100/Abhorrent Treatment

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Things are very quiet in the medical cell. A few guards stand watch. Occasionally, a medic will enter the room and check on Starscream's readings. Starscream himself has been disarmed, and while he isn't energy-harnessed to the table itself, there is a forcefield that blocks him from going to the same side of the room where the door is located.

At one point, there's some sort of loud commotion in the hallway, which ends with a very loud Sunstorm being led into the room by the guards. "Any false moves, and you'll be under arrest for attempted jailbreak," one of the guards threatens.

"How DARE you be so RUDE to me, do you not understand who I am, you fool?? I am a DIVINE PROPHET," he bellows as the guards remove his arm-guns. "And what have you done to the Air Commander?? You beasts! You are less than mechs!! COMMANDER!!"

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream has been offline for the most part in his stay so far. But hes not under too deep right now and is woken up by.. Sunstorm? He focuses his optics and looks from the ceiling over toward the bright colored Seeker. He frowns. Wasn't he being held captive in Iacon by the stupid Autobots? Oh wait theres the guards.. and he notices the forcefield.

"Sunstorm?" Starscream questions a bit foddy as most things are slow coming online. "What are you doing here?" maybe hes there to bust him out. That would be nice. Perhaps he has missjudged this Seeker after all.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"Shut up and behave, or you're under arrest!" the guard bellows -- not toward Starscream, but to the irate Sunstorm, who glowers angrily but quiets down, mostly because the creamsickle Seeker is at such a major disadvantage. When Starscream speaks up, Sunstorm runs over to the forcefield barrier. "Commander," he says worriedly in a much quieter tone, "We WILL get you out of this disgusting place. You WILL be avenged for this abhorrent treatment."

Apparently, the 'abhorrent treatment' includes a top-notch medical facility as a holding cell.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream listens to the continues harrassement Sunstorm seems to be dealing with regarding the guard and then says. "I'm still trying to figure out how you got in here for that matter." he looks around, realizing hes penned in by that forcefield and for a moment he has to fight down his claustriphobia. "Sunstorm, who.. is in commans right now? What are they doing in regards to me? What has the press been reporting?"

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"I believe Overlord is in command," Sunstorm murmurs very quietly, looking reluctant to give out any information for fear of Autobot Intelligence picking it up and using it against them. "We /will/ get you out of here. Vos is in a complete uproar over this. There is panic in the skies!! Grief in the news!! They miss you terribly already." He's very close to the forcefield, and the radiation leak in his abdominal wall reacts to it when he gets too close, zapping him painfully. \*ZAP\* "Ugh!! But do not despair, Commander. This setback is temporary and...and we will most definitely free you from this..." \*ZAP\* "Urgh, this gulag."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream watches Sunstorm seemingly at odds with the forcefield and can't help but smirk a bit. They certianly broke the mold when they made this Seeker. Then he responds to the Seekers comments. "Overlord?" he whispers and groans. That's all he needed. "Don't count on him to get me out of here. Go to VOS, gather everyone that is upset -- gather the Seekers together, Sunstorm but... come to me before you do anything. If they let you back." hes counting on the new Prime to do that. He seems like a sappy sort and Sunstorm is here now so why not come again?

**Aegis has posed:**
Speaking of the sappy sort, Aegis makes her way down the hall. Not that she's the sappy one, but if someone doesn't want to be seen as mistreating a prisoner, it's good to make sure someone does a check up on any that came into custody while injured. Duty of care and all that. However, she stops short when she sees that he has a guest: another Seeker. Well then. Putting her hands on her hips, she assesses the situation for a moment.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm is speaking quietly to Starscream, who is not restrained but he is kept from being on the 'door/exit' side of the room by an energy forcefield. He's pretty much confined to the area around his repair berth, and any medics who have come in to treat him have been accompanied by armed guards. For whatever reason, they've allowed an unarmed Sunstorm to visit. The orange Seeker is distraught that Starscream is being kept in this place.

"Understood, Commander. There is still..." He glances back toward the guards in the room, then looks back toward Starscream. "Matters on the agenda," he says cagily, hoping Starscream will understand he means Toraxxis. "But having you here in this place is completely unacceptable."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream nods, "Keep those matters moving forward, Sunstorm. Make sure /he/ understand /that/." Why is Overlord in charge? "Where is..." he mouths the name 'soundwave' cause he really doesn't want the guards to hear that and besides, with a voice like that, you really think Starscream can honesly 'whisper'?

**Starscream has posed:**
He's sound like a frog being choked if he tried.

**Aegis has posed:**
There's definitely something off about the one mech. A raise in temperature as she approached wasn't something to dismiss. Still, Aegis has enough diplomacy in her, and focus, to not launch into a thousand and one questions. Instead she quietly waits for the guards to do whatever is necessary to allow her admittance for a checkup.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm is, in fact, throwing off some serious heat, but the guards apparently determined that the source of the heat was not immediately dangerous and was certainly not being caused by a weapon, so they've allowed him inside. On top of that, he was being dramatic, pitching a fit and generally being annoying in the way only Vosian flyboys can be, so the secondary reason he's in with Starscream is apparently to shut him up.

"I don't know," Sunstorm admits sadly to Starscream, shaking his head. "We both know he would not permit this travesty." He leans in too close to the forcefield again, and... \*ZAP!\* "Ow."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
A security guard tells Aegis, "Go in if you want...they're full of attitude, those Vosians...he was yelling up a storm earlier. I told him he's under arrest if he acts up one more time or tries anything funny."

**Starscream has posed:**
"Find him... and stop getting close to the forcefield." Starscream says, his voice sounding like a facepalm at the end.

**Aegis has posed:**
"Governments come and go, but Vos will be Vos?" Aegis murmurs in response to the guard's summary of Vosians. Her lips ease into a half smile and she shrugs her shoulders. Clearing security, she steps in with Starscream. "How do you feel?" she asks in her best 'bedside' manner voice. Then she nods to his company, politely but with less interest than showed towards her patient. Duty first.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"Oh! Right, right." Sunstorm backs off from the forcefield a step, and that's when Aegis enters the room. Sunstorm stares at her with optics the color of a hot flame. "Vos will INDEED be Vos. And Vos is AMAZING," he exclaims in grandiose fashion. "Never underestimate the Vosian mechs, peasant."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream sees Aegis come in and listens to Sunstorm. He smiles a bit inspite of it. "And I am their leader and always will be." he says quietly. "Have you come to check on me, femme?"

**Aegis has posed:**
Aegis arches an optic ridge at Sunstorm. "Peasant?" She laughs softly. "Well, I would wager I can fly higher than most Vosians. At least, most non-space types at any rate." Tilting her head to the side she says, "Your diplomacy could use some work. Unfortunately, as a medic, I can't really fix /that/." Then she holds up her hands. "It wasn't about over or underestimating anyone. I was off world for a while. It's actually sort of comforting that some things don't change."

Then she looks back at Starscream. "I think they want to be absolved of any accusations of 'mistreating' the prisoner. So I'm here to make sure you're healing the way you should, and that no one has tampered with any of the repairs I did." She still has no Autobot badge, or any Cybertronian markings for that matter. "Or maybe they just think everyone has a right to reparis. Your guess is probably better than mine, since you're more involved in...local politics."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"I'm afraid that it's impossible to fly higher than Vosians, it's simply an impossibility," Sunstorm declares stubbornly, folding his arms across his chestplate and straightening up. "And yes, you and all those who are not in the divine order are peasants. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, because...there IS a way to avoid being one..." He gives a slow, yet wiley grin, one that might suit Starscream a bit better. "All you have to do is become a disciple of Primus," he tells Aegis.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream huffs, "I am being treated wrong.. look at these 'patches'! If Im going to be repaired properly that includes cosmetics. My metal polisher would have a shut down if he saw me right now!"

**Aegis has posed:**
"Ah, so it's a religious thing, not a caste thing. Because I'd heard that was what the whole fight was about. Then I'd wondered if I'd heard wrong," Aegis says. She decides against going into the 'space is higher than most tetrajets fly' discussion. Religion and science aren't known to get along too well, and she's a medical scientist. Besides, arrogance isn't usually the best way to convert others.

She gives Starscream a long look. "Well, I wasn't going to do the aesthetics until I was 100% sure your systems were at full. No sense in making you look good just to cut into you again. Which is why I'm here; to scan your systems. Hold still a moment and I'll get right to it." At which point she pulls out her medical scanner.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"It...well, it is my religion; I am a disciple of Primus. I have divine powers," Sunstorm explains, then he begins looking worried as Aegis takes a scanner out. "Don't harm the Commander!" he wails in protest.

Aegis may notice immediately that along with Starscream's vital readings, she's also picking up significant amounts of radioactive energy in the room.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream does like how this Seeker seems so loyal to him. He watches her scan him. "Im better, still not 100 percent but will be soon. Now.. get to work on the patches."

**Aegis has posed:**
Focus on the patient, focus on the patient! Oh, but the radioactive readings are so interesting. "On my honor as a medic, I have no interest in harming your Commander," Aegis says, her tone serious. "I have no interest in harming anyone. Which might make it seem like I cam back at a bad time."

The scans show he hasn't been tampered with, but isn't up to full. She could make some remark about his appearances not mattering, but that will just make her sound dismissive. Besides, she doesn't know what his fate here will be, and as a prisoner, he probably needs as much confidence as he can muster. Which means looking his best may actually BE important. "Just a couple of tweaks and we'll get those patches set."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"Patching with no cleaning?? Fixing with no oil bath? Completely unacceptable!" Sunstorm laments, pacing around the other side of the room frantically. "It's bad enough that he is under arrest on trumped-up charges! My god is getting very angry about this."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream is highclass and spoiled so he has to agree with what Sunstorm is saying. "Make it fast." he says at Aegis's comment. Yea his appearance IS important but its as important to his vanity as it will be in trying to use it to get out of here somehow, one way or another.

**Aegis has posed:**
Aegis is used to having no one to pamper her, so she doesn't really 'get' where they're coming from. That being said, she also knows that putting down that 'need' would be less than diplomatic. "Listen, I'm just a medic. I'm not the law, or a lawyer. I don't make policy. I can only do what I was sent here to do." As for his 'God', "If your God has issues, hopefully he'll realize the root of them are the guards outside, and their bosses, and not the relatively innocent medic doing her job."

She opens up Starscream, double checks the lines and the circuitry, and affirms that everything is clear. It's enough to add his covering plates, which she gets to work on. "I'll tell you what; I'll look up a spa specialist and send them along. If the security doesn't let them through, well, at least I did my best."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm hmphs. Once Aegis states the very basic and obvious facts, he actually settles down, heading over to a far corner away from the forcefield to sulk. His rad leak is actually glowing, warming up the room and making his chestplate glow slightly. "Fine. /Fine./ Primus help all of us. Do what you must but harm none. I am entering meditation." Then he just remains oddly still, his blank gaze on the opposite wall. At least for now, his complaining has ceased.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream was hoping Sunstorm wouldn't do something like that but too late. "Don't mind him... he's... thinking about some stuff." he lays there still and is surprisingly a decent patiant as far as not fighting aginast the repair work. He is a repair tech himself so he understand fully what she's doing.

**Aegis has posed:**
Sometimes simply being pragmatic can go a long way. Sometimes it starts a war. You never can tell which it will be, unfortunately. This time it seemed to work, somewhat, as Sunstorm settles. That's good enough for Aegis. "Your friend has some interesting heat coming off of him," she says conversationally as she fits the plates, just so, in place. Using her smaller set of arms, she carefully makes sure all the edges are completely even. With a tiny, precision tool and a magnification viewer, she welds smooth all unecessary seams and makes sure the parts that are meant to open have proper hinging. Finally she folds up her extra arms and starts to put away her tools. "That's the best I can do, not being an aesthetician."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm remains in a trancelike state, at least for the moment. The security guards are keeping their optics on him in the event he tries anything, but he's as still as a statue as he stares off into some reality than only he can see and comprehend. Once in a while he murmurs something. "Yes..." The security guards just leave him alone, after determining that he isn't actually opening a commlink to an outside source; he's apparently just talking to himself.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream nods slightly. "Yes he does. His reactor core is... abnormal and he leaks radiation." he says it so nonchalantly but he is serious too. "Being around him for too long can be dangerous to ones systems. For some reason though he is not affected by it. His ... divine gift perhaps." oh man Starscream realizes he's starting to get sucked up into Sunstorm's madness. He clears his voice synth suddenly. "Ok then." he says quickly to change the subject. "Send in a body mech. I don't want to be seen like this. If the Autobots are truly trying to do the right thing they will do that as well."

**Aegis has posed:**
"As I said, I'll send someone. What the security does, I can't control," Aegis states. She's got no rank. She doesn't even really have connections. She's working here so she can support herself. With resources low, there just isn't room for those who loaf about. Besides, she likes her job. She never had an issue with it, never had to fight for a better one. In that way she is probably the kind of person the Decepticons were set up to hate. Yet, oddly, so is Starscream. Yet he fights for them. Go figure. Of course, Aegis doesn't actually know about all that, or the irony would have her repressing a need to get to the bottom of things. "Good luck," she says. And if, after all his lying and scheming, Starscream can still hear sincerity, he'll hear it now.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm suddenly 'awakens' from his trance, and looks over toward Aegis. "This is all a terrible misunderstanding," he explains. "The Air Commander faces discrimination and is being arrested on false charges! Surely you can see why we are irate."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream looks from Sunstorm to Aegis, back to Sunstorm then back to the femme. He doesn't say a word, just watches for her reaction.

**Aegis has posed:**
Aegis looks Sunstorm over. "I don't have any particular faith in justice, but I also don't have any particular mistrust of it either. I know how most Cybertronian bodies work. We're more or less predictable. But sometimes things don't fit the pattern. By the amount of radiation you're putting out, you are an example of that. So even a good system will fail now and then. But it's not a system I understand. I'm not the law. I'm not even part of the law. Which is why I say 'good luck'. If your Commander is really innocent, and the system is a good one, then he'll be absolved and this will just be a terrible memory. When the bitterness goes out if it, he might even laugh it over a good bottle of ener-wine."

Aegis sighs and turns towards Starscream. "If you're lying, or the system is a corrupt one, or both, then things get more complicated. But I just landed the other cycle. I can't tell who is 'good' and who isn't. And, honestly, it doesn't make my job any different. I fix broken mechs when I'm on the clock. It's all I do."

 Looking back to Sunstorm, she waves a hand towards the door. "You want to talk philosophy or politics or even religion, that's for another time and place."

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"The radiation is my divine power!" Sunstorm says proudly. "And thank you for understanding, this predicament is extremely stressful. Vos is in mourning over this injustice. Because you have been so reasonable and have helped the Commander...I will...leave religion out of this." That last bit is said with difficulty.

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream listens to what Aegis says and shrugs slightly. "I am innocent." but is that the truth? OR is it a lie? Depends on which way you look at it. Then he stares at Sunstorm. "You feel ok?"

**Aegis has posed:**
"Don't misunderstand, I'm not sympathetic to any cause, or side," Aegis says to both of them. "What I am sympathetic to is possibilities. I have no reason to disbelieve or condemn you. Or anyone. I never assume anyone is lying until I have evidence to support it." This was more specifically to Starscream. She shrugs her shoulders easily. "Was there anything else before I get to work on others?"

**Sunstorm has posed:**
"Yes, Commander, I am well, but I will be much better when you are released from these preposterous allegations," Sunstorm says to Starscream. To Aegis, he notes, "It is becoming increasingly difficult to go it alone, to remain detatched and observant."

**Starscream has posed:**
Starscream shakes his head. "Just as long as you send in a bodymech." he focuses on Sunstorm again. "Any word from Thundercracker or the others? Also... has a small minibot femme with large tires been seen around Kaon since I've been captured?"

**Aegis has posed:**
"Detached is how a medic /should/ be. Start taking sides, and then I start being compelled to choose who to fix and who not to fix. It becomes problematic." Aegis sighs. "On the other hand, that makes me a wild card, which means that potentially both sides would want to stop me from doing my job." She shakes her head. "I didn't come back because I thought it would be pretty, or a walk in the park." Bowing slightly, she heads for the exit. "Have a good cycle, gentlemechs." Then she signals the guards to let her out.

**Sunstorm has posed:**
Sunstorm nods to Aegis...apparently, her neutrality intrigues him. He watches the door for a little while after she exits, then turns back to Starscream. "None, Commander, and...no, I don't believe any minibot femme with...large tires has been spotted around Kaon."

One of the security guards says, "Okay, that's enough time, you'd better go now."

Sunstorm turns back to Starscream. "We \*will\* find a way to...to free you from this injustice!"