Prime, Chapter 19

Things had been going fairly well for the Autobots recently, Miko had her date with Terrance and found that he's actually a lot of fun when not working, but he likes to remain at least semi-professional when helping out at the base. Still there were times he'd let out at least a joke or two anyway, and he did introduce the base to a lot of variety music that Miko and the others ended up enjoying. There was one tiny little problem, Arcee was going stir crazy being stuck at the base all the time, she wished she could go on some kind of mission, and honestly, would you tell a pregnant and cranky woman of any species that she couldn't do something?

"Hey, since you're so good at getting into things, think you can help me out?" Bulkhead questioned while trying to pry something open that's lock was smashed and asking Terry if he could get it open because force was the only way it would open up due to the broken lock. In response a blaster shot towards him which he barely managed to dodge before it struck the locking piece blowing it to bits on whatever he was trying to get open. "What the heck?"

"What, I learned it by watching the wreckers." Terry then teased before putting his blaster away and continuing to work while Optimas tried to find something suitable for Arcee to do while she's pregnant as an untapped energon deposit appeared on the screen of one of the computers Terrance was working on. "Hey found something that might be worth checking out."

After looking over the information they had gathered it seemed like it would be safe, and the ground bridge would be safe for Arcee and Jack to go through, with a sigh Optimas than begrudgingly seemed to agree before turning to the group. "Alright, Bumblebee, Orion Pax, and Ratchet, go with Arcee, this is a covert scouting mission so be careful, we don't know if anything might go wrong." The leader of team Prime spoke up saying who all was going for the mission exciting Arcee glad to finally be back on mission.

The four of them exited the space bridge to Galvatron along with some other decepticons present and watching them silently from a distance and well cloaked so as to not be noticed. The new leader of the Decepticons was about to give the order but stopped when he noticed something was wrong. The Autobot Arcee from his knowledge didn't have issues going through a ground bridge before but almost immediately she'd stumbled and began to get sick. He watched silently as Orion had talked to her and they had the Autobot Femme sit down for a moment and she placed a hand on her stomach area. That pretty much confirmed that there was something important going on.

"Fall back." The Decepticon leader stated to his crew making them look surprised. "We're done here."

"Just like that, we haven't even tried to take them on." Starscream spoke up saying that they could handle a group that small easily before being grabbed by the throat by Galvatron who looked quite angry.

"Are you questioning my orders?" He demanded continuing to crush the Decepticon's throat in his bare hands getting an apology out of him for his insubordination. "Now return to the base."

The other Decepticons had a bridge opened up, but the Autobots heard and began going to investigate while they were making their escape. "Open fire." Starscream then demanded before shooting one of his missiles at the Autobots, though Galvatron had tried to stop him or at the very least redirect it so it wouldn't hit at the Autobots, which caused their enemies to be confused as they barely managed to avoid the explosion and rubble began to fall towards them as the other Decepticons made it through Galvatron opened fire and took out the rubble before it could strike them confusing the group even more.

"Enjoy this little victory, I won't be so lenient the next we meet." And with that Galvatron went through his ground bridge and back to the decepticon base.

Back at the Decepticon base Galvatron was incredibly pissed and moved anyone that got in his path as he made his way to starscream. Though the Decepticon tried to defend himself it was clear that the new leader did not want to hear it as he began mercilessly beating the jet decepticon violently. The others could only watch and tremble in fear of just what Galvatron was like when he was angry and could see all the damage being done to Starscream who was once second in command under Lord Megatron's rule. If anything was clear it was never go against orders from their new leader, that's for certain.

"Please, give me a chance to explain, they were trying t.." The jet transformer spoke up begging for a chance to explain himself, but was cut short by the new hole in his chest created by Galvatron's fist.

"Megatron was a fool to let you live, I will not make that mistake." With that The New leader of the Decepticons grabbed a hold of Starscream's spark making him cry out in agonizing pain from what was being done to him. Though he tried one last time to beg Galvatron was not willing to listen and ripped the spark from the former decepticon who now laid before them as nothing more than a pile of scrap. "Extract the energon from this corpse and then throw the leftovers into the smelting pot."

Meanwhile the Autobots had managed to gather all the energon from the mine they could carry and were planning to continue non stop until they were done, though they did have Arcee set that out as Ratchet was doing a full scan to make certain that she was alright while Jack passed back and forth worried. Thankfully though, they had determined that both Arcee and the child were both okay. Though they were still puzzled on why exactly he wouldn't attack. It was actually bumblebee who realized the connection though and the group were curious as to what he'd come up with.

Bumblebee then began beeping saying that Galvatron wouldn't hesitate to attack any of them, and even shot at Miko as well, but not Arcee. He then went on to suggest that Maybe Galvatron actually realized that Arcee was pregnant and decided killing an unborn child is too brutal even for the Decepticons and thus left to avoid the battle which is why he tried to stop Starscream and took out the rubble that was threatening them.

"That would actually make the most logical sense." Ratchet spoke up saying that what Bumblebee was saying did make a lot of sense as Arcee sat there looking upset.

"No more mission until after I've fully recovered from delivery." She spoke saying she didn't want to go on anymore missions until after she'd had the baby and fully recovered after.

"That is certainly a good call." Optimas spoke up saying that he agreed completely with Arcee's choice to wait until she has the baby before going on missions again.

"But once I'm back up to stuff I'm returning to active duty." She spoke saying that she didn't intend to be a stay at home mom at all which caused the room to start laughing. By claiming the untapped deposit they had a nice sized haul of Energon and that would last them all for quite a long while to be honest.

"When I get my hands on Starscream I'm going to rip out his spark." Jack spoke up saying he wasn't going to just let the fact that Starcream fired on Arcee while she is pregnant go at all. Though he knew that grudges weren't helpful towards anyone he still clearly showed that he wasn't going to sit back and let this happen.

Hearing this Arcee put her hand on her lover's shoulder worriedly trying to help calm him down. "That's not going to help anyone Jack. I know how mad you are, and I'm mad too, but revenge doesn't solve anything. You showed me that when we were dealing with Airachnid together." She spoke before kissing her human lover saying that wanting revenge isn't something he should be doing right now before making a strange face but then started smiling again. "Hey you, be still." She joked placing a hand on her stomach saying that the baby was moving around a lot and trying to get them to be still.

"You're right." The dark haired young man spoke placing his hand on her stomach which helped the baby calm down and move around less making mommy smile. "We should be focusing on our little one, not someone who tried to hurt them without knowing they exist." Everyone smiled hearing Jack's words and were all in complete agreement including Terrance as well, even though he's stated he may be helping them but he's not one of Optimas' autobots.

"The two of you should head home, we'll get the remaining energon." Hearing their leader the two nodded and headed out back to the house to relax and rest, it had been a long day after all so really resting a bit would for sure help out a lot.