I hope you all enjoy! And I apologize for not continuing my other fanfics, starting to run out of ideas... I'll try to finish them. I have been reading way TOO much Bee x Megs, so of course I had to write my own XD

Ch. 21

-Sideswipe's POV-

I onlined to the sound of soft chattering, a feeling of warmth surging through my protoform. Not only did my spark but my entire frame felt stronger. It was the craziest thing, but a sense of feeling whole filled my spark and I felt so happy. My optics recalibrated, and I nearly jumped off where I laid when I saw a bunch of femmes surrounding me. Their servos were all over me, and I started panicking and screamed. Sunstreaker came running in, soaking wet and saw the femmes.

"You're all dismissed, I'll take care of Sideswipe from here." Sunstreaker said, and the group left bowing. My brother walked over to me as I sat up holding my legs. "I'm sorry Sides, I ordered them to give you a sponge bath and small waxing while you recharged. Are you okay?" I felt a surge of worry coming from the yellow mech.

I lowered my legs as I looked up with a scared look in my optics. "I'm okay now. I'm Sunstreaker about just now, it's just that in Iacon I was always touched by femmes whether I wanted it to happen or not." Arms wrapped around me, a wave of calm and safety came through my systems. "What's this feeling in my spark?"

"We crashed, and Knockout forced a realignment. I know you said you didn't want too, but had we not we would've died." Sunstreaker explained after pulling away from me, and leaned forward with a heavy sigh. "I'll let our Creators know you're awake now." He stood up, his shoulders hung as he slowly went to the door.

"Sunny, wait! Please don't go." I jumped up, losing my footing and falling into his arms. "Can we um… clean up first? I'm kind of remembering things, we used to get into a lot of mischief as sparklings." Sunstreaker helped me up as a smile was on his face. He carried me to the room where we came running in from.

The room was a large bathing chamber with a large tub in the center, a large shower in the far corner, a couple windows placed to let in light and the cool breeze, and behind the door was a book shelf. On the shelf were three stacks of towels, bottles of oils, cans of a special wax that had extra shine, a couple buffers, some sponges, wash rags, and various other tools to clean with. Sunstreaker dipped his servo into the water before adding more water. "I'll help wash what you can't reach. If you are okay with that, Sides." I nodded as we both got in, I was sitting on the side facing the faucet feeling the hot water hitting the small of my back where three small red bio lights shined. "Sides, I want you to know that I'm not as much of an aft as you think. I want to help you be strong and confident in yourself. You're my anchor as much as I am yours."

"How did you-" I looked up with a shocked look, and watched he tap his helm. I looked back down, feeling extremely embarrassed. "Right, bond. And what happens if she finds me, I'm still her property! She'll demand for my return, and then I'll be severely punished." I started panicking as my imagination took over.

Sunstreaker took my servos and gently squeezed them. "Sideswipe, as long as you are in the castle, frag as long as you are in Kaon, you are safe from that evil glitch. Our Carrier would rather have the war again than see you enslaved like that." My processor was screaming to me, saying that it wasn't entirely true. My spark on the other servo was telling me that my brother meant every word. I nodded with a smile slowly growing, I leaned forward and hugged him tightly. "Can I make a small request, Sunny?"

"Sure, anything Sides." Sunstreaker didn't seem to mind his new nickname, and I loved how he said Sides. He had an odd mix of teasing and protectiveness in his voice when he said it.

"Can I keep the red? At least for now?" I pulled away, looking at my already chipped paint job. If I picked at it, I would be silver by now. "I know it's not my actual paint job, but it's like being naked without it."

Sunstreaker chuckled, and playfully touched my horns. "Of course little brother, but we'll get you some better paint. Wherever you're getting your paint from, it might as well be paint thinner." I shivered under his touch, feeling anxious. Sunstreaker grabbed my servo, and placed it on one of his helm fins. "Don't worry, it's meant to relax you."

"Why are you being nice to me? Especially how you treated me back at the Prime Towers." I looked up and kept my digits around the fin. Sunstreaker started stroking my horns, when he nodded at me, I took that as permission to return the gesture. I started rubbing his fin, feeling him relax under my touch and in the bond.

Sunstreaker probably felt me relax as well, because he stopped and started scrubbing me. He was very gentle with me when he removed the paint. "I'm sorry about that, I get like that when I'm around anyone who isn't a close family member. I know Knockout has a stash of red in the infirmary." He said as he grabbed a sponge, and poured some cleaning oil on it before rubbing it on me. "I know Sire is going to want to talk to you, and I have to go to the Gladiator pits later today."

"Do I have to talk to him, he terrifies me. Can't I just go with you, or stay in here?" I watched the sponge move to the front of me, and stop. I took it and started scrubbing the front half of me.

The water sloshed around as my brother laid back against the tub. I wasn't one for publicly showering back in Iacon, but this wasn't Iacon and he was my brother. Sunstreaker's arms rested on the edges of the tub and his optics closed. "I wanted to be like Sire, fight in the pits. And now that the joining rules changed, from permanent fighting to a one cycle contract, I've decided to give it a shot. Sire, Carrier, and Soundwave come to watch sometimes when they are able to. Maybe you can come and watch me?" I could hear the suggestive tone in his voice telling me he'd appreciate it.

I turned around with a smile, but he couldn't see it with his optics closed. "I'd love too, would we be able to explore Kaon?"

Sunstreaker shrugged, "that's up to our creators. Usually I go, but obviously I have guards with me. I'll tell you who's who and who can be trusted when we go get the paint. It's a lot of information, but you'll have me to help you with remembering names and other things."

A smile slid across my face and nodded. "That would be amazing Sunny!" After we bathed, I stayed in the chambers while Sunstreaker went to get the paint. A knock came to the door, I froze from beside the window. "C-come in."

The door opened and in came Megatron, my Sire, I still couldn't believe it. "I see you removed the paint. I need to talk to you about personal things. And I know it will be hard to tell me, but whatever you are able to tell me will help extremely." Sire sat on the berth, and gestured for me to sit beside him. I stiffly walked over and sat next to him. "You remind me of your Carrier, always cautious. Your Carrier and I always joked how opposite you two were, you have my coloring but his personality and Sunstreaker looks like your carrier but my personality."

"The femme who… owned me she changed her name and her look whenever one of us escaped, making her impossible to trace back. She had this personal vendetta against me, whenever I made one mistake I was punished. I also remember that in her quarters were pictures and articles of Carrier, and she would throw blades at the pictures whenever she was mad." I rubbed my servos together, avoiding optic contact with my Sire.

"I'll see what your Carrier can remember, but in the mean time I want you to stay within the castle walls. At least until we can make the announcement of your return, okay?" Sire took my servo, giving my servo a gentle squeeze.

I nodded, we both sat in an uncomfortable silence until the door opened to Sunstreaker and a couple drones floated beside him. A feeling of relief escaped through the bond by accident. Sunstreaker looked at their Sire with a frown, obviously upset with him. "Sire, what are you doing in our chambers? Knockout wants Sideswipe to relax for a few cycles, and you stressing him out with all your questions is causing pain in our sparks." I was a blushing so hard by the sudden burst of protectiveness coming from my brother.

'No one has ever wanted to protect me before.' I confessed through our bond.

"I was merely checking on my son, Sunstreaker, is a Sire not allowed to be concerned for their creation's wellbeing?" Sire stood up, and walked over to Sunstreaker. As they stood face to face I could see that Sunstreaker was going to be up to our Sire's mouth once we were fully grown. "I know you want to protect your brother, but I am both of your Sire and I will do what it takes to protect this family."

"And look where that got us? Sideswipe was taken from us, from me, from Carrier!" Sunstreaker narrowed his optics up at Sire, clearly not afraid of the larger mech.

Sire leaned down to get close with Sunstreaker's face, my spark was pulsing fast with fear. On Sunny's side of the bond I could feel only confidence overpowering a twinge of fear. "Do not raise your voice at me youngling, I may be your Sire but I will not hesitate to take you and your attitude to the Gladiator Pits."

Sunstreaker growled as he was preparing to challenge our Sire. I started to panic at the thought of my Sire and brother fighting. Without hesitation I quickly ran between them. My servos pressed against Sunstreaker's chest, trying to snap him out of it. "Sunstreaker, please don't he was only asking me questions. I promise, Sire only wants to capture her and make her answer for what she's done to me."

He looked at me with cold optics and silence before storming off to the wash room. He slammed the door behind him, I flinched slightly from the brashness from Sunny. Sire growled and left the room, slamming the door behind him. I squeaked and covered my receptors with fear; I sunk to the floor whimpering. A pair of arms wrapped around my shoulders, and a wave of apologetic vibes rippled through the bond. I turned around, and hugged the mech who was behind me.

"I'm sorry Sides, I shouldn't have lost control like that. Come on let's get you painted." Sunny stood us up, and took me to the wash room. He had me step on a marble stand that was near the large window that was at the back of the room. "Drones, let's give him a metallic viper red and a sparkling wax job. Oh, and make his helm black obviously leaving his faceplate silver." Sunstreaker explained to the drones as he stepped out of the room.

The drones got to work on spraying me from my ankles up to my shoulders, leaving only my protoform and helm alone. One switched over to black, and sprayed my entire helm. They left my faceplate down to my neck silver, just like Sunny ordered. I watched the drones fan dry my new paint job before applying wax that made the already shining paint, sparkle even more. They finished in a record time of one mega-cycle, once the drones knew their work was complete they transformed into a large mirror that had three panels. They gave me a 360 view of my body.

I gasped loudly into my servos, I couldn't help but touch my frame and admire myself. "W-wow, I'm… I'm-"

"Beautiful." A voice came behind me with just as much shock and amazement as I had. Looking up with wide optics, I saw Sunstreaker standing there with his mouth hung open slightly. He cleared his vocalizer before dismissing the drones. They transformed, and hovered off to get a cleaning. "Sides, you look just… wow."

My faceplates heated as I looked away, "S-Sunny stop that that's not funny." I walked towards him with a grateful smile. "Thank you for doing this for me. I really appreciate what you've done for me."

Sunstreaker smiled and gave my right shoulder a couple taps. "You don't need to thank me, little brother." He said with a teasing tone in his voice and a playful vibe in the bond. 'Just don't ever feel the need to hide yourself or emotions from me.' He said through our bond before gently pulling me into his arms.

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