An Insecticon And His Queen: Bugs Right

Chapter 1: The calm

Hercules started his second week as a new Autobot. He walked by the side of his queen, Arcee.

Hercules looked like any regular Insecticon, but compare to the first time Arcee met him, he didn't have any dent on his helm anymore, his optic was radiating with joy. Another difference that separated him from regular Insecticon was his autobot insignia on his chestplate, always cleaned and sometimes shining when he cleaned it too much and blinded the other autobots. Knock Out felt one time at a cliff with dents all over his body and scratched paint.

Back to the present, Hercules and Arcee picked their regular energon of the morning and walked slowly. Hercules finished his energon cube and passed near Bumblebee. They nodded at each other's while continuing on their track.

"What do we have today my queen?" Hercules asked.

Arcee gave a small glare before replying: "We have no mission today. The space port is done and as you know, today's the last day before Cybertron starts to be repopulated."

"That's good," Hercules said joyfully. Hercules put his claw on his chin and said: "You know, I realised that no Insecticon ever lived on Cybertron during the golden age you've talked about."

"It wasn't perfect. Megatron started the civil war because the Golden age has a lot of flaws and one of them was the cast system. I hope that we will learn our lessons and the mistakes...don't repeat again," Arcee said. She dropped her helm and closed her optics: "Cybertron cannot live another civil war. It's a miracle Cybertron is restored and Primus is awake again."

"My- Arcee. If it wasn't from the war, the Insecticons wouldn't exist. I wouldn't exist. I'm...I'm glad it happened. Because I'm online, I have a spark and I met you and the autobot," Hercules said looking at his queen. He then gasped and moved his servo: "Don't take it badly! I mean...I know you lose your two partners because of the war and a lot of friends, but not everything was bad and-" Hercules forced himself not to talk anymore.

Arcee gave a small sad smile and replied: "I wouldn't know who Tailgate and Cliffjumper were if it wasn't from the Civil war. I don't know who I would have been if the war never occurred. One thing I'm sure off; the war would happen anyway."

"Sorry for bringing this," Hercules said.

"You don't have to be. It's true there are good things that happened because of the Civil war. I just hope what everything that will happen from now on will be better than before the Civil war. If everything returns to normal, the Civil war and Optimus sacrifice will be meaningless."

"If it makes you happy M- Arcee, I'll make sure it will be better than before," Hercules replied.

"You alone can't do everything," Arcee replied before chuckling with a smile.

Hercules was happy that his queen was feeling better. They heard someone running at their direction and Hercules knew who it was. He smiled and turned around.

"Hi Tek," Hercules said.

"Buddy!" Tek the vehicon shouted before hugging the Insecticon.

Hercules hugged the vehicon back.

"You know you're a little too much excited," Arcee commented as they laughed together.

"Sorry," Tek replied joyfully. "After being almost offline, I can't stop myself at containing my jog to still be online with my best friend."

"Yup," Hercules replied before they gave a bro fist.

Arcee vented as she heard them planning their day, now that they knew nothing important would happen.

"Maybe we should play logging after I finish drinking my energon," Tek suggested.

"Maybe we should explore everything that's been repaired," Hercules suggested.

"You mean-" Hercules nodded before Tek asked what he meant. "Oh yeah! We will have a nice flight."

"Do you want to come with us my- Arcee?" Hercules asked.

Arcee thought about it and replied: "Alright. I have nothing else to do and I'm curious to see the result. Also...You can stop hugging each other's."

Hercules and Tek watched each other's and notice it was the case. They let go of each other's and giggled.

"One week as an autobot and you act a little like a sparkling," Arcee commented.

They reached the command room and saw Ultra Magnus working as usual.

"You three. How are you doing?" Ultra Magnus asked with a smile.

"Everything is fine. Do you have a mission for us?" Arcee asked.

"No. There is no mission for you today autobot. Hercules; are you ready for tomorrow?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"You are talking about the coming of the Cybertronian?" Hercules asked.

"Yes. I want to know if you are ready for tomorrow. You are one of us and I have to make sure nothing bad will happen to you. I received not long ago a few things: The majority of them are Autobot and neutrals, only a small minority were decepticons until they received the message from Megatron," Ultra Magnus resumed.

"So...A lot of them will hold some grudge against the Insecticons," Arcee commented.

"How can you have a grudge against an Insecticon?" Tek asked.

"Some of my kinds hurt a lot of autobots and neutrals, maybe even consumed them like Scrapheap," Hercules replied.

"So you listened to me back then," Ultra Magnus said.

"I can't disappoint the autobots and my q- Arcee," Hercules replied.

Ultra Magnus nodded with a smile: "What are you going to do today?"

"Since we don't have mission, my buddy suggested that we watched the town from the air," Tek said joyfully.

"That's good for you. I have to enter in communication with Predaking and warned the predakons about the coming of the cybertronians. I heard Predaking found a mate recently," Ultra Magnus commented.

"A mate?" Arcee asked.

"Yes. There were three other creations made by Shockwave and love was in the air it seems," Ultra Magnus said.

"What happened to my creator?" Hercules asked curiously.

"He lived with the predakons from now on. His logic told him he cannot be arrested by us and faced offline sentence. So he remained with his...Sparkings," Ultra Magnus answered.

"Who's Predaking mate?" Tek asked.

"She had two designations, the real one and the usual one. Predaking only said the usual one: Predaqueen, but that's not her real designation. The predakons and Shockwave said nothing about it. Anyway, I won't stop you any longer," Ultra Magnus said.

"We are going now Ultra Magnus," Arcee replied.

"Alright," Ultra Magnus said.

The trio walked away outside the base; when they were outside, Hercules transformed into a Hercules Beetle. Arcee and Tek climbed on his back.

"Hang on," Hercules said.

He deployed his wings and flew in the sky of Cybertron. The group watched the restauration advancing well. The Space port was ready for the ship to come back. It was a giant building with seven platforms where around seven spaceships could land and let their passenger walking out safely. Flyers could just fly from the platforms while the grounders must take the accursed transportation even invented in the universe, a slow elevator.

"The vehicons did a great job on it," Arcee commented with a smile.

"I helped them," Hercules said proudly.

"True," Arcee agreed.

"You know. After seeing Earth, you don't look at Cybertron the same way. Compare to Earth, Cybertron looks a little...dull," Tek commented. "I don't mean it's bad, but it's less colorful and everything is just metal while on Earth, everything was alive."

Hercules listened to him without understanding what he said. He never went to Earth.

"True. Everything was alive, but this planet is extremely deadly for their habitants. We live by consuming energon, but they live by consuming other lives," Arcee told him.

"What?! They kill each other's to live?!" Tek shouted surprised.

"You didn't know?" Arcee said.

"Not a thing. I rather have a dull planet than one like Earth," Tek said.

"Wait...If they consume each other's...How come there's still life?" Hercules asked, trying not to fall behind.

"They multiply. The more one species dies, the more they multiply. That's why my partner said that humans usually have one kid at the time," Arcee said.

"Euh...Ooookay," Hercules said.

"You don't get it right buddy?" Tek asked.

"Not a single thing. Maybe I should visit the planet one day," Hercules said.

"I wish I could return there eventually," Arcee agreed.

"It's about your partner?" Hercules asked.

"Yes," Arcee replied.

"Then let me come with you m- Arcee," Hercules said.

Arcee didn't answer. She wasn't sure how anyone would take that on Earth and she knew Hercules was clumsy. He caused a lot of accident with injury before. The only type on accident he didn't cause right now was a diplomatic one, but that might happen tomorrow.

"We'll see," Arcee replied unsure.

Hercules nodded and looked down. He saw half of the city was restored, but it was only the beginning. Most of the buildings were habitation for Cybertronian citizen. Nothing was made for distracting or for socialisation, but it was only the beginning of the restauration.

"It's starting to feel alive, although there is no one yet," Hercules commented.

"That will be tomorrow," Arcee replied.

"How are you feeling about it?" Tek asked.

"I'm excited about it," Hercules replied. His voice was a little shaky.

"That's not really the case," Arcee noticed.

Hercules dropped his head and vented: "A little afraid m- Arcee. Ultra Magnus said that they might hate me because I'm an Insecticon. I'm worried for another thing too. I thought about the others."

"The others?" Tek asked.

"The Insecticons of Kaon. I'm wondering if everything will be fine for them. I know Shellshock tried to offline us, but Titan isn't bad," Hercules answered.

"I'm sure Ultra Magnus can deal with the situation. The majority of the new comers are autobots or neutrals. There are not a lot of them that originate from Kaon," Arcee replied.

"I pray the Allspark it's the case," Hercules replied. "If it's not the case...I might be the last of my kind, unless more of them are around the rest of the universe."

"Enough depressing Hercules! You are not alone!" Tek shouted and hit the Insecticon flank.

Hercules grunted painfully when the vehicon hit right on his pain receptor.

"Sorry. I didn't want to hurt you buddy." He said nothing for a minute until he said: "Once we landed, let's play a video game the autobots brought back from Earth!" Tek shouted.

"We'll play Dance Dance Super Nova! WHA-LA-LA-LA!" Hercules shouted cheerfully and already over his worries.

Arcee put her servo on her front plate just at the thought of an Insecticon trying to dance. She tried not thinking about it or her processor and her spark might explode. Even so, Arcee smiled when the Insecticon was joyful.

She noticed it and realised she grew more attached to him than expected. She was happy when he was happy. She never expected Hercules to make her smile, but he did without really trying.

After their tour, they returned to base. Once the passengers climbed down from Hercules back, he returned to his bipedal form. He followed Tek at the "Playroom". Arcee took a last glance and regretted it. Hercules scratched his arf as he walked away.

Arcee walked in the command room and noticed that Ultra Magnus was absent.

"He must be meeting Predaking and his mate right now," she told herself.

She didn't have anything else to do in the base and she didn't want to see Hercules dancing.

"-This is Tek. We need a medic. Bumblebee seriously glitch and is currently speaking in circles: The horror.-"

"-This is Knock Out. I'm coming.-"

Arcee sighted: "Let me guess. Bumblebee says Hercules dancing?"

"-How do you know?-" Tek asked surprised.

"Lucky guess," Arcee replied.

"-Glitching over a dance...Well...Since it's an Insecticon it's possible,-" Knock Out replied.

"-I can hear you! That hurt my feelings.-" Hercules whined over the comlink. There wasn't any sound, so Arcee guessed he stopped dancing.

"-He was about to beat the highest score in one of the hardest dance.-" Tek replied.

"Okay. I'm going to let Knock Out handle the situation. I have something else to do," Arcee said.

"-Okay.-" Tek replied.

Arcee cut the communication and chuckled, imagining Bumblebee on the ground saying the horror. She recovered and needed another energon cube.

Except for that, the rest of the day was calm and Bumblebee recovered just in time...To recharge.


AC: Here's the end of the first chapter of a new adventure for Hercules and Arcee.

Chapter 2: The Beginning of a Storm.

The story of Predaking and his mate will be in a side story. It's only mentioned right now.