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BEAST WARS!
Poisonous Love
Chapter 4: Defection
It had been two weeks since Cheetor and Blackarachnia stared fixing the Proto-Form. It was a pet project, the two heading over and doing work when they could and leaving notes of what they did and what the other needed to do. Sometimes they worked together but most of the time they each do it solo. And they had grown a bit closer. Currently Cheetor was sitting next to the Stasis Pod, tinkering with a device he was getting ready to add.
"Wow's it going Kitty Cat?" A familiar voice asked from behind him
"All good Legs. We are WAY ahead of schedule. But the gang are starting to get suspicious about me disappearing so much and all the randomly disappearing spare parts." Cheetor replied, not looking away from his work
"Awww? Not going to even look at me when you greet me?" Blackarachnia pouted as she transformed, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and chest "What's wrong?"
"... Optimus nearly died yesterday. He got ambushed, heavily damaged." Cheetor sighed "Big R needed to replace some parts. And, by luck, I decided NOT to take the parts he needed with me. The only copies of them we had left." Cheetor sighed
"Oh. I'm sorry." She frowned
"Not your fault." He sighed, putting the tech down and turning to her "Thanks."
"You're welcome." She smiled cheekily "I've got the parts from my side." Blackarachnia handed over her parts which were in a web bag
"That's good." Cheetor nodded "But isn't it risky to be carrying THIS many parts from your base?" Cheetor asked seeing the amount of parts being handed to him
"I hid them off sight and grabbed them on my here." She explained, sitting next to him
"You ARE a sneaky one...there should be enough here to finish up fixing the little guy." Cheetor smiled
"Wow. We are THAT far ahead if schedule?" She said shocked as she started working
"Yeah...you know...This is what we should be doing. Co-Creation." Cheetor spoke "Fixing the destruction of the past for the future." But the world co-creation made Blackarachnia blushed. Because that phrase also means having a child on Cybertron. "Give me a hand or eight?" Cheetor asked kindly
"Sure." She nodded, helping as she calmed herself down
The two sat there in moderate silence for nearly an hour, just speaking to ask the other to pass something or to help with someone thing else. It was a comfortable silence, neither feeling the need to talk "How're you doing Legs?" Cheetor asked
"The other Predicons are driving me up the wall! They keep trying to see my frame and my underplating!" She hissed
"What?" Cheetor growled
"Exactly!" She snapped "It is driving me crazy!"
"You could always leave?" Cheetor pointed out the obvious
"And Megatron will follow and destroy me." Blackarachnia frowned "He will find me and rip me to shreds. And I am NOT going to the Maximal's."
"... Oh." He muttered
"Caught between an Energon boulder and the scrapyard." Blackarachnia sighed
"Yea." He nodded in understanding "With a time bomb at your feet."
"... Hey Whiskers?" Blackarachnia asked
"What?" Cheetor looked up to her.
"What is the Maximal's mission? What where we... Doing in space?" She asked
"Well...okay." Cheetor went wide eyed in amazement He was surprised she was asking. "Well... You see... We are explorers. Our job was, basically, to just look from planet to planet. We go and scan the local wildlife so we can basically understand the world without desurbing it. But the Pred's on this planet, the stole something. Not sure. We were the closest ship so we chased them."
"That's what you did...that's...nice." She answered "I think Megatron had this...disc; I'm not sure what's on it."
"It's what WE did." Cheetor nodded
"Is...the...is the bot fixed yet?" Blackarachnia asked trying to divert her blush
"Nearly." He nodded "I'd say roughly a week or two."
"Good...then what's left after we fix the bot's body?" Blackarachnia asked
"We need an animal for it to scan." Cheetor explained "And then... Well... We could always hide the new Transformer here. But I don't know what we should do."
"Well there's probably a local animal around here somewhere...and we could make a base for it using the stasis pod." Blackarachnia pondered
"And what do we do? Again try and visit here regularly?" Cheetor frowned
"I...I guess." She answered "I mean we have a responsibility to the bot."
"So we're parents?" Cheetor asked his blue cheeks turning a darker shade from his blush
"I...If...I think we're more...Guardians to it." Blackarachnia answered but she blushed as well thinking that being a parent would be amazing.
"I guess." Cheetor nodded
"Anything else to do here?" She asked still maintaining a distance
"... I'm still working." Cheetor laughed, waving over the parts
"Okay...Need a hand or eight?" She joked lightly
*With the Maximals*
"Cheetor's gone again." Optimus frowned
"He's been "gone" for weeks now...what the scrap is he doin'?" RatTrap asked keeping a watch on the perimeter
"Maybe... He is conspiring with the Predicon's?" Dinobot hissed
"Cheetor wouldn't do that." Optimus spoke against Dinobot "He's loyal to the end."
"Then what do you believe he is doing?" Dinobot hissed
"He must have a reason. But I'm CERTAIN he's not working with the Predacons." Optimus answered
"Belive what you wish." Dinobot snarled, walking away
"What to you thinks going on Optimus?" AirRazor frowned
"I'm not sure...But Cheetor's hiding something; there HAS to be a reason." Optimus sighed
"Hey, maybe Chopper Face is right." Rattrap suggested
"Rattrap!" Both Rhinox and Optimus yelled
"Hey hey now! Let me explain! Maybe he IS working with the Pred's, just not by CHOICE!" Rattrap reasoned "Ol' Spots has been acting weird since he and the SpiderLady's tussle and the Energon storm. Maybe she did something to his circuit's?"
"That WOULD make sense." Rhinox muttered, tapping his chin
"I don't believe it." Optimus frowned
"Come on Fearless Leader, it makes sense." Rattrap scoffed
"It also explains why he's been sneaking around with parts..." Dinobot added
"What do you mean?" Optimus frowned at Dinobot. They knew parts where going missing but the could have been broken in Predicon attacks or just misplaced. No one was being considered stealing the parts... As far as he knew
"He was sneaking around, looking for someone...or making sure he was alone. He carried enough parts for a repairing." Dinobot answered
"... AirRazor. Next time Cheetor leaves follow him." Optimus ordered
"Optimus! You can't be serious!" She gasped
"That's an order." He snapped
'Oh man...I REALLY hope Spots' has a REALLY good reason to explain this.' RatTrap thought
Yes Rattrap. Yes he does...
*with Cheetor and Blackarachnia*
The yellow and blue CatBot grunted as he was pushed to the floor, Blackarachnia sliding on him until she was sitting on his lap with their chassis' touching and her arms wrapped around his shoulders and neck "G-Get off me BlackArachnia!" Cheetor panicked
"Awww... You don't like it KittyBot? Does my Kitten-Mech not like this?" She teased
"K-Kitten-Mech? I'm no-one's Kitten-Mech!" Cheetor blushed
"Mmmhmmmm. Tell me that when you become a 'real' Mechanoid." She teased; bring her face closer to his
"Y-You know...You're REALLY making it hard for me to..." Cheetor spoke still blushing
"To what?" She asked, her golden lip pieces lightly crazing his blue ones for a second
"T-To work..." Cheetor answered awkwardly
"Then admit I'm right and the photon adaptor connects to the quantom visualiser instead of the hydrolic initialisers." She replied, her lips brushing his again as a set of her spider legs grabbed his hands and forced them to touch her plated exhaust
"I...I...Okay you're right!" Cheetor gave in.
"Always am Kitty-Mech." She smiled, kissing him before getting off his lap
'Hmm.' He internally squeaked. Blackarachnia smiled at his amazed, dumbfounded expression. She reached down and rubbed the tip of one of her claws against his chin before going back to work 'That Pred...' He thought while his lips twitched into a smile 'MY Pred.'
*with the Predicons*
"BlackArachnia... BlackArachnia? Where is she?" Megatron shouted
"She has disappeared again My Queen!" The fire ant Predicon known as Inferno bowed
"Have you ANY idea where she is?" Megatron asked
"No." Inferno shook his head
"Summon the others; yeeeeeeesssssss...S ee if THEY know where she's been going." Megatron ordered. That was when they heard giggling from Blackarachnia's room and then a gasp "WHO'S there? Show yourselves!" He shouted. Megatron and Inferno stormed into Blackarachnia's room... To see the other Predicon's sans Blackarachnia. And in Terantualus' claws was one of Blackarachnia's chest underplating... It was yellow with a cheetah spot pattern "WHAT is this?!" Megatron stormed
"O... O... One of B... Blackarachnia's under chest plating." Terrasaur said in shock
"Why... is it Cheetah spotted?" Megatron asked with a snarl
"Zzzzzzzz-Wazzzzzzzpinator doezzzzzzzzzzz not know." The wasp former buzzed
Blackarachnia could feel something bad was going to happen.
*with Cheetor and Blackarachnia*
'Oh no...' Blackarachnia felt a chill coming over her circuits.
"You okay?" Cheetor asked her, the two finishing the last of today's work on the Stasis Pod
"I... I felt that something's wrong." Blackarachnia explained "I-I don't know what it is...but...it's something dangerous and big."
"I'm sure it'll be fine." He smiled, putting his hand on her shoulder soothingly "We done?"
"Yeah...yeah I think we are." Blackarachnia answered
"Okay." Cheetor nodded, pushing the pod into the cave the two had spend that night together before he sealed it so it was safe and no one wandered upon it "There. All good." Cheetor smiled, dusting his hands off
"So...See you in a while. Right Kitten-Mech?" Blackarachnia teased
"Stop calling me that." He hissed, cat hisses an everything, before she grabbed his arms and wrapped them around her waist. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and pushed their chassis close "B-BlackArachnia..." Cheetor blushed
"I will see you soon Kitty-Mech." She smiled, kissing him
With that, she left back for the Predacon base. Cheetor still in slight shock being kissed by the Pred.
Again.
"... You are BAD Legs." Cheetor called when he calmed down
"Remember this Whiskers: Even when I'm 'good' I am BAAAAAAD." Blackarachnia purred back, winking and transformed. Once in Beast Mode she took off running back to the lava fields... Hoping Cheetor didn't notice how one of her legs kicked up slightly when they kissed
*time skip*
Cheetor sped off to the Maximal Base, he still had BlackArachnia on his mind. He was grinning widely, remembering how beautiful she was and how sweet her kisses where. She infuriated him sometimes, they didn't always get along but she was very funny, smart and her 'dark' attitude was... Aluring. 'Dang...Am I REALLY falling for her?' He thought before he nodded with a smile 'Yea... I am. And I don't care.' He thought happily as he arrived at base, the lift bringing him inside as he Maximised "Hey guys...what's up?" he asked his friends
"Cheetor." Optimus nodded
"Hey...Big...Bot...*Gulp* what's up?" Cheetor asked nervously
"Nothing." He said simply
"Okay...Good seeing ya." Cheetor waved then headed to his room. Cheetor smiled softly as he returned to his own room and sat on his berth 'Man...that was a day...' Cheetor thought as he slumped into his bed. He closed his optics, ready to go to sleep and dream about his special SpiderLady, when someone knocked on the door "Grr...Go away..." He mumbled
"Cheetor?" Tigatron's voice echoed through the door
"Oh...Sorry Tigatron. Come on in." Cheetor turned around to his back was on the bed. The door opened, the white and cyan robot walking in
"You alright kid?" Tigatron asked
"Yea BigCar. Why?" Cheetor asked
"You've been acting weird the past few weeks. Just wanted to check up on you." Tigatron answered
"I'm growing up, cut me some slack." He shrugged a bit
"Alright then. It's just we care; alright?" Tigatron asked
"I know Tigatron." Cheetor nodded, smiling
"I shall see you later." Tigetron nodded as he left
"Later BigCat." Cheetor waved
*with Blackarachnia*
"Terrorize." Blackarachnia said as she reached the Darksyde, changing into Robot Mode 'Good, looks like Tarantulus is on watch. That idiot can't see a tree within a forest.' she thought. But she was shocked when she walked into the base, and found that she was surrounded by the other Predicon's sans the other SpiderBot
"Blackarachnia." Megatron frowned
What is going on?" She asked in her sultry innocent tone "Some form of club meeting?"
"Do you mind explaining why our more... Perverse... team members found THIS in your room?" Megatron asked, throwing the customised chest underplating at Blackarachnia's feet
"... Not only did those sickos go into my room AGAIN, even after I bashed their processors in, but you are risking ruining my plan!" Blackarachnia yelled, quickly creating a lie
"Your plan?" Terrasaur asked
"I am trying to seduce the young CatBot, make him trust me. And then I blow up their base and shoot him through the spark." Blackarachnia lied "I was going to wear that as I tricked him into opening his Spark Chamber!"
"That would be an interesting plan... If that was your intention!" Megatron said, ending in a roar
"W... What do you mean?" Blackarachnia stuttered in fear, feeling her Energon run cold
"We know you have been stealing parts and subtly sabotaging our systems for the last fourteen solar cycles!" Megatron growled in anger
"I... I did no such thing!" Blackarachnia yelled, lying in her defence once more
"Do not. Lie. To me." Megatron growled, his tyrannosaur head hand grabbing her by the throat
"GYACK!" she chocked, flinching as she felt the teeth dig into her neck and shoulder area as well as denting her helm
"Now... let's give the PussyCat a little message. Yeeeeessssss." Megatron growled as he twisted Blackarachnia's head in his literal maw of a hand "I think he would like that. Yeeeessss."
'Frag!' Blackarachnia thought in panic. That would out her and Cheetor's relationship to the Maximal's and they might not trust him anymore! That would break him! She can't let that happen! "One... Problem with your plan... Oh Mighty Megatron." She grunted out
"Oh? And what is that, Spider?" Megatron asked, spitting the last bit out like it was a dirty word
"Speak, Traitor to the Colony!" Inferno called crazily, aiming his fire fun at her
"... I'm not some helpless damsel in distress." She smirked, her spider leg guns shooting in Megatron's face as well at Scorpinock and Waspinator
"GAAAHHH!" Megatron yelled in pain, releasing her and grasping his face in pain. He then screamed as he was electrocuted, Blackarachnia stabbing him in the side with a blade of CyberVenom "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Er..." Megatron groaned before he collapsed, face first with birds singing around his head
"Zzzzzzzzz-Why doezzzzzzzzzzz Wazzzzzzzpinator alwayzzzzzz loozzzzze hizzzzz head?" Waspinator buzzed, his head laying on the ground and his body lying in the ground next to him: wrecked
"DEFEND THE ROYALTY!" Inferno roared
"DIE SPIDER-BIT!" Terrasaur squawked as he unfolded his shoulder cannons
"Oh to the Pit with both of you." She spat, pulling out her blaster. The three opened fire at each other as they dodged their opponent's shots, mostly hitting and destroying the ship. They continued to exchange fire for several minutes before Blackarachnia shot the roof and caused a cave in, allowing her to escape. But she yelled, being sent flying as a purple laser beams hit her left leg and back "AAAAAHHHHHH!" She screamed as she was sent flying, going to Beast Mode and running as fast as she could
"Stupid... Spider..." Megatron panted, his dino head hands mouth smoking showing he had fired
*time skip, the next day*
Cheetor growled happily as he ran through the forests towards his and Blackarachnia's 'spot'. He didn't notice the bird following him high up in the sky 'Today's the day. We get to meet the little guy.' Cheetor thought happily, dragging a bag of the last few parts they needed
"What are you doing Cheetor?" AirRazor frowned as she flew high in the sky and behind her friend. Soon Cheetor arrived at the spot and Maximized, about to open the cave... When he noticed something.
"Blackarachnia!" Both Cheetor and AiRazor gasped, Cheetor running to her side
"H... Hey Whiskers." Blackarachnia smiled, flinching slightly in pain. She was beaten up with burnt metal marks all over her stomach and chest, as well as on her thighs and her left shoulder. She was leaning against the wall, her right claw holding her left arm as she flinched in pain. And finally the Predicon symbol on her black neck area had a large gash over it, as if crossing it out
"What happened?" Cheetor asked as he knelt next to her, checking her for injuries
'What happened to Blackarachnia?' AirRazor thought, too far away to hear them properly 'And what is Cheetor doing?'
"Megatron found a... Gift I was saving for you. He found me out. And then he didn't believe the lie I told him. Got into a fight, and I lost them." Blackarachnia explained with a weak grin "Oh well. At least now I can watch the Proto-Form."
"Darn it Legs." Cheetor frowned, noticing how the spider legs on her left arm where broken slightly "You need a CR chamber."
"I snuck one in the cave a few days ago." She smiled "When I worked on the Proto-Form."
"You'll be okay Blackarachnia. I promise." Cheetor said seriously
"Whiskers?" Blackarachnia chuckled weakly
"Yes?" he asked nervously
"Shut up." She smiled, pulling him into a kiss
"What?!" AirRazor gasped "I... I have to tell the others!" And with that she took off for the Axalon at full speed
Once the Bird Girl was gone the two broke the kiss, Cheetor staring at her in shock. But getting over it and smiling, he carefully picked her up and pulled out his blaster, shooting the cave revealing it once more. "Let's get you fixed up. I'll do most of the work today, as can wake him up together once you're better." He smiled as he placed her in a CR Chamber
"Thank you Cheetor." She smiled weakly, her eyes slowly closing as the machine closed around bed
"... Sleep tight Legs." Cheetor sighed before getting to work
*with the Maximal's*
"HE DID WHAT?!" Rattrap yelled at the top of his lungs, his voice echoing over miles away.
Inside the Axalon Optimus, Rattrap, Dinobot, Tigatron and Rhinox where all staring at AiRazor is disbelief
"It's true; I even enhanced my vision to make sure I wasn't deceived." AirRazor answered
"I told you he was up to something." Dinobot commented
"Why would Cheetor do this?" Tigatron frowned
"It HAD to be that storm! Or maybe the Pred!" RatTrap tried to rationalise the situation
"Oh? And how do you think that the storm and Blackarachnia affected the traitor Cheetor?" Dinobot growled
"The storm must've fried his circuits and the Pred must've found him and messed with his head!" RatTrap answered "You know how dangerous that combo is."
"Say that again." Dinobot hissed, since he use to be a Pred and he knee that was also a jab at him
"You heard me! The storm and the Pred!" RatTrap answered
"Enough! We can't get at each other's throats!" Optimus called out
"Rattrap. Explain your theory." Optimus sighed after a few secondsof silence "You DO seem to have a theory after all."
"Yeah, look the size of that storm would've cause anyone to short circuit in full mode. If the Pred got her hands on him they could've had enough time to rewire him to have a secret agenda." RatTrap answered "Storm, rewiring, secret agendas! It makes sense!"
"But didn't Rhinox look over him... Like... Every week since the storm?" Tigatron frowned
"Preds hacked into our comms without us knowing for ages. Who's to say she didn't do the same to Cheetor?" RatTrap debated
"... We will confront him when he returns." Optimus ordered before he added "In the brig." That shocked everyone
*With Cheetor and BlackArachnia*
Cheetor hummed as he leaned against the Stasis Pod, waiting for Blackarachnia to finish being repaired 'After all this time...the project...the bot...it's coming to an end.' Cheetor thought 'It's still the start of a new chapter.'
Soon the CR Chamber opened, Blackarachnia walking out and stretching
"Hmm...That was a good rest. Thanks for waiting Kitten-Mech." Blackarachnia teased
Cheetor's optic twitched but he still smiled "Just glad you're okay." He smiled
"Come on, we've still got a bot to fix." Blackarachnia turned her attention to the almost complete protobot.
Cheetor nodded, the two going to the pod and finishing it "Alright...that should be it...Now for the last component: The Spark." Cheetor spoke
"But it only has a slither left.". Blackarachnia frowned only for Cheetor's chest to open
"Wh-what're you?" BA asked
"We... Need to give if a jump start." He sighed, putting his hand against his Spark and his other hand reaching out for the Spark of the Proto-Form
The lights seemed to connect it, but the Proto-Form needed more of a jump-start.
"Your turn." Cheetor sighed, closing his Spark chamber
BlackArachnia did the same; she opened her Spark chamber and reached out to the Proto-Form, hoping that this would bring the bot to life again. And with a bolt, the Spark springing to life
"I-I did it! We did it!" Blackarachnia cheered lightly
"We did it!" Cheetor laughed in amazement
The two hugged as they laughed happily, smiling Then they realised what they were doing and quickly broke the hug "I err...better find an animal for its form." Cheetor nodded as he slowly pulled the Stasis Pod out of the cave into the rocky area and using the pods computers they began scanning the area with the golden scan fields
"Let's hope to Cybertron this works." Blackarachnia spoke
Cheetor nodded as several animals appeared on the screens "Hmm...there's some good animal forms. What do you think Legs?" Cheetor hummed
Blackarachnia looked at the computer and... Her eyes widened.
There was a fox.
"That one." She pointed
"A fox...not a bad choice. But why?" Cheetor asked
"I just think it would fit." She shrugged
"Okay." Cheetor nodded, typing away
"BEAST MODE SELECTED. BEGINING SCANNING AND RECONFIGURATION." The computer said, scanning
"Finally." Blackarachnia smiled
"All good so far." Cheetor nodded before the scanner began to spark and exploded, sending the two flying