Pedes running down the hallway slightly echoed. Optimus ran back to his dorm room. Once he made it to his dorm room, he hastily input the code. The light lit up green meaning he could come in. He roughly opened the door when it was sliding away and entered in. He bumped into something which caused him to fall back on his aft. The door slid back into place. Optimus looked up to see Sentinal.

"Whoa Optimus. Why did you bump into me? I was reading over my notes." Said Sentinal

"S-Sorry, I didn't know you were close to the door." Apologized Optimus.

"It's alright." Responded Sentinal. He held out a servo to Optimus, who gladly took it. Sentinal helped him stand back up.

"Thanks."

"No problem Optimus, but why did you come here? I thought you were going to the training room." Asked Sentinal

"Oh…um…change of plans?" answered Optimus sheepishly

"Okay? What are you going to do then?" questioned Sentinal

"I-I thought I could…study with you, since we do have the same class." Optimus said while rubbing behind his neck with his servo

"Oh sure! Grab your data pad and we will begin."

"Okay." Optimus grabbed his data pad with his notes. "This is going to be a long solar cycle." Thought Optimus

The rest of the solar cycle went as normal for Optimus, attending his classes and hanging out with his two closest friends. When Cybertron was turning dark, Sentinal and Optimus were heading back to their dorm. Once Sentinal entered the code, the door opened letting them inside. They both made it to their berths.

"See ya after recharge Optimus." Said Sentinal

"You too Sentinal. Recharge easy." Responded Optimus

They offline their optics and drifted into deep recharge.

Inside of Optimus' dream, he was laying on a dark red and purple floor. His optics flickered on. He sat up and looked around.

"Oh you are finally here. Took awhile I must say." Said a familiar smooth voice.

Optimus quickly looked at the familiar figure a few feet in front of him. He stood up.

"Where am I? Who are you? What did you do to me?!" questioned Optimus angrily

The Mech Incubus just chuckled. He turned around and walked closer to Optimus.

"Oh Optimus, right now you are in a dreamscape. This is only way I can talk to you. Well, my name is Purple Lust the Incubus. And I just simply merged with you. Does those answer your questions?" answered Purple Lust with a toothy smirk

Optimus just looked shocked. More questions ran through his mind. What is a dreamscape? What is a Incubus? Why merge with me?! Wasn't he going to possess me? Purple Lust laughed at Optimus expression.

"What is so funny?" Asked Optimus

"Your lovely face in that expression." Answered Purple Lust

Optimus just sighed. He needed to calm down and just get more answers from Purple Lust, since he seemly just answers without hesitation.

"Okay, what is a Incubus?" wondered Optimus

"Oh we are creatures of lust and passion. We come from the realm that Unicron made. We feed off of lust and sinful pleasures. The most purest form of that are those lovely juices that comes from the interfacing equipment. Though we can eat energon, we need to large amounts of it to satisfy us." explained Purple Lust

Optimus tried to absorb the info he was just given. A Primus forsaken creature merged with him and apparently he became one too. He just asked another question to keep his anger from showing in his expressions.

"Why merge with me? I thought, from what I can remember from that night, you were planning to possess my body."

"Hmm, well I did plan on possessing your glorious body, but it was because of your Spark that changed my mind." Stated Purple Lust

"My Spark?" said confused Optimus

"Your Spark is a golden color. A very rare color in present Cybertron. There was so many different Spark color types back then. That was the time Incubi and Succubi kidnap Mechs and Femmes depending what color they wanted. There were green, purple, golden, blue, pink, etc. When the Great War began, many of those colors went extinct. Those Mechs and Femmes, with the different colored Sparks, who were captured by the Incubi and Succubi, as pets, eventually offlined. When I saw your Spark was a golden color, I just could not posses you. I did not want to transform that drop of a burning Sun into my near black colored Spark. Those who have golden sparks were promised greatness from Primus himself. The only option left was me merging with you, giving you my features, powers, and partially my nature. Eventually I will fade away into your mind and Spark, but until then I will give you guidance on getting used to be half Incubus, Optimus." Explained Purple Lust

Optimus was about to have his processor overload with mind-boggling information that Purple Lust told him.

"Are you okay Optimus? You are smoking from the head there." Said Purple Lust with a little hint of concern in his smooth voice.

"I-I-I am alright-t. J-J-Just give me a nanoklick." Told Optimus

He let the info process in his processor slowly, then let his systems cool down a little. He took in a deep sigh in relief that he got his processor sorted out. He decided to ask a couple more questions.

"Is there anything I should know about being a Incubus and or the merging?" asked Optimus

"Well Incubi eating habits is something I should cover. Incubi feed twice or four times an orn. Since you are half Incubus and my presence in your body is still pretty strong, you will feed once or twice an orn. You can eat energon too, but maybe double of what you usually eat to satisfy your hunger. If you can not satisfy your hunger you will go the nearest Mech or Femme and feed even if you really do not want to that to them. They will forget the ordeal if you tell them to like you did that to the Medic."

"Ugh, do not remind me of that."

"Anyway, onto the merging. The after effects, as I said briefly in my other explanation, my presence influences your eating habits until I eventually fade away. My nature will have a slight effect on your behavior, but nothing too major. The features of the Incubus will never fade away though, just like the powers that comes with being one. You have a couple of common powers like the Hypno Stare, Smoke Body and Flight. Though, unsurprisingly, you gained a couple of rare powers like Spirit Chains and Time Room."

"R-Really. What do those do?" asked Optimus

"I would love to answer more questions, but you are about to wake up." Answered Purple Lust

"Wait what?" said Optimus. He noticed the dreamscape had growing white patches forming all around them.

"B-But I still have several unanswered questions!" shouted Optimus

"I know you do, but that must be it for now. Do not worry though, we will talk again. Bye and be well." Said Purple Lust as he waved while quickly fading away.

Everything turned white then black. Optimus slowly online his optics. His berth room, that he is sharing with Sentinal, came into view. He groaned from annoyance.

"Well, at least that cleared some things up." Thought Optimus. He got off his berth and checked out the window. Light was peering over the horizon. It was a little early, but Optimus took this as an advantage to eat breakfast. He walked to his little kitchen and grabbed a cube. He filled it up in the Energon Dispenser. He drank the full cube in a few gulps. Optimus noticed his fast consumption and groaned.

"I really do need to double my energon intake if I am going to go through this solar cycle and the future solar cycles." Optimus sighed

He refilled his cube and took another drink. He heard pedes coming into the little kitchen.

"Hey Sentinal, had a nice recharge?" asked Optimus

"Yeah, you?" responded Sentinal as he was getting a cube.

"It was okay." Optimus gulped down the rest of the Energon, then gently place the cube in the sink. The silence lingered for a few moments until Sentinal broke it.

"I wonder what the Sergeant will have us do today." Wondered Sentinal

"Perhaps have us do some drills first then maybe do a class activity or have us paired to a partner to complete a course together." Answered Optimus

Hopefully from here on out Optimus is going to try and stay normal as possible, though with being half Incubus, his life will probably never going to be the same again.

-Several orbital cycles before the Archa 7 incident.-

Optimus was swiftly flying high in the cold air of Cybertron. He needed to find a quick dinner. He put off his hunger for an orbital cycle and he going crazy hungry. He was scoping out the streets of Iacon for dinner, but non of the bots he looked at seem good to feed on. Frag his picky tastes. Optimus did not notice he was closing in on to the Elite Headquarters before it was too late. Alarms were going crazy and the security turrets were firing at Optimus.

"Frag!" thought Optimus

He was swiftly dodging the blue lasers. In other circumstances he would have fled and hid somewhere, but he was hungry and needed to satisfy his needs. Not only that, he smelled his next dinner there, so he decided to turn into smoke and hide in the shadows of the wall that surrounded the Headquarters. He saw the running Elites, scrabbling, trying to find him. When was he about to get the next Elite that ran past him, because he was just becoming that desperate. He spotted Ultra Magnus and Jazz run into the scene. His tanks rumbled hungrily.

"Primus, I have an expensive taste about my bots." Thought Optimus

*Author Notes* I know, I know you thought that only Ultra Magnus was going to get fragged, but nope, Jazz is going to be involved in it as well. Well my imaginations had other plans, so here you go. Sorry for the long explanation, but that needed to be explained, so none of my readers are confused. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter and is looking forward for the next chapter.