This came from one of many plot bunnies that seem to want to make my life harder.
I do not own Transformers. All original Transformers belong to rightful owners! I only own my Oc Arabella, and anyone else I add.
I also do not own ANY songs or media used in this story (Don't Sue me please!).
All credit for the Name Stormbreaker goes to DarkshadowXsunny-sides. Thank you for submitting it!
AyanoZonurai : Thank you. I hope you like this one as well, it was hard to write it, I started crying as I did so.
DarkshadowXsunny-sides : Told you about the twins! Hope you like this chapter!
Text:" =Two way conversation out loud for extended time.
HEY! HEY YOU! READER! Before you read on I suggest you listen to the songs Amnesia by 5 Seconds of Summer, and or Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars. These songs brought forth the emotions written in this chapter. Though I warn you, while it may heighten the read it may also make you cry. It made me. Just a suggestion! read on... now!
Sides point of view
Pain. That is all that I feel. When Sunstreaker and I heard that Bella was in Albuquerque, we were ecstatic, until the Decepticon signal popped up close to her. Not again. We couldn't lose another one.
FLASHBACK Kaon somewhere in the beginning of the war
Sunny and I had just finished our last match for the week. We were gladiators, the best there was. Everybody feared us, well everybody but one. Stormbreaker. She was the exception, she loved us and we loved her. No matter how banged up we were, no matter how angry we got when our manager cut our pay, she didn't care. She didn't get mad that between the three of us we could barely pay rent. She didn't cry when she came to our fights and saw how slagged up we'd get. She stuck with us the whole time. Sunny and I had gotten home to our tiny two room apartment, when she had just gotten back from her job as a nanny to some big shot's sparkling.
Me: "Hey Storm! How was..."
She had been beaten. Her chassis that was once white was scratched and marred. She had dents on her fore helm and on her arms.
Sunny: "What happened!?"
Storm: "I..I had just put the sparkling to bed, when I came downstairs..."
Me: "And?"
Storm: "He was drunk. He and his wife had come back from the party, she was passed out on the couch and he was rambling on, about how I was weak and how bot's like me should be terminated."
Sunny: "Son of a!-"
Storm: "He said that all I was good for was fragging, so he..he..."
Me: "I'm gonna Offline him!"
Storm: "No! I didn't let him! I fought back, that's why I'm banged up. He tried to force me so he hit me."
Me: "I don't want you going back. Not after this. It's too dangerous."
Storm: "But we really need the money. Your manager cut your pay again and we can't live off of your salaries alone."
Sunny: "I don't care! He's gone too far!"
My brother shouted as he began to pace angrily, his optics becoming distant. His usual cerulean blue optics were now speckled with red.
Me: "Just who does he think he is?! Hitting innocent femmes!"
Storm: "Apparently he is the new general of the Decepticon army. I overheard him say that he will oversee battles in Tyger Pax, his lieutenant will pick him up next week. That's why there was a party. To congratulate his making of rank."
Sunny: "That does it! I don't care who he is or what he is! A general should treat femmes with respect. How dare he call you weak! How dare he try to rape you! He will die."
He hissed as his optics turned white and he headed for the door. He had slipped into gladiator mode. Gladiator mode was something that my brother and I fell into when we fought in the arena when seriously provoked. Our optics would turn white and we would take out all of our pent up rage on our opponents. It's how we coped with our poor living conditions. It's how we coped when we lost our parents in an air raid 5 vorns prior, and were sold to our manager. All that rage came out through gladiator mode, this is why we were the best and the most feared. However even though it was useful in the arena, we could sometimes slip into gladiator mode anywhere when angered enough. And there was only one person who could bring us out of it besides each other.
Storm put a hand on Sunstreaker's shoulder. She had a pleading look in her optics.
Storm: "Please. For my sake, do not get revenge. He made a bad decision yes but he should not die for it. I will heal, but your spark will not if you act so rashly by killing this mech."
This brought him out of gladiator mode, though his optics still had red traces in them. Stormbreaker didn't like taking revenge. She found it petty and useless to harm someone out of temporary anger. She knew that anger is temporary, revenge wasn't. This is why Sunny and I loved her. She handled us when no one else could. She loved us for the mechs we were, glitches and all. This is why we had asked her to spark bond with us, because to us she was perfect. She made us feel whole, which when you're part of split spark twins is no simple feat. Our only regret was not being able to afford a better ring or the proper paperwork. But we were together and that is all that mattered.
After Sunny calmed down, we decided to see if anything important was on the news. It turned out that the Autobots were losing several battles. Casualties were getting higher as most bot's were being forced to take sides, some dying if they "chose the wrong one". According to the news, the battle lines were getting closer to Kaon, and many suspected that the Decepticons would try to take Kaon next. This worried me. Would Sunny and I need to take Stormbreaker and run? Before I could bring it up the three of us slipped into recharge. I woke up when I heard something, a sigh of some sorts. I looked to see Stormbreaker twisting her ring around her digit. I still remember the day Sunny and I gave it to her. We had used our combined savings to buy it for her. It was a puzzle ring, you'd have to fit the two pieces together to reveal the crystallized energon gemstone in the center. We had to forge and steal the paperwork so we could be bonded, this alone could get us thrown in the brig for a vorn or two, but we didn't care. It was worth it.
Me: "Whatcha thinking about?"
Storm: "Oh just the idea of us having sparklings of our own someday. Kinda stupid huh?"
Me: "No. I would love to have sparklings one day. Sunny and I have often argued over the gender of what we wanted to have."
Storm: "Really?"
Me: "Yeah. He wants a mech, I want a femme. I think it would be cool to raise a little femme, but he thinks otherwise."
She laughed. It was so high and gentle. She'd make a wonderful mother, it just sucked that we couldn't afford to have a sparkling, let alone take care of one. We were always working.
Storm: "Well I guess if the time is right Primus will answer our prayers."
Me: "Yeah, I guess so. I think you'd make a wonderful mother."
Storm: "Thanks, I think you and Sunny would make pretty good dads."
She yawned as she sat back down next to me on the couch we'd all fallen asleep on. "I'll talk to Sunny about leaving soon, and maybe starting a family." I told myself as we drifted back into recharge. We dozed through the rest of the first weekend that we had off together in a long time.
Next week
Sunstreaker's point of view
It had been a long week so far. Sides and I had faced 12 opponents and it was barely the human equivalent of Tuesday. We were in the middle of a match when I felt a hard tug over the bond with Stormbreaker. I tried to push the feeling aside but it kept popping up. I quickly glanced at Sides who was battling a mech next to me. He looked at me when he parried an attack away with his swords. His optics told me the truth, he felt it too. That's when I felt a painful tearing sensation at my spark that almost made me collapse. The mech I was battling took his opportunity to strike and nearly gored me. He had barely pierced my armor when I gored him with my sword. I stabbed him straight through the spark. I turned to see that Sides' opponent had drawn blood from him, but had ultimately failed in taking my brother down.
We ran from the arena as the crowd jeered at us for leaving so soon (We still had two matches left). But we didn't care, we didn't care if our manager didn't pay us for a week because of it, slag it all to the pit, we didn't care if we were cast out on the street again for that matter. All we cared about was if Stormbreaker was okay. The ripping and burning sensation got worse as we ran for where she worked. We could see the aftermath of troops fighting here and there. At the time we didn't know that there had been a minor skirmish and that the Decepticons had taken homeowners as prisoners, all we cared about was if she was okay, if she was safe, if she was alive. When we got to the house Sides and my spark's were in so much pain we were crying. That's when we found her. she was lying on the ground in the house's foyer, she was barely alive. She had been nearly cut in half, all of the connecting wires in her abdomen were severed and she was bleeding profusely, her chassis was nearly demolished. Yet somehow she managed to smile at us.
Storm: "Sunny, Sides..."
Me: "Oh my Primus! We're here! You're okay... you'll be okay.
Storm: "No I won't. Don't lie to yourself Sunstreaker."
Sides: "Wha... who did this?"
Storm: "My employer. (cough) He still stood by what he had said, he told me that I was going to join the Decepticons, that I would be their prostitute. I told him no."
Me: "So he cut you in half? Why?"
Storm: "(Cough) He said it was fitting, to him and his troops I would resemble the femme he said I was, weak, unimportant, somebot who should be terminated."
Sides: "His troops were here?"
Storm: "They watched, some heh..helped hold me down as they cut me in two. They laughed as they did it, they tried to make me feel ashamed of my decision."
Me: "We will find him, I don't care what you say, we will avenge you! He will pay dearly for taking the one thing that brings Sides and I joy in this Primus forsaken city. HE WILL PAY FOR TAKING YOU AWAY FROM US!"
I shouted as I began to sob harder. Sides was sitting next to me bawling. We had found the one femme on Cybertron that loved us for us and the Decepticons had taken her away. They would pay dearly for their crime.
Storm: "Sun..streaker...Sideswipe, if you love me and I mean truly love me, you will not seek revenge for my death. You will join the Autobots and fight for their cause... the cause of (COUGH COUGH) all life being equal, this is something you know I believe in, so please don't fight to avenge me, fight in memory of me."
S.S: "We...will. Anything for you my love."
Storm: "Also... Before I go... take my ring with you. Hold onto it, cherish it, and if the time is right... give it to another femme who loves you like I...do"
She said as she slowly closed her optics and offlined.
END FLASHBACK
We had lost our bonded once before. We kept our promise of love and joined the Autobots, and for the first 3 vorns we fought looking for the mech that took our beloved's life. We finally accepted that revenge wouldn't come. It wouldn't bring her back. So we had moved on, still fighting in her memory, in her honor. Sides and I still have the ring. We look at it everyday, it was only recently that we found a femme that loves us like Stormbreaker did, and now she's in trouble. We couldn't lose another. I won't let it happen again.
Sideswipe's point of view
We (at the discretion of everyone) used Wheeljack's portal device and traveled to Arabella's location. When we arrived I was immediately met with a tearing sensation in my spark. Sunny and I looked around to find Barricade. He was holding something. It looked really familiar. That's when it hit my spark, the sensation was so strong it brought Sunstreaker and I to tears. We knew that pain, we had experienced it once before. Barricade turned towards us and smiled, with sickening glee. That's when it clicked. He was holding Arabella, and he had bitten her in half. I watched as he spat out her upper half. Her face or what I could make out, was twisted up in agony. I looked at Sunstreaker only to see his optics turning white. He drew his weapon, a single energon sword. I hadn't seen him use it since we last battled in the arena. "In the name of our fallen love, we strike!" He hissed as he stalked forward. "PREPARE TO DIE DECEPTI-SCUM!" I screamed as I too entered battle slipping into my gladiator mode.
Barricade: "Oohhh! Why so touchy? Did I kill your pet squishy?"
S.S: "You have taken what matters most to me! FOR THIS YOU DIE!"
Barricade: "I did you two a favor!'
He said trying desperately to avoid our strikes. Sunstreaker came up behind him and slashed at the back of his knees. Making him jump forward. He shot me in the shoulder, but I didn't feel it, all I could feel was rage and hatred.
Barricade: "Didn't it occur to you Autobot-scum that a spark bond with a squishy would never work?"
"I don't care!" I snarled as I successfully stabbed his chassis making him bleed. "You wouldn't understand love if it came up and ripped your aft off!" Sunstreaker said while sweeping Barricade's legs out from underneath him. He then pinned him to the ground putting all of his weight on him so he couldn't get up. "And now I will take the one thing that matters most to you! YOUR LIFE!" I screamed as I brought my sword down, ready to cut him in half like he did to Bella, ready to get revenge for her death.
Unknown: "SIDESWIPE DON'T!"
I stopped in mid swing and turned around. What I saw were two femmes, the taller of the two rushed forward, she was crying. She put a hand on my shoulder and I felt myself slipping out of Gladiator mode.
Unknown: "You guys don't need to get revenge, I'm right here."
She said calmly.
Me: "Who are you?"
Unknown: "It's me Arabella. Primus gave me a second chance. He let me return to you and Sunstreaker."
Author's note: Ta da! happy sweet 16 chapters! And now we can let this chapter sit and marinate! It was hard to write, and I did cry a bit while doing so. Now we have a taste of Sunny and Sides' lives before the war. I did a lot research on their back story so sorry if all of it wasn't completely right. I got that they were gladiators and that their creators were not around right... I think. Anywhoo! Please vote on the Sparkling poll or Rate, Review, Follow or Favorite! Love ya guys!
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