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Chapter 14: Galvatron

Negaeta winced when she looked at herself in the mirror. It seemed like her baby belly had come overnight. In the past six months since she had found out she was pregnant; she had tried to keep herself busy by making incubators and coming up with names for her unborn child. As hard as she tried though, she couldn't keep thoughts of Megatron from entering her mind. She tried to keep it to herself, but it was hard to hide the fact that she was scared to death to have this child without him. Starscream seemed to sense her fear though and had lightened up considerably when he saw her abdomen begin to swell with the new life inside of it. He didn't talk much about her being pregnant; instead he tried to focus on the task at hand. But, Negaeta knew that was going to have to change. He was the only one available to deliver the child, as unfitting as it was that it was the treacherous second in command had to deliver the former leader of the Decepticons child. Starscream hadn't the slightest idea on how to though and Negaeta knew she would have to teach him…even if he didn't want to learn.

She sighed heavily as she turned away from the mirror and read over the results of her latest tests on her child. It was bad enough that she had to do all of the prenatal care herself. If Megatron were still alive…Negaeta shook her head, she couldn't think like that at this point. She had survived nearly seven months without him, but the pain was still there. She sat down heavily on a recharge berth and watched as a few tears fell on the results of her tests. She quickly wiped her optics. "Just breathe, Negaeta," she told herself, "Things will get better…someday."

"Is everything alright?" Starscream asked as he came into the med bay suddenly.

Negaeta looked up surprised to see him and felt even more surprised to hear the gentle edge in his voice. "Uh…yeah," she said trying in vain to hide her tears from him.

Starscream sighed heavily and came over and sat beside her. "Thinking about Megatron again?" he asked.

She winced as a new round of tears brimmed in her optics. "What am I going to say when the sparkling asks where his father is?" she cried as she set the results aside so she could wipe her face again.

"Negaeta…" Starscream began, but didn't know what else to say. He wasn't used to comforting anybody, especially an emotional, heavily pregnant femme.

"He won't understand what death is, or the Allspark, or what a human is," Negaeta remarked, recollecting how Megatron was killed by Sam.

"You know it's a mech?"

She nodded and gestured to the results that she had previously been holding. Starscream heaved a sigh again, "The boy is going to need a father…you won't be able to handle Megatron's son by yourself."

"And what am I supposed to do, Starscream?" she demanded, "Megatron is dead, he isn't coming back."

"Perhaps The Fallen could be his mentor when he is older."

"But he will have no one to call his father."

"That is the sad part about war, Negaeta. You will have to make adjustments; you will have to find a way to survive without Megatron's help."

"Starscream…I need you to deliver the child."

"I bet Megatron is rolling over in his grave about that."

"You're the only one who can."

"You will have to teach me."

"It doesn't take much; you just have to be there to catch the sparkling."

"Joyous…"

She sighed heavily, "I promise that is all you have to do. After that point, I'll be able to take care of myself."

"And the child too?" he asked surprised, "You'll have just given birth, you'll be exhausted."

"I'll manage," she said.

"Negaeta," he breathed before he said, "I really only stopped by to inform you that our energon supply is getting dangerously low. I already have Soundwave trying to scramble the Decepticons on Earth to find whatever they can for us…for you. The Fallen does not realize how much energy he is taking. The sparklings will never become a reality if we cannot sustain ourselves."

"Energon was always abundant on Earth."

"But it's so hard transporting it here without the Autobots interfering."

"I wish I could go back…this place is not suitable for raising a child."

"The Fallen will not allow that. We'll find a way," he said as he got up from his seat on the recharge berth and headed for the exit.

Negaeta sighed as she watched him leave. It wouldn't be long until the sparkling was born, and then they would need even more energon, more than what they had now. If they could barely sustain themselves, how could they possibly feed another mouth? Negaeta tried not to think about it. If worse came to worst, she would join Megatron in the pit to make sure their child was alright.

About a week had gone by and Negaeta was busy helping Starscream build another incubator. She winced suddenly and grabbed her abdomen temporarily before looking back to Starscream, who was looking at her concerned. "You alright?" he asked.

"The sparkling, he's been kicking, but now that he's getting bigger, he doesn't realize how much his kicking hurts."

Starscream smiled inwardly and averted his gaze from her. She watched him confused. "Is something wrong?" she asked.

"I wish the child were mine," he confessed quietly.

Negaeta felt a blush gently burn onto her cheeks and she quickly looked back to the incubator. "If it were yours," she said softly, "At least he'd have a father."

And to her surprise, he reached over and began to lightly rub her abdomen. She tensed under his touch until he breathed, "Relax…"

Negaeta could feel Starscream's nervousness at what he was doing. If Megatron were still alive and walked in on his second in command gently rubbing his mate's midsection, Starscream wouldn't have walked away from it in one piece. And suddenly the child kicked, startling both Negaeta and Starscream. At first, he retracted his hand in surprise, but then he placed his hand back onto her abdomen and felt as the child kicked again. He couldn't help but smile, and neither could Negaeta.

"Megatron would've loved this," he said, still grinning, "Feeling his own child alive inside of you could've melted even his hard-bitten spark, as it does mine."

Negaeta felt tears in her optics and quickly wiped them away. "I wish he would come back," she said, "I wish he could come back before the child is born, that way he could name it. You know how hard it is trying to come up with a worthy enough name for the son of the former leader of the Decepticons?"

Starscream grinned, "Perhaps, Tron?"

Negaeta shook her head, "I just don't see him being addressed as 'Tron, sir.'"

"Negatron?"

"I've thought about it," she said, "But I don't know."

"Something will come to you," he said, "You don't have to name him right away."

"I know."

Starscream could see the sadness in her optics and he sighed heavily. As the new leader of the Decepticons, he knew it wasn't right to feel such pity for his former leader's mate, but he couldn't help it. He wanted to tell her to take the afternoon off, but he knew that wouldn't ease her sadness or the pain she was feeling inside. "Come on," he said taking her by the hand and pulling her to her feet, "Let's get out of here for a little bit."

"Where…where are we going?" she asked as she followed him out of the med bay.

"Outside," he said as he led her out of the wreckage of The Fallen's crashed starship.

Negaeta glanced around as she took in outer space. It wasn't the first time she had beheld it, but each time the immensity of it took her breath away. Just being outside the dark and depressing walls of the wrecked starship already made her feel better. She inhaled deeply before looking to Starscream, "Thanks."

"I figured it would help."

She nodded, "In a way…you've almost been too good to me."

He glanced at her before taking his hand back. "Why do you say that?" he asked, looking away.

"You're taking care of me when you don't have to."

"Did it ever occur to you that maybe I don't have anything better to do? It's either take care of you or work on more of those damned incubators."

"Whatever it is," she said, "Thank you."

He huffed, "I'll be inside if you need me."

She watched as he went back inside the starship before she turned her gaze back to the stars. Maybe one of them was Megatron's soul, like she had heard in human legends. She just wished so badly that he could see what was happening…

She watched as a star streaked across the sky and she felt the sparkling kick. She smiled as she ran a hand over her abdomen, "Was that your father, little one, racing across the heavens?" And she let the tears fall this time; no one was there to see her cry.

"Starscream to Soundwave."

"Yes?" the subordinate answered.

"You once told me a rumor that there were a few fragments of the Allspark remaining and that these said fragments would have enough power to restore the lifespark of our fallen leader, Megatron."

"What use does The Fallen have for them?" Soundwave questioned, sounding impatient.

"None," Starscream answered, "I am defying The Fallen's authority by doing this, but I order you to find at least one and restore Megatron back to the living with it."

"Do my audio receptors deceive me?"

Starscream growled, "I'm not doing it because I like him. I pity his mate. I know I have not told you before, but she is with his child. In three months there's going to be a sparkling running around without a father. I am too shamed to try and even ask to father the child."

"Megatron has an heir?" Even Soundwave could not hide the elation in his monotonous voice.

"A son," Starscream smiled, unable to stop a smile from forming on his mouth components, "And if we, Megatron's men, can barely contain our excitement, imagine how Megatron would be."

"I will put the Decepticons to work immediately," Soundwave said, "But it may take longer than three months. It may be years…"

"I suppose I better start a family photo album as the humans say," Starscream said, "That way Megatron can see it should he come back."

"Shall I contact Shockwave and ask for a calculation of what our chances of success may be?"

"Yes, and report back to me once you have it."

"Yes, Starscream," Soundwave said as he ended the transmission.

Later that evening, Negaeta returned to her quarters to try and get some recharge. Her abdomen as well as her feet was aching. She desperately needed to refuel, but there was no available energon. Instead, she resigned herself to collapsing to her berth in exhaustion, waiting for the next morning to come.

But hours before morning came; Negaeta was awakened by her own thirst. She tried to ignore it at first, but it was so strong that she couldn't, and she lay awake until her internal clock told her it was time to get up and start getting ready. She sighed heavily as she sat up, but immediately regretted doing so as her vision became clouded and blurry. Diagnostics were screaming across her CPU, informing her to refuel immediately or she would go into stasis. She groaned as she slowly lay back down. She wasn't due to receive her next energon ration for another couple days, even though she knew that at the rate the sparkling was depleting her energy sources, she should've been refueling every day.

Negaeta checked her energy levels, only to see they were beyond dangerously low. Sitting back up, she knew she would have to find energon to consume somewhere and quickly, even if it killed her. Slowly she got up from the bed, only to feel a pain slice through her abdomen as her child began kicking. "Not now little one," she moaned as she took a few steps forward.

"Negaeta, get back in that berth immediately!"

Megatron. Negaeta felt her spark skip a beat as she whirled around, expecting the Decepticon leader to be standing there when she turned around, but he was not. She shook her head, concluding that she must be hearing things. She turned back to the door.

"Negaeta!"

He was growling. Whether she was hallucinating or not, she didn't care. She had missed his anger so much. "What, Megatron?" she asked into the silence of her room.

"I will not allow you to harm yourself, let alone our son. Get back in the berth."

"I need to refuel."

"Help will come. I will not beg you, Negaeta. Get back in the berth, for me, for Galvatron."

"Galvatron?" she breathed, "Is that what you want to name him?"

But she didn't hear his response as she blacked out and fell to the floor.

"Negaeta, are you ever going to wake up?" Starscream whined as he knocked on the door to her quarters. When he didn't get an answer, he felt worry gnaw at his systems. Hesitantly, he overrode the lock on her door using the keypad and opened the door to her quarters, only to see her passed out on the floor.

"Negaeta," he breathed as he immediately went to her side and lifted her in his arms. He opened his comlink to call a medic, only to remember she was the medic. He growled as he went over to her recharge berth and set her down. From the eons the Decepticons went without having a medic, he knew to immediately check her over for any physical injuries, but when he didn't find any, he automatically assumed that she was low on energy. He tried to revive her, but when he failed, he quickly left the room only to return a few minutes later with a few low-grade energon cubes.

He took her in his arms again and carefully held an energon cube to her lips as he poured its contents down her throat. He then laid her back down and waited for her systems to come back online. He growled when they didn't after a few minutes and was just about to feed her another energon cube when suddenly her optics flickered online. "St-Starscream?" she stammered.

He breathed a sigh of relief, "It's about time you came online!"

"What…happened?" she asked as she tried to sit up, but Starscream stopped her.

"You fainted," he said, "Your energy levels were too low, which you should have known considering you're our medical officer."

"Starscream…this is your energon ration…"

"Yes but obviously you need it more than I do."

She looked at him, "Starscream…"

"I will be alright," he said, "My energy levels won't be depleted for another few orbital cycles; I'll be alright until our next ration."

She sighed heavily, "If you say so."

"I do, now stay here and rest. You'll be having a sparkling in less than three months, it's the best thing you can do for yourself right now."

She reluctantly gave in, and he set the energon cubes on her nightstand before he left the room. "With all the work I do for her," he mused as he walked away from her quarters, "I mine as well be the father."

Three months ended up passing by as if they were nothing. Negaeta soon found herself in the med bay, lying on a recharge berth, experiencing horrible contractions. She was just thankful she had been on her way to the med bay when her labor pains started. She had radioed Starscream after she had gotten to the med bay to tell him she was in labor, and he arrived shortly after to deliver the child. However, after several hours of labor, Starscream was ready to shoot himself.

"How long is this supposed to take?" he groaned and watched as a gush of lubricants suddenly released from her dilating port, "That was disgusting…"

"I'm going to kill you when this is over," she growled, "Just get ready."

Another hour went by before he finally noticed the sparkling finally crown. He ordered her to push, which she did, and within moments he had Megatron's child in his arms. Negaeta immediately relaxed as she closed her port. She watched, exhausted, as Starscream cleaned her son, before he handed him to her, and she took him carefully in her arms. She grinned as she cooed to him, trying to get him to stop crying, which he soon did.

As Starscream watched, he couldn't help but feel a prickle of sadness tug at his spark. Megatron would have given the world to see this…

"Do you…want me to watch him while you clean up?" Starscream asked.

"Galvatron," she said.

He smiled, "A worthy name for the future leader of the Decepticons."

She nodded, "It just…came to me."

Starscream went over to her and took Galvatron back in his arms and watched as Negaeta got up and disappeared inside the cleansing room. He then looked back down at the sparkling. He was nearly a spitting image of his father, but he was much more handsome, and Starscream knew he had gotten his good looks from his mother. And he couldn't hide a smile as Galvatron squirmed in his arms, his bright red optics staring at him in wonder.

The boy immediately claimed a place in the hard-bitten second in command's spark.

"If only Megatron could see you," he breathed, "He will, soon."

Starscream hadn't told Negaeta about the plan he initiated three months ago for fear that it may fail, but after Soundwave had given him Shockwave's calculations, that fear was quickly dispelled. He just more or less wanted to keep it a surprise until it happened.

Chance of locating Allspark fragment: 73.6%
Chance of obtaining Allspark fragment: 89.8%
Chance of resurrecting Megatron with obtained Allspark fragment: 97.5%
Chance of overall success: 87.0%
Recommendations: All hail Megatron, or else.

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