Disclaimer, I do not own the Transformers Prime characters in this story.
Chapter 1: Just an Average Day
POV Megatronus
It was a beautiful average day here on Cybertron that I just had to go for a walk. The sun was shining brightly, cyberbirds sang their sweet songs in the early spring morning, and the cool breeze calmly whipped by tenderly. Yes, just a beautiful day here on Cybertron; though, it is odd for some bots to see a gladiator like me taking a stroll around a beautiful public guardian. Heck, the other gladiators think of me as odd for a fierce warrior to be taking his time in a tranquil environment like this one.
Yeah, I guess I am one of those bots who may look intimidating on the outside, but on the inside I am just your average day mech. Why I can't count the number of times other bots would be so surprised at how normal I really am that they would have to ask if I really am the famous gladiator called Megatronus from The Pit of Kaon. Ha, I just don't understand some bots sometimes. I mean not all gladiators are cruel, savage, unruly, and angry all the time. There are other mech and femme gladiator warriors like me that have a code of honor.
Anyway, I'm just enjoying my day off from battle to rest and relax from my stressful life as a gladiator. I mostly live alone in an apartment near the arena. I have two old friends from school, but my closest friend is Shadowwave. He and I go way back, since we were sparklings in fact. He is a pitch-black mech with dark blue, purple, and violet blue colors in and around his armor. He has red violet optics with a hint of dark purple in it. He is a gladiator like me, but he has a beautiful sparkmate called, Aura Light.
She is a lovely femme with royal blue armor and a bit of light purple on her faceplate and in some areas around her armor. She works as a history teacher at a public school. Ah, he's a lucky mech to have a beautiful wife like Aura Light. Makes me a bit jealous that he was the first one out of Thunderdash and me to marry. Oh well, maybe I will meet my future soul mate, someday.
Then I heard a familiar voice calling out to me. "Hey, Megatronus! Wait up!" said a mech's voice.
I turned around to see Thunderdash racing to catch up with me. I smiled warmly as I called out teasingly, "What's the matter Thunderdash? Age finally catching up on ya old friend?"
The mech came to a stop when he caught up with me and replied in short breaths, "Haha, not funny. I still have my youth, but I was running all over the place this morning. That's why I'm out of breath."
I laughed at my old friend. Thunderdash was a slim red and yellow mech with steel blue optics. He bent down while putting his servos on his knees to catch his breath.
"You alright?" I asked with concern.
He waved his servo reassuringly before replying, "Yeah, just need to cool down for a bit."
I nodded in reply before I asked my friend, "Hey you want to go for a drink? It's on me."
Thunderdash straightened up before replying, "Yeah, sure. You're buying right?"
"Yeah, why?" I asked as I raised my brow before I said, "You forgot your wallet again."
Thunderdash laughed shyly before replying, "Yeah, I kinda forgot it on the way to see Firestorm."
"Ah, I see. How is your little sister by the way?" I asked.
Thunderdash put his arm around me and said, "I'll tell you all about it when we get to the Bar."
I sighed before I replied, "Fine, where do you want to go? The usual place?"
He smirked at me and replied, "The usual place."
So we walked across the street to our favorite bar called Storm's Pub. We went inside the pub to sit down at our favorite spot and then we ordered our drinks.
"So Thunderdash, what was your little spark sister up to these days?" I asked.
"Eh same old routine, I guess" my friend replied as he took a sip of his drink.
I sighed as I asked him, "What did you two fight about this time?"
Thunderdash put his drink down and replied, "First of all she accused me of being a slob because my apartment looked like a big scrap pile! Then I told her 'well look who's talking' right back at her. Hesh, any blind bot would know that her place is a huge slag pile. Heck I bet that not even the scraplets would clean up the mess!"
He continued talking about how his sister was being a glitch as I listened intently.
"And the worst part of it all was that she's dropping her classes this semester!" he said.
My optics widened in surprise as I asked him, "Why?"
He just shrugged and said, "She said that they're 'too hard'."
"What did your parents say about this?" I asked
"That's the thing, she didn't tell them" he replied to me as he sighed angrily.
"I see" I replied.
He just shook his head as he mumbled, "I seriously do believe that she is a dim-spark."
I was about to reply to him when someone beat me to it.
"Sounds like she's giving you a hard time, Thunderdash," said a mech's voice.
My friend and I turned to see Shadowwave walking towards us.
"Shadowwave? What are you doing here? I thought you had a match today at the arena?" I asked.
He grabbed an empty chair so that he could sit with us. Then he replied, "I still have time to kill before I have to go. Anyway, Thunderdash I think you should go back to your sister's place and talk to her."
Thunderdash rolled his optics as he replied, "Tich, you're out of your fraggen mind! She won't listen to me."
Shadowwave shook his head as he replied calmly, "That's not what I had in mind. I was suggesting that you should talk to her and ask Firestorm her reasons for dropping her classes."
Thunderdash pouted while folding his arms and replied; "I guess I'll pay her another visit again later today."
Shadowwave nodded in reply before he turned to me and said, "Oh, that reminds me. I have something for you, Mega."
"What is it?" I asked curiously. Shadowwave handed me a hologram note cylinder. I took it from his hand and pressed the button on the side of the device to read it.
The note was from the gladiator arrangement manager. It said that I have a battle tomorrow night at 7 p.m. against Arron the Terrible. I closed the device and put it aside.
"Well, who is it this time?" asked Thunderdash.
"Some mech named Arron the Terrible" I replied.
Shadowwave look at me and said, "I heard that he's tough to defeat and he cheats if he is losing."
I smirked as I replied, "Sounds like an interesting fight then." I lifted my glass and took a sip of my drink.
Then we heard Shadowwave's comlink go off. "Excuse me for a moment guys, " he said as he got up out of his chair and went outside to answer the call.
"Hope everything is alright" I said to Thunderdash who shrugged in reply.
A few minutes later went by as I continued my conversation with my friend. Then we heard Shadowwave come into the bar and rejoined us. He sat down, prompted his elbows on the table, folded his hands, and rested his chin on them.
I looked at him with concern as I asked, "Is everything alright?"
Shadowwave closed his eyes and took a deep breath before replying, "Do you think that I would be a good father?"
Thunderdash optic's widened as he spat out his drink in shock. He coughed violently before saying, "What did you say?"
Shadowwave opened his optics and sighed as he repeated, "Do you think that I would be a good father?"
My optics widened in surprise as I asked him hesitantly, "Is Aura Light…."
Shadowwave nodded slowly in reply.
Thunderdash and I smiled at our friend and said simultaneously, "Congratulations!"
I laughed as pat Shadowwave on his shoulder and said, "You'll make a great father, Shadowwave."
Shadowwave turned to me and replied, "You guys think so?"
I was about to reply to him but Thunderdash beat me to it. "Heck yeah. You're going to be a great father. I know it."
Shadowwave smiled as he replied, "Thanks."
"Do you know when she's due?" I asked.
"The medic said that she's due in ten years" Shadowwave replied.
"Huh, well you still got time to be prepared for your coming sparkling, Shad" said Thunderdash.
Shadowwave nodded in agreement.
For the next few minutes the three of us chatted on current events and what we'd been doing recently. Then all three of us decided to part ways so that Shadowwave doesn't miss his match. Thunderdash decided that he should go talk to his sister again since she's probably cooled down from the heated argument between the two of them by now. I decided that I would go and visit my parents for the evening to see how they were doing.
That evening I heard that my mother had recently sprained her servo from her fitness class. I also heard that my father was going to visit my Grandfather's grave in Crystal City for a while. He wanted me to come along too as a family, but I couldn't go with them because of my match tomorrow. My father understood how important my job was so he didn't push it.
Then I said my goodbyes to my parents and left to return to my apartment to get a good night's rest. But little did I know was that something was going to happen tonight that would change my life, forever.
