Daughter of Deception
Prologue
Many eons ago, there was a planet of metal known as Cybertron. Upon this planet, there lived a race of autonomous robotic organisms. For some society flourished, but for others suffering was all that was known.
Of all those who suffered, there was one who stood out: a brilliant gladiator named Megatronus, named after the fallen dark prime. He saw fit to change Cybertron, and make it so all would be treated as equals. It was thus that he began corresponding with many others who felt the same way. Among these, was a higher class archivist from Iocon named Orion Pax.
Now, Orian was a special case. When he emerged from the well of allsparks, a high council member by the name of Alpha Trion took Orian as his son. He was given every privilege imaginable . It was only when he was an adult that he began to see how the rest of Cybertron lived, however, because he was of the higher class he never fully understood how horrible it really was for those who actually endured it.
The main reason Megatronus stayed in contact with Orian was so that he would have someone who the counsel knew well to defend his case. It had all been planned. Megatronus told the council his way of achieving equality, he was angered to hear that the council did not agree, and even more when even his friend did not agree with him. It was thus, that he forever closed his spark, and waged a war that lasted milenia: changing his name to Megatron, and naming his followers, Decepticons, for if speaking the truth is deception, we are gladly guilty.
The war had completely ravaged Cybertron. Having been forced to relocate, Megatron and the Decepticons found themselves on a small blue planet called Earth. It was one stormy evening after Megatron had been surveying one of his energon mincs, that he was flying back to his ship, when he was struck by lightning and landed hard in the middle of a forest, transforming in the process. After he got himself oriented again, he began walking, and found something he had to try and comprehend. From behind a thicket of trees, he could see an amalgamation of humans all sitting around a stage. Upon that stage, the moon bathing her in a beautiful glow, was a human femme. She was speaking to those who listened about how no one was equal on Earth, and how humanity would be better under one ruler instead of being separated into countries. As Megatron listened to the words of this human he saw so much of himself in her. It was with this realization, that he broke a vow of closed-spark, and transferred his personality to a human holoform, and went to listen further.
Maggie was full of energy. For her first tyrannical rally, she was surprised that so many people agreed with what she was saying. She had never expected that so many people had the same issues with the world as her. She was especially surprised when she turned around and saw a man standing in the entrance of the tent that served as her dressing room. The man was tall and very muscular man with silver hair and sharp features. He was wearing a gray power suit with a shiny silver tie.
When he spoke, his voice was a whisper, yet emanated power through it as he said, "Your words are wise, but executing them will be difficult."
It was on that night, that a whirlwind beautiful romance between human and cybertronian romance of the ages. Maggie and Megatron talked about Earth domination and found they had so much more in common. Though Maggie did not achieve her goal of conquering Earth, Megatron still cared for her. It was a year after they met that Megatron told Maggie who he was. She was very accepting, and soon after, they were married.
In the first part of their marriage, Maggie lived aboard the nemesis, until she announced she was carrying.
Much to the surprise of all the Decepticons, Megatron catered to Maggie's ever will. Through all the human mood swings, cravings, and sickness, Megatron was there for it all. After all, anything to insure the safe arrival of the future leader of the Decepticons.
The day the little sparkling arrived, was a joyous one for all Decepticons. No one had seen their lord so happy in a long time. Ze he, mass shifted down to human size thanks to a rellic, held his little sparkling, his sire bond opened.
Never before had Megatron felt so much untamed love and warmth. He named the little one Skybomb by Cybertronian name, and Rowan by human name. Although the little one was human, a scan from Knockout confirmed that the little one was indeed half cybertronian. However, although she received some inhanceounts from her cybertronian half, she had a large problem with her human form. She had severe problems with her optics. O of them was completely blind, and the other one was severely defective. Megatron was sparkbroken. He knew everything would be difficult for his little one, but he never discriminated against her. To him, she was still his little sparkling, and could still be the Decepticon Princess. Maggie however, felt differently.
Maggie felt that the little one should be raised in a human environment. After a long, laborious discussion, it was decided that Maggie would be sent on her way. Unfortunately, she would not leave unless the little sparkling went with her. However, after a few weeks, she noticed Rowan had become unresponsive. She knew she could not take her to a real doctor due to her hilfling nature's begrudgingly, she called Megatron.
The first question he asked made her heart sink, "Has she had any energon?"
it had not even occured to maggie that she she would need energon, and upon conveying that to Megatron, he reminded her that Rowan was half cybertronian, and she would require energon. After two weeks of intensive care from Knockout, she finally woke up. In that time, Maggie and Megatron also agreed that while Rowan should be raised human in her early years, Knockout would visit once a week to give Rowan an energon IV so her systems wouldn't shut down.
For three years this went on. There were times that Megatron would also visit, and tell his little one tales of old cybertron, dampening the darker parts to keep things soft for the young spark of his little creation. However, Maggie began to notice that Megatron visited less and less. While Knockout would religiously come every Saturday to give Rowan her energon IV, Megatron went from visiting once a week to once a month, and the frequency kept decreasing. It was when Megatron did not show up on Megatron's third birthday, that Maggie was livid. She called Megatron and asked him what happened. He told her that the frequency of his visits had decreased because he started to notice that the Autobots could track his movements, and since he was going to the same coordinates, he was worried that the Autobots might find them, and he was not about to risk losing the ones he loves to them. Maggie was understanding, and after a long discussion with Megatron, they agreed that as much as Rowan deserved to live as a human, she would be more accepted as a halfling among the Decepticons more than she ever would by the humans. It was thus that Maggie and Rowan, the Queen and Princess of the Decepticons, moved aboard the nemesis permanently. However, Megatron did not get to enjoy himself for long.
The first night was beautiful.
He used the mass shifter to shift down to human size, and cuddled his mate. For him, feeling her warmth next to his was so pleasant, that he felt like he could nearly forget everything: that was until he heard an energon curdling shriek. Opening his optics, he was too late, as he saw a huge cable snake down the ceiling, and electrocute his mate.
Megatron was furious. He could see that the cable was headed for his little sparkling. Vow that he would not lose another one he loved, he grabbed the cable, and took the brunt of a massive force of electricity that coursed through him. His systems tried to send him into stasis lock, but he did not bend. Instead, he used his mind to connect to the electricity and find who caused this. The answer, was Nemesis.
You see, before what we all know, the Decepticon ship Nemesis was once a sentient being. She had feelings and emotions just like any other cybertronian. She could even transform. She had been one of the best gladiators on Cybertron due to her extremely large size. There was only one gladiator whom she could not best, and that gladiator was Megatronus. It was because of this that she developed a great love for him. Unfortunately, that love was unrequited. She did everything in her power to show her love for him. She protected him, and when he asked her to be the vessel the carried him, her spark lept with joy. Her joy was short lived however, as soon after they arrived on Earth, Megatron found himself a little human.
Nemesis did not do anything in the time that just the human lived within her because she figured it was just a faze Megatron would grow out of. However, when the little sparkling arrived, she was furious. She so badly wanted to kill the little thing right then and there, but a part of her spark was glad to see Megatron so happy. When the human left, she thought she had a chance. Although she was a mighty Decepticon warrior, she was very shy about her romantic feelings. Part of it was embarrassment, and part of it was fear of being rejected. She had indeed tied to flirt, but Megatron had failed to notice, and when the human returned again after three years, she finally snapped.
In his willful electrofied state, Megatron looked into her mind and saw all she had felt, and all the pain she was feeling, and for what she had caused him, she needed to be punished. Megatron was sensible enough to know he could not terminate her, for if he did, he would have no ship. What he could do, was strip her cystems to their bare essentials, meaning, he would delete the entire idea of centiance from her main frame.
Once Megatron completed his task, he took a moment to reorient himself from the electrocution, then opened his sire bond, hoping beyond hope that his sparkling did not wake. She was awake, but instead of the terrified sadness he expected, he was met with a mixture of sadness and anger. here looked over at her recharging place, only to see a face of fury rivaling his own, but that was not what startled him most. What startled him most, was that on her little chest, there was a little Decepticon symbol glowing a furious purple. He felt a strange sense of pride that she did not weep and wither as most sparklings would, but showed the true rage of a Decepticon warrior.
Megatron tried desperately not let his sadness show when he announced the death of his mate the next morning. It was also announced that his little one would not be permitted to leave the safety of his quarters unless there was an absolute emergency. Elite vehicons were to guard the entrance at all times, and the only three Decepticons allowed within those doors, were Soundwave, Knockout, and Megatron himself.
It was thus that for ten years Rowan grew never leaving the quarters of her sire. To her memory, that was all she ever knew. The first memory she ever remembered was watching her carrier perish, and it was thus that she made every attempt to remain as close to her sire as possible. It was for this reason that her spark broke when her sire announced he would be leaving the ship for a journey, and did not know when he would return.
For Megatron, the first year of his journey was spent finally openly mourning the death of his mate after all these years of remaining stoic. The next two years were spent trying to track down any stragglers from the old Decepticon army, only managing to find one in the blue seeker known as Dreadredwing. Together, he and Megatron searched for more Decepticons. When they were nearly about to give up their search, when they found something that greatly interested Megatron: dark energon. As for the little sparkling, she spent three years just waiting for her sire to send the signal of his return.
