And trouble were what they would get - not that he at first planned on it, but some of the restrictions were very familiar - as Optimus explained what exactly would be done. Megatron didn't bother with expending energy to glare at the medic as he came close; the only thing that mech would be guilty of was to install the new coding.
He stayed quiet and relaxed until the Prime was done, contemplating the similarities with the various bits of restrictive coding to what had been used on gladiators before Sentinel Prime and rescinded it, allowing them as much freedom as any equivalent common mech.
The problem with Sentinel Prime had been that he tended to see the good in everything. He had been lax. Much, much too lax, and was especially prone to letting thing slide or simply not seeing corruption in the higher castes, not because he was in a way prejudiced against the lower castes, but rather because he belived that as the higher castes were where they were, they represented the best... the brightest... so how could they abuse their position?
Painful, really. Megatorn hadn't killed the previous Prime. Had Sentinel still been Prime when he'd rounde dup his rebellion, he might have had to, but either way. He looked up, optics narrowed and the glow colouring the white plating of his face pinkish.
"I see. And what counts as self-defense, then, Prime? Considering the integrity of my person, however much I agreed to this is under currently under threat... This?" With that, Megatron abruptly slammed into one of the guards, angling his shoulder to drive the treads mounted there into the chestplate, then turned his back to the other guard, dropped down and... somehow managed to balance on those cuffed hands while he raised his lower body, hooking his legs about the guard's helm, and then slammed him into the floor before he got up and stopped in front of Ratchet, not acknowledging the medic at first, but rather staring at the Prime.
"Do it, then."
On the one hand, he wasn't going for the (no doubt locked) door, or attempting to get around Ratchet, but on the other, he had just trounced the guards, and this with the stasis-cuffs. Megatron would just claim they weren't on their highest setting.
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He stayed quiet and relaxed until the Prime was done, contemplating the similarities with the various bits of restrictive coding to what had been used on gladiators before Sentinel Prime and rescinded it, allowing them as much freedom as any equivalent common mech.
The problem with Sentinel Prime had been that he tended to see the good in everything. He had been lax. Much, much too lax, and was especially prone to letting thing slide or simply not seeing corruption in the higher castes, not because he was in a way prejudiced against the lower castes, but rather because he belived that as the higher castes were where they were, they represented the best... the brightest... so how could they abuse their position?
Painful, really. Megatorn hadn't killed the previous Prime. Had Sentinel still been Prime when he'd rounde dup his rebellion, he might have had to, but either way. He looked up, optics narrowed and the glow colouring the white plating of his face pinkish.
"I see. And what counts as self-defense, then, Prime? Considering the integrity of my person, however much I agreed to this is under currently under threat... This?" With that, Megatron abruptly slammed into one of the guards, angling his shoulder to drive the treads mounted there into the chestplate, then turned his back to the other guard, dropped down and... somehow managed to balance on those cuffed hands while he raised his lower body, hooking his legs about the guard's helm, and then slammed him into the floor before he got up and stopped in front of Ratchet, not acknowledging the medic at first, but rather staring at the Prime.
"Do it, then."
On the one hand, he wasn't going for the (no doubt locked) door, or attempting to get around Ratchet, but on the other, he had just trounced the guards, and this with the stasis-cuffs. Megatron would just claim they weren't on their highest setting.
Which was probably true.
Maybe.