Prime Blood: Skycracker Chapter 7*

The deep voice softly answers leaning over her, "I'm not Ravage. But will I do?"

The voice has lost all it's monotone. This tone is full of something else. Something Skywarp has be longing for: desire, massive pent up desire. Then she smells it; the raw maleness. She knows the scent of needing to mate, but this was no scent of Thundercracker's. The heat from this body was far larger and far more in need of release. She slowly opens her optics and gasps. Her gasp cause Soundwave to pull back and stand up straight. She can see the expression on his face, he is giving her a chance to reject him. But seeing him in the dim light of two burning candles thwarts any thoughts of banishing him.

Soundwave stands before her stripped of his outer-armor leaving him encased in his skin of sparkling royal blue under-armor, completely naked. "Holy Primus," her voice escapes her. The smile spreads across his face while he rests his hands on the wall just above the alcove opening. Stripped of his helmet, she can see his red optics clearly burning with desire for her. The slick head shows his creases of deep gladiator battles. His shoulder panel outer-armor had not been built up. There really was that broad of a chest and shoulders under the paneling with a solid torso and firm, but narrow hips. Quickly she looks down to his feet also bare making his entrance as quiet as Ravage. Traveling her gaze up his legs, she sees the firm and solid legs, and the thick thighs. And no matter how hard she tries to avert her gaze, her optics still lock on. Her breath sucks in sharply. However did he keep that encased in that cod piece? "Oh Primus help me," her plea begs.

"I am the god you need now, not him." He bends at the waist and brings his knee to her bunk directly beside her hip. Her breath is beginning to quicken with the scent of him again. He leans in further across her chest to put a hand on the bunk between her shoulder and cheek. Her hands have a will of their own and slide up his chest. She can see his spark pulsing under the light armor. One hand continues up to his shoulder. The other slips down and around his waist to the small of his back, pulling him even closer to her. His head lowers to her neck as he warns her, "I am not a patient, tender, lover."

A soft cry of passion escapes her again while her back arches towards him. His teeth grab her neck carefully and softly he sucks his lips against her own naked under-armor. "Ah!" her body croons against him in surprise. Her processor is swimming at his scent overwhelming her senses. It's like a drug she has only tasted but now has a consuming need for all of it.

This slows her rational thought. It takes her a few minutes to realize, he knows exactly what kind of a lover she is used to. He saw her naked and in throws of passion with her bondmate. But somehow it doesn't sicken her. No, it excites her. He brings his head lower letting his tongue trail across her breast. It still puzzled him about these female mounds. But he did know they were sensitive as he suckles one. She clamps a hand to his neck making him bite.

She draws in his scent in deeper.

Her mind flashes. She knows this particular scent, why? And then it comes to her: Her counsel guard days. She had swept the room and stood guard while the delegate had a private meeting. Yeah right. But when she heard a strange cry, she bolted into the room. She found the counsel delegate pinned down undulating and crying out while a blue and yellow mech straddled her and used:

"Oh Primus!" Sky gasped as Soundwave just barely touched her crouch with the resonator usually hidden under his cod piece. Her eyes flash open and yanks his head back to face her. Panting she narrows her gaze, "It was you!" He tips his head confused. He taps her again with the resonator at the frequency that nearly undid her on the battlefield. The cry the council delegate had screamed that night was now coming from her own throat. He smiles broadly. She gasps again, "It was you in Emerson's chamber that night."

He narrows his gaze at the question. It was eons ago. There had been several others since the counsel spying days. But here he was now with... He rolls back to his heals away from her. He brings his left hand over his mouth trying to find just the right thing to say. She sees her ring wrapped tightly around his finger. Sky reaches out and takes his hand. He locks his gaze with her. He slips one finger under the light armor covering his spark chamber and pulls out a single band of sparkling blue marked with yellow. Taking her hand, he only asks with his eyes. A tear slips down her face. He doesn't take Thunder's ring off her hand, no he adds his to it. He won't let her forget her first love. He will never take Thunder's place. He will take his own place in her life. Then he pulls her up against his chest, spark pulsing against spark, "I'm yours. No past, just our future." He crushes his mouth down on hers consuming and taking her again.

Soundwave has promised to show her something she has never known. She's is going to let him. She manages to get real words out, "Teach me."

He whispers against her lips, "No." She pulls back to catch his meaning. His tone encompasses and surrounds her like a warm soothing melody, "You will experience me. You will be consumed by me and then, I will be yours fully." He smiles lightly and drops his head down again to her collar. His teeth begin tiny nips and tugs. All over her entire body, he nips, tugs and tastes. She tries to touch him at one point, but he blocks her by pinning both her hands to the alcove wall and continuing with his mouth. He lowers his hips laying the resonator right at the most susceptible spot of her pelvis. Meanwhile his tongue plays with the center of her chest and the tenderly sensitive lips of her port. His tongue slips in slowly while he sets off the resonator. She cries out that she can't take any more of his teasing while her hips reach and beg for him,. "Are you ready?" She whimpers and nods. He brings one of her hands to his own chest and grasps two fingers, thrusting them under his armor. She hears him take a deep breath as she grabs it. The throbbing and pulsing large hard intimacy cord is more than ready as she begins to draw it out.

But to her shock he yanks his body away from her and hauls her off the bunk to stand before him. He waits for her to catch her breath. And then with one thrust, he inserts the cord deep and hard into her chest. Her head slams into his shoulder and nearly collapses.

Her hybrid spark begins to throb, "Soundwave, I don't know if it will bond again. I've never…"

Soundwave pulls her head back to look at him, "You had a love I can never compete with. I know he will always be in there -a part of you. Do you know why you didn't die when he did?"

She whimpers, "I thought I had. And then I thought this life was worse than death… until …"

A warm palm strokes her face, "Your son." She just stares and he smiles broadly, "Your son. I did some digging into mates when I found out about your miracle. Mates who's sparklings were created in the most raw and honorable way, infuse more of their spark energy within their sparklings." He touches her nose, "You live, because only one third of Thundercracker died. There are two thirds that still live."

Skywarp lays her forehead on his shoulder and looks down to their intimate connection. Maybe she could give Soundwave more than her body. Stroking the slit in her new mate's chest just above where he has given her his body, she encourages his spark to come to her. "Please Primus, do not be cruel and grant me a bond and deny him. He deserves to have a bondmate full and true."

"Oh Skywarp…" he whispers in awe of her prayer for him. His ice blue orb of energy spills into her hand. Skywarp watches the tendrils curl and wrap around her fingers. Caressing, soothing, almost like petting her hand in compassion. "I love you Skywarp," the vow breathes out watching his life force caress his mate's hand: a physical representation of how he felt and wanted to sooth her spark.

A lone tendril pushes out of Skywarp's sparkslit. A tendril of energy leaves Skywarp's hand to call to her tendril. As it tries to retreat, his zips out and slides right across it. It doesn't try to claim it, no just caresses it an let it know everything is alright. It was safe within his spark. Hers pauses and ponders his offer.

"Sky, it's alright. Either way, I'm alright. I will never ever ask you to forget him. I'm not that kind of mech."

Her voice hitches, "I-I know." His warm palm soothes the back of her neck in encouragement to relax. And her tendril runs along his pulling the rest of her spark out. Soundwave jerks back when a particularily firm strong tendril dives into his spark searching the truth to his intentions with Skywarp. Soundwave knows who it is and out of honor (and love of Skywarp) lays himself bare giving the dark blue tendril full access.

When it is done, and seems satisfied, it pulls the rest of the spark with it, merging Skywarp and Soundwave together. And then their One hears a Third-One.

Soundwave, I find your intentions honorable. Skywarp, I shall retreat. You deserve to have him fully.

Skywarp mewled and with a fleeting stroke of a send to the retreating royal blue Terajet-tendril within their new bond, Skywarp-Soundwave's One is able to experience everything fully like they should. The passion, compassion, consumation…. Heat, intense heat….

Soundwave clamps his arms around her swiftly while he finds himself slipping to the floor as well. He planned to consume her, but he was not prepared for her to over take his own senses. Together they collapse to the floor entwined while ecstasy overwhelms them.

"Please," she pleaded with him.

He tenderly asks gasping himself, "Stop?" She shakes her head violently. And so he answers her plea pulsing again. And she cries out. She doesn't care who hears. Let the whole base know she is…his. Tears begin to come down her face. He has accepted her.

And then he lets out his own cry. It's a roar of release. He doesn't care either who knows where or what he is doing. "We are one," he pants.

They both lay still as the sparks slowly retreat to their respective chambers.

Soon her hands are clenching his chest tightly tearing his under-armor. He doesn't care, it will heal with scars of their passion. He has both arms tightly wrapped around her waist forehead bowed against her shoulder. Both of them are panting and dripping with sweat. Her breath pants, "Don't leave me… mate."

He chuckles and kisses her sweetly, "I couldn't if I tried." He pants a few more breaths, "I think I blew a delicate servo." She laughs with him. Their bodies, worn out from the furious coupling, finally releases the intimacy cord. He tucks it back into his chest and she crawls onto the bunk. He lets her slide down onto the bunk face first. He slides in with her and then they curl up together. Her wings tuck flat along her back against his chest.

He kisses the back of her neck tenderly, which surprised her and then settles, "You know, I often wondered how you Seekers got comfortable."

She chuckles as well, "We only reveal this secret to a few chosen… consorts."

With his bound hand wrapping around hers bringing it up to her optics, he corrects her, "That's not what I am."

She clutches his hand tightly, "No, you're not." Now she rolls over to face him directly and traces the lines on his face, "Who will know?"

"Ravage and Lazerbeak." He leaves it cut and dried.

"Not Razorbeak?"

He snorts, "Can't trust the bird. Always flapping his beak." He strokes his ring on her hand. She now has a chance to look at it closely. A piece of blue and yellow metal with his name engraved on it. Then he taps it twice: it's the song they had danced to for her anniversary. But it was also the night they revealed their admission of attraction for each other. He may have played it for her bondmate. Now that title belongs to him. Ever so tenderly he tells her, "You are my mate. And I'm yours." It may have sounded like a command to anyone else, but it was a command of his spark.

"Yes, beloved. You are staying all night, right?" Her voice chokes with emotion.

"I have to report at 05:00 but you have a mission at 04:00."

She smiles, "Then we should stop wasting time." She pulls away from him and lays her body across his now laying on his back. He cups her face and kisses her tenderly.

Slowly drawing his lips back he tells her, "You know, a good officer is open to new tactics. Teach me this slow and tender love making." With a smile of contentment, she does. Now it's his body that is begging and crooning against hers as he climaxes.

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The mates wrapped tightly in each other's arms like another layer of armor, find peace and comfort in recharge. Ravage comes to waken them in the morning. He begins by licking Skywarp's face, closest to the alcove opening. She opens her optics to his soft red ones. Carefully she unwinds herself from her mate's arms. He must have been tired, because his only reaction is a frown. Ravage leaps up and takes her place, keeping Soundwave company. She smiles at him, but knows Ravage will make sure Soundwave is at his post in time. Silently, Skywarp straps on her armor and heads towards the door. Her hand reaches for the release when she feels herself spun and pinned to the wall, "You won't leave me silently again. Got it?" And his mouth descends forcefully onto hers. He commands the base with a firm voice and few words. But he commands her with even less words and just his mouth. The control his mouth has right now over her, burns through any command material she thought she had. His hands make things even worse. Her body melts against his very hot naked one, right through her heavy armor. Before she can even think about fighting him, he has released only one piece of her armor and inserted himself again. Her breath sucks in sharply and he takes advantage pushing her higher and harder against the wall. Skywarp's claws dig deep into his under-armor scaring it. And it pushes him harder. Soon she can feel both of their molten liquids overflowing the port, running down her body as he pulls out. Then he faces her directly, "Got it?"

She is gasping and smiles back, "Can I defy that order tomorrow?"

He chuckles and leans in again, "Defy it as many times as you like." Her arms reach forward wanting him to do it again.

Her com calls. /Skywarp! You're late!/ Galvatron bellows.

Soundwave touches her com, /Just getting final adjustments done to her communications processor, Sir. She's on her way./ He releases the com and kisses her tenderly. "Am I coming through clearly?"

She curls her fingers against the nape of his neck, "Yes."

He pulls the chemise off her wall and runs it down her exposed under-armor, then closes her heavy armor. "Then give them Pit. I'll await your return back in my quarters after debriefing." All she can do is nod. He releases the door.

She has no idea how she made it into that command center in full commander mode. She knows Galvatron could see through her façade wondering exactly who has delayed her. He is about to question her when she quickly calls her team out to the warp gate.

When she comes back two days later, Soundwave is not there.

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Prime Blood: Skycracker Chapter 11: (whe

Sound wave isn't home. Nor is Ravage. Neither is Lazerbeak. True the three of them are the best tri-team. She smirks, well almost as good as Thunder, herself and Starscream. She looks around to see if there is any sign of them. A note, a message, a clue, but she comes up empty. Then she checks over her shoulder and slips inside his personal quarters. She had only been in there twice. The first time she was pleading for her son's life. The second his proposal. Now she was looking for any clue to his whereabouts. Unfortunately, a spy is the best person to hide evidence, clearly even from his mate. But also knowing him, he would be furious if she followed him into the field. Slag him and his secrecy.

Skywarp's own snooping will have to wait. Galvatron is calling her for a debriefing. Somehow she is able to get through it quickly. Well almost quickly. Her back is to their leader as she heads to the door. She hears the feet being kicked up to the war table as he leans back, "So, who is he?"

She doesn't stop. But she can hear the door locked, trapping her. Can she face him directly? Why try to hide it, she has done nothing wrong. She turns around and crosses her arms over her chest giving him a clear cocky stance. "What does it matter?"

Galvatron laughs, "Oh ho, doesn't deny it, yet won't reveal it, interesting." He slams his fist to the table. "Who is he?" Skywarp remains silent. Now he drops his feet and strides over to her, "Who is your lover?"

Skywarp treads very carefully, "Pardon me, sir, but I have not brought anybody unauthorized onto this base. Unlike some others I know."

Clearly her jab was to his own consort, Slipstream. He did not take kindly to the jab. So he leans in and seethes, "You better hope not. I have my ways of finding out."

"Yes you do." She leaves the statement simple and yet unanswered. They remain in the staring contest. It would have held longer if Cyclonous hadn't interrupted on the com. Galvatron releases the door and they both exit to their separate duties. He knows this isn't the same Skywarp he has been used to for so many years. No this widowed Seeker if full of surprises.

She returns to the command center. And with her own Seeker command code, hacks into Soundwave's system. The evidence tells her what he was looking for but not where. She also isn't sure when he should be back. Digging further brings no further information. Except one tidbit: their leader has the final clue.

As she strides back to the Energon refueling commissary, she wonders if she should push the issue. And if she does, how? She didn't like her last encounter with Galvatron. She was sure he could sense everything. Looking around the room for any bit of helpful tactics from the others, she thinks she may have just come across the answer.

Skywarp heads back to the command center. Galvatron seems to be bothered as well. Good, just what she needs. She heads straight over to the communications station. "Rumble, I need the intel from Soundwave's last mission."

Rumble shakes his head, "He hasn't come back yet." He actually looks concerned.

Tamping down her own trembling agitation she tries again, "What do you mean he isn't back yet? Without that information, how am I supposed to make my raid successful? I suggest your find him and tell him to get back here. No time for hanging out at the night clubs!"

Galvatron over hears her rant. He also comes over to Rumble. "Has he checked in?" Rumble shakes his head. "What was his last message?"

Rumble punches up the log. "Nothing. No word back. He never checked in. But the mission was also stealth."

Galvatron fumes, "Not completely."

He whirls around and points to Skywarp. "You find him. If you find him at a night club, let me know. I'll make an example of him. Now go."

She steps up to him directly face to face. "Sir, only you know where he went. When I didn't get the intel I needed, I hacked his system. You have locked out the information I need."

Galvatron can see she is in full command mode and not afraid to hack to get what she needs. Once again, this Skywarp surprises him. He backs up and turns to the panel. Inserting his command key, he releases the information. Skywarp taps her com, "Cyclonous, Sunstorm, warp gate, ASAP."

Then she heads over to the gate waiting for her team. Galvatron drops a reminder on her, "Remember, he is our chief spy. If you can't extract him…."

It takes everything she has not to grimace, "I know, execute him."

Galvatron finishes the statement, "Leave no prisoners." Cyclonous and Sunstorm show up. They warp out.

Streaking through the gate, the Seekers head for the canyon. Now that they are closer to him, they can begin scanning for his signature. But Skywarp had seen him modifying his armor the night of the proposal. They won't be able to pick it up. "Sunstorm, search for Lazerbeak. Cyclonous, search for Ravage."

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going for a large overview. We won't be able to find Soundwave. But where the others are, he won't be far away. Go!" The Seekers head off in different directions. Skywarp takes herself higher and looks for signs of impact. If he had come in for his high altitude dive, something could have thrown him off. But more than that, she begins to pray. She can feel his band tight on her hand.

The band! It sings to her private link with him. Swiftly she proto-forms and yanks her glove back. With a touch, she makes the ring sing again. The song melts her spark, but she hopes he can hear it and signal her back. Now she goes back to her alt-form and hits the deck at a slower pace. The scene of a battle looms ahead.

Skywarp pours on the power headed towards the wreckage on the canyon floor. She hears an echo of the song in her own audio receptors. Landing, she drops to one knee and sees the robotic paw prints. Then a signs of a scuffle.

"Cyclonous! Sunstorm! Meet up at my signal. I think I found something." Carefully and lightly she steps. The wind is beginning to blow and she knows she must move fast before the tracks are cleared away. Her optics scan intensely and swiftly. She can feel the panic beginning again. Then she sees the trail of running paw prints dash down a dry tributary. She races towards it, just as Sunstorm lands in her path way, obliterating the tracks. She curses and dashes around him pushing him out of the way. Luckily Cyclonous lands behind her. The other two follow after sprinting Skywarp. She comes to the cliff wall and sees the claw marks going up. Taking out a sword and a dagger she leaps up and stabs them deep into the rock. She uses them to pull herself up.

Sunstorm looks after her, "What are you doing?"

Huffing as she yanks the dagger out and stabs hit higher pulling herself up, "Ravage came this way."

"Why?" Cyclonous asks.

She yanks the sword out and reaches up, but her voice bites back, "I'll be sure to ask him when I find him. Now shut up and provide air cover unless you are going to climb up here with me?" Neither one of the others has the tenacity to follow her. Instead, Cyclonous flies up and looks down from above.

Sunstorm stays below, "I'll stay here incase something falls down." Skywarp chuckles at the thought of her falling into his arms. But her ring begins to vibrate harder. She can feel the song stronger in her head. Pulling once more, she finds a very narrow ledge. And her mate.

By the way the canyon wall curves out, they never would have seen him from the top. But there he is. In his alt-form, looking like a satellite that crashed. At her touch on him, the song stops. He knows she made it. She opens Ravage's access hatch and see him curled up on board. Deep in the back he can also see Lazerbeak. But Soundwave is so much bigger with the attachments for holding his mini cons. She won't be able to lift him. She lays a hand on him tenderly, "I'm here, love. I will get you home." Seeing neither Seeker in a position to see her, she places a light kiss on Soundwave.

Just as she rolls back to move him, his voice comes out mono-toned, "Gate at stratus. Not in canyon. My fault."

She smiles, "Yes sir."

"If can't … let me go." She can hear him strain to take a breath, "No prisoners."

Her voice catches, "Like slag. I shall not be widowed again. Got it?" It was a counter order to his the morning she left. She can hear an amused sigh from him, but then the armor almost seems to sag. She knows he has shut down more systems.

"Cyclonous! Get down here!" And then they can hear the sound of another air strike team coming in. She knows those colors that streaked through the sky, Aerial Bots. And they are charging their weapons. Cyclonous comes down. Sunstorm also comes up. They hover just off side of the ledge. Skywarp goes into command mode. "I'm a better shot than you two. I'll run cover. You two are going to carry them out. We can't warp out until we reach outside the stratosphere. Got it?" They nod. "Don't you dare drop them or else you can tell Galvatron what happened to his intel. Go."

She back flips off the ledge to her alt-form. She heads directly at the Arial Bots causing them disturbance while streaking a spiral around them. She is teasing them. Three of the Bots take the bait. But one doesn't. He turns back. Skywarp watches Sunstorm and Cyclonous lift Soundwave out of the canyon and head straight up. The last Aerial Bot is heading for them. Racing as fast as she can, she begins to fire. But the Aerial Bot knows the prize is what the two Seekers carry, not the one racing away. He isn't going to break off. Skywarp makes her mark and hits a wing sending the Bot tumbling to the ground. The other three break between following her and following their leader to the ground. But just as the Seekers break the stratosphere, they warp out.

Arriving back at the base, Skywarp snaps her fingers, "Knock Out, man down." Cyclonous looses his grip and drops his end of Soundwave. It puts all the weight on Sunstorm who then drops his end. Skywarp shakes her head, "You fools!" Knock Out comes to Skywarp's side. Together, they carry Soundwave to the med bay.

Skywarp begins what diagnosis she can, "Ravage and Lazerbeak are onboard. All I got out of Soundwave was something about don't warp below the stratosphere."

Knock Out looks at the badly damaged armor, "Looks like he fell from that height. Looks like signs of being in an acid storm as well. This isn't going to be pretty when we get him proto-formed."

Skywarp bites her words carefully, "Who cares about pretty? We want him alive and functioning."

Knock Out raises and eyebrow, "Us? Do tell."

With that, Skywarp lifts her end of the heavy communications officer onto the gurney and leans on him, "For your information, medic, under all these lovely female attributes, is a commander of an air squadron with a mission to full fill." She taps a long manicured finger on the hatch where Ravage and Lazerbeak are trapped. "In here is the information Galvatron and I need to make our next assault on the Autobots a success. I suggest you get them functioning before Galvatron makes you look as bad as this."

She begins to stride away, but then turns back and slides a finger under Knock Out's chin, "No, that would be an improvement." Knock Out gaffs. She lets her palm slide down Soundwave's armor, "I do have to admit, even an acid storm and a high altitude crash, this commander will always be more attractive than you." She lets her hand run rather seductively around the rounded end of the satellite base. Then with a swing to her hips, she exits the room.

She maybe sauntering down the hall, but her chest is quivering in fear and trepidation. Galvatron comes towards her even faster, "You found him? Good. What about the information?"

"Knock Out just now is starting."

Galvatron grabs her arm and turns her back to the med bay, "I want you by his side. If any information is revealed, I want it not him."

"You don't trust Soundwave to keep his mouth shut even under atheistic?" She sounds concerned for Soundwave's status with the leader.

Galvatron laughs, "Trust Soundwave? Absolutely. Knock Out? Never. " He hit's the com on the wall, "Shockwave, med bay now!"

"I'm in the middle of an experiment." He retorts.

"You will be my next experiment." Galvatron fires back.

Sigh, "On my way."