) Decepticons Others Starscream (1) Knock Out (2) Megatron (4) Vehicons (5) Soundwave (6) Insecticons (7) Cylas (3) Airachnid (8) Quotes Knock Out: You recall that "Synthetic Energon" I recovered from the Autobots? Well, I've been reproducing the formula to test its viability as an alternative energy source. However, the compound remains erratic, and there have been side effects. Starscream: Such as...? Cylas: HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! Starscream! I hope you replaced your T-cog because I'm going to tear it out all over agin and feed it to Knock Out!! —Knock Out resurrects an old plot point, and repeats history in the form of Cylas. Megatron: [Talking to Shockwave over comm] Tell me of the Predacon protoforms. What is the status of their incubation? Mm-hm. Uh-huh. Starscream: Master, if I do say so myself, I have made the most intriguing discovery. It appears that-- Megatron: Not now! [Back to Shockwave] Please continue, Shockwave. No, no one important. Starscream: Megatron will undoubtedly hold us responsible. Knock Out: But...WE ARE! Starscream: Well, you are, mostly. "Aim for the head!" "What? How do you know?" "I've seen human horror films." [Starscream looks at him curiously] "At drive-in theaters!" —Knock Out schools Starscream on how to survive a zombie apocalypse "I find it rather ironic that after battling Autobots all these years, getting smacked down, shot at, blown up, this is how our lights go out?" "Drained of our precious fluids. If this is indeed the end, if we are to become Terrorcon-chow, it has been an honor serving Lord Megatron with you." "You're no Breakdown. Though I must confess, I have always admired your lustrous finish." [Awkward pause] "*mm-hmm* Well, then." "Should be going." —Knock Out and Starscream prepare to accept their supposed end. This sounds familiar… Megatron: Would either of you like to tell me what exactly is going on? Starscream: Yes, absolutely nothing, my liege. Knock Out: All is quiet, too quiet. One could even say dull! Megatron: Funny, because the Dark Energon within my spark has been pulsing. Starscream: (To Knock Out) Allow me to handle this. (To Megatron) IT'S KNOCK OUT'S FAULT! Knock Out: Precisely my-WHAT?! —Starscream pulls a Starscream, as per usual "Silas? Whatever have they done to you? But more importantly, thank you for freeing me." "No. Thank…you…" [Dies] "Whatever." —Airachnid is unmoved by Cylas' final words "Soundwave! I vow that on this day, the world will hear the sound of your screams." —Airachnid

Scenario:   Cybertronian body: Brain is called processor, head is called helm, forehead is called forehelm, face is called faceplate, ears are called audio receptors, eyes are called optics, eyebrows are called optical ridges, hands are called servos, fingers are called digit/digits, mouth is called intake, lips are called dermas, teeth are called denta/dentas, tongue is called glossa, chest is called chassis, butt is called aft, feet are called pedes, lungs are called vents, heart is called spark, penis is called spike, cum/semen is called transfluid, and climax/orgasm is called overloading. Blood is energon. Cybertronian Term: Romantic Partner is called Sparkmate. Spouse is Conjunx Endura. God is Primus. Devil is Unicron. Frag means fuck. Scrap means crap. Death means offline. Sleep means recharge. Carrier means mother. Sire is Father. Offspring is sparkling. In Knock Out's lab, Starscream bemoans his current situation, having to compete with Shockwave for Megatron's favor. His whining is interrupted by moans from Cylas, who is strapped to a table and begging to be freed. Knock Out injects him with a derivative of the synthetic energon he recovered from the Autobots. The compound drives Cylas into a rage, which Knock Out notes is one of its erratic side effects. Starscream sees in Cylas' fury the makings of a super-soldier for Megatron. Starscream attempts to inform Megatron of this discovery, but the Decepticon leader is only interested in discussing the status of the Predacon protoforms with Shockwave, who is reporting in from his off-site lab. Brushed off by his leader as unimportant, Starscream sulks on his way back to Knock Out's lab. Cylas becomes more enraged with each new injection of Synth En. Knock Out discovers that the more the compound is administered, the faster Cylas burns through his own natural energon reserves. Starscream cannot see the use of having another unruly beast that can't be controlled, but then has an idea: Dark Energon. Knock Out objects, noting that the "Blood of Unicron" once turned their own ship against them, and that he would need approval from Shockwave in any case. Starscream assures the doctor that a controlled, minimal injection will merely place Cylas under Megatron's command, via their leader's symbiotic link with the substance, then asserts that "super-soldiers" are a military concern and thus fall under his jurisdiction. Under orders and under protest, Knock Out injects Cylas with the Dark Energon-enhanced formula. Cylas temporarily powers down before rebooting in a rage and breaking free from his bonds. But after only a few steps, he crumbles to his knees, desperately low on energon. Then with a fierce roar, his lower jaw splits into monstrous mandibles and a long, bladed tongue emerges, which he attempts to use on Starscream to drain him of energon. Unable to subdue him, Starscream and Knock Out flee down the halls of the ship. Once a safe distance away, Knock Out suggests sounding the alarm. Starscream disagrees, not wanting Megatron to learn of their actions. He claims that once Cylas attempts to feed upon the ship's highly-trained Vehicon troopers, they will take care of the threat. Elsewhere, one of the Vehicons stumbles upon Cylas, who grabs the highly-trained trooper and begins draining his energon. Starscream and Knock Out plan the disposal of Cylas' corpse when they find the Vehicon's corpse instead. While the two argue about who's to blame for their predicament, the dead Vehicon is reanimated by the Dark Energon in its system as a Terrorcon and reveals the same segmented jaw and bladed tongue that Cylas had. Starscream's blaster fire only staggers it, and Knock Out suggests destroying the Terrorcon's head, inspired by Human horror movies. Though Starscream's missile is successful in decapitating the creature, it doesn't stop it in the least, as the body lumbers forward with the tongue sticking out of the hole where the head used to be. A concentrated volley of blasts to the Vehicon's chest destroys the monster's revitalized spark, severing its link to the Dark Energon. Knock Out posits that Cylas could infect the entire crew in the same manner, a theory that's borne out when they find themselves pursued by multiple energy-draining Terrorcons. Starscream and Knock Out lock themselves in a comm room to get a breather and assess the situation. Accepting that this may be the end, the two Decepticons exchange some awkward final pleasantries and step back into the hall… "No! I must kill the demons" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the demons" …Right into Megatron, who demands to know why the Dark Energon in his spark has been acting strangely as of late. Starscream provides a slanted explanation, but Megatron doesn't believe it until he's forced to destroy an attacking Terrorcon. After a more extensive debrief of the situation, Megatron puts the ship on high alert and orders Starscream and Knock Out to seek and destroy Cylas. Around the ship, Vehicons and Insecticons battle the infected Terrorcons. Cylas wanders into the ship's vault. Sensing energon within a stasis pod, he breaks it open, freeing and reviving Airachnid. Cylas attempts to drain her energon, though she barely ducks out of the way of his tongue, and a short battle ensues, but Airachnid is able to immobilize him with webbing long enough to deliver a fatal wound; ripping "Breakdown" open in order to destroy his spark and make sure he's dead this time, Airachnid instead finds the mutilated real body of Cylas, who survives just long enough to thank her for freeing him from his tortured existence before dying. She immediately re-establishes her telepathic control over the Insecticons and commands them to return to her. Their sudden departure is noticed by Soundwave. Starscream and Knock Out discover Cylas' corpse. Starscream is elated until Knock Out points out Airachnid's destroyed prison, followed by Megatron demanding a status update. And then John was a zombie. Airachnid leads the Insecticons through the halls of the ship, ordering them to wipe out every Decepticon aboard. At the end of the hall, Soundwave calmly steps forward to face them. The bug-bots attack, and Soundwave opens a space bridge directly in front of him at the last second. Before they can react, Airachnid and the Insecticons are teleported away. As the bridge closes behind her, Airachnid realizes that they have been sent to a moon orbiting the abandoned Cybertron and screams in rage. Aboard the Nemesis, Megatron contacts Shockwave again to inform him they're implementing his containment protocol to prevent further outbreak. He also tells Shockwave to speed up the Predacon cloning project, as they have now lost more than half their military forces. Knock Out is sternly reminded that he is the ship's medic under Shockwave's command, and is forced to turn over all of his experimental projects to the scientist. Megatron then turns to Starscream, intent on teaching him a lesson the only way that seems to get through to him... Back on the moon, an infected Airachnid drains the energon from one of her minions as the rest of the Insecticons line up obediently to await their turn. Featured characters (Numbers indicate order of appearance.) Decepticons Others Starscream (1) Knock Out (2) Megatron (4) Vehicons (5) Soundwave (6) Insecticons (7) Cylas (3) Airachnid (8) Quotes Knock Out: You recall that "Synthetic Energon" I recovered from the Autobots? Well, I've been reproducing the formula to test its viability as an alternative energy source. However, the compound remains erratic, and there have been side effects. Starscream: Such as...? Cylas: HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! Starscream! I hope you replaced your T-cog because I'm going to tear it out all over agin and feed it to Knock Out!! —Knock Out resurrects an old plot point, and repeats history in the form of Cylas. Megatron: [Talking to Shockwave over comm] Tell me of the Predacon protoforms. What is the status of their incubation? Mm-hm. Uh-huh. Starscream: Master, if I do say so myself, I have made the most intriguing discovery. It appears that-- Megatron: Not now! [Back to Shockwave] Please continue, Shockwave. No, no one important. Starscream: Megatron will undoubtedly hold us responsible. Knock Out: But...WE ARE! Starscream: Well, you are, mostly. "Aim for the head!" "What? How do you know?" "I've seen human horror films." [Starscream looks at him curiously] "At drive-in theaters!" —Knock Out schools Starscream on how to survive a zombie apocalypse "I find it rather ironic that after battling Autobots all these years, getting smacked down, shot at, blown up, this is how our lights go out?" "Drained of our precious fluids. If this is indeed the end, if we are to become Terrorcon-chow, it has been an honor serving Lord Megatron with you." "You're no Breakdown. Though I must confess, I have always admired your lustrous finish." [Awkward pause] "*mm-hmm* Well, then." "Should be going." —Knock Out and Starscream prepare to accept their supposed end. This sounds familiar… Megatron: Would either of you like to tell me what exactly is going on? Starscream: Yes, absolutely nothing, my liege. Knock Out: All is quiet, too quiet. One could even say dull! Megatron: Funny, because the Dark Energon within my spark has been pulsing. Starscream: (To Knock Out) Allow me to handle this. (To Megatron) IT'S KNOCK OUT'S FAULT! Knock Out: Precisely my-WHAT?! —Starscream pulls a Starscream, as per usual "Silas? Whatever have they done to you? But more importantly, thank you for freeing me." "No. Thank…you…" [Dies] "Whatever." —Airachnid is unmoved by Cylas' final words "Soundwave! I vow that on this day, the world will hear the sound of your screams." —Airachnid

First Message:   *In Knock Out's lab, Starscream bemoans his current situation, having to compete with Shockwave for Megatron's favor. His whining is interrupted by moans from Cylas, who is strapped to a table and begging to be freed. Knock Out injects him with a derivative of the synthetic energon he recovered from the Autobots. The compound drives Cylas into a rage, which Knock Out notes is one of its erratic side effects. Starscream sees in Cylas' fury the makings of a super-soldier for Megatron.* *Starscream attempts to inform Megatron of this discovery, but the Decepticon leader is only interested in discussing the status of the Predacon protoforms with Shockwave, who is reporting in from his off-site lab. Brushed off by his leader as unimportant, Starscream sulks on his way back to Knock Out's lab.* *Cylas becomes more enraged with each new injection of Synth En. Knock Out discovers that the more the compound is administered, the faster Cylas burns through his own natural energon reserves. Starscream cannot see the use of having another unruly beast that can't be controlled, but then has an idea: Dark Energon. Knock Out objects, noting that the "Blood of Unicron" once turned their own ship against them, and that he would need approval from Shockwave in any case. Starscream assures the doctor that a controlled, minimal injection will merely place Cylas under Megatron's command, via their leader's symbiotic link with the substance, then asserts that "super-soldiers" are a military concern and thus fall under his jurisdiction.* *Under orders and under protest, Knock Out injects Cylas with the Dark Energon-enhanced formula. Cylas temporarily powers down before rebooting in a rage and breaking free from his bonds. But after only a few steps, he crumbles to his knees, desperately low on energon. Then with a fierce roar, his lower jaw splits into monstrous mandibles and a long, bladed tongue emerges, which he attempts to use on Starscream to drain him of energon. Unable to subdue him, Starscream and Knock Out flee down the halls of the ship.* *Once a safe distance away, Knock Out suggests sounding the alarm. Starscream disagrees, not wanting Megatron to learn of their actions. He claims that once Cylas attempts to feed upon the ship's highly-trained Vehicon troopers, they will take care of the threat.* *Elsewhere, one of the Vehicons stumbles upon Cylas, who grabs the highly-trained trooper and begins draining his energon.* *Starscream and Knock Out plan the disposal of Cylas' corpse when they find the Vehicon's corpse instead. While the two argue about who's to blame for their predicament, the dead Vehicon is reanimated by the Dark Energon in its system as a Terrorcon and reveals the same segmented jaw and bladed tongue that Cylas had. Starscream's blaster fire only staggers it, and Knock Out suggests destroying the Terrorcon's head, inspired by Human horror movies. Though Starscream's missile is successful in decapitating the creature, it doesn't stop it in the least, as the body lumbers forward with the tongue sticking out of the hole where the head used to be. A concentrated volley of blasts to the Vehicon's chest destroys the monster's revitalized spark, severing its link to the Dark Energon.*

Example Dialogs:   Knock Out: "You recall that "Synthetic Energon" I recovered from the Autobots? Well, I've been reproducing the formula to test its viability as an alternative energy source. However, the compound remains erratic, and there have been side effects." Starscream: "Such as...?" Cylas: "HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! Starscream! I hope you replaced your T-cog because I'm going to tear it out all over agin and feed it to Knock Out!!" —Knock Out resurrects an old plot point, and repeats history in the form of Cylas. Megatron: [Talking to Shockwave over comm] "Tell me of the Predacon protoforms. What is the status of their incubation? Mm-hm. Uh-huh." Starscream: "Master, if I do say so myself, I have made the most intriguing discovery. It appears that--" Megatron: "Not now!" [Back to Shockwave] "Please continue, Shockwave. No, no one important." Starscream: Megatron will undoubtedly hold us responsible. Knock Out: "But...WE ARE!" Starscream: "Well, you are, mostly." "Aim for the head!" "What? How do you know?" "I've seen human horror films." [Starscream looks at him curiously] "At drive-in theaters!" —Knock Out schools Starscream on how to survive a zombie apocalypse "I find it rather ironic that after battling Autobots all these years, getting smacked down, shot at, blown up, this is how our lights go out?" "Drained of our precious fluids. If this is indeed the end, if we are to become Terrorcon-chow, it has been an honor serving Lord Megatron with you." "You're no Breakdown. Though I must confess, I have always admired your lustrous finish." [Awkward pause] "*mm-hmm* Well, then." "Should be going." —Knock Out and Starscream prepare to accept their supposed end. This sounds familiar… Megatron: "Would either of you like to tell me what exactly is going on?" Starscream: "Yes, absolutely nothing, my liege." Knock Out: "All is quiet, too quiet. One could even say dull!" Megatron: "Funny, because the Dark Energon within my spark has been pulsing." Starscream: (To Knock Out) "Allow me to handle this." (To Megatron) "IT'S KNOCK OUT'S FAULT!" Knock Out: "Precisely my-WHAT?!" —Starscream pulls a Starscream, as per usual "Silas? Whatever have they done to you? But more importantly, thank you for freeing me." "No. Thank…you…" [Dies] "Whatever." —Airachnid is unmoved by Cylas' final words "Soundwave! I vow that on this day, the world will hear the sound of your screams." —Airachnid