I've just finished an epic shift at work! I'm so energized that I coudn't go to bed now..


Chapter 3

Airachnid lazily opened her optics. Despite being busy all night, her frame was not complaining about the exhaustion of all that physical activity. She felt regenerated, alive. She didn't feel so for a long time.

The night spent with Orion had gone well, it was really beyond every expectation. She had managed to complete the first phase of her plan. And the ability of the former Autobot leader in pleasing a femme had nicely surprise. She was convinced that it would be the first of a long series of pleasant moments together.

As she smiled smugly by these thoughts, her eyes fell on the frame of the mech who was sleeping next to her. Orion was lying on his back, one arm was positioned above his helmet, while the other was placed at the center of his chest. His face was relaxed and calm. Airachnid's smile widened and the femme instinctively reached out her hand toward the face of the young archivist. She began to stroke the face, neck, chest until she got to abs. Orion slowly opened his optics and smiled, but he didn't wake up at all.

The images of the night before were still vivid in the minds of the femme. She also felt a strange feeling inside her chest cavity. Her spark was reacting abnormally in Orion's presence. This seemed strange because they had done many things together, but they hadn't merged their sparks.

A sudden awareness across her processors. Airachnid was having feelings for the young mech.

She was a femme used to feel hatred, resentment, anger. Feelings such as affection, caring and love were far away and unknown to her spark.

Yet at that moment her whole frame was saying the exact opposite. And this feeling terribly frightened her. She did the only sensible thing she thought at the moment, she jumped out of the berth and grabbed the datapad with Arcee's imagine that Orion had drawn a couple of days before.

With the tip of her fingers grazed the glass, until the painted image was almost completely unrecognizable.

She didn't realize that Orion was wide awake and got up from the bed. She felt only a pair of strong arms that grabbed her by the waist.

"Good morning" Orion whispered gently as he slipped off the datapad from her hands.

Airachnid freed herself from Orion's gentle grip and stared at him in annoyance "What does this mean?".

The mech stared at the femme for a moment, then shrugged and said with sincerity, "I don't know ... I don't remember who she is ... I had her picture in my processors ... ".

"Oh, poor Orion, you just don't remember ..." the femme came back to him and put her arms around his neck "She is Arcee, Ratchet's SIC ... ruthless and cruel murderer. She repeatedly tried to kill me".

Orion's eyes widened and he hugged her as if to protect the femme "I will not let never hurt you ... I swear it, on my spark".

Airachnid smiled in satisfaction. Step two completed.


"Well, well, well ... well done Airachnid!"said Megatron after turning off the screen. The femme had reported to his leader, showing the first part of the video that portrayed her and Orion while they were kissing. She had voluntarily omitted the next part of the video. That part was reserved for one person and one person only.


Orion that morning didn't really want to get to work. He let out a deep sigh and he lay there still for a few minutes in the berth with his arms behind the head. He was thinking about the fantastic night before. And what Airachnid had said about that Arcee.

The anger he felt towards the femme Autobot was indescribable.

But now there was no time for such thoughts. He decided to start the day. He got up and saw the datapad on the ground with the broken screen. He picked it up and placed it on the desk. Then he went out to reach his location.

It was several hours that Orion was frantically typing on the keyboard. His concentration was interrupted by sounds of gunfire and combat. The two Vehicons that usually guarded the entrance to the hangar were gone. The young mech was intrigued and worried by what was going on, so he went to the place from which he had been heard all the noise of a struggle.


Arcee and Airachnid were fighting relentlessly for several minutes. Both were exhausted and wounded, but none of them had the intention to surrender.

The Decepticon femme saw her opportunity, when the Autobot femme slid back after a jump to avoid being hit. In a moment the spider jumped behind the bike and immobilized her taking advantage by her extra arms. Just then, Orion turned the corner.

The looks of the archivist and Arcee interbred and for a moment, both eyes didn't brake away from each other.

"Optimus ... please ... help me" said the Autobot femme as she tried to wriggle out of the grip of her enemy.

"Don't listen to her, Orion ... remember what I told you" said firmly Airachnid, shortly before she was struck in the abdomen and collapsing to the ground. Now Arcee was the one who had her chance ... and she wouldn't have wasted it: she transformed her right arm to a laser cannon and pointed it straight to Airachnid's spark.

"This is for Tailgait ..." she whispered just before opening fire.

But the shot missed the target. Arcee felt herself grasped to the neck and lift off the ground. She immediately recognized the touch, she had already feel it on her body. It was usually a gentle touch, loving and caring. This time, however, it was a touch full of hatred and contempt.

"You don't hurt her!" That voice. Even that voice, it was usually gentle and sweet. This time was full of anger. Arcee was disoriented, confused and very frightened. Then her back hit against the opposite wall. When she looked up, she saw Orion was helping Airachnid to her feet. The mech was stroking her face, a gesture that a couple of times Optimus had done with her. Arcee's eyes filled with tears: what did it happen to her leader and friend?

But Arcee's spark literally went to pieces when she saw the faces of Optimus and her mortal enemy approaching.

"No .." whispered desperate the young femme.


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