Whoa, fifty-five chapters and fifty reviews! I never thought I'd get this far! Thanks so much you guys! Wanted to say thank you to Corevil, TheLoveDov, and TheSuperiorVision for reviewing, and to megatronus89 for putting me and this story into their alert lists! Written whilst listening to Iris and Slide by Goo Goo Dolls. Hope you enjoy the chapter!
P.S - For once, I'm actually quite happy with the length of this chapter =D!
P.P.S - And, on a completely unrelated note, I went to go see Avengers Assemble earlier this evening, and my God it was epic! Anyway, back to the chapter, fangirl's going back in her cage now. Xx
When Twilight awoke, the first thing she noticed was that her spark felt different. The second thing she noticed was that she wasn't on her berth. Then she remembered what had happened. Sitting up, she sighed, stretching.
"Welcome back." She turned to see Cyclonus walking towards her, looking and sounding extremely smug. She rolled her optics, taking his proffered hand.
"Thanks." She grumbled. She felt his amusement flow freely through their bond.
"It feels strange, doesn't it?" She shrugged.
"It feels like I've finally found something that I've been searching for, like my spark is... Complete."
"Autobot." He teased. She growled quietly.
"Say that again, and I will slice your fragging head off." He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into his chest and growling into her audio.
"You wouldn't dare." She giggled, pecking his cheek-plate. The mech sighed.
"We have to go, Galvatron's expecting us back." She groaned, but nodded anyway, taking off. Cyclonus lingered for a moment. He couldn't see a certain pair of Seekers, but he knew that they could see him.
"If you're listening, then thank you." He said before transforming and flying off. The two translucent Seekers were sitting on the boulders surrounding the healing spring. Skywarp chuckled.
"I give them a week." Thundercracker raised an optic ridge.
"Until what?" He wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer. Skywarp looked at 'TC' as if he was dumb, which was certainly saying something.
"Until they frag and make a sparkling." Thundercracker face-palmed.
Scourge was on patrol at Chaar's base's entrance when the two Decepticons returned. Twilight cocked her head to the side as he sent them a confused look. She tugged lightly on her bond.
~Did you not tell him?~ Cyclonus shook his head.
"Where the frag have you two been?" He asked as they touched ground in front of him.
"Oh, you know, just out on a field testing mission." The tracker raised an optic ridge.
"Riiiiight. And what did you do whilst out on this 'field testing mission'?"
"The usual. Collected data, took samples, spark-bonded." They both walked past him slowly.
"Oh, okay then." Cyclonus rolled his optics.
~Any second now. Wait for it, five, four, three, two...~
"Hold on a second! You two bonded?"
"One." They turned around as he ran to catch up with them.
"For real? You guys seriously bonded?" Twilight rolled her optics.
"No, Scourge, we thought we'd just say that for the hell of it." The Sweep leader chuckled.
"Well, congrats. It only took you what, a year, Cyc?"
"Shut up." Twilight giggled.
"Well, I'd better get back to patrolling, I'll be seeing you." They said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.
Whilst heading towards the throne room, Twilight received a message from Soundwave.
'Congratulations, Sister.'
'Thank you, Brother. How did you find out? I know the twins are the optics and audios of the gossip around here, but they couldn't have found out that quickly.' She heard him chuckle through the link.
'Actually, I knew where you were going before you did. Cyclonus asked for my permisson to propose.' Twilight held back a smile.
'He did, did he?'
'Yes. At least I know you're in good hands, Sister. I'm sure Thundercracker and Skywarp are happy for you too, wherever they are.'
'I hope they are, old friend. May as well tell the twins now, let them circulate it round base for me.' Soundwave laughed.
'Have fun.' She sighed, severing the link. She felt Cyclonus tug at their bond, trying to get her attention.
"Soundwave." She said, and he nodded in understanding.
"He appreciates what you did, asking him for permission." Her mate looked slightly sheepish.
"It felt wrong for some reason, going behind his back." She smiled.
"I'm going to do something I'm most probably going to regret later, okay?" He rose an optic ridge, worry seeping through the bond.
"And what might that be?"
"News travels faster around the base when it comes out of the twins' vocalisers." That was all she needed to say, he caught her drift.
"Very well. The others would find out sooner or later, best to get it over with I suppose." Twilight nodded, stopping just outside the throne room's door.
'Oi, demon twins, listen up!' She shouted through a comm. link.
'Ma'am yes ma'am!'
'What is it, 'Lighter?' Twilight couldn't help but giggle, they sounded so much like Skywarp when they said that. Taking in a deep breath, she decided to say it quickly to get it over with.
'Just wanted to let you know that Cyclonus and I weren't at base last night because we went off to a remote planet and bonded. Have fun spreading the news around base.' And with that said, she severed the link. The twins smirked to themselves from where they sat on Soundwave's berth.
"Not bad, Twi, not bad at all."
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, or any of the characters I use in this story, apart from Twilight.
