AN: Another new story. Meh. You know how it is. Plot bunny wouldn't go away.
This will be updated whenever I have a new chapter ready.
The chapters will also switch between past, future and present. I'll tell you which it is though (the baseline, the present, starts with this chapter although there are some flashbacks).
Rated M for robots doing the nasty (no this will not be explicit) and sort-of-pregnant robots. By sort of I mean it's not like human pregnancy at all. Maybe. Also my first time writing slash intentionally.
Pairing: Skywarp/Jazz, Skyfire/Starscream; other pairings to be decided if there are any
Italics are flashbacks
Edit (29/04/2013) Readers should be warned that in this 'verse of mine Cybertronians are fairly free with their relationships and interfacing. If you're pretty much interested only in monogamy/only approve of that then this is not the fic for you. Also this has some fairly experimental writing of mine, i.e. the changes in setting and character from one chapter to the next, so the story'sstyle might be a little inconsistent.
Skywarp should have known better than do have anything to do with that particular Autobot. He'd probably been the one to damage- no, sabotage!- the component. Although it could have been that "accidental" Null-Ray blast a la Starscream. Who knew? He'd blame it on Jazz anyway.
Not that there'd been much choice at the time. If Skywarp had been stuck with almost any other Autobot, and his wings hadn't been quite so wedged in, he might have tried to offline the other Autobot. However when stuck under a building with not enough energy to teleport, wings trapped in the debris and the Autobot head of Special Ops, an expert in sneaky, close-range combat, you did not try and fight him, especially when said bot might be the only hope of getting free. Alive, that is.
Oh sure, Megatron might send someone to rescue him, but mostly Decepticons were responsible for dragging themselves back to whatever base they were using as Headquarters at the time.
You ran out of energy, couldn't move, your spark had nearly guttered out? Tough (unless you were Soundwave).
He wouldn't have put his hopes into Starscream rescuing him either. The Air Commander would laugh at him, then force him to beg for help, and still abandon him.
He couldn't rely on any other Decepticons to help him either, even his other wingmate. Too many of them had been pranked since they landed on this mudball and although forgiveness did come easily amongst the Decepticons, it was usually accompanied by fists to a faceplate or equally humiliating retribution.
Since he hadn't wanted to die at the hands of a sneaky saboteur, he'd offered to interface (since they really hadn't been able to do anything else at the time) with the saboteur. Now he desperately thought back to the conversation, seeking anything that would allow him to legitimately blame the Autobot TIC for his situation.
"Hey Autobot, want to 'face?"
Jazz stared at him for a moment before saying in a rather jovial tone "I'd heard rumours that you flyboys do it anywhere and anytime; never thought I'd get asked myself. What brought this on Warpy?"
Skywarp scowled when the allusion to Seeker interfacing drives was made – he already knew all about that he was a Seeker himself- and the scowl only deepened when he heard that ridiculous nickname. If Jazz had been a Decepticon and had given him such a stupid nickname Skywarp would have slagged him, no questions asked. In his present situation the most he could hope for was for the nickname not to spread to the rest of the Autobot forces.
"I'm bored, I can't move, nothing to do while waiting; take your pick."
Jazz's lips quirked up into a smirk that seemed a little dark for his usual care-free attitude, although it did serve to make Skywarp more wary of the little bot than before. He didn't know what Jazz was thinking of either; interfactional "meetings" were known by most of the respective crews to occur once in a while (especially in the case of Skyfire and Starscream). It wasn't as though Jazz was averse to 'facing with Decepticons, everyone knew that he'd 'faced with Breakdown once, though no one knew why that paranoid idiot had been chosen.
Jazz said "Sure."
And then there hadn't been much talking because they'd interfaced, and Skywarp did not want to think of that right now because he did so not want to get revved up when he was supposed to be thinking. Thinking was hard enough for him already, combine memories of a slagging good merge and his seeker interfacing drive and you got a distracted Skywarp.
So no time for distractions at the moment, he needed to figure out what he was going to do.
Even though he really did want to return to that distraction. It had seemed quite delicious.
AN: Opinions, dear readers?
Eli