AC: Hello dear readers and this is the end of this story. The first part of the epilogue is only a brief resume of events that aren't part of the plot, but it will be important for the sequel to put Hercules current relationship with the autobots.
Epilogue: Hercules becomes an Autobot
One month passed since Arcee prevented his suicide attempt.
During that month, Hercules did his best in his task and he improved. He only caused one accident on two instead of almost every time. None of the accident caused any cybertronian to be offline, but some of them injured cybertronain and Hercules always apologised. He continued to recharge walking right in Arcee's quarter to guard her.
Tek made a full recovery to Hercules joy. He always stood by Tek side during his recovery and they officially became best friend. They were always together in their mission with Arcee. At the base, Hercules finally learned not to always be by her side when she's safe without her having to say it to him, but he always made sure she wasn't too far away from him. When Hercules wasn't with Arcee, he was with Tek talking together about their past and experience or playing Lobbing.
As for the other autobots and Knock Out, his relationship was different with each of them. Bumblebee got over his damage servo and Hercules was in good term with the young autobot.
Smokescreen and Hercules didn't meet that much, but they were in good terms. Smokescreen explained to Hercules what happened to Starscream after he left. The deception was currently a prisoner of the Nemesis and cursed anyone calling him a femme. The only one visiting Starscream was the vehicon Steve, but Smokescreen refused to explain with detail what those two could say or could do together.
Between Hercules and Bulkhead a friendship was born as they played times to times playing Lobbing. That caused some problem with Wheeljack who always log harder at Hercules, but he didn't hurt Hercules who was too tough for that. Wheeljack tried to evade contact with the Insecticon and didn't like that he had good times with Bulkhead. One time, Hercules once logged too hard at Wheeljack and he ended up with a damaged leg. Hercules apologised and told him he thought he preferred playing harder. Wheeljack only grunted at him, being aware he asked this on him.
With Ratchet, it was bad, but expected. Hercules destroyed his stuff, but it was an accident. With Knock Out, it became open hostility since Hercules damaged his paint job too many time and Knock Out insulted Hercules with something no one wants to remember. They once fought against each other's and Hercules overcame him before Arcee had to end the fight before it worsened. Ultra Magnus ordered both of them to never fight again and the two didn't talk or crossed path since then.
Hercules and Ultra Magnus had only a distant relationship as soldier and superior. They only interact when Arcee, him and Tek are in a mission given by Ultra Magnus.
With the vehicons in general, they disliked Hercules because he was an Insecticon, but they tolerated his presence to a certain limit.
As for him and Arcee, it remained a servant and queen relationship, but it was more complicated than that. The autobots and vehicons didn't saw the relationship between the two the same way. Some said it was friendship while others said it was servant to a queen kind of relationship.
Tek asked once and Hercules replied that he and Arcee weren't friends as he was only serving his queen the best way he could.
After the month passed, Ultra Magnus called Arcee to the command room. Arcee arrived and looked at her superior.
"What is it sir?" she asked.
"I wanted to ask you something important," Ultra Magnus said.
"What is it sir?" Arcee replied.
Ultra Magnus smiled and walked closer to her: "I've noticed Hercules behavior since he came with us and also how much he did or tried to do for Cybertron even if the hardship he had in my reports, especially during the last month. Are report those true?"
"Yes Ultra Magnus. Hercules always tried his best in his mission, even when it ends up with an incident with a few injured autobot or vehicons," Arcee replied.
"True. He did a lot for us. Arcee, you should know that Cybertronians will soon come back living on Cybertron," Ultra Magnus said losing his smile and looked at Arcee.
"Our people are finally coming back home. What's the problem?" Arcee asked when she noticed he wasn't smiling.
"As you know, Cybertronian doesn't like the Insecticons for the destruction they caused during the civil war and also their voracious assault against the autobots and neutrals in the different planet they were. I'm worried for Hercules safety. The situation is not perfect right now between him and the vehicons, but they are tolerating him. When the civilians are back here...How will they react to Hercules Arcee?" Ultra Magnus asked Arcee.
"Badly. They will try to chase him away at best, offline him at worse," Arcee replied looking away from Ultra Magnus optic before looking at them again.
"Exactly. I'm afraid it will be dangerous for Hercules right now. I have an idea on how doing some damage control. For his safety, I think it's not such a bad idea and more importantly, he deserves it," Ultra Magnus said.
"What's your idea?" Arcee asked.
Ultra Magnus showed something in his servo and Arcee optics expanded to their limit as they looked at the object in his servo. It was the insignia of the Autobot.
"I think it will be a good idea. He had that spark in him," Arcee agreed.
"Good. Call the others, we have a ceremony to start," Ultra Magnus said with a smile.
Elsewhere, Hercules was with Tek and they were Lobbing. Hercules lobbed the metallic balloon a little gently so he wouldn't injure his friend. Tek caught it and threw it back at the Insecticon.
"You're getting good at controlling your strength Hercules," Tek commented.
"Sorry for the first time," Hercules replied.
"Yeah. You threw it so hard that I slid in the air right into the medic bay with some damage Knock Out immediately repaired since I was there. That was surprising," Tek replied.
Hercules nodded before lobbing back the balloon. Tek caught it again. He let the metallic balloon. While Tek answered, Hercules scratched his arf where it was itching.
"This is Tek. He's here with me. Alright. I'll bring him to you," Tek replied.
"What is it?" Hercules asked.
"Ultra Magnus wants us in the command room," Tek replied with contained excitement.
Hercules wondered why he sounded excited. Tek grabbed his servo and Hercules followed him at the direction of the command room. They reached the command room and Hercules felt behind the door many autobots waiting behind. He wasn't sure what was going, but he guessed that an important battle might happen soon.
The door leading to the command room opened and the duo entered inside. Hercules was right. Every autobot he encountered were there plus Knock Out who still wasn't officially an autobot. Hercules was about to walk beside Arcee when Tek pulled him at Ultra Magnus direction. Tek let go of the Insecticon servo when he was in front of Ultra Magnus and joined the ranks of the autobot.
Hercules looked at Ultra Magnus, who had one hand on his back, and asked: "What is our mission?"
Ultra Magnus wasn't expecting that question and neither the autobot. Ultra Magnus replied a little confused: "What do you mean?"
"You're sending us on a mission right? Every time I'm here with you, I'm going for a mission. Did something bad happen if everyone's here?" Hercules replied wondering why he asked what he meant with his first question.
Ultra Magnus smiled when he remembered that every time they met, it was for duty and almost never for anything else. Ultra Magnus chuckled lightly before replying: "There's no mission for you today."
"Why are we there then?" Hercules asked.
"I received numerous report stating that you were a hard worker among us Hercules. You always do your best at your task, even if you failed a few times by accident. Arcee confirmed the reports. I am now sure that you have a spark at the right place and I can trust you with this," Ultra Magnus revealed his servo. Hercules saw it was the autobot insignia. "I know the insignia is worthless now that the war is over and the decepticon are gone, but I consider his symbol important. Being an autobot represent those who fight with their spark to serve and protect not only Cybertron and the cybertronian, but every living beings we came across during our exile on the planet they explored. I believe you can rightfully wear it on your chestplate Hercules. You can grab it now."
Hercules didn't move. He was currently between online and in stasis. His processor repeated in cycle: He wants me to become an autobot like my queen! After a minute, the information was accepted in his processor, but he still didn't know how to react.
The autobots saw the Insecticon immobilised and wondered if anything wrong happened to him.
"Did he just glitch?" Bumblebee asked.
"I don't think so," Ratchet replied.
Hercules finally moved. He raised his servo and grabbed the autobot insignia. He looked at it. He then looked at Ultra Magnus and could only say one think out of his voice box.
"Thank you Ultra Magnus. I won't disappoint the insignia and my queen," Hercules said.
He lightly bowed to Ultra Magnus while he heard the autobots clapping. Most of them clapped with excitement, but Ratchet and Wheeljack slower and without enthusiasm and Knock Out wasn't clapping at all. No. Not the autobots. He corrected himself. My comrades.
Hercules looked at his comrades, which partially ignoring Knock Out, and gave his biggest smile. After the clapping ended, Hercules walked near his queen.
"It's all thanks to you my q- Arcee,"
Arcee shook her helm: "No. You are the one who did it by yourself Hercules."
"I understand my q- Arcee. I'm glad I've made your proud," he said joyfully.
Hercules heard someone shouting and knew who it was. The Insecticon turned around and caught Tek in mid-air and hugged the vehicon against his chest plate.
"You are awesome buddy!" Tek shouted.
"You're right my friend. You're right," Hercules replied joyfully. He raised his servo with the autobot insignia in the air and screamed with all his joy: "WHA-LA-LA-LA-LA!"
The end
Post story announcement.
Hercules walked on a wooden stage and walked near a chair, a mic and a console. He sat on the chair and cleared his voice box.
"Hello dear readers! I am asked to make an-" [Windows crashing sound] Hercules stopped talking. He looked at the console and only saw a blue screen with an error message. He pressed a few switch but nothing happened. "By the pit! What is that?! Windows 10 crashed?! What is windows?! How do I arrange that?!"
"Press control Alt Deletes!" Ratchet voice screamed outside the stage.
"What's that?!" Hercules asked.
"Wait," Ratchet grunted.
Ratchet joined the stage and pressed the switch and after a minute he said: "And done." Before walking outside the stage.
"As I was about to say. I have an announcement to make. This story might be over, but it's only the first story of my journey. There will be a sequel that will focus more with the other Insecticon and conflict with those who wants to return living in Kaon. Nothing more to say about it. The other-" Hercules said nothing and looked at the console. He picked the mouth and clicked on it. "Stupid human technology. Why do I have that when I never went on Earth? Anyway, the other thing is that there will be something that you readers must decide."
Tek arrived with a drum and started playing it to increase the suspense.
"It's-" Hercules stopped and looked at Tek. "You can stop playing it now please."
Tek stopped. He grabbed the drumstick and let them fall on the ground and bowed to the readers: "Knee to the king."
"It will be a poll where you will have one decision to make during this sequel. The result will only be revealed at the end of the second story. You will have two choices for my future and Arcee: Should I an Arcee become best friends and nothing more or should I and Arcee reached a more romantic relationship and become a pairing?"
Hercules stood up and grabbed his mic: "This is all. Hercules wishes you a nice day."
He turned around and walked outside the stage, but he was pushed back inside by the autobots.
Hercules looked at the readers nervously and grunted: "Sorry. I forgot to present the title. The title of the sequel is: An Insecticon And His Queen: Kaon Conflict." Hercules then said extremely fast: "WarningThistitlemightchangeforabetterone. That's all readers!"
He bowed to the readers and walked away.