Chapter 133 – Knots

(JoPOV)

Jolt carried his Lena... his Lena, that felt so good – back to his quarters and laid down on his berth, stroking a gentle finger up and down her back.

They laid in silence for a long moment, Lena cuddled into her spot on his chest. The spot that felt so incredible when she was there.

"So, our sparks were fated together?" Lena asked softly. Jolt looked down at her with a smile.

"If Bumblebee is correct, which he generally is when he wants to be, it means that at some point you and I were bonded, not necessarily the two of us but our sparks, our souls. We left our bodies for the well of all-sparks, and returned again. When two are bonded, they are not simply bonded for one life, our souls dance from one life to the next, always looking for each other." Jolt murmured.

Lena cuddled into him a bit more. Which felt incredible.

"That's incredible," she whispered. "So what is it with Optimus and Kae, it's like they just can't keep their hands off of each other."

"A couple of things, I suppose," Jolt murmured. "Optimus is one of the first picks for a first guide, he's interfaced with a lot of bots. And I mean a lot even by bot standards. He was bonded to Elita, but when she died she refused to let him come with her. So he went from being essentially one of the most desirable bots to a complete introvert, unable to bear the thought of that level of spark-break again. You can feel it in his spark when he's not paying attention, sometimes, he remembers a long time of being alone."

"Until he found Kae," Lena whispered. Jolt nodded with a smile.

"When he found Kae?" he murmured, "it was like watching... the sun come out... after a lifetime of darkness. When it comes to Kae? She's been just as alone a lot of the time, especially since she was trained to keep others away. But when you put the two of them together, their sparks are an absolute of complementary to each other. I imagine they'll slow down a bit as the annum pass, or not, it's Optimus, but you have to admit, seventy vorn. He's got a long time of loneliness to make up for." Jolt giggled. "There's a reason the femmes are always teasing him about his lack of conquests."

"Huh?" Lena asked curiously tilting her head to look at him.

"Well when you get right down to it, Optimus is one pit of a gorgeous bot, his build is incredible, he's powerful, gentle, and a Prime. There was a time when he didn't even have to try to have a bot in his berth. And come on, it's Optimus, he never turned a bot from his berth, because a lot of the time not only were there bots looking for a bit of fun, but there were bots who needed spark contact, or to simply be held against the loneliness that creeps on us. And whatever that bot needs, he provides, it's not just a Prime thing, it's an Optimus thing."

"So..." Lena murmured with a smile. Jolt smiled at her.

"So he's like that, because it's Optimus, I've been here, and haven't had an interface from the time Arcee freed me, to the first time you touched my spark. I could quite easily have gone to Optimus. It's not uncommon for a bot to interface with their Prime. But as glitched out as I was getting, he never forced me to his berth."

Jolt smiled to feel the relief in his Lena's spark.

"So that's what they're doing?" Lena giggled. "Making up for lost time?"

"In spades," Jolt giggled. A thought occurred, he looked at the video relays for a moment and snorted. He glanced at Lena for a moment and smirked.

"What?" she asked with a low laugh.

"You wanna see them?" he chuckled.

Lena looked at him for a moment.

"What's the catch?" she asked warily.

"No catch, Prime forgot to shut off the closed circuit feed in their room again," Jolt snorted, he brought up a holoscreen of the two of them, they were still sitting on the edge of the berth.

"I did something wrong?" Optimus rumbled softly, curiously.

"Not really, Lena is somewhat more fragile about sex than most," Mikaela murmured.

Optimus froze for a long moment and leaned his head on Kae's shoulder.

"I am a glitch," he rumbled flatly.

"That, is so sweet," Lena murmured softly.

"No, there's no damage," Kae laughed softly. "However there will be if you don't do something about the raging lust you've gone and fired up in me again."

Jolt snorted and Lena giggled as Kae dragged Optimus' hand back to her spark chamber. The changes in Optimus' expressions were priceless.

"Oh thank Primus," he rumbled, dragging her back onto their berth.

"She was serious," Lena murmured with a smile. "Behind closed doors she'll jump him just as much as he will her."

"Not necessarily behind closed doors, either," Jolt laughed softly. "Just mostly out of sight from the humans. You wouldn't believe just how smug Optimus has been since we found out that Kae's human libido transferred into her bot form."

"They were having sex even when she was still a human?" Lena asked in a shocked voice, she looked up at him incredulously.

"Every chance they got," Jolt nodded with a smile. "Either her with his holoform, in the mindspace when she was touching his spark, she'd make him overload while she was cleaning and polishing his armour and protoform, he'd tease and stroke and make love to her with his cables... they wanted to, so they found a way. Several ways."

"Jolt..." Lena murmured softly, reaching up and caressing his spark chamber. He looked down at her curiously and found an incredible look in her eyes.

"Lena are... are you sure?" he whispered.

"With you? Somehow I'm always sure," she whispered.

And that felt really good too.

"Except for the how part," she murmured with a low snort of amusement.

"Do you remember the mindspace?" Jolt smiled at her, she grinned and began caressing his spark chamber. Which felt incredible. He reached for her with his spark, caressing her hand as he always did before tentatively, reaching along her arm for her body.

For her mind and spark.

"Jolt yes," his Lena moaned, pressing closer to him.

::. This way.:: he whispered, caressing her spark and drawing her to the mindspace.

He watched her eyes open, surrounded by the light for the first time.

She looked down.

::. I'm...:: she started in a confused tone.

::. A femme?.:: Jolt murmured in amusement ::. Here, we are whatever we wish to be.::

(OPOV)

Optimus watched the goings on around himself somewhat worriedly, his Kae was holding him tightly in check from teasing her senses, seeming to be smoothing something over, but for the life of him, Optimus didn't know what.

Jolt and Lena left and the doors closed.

"I did something wrong?" he murmured curiously.

"Not really, Lena is somewhat more fragile about sex than most," Mikaela murmured.

Oh scrap. She and Jolt shared common markers in the past. Optimus resignedly set his brow on his Kae's shoulder

"I am a glitch." he rumbled flatly.

"No, there's no damage," his Kae laughed softly. "However there will be if you don't do something about the raging lust you've gone and fired up in me again." she added with a smirk, dragging his hand to cover her spark.

Which meant that his frag up was repaired, and he was forgiven.

And his Kae wanted him.

"Oh thank Primus," Optimus rumbled in relief, his interface panel was burning for his Kae. He dragged her back onto their berth and pinned her down, lipping his way down his exquisite Kae's neck and making her moan. He mapped her frame with his hands, of course he already knew each and every spot that would make her moan and squirm, but he loved the feeling of his Kae's metals.

Pinpoint targeting was for getting his Kae's attention.

Stroking his Kae, no that was for when he wanted to drive her over the edge.

Because in the mornings?

Oh there was nothing that was going to keep his hands off of her. Well, unless she told him not to. But she never had, not yet. And his Kae insisted that if they ever got angry at each other, they fight it out, they discuss it and they don't go to their recharge until they weren't angry at each other.

If it meant coming online beside his beautiful Kae and being allowed to touch and caress and kiss and make his gorgeous femme overload every chance they had.

Oh he was going to take that.

And this morning? Oh he wanted her screaming his name. Which meant that these five cables connected to her panel here, simultaneously, because that much sensation tended to make his Kae insane.

He loved that little piece of information. And he adored the way she keened and writhed beneath him as he connected to her. She began bringing extra processors online, which brought a smirk to his face.

It meant that there was going to be a battle on this berth.

The fight to see who would make the other overload first.

The best kind of battle. They both won.

Sure enough, her hands began tweaking his frame, little zaps of energon flying from her fingers as she began hyper-stimulating his circuits.

How she was so Primus damned capable of finding just that-

"Ohhhhh," he groaned as she hit that circuit. The one that drove him so close to the blasted edge and had his spike inflated and nosing at her valve.

Fine, if she wanted to play it like that...

Optimus extended a cable to begin teasing the knot of neural fibres at the small of her back, the knot that formed a juncture between spark, valve and legs.

The one that always made her make the best squeaky moan as she automatically arched to take his spike.

Which was his cue to just keep nosing that soaking valve, drawing it out, teasing her.

"You know what I want to hear," he rumbled directly into her audio receptors. Utilizing the tone that he knew made her core temperature rise was cheating.

In this case, he loved cheating.

"Orion," she whimpered.

His old name, good for a smirk, but he wanted to hear his name.

"Say it," he whispered in his best seductive tone.

"Oh Primus please," she began whimpering, her movements changed slightly, rubbing against him in the most Primus damned evocative dance.

Her metals twitching and rubbing against his, her legs twining, tangling with his, drawing him closer to the spot his spike was demanding he go.

Now.

"Say it," he growled softly and felt himself lose the last of his restraint, diving into his spark-bonded mate's soaking valve. Kae screamed his name as she overloaded, their sparks twined together.

That sound, her spark, her body, he was overloading right beside her, their dual consciousness blasted to the stars, entwined absolutely.

In the darkness, he onlined his optics, feeling his Kae as she began teasing him.

A femme capable of enough focus to continue making him writhe even without their bodies.

This was the well.

~No, this is us floating around in space~ Kae whispered into his spark in amusement. ~We're going to have to find our bodies eventually. But first...~

She began stroking him, the raw feeling of their entwined sparks almost more than he could bear. He returned the favour, massaging her as she did him.

They both felt the inevitable tug of their sparks reaching for their bodies, and followed it. Optimus onlined his optics to look down at his Kae.

She was looking at him with mischievous amusement twinkling in her optics.

"Kae?" he rumbled curiously.

She reached up and caught his lips with hers, which brought their chests together.

Before he knew it, her spark was caressing his, pressing a secondary charge load through him.

Sneaky gorgeous femme.

He was going to get her for that.

Once he could move.

She laid him out comfortably on their berth.

"I'll see you later, my beloved, I need to get to work," she murmured into his auditory receptors.

Blasted sneaky gorgeous fragging femme.

If she needed to get to her work, it meant it was about time that they'd be expecting him in communications central.

Except he was going to be down in semi-conscious reboot for the next hour or so.

Oh. He was going to get her for this.

::. Optimus.:: Ironhide called out.

Scrap.

::. He's down for the count for the moment, what's wrong Ironhide?.:: Kae sent back calmly. Well. At least she was capable of minding the shop. There was silence for a moment.

::. What did you do?.:: Ironhide sent in amusement.

::. I pressed a secondary chargeload through him.:: Kae sent innocently ::. He needed it anyway.::

::. Mmm, true, which means he's listening right now, half-conscious and thinking about revenge on you, you know that right, my niece?.::

::. Oh I know.:: Kae stated cheerfully ::. So what's the problem?.::

::. Oh nothing much, the humans are wondering where Optimus is.:: Ironhide shrugged ::. Oddly enough for decency sake I'm going to tell them you wore him out and he's catching a rapid-fire recharge so that he's capable of standing again.::

::. That is so sweet.:: Mikaela snorted.

Primus bless his raunchy minded Weapons Master, Optimus thought cheerfully.

::. Oh, as a side note, Optimus I'm pretty sure you can hear me, if you can stay recharging for another two hours, you're gonna miss Galloway the second's entrance and exit.::

::. I got him.:: Mikaela snorted.

Optimus grinned and squirmed down into the berth a bit more, happily dropping back into his half-cycle.

Half-cycle, because the other half of his mind was, as Ironhide had so happily stated, focused on enacting a bit of revenge on his beloved Kae.

Optimus came out of a leisurely two hour cycle feeling like an entirely new bot. He onlined his optics, looked around for a long moment and stretched, he rolled to his feet and stretched again, humming at the wonderful feeling.

He summoned his armour, shrugged into the familiar, bizarrely comfortable plate metals and checked the Primary. The usual light banter. He scanned the frequencies and noted that Jolt and Lena were both deep in their recharge cycles.

Completely entwined. Optimus smiled, happy that they had found each other.

He strode out of his quarters and made sure there were no humans in his direct path.

Squishing humans was not something he intended to do, especially not today.

Today was an excellent day.

"Morning sleepyhead!" Lieutenant Jacobs called up with a laugh.

"That it is still morning is good enough," Optimus snorted, crouching down somewhat. There was a group of soldiers headed the same way he was.

The soldiers stared at him in shock.

"My legs are longer," Optimus smirked at them. "Several of you have been in my hands before, you know I do not drop what I hold."

The group promptly began laughing, the lot of them scrambling into his hands and grabbing hold. He lifted them carefully and stood.

"First stop, Entrance bay," he rumbled placidly.

Jacobs began howling with laughter.

"What the fuck are you doing making train announcements!? We're trying to get it across to the public that you aren't mindless machines!"

Optimus grinned down at him.

"The fact that I myself am capable of making such an announcement without the aid of a human speaking for me does nothing?"

The humans promptly began hooting with laughter.

"Hey! So when do you do the training duty?" Corporal Nelson called out with a grin.

Optimus burst out laughing, he couldn't help it.

"There is nothing that I know of fighting that Ironhide cannot teach you," he snorted. "Especially since it is our dear Weapons Master whom trained me."

"No sense trying to get the pacifist to train you," Ironhide snorted. "Unless of course you're having difficulty learning how to read, he is all over that one."

"Seriously?" Nelson demanded, turning to look at him.

"Seriously," Ironhide snorted. Optimus rolled his optics at the bot. "Now don't get me wrong, Optimus is still capable of beating the tar out of whatever crosses him the wrong way, but you can sure as scrapping bet he's gonna try to ask why the whatever crossed him like that did it in the first place. Now come on boys, it's suit day."

The amassed soldiers in the entrance bay promptly began howling, Mikaela and Ratchet smiling somewhat as they carried an enormous trunk of the suit harnesses between themselves. Holoforms winked online as the soldiers lined up, lightly shoving at each other like excited younglings.

"Alright, by now you lot have heard the drill, but we're going through it again," Ratchet barked out. "I did not develop these things for you lot to kill yourselves with them. Now. If for any reason you feel lightheaded, nauseous, tired, whatever, it doesn't necessarily mean you need to take the suit off, what it means is that you need to shout out for me. Got it?"

"Sir yes sir!" the soldiers bellowed in unison. Ratchet looked at them in shock.

Ironhide burst out laughing.

"Welcome to soldiering old bot, you done me proud," he snorted.

Optimus chuckled and idly snuck up behind his Kae, sending a light shock of energon directly into the node that drove her crazy.

Kae jumped about a foot in the air.

~The scrap!~ she demanded through their sparks.

~Payback~ Optimus rumbled cheerfully, feeling her lust slowly building as he teased that node for another moment before turning for communications central.

~I. Am going to get you for that!~ Mikaela sent to him firmly.

~Promise?~

(MPOV)

Optimus snuck up behind me, the way he always did.

Not so much sneak as quietly stride up to touch me somewhere. I was expecting a hand on my waist.

No.

Far more forward.

A solid energonic blow straight into the juncture between spark and valve. The one that made my legs tingle and shake like jelly.

"Jesus!" my holoform squeaked, winking out.

Evil.

~The scrap!~ I demanded.

~Payback~ my Optimus replied cheerfully, teasing me a bit more before wandering away. Evil.

~I. Am going to get you for that!~ I sent firmly.

~Promise?~

Ironhide was lightly tapping on my helm.

"Really? He blew your mind?" my uncle drawled cheerfully.

"No, he got me in the ∂sweet spot∂," I replied irritably, bringing my holoform online again.

Uncle Ironhide began snorting gleefully, leaning against the wall beside me as our holoforms helped the soldiers into their new suits.

Chance, Jacobs and Will were already playing with their settings. Will had actually managed to convince the suit to look like a tuxedo.

"I could wear this thing everywhere," he grinned, strutting around in his tux.

"Call him a penguin," I muttered to Ironhide. My uncle snorted in amusement.

"Hey Penguin!" he shouted. "What are you gonna shoot with now?"

"I, am going to destroy their defences with my charming smile, and take them down with my razor sharp wit," Will stated airily.

"Bull, you're gonna blind them with your stupidly white teeth, open your mouth and everybody's gonna commit suicide," Jacobs snorted, giving Will a shove.

The hangar promptly began howling.

Ironhide was hooting right beside me, because anything goes on suit day.