The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.

[cityship]

Ax had escaped the Controllers on board. Brainy had not been so lucky. Neither had Sam and Tim. And who knew how many others on board had Yeerks wrapped around their brains, controlling their every movement, pretending that everything was normal until the time came to strike.

Who do you trust, podlings?

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[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

"No, I figured if you're from another planet..." West pauses in mid-sentence, rethinking this. "Although the Superman guy looks like a human."

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

The Doctor chose this moment to show up; he'd been off searching for his glasses in his locker. In true form he just jumped right into the middle of the conversation upon his return.

"Looks can be deceiving. Especially," he pointed at 'Saxon,' "his."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

West stares slightly at the suddenly-appearing Doctor, and then blinks.

Interested: "Oh right?"

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

A sigh, "It's true. I look a lot taller on television."

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

That gets a frustrated look. "You're honestly claiming to be human? Still?"

To West, "He's not. He's the Master. Not Prime Minister of anything."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

"...The Master," repeats West, a little disbelievingly. A glance at Saxon. "And you said he was a psychiatrist's field day?"

Hey, kettle. The pot just called you black.

[stingslikeali.livejournal.com]

"Uh, what's a Prime Minister? I mean, I know what a Prime is, but I have no idea what a Prime Minister is." Bumblebee says as he pokes his head in.

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

"He is the one calling me Master, and I never said I was human," the Doctor receives a condescending look, "We were just discussing home planets. Care to elaborate on what happened to ours, hmm?"

He shoots Bumblebee a glance, "It's like a President. A national leader. Bloody good fun."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

"Knowing this place, his parliament building's probably in the city downstairs," pipes up West. "I mean, some people practically worship the President, so if it's anything like that in Britain..."

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

To the Master, the Doctor sends a dark, angry look. "Don't. No. You named yourself, we both named ourselves, and what happened is none of their business."

He turns to West. "Don't encourage him. Really. I mean it."

Bumblebee gets a double-glance before, just to be safe, the Doctor tells him sternly, "You neither."

[cityship]

For some reason, it's right then that the lights on the ship--everywhere in the ship--suddenly flicker. They just flicker, then come back on. Odd.

But for massive brains like the Doctor and the Master, that's a definite sign there's something odd about the wiring.

For someone else, that's a sign to get moving on their mission. He is armed with a Dracon beam and other weapons, after all.

[stingslikeali.livejournal.com]

"Man, the lighting system in this place is a piece of slag."

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

And indeed, it's struck a chord with the Master, "Odd. Doctor? Odd. Odd? Doctor."

Once again he picks up the Judoon scanner and holds it cautiously. The other goes to his pocket, "I've been on this ship several days and that's the first mistake she's made."

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

The Doctor agrees immediately, previous bickering (argument? fight?) forgotten, "Oh, odd! We've met."

Reaching into his pocket, he comes out with his sonic screwdriver. "Hasn't made a mistake all the time I've been here either. Odd. Very."

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

Bickering, it was definitely bickering, "Who'd have sonic?"

He slowly regards all of them, including the Doctor. He waves the scanner about, "Maybe I won't turn this into a toaster."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

West is going for some technologies as well! However, what he brings out is not a screwdriver, sonic or otherwise. But it is pulled out very very quickly, and it is fired with rather impressive aim straight at Bumblebee.

A hand-held Dracon beam is small, but at its highest setting it can break through ten feet of solid titanium.

In the same instant, West launches himself into the air, rising rapidly. Oh, high ceiling, how he adores you.

[stingslikeali.livejournal.com]

It can break through titanium, sure. But Cybertronians are, remarkbly, made out of stronger stuff. Still hurts massively, but Bee is able to get up.

"Why you little slagging-" Bee brings out his stingers, firing at West.

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

The Doctor was stunned. Absolutely Stunned. And then he very quickly becomes Angry. Staring up at West he shouts, "Oi! Come back down here and knock this off! Stop this instant!"

He was sure it was all just a misunderstanding.

It had better all just be a misunderstanding.

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

Whilst the Doctor tried the diplomatic approach, the Master was busy diving under the nearest workbench. Apart from his own, of course.

"We were getting on just fine until you showed up." He cuts in with aggravation, thumbing his own screwdriver from his pocket, "Tell me, Doctor, do you have this affect on everyone?"

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

Not just a misunderstanding, sorry.

"Shit--"

He wasn't expecting the robot to get up again from that, and is even less prepared for the counterattack; West has to perform a hurried and ungainly twist in midair to (just barely) avoid Bee's missiles.

He fires the Dracon beam at the Cybertronian again, and dives towards the Doctor, aiming to pick him up and carry him through the med lab door. Hey, it's not impossible: he's lifted grown men before, and even carried people across the ocean. Don't doubt his mad skills!

[fluffinasuit.livejournal.com]

"This is not my fau--"

Let it be known that the Doctor is horrible at being both Enraged and Swift-Footed at the same time. He completely failed to hurl himself out of the way.

"--AULAUGH PUT ME DOWN!"

[kindofscary.livejournal.com]

Hearing the Doctor's shout, the Master ducks out of his hidey-hole and poises for a shot at West. But-- no, he might hit the Doctor. Loathe as he was to admit it, he had no intention of killing him just yet.

In a moment not entirely unlike that naff scene from Point Break, the Master's arm jarrs before he can draw a bead, and the shot goes wide.

[stingslikeali.livejournal.com]

Bee's ready this time, and he doesn't brag about his speed for nothing. Dodging the blast, his wheels hit the ground already speeding, causing them to squeal as he charges after West in robot mode, using his wheeled feet to propel him forward, likely faster than West can fly.

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

Out through the door, and a sharp right-angled bank to take them hurtling down the fleshy corridor, and--

What the hell, the robot is still following them, and gaining! And West can't shoot again without losing his grip on the Doctor. He has a small bomb or two in his pocket, but he's not sure he can reach those without dropping the man, either.

"Why won't you DIE?" he yells in frustration, though he doesn't look behind him. He's flying too fast for that to be safe.

[stingslikeali.livejournal.com]

"Hey, if were getting into philosophical questions, why did you shove a giant pole up your reactor linkage?" Bumblebee speeds up, closing the gap even more.