Chapter 12

"Magnus you don't have enough time you need to finish the lesson your tutor assigned." The servant called. Magnus ignored him and walked to his brother's room. He opened the door and found Orion reading at his desk.

"Hey don't you have a session with your tutor?" Orion asked closing his tab he had open. Magnus shrugged and sat down in the chair next to the desk. "Was wondering if you wanted to walk around CyberCity for a while, see if Arcee wants to come too." Magnus suggested.

"Yea sure maybe ElitaFlash would want to come to." Orion smirked. Magnus felt his cheek plates get hot red and blush.

"Yea that would be fun maybe develop a friendship between the two." Magnus said getting up and putting the rest of his armor on. Orion went to the wash room and cleaned up a bit before calling Arcee. She of course agreed and said she'd meet them by the shops in downtown CyberCity in an hour.

"Alright Magnus your turn call Elita and see if she wants to come." Orion said handing him the phone. He dialed the code and Magnus waited for someone to pick up. A deep voice answered

"This is the resident of Dracth Veson how may we assist you." The voice spoke

"I was wondering if could talk to ElitaFlash." The line went quiet for a second and then he heard her voice. They stayed on the phone a little longer before she agreed. Orion was waiting outside of their room giving Magnus a sly smile when he came out.

"Well what did yall talk about because I know it was more than just hanging out today?" Orion took a bite of the candy he had in his servo.

"That brother is information for my auto receptors only." Magnus started his way down the hallway to the elevator. Orion followed behind him. They arrived on the second floor. They headed for the door, but heard arguing behind a closed door

*inside the hall of Primes*

"You cannot tell me this is not a problem Alchemist!" Onyx yelled across the table. Alchemist ignored it and rolled his optics. All the primes were sitting at a table "talking" about the current problem plaguing their minds.

"Look we need to establish a plan now so when the time come were not caught by surprise." Quintus stated. None of the Primes heard him for they were all arguing. Quintus Stood up.

"THAT'S ENOUGH WE CAME IN HERE TO DISCUSS THE PROPHCEY NOT BICKER!" the primes stared at their younger brother. Quintus took a deep and sat back down.

"Primus gave us a Prophecy before he divided power among us and that is a 13th Prime will be chosen before the worlds fall under destruction and death. We came here on how to choose the next prime and to choose the right bot."
Amalgamous ducked his helm and took deep breathes. "Quintus we do not choose the Primes we only give him the title, Primus chooses the prime and presents him to us." The primes shook their heads in agreement.

"But he mentioned that the 13th prime is among us. It could be any one of our sons. Why don't we choose one and make him the 13th. My son Wolfplate would be the perfect prime he takes after me you know." Liege Maximo boldly stated.

"We know Maximo there is no doubt that he is YOUR son." Mirconus said rolling his eyes. All the primes knew where this was heading. They were already heated from previous arguments.

"We don't know who the hell primus has chosen heck it could be a council or court member." Onyx said letting a drag from his cigar.

"Why would he choose one of those self-center big ass ego bots? Every time someone doesn't point out their new paint job they get all offended and demand attention. Lil' bitches if you ask me" Nexus scoffed. The primes let out a little laugh thinking back to experiences.

Quintus became irritated "Stop getting side tracked and focuse we have to think of a plan when the 13th is presented to us."

"Chill out baby brother take a drink light a cigar we got time." Alchemist chuckled kicking his pedes on the table and drinking his high grade." Quintus slammed his servo down "No we need to start thinking of candidates, bots who show true signs of being worthy."

"Quintus you are right but even if it were up to us to choose, it would take years of observation. Most of our sons are still young and most just now getting into boot camp. I agree with you 100% but right now we need to let them grow up and watch them. And if one of our children so happens to show the qualities of a prime then we will surely have a meeting with Primus." Amalgamous said.

"Well by the looks of it I think Wolfplate would be perfect. He's strong and-"

"Man shut the hell up I'm tired of you talking about your son like he's the only one in this damn family. Our sons show the same amount of qualities no need to brag. Plus he isn't that great anyways." Onyx scoffed

"Take that back you self-centered bastard!" Maximo said jumping out of his chair. Onyx stood up too tossing his cigar to the side.
"Oh so you finally grew some balls Maximo?" Onyx raised his fist and looked his older brother dead in the eyes.

"You two sit down right now!" Prima yelled. They ignored him and inched closer and closer waiting for someone to through the first punch.

"At least I didn't flee at the battle of two swords." Maximo remarked smirking. Onyx leaped forward and slammed Maximo against the wall "I left to join up with father, you on the other hand couldn't even finish a fight alone without your weak ass troop to back you up."

"ONYX! MAXIMO! STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!" Prima yelled. He slammed his fist on the table walking over to them. Megatronus stepped in front of him

"Let them fight brother, they need to let out some tension." Prima swung at his younger brother knocking him to the ground. "Shut up for Primus sake, you have no say what so ever. You're never around when we need you and the one time you're here your encouraging fighting between your own blood! Megatronus stood up he wiped the dripping energon from his mouth. He smirked and cocked his head back smiling kind of evilly.

The other primes stood around the room watching their four brothers duked it out. Quintus stood shocked he had never seen something break out like this. "Amalgamous aren't you going to do something?" he asked. He shook his head no.

"YOU'RE ALL IGNORANT AND STUPID!" Maximo shouted under Onyx grip. The energon began to boil in all of them. They've had tension between them since their kids all started to grow up. That's when the competition for whose son would be the best started. Nexus stood off to the side drinking his high grade feverishly. He was trying his best to stay calm. Maximo and he were never on good terms.

"You're all weak and that's why my son will be the next Prime!" Nexus punched the wall and held Maximo against the wall with Onyx still holding a grip.

"Shut the fuck up, you are in no position to speak on who gets to be the next prime will be." Maximo spat at his pedes. Nexus backed handed him. He snarled and let go of him. Maximo lunged forward knocking the both to the ground.
"I do have a say I'm just as much of a prime as you are."
Nexus threw him off "Your arrogance is what's keeping you from having a say." The two were throwing punches left and right. Finally Alchemist held Nexus back while Amal held Maximo back. They stared with bloodthirsty optics. This wasn't the end.

Just outside of the door were Orion and Magnus. They had just heard everything. Orion slumped to the floor. He was in utter shock. Everything he had just heard, the prophecy, the argument, the endless cursing between his uncles. He heard everything. Magnus slumped down next to him.
"I would have never imagined this is what their relationship was between them." Orion could barely shake his head in agreement. But the fighting in the other room didn't stop. He heard bots getting thrown against the wall. He could hear the cursing and the punches being thrown. Orion got up and started running looking for his mother. At this point he was looking for anyone. Magnus was right behind him doing the same thing. Aqua was sitting with Whiplash and Silverstreak.

"Mom!" Aqua looked up she stopped talking. "Orion what is it?"
"The Primes, dad they're all arguing and fighting, they won't stop, some are hurt." Orion panted. Aqua began running to the room they were in. Whiplash and Silverstreak followed right behind her. Aqua opened the door. Her servo came up to her mouth. An all-out brawl was taking place. Nexus had Maximo in a headlock. Quintus was pinned on the table by Onyx. Prima and Megatronus were kicking and slamming each other to the ground. Amalgamous and Alchemist punching and screaming as they raked each other against the wall. Whiplash saw her spark mate and rushed over to him only to be smack in the face by Mirconus. She snarled and punched him back. Aqua called some guards to break up the fight.

The guards arrived and pulled the Primes off of each other like toddlers. Quintus made it back to Aqua cover in his own energon. She started to cry as she wiped away the Cybertronian blood from his face. He hugged her and reassured her everything was ok. He looked down at his two sons. Orion looked absolutely traumatized. Magnus fear stricken by the amount of energon covering the sacred hall.

They walled back to their floor. Aqua called a medic. Quintus had some major explaining to do. Especially since all the Primes walked out bloodied and engulfed in rage.

"Maximo started it, he kept egging Onyx and Nexus on. Megatronus did the same thing with Prima. We were supposed to be having a meeting but no one knew how to stay on topic. Then it became a 'whose son is the best out of all of ours.' That's when- OW! Quintus flinched as the medic welded his arm plated together. "That's when Maximo wouldn't shut the fuck up." Aqua kissed his cheek and leaned on his shoulder. Orion and Magnus walked in "Mom we were going to meet Arcee and Elitaflash at the shops." Magnus said.

"Alright just call us when you're to be picked up." The two walked out of the room and made it to the elevator quickly as possible avoiding their cousins. They made it to the hover car. Getting in and instructing the driver to take them to down town Cybercity. They were there in no time. Orion got out and saw Arcee sitting at a Table with Elita. He walked over and she gave him a big hug. His day just got 10x better. Magnus hugged Elita too kissing the top of her helm.

"What took yall so long we waited 30 minutes?" Elita asked taking a sip of her drink she ordered. Orion rubbed the back of his helm. "Well he sort of got caught up in some family issues." Orion said bashfully.

"Well that's ok as long as we get to hang out with you its all good." Arcee said. She began to stand up and waited for the others to follow. They walked to some of the finest shops in the city. Arcee and Elita eyes some jewelry and began giggling at the most random things.

"Hey Orion do you ever just sit back and look at how lucky you are, being with Arcee?"
"All the time I can't get enough of her sometimes it incredible at how someone like her can just walk in your life." The two stared at their femmes. Admiring every aspect of them. Arcee walked up to Orion and kissed his cheek taking servo and leading him out of the store. The couple walked down the street holding servos and talking about everything.

Nothing what so ever cold ruin this moment. The suns were beginning to set. Magnus and Orion took the two femmes to the edge of the city to look out. Hover cars were leaving and entering the capitol city. Far off in the distance, more city lights and buildings. Magnus stood behind Elita placing his chin on her helm and wrapping her arms around her chest. Closing his optics taking in the moment. Orion was sitting in the bench with Arcee leaning on his shoulder. Orion thought back to earlier and how awful the whole experience was. "Primus gave us a Prophecy before he divided power among us and that is 13th Prime will be chosen before the worlds fall under destruction and death." His father's words rang in his auto receptors. A 13th prime. It was almost too much to comprehend. What does that mean for the other twelve? Does the thirteenth become the sole ruler of Cybertron?

"Orion what's wrong?" Arcee said sitting up. He looked at her lovingly "Nothing just lost in thought I guess." He kissed her helm giving her as much reassurance as possible.

Yeah lost in thought….

Aurthors note: wanted to add some meaning behind why the 13th prime was chosen all due to a prophecy given to the primes by Primus.

i think this chapter really dives into the Primes personalities and better helps understand what they're like when they're not around their wife and kids.

(i wrote this listening to Frank Ticheli's music lol)

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