I think everyone liked the last chapter. I enjoyed writing about Bumblebee and Stargazer. I didn't expect for anyone to comment on Kiki and Starscream but I appreciated and liked them. I am going to try to write more on Prowl because I would like to bring their story out more.
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"II don't see what is so special here!" Hound had heard Cliffjumper harp on and on about living at the Hall that he was sick of it. They had been out on patrol that Prowl had worked them into and while Hound found the Realm beautiful and exotic just as he did earth, Cliffjumper had harped and complained about everything he encountered.
"I like it here." Hound told him and Cliffjumper huffed.
"Why do we have to live with Decepticons? They were the ones who destroyed our world so I don't see how we can just make peace and pretend that nothing happened." Cliffjumper and Hound were sitting in the rec room thinking that they were by themselves. They didn't see Ravage nor did they know that he was sending their conversation to Soundwave.
"Prime and Megatron made peace Cliffjumper and we need to respect that peace. It is not healthy to keep this resentment buried so deep inside you Cliff." Hound stated to him. "I like that we don't fight anymore and I like knowing that there are sparklings among us. Neither Prime nor Megatron is going to allow you to pick fights and Prowl threatened brig time along with the most horrid chores imaginable."
"Well I am not standing down to any of them and I am not afraid of the brig and I say bring it on to Prowl!" Cliffjumper shouted. He calmed as Ironhide and Mia walked in. Cliffjumpe smiled at Ironhide but then glared at Hide's mate. It made Mia uncomfortable and Ironhide glared back.
"You know Cliffy you can be heard all the way down the hall and my mate doesn't like you very much." Ironhide said.
"What! You are mated to her! I mean I didn't know." Cliffjumper exclaimed. They had just arrived though a week late since they had landed on the south planet far from where the Hall was. They had detoured to Moon base 5 and now they were here to be debriefed and decide where best to place them. They were currently staying at the harbor warehouse with a transport to shuttle them between there and the Hall.
"Yes, I am mated to Chromia who had been transformed into an Ancient One so if you have a problem with that then let's take it to the training floor so that I can pulverize you into scrap." Ironhide challenged. Cliffjumper looked between the couple and then at Hound who shrugged as if saying 'don't look at me'.
"She is Chromia?" Cliffjumper said in shock.
"Yes and if you don't mind can you quit glaring at her." Ironhide growled. "And by the way you do realize that Ravage had been in here with you the whole time. That was why Soundwave had us come and warn you that if you pick a fight you will answer to Prime and Lord Megatron."
"I will not answer to Megatron!" Cliffjumper snarled.
"You will answer to both or you will be sent back in space! Now I suggest you calm down and remember that we are now on the same team united as one." Ironhide stated menacingly. Ravage came up to Ironhide ad purred while Hide stroked his helm to demonstrate how serious he was. Cliffjumper's optics grew wide and then narrowed in frustration as he realized that he would not win this argument.
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"Allie, I need to speak with you." Chelsea said as she caught the Leator in hallway on her way to her office.
"Sure, let's go to my office. How is Nighthawk?" Allie asked politely.
"He is well my lady. Both he and barricade went with Knockout and Sarah into town to do some shopping. I needed to do some meditating in the lower chambers of the oracle and barricade promised to take him so that I would have the morning to myself." Chelsea said as they walked along the hallway and then entered Allie's office. Allie closed the door and gestured for Chelsea to take a seat as she went to her desk and sat down.
"Now Chelsea, what can I do for you?" Allie asked her smiling gently.
"We need to talk about Shalon's position. Before the mechs came and we achieved peace you were working with her. If Shia is no longer going to take her position then Shalon needs to continue her training to take her mother's place." Chelsea stated.
"I assuming that your statement also covers her being tested by the oracle." Allie stated it but she was really fishing with a question. She leaned back in her chair and carefully thought about Chelsea's words.
"Allie you know she needs to be tested because if the oracle was to pick her during a ceremony it could kill her if she was to panic under the heat." Chelsea stated. "You know this personally. It almost killed you when we were learning our positions and how it chose to deal with us. Now that we understand our place it is our duty to teach other who chose to be an Ancient One." Chelsea looked directly at her. "Don't let her make our mistakes. It could cost her her spark."
Allie knew that Chelsea was right but the testing was painful even though it only shadowed the pain that the oracle might put her through. Allie hated it but she was the one the oracle chose to train the top four officers and by ignoring her duty it could cost them more than just sparks, it could hurt their strength as a team.
"I do agree and I will proceed with her training. We have at least four months before our next temple ceremony and I promise you that I will test her." Allie told Chelsea firmly.
"Good. Allie I know that we have submitted to our mates but never forget that we are strong. I know that you and Prime are troubled because he is a leader and so are you. You have to make him understand what the oracle does to us. We have been designed to fight and to be strong. They have no idea what we have been through. You united us under your leadership and now you are passing it to Prime and Megatron but don't let them forget who built this stronghold and it is just that. Alpha Trion started with his bringing Ultra Magnus and their ways. We have evolved beyond that. We have six cubes and a crystal the embodies our god, Primus. They killed their avatar, their connection with Primus and all of them did it. Even Prime is not as strong as the original Primes because their power has been lost; it has been corrupted by their thoughts of power and a single mindedness that we have overcome, and I felt their lust for power when they saw those cubes. You did too because the oracle gave us a warning in the visions."
"I know but how do I tell them? How do I teach a race that there is something more powerful in the act of service than in the desire of power? I feel it sometimes, even in Prime. I know that he wants the good for all but it can't be achieved without the processor, body, and spark being unified as one. They have neglected their spiritual in pursuit for the body and the intellect of the processor and by doing so they have unbalanced themselves." Allie said.
"You're right and now we have brought them into our world." Chelsea stated softly.
"I should have told them more about us in the beginning but I was afraid because of the war. If Megatron had found out about the true power of the oracle and tried to harness it before a peace could be reached it could have had deadly results that would have further damaged those that were left in the quake of the disaster." Allie said. Chelsea could feel her tension and how she had been struggling with this burden.
"You have been balancing on the precipice, walking a fine line between what you are, and what it means to be mated to a Prime. He needs to know the real you; the one that was transformed into what you are now. He is still living in a dream world where you are Elita One and that you will blindingly follow."
"I know but I love him Chelsea. We have sparklings together and we are a family."
"Then make him understand that you want him but he has to accept you. Make him see that you are a femme but you are also a weapon that the oracle uses to keep balance in the Realm. Show him everything Allie the next time you merge."
"Have you shown Barricade?" Allie asked softly.
"Yes and he understands as will Optimus when you tell him everything." Chelsea replied. "He is, after all, Prime and he does carry the Matrix of Leadership." Chelsea stopped for a moment thinking. "The Matrix was given to our race from Primus, and we have learned that the oracle is another physical manifestation of Primus, could the Matrix be affected by the oracle?" Chelsea wondered out loud.
"I don't know but we could ask the oracle before we talk to Optimus." Allie said. She wouldn't risk his life until she knew that no harm would come to him.
"Cybertron will not reawaken until our race is in balance again. Both Megatron and Optimus is the key to this balance." Chelsea said.
"I agree with you but until we know how to teach them we can't just expose them to the oracle." Allie stated.
"Then we will have to research it. Barricade said that Wheeljack took energy measurements from the oracle. Maybe we could talk to him." Chelsea thought out loud.
"We could but then he would go to Prime or Megatron."
"So for now we bring in Saraphina and Aura…"
"….Aura is grieving. We leave her out for now."
"Shalon?"
"No."
"I am running out of officers."
"We go to Shia."
"Shia is retired and won't come. Besides she has ties to Megatron. On Cybertron he vowed to her brother to protect her on the condition that her brother remain loyal to him to the end."
"Who was her brother?"
"Is. Soundwave." In that moment Allie understood everything. She just hoped that she could make Optimus understand. Chelsea read her thoughts.
"He will. He is the Prime."
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Shalon could feel something was up. The hard thing was no one was talking, at least not to her. She walked into Storm's nursery and went to her crib. Storm had awakened and was chirping happily away. When she saw Shalon she pulled up and said, "Mama" and Shalon smiled at her smart little femmling. She had surprised her sire by calling him daddy and Shalon loved the star struck emotion that had come through the bond.
Megatron walked in through the door and immediately called out.
"I'm in the nursery." Shalon said as she picked her little femme up and went over to the glider rocker. Allie had given all of them rockers of some type saying that the sparklings loved the motion and she was right. Shalon loved to sit and nurse Storm while rocking her. It seemed that it settled her while she was feeding. She did this now as her master walked in and stopped to watch his favorite two femmes.
"How was your day my dear?" He asked softly as not to startle Storm.
"It was fine. Orion and Hot Rood came to play today and Storm had a long nap after a wonderful day of playing games and learning new words." Shalon said proudly of her sparkling. "She is growing my lord and so fast. She is so amazing!"
"I know." Megatron held his hands out and Storm squealed so loud that Shalon cringed and laughed.
"It seems she wants her daddy." Shalon said smiling as she let Storm reach out and grab onto Megatron's armor.
"Daddy!" She squealed in delight and Megatron reached for her and shifted her from her mother. Storm hugged her daddy with all that she was and Megatron laughed as he held and cuddled her. It seemed that in the week since Aura had lost her sparkling Megatron was spending more time with Storm and her bond was strengthening daily as Storm clicked and chirped her way into her daddy's spark.
Megatron could hear both his mate and his sparkling clearly now in the bond that they held and his spark swelled with love that he never though he could feel. He didn't deserve their love, he had always brought destruction, but now he was learning to channel that desire into better things and that was a start.
"My lord, I have made some energon treats as well as poured a pitcher of energon for you." Shalon said. "Storm has learned to eat simple energon wafers that Ratchet made for the sparklings."
"Are you saying that you have prepared a family dinner for your two favorite people?" Megatron asked as he bounced Storm in his arms. She slicked and chirped to let him know that she liked being bounced.
"Yes, Sideswipe made her a little chair today. He gave several chairs to sparklings today. He designed one for Sunshine and everyone liked it so much that he designed one for each sparkling that has been born this year." Shalon said as she patted Storm's back and then led them out to the dining table. They all sat down and Megatron made over Storm in her little white chair.
"My lord, would you consider having another sparkling?" Shalon asked out of the blue. Megatron looked at her wondering why she would ask that.
"You know that I will give you anything you want within reason." Megatron replied.
"I want a son." Shalon stated.
"What if we have another femme?"
"Then I want to keep trying." Shalon said stubbornly. She looked at her mate. "I love how Allie interacts with the twins. They just adore her. Storm does the same thing with you. Please don't get me wrong but Storm worships the ground you walk on. I know she loves me and I love her dearly but there is nothing like the love of a son. Besides if would be nice to have one of each or even a house full."
"It is no problem. In my position if you need help then I can find it." Megatron said. "As long as I don't lose you I will give you as many sparklings as you want." Shalon smiled as she served both her mate and Storm. They chatted while they ate supper and Shalon felt content even though she couldn't quite shake the feeling from earlier. She would talk to Allie in the morning. Let her know what she was feeling.
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"I swear I am going to kill that slagging minicon if he so much twitches the wrong way toward a former Decepticon." Ironhide was still fuming about Cliffjumper after he and Mia had retired to their quarters.
"Hide you need to relax and let it go." Mia said as she stretched out next to her mate. They were getting ready for recharge and Mia had just come from the wash racks from drying her hair.
"I know but I did promise Prime that I would watch that slagger and make sure that he wouldn't cause trouble." Ironhide gruffed out. Mia rolled him over on his back and straddled him as she began to massage the kinks out of his armor. She reached beneath the seams and gently unknotted the circuits where they had bunched and tightened and Ironhide expelled air and relaxed into her touch. She was a magician weaving her spell, she was Venus using all her wiles to seduce him, and she was his to worship and pleasure. Mia was so good to him and if it meant being nice to a few cons to keep her then so be it. She was worth more than any precious gold or energy; she was his spark and she completely submitted to him as he did to her.
"You are here with me so let's think of more pleasant thoughts than Cliffjumper." Mia murmured as she poured oil into her hands and began to work it into his seams. Ironhide moaned as her hands worked all the creaks out of his joints and he turned over onto his back with dim optics to watch her pour more oil over his seams and joints. The rich oil smelled wonderful and Mia took a moment to coat her skin with it and then began to slide her body against his. Ironhide could feel his fans kicking on as his systems heated from her touch and Mia smiled the smile of a nymph as she continued to caress him.
"Mia you feel so good against me." Ironhide groaned. He went to caress her but Mia slapped his hands away and then pinned his wrist to either side of his helm.
"I will punish you if you move your arms." She whispered in his audial receptors and Hide growled as he focused so that he would obey her. He cried out as her glossa flicked over his well-oiled seams and her hands went to cup him between his legs over his interface panel. He retracted it at her unspoken request and Mia moved down and licked his growing spike. She took the tip into her mouth and Hide groaned loudly as he cried out. She loved his deep smoky voice tinged with pleasure and how he looked writhing beneath her. She took him completely into her mouth and began to suck and squeeze him with her mouth using the different pressures to bring him to overload. She moaned and growled deep in her throat and Ironhide dug his fingers into the berth.
"Mia…oh Mia…please I need to be inside you." Ironhide moaned as she brought him closer and closer, her glossa flicking up and down as she moved him in and out of her mouth sucking hard as she growled letting the vibrations course through his body. Ironhide yelled as he unexpectantly overloaded, his fluid gushing down her throat as Mia swallowed every bit of his sweet fluid and then licked him clean. She rose up and straddled his hips as he quickly became hard again and Mia took him into her valve as she moaned from the fullness that only Ironhide could give her.
"Do you know what you do to me, Hide?" She whispered as she quickly established a rhythm.
"I think I have an idea." He answered as she used her internal muscles to squeeze his spike hard and the air hitched in his intakes as he arched up into her body with a groan. Mia smiled her come hither smile and leaned over and nipped at the corded circuits in his neck.
"Hey, Hide wait!" Ironhide rolled her over tired of her soft touches when he wanted to pound into her. He immediately established a rough fast rhythm and Mia cried out as she tried to hold on for leverage.
"Hide please! Not so fast." She cried out and Hide slowed a bit but he pulled her aft up so that he could go in even deeper. Mia cried out as the energy built higher and higher until Mia screamed as her valve tightened around him and she overloaded. Ironhide kept pumping into her until he too overloaded with a cry. It was the most intense overload that Mia had experienced since they had come to the Realm.
"You are my spark my love." Mia said softly as recharge settled in on her systems.
"As you are mine." Hide said his optics already dimmed.
