::Comm Link::
Predacon talking
Flashbacks
This is my longest one yet, but that's because of some flashbacks….BUT i am really happy with how this one came out.
Swoop vented heavily as he flew to the meeting spot he had set up to meet with both Paradox and Smokescreen. Several weeks were spent coming up with a plan on how to get this done and over with. Soon he will, since he only had a breem to gather his nerves for this meeting. Primus let this go smoothly.
Paradox drilled daggers into the mech as he landed. The meeting was being taken place near the silver lake nearly twenty miles from the city. Swoop rubbed his servo together in his nervousness that she could clearly see. While she knew why the mech had set this up, Smokescreen didn't have a clue, not having been told by the feline of what she had seen that morning. Since that day she made sure to nip and growl at the mech to make sure he knew just what she was capable of doing to him even with a mech his size.
"Paradox, Smokescreen." He greeted with a nod to each bot there. Smokescreen returned the greeting but Paradox sat where she had been and growled deeply at the mech narrowing her optics to show him she would do just as she had been showing through those weeks. "What are we doing here? You were rather vague on what it was you need to do." Smokescreen stated giving glance to the feline and her hostile show.
"Uh, well I asked the two of you here so I could ask you both something." Swoop stated looking between the two bots present. He gave another heavy vent in a way to clear it while he took a stance to stand tall, his gaze never leaving the two. "I wish to ask you as both the sister and best friend to Athena that I have the approval to peruse her romantically."
"No." Paradox stated coolly not hesitating her answer. Smokescreen had to review what Swoop had just stated. "Why?" Swoop looked to the blue mech and waited, seeing the mech had more to say. "What makes you different to the other mechs that have asked?" he asked serious.
The dinobot let himself think over his question. Just how many mechs have asked about the femme. Femme at the start of the war were rare, but those unmated were even rarer to be known. What did Swoop have to bring forth to show he was different to the mechs that have probably just sought after femmes that were unmated. Only, Swoop wasn't looking at Athena like that. So, what does he say?
"I don't know if I would be any different than those other mechs." Swoop finally stated looking up into the sky, his answer making the feline's finials twitch. She honestly thought the bot would have given an answer of how he knew what would make him different, not that he had no clue. She shared a glance with Smokescreen, he too was a little surprised at this answer having asked this question to Blurr.
He only let the mech try to get her attention knowing the bot had zero chance at doing so. His answer had been that he would have thought all of what she would need and be able to get it within a time frame. Smokescreen could only grimace at the answer Blurr had given him but knowing how Athena handle things he let the mech try. And fail.
"I find she is good company to be with." Swoop stated earning their attention again. "She's temperamental."
"Then I will search for that mech myself! He dares to try and kill anymore of our kind! I will have his spark for this." she shook off his hold and shifted to beast form to leap into the air. Predaking turned to hear shifting and found the mech that had come with her, take after Athena.
She screeched in anger when she glanced to find Swoop flying after her. ::If you're came after to take me back, think again mech!::
::Nope, not my plan.:: he stated calmly, lazily twirling just under her sharp talons. The winds created by him from doing that shifted the air around her from under, letting the soft breeze go through her armor. ::Then what is your plan mech? Im going after Starscream.::
::Im not stopping you. Im following, enjoying the winds. Do you want to play?:: he replied the lazy lit to his voice making her scuff, so he changed tactics when she didn't answer. He flew on her left inching closer with each kilk making Athena vent and glare at the mech as she took to inching herself away from him. ::Why are you so pit bent on tearing Starscream like that?:: she glared at him but all the mech did was nip at her back left pede making her focus on trying to kick him but he dodged and gave a cuffing laugh to her growl. The kick had thrown her off kilter a little and he took advantage of it by bumping her gently to her back with his pedes. ::I barely know you to let you know something like that mech.::
"She's spontaneous."
::Swoop, play along. This will be my only chance to get this mech off my back struts. Well, im hoping.:: Swoop looked to Athena in confusion at the private comm she sent as the predacon got up, moving around Blurr to stand at the dinobot's side with an arm laying on his left shoulder. Aero narrowed her optics having watched what her friend was doing and wondering what was about to happen. ::Remember, just go along with what im about to do.::
"Blurr, I am not interested in you like that nor have I ever been." she stated. "And if it takes it to show you, then please watch and get it through your fraggin processor that I only like you as a friend." Aero let her jaw drop at what Athena did next, shocking everyone that knew her, even the five bots that had just walked in as she spoke.
The predacon femme used her other servo to take Swoop's chin, her claws gently pressing into the metal, and turned his face towards her as she leaned down to plant her lips to his. Swoop, having been warned before hand, was still caught off guard but that didn't last long as he did as she asked. Moving his own servo up he gripped the back of her neck and pulled her deeper into the kiss she was giving him. His engine gave a purr as his other servo went to grip her waist to bring her frame near him.
"Also, she's fun to be around."
He gave a sheepish smile as he walked over to her. "Sorry, they were being a little hard to get away from." that made Athena break into a small smile at know just who those bots were. "They were giving you slag, weren't they?"
"Yeap." He answered rubbing the back of his helm as he looked to her. "You ready?" this time she gave him a large grin and shifted into her alt form. ::You're slow mech.:: she stated with a laugh afterwards as she leaped into the air and pushing her large wings down making the wind slam into Swoop as she flew passed him overhead. ::Come get me…if you can.:: she goaded.
Swoop grinned at her playfully banter and chased after her into the sky. Athena flew hard, straight up working her gears happily now that she was out and in her domain once more. It wasn't until she felt a nip on her tail that she quickly barrel rolled to the left and dived. She gave a loud screech in joy as she pulled out of the dive, watching Swoop zip past unable to follow her that soon in the turn. ::Come on mech, you have to do better than that.::
::Just you wait, Im getting warmed up.:: came his reply as he turned to fly towards her and just before he reached her, she did a back flip with her tail smacking him in his chassis in its non-lethal form then barrel rolling to the right to dive once again.
"I want to get to know her more." he stated.
Smokescreen looked to Paradox, arms crossed. The feline rolled her optics as she stood on all four pedes. "My answer is still no." she replied though, without the hardness of tone in her voice. Maybe she should give the mech a chance, but she wasn't backing out on her decision now nor would she be doing so any time soon. Truly she wanted her sister to have happiness after all that has happened, but Paradox wasn't sure if she was ready to let go so soon. She wasn't ready for a mech to be in her sister's life like that.
"Sorry, Swoop, but I have to agree with Paradox." Smokescreen stated watching the mech nod to there answer. "Though, out of the mechs that I have asked, you gave the best answer that I've heard."
Paradox glance to the mech as he spoke thinking before looking at the dinobot. "Swoop." he looked down to her when she spoke. "There is a way to...sway my answer." At that both mechs looked to her in surprise, the dinobot giving a look of a little hope. "Know that every little move you make Smokey and I will be judging." At this he gave a nod of understanding. "I do want her to be happy so that is why I am willing to give you this one chance. You screw up, you are done."
"I understand. What is it that I must do?" he asked while Smokescreen glanced between the two smirking, he had an idea where the predacon feline was headed seeing as they had talked about this topic a little.
"You will be tested. What those tests will be, will determine if you are good enough to try to earn her affections." She stated looking straight into his optics. "You will not know when these test will happen, nor know what they will be about. Like I stated, your every move will be judged until we are satisfied."
The three stood in silence. "I will make your processor change." Swoop declared and if she could, she would have raise an optic ridge at his declaration. The mech had confidence she'll give him that, but would it be enough to sway them? Paradox stood up and walked past the dinobot with Smokescreen following. "We shall see, mech, we shall see."
Athena was dreading this. Why would Ultra Magnus give her this? He's mad, that's what it is. She stood, looking into the red optics of the mech that ordered the death of all of her kin. Her mentor knew this and still made her go see this mech. His red optics bore into hers as he took in the predacon that had once been under his orders since her creation. Her crown of feathers twitched in her anger that she forced away, she would not let this mech know she still held a grudge against him but it was small compared to another.
Did he even know what Starscream had done? Knowing this murdering mech, he didn't give a frag what had gone on. Over the years of his resurrection he had changed his look to look just as he had done during his time on Earth. Only difference was that the more sharp points of his armor had been grinded down smooth and his arm cannon had been destroyed.
For the longest time, he had stayed hidden as the rebuilding of the planet had gone underway. Within the last year and a half was when he had been found by both Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack. With only a few bots even knowing he still lived, they kept the mech in lock down inside the home they build for him. That and it was a form of punishment for all that he has done that brought the war to where it went.
Red optics took in the predacon with disinterest as they went back to the datapad that he had been given some time during his lock down. "I see you are to be my guard for now, predacon."
"It would seem so, Megatronus." At the name he once had his gaze went back up to her in a seething way. His faceplates stay neutral but his optics showed the nerve she had hit. "And I have a name, it is Athena." she stated holding her helm high. Megatron internally snarled at her as he made himself stay seated in the chair. The gull of this predacon!
After a breem of silent staring, Megatron had slowly lowered his temper. "I see your time with Silverburst had done wonders for your temper, Megatronus." The mech grinded his dentas optics glaring into her. "My temper and how I handle it are none of your concerns, femme."
She stayed silent letting the mech go back to his reading. She was his guard during the day now while another bot, one she hasn't meet yet, would be taking the evening shift and the one for the overnight shift was Noisebreak. At least she knew the mech she would be relieving and knew to bring some sweets at times.
"You can sit. You do know this?" Megatron's voice rang out in the silence gaining her attention. Her crown lifted slightly at his disinterested tone, his optics never leaving his pad. She glanced at the possible seating's finding that there were multiple choice. It was a home after all that house a bot and so it was fitted to be a home. After several breem of thinking it over she moved to sit acrossed the table from the mech. Megatron glanced to her at her choice to be so close to the ex-warlord. "Not many would be this close to me like you are." he stated. "Most are too afraid to even stay in the same building as me." he set his datapad down on the round table the separated them a few feet. "Tell me, why did you choice to sit there?"
She studied the mech, he didn't appear to be in his usual temperamental stage as he was just breems before. Even when she first was created she didn't really fear this mech. Yes, she was fragged off at having guard duty but truthfully, this mech didn't do much towards her to show he was master. He did let Starscream do all that he did, but he wasn't the one that her anger was directed at. She reprimanded herself knowing that this mech did need some of her anger for the genocide of her kin but not the full might of her anger
She leaned more into the chair as she looked at the mech acrossed from her showing him that she could and would be relaxed near him. "I'm not one of those bots that fear you. To be honest, Megatron, when I first woke up I had no reason to fear you. You gave me no reason to from what little interaction we had. If you must know, I have to thank you." An optic ridge raised at her words but he let her continue.
"You had the last say on if I was to be created when creator brought Predaking through." she stated. "I do have to thank you for letting me live, but you still gave the order to kill the others of my kin. Predaking would have continued to take orders from you if you had let them live."
He gave a sneer at her last words. "You seem confident by that. Are you sure he would have even after figuring out he had more strength than even me?"
She stared into his optics void of emotions. "I am. You and creator gave us life and for that we would have followed you to the end. I may be still fragged that creator would let such a thing happen, but he is still creator to us. All we wanted was our kin alive alongside us." she looked away at the remembrance of the first few days she had. "I may not have thought you master even though creator stated you were, but I would have followed the orders you gave me."
Silence ruled the two after that. Both thinking of the past. Athena shut her optics when the memories of her sisters came forth. She spent so little with them before they were snuffed, but it still didn't hurt any less. Her spark ached at the void their broken bonds gave her. Without looking at the mech she guarded she asked him.
"Did you know what Starscream did?" The mech glanced up from his datapad at her question and the name of his once SIC. After a few second she turned to him. "Did you give him that order to do all of that to me?"
He studied the predacon femme as he thought. "I gave Starscream the order to make sure you were not seen by Predaking, to lock you away so he didn't know one had survived. I did not care what happened after."
She tore her gaze away from him at his answer filling her anger rise. Her sharp digits digging into the chair as her memory pledged her but she still couldn't take her anger out on Megatron. He only gave the order to keep her hidden from Predaking knowing she still lived. Whatever happened during that time he didn't care, he just wanted her hidden. Megatron watched the predacon try to contain her anger and his curiosity was peaked at what his ex-SIC had done to piss off this predacon so badly.
"Tell me, femme, what did Starscream do while you were locked away? What had he done to gain such anger in one that could tear him apart so easily?" the mech asked earning a growl from her and her talons giving the chair scores of wounds as she dragged them. Abruptly she stood, heading towards the door to leave but was stopped by a servo on her shoulder. She growled at him but he gave her his own growl. "Tell me what I want to know, predacon. What did Starscream do?"
She glanced at him over her shoulder, optic bright in her fury that this mech would demand her tell him only her own processor was showing her Starscream. Without thinking her fury took over her actions and she swiped at him. He drew back easily and gathered himself into a stance to block every punch she threw at him. Megatron couldn't help by have a little joy at the fight having not been able to have one in a good while. Having been a gladiator for so long, then fighting a war made one miss a good tussle.
"You're letting your anger make you sloppy femme." he informed ducking down from her wide sweep of her leg. She yelled in irritation at having not laid a hit on him so she did the next thing that came to her and that was to tackle him. Megatron gave a slight grunt at the jarring but didn't let the predacon get leverage. Using his stronger form, he rolled over her taking one of her punches in his grip and twisted making her cry out at the sudden pain. "Femme, you need to calm down. This is no place for a fight." she snarled at him. "I WILL SNUFF YOUR SPARK STARSCREAM FOR WHAT YOU DID!" Megatron had to lean back at the swipe she did, talons fully out. She thrashed her talons around getting Megatron at one point making his let go of the servo he had been hold to leap off of the femme.
Megatron growled at her for her attack but could see that the femme was not seeing him. She was in a memory flux at had her in its grip. "I am not Starscream!" he shouted throwing his own punch getting her in the right side of her helm. Her helm snapped back to the mech as she snarled. "Your cowering ways will end now Starscream! I will ripe your arms from you just like you did to my sister."
He needed to end this quick, needed to do something that would shock that femme out of this flux. Holding up both servos to her level, palms open. Athena glance between the servos with caution the mech that stood there unseen in her optics. "What tricks are you planning now Starscream?"
"I am not Starscream, Athena." Megatron stated lowly his tone leaving the harshness that was always present. "I am Megatron." She stood still taking in the mech, the flux that she was in shifted taking the form of Starscream away to bring Megatron back into view. She stood shocked at knowing that she had just attacked the ex-warlord, a mech that she was charged with guarding and yet she attacked him. His own guard attacked him.
Lowering his servos, having watched the widening of her optics when she came too. "Now, femme, what did Starscream do?" Athena shook her helm and backed away. "I must go and report. Have a good cycle, Megatron." she went to the door and left. Megatron stayed where he stood think over all the had happened letting the femme go knowing if he tried to stop her again it would come back to them fighting once more.
Well, Surprise! Megatron makes an appearance...Athena is now on guard duty and thats who she'll be guarding. Also, for anyone who's had to deal with potential boyfriends or girlfriends...what would you give to test them? Truthfully, im at a loss having not had to do that type of thing. Paradox being the protective sister she is would make sure those test are hard.
The Whispering Sage - The classic look. had to put it in and Paradox was just the right femme to be the one to do it.
CoffeeshopsAndCookies - Also, your name is good. Coffee...mmhhhmmm. Thanks to your review, ive been thinking a lot on it and wouldnt mind trying it out to see how it goes.
igeegeei - YES ANOTHER SWOOP FAN! HE IS ONE SMEXY MECH! ahem...
Without further adieu R&R~!
