A few commented on Megatron and Prime sitting there? That was a play on how siblings that always fight might act. Both are too proud to walk away, but neither can they stand each other so they try to take snipes or digs at the other. It was also an attempt to show that both are tired of the war that they had caused, Megatron by starting it, and Prime by taking over the mantle from others that was too stubborn to change.

Thank you for commenting. I really do read them and listen to my readers. Please, I hope you enjoy the story that I am trying to write. This one is the hardest out of the series because I have to make sure that I describe the world that the femmes live in.

"Well this is a surprise." Allie replied as she walked into the living area of her quarters. Both mechs just glared at her. "Shalon will be along shortly. Doc is checking her out."

"She is alright?" Megatron asked, concerned for her health.

"Yes, she seemed to have a glitch and Doc wanted to make sure that she had not picked up a virus. Also, Doc is checking Chelsea and Aura out. It seems your mechs have been very busy." Allie smirked at Megatron. "Also, Raynie is being checked out. Doc was wondering though, which twin should she call for?"

"I couldn't tell you because Sunstreaker and Sideswipe share everything." Prime dryly replied to her amusing question.

"So that means I'd better send for both of them." She laughed and leaned over to kiss her mate as Megatron watched with a dark expression. Prime ignored him as Allie slid her glossa in and probed his mouth as Optimus tried not to laugh at her. She let up but smiled impishly at him. "Doc wants me to come in the morning for a checkup. I think I will just so I can tease her about Ratchet." Allie rounded the couch and sat on Optimus' lap. "So did you both check out the berth rooms? Mine has a private office as well as an open room that can be used for reading or whatever other activities that you like to do in your private time. I have a piano in there. It was shipped as a gift from some human ambassador who had it sized for me since I like to hear the instrument so much. I don't know what Shalon keeps. I do know she likes to read."

"We haven't exactly looked." Prime told her dryly. Megatron just glared at them.

"I was waiting for Shalon, if you want to be so nosey." He finally admitted.

"You're her mate. She wouldn't mind and she is going to be a while so you might as well make yourself comfortable. We also have television, but it is different than earth. We mostly have news and educational programming. I like the channel that is similar to the Discovery channel on earth, but Shalon and I have our own T.V.s because we can't agree on the same shows. Shalon keeps a gaming system out here somewhere, but you would have to ask her about that." Allie looked at Megatron. "Shalon and I are both telepathic so we have never had trouble with sharing the wash rack, but if you have some kind of preference we can discuss that."

"I prefer the mornings." Megatron said and raised his optic brow as if to challenge her to say something against it.

"Well then, I guess I will let you have it in the mornings." Allie said. "Shalon prefers the morning, but I usually am up before her due to early patrols."

"Have you been able to find out what happened?" Optimus asked.

"Yes, unfortunately we have a saboteur. I don't think it was intentional, but it did happen and I am going to have to take care of the problem." Allie turned toward Megatron. "The temperate controls that control the dials on the gate were tampered with and due to the special alloy that they are made of it will take some time to repair them. Right now we are looking at least a week maybe two if the shipment is late. Aura wasn't here to place a shipment and it might delays repairs. We are hoping that we did not miss the shipping dates, but we will not know for sure until tomorrow."

"So you are saying that we will be here for a week, maybe two." Megatron stated.

"Yes. I have already asked for Ratchet to assist Doc, and Hook is welcomed as well. We won't share our technology for war, but if our medical knowledge will benefit you, then that I don't mind sharing." Allie said.

"Very well, I will inform Hook." Megatron looked at Allie directly. "What about my mechs? Will they be allowed to court any of the femmes should they desire?" He asked.

"I have no problems providing that they ask my permission first. The femmes that come to earth know directly why they go and what purpose they are going, however, some of the femmes that reside here in the hall are here under protection. They have been damaged in some form or fashion. The ones that are, the damaged usually came from capture and were raped until they were almost destroyed. The few that survived Jung ho torture camps stay here as I promised. They do not interact in society anymore. Do you understand what I am saying because there are no negotiations if one of them is hurt? They will be retribution, I promise you that!"

Allie looked directly at both leaders. "I am saying that because Kiki has already informed about the looks she is getting from a certain seeker. It scares her." Allie looked at Megatron. "I am telling you this because although Kiki was a slave in the camps, she has overcome many of the horrors inflicted by the cruelty of her master and I think with a certain amount of patience she will be one of the few that can be completely healed, however; she is not there yet and right now it wouldn't take much for a relapse to occur." Allie looked at both of them together. "Talk to your mechs and make them aware of the situation. Another problem, Saraphina is coming in tomorrow and let's just say that she makes you," Allie looked at Megatron as she said this, "look like a saint. She is nasty, she is mean spirited at time, and she loves to make conquests out of mechs that try and flirt with her. She will make mincemeat out of your mechs so warn them and keep them away from her."

"I doubt a femme could harm my mechs much less kill one." Megatron scoffed.

"Well let's not find out." Allie countered. Prime didn't say much as he listened.

"Do you think that I would be scared of a femme?" Megatron sneered as he laughed at the thought.

"Megatron, she is stronger than you realize and she is a strong telepath. I don't even dare ask how she receives her information, and half the time that she goes out in the field I always wonder if it will be the last time I see her because she is a loner and I worry about her enemies ganging on her, but she returns and her information had never been wrong." Allie looked at Megatron and then at Optimus. "I recommend that you have your mechs stay away. Her favorite game is to snare them and then kill them."

"Was she one of the original femmes from the crash?" Prime asked.

"No, we are not exactly sure of her background. We do know that my own soldiers stay clear of her." Allie stated.

"Is there anything else we need to know?" Megatron asked.

"Yes, Sentinel Prime is here." Allie stated. Megatron looked at her because he detected a note of discord in her voice.

"And you are telling us because…." Megatron said softly smirking.

"I am telling you because we do not get along. He is also the one I suspect tampered with the gate, although he did not do it to harm us, but to improve on his own technology of the bridge that he designed."

"Yes, his bridge was the technology that we had hoped would end the war." Optimus Prime said as he looked at Megatron.

"How would that end the war? I would think it would escalade the war because of the shift in power." Allie replied. "It is why we safe guard our protocols on our gate."

"It would have been used to refuel our planet and revitalize it." Optimus said softly. "It is because of lack of energon that escaladed the war. So many of our people were starving…"

"Many of our people off lined because the wealthy were hording it!" Megatron exclaimed. "How do you think I built my army so quickly?"

"You built it by using propaganda. Your lies and your destruction is what fueled your armies." Prime countered.

"Enough! We are not on Cybertron and I am not going to debate what has already occurred. I personally can say from listening to Aura and others as well as Jammer that there are faults on both sides of your war." Allie stood up. "I am going to my berth. Shalon is heading up the stairs now. Optimus, you can stay here and mope and glare or you can join me." With that said, Allie walked to her berth room. Shortly after, Shalon walked through the door and stopped abruptly.

"What did I miss?" She asked as she looked between the two mechs.

"I am turning in." Optimus said as he looked at Shalon. "I'll see you in the morning." He stood up and walked awkwardly, tracing Allie's steps to her private quarters. Megatron looked at Shalon for a long moment and then asked,

"Why do you share living space with Allie?"

Shalon looked down for a moment and then back up. She walked over to her mate and sat carefully on his lap. "We share because the telepathy gets to be too much sometimes and we need to know that we still have a connection. It is hard to explain. Sometimes when I see bad things on the battlefield or when I am on a top secret mission I need to know that when I return Allie is next to me. We never have our own complete private quarters. I like that I have someone near me and we all feel pretty much the same about that, although with us taking mates it will shift and we will need new quarters, but Allie will probably cross that bridge when we absolutely have to."

Shalon looked up at her lord and master and smiled. "Sorry that I left you, but I had some urgent matters to take care of." She said softly happy to be sitting in his lap. He looked down in her upturned face and smiled at her.

"You could have warned me." He finally said.

"I know, but then you would have distracted me from my work, plus Allie prefers that we close off the bond when we are in our sarcophagus." She rubbed at his chest soothingly, tracing his insignia over his chest and then she looked back up at him. "I was also detained. Doc said I had a virus or something but then it sorted itself out without too much fuss." Shalon looked up with all the love and warmth shining in her eyes and Megatron could not fault her for leaving him.

"You are a minx." He smoothed the hair from her face as he shook his head. "I guess we get to have a few extra days together." He finally said softly as he petted her head.

"Are you sure you're happy about that? I mean we are all under one roof this time so I imagine that tensions are going to be high." She said quietly as she slipped her hands around his neck.

"I look at this as an opportunity, Shalon. Nothing in life is an accident. This much I have learned while fighting this war." He said quietly.

"So you are not angry?" She said softly.

"Yes, no, I don't know. I don't like not being in control. You should know that by now since you have spent a month with me." He said.

"I do understand, my lord. It is why I try never to assume or pressure you with my emotions." She smiled shyly at him as she said this. It was not often that admitted this to him for fear of upsetting him.

"You are the only other person who has tried to understand me since Soundwave."

"Soundwave is the closest mech you consider a friend, isn't he." She said it more as a statement than a question.

"Yes."

"So may I ask a question since it is just us?" She asked.

"What do you want to know, Shalon?" He asked back.

"Why do you have them come to your quarters? I mean, why do you make them… you know…" She blushed and Megatron laughed softly.

"I do it so that they don't forget who their master is." He said softly. Shalon looked at his face plates as he said this.

"So it is to dominate your subordinates so that they don't forget their place." She said.

"Yes."

"Are you tired?" She asked after a while and then smiled a wicked little smile. "I have a chair for you in my room if you like." Megatron laughed hard at her words.

"No, Shalon I don't think that I will need a chair while I am visiting." He said after his laughter had died down, "but I would still love to warm your aft." He wickedly purred as Shalon shivered in response. She giggled and Megatron laughed as Optimus walked out from Allie's private quarters.

"Sorry to interrupt, Allie left a data pad out here and I was retrieving it." He looked at the couple snuggled in the chair as he walked over to the table by the door and picked up the pad. He smirked at Megatron who looked decidedly uncomfortable being caught by his enemy with his mate sprawled all over him. Prime walked back to their private quarters but before he walked through the door he glanced at the couple again. He never dreamed that he would see the day that a femme would lay claim to his brother's spark. Maybe Primus did grant the prayers that seemed only he could miraculously accomplish through faithful and fervent asking. He watched the couple cuddle and kiss and Optimus' spark felt true peace for the first time in a long, long time.

"I think we made his night." Shalon said smiling at her lover.

"Yes, well Optimus always did find pleasure in the simple things in life." Megatron replied. He tipped her head back and bit down on Shalon's neck causing her to gasp and moan. He could smell her as he scooped her up and stood to walk her to their berth. Shalon giggled again as her master carried her through the door and stopped to gape at her berth.

"What in hell is this?" He demanded and Shalon burst out laughing. Her berth was a four poster king, as was all the berths on the second and third levels of the quarters. Allies loved elaborate bedding and Shalon's was no less to impress. The floral quilt that she and Allie had made completely covered and although the berth itself was done in rich colors of browns, the floral offset and balanced out the earth tones. Taupe colored sheers hung around the berth except where braided chords pulled it back on one side to reveal an opening. On the end of the bed was a strange looking pet with orange and white fur, its face a ghastly array of scrapes and scars from obviously fighting. Megatron could not decide whether to laugh or be outraged that he would have to share his mate and berth with such an atrocious odious creature. He raised his head, his eyes glowing green eyes showing boredom, but then he perked up as he saw who Megatron was carrying.

"I am not sharing a bed with that monster." Megatron emphatically stated. Shalon laughed hard as she looked at her adorable little gato.

"It's only a gato." She said (Gato is a Spanish term meaning feline or cat). "I can't just make it go outside. Zu-Zu will howl all night if I put him out and we won't get any recharge." She cupped her hand over her mouth directing her whisper to him. "He thinks this is his bed and I am the guest." She staged whispered. If Megatron could roll his optic he would have. He dropped Shalon roughly as she 'humphed' and stood tall and intimidating at the beast.

"I am the beast here, and you are going to get off this berth now." Megatron roared at the animal. Zu-Zu just looked at him, yawned, and curled back up to rest his head on his paws. Megatron gave out a growling roar as Shalon tried to hold back her giggles. The scrappy looking gato just reach up and swatted the air and then laid his head back down.

"Take it to Allie."

"I can't take it to Allie! She has her own gato and then they will both fight and we will all be up."

"Get rid of it!"

"No! It lives with me."

"Shalon!"

"Megatron!"

"Well!"

"Well what?"

Megatron just looked at the creature lying on the berth and then slowly circled the intrusive monster. He decided that if he couldn't make it leave then he would just get on the berth and push it off. He looked back at Shalon who was smirking, trying hard not to laugh out at him as she followed him to the berth.

"I promise to make it up to you if you will let him stay." She purred.

"I'm not letting him watch us!" This time Shalon couldn't help it. She laughed so hard that tears started to form. Megatron just continued to glower between her and the beggarly looking monster. Upon closer inspection Megatron noticed that the thing had a hole in his head.

"Shalon! You cannot expect this unworthy, shabby, filthy animal to recharge with us! He has a hole in his head!"

"I know that, but I can't help it if he likes to fight." She cried as she went around to cuddle the haggard, pitiful thing. To Megatron's utter disgust it began to purr.

"I promise that it will not touch you if you will just ignore him, please! For me, he is the only gato that has ever wanted me." Shalon pleaded softly with her master as Megatron continued to look at the horrific animal.

"As long as it doesn't touch any part of me." He finally conceded. Shalon dazzling smiled at Megatron as he realized that he had just compromised with his mate. What was the universe coming to! Shalon jumped at Megatron as she wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him.

"He just a small gato. Allie's gato stands at twelve feet tall and takes the entire foot of her berth but he's out prowling tonight because he didn't come in for supper." She smirked at him through her lashes. Megatron just smiled as he pulled her closer as he eyed the currish, scurvy pet again. Thankfully he could not catch anything from the wretched beast so he sat down and pulled Shalon across his lap with her aft in the air.

"Hey!" She said and then cried out as he swatted her aft none too gently as he made good on his promise from earlier. He hand came down swiftly and hard as Shalon squirmed on his lap and had them both panting when he was finally through. He pulled her to him as she covered his mouth with hers and laid claim to him. Their glossas battled for dominance as Shalon pulled him close and began to rub herself against him.

"Please, Megatron I need you. I need to know that you are here and real." She cried out her words as he laid her down and undressed her. Megatron quickly uncovered his interface panel and slipped inside her subtle body. She cried out and arched her body trying to pull him in deeper as he began to thrust into her petit body. Megatron always marveled that her body could handle his. He glanced at the gato momentarily as the pitiful creature watched him. His rhythm faltered for just a moment and then he didn't care anymore. He was Megatron, leader of the Decepticons so to hell with the horrid pet. Shalon laughed between moans as he sped up his thrusts and yanked her hair until her neck was completely at her disposal. He bit down and she screamed as she felt him over load into her. His overload triggered hers as she sheathed her claws and scraped them gently down his back. Megatron roared from the scoring marks on his back and bit her again hard on the shoulder as the energon trickled down to the sheets.

Zu-Zu just looked at them bored.

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Aura walked in and saw that Thundercracker had sprawled out across her berth and already in recharge. She smiled tenderly at her lover and mate as she sunk down in the soft pillows and bedding that overlaid her berth. She softly stroked his helm, her hand feathering across the vents and slowly trailing over the curve of top of his helm. He stirred as his optics onlined.

"Hey, sweetspark." He softly said to her and Aura smiled.

"Hey yourself. Sorry that I had to leave. I had to take care of a few things for work tomorrow." She softly told him. "I'm here now, though." She laid down and curled herself around his chassis as he delicately cradled her face and then palmed her shoulder to pull her closer. She kissed him with all the affection that she could send him through the bond and he gasped as he felt her both physically and emotionally. He turned into her and slipped his glossa into her mouth as she groaned against him, her hands clutching at his shoulders as she clung to him for leverage. Thundercracker released her mouth to trail his lips along her jaw and then down her neck. His hands were fevered as he quickly disposed of her clothing and moved his helm down between her legs. Aura cried out as his talented glossa found her most intimate spot and licked her around her valve before dipping it into her moist wet core.

"Thunder." She breathed his name across her lips as her head thrashed against the soft pillows of her berth. He was here in her berth in the Realm and whatever tomorrow brought he would still be with her. She smiled as she thought of the news that Doc had given her. They had made a sparkling together and she had yet to tell him, but she could wait for now he was pushing his fingers inside her and she bucked up against those wonderful accomplished, capable fingers and Thundercracker smiled as her body squirmed and thrashed against him. He opened his panel and his spike pressurized as her moans and cries fired his own desire to claim what belonged to him as he stretched her and then switched his fingers for his spike.

"Thunder, yes, please. More, I need you so badly." She cried as he filled her body with his. He stopped just on top as he allowed her body to adjust. It never ceased to amaze him that she was always so ready, even when she had been unsure of him, her body welcomed his. He began to move deeply and slowly inside her as she moaned and whimpered for him to go faster. Her hands squeezed at the malleable metal of his aft as she whispered sweet naughty endearments into his audial. Intrigued, Thundercracker listened to this new side of her he was discovering as he returned his sweetspark's words on her.

"Is this what you want?" He whispered as he drew her legs up and over his shoulders where she had no control of her movement. He tucked her in tight as he thrust hard and slow into her. Aura cried out as he raised up and thrust so slow that she thought she would burst but then when he did finally slide in, it was so hard and deep that Aura would scream. She was in heaven and hell because Thundercracker was drawing her overload out. She cried, pleaded, begged, but he would not speed up.

"Thunder, please, I beseech you. I can't take any more, please!" She cried as she tried to pull at him. Thundercracker groaned into her ear as she whimpered and cried, tears running down her beautiful contorted face as she felt the energy build higher and higher. When Thundercracker sent the first pulsation from his spark, Aura screamed as her body was thrown into a forceful overload. She tried to clutch at him anything to ground her but she felt as if her body was being thrown into such a euphoric high that she would not be able to come down from it. Thundercracker followed her as he roared his pleasure as it reverberated throughout the room.

As the spark bonded couple came down from their euphoria, Aura rolled to her side to look at her lover.

"I didn't mean to start this so soon. I needed to tell you something." Aura looked Thundercracker in the optic. "I hope you like sparklings my darling because I am terrified of them." She said timidly. Thundercracker just looked at her confused at first, but then as her words began to soak in and permeate through his CPU he really started looking at his mate.

"Doc checked me out since I got so sick when we were riding in Astrotrain. I didn't want to say anything, but we're going to have a sparkling." Aura looked at her mate with tears in her eyes. "I don't know anything about sparklings, Thunder, and I am scared." She whispered faintly. Thunder raised up and immediately took her in his arms.

"I am here for you, my darling spark." He said as he cradled her. "So, we are going to have a sparkling?" Thunder said wonderingly. He stroked her arms like he always did after they had made love.

"Yes, Doc confirmed it when I was having my checkup. I did wonder but I wasn't sure." Aura looked at Thundercracker. "I am really not sure about this. I'm scared, Thunder." She said ethereally and Thundercracker looked into her over bright eyes.

"You will be wonderful. I promise." He smoothed her hair back; he rubbed circles into her back. "It will be alright." He softly said to her as she calmed and slowly fell into recharge. Thundercracker continued to stroke her suddenly finding recharge elusive and evasive for him.

0o0o0o0o0o0

"They are going at it again." Allie laughed as Optimus griped about having to hear Megatron and Shalon go at it again over and over. She personally thought it was funny since Ironhide and Mia complained about them at the Diego Garcia base.

"At least they are not fighting over her gato." Allie said. "I telepathed mine and told him to go hunting tonight." She smiled at Optimus.

"Yours is what?" Optimus exclaimed.

"I told him to go hunting tonight so we wouldn't be having the same argument." She simply said.

"We won't be fighting over him because he won't be sleeping with us." Optimus simply replied in returned.

"Wait just a minute! I am not giving up my precious gato just because you are here." Allie said. "I have had that gato for the last fourteen years. He keeps the mice out. You are not going to banish him!"

"We'll discuss him tomorrow when he shows up, okay? I have had a long day and having to deal with Megatron has not made it great."

"Oh, my poor darling." Allie purred. She pushed him back against the pillows as she began to rub soothing circles into his chest. Optimus sighed through his vents as Allie began to massage his shoulders joints, chest and along his chassis. She could feel his armor begin to relax as he flared his armor out so that Allie could get in between the seams and at the circuits under his armor.

"Turn to your front and I will massage your back." She trilled into his audial. Optimus rolled to his front on her soft quilted berth and moaned as Allie rubbed his aft. Optimus purred under her hands as she dipped under the seams and pulled at the circuits.

"You are so tense, baby." She said as she rubbed and stroked his aft. She leaned down and kissed him on the aft and felt his frame shiver.

"Do you wonder if Shalon does this for Megatron?" Optimus mused.

"Do I look like I care?" Allie bounded back as she stroke from his aft down to his peds. She began to rub the malleable metal between the armor that protected his peds and Optimus moaned. He had never had a lover that would take the time to touch him like this and his chassis relaxed into her touch. He would definitely repay her for this kind, tender, display of affection that she was giving. His system was in a mild heated holding pattern, just enjoying the sensation of his mate touching him. Her touch was arousing without causing him to feel that desperate needy sensation that he associated with interfacing.

"Optimus?"

"Hmm?"

"Don't fall into recharge."

"Okay." Was the muffled reply. She smiled at him as she stroked him down one more time and then rolled him where they faced each other. She kissed him as he parted her lips and slipped his glossa into her mouth. He explored her at a leisurely pace, not caring that her movements were becoming erratic and unstable. Optimus pulled her closer as he began to heat up and his vents kicked in. He let up and looked at her with desire and fire in his cerulean optics. Allie gasped as he pulled her under him. She could tell by his mood that he wanted to possess her, he needed to possess her. She felt him move down and touch and taste her. He sucked on her toes, trailed his glossa along her thighs and nipped and bit at her aft as she moaned and gasped from his contact. When he cupped her between her legs Allie cried out and curled her fingers into the blankets as she felt him raise up over her.

"Who am I to you?" He whispered to her.

"You are my master and mate." She replied in his audial and Optimus gently entered her. He grabbed her shoulder as he lifted her legs at the knees and wrapped them around his waist. Allie felt him return his hands to her shoulders as he pulled back and thrust roughly into her. She cried out as he started a quick rhythm and began pounding into her. His thrusts were altered between tender and rough and Allie moaned as her mate bit at her shoulder and neck. She nipped at his neck, her fingers ensnaring the circuits beneath his armor. Optimus moaned as he kept thrusting into her. She latched on to his neck and he roared as he pulled back and lifted her by her aft and positioned her in the most submissive position that he could. She was at his complete mercy as Optimus began roughly pounding into her. Allie screamed as her over sensitive body couldn't take the over wrought sensations and she overloaded hard screaming her lover's name. Optimus quickly followed her as he rolled them so she wouldn't get hurt by his weight.

A long time later…

You know he will think we were trying to compete with them."

"So?" Optimus was completely sated in his mate's arms. Their overloads exhaustively shattered their world as they lay there completely and utterly relaxed. Allie did not have a tense bone in her body; she was so complete and filled with her mate's love that her eyes drooped while she listened to her mate's regular cycle of air expelling from his vents. She sent a pulse of love to him whom he volleyed back to her making her smile at him. They both fell into recharge clinging to each other.