Author's note. Finnally the new chapter, hope everyone enjoys it. Written by me and the-writing-mew.

Warning for birthing, bad language and mean Autobots.

Enjoy and please review.

Star groaned as he lay on Megatron's large comfy berth. He was heavy with Sparkling and even though he knew this child would ensure his place at Megatron's side, he was feeling exceedingly unattractive right now. He could barely move, flying was currently out of the question something that frustrated him greatly and since he couldn't move so freely, his armour kept mysteriously accumulating grime, despite the fact he was only lying on a clean berth.

"Frag," he grumbled, when was Megatron going to return. Despite the annoyance of carrying, he actually found himself desiring more and more interface. But Megatron was becoming gentler as his due date approached and he couldn't be more frustrated. He wanted Megatron to be dominating and masterful, even if this meant being rough. Their Sparkling was strong, he could easily take it and anyway, the sparkling was protected by a special plug.

At least there had been no news of that wretched Prime to spoil things between him and Megatron and he prayed that the Autobot whore never resurfaced. And that went for his offspring too, Starscream's children were the only heirs Megatron need concern himself with, they had pure Decepticon code and would become magnificent warriors. They would have their Sire's strength and their carrier's cleverness; it was an utterly perfect match.

Before he could continue contemplating this, the door opened and Megatron marched in.

"How is my little carrier?" Megatron asked with a purr as he came over to the berth and sat down beside Starscream.

"Very well, mighty Megatron," Starscream said with a sigh. "But I need you."

"Again?" Megatron laughed. "My but you are insatiable."

"My lord is too good," Starscream countered with a smile. "Once is never enough, I must have more."

"Hmm," Megatron considered, running his hand over Starscream's body. "How long until the Sparkling is born?"

"Not long," Starscream said with a shrug. "But I still need you Megatron."

Megatron laughed and leaned forward to kiss Starscream. The Seeker allowed it but then whined.

"More, I want more my lord."

"You're going to get into trouble one of these cycles," Megatron said as he climbed onto the berth and hovered over Starscream.

Starscream obligingly spread his legs and Megatron went between them.

Megatron smirked when found his seeker's panel open and his port leaking and pulsing in need.

"Ahhh... Yesssss..." The seeker moaned once Megatron's spike pierced him once again and stroked all those delicious sensors that begged for a touch. "More master, more...!"

The tyrant then started thrusting gently taking care of not hurting or stressing too much the carrier or the sparkling... There was no way he was going faster, no matter how much Starscream begged.

The seeker thrashed, whined, mewed, clawed and groaned in frustration as the charge he wanted to accumulate wasn't accumulating as fast as he wanted... This was torture!

"M-megatron... Please... The sparkling will be okay... Me too... Please... Uhhh... More...just a little more... You want it too...," He tried as he clenched his port around the intruding member.

Megatron grunted...that was good... But no, he must resist the temptation his seeker was offering. Instead he stroked his belly and kissed him passionately as he steadily and slowly continued with his thrusts.

But it was becoming harder as the wrapping port around him continued to tease him and his processor started hearing his spike that going slow wasn't a good idea anymore...

Growling in frustration he pulled out suddenly and the seeker gasped at the action and loss of sensation. "Leader...?" He whispered in worry.

Then Megatron took him by his waist and turned him around, the seeker understanding his master and quickly set on hands and knees getting anxious at what the other prepared for him before rattling his wings in some kind of mating invitation.

The leader liked what he saw and couldn't help but respond to that with a powerful thrust that got the other howling his name in bliss and he continued rising the charge like that, he went fast yet gentle and set his hand on the huge belly to feel his heir as he continued pounding into its carrier harder.

Starscream was in heaven and soon he overloaded hard around Megatron with a loud and high screech closely followed by the other's mighty roar and his exquisite release in him.

The seeker purred and knelt on his knees still connected to his master and stroked his head before claiming his lips. Megatron enjoyed the intimacy and roamed his hands all over his body which made the other shiver in pleasure as the kiss continued and the port claimed his spike tightly like never wanting to let go...

But then something happened... He felt something warm running from his tights and Starscream's port felt way too... Wet?

"A-aaah!" Starscream whined before moaning in pain for a moment. Then looked down at himself... He broke sac! And with his leader still IN him!

How embarrassing!

"What's happening?!" Megatron demanded as Starscream received another small contraction and removed the other from him making him possible to see the mess that was the berth and all the liquid that came from the seeker.

"The sparkling!" Starscream exclaimed with another stronger contraction. "It's coming!" it seemed their creation wanted to know the world right now.

"It's coming?" Megatron yelped in shock, staring down at the Seeker and recognising what was happening. "Pit damn it."

Starscream groaned in pain, slipping to forward and lying pathetically on the stained berth. Megatron grumbled and rolled off the berth, reattaching his cod piece before reaching over to scoop the Seeker up. He left the berthroom, not caring that his thighs were stained, Decepticons were never shy about evidence that they'd recently been interfacing. In fact, many would proudly flaunt it before they cleaned up; it showed who was getting some action and who wasn't.

His Seeker began to whimper as the contractions started to hit faster and harder, their interfacing appeared to have kick started the birthing process. Well, at least he could finally meet his second heir and this one would not be getting away. He ignored everyone they passed, whether they were soldiers or slaves and stomped into the Med Bay.

"Medic," he barked as the Mech jumped and almost dropped a tool. "Deal with him NOW!"

"At once my lord," the Medic said breathlessly, indicating the berth where Megatron marched over to and gently placed Starscream. The Medic quickly wheeled over an incubator and various other tools as Starscream unconsciously grabbed Megatron's hand as another contraction hit him. Surprisingly, Megatron allowed this, he was eager to see his Sparkling.

"Excuse me my lord," the medic said respectively so he could get at Starscream. Megatron move to one side as the Medic set up a few attachments and IVs to the Seeker, to help with the pain and delivery.

"Ah...ah...!" Starscream gasped, squirming on the berth as the berth went under way.

Megatron watched as the Medic did his work, he'd better do a good job or he'd have his head. This wasn't the same Mech that had delivered his first son but it didn't matter who delivered his Sparkling as long as it was done right. He held Starscream hand as the Seeker started shrieking, supposing that it was the least he could do. Prime had simply shied away from him during his birthing, he hadn't clung like Starscream was doing.

"Almost there," the Medic encouraged as Starscream gritted his denta before shrieking his loudest scream yet and in the middle of it, was joined by another cry.

"Got it," the Medic said, lifting up a wriggling, squirming, sticky mass of movement that was also shrieking. Megatron thought he spied a pair of wing nubs before the Medic took the Sparkling away to be cleaned. Starscream sagged, he was extremely drained but very proud. Soon, Megatron would forget about his first spawn and only focus on his new son.

"Well?" Megatron demanded as the Medic carefully cleaned the new Sparkling.

"Congratulations my lord," the Medic replied casually. "It's a Femme."

"A Femme!?" Starscream shrieked as Megatron started. "What are you talking about, it can't be a Femme."

"I'm afraid it is," the Medic said with a frown, looking over at him. "A Seeker Femme."

"No...!" Starscream groaned everything was ruined; Megatron would never keep him now. He'd failed the easiest thing in the world, producing a Mech, something that accursed Prime had managed but that he, Starscream had failed to.

"A Femme," Megatron muttered as Starscream looked at him fearfully. "My lord forgive me...I...I can do better next time, I swear."

Megatron didn't say anything; he just had a frown on his face. Before Starscream could continue pleading, the Medic walked back over, carrying the clean Sparkling who wasn't wailing so much anymore. The Medic offered his leader the Sparkling and said.

"She's very strong and healthy; she'll grow into a powerful Femme."

Megatron took the Sparkling and examined her critically. Bright red optics stared up at him, and even though she had a Sparkling's undefined body, it was clear she was going to be a Seeker. Little wing nubs moved from her back and her purple and grey colouring made a good mix. She didn't seem to be afraid of the large Mech looking down at her; in fact she appeared quite interested.

Starscream waited for the rejection; sure it would come any moment. But to his astonishment, Megatron suddenly smiled and touched his daughter's face.

"Not bad," he mused as his daughter waved a little fist, trying to grab her Sire's hand. "You can easily give me sons, can't you Starscream?"

"Yes...yes I can," Starscream said eagerly. "Easily, this is just a...slight hiccup."

"Perhaps," Megatron said thoughtfully, raising her up. "Or perhaps she will be very useful...our little Slipstream."

Yes, what better way to lure his son to his side...than with a baby sister.

Hours later...

Starscream was heavily recharging in his quarters, however he couldn't say the same of their daughter who wasn't interested in recharging at all now that she had onlined her optics.

He had to admit she was something... His hands were full with her and the curiosity she possessed.

"Aren't you going to follow your carrier's example?" the warlord said softly and she seemed to frown and growl giving her answer, a clear 'no'. That made him smirk.

Then her optics widened before her stomach started growling and she started whimpering. "You're hungry?" she whimpered as an answer, optics filling with tears. "I see you can understand what I say... Good..." He smirked before releasing a feeding tube and set it in her mouth; she drank from it greedily.

"What an interesting creation you've given me, Starscream..." He mused watching her refuel. But as he continued staring at her, he couldn't help but think about his other creation and wonder where he was... And why was Blackarachnia taking so long in updating?!

With that thought in mind he lifted himself from his throne and walked to the console and typed with one hand looking for her last known location.

It was proving to be difficult to do so with one arm full of sparkling so he looked down at her and said: "If only you could attach yourself alone so I can use my other hand..."

The sparkling femme looked up at him without stopping in her refuel before releasing small but sharp claws in her little hands. She then turned to her sire's chest, looked for some joints and attached herself there making him able to use his hand and arm freely.

Megatron looked down at her utterly amused, a little surprised and grinned at her. For seekers this was normal since they used to fly with their sparklings and their little ones needed to attach to their creators in order to not fall... She also didn't stopped refuelling and his tube was still in her mouth as she sucked.

"Good femmling, that's my daughter, my Slipstream," He praised her and she giggled as he stroked her head caringly.

He was able to locate that whore now that his hands were free and easily he found her last known location... After that, every signal of her disappeared.

That was odd... But still, he had he supposition if he found her, he will find Optimus.

Not wasting another second he ordered the ship to turn their course... It will take him a long time to reach that location since it seemed there were no space gates near, but he will reach them and soon his son and whore will be where they must be.
...

Without him knowing, Starscream was watching his leader as his spark called for his daughter and he went for her no matter how tired he was.

For his utter horror he saw Megatron turning the course of the ship to a faraway part of the galaxy... The only reason for thart will be if he supposed that there was that Prime and his spawn!

He started to freak out... Megatron was his and his only! It was a good thing he liked his daughter... But still! That Prime should have stayed lost forever!

A plan formulated in his head.. He needed to do something in order for Megatron to remain his forever... Yessss... That will make it...

Once the idea was fully formed in his processor he silently walked away. What Megatron didn't know won't kill him after all.

The leader of the Autobots, Ultra Magnus sat drumming his fingers next to a keyboard as he tiredly read through a report. It was tedious work but even he had to read reports sometimes, he couldn't always delegate it to underlings. It might be boring but at least it didn't relate to the Decepticons who still hadn't conquered Cybertron or its nearby colonies. He supposed he should thank the missing Optimus Prime for that, Megatron was so focused on finding him and the child they'd had together that he barely concentrated on the main Autobot army or planets.

He was exceedingly disapproving of what had happened between the washout Prime and the Decepticon leader, and was extremely pleased that Optimus and his team had not attempted to return. It wouldn't be proper at all, they didn't want Decepticon halfbreeds affecting normal Autobot children. A part of him was grudgingly amazed that Optimus had eluded the entire Decepticon force for more than fifty cycles, that was impressive. If only the young Mech had not fragged up so badly on Archa Seven, he could have become something instead of being a screw-up.

Just as he was wondering whether or not he should leave this report until later, a sudden beeping started. In surprise, he pulled up a new screen and saw he'd received an anonymous message directed right at him. His computer wasn't detecting any viruses and he was curious about what it could contain. He clicked on it and read the message.

To the Magnus of the Autobots

It may interest you to know that Megatron has discovered the location of Optimus Prime and his team. He is heading there right now but you can catch him up. I would advise you to do so unless you desire Megatron to discover his half Autobot Sparkling. Think of the scandal it might cause.

Ultra Magnus could not believe this, had Megatron really discovered Optimus's location? But there was more.

There are spies within you circle, very clever and well hidden spies. Trust no one and keep your mission a close secret or it will get back to Megatron. You are under close observation so chose your crew very carefully. Act now before it's too late.

There was no indication who it was from but Ultra Magnus guessed it must be from a Decepticon. Perhaps this bot did not wish a halfbreed to be their future leader, he had no idea. But could it be a trap of some sort? He decided he would examine the coordinates given and judge the situation. If it looked good, then he would organise a mission to it but he'd have to ensure the purpose was not discovered. By charting a course to another destination, he could throw off suspicion and only tell his crew once they were nearly there. By that time, it would be too late for Megatron to do anything if he was indeed travelling to this planet.

Ultra Magnus smiled, it looked like things weren't going to be so boring after all.

Back on Earth

"We need to tell Valour about this," Optimus sighed happily as Ratchet wrote out a program for Blackarchinia while she was carrying.

"Mmm, will he be excited?" she asked and this made Optimus laugh.

"Trust me," he said with a chuckle. "He'll be utterly elated, he's always wanted some siblings. And I think this will make Sari happy as well, she knows she's different from normal human children. Very soon, she'll need an upgrade into a more robotic form."

"Really?" she asked interestedly.

"Yeah," he said with a nod. "But we think she will still have a human form."

"Lucky her," she sighed, she would love to have a normal robot form. All she had was a spider and technoorganic form.

He leaned over and kissed her, saying. "You're still beautiful."

She looked up at him before her optics watered and hugged him tightly.

It was a long time since they knew of her situation, however she didn't showed up any signs of her carrying. It means, no purging, no tiredness or even her belly grew.

That was odd and they asked Ratchet about it who supposed it was because of her organic half that her pregnancy will take a while to evolve. That also gave them time to think how they will deliver the news to Valour and the others.

"When you think the sparkling will start growing?" She asked never leaving his embrace.

He sighed, "I don't know... But it doesn't matter, what it does matter is that when it comes it will be loved by everyone." and hugged her tighter.
...

"Oh, isn't that romantic?" Bulkhead asked as he painted the couple.

"What are you painting this time, Bulkhead?" Prowl came closer and observed the painting before grimacing.

In the painting was Optumus with Blackarachia, kissing... However, the Prime was a butterfly with his wings caught in the spider femme's web which of course didn't mattered as his arms were taking her head and waist and she didn't seemed to be attacking him either by the way she straddled his waist.

"They make a beautiful couple, don't you think?" Bulkhead say without turning from his work.

The cyberninja just shook his head and sighed with a smile and looking at the now kissing models.

"Ewww, they are kissing again!" Valour said coming next to them with Sari and Bumblebee. "I wonder when I will have more siblings since they kiss too much...after all, if you kiss you will end up with baby." the little sparkling added and Sari nodded.

"Do you love your mother, Valour?" Prowl asked kindly.

"Yes! She's super awesome! The best mom in the universe!" The sparkling beamed. "I wish I had eight legs too so I may walk over the walls and ceiling!"

'Oh Primus, no.' Prowl thought for a moment. They had their hands full with him just walking and running around on the floor... It will be too much if he added the walls and ceiling.

"I wish I could fly," Sari stated, pointing at the butterfly version of Optimus. "How come Autobots can't fly?"

"We lost the technology to the Decepticons," Prowl explained. "There used to be Autobot fliers but the Decepticons somehow introduced a code into our systems which blocked the flight program. Now no Autobot Sparklings are born with the ability to fly, only those who have a Decepticon creator can be born as Seekers, jets or triple changers."

"Aww," Sari said with a pout. "Bet that sucks. So all flying machines on Cybertron are just normal machines?"

"They are non sentient, yes," Prowl said with a nod. "Someday we hope to restore the code to produce Autobot fliers once more."

"That'll cause problems," Ratchet muttered and as they looked at him, said. "Because all transformer fliers are Decepticons or half breeds, their mistrusted by the general populace."

"Well that's stupid," Sari declared as Valour nodded. "Yeah, it doesn't make sense. I think it would be cool if there were flying Autobots."

"It's the way things are," Ratchet shrugged. "When Autobots see a flier, it's generally a Decepticon attacking so they associate flying with evil. They prefer to put their trust into shuttles and ships that cannot come to life and hurt them."

"Still stupid," Valour mumbled as he ran over to Optimus and Blackarachia who stopped kissing. "Hi daddy, can I ask you something?"

"Of course son," Optimus said with a smile, stroking his head. "What is it?"

"How much kissing do you have to do before mommy has a Sparkling?" Valour asked innocently as the couple stared at him.

"Uh, well," Optimus stammered before saying with a smile. "You know, I think your mother and I might have done enough kissing for a Sparkling?"

"Really?" Valour gasped excitedly with shinning optics.

"Yes," Optimus said with a nod. "We'll check with Ratchet to see if it's...uh worked."

"Okay," Valour asked and as Optimus called Ratchet over, asked. "If I kissed Sari a lot, could we have a Sparkling?"

As Optimus spluttered, Blackarachnia just laughed before saying. "I'm afraid only adults can have Sparklings little one, just like only adults can transform."

"Oh, okay," Valour said with a shrug as Ratchet came over.

"Darn right," the Medic stated in response to the Femme's words. "So, you want to know if your new mom's carrying?"

"Yes, yes," Valour exclaimed excitedly as Sari also hurried over. She took wanted to have some Sparklings around, then she wouldn't be the youngest any more.

"Hmm, let's take a look," Ratchet muttered, acting surly but really playing along. "Yeah...it does look like it, you're going to be a big brother Valour."

"YES!" the children cheered happily, hugging Blackarachnia around her middle.

"When are they going to come?" Valour asked eagerly.

"I'm not sure," Ratchet admitted. "It could be a while but they will come."

"They?" Sari questioned and he smiled. "There's more than one," he admitted.

"Wow, you guys really did kiss a lot," Valour gasped, making all the adults laugh.

Optimus smiled happily, his son was happy with the news and that was what mattered. It was almost a shame that Megatron couldn't see just how happy they all were.

The Nemesis

"Hmm, hungry again?" Starscream asked sleepily as his daughter pawed at him, chirping for his feeding tube.

"Ravenous little thing, isn't she?" Megatron chuckled, reading from a data pad as Starscream reclined on their berth with their daughter.

"Yes," Starscream sighed tiredly, Slipstream was waking him up frequently so she could feed.

"Hmmmm...!" she took the tube and started sucking greedily.

"She's so strong already..." Starscream sighed half asleep as the sparkling clung to him.

"Indeed," Megatron chuckled. "Just wait until she meets her elder sibling soon..." he trailed off dreamily.

Starscream's optics snapped open fully at the mention of the half breed mechling and his energon ran cold just before the flow of fuel for his sparkling stopped suddenly.

"Ah-ah...!" Slipstream whimpered at the loss of food, however Starscream was petrified, he didn't wanted that creature near and ignored his daughter's distress.

Finally Slipstream grows frustrated and crawled towards her sire before petting him for fuel and crawl her way up his chest.

"Uh? What are you doing here?" he looked down at her huge red optics that started watering. "Did you finished your carrier's fuel so fast?" Megatron asked his distressed daughter and released his feeding tube for her.

He smiled and caressed her head.

"You need to refuel more, Starscream if you can't feed our daughter enough... I can't imagine how it will be if we had a son; he would have sucked you dry..." the warlord chuckled.

But Starscream didn't share his humour, he way, way too shocked thinking about that other sparkling to answer.

The very notion of his precious daughter interacting with that damn half breed was almost unbearable. Undoubtedly, the brat had been brought up as a soft sparked Autobot, how could Megatron even think of putting them together? Slipstream was a full Decepticon and a Seeker on top of that, making her ten times as special as that failure of a son. She was the real heir and princess to the Decepitcon throne and soon would have brothers, proper brothers to back her up.

"What do you think?" Megatron now asked his daughter who was sucking contently. "Are you looking forward to seeing your big brother?"

She just purred, it was hard to tell if she was happy about this or merely content because she was being fed. Megatron just chuckled and patted her head.

"My precious daughter, at least I will never miss your development," he stated softly, a touch of bitterness entering his tone. Rousing himself, Starscream crawled over to Megatron and nuzzled his shoulder.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that, my lord," he said softly. "I will never leave you or take our children away, that Prime had no right to deny you that Sparkling. He deserves everything you give him."

"Hmm, yes," Megatron said softly, optics gleaming at this thought. Starscream rubbed his broad shoulders, saying.

"I was thinking my lord...perhaps when we reach there, we shouldn't reveal ourselves straight away."

"What do you mean?" Megatron said sharply and Starscream said.

"That Prime will have raised him as an Autobot, it'll be easiest to assess the damage he's done from a distance, while they don't know we're watching. Then you can confront that Prime once you know everything about him, his habits, his allies, everything. And think how upset he will be when he realises we were watching him and he did not even know."

"And it'll give Ultra Magnus a chance to catch up," Starscream thought to himself as Megatron nodded slowly.

"That's not a bad plan," he admitted. "I could watch my Sparkling in secret, find out what he likes."

Slipstream looked up curiously as he smiled. "Yes, that sounds very good Starscream."

"Anything for you," Starscream purred, nuzzling and kissing his neck.

Megatron's energon pump rose just as his temperature at the soft and arousing touches of his Second and made him wonder if he was ready to interface again.

As if reading his processor, Starscream bent down to his waist and licked his master's panel.

"Open for me, master..." Starscream purred seductively and soon Megatron was obeying.

Megatron's half pressurised spike was revealed and without wasting another second Starscream started licking it's ridged surface making the owner moan deeply.

"Ohhhh... Starscream..." the warlord groaned at his attentions. His body releasing coolant as it tried to cool off and waves of energy of arousal invaded his whole field...

...such powerful energy even reached his sparkling who stopped feeding and couldn't decide she liked this or not.

Starscream then rolled his glossa around the dripping sensitive head of the powerful spike before finally taking it all inside his mouth and start bobbing his head up and down.

By now Megatron was a moaning and wriggling mass, uttering over and over again Starscream's name without realizing it as he thrusts his hips towards that marvellous mouth that pleased him so much.

Finally then Slipstream crawled away from her aroused sire and watched in interest the show that both her creators made.

She watched her carrier suck on another cable much more thicker than the one she fed from -maybe her carrier fed from it? She thought- before her sire scream: "Yes, Starscream, fragg yes!" before finally collapse on the berh, utterly tired. Then her carrier continued sucking before letting go, not before a few more teasing licks and smiled at her sire.

"I hope that was enjoyable for you, my lord..." Starscream purred and then crawled up to the bigger mech and kissed him passionately.

"Hmmm..." Megatron purred before reaching for his seeker and his hand went down looking for his panel. The seeker mewled and opened it revealing his dripping port, then without wasting another second he thrusts one finger inside.

Starscream bit his lips and groaned. It was hard to tell if it was from pleasure or pain, so Megatron asked: "Are you still sore? I don't think we can do it yet, no matter how gentle I go. I'm not interested in hurting you..."

The seeker looked down at his leader in surprise... Maybe he was surprised because he won't get a 'face, or because Megatron cared for him. "But... Master... I need you..." He almost whimpered.

Looking up at his seeker, and completely forgetting his staring daughter, Megatron then rolled them so the seeker was on his back and this one obediently spread his legs... But that was not what Megatron had in mind...

"Open..." He petted his spike cover. That made Starscream's optics widen and stare at Megatron in shock. "Open...!" He repeated the order in a more severe tone.

Soon, Starscream was revealing his spike to his master for the first time. Then Megatron took it in hand and started pumping it. The reaction was instantaneous.

Slipstream watched her carrier's other tube, she thought that maybe her sire was now hungry so she will let them feed.

"Oh...Maaasteeer... Hmmm..." Starscream moaned at the other's attentions and Megatron decided to take a risk, why not?

Megatron then took the seeker's spike in his mouth and rolled his huge glossia over all those ridges and bumps before going for the sensitive head as if savouring his pet.

"Aa-ahh... Ooohhh!" Starscream writhed and thrashed. He was enjoying his master's attentions... But somehow he preferred the other deep sheathed in his port... however, this was not bad either.

None of them noticed little Slipstream leaving the berth and crawl her way out from their quarters as her creator's show bored her... Why they were so noisy when they feed the other?

Megatron continued pumping the spike faster and sucking harder before finally his seeker came releasing his sweet essence in his master's mouth. The warlord licked it all, after all, who would have thought that Starscream was so sweet?

"Hmmm... Not bad..." Megatron purred and then released the now spent spike. Then he seemed to come to his senses as well. Starscream seemed to be ready to recharge...but... Where was Slipstream?!

"Where is my daughter?!" He suddenly yelled as panic overwhelmed his frame.

Starscream's optic's on-lined fully at that. "Slipstream!" he screamed in fear.

Megatron rolled off the berth, stuffing his spike back into its casing, thankful it was limp. Trying to do that to a stiff spike tended to be awkward and painful. Starscream was also frantically scrambling for the door; their daughter was far too young to be wandering about on her own.

"Slipstream," Starscream called, he could not bear the thought of anyone getting their hands on her. There were plenty who would take advantage of Megatron's Sparkling helpless and alone in the corridors. "Come to carrier."

Meanwhile, Slipstream was innocently crawling along the corridor, looking for something of interest. She wasn't feeling so sleepy anymore and wanted to explore. She'd grown tired of staying in her creators shared quarters, she wanted to see the world...or what seemed like the world to her.

Spotting a spare bolt on the floor, she picked it up and stuck it in her mouth, seeing if it was edible. She spat it out, it was oily and disgusting, not like the sweet fuel she got from her creators.

"Pah," she exclaimed, spitting.

She wanted to find something to get rid of the nasty taste and so began crawling in earnest along the corridor. It was deserted so no one stopped her as she fearlessly crawled along, getting her hands and knees quite dirty in the process. The corridors were cleaned, just not often enough to prevent this Sparkling from getting very filthy. Her carrier was always making sure she was clean, this was a very important part of being a Seeker. She was too young to clean herself so did not realise how her carrier would shriek when he saw the state of her.

Slipstream heard something up ahead and peeked around a corner to see two Mechs exiting a room, carrying glowing cubes. She perked up, those looked very tasty, maybe she could get herself one? The door was left ajar and she quickly crawled in its direction, the retreating Mechs completely unaware of this. Squeezing through the door, she beheld shelves and shelves of different glowing cubes. It was a beautiful rainbow of colours, blue, purple, pink, red, green, the list went on.

The little Femme Sparkling squealed in delight, she could already smell the lovely scents coming from the numerous cubes. She crawled over to the nearest low shelf and managed to pull her self up. Scrambling around, she managed to pull herself onto the low shelf and then reached up to try and knock a few cubes to the floor. She succeeded and slid back down to the floor to begin sampling her prizes.

The problem was that they had no gaps or tubes to feed from, so, she looked and looked turning one blue glowing one and found what it seemed like a little gap, she pressed into it and then a hole was revealed, a hole that also revealed the liquid, sweet smelling and glowing substance inside.

She squeaked in victory at her doing before sniffing at it and move it to the side so she could drink.

It was very sweet indeed and she loved the taste of it... Even if it seemed to burn her throat. She also hadn't realized that the sweet substance was dripping all over her dirtying her even more.

There was a few moments after when she felt full enough but also so...energized... There was something inside her that told her to...to do something, so, abandoning the cube, she left that room crawling faster and giggling all along.

In that her sire and carrier ran by the other corridor calling her name without noticing she was behind them before disappear in another corridor.

Slipstream just giggled at their behaviour, it seemed they left her to do her own and so she continued crawling faster and her optics brightened at the sight of another door. "Nyaaa..." She cooed before it opened and some mechs hurried out from it.

The door remained open for a few more seconds as she crawled towards it before something stopped her advances. "Naaaah!" She cried as she realized she was not on the floor anymore but continued moving as if she was still crawling.

"What is doing princess Slipstream the daughter of the mighty Megatron, conqueror of worlds, leader of the decepticons and only rightful ruler of the universe alone in the corridors?" A huge green mech with a single optic said holding her wriggling frame up.

"It seems she's valking," Said another mech with a strange accent.

Before any of them could continue, she turned around and using her little but sharp claws released herself from the big mech's grasp and quickly crawled and climbed all over his frame like some kind of ant, all the time squeaking and giggling at her doing.

"Blitzwing! Stop the mighty little princess from continuing!" the big mech said in alarm as he tried but failed to get her back in his hands as she somehow always slipped away from his grasp.

But the other mech seemed to change his face for another black one and was laughing his aft off at his situation.

"Slipstream!"Another loud and deep voice screamed before hurrying steps approached.

Her sire came in her visual field and he also tried to get his hands on her, but the little sparkling was way too fast, plus Lugnut who never stopped moving.

That frustrated Megatron and with a mighty roar he ordered Lugnut to stay still. The green mech obeyed but still twitched here and there until he finally caught her and held her up facing him.

"Slipstream!" Megatron started. "Bad femmling! You never leave your creators ag-" he was about to say but then, everything happened too fast... her face contorted in an utterly sad one before purging at his face and torso and then started crying loudly.

"My lord," Lugnut exclaimed in shock just as Starscream appeared.

"Slipstream," he exclaimed, rushing over instantly to his crying Sparkling. "My Sparkling, what happened?"

She didn't reply, just continued crying, her tanks felt very sore after purging and that blue energon was making her tummy feel very funny, but not in a good way. As Starscream took her from Megatron, she purged again and this only made her cry even harder and louder. Unlike Megatron, Starscream managed to avoid the unprocessed energon but he almost dropped her in shock.

"How did this happen?" he shrieked, cradling her to his chest and trying to comfort her.

"What is wrong with her?" Megatron demanded as well, directing his question to Lugnut and Bliztwing.

"Ve have no idea," Bliztwing stated, his face icy. "She appeared und began crawling over Lugnut. I think she has been drinking Energon."

"Energon?" Starscream said in alarm. "She's not old enough to drink Energon, where would she have gotten it?"

"There is a store room down that way," Bliztwing stated, pointing in the direction where little spots of blue Energon could be seen. "She might have gotten into that one."

"I don't believe this," Megatron growled, wiping away the mess on his face. "You two, get this cleaned up. Starscream, come along."

He took his Seeker by the arm and pulled him along, the Seeker was wrapped up in comforting his still wailing Sparkling. How could one little Femme Sparkling cause such trouble and give him a near Spark attack? Had her brother been so naughty at her age. Megatron grumpily hoped that his son had purged regularly on his damn carrier, it would serve him right.

"It's alright my darling, we'll make you feel better," Starscream cooed, stroking his dirty Sparkling. "She's so dirty, she could have picked up any amount of viruses..."

"I'm sure she's fine," Megatron said with only a hint of uncertainty. "We'll need to have a bath, you take care of her."

Starscream nodded, he'd need to give her a little shot of coolant to settle her tanks and then feed her, that would make her happy again. Megatron sighed, raising a Sparkling was much harder than he'd thought. For a moment, he wondered if it was just as well his son was old enough to walk, talk and feed properly but dismissed this thought. At least with Slipstream, he could teach her to be a proper Decepticon from birth, it would make things so much easier.

"You're not to go wandering again," Starscream told his daughter sternly as he encouraged her to take the dropper full of coolant. "You got a bad tummy from drinking energon your not allowed to have. And your armour is filthy, you are not to crawl along that dirty corridor again. Do you understand?"

She just stared at him with watery optics, chirping miserably, not wanting to consume anything else. Starscream sighed before lifting her up and placing her against his shoulder.

"Now, come on," Starscream said lightly petting her back as she sniffed. "Bath time."

As Starscream filled the tub Megatron watched them, saw his silently crying daughter against his seeker's shoulder and contemplated the moment for a while.

"Starscream..."

"Yes, my lord?" he answered without turning and pouring some cleanser inside.

"Get us some cubes, I'll take care of her." Megatron said lowly; that made Starscream turn and watch him with surprise, but the other seemed decided.

"Megatron...you want to bathe our daughter?" The seeker tried as he tried to decipher if this was real. After all, Megatron liked his daughter but the responsibility of cleaning her was always and only his as the tyrant never liked to get dirty when bathing her...maybe that now he was dirty himself he will try...

"Starscream..." Megatron said darkly before Stascream's face lightened and he passed him their still whimpering daughter.

"Scrub her delicately, particularly against her wings, she likes it...also, be gentle with her thrusters and careful with her claws...she's ticklish..." The jet said happily before leaving their private washracks.

Megatron just looked at his quickly retiring seeker wondering for a moment why the other was so happy and at the same time like he was free from something.

"Good... It seems it's just you and me," He said to Slipstream before taking a sponge and poured more cleanser on it, then lowered her on the tub and began scrubbing her back.

Immediately the seekerlet began giggling, and as her sire continued she began moving uncontrollably splashing and clawing at him hardly.

Megatron now understood why Starscream always had scratches all over his hands and arms and why he always came bathed along with their daughter.

"Aren't you going to stay still?" He tried before reaching for a brush and scrubbed her little thrusters...the result was Slipstream squeaking louder and clawing him harder. "Hnnn..." he could just let out a grunt at his daughter's mirth and continue.

Slipstream giggled even more, the memory of her bad tummy ache melting away as her sire bathed her. She loved bathing so much, the warm liquid was very soothing on her armour and wings and it was a lot of fun when one of her creators gently rubbed her with a cloth. As a Seeker, her body was very sensitive and she automatically reached out with her claws, grabbing and scratching in delight.

"Hmmm, I'll have to buff out my armour after this," Megatron mused as she scored another line on his wrist. "Your something, aren't you my daughter?"

She just giggled at him, happily splashing her fists into the bath and soaking her Sire. He sighed, at least she wasn't crying and purging anymore, this was a distinct improvement. It was probably just as well Starscream hadn't had twins or triplets, he couldn't imagine bathing more than one Sparkling.

"So little one?" Megatron began as he turned his Sparkling over and carefully cleaned her wings, making them shiver in delight. She was squealing with giggles, wriggling so much that he almost dropped her. "You don't seem afraid of anything."

He smirked and said. "I wouldn't expect anything less from a daughter of mine."

She simply giggled some more. He finished cleaning her wings and gently laid her against his shoulder as she purred happily. He sunk into the water so that it went up to her waist but was below his shoulder. Her purrs became louder as her body completely relaxed in the hot and soothing liquid.

He imagine doing this with both of his children, Valour would probably be much calmer. He might even play with his young Sparkling although he wouldn't admit this to anyone, probably not even Starscream. He was already acting softer than he ever had before but acting soft was probably the way to go with his Autobot raised son. Once he had a rapport with the little one, he could start moulding him into a proper Decepticon, half code or not.

"Mmm," Megatron sighed, this bath really was soothing him and the thought that his son was within reach was even better. He had no solid proof Valour was on this organic planet but his instincts told him he was and he always trusted them.

Starscream watched his leader and daughter relax in silence from the door with two cubes. He smirked.

'I wonder how long will it take Magnus to reach that planet, I just hope he hurries.' He thought drinking one of the cubes and walked back to the berth leaving alone Megatron and Slipstream to relax.

He started thinking what he will do once Shockwave's report that said that Magnus leaved Cybertron arrived on Megatron's audios.

If Magnus was cleaver he will said he will go somewhere else.
...

Meanwhile...
Cybertron...

"Is everything ready, Perceptor, I need to go and check on that colony as soon as possible." Ultra Magnus said to the scientist so his ship will be ready to depart.

"It will be ready in a few more breems, Magnus, meanwhile go and check on your crew." The scientist said returning to his work.

"Excellent Perceptor," Ultra Magnus said with a nod before heading to where his crew was getting themselves assembled.

"I trust you have everything under control?" he asked of his second in command, Sentinel Prime."

"Yes Magnus," Sentinel exclaimed, standing to attention smartly. "As soon as the ship's full fueled and supplied, we'll be ready to go."

"Good," Ultra said, glancing over at the others who were looking a lot more casual than Sentinel. There was Jazz, a cyber ninja and communications expert who was currently lounging against a pillar. He gave off a lazy aura but he was a deadly fighter and that was why Ultra wanted him along.

Then there was the Jet-twins, the only Autobots who could fly. He was keeping them close least others steal them away; they were far too valuable to lose. They had full Autobot coding, they weren't half breeds and he was very proud of that fact. Because they were the youngest on the team, they were up in the air and messing about but he'd rather they did it now rather than later on a ship. It might be a magnificent ship but it was still confined compared to the openness of the planet.

And then there was the other important member of the team, a Medic called Red Alert, who happened to be the only Femme. She was efficient and orderly, she was not interesting in flinging herself into a romantic relationship which suited Ultra Magnus. He didn't mind the likes of Jazz and the twins having a very easy nature as long as they did their jobs to the fullest of their abilities.

"As soon as Perceptor is ready, get everyone on board," Ultra Magnus ordered. "I want to get going."

"I understand sir," Sentinel agreed, turning and marching over to the rest of the team, Red Alert was nearest but she appeared to be going over a check list of supplies.

Ultra Magnus was glad he had Sentinel, he would support him when they confronted the wayward Prime. He knew there was a good chance they'd come into conflict with Megatron but he didn't care. He would not have a half breed of the Decepticon leader's running around the place, probably plotting to take over Cybertron. He'd pretend to be a normal Autobot and then make his move. So Ultra Magnus was going to nip this fully in the bud, at least by going he'd know what this little bastard looked like.

He just hoped that that creature stayed where it was... If Megatron ever get his hands on it... That creature may become into a powerful enemy to fear. He will decide in the end what to do with it.

And about Optimus Prime... Well, he better gave his creation willingly.

"Magnus, everything is ready, we can depart now." Perceptor announced.

"Good, let the others know and prepare to aboard."

"Yes, Magnus." the red scientist answered and walked away.

In that moment he boarded his ship closely followed by the jet twins who flew inside at full speed and almost...almost crashed with him.

"We'll be good and ready mister Magnus," Jetstorm said as he and his twin hurried inside flying.

"Not flying! Land and walk, kids." Ultra Magnus said. One of this days they will give him a spark attack.

"Sure mister Magnus sir..." One of them said but they were too far away in the ship already.

He shook his head and sighed before watch the rest of his crew approach. "Ultra Magnus, sir," Sentinel Prime came after him. "Is there a particular reason why you wish to go to that location in a hurry?"

"I have my reasons, Sentinel; once we're there you will understand."

"Understood sir," Sentinel replied although his expression indicated that he was burning with curiosity.

Magnus watched as he hurried after the crew, barking at them to get a move on. He was on fire to get going but certain procedure had to be maintained. If he wanted their arrival on Earth to be a surprise, he had to act completely normal. Megatron could not be allowed to arrive and have a chance to spirit his offspring away, that was intolerable.

But soon, everything would come together.

Earth

"Daddy?" Valour asked as he climbed onto his father's lap. "Will we ever go to Cybetron?"

They were lounging on the island's beach, enjoying the warm weather. Valour had finished his morning studies and was enjoying a break before he had his afternoon ones. Optimus always tried to ensure his son had a good balance of playtime and education. As well as the usual cybertronian courses, Valour also learned earth ones and thankfully enjoyed both. It wasn't difficult for them to learn human languages, the harder part was sometimes using them as different counties had different wants of saying the same thing.

Then there was mannerisms, there was no point in simply saying hello in the right language if you had no idea you were also meant to bow. Or shake hands if it was a new acquaintance or perhaps kiss. Once Optimus and his team had settled on Earth and had established good relations with the humans at large, they'd started studying the different cultures and countries, obviously starting with the one they found themselves in. As Valour had grown older, Optimus had started taking him to these other, it was a good way of letting the different counties know that they weren't any kind of threat.

Valour being a child was a big help towards this aim, the humans felt far safer around a being who was just trying to raise his son rather than a bunch of powerful beings that wanted to hide away on their planet. The humans seemed to love it when Valour willingly adopted their various customs and his clear pleasure in playing and interacting with the local children.

But in the midst of all this was the question, when would Valour visit a Cybertronin colony? He was being taught how he would act in such a setting but so far, he hadn't really had a chance to put what he'd learned into practice.

"We will," Optimus assured him. "But not right now, not with your mother carrying. When your older and your siblings are old enough, we'll go."

"Hmm," Valour sighed, snuggling into his father's warm armour. "I wanna see the crystal gardens."

"Has Prowl been telling you about those?" Optimus said with a small smile and Valour nodded.

"They are beautiful and you'll see them one day," Optimus promised. "But why don't we build our own crystal garden in the meantime? Earth has many beautiful crystals and I believe Bulkhead might have some Cybertronian crystal seeds he's been meaning to plant. You could design a layout with him and we could all construct it."

"Okay, sounds fun," Valour said with a grin. "Maybe you could grow a flower crystal for mama."

"When did you become such a romantic?" Optimus laughed, lifting his son into the air as Valour giggled.

"I was looking through a data pad of crystals and some of them were flowers," Valour explained. "If you're going to marry mama, you'll have to give her special flowers."

"Your right," Optimus said with a slow nod, pleased he'd got Valour distracted. "I'll do just that."

"And when we're finished, we can invite everyone to see it," Valour said excitedly. "The kids' downtown would love it."

"I'm sure they would," Optimus agreed as he heard the sounds of someone approaching.

"May I join you?" purred Blackarachnia as she slid beside Optimus.

"Mommy!" Valour exclaimed in delight at the sight of the spider and hugged her.

Blackaracknia chuckled and hugged him back with her two front legs as she was still in her spider form.

"Hi, love," Optimus said with a look full of love that made the spider flush. Even if sometimes she considered herself hideous, he loved her just as Valour, they helped her all this time to accept herself and made her see how powerful she really was in this form.

"What you've been up to?" The Prime asked silkily.

"Oh... Nothing really," Her eight optics looked to the right side; he knew then that she was up to something.

"Elita..." He said smiling.

"Nothing, really, just helped Prowl with the dinobots." She seemed to smirk at that confession.
...

Meanwhile...
With the dinobots...

"Me Grimlock can't move!" The tyranosaur roared as he seemed struggling to get free from something.

"Me Snarl can't move! Me Snarl wants to move!" The other cried.

"Me Swoop likes it..." The smallest of them said as he moved back and forward.

They seemed to be trapped in some kind of spider web and their bodies held in safe cocoons which they cannot seem to escape from.

Snarl and Grimlock seemed particularly distressed at their lack of freedom, but Swoop... He just hung there moving back and forwards enjoying the pendulum motion.

"Release dinobots at once!" Grimlock roared at the meditating ninja down them.

Prowl was sitting cross legged on the soft grass as he hummed in concentration... And soon the cocoons started moving back and forwards... But there was no wind!

"Weeee!" Swoop said in utter joy; however his brother didn't shared his mirth.

"Stop! Me Grimlock purge!" The dinosaur cried as Prowl continued moving them with this new technique of his.
...

Back with Optimus...

"The dinobots behaved?" Optimus smirked.

She leered up at him with her eight ruby optics.

"Only mom can make them obey." Valour said still hugging his spider mother.

"I certainly can," she said proudly. "Prowl asked me to assist with them, they were beginning to get a bit rowdy or at least Grimlock was. Snarl copies whatever he does and Swoop will go along with it but thankfully Swoop appears much calmer than the other two. He shouldn't give you too much trouble."

"Just as well," Optimus said wryly. "It sounds like he enjoyed your little punishment."

"Hmm, I was planning to offer to build him a special nest if he obeys Prowl," she said with a fanged smile. "He really seems to be giving them a lot of attention; I wouldn't have thought to look at him."

"Prowl's full of surprises," Optimus agreed with a life. "He likes the Dinobots and wants to help civilize them as much as he can. I'm glad because they wouldn't listen to me."

"Why's that love?" she asked, rocking Valour in her arms as he giggled.

"I suppose Grimlock wants to be dominant and automatically sees me as competition, being leader of another group," Optimus explained. "But Prowl offers himself as a teacher, not a leader or master so they accept him more easily."

As she nodded, Valour piped up. "Mommy, we had a great idea."

"Oh, and what's that?" she asked, giving him a nuzzle that made him giggle.

"We're going to build our own crystal garden," he declared proudly.

"Really, that sounds wonderful," she complimented. "It's been so long since I saw them...they were so beautiful..."

"We'll build our own beautiful spot," Optimus said, reaching to stroke the side of her face. "We could have a sparkling waterfall, Prowl would enjoy meditating under that. We might even be able to grow edible crystal if Ratchet can mess around with some of the seeds."

"Mmm, I like the sound of that," she agreed, leaning down to whisper. "Maybe we could have our own personal spot with edible crystals growing all around."

Optimus flushed as he understood her meaning and smiled. Valour now said.

"Can me and Sari have an orchard? Pleassssse daddy!"

"I'll see what we can do," Optimus laughed.

Sometime later...

"We're almost there... Just a few more days and you will meet your brother..." Megatron purred to his exciting daughter.

"Brother?" She said and Megatron smirked in proud. Slipstream seemed to be even more intelligent than what he predicted if she learned to speak so fast.

"Yes, sweetspark..." He caressed her head. "Valour..."

She beamed at him still sitting on his lap. "Valour..." She repeated. "Valour is away from sire... Valour is good." She said and Megatron bend down and kissed her forehead.

Everyone seemed so happy, except Starscream who disliked greatly the idea of adding that halfbreed to their ranks and wondered when will Ultra Magnus catch up with them!

He just hoped that the old Magnus was not too senile and drive fast because in a few more days they will be landing in that planet.

Just as he thought about it, an alarm sounded.

"Megatron, sir, we detect the proximity of another ship and is approaching fast..." One of the soldiers said. "An Autobot ship!"

Megatron frowned and Starscream could barely hide his smirk. "What?!" The tyrant roared.

"What?!" Slipstream repeated what her sire said as she climbed to his chest and atrached herself there as her sire lifted himself from his throne and walked towards the console.

"What...? Who?!" Megatron demanded.

"We don't know sir, just that is going very fast...top speed actually, and it will pass us in three, two, one..." The soldier said just in time a huge white ship passed them so fast that made them shake.

"Contact Shockwave, he needs to give me a late report..." Megatron said darkly.
...

"Ultra Magnus, sir, we've already passed the decepticon ship, it will take them hours to get in order and days to reach us if we continue like this." Red Alert said and everyone looked up at her.

"Was that the Nemesis? Megatron?" Jazz said in shock. Everyone seemed to be shocked except by the medic and Perceptor. "But.. What's he doing here?"

Magnus' most trusted personnel were his scientist and medic, they knew beforehand where they were going and made sure to keep the others quiet once they took a different space gate to this very much different destination.

"There's only one reason that will bring him up here so far away from home," He said darkly. "Not even the Allspark... But his own bastard."

Even Sentinel gasped at that remark. "But that means... That Optimus is there!" Sentinel said in shock.

"Indeed, find the little bastard and you will find it's carrier." Ultra Magnus mussed with a dark frown.

"But...why are we here?" Jazz questioned, cocking his head to one side. "I understand why old Megs would want to come here..."

"I will not allow a threat to Cybertron and its colonies to grow unchecked," Ultra Magnus declared. "And as you've just seen, the danger increases with its Sire approaching."

As Jazz frowned, Sentinel scoffed. "So we're going to see the planet Optimus has been hiding all this time?"

"Indeed, it's a fully organic planet called Earth," Ultra Magnus replied, thinking how unoriginal that name was. Honestly, could its inhabitants not have thought of a better name than what covered their planet. Actually, from what the scanners were telling him, the planet was mostly covered in water, perhaps Earth sounded better than Water to them.

"Organic?" Sentinel said in horror. "Sir, there may be dangerous creatures there."

"I wouldn't worry," Ultra Magnus replied, understanding his SIC concerns. "But considering that Optimus Prime is there with his spawn, I think we can assume they've at least found a safe spot down there."

Sentinel thought about this before nodding, that made sense. He knew Optimus would never even think of endangering his offspring, even if it was a bastard. Fragger was too sentimental for his own good.

"The Nemesis is speeding up," Red Alert said in her calm voice.

"Of course," the Magunus nodded. "But we should arrive just before them, enough time for what we've come for."

"Sir, will I still be able to study him?" Perceptor asked as Jazz's frown deepened.

"You will," Ultra Magnus said with a nod. "Prepare yourself for what lies ahead, this'll likely end with a battle although is Optimus and his team know where their loyalties lie, it shouldn't be that bad."

They all nodded and got back to work, even if one of their number had a very bad feeling about his. The jettwins weren't on the bridge right now, they were preparing separately for their arrival but they would have been equally uneasy about this if they'd known.

The Nemesis

"Shockwave," Megatron barked as soon as a connection had been made. "Explain to me why Ultra Magnus is currently speeding towards the planet my son and his carrier are on?"

Even as he said this, Slipstream crawled up his plating and attached herself to his shoulder, staring intently at the spy.

"I...I did not know of this," Shockwave assured his leader. "Ultra Magnus scheduled a fairly routine journey to one of the Autobot colonies, there was no hint that he planned to go elsewhere. The team he took with him if very typical of the trips he occasionally takes."

"Someone's told him," Megatron growled as Slipsteam looked up at him. "There's no way that little Prime would contact him, why would he when he has not in fifty stellar cycles?"

"I will look into it at once my lord," Shockwave assured him. "And may I say you have a very beautiful daughter."

"Hmm, thank you," Megatron said, too distracted by what this could mean for him. He'd hoped to arrive on the planet unseen by any and observe his son and carrier in secret. From then, he could work out how best to approach his offspring, take his time in forming a relationship. Now he'd be damn forced to just burst onto the scene to stop that Magnus from ruining everything.

"Report back to me if you find anything," he ordered, taking Slipsteam into his arms.

"It shall be done," Shockwave said before signing out.

Megatron knew that there were some few of his soldiers who disliked the idea of his son Valour and called him with venom 'halfbreed'. Now he wondered which one of them was capable of telling the Magnus.

Not many knew about that fact for sure, but the mech was one of his crew, a very close mech... Someone who possibly slipped the information without wanting it...

Somehow he doubted of Blitzwing. "Uhhh..." he growled. That mech was one of the first on knowing. He rolled his optics.

"Sire... Hungry..." Slipstream petted his chest and snapped him away from his trance.

Megatron smiled down at her and released his feeding tube for her who took it in her mouth and started feeding.

He sighed, it was done already and now he just hoped that Magnus don't tell his Prime... Somehow he had a spark beat that the old bastard won't do it.
...

Earth...

"The crystals here grow very fast," Blackarachnia said in amazement looking at the huge formations.

"Yes, it must be because the sun here provides lots of energy for them to harvest." Optimus said before learning down and started kissing her.

Near them, Prowl was meditating when suddenly he snapped out from his trance and gasped in shock. 'Something's gonna happen...' He thought, he felt how the energy around changed.

He glanced up at the sky, somehow, he felt that whatever was going to happen would come from the sky. He leapt out of his tree and began running through the maze of beautiful crystals towards where Optimus and Blackarachnia were currently making out. Fear was trickling from his Spark but he controlled it, he could not allow himself to lose control now.

"Optimus," he yelled as he finally neared them.

"Hmm...what...Prowl?" Optimus said in confusion, releasing his love's lips.

"Optimus, there's something coming," Prowl said urgently. "I don't know what it is but there's something bad coming."

Optimus was about to protest but seeing how serious Prowl looked, instead said.

"Alright, we'd better get back to base."

Activating his comm, he called Ratchet.

"Ratchet, is there..."

"Optimus, there's a ship coming!" Ratchet yelped into the comm, almost deafening the Prime.

"A ship?" Optimus whispered, feeling his spark almost freeze. "Megatron?"

"No, it looks Autobot," Ratchet replied grimly. "But I still don't like this, just why are they coming to this planet of all places."

"I don't know, but I'm going to meet them," Optimus stated grimly as Blackarachnia optics widened in horror.

He was about to disconnect before a thought struck him. "Ratchet...where's Valour?"

The mainland

"Whee," Valour laughed as Bumblebee gave him a piggyback. "Giddiup."

"Slave driver," Bumblebee mock pouted.

"Hey, are you going to make me pick all of these?" Sari asked with a grin, holding a basket of freshly picked flowers that they were planning to turn into a big display for Optimus and Blackarachnia. Both kids wanted to encourage the happy couple as much as they could.

"Just coming," giggled Valour as Bumblebee suddenly paused.

"Hey, come on," Valour said as Bumblebee frowned.

"There's a ship coming," he mumbled as Valour paused his poking. "What?"

"A ship...an Autobot ship," Bumblebee said. "We'd better get back to base."

He placed Valour down and transformed, saying. "Come on, get in."

"But aren't Autobots the good guys?" Sari said in confusion as she came over with her basket of flowers.

"Yeah...but we're not sure which Autobots these are," Bumblebee explained as the kids buckled up. "And Optimus would rather meet them first, we'll probably see them later."

"Okay," Sari accepted as she settled down as Bumblebee zoomed forward, aiming for the main road.

They'd almost reached it when a sudden whine alerted them to the fact a large machine was about to land almost on top of them.

Bumblebee accelerated at top speed but was useless as a force field appeared around them locking them inside.

"Bee, what is going on?!" Sari exclaimed desperate.

"We're trapped..." Bumblebee barely whispered.

"Trapped?" Sari said watching the landing ship in awe. "Who might them be?" She said.
...

"Ultra Magnus, sir, landing was successful, we also spotted an autobot minibot and was caught in the forcefield." Red Alert announced.

"Good, it must be one of Optimus Prime's team; is a good thing we don't need to search for them." Magnus said.
...

Meanwhile...
The Nemesis...

"Is the drone ready?" Megatron asked his subordinate who answered positively.

He knew they won't be there in a while... Hours maybe if they continued at this speed so he sent a drone to spy on Magnus and another to jam the satellites from around so they will land unnoticed by Optimus and his team.

"The Magnus just landed, we have footage and can see they trapped a yellow minibot in their force field." The soldier said.

"Good, anything else?" Megatron asked.

"You can watch by yourself, sir." Another said. "We will be receiving audio... Now."

Megatron frowned and watched with a grim face.
...

Earth...

"We need to get out of here, we don't know if they're hostiles!" Bumblebee tried but the forcefield prevented their escape.

And soon, the ship was opening. Everyone inside Bumblebee froze.

The first one in stepping outside, with a mighty attitude and his huge hammer, was Ultra Magnus. Next him came another blue mech with a huge chin and followed by a white mech with a visor.

Bumblebee gasped.

"Who are they, Bee?" Sari asked feeling how her friend was shaking. Valour looked with interest oblivious of the danger.

The Magnus looked down at him and addressed him; "Transform, soldier."

There was no answer.

"You heard your Magnus, now, transform or there will be consequences!" The big chinned mech barked and smirked as the doors opened... However, his smile deleted at the sight of Sari.

Valour also descended so Bee was able to transform, which he did.
...

The nemesis...

Megatron gasped at the sight of his first born and felt as if his spark stopped. It was so long since the first and last time he saw him, but he would have recognized him anywhere.

...his son... His-

"Valour!" Slipstream squeaked in delight clapping her hands and shaking him out from his trance. She recognized her brother somehow. That made him smirk before looking up again.

The only one unhappy about this fact was Starscream who was deeply frowning.

Megatron was very possessive of his daughter, except in the beginning when he had to bathe her... But lately he even did that too and spoke to their daughter about that halfbreed all the time!

Starscream had no problem with Megatron taking their daughter ALL THE TIME, but if he was going to speak to her about that mechling...

He sighed, now was no time to be angry, he needed to be careful so he watched the images and listened intently.
...

Earth...

Magnus frowned at the sight of Valour and an expression of utter disgust dawned itself in his face.

"Hi!" He said. "I'm Valour and they are my friends Bumblebee and Sari."

The white mech with a visor smiled at him but said nothing.

"So, you're the little bastard Megatron has been after so long?" Ultra Magnus couldn't help but say.

"What? What's bastard?" The little mech asked confused at the new word cocking his head to the side.

Next him, Bumblebee and Sari were way too petrified to speak, one in fear and the other in utter rage.

"You, you're bastard, you, an unholy and unwanted creation by a banished disgrace like your sire or your carrier, you, who were conceived under the most disgusting and disgraceful methods ever existing because there is no mech in this universe who will willingly spread their legs for an abuser like him... The disgusting creation of a rape... That is what YOU are, little bastard...!" Ultra Magnus answered with all the venom he could muster.

Valour was now petrified, no one EVER spoke to him like that, there was no reason to, he was good, he knew that. It hurt to hear this mech speak to him like that.

"W-why are y-you talking to m-me like that?" His voice almost broke in pieces, his spark ached, he barely understood what this mech told him, but the tone used was not friendly.

"Because it is the truth, and you know it, or did Optimus never tell you? He never told you why he ran from your sire? That you're the consequence of an unholy act? Of a disgrace for himself? Of treason?!" Magnus answered in the same bitter and harsh tone.

The sparkling was shaking now and tears ran by his little face for the first time.

Memories invaded his little processor of when he asked his daddy about his sire and this one just said that it didn't work... Or others when he heard him talk with Ratchet by accident about the same mech and how much he feared he hurt him again... Along many other memories like it.

...now everything was making sense... All the pieces were putting themselves together...

Valour started shaking and crying for the first time in his life.
...

The Nemesis...

Megatron roared in rage. How dare Ultra Magnus to speak his son like that?!

Even Stascream seemed honestly shaken who was covering his mouth in horror. Yes, everything was true, but that was NOT the way of addressing a sparkling! Halfbreed or not!

They didn't watched the moment the force field of the ship disappeared and even less watched Valour ran away in tears, too busy looking after Megatron and his rage.

Megatron was furious and started throwing things and punching the soldiers he could reach, the others just ran away.

Eventually, the room was empty as Starscream dragged their lord out there to vent his anger.

But they forgot something...or someone.

Little Slipstream continued watching with interest the show on the screen as she was set on the controls; her brother cried because that bad mech said bad things to him and then he fled. She wished she could beat that bad mech and hug Valour... No one make her brother cry.

Earth

"Who dropped the force field?" Ultra Magnus said angrily, he wasn't done with that little half breed. "Put it back up at once."

The force field appeared a moment later, meaning Sari and Bumblebee were still trapped underneath it. The little girl was still shocked, she couldn't believe that Optimus had been raped. Bumblebee meanwhile had found his voice.

"How could you say that to him?" he furiously demanded. "He's not a bastard, he's the best little guy you could ever meet!"

"Don't speak that way to the Magnus," Sentinel barked before narrowing his optics. "Hey, aren't you that Bumbler?"

Bumblebee burned with even more anger but he was more angry about Valour than that nickname.

"Yeah, that's me," he said coldly. "But I'd rather be a bumbler than a miserable coward and a liar."

If Sentinel was human, he'd have gone bright red with anger. As it was, his optics glowed furiously and he bellowed right in Bumblebee's face.

"What did you just call me?"

"You heard," Bumblebee snarled back. "But I don't care about that right now, why did you come here if you're just going to hate on Valour. We're happier here than we ever were on Cybertron and now you come to screw it up."

"We are here," Ultra Magnus said coolly, placing a restraining hand on Sentinel who was shaking furiously. "To neutralise the threat of Megatron's bastard offspring."

"Stop calling him that!" Sari suddenly yelled furiously. "That's a bad word and you shouldn't say it."

"It's the truth," Sentinel spat as Bumblebee snarled. "No it's not, that's a filthy lie."

Before the argument could continue, Jazz said softly.

"Red says there's Autobot signal approaching on the ground...and the Decepticon ship appears to have arrived."

Ultra Magnus frowned as Bumblebee froze.

"How did they catch up so fast?" he demanded as Jazz shrugged. "It's possible they managed to soup up their drive and make a hyper jump...but the point is, they're going to arrive very soon."

"Hmm, this might complicate things," Ultra Magnus mused, if only they hadn't lost the little half breed. "Put these two into custody while we wait for them all to arrive."

"Don't you dare touch Sari," Bumblebee exclaimed, scooping her up and backing away as she said. "You're going to be in trouble with Optimus and the others get here."

"Please, we can easily take them," Sentinel scoffed as he advanced on them. "Now you'd better come quietly or else."

"Just try it," Bumblebee dared. "I can move way faster than you can."

"Jazz," Sentinel growled and with a sigh, Jazz ambled over to his side. Smirking, he said. "Now I have someone who's fast Bumbler."

"Yeah," Bumblebee scoffed. "I bet he isn't faster than Prowl."

Sentinel growled and lunged at him, Bumblebee quickly dodged, holding Sari tightly to his chest. Sentinel roared and lunged at him again, determined not to allow this insolent Mechling and that disgusting organic get away. But Bumblebee was considerably nimbler than the large Autobot was, he easily evaded him. Jazz was the problem, he clearly was skilled but he appeared to be almost holding back, allowing Bumblebee to dance around them.

Ultra Magnus scowled, that brat was starting to make fools of them. But before he could intervene, Red Alert once again contacted him from inside the ship.

"The Autobots are almost here,"

"Very well, you'd better let them in," he sighed, no point in allowing them to go in search of that bastard. Besides, once they were inside, they could always put up the force field again.

The force field was dropped just as Optimus Prime and several others rolled up. But what caught his optic and made his jaw drop was a techno organic, a massive black and purple spider that cam scuttling after them. As they transformed, so did the spider, revealing a Femme who instantly went to Optimus side as he strode forward.

"What's going on?" he demanded, seeing Bumblebee getting chased although Jazz had more or less given up. "Where's Valour?"

"Your bastard ran off," Ultra Magnus stated coldly as the new team flinched in shock and anger.

"Did you call him that?" Optimus asked, shaking with rage as Bumblebee ran over to them, taking safety in numbers.

"I told him the truth," Ultra Magnus said as his own team gathered around. "Which you appear to have neglected to do."

"I have never lied to him," Optimus said furiously as the Femme held his arm. "I love him with all my Spark and body, I don't care how he was conceived, he is my son."

"Urgh, what is that?" Sentinel exclaimed in disgust, this Femme looked even worse than that organic brat.

"Hello to you too Sentinel," she replied coolly, red optics narrowing.

He stiffened and said. "How did you know who I was?"

"That chin is difficult to forget," she said with a small shrug before murmuring to Optimus. "You should go look for Valour, we'll handle things here."

"You're not going anyway," Sentinel barked out. "The Decepticons will be here any breem and..."

"YOU LED THEM TO US!" Optimus screamed at him in fury, rage coming off him in waves.

"Actually, they led us to you," Ultra Magnus corrected. "We just managed to get ahead of them but they were coming anyway. I will not allow Megatron to take custody of that half breed."

"Don't you call my son that," Optimus snarled but Ultra Magnus ignored him.

"And if you have any loyalty left, you will surrender your...offspring to us and we will take him back to Cybertron."

"I will not surrender my son to anyone," Optimus declared. "Not to you and especially not to Megatron."

"Loyalty? ...LOYALTY?! It is what certainly YOU don't have! We requested... Begged for help when Optimus was kidnapped and we received NOTHING!" Bumblebee exclaimed.

"It was not in us to act, Megatron himself was keeping him and rescue him would have been a suicide mission." Ultra Magnus declared.

"But you didn't even try! You left us hanging with wo-!"

"Silence!" Bumblebee was interrupted by an angered Sentinel. "We had more important business to attend than to rescue a washout Prime!"

The Earth team was shaking in rage, Optimus more than anyone was disappointed, sad and in a very last place, angry.

Blackarachnia hissed at them and it was then when Magnus noticed her emblem on her chest. Frowning he said; " I see you were fraternizing with the enemy... One last opportunity, Optimus Prime, surrender your creation or-"

"Come on, Optimus, go and get Valour, we will take care of this aftholes that made Megatron and his team look like sparklings!" Blackarachnia said pushing her mate. "Go now, you need to catch up with him!" She said.

He nodded before giving one last hateful glare to his Magnus. "He went to the west." Bee whispered and he drove fast.

"Don't you dare-!" Sentinel said trying to stop him, but the spider femme stood in his way.

"Don't YOU dare!" She hissed before the blue chinned mech screeched for Jazz who came jumping at her, but she dodged him before Prowl took his place and stopped the white cyberninja.

That surprised Jazz, it was so long since anyone could stop him. "If you're not here to help us with the menace of Megatron, then you're not welcome; we will have enough problems with him once he arrives!" He hissed.

Ultra Magnus watched both teams before Perceptor came behind him and his optics widened at the sight of Blackarachnia. "Is that a techno-organic?"

The Autobot leader sighed and activated his hammer before lightning started falling towards them.

"You old coward!" An angry voice sounded in the background... Ratchet.

Magnus just frowned at him before a white and red femme came running and almost crashed against the Magnus if he hadn't stepped out from her way.

"Sire!" She squeaked; but it was hard to say if it was in happiness or angry.

Everyone stopped but Magnus who rolled his optics.

"R-Red Alert?" Ratchet stammered, utterly shocked at the sight of this Femme in front of him.

"Sire, is he her dad?" Sari said with wide eyes.

"Must be," Bumblebee muttered, he was still protecting her and wished he could go after Valour but he had to protect his little girl. "I wasn't expecting that."

"What...what are you doing here?" Ratchet asked, still gaping.

"I'm part of the Magnus's personal team," she stated softly, looking him up and down. "When I heard we'd finally found Optimus Prime...I knew you'd be with him."

"Yeah...I have been," he said slowly. "So...how have you been?"

She stared at him before saying coolly. "Why do you care?"

"Of course I care," he said in disbelief as she stated.

"Really, I wouldn't have known. It's been over fifty cycles since we've spoken and even longer since we saw each other."

He winced, he'd really regretted that.

"I'm sorry," he said as Blackarachnia knocked Sentinel over while Jazz and Prowl circled each other. "We couldn't contact anyone, I had to stay with Optimus, he had a Sparkling and needed a Medic."

"So you couldn't even say goodbye?" she said angrily. "You just left me all on my own, I hadn't any idea what had become of you."

"Red," he began but she was already turning. "Save it, I'm going back to monitor that Decepticon ship."

And without another word, she marched off, leaving Ratchet standing there helplessly.

"If we're done," Magnus said coolly, still holding his crackling hammer. "You're all under arrest."

"Sez you," Bumblebee said hotly, seeing as Ratchet was still just standing.

"Oh I do," Ultra Magnus said grimly as he sensed something big approaching. He didn't need Red Alert to yell.

"The Decepticon ship is about to land."

"Of course it is," Ultra Magnus said before lunging and grabbing Bumblebee's arm. "Your coming with me."

"Get off," Bumblebee hollered, struggling to get out of the tight iron grip but he couldn't. Sari squeaked as she and Bumblebee were tucked under Ultra Magnus's arm.

"Let them go," Ratchet said, finally snapping out of his stupor.

"No," Ultra Magnus said simply, turning in the direction of the landing Nemesis. "And unless you want to become a prisoner of the Decepticons, you'd better stand down."

Ratchet scowled at him, he was furious at this situation. The Autobots prejudices, the words they'd said to Valour and the way they'd just barged onto the planet.

"That's it!" Blackaracnia barked in rage before tying a freaked out Sentinel in a safe cocoon as fast as she could before jumping Ultra Magnus from behind in her spider form and bit him hard in the neck releasing powerful venom that paralyzed the old mech and this one fell on the ground.

"Wow...!" Bumblebee said in awe at the sight of his saviour.

"Come on, we need to get to Optimus, quick!" She said taking Sari so he could transform and raced after the place Optimus went.

"Eeek! Nooo!" Sentinel screeched when the spider came walking towards him and gave him the same treatment she gave the Magnus, and now he was paralyzed too.

She was about to jump Jazz when this one stopped fighting. "Ah was never agreed with wha' Magnus planned to do with the sparkling, is cruel... Ah dun know why he came up with tha' idea." He said and Prowl lowered his weapons.

"Mister Jazz?" Jetfire said watching the scenario. "Why is mister Magnus and mister Sentinel taking a nap?" his brother nodding as well.

Blackarachnia transformed in her femme mode and watched the young mechs. "They are tired after such long trip, don't worry, they will wake up soon once they are not tired anymore." she said.

Both twins looked down at her in awe before flying towards her. "Wow... Hi... I'm Jetstorm... And this here is ma bro Jetfire," the blue one said looking up at her.

Jetfire nodded eagerly and couldn't help but say: "You're hot!"

Jazz face palmed himself; but Blackarachnia took it well. "Why thank you my little mechs... Why don't you go and take the Magnus and Sentinel back to their quarters so they will recharge better, hmm?" She said caressing their young faces who flushed madly.

Without another second they nodded eagerly and with a loud "Yeah miss spider, ma-am!" they dragged their huge leaders back to the ship.

She smirked and turned with her hands on her hips towards Jazz. "Now, tell us, why are you here in the first place?"

"Well, Magnus brought us here, we just realized that he wanted something with Megatron's offspring, I still don't know what, but had a bad feeling."

"I see..." She said scowling before feeling someone behind her who was about to touch her spider butt.

Quickly she turned and hissed showing her pointy fangs to the red intruder. However, the mech didn't even flinched, just say: "Interesting..." and tried to touch her again but his hand was slapped away by the angered femme.

"Percy, now's not the time..." Jazz said taking the mech away.

"Indeed, is not," Prowl said. "We need to find Optimus and Valour before any other Decepticon does, I'll go and get them, need to catch up with Bumblebee; Ratchet, Blackarachnia, you stay here and watch on Magnus and Sentinel..." he trailed off watching her slap once again Perceptor's hand.

"I want to go and find Optimus!" She said.

"I know, but it's dangerous..." He looked straight to her optics and she seemed to understand, so she nodded. "I'll bring them back safe, I promise... I will not let him get caught again." With that Prowl transformed and left.

"Amazing..." Perceptor said more interested about her than the situation they were in. She just looked at him and hissed before hearing his next words: "I think I agree with the jet twins this time, your body seems to be perfectly symmetrical and harmonious making it pleasing to the optic... and your organic half potentiates that."

Everybody looked down at the red scientist. "He said you're hot," Jazz resumed and she rolled her optics.

"Thank you, but now we have more important business to attend!" She stated. "Will you lead us inside?"

"Oh... Yes, sure, ma-am..." Jazz said leading them into the ship.

As they walked she looked down to a heavy sparked Ratchet. "Are you okay?" He didn't answer. "What happened between you and... your daughter?" She tried.

Ratchet just shook his head and continued walking in silence until they reached the control room.

Red Alert gasped at their sight. "What are they doing here?! What is HE doing here?!" She said uncharacteristicaly loud and pointing Ratchet.

"What you think, darling? We've come to visit and drink some tea," Blackarachnia said sarcastically.

Red Alert just snarled at her.

"Wow, she has your temper, I can see that she indeed is your daughter," Blackarachnia added. That only saddened Ratchet more.

Author's note. Can Optimus track Valour down before anyone else? What will the others, what's happening with them? Find out next time, until then.