Transformers (Male Reader)

Chapter 48: Learning The Past

Burton: Stripper?

Viviane: Well, only in America is a finer education an insult. And if my dress makes you feel uncomfortable, then maybe I could take it off.

Cade: Okay.

Charlie: Cade...

Cogman: That's enough!

Cogman runs at Cade.

Cade: What's your problem? No, no, no!

Cogman tackles him off the chair.

Burton: Cogman?

Cogman: Shall I take his head off, madam?

Viviane: Tempting, but I can defend my own honor.

Cogman: But I do so very much want to crush his windpipe.

Burton: Control, Cogman. You must learn to control that impulse. Channel it into other things.

Cogman lets Cade go.

Cogman: Yes, my lord. Like making beds or cooking food. Polishing the silver. I am trying, my lord.

Cogman lifts the chair.

Burton: He is a "headmaster". A very rare breed.

Cade: That dude is disturbed, yeah? Like, seriously evil. Like, split personality.

Cogman: Good.

Burton then leads them to another room.

Burton: Cogman? Glass 17C is missing. Did you break it?

Cogman: I've been a Butler for the aristocracy for 700 years. You are the worst I've ever worked for!

Burton shows the three portraits.

Burton: These were all my predecessors. They're all Folgans. And that was my aunt there. My great-great-great-great aunt. She poisoned my great-great-great uncle for some reason. She was barking mad, she was an absolute bitch. There's my grandfather over there, Aloysius. And that's Arnold, my third cousin. He drunk sewage water, committed suicide. He was quite mad. They were all mad, really.

Viviane notices bullet holes in a glass cage with a watch.

Viviane: There's bullet holes.

The watch transforms into a Decepticon.

Burton: No, no. Nasty critter. No, no, no, no, no. That's the watch that killed Hitler. Don't screw with it. These are all the Witwiccans. In our halcyon days we were quite the club. Brilliant minds, explorers, scientists, artists, world leaders. Renaissance thrill seekers. People like Catherine the great, empress of all Russia, general Washington, William Shakespeare, queen Elizabeth of England, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Wright brothers, Giotto, Michelangelo, Darwin, Churchill, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Henry v, Leonardo Da Vinci, Newton, de Lavoisier, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Edmund Hillary, Teddy Roosevelt, Copernicus, Tesla, Galileo.

Charlie then sees a picture of Sam.

Burton: They all belonged to a secret society, you see. All united in one cause. To protect the secret history of Transformers. Here. On earth. Now, this is the Witwiccan family tree. Merlin, Viviana. Goes back 40 generations. Go over to that desk. There's a photograph there. Your father was a member. He very much wanted to tell you that. And my own family had some... Small part in all this.

Charlie: ZB-7. That looks just like bee. It is.

Burton: He was attached to the devil's brigade. Pretty vicious military unit. Helped turn the tide of war, you know?