Well, this is what I have been spending most my time doing, and I hope you like it ^^
Just for the people that dont know Transformer's very well... Interface - Bonding, are technically the same thing's so dont worry too much. I also tried to put in my view of Cybertronian pregnacy, and this is my theory, and I dont mind if you have another.
It was a simple, easy, quiet morning, as Team Prime was in the main room, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Wheeljack and Smokescreen were talking with each other, as Ratchet and Prime were having a more mature talk.
Arcee was talking to Jack, mostly about patrol's, and school times.
Until the main screen started to flash a bright green, and made a loud sound, that was hard to miss, Ratchet walked over to the main screen and punched in some codes, as that silenced the computer, Ratchet started to silently read out what the encrypted message said, his soft expression slowly changed to dread and mourning
"Ratchet, report" Optimus thundering voice rang out, as that seemed to slightly bring Ratchet out of his trail of thought's and made him turn around and face the Autobot crowd that had now gathered
"The…message said, that Chromia…one of the last remaining Autobot's femme's-" Ratchet stopped himself, as it looked like he was having trouble getting out the word's, as if the words would haunt him later in life "Chromia…died" everyone felt dread fall over their sparks, but then Bumblebee turned to Arcee, as he knew Chromia was her sister.
When Bumblebee turned around, He saw pure dread written all over her face, her head tilted forward, as she lowered her head, her spark felt like it lost most of it's purpose, Arcee was really close to her sister's, there was three of them in the beginning.
Chromia, Moonracer and her, they were really close, like her and Cliffjumper, Moonracer died in patrolling for energon, and then it was only Arcee and Chromia, as the two remaining sister's felt a heavy grief fall over them for their fallen sister, and now that Chromia was gone, Arcee just became numb to feeling's, but only the extreme feeling's would break out of her strong shell.
"Arcee?" Bulkhead asked, gently in a soothing voice, cautious not to hit a sensitive string in her, he looking over at Arcee's stiff, sapphire frame, as everyone turned their heads to look over at Arcee.
"What?" Arcee asked rather coldly, as if she didn't care
"Are you alright?" Smokescreen asked, as he tried to tone down his bouncy behaviour, cause if he annoyed her at this time, she would send him to the scrap yard!
"Strangely…yes, I am alright" Arcee replied, her voice seemed to be rather calm, and she really actually didn't care as much as everyone thought
"Are you sure?" Bulkhead wanted to make doubly sure that she was okay
"Yeah…me and Chromia hadn't seen each other for a while, so…it doesn't strike me as tragic as I thought" Arcee said with a honest voice, just then Optimus had his processor ticking over, as a important thought came to his processor
"Arcee, may I talk to you in private?" Optimus asked, Arcee nodded lightly as they walked off towards her quarters.
Outside Arcee's room door, Arcee turned to face Optimus as a very awkward silence came over the two
"Arcee, it has occurred to me, that you and Chromia were the last remaining female Autobot's" Optimus confided
"Were" Arcee repeated a word, that pointed out that they were the only female Autobot's left, but not anymore
"Yes, but that is not my main concern now, Arcee" Optimus said, as he now started to become serious
"Alright, what is it?" Arcee asked, crossing her arms over her chest, as she took a big intake, for whatever Optimus had to say to her
"Considering the situation, you are the only femme Autobot, and soon we will need more warriors…" Now even Optimus was becoming a little embarrassed with the talk, and Arcee knew when Optimus became embarrassed with a situation, she knew it was serious
"Yes, Optimus?" Arcee said, as she was starting to become almost curious about what he was trying to say
"Im asking this with full respect, you need to pick a mech to interface with, so our race with survive" Optimus said, taking a big intake in, as he stood up more proudly.
Arcee's optic's slightly widened, as she was utterly bewildered with what Optimus just said
'Did he just say I need to…bond?!' Arcee thought, as her inner core temperature, started to rise, and a bright blush come over her cheeks
"P-pardon?" Arcee stumered with her words, as she still couldn't believe what she just heard, was this some kind of trick? A prank?
"I just wished to state that to you. It has to be done, Arcee" Optimus said, as a slight grumble came from his engines
"W-wait, You want me to bond with one of…them?!" Arcee asked, as she pointed down the hall, towards all the other mech's in the main room. She still couldn't believe it.
"Yes, I do not wish to place pressure on you, Arcee, but my recommendation's still stand, take all the time you wish" Optimus tried to make the situation less stressful for Arcee, as she turned away and looked off into a deep thought of some-what disbelief
A long pause followed after that, Optimus saw Arcee place a servo on her chest, but he knew that she was more or less referring to her spark chamber.
The thought of being a mother, to Arcee it was a nice thought, it is a femme's instinct to have sparkling's and to have a family, but…who is she supposed to interface with?
"Arcee?" Optimus voice brought Arcee out of her thoughts, as she shook her head and looked back up at Optimus, with almost pleading optics
"Do I really have too?" Arcee whimpered, as she really didn't want to do this, but Optimus had the concern of the entire Autobot race on his mind
"Yes Arcee, but you have all the time you need to pick a spark-mate" And with that, Optimus walked off, to leave Arcee to her thoughts.
What they didn't know, is that Smokescreen, Wheeljack, Bee and Bulkhead were listening in, through the whole conversation from down the hall, behind the corner, as they were also dumbfounded with the conversation
"Arcee has to pick a spark-mate?" Smokescreen whispered, trying to not let out a girly squeal of laughter, Bulkhead smacked Smokescreen in the head, to try to get him to stop being teasing
"Guy's, this is a serious issue, if Arcee is the only remaining femme…that means the Decepticon's will see more in her than just a great warrior-" Bulkhead was cut short
"That's what im worried about Bulk" Arcee said, the mech's didn't notice that Arcee was standing right around the corner, and was now listening on their conversation.
The mech's darted back in a sudden burst of shock, as they fell on top of each other like dominos
"Oh…hello Arcee" Smokescreen chuckled, nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck, with his servo. A bright blush came over the mech's as they thought about the thought of Arcee picking one of them to bond with her, It was not every day when a femme is forced to pick a mech ya'know.
A awkward silence fell over five Autobot's, as they had nothing to say until Bee broke the silence
/Were gonna bolt now/ Bee beeped, as he bolted off down the hall towards the main room, as the three other mech's followed, leaving Arcee alone with her thoughts.
In the main room, the four mech's bolted back from the hallways, and tumbled over each other in a pile, as if they were trying to run from Megatron in their flurry
"Whats wrong?" Ratchet asked, turning away from the screen to face the Autobot pile of mechs, piled on each other.
Bulkhead was about to say 'nothing' to respect Arcee's pride, in keeping it a secret, like Smokescreen would let that happen…
"Arcee has to pick a mech to bond with and become sparked and have a sparkling!" Smokescreen yelled out, as Bulkhead slapped Smokescreen in the back of the head once again, as he whimpered, and Bulkhead placed a servo over Smoke's mouth to make sure he didn't squeal anything else out like a little girl.
"W-what?" Ratchet stumered in slight shock
"What's sparked?" Miko all of a sudden popped up, and placed both her hands on the railing of the platform, while leaning over the edge slightly
"Whats sparkling?" Jack also wanted to know, as he walked up beside Miko
"And whats bond?" Them Raf also walked up, as he stood by Jack
All the Autobot's took a moment and shot a gaze at each other, one that said 'Du fu-' as Ratchet took a big intake of breath to say something, until Arcee came out of the corridors
"It's fine Ratchet, it would be best if I say" Arcee said steeping into the room, the pile of mech's stumered back up onto their feet, as they stood awkwardly, as Smokescreen whistled a nervous tone
"Uhh, mind if I answer you're question's in my quarters?" Arcee asked, seeing the expressions on all the mech's faces, as she wanted make this situation less awkward
"Sure, but I don't see the big deal why we have too" Miko jumped down the steps, with pride in her steps as the two human boy's followed soon after, down the halls towards Arcee's quarters, Arcee looked back at all the mech's over her shoulder, as their faces had 'Awkward' written all over their faces.
In Arcee's quarters, Arcee was getting ready for the questions the kids had accumulated in their minds
"Alright, what is bonded?" Miko blurted out
"Well…in human term's it would be classified as…mating" Arcee twitched slightly as she sat down on the berth next to the kids, as she looks away
"Yowza, didn't see that coming" Jack exclaimed
"Then what is sparked?" Raf asked trying to get over the answer that Arcee gave them
"Being sparked is a femme who has another life-force in her spark-chamber, human term; Pregnant" Arcee placed a servo on her chest, as she referred to the spark-chamber
"Whats a spark-chamber?" Raf asked again
"It is a place where our spark is housed, it's like a heart, but for femme's, we can also hold sparklings in our spark-chamber" Arcee said keeping her servo over her chest plating.
"Whats a sparkling?" Miko remarked, as if there was a list they created to ask Arcee, as she sighed
"A sparkling is a baby Cybertronian" Arcee said
"Then how do you…give birth if the sparkling is kept in you're chest?" Jack asked, this situation was becoming very interesting to him as he was sure it was the same with Miko and Raf
"We open up the front panels on our chest armor, and the sparkling comes out that way" Arcee remarked, as she took her servo away from her spark-chamber and placed it on the berth
"But…how is it possible?" Miko said still rather confused
"Oh my-…" Arcee was starting to become frustrated, but she stopped and took a slow breather, and closed her optics as she finally calmed down
"Okay, example; when a mech and femme are ready to…bond…they open up their spark-chambers to each other, and push their sparks together, but the mech's spark can sometimes leave a small fraction of his spark in the femme's spark-chamber, and that is when a femme can become sparked. It's like a footprint." Arcee took a moment to breath as this was already awkward for her.
"Our spark-chambers are shaped in the form of… dip, and the femme's spark moves backwards as the little sparkling's spark, releases a kinetic energy to the femme, and then metal will start to grow around the sparkling's spark, and soon become in the shape of a small Cybertronian" Arcee paused, letting all the information sink into the humans mind's as they also remained silent, but their expressions said 'What the-?'
"Got that?" Arcee asked, not sure if they were confused of dumbfounded
"Yeah…we got it, but do femmes get bigger in size like human females?" Jack responded with another question
"Femme's don't show any signs of pregnancy, but they do become heavier, and more stressful, and all the normal stuff. One thing a mech always knows…not to mess with a sparked femme" Arcee chuckled, as she stood up and dusted herself off
"Anything else you wanna know?" Arcee questioned, thinking she covered all the topics they could think of until…
"Do Cybertronian femme's breast feed?" Miko asked, as Jack and Raf's eyes widened in surprise, Arcee's jaw dropped slightly, as the unsuspected question threw her completely off guard
"N-no. We do that a different type of…way" Arcee blushed brightly, as Miko shrugged and looked at the two human boy's as they stared back at her with a questionable look
"What? It was a good question" Miko shrugged off the two boy's cold gazes, as Arcee walked out of the room.
In the main room, she exhaled a sigh and leaned up against the wall, watching all the mech's, she didn't want to think about having one of them as a spark-mate, they were considered more like her best friends than lovers.
She heaved a heavy sigh as she continued to look over all the mech's, then she whispered to herself 'Shoot me'.