The sound of thrusters echoes heavily in the corridors down in the lower levels of the enforcer headquarters. One pair sounds light and wary while the other sounds heavy and deafening.
Skywarp stops hesitantly in front of one of the cells and looks up at Thundercracker.
"We can still go back." He gently rumbles and a hand rubs reassuringly at one of her shoulders.
"No. I need to. I need to see, to be sure." She whispers and even the whisper sounds like a yell in all the silence.
"Very well." The blue male sighs before he steps towards the door they have stopped at.
The blips when he keys in the code to unlock it is almost deafening and Skywarps spark pulses more franticly. Is she doing the right thing? Should she stop him, go back to the royal residence and just ignore the nightmares?
But it is too late.
The door swooshes open and Thundercracker onlines a flashlight – the only light there is down in the lower levels is what light you bring with you down. The inhabitants suffer not only the deprivation of flight and the sight of the sky, but their sight too.
A weak whimper escapes the inhabitant of the little holding cell as the sudden light washes over the dusty frame.
"Go on. He won't be any danger to you after all this time down here." Thundercracker reassures her and steps away from the door to allow her entrance into the little cell while providing light for her to see.
Taking a few hesitant steps she crosses the threshold.
The light makes her frame cast strange shadows on the walls in the little cell and enlightens her wings and the golden decals which have adorned them the last few hundred vorns. Starscream is possessive if nothing else and the instant she had borne his heir he had taken to give her the sigils. That he even had waited that long was a feat of strength for his part. The process had been extremely painful and unpleasant and she is sure that if she had been carrying their little one during the procedure the stress on her spark might have even caused her to miscarry.
With a shudder and a deep sigh she leaves the memory and returns her attention to the frame huddled in one of the corners.
She carefully kneels down beside the trembling frame and allows the light to play freely over the dusty frame while she takes a closer look.
Then she reaches a hand towards the inhabitant and dusts away the dust on one of his arms. He instantly jerks at the touch, something that he also has been deprived of during his time down there.
The color she reveals beneath the dust is black, but with that strange shine that she vividly remembers.
She rears back in horror and retreats to the safety of Thundercracker.
"I-I have seen enough. Can we go, please?" she stutters.
Instantly the light is gone and caring arms embraces her in a tight hold.
"Of course." Thundercracker murmurs before he reaches towards the keypad to the cell and closes the door again, sealing one of the former leaders of Vos' underworld out of view again. The male got what he deserved for what he did to so many of their citizens, but more importantly what he did to Skywarp. It had taken them more than one hundred vorns to win the war against the crime in the city state, but they had won and Vos had become a much safer place after they imprisoned the leaders of the underworld and most of their gang.
"Come. This isn't a place for one in your condition Skywarp." He says, nuzzling her chestplates affectionately and feels the little ping of energy from his developing seekerling inside her.
A sense of fierce possessiveness flares inside his spark at the feeling of his unborn and newly sparked creation. It has been a long wait for him to finally spark her, but now that Starscreams little female and heir is almost ready to enter her final upgrade Skywarp has the time and energy to conceive once again and Starscream had most graciously allowed him to claim Skywarp.
Arousal joins the possessive feelings when his processor drags the memory of the night a few orns before into the forefront of his awareness and his frame heats at the vivid images of Skywarp laid out open beneath him, blue spark pulsing and himself lowering his unprotected spark to connect with hers. The following overload had been one of the strongest he ever had experienced and the feeling of the budding bond to the newly sparked seekerling hadn't lessened the intense feelings assaulting him either, in fact it had just heightened the pleasure when he realized that he now was to become a sire.
Shaking the arousing images out of his processor he looks down at her as he tugs her flush against his warm plating and tightens the hold on her. Just for a moment he allows the feelings to overtake him completely and he lowers his head to kiss her affectionately on the lips. She is solely his for at least the next thirty orns until the coding has settled inside the newly sparked creation and Starscream won't be able to override Thundercrackers with his own.
He doesn't trust Starscream right now, just like any male with a newly sparked female doesn't trust her in another male's hands. The urge to create runs strongly in any male and presented with a newly sparked female any male will take the chance to fill the spark with his own coding and override the existing.
When Skywarp had been given free by Starscream after the coding had settled inside what was to become the heir to the Crown of Vos, Thundercracker had entered a desperate madness and even if it was too late his coding had spurred him on to try and implant his own coding inside the created spark.
That meant that he practically had locked Skywarp inside his chambers for a whole orn and done nothing but connect their sparks and take her valve. He lost count on the overloads when he reached the fifteenth. At some point Starscream had entered and just leisurely sat down in a chair and watched his trinemate's attempts to override and fill Skywarp with his own coding and when Thundercracker finally had run himself out of energy and fluids in the useless attempts, the Crown of Vos had laughed and handed him a cube of energon before carrying a rather traumatized Skywarp back to his own quarters.
But now it is Starscreams turn to suffer and the thought actually makes Thundercracker smile. Then he shakes the memories away and turns his attention back on the female held securely in his arms.
"Come." He gently tells her as he releases her and takes one of her hands. Tugging gently on it he leads her down the way they had come from and away from the source of her nightmares, hopefully this little visit has eased her spark and will allow her to recharge peacefully from now on.
The sound of thrusters echoes in the corridors down in the lower levels of the enforcer headquarters, but slowly fades as the trinemates to the Crown of Vos leaves this place of the damned and returns to the world of the living.