Author's note. Wow, we've actually reached the fiftieth chapter, I can't believe it. This must be the longest story I've ever written, it's definitely the one with the most chapters.
This was written by me and the-writing-mew, hope you all like.
Enjoy and please review.
Megatron stood on a lonely spot of the moon, some distance from his base. He didn't know how long he had been out here, he'd given orders that he wasn't to e disturbed by anyone. He'd been lost in long thought, struggling to find a solution to his current problem. After so many cycles without his beloved Sliverblaze, he'd discovered her Sparklings, actually found them. But they had turned against him; they didn't want to accept they were his Sparklings and instead, wanted to return to Earth to be with their human Creators.
Could he be blamed for wanting to prevent that? They were his children, they belonged with him, and he'd been denied them for far too long. Why was everyone against him claiming them as his own? What was wrong with restoring them to their true forms, they were transformers, they should have transformer bodies. But no, according to everyone else, he'd gone about things in precisely the wrong way, resulting in his children having more love and loyalty towards his damn Second. How dare that insolent Seeker attempt to usurp his authority in such a fashion, he would happily show the Seeker his place, right now.
However, he had to admit that his actions had terrified his children to the point that they screamed when he appeared and called him monster. Even he knew there was something wrong with like that. What was he to do, how could he regain their trust in him? Things had been so much better some cycles go, when they'd happily take a bath with him and offer him entertainment. As much as he was loathed to say it, he did wish they'd go back to their insolent but happy selves. He missed seeing their smiles, hearing their laughter, satisfying their curiosity as they demanded to know more about transformers. They'd once caught Starscream in the shower and he'd enjoyed teasing them about it, in their current state, they'd never tolerate him doing something like that.
"Damn it," he growled, he couldn't just stand here, he had to do something. He was not a Mech to just sit around waiting for things to happen, he made things happen. There must be something he could do to convince the children that they belonged with him.
Before he could even think about anything else his comm. starting beeping madly. With a growl, he examined it, wanting to know who was disobeying his direct orders but discovered that the signal was not from his men on the base. It was from a Decepticons in space and close by.
"Who is this?" he asked calmly and was rewarded by a familiar, oily voice.
"My lord Megatron, we have found you at long last."
"We, Thrust?" he questioned; he hadn't been expecting anyone else this soon.
"Tidalwave, Wheeljack and I, lord Megatron," Thrust replied smartly. "We wish to join you and aid you in finding the Minicons."
"Very well," Megatron said in a cold voice. "Here are the coordinates, come to the base immediately."
"At once, my lord," Thrust said smoothly before signing off.
Megatron stared up at Earth, things were about to get...interesting.
It was an hour after the last message and Megatron did his best to keep himself up after his seventh cube of high grade. No matter how interesting things will get, he couldn't help but feel the depression that started filling his lonely spark.
Finally, he devised the ship that will bring the necessary help to gather all the minicons and finally win this war against the autobots.
It only took a few minutes for the vessel to land at the surface of the moon and once it was settled three mechs descended it.
"Thrust reporting, my lord." A silver conehead seeker bended on one knee in front of him.
"Come on!" he urged the others. "Bow to Lord Megatron!"
The other two mechs did it.
He smiled very tightly, saying.
"Welcome to Earth's moon," he said in a soft tone. "I wasn't expecting you."
"Yes, well, we got some unexpected help," Thrust said with a slight shrug. "A Warp gate opened which allowed us to travel faster than we had anticipated."
Megatron frowned, he wasn't sure he liked this.
"Did any Autobots follow you?"
"We believe so," Wheeljack stated before Thrust could say anything. "But we don't know who."
"There is no way they can defeat us, my lord," Thrust stated hastily, glaring at Wheeljack. "We are Superior in every conceivable way. I shall devise a plan that shall wipe them out for you, my lord."
Meanwhile...
"Finally... Now... it is time to set the plan on move... Thrust, our master is patient, but said patience has a limit"
Sideways watched the gathering of new Decepticon arrivals from a safe distance before vanishing to return Earth with the Autobots again. Because of Optimus's anger at him and the distraction of the transforming human children, none of the Autobots had noticed that he'd been absent from the base.
Megatron watched his new arrivals unmasked impatience wondering if his reaction was because of the high grade. Then a cold shiver ran by his spine and he turned his head to the left...
...there was no one or nothing there.
But still... He felt something unusual, high grade or not.
"Is there something wrong, my lord?" The conehead mech lifted his head, surprised with Megatron's sudden attitude.
Megatron just frowned and made a gesture for them to follow him inside the base.
Once they had arrived and he immediately summoned the others, with the exception of Starscream.
"As you can see gentlemen, we have been joined by some powerful allies," he stated to Demolisher, Cyclonus and Scavenger. "No doubt the Autobots will also be receiving some new soldiers but if we act now, we can perhaps overwhelm Optimus before those troops arrive."
Scavenger hid a grimace, he didn't know if any others had arrived but if they hadn't, this wasn't looking good.
"That is an excellent plan, my lord," Thrust gushed before stating. "But where is Starscream, I thought he came with you?"
With a scowl, Megatron stated.
"He is in the brig for insubordination and shall remain there until I see fit to release him."
"What about the kids?" Demolisher couldn't help but ask.
"Kids?" Thrust instantly exclaimed, jumping on the information like a turbo fox on a bone. "What kids?"
"We stole some pets from the Autobots," Megatron said shortly, he couldn't be bothered explaining everything. "They are locked up with Starscream and are no concern to anyone here."
Wheeljack looked curious while Thrust looked like he wanted to inquire more. However, a glare from Megatron silenced him.
"We are going to head to Earth right now. The Autobots will detect us and come running, and we shall destroy them once and for all."
"An excellent plan," Thrust gushed as Megatron stood up.
"We're going now," he stated flatly before summoning one of the Minicons as the Mechs trooped to the Rec Room. "You will watch the monitors, make sure Starscream and those children are not up to anything do you understand?"
The Minicon beeped in acknowledgement and Megatron followed his men. He didn't know what his prisoners could get up to but he wasn't about to take any chances. His children had done impossible things before and shouldn't be underestimated. Speaking of them, he'd need to make sure they got a medical check up, surely the transformation process was over by now?
They would need to be supervised as they changed from transformer to human and back again. That could wait for later, for now he had some Autobots to crush.
Meanwhile...
Decepticon brig...
Starscream watched how the kids slept and their bodies changed with a worried glance not understanding yet how Megatron was able to do such thing, sire or not to them, he had no right to do such, taking their lives from them.
'They will be ok, you don't need to worry,' Highwire stated, watching Starscream's worry. 'He always protects the young.'
Starscream wondered who was that 'he' the Minicon mean... But whoever he was he was obviously too busy to look after them when Megatron forced them to transform or traumatized them.
Once again he set his gaze on them and noticed that their transformation process was almost finished.
He let out a saddened gasp, they worried him and Megatron was a terrible and abusing sire who believes that they are merely possessions that must be with him, obey him and if they didn't... The punishment was harsh.
Staracream's gaze was covered in sorrow and worry as he looked after their dreams. "They deserve to be happy..." he finally replied to the Minicon who nodded but didn't say anything else.
Back on earth
Autobot base...
"Optimus Prime sir! We have Decepticon activity on the radar!" Red Alert said hurriedly very worried.
"Decepticons? But... There was not a Minicon alarm, right?" Optimus asked.
"No sir..." he trailed off before being interrupted by Hotshot.
"It's a trap! We shouldn't go, sir, why would they be calling our attention like this?"
"I agree with Hotshot here, sire, we shouldn't go," Smokescreen added worried.
Optimus paused to think, why was Megatron trying to call their attention, maybe he needed something- He stopped, what was he thinking? "We still need to see his intentions, Autobots, roll out!" he finally ordered without a second thought just wishing that Megatron don't cause any havoc.
Meanwhile, Megatron waited for the Autobots to show themselves, with the new editions safely under cover so as not to prematurely alarm the Autobots. He wondered if Optimus knew this was trap or if he thought Megatron wanted to talk more about the children. He felt a mild twinge of guilt but quickly crushed it. If he could defeat the Autobots on Earth, it would be a massive step forward to winning the War and uniting Cybertron once again. Thus, creating a better world for his children who would be much safely on their real home planet.
He thought of all the things he could do with his children on Cybertron. Well, he didn't know much about what you could do with Sparklings but he did know a couple. Like taking them to a sweets centre, Sparklings loved sweets didn't they? There were a few playgrounds left on Cybertron, deep within both the factions' territories.
Optimus Prime and his Autobots arrived on time and detected Megatron, however, when the Decepticon leader was about to call the war cry...
"Megatron," the Prime greeted. "I hope the kids are okay and that you're making it up to them; tell me, how are they? Are they still in pain?
The warlord froze, and with him his minions. No doubt the other thought he was there to talk about his creations and completely ignored -or decided to ignore- that this was a trap.
Now the one with the mouth open was him.
"What is be doing?!" Thrust barked. "We must be attacking them; I'll give the call-!"
"Shut up!" Scavenger interrupted him, "Do not DARE to interrupt Lord Megatron! Or I will accuse you of high treason!"
The grey Mech's optics widened and decided to keep shut not wanting to risk his position.
"Megatron?" Optimus tried and a cold dread run by his back at the realization of what this was, but him being who he was decided to use his politician talents at the moment he thought how to escape; they must be surrounded.
"How is Alexis? She said she was feeling intense pain and mentioned something about a period and that she might need some cotton pads." Optimus finished watching the stunned expression of his rival and decided to continue before subspacing a small puffy box. "Here, Megatron, give her this." and he opened his palm to reveal said puffy box that read 'Always'
The Decepticon leader was still petrified before answering slowly and quietly. "She won't need them anymore..."
Meanwhle Optimus Prime commed his Mechs. ::Prepare the warp gate, we're leaving, this is a trap...::
"Why not?" Optimus asked, cocking his head to one side in a curious manner. "All girls need them, don't they?"
"Human girls do," Megatron replied in a slightly dead voice.
Knowing the Warp gate would activate very soon, Optimus added softly.
"Does she know that yet?"
"No," Megatron said shortly, staring down at the box Optimus was offering and surprisingly, taking it.
Optimus stared at him and wondered, was Megatron going to soften the blow by pretending everything was still alright with the children's bodies. Was he finally taking responsibility for his actions and being the Sire they needed and deserved. By giving Alexis the pads, it would make her feel better about her body until the time came to tell her. Clearly, she and the others were far too delicate at the moment to be told something so devastating.
"Well, I'm sure you'll know what to do when the time comes," Optimus said before suddenly taking a step backwards and disappearing into the Warp gate with the others.
Megatron just stood there, with the box in his massive hand, slowly closing it until it was crushed.
Watching in rage the spot his enemy occupied once and with the crushed cotton box in his hand, Megatron took a deep intake before roaring in utter rage.
He couldn't believe it; he let Optimus Prime to fool him! He moved his elite army there in vain!
Thinking about the situation only fuelled his rage and he started shooting at everything he set his optics on... Or even those things he couldn't see.
"Megatron! Calm down! You're destroying everything!" Scavenger tried and watched the others cover from their leader's angry shots.
"Megatron! Stop!" once again Scavenger tried but this time getting near him. "Megatr-!" he tried once again before a shot reached him; it didn't kill him, but did off-line him.
The warlord's optics widened at what his action caused... Scavenger... And the forest...
...it was no more and what was left was burning, smoke rising high into the air. Megatron closed his optics and then opened them again, he'd lost control and he didn't lose control.
"He's...er...he's alright sir," Demolisher stated as he ex-aimed the off-lined Scavenger. "Um, should we return to base?"
"Yes," Megatron growled as Thrust stammered.
"Megatron, what happened, how did they get away?"
"Never you mind," Megatron snapped. "Back to base, now!"
They all instantly obeyed, warping away to the moon base. As soon as they were there, Megatron barked.
"Take Scavenger to the Med Bay and deal with him there."
Without another word, he headed in the direction of the Brig, Thrust following him.
Decepticon brig:
Starscream did his best to calm the kids, so did their Minicons as they struggled in pain.
"Hurts..." Carlos whispered in pain, his normally dark skin was pale, just like the others who were sweating cold.
"M...make... Make it stop... Star-" Alexis tried as even crying turned painful.
"It's okay kids, everything will be ok... It will pass soon..." he set them on his cockpit hoping that his warm spark would help them sooth their pain.
...but was useless, even if it hurt they couldn't help but cry out in pain. Their bodies were suffering the last changes and watching them cry almost made him cry...
...actually he was about to cry in impotence as he hugged them closer to his spark and a single energon tear ran by his metallic cheek. "Shhhh... Is ok... Don't cry..." he whispered to them in a broken voice not noticing the heavy footsteps approaching at a fast rate.
Finally the door of his cell opened heavily to reveal a really annoyed Megatron who froze at the scene.
"Shhh... Is ok... Shhh..." the seeker kept trying to soothe them against his chest.
"My sparklings! What are you doing to them, seeker?! Let go of them immediately!" Megatron roared and caused Starscream and the kids to jump.
"Mmm-make him... Shuut..." Rad whispered painfully.
"Megatron..." he tried revealing his tear stained face.
"Give them back! NOW!" he barked as he reached for them.
"No, Megatron, don't!" Starscream tried. "They are suffering, please."
"I'm their sire! I will take care of that so Give. Them. Back!" he started pulling at the seeker's arm again. The kids' cries were increasing in volume.
Unknown to them, they had an audience...
"Sparklings? Sire? This is getting good." the grey seeker said as he continued to watch.
"Please Megatron... Go away..." Alexis whispered feeling her aching body going lax and her heavy breathing slowing.
Megatron keep pulling on Starscream demanding to return his creations before a shoot stopped him. When he turned, the kids Minicon combined again.
"They are mine!" the Decepticon leader barked at the fused Minicon.
Perceptor walked to Starscream and made him stand. 'Give them to him...,' he said. 'They will be better with their sire, there's nothing you can do.'
Starscream nodded and removed his hands from his chest revealing the struggling creatures. "Please be careful," he said to his leader, worry covering his entire face.
"Of course I will be, I'm their sire!" he barked snatching them from the other's hand...
...which only caused...
"Oh God..." Alexis cried before puking on Megatron's hand which caused Carlos to do the same...
"Oh...!" was everything Rad could tell before following his siblings' example and puking all over Megatron's chest.
"Urg!" Megatron replied in disgust almost dropping them... Almost. "Take them back, follow me, I need to clean up!"
And both Mechs walked out from the brig without noticing Thrust with all those crying kids.
Starscream still holding the crying... Sparklings...
"Did you know this was going to happen?" Starscream demanded angrily as the children, clutched their stomachs, heaving and crying.
"I knew it would be difficult," Megatron snapped back. "I did not know it would be this difficult."
"Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you did this to them, sir," Starscream snarled at him causing Megatron to glare furiously at him but Carlos puking distracted.
"Urgh, hurry it up Starscream, we have to stabilise their systems."
"Please, make it stop," Alexis begged, holding onto Starscream's hand desperately.
"We will children, don't worry," Starscream assured them as Megatron glared at him again.
"Set them on the table," Megatron snapped, wishing he didn't have to have Starscream with him but Starscream, sadly, was the best medic on the base even though it wasn't his primary function.
"And be quick about it."
"Yes sir," Starscream bit out before saying soothingly. "I'm going to get you some coolant; it should help with the pain, just try to relax."
"C-can't...hurt's so much," gasped Rad, tears and sweat pouring down his face.
"What have you done to us?" asked in a merely whisper a weakening Carlos.
"If... If you loved us... You wouldn't have done this... To us..." Alexis moaned in pain before suppressing a gag reflex. After all, none of them refuelled yet and their tanks were empty, especially after puking the last remains of whatever fuel they could get.
Megatron frowned and couldn't help but answer, even if it was wiser to keep shut. "I do love you, you are mine, my Sparklings, my spark, each one of you, I just wished to be with you forever, for you to be with me forever..." he trailed off feeling an intense and growing ache in his spark. "I... I... Starscream..." he growled as he bent against their berth grabbing his chest in one hand. "Starscream..." he tried again as the pain intensified and made him lose balance and focus.
Starscream was so distracted with the task at hand that he didn't noticed his suffering leader. However, he did noticed Scavenger. "What happened?" he asked in horror. What had Megatron done to the old Mech?
By the looks of it, Scavenger had suffered a blaster wound which had caused him to go offline. He was lucky that it hadn't destroyed him frankly and it was obvious who had done this. After all, even Cyclonus wasn't stupid enough to do that.
"Megatron, what is wrong with you?" he demanded, spinning around to confront his leader to see him slumped over a berth.
"What...Megatron?" he questioned, alarmed against his will at the sight of his leader felled.
"My...my Spark," Megatron gasped, clutching at his chest. "Pain...right in my chest," he coughed, his face contorted with pain.
"Wha...the Spark Bond?" Starscream exclaimed in sudden realisation. "You're feeling their pain, the parental bond has finally established its self."
Starscream couldn't help but feel some vindictive pleasure at this, Megatron was finally experiencing some repercussions and it served him right. Now he could feel exactly what his children were feeling as they changed to proper transformers.
"Don't stay there! Do... Do something!"
Starscream just stood there watching his agonizing leader grab on his chest and pant heavily before finally reacting and answering silkily. "I'm sorry, Megatron, but there's nothing to do; there are no pain killers for the spark."
Megatron frowned, gritted his teeth and roared in fury before trying to get to the seeker's neck... But Starscream dodged him easily. The falling caused him even more uncommon but still painful pain.
"You're going to pay for this!" the warlord growled.
Starscream's optic ridges lifted looking amused at his leader. "No, Megatron, you're paying for what you did to these innocent kids."
Just before Megatron could bit back a reply his spark throbbed harshly in agony which made him bend over himself and cry out... But not enough for Starscream's opinion.
In Megatron's opinion it was so long since the last time he felt such agony. It was the day he lost... her. Remembering such things made him wince and purge his tanks... Almost all of it.
"And that should have been for what you did to Scavenger!" Starscream bit back, but Megatron was too busy with his pain and the purging of his tanks to realize.
Meanwhile the kids were still agonizing. "How long is this going to last?" Rad asked with a loud whimper, he'd never experienced anything even remotely like this. Not even Megatron's punishments could even compare to what was happening. Everything was burning, it felt like every single vein was being filled with sharp blades and it was pure agony. Their stomachs felt like a millions snakes were biting their insides while wriggling madly, making them want to purge but it was impossible with empty stomachs.
"Please end it," Alexis begged before moaning in pain, she was barely coherent enough to concentrate let alone form any more words.
All the kids were crying and moaning, along with Megatron who was gritting his teeth as he tried to control the ripples of pain shooting through his body. Damn it, why was this happening? He expected discomfort for the kids but not this kind of pain and he never expected to feel their pain like this.
How could this get any worse?
"I'm sorry kids... There's not much I can do," Starscream sadly expressed as he set the cold pads on their heads. He couldn't use any painkillers as he didn't know how they will react to them.
"Give me... Some... Painkillers to me..." Megatron growled.
"No chance Megatron, your problem is with the spark not with-"
"Frag, soldier! That's an order!" Megatron interrupted him and barked.
Amusedly the seeker stared at him without moving a finger to help him. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?!" His leader growled menacingly and Starscream did everything in his will to keep from smirking.
Before Megatron could say anything, another wave of pain filled him... And this time, something happened...
...he saw the kids... Memories...?
FLASHBACK
"Mummy," a little girl cried, clutching her bloody knee as an adult human female came running over.
"Aww, Lexi, did you fall and hurt yourself?" the female cooed.
"Uh huh," said the tearful child, clutching at her knee. "Can you kiss it better?"
"Of course," said the female, cooping her child into her arms and kissing her forehead. "There, how does that feel now?"
"Better," sniffed the child. "Where's daddy?"
"At work but he'll be back soon, don't worry."
"I miss him, he works a lot," the girl complained as she was hugged.
"I know but it's only because he loves us and wants to provide," her mother explained. "But he'll always be there for you, no matter what."
Megatron shock his head as his vision turned foggy after the flashback... a memory that was not his but it belonged to...
"Alexis..." he breathed watching the little femme breathe hardly as Starscream did his best to keep the three of them comfortable.
END FLASHBACK
...
Suddenly another wave of nausea invaded him before his vision turned white again...
FLASHBACK
"Is mine, Paco!"
"Is mine Carlos!"
"Let it go!"
"No, you let it go!"
Two boys fought for a rounded toy and it seemed that none of them would stop arguing and decide to share.
"Carlos! Paco! Stop fighting or I will take that ball from you so you will stop!" A dark haired woman came out of the house and starting walking towards the children.
"Oh no, la bruja is awake!" (the witch) Paco yelled in faked worry.
"Run, amigo, run for your life!" Carlos screamed as well. the ball was forgoten as the two boys ran from the woman.
END FLASHBACK
...
Megatron was getting even more dizzy and couldn't hold his tanks and purge again; at that time, Starscream already brought a bucket for him to use.
Unluckily for him his optics unfocused again...
...
FLASHBACK
A young light haired boy charged at an approaching wave, squealing as cold water hit him. He didn't pause however and continued running into the water before collapsing into the water. Eyes wide open, he swan downwards, mouth tightly shut but still managing to smile broadly. Little fish sped away from him as he reached out his hands for them, tiny bubbles escaping his mouth. He suddenly looked skywards and headed for the surface, head emerging with a gasp.
"Mum, dad, there's fish everywhere," he declared, waving his arms madly at his parents who were relaxing on a stunningly white sandy beach.
"Rad, look there, behind you," his dad suddenly called and Rad spun around to see a turtle head surfacing and then disappearing back under the water. Quickly, Rad ducked his head under water to see the turtle there, regarding him regally. The little boy reached out his hand and managed to tickle the wrinkly but warm neck of the turtle which closed its eyes for a second before swimming rapidly away.
Rad made a gurgling laugh as he watched; he'd never had such a fun time in all his life...
END FLASHBACK
Megatron gasped as the memory ended abruptly, seeing his children's memories were so strange...and uncomfortable. They all seemed to involve his Sparkling's human creators in some way.
Meanwhile, covering in the shadows of the passway, Thrust looked very interested.
Apparently, Megatron adopted some human brats and somehow bonded with them... and now that they are suffering, he is suffering as well.
"Interesting..." He trailed off watching his leader purge his tanks again and Starscream smirking at the bigger mech's disgrace, but oddly concerned about the critters on a med bay berth making everything possible to stop them crying.
"I'll leave you for a while, I must look after Scavenger." He heard Starscream address the critters before turning and start working on the offlined elder mech.
So, taking that as a chance, Thrust walked in as curiosity washed him over to see that those things were, but once he was close enough to see and scan them, one of them looked at him and its optics widened.
"STARSCREAM!" It yelled.
It was more than enough for the red seeker to turn and release his wing sword and point it at his neck before noticing who was there.
"Thrust? What are you doing here?!" the armed seeker shouted.
"I just came to see what was all the noise, you don't need to worry about me, Starscream; we arrived just a few hours ago."
"We?"
"Yes, me, Wheeljack and Tidalwave."
Suddenly, Thrust felt a piercing pain in his wing and he screeched in pain. Starscream turning to see the offender.
It was Megatron who had shot the grey conehead. "GET THE FRAG OUT!" he shouted; optics blazing in fury and shooting once again at the runaway seeker until nothing but running pede steps were heard.
Starscream just stared amused as he saved his sword back and turned to aid Scavenger.
Megatron growled, it was bad enough that Starscream was seeing him in such a crippled state but he would not allow anyone else to do the same. He never allowed anyone to see him in a weak state, he often fought Medics just because he could not bare to hand control of his body over to them. Thankfully, unlike certain other fools, he did not suffer life threatening injuries very often.
"Hurry up with that, Starscream," he barked, wanting to vent some of his anger on the troublesome Seeker.
"I'm doing my best," Starscream snapped back as he worked to heal the major damage to Scavenger's chest. "Why don't you do something useful and shut up sir."
For a moment, Megatron just stared at him before he roared.
"You insolent little fragger. I should have scrapped you when I had the chance."
"And maybe I will yet," he thought hatefully.
"Please, stop fighting," Alexis exclaimed tearfully. "Just...stop...just...stop..."
She broke off, crying as another bout of staggering pain overtook her body. Starscream cursed, he couldn't work on everyone at once, he had to work faster on Scavenger. It wasn't easy with cries of pain and cursing from his leader but he really needed the wise old Mech right now. He would know how to handle the kids final transformation and Megatron's pain.
Not that he really cared about Megatron's pain right now.
'We will help.'Perceptor approached the seeker and set aside the berth and started helping him with Scavenger's injuries the best he could and as fast as it was possible.
"You fragging seeker, once I'm out of this, I swear I'll tear you apart!" Megatron barked so loud that even the walls of the med bay shock and the kids cried harder as the noise was not to their liking.
"Shut up!" Rad tried taking hold of his belly... or whatever it was now.
"I wish someone could do something for the kids..." Starscream whispered and Perceptor looked at his thoughtfully automatically fixing the elder bot. "But let Megatron suffering, so he will understand then..."
"Understand what you fragger?! You want me to suffer?! I'll kill you for this insubordination! That was a declaration of treason...!" Megatron continued barking even in pain and started giving Starscream a headache and his anger bouilding.
Finally something snapped in the seeker's processor. "SHUT UP!" he turned to face his wide opticed leader. "DON'T DO IT FOR ME BUT FOR YOUR SPARKLINGS! SO, SHUT UP!"
Megatron never allowed anyone to talk and even less, to yell at him like that, but he couldn't help but stare wide opticed at his second. silence reined in the med bay now as even the children's cries were silent now.
It took a moment for the Decepticon leader to regain his senses and growl menacingly. "How dare you...?!"
But before he could continue or rise the volume of his voice, the seeker turned to face him again and the look he gifted his leader was one so angry and full of hate that it could have melted metal. Anyways, it worked to keep Megatron quiet once again as he and Perceptor flinched at the sight.
Starscream once said that he would do anything for those kids, even let go the caged beast he got inside if that keep Megatron shut fof the kids' welfare.
"That's better," Starscream grumbled as he went back to work on Scavenger.
As Megatron continued to stare, Carlos somehow managed to hiss.
"Dude, I didn't think anyone could shut Megatron up."
"Heh, neither did I," Rad chuckled darkly. "But I'm glad."
"So am I," Alexis giggled a little hysterically, the pain a little less now but it would return and probably with a vengeance.
"How did Sliverblaze ever put up with him?" Starscream demanded under his breath. "Fragging stubborn, loud, violent fragger."
"You..." Megatron tried before Starscream looked at him back hatefully. "Don't you dare to say her name..." He growled.
"I just don't get her, what femme in her sane judgement would want someone like you to bond?"
Megatron snarled at him. "Oh, yes, I'll make you suffer."
"How? You will spank me again and this time you will do it in front of the two armies? Come on, Really? I don't care anymore as long as you don't make this poor and innocent... Sparklings to suffer anymore."
"Fragging bastard!" Megatron snapped.
"Brute monster!" Starscream bit back.
"Pathetic virgin!"
The kids and Perceptor watched how the two mechs got an insult fight moving their gazes from one mech to the other.
"Whoremech!"
"At least I'm not a forever alone virgin!"
"And at least I don't frag every hole I can find!"
Megatron chuckled at that "That is because you can't find any or the ones you find are automatic crushers!"
Starscream took a breath at that indignity before calming again and replying. "Maybe in one of your drunk-ones you found yourself with one and that is how you know you can insert your spike there."
The kids giggled even in pain. "Dude," Carlos asked Megatron. "Can you truly do that?"
Megatron smirked, "I don't know, why don't you ask Starscream the virgin?"
"If he's a virgin, how he did do that and still be considered a virgin?" Alexis tried to defend her friend.
"Because, you can't consider un-virginized a mech that never did it with, or pleased, a femme."
Starscream was about to say how many femmes he pleased and pleasured when he looked at Alexis and decided to keep it to himself. It was not a good idea to talk about femmes like that in front of a... femmling.
"Fragger!" the seeker bit.
"At least I know how to frag, you don't even know why Primus gave you a spike; but let me tell you this: it was not to have it hanging it around as some kind of languid rope."
"Hey! I bet it's just not hanging around as you said!" Alexis defending his virtue again making him flush in who knows what feelings at this time... why on Primus' name it have to be Alexis the one to talk about his... virtue?
"BWAAAhahahahahahaha..." The Decepticon leader roared his laugh out loud. "Oh, Starscream, I've never thought that a little femmling would defend you! She doesn't even knows what she's talking about!"
"Hey!" Both Starscream and Alexis said at the same time.
"Jealous that it's your own daughter that is doing it?" Starscream finally said.
Megatron stopped his laugh and looked at his seeker with a frown. "Daughter or not, she's still a femmling." And a smirk crossed his features before laughing again at the seeker's face.
But suddenly his laughing stopped as another wave of piercing pain invaded his spark once again making him clutch his chest.
"Ahh...Primus," he gasped out as the kids suddenly began to scream.
But Starscream couldn't do anything, Scavenger's chest had begun to spark and if he left now, the old Mech might suffer permanent damage. Or even offline. Perceptor was also helpless to do anything, he keeled in despair.
As the children began to scream louder, writhing madly as pain wracked through their bodies, Starscream snarled.
"Megatron, for Primus think, do something!"
Megatron stared, what exactly could he do while in such pain? So in a rather desperate action, he staggered over to them and snatched them up, clutching them to his chest. Teeth gritted in pain, he held them to his Spark as though it could somehow ease their suffering, trying to take it away, even if that meant baring it himself.
"Perceptor, hurry!" Starscream started with Scavenger's chest again working as fast as he could, the kids' screams were piercing his spark and his processor tried to work between his worry for Scavenger and his worry about the kids.
Megatron still held them against his chest and it seemed that whatever he was doing it was it was working but at the price that he was absorbing their pain and it was becoming unbearable; but still, he didn't crushed them in his hands.
"Primus!" He growled feeling how energon tears left his optics and ran by his cheek.
"Come on, come on... just a little more tweaks, come on..." Starscream tried to hurry, but even them knowing that the old Mech will not awake so soon.
When he finally finished with Scavenger he addressed Perceptor. "Give him the final details; I'll look after the children!"
Perceptor nodded and watched the seeker go to a cabinet and take a syringe and walk towards Megatron. But before the seeker could reach his leader he spotted something else that made the poor combined Minicon to freeze.
A beautiful femme he'd never saw before walked into the med bay as if she owned the place; she just looked at him and placed her index finger on her lips in a way of telling him to keep quiet and walked towards Starscream and placed her hand on his shoulder.
The seeker turned immediately and froze at what his optics were seeing. Was he dead?
"He has such a temper, but once you get to know him better, he's the sweetest mech in the universe." She said in a melodious voice before Starscream blacked out and fell to the ground unconscious.
The femme walked so she was standing in front of Megatron who looked up when heard something heavy falling to the ground only to find...
"Blaze..." He whispered in pain.
She looked at him with a disappointed gaze and shook her head. "Our poor Sparklings, they are suffering, you promised if we had sparkling that they would never suffer."
"Blaze... I..." He tried as it was hard to think with all that pain; she was accusing him of their suffering.
Before he could remark, she set her petite hands on his much bigger ones and the kids started to glow and their bodies felt as if they were burning as suns; even then, Megatron didn't released them.
The kids' bodies glowed brighter, so bright that it blinded the Warlord and he lost consciousness.
Hours later...
"Ugh... what.. happened?" Scavenger recovered conscious and found himself in the med bay.
"You were injured," came a voice and he looked up to see Perceptor sitting near him but who was now standing up. "Megatron accidently hit you when he lost his temper down on Earth, but Starscream and I fixed you."
"Uh, thanks," Scavenger groaned, feeling the familiar sensation of freshly healed and welded metal. It always made him feel like hell. "Where is...?"
He gasped at the sight that met his optics and answered his question. Starscream was laying slumped near a cabinet, he didn't appear to be injured, merely unconscious But as Scavenger stared, he also noticed that Megatron was half lying across a berth, his face twisted in pain and equally unconscious. Clutched in his arms were three beautiful but sleeping Sparklings, two Mechs and a Femme.
He blinked his optics, what in Cybertron was he seeing? Where had those Sparklings come from and where were the children...
"Oh no," he muttered, pushing himself up. "No, no, no, this isn't possible."
They didn't resemble humans anymore, only normal Cybertorian Sparklings with a lot of silver. Like most Sparklings, they were rather plain in design but it was clear who was who. One of them had two spikes either side of his head while another had a very rounded helmet. The third had an almost pony tail shape design to her helm and Scavenger couldn't quite make out the rest. Megatron's arms where shielding them.
"Sweet Primus," The elder exclaimed before reaching for Starscream. "Perceptor, hurry, come on, help me waken Starscream."
The combined Minicon reached for the seeker and send him an electrical current that had him shaking before his optics on-lined and with a confused glance he addressed the other two. "Wha- what happened?"
"That is what I want to know!" Scavenger helped the flier up.
"Are you ok?" Starscream asked the elder and was about to reach for his face with his hands when he noticed the filled syringe. "Megatron!" He exclaimed before Scavenger stopped him.
"He's ok, just asleep, now, I need you to help us lifting him and... the sparklings."
"Sparklings?" The seeker's confused gaze was suddenly directed to his fallen leader who was possessively holding three sparklings. "No, impossible!" he exclaimed.
"It was possible, now, help me with them."
Scavenger, Starscream and Perceptor did their best to made Megatron to release the Sparklings to no avail, so, they needed to place him on a berth big enough to share with his creations, and once they managed to do so, Starscream said: "We need to separate them, I need to check if they are ok."
"I don't think that's wise," Perceptor pointed out. "It will upset his spark who wishes to be near his creations just as theirs are."
Scavenger and Starscream shared a look and decided to drop the subject until Megatron awakes and releases the ki- umm... sparklings.
Starscream rubbed at his forehead, he couldn't believe what had happened. He could swear that Megatron's offlined mate had come into the Med Bay but that was impossible...wasn't it? He had a feeling that he should keep this to himself, the others would think he was going mad. Offlined bots didn't just appear and interact with the online, it just didn't happen.
So why did he have a very bad feeling about this.
"Starscream," Scavenger said in an urgent tone that shook the Seeker from his thoughts. "I need you to stay here and keep an optic on Megatron and the children. They're in a vulnerable state, we cannot allow the others to see them like this."
As Starscream nodded, Scavenger added.
"I'm going to take charge for now, that Thrust needs to be kept in line. If I need to, I'll take them on a training exercise."
"Scavenger, you've only just woken up from surgery," Starscream cautioned.
"I've had worse," the old Mech said with a shrug. "You just keep your senses at full capacity Starscream, don't let anyone in."
The confused seeker nodded and returned his gaze to his leader and sparklings. Megatron's face was still showing signs that he was in some kind of pain, so he recovered the syringe and emptied its content in a major energon line in his leader's neck.
That seemed to work as the warlord's face relaxed a bit; and not just that, but his arms around his sparklings as well.
Deciding to take a risk and ignoring Perceptor's advice, Starscream started to pull at Megatron's arms trying to make him release the chi- uh... sparklings and succeeded to release one of them; a Mechling with horns that once was in his arms was placed on a medical berth and proceeded to scan him.
"Well, he seems to be ok... now for the next." The seeker said before reaching for the next sparkling and successfully taking him away from his sire's grasp.
After scanning him he concluded that everything was ok with him and then proceeded to get the last sparkling from Megatron.
"Alexis..." He trailed off trying to pull at Megatron's arms from her, but somehow Megatron inhaled deeply before tightening his grip on her; the last sparkling left.
Starscream left out an annoyed gasp. "You got to be kidding me!" then continued to pull his leader's arms to no avail. He just didn't let go!
"Frag you, Megatron! Let. her. go!" the seeker continued wresting with the other mech's arms and Megatron let out an annoyed grunt and hardened his position with his daughter.
The flier face palmed his front head watching that there was no way for him to release her form his grasp,
"He's fighting for the last one near him, it will not be easy for you to made him let go," Perceptor informed. "Not even drugging him,"he added.
"Great! There goes my last idea," Starscream growled before an idea crossed his features and run back to the cabinet taking an electrical device with him. Then he made the device to send a mild current to his leader's arms successfully releasing the last sparkling. Starscream smirked in victory taking hold of her before she could fall.
Perceptor just shook his head.
Then the seeker proceeded to scan her and found that everything was fine and functional with her and let her rest just like her brothers and sire.
The only problem was that Megatron started moving in discomfort, as if something was missing.
"Huh?" Starscream said, looking up and seeing Megatron moving about. "Oh for goodness sake," the Seeker exclaimed, he couldn't believe his leader. Could he be any more stubborn?
"You'd better place the children back with him," Perceptor advised. "Otherwise, he'll thrash about and might even injure himself."
Starscream scoffed but Megatron was starting to move and moan at an alarming rate so he gently gathered up a Sparkling and placed it on his leader's chest. Immediately, Megatron relaxed, his arms coming over to wrap around the Sparkling with horns. Starscream stared, that really had calmed his leader. So he decided to move the other two as well, they might as well all be comfortable.
"Unbelievable," Starscream grumbled, he could swear that Megatron now had a small smirk on his face, as though he knew what had been happening.
Meanwhile...
Moon surface...
Scavenger watched the new arrivals train with Cyclonus and Demolisher until Thrust came near him again.
"Where is Lord Megatron? Why was he in such pain?" The seeker had obviously a bad habit of sticking his hidden nose in business that was not his.
"None of your concern! Now, return to your training!"
"But..." The conehead tried.
"I said...! Return to your training!" Scavenger used his most authoritative voice to see if the stubborn flier would just drop the subject... he was wrong.
"You're not the leader, you can't tell me wh-!"
Scavenger lost his patience with him and grabbed him by the neck and looked at him. "I'm in charge now by Megatron's orders! And you better obey...or else..."
"Or else what?!" The other dared.
Scavenger frowned, "Cyclonus!" He barked, "Think fast!" He then threw the seeker to the crazy copter who caught him and threw him to Tidalwave who did the same and threw him to Wheeljack and this one to Demolisher and the cycle repeated.
None of them stopped in their 'training'with Thrust no matter how much he screamed or tried to fly away.
The elder smirked; he used to do that with those students who got obedience problems.
It always worked a treat for putting arrogant bots in their place. Unfortunately, there was only so much he could do, Thrust would recover and he'd be looking for answers. He could only hope Megatron was awake and lucid by that time.
Decepticon Medbay...
It was a few hours later until Megatron finally awoke, by which time Starscream had refuelled and recorded the new Sparkling's particulars. Now they were real Sparklings, they needed to have their own medical reports, to be referred if they ever needed to visit a Med Bay. He felt so strange doing this, so recently they'd been mischievous humans and now look at them. Innocent and beautiful Sparklings who, despite having the misfortune of Megatron for a Sire, hopefully still retained their personalities.
"Urgh," Megatron moaned, raising a hand to clutch at his forehead. "What the slag happened?"
"You happened," Starscream muttered before saying aloud. "The pain overwhelmed you Megatron, you fell unconscious."
"But I...," Megatron started to exclaim, thinking of Sliverblaze when he suddenly remembered his children.
"My Sparklings," he said in alarm before feeling the weight on his chest and looking down to find them.
"Their fine," Starscream said gruffly. "Although I doubt they will be when they wake up."
"What are you talking about?" demanded Megatron, stroking Alexis's head with a small smile.
"How do you think the children will react once they wake up and discover what has happened?" Starscream said impatiently. "They will not be happy Megatron, I shudder to think how upset they will be."
"Why would they be upset? They've recovered their sire! They must be happy!"
Starscream rolled his optics not believing in Megatron's arrogance and denial. "They are full transformers now, Megatron! They were humans just a few days ago! How you think they will feel?!"
"Good and powerful, they are gods, not worms anymore."
The seeker's jaw fell open at the remark before he shook his head and remarked. "They will not be happy! This is not what they were created or raised-"
"They will get used to it, it will take time, but they will."
"They will hate you, Megatron, just think! You did this against theirwill; I know you want the remaining pieces of her spark, but taking their lives is not the way to fulfil the hole in your spark, and even less if they hate you in the end!"
"They will not hate me, I will not allow it!"
"How? How you plan on doing it? You can't force them! Unless..." The seeker trailed off.
Megatron smirked. "They will never hate me, I will not allow it."
Dread filled Starscream's spark at that affirmation; if the children did not do as he commanded, he will re-program them, now that they are Cybertronians, that was very much possible.
"Megatron...you wouldn't," Starscream exclaimed, he could hardly believe what he was hearing. "Everything the children are, their personalities, their quirks, their memories...you'll destroy that."
Megatron snorted.
"I've no doubt their personalities and quirks will remain much the same...but their memories are standing in my way as their rightful Sire. They insist on trying to get back to their earth parents and I'm putting that right. I will be the only Sire they will ever know or need; it is pointless for them to moon over those others ones. Besides, it will end the mental anguish you have been complaining about Starscream."
"But...but...," Starscream blustered, he was so overwhelmed by Megatron's insane and utterly selfish plan, he couldn't present a logical argument. Megatron was refusing to win the kids love; he planned to trick them into loving him. And what was worse, he believed that nothing could stand in his way.
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Author's note. Can Starscream foil Megatron's latest scheme? How do the children react when they wake up? Find out next time, until then.
