Next afternoon, Remote was having a rare time in the kitchen finishing cooking up some cookies for some people at work. It wouldn't be much, and even though she rarely cooked, she hardly ever made anyone have an upset stomach. She always followed the recipe so that was helpful. She always thought. Gently scoping the chocolate chips onto the rack to cool, she placed the tray into the sink to wash it. As she washed it and started humming to herself, she mused that it was funny such a simple task can be a little relaxing. So much into her task she didn't hear metal footsteps behind her, but when she whirled around she gave out a yelp of surprised before noticing her kitchen infiltrator.

"THUNDERCRACKER!" She screamed out happily as she launched herself into his arms. "Oh my gosh! I thought I was never gonna see you for a long time."

Wrapping his arms around her, he eyed the round objects on the counter, as he fully enjoyed her excitement. "Same here, but we are getting a bit of R & R until, Starscream, Skywarp and I get a run at punishing, Barricade."

Not pulling herself out of his arms, but moving her head just to face him, she had to ask him, "What?"

"Megatron is letting us have a go at him tomorrow. I can't wait to do that, my dear."

Wishing it was her dealing out more of that punishment, she smiled at her mate then kissed him. "I know you will do me proud."

"Always." TC whispered and kissed her back wanting to deepen it. "I love you."

Enjoying his glossa, she moaned out her reply before sliding down to the ground to take his hand to follow her. "Come with me." She said breathlessly. It may of been too soon, but all she still wanted was his hands all over her. The more she felt him, she felt that it would be the easiest to push, Barricade out of her psyche. TC to his credit didn't try to stop her, he followed her willingly into their bedroom. Once they were at the foot of the bed, she turned around and her mouth was instantly covered by his as his hands moved gently through her hair, down to her shoulders, as he caressed her close to him. He was so gentle that it made her weak in the knees.

He moved his fingers down, feeling her soft curve of her breasts, teasing her nipples a little, before moving further down. He heard her breathy intake of air as he did that. He wasn't all to sure of her mood, but for right now he will do this until she said no. Moving further down to the hem of her shirt, he lifted up her shirt over her arms, and discarded it aside. All the while still kissing her. Still no resistance, so he moved his fingers down softly against her skin, noticing it seemed to tickle her some as she giggled a little in his mouth, but she still didn't pull away. She has such a cute giggle he thought, even if it was suppressed right now. He moved to the waist band of her pants to try to take them off, but his fingers were too large so she unbuttoned them and slid them down for him. Looking at her cute smile, his spark pounded heavily. He lifted her easily into his arms and placed her on the bed as he moved over her, kissing down her neck, and stopping at her chest as he licked and sucked on them. His optics chanced to look up at her as he did that and saw as she either smiled or her face contorted in pleasure. He did see her bruises she still had on her so he made sure to kiss them as he moved down further on her body. Once again his optics shown her to be in pleasure. He continued on in pleasuring her for the remainder of the day.

Sunstreaker was in his quarters alone painting, since Sideswipe was with Kathy. Relaxed, inspired, and off duty, he already painted three Cybertron sunsets in different areas of the planet, and moved on to another subject. He couldn't help get into this last one. It was almost complete. He worked quickly and lovingly over the surface. He was entirely grateful of, Kathy of getting a huge stock of paints and a large roll of canvas to use. They were perfect. They almost were exactly like the ones he used on Cybertron, but a little more smoother. He smiled at the subject of his work. Falling in deeper admiration of it. So perfect. No one else would believe him to get like this, but Sideswipe. Who cares anyhow? He hoped to show someone this latest masterpiece of his. He was so fully into it that he didn't notice his own door opening and admitting, Tina in. She was wearing a white sundress with yellow flowers coming up from the hem of the dress. It almost looked like the flowers were painted on as well. Her hair, on the rare occasion, was down, and she just chose to wear simple ballet flats. She stopped to study his expression. It was so serene. Looking over at the sunset pictures she admired the level of detail from her distance and didn't realize she uttered a sound before, Sunstreaker answered her back.

"Thank you for the compliment." Sunstreaker beemed as he continued placing the final touch down. "I have this one last thing to do, and I'm all yours."

Still staring at the paintings, she slowly wandered to them as if entranced. "Oh take your time, please. I'm gonna keep looking at these."

Scanning at what she was wearing, he loved how much redder her hair looked. "What I loved doing before the war."

"I don't blame you." She said in a rather breathless way before turning to exclaim, "Sunny! These are stunning!"

"Not as stunning as this." Smiling, he quickly turned his painting for her examination. "You've become my muse."

Mouth dropping open again at what she was witnessing, she saw a painting of her with a sunrise behind her, showing off the highlights of her hair, with a soft smile, hair flowing in the breeze with an ocean backdrop. Everything about it showed such a softness. Could she dare say... Love? "You painted a human."

Shaking his head. "No. I painted you." Placing the painting aside, he stood up to walk over to his storage, went inside and pulled some more paintings out before coming out with a large stack. "I date stuff that I do. I will remember when I do my stuff, but who else will?" He placed them down and fanned them out the best he could. "You are the only one I paint because you are the only one I think about. The one I'm inspired by." He showed her a picture of her and himself as a shrunk down version, holding one another. "The only one I want to be with."

Walking over to scan all the paintings, she either blushed, or was on the verge of tears. All of them was filled with such love. Taking an unsteady breath, she looked up at him. "How do you honestly feel about me?" She wondered earnestly.

Before replying he simply gestured again to his paintings of her as if that was answer enough, when her face still showed expectation mixed with a bit of fear, he obliged. "I find you worthy of so much. You inspire me. When I paint, of course I will paint other things, but I always. ALWAYS. Have to include a painting of you. Feelings don't come easy for me, but I want you every day. I love you. You are someone I want with me."

I fear the rejection when it comes to your hatred of humans."

Getting down on one knee he placed his right hand around the back of her body. "There are some humans that will drive me insane, but you are never one of them. You are the only one I ever want to be with."

"Even you refuse to shrink down to human size, but I will look past that."

"Well you are unable to bring yourself up to my height." He countered back.

"Ha ha! Touche." Smiling up at him, he flattened his hand out, palm side up indicating for her to get on. When she did so, he placed her gently on the bunk. Stepping off his palm, she straightened up the hem of her dress even though nothing was out of place, she just felt a little nervous. Turning around to face him, she was greeted by his holoform.

"You can say yes or no to this whole thing if you wish, but I guarantee you no one else will be better for you then me. If you wish to go out there and look right now, then go ahead, but I know it is us that belong."

Wow! What an ego on him, she thought. "Sunny, I don't live as long as you do. I will get old before you know it. You want to look at that?"

"Stop back peddling, Tina. I want this. I want you. You don't think I haven't thought of everything? I'm not a moron."

Studying his sincere and determined face she took a step away to consider things herself. Yes, she thought of everything before and knew he was volatile, but knew that side that was protective and caring. Tina examined every where's else in the room, except him, looked at the sunset paintings, before coming to her answer. She knew it was a little risky with him, but she was willing to go day by day with him. Turning around to face him, she unzipped her dress to slowly let it drop before him. It wouldn't be the first time they had intercourse. "I would love to pursue a relationship with you, Sunstreaker." She beamed.

Closing the gap, he encircled her in his arms and gave her a deep kiss.

Enjoying her fingers running along his interior, Sideswipe practically purred almost forgetting himself. Little minx of his. Should of known he was in trouble the moment she suggested they both should go out and drive around until they reached this look out point they both enjoyed. Really mostly the trouble began when she told him to wait outside and she will be out in 5 minutes, then she came out wearing a black mini skirt, pumps, a tight white blouse with more then 7 buttons unfastened revealing her lacy red bra he loved so much. She did have her coat with her, but she tossed it aside like it truly didn't matter as she slid into the passenger seat revealing her beautiful smooth sexy legs. A few times as they drove down the road, she would do something that almost made him veer off. She was distracting him at the subject at hand.

Determined to finally finish this subject, he went on. "Kathy, I feel this is important. I know we can have a sparkling due to our..." Kathy unfastened another button from her shirt making him start to overheat again. "Well you know, and..." Watching her stretch her arms leisurely up, her hands moving to the back of her neck, she moved her hair slowly up in a mock pony tail. Back arched back, she moaned as if this stretch was the best feeling ever, then released her hair to allow it to tumble over her shoulders. One hand moving up, she placed one finger against her lips, and opened her eyes up slowly yet seductively revealing her gorgeous green eyes. He veered to the left of the road. Of course she was being a great actress in not reacting to that.

"Mmmmmm yes, Side?" She taunted in her beautiful evil way as she moved that hand that was near her mouth, slowly down her chest, her stomach, skirted area, legs, and... He was going to end up killing or injuring her before finally finishing up what was needed to be said, but she was being so gorgeous right now.

"Ahhh destiny with us and sparklings and..." Another button came unfastened which made him really veer harder off the road and stop on a look out point, but not theirs. Side scanned her and knew she was fine. Her mischievous look before she exited him was enough to tell him she was accomplishing her goal. Running a quick scan of himself and noticing nothing amiss, he transformed quickly and faced her. "Why are you so determined not to talk about this?!" He irately screamed out.

Kathy knew she couldn't hold off the conversation any longer. Turning to look at him, with her hands on her hips, she replied, "Because there is plenty of time for us to have sparklings, Sides. That is why."

Her shirt might as well be off right now since he can see most of her stomach now, oh it was a good thing to be turned on by your mate, but it really did run an interference in some matters. "Perhaps, but you are human and..."

Kathy narrowed her eyes. "With a short life span. No shit Sherlock, but I am still very young and not ready for kids."

Annoyed, he knew she knew this wasn't the case, and he almost flipped out until he saw her calm expression with her eyebrow quirking up warning him of something amiss, but he was being too stupid to do any readings himself. He opened up his sensors and caught a faint ping. "You know you are correct, Kathy." He agreed thinking his acting skills were suburb, but by her expression, they truly weren't. "Shall we go on to our date and forget about this silly argument?"

Kathy fought so hard to not shake her head at his poor acting skills, but she quickly straightened herself out as she caught a few more readings on the horizon heading towards them. "Side..." She pointed behind him. "Stunticons!"

Quickly transforming, she got inside the passenger seat, buckled up, as he quickly wasted no time speeding off. "I know there is a small service road up ahead. Perhaps we can ditch them. Any way you can cover my readings?"

"I'm working on it, but man are they dim witted." She replied. "Right now here is hoping they are on their self made pleasure cruises. Did you raise, Prime?"

"Of course. Powerglide is being sent out for recognizance right now." Finding the service road, he quickly veered onto it. Seeing a fence blocking the rest of the pathway up he just simply transformed, placing her in his hand, quickly covered his footsteps, and went over. Once they were behind some large trees, they watched Motomaster and the rest speed past them as they laughed and whooped it up loudly. "Prime ordered me to stay back."

"I'm guessing because of me."

Looking briefly at her slightly irritated face, he peered up and scanned the horizon. "Affirmative." That typical Prime answer caused her to groan.

That night all the Stunticons were doing were just spending time off the base just blowing off steam. No orders were placed on them, but it never stopped them from causing a little mayhem. Unaware of all their whooping and hollering, they didn't notice a tiny silent plane flying over head keeping a watch of their movements.