Megatron's Nightmare

Part Two

By: Erik the Viking, Domie, Wicked Woman and Rakshash

“The worst thing dat can happen to any leader is to be larfed at,” said Rattrap.

No one responded.

“Ok I know you think I am an idiot but we don’t want to be ducked if you know what I mean.”

There was still no response.

“Ok,” he said, “Dat crazy Megabot was taken in by my lie an' I am sure he is still hurting. I want to rub it in with a thing we can send to the end of the universe and which will make mad Meg madder but a bit more unsure of his deadly duck plan."

There was still no response.

“Ok Oscar,” said Rattrap, “we have sort of rehearsed this. Lets do our duet.”

It was horrible. Rats are not the best singers but the words were interesting----

Old Megtronald had a farm

EIEIO

And on that farm he had a duck

EIEIO

With a quack quack here

And a good snack there

Bring your duckies Megatron

We’ll cook them everyone.

You have gone insane, vermin,” spat Dinobot.

“No!” shouted Rattrap, "Megatron has tried all sorts of strategies dat have failed and if we make him unsure of dis one plus make him tink the entire universe knows he has a rubber ducky and is so scared to fight us that he has to clone it well----

He stopped, ”Yeah. Maybe I am nuts. You got any better ideas Opbot? Sorry, no disrespect intended.”

All the pressure was on Optimus...

 The leader thought to himself <Why does everybody have to rely on me for somebody else’s screw up? I'm not the one that caused all of this to happen, it was all Rattraps fault! Why can't they put the pressure on Rhinox? He's smart...uh, or Dinobot!! Good battle sense but too hard headed...Cheetor? No slaggin' way!! Silverbolt is too busy playing Sir Lancelot with bad ol' Blackie. > Optimus sighed; he didn't want to be a part of this mess. This was so unfair!!

Optimus took a deep breath, looking as if he was trying to keep himself from crying. "I don't wanna be the one to come up with the ideas!!" he whined, "It's not my fault that Rattrap had to get us into this mess by playing a childish prank on Megatron, and I can't see why I have to be a part of this..." Everyone Maximal looked on in disbelief as their leader broke down into tears; this was getting way out of hand.

The sad Optimus glared at Rattrap as he headed towards the hallway leading to the quarters area, " I believe that it would be best to put YOU in charge, Rattrap," Optimus said in between sobs as a very shocked and freaked out Rattrap replied: " But...But Opti...." He was interrupted, " IT WAS YOU WHO GOT US INTO THIS SLAGGIN' MESS, YOU GET US OUT OF IT!!!" The leader yelled as the transmetal rat stood there in complete shock as well as the other Maximals.

"If you'll excuse me, I'm going to lock myself in my quarters and cry my eyes out like a high school girl," Optimus said as he ran out of the Command Center, sobbing like a child.

The rest of the Maximals winced as they heard their leader's quarters door slide loudly shut.

All the Maximals stood there in complete silence until:

"I think that Optimus forgot to take his Prozac again, that’s a good reason for his moodiness. I have to get him about that, he knows better,” Rhinox said in a matter of fact way.

Rattrap stirred.  "Ok, I've got an idea. He's gonna clone dose ducks, but I know how he's gonna do it.  He's gonna use mech fluid an' come up wid' plastic ducks.  Tarantulas will always go fer da quick hi-tech answer an' won't use real rubba.  I've seen Meg's duck an' it is made outta da best rubber out of an Earth tree dat yous can find.  All we hafta do is get Rhinox ta reset our shields to take out anythin' cheap an' plasticky."

Rhinox smirked.  "You better not want me to change the sentinel to kill cheap things otherwise you'd be the first casualty.  But I take your point on the plastic.  Not a bad idea.  I'll get on it now."

Rattrap said:  "I patented dis idea, you dink I'm cheap?  If dis works, you'll hafta pay ta kiss my... never mind."

Rhinox burst out laughing.  "It's a good plan, but if works, I don't think you'll be around to kiss.  You seem to have forgotten that there are a few snakes around here who are quite partial to eating rats."

Rattrap just stared at him, and as he did Optimus walked back into the room.

"Sorry I overreacted.  But Rhinox is right.  We're over-concentrating on the ducks.  We've got to have a plan for the snakes as well.  They can get in anywhere. We need to get them to attack Megatron.  We can use this rodent as a lure to infest Megs and his brain-dead buddies with those venomous vipers," Optimus stated.

Rattrap erupted:  "Hey, why me?!  Can't you use Oscar!?"

Oscar did not look pleased with this suggestion.

Rhinox sighed.   "This is getting stupid.  I need to work on a plan for those ducks.  We'll decide what to do about the snakes later."

Tarantulas was busy sleeping with his feet resting on the console when suddenly:

"TARANTULAS!!! GET YOUR LAZY EXHAUST  PIPE TOGETHER AND ANSWER MY CALL!!!"

The transmetal spider jumped out of his seat and fell into a pile of creations placed on the floor, including one voodoo doll of Megatron, a 'how to clone Dinobot the right way' book, a prototype of the perfect clone of Dinobot and an electronic robo-puppy whom he named 'Bo Bo'.

He rose back to his feet and turned on the screen that showed a very angry Megatron.

"HAVE YOU OR HAVE YOU NOT FINISHED THE TASK I HAD REQUESTED!!!"

Tarantulas muttered something about Megatron, a large firecracker and something about a trip to the moon then turned his attention back to the tyrant.

"I have five finished so far but the equipment has to cool off," he stated.

"Very well," Megatron said. "I shall name them Squeaky, Quackers, Mrs. Lovely Beak, Quackity Quack Quack and Stewie."

"Stewie?”

"I like to watch Family Guy in my spare time," Megatron merely stated. "Now check the equipment and the stash of mech fluid I had sent you then get back to work, yesss." Megatron then ended the transmission.

Tarantulas grumbled as he picked up the robo-puppy. "I cannot believe I have to work with that psychopath." He then turned to his little pet. "Isn't that right Bo Bo?" he said in the cutest, creepiest way.

"I am your master. Do as I say," Bo Bo barked.

"Uh oh."

Tarantulas was then forced to spend the next ten minutes running away from his robo pet, Bo Bo, who thanks to a recent upgrade was breathing fire everywhere.

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Almost everything in the lab was set to blaze, except for the Rubber ducks being built, and Tarry was having a pretty hard time trying to get Bo Bo from burning his skidplate to crispy.

"I am your Master, you shall obey me or else," said Bo Bo as the metallic dog chased the Transmetal spider in a complete circle as it continued to blow fire. Boy, Tarry sure learned his lesson about upgrading metallic toy animals that will turn out to try and kill you.

" If I don't do something about this, Megatron will be furious if he were to find out that nothing got done." Tarry thought to himself, feeling the first sign of fatigue kick in from running way too much. But all that changed when Tarry's right leg entangled itself with the left, causing him to lose his balance and fall right on his face.

" Well, ain’t that a smart move...." said the agitated spider, but soon things clicked in has he spotted Bo Bo standing right in front of him...the way the dog was facing, didn't look too good. Tarry started to panic.

" If you are going to do, what I think your going to do, you better think twice because I will rip you into...d.... don’t you dare...NOOOOOOO BOOO BOOOOOOOO!!!!!" And everything ended nice and wet.

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That party at the Predacon base was getting out of hand, but yet, fun.

Everybody (almost everybody) joined in on a game of pinyata, with Waspinator being the pinyata. The first bot who breaks Waspinator into pieces with one hit gets to lead the Predacons for the rest of Megatron’s absence. But so far, nobody was winning.

Waspinator cheered gleefully to himself, knowing that for the first time in his life, he wouldn't get scraped but then again, that all changed when he saw Rampage coming up with a huge bat and a big evil grin on his face; he was going to enjoy this. All of Waspy's hopes were given up,"Why doezzzz univerzzzzzze hate Wazzzzzzpinator?" The Wasp asked himself before getting a hard hit from Rampage, making him break into pieces as well has the candy that they shoved into him.

At the same time, Megatron had a thought:

"Pinyata,"  Megatron mused, "Yesss. Modern version of the Trojan Horse---but with deadly ducks inside. I like it."

Tarantulas was busy drying himself off, as well as watching the rest of Megatron’s rubber ducks being built. Bo Bo, the killer metallic dog toy that blows fire, was in the corner in pieces. Tarry overall wasn't a very happy camper, and what could make matters even worse when Megatron’s big purple face popped up on the screen.

"Tarantulas are the rest of my rubber ducks finished" Just as I asked you?" he asked but a loud "Ding" noise could be heard, signaling that the building of the ducks was finished. Tarry looked at the screen with a grin, "Does that answer your question?"he said with a hint of sarcasm. Megatron sighed, but that didn't ruin his happy mood.

"Now that your task in building the rubber ducks is complete, I would like of you to do me a another small, but simple task, yessss," Megatron said. This didn't please Tarry at all. < I ain't no slagging slave service!!> Tarry thought to himself as he was ready to give Megatron a piece of his mind but then he remembered his reward...man, this really sucked.

Tarry sighed, "What is it that you want me to do now?"

Megatron laughed a bit, "Don't sound so distraught Tarantulas. All I ask of you is to build me a 100 foot pinyata, the old modern day Trojan horse type of thing but there won't be humans in it, nooooo.  Instead there will be my rubber duck army!!!"

Tarry blinked, this was getting so weird, but he knew what Megatron was talking about. "Alright, I'll start building it as of now. I'm doing this as a part of the deal, not because I want to," the spider said, which made Megs smile even more. "Good, yessss. I want it to be completed in one hour..."

Tarry's optics widened, " YOU'RE INSANE, YOU HEAR ME, INSSSSSANE!! I CAN'T DO SUCH A HUGE PROJECT IN ONE HOUR!!!!! JUST WAIT UNTIL I..." Tarry carried on.

Megatron still smiled amidst all the yelling he was getting from Tarry, "Then you better hope that luck is on your side. Megatron out." The screen went black as Tarry still kept yelling at the screen.

The giant rubber duck named 'Squeaky' began to get bored of Tarantulas's complaining and threw away the now-smashed robo puppy (Bo Bo)'s remote controller away. It then turned over to Quackers, Quackity Quack Quack, Mrs. Lovely Beak and Stewie

"I'm bored," Squeaky said.

"Wanna go raise hell outside?" Quackity Quack Quack suggested.

"How delightful." (Mrs. Lovely Beak)

"Excellent." (Stewie)

"Wicked cool." (Quackers)

"Kick Ass!" (Squeaky).

"Quackity Quack Quack's a genius." (Quackity Quack Quack)

All five giant (mutant) rubber ducks walked out of Tarantulas's lair to raise hell. Squeaky ran over the remote controller (for Bo Bo... like it needs it now!)

It was then that the spider turned around and found five of his creations were gone.

"HOLY SLAG!!! I didn't even give them personality chips," Tarantulas said amazed. He then noticed that a remote controller with the nametag 'Bo Bo' was smashed.

"No wonder it attacked me." He then turned to the other rubber ducks there. "GO AFTER THEM AND BRING THEM BACK HERE!!!"

The rubber ducks then decided that now was the time to bring out sharp, heavy and painful objects.

"Slag." Tarantulas muttered.

Megatron went to the lab. He had a plan but he needed to perfect it. He knew he was perfect but those around him--------- He sighed and opened the door.

"Hi Meggie baby. Made 1000 plastic duckies,” giggled Tarantulas.

"Whaaat. I already know that,” said Megatron, "and why are you laughing so much?"

"You said that like you say yesssss." The spider curled up in a ball and rolled around laughing crazily.

"Must have sniffed too much of the glue used to stick on their beaks," Megatron muttered. "Never mind. At least I have my troops now."

He marched into the lab closely followed by the spinning spider. It was a stunning sight. 1000 shining yellow ducks just waiting to be deployed.
"Now all I need is a really pretty pinyata and those Maximals won't know what hit them a second after they hit it. YEEESSSS." Megatron said to himself as the spider was still spinning dementedly around giggling.

"Stop that,” roared Megatron. "This has to be a Trojan wonder horse not some dumb donkey or we won't fool the Maximals. You have to do better."

The spider stopped spinning and looked evilly at Meg out of the only one of his eyes that could still sort of focus. "You want psychomachomarshmallowdelic?" he mumbled.

"Go to bed," shouted Megatron, "I will speak to you again tomorrow."

The first snake stirred. She was the closest to the light as the warmth of seven distant suns warmed her. She wondered for a moment what crazed entity/mind/creature had created her and the others and then put the thought aside.

"So what. I am here now and I have a mission," she hissed aloud.

She felt something moving next to her.

"What mission?" a voice said slimily.

She looked down. A large, even longer than her, and obviously male snake was flicking his tongue at her tail.
She coiled and sprang in an instant, landing on his neck.

"It is my mission and you will obey. Now wake up the rest and get them in straight lines-AND," she shouted as best as snakes can, "I mean straight. No undisciplined coiling!"

The male snake coiled instinctively and then straightened. " es Captain!" he lisped,  “Your hiss is my command."

The Predacons were still partying. Waspinator was in pieces. Rampage was laughing insanely. The Predacons were high on sugar. Inferno was doing the Macarena. Everybot was happy.

Until...BLAM!!!!

"Bwahahahahahaha!" The attack of the mutant ducks....

"Da DUCK is in da HOUSE!!!" Quackety Quack Quack yelled.

"LAME!!!" Squeaky rolled his eyes.

Inferno stopped dancing. Catch Inferno when he is interrupted during the Macarena and you do not catch him at his best.

"BURRRN, duckies, BURRRN!"

Then he saw Mrs. Lovely Beak.

"Oh," Inferno stammered.

Mrs. Lovely Beak looked at Inferno.

Inferno looked at Mrs. Lovely Beak.

Time stood still...

"Ewwwwwww, " commented Stewie.

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Meanwhile...

Tarantulas was working feverishly on the pinyata. He decided that it should be the shape of Waspinator.

"Give them incentive," he muttered.

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Back at the party...

The rest of the 1000 ducks marched in on the party. Megatron, disturbed from his bath, decided to see what the noise was about.

"Ah, my duck friends. Prepare yourself for the mission you were created for..."

"Oy, put a sock in it!" Quackers advised.

Megatron grew red.

"You will comply with my commands! Yesss!"

"You will comply with my commands! Yesss!" Quackity Quack Quack mimicked.

"Cut it out!"

"Cut it out!"

Megatron decided he would check on Tarantulas's progress....

Tarantulas was done with the Waspinator pinyata when Megatron’s head popped up on the screen.

"How is the progress coming along on the pinyata, Tarantulas?"

" Progress? What progress? I'm already done..." Points to the 100-foot tall pinyata " See?"

Megatron looked it over for a bit, slightly disappointed.  "Ummmmm, Tarantulas... I asked for a Trojan horse, not for an oversized Waspinator."

"Well you see, Megatron. Even if we did go with the horse, those pinheaded Maximals would figure it out by first glance. But since Waspinator is the most favorite Maximal target, they would fall for it," he explained, hoping it would get through his leader's thick skull.

Megatron thought about this...

~ 20 Minutes later~

Megatron was still thinking about it but then finally got the point. "Oh!! That is an excellent plan Tarantula, yesss. Bring it over to the Darkside A.S.A.P, I want the ducks loaded by dawn." And after that, Megatron’s head disappeared and the screen went black.

Tarantulas sighed, now he had to do the heavy work!!

He turned around to get ready to take it to base but then he noticed something was wrong...

...He forgot to put on the wheels. He slaps his forehead "D'OH!!"

The Giant snakes were moving closer to the Predacon Base. They gathered around the base and prepared themselves for battle.

"Are you sure this is the right way your highness?" One of the snake followers asked his queen. (Which, other than Megs, was in fact a girl)

"Absolutely," she said. "No one sends a giant duck to devour my brother and gets away with it. Now prepare your selves for battle..."

Before she could say anymore the entrance hatch came down and out came the tyrant himself. Megatron took one good look at the giant snakes surrounding his base, screamed and ran back inside.

"Uh... were we supposed to let that happen you highness?" asked another snake follower.

"..." The queen was frozen with rage. First this saurian taunts her brother by just standing in one place doing absolutely nothing, then he sends a giant rubber ducky to eat him and now he just leaves without saying anything to her. She was not about to stand for anymore of his insolence.

"PREPARE TO ATTACK!!!"

The snakes a gave out a battle cry and prepared to attack the Predacon base.

After shutting the hatch shut, Megatron grabbed some steel boards and nails and hammered the hatch. Those giant snakes would not try to eat him again. The Predacon leader turned around and noticed that the Predacons were still partying with his duck minions.

"Predacons! Prepare for an open assault on our enemies!!! We cannot wait for much longer for The Trojan Pinyata! We must strike n--WHAT IN THE NAME OF CYBERTRON IS GOING ON???!!!"

Squeaky, Quackers, Miss Lovely Beak, Quackity Quack Quack and Stewie were all tying Megatron up in coils and hanging him up on the ceiling, leaving him dangling just as the giant snakes barged down the door.

"SEIZE HIM!!!" Ordered the snake queen.

"PINYATA!!" Shouted Stewie.

The queen slithered over to the giant rubber ducky looked him straight in the eye and said: "How did you ever know that Pinyata is my most favourite of all games?"

Now Megatron was dumbfounded.

"May I have a whack at it?" The queen asked politely as if she had completely forgotten what she had ordered her minions to do.

"Ah, sure," said Quickstrike. "Try all ya like."

Blackarachnia pouted as she handed the snake queen the large steel stick. One of the snake minions placed the blindfold over the queen's eyes. That's when it hit Megatron... He was going to be the pinyata.

"NO, WAIT... YOU MUSTN'T..." Megatron began.

"Ta!" The Queen aimed and hit the Predacon Leader as everyone continued to laugh at him.

Megatron let out a loud scream then opened his optics.  He saw the shelf with many pictures of himself (in beast mode and in robot mode), several little trophies, a model plane, his private energon tub, a visual screen and lying on his chest plate... was Daisy.

Megatron jumped up and watched the rubber ducky hit the titanium floor when it suddenly hit him... he was in his quarters.

"DAISY!!!" he said with joy as he knelt down and scooped up the little duck. "YOU'RE ALIVE!!! But... that giant snake..." before he could give more thought into it, the visual screen came online and on the screen, was Blackarachnia.

"Ah," she said. "So you are awake. I thought I recognized that scream." She then turned to Quickstrike. "Hey, you owe me 60 energon cubes, it was Megatron!"

Megatron rose an eye ridge in confusion. He watched as the black widow spider was pushed out of her seat and replaced by Inferno.

"ROYALTY!!! Are you alright my queen?" he said with deep concern. It was then that Megatron growled.

"DO NOT CALL ME THAT!" He bellowed. "What happened to the Giant snakes and Ducks?"

A faint 'He's lost it' was heard but Megatron didn't bother to comprehend who said it. "They were here,” he said. "It started when the Maximal rodent told me to stay perfectly still when a giant snake came out of nowhere."

"You didn't go anywhere today, Megatron." Tarantulas said, pretending to sound concerned. "Last night we were having a party to congratulate your activation. We were playing Waspinator Pinyata and Rampage hit you hard on the head on his turn. He completely knocked you out cold."

Megatron couldn't believe what was just said. The Maximal prank, the Giant duck, the giant snakes attacking... didn't happen? Was what he had thought to have occurred to him merely... a dream?

"However, it was technically your fault since you had drunk too much energon and couldn't possibly comprehend what exactly you had been doing at the time," Tarantulas finished.

Megatron decided to keep his horrific dream to himself. There was no way he could command anyone who couldn't even look at him without so much as a chuckle. Besides, he had more important things to attend to.

"Never mind," he said. "We must continue our fight in this war and destroy the Maximals once and for all." Megatron turned to leave but when he opened the door he ran into... the snake queen!

Megatron screamed, ran back inside his quarters and hid under his recharge chair. In the halls, the snake queen pressed a button, revealing herself to be a hologram disguise and the bot inside it was none other than Waspinator.

"Wazzzpinator izzz zzzuch a zzztinker," he buzzed as he went back to patrolling his sector.

The End.