Author's note. Written by me and the-writing-mew, it's a nice long chapter.

Enjoy and please review.

Somewhere in the woods

Valour wept as he hid under a large oak tree, he was crying so hard that his body was shaking uncontrollably. He'd had a very happy life, he had a large family who loved him and made sure he had fun. He had a close best friend who always hung out with him, he had a lovely island for a home and now had a mother.

It hadn't mattered that he only had one parent, Sari only had one parent and he knew loads of human kids who only lived with their mother or father. It wasn't a big deal to learn that his daddy hadn't gotten on with his father and they'd split up. He wasn't at an age when he really had to know all the details behind his daddy's relationship, especially as Optimus was now going to marry Elita, his new mommy.

So to find out it was all based on a lie was devastating. That awful Mech had said he was a bastard, that his father had hurt his daddy and forced his daddy to have him. How could his daddy have kept this from him, did this mean he didn't really love him.

"I'm...hic...hic...s-sorry...hic...daddy," he wailed, bent over a low branch, head in his arms.

"Valour...Valour!" came a voice that he dimly recognised as his daddy but he was too distraught to even respond.

How could anyone have hurt his daddy, he was the best in the world. Valour felt like he would die from misery.

"Valour...Val...there you are," Optimus said in relief as he finally spotted his little son crying his optics out.

"Sweetspark, its okay," Optimus said soothingly, bending down and gently stroking his son's back.

"Why...why didn't...hic...you tell me?" Valour said, barely able to look up, his optics were streaming with fluid.

Optimus sighed heavily, lifting his son up and placing him against his shoulder.

"I didn't want to upset you," he said quietly. "I wanted you to have the happiest life I could give you."

"But...I'm a bastard," Valour started to say but Optimus cut in fiercely.

"You are nothing of the kind," he stated firmly. "You are my beautiful son and I love you. Ask any of your family, they'll tell you the same, that they love you and they don't care who your father is. I don't care, I never have and I loved you from the moment I knew I was expecting you."

Valour whimpered before crying again, burying his face against his daddy's shoulder as Optimus held him close, kneeling in old leaves. He rocked him back and forth, saying soothing words and wishing he could punch the living daylights out of Ultra Magnus for daring to say such horrible things to his son.

"Valour?"

"What?" Optimus exclaimed with a frown, glancing up.

It didn't sound like Megatron or anyone else he knew, that almost sounded like a Sparkling. But that was impossible, there were no other Sparklings on Earth...

"Wh-what?" Valour stammered, lifting his head as his name was called again.

"Ah," Optimus exclaimed in surprise as a little Femme Sparkling suddenly popped up, slight traces of dirt on her body.

"Brudder," she said, holding out his arms wanting to be lifted. "Brudder."

"Daddy?" Valour said in confusion even as he reached out to the little Femme.

Optimus quickly lifted her out of the dirt and she snuggled against Valour. Valour gave a weak giggle, hugging her back as she started to purr and chirp.

"Where did you come from?" Optimus mused as a horribly familiar voice suddenly yelled nearby.

"Slipstream, where are you?"

"Megatron," he whispered in horror.

The Autobot ship

"Is that really your daughter?" Sari asked curiously as Red Alert continued glaring at him.

"Yeah, this Red Alert," Ratchet said with a nod. "She's a medic like I am."

"Hmph," she huffed, turning away and going back to her station, apparently intending to ignore them.

"Down boy," Blackarachnia said sharply as Perceptor attempted to examine her again.

"Where is the Decepticon ship?" Ratchet asked Jazz and he quickly rushed over to his station, typing away.

"It's landed nearby," he stated, frowning at the screen. "But they don't appear to be disembarking...we were sure they would as soon come flying out as soon as they landed."

"That is strange," Prowl agreed. "Are you sure none have left?"

"Ye...no," Jazz suddenly said. "I think one bot might have left, there's a new signal in the surrounding area, it looks like a Con."

"Megatron?" Blackarachnia offered, Ratchet was half watching his daughter who was still resolutely not looking at him.

"That's a fair assumption," Ratchet said grimly as Sari yelped. "But Valour all alone out there, what if that jerk finds him first?"

"I should go after Optimus," Blackarachnia declared.

Jazz suddenly smiled and said.

"I think we might be able to help you."

Meanwhile

"Megatron," he whispered in horror. His whole body froze and felt lax at the same time. 'N-no... it can't be... not again... not... again...!' He thought as he started shaking.

"Daddy? What's wrong?" Valour said startled at the sudden reactions and changes of attitude of his creator so sudden.

"We need to go, come on, leave that sparkling there, come on!" Optimus hissed trying to be quiet.

"Sorry, have to go, nice to meet ya..." Valour said and the little femme frowned and grabbed him tighter. "Daddy, uhh... she doesn't wants to let go..."

"Oh, come on... let him go, you can play with him later..." Optimus said trying to pull her away from Valour without case. In any case he was shaking and had no much energy to fight this sparkling.

"Daddy... why are you shaking? ...what is going on? What are you afraid of?" Valour started worrying for the first time; he'd never seen his daddy like this before!

"Slipstream!" The voice again called, this time closer and it seemed to desperate Optimus even more who was shaking violently now, but what petrified completely was the next words the little femme said... or yelled.

"Sire! M'here! Valou-mphh!" Optimus covered her mouth. "Hush!" He hissed and Slipstream looked up at him offended and was about to bite him when noticed his running tears and how cold his hands became suddenly.

"Daddy?" Valour tried again and noticed the same the other sparkling noticed.

But it was too late already as sounds as branches breaking were heard before a loud... "Slipstream!" sounded, followed by the sight of a huge silver mech.

Optimus yelped in shock and shook even harder; fear consumed completely at the sight of the mech of his nightmares.

Megatron stared and watched not really believing what he was seeing; there was his daughter with his beloved Valour... and that whore Prime. He couldn't help but smirk.

"Sire!" The femmling squeaked in joy, the same thing couldn't be said about Optimus and Valour.

"Good job, Slipstream, you've found your brother... Valour..." He purred and walked closer. However Optimus learned backwards as far as the tree allowed him to go from this menace.

"N-no... plese, M-megatronn... n-n-no...p-ppplease..." Optimus said in utter shock. Valour looked up at his daddy and now he was royally scared. His daddy was pale, shaking and crying in fear.

It was then when it hit him... The mech said to this sparkling 'your brother' that means that this mech was... His optics widened at the realization, this mech was his sire!

The mech who hurt his daddy and forced him to have him! The mech who raped him and did who knows what else! He can deduce by the way he was acting out of character.

Megatron was painfully close and Optimus was weeping harder. "This time, you will not escape me again, whore... and my son will remain where he belongs!" He threatened in a cold hiss and was about to reach him when...

"Don't you dare hurt my daddy!" Valour stepped in front of Optimus still holding Slipstream. "He's no whore! That's a bad word! Step back! You're not welcome here!" He barked at the huge mech who looked at him in surprise.

Slipstream looked up in confusion; was her sire that evil with that poor mech? Did he really hurt her brother's carrier? He'd never hurt her carrier, so, why would he hurt him? She then turned and saw the trembling and weeping mech and took her own conclusions.

"Valour, my son... it is me, your sire..." He said reaching down for him to hug him, but the mechling slapped his hands away.

"Don't touch me! You're the cause of my daddy suffering; you forced yourself in him and forced him to have me! You're evil! Why did you do that, why you hurt my daddy?! What did he do to you?!" Valour cried out loud and Slipstream was about to cry with him too when she felt her sire reaching close nonetheless.

"You don't know anything..." He said reaching close before- "Ahhh!" He grunted as Slipstream slashed him with her claws and reaching the goal of making him step back.

"Bad sire! Bad sire!" She said. "Hurt Valour, make Valour cry, make Valour's carrier cry!"

Megatron stared in shock and disbelief at his daughter; he didn't know what to think anymore. She was telling him what he did was wrong?!

"Slipstream," he said sternly. "Don't do that."

"No hurt Valour," she snapped.

"I'm not going to hurt him," Megatron said impatiently. "I'm going to take you both back to the Nemesis...before Ultra Magnus can get anywhere near you again."

He added this part darkly as Valour trembled at the memory.

"He called me a bastard," he whimpered as Optimus held him closer.

"That's a lie," Megatron retorted. "He's a senile old fragger so stuck in the old ways, it's a miracle he can move. There's nothing wrong with an Autobot and a Decepticon mating, put that out of your processor young one."

"Maybe," Valour said softly. "But I still don't understand why you hurt daddy?"

"He allowed himself to be hurt," Megatron said irritably. "If he had accepted me, I would have given him kindness but instead he resisted."

"He didn't love you," Valour said seriously, holding his daddy's cold hand. "You can't force someone who doesn't love you to be with you."

Megatron frowned, just what nonsense had Prime been filling his head with.

"That doesn't matter, you're all coming with me and that's an end to it," he stated, reaching forward but was stopped by a flying shirker.

"I don't think so," said a cool voice and he turned to see one of Prime's team standing there, the cyber ninja Prowl.

"Optimus and Valour are not going anywhere with you," the bot said calmly. "You can take your daughter if you wish but not them."

"You think you can stop me?" growled Megatron, starting to get very angry as he drew himself up to his full height. "One puny Autobot?"

"He's not just one," came a voice and a young yellow Mech came running from behind a tree to stand beside his friend. "Now it's two."

"Yes," Megatron said sarcastically, looking this youngling up and down. "Clearly I have no chance."

"Daddy?" Valour said softly, touching his still trembling father's cheek. "It's okay, Prowl and Bee will protect us."

"Sire mean," Slipstream stated sadly. "No mean to carrier."

"That's good," Valour said with a sad smile, he wondered why his Sire was nice to Slipstream's carrier but not his?

Slipstream cuddled into him, purring and he chirped back at her. He'd only just met her but he already liked her, she was the only nice new being he'd met today, all the other new ones were mean and horrible.

"We have backup," Prowl told Megatron, a restraining hand on Bumblebee's shoulder so he didn't do anything foolish.

"You think I came without any?" Megatron scoffed, flexing his fists. "Why don't the two of you have a go, see how far you get?"

"No! Bad n' mean sire! Let Valour go, we visit later!" She declared.

Megatron growled. "Quiet, Slipstream!" he barked at her for the first time ever making her and the others flinch.

"Sire mean!" She bit back as tears started forming in her optics. "Me no love sire if sire dun let Valour go!"

"You will understand someday," He stated darkly getting closer again.

"Valour carrier no slave! Bad sire!" She insisted as he came before Prowl stepped in front of him and with a move used Megatron's force against himself and threw him away against another tree.

"You will pay for that!" Megatron declared when he recovered, but for his surprise they were not there anymore.

With a loud roar he let out his frustration... They took Slipstream too.

...

"Valour, you need to leave that sparkling, Megatron will trace us by using her!" Prowl declared and stopped.

"Noo~o!" Slipstream whined and hugged her brother tighter.

"You have to return to your sire, young lady..." Prowl said and could swear by the way she was looking at him that she could understand what he was saying, every word actually.

"No, Valour hurt, him hurt," She pointed at Optimus. "Me make hurt go," she finally snuggled against Valour.

"You have to, you're only going to upset your sire more if you come with us, he will get angrier and hurt Optimus and Valour more." The cyberninja practically started a conversation with her and Bumblebee looked at him in awe.

"You know you're talking a practically newborn sparkling, Prowl? She cannot un-" Bee was about to say when Prowl interrupted him.

"Somehow I feel she can understand..." He reached for her head and touched it with his palm, she giggled as somehow this mech's touch tickled. Prowl frowned and took her from Valour's arms and held her up to look at her better. Then he smiled before getting her closer and whispered something in her audio.

Slipstream's optics widened and she nodded. "Good," He said lowering her on the floor against a tree. "Do it, this is not a farewell, Slipstream, we will soon again." Prowl said before turning at the others. "Come on, we must go, Valour, your mother must be very worried for you, let's go."

"But... What about her?" The mechling said watching her wave her hand at him.

"Bye Valour, see yah later, luv yah..." She said making everyone but Prowl stare at her with wide optics.

Bumblebee was more than shocked. "Bu-but... She was just... Just a- a..."

"Come on!" Prowl ordered and they transformed and left the aqua sparkling seeker alone.

"Prowl, don't you have something to say?" Optimus finally was able to find his voice.

If Prowl could smile or smirk in his alt mode he would have, instead he said: "Just that Valour has an interesting sister."

"Cool, I have a sister!" Valour exclaimed in joy for a moment forgetting his sorrow. "I will be a super big brother soon when mom gives birth," He smiled.

...

Megatron was furious, he started chasing them, they couldn't have gone far, he can also feel Slipstream near...

"Waaaaaaah!" He could hear his daughter scream, his spark gave a frightened jump and he ran in that direction.

He couldn't call for her or he will lose the surprise element; sadly he was lying when he said he came with an army, but what surprised him was to find his daughter climbing a huge tree and screaming and chirping as she achieved a new height.

'They abandoned her here?!' Megatron thought angrily watching his daughter's mirth.

"Slipstream!" he came closer and she looked down at him.

"Is sire good now?" She said making his optics widen. "No hurt no more Valours carrier?"

"You don't understand..." He said getting angry again.

"No, sire dun understand, sire can't force Valours carrier to hurt, will hurt Valour; if Valours hurt, Slipstream hurt!" She declared with decision from her high position on the tree and her optics started getting wet before she started sobbing.

"You're too young to understand that this is the decepticon way!" He barked at her for a moment forgetting that he was not talking to an adult but to a little sparkling.

"Stupid way," Slipstream told him, making him grind his denta in frustration. He was sure she got this disobedient streak from Starscream, there was no other explanation.

"Slipstream," he said quietly, trying to reign in his temper. "Come down now and we'll go back to the Nemesis. Your carrier must be frantic by now."

"Pwomise not to hurt Valour," she told him and he said. "Of course I'm not going to hurt him, I love your brother."

"You hurt carrier, you hurt Valour," she pointed out, making him growl again.

"Slipstream, I've been very patient with you but we're going back now," he told her, reaching up for her. Of course she scuttled out of his reach and he felt his temper begin to rise.

"Slipstream," he barked. "Come down here right now."

"Bah," was her reply as she continued scurrying upwards.

"Starscream!" Megatron roared into the comm. "Get your aft over here right now!"

"Have you found Slipstream?" Starscream asked anxiously and Megatron glared up at her.

"I certainly have," he muttered."Get over here at once."

"As you wish," Starscream replied.

While he waited for Starscream, Megatron brooded about the situation. Damn that Magnus, if he hadn't shown up and started telling Valour all those things, his son and carrier would be safely tucked away on the Nemesis by now. Clearly, Prime had never told their son what had happened, it would have been so easy to convince Valour to come away with him.

"I'm not through yet," Megatron growled to himself. "I have still have a trump card."

He looked up again at Slipstream who was watching him with her beautiful red optics. Valour liked his sister, that much he'd noticed and the little Mech would want to see her again, even if Megatron was around. He was going to use that; Prime would not get away this time. Soon everything would be as it should be, with his Prime and Seeker in his berth and his children reunited.

"Soon," he murmured to himself. "Very soon."

Meanwhile, the Autobots were hurrying back to where Ultra Magnus's ship was located.

"You okay, daddy?" Valour asked his quiet father.

"I'll be fine," Optimus said, trying to smile weakly at his son. "Megatron...just took me by surprise, that's all."

"He's scary," Valour said with a shiver. "And mean."

"Hmm," Optimus agreed as Prowl said softly. "But his daughter is none of those things; she appears to be a very special Sparkling."

"She's nice," Valour agreed. "Daddy, will I get to see her again?"

"I'm sure you will," Optimus assured him. "Prowl's right, she's nothing like Megatron, she appeared to be a very sweet little Femme."

"But...we'd have to see Sire again," Valour said nervously as Optimus nodded grimly.

"I'm afraid so sweetspark."

"Why does he want to hurt you?" Valour couldn't help but burst out. "Slipstream said he didn't hurt her carrier, why you?"

"That I do not know," Optimus said quietly. "But since she's a Seeker, then her carrier must be a Decepticon so I suppose her carrier likes Megatron. And he obviously likes them in return."

Optimus had no idea how far this 'like' went but Megatron would only interface with someone if he were attracted to them.

"No one's going to hurt the boss or my little buddy," Bumblebee declared. "We'll kick some con aft."

Valour giggled at this as Optimus smiled slightly. At least he had his team supporting him.

It was a few minutes when they reached Magnus' ship and never felt Megatron after them. Obviously Slipstream served well at her purpose of distraction. Quickly, the force field opened a gap so they could enter, and once they did, it returned to cover everything around it again.

"Optimus!" Ratchet received them. "Come on, hurry."

"What is it?" Prowl decided to ask for his leader knowing how the other was.

"Megatron landed with his ship and whole army; in few words, we have a situation."

Optimus grimaced. "We know..." he said taking his son in arms and looked around for something. However, Valour spoke for him: "Where is mommy?"

...

Hanging from the roof in two separated cocoons of silky, but strong spider web, were Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime. Both looked at her with hateful blue optics, however, their moths were covered and their com-links disconnected.

Blackarachnia then crawled up the ceiling in spider form examining how strong was the prison she made for them and once she saw it was strong enough to hold even Megatron, she crawled back to the floor.

"Cool!" Jetstorm and Jetfire said in chorus.

"Amazing creature..." Perceptor praised her and tried to reach for her again only to have his hand slapped away again.

"Can you stop that? You little perv! Maybe you're a scientist, but I know that hidden look." Blackarachnia hissed at the red scientist who continued looking at her in awe... And tried to reach for her again... And his hand was slapped away again.

"Wee! This is SO fun!" Jetstorm said as he climbed on Sentinel's hanging cocoon and rocked it back and forth.

"My turn!" Jetfire said jumping in Ultra Magnus' one and copying what his brother did.

Blackaracknia rolled her optics and shook her head. Just, how young were those two?

"Boys! Stop moving those old mechs! You want them to purge? Get down now!" she clapped her hands and they obeyed and stood in front of her with their heads held low.

"Sorry miss spider lady ma-am..." they chanted.

The femme looked down at them... They were cute, she couldn't be mad at them for... Her optics widened, she thought they were cute? It must be her maternal instincts kicking in!

"Can we have our own cocooned rope to play?" Jetfire asked knocking her out from her thoughts.

"Yes please?" Jetstorm said.

The technoorganic femme could only look at them...without noticing Perceptor who was scanning her.

"Oh...OH!" he exclaimed in excitement as she sighed and said. "Alright, you can both have a rope to play with but don't get overexcited."

"We is playing nicely," Jetstorm promised as she shook her head and transformed before carefully shooting some ropes for them. The two jettwins shot into the air and grabbed their ropes, swinging and whooping with delight. She couldn't help but smile, they were full of energy and joy. Would her own children be like that?

"This is so amazing!" a voice said behind her and she turned to see Perceptor greedily examining a data pad.

Before she could ask just what was so amazing, Optimus came hurrying in. To her immense relief, Valour was with him and he looked unhurt although he was definitely not his cheerful self.

"Elita," Optimus said a little hoarsely and she was alarmed to see that he appeared to have been crying. "How is everything?"

"Under control," she assured him, gently stroking Valour head as he purred and nuzzled against her. "What happened?"

He grimaced and looked away from her, saying. "Valour has a little sister."

"A sister?" she said in shock and everyone else also looked surprised. "You mean...Megatron has..."

"Yes," he replied. "I don't know who with but she's a Seeker Sparkling. And it sounds like they weren't forced..."

He broke off, not wanting to remind Valour of where he came from. The little bot was glancing up at the cocooned Mechs but not for long as they still looked mean.

"I like her," he said softly. "She's called Slipstream and she's really nice. Not horrible like my Sire."

"She is nice," Optimus agreed as Ratchet and the others approached. "But Megatron..."

"He almost got them," Prowl offered, wishing to spare his leader. "But since Megatron was on his own, we managed to drive him off and his own daughter delayed him. I don't think she's a threat to us."

"Will I see her again?" Valour asked softly as he looked up at them with wide blue optics.

"Yes, sweetspark... We will see when... Now, what if we go and get some energon, huh? I bet there's a lot of good things here." Blackarachnia said taking Valour away from the room, Perceptor following them close.

Optimus then looked up at the cocooned leaders and frowned at them before turning and following his family. Only the Jet twins stayed behind as they continued swinging back and forth onto their ropes, squealing and giggling in utter joy.

Meanwhile, Ultra Magnus and Sentinel were thinking about almost the same; Megatron produced another sparkling but still wanted his first one back... Along with Optimus.

Sentinel couldn't help but think about the way Optimus addressed the spider... He said 'Elita'

"Come on, bro... Lets see what's up out there...!" Jetstorm finally seemed to grow tired of the ropes and dragged his brother along with him leaving behind the two elders.

...

Valour sat on a couch with his head against Blackaracnia's chest while drinking some sweet energon. His cheerful mood wasn't restored yet.

The spider caressed his head softly. "You're loved, Valour... irreplaceable... Never forget that."

The sparkling lowered his head further. "I was the result of pain... Of suffering from my daddy... Even if he loves me... I cannot help but feel guilty for existing... Sire came here for me... Maybe... If I haven't existed he would have left daddy alone..."

She knew she should have stopped him from saying such nonsense, but still, he needed to let it out.

"You're wrong," A monotone voice sounded near them and they could see Perceptor standing there with his datapad on hand. "With or without you in the picture, Megatron wouldn't have stopped hunting your carrier since he's so obsessed about him and his looks."

The sparkling looked at him confused. "Your carrier is physically attractive and he defied Megatron by escaping, your sire will not stop until he gets the two of you back... I can almost guarantee he wants your carrier more than you."

Valour looked up at the scientist in horror. "No... He can't have daddy... He will hurt him!"

"And that is what he wants because he dared to do what he did...and because he still feels attracted to him," The scientist continued and Blackarachnia looked up at him with a frown hugging a terrified and now sobbing Valour closer.

"He's crazy... I cannot accept him as my sire..." He sobbed against his adopted mother's chest.

"By the way," Perceptor added. "Your sparklings are taking their time in growing," That alarmed her. "It's been quite a while since you conceived them but still show no signs, right?"

'How did he know?!' Was the thought that run by her processor as he continued.

"Have you tried consuming something organic? That may accelerate the process... My scans show that they're still practically attached to your spark still and no protoform was formed yet," He added in what could be considered an amused but still cold tone.

"Maybe... You need organic nutrients for them," he finished touching his chin.

"I...," she said rather startled at his suggestion. "Perhaps I will try that."

"I would recommend it," Perceptor said briskly before saying rather eagerly. "I would love the chance to study half organic, half Cybertronian beings..."

"I should have known there'd be a catch," she said in exasperation, still trying to comfort Valour. "Go and bother someone else, I'm busy here."

"Very well," he said, walking away. "I'll have a talk with Ratchet about this."

"You do that," she muttered before lifting Valour up and placing him against her shoulder. "It's okay sweetspark, we won't let Megatron anywhere near Optimus."

"You promise?" he asked her earnestly and she smiled.

"I'll do everything I can to protect him," she promised. "And so will all your uncles and friends. Maybe I could get Grimlock to eat Megatron, how does that sound?"

He giggled a little as she rubbed his back. But she knew inwardly that it wouldn't be easy to get rid of Megatron, he was determined and extremely difficult to defeat. This was going to be a long, hard fight.

The Nemesis

"You found her," Starscream shrieked in relief, charging forward and plucking his daughter from the tree. "Slipstream, why did you leave us like that? I was so worried."

"Sowwy," she said as he cradled her against him, hovering in midair. "Wanted to see brudder."

"Oh," Starscream clucked in disapproval as he lowered himself to the ground. "You shouldn't have gone off like that, one of those awful Autobots might have hurt you."

"Brudder no hurt me," she said with confidence as Megatron grumbled under his breath.

Starscream looked towards his leader and said. "What happened?"

"Our daughter managed to locate both my son and that Prime," he growled. "And I was going to take them all back to the Nemesis but Slipstream would not allow me to."

Starscream looked down in amazement at his little Femme and said. "You did?"

She nodded and said. "Sire no hurt brudder carrier. Sire no hurt you, he no hurt Pwime."

Starscream could see why his leader was not happy. Megatron continued.

"And then one of Prime's bots came and distracted me long enough to flee. I would have pursued but they abandoned Slipstream and I was forced to stop."

The Seeker nodded, feeling very pleased and relieved that Megatron cared enough about their daughter to delay pursuit of that damn son of his. He stroked their daughter's head and said cautiously.

"What are your orders, leader?"

"I am going to get them both back," Megatron growled. "We'll find where they are and determine their defences. And then we'll act."

Slipstream frowned; she didn't like the sound of that. Megatron glanced at her before saying to Starscream.

"Keep a close optic on her, she can't get between me and that Prime again."

"As you wish," Starscream muttered as Megatron transformed and lifted up into the air. Carefully holding his daughter, he also lifted off into the air and flew towards the Nemesis.

Without Megatron knowing, Starscream praised their daughter and told her: "You must not allow your sire near that Prime... Or Valour will suffer; you don't want him to suffer, right?"

"No..." The femmling said with a hint of sadness.

"Then you must keep your sire away from Prime... If he ever catches him, you must let him escape... And should never let your sire to lay a finger on him. Valour will be destroyed if his carrier is caught and hurt by Megatron," The seeker said softly.

"Why sire hates Pwrime?" She asked.

"Because, sweetspark, Prime is an autobot who denied your sire his pleasure and even dared to escape with Valour when this one just born."

"Why he escaped?" She continued wanting to know more.

"Because your sire tried to dominate him over and over again and that hurt him... He felt abused... He never loved your sire the way I do and for him every time Megatron touched him was a rape," Starscream answered as they almost reached the ship.

"It was rwape... Pwrime was not willing!" She gasped in shock. "Sire wants to rwape Pwrime again!"

"Yes..." Starscream said. "He still believes if he does that, Prime will finally submit to him... But knowing him, he won't... He'd rather die before submitting to Megatron... And after everything he's done to him, I am not surprised to know that he hates him... Even if somehow cares for his creation... A creation from a rape."

"Sire can't get near Pwrime!" she said with determination. "...but... I want to see Valour again... I like Valour."

Starscream didn't liked that last sentence... But at least she understood what she must do; get Megatron away from that Prime.

Once they landed in the Nemesis, Slipstream tried to get to her sire who walked away from them but Starscream stopped her. "You're filthy, first a bath... Besides, your sire is still upset with you from stopping him from hurting Prime. Give him time to cool off."

She looked up at him and nodded before they went for their quarters.

Meanwhile, Megatron went to control room and demanded his soldiers investigate the Autobot ship and ascertain whether or not any Autobots had left it. They hurried to obey, not wanting to anger their highly annoyed looked leader. Megatron sat down heavily with a growl. He couldn't believe he'd been that close to holding his son again but Prime had denied him again!

"You'll pay for that Prime," he snarled quietly as Bliztwing came up to him.

"I'm sorry mein leader, ze Autobots are behind a force field and not coming...OUT TO PLAY!"

Ignoring Random's outburst, Megatron considered the problem. The Autobots knew he'd be coming for them and would be preparing to defend themselves. There was even a chance they'd try to flee the planet but he'd already ordered his soldiers to be on standby in case this happened. But how to get to his son and his whore carrier? He needed to tread very carefully from here on, he could not afford any mistakes.

"How can I get him away from them," Megatron mused to himself before the answer suddenly came to him and he smiled grimly. Oh yes, he knew the perfect solution to his problem.

Author's note. What is Megatron's solution? Can the Autobots all work together? Find out next time, until then.