The Beauty of the Beast.

Warnings: this is not a smut, no lemons, no PWP, but it has an odd pairing, some angst, a bit of tension, a bit of ogling, and one big mech and one small human female locked in the mech's room.

"Would you love a Monster-man, could you understand beauty of the beast?" – Lordi Would you love a Monster-man.

Timing: post season's 2 finale.

Rating: T with possibility of M.

Pairing: Megatron and June Darby.

Disclaimer: Transformers Prime © Hasbro. Story's plot and Gavin © me.

Part 2 – The Evening Gloaming.

The Sun begun to set over the Nevada Desert. The tower of New Kaon stood proudly, its black walls gleamed in the blood red light of setting sun. Normally lively town of Jasper now abandoned lay silently nearby.

Megatron stood at the top of his new stronghold and fed his crimson optics with sheer beauty of the sunset. Vanishing star painted clouds with unimaginable colours, strands of gold, amber red-orange, crimson and purple danced on cloud floating lazily above the horizon. Suddenly, as the sun started to vanish below the horizon, the most wonderful phenomenon happened. Megatron heard of it, but never before he had the chance to observe it with his own optics. The golden-red disc dipped lower and suddenly a green flare flashed just above it. It lasted for just mere seconds, but it was beautiful. Emerald "puff" just as the sun vanished – a perfect start of the night in Megatron's opinion. One that was instantly ruined. Megatron flinched upon hearing Starcream's shriek; one could count on the noisy seeker to ruin any moment of tranquillity. Silver Decepticon growled, night started to settle, but the saturated colours still stained the skies.

Megatron sauntered inside just to see Starscream pouring out the pains of his spark to Soundwave who – to trained eye – looked like he was ready to repeatedly smash his head against nearest wall. He usually looked like that whenever Starscream was giving his tirades. Actually, everyone looked like that during Starscream toots. It helped when the seeker had anything of importance to say. His voice wasn't half as bad if Scream spoke quietly and slow. But when he was frantic, it was pure torture.

"Why in the name of the Allspark, Starcream, are you causing all that fuss?" Megatron's angry voice instantly silenced the seeker. "Why, Lord Megatron, I was… just… Soundwave detected human activity in the town." "Those are probably last of the inhabitants, as I understand human military evacuated the town just before our arrival." Megatron raised an optic brow, this could be something trivial, but it also could be something important. "Master, it was a military helicopter. The same that participated in the battle. It flew straight to the town, to the area of small buildings…" Starcream voice was low and steady. "I'm listening." "Upon our research on Autobot's human companions Soundwave created their profiles based on social network they all had account in. It was very rich source of information, and it also granted us some knowledge about their closest relatives." "Your point Starscream?" "The neighbourhood the helicopter landed is the same that Jack Darby dwelled." Megatron cocked his head, this was getting more interesting. "You think he returned to his house?" "No Master. We didn't spotted Arcee anywhere in vicinity, I don't believe that in current situation she would leave his side." "Who do you think it was?" Starscream smirked slightly. "Jack lived with his mother. Soundwave just profiled her." At this moment Soundwave who was silently standing in the background moved his long arm, stretched one thin digit and pressed touchpad on access station. Purple, hexagonal displayer showed photo and some data. Stascream continued: "June Darby is a single carrier. There is no information about her ex-mate, other than that they're divorced – it's a way that a mates that are in legal relationship split – and that her ex-mate does not contact them in any way. She is head nurse – it's a type of medical assistance – in local medical facility's emergency room; and she studies to be a fully trained medic. Upon research we found that it is not unheard of a medic assistance to become a full medic in human society. Her personal files in the medical facility shows that she is experienced and highly valued. We do not know when she was introduced to the Autobots, but she is familiar with them." Megatron was looking at the photo of June, he remembered her from the time when he visited Autobot's base during Unicron Crisis. He had to admit that young Jack bore a lot of resemblance to his carrier, though there were some differences, originating from his sire without a doubt. June herself was an attractive human femme. He could tell that she was attractive, he always wondered how come Cybertronians could tell that in humans (and other way around for that matter), while it wasn't that easy with other sentient races, learning about Unicron solved that mystery. She shared her colours with her son, both had black hair and dark blue eyes, both were slender and had delicate face features. Megatron held no doubt upon learning about June's occupation, that Jack's character originated from hers, because it was highly doubtful that it came from irresponsible sire who left his mate and creation. "Tell me, Starscream, how all of this is of any value to us?" "She may know where the Autobots departed to, Lord Megatron." "Good thinking, Starscream. Let us retrieve her so…" But the silver tyrant didn't had a chance to finish the sentence, as strong, tenor cut in. "You're not going anywhere, my Liege." Everyone looked at the door, where Knockout stood with his servos on his hips. "Knockout…" Megatron's voice carried clear warning, he wouldn't have any of this, no one ordered him around. "Master, you're forgetting, that you're in need of medical attention" Knockout wouldn't have any of this either. He was a medic for Primus' sake, so he decided that if Stasrceam could act as proper SIC, he could act as proper CMO. "What nonsense are you talking about, Knockout?" Megatron gave a look of confusion. What medical attention? He wasn't wounded, he didn't leak, he could transform, he could fly, he was fine. "Your arm, my Liege" Knockout pointed at Megatron's right arm, it was missing entire forearm. "I've patched you, but it's nothing else than a field repair. Surely, Lord Megatron, you're not thinking about leaving it this way?" "What way?" "This way. With nothing but patch on a stump. This isn't exactly healthy, or practical. Especially that this patch may let go anytime and it will start to sparking and leaking again." Megatron glanced at his right arm. Many times he lost a limb, most of the times he brought it to the medical bay on his own, not having an arm wasn't as unusual occurrence to him as one could think. "My Lord, it won't take long and you'll be back to war mongering." Knockout continued as Megatron vented a Cybertronian equivalent of sigh. "Fine, sooner or later I would have to deal with this anyway, so let's get over with it. Starsream!" The mech in question jumped upon hearing his name. "Yes, Master?" "Fetch me this June Darby, so I may interrogate her after our Good Doctor will finish his ordeals with my servo." "Yes Master, where you want me to drop her?" "Bring her to my personal quarters on Nemesis, she may be more responsive there than in the brig." "As you wish, Master." With the last bow Starcream left the chamber and could be heard calling for Ground Vehicons to accompany him just in case. Megatron shook his head, on one servo Starscream overreacted; one human femme shouldn't cause him any trouble at all. On the other hand, human military could appear and interrupt him, allowing the femme to escape. "Soundwave, you're in charge." With this Lord Megatron of Tarn, Gladiator of Kaon, the Slag Maker left his tower of New Kaon and headed for Knockout's infirmary.

Footnote.

Megatron of Tarn – according to various sources G1 Megatron was born/created in Tarn, then he worked in Kaon's mines to finally end in gladiatorial arena, where he changed his previous designation of D-16 to Megatron (or Megatronus) as it fitted him better.

Since Transformers Prime doesn't state anything about Megatron's place of origin, I will fill all missing details with what I can gather from G1 (this includes everything, not only Megatron). I will also add some of my own ideas to make the story a bit more dramatic in certain areas.