Author's note. Sorry for not updating in ages, I've been focused on my other stories.

Stuff in italics are what the Sparkling is feeling.

Slight warning for Arcee cussing.

Remember, suggestions are welcome.

Enjoy and please review.

Aboard the Nemesis.

"What do you mean she's not coming?!"

Megatron winced as Skywarp screeched this at the top of his voice while Thundercracker looked equally pissed off. He had just informed the two Seekers that Prime was refusing to let Arcee meet them, at least until the Space Bridge was finished.

"I'm sorry Skywarp but there's nothing I can do," Megatron said wearily. "If we try to press him, he may stop you seeing her at all. Not to mention that unless the Space Bridge is fixed, the next time you see her will be in the company of Ironhide, Ratchet and..."

He grimaced.

"The Dinobots."

Both Seekers looked horrified but Skywarp still had a mulish expression on his face. As the Sparkling had grown inside Arcee, Skywarp seemed to be having odd sympathy moods which would totally change his personality. And not for the better.

"So, we have to wait?" Thundercracker asked quietly, taking hold of Skywarp's arm to stop him jumping about.

"Well, I'm not going without seeing my Sparkling," Skywarp said stubbornly, jerking out of his mate's grip.

"Warp, wait..." Thundercracker cried but....

Crack.

....Too late.

"I'd get him back if I were you,"

Thundercracker and Megatron turned to see Starscream walking over to them, with a slightly grim expression. Megatron had been wondering where his SIC was, the red Seeker always seemed to appear when Megatron was having a hard time.

"And why is that Starscream?" Megatron asked before Thundercracker could.

"Because apparently Arcee is not looking favourable at any Mech at the moment," Starscream said calmly.

Both Mechs grimaced, they knew what that meant.

"Thundercracker, try and get your mate back here," Megatron ordered and the blue Seeker nodded and headed for the door.

"Starscream," Megatron said as he turned to the red Seeker who looked resigned to his Trine mate's predicament.

"Round up the Constructicons, I want the Space Bridge repaired immediately."

Arcee's POV.

Arcee lounged on her berth, trying to work up some energy to go and do something. She'd taken some coolant which had stopped the sickness but it was only a matter of time till that wore off. She hated being inactive but being active meant getting up and that was proving to be harder than she could have thought possible.

She idly ran a hand across her the place where the Spark was, sending a feeling of love to it.

Content

Love

She wondered what it would be like feeling the Sparkling kick, it would certainly bring home the fact that she was carrying another being within her. She gave a wry smile, a kick would probably snap her out of her lethargy.

Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to her feet and staggered over to the door. She had decided a walk would do her good, maybe she could meet up with her brother and they could hang out. He'd been really good to her this past month or so, not pushing her and doing his best to help her.

Crack

She gave a small shriek and jumped as she heard that noise from right behind her. Spinning around she saw Skywarp standing there, looking peeved. As she gaped, he came over to her and staring down at her, said.

"Why won't you come out today, it's out time together?"

"I, um...." Arcee stuttered, she didn't know what to say.

"Well, you can come now," Skywarp said, taking hold of her arm and making like he was about to head towards the exit.

"Wait, no," Arcee suddenly cried as she tried to free herself.

"No, I'm not going with you, stop, I don't want to," she cried, digging her heels in as he tried to drag her.

But he ignored her and simply took hold of her and scooped her into his arms. She started beating her fists on his chest as he calmly strode towards the exit. She yelled with frustration.

"You can't do this, Skywarp, I not going with you,"

"Stop that," he said in annoyance as he continued to hit him.

He grunted as she started squirming like mad, desperate to free herself. She wouldn't let up, he was going to put her down if she had to slap him. But to her horror and indignation, he suddenly shifted his grip and slung her over his shoulder so that he just had to hold onto her legs.

"Put me down," she screamed, beating his back with her fists and trying to kick his chest. "Put me down, you can't treat me like this, put me down."

But her shrieks do nothing and he continued, no doubt too used to Starscream's screeching to pay her any mind. To her horror, their close to the Ark entrance but there's no sigh of anyone coming to rescue her. How had no one heard what was going on?

"You slagger," she suddenly screamed. "Put me down or I'll shove Megajerk's gun so far up your aft, you won't even be able to frag Thundercracker in the mouth."

This made Skywarp come to an abrupt halt. Arcee was suddenly swung off his shoulder and set heavily on her feet. As she struggled to keep the nausea this action caused down, Skywarp gripped her shoulders and hissed.

"Don't swear in front of my Sparkling,"

"Let go of me," Arcee said, getting angry rather than scared. "I won't let you treat me like this..."

"Did you hear me," Skywarp demanded, frustration spilling over in his voice. "You don't curse while you've got my Sparkling, do you understand?"

"I'll swear if I like," Arcee shrieked, for some reason getting even angrier. "You're not my father, you can't tell me what to do."

"I can where my Sparkling's concerned," Skywarp growled, giving her a little shake. "If you can't control yourself, then I'll be happy to gag you quiet."

"Bas....mpth," Arcee was cut off as Skywarp clamped a hand over her mouth.

As she struggled trying to make him let go, he spun her around and pinned her to his chest. With his free hand he gripped her waist and other arm and started dragging her to the exit.

"Mrpth, mmth," Arcee moaned through the hand smothering her as tears started spilling from her optics.

Alarm?

Worry?

Couldn't he sense what this was doing to the Sparkling, how much it was upset at the way it's Carrier was being treated? She tried to wrench his hand away so she could tell him that, but he simply tightened his grip.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?"

Skywarp paused and growled as Bumblebee skidded to a halt in front of him, looking shocked at the scene.

"Let her go, why are you doing this?" the young yellow Mech demanded planting himself in the middle of the corridor, blocking Skywarp's exit.

"Out of the way," Skywarp snarled as Arcee writhed in his grasp. "We're leaving."

"No way," Bumblebee said hotly. "Prime will throw a fit, you can't treat her like that."

"I'll do what I like," Skywarp growled, taking a menacingly step towards Bumblebee, dragging Arcee with him.

But a large hand suddenly fell squarely on Skywarp's shoulder.

"Release my daughter, this instant Skywarp," said a very cold, rumbling voice.

Skywarp half turned to see a none too pleased Optimus Prime standing right behind him. Arcee moaned with release, her father would make Skywarp let her go.

"She's coming with me," Skywarp said with a growl. "We were meant to be meeting today and that's what we're going to do."

"And as I explained to Megatron Skywarp, Arcee is feeling to stressed to go out which is why I want her mother here," Optimus said in a cold voice, taking a step towards Skywarp who took a step back.

Under Optimus's glare, Skywarp released Arcee's mouth but still kept hold of her. Bumblebee hovered nervously in the background.

"Now, if you let Arcee go and leave right now, I'll let the fact you've been man-handling her go," Optimus said in a quiet voice that was meant to be obeyed.

Unless you were a hormonal Seeker who was expecting, of course.

"I'll bring her back later," Skywarp yelled, activating his thrusters and shooting backwards, Arcee clinging to him.

Bumblebee was forced to lunge out the way as Skywarp rocketed out of the base, Optimus hot on his heels. As he charged out into the sun, Ironhide came rushing over.

"Prime, call from Cybertron......what the hell?" he exclaimed as he saw what was going on.

"Prowl, patch the incoming communication through to my comm.," Optimus yelled into his comm., it might be Elita calling.

"As you wish, Prime," came Prowl's voice as Optimus and Ironhide continued to run after Skywarp who was starting to gain height as he scooped Arcee more securely into his arms.

However, it wasn't Elita's voice that crackled over the comm. a couple of minutes later.

"Prime," Chromia's voice begun.

"I'm sorry, Chromia, I can't talk, Skywarp's kidnapped Arcee," Optimus yelled into the comm. as he prepared to transform, he wasn't going to be able to catch Skywarp on foot.

"Is he heading to his base?" Chromia yelled through the static caused by Optimus transforming into his truck mode.

"I think so," Optimus yelled back as he and Ironhide roared after the purple Seeker.

"Ah'm going kill that punk," Ironhide snarled, he was very protective of Optimus's young daughter.

Chromia chuckled.

"Slow down big boy, Elita's probably going ro take care of that when she gets there,"

"What?" both Mechs yelped at the same time.

"She's on her way," Chromia explained. "The Space Bridge is working again."

"Thank goodness," Optimus said, with his mate here, things would go much more smoothly and he wouldn't have to deal with the situation with Arcee on his own.

"Thank you, Chromia, we'll call back later when this is over,"

"Alright," Chromia said cheerfully. "Try not to do anything you'll regret. Chromia out."

"Prime, ah'm sorry but ah don't think we're gonna catch that Seeker before he goes over that ocean," Ironhide called in frustration as they continued on their way.

"Leave that to me," Optimus said grimly. "I have an idea,"

Meanwhile Arcee was still clinging to Skywarp as he flew with her over the rocky landscape. She knew they were fast approaching the ocean where the Decepticon base lay, a place she did not want to revisit.

"Please don't take me there," she begged, unable to stop herself from burying her head in his chest. She hated flying like this, it brought back memories of the last time it had happened.

"We can go out like we were meant to, just don't take me there,"

Skywarp looked down at her but said.

"Prime won't let us," he said flatly. "And you need to have a Medic with you, so we'll go and get Hook once I've found TC."

"No, no please..." Arcee started to say but then.

"Warp,"

Skywarp slowed slightly as blue jet streaked its way over to him. Thundercracker transformed and seeing Arcee, said in exasperation.

"Warp, what's going on?"

"She wouldn't come and Prime wouldn't make her," Skywarp explained as he carried on flying, his mate at his side. "So I'm taking her to the Nemesis."

"Warp," Thundercracker groaned. "We agreed we wouldn't take her again, the stress isn't good for the Sparkling."

"I'm doing this for our Sparkling," Skywarp insisted. "We need to spend as much time with it as possible since the Carriers not living with us, we can't be missing meetings."

"Oh Warp," Thundercracker sighed as he saw Arcee silently crying, her emotions were just too much to handle.

"She'd defiantly going to need to see a Medic now,"

He reached out and took Arcee's hand and gave it a squeeze.

"We'll just let Hook check you out and then we'll take you back home,"

"I want to go now," Arcee said with a sob.

" I'm sorry, but we need to make sure everything's okay with you and the Sparkling," Thundercracker said firmly and they flew on.

Arcee wept the entire way, and didn't stop even when they reached the landing platform. As the Seekers touched down, Thundercracker said gently but firmly.

"Warp, let her walk."

Skywarp did as asked, but not without some grumbling. But as they started to make their way along the corridor, they were struck by how quiet it was.

"Where is everyone?" Skywarp asked, his arm around Arcee's waist, unable to let her go completely.

There came a groan up ahead, and the three sped up a bit to see what it was. It seemed to have come from the Control Room which confused the two Seekers though Arcee didn't care, she was too upset. Thundercracker punched a button and they entered the room.

They gaped at the sight before their optics. There right in front of them was Megatron sprawled on the floor, obviously knocked out. Lying to one side was Starscream who was nursing a damaged jaw, but that wasn't who they focused on.

No they were focused on the tall pink Femme which twin antenna on her head.

"Mother?" Arcee said in wonder, hardly able to believe what she was seeing.

Elita's features formed into a warm smile.

"Arcee," she said softly and she opened her arms wide.

"Mama," Arcee cried and she charged straight into her mother's arms, hugging her tightly.

"I've missed you so much, mama," Arcee gasped, crying into her mother's arms. "I feel....so awful...and everyone's counting on me....and I'm not sure I can do this."

"Hush my darling," Eilta said gently. "Everything's going to be alright, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere."

As Arcee hugged her mother, the two Seekers edged closer to Starscream who was groaning.

"What happened?" Thundercracker whispered.

"We had just repaired the Space Bridge when she came through," Starscream said through gritted teeth. "She, um, demanded that I take her to Megatron, so I did."

As they gaped at him, he said angrily.

"She knocked out the whole repair crew out cold, don't tell me you would have done different."

"He's right, I didn't give him a choice,"

The three Seekers turned to see Elita One looking very stern as she held Arcee close to her.

"Boys," she began. "I'd like a little word with you."

They all gulped.

Sometime later, Thundercracker and Skywarp were flying over the ocean again, but this time they both had a Femme. After her 'talk', Elita had ordered them to take them back to land where Optimus and Ironhide were waiting for them.

Once they got there, Arcee flew into Optimus's arms.

"Dad," she moaned, burying her face into his chest.

"Sweetness," he mumrered, holding her close.

Elita was meanwhile, giving the two shamefaced Seekers a stern look.

"I trust their won't be a repeat of this performance?" she asked sternly as Iornhide looked on with a grin.

"No, ma'am," they said, shuffling their feet.

"Good," she said. "Now run along, we're contact you when Arcee is ready to see you."

The Seekers wasted no time in leaping into the air and jetting off. Optimus chuckled.

"What did you say to them?"

Elita smiled grimly.

"Just warned them that it's not a good idea to piss of a Femme,"

The two Mechs laughed and even Arcee managed a weak smile. They all transformed and set off home.

Meanwhile back at the Nemesis, a certain grey Mech was sitting up with a groan.

"Argh, what happened?"

Author's note. Well, I hope you all enjoyed that, I'll try not to wait so long to update. In the next chapter, Elita settles in while Arcee discovers what Ratchet meant about cravings. Till next time.